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For those interested, here are my two most recent pieces, both on the origins of the Covid epidemic that killed perhaps thirty million people around the world and cost our own country $10 trillion dollars, probably the most momentous global event since World War II. The first of these is a lengthy review article summarizing and recapitulating my analysis of the last four years while the second discusses and analyzes two new books on the subject.

In addition, here are several of the podcast interviews I did last week, on a variety of different subjects:

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  1. What will happen to Erdogan?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    He'll payoff those that control the levers of power (monitor the polling machines), bump off the rest or have them imprisoned, and remain in power. Kind of like in Russia...

    Replies: @songbird

  2. Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @sudden death

    Rather surprising high number on the idiot factor in France, with good reason to second guess. Note these counter views from within the collective West:

    https://www.rt.com/news/596982-cameron-against-nato-troops-ukraine/

    https://www.rt.com/news/596980-nato-macron-ukraine-war/

    https://apnews.com/article/nato-stoltenberg-ukraine-troops-france-slovakia-5d4ed747861a3c0edb8f922fa36427c2

    Replies: @Beckow, @John Johnson

    , @Mr. Hack
    @sudden death

    These french will feel right at home where french inspired cuisine like vinaigrette and olivye are often included within the daily dining experience in Ukraine. French support is greatly appreciated!

    , @QCIC
    @sudden death

    Leclerc tanks.

    , @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.
     
    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire. Millions of Hitler’s soldiers fertilized the soil in the USSR. Fertilizer must be replenished.

    Replies: @AP, @John Johnson, @Jazman

    , @Mikel
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country
     
    No, they're not.

    Elite control of the information may make Western Zoomers believe that population replacement by 3rd World immigrants is a law of nature or perhaps even that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, Paris and London are his next projects. But it can't convince them to go get their guts spilled out in Kherson. No way. I know enough of them.

    BTW, eventually I decided to abstain in the Basque Parliament elections. I took the time to read the programs of the anti-NATO parties that I was thinking about and I couldn't really bring myself to vote for those rancid losers just for you. However, let's see if they send me the ballots for the European elections. That's a different matter, as Orban has recently reminded.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @sudden death, @Coconuts

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @sudden death

    Now Ukraine is certainly doomed. When was the last time the French won a war?

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    , @Negronicus
    @sudden death

    Ain't no nigga and arab fight in no Ukraine so how it be 51%?

  3. Mikhail says: • Website
    @sudden death
    Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.
     


    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1786500695513804935

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mikel, @Bashibuzuk, @Negronicus

    Rather surprising high number on the idiot factor in France, with good reason to second guess. Note these counter views from within the collective West:

    https://www.rt.com/news/596982-cameron-against-nato-troops-ukraine/

    https://www.rt.com/news/596980-nato-macron-ukraine-war/

    https://apnews.com/article/nato-stoltenberg-ukraine-troops-france-slovakia-5d4ed747861a3c0edb8f922fa36427c2

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Mikhail

    The surveys are manipulated, it depends how you ask the questions. If you ask "would you fight if France is invaded" you will get a lot of 'yes'. But this would be a foreign war, the French are not itching to relive Napoleon's catastrophe, 100k Frenchies who died in Crimea War, or French SS volunteers.

    Kiev is running out of men and nobody is coming. It is a giant IQ test, so far the Euros are beating the wanna-be Euros. Predictably.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    Rather surprising high number on the idiot factor in France, with good reason to second guess. Note these counter views from within the collective West

    Would you say that Russian men that volunteer for the war are showing intelligence?

    If anything it shows that European countries seem to desire war every so often to prove their machismo.

    Europe has had some of the dumbest wars in human history. Huge and brutal conflicts over the insecurities of European upper class faggotry and height challenged dictators.

    The Chinese and Japanese however may have them beat. The sheer number of Chinese dynasty wars is mind boggling.

    Replies: @Mikhail

  4. @sudden death
    Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.
     


    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1786500695513804935

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mikel, @Bashibuzuk, @Negronicus

    These french will feel right at home where french inspired cuisine like vinaigrette and olivye are often included within the daily dining experience in Ukraine. French support is greatly appreciated!

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  5. @songbird
    What will happen to Erdogan?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    He’ll payoff those that control the levers of power (monitor the polling machines), bump off the rest or have them imprisoned, and remain in power. Kind of like in Russia…

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    Was jokingly referring to him suspending trade with Israel. (Though actually do not think it will go unanswered.)

    BTW, very tangential, but I just learned JFK's only grandchild is Jewish. How many presidents does that make in total? Seems like a lot.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @A123

  6. Somebody post their astrological chart so I can do a reading and prove my greatness

    Re NATO direct intervention in Ukraine: I don’t see it. Political will isn’t there for the money or the casualties.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/

    Re. horoscope, I only trust the Chinese one (just kidding).

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  7. @Mikhail
    @sudden death

    Rather surprising high number on the idiot factor in France, with good reason to second guess. Note these counter views from within the collective West:

    https://www.rt.com/news/596982-cameron-against-nato-troops-ukraine/

    https://www.rt.com/news/596980-nato-macron-ukraine-war/

    https://apnews.com/article/nato-stoltenberg-ukraine-troops-france-slovakia-5d4ed747861a3c0edb8f922fa36427c2

    Replies: @Beckow, @John Johnson

    The surveys are manipulated, it depends how you ask the questions. If you ask “would you fight if France is invaded” you will get a lot of ‘yes’. But this would be a foreign war, the French are not itching to relive Napoleon’s catastrophe, 100k Frenchies who died in Crimea War, or French SS volunteers.

    Kiev is running out of men and nobody is coming. It is a giant IQ test, so far the Euros are beating the wanna-be Euros. Predictably.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Beckow

    France is invaded on a daily basis. Most French ain’t giving a flying f… about it. Last time I was in Paris, I had an excellent couscous royal in a small Kabyle restaurant not far Le Bataclan where the ISIS sympathizers massacred that Black Metal show attendees. I am pretty sure that many French would agree that having the opportunity to eat some good couscous , tajine or méchoui is worth the disagreement of having les Beurs as neighbours.

    https://youtu.be/5eqaYBR8MUE?feature=shared

    Some contemporary French music to listen to while eating that couscous:

    https://youtu.be/GpnLKcl0s3E?feature=shared

  8. @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    He'll payoff those that control the levers of power (monitor the polling machines), bump off the rest or have them imprisoned, and remain in power. Kind of like in Russia...

    Replies: @songbird

    Was jokingly referring to him suspending trade with Israel. (Though actually do not think it will go unanswered.)

    BTW, very tangential, but I just learned JFK’s only grandchild is Jewish. How many presidents does that make in total? Seems like a lot.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    So where did the Jewish line begin?

    Replies: @songbird

    , @A123
    @songbird

    While there is trade, neither side has critical dependencies on each other. Yes. Erdogan is doing additional damage to the Turkish economy, but this is hardly the largest problem.

    The most significant aggravation for Israel is likely to be cement. Turkey has good raw material availability and cheap Russian hydrocarbons for energy. They are the primary supplier to everyone in the region. Cost will be higher as Israel finds new suppliers. Or, buys Turkish cement via a 3rd country.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @songbird

  9. In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    …in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.

    What was the reason for this? Did the government formally explain and justify this policy or was it unspoken and simply understood?

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC


    What was the reason for this? Did the government formally explain and justify this policy or was it unspoken and simply understood?
     
    As to reasons, you have to ask commies. My guess is that’s because they were not trusted by the top: more Jews and Armenians lived outside of the USSR than in it.

    This was never official (officially all nations were equal), so it was never explained, just generally known.

    Replies: @Another Polish Perspective

    , @AP
    @QCIC


    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    …in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.

    What was the reason for this?
     
    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer, who later went corporate (much better pay, he wasn't corrupt enough at his job to support a family).

    He said that when the security organs were staffed by people from such background during Stalin's time, they were too bloody and murderous, and the USSR (and later Russia) didn't want that anymore.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies, and that there was a wave of western Ukrainians joining in the 1950s and 1960s. Those people were seen as gifted for such work. That was the person I knew in Russia who ever had anything good to say about Banderists.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Realhistory43, @Gerard1234

    , @Gerard1234
    @QCIC

    Experience and perception for me was that Armenians were well represented in the military and most other sections of public life. However I think it is correct memory that they were not much at the top level for intelligence and the police.

    For the Jews, Andropov? Though every aspect of his background appears mysterious - impossible KGB did not know of his Jewish background.

    On issue of Armenia :

    1. Always had near non-existent Russian population in Armenian SSR - completely different to every other SSR. I think that's relevant to their low numbers in KGB , together with fact Armenia was given less importance than Azerbaijan (the oil), and Gruzia, which received higher subsidy from Moscow always and had much higher number of top officials working in Moscow.


