Mr. Unz,

Thanks for the new OT. It is appreciated.

PEACE 😇

Elon Musk is simply a representative of the faction of the US elites that think that China is the enemy #1, Russia the enemy #2 (like Trump). Biden’s puppeteers believe that Russia is the enemy #1, China the enemy #2. There is enough difference for these factions to fight internally, but not enough for the rest of the world to care.

Elon Musk is simply a representative of the faction of the US elites that think that China is the enemy #1, Russia the enemy #2 (like Trump).

I see no evidence that is his stance. Based on what he has said, Trump believes — The Iranian theocracy is the top military threat to international stability. The CCP is the leading strategic competitor to America.

Trump wants to repair the relationship with Russia. He really does not view them as an “enemy” at all.

Friendship with America could pull Russia away from Khamenei and the CCP. I do not know if this can be fully achieved in Trump’s 2nd and final term. Rebuilding the mess created by the, now primarily DNC, warmongers will require multiple MAGA administrations.

PEACE 😇

Due to complaints about the length of the full 24 Hours of Daytona. I offer this instead. A short 4 hour race:

PEACE 😇

Friendship with America could pull Russia away from Khamenei and the CCP.

Most Russians might have believed in the possibility of friendship with the US before 1991. The trustworthiness of the US in the eyes of Russians started to decline during shameless robbery of Soviet assets in the 1990s. Now it’s at all-time low. Today there are fewer than 10% potential believers in this pipe dream in Russia. So, to maintain his sky-high approval, Putin has to act as a non-believer, regardless of what he personally thinks.

It would take at least 20 years of sane US behavior to change these dynamics. As the chances of that happening are as close to zero as makes no difference, in the eyes of Russians the US will remain close to the bottom of the trustworthiness scale, maybe just a notch above current Kiev regime.

In the Canossa thread some guy posted this which is actually pretty good for entertainment value:

https://rumble.com/v4c294z-episode-1011-is-the-paypal-mafia-making-elite-moves-w-matt-erickson.html

The younger fellow said “the regime needs Elon more than Elon needs the regime”. It pretends to be a serious discussion. A lot of generation pseudo-analysis. Elite Gen-X is supposedly going to flip the script.

Should like the term “saffron nationalism” to be repurposed from (I assume) woke Indians, and given to the neutral, scientific concept of a return to the traditional system of tanistry in Celtic Europe.

https://www.wildeirishe.com/post/getting-saffron-in-kilkenny

Here is one hour of cats. I cut it down from the original 12 hours since some of you found it boring.

You’re welcome.

Rebuilding the mess created by the, now primarily DNC, warmongers will require multiple MAGA administrations.

Do you agree with the MAGA House Republicans that want to write a check to Israel for $14 billion?

Russia is gone.
The West has shown that they are fundamentally treacherous and controlled by psychopaths. Russia knows not to trust them. Listen to the Putin interview when asked who controls the US, he slyly says “I don’t know…”
It doesn’t matter to him who is president. He understands the true character behind the mask.

Do you agree with the MAGA House Republicans that want to write a check to Israel for $14 billion?

Why do you ask questions where you already know the answer? In the interest of comity I will humour you. I am a Christian… And thus, a Judeo-Christian.

Indigenous Palestinian Jews are DEFENDING against the Anti-Christ Muhammad. Literally, the spawn of Lucifer/Allah/Satan.

• Do I believe in Jesus Christ? Yes.
• Do I believe in opposing the Anti-Christ? Yes.

Supporting indigenous Palestinian Jews who are DEFENDING themselves against Satanic attacks is a “no brainer”. Defeating Muslim warmongers makes obvious sense. Ejecting evil is the price that must be paid to obtain peace.
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Let me jump ahead to the inevitable next question.

The bulk of the population in Ukraine is Orthodox Christian. This is unlike the raping and murdering Jihadist horror in Gaza. There, the bulk of the population believes in the SatanoAllah and the Anti-Christ Muhammad.

Post-Judaic apostate, Führer Zelensky, neo-Nazi enemy of Christians & Jews can be displaced. A rational Ukrainian, Orthodox Christian leader could negotiate a peace deal with Moscow. There is no comparable path available to deal with the Satan worshipping Jihadist settlers occupying Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

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    Muslim Colonies are the Problem.
Muslim Decolonization is the Answer!
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Similar situations and solutions apply in Germany, France, UK, and other contaminated countries in Europe.

PEACE 😇

A short 4 hour race:

In 2001, Bollywood released a 4-hr movie about Indians winning a cricket match against the evil English. At the time, it was the most expensive Indian movie ever made:

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

(Have not see it, but it was well-received over there.)

It’s quite interesting that it was a Prussian who was one of the first people to advocate in favor of the idea that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, back in the 1600s:

https://www.time.com/6693504/vladimir-putin-history-myths-russia-ukraine-debunked/

Bollywood released a 4-hr movie about Indians winning a cricket match

Impressively concise when you consider the cricket match itself probably lasted five days.

The word “music” derives ultimately from Classical Greece, where it referred to any art inspired by the Muses.

An alternate word with strong negative connotations is needed for most modern Grammy nominees, film scores, and the “music video” you posted.

Do you agree with the MAGA House Republicans that want to write a check to Israel for $14 billion?

Why do you ask questions where you already know the answer?

I really don’t know the answer. I have asked many Trump supporters that question and most of them have ignored it. They celebrate MAGA as being an America First movement and then ignore the question of why so many House Republicans are currently Israel First.

Indigenous Palestinian Jews are DEFENDING against the Anti-Christ Muhammad. Literally, the spawn of Lucifer/Allah/Satan.

LOL the IDF incursion into Gaza is a defensive measure? How am I called the Jew here? That is hilarious.

Ok so you believe this is a spiritual war and some 10 year old Palestinian that loses an eye and a leg was in league with a demonic underlord who has two penises and likes to shapeshift into a crow.

Let’s say the aforementioned is true.

Why does Israel need $14 billion dollars if they have a budget surplus?

Post-Judaic apostate, Führer Zelensky, neo-Nazi enemy of Christians & Jews can be displaced.

You do acknowledge the following about Russia, correct?

Russia has:
1. World’s highest abortion rate
2. Second highest alcohlism rate
3. Europe’s largest Muslim population
4. Europe’s largest Buddhist population
5. Europe’s largest HIV population
6. Europe’s largest atheist population
7. Lower percent of Orthodox compared to Ukraine

Why are you certain that Putin is not on the side of satan? You believe he is a God fearing Christian man even though he lamented the breakup of the USSR? An empire whose official doctrine declared religion to be the enemy? Do explain how a Christian could miss the USSR.

4. Europe’s largest Buddhist population

Why is this specifically a bad thing?

6. Europe’s largest atheist population

Interestingly enough, according to data previously presented on here by Anatoly Karlin a couple of years ago, Russian atheists are much more anti-war than Russian Orthodox Christians are. Russian atheists are around 50-50 on the war (or at least were two years ago), while Russian Orthodox Christians are something like 75-19 in favor of the war. Christian morality at its finest!

Cricket is as Indian as curry, Hinduism, and vegetarianism. An Indian without cricket is like a Chinese person without kung fu or a Korean person without kimchi.

Blue whales and fin whales can produce fertile offspring. Even though the former tend to be 77 metric tons (~566 Lizzos*) heavier.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/whales/hidden-hybrid-dna-found-in-blue-whales-reveals-theyve-been-mating-with-other-species-and-their-offspring-are-reproducing

*Assuming 300 pounds is the figure. (That may be too low)

Question for any Serbs here: Had Austria-Hungary managed to successfully conquer Serbia in the 18th century and hold onto it until at least the early 20th century, would the Serbs nowadays be mostly Uniates instead of mostly Eastern Orthodox?

I previously asked AP this question here:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-241/#comment-6413483

Also, a question for AP: Had Poland gotten the Curzon Line as its eastern border in 1921, would Poland have been more receptive to the idea of an alliance with Nazi Germany in 1939, in this scenario for the purpose of reconquering the Kresy from the Soviet Union?

Europe’s largest Buddhist population

Why is this specifically a bad thing?

I’m not saying it is a bad thing. I’m dispelling the frozen tradcon Orthodox wonderland that Putin fans try to pretend exists.

Putin fans try to believe that Russia is some healthy Orthodox state that should be left alone….to kill their Orthodox neighbors. They don’t like to be reminded that it is a multi-racial, multi-religious empire where the Orthodox are in population decline.

That is the real basis of MAGA support for Russia. They think it’s some conservative wonderland that is under attack by the West. They try to believe it is a holdout against Jewish influence and multiculturalism when Russia itself is more multicultural than Ukraine. It’s a delusion that I enjoy breaking.

I have mixed feelings on Buddhism but unfortunately it seems that a lot of their Asians are submitting to the empire and letting Putin march their fathers and sons off to their deaths. Very tragic for areas like Siberia as they would rather not be part of Russia. This is an aspect of Buddhism that I do not like. It’s very fatalistic which does not lead to rebellions against the status quo. Look what happened to Tibet. They didn’t do a damn thing other than sneak their child-god out of the country. A religion that says you need to serve a child-god and if the state kills your relatives….well that was to be.

Interestingly enough, according to data previously presented on here by Anatoly Karlin a couple of years ago, Russian atheists are much more anti-war than Russian Orthodox Christians are.

That doesn’t surprise me at all.

Rural Russians tend to be the most pro-war and are more likely to be Orthodox than urban Slavs.

But with that said I don’t think atheism promotes morality. Putin is most likely an atheist.

Atheism in crowds could be indeed pro-peace but it leads to individuals like Putin that believe in nothing and for whom lives are worthless. Nietzche predicted this exact scenario. Atheism intially appears to promote a secular morality that is better than Christianity but is then overshadowed by ideologies or leaders that completely devalue the individual.

Oh boy. I have stopped reading Karlin a while ago because to me he just never seemed interesting and original enough. Today, I came across of his version of Hanania transformation:

https://akarlin.com/the-z-of-history/

… I will then briefly discuss my current thoughts on the war and what I now see as the optimal template for Russia’s future after Putin – namely, liberal democracy and unironic commitment to “GloboHomo” values.
…
Apart from attracting human capital, a strong Russian commitment to liberal democracy and LGBT rights would also ease its integration with GAE.

LOL. No matter what new religion this guy devotes his soul to, he just can’t stop always being wrong about everything. What’s going to be his next turn?

What’s interesting is that some far-right US conservatives have even converted to Russian Orthodoxy in an attempt to “spite the libs”:

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/1096741988/orthodox-christian-churches-are-drawing-in-far-right-american-converts#:~:text=Sarkisian%20said%20these%20converts%20often,like%20LGBTQ%20rights%2C%20gender%20equality.

Atheism in crowds could be indeed pro-peace but it leads to individuals like Putin that believe in nothing and for whom lives are worthless. Nietzche predicted this exact scenario. Atheism intially appears to promote a secular morality that is better than Christianity but is then overshadowed by ideologies or leaders that completely devalue the individual.

Your views on this are similar to those of Emil Kirkegaard, who laments that religion was replaced with worse ideologies such as Communism even while he himself was and still remains an atheist:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/12/my-conversation-story-or-a-brief-autobiography/

Thus, if we were to summarize my conversion story, one can say that it started with school-day atheism, then went into evolutionary biology and generalized skepticism, then a brief stint as a Marxist (with long hair and poor clothes!), then back to reality with more reading of Dawkins’ biology books, then converted to IQ realism by Linda Gottfredson and Richard Lynn, and finally hammered home by the cold logic of Arthur Jensen. My politics thus evolved from generic leftist, to radical leftist, to small l libertarian upon learning that most government programs basically don’t work, and can’t work well in general due to the dominance of genetics and luck in determining life outcomes. I haven’t really changed my mind about the truth of atheism, but I have come to see religion as a positive force given that it is often replaced with even worse ideas (communism!).