    2. Deportations of significant number of ethnic Armenians from Gruzian & Azerbaijan SSR into Armenia (vice versa for Azeris from Armenia)

    3. Deportations of Armenians from Crimea during WW2. Also from South Russia after the war. Deported to Altai the most and Kazakhstan, but also the Urals. Those deported-Dashnaks and their families, or other Nazi collaborators and anti-soviets. Every other nationality had same types of people, but with Armenian small population and their well dispersed (historical) communities throughout USSR compared to everyone else other than Russian.... this problem was exacerbated.

    4.Deportations of Armenians from Galicia (strong community there for centuries, also had Uniates equivalent church created ) into Poland post-war.

    5.Transcaucasus SSR established which had plenty, the most Armenians in the siloviki posts compared to the other kavkaz groups . This pattern of Armenian dominance continued in early days of new-made Gruzian & Azerbaijan SSR, until the deportations.

    7 Relative to the small Armenian population, there was mass immigration to Armenian SSR from disputed territories with Turkey and from Iran, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and the entire Middle East from 1920 onwards. That's a lot people with zero connection to the Russian empire

    Deportations (numerous) for differing reasons of a hot-headed ethnicity, is going to create higher chance of people with revenge motivations, or familial connection to somebody like that- not ideal for selection into KGB.

    Immigration of people with unknown motivations and from some states that have been at war or enemy relation with Russia, into. Armenia - again not easy screening process.

    On Jews:

    1. As is well known, as Soviets come into power everything in political, military, intelligence power structures is represented by Latvians especially and Jews. Also in high concentrations are Poles and Germans. Into the late 1920s through 1930s- as Latvia, Poland and Germany become very fascist and further enemy states of USSR, their hyper-representation in Cheka, OGPU, NKVD decreases significantly, but Jews in power remain the same level

    2. In the purges of 1937,38 - lots of the elites killed, including many Jews, which increases Russian representation, but lots of Jews replaced by other Jews.

    3. Khrushchev goes to power, destalinisation- lots of these Jewish elites phased out. From him to end of USSR, power and identity of individual republics increases significantly. Security agencies filled more with Russian and ethnic Republic guys. Not that there isn't still central power, but there is greatly expanded power and control of those running the SSR's - these powers critical to the USSR ending when it did. But point is as powers for ethnic elites increases, Jews who have no SSR, just an oblast with only a fraction of Soviet Jews anyway - not going to have these powers and responsibilities in security/intelligence.

    3. Soviet backing of Arabs in the wars against Israel, large-scale numbers of Jews trying to leave for Israel and for America in the 1970s and 80s. Blood-hungry sections of Pogrom diaspora in US, Jackson-Vanik sanctions

    So I think all that explains why Jews and Armenians less likely to get to top in security. Both are very similar and unique circumstances - the diaspora larger than own state population as mentioned is another. Political & security reasons, not perceived racial characteristics, are reasons for their unofficial banning.
    Only difference is that the Israel equivalent for Armenians is inside another state.

  10. @sudden death
    Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.
     


    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1786500695513804935

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mikel, @Bashibuzuk, @Negronicus

    Leclerc tanks.

  11. @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    Was jokingly referring to him suspending trade with Israel. (Though actually do not think it will go unanswered.)

    BTW, very tangential, but I just learned JFK's only grandchild is Jewish. How many presidents does that make in total? Seems like a lot.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @A123

    So where did the Jewish line begin?

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    This is an excellent question for A123.

    Replies: @A123

  12. A123 says: • Website
    @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    Was jokingly referring to him suspending trade with Israel. (Though actually do not think it will go unanswered.)

    BTW, very tangential, but I just learned JFK's only grandchild is Jewish. How many presidents does that make in total? Seems like a lot.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @A123

    While there is trade, neither side has critical dependencies on each other. Yes. Erdogan is doing additional damage to the Turkish economy, but this is hardly the largest problem.

    The most significant aggravation for Israel is likely to be cement. Turkey has good raw material availability and cheap Russian hydrocarbons for energy. They are the primary supplier to everyone in the region. Cost will be higher as Israel finds new suppliers. Or, buys Turkish cement via a 3rd country.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @songbird
    @A123

    Speaking of Turks, read recently that Helmut Kohl wanted to reduce their numbers in Germany by half, and that 150,000 were assisted to remigrate under him, in the early '80s which I find pretty surprising. Always vaguely thought of him as a neolib. But perhaps it wasn't his personal initiative.

    https://twitter.com/Martin_Sellner/status/1786097357928448123

  13. @sudden death
    Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.
     


    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1786500695513804935

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mikel, @Bashibuzuk, @Negronicus

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire. Millions of Hitler’s soldiers fertilized the soil in the USSR. Fertilizer must be replenished.

    • Replies: @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire.
     
    Most of them died due to the climate.

    Nowadays, that is a Russian disadvantage, due to its crumbling and vulnerable infrastructure, and poorly supplied military.

    Hard to imagine that half of young Frenchmen would be willing to fight Russia, but I don't know any young Frenchmen. Are young Gen Z-ers in western Europe getting more martial? I know my very athletic and intelligent young nephew in Poland has gone into the military academy (their West Point).

    Replies: @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mr. XYZ

    , @John Johnson
    @AnonfromTN

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire. Millions of Hitler’s soldiers fertilized the soil in the USSR. Fertilizer must be replenished.

    LOL do you think the French will walk behind Macron's royal sled while wearing 18th century clothing?

    Or do you think French vehicles haven't been tested for subzero weather? Hitler made such blunders and that was against the USSR and not just Russia. The USSR would have collapsed without Ukrainian and Belarusian troops.

    I hate to break it to you but the ego maniac that underestimates the enemy is on the other side this time.

    There is however a valid analogy to Napolean's wars which is that he wasted some his best French troops in his poorly thought out invasion of Spain. He later depended heavily on conscripts that were not as motivated and especially when all the countries of Europe starting aligning against them.

    It's not good for already demoralized troops to see new countries enter the war with top tier soldiers and equipment. The Germans in WW1 found it demoralizing that the US troops were not only well fed and equipped but they also had chocolate and cigarettes. It meant that US industrial power was aimed at them and had excess production if they could provide all their soldiers with luxuries.

    , @Jazman
    @AnonfromTN

    They probably play multiplayer version of Call of Duty . The main problem of the West or Ukies is not even the lag in the quantity and quality of weapons produced, the lag in technology, etc. But the lack of an adequate perception of reality.

  14. @QCIC
    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    ...in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.
     
    What was the reason for this? Did the government formally explain and justify this policy or was it unspoken and simply understood?

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @AP, @Gerard1234

    What was the reason for this? Did the government formally explain and justify this policy or was it unspoken and simply understood?

    As to reasons, you have to ask commies. My guess is that’s because they were not trusted by the top: more Jews and Armenians lived outside of the USSR than in it.

    This was never official (officially all nations were equal), so it was never explained, just generally known.

    • Replies: @Another Polish Perspective
    @AnonfromTN

    The Armenian Apostolic Church was the favourite church of Jews in Russia in order to convert to Christendom. Reasons given were the relatively strict separation of sexes as well as relatively weak cult of saints there and no icon cult. This is the very old Church which partly claims the mantle of Judeochristianity, its main church in Jerusalem being the Cathedral of St James, sometimes believed to have been the opponent of St Paul..

  15. Nepalese desert Russian military in droves:

    Where are you guys going???? The fun is just getting started.

    They still have 995 ATACMS missiles!!!!

    It’s rude to leave a party early.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    Only well substantiated enough for a moron to uncritically believe.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  16. @John Johnson
    Nepalese desert Russian military in droves:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkr5mVHp97Q

    Where are you guys going???? The fun is just getting started.

    They still have 995 ATACMS missiles!!!!

    It's rude to leave a party early.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Only well substantiated enough for a moron to uncritically believe.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    Only well substantiated enough for a moron to uncritically believe.

    Of course Comrade.

    The 2.5 week special operation is going as planned. It was always intended to go on for years with videos of Russians in Chinese cross terrain vehicles trying to outrun FPV hunter drones. That's exactly the scenario that MacGregor and Ritter predicted.

    Do you think this video from a Russian soldier is real or fake?

    https://youtu.be/dzJzGf1Klng?t=43

    Replies: @Mikhail

  17. Mikel says:
    @sudden death
    Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.
     


    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1786500695513804935

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mikel, @Bashibuzuk, @Negronicus

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country

    No, they’re not.

    Elite control of the information may make Western Zoomers believe that population replacement by 3rd World immigrants is a law of nature or perhaps even that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, Paris and London are his next projects. But it can’t convince them to go get their guts spilled out in Kherson. No way. I know enough of them.

    BTW, eventually I decided to abstain in the Basque Parliament elections. I took the time to read the programs of the anti-NATO parties that I was thinking about and I couldn’t really bring myself to vote for those rancid losers just for you. However, let’s see if they send me the ballots for the European elections. That’s a different matter, as Orban has recently reminded.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Mikel


    I couldn’t really bring myself to vote for those rancid losers just for you.
     