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

Did you ever get around to reading the
humans = chimps + pigs
fellow’s stuff?

No more worries about nuclear war on Earth cause charitable UFOs not gonna let it happen by blowing nuclear warheads out of the sky;)

Farmer’s Protest 2.0 begins.

Musk is a tool of China, he has a lot of business there. He is supporting Russia because Russia is China’s ally/vassal. Musk has no choice.

There are some others who are as you describe (such as Vivek, and probably Trump), but not Musk.

I’m not saying it is a bad thing. I’m dispelling the frozen tradcon Orthodox wonderland that Putin fans try to pretend exists.

Putin fans try to believe that Russia is some healthy Orthodox state that should be left alone….to kill their Orthodox neighbors. They don’t like to be reminded that it is a multi-racial, multi-religious empire where the Orthodox are in population decline.

All correct. A minor quibble is that Russia’s abortion rate is improving a lot – it is still much higher than that of the USA but is no longer worst in the world. Russia still has Europe’s highest HIV rate (even worse than in many African countries) and very low church-going rates, comparable to Sweden’s. Most of Russia’s Orthodox don’t go to church, or just became a marker of being a Russian.

Ironically, Ukraine is more Orthodox and much more devoutly Orthodox than Russia. And the most religious of the Orthodox in Ukraine are in the more Western parts of the country – that is, the most anti-Russian ones.

Orthodoxy in decline from having a Jew blow up a National cathedral in Moscow1940, and strip the wreckage for gold bullion. That decline? Riiiigghhhtttt. A quick late 1990s fundraiser and it’s rebuilt kinda decline?

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

Johnson a bullshitter. You too.

The Orthodox population is in decline.

Orthodoxy itself in Russia is mostly for show. As I said, church-going rates like in Sweden, despite the nice churches being built (good kick-backs).

Kabbalah

Everything that you write about Russia is true and makes sense, except for glue sniffing kremlinstooge A123. Hmmm? In his strange world, I think that he thinks that Putler “the Christian” is going to save Europe from the clutches of “Islamo-Soros”. I sometimes wonder, how many years has he been huffing?

No matter what new religion this guy devotes his soul to, he just can’t stop always being wrong about everything.

Be kind to mentally disturbed people. Although medications cannot cure mental disorders, ridicule can’t, either. We cannot help the sufferers, but we can have pity on them.

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields? (1)

Where Are All the Headlines When ‘Free Palestine’ Is On a Shooter’s Assault Weapon?

What a horribly frightening time it had to be at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church near Houston yesterday afternoon.

A woman who walked into a popular Texas megachurch Sunday afternoon with a long gun and a young child opened fire before she was killed by law enforcement officers on scene. The gunfire left the child in critical condition and another man injured, officials said.

The little guy who was shot turns out to be the child who came with the shooter. Tragically, he is not expected to survive, and I can only surmise he was struck by the rounds from security guards returning fire.
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I am a little put out by the coverage on the major news media platforms, though. For some reason, there seems to be a deliberate skewing of terms here, and I can’t quite pinpoint why.

The Houston church shooter had antisemitic writing in her home in addition to “Free Palestine” written on her rifle. Her ex-husband’s family was Jewish and she had animus towards them.

But that doesn’t explain why she went to a mega church.

Children in Texas and Gaza die when Jihadists use them as defensive works. If Hamas wants to end the suffering, especially among their coreligionist human shields, there is an easy 4 step plan 100% under their control.

-1- Release all hostages
-2- Lay down arms
-3- Turn over criminals
-4- Disband

Blaming the Jewish and Christian victims of Muslim/Islamophile aggression makes no sense. Such lack of focus is both immoral and prolongs the problems.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/02/12/where-are-all-the-headlines-when-free-palestine-is-on-a-shooters-weapon-n3782797

A great Republican:

Gizel isn’t the myth maker unlike those disagreeing with him. Zelensky is on record for earlier saying the same.

FYI, most Ukrainians in the former Hapsburg ruled Ukraine are Orthodox Christians. There’s also the example of the Romanians under Hapsburg rule.

To be fair to Karlin – his aims could be purely mercenary.

To his credit, I never particularly thought to ask what his job was – if its something in a field that was changed negatively by the sanctions and break with the west. Plus , as a blogger the type that he is , doing weekly or twice a week blogposts in his style isn’t suited to localised, attritional warfare (irrelevant of the high kill ratio Russia’s advantage) – with tactical and even strategic objectives not yet 100% clear to the public from Russia or the globalhomo side. Anything that isn’t a 1 day victory and immediate 50 trillion dollar payout to Russia isn’t going to be suitable to a blogger wanting to make big statements and predictions like him to a mostly western readership.

IMO, McCarthy is too interested in his specific theory. The more fascinating things are the generalities of hybridization, its known examples, and the glancing references, like when one of his detractors said that even in crosses between some humans, sperm and egg will not have the right proteins to recognize each other.

I wonder whether the Pampas fox was assigned to the wrong genus. I know with birds, they have sometimes reassigned them based on genetics, but am not sure how it would work with a whole genus, rather than a species.

Same genus as dogs but still interesting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackal%E2%80%93dog_hybrid#Sulimov_dog

It was literally the same thought of every western ambassador, every western Ruler at the time you dumb shithead. And it was the thought of every getman, most Atamans

One of the very few to promote the theory that “Ukrainians” ( well this was the Zaporizhian Cossacks , which have zero connection to most of the land and people of Ukraine) were not Russians was the former French Ambassador to the Russian Empire. Why is this amusing? There was then the French Revolution where the his superior, the Foreign Secretary got executed, so what did this former Ambassador do to save his head from an appointment with the guillotine? He of course went anti-Royalist, anti-French monarchy, anti-Russian monarchy – so wrote some amusing nonsense about the Zaporizhian Cossacks.

You have snuff films, this was the worlds first snuff book!

BTW have you looked at the names of who is in power in Banderastan you stupid cretin?

To be fair to Karlin – his aims could be purely mercenary.

So, your theory is that he is not mad, just mercenary. That’s a viable hypothesis: people (including some commenters here) were saying crazier things for money.

From my POV, if he is mad, he deserves pity; if he is mercenary, he deserves contempt. In either case there is no point reading whatever he writes.

The Sumilov dog is great example.

I don’t believe McCarthy’s theory myself but his pages are endlessly fascinating to me regardless. Sometimes I get the impression reading them they are just his personal thought experiment, like suppose the gray aliens are time traveling Ashkenazi Jews trying to debug their genetic line which the extant time line has them for a destination. Academic science fiction spitballing.

The ratings have been published. Sunday’s football game is the most watched television show ever. I don’t know about the granularity of it. Soon they are going to tell us who got the most watched television advertisement ever.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39515554/super-bowl-lviii-sets-tv-ratings-record-1234m-viewers

The Sol Foundation (Christopher Mellon, Gary Nolan) has finally put the talks from their November 2023 S-UAP bowl conference up on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/@_SolFoundation/videos

The Leslie Kean one is missing. Apparently Eric Davis or Eric Davis’s presentation got deleted from the program. They don’t have the discussions so it remains a rumor that Russell Targ asked Avi Loeb when he was still at the podium in front of the entire room how does he get away with calling himself an astrophysicist when he hasn’t published a paper in twenty years.

Sunday’s football game is the most watched television show ever.

Wow! So, I did not watch the most watched television show ever. Didn’t even know about it. I am proud of this achievement. Have to confess, this was easy for me: I was never interested in watching any sports in any country. In my book the difference in the level of satisfaction between playing and watching sports is the same as between having sex and watching someone else have sex.

Your views on this are similar to those of Emil Kirkegaard, who laments that religion was replaced with worse ideologies such as Communism even while he himself was and still remains an atheist:

For the record I’m not an atheist and I am not as pessimistic as Nietzche.

But after being around secular Whites I certainly lost my faith in secularism.

I don’t believe in ostracizing the secular but I also don’t believe that removing Christian will herald some new age of enlightenment.

I’ve met too many Whites that replaced Christianity with liberalism while believing they were no longer religious. It was in fact unnerving as to how quickly they would switch to group identity if their beliefs were threatened. If you pointed out how the liberal belief of evolution frozen at 100k bc for some traits doesn’t make sense they would switch to a group defensive strategy. They don’t consider what you have to say and re-assess. They vote you off the island for being a stupid head meanie science hater that must be a secret right-wing Christian. I’ve had liberals scream Christian related epithets even though I didn’t say anything remotely Christian. They will rally into the tribe and beat their shields while telling themselves they are on the side of science. Makes me think of how quickly the Communists went into killing even though they viewed themselves as secular and idealistic. All it takes is a psycho like Lenin to lead the tribe in that direction.

Orthodoxy itself in Russia is mostly for show

That can be equally said about Vatican and the Anglo-Lgbtq churches, external displays of religion are mostly for show. Don’t you know that?

You specialize in discovering “bad stuff about the enemy” that turns out to be the same stuff you have at home. There is a bible parable describing it.

Still better that the unhinged Nietsche (or Hitler) worshipper Johnson who is now picking a fight with the Buddhists. He will soon march with “Independence for Buriatia!” and “Free Buriats from the Half-Asiatic Russians!“…

Too bad you guys are losing so badly, this Anglo-idiocy has become quite amusing…

Wow! So, I did not watch the most watched television show ever. Didn’t even know about it. I am proud of this achievement.

I watched the second half on mute while doing chores. I wonder how many people are intensely watching the game vs having a laptop out.

But in any case it doesn’t surprise me at all. There aren’t many sports on TV this time of year and the prime time shows are just awful.

In my book the difference in the level of satisfaction between playing and watching sports is the same as between having sex and watching someone else have sex.

I’ve played sports and have had plenty of sex.

Sports can be fun but like any group activity it just takes a couple annoying a-holes to ruin it. Sex followed by sports on tv is not a bad way to go.

In America we certainly have too much TV watching and a lot of bad parents. I see these overweight kids with their overweight parents. Sad really. These kids become convinced they are bad at sports and their parents allow it. The fat family phenomenon where being fat tv watchers is part of their identity.

Another problem is that a lame coach or PE teacher can turn a kid off of sports permanently. I’ve been involved in kid sports and I cannot believe some of the coaches. I said recently in a Sailer thread that I would be hesitant over kid football because of the coaches. A d-bag coach in soccer is just annoying but some jackass football coach can give your kid a permanent injury with one mistake. My wife knows someone whose kid got messed up because the coach allowed them to do a couple plays without pads before practice.

The Bonin Islands are a fascinating place. Not only were they the place where the Japanese almost cannibalized George H. W. Bush.

It’s demographic history is equally interesting.

In 1875 the Japanese invaded the islands then in 1876 the islands were put under the direct control of the Home Ministry. Further foreign settlement was banned, and the government assisted settlers who wished to relocate there from mainland Japan. The islands’ forests were also cut down for sugar cane production. Colonists largely segregated themselves in two different villages, one for the Americans and the other for the Japanese. Islanders of European and US ancestry were eventually granted Japanese nationality in 1882. Jack London visited the islands in 1893.