    Lesser of two evils = evil. I quit voting years ago.

    I would watch though if they had Trump and Biden do a fitness test. Neither one could do a dead hang for thirty seconds but let's see if either one can make it to fifteen. It is the very least they could do for the public.

    Whatever happened to Musk v. Cocksuckerberg in the octagon? Dana White said it would net a hundred million.
    , @sudden death
    @Mikel


    But it can’t convince them to go get their guts spilled out in Kherson.
     
    You say it as if it's pressingly necessary in order to achieve the goals in defence;) However, there is truth about answers being way different, depending if one is asked to go storming Crimea or just help to guard and patrol borders near Moldova or Belarus, with the latter option really being needed and most likely planned in practice instead of former.
    , @Coconuts
    @Mikel


    Elite control of the information may make Western Zoomers believe that population replacement by 3rd World immigrants is a law of nature or perhaps even that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, Paris and London are his next projects.
     
    I was watching a spot from France-Inter the other day that reminded me that there is a French version of the Putin-Trump axis. This one involves Putin-Le Pen-Trump or something like that. I suspect that Putin and Russia are useful to progressives as an enemy because they can be identified as white and linked to the populist voters they oppose in their own countries. At the same time by attacking Russia progressives deflect arguments that their immigration/decolonisation and LGBT stance is undermining patriotism within their own nations.

    But they are usually not the kind of people who are ready to do any fighting, I would guess their preference would be to send professional soldiers like the Foreign Legion.

    At the other end of the political spectrum what sudden death was saying also seems to have some truth to it. If the cause was presented as patrolling the Eastern borders to prevent the arrival of more refugees coming via Belarus, or resisting Muslim/African incursions into Ukraine, you would probably be able to find some volunteers. Imo this issue is still obscured by a lot of mainstream politics, but it wouldn't be surprising if it turned out to be the most powerful in terms of mobilising European men.

  18. @Mikel
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country
     
    No, they're not.

    Elite control of the information may make Western Zoomers believe that population replacement by 3rd World immigrants is a law of nature or perhaps even that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, Paris and London are his next projects. But it can't convince them to go get their guts spilled out in Kherson. No way. I know enough of them.

    BTW, eventually I decided to abstain in the Basque Parliament elections. I took the time to read the programs of the anti-NATO parties that I was thinking about and I couldn't really bring myself to vote for those rancid losers just for you. However, let's see if they send me the ballots for the European elections. That's a different matter, as Orban has recently reminded.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @sudden death, @Coconuts

    I couldn’t really bring myself to vote for those rancid losers just for you.

    Lesser of two evils = evil. I quit voting years ago.

    I would watch though if they had Trump and Biden do a fitness test. Neither one could do a dead hang for thirty seconds but let’s see if either one can make it to fifteen. It is the very least they could do for the public.

    Whatever happened to Musk v. Cocksuckerberg in the octagon? Dana White said it would net a hundred million.

  19. AP says:
    @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.
     
    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire. Millions of Hitler’s soldiers fertilized the soil in the USSR. Fertilizer must be replenished.

    Replies: @AP, @John Johnson, @Jazman

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire.

    Most of them died due to the climate.

    Nowadays, that is a Russian disadvantage, due to its crumbling and vulnerable infrastructure, and poorly supplied military.

    Hard to imagine that half of young Frenchmen would be willing to fight Russia, but I don’t know any young Frenchmen. Are young Gen Z-ers in western Europe getting more martial? I know my very athletic and intelligent young nephew in Poland has gone into the military academy (their West Point).

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @AP

    It is hard to imagine many French Gen-whatever young men volunteering to charge machine gun nests in Ukraine but stranger things have happened. We might be able to guess their motivations by looking at the propaganda memes flooding their Twitter feeds 24/7. It may be the men of France are being manipulated enough to herd them off to die.

    One propaganda angle for the puppet masters might be to channel and direct the unactualized anger toward sacred-cow immigrants at Russian Slavs. I can easily imagine diabolical French (((government agents))) working this psyop tactic. The immigrant bucks will not mind if the last vestige of protection for French women is sent off to die in Ukraine.

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @AnonfromTN
    @AP


    Most of them died due to the climate.
     
    Four reasons why Napoleon/Hitler/whoever else is itching for a fight now did not win the war with Russia: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP

    Interestingly enough, if the French will become more akin to Hapsburg-loving European nationalists, then they should become more pro-Ukraine as a part of this process. Those are the kinds of European nationalists that I like.

    Interestingly enough, Kalergi warned about Russia being aggressive regardless of whether it was led by a Red or a White regime back in the 1920s.

    Replies: @Mikhail

  20. Whatever happened to Musk v. Cocksuckerberg in the octagon?

    You can’t trust anybody’s word these days. I think it was Elon who got cold feet first but I’m sure Zucker wasn’t looking forward to fighting a much bigger guy either. Huge disappointment.

  21. @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    Only well substantiated enough for a moron to uncritically believe.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Only well substantiated enough for a moron to uncritically believe.

    Of course Comrade.

    The 2.5 week special operation is going as planned. It was always intended to go on for years with videos of Russians in Chinese cross terrain vehicles trying to outrun FPV hunter drones. That’s exactly the scenario that MacGregor and Ritter predicted.

    Do you think this video from a Russian soldier is real or fake?

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    You readily believe what the Kiev regime says. I'll feed you by noting that the Nepalese you bring up haven't apparently gone over to the winning Kiev regime side on account of that being fiction. Ritter and Macgregor have been far more on target than Hodges and Petraeus.

    The two below linked videos show that the forever wars concept regarding Russia-Ukraine is disastrous for the Kiev regime and the collective West. For its part, Russia would prefer to end it as soon as reasonably possible. Regardless, it isn't the party losing as much.

    Jacques Baud is a rock star military analyst. He noted a comparison I made on how the Soviet backed Afghan government lasted over two years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, whereas the US supported Afghan regime collapsed within days following the US departure. Recall Biden saying they'd be up to the task to continue on.

    Baud quipped there're too many corporals with four stars. At issue is the ability to best conduct an armed conflict and to know when it's no longer feasible to continue on.

    Another comparison I made noted that it took NATO over two months of bombing Yugoslavia to get the Yugoslavs to the negotiating table. On the other hand, Russia got the Kiev regime to negotiate within a week after the Special Military Operation. A key difference being that the Yugoslavs in 1999 didn't have the prodding of a major superpower to fight on unlike the Kiev regime's situation in 2022 and thereafter.

    Imagine a debate between Baud and the likes of David Petraeus, Mark Hertling, Jack Keane, Ben Hodges and Wesley Clark. Forget about it. In addition to Baud: Daniel Davis, Douglas Macgregor and Scott Ritter aren't chopped liver.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=329725ryqYY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAE4u9p1Je0

  22. @A123
    @songbird

    While there is trade, neither side has critical dependencies on each other. Yes. Erdogan is doing additional damage to the Turkish economy, but this is hardly the largest problem.

    The most significant aggravation for Israel is likely to be cement. Turkey has good raw material availability and cheap Russian hydrocarbons for energy. They are the primary supplier to everyone in the region. Cost will be higher as Israel finds new suppliers. Or, buys Turkish cement via a 3rd country.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @songbird

    Speaking of Turks, read recently that Helmut Kohl wanted to reduce their numbers in Germany by half, and that 150,000 were assisted to remigrate under him, in the early ’80s which I find pretty surprising. Always vaguely thought of him as a neolib. But perhaps it wasn’t his personal initiative.

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  23. OK I finished Arnold’s masters thesis on Dugin and his early work and his sources.

    1. No Crowley.

    2. Morning of the Magicians is a style go-by though he does not cite Dugin as citing it. This is the first academic work I have ever seen that referred to Morning of the Magicians.

    3. The early Dugin is described as esoteric edgelord. Herman Wirth and Oera Linda Book are regarded as myth but nevertheless superior prehistoric source material with meaning for here and now.

    4. In two words: Christian Mysticism. Moscow is third Rome and the heart of Russia is the place to be to preserve your sanity and your soul in the inevitable and upcoming eschaton. Also lots of boutique Nazi stuff such as Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke craps all over.

    5. Three books which are not translated into English and ought to be:

    The Ways of the Absolute (1989)
    Mysteries of Eurasia (1991)
    The Metaphysics of the Gospel (1996)

    Send your requests to Arktos!

    Anybody read these books?

    I found the Arnold thesis fascinating.

  24. AP says:
    @QCIC
    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    ...in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.
     
    What was the reason for this? Did the government formally explain and justify this policy or was it unspoken and simply understood?

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @AP, @Gerard1234

    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    …in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.

    What was the reason for this?

    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer, who later went corporate (much better pay, he wasn’t corrupt enough at his job to support a family).

    He said that when the security organs were staffed by people from such background during Stalin’s time, they were too bloody and murderous, and the USSR (and later Russia) didn’t want that anymore.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies, and that there was a wave of western Ukrainians joining in the 1950s and 1960s. Those people were seen as gifted for such work. That was the person I knew in Russia who ever had anything good to say about Banderists.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @AP

    Interesting that western Ukrainians would work for the corrupt Soviet regime that oppressed them, their families/relatives, and their friends? I guess that they really needed the money and career opportunities, eh? Or were they simply highly unusual for western Ukrainians?

    As for respecting one's enemies, I have no doubt that plenty of Union vets in the ACW respected Confederate vets and vice versa, and that even plenty of Allied WWII vets respected German WWII vets so long as they were not guilty of war crimes.

    BTW, off-topic, but what do you think of Tim Hsiao's argument in favor of the morality of eating dogs? You can go Google it. I'd post a link to it here but for some reason my Paste button on my computer no longer works. I'll have to see how to fix it.

    , @Realhistory43
    @AP

    Why is there so much problem with the banderitas? Even if they collaborated with the Nazis, it was better for non-Jewish Ukrainians than the Soviet regime that turned them into a shithole.

    , @Gerard1234
    @AP


    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer
     
    Wow, slow things down, there is a lot of BS in such a small number of words.

    I am not sure what is the most ridiculously idiotic/lie thing in that is-

    1.You in Moscow, LOL
    2. You speaking to a former FSB/KGB officer
    3. The concept of a wakjob like yourself having a friend

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies
     
    Totally implausible nonsense. The implication from this fantasy that they were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?

    UPA/OUN history - Abysmal fighting skills - acquired zero reputation for fighting skill in WW2. Cowardly actions - most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly, nothing on the battlefield.
    Amusingly did not even attempt in WW2 or in the war against the Soviets ( mostly fighting their "own" people) to fight for "their" cities of Lvov, Ternopol and whatever Ivano-Frankovsk was named. No surprise in that - as they were effectively foreign cities for them , they had no knowledge of the cities to work with LOL.

    2. In a completely pointless war , that they could never win, where the Soviets had effectively given them a Ukrainian state that these homos could only have dreamed of in the 1920-30's , where the Ukrainian population after the mass death in WW2 and destruction have no appetite for another war , where effect of the war was that bad there was zero appetite to fight against the Soviets in Romania, Hungary and Poland.........the Anglo-American sewerslime managed to find some amoeba-brained bydlo deathcult sadists stupid enough and cuckhold enough to do some terrorism against the USSR ( who had just saved the world of course) for a few more years. Just like now - westerners find conveniant idiots fighting pointlessly with guaranteed mass death and kill ratio very high in favour of opposition, zero winning objective.


    3. The degeneracy of UPA banderetards homos is that big, they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka ( you can ask Mr Hack what that is) all day and night, living in hellish, unhygienic, damp, dark , extremely small space conditions, hiding all day for months, years, occasionally coming out to shoot, throw a grenade or threaten Kolkhoz workers.....before going back to gaying eachother and living an existence much worse than in the trenches, and that you would not wish on anybody. What type of freaks would do that?

    This is interesting as a Ukrop scholar like Mr Hack idealises the Zaporizhian Cossacks as an an all-male living together, all-dancing, all-gay ensemble. Every other Cossack group was family-orientated

    Current ukronazis have much of the beautiful women, that they weren't marrying or having children with anyway - out of the country. They appear in no rush to correct this situation

    Sadist-cuckhold-homo..........the defining ideology and recurring theme of Ukrainian "nationalism" over the centuries.


    And of course, the Ukrainian, Khrushchev mass released about 200000 of them......who then immediately became willing Communist servants.
    They did cause trouble and instigated riots in the Prisons before the release - there was so much of them. Putin a man with great historical perspective, appears to be aware of this and correcting this issue by having as many of them killed as possible on the battlefield

    Anyway - with these pitiful list of limp-wristed, cuckhold activity of ukrop nationalism......it's very unlikely anybody could have any type of respect for them.

    There was no real antagonism towards them though by Soviet people - I have met, and friends of family that were UPA -they either joked about this being UPA territory or were relaxed about openly talking about it without any anti-Soviet squealing or praise for Bandera/Shukheyevich. It's only post-1991 ukronazi nationalism that exacerbated this issue.

    Replies: @AP

  25. @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC


    What was the reason for this? Did the government formally explain and justify this policy or was it unspoken and simply understood?
     
    As to reasons, you have to ask commies. My guess is that’s because they were not trusted by the top: more Jews and Armenians lived outside of the USSR than in it.

    This was never official (officially all nations were equal), so it was never explained, just generally known.

    Replies: @Another Polish Perspective

    The Armenian Apostolic Church was the favourite church of Jews in Russia in order to convert to Christendom. Reasons given were the relatively strict separation of sexes as well as relatively weak cult of saints there and no icon cult. This is the very old Church which partly claims the mantle of Judeochristianity, its main church in Jerusalem being the Cathedral of St James, sometimes believed to have been the opponent of St Paul..

  26. @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.
     
    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire. Millions of Hitler’s soldiers fertilized the soil in the USSR. Fertilizer must be replenished.

    Replies: @AP, @John Johnson, @Jazman

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire. Millions of Hitler’s soldiers fertilized the soil in the USSR. Fertilizer must be replenished.

    LOL do you think the French will walk behind Macron’s royal sled while wearing 18th century clothing?

    Or do you think French vehicles haven’t been tested for subzero weather? Hitler made such blunders and that was against the USSR and not just Russia. The USSR would have collapsed without Ukrainian and Belarusian troops.

    I hate to break it to you but the ego maniac that underestimates the enemy is on the other side this time.

    There is however a valid analogy to Napolean’s wars which is that he wasted some his best French troops in his poorly thought out invasion of Spain. He later depended heavily on conscripts that were not as motivated and especially when all the countries of Europe starting aligning against them.

    It’s not good for already demoralized troops to see new countries enter the war with top tier soldiers and equipment. The Germans in WW1 found it demoralizing that the US troops were not only well fed and equipped but they also had chocolate and cigarettes. It meant that US industrial power was aimed at them and had excess production if they could provide all their soldiers with luxuries.

    • LOL: Mikhail
  27. Mikhail says: • Website
    @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    Only well substantiated enough for a moron to uncritically believe.

    Of course Comrade.

    The 2.5 week special operation is going as planned. It was always intended to go on for years with videos of Russians in Chinese cross terrain vehicles trying to outrun FPV hunter drones. That's exactly the scenario that MacGregor and Ritter predicted.

    Do you think this video from a Russian soldier is real or fake?

    https://youtu.be/dzJzGf1Klng?t=43

    Replies: @Mikhail

    You readily believe what the Kiev regime says. I’ll feed you by noting that the Nepalese you bring up haven’t apparently gone over to the winning Kiev regime side on account of that being fiction. Ritter and Macgregor have been far more on target than Hodges and Petraeus.

    The two below linked videos show that the forever wars concept regarding Russia-Ukraine is disastrous for the Kiev regime and the collective West. For its part, Russia would prefer to end it as soon as reasonably possible. Regardless, it isn’t the party losing as much.

    Jacques Baud is a rock star military analyst. He noted a comparison I made on how the Soviet backed Afghan government lasted over two years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, whereas the US supported Afghan regime collapsed within days following the US departure. Recall Biden saying they’d be up to the task to continue on.

    Baud quipped there’re too many corporals with four stars. At issue is the ability to best conduct an armed conflict and to know when it’s no longer feasible to continue on.

    Another comparison I made noted that it took NATO over two months of bombing Yugoslavia to get the Yugoslavs to the negotiating table. On the other hand, Russia got the Kiev regime to negotiate within a week after the Special Military Operation. A key difference being that the Yugoslavs in 1999 didn’t have the prodding of a major superpower to fight on unlike the Kiev regime’s situation in 2022 and thereafter.

    Imagine a debate between Baud and the likes of David Petraeus, Mark Hertling, Jack Keane, Ben Hodges and Wesley Clark. Forget about it. In addition to Baud: Daniel Davis, Douglas Macgregor and Scott Ritter aren’t chopped liver.

  28. @Mikhail
    @sudden death

    Rather surprising high number on the idiot factor in France, with good reason to second guess. Note these counter views from within the collective West:

    https://www.rt.com/news/596982-cameron-against-nato-troops-ukraine/

    https://www.rt.com/news/596980-nato-macron-ukraine-war/

    https://apnews.com/article/nato-stoltenberg-ukraine-troops-france-slovakia-5d4ed747861a3c0edb8f922fa36427c2

    Replies: @Beckow, @John Johnson

    Rather surprising high number on the idiot factor in France, with good reason to second guess. Note these counter views from within the collective West

    Would you say that Russian men that volunteer for the war are showing intelligence?