In 1917, 60–70 island people claimed ancestry among the 19th-century English-speaking settlers; however, in 1941, no Bonin people would acknowledge descent from these early colonists. The current residents include some who claim to be related to Nathaniel Savory.

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

Following Japan’s defeat the islands were controlled by the United States Navy for the next 23 years, which the Westerners referred to as “Navy Time.” All residents except those descended from the original settlers (the Ōbeikei Islanders) and/or related to them by marriage were expelled, while pre-war inhabitants of White American or European ancestry were allowed to return. Properties of exiled Japanese were bulldozed as part of the Navy’s management of nuclear weapons on Chichijima. In 1956, the residents petitioned for American annexation of the islands but received no response. In 1968, the United States government returned the Bonins to Japanese control. The Islanders choose to either become Japanese nationals or to receive American citizenship and repatriate to the United States.

I watched a bit of it. Sadly, Napolitano asked some poor questions. For example, “Why doesn’t Biden call Netanyahu to stop the fighting?” Blinken was already sent to demand Israeli surrender and was wisely ignored by Netanyahu. Biggs missed the opportunity to give the correct answer, “No one listens to the current White House occupant.”

Napolitano also whiffed when suggested the U.S. has influence over BoJo when the 2022 deal was scuttled. Scholz and BoJo collaborated to that end. The Veggie-In-Chief’s administration was utterly without influence.

UK, French, and German leaders may be weak… However, they are paragons of agency and executive power versus the absolute vacuum we are saddled with in America.

PEACE 😇

Russia has:
1. World’s highest abortion rate
2. Second highest alcohlism rate
3. Europe’s largest Muslim population
4. Europe’s largest Buddhist population
5. Europe’s largest HIV population
6. Europe’s largest atheist population
7. Lower percent of Orthodox compared to Ukraine

Russia is by far Europe’s largest country you dumb bag of shit spambot – so points 3-6 are the most idiotic possible . It would be like talking about Switzerland having the highest numbers of defective Rolex’s.

Point 2 is an amusingly stupid lie. Russia’s alcoholism rate is nowhere near the top, and our rates are repeatedly going down – even though much of our climate is conducive to higher alcohol rates. For those of us who have gone to Finland – mocking the Finns for the alcoholism is a frequent topic/joke of Russians about the alcohol-sickos in abundance in Finland streets you idiot. Lithuania, Czechia, Latvia, Moldova,probably Bulgaria and Germany and Estonia drink significantly more. We are not even in the top 10 – even though the history is we are less beer or wine dominant overall compared to spirits than the west. Drink-driving scum at daytime is a different issue though which we need to restrict further.

Point 5 – is caused by Fentanyl reject Pindostan’s illegal war in Afganistan and subsequent flow of opiates into ex USSR. STD or faggot AIDS – when it was a “competition” had the USA light years ahead “winning” in front of USSR and Russia you thick retard.

Point 7 is of course idiotic nonsense, based on Ukrainian” statistics” which is of course an oxymoron. Russia is a more spiritual and Orthodox country than Banderastan.
Also – in Russia the jew ( well, for A123’s lets say the anti-semitic, or islamophile jew Zelensky) doesnt dictate to people what day to celebrate Christmas. Orthodox culture and activities permeate far more into everyday life of Russians than they do to Ukrops (both before SMO and after – where they are not even trying to not be blasphemous). Leaders of Ukraine are the Jew with Jewish PM and Jewish Chief Staff – then the probably closet Jew, son of jailed gangster, heavily involved in Moldovan black market ( with some very immoral things) for years – Poroshenko……who also had a Jewish PM and Chief of Staff. Then before that you had the American Baptist “preacher” satanist freak – who also could possibly have been a Jew, and his PM, Yatsenyuk probably is Jewish.
Then you look at the satanic policies these freaks have done over the years………and you are talking about “Orthodoxy” in this fake country you disgusting sack of faeces?

Amusingly – of the thing we have idiotically been charged “War crimes” over – I think Orthodoxy (not just good moral secularism/social justice) at the core of modern Russia and being the antithesis of post-Soviet Banderastan are the factor behind this fake charge. Its primarily Orthodox families adopting these kids – who are from backgrounds of completely broken families in broken, anti-religious state structure of Ukraine – who are being rescued from this warzone and disastrous system of Ukraine. The number of childrens themselves not living with their families, having to be rescued by Orthodox Russian families doesnt say much about “Orthodox” Ukraine either

Point1.

1.Again we keep accurate measure, so who knows the true abortion rate for the others.
2.Higher pill use and history of the pill use in the west compared to Russia
3.Perfectly balanced out (and more) by American whores having much higher teenage pregnancy rates!!!
4.Data is also skewed by more Russians living in cities compared to other white countries ( I am specific on cities here, not a full “urban” metric which would classify the suburbs the same as the city). Higher city population=higher abortion rates in any white city.
5. Abortion Rate has descended significantly down , precisely because we are richer and more religious country- and anyway that needs to be looked at simultaneously with our birth rates , which are similar and actually better than most European countries………and of course massively ahead of Ukraine’s disastrously low rates and ahead of the Polish faggot fake Catholics.
6. It’s a fact that the Russian state policy is more anti-abortion then western states who are pro-abortion as part of some sick feminist cult. Russian state policy is through inducement not to abort instead of forced legislation banning it. Russian state doctors probably the same as western state doctors – many for or neutral to abortion, particularly if there is a hint( not definite) that kid could be born with problems.

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields?

I haven’t given my opinion on human shields. I don’t support the use of human shields but that has nothing to do with anything I said in post #16.

Is it really that hard for you to respond to my actual statements instead of using your imagination?

I asked why we should send Israel a check for $14 billion dollars.

Israel is a middle income country with a budget surplus. Why is the “America First” wing of Congress so adamant on sending them money? Why do they need it?

Both you and the other MAGA supporters at Unz have not answered this question.

The MAGA movement is rotten to the core. It’s a bunch of confused Evangelicals that believe the world will soon end and can only agree on sending Israel a check for 14 billion and voting for a felon who bragged about cheating on his wife.

Evangelicals have lost it. They went extra batty after COVID and haven’t returned to semi-crazy.

A bizarre movement where writing Israel a check is more important than locking down the border where it seems we have every country represented. A record number of Chinese went through the southern border:
https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-migration-us-skyrocketed-homeland-security-1831796

… the theory that “Ukrainians” – well this was the Zaporizhian Cossacks , which have zero connection to most of the land and people of Ukraine – were not Russians

We should leave it up to the people to decide who they are. Many can be both. The Galician (Western) Ukies have their own identity – language, history, folklore, even a half-and-half religion (Ortho-papism). It gradually tapers of to the east and south. The cities are mostly Russian. The Cossacks were originally a mish-mash of everyone who moved to the wild fields, their strongest identity was Orthodoxy.

I wonder how this is going to play out. Russia will almost certainly win, but what to do with the residual Ukie hostility? Russia has traditionally preferred to put a lid on hard issues – they are not very industrious like the Westies. There will be a rump-Ukieland somewhere in the centre-west and it will be one unhappy bunch. The south-east will be partially depopulated but rich in resources – most of the good stuff in Ukraine is there. Millions of Ukies in Europe and Russia will quickly assimilate…

To summarize the Ukie independence: they went from a 50-million, France-sized, rich country with great education and geography to a middling, isolated half-size battlefield. In return they got material for future teary myths, weapons, visas, speeches, and Zelko travelled a lot – who can forget the standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament? That was the apogee – an elderly Nazi saluted by the Westies (finally, they could show it) and the Ukie-Jew grinning and pretending that he “knows nothing”…What a show! If Hollywood had any brains it is quite a story…But they prefer happy-endings.

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields?

I haven’t given my opinion on human shields.

Here is your perfect opportunity. Why do you refuse to answer the question?

PEACE 😇

Russia is by far Europe’s largest country you dumb bag of shit spambot – so points 3-6 are the most idiotic possible . It would be like talking about Switzerland having the highest numbers of defective Rolex’s.

So large countries must have the largest number of Muslims, atheists, HIV patients and Buddhists?

Does that make sense to you? Once a country gets large enough it explodes with atheists and HIV patients?

Are you talking area mass or population? Maybe do some reading before calling me names. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

Russia’s alcoholism rate is nowhere near the top, and our rates are repeatedly going down – even though much of our climate is conducive to higher alcohol rates.

Actually the newest stats have been released and Hungary is now #1 with Russia at #2.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholism-by-country

I will make a note of that when debunking the frozen tradcon wonderland delusion that you and others desperately try to cling to despite evidence that says otherwise. Russia is still #2 at alcoholism and Belarus is no longer #1. Congrats to Belarus.

Point 7 is of course idiotic nonsense, based on Ukrainian” statistics” which is of course an oxymoron. Russia is a more spiritual and Orthodox country than Banderastan.

Wrong again. Ukraine has a higher percentage of Christians than Russia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country

Why would that be a surprise given the number of Buddhists, Muslims and atheists in Russia?

Your response is a big emotional mess. You’re clearly attached to Putin and are uninterested in facing basic demographic facts about Russia. It’s pathetic. Just stop.

Why do you refuse to answer the question?

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Gizel isn’t the myth maker unlike those disagreeing with him. Zelensky is on record for earlier saying the same.

Rather, Zelensky had said the same, but obviously not before Gizel and others.

We should leave it up to the people to decide who they are

That’s the problem – Ukrainianism is a Austrian and Polish created ideology. Too much of non-Galician culture, the Galician wackos try to claim as their own, even though it is from the Russian side.
Literally WTF is the Uniate Church? Its a non-religious, anti-Russia created freakshow. A bizarre creation.
Except for Yushchenko, EVERY Ukrop “election” has been a deceit of ukrops thinking they were voting for the most pro-Russian, least anti-Russian candidate – with each of these dirtbags turning this sentiment into anti-Russian policies

This perfectly illustrates itself in the modern day. If you want to disassociate from economic trade with Russia……then don’t be a prostitute of the west and force Russia to direct gas through Soviet-era pipeline and beg to stop Nord Stream 2.

Promote language policy similar to that of Canada or Switzerland

Don’t have a military lead by a Russian whose parents and brother have disowned this freak

Many other things..but history and current practise proves that the biggest fear of Ukronazi cowards is that there is a “fair fight” between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian ideologies – because as with the language issue it will be too much massive pro-Russian victory.

I posted on the previous thread the hugely embarrassing statistic for Ukronazis……that in 1934 Lvov census of over 1.5 million people – it struggles to get past 50/50 of those calling themselves Ukrainians compared to those calling themselves Russian. Absolutely incredible! Thats with centuries of Polish and then about 60 years of non-stop Austrian project and money trying to convince them they are not Russian.

And that’s with mass propaganda, mass expulsions and emigration of russophiles, mass murder of Russians in WW1 concentration camps etc – and the best they can achieve in khokhol identification is 50/50!!!

For sure, a different time now – but I don’t think the core issues change, even with war. People who fought together on Russian side against Chechens are now fighting against each other in Ukraine, Chechens on opposing sides in the 1990’s and later …..fighting again on opposite sides in 404. Reintegration with ukrops with their mass slave-psychosis, should be easier than expected – particularly if the west does to 404 what USSR did with Cuba after missile crisis.

China and Russia no longer perceived as top security threats, research finds.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/13/china-and-russia-no-longer-perceived-as-top-security-threats-research-finds.html

That can be equally said about Vatican and the Anglo-Lgbtq churches, external displays of religion are mostly for show

This is often the case in the West, but it is even worse in Russia, it is much more so.