    If anything it shows that European countries seem to desire war every so often to prove their machismo.

    Europe has had some of the dumbest wars in human history. Huge and brutal conflicts over the insecurities of European upper class faggotry and height challenged dictators.

    The Chinese and Japanese however may have them beat. The sheer number of Chinese dynasty wars is mind boggling.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    France hasn't been attacked. Donbass and pro-Russian people in other parts of the former Ukrainian SSR aren't something that many Russians in Russia can easily put aside, especially given the sinister manner of those EuroAtlantic geostrategic elements seeing the Kiev regime as a pawn in a proxy war against Russia.

    https://www.rt.com/news/596995-italy-scolds-macron-ukraine/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzdq3ohA5LA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03LZsWmpMw

  29. @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    So where did the Jewish line begin?

    Replies: @songbird

    This is an excellent question for A123.

    • Replies: @A123
    @songbird

    As an act of medical compassion, I have had the mentally ill Mr. Hack on my blocked commenters list for many months. He needs psychiatric care and medication.

    If it is a genuine question, you should re ask it. However, the chances of Hack stumbling on an interrogative of probative value is quite small.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  30. Mikhail says: • Website
    @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    Rather surprising high number on the idiot factor in France, with good reason to second guess. Note these counter views from within the collective West

    Would you say that Russian men that volunteer for the war are showing intelligence?

    If anything it shows that European countries seem to desire war every so often to prove their machismo.

    Europe has had some of the dumbest wars in human history. Huge and brutal conflicts over the insecurities of European upper class faggotry and height challenged dictators.

    The Chinese and Japanese however may have them beat. The sheer number of Chinese dynasty wars is mind boggling.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    France hasn’t been attacked. Donbass and pro-Russian people in other parts of the former Ukrainian SSR aren’t something that many Russians in Russia can easily put aside, especially given the sinister manner of those EuroAtlantic geostrategic elements seeing the Kiev regime as a pawn in a proxy war against Russia.

    https://www.rt.com/news/596995-italy-scolds-macron-ukraine/

  31. @Mikel
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country
     
    No, they're not.

    Elite control of the information may make Western Zoomers believe that population replacement by 3rd World immigrants is a law of nature or perhaps even that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, Paris and London are his next projects. But it can't convince them to go get their guts spilled out in Kherson. No way. I know enough of them.

    BTW, eventually I decided to abstain in the Basque Parliament elections. I took the time to read the programs of the anti-NATO parties that I was thinking about and I couldn't really bring myself to vote for those rancid losers just for you. However, let's see if they send me the ballots for the European elections. That's a different matter, as Orban has recently reminded.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @sudden death, @Coconuts

    But it can’t convince them to go get their guts spilled out in Kherson.

    You say it as if it’s pressingly necessary in order to achieve the goals in defence;) However, there is truth about answers being way different, depending if one is asked to go storming Crimea or just help to guard and patrol borders near Moldova or Belarus, with the latter option really being needed and most likely planned in practice instead of former.

  32. Watched Parenthood (1989) about a week back.

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    Thought the opening song must be performed by a black man but actually it sung by this guy:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Newman

    Newman endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for reelection in 2012 and wrote a satirical song about voting for white candidates.

    I am very puritanical, and I thought there were a number or scenes that were too crass for a family-themed film. Anything in a Hollywood context, I immediately wonder if one or two scenes were influenced by gays or pederasts. (But I thought the main creators were family men?) But put that aside.

    One scene I thought was interesting for how politically incorrect it was. The ne’er-do-well brother returns and he has a little mulatto child, which he surprises everyone with, and there are strong implications that only a stupid man with loose morals would race mix with blacks, although it is later walked back a bit with everyone welcoming the child. Though the father himself is never redeemed.

    If you count Keanu, there is possibly a pro race-mixing message overall. I also thought one dialogue about abortion seemed subversive, even though there was no abortion.

    What I think makes the film quite notable is how many of the characters had babies. Was it three or four? Must be the most of any movie I recall seeing. In that way it could probably be considered pro-natalist. And promoting extended kin networks.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @songbird


    immediately wonder if one or two scenes were influenced by gays or pederasts
     
    Has anybody ever tried to do comparative inquiry what are proportions of that between figuratively "creative" and "ordinary" jobs/proffesions?

    Do mean that relatively out of ten best known UK mainstream boomer singers at least 33% were homo (G.Michael/E.John/F.Mercury) while in general boomer ordinary population probably 4-5% at most were such? Might there be any genetic correlation between figurative "homo gene" and performative/creative abilities?

    Replies: @songbird

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    The Los Angeles Dodgers play Randy Newman "I Love L.A." during the seventh inning stretch. MTV loved his video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4

    The fourth line has the word "eskimos" which I learned in corporate diversity class is a slur. Then a year later at a different corporate diversity hour they had a real eskimo giving a talk and he told us "of course you can call me an eskimo. What in hell else would you call us?"

    Anyway the Dodgers corporation playing the song was after the first class so they must have had different consultants.

    Replies: @songbird

    , @QCIC
    @songbird

    Randy Newman apparently was a major influence on John Johnson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8UVBgUd9GE

  33. You readily believe what the Kiev regime says.

    I didn’t source Kiev.

    Warthog is an independent source and they pick up Russian videos from Telegram.

    So you think that video is fake?

    I’ll feed you by noting that the Nepalese you bring up haven’t apparently gone over to the winning Kiev regime side on account of that being fiction.

    I don’t see Ukraine offering matching contracts for international mercenaries. Russia offers payments to anyone that joins. I think it makes sense for Ukraine to counter-offer but I have only seen cases where they tried to buy off Wagner associates.

    I view the war as a stalemate with death and the US defense industry as the only clear winners at this time. But more importantly mercenaries don’t pick a side based on who is winning. It is a factor but they are primarily there for the income. Prigozhin fought on the Russian side with his private army and he offered to sell out Russian military positions for cash. Money can obviously be the motivating factor.

    Ritter and Macgregor have been far more on target than Hodges and Petraeus.

    Not at all. Petraeus did not repeat monthly claims about Russia’s impending doom. Go and try to source such claims.

    Ritter in fact claimed the war was over when it started. His articles from 2 years ago on how Ukraine was down to the last man have been scrubbed. If anyone wants I’m sure his hilarious predictions can be found using the wayback machine for RT.news. His youtube videos are scrubbed but he can’t control the wayback machine.

    Ritter went and further embarrassed himself over his predictions of a huge battle for the IDF and Hamas. Nothing he said came true. He sells copium by the ounce to Jew haters. That is his core audience which actually does not include you. He makes videos from what look like his parent’s house and his audience hates Jews more than they like thinking critically. You would in fact be rejected by his core audience for not believing the war is one giant Jewish conspiracy.

    I really don’t care if you want to find other pro-Russian sources and in fact that would be a welcomed change. Ritter and MacGregor are oversourced at Unz and so is the homosexual Judge who was kicked from Fox News over sexually harassing male employees. Please do find new sources that don’t have some weird sexual history like Ritter and Judge Nap. I think people that sexually harass in the workplace should not be treated as valid sources. I’ve seen it first hand and I think it is gross. They should not be given a new chance after trying to grope employees. That disgusting homosexual troll should be cleaning floors at an adult theater.

    • Replies: @Pastit
    @John Johnson

    You’re sorely misinformed. Your hatred of gays leaves a lot to be desired. Get help.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    , @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    Your source uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry which has told some tall tales (lies).

    Your repeated rant about Ritter and Napolitano was already addressed. No one here seems to okay the manner you bring up. In Nap's case, he was never charged.

    I value their input on the intended subject matter. On that premise, they're much better than the goody two shoes moron who uncritically spins BS.

    I've mentioned Jacques Baud and Daniel Davis. Tony Shaffer is pretty much in line with them, even though he has a kind of tourette syndrome, where he periodically will flippantly say Putin is a thug, which is quite a relative comment to make on his part.

    Overall, Macgregor and Ritter have been more accurate than Petraeus, who is far from being squeaky clean. Hodges is especially pathetic.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  34. @songbird
    Watched Parenthood (1989) about a week back.
    Thought the opening song must be performed by a black man but actually it sung by this guy:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Newman

    Newman endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for reelection in 2012 and wrote a satirical song about voting for white candidates.
     
    I am very puritanical, and I thought there were a number or scenes that were too crass for a family-themed film. Anything in a Hollywood context, I immediately wonder if one or two scenes were influenced by gays or pederasts. (But I thought the main creators were family men?) But put that aside.

    One scene I thought was interesting for how politically incorrect it was. The ne'er-do-well brother returns and he has a little mulatto child, which he surprises everyone with, and there are strong implications that only a stupid man with loose morals would race mix with blacks, although it is later walked back a bit with everyone welcoming the child. Though the father himself is never redeemed.