Too bad you guys are losing so badly

Because Russia has lost thousands of troops to take a few streets in Avdiivka? By that standard the summer offensive wasn’t paused, it was a success because a few villages were liberated. With fewer losses than Russians have had at Avdiivka.

So large countries must have the largest number of Muslims, atheists, HIV patients and Buddhists?

If they have twice the population of most of these countries, then of course yes you retard. And if a sizeable proportion of them are Volga Tatars and Bashkirs.

Actually the newest stats have been released and Hungary is now #1 with Russia at #2.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholism-by-country

Other stats say completely different you idiot – this one is obviously BS.

https://twitter.com/lamberjatt02/status/1756683066322432350

With fewer losses than Russians have had at Avdiivka.

In the days of the USSR the KGB had a whole division tasked with deceiving the enemy. Today the enemies are obliging enough to deceive themselves. The grapes are sour, aren’t they?

BTW, if you can find a former resident of Avdeevka who would voluntarily call it “Avdiivka”, you deserve a big cash prize (libtards/neocons would owe you big).

… it is even worse in Russia

Is it? How would you know, do you see into people’s souls who is devoted and who is only going through the motions?

You search the world obsessively to argue that they are even worse (mostly Russia for some reason). It is a mental condition common among the Westies…the way to cope with the sh..t at home.

By that standard the summer offensive wasn’t paused, it was a success

You are really reaching – it was a costly failure, even the Nato leaders say it openly.

I don’t know the casualties, it’s a war and everyone hides it. But I don’t believe the breathless Ukie claims we killed million Russkies today! parroted in the West. One way to estimate the casualties are POWs: Russia holds ten times more Ukie POWs than vice versa.

Suffice to say that Kiev has lost too many men – is it 100k, 250k killed and seriously wounded, or more? To look at the enemy and giggle that “they lost more!” (probably untrue) is both mentally deranged and irrelevant. If (when) Russia wins the war it won’t matter. In countries of 150 million and maybe 25-30 million even losses in hundreds of thousands are not decisive.

Focus on what matters: Kiev can go down fighting or make a (very bad) deal. Those are the choices their stupidity and sell-out mentality have led them to…

I haven’t given my opinion on human shields.

Here is your perfect opportunity. Why do you refuse to answer the question?

Let the record show that you refuse to answer the question about House MAGA Republicans and their desire to write Israel a check for $14 billion dollars.

A pattern consistent not only with MAGA defenders but also “blame the Jew” bloggers that talk about Jewish influence in US politics but completely sidestep the MAGA wing of the House that is more concerned with writing Israel a check than fixing the border. Our MAGA House Republicans want to give financial aid to Israel even though they have a massive military advantage over a bunch of Arabs in tank tops with RPGs that don’t even work against trophy armor (note that Scott Ritter was completely wrong about Hamas tactical efficacy). These House Republicans describe themselves as “America First” by not supporting Ukraine who could actually use our help.

So you instead childishly respond to a direct question with a question of your own as you are trying to dance around the rhino in the room. Do you feel good as a man to engage in such childish reality avoidance? If you can formulate a clear question then I will try to answer it. We both know you are the one on the side of reality denial. In fact most of your postings related to MAGA are an endorsement that Trump’s fans have gone off the deep end and seem to exist in a state of confusion. They are not only in denial of his pending felonies but seem to think it is just fine to write Israel a check for $14 billion while calling themselves ‘Merica First.

…Today the enemies are obliging enough to deceive themselves. The grapes are sour, aren’t they?

They go way overboard and it looks almost comical…as if the pain of seeing reality was too much. They are conditioned by their pharma, TV, happy-talk schools to only experience good things. So the self-deception has been industrialized…

But I think we forget that the Westies – esp. the American kind – are raised with few skills other than marketing. For them it is not even “lying”, it is the way you reach your goals…the goal is to win. If not, then at least not to look like a loser. I wonder if Russia will oblige them.

That’s the problem – Ukrainianism is a Austrian and Polish created ideology.

And unionism of Russia and Ukraine was a German-created one, apparently.

EVERY Ukrop “election” has been a deceit of ukrops thinking they were voting for the most pro-Russian, least anti-Russian candidate

The pro-Russian candidate Yuriy Boyko got 12% of the vote in the last presidential election. Another pro-Russian candidate Vilkul got 4%. They didn’t make it to the second round, which ended up being between two pro-Western, pro-NATO candidates: more extreme Poroshenko and more moderate Zelensky.

These were the results:

I posted on the previous thread the hugely embarrassing statistic for Ukronazis……that in 1934 Lvov census of over 1.5 million people – it struggles to get past 50/50 of those calling themselves Ukrainians compared to those calling themselves Russian

The census was 1931, not 1934.

You deliberately mistranslate Ruthenian/Rusyn as Russian.

The Polish census had both Rusyn and Russian as separate categories. Rusyn was the old word that western Ukrainians used of themselves (some of them still call themselves Rusyns). It is not the same as Russian. Don’t lie.

The Polish census listed people by language and religion. The Polish census documents are in both Polish and French. Ukrainians were Greek Catholics.

On the Polish census:

Ruski in Polish was translated as le ruthene (Ruthenian)

Rosyjske in Polish was translated as le russe (Russian)

Out of 1.25 million Greek Catholics in Lwow province, 237,000 spoke Polish, 551,000 spoke Ukrainian, 465,000 spoke Ruthenian, and 66 spoke Russian (an additional 200 Russians in the province were Orthodox Christians)

Here is the census document, it is very clear:

The Polish government sought to officially minimize the number of Ukrainians, so if someone did not insist that they were Ukrainian-speakers they were simply listed as “Ruthenian.” There were also people, mostly in the western part of the province, that really did in principal consider themselves to be members of the Rusyn nation. Thus the Ruthenian speakers on the census belonged to either of these two categories.

Actual Russians were listed as – Russian.

How would you know, do you see into people’s souls who is devoted and who is only going through the motions?

I think abortion rates, divorce rates, church attendance rates, HIV rates are good secondary evidence of how religious a people are. On all these measures, Russians do worse than Americans. Indeed, they do worse than western Europeans, too, but Western Europeans don’t pretend to be Christians as Russians sometimes do.

By that standard the summer offensive wasn’t paused, it was a success

You are really reaching – it was a costly failure

I was using your own standard. Ukraine gained a few (12?) villages during the summer offensive, Russia has captured even less during its winter offensive. If the first was a “costly failure” the second must be even worse, given the greater number of losses and fewer gains. Why the double standard?

One way to estimate the casualties are POWs: Russia holds ten times more Ukie POWs than vice versa.

According to whom?

Another way is to estimate tank and vehicle losses. Russia has lost more, and a lot around Avdiivka.

To look at the enemy and giggle that “they lost more!” (probably untrue) is both mentally deranged

Projection. You are the one talking about fun and let’s watch etc. I don’t view this as anything other than a tragedy created by Putin for the purpose of preventing the Ukrainian people from running their own country in a way that he doesn’t like.

Kiev can go down fighting or make a (very bad) deal. Those are the choices

So you claim. The claims of a guy who insisted that Ukraine would lose quickly because the Ukrainians would all surrender or flee.

the goal is to win. If not, then at least not to look like a loser. I wonder if Russia will oblige them.

I wonder, too. So far Putin usually allowed those who lost to him to “save face” (always assuming they do have a part of the body one can call face). But lately he sounds a lot more antagonistic to the enemies of Russia. When Ukies killed their own POWs by shooting down the plane they were transported in for the exchange (Ukies knew who was in that airplane, they were told beforehand when and where their POWs will be flown), he sounded very angry.

A sign of this change of attitude is that apparently Russian diplomats got the permission to call a spade a spade. Now Lavrov, Nebenzya, and others sound a lot less diplomatic. We’ll see soon enough.

The Polish government sought to officially minimize the number of Ukrainians, so if someone did not insist that they were Ukrainian-speakers they were simply listed as “Ruthenian.” There were also people, mostly in the western part of the province, that really did in principal consider themselves to be members of the Rusyn nation. Thus the Ruthenian speakers on the census belonged to either of these two categories.

Just a clarification. The Lwow province of interwar Poland was not the same as the Lviv oblast of Ukraine. It extended far to the West. The current border is that red line:

The green areas have an East Slavic/Ukrainian/Ruthenian majority, the orange have a Polish majority.

Many of the Eastern Slavs living west of that line considered themselves to be Lemkos/Rusyns, not Ukrainians (there are people like that in Slovakia, also).

JoJo…this is one of your better posts.

The POW exchange are negotiated through Dubai and they said so – google it. The exchanges are 1-for-1 so a lot more Ukie POWs are held in Russia. Some of it was the initial surrenders, Russians and Donbas militias took a large number of prisoners in the first few weeks. Then the surrenders slow down – either the morale stiffened (your view) or the penal Kiev enforcers are too scary. Probably both.

anything other than a tragedy created by Putin for the purpose of preventing the Ukrainian people from running their own country in a way that he doesn’t like.

Yes, I agree it is a tragedy…but the Zelko guy is just naturally so funny, I mean you couldn’t invent a character like that: he went from playing a piano with his d..ck for large sums to urging thousands of Ukie men to die for even larger sums. The guy is really something…

The “running it the way they want…” is both undefinable and meaningless. Can Quebec expel the English-speakers and join Russia in a military alliance against US? Or Ireland with UK? You know it is nonsense, it has never worked that way. Plus a large portion – maybe even a majority – of Ukies didn’t care for that, didn’t want Nato, didn’t want to ban the Russian language. But you need your slogans – it makes the suffering seem more meaningful.

Ukraine would lose quickly

Two to three year is quite quick. A too fast a victory would fail to teach a lesson. In any case, by any standard it would had been better if Kiev took the Istanbul deal or any deal – the result will be the same, or worse, the destruction and dead are irreversible.

My sources are showing that your sources are completely concocted. Show me a country and I will show you everything bad about it.

but the Zelko guy is just naturally so funny, I mean you couldn’t invent a character like that:

He is not alone by far. Most Western “leaders” to outside observes look and sound like an angry parody, including Alzheimer-in-Chief.

I don’t think that tens of thousands Ukies killed and maimed at the front lines are finding the unfolding events even remotely funny.

You forgot, US is ranked 45th in infant mortality, just after Wallis and Futuna.

The POW exchange are negotiated through Dubai and they said so – google it. The exchanges are 1-for-1 so a lot more Ukie POWs are held in Russia.

Why does a 1-for-1 exchange mean that Russia has more Ukrainian POWs than vice versa?

Google got this result:

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-stalls-war-prisoners-exchange-heat-political-tensions-ukraine-kyiv-says/

“As of today, Russia holds more than 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers and some 28,000 civilians, the Ukrainian ombudsman’s office and reintegration ministry said. However, the real number may be even higher.”

Do you have other numbers?

“The Ukrainians have not said how many Russians they hold, but they have so many that they’re building a second POW camp to hold them. Russians are also being held in a special facility in western Ukraine and housed in cells in pretrial detention centers.”

The “running it the way they want…” is both undefinable and meaningless. Can Quebec expel the English-speakers and join Russia in a military alliance against US?

Does it want to?

BTW Quebec’s language policies are in some ways similar to Ukraine’s.

Cuba hosted thousands of Soviet soldiers and had a Soviet military base on its soil. It just didn’t have Soviet nukes.

Plus a large portion – maybe even a majority – of Ukies didn’t care for that, didn’t want Nato, didn’t want to ban the Russian language

Russia made them want NATO from 2014. And now they do.