    If you count Keanu, there is possibly a pro race-mixing message overall. I also thought one dialogue about abortion seemed subversive, even though there was no abortion.

    What I think makes the film quite notable is how many of the characters had babies. Was it three or four? Must be the most of any movie I recall seeing. In that way it could probably be considered pro-natalist. And promoting extended kin networks.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

    immediately wonder if one or two scenes were influenced by gays or pederasts

    Has anybody ever tried to do comparative inquiry what are proportions of that between figuratively “creative” and “ordinary” jobs/proffesions?

    Do mean that relatively out of ten best known UK mainstream boomer singers at least 33% were homo (G.Michael/E.John/F.Mercury) while in general boomer ordinary population probably 4-5% at most were such? Might there be any genetic correlation between figurative “homo gene” and performative/creative abilities?

    • Replies: @songbird
    @sudden death


    Might there be any genetic correlation between figurative “homo gene” and performative/creative abilities?
     
    Some believe that schizophrenia (which is linked to homosexuality) loads towards creativity. Others believe that gayness creates an IQ advantage, not across the board, but in terms of the right tail of the curve. (I think kirkegaard did a post about it.). But even if they are both right, I don't think that would explain it. Perhaps, engaging in risky activities has some sort of carryover? As well as having no family.

    IMO, there is something going on beyond gays. Outside promotion, perhaps, related to perceived political alignment.

    Am not sure about the scope or form. It is not necessarily all a blackmail operation. But there definitely seem organized parts of it. (See all the allegations about Puff Daddy. And there are many similar stories about Hollywood. How many actors needed to do gay things to be promoted? How many needed to play gay roles?)

    Perhaps, they are trying to feminize men. Or promoting gays is just a way to encourage loose sexual mores. Even if gays were more creative in theory, I don't think that would explain why they are put front and center, and what they create isn't repackaged or filtered. Of course, there are pressure groups now, but does that really explain someone like Boy George back in the early '80s?

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  35. @songbird
    Watched Parenthood (1989) about a week back.
    Thought the opening song must be performed by a black man but actually it sung by this guy:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Newman

    Newman endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for reelection in 2012 and wrote a satirical song about voting for white candidates.
     
    I am very puritanical, and I thought there were a number or scenes that were too crass for a family-themed film. Anything in a Hollywood context, I immediately wonder if one or two scenes were influenced by gays or pederasts. (But I thought the main creators were family men?) But put that aside.

    One scene I thought was interesting for how politically incorrect it was. The ne'er-do-well brother returns and he has a little mulatto child, which he surprises everyone with, and there are strong implications that only a stupid man with loose morals would race mix with blacks, although it is later walked back a bit with everyone welcoming the child. Though the father himself is never redeemed.

    If you count Keanu, there is possibly a pro race-mixing message overall. I also thought one dialogue about abortion seemed subversive, even though there was no abortion.

    What I think makes the film quite notable is how many of the characters had babies. Was it three or four? Must be the most of any movie I recall seeing. In that way it could probably be considered pro-natalist. And promoting extended kin networks.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

    The Los Angeles Dodgers play Randy Newman “I Love L.A.” during the seventh inning stretch. MTV loved his video.

    The fourth line has the word “eskimos” which I learned in corporate diversity class is a slur. Then a year later at a different corporate diversity hour they had a real eskimo giving a talk and he told us “of course you can call me an eskimo. What in hell else would you call us?”

    Anyway the Dodgers corporation playing the song was after the first class so they must have had different consultants.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    MTV loved his video.
     
    Wow, the past is a different country. Interesting demographic presentation.

    To judge the song critically: it sounds a bit insipid. "I love street A; I love street B..." Sort of like a road atlas. But I guess a lot of songs are like that, especially songs about cities.

    Then a year later at a different corporate diversity hour they had a real eskimo giving a talk and he told us “of course you can call me an eskimo. What in hell else would you call us?”
     
    once knew a girl who was an Eskimo, and she did also use that word and in fact made (not very good) jokes about being one. She seemed pretty easy-going. Thought I got along pretty well with her.

    I wonder whether Eskimos might in some way be better off than Indians and so not as resentful, but I don't want to judge the Red Man too harshly as my personal observations mostly come from a certain political context, which wouldn't be a flattering filter for anyone. (Required Diversity class)

    One of these chatbots got mad at me for using the word "squaw". But I like how it is one syllable. Totally forget the context.

    Replies: @Philip Owen

  36. A123 says: • Website
    @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    This is an excellent question for A123.

    Replies: @A123

    As an act of medical compassion, I have had the mentally ill Mr. Hack on my blocked commenters list for many months. He needs psychiatric care and medication.

    If it is a genuine question, you should re ask it. However, the chances of Hack stumbling on an interrogative of probative value is quite small.

    PEACE 😇

    • LOL: songbird
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @A123

    I was able to stumble upon the fact that your idol and superman Trump gave Representative Johnson the go ahead TO bring the 61 billion Ukraine Defense Aid Bill to the floor and was passed immediately with a healthy margin. Go figure, Congress misnamed this law, because as we all know, according to kremlnstoogeA123, Ukraine is waging an offensive war against Russia, not a defensive one.

    https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TrumpMikeJohnsonMW-600x565.png
    Ever since Trump recently betrayed kremlinstoogeA123's belief system, the stooge has become the laughing stock of this blog site. Unfortunately, the only way that he's been able to live this one down is to increase his proclivities to huff the bag. Poor guy, he really could have been somebody. :-(

    https://media1.tenor.com/m/HFRJAu4bR8kAAAAd/airplane-sniffing.gif
    kremlintoogeA123 after he learns that Trump got on the Ukrainian "defense" bill bandwagon...

    Replies: @QCIC

  37. @John Johnson
    You readily believe what the Kiev regime says.

    I didn't source Kiev.

    Warthog is an independent source and they pick up Russian videos from Telegram.

    So you think that video is fake?

    I’ll feed you by noting that the Nepalese you bring up haven’t apparently gone over to the winning Kiev regime side on account of that being fiction.

    I don't see Ukraine offering matching contracts for international mercenaries. Russia offers payments to anyone that joins. I think it makes sense for Ukraine to counter-offer but I have only seen cases where they tried to buy off Wagner associates.

    I view the war as a stalemate with death and the US defense industry as the only clear winners at this time. But more importantly mercenaries don't pick a side based on who is winning. It is a factor but they are primarily there for the income. Prigozhin fought on the Russian side with his private army and he offered to sell out Russian military positions for cash. Money can obviously be the motivating factor.

    Ritter and Macgregor have been far more on target than Hodges and Petraeus.

    Not at all. Petraeus did not repeat monthly claims about Russia's impending doom. Go and try to source such claims.

    Ritter in fact claimed the war was over when it started. His articles from 2 years ago on how Ukraine was down to the last man have been scrubbed. If anyone wants I'm sure his hilarious predictions can be found using the wayback machine for RT.news. His youtube videos are scrubbed but he can't control the wayback machine.

    Ritter went and further embarrassed himself over his predictions of a huge battle for the IDF and Hamas. Nothing he said came true. He sells copium by the ounce to Jew haters. That is his core audience which actually does not include you. He makes videos from what look like his parent's house and his audience hates Jews more than they like thinking critically. You would in fact be rejected by his core audience for not believing the war is one giant Jewish conspiracy.

    I really don't care if you want to find other pro-Russian sources and in fact that would be a welcomed change. Ritter and MacGregor are oversourced at Unz and so is the homosexual Judge who was kicked from Fox News over sexually harassing male employees. Please do find new sources that don't have some weird sexual history like Ritter and Judge Nap. I think people that sexually harass in the workplace should not be treated as valid sources. I've seen it first hand and I think it is gross. They should not be given a new chance after trying to grope employees. That disgusting homosexual troll should be cleaning floors at an adult theater.

    Replies: @Pastit, @Mikhail

    You’re sorely misinformed. Your hatred of gays leaves a lot to be desired. Get help.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Pastit

    Anonymous punks carry on in that way.

    , @John Johnson
    @Pastit

    You’re sorely misinformed. Your hatred of gays leaves a lot to be desired. Get help.

    I am misinformed about what? The Nap getting booted at Fox for sexually harassing male employees?

    Judge Andrew Napolitano Ousted by Fox News Following Sexual Harassment Allegations
    https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/judge-andrew-napolitano-ousted-fox-news-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-1235033101/

    He has multiple accusations including trying to grope a male waiter in a bathroom.

    Fox News Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano Accused of Sexual Assault and Attempted Rape in Second Lawsuit
    https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/fox-news-judicial-analyst-andrew-napolitano-accused-of-sexual-assault-and-attempted-rape-in-second-lawsuit/

    So where I am misinformed? Do you think this is all a conspiracy against him? How many times have you been accused of trying to grope men?

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  38. A123 says: • Website

    Anti-Semite Biden’s Hamas Resupply Pier encounters more difficulties: (1)

    “The partially built pier and military vessels involved in its construction have moved to the Port of Ashdod, where assembly will continue, and will be completed prior to the emplacement of the pier in its intended location when sea states subside,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

    So now the US personnel constructing it have moved to Israel. Presumably once the floating pier is completed it will be moved by sea back to the northern Gaza coast in preparation for maritime aid deliveries.

    And, the Muslim attack on it has drawn Congressional notice.

    Just last week a visiting delegation of UN officials came under mortar fire from Palestinian militants. Hamas has further warned that any foreign military presence on Gaza soil will come under attack.

    * * *

    Below is more from the tense Congressional exchange:

    Gaetz: This is a very telling moment, Mr. Secretary, because you’ve said something that’s quite possible, that could happen, right? Shots from Gaza on our service members, and then the response our armed service members shooting live fire into Gaza. That is a possible outcome here so that we can become the Port Authority and run this pier. Right?

    Austin: That’s correct. And I expect that we will always have the ability to protect themselves.

    Gaetz: Don’t you think that counts as boots on the ground? President Biden told the country that we weren’t going to have boots on the ground in Gaza.

    Austin: And we won’t

    Gaetz: Okay, but you guys parse the distinction between… Like when Americans think boots on the ground, they think Americans in harm’s way or engaged actively in a conflict. You guys seem to be sort of saying that boots on a pier, connected to the ground, connected to service members shooting into Gaza doesn’t count as boots on the ground?

    Austin: It does not.

    Gaetz: I think you’re gonna find the American people have a different perspective on that. And if we’re gonna have people shooting into Gaza, we probably should have a vote on that, pursuant to our war powers.

    Everyone serious sees that the Veggie-In-Chief is putting troops in harms way to curry votes in Michigan. The desperation is almost tangible.

    #LetsGoBrandon 😇
    ______________________

    (1) https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gaza-pier-delayed-over-rough-seas-pentagon-calls-project-extremely-challenging

  39. Battle of the Nations
    Poland Belarus

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    3 hours, 3rd set tie breaker. Number one against number two. This was the biggest WTA match of 2024 so far.

    There were a lot of empty seats. Tennis fans of Madrid are a bunch of sexist pigs or something. Do the Spanish have proper jargon for sexist pig?

    Google translate says cerdo sexista. Do people in Madrid actually say this?

  40. Isn’t Yahya around anymore?
    I am thinking again about going to Egypt…
    Now (May) or October, what are chances of war in October..?

  41. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    The Los Angeles Dodgers play Randy Newman "I Love L.A." during the seventh inning stretch. MTV loved his video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4

    The fourth line has the word "eskimos" which I learned in corporate diversity class is a slur. Then a year later at a different corporate diversity hour they had a real eskimo giving a talk and he told us "of course you can call me an eskimo. What in hell else would you call us?"

    Anyway the Dodgers corporation playing the song was after the first class so they must have had different consultants.

    Replies: @songbird

    MTV loved his video.

    Wow, the past is a different country. Interesting demographic presentation.

    To judge the song critically: it sounds a bit insipid. “I love street A; I love street B…” Sort of like a road atlas. But I guess a lot of songs are like that, especially songs about cities.

    Then a year later at a different corporate diversity hour they had a real eskimo giving a talk and he told us “of course you can call me an eskimo. What in hell else would you call us?”

    once knew a girl who was an Eskimo, and she did also use that word and in fact made (not very good) jokes about being one. She seemed pretty easy-going. Thought I got along pretty well with her.

    I wonder whether Eskimos might in some way be better off than Indians and so not as resentful, but I don’t want to judge the Red Man too harshly as my personal observations mostly come from a certain political context, which wouldn’t be a flattering filter for anyone. (Required Diversity class)

    One of these chatbots got mad at me for using the word “squaw”. But I like how it is one syllable. Totally forget the context.

    • Replies: @Philip Owen
    @songbird

    In Alaska, Eskimo is just fine. Inuit is a Canadian thing, then there are Chuchki of course.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  42. Should you wish to invade the UK, this weekend is your chance. The Army plays the Navy at rugby. The result is immaterial. The drinking started at kickoff (2 pm) and continues until Monday night as Monday is a public holiday. Obviously military readiness on Tuesday may not be fantastic. You might think that the defence of the country is in the hands of the RAF but they don’t work weekends.

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @Philip Owen


    The drinking started at kickoff (2 pm) and continues until Monday night as Monday is a public holiday. Obviously military readiness on Tuesday may not be fantastic. You might think that the defence of the country is in the hands of the RAF but they don’t work weekends.
     
    LOL - didn't one of RAF "Ace" pilot mass murder alot of innocent civilians during an airshow by doing an idiotic aerobatics loop using a Hawker Hunter, above and parallel (!!!) to a main road, killing 20 or something like that?
    How their reputation has fallen since WW2.

    We don't have much to worry about if scum like that is their "best" and training their next section of "best". Even an Estonian wouldn't be stupid enough to fly like that.


    Like the standard morally and of course financially corrupt British "elite" cockroach - he cheated his way out of justice and did not get ANY jail time for manslaughter or something like that ,if I read correctly at the time about 7 years ago. Looking at the videos - the plane was nose-up and so in climbing phase of the loop, so he obviously was conscious and in control of plane - but he ran out of altitude because of the stupidity of the maneuver.

    How he survived is a mystery - the cockpit fracturing-off from the rest of the body that then becomes a fireball...presumably plenty of other crashes of military aircraft of that size and function crashing nose-up trying to gain altitude, but not heard of the pilot within the separated cockpit surviving like that.

    Similar to yourself - a total shitbag, compulsive liar, overpromoted, cheats justice ( for you would of course be a bullet in your- cursed in- hell fleabrain)..... different to you - most probably he was not some failure businessman and 70 year old incel , does not lie so much when in possesion of good data - starts with you lying on simple things such as meat and egg production in Russia......increases to the idiotic constant excrement on SMO and other things that a POS as yourself habitually lies about - as evidenced just on this thread alone.

    In many ways he is typical anglo-scumbag working against Russia in SMO.
  43. QCIC says:
    @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire.
     
    Most of them died due to the climate.

    Nowadays, that is a Russian disadvantage, due to its crumbling and vulnerable infrastructure, and poorly supplied military.

    Hard to imagine that half of young Frenchmen would be willing to fight Russia, but I don't know any young Frenchmen. Are young Gen Z-ers in western Europe getting more martial? I know my very athletic and intelligent young nephew in Poland has gone into the military academy (their West Point).

    Replies: @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mr. XYZ

    It is hard to imagine many French Gen-whatever young men volunteering to charge machine gun nests in Ukraine but stranger things have happened. We might be able to guess their motivations by looking at the propaganda memes flooding their Twitter feeds 24/7. It may be the men of France are being manipulated enough to herd them off to die.

    One propaganda angle for the puppet masters might be to channel and direct the unactualized anger toward sacred-cow immigrants at Russian Slavs. I can easily imagine diabolical French (((government agents))) working this psyop tactic. The immigrant bucks will not mind if the last vestige of protection for French women is sent off to die in Ukraine.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...direct the unactualized anger toward sacred-cow immigrants at Russian Slavs.
     
    They don't have to work too hard. The accumulated frustration has to be directed somewhere. The best choice - maybe the only choice - are the Slavs. We are too white, too European, and there are too many of us. And there are the historical hatred that can be easily revived, as AP tells us 'if not for the bad weather...", oh, what could have been! (Mostly, we wouldn't be here to take up place for the higher people that they so much more deserve - the French, Dutch, Welsh, German, all the supremos.)

    POCs as the special people are out of question by definition, migrants are sacred, the LGBTQ weirdos are too powerful and interspersed widely in the society. The rich are traditionally untouchable - plus they orchestrate it behind the scene and there is that "horrible socialist" meme they can always throw at any malcontents.

    Basically if someone has to be targeted it is either the broader Slavs, or to start with the narrower Slavs meaning the Russians. The Frenchies are coming with guns and higher culture...it will be fun. Let the games begin.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Coconuts

  44. @sudden death
    @songbird


    immediately wonder if one or two scenes were influenced by gays or pederasts
     
    Has anybody ever tried to do comparative inquiry what are proportions of that between figuratively "creative" and "ordinary" jobs/proffesions?

    Do mean that relatively out of ten best known UK mainstream boomer singers at least 33% were homo (G.Michael/E.John/F.Mercury) while in general boomer ordinary population probably 4-5% at most were such? Might there be any genetic correlation between figurative "homo gene" and performative/creative abilities?

    Replies: @songbird

    Might there be any genetic correlation between figurative “homo gene” and performative/creative abilities?