Only 16% of Ukrainians voted for candidates that wanted to keep Russian as a second state language. This was the choice of the Ukrainian people.

Ukraine would lose quickly

Two to three year is quite quick.

Nonsense. In the last 100 years – USA conquering Iraq in 5 weeks was quick. Germany taking Poland in 5 weeks or France in 6 weeks were quick. Winter was quick (3.5 months). Falklands War was quick, Azeri-Armenian war was quick.

In the last century, when has an invader won a war, when the invader failed to win quickly and the war lasted more than 2 years? Germany lost against the Soviet Union, Iraq failed to defeat Iran (that war lasted 8 years).

..USA conquering Iraq in 5 weeks was quick. Germany taking Poland in 5 weeks or France in 6 weeks were quick.

US war in Iraq lasted 5 to 10 years and they eventually lost it. In Afgan more like 20 years and they still lost. Poles and French? Well, what can one say…they are natural losers, they either rushed to surrender or lined up to be massacred :)…is that what you admire?

Regarding POWs, Dubai said it…

Cuba is small, Ukraine and Quebec are big…if you can’t tell the difference take some remedial math. US would never allow Russian on its borders with military bases. Why should Russians or Chinese be different?

By the way Zelko run as the more pro-Russian candidate…he lied but most of his voters had no way of knowing that. Zelko is a natural liar, a trained actor. Porky was the pro-West-pro-Nato candidate, in a way a more sympathetic character…but they will both be cursed by the surviving Ukies for generations.

Nato wanted Ukraine, Russia has blocked it – now for the endless lies and tears. You play the loser screaming “but I am not a loser” quite well…:) But it changes nothing.

Didn’t watch the Superbowl, but I tried to read a bit about the ads.

Only one that stood out to me was one called “Stop the Jewish Hate.”. What I found curious about it is that they had the guy who was MLK’s speechwriter and they called him his speechwriter, which I considered breaking a taboo, esp. during Black History Month. (The idea is always that “I Have a Dream” was his sentiment and not something he was reading.). But it was so short (ten seconds) that I don’t think it registered with most people.
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They were forecasting a really big snowstorm today, and I am shocked how wrong they got it. They cancelled school and a lot of people didn’t go into work. But hardly anything accumulated. Can still see patches of grass.

By the way Zelko run as the more pro-Russian candidate…he lied but most of his voters had no way of knowing that.

American joke:
– How do you know the politician is lying?
– His lips are moving…

They were forecasting a really big snowstorm today, and I am shocked how wrong they got it. They cancelled school and a lot of people didn’t go into work. But hardly anything accumulated. Can still see patches of grass.

Aren’t you used to it? The people who confidently pontificate about temperatures 50 or 100 years from now cannot predict the weather in the next hour, let alone the next day.

I haven’t given my opinion on human shields.

Here is your perfect opportunity. Why do you refuse to answer the question?

Why do you refuse to answer the question? Let the record show that JJ/KK supports Hamas use of human shields.

Let the record show that you refuse to answer the question about House MAGA Republicans and their desire to write Israel a check for $14 billion dollars.

Why should I answer your questions when you refuse to answer mine? Let the record show JJ/KK is a hypocrite.

Provide a serious answer to my question, and I will answer yours. Let the record show, the ball is in your court.

PEACE 😇

Why is Russia hiring Nepalis mercenaries if they have plenty of men?

And of course ripping them off as they do with rural Russian conscripts.

Even the Nazis paid their foreign soldiers.

Provide a serious answer to my question, and I will answer yours. Let the record show, the ball is in your court.

Where is the question? Go ahead and re-state it.

I’m on record as being against civilian attacks of any type. I also don’t support IDF measures like destroying entire apartment buildings because a Hamas member lived in a single unit. I’ve held that position for years and it is in my history.

My views are pretty mainstream. Most Americans want a ceasefire and believe Israel has gone too far. I didn’t view the October 7 attacks as a breakout or military operation and I was called a Jew for believing it initially happened. Attacking a concert and engaging in gang rape is not a military operation. Kidnapping children is not a military operation.

But I also don’t support the current reprisals by Israel. You don’t have to a pick a side and mindlessly cheer.

Why is Russia hiring Nepalis mercenaries if they have plenty of men?

For the same reason Brazil fought in WWII, thus engaging South America – so it can be called “world war” and thus apocalyptic prophecies about people & tongues fighting be fulfilled. After all, Chabad-Lubavitch runs Putin and his clique of oligarchs like Roman Abramovich.
Ukraine has (or had) multinational mercenaries fighting too.

…Why is Russia hiring Nepalis mercenaries if they have plenty of men?

For the same reason Nato is using Ukies to do the actual fighting…I think even you should be able to figure it out. But can you?

Yep, it is their generic characteristic….Zelko is unique as a complete non-entity who was told to play a role, but with no past or future he is just a momentary embodiment of the mad failed plan to move Nato to Ukraine…the plan that cannot now even be acknowledged – it is quite absurd.

This post-modernism is really only a shallow game of lies. What they lack is even a minimal sense of responsibility and honor…they can’t even admit what they wanted.

Now watch the magic happen when all those who have been salivating about RF economic growth due war industry expansion will suddenly become immediate white doves on olive trees, lamentating the MIC as cause of all evil in the world;)

Where is the question? Go ahead and re-state it.

From #35: (1)

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields?

Children in Texas and Gaza die when Jihadists use them as defensive works. Blaming the Jewish and Christian victims of Muslim/Islamophile aggression makes no sense. Such lack of focus is both immoral and prolongs the problems.

As questions go, it was pretty clear.

Attacking a concert and engaging in gang rape is not a military operation. Kidnapping children is not a military operation.

Hamas built tunnels and uses them to stage attacks on indigenous Palestinian Jews. This includes weaponizing theoretically civilian structures including hospitals, schools, UNRWA facilities, etc. Regardless of how you define the actions of Hamas (military or not), it drew the minimum necessary response.

The only way for indigenous Palestinian Jews to be safe is fully defeating and dismantling Hamas. Muslim use of their coreligionists as human shields is quite grim. However, Palestinian Jews cannot surrender because the other side misbehaves. That rewards the war crime.

You really need to stop blaming the Christian and Jewish victims of senseless Muslim/Islamophile aggression.
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As to the current bill… Knowing that it will not pass, I have not looked at it closely. The House is sending the “clean” package to the Senate to create conflict within the DNC.

• Will Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer (Is he a Jew?) block a vote on aid to Palestinian Jews?
• If he allows the vote. How many anti-Semitic, Islamophile Democrats will go on record supporting Hamas ethnic cleansing?

If it somehow passed the Senate, we know that Not-The-President Biden hates indigenous Palestinian Jews. The White House occupant would veto it, and there is no chance of over riding that in Congress.
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If there was to be a serious discussion about what would be most valuable… the dollar amount would almost certainly be much lower. It would focus on hard to come by material, especially gear 100% unavailable if it does not come from existing U.S. military stocks.

There is no point on attempting to dwell on various highly theoretical, vague, potential non-bills. The Veggie-In-Chief would block any such request, so no one will try to draft anything substantive enough to analyze. There is far too little detail to find a number in a meaningful way. Therefore, it is too speculative to place in a meaningful question.

A hypothetical number with inadequate detail on what it precisely is for cannot be debated in a constructive way.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-242/#comment-6414342

Three Types of Miracles [thread]

When Guru Gobind Singh arrived in Agra, he was aggressively questioned by a strict Muslim Sayyid if he possessed any abilities to perform miracles – to which the Guru playfully described 3 types of miracles…

Some interesting information. Can you provide an accompanying article that helps to explain in greater detail what exactly these figures represent?

Aren’t you used to it?

Forecasting snow by the ocean can be pretty tricky, but easily the worst forecast I’ve seen in the past 10-15 years. Guess there are probably a lot of local factors that make extrapolating from other parts of the globe too difficult.

The people who confidently pontificate about temperatures 50 or 100 years

I’d like to see someone create an ethnography on Greens. Their habits and customs must be really interesting. Would be very much surprised, if they weren’t the group with their thermostats set on the highest.

The US Department of Defense has released a new map identifying where the the funds appropriated by the 4 prior Ukraine Supplementals have been obligated so far. There is still another $14.5 billion yet to be obligated/contracted as well ($7.9b PDA replacement & $6.6 billion USAI).

According to this map, this is inaccurate:

Christianity in Ukraine
byu/GavinShipman inMapPorn

Also according to this map:

Religions in Ukraine (2015) [1000 x 7000] [OC]
byu/FrankCesco inMapPorn

Galicia appears to be slightly more Greek Catholic than Eastern Orthodox, though maybe this would not be true for ex-Hapsburg Ukraine as a whole due to the inclusion of northern Bukovina. I doubt this, however, because AFAIK northern Bukovina’s population is relatively small in comparison to that of Galicia.

The Romanians under Hapsburg rule actually did significantly become Uniates (Greek Catholics) in northern Transylvania, just not in southern Transylvania or in Bukovina. I don’t know what specifically the reason for this discrepancy was. But Yeah, northern Transylvania was still Uniate-majority as late as 1930:

The percentage of Greek-Catholics in Romania, 1930
byu/Gruenwaldo inMapPorn

The Uniate Church was subsequently aggressively suppressed by the Romanian Communists.

Once the SMO combat wraps up Russia will need a large ‘peacekeeping force’ to establish and maintain order in Ukraine. Outsiders are often used for this sort of contentious role. Perhaps there will also be a multinational peacekeeping force in Western Ukraine. Russia has already stated that her standing Army is being enlarged. I assume the plan is to have a lot of combat seasoned reserves as well.

This expanded Russian military is part of the dismal self-fulfilling prophecy where Russia’s scaredy-cat neighbors agreed with the West that it was a good time to take advantage of Russia’s economic and military weakness and give the coup de grace. Predictably Russia is weathering the pressure and appears to be gaining strength. So what was once an opportunity for improving relations has been turned into a fresh standoff which could last for generations. Great job, morons.

PS: Can we call these new troops Girkin’s Gurkhas? As a Russian nationalist he may not approve, but the name has a nice ring to it in English. Or we could go with Strelkov’s Sherpas….

Cuba hosted thousands of Soviet soldiers and had a Soviet military base on its soil. It just didn’t have Soviet nukes.

Yep; once the US found out about the Soviet troops in Cuba in 1979 or 1980, it very, very loudly complained but didn’t actually engage in any new attempts at regime change in Cuba.

BTW, do you agree with Anatoly Karlin’s analysis of Moscow?

https://nitter.cz/nooceleration/status/1757211136150093936#m

Moscow strikes me as the cultural capital of Eastern Europe but the nice areas of the BosWash megalopolis in the Northeastern US combined probably strike me as being more impressive. BosWash also has astronomically more elite science production relative to Moscow, whether in per capita terms or in total terms.

Why is Russia hiring Nepalis mercenaries if they have plenty of men?

For the same reason Brazil fought in WWII, thus engaging South America – so it can be called “world war” and thus apocalyptic prophecies about people & tongues fighting be fulfilled. After all, Chabad-Lubavitch runs Putin and his clique of oligarchs like Roman Abramovich.

Unlikely.

Putin is most likely doing everything he can to avoid conscripting from the middle class urban Slavs.

That includes offering to pay mercenaries and then making excuses to pay their families when they are dead.

Ukraine has (or had) multinational mercenaries fighting too.

Yes and they’re also the underdog with 30% the population size of Russia.