    Some believe that schizophrenia (which is linked to homosexuality) loads towards creativity. Others believe that gayness creates an IQ advantage, not across the board, but in terms of the right tail of the curve. (I think kirkegaard did a post about it.). But even if they are both right, I don’t think that would explain it. Perhaps, engaging in risky activities has some sort of carryover? As well as having no family.

    IMO, there is something going on beyond gays. Outside promotion, perhaps, related to perceived political alignment.

    Am not sure about the scope or form. It is not necessarily all a blackmail operation. But there definitely seem organized parts of it. (See all the allegations about Puff Daddy. And there are many similar stories about Hollywood. How many actors needed to do gay things to be promoted? How many needed to play gay roles?)

    Perhaps, they are trying to feminize men. Or promoting gays is just a way to encourage loose sexual mores. Even if gays were more creative in theory, I don’t think that would explain why they are put front and center, and what they create isn’t repackaged or filtered. Of course, there are pressure groups now, but does that really explain someone like Boy George back in the early ’80s?

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird


    How many actors needed to do gay things to be promoted?
     
    First order approximation: all of them.

    Hollywood is that screwed up.

    Replies: @QCIC

  45. @sudden death
    Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.
     


    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1786500695513804935

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mikel, @Bashibuzuk, @Negronicus

    Now Ukraine is certainly doomed. When was the last time the French won a war?

    • Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    Technical, since the Vichy has ceased to exist by March 1945, the last major Allies surrender in WWII was here 明号作戦 Meigōsakusen Operation Code Bright.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Hanoi1945.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_coup_d'état_in_French_Indochina

    After WWII, remaining Japanese soldiers helped train the Viet Minh that threw out the French at Dien Bien Phu.

    That said, the French have the glorious military record in Europe and shouldn't be discounted.

    On the Imperial Line, what songbird wrote, the early periods were largely mythical and based on Chinese records. There is a Japanese myth that the emperor descended from a Chinese explorer

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/La_expedici%C3%B3n_de_Xu_Fu%2C_por_Utagawa_Kuniyoshi.jpg
    Xu Fu goes on a voyage in search of the elixir of immortality (illustrated by Kuniyoshi Utagawa)

    One of oldest noble clans 秦氏 is named after the first unified Chinese, 秦 Qin dynasty

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Yantra-shatkona.jpg

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

    During their period of colonization, a number of origin theories were proposed, including even this one

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Jewish_common_ancestry_theory

    But generally speaking the most plausible theory is a common origin with Koreans and Manchus. And they took actions to that effect, the Imperial family arranged marriages with the Korean king and Qing imperial family.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  46. @Greasy William
    Somebody post their astrological chart so I can do a reading and prove my greatness

    Re NATO direct intervention in Ukraine: I don't see it. Political will isn't there for the money or the casualties.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/

    Re. horoscope, I only trust the Chinese one (just kidding).

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    1. It is only a hundred.
    2. The Russians will know exactly where they are. They are all going to die as quickly as manageable.

  47. @songbird
    @sudden death


    Might there be any genetic correlation between figurative “homo gene” and performative/creative abilities?
     
    Some believe that schizophrenia (which is linked to homosexuality) loads towards creativity. Others believe that gayness creates an IQ advantage, not across the board, but in terms of the right tail of the curve. (I think kirkegaard did a post about it.). But even if they are both right, I don't think that would explain it. Perhaps, engaging in risky activities has some sort of carryover? As well as having no family.

    IMO, there is something going on beyond gays. Outside promotion, perhaps, related to perceived political alignment.

    Am not sure about the scope or form. It is not necessarily all a blackmail operation. But there definitely seem organized parts of it. (See all the allegations about Puff Daddy. And there are many similar stories about Hollywood. How many actors needed to do gay things to be promoted? How many needed to play gay roles?)

    Perhaps, they are trying to feminize men. Or promoting gays is just a way to encourage loose sexual mores. Even if gays were more creative in theory, I don't think that would explain why they are put front and center, and what they create isn't repackaged or filtered. Of course, there are pressure groups now, but does that really explain someone like Boy George back in the early '80s?

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    How many actors needed to do gay things to be promoted?

    First order approximation: all of them.

    Hollywood is that screwed up.

    • Agree: songbird, QCIC
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    A good baseline assumption is that any name actor is gay, despite any convincing public persona created by press agents. The persona of the actor may include a spouse, kids and attractive heterosexual lovers all of whom can be hired from central casting. My perspective is simply based on exposés which periodically turn up along with all the widely discussed contradictions around these people. Some hold to the notion that being gay is a requirement to be a successful Hollywood actor. This might jive with the common view that many attractive and competent actors cannot get work when they seek the bright lights of LA. The unspoken explanation for their lack of roles is they are not gay.

    My theory is the standard acting job requirement is being both gay and Jewish, though being a goy hermaphrodite may get you to the head of the line. I think being from a wealthy connected family can help as well. I wonder if sexual reassignment surgery is blurring the lines a bit since this may qualify an actor as hermaphrodite in some esoteric framework which these Hollywood creeps follow (producers and directors).

  48. @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/

    Re. horoscope, I only trust the Chinese one (just kidding).

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    1. It is only a hundred.
    2. The Russians will know exactly where they are. They are all going to die as quickly as manageable.

  49. @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire.
     
    Most of them died due to the climate.

    Nowadays, that is a Russian disadvantage, due to its crumbling and vulnerable infrastructure, and poorly supplied military.

    Hard to imagine that half of young Frenchmen would be willing to fight Russia, but I don't know any young Frenchmen. Are young Gen Z-ers in western Europe getting more martial? I know my very athletic and intelligent young nephew in Poland has gone into the military academy (their West Point).

    Replies: @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mr. XYZ

    Most of them died due to the climate.

    Four reasons why Napoleon/Hitler/whoever else is itching for a fight now did not win the war with Russia: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

  50. Can’t authenticate this, but seems real enough to me. Wowsa! The Irish police force seems to be recruiting direct from Pakistan.

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    They will probably send them to the Gaeltacht and have them rely on PIE cognates.

    For reference, Longford is nearly in the center of Ireland. The biggest town is of 10,000 people, though I suppose they are recruiting for Dublin or Cork, or some such place.

  51. @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.
     
    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire. Millions of Hitler’s soldiers fertilized the soil in the USSR. Fertilizer must be replenished.

    Replies: @AP, @John Johnson, @Jazman

    They probably play multiplayer version of Call of Duty . The main problem of the West or Ukies is not even the lag in the quantity and quality of weapons produced, the lag in technology, etc. But the lack of an adequate perception of reality.

  52. @songbird
    Watched Parenthood (1989) about a week back.
    Thought the opening song must be performed by a black man but actually it sung by this guy:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Newman

    Newman endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for reelection in 2012 and wrote a satirical song about voting for white candidates.
     
    I am very puritanical, and I thought there were a number or scenes that were too crass for a family-themed film. Anything in a Hollywood context, I immediately wonder if one or two scenes were influenced by gays or pederasts. (But I thought the main creators were family men?) But put that aside.

    One scene I thought was interesting for how politically incorrect it was. The ne'er-do-well brother returns and he has a little mulatto child, which he surprises everyone with, and there are strong implications that only a stupid man with loose morals would race mix with blacks, although it is later walked back a bit with everyone welcoming the child. Though the father himself is never redeemed.

    If you count Keanu, there is possibly a pro race-mixing message overall. I also thought one dialogue about abortion seemed subversive, even though there was no abortion.

    What I think makes the film quite notable is how many of the characters had babies. Was it three or four? Must be the most of any movie I recall seeing. In that way it could probably be considered pro-natalist. And promoting extended kin networks.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

    Randy Newman apparently was a major influence on John Johnson.

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    • LOL: songbird
  53. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Beckow
    @Mikhail

    The surveys are manipulated, it depends how you ask the questions. If you ask "would you fight if France is invaded" you will get a lot of 'yes'. But this would be a foreign war, the French are not itching to relive Napoleon's catastrophe, 100k Frenchies who died in Crimea War, or French SS volunteers.

    Kiev is running out of men and nobody is coming. It is a giant IQ test, so far the Euros are beating the wanna-be Euros. Predictably.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    France is invaded on a daily basis. Most French ain’t giving a flying f… about it. Last time I was in Paris, I had an excellent couscous royal in a small Kabyle restaurant not far Le Bataclan where the ISIS sympathizers massacred that Black Metal show attendees. I am pretty sure that many French would agree that having the opportunity to eat some good couscous , tajine or méchoui is worth the disagreement of having les Beurs as neighbours.

    Some contemporary French music to listen to while eating that couscous:

  54. @A123
    @songbird

    As an act of medical compassion, I have had the mentally ill Mr. Hack on my blocked commenters list for many months. He needs psychiatric care and medication