Once the SMO combat wraps up Russia will need a large ‘peacekeeping force’ to establish and maintain order in Ukraine.

So you actually believe Russia will take all of Ukraine? Why is Russia building all of these defensive lines in Eastern Ukraine?

Outsiders are often used for this sort of contentious role.

Putin is putting these mercenaries on the frontline. That isn’t speculation. They lie to the men and tell them they won’t be in combat. Then plans change once they are in Ukraine. Same game they play against the conscripts. No worries you’ll be behind the front……whoops I guess not and there are Chechens that will shoot if you try to escape.

What a country. World is impressed. Putin scams both conscripts and foreigners.

Predictably Russia is weathering the pressure and appears to be gaining strength.

Fans of Putin have been telling us that Russia has been gaining strength since one month after their failed attempt at taking Kiev. Ritter predicted that Russia was near victory for over a year on a monthly basis.

PS: Can we call these new troops Girkin’s Gurkhas?

Probably not since Girkin is in prison and has decided that Putin is clueless on military tactics and should be removed. Girkin is still pro-war but wants Putin and his generals out.

But it has a nice ring. I’ll give you that.

I’d like to see someone create an ethnography on Greens. Their habits and customs must be really interesting. Would be very much surprised, if they weren’t the group with their thermostats set on the highest.

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. Self-proclaimed “green” Al Gore has a huge mansion in TN which he did not even visit for years. Yet every night the lights there come on, so that he burns more electricity than ten normal household who actually live in their houses.

All that climate BS is to benefit certain parties to the tune of billions (carbon tax, subsidies for EVs, solar panels, windmills, etc., all at the expense of cheated taxpayers) and has nothing to do with real care for the environment. No climate change freak ever answered my simple question: Mesozoic era lasted almost 200 million years, with temperatures on Earth much higher than today. Yet there were no humans, no fossil fuels, no other scarecrows “green” liars use in their propaganda.

Judging by winters in Russia and navigability of the route along its Northern shore the climate is getting warmer. Yet there is no proof that humans have anything to do with it, or that humans can do anything about it. But some people make enough money on “climate science” to pay their huge electric bills.

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields?

Children in Texas and Gaza die when Jihadists use them as defensive works.

And where did I do that?

Please quote me. I haven’t even commented on the Texas shooting.

You are consistently unable to simply quote me and then respond. It’s unreal.

I was called a Jewish operative repeatedly in the Anglin threads over not supporting Hamas and the Rape n Wilding idiocy. But in the open thread you’ve used your imagination to convince yourself I took a political position on human shields….and in favor of Hamas? Why don’t you explain that for us. You are mentally losing it.

As to the current bill… Knowing that it will not pass, I have not looked at it closely. The House is sending the “clean” package to the Senate to create conflict within the DNC.

Which package are you talking about? Please provide a source.

Should the America First MAGA position be to sell Israel military hardware that they can afford or should we give it to them for free as MAGA House Republicans are demanding?

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields?

And where did I do that?

It is a question. You have the opportunity to explicitly allocate. Or, explicitly not allocate.

It is painfully obvious that you are ducking the question. Why do you refuse to engage? Is it because you support Hamas, but do not want to go on record?

As to the current bill… Knowing that it will not pass, I have not looked at it closely. The House is sending the “clean” package to the Senate to create conflict within the DNC.

Should the America First MAGA position be to sell Israel military hardware

The MAGA position is, Knowing that it will not pass. Through what irrational transformation does “no action / not passing” becoming “selling”? You are 100% making things up. You need to stop fabricating false MAGA positions.

Remember the Yellowface Anon Rule:
    — If you get tell me what I think.
    — I get to tell you what you think.

PEACE 😇

It is painfully obvious that you are ducking the question. Why do you refuse to engage?

Where is the question? Please state it in a question form like a normal human being.

Is it because you support Hamas, but do not want to go on record?

Let’s go ahead and look at my record on Hamas comments:

https://www.unz.com/?s=Hamas&Action=Search&ptype=all&commentsearch=only&commenter=John+Johnson

Would you call these comments indicative of Hamas support:

I think Hamas is a gang of retards… f-cking stupid. How is Hamas doing these days?

The Hamas Suburban and Concert Assault Commandos also maintain such fanatical beliefs. How well did that work out for them?

Hamas launched an incredibly stupid attack and you’re still upset with me for calling it as it is.

The Hamas attack on October 7th was just plain dumb. They spent years preparing for an attack that that took their worldwide moral reputation to -5000 while giving Israel the green light to clean house.

Do look through my comments and show us what you think is Hamas support. Find the best comment and show everyone that your insinuation has a basis in reality and is not your imagination at work.

The MAGA position is, Knowing that it will not pass.

So you believe the MAGA House Republicans would not actually try to pass $14 billion in aid for Israel if the Republicans had all 3 houses? They just like to pretend that they want cash for Israel? You do realize how batshit crazy that sounds?

US war in Iraq lasted 5 to 10 years and they eventually lost it

The entire Iraqi army was destroyed and the country was conquered in 5 weeks. The insurgency that followed lasted for many years.

In Ukraine, Russia couldn’t even do the first part- it grabbed 8% more of Ukraine in 2022, was kicked out of the capital’s suburbs.

But yes – the insurgency in Iraq lasted for several years and America withdrew. So follows the pattern of the invader eventually losing if he doesn’t finish it within 2 years.

Regarding POWs, Dubai said it

Link? You shouldn’t be taken at your word, and I couldn’t find it in my quick search. I posted the only thing I did find- 3,000 Ukrainian POWs according to Ukraine, real number probably higher.

By the way Zelko run as the more pro-Russian candidate

The important word in your statement was “more.”

He was milder than Poroshenko, but also pro-NATO and pro-EU. He said Bandera was cool, but didn’t need so many statues.

The pro-Russian guy, who didn’t think Bandera was cool, and was opposed to NATO membership, lost and didn’t make it into the 2nd round.

The pro-Russian voters went for Zelensky in the 2nd round because for them he was a “lesser evil” compared to Poroshenko, but he was not pro-Russian.

Brutal takedown of air launch rockets, assuming the numbers for Virgin Orbit vs. Falcon One are accurate.

Incredible footage of the war from the trenches:
https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-insane-15-minute-international-legion-assault-near-avdiivka/

It is painfully obvious that you are ducking the question. Why do you refuse to engage?

Where is the question? Please state it in a question form like a normal human being.

As a normal human being, I repeat the normal question for the 3rd time.

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields?

This is normality in action. Everyone sees your refusal to respond directly on-point as diversionary & persistently abnormal.

The MAGA position is, Knowing that it will not pass.

So you believe the MAGA House Republicans would not actually try to pass $14 billion in aid for Israel if the Republicans had all 3 houses?

Just how oblivious to politics are you?

• Indigenous Palestinian Jews did not even ask for a bill.
• The $14B figure was plucked from mid air by the DNC. It was an attempt to make their $60B for senseless Kiev aggression more palatable. Their ruse failed.
• The $14B “clean” bill was passed by the House last year. And was declared DOA by Chuck Schumer (1)
• The Senate atrocity has been declared DOA in the House by Mike Johnson.

One would have to be batsh!t crazy to miss the fact that neither U.S. side believes it is possible to actually *pass* something. They have been posturing for many months. It is all theatre with an inevitable outcome of ZERO dollars. Everyone (but you) grasps this incredibly obvious fact.

If indigenous Palestinian Jews actually needed something, I would like to think that Judeo-Christian MAGA would attempt to help. However, Netanyahu has requested very little from America. And, essentially all of that has been within existing supply contracts.

You really need to stop making things up. You come across as unhinged and detached from reality.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/02/house-passes-standalone-14-3-billion-emergency-aid-package-for-israel/

Why do you refuse to allocate responsibility to those who use human shields?

What in the hell are you talking about?

Where did I even discuss human shields? Which thread and post?

The $14B “clean” bill was passed by the House last year. And was declared DOA by Chuck Schumer

You mean the bill that MAGA House Republicans tried to pass only contained aid for Israel.

It was entirely focused on Israel as that was clearly their priority.

They have been posturing for many months. It is all theatre with an inevitable outcome of ZERO dollars.

So you are saying they had no intention of passing the bill and thus wasted time and money? You are saying their main efforts in the last few months were entirely for show?

Were the House Republicans putting America first by putting so much time into a bill that you believe was entirely for theater?

Anyone else get repressed homosexual vibe from the MAGA Speaker?

A123 believes this was all for show along with all of his interviews where he claims that Israel needs US funds.

Why are so many Israel First MAGA Evangelicals such nancy boys? The guy is wearing blush.

Is a niche idea. A version using ramjet power might be best.

The Soviet MAKS spaceplane which was conceived to be launched from an An-225 seemed promising.

Putin is most likely doing everything he can to avoid conscripting from the middle class urban Slavs.

Yep, Putin understood the lessons of 1917 very well. Specifically not to destabilize the situation in Russia’s two historic capitals (Moscow and St. Petersburg).

That includes offering to pay mercenaries and then making excuses to pay their families when they are dead.

Do these mercenaries get Russian citizenship if they survive?

Well, Mike Johnson actually has a covenant marriage with his wife (seriously; go look it up!) and advocated criminalizing sodomy as late as 2003, so Yes, he definitely is quite a character.

Interestingly enough, Russia could use more people like him. He would fit in perfectly over there.

The entire Iraqi army was destroyed and the country was conquered in 5 weeks. The insurgency that followed lasted for many years.

In Ukraine, Russia couldn’t even do the first part- it grabbed 8% more of Ukraine in 2022, was kicked out of the capital’s suburbs.

But yes – the insurgency in Iraq lasted for several years and America withdrew. So follows the pattern of the invader eventually losing if he doesn’t finish it within 2 years.

Worth noting that the US only withdrew from Iraq in 2011 after the situation was significantly stabilized there. Al-Qaeda in Iraq was no longer a significant threat by then, and Iraq was relatively calm until 2013-2014, when ISIS emerged there and got the US reengaged in that region.

The important word in your statement was “more.”

He was milder than Poroshenko, but also pro-NATO and pro-EU. He said Bandera was cool, but didn’t need so many statues.

The pro-Russian guy, who didn’t think Bandera was cool, and was opposed to NATO membership, lost and didn’t make it into the 2nd round.

The pro-Russian voters went for Zelensky in the 2nd round because for them he was a “lesser evil” compared to Poroshenko, but he was not pro-Russian.

It’s quite interesting that in a two-way round between either Poroshenko or Tymoshenko vs. Boyko, Boyko got 44% when against Tymoshenko and 47% of the vote when against Poroshenko, and this was without Crimea and most of the urban Donbass. Had they purely hypothetically been returned to Ukraine before 2019, Boyko could have actually beaten either one of them, albeit certainly not beaten Zelensky in a one-on-one match with him.

I think Russia does not want to take the western half of Ukraine. On the other hand she doesn’t want an even bigger war with NATO in that region two years from now. I still believe Russia is intentionally slowly grinding down the Ukrainian forces and probably working the Ukrainian political angle behind the scenes.

Russia’s build-up is very gradual. This appear odd from a Western perspective which expects rapid change, but the build up seems to be occurring nonetheless. At the low end this includes more smart weapons, more tanks, etc. while the production of big ticket items like submarines continues. A lot of this equipment is refurbished which suggests Russia is only in a position to build up gradually. This process may be slowly accelerating as gaps in the military supply chain are filled. Alternatively it could be a zero sum game where new gaps continually open up due to sanctions as old gaps are addressed.

I still believe Russia is preserving substantial forces to be ready for other Western military pressure outside of Ukraine. The slow grinding combat in Ukraine allows Russia to conserve these forces. I am starting to wonder if Russia is willing to keep fighting in Ukraine at this low level indefinitely until Ukraine simply gets tired of it.

I don’t know why Russia is constructing extended defensive lines, here are some guesses: 1) a show of long-term commitment to the Ukrainians, 2) expectation of increased NATO (Polish) involvement on the ground, 3) trap AFU between these lines and the river or 4) reduce the influx of Ukrainian combat teams into Russia (completely pacify and secure everything to the East of these lines)? The Russian military is still avoiding heavy bombing of the largest Ukrainian cities. To me this suggests they are following their own timetable.

The Soviet MAKS spaceplane which was conceived to be launched from an An-225 seemed promising.

Interesting. Never heard of it. But it is kind of hard for me to believe it would have worked well, due to various problems such as boil off.

Stratolaunch also had a spaceplane concept, but it kind of seems like they have abandoned space development and are only doing hypersonic missile tests. Though who knows for sure? Kind of strangely, they apparently bought Virgin Orbit’s 747, when they went bankrupt. (Maybe to test hypersonic missiles?)

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

They have been posturing for many months. It is all theatre with an inevitable outcome of ZERO dollars.

So you are saying they had no intention of passing the bill and thus wasted time and money?

The House did pass the bill. Thus, it is self evident that their intent was to pass it to the Senate.

You are saying their main efforts in the last few months were entirely for show? Were the House Republicans putting America first by putting so much time into a bill that you believe was entirely for theater?

Hundreds of things happen in parallel. Your use of the phrase “main effort” obviously belies a fundamental lack of understanding. It was at most a “minor effort”, which successfully created problems for Senate Democrats.

Anti-MAGA McConnell is attempting to bail out his DNC co-conspirators with the recent package. That effort is a 100% failure as it is DOA on arrival in the House.

Long-term, getting rid of RINO Senators is important. Alas IIRC, McConnell and Cornyn are not up until 2026. Lindsey Graham 2028.

#LetsGoBrandon 😇

Russia’s build-up is very gradual….Russia is willing to keep fighting in Ukraine at this low level indefinitely until Ukraine simply gets tired of it.

What happens then? Fighting a war has its own dynamic: people go on an auto-pilot, process takes over, polarization deepens. They are always tired, so getting more tired won’t make much difference. Ukraine is still a very large place with maybe 25 million people…it could take a long time.

Russia wants a chunk of Ukraine (the Russian-leaning areas) and absolute security for Crimea. For the rest rump-Ukieland to be neutral and non-threatening. And not too destroyed because that would cause huge issues for both Europe and Russia. They probably also want to pour icy cold water on the budding Polish-Baltic revanchism and the Euro anti-Russian militancy. For Germany to experience a bout of economic suffering to learn a lesson.

They want all of that at a low cost and by keeping the possibility of the eventual reconciliation with at least parts of the West open. That’s not easy, they are calibrating each step. I don’t think it will work that way, the future always surprises, but it will be along those lines.

None of this was necessary. At the end there will be a few hundred thousand dead and a deep hatred for the people who caused it – I am pretty sure the idiot Nato-expansion planners and Zelko&Co. will be at the top of that list…but they will be munching on fajitas somewhere in Florida…

And Putin? I suspect he will say he is sorry for the losses but that it had to be done.

Based on the map above, it looks like the areas that voted for Kravchuk in 1991 voted for Zelensky in 2019 while the areas that voted for Chornovil voted for either Poroshenko or Tymoshenko in 2019. The latter areas are the hardcore Ukrainian nationalist areas while the former areas are the Ukrainian normie areas.

Russia has been gaining strength since one month after their failed attempt at taking Kiev.

“fail attempt at taking Kiev”…you keep repeating this nonsense many times. Listen to Putin interview, I think he gave answer to that specific issue.

With such tempo UA might start sinking RF warships for every lost street in Avdeevka;)

Farmers flying kites to down drones

The death of heavy, clumsy steel vessels is a natural course of the new revolution in military affairs, unfolding before our eyes. By and large, the Black Sea Fleet has been turned by this unmanned revolution into a set of suicidal tin cans, stuffed to capacity with people and budgets. Without satellite reconnaissance and the ability to strike the western coast of Ukraine under the guarantee of the Black Sea grain corridor, the launch of naval drones from the Ukrainian Black Sea region is an endless routine that has already driven the Black Sea Fleet to Novorossiysk, and with the increase in the range of drones, it will completely deprive Russia of the possibility of safe navigation when about “ grain corridor” will be asked by Moscow itself.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin continues to strangely and naively hope for the preservation of territories in the Black Sea region (and demand the same from “Kyiv and Washington”), while controlling this very Black Sea region itself less and less. Why would that side agree to this? In some completely phantasmagoric reality, in the future, “the Western allies of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” after catching out all the Black Sea Fleet, will find it easier to land troops in the rear of the “land bridge” than to go straight through the minefields in the north.

https://t.me/intuition2036/13045

Already seeing unrest, even in Western Ukraine. Clear that personnel and munition shortages are really starting to hamper the combat capability of the Ukrainian military, you hear of a new advance everyday. Important to remember that it still suits the Russians to fight here rather than deeper inside Ukraine.

The hatred will be directed at the current leadership of Ukraine and the neocons in DC. It is clear the West is in turmoil at the moment, if the current lot are replaced mending relations is easy enough, if they continue on, then I am not sure it is particularly worth it building relations, there will be no value there.

Azov 3rd Brigade got wiped out yesterday, shame.

Am I really going to have to sign up to an X account to read it, irritating?

Comprised of mostly Russian speakers from Eastern Ukraine, created during the “halcyon” of Russian aggression within Ukraine. Many families that live on both sides of the Russian/Ukrainian border will remain severely divided because of Putler’s wild ambitions for a long, long time, until all ties have finally completely vanished. Sorry Mickey, Putler is destroying one of your main thesis. 🙁 .

Understand that a lot of the newest phones ship with some easily activated method to call to 911. Like pushing the power button three times, or a 911 button on the lockscreen.

Wonder if it could be related to the murder spike after George Floyd and who lobbied for it. But it seems really dumb to me, as the number of accidental activations must be astronomical.

I looked at someone’s phone the other day, and you could turn off the power button activation but there was no way to 100% remove the screen button, unless perhaps with an ap – at least it would appear when you held the power button, when the phone was on.

Are there any incidents of nuclear war or nuclear weapons used in ancient India?

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-incidents-of-nuclear-war-or-nuclear-weapons-used-in-ancient-India

Vimāna are mythological flying palaces or chariots described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics

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

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer was diagnosed with throat cancer in late 1965. After inconclusive surgery, he underwent unsuccessful radiation treatment and chemotherapy late in 1966. On February 18, 1967, he died in his sleep at his home in Princeton, aged 62 years.

1 Bitcoin is $51,958.18

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

Yep, Putin understood the lessons of 1917 very well. Specifically not to destabilize the situation in Russia’s two historic capitals (Moscow and St. Petersburg).

Correct.

This implies certain potential limits for Russia – it might not be able bring all of its 140 million people to bear in this war. Relying on losers such as convicts, desperately poor volunteers from the provinces, and national minorities has enabled Russia to conduct this war for 2 years with no real unrest. How much longer until these people start to run out, and Russia will start mobilising normal middle class people to get their guts blown out in some fields in southern Ukraine while Chechen blocking units stand guard behind them? One more year? Six months? Two years? The supply of convicts and people from small towns is not limitless. It will start in the large but important provincial cities like Novosibirsk or Yekaterinburg before reaching Moscow.

I think the two-part spaceplane will be good for sending people back and forth to space at will. The large reusable vertical launcher is the way to go for most cargo.

MAKS was based on an unusual very high performance engine named the RD-701.

Do Communists have better sex?

If we imagine a line from Kiev to Odessa, how many people live in Ukraine to the West of this line (not including people in these two cities)?

I suppose the population in this area may have actually increased as people fled from the Eastern part of Ukraine.

American musician gives an interview to eurojournal:

…especially in America, man, you don’t have a quiet minute anymore. Impact … The impact is different in America. This is a very troubled country anyway. I don’t know what’s going to happen there in the next twelve months. But if my intuition is not deceiving me, if my ideas are only half reality, then there will be an explosion. America is facing a huge uprising. […] a very violent uprising, carried out with baseball bat and firearms, cannons of all kinds. […] I have visited every state in America for the past two years and have always had this mild feeling in my stomach that the soup is starting to boil over. People are fed up with all the shit in the United States. They’ll grab baseball bats and cannons and start something that will make huge waves all over the country.

What is typical America? If you have enough money, you go to a shop and buy a machine gun. Then you simply shoot all your problems away. If you have this mentality, you can do it easily, and many in the USA have this mentality: I’m buying a UZI now, so let’s see if I and the idiots can not settle our differences. As we sit and talk here, probably someone in America is trying to resolve a conflict this way. It’s crazy, but it’s true.

I live in America (laughs). In a damn pessimistic country. It may look optimistic when you are politically active and have the illusory world of God’s own country in front of your eyes, but the street is the reality and it gives you anything but an optimistic feeling.

I mean, you told me yourself how you were robbed 50 yards from your New York hotel. That is everyday life. I was in New York for two days, got smashed [?] and was robbed too. The boys pocketed ten dollars because luckily I had left my other stuff in the hotel. One guy had a gun in his hand and threatened me. He didn’t want to shoot me, he just wanted my flaps. So I gave it to him, said take the ten dollars, fucker, that’s all I have with me!

What should I do? You have a choice between your life and ten dollars and that is not worth the fun. If you play the hero, the wanker bangs you over the head and takes the ten bucks, possibly also your jacket, your boots, your passport and if he is in a bad mood, he will even cut your ass. Then you really have nothing left!

America is a violent country. God knows why. I live in this country and all I see is violence. That bothers me. I am 27 years old and I want to have some of what I have achieved. I am not demanding. I just want to live a peaceful life.

The lines are easy to draw. But who manages the people behind the lines? 15-20 million rump-Ukieland based around Lvov-Kiev is a huge security issue – not only for Russia.

We are observing the slow ‘denazification’ by suffering. The idea is it will eventually burn out and people move on. But the “denazification” is subjective and overlaps with the Ukie nationalism and folklore. It is also layered with the ‘Euro’-loving mania that is often racial – an escape from who they are into a dream-land.

It will not be clean, this is the beginning. Just how stupid were the commies to first grab the Galicians into Ukraine and then fail to solve it after 1945? Including the idiotic ‘brotherly’ way they treated the Germans. I guess we have learned that blood is thicker than ‘proletariat’. Again.

No. You talk nonsense because the reality is too painful. US lost the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Syria – it took years and at the end it was a loss. Raising a flag or making a speech is not a victory and was never considered as such in the past.

Napoleon raised French flags in Moscow, then lost and watched half a million of his soldiers die. US controlled temporarily Saigon, Kabul, Baghdad. Then run away.

The pro-Russian voters went for Zelensky in the 2nd round because for them he was a “lesser evil” compared to Poroshenko, but he was not pro-Russian.

If during a war – after 2014 it was a war – 70% of people vote for the ‘less” militant candidate, it is because they prefer peace and coexistence. The bitter dead-enders voted for Porky – he got 15% in the first round, which is pretty bad for a sitting president during a war.

Zelko was either corralled in by threats-promises, or he was always a puppet on a mission. Today everyone is angry and scared, so it is no time to ask opinions. The unwillingness of at least half of the Ukies to fight says it all. If you don’t put your skin in the game you are really not in it…that applies to you and the merry band of the Ukie-boosters here. You would never fight yourself, it is only a show for you…

…if the current lot are replaced mending relations is easy enough

I am not so sure. There is a dramatic collapse in trust between Russia and the West. It will take a generation to get it back. When Putin says wearily “we are done doing favors to the West, they never reciprocate…” or US-UK-German-Polish politicians scream to “kill more Russians!!“…it is obviously broken.

Remember that Putin is a moderate, the deeper forces in Russia are saying Germany was treated too leniently after WW2 and it was a mistake. And we all see the mad neo-cons running the West to the ground – they will never stop the wars and the population is visibly unable (or unwilling) to reign them in.

I don’t think this is good. Maybe we will get lucky and there is a soft landing.

You sound retarded.

Indigenous Jews???

Sorry, but genetic studies prove the Palestinians are far more native to their area than most Jews are.

Ben Gurion himself said, “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country…. They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

This is an aspect of Buddhism that I do not like. It’s very fatalistic which does not lead to rebellions against the status quo. Look what happened to Tibet. They didn’t do a damn thing other than sneak their child-god out of the country. A religion that says you need to serve a child-god and if the state kills your relatives….well that was to be.

No offense, but you’re clueless about Buddhism.
It is NOT fatalistic.

And Tibetans did rebel against the Chinese. Violently. It failed obviously, but there was an armed rebellion.
Also the Dalai-Lama is not a “child-god”. He is an incarnation of a spiritual being different from any idea of a god.
And no, nowhere in Buddhism it is said that you have to serve someone like the DL. You do have to show a little respect to monks, but that’s it. And if an invasion of foreigners causes more suffering than before, you of course have the right to an armed rebellion.

Probably unlikely, but it would be funny if Musk bought Disney and then had Pixar release a series of animated films about the plight of Boer farmers in South Africa.

US lost the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Syria – it took years and at the end it was a loss

By your stupid logic, the USSR lost its war against Germany because USSR disappeared, its troops left Germany and Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe became part of the Germany-dominated EU.

America shattered the Iraqi army and captured Baghdad and the entire country in 5 weeks. Later there was an insurgency and after many years America left Iraq. Similar story for Afghanistan.

After 2 years, Russia has failed to shatter the Ukrainian army (which is now much larger and better armed than it was before the war began), failed to capture Kiev, and holds only 8% of Ukraine while losing significant parts of its Black Sea Fleet and 100,000 or so + dead. You call this “winning.”

The situations of Iraq, Vietnam, and Afghanistan do tell us something – that if an invader doesn’t put a stop to resistance quickly, he leaves.

If during a war – after 2014 it was a war – 70% of people vote for the ‘less” militant candidate, it is because they prefer peace and coexistence

In 2019 there were a couple dozen deaths. It was no longer a war.

And, again – there was a pro-Russian candidate. He got about 12% of the vote. Another one got 4% of the vote.

Zelensky explicitly was pro-NATO and pro-EU and even pro-Bandera. Don’t lie otherwise – it was right in his platform.

The unwillingness of at least half of the Ukies to fight says it all. …If you don’t put your skin in the game you are really not in it

So if you don’t get on a boat and patrol the Mediterranean you are really not opposed to an influx of non-Europeans to Europe? Your logic can also be applied to every American who opposes this influx but does not take his gun and go to the border. Only someone willing to put his skin in the game and go is not putting on a show. You are full of interesting insights.

Sorry, but genetic studies prove the Palestinians are far more native to their area than most Jews are.

Genetic studies show that Palestinian Christians are the most native to the area. Palestinian Muslims are mixed with Arabic invaders, and Ashkenazi Jews are about 50% European. The latter, however, are the only ones who maintained their native faith (the language was a LARP though, Hebrew became dead and was artificially revived – Ashkenazi Jews spoke a German dialect, Yiddish).

But all three groups are descended from the area’s natives. One group was exiled ~1800 years ago, maintaining their identity in diaspora while mixing with Europeans. The ones left behind became Christians. Then Arabs conquered their lands, converted most of them and mixed with the converts. And then the exiles triumphantly returned, conquering and establishing hegemony over their (half) brothers.

Russian troops are in the process of liberating Avdeevka (suburb of Donetsk). The process is not fast, as it was heavily fortified by Ukies since 2014. It’s already cut in two pieces by Russian troops, who are apparently aiming at surrounding the most fortified areas and forcing Ukies in them to surrender (like Azovstal in Mariupol). Ukie logistics in Avdeevka are already between unreliable and non-existent. Naturally, the shelling of civilian areas in Donetsk decreased: at least half of those shells were fired from Avdeevka.

But that’s not why I am writing this. Be prepared for forthcoming Western/Ukie declarations that Avdeevka has no strategic value. At least that’s what the West/Ukies said about Soledar, Artemovsk (Ukie name Bahmut), and Mariinka (another Donetsk suburb) right after Russians liberated those Donbass cities.

I also must warn you that if you ask why in this case Ukies for many years put so much resources and effort into building fortifications in Avdeevka, you are politically incorrect, most likely Putin’s agent.

it would be funny if Musk bought Disney

It would be stupid more than funny. Disney is hemorrhaging money: more than one billion in losses last year. Sensible business action would be to let this ship sink. Besides, Disney would become a lot cheaper after it files for bankruptcy.

Artemovsk (Ukie name Bahmut

Bakhmut was the pre-Soviet name for it, as it was called under the Tsars.

In 1924, the city’s name was changed from Bakhmut to Artemivsk, in honour of the Bolshevik leader Fyodor Sergeyev, who was known as Comrade Artem (or Artyom)

“Artemovsk” is like “Leningrad”, “Sverdlovsk”, etc.

You are from Donbas and don’t even know that.

You completely miss the point. Religious land claims are about religion, not ethnicity.

There are only two Indigenous Palestinian religions:
    • Judaism
    • Christianity

Muhammad the Settler prophet brought the strife of colonial Jihad to Palestine ~600 AD. The non-Palestinian religion of Islam is from Arabia. Feel free to include Persia if you like.

It is clear that 1,400 years of Islamic colonization has failed. Muslim Decolonization is inevitable. The best way to fix the problem is helping non-Palestinian Muslims leave Palestine in a controlled & orderly manner.

Remember, ethnicity is 100% irrelevant. An honourable & compensated exit via an “Islamic Right of Religious Return” would help Muslims return to their indigenous home in Arabia, or further afield.

PEACE 😇

Putin erzats-election will begin roughly in about four weeks IIRC, so was quite on point when guessed it last September:

However if there will be some more substantial new RF offensive around 2024 it will be just only on Bakhmut type level (maybe Kupyansk or Avdeevka as target) in order to present some “feelz good” type one-time momental victorious PR before next year spring presidential RF election erzats imitations.

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-229/#comment-6174359

…You are full of interesting insights.

Yes, I am…:)

USSR lost its war against Germany because USSR disappeared…

If you don’t see the difference between 10-15 and 45 years you should really do that remedial math. Let me help: one is within a single generational cycle, the other is not.

On an unrelated topic, Russia has kept Kaliningrad, Vyborg, Kuriles…with more losses like that, maybe they need to lose more wars…:)

there was an insurgency…

What exactly is the difference between an “insurgency” and a war? In your bizarre world there is no war in Gaza and no war in Iraq-Afgan., they were only an insurgency. The way you morons pacify yourself with language is amazing – they do that with little kids to keep them from being too sad when they lose…

if an invader doesn’t put a stop to resistance quickly, he leaves.

So you expect the Russians living in Donbas, Crimea, along Azov sea to leave? Wow…I suppose any day now…and the “8%”, come on, it only shows you weakness. Get a map.

If Zelko is pro-Bandera he is even more sick than he appears. Let’s just say I really doubt his parents are.

if you don’t get on a boat and patrol the Mediterranean you are really not opposed to an influx of non-Europeans to Europe?

An analogy to absurdity – something you specialize in. If Ukies think they are fighting the war for survival, for their very existence (and you agree), one would expect more willingness to put themselves on the line.

But, you are on to something with the migrant boats – yes, most people no matter what they say don’t care enough. We will try to figure out in the future why that was – we will not be able to explain it to our kids. So yes, I actually agree with you there: they care and we don’t care enough…

Putin is most likely doing everything he can to avoid conscripting from the middle class urban Slavs.

Yep, Putin understood the lessons of 1917 very well. Specifically not to destabilize the situation in Russia’s two historic capitals (Moscow and St. Petersburg).

Interestingly the British did the exact opposite in WW1. Sons of the upper class and military families were gunned down first. They all eagerly went to the front to get their glory and out of a sense of duty.

British support for the war of course remained but it was probably the most dysgenic period in European history. Their best warriors were gunned down and then well after British finally adapted to the machine gun they started sending in conscripts.

That includes offering to pay mercenaries and then making excuses to pay their families when they are dead.

Do these mercenaries get Russian citizenship if they survive?

Probably since it is so unlikely that they will survive the war. They’re short on labor in some areas so any survivors probably will get citizenship.

Putin is playing the same game with all of them. The dump conscripts or mercs in the field and then report them as MIA. No payments to the families on the basis of not knowing what happened. They leave the families in limbo when both sides that they were killed. An incredibly dirty practice. Even the Romans paid their mercenaries.

There is no medivac for them and they won’t get paid if they are captured. I think they are mainly used as bait for the artillery. They drop them in remote pockets and then Ukrainians either hunt them down with drones or bring in a squad.

What Ukraine should do is offer bounties for them to flip.

Russian troops are in the process of liberating Avdeevka (suburb of Donetsk).

Yes I’m sure the former residents will be thrilled with the liberation.

Looks like they are liberating every building from being habitable.

But that’s not why I am writing this. Be prepared for forthcoming Western/Ukie declarations that Avdeevka has no strategic value.

It doesn’t have much strategic value and both sides know that Ukraine will most likely abandon it when encircled. Kind of a duh.

Ukraine is defending it because Putin wants to capture it before the presidency and is recklessly rushing in forces the old fashioned Russian way.

The defensive has the strong advantage in this war. Just read this article:

Over 900 Russian soldiers and 11 tanks downed in past 24-hours – Ukrainian General Staff
https://news.yahoo.com/over-900-russian-soldiers-11-103000417.html

There are Russian soldiers on video talking about how Putin is sending meat waves at Avdiivka so it isn’t propaganda. Ukraine has chosen to defend and incur losses against Russia. It’s the right move.

Putin erzats-election

Sorry to disappoint, but Putin does not need erzats-elections. He also does not need massive voter fraud, like in the US presidential “elections” in 2020 (when corrupt senile half-corpse was “elected”), or in Zimbabwean presidential “elections” several times before that (when another corrupt senile half-corpse Mugabe was “elected”). His approval rating in Russia is higher than that of any “leader” in self-proclaimed democratic world (the imperial patch). This patch includes the empire itself, and it’s first-, second-, third-, etc. rate vassals (slaves by the definition suggested by AP), all the way down to the Republic of Palau.

As French (who on average tend to be more sensible than most Europeans) say, Macron wants to be like Putin, but the leash gets in the way.

Did you see the reports that Macron canceled his trip to Ukraine because the French spooks exposed a plan to assassinate him and blame it on Russian spooks?

All the main outlets report is that he canceled his trip.

Musk could have waited to buy Twitter, but didn’t.

Disney should be a cash cow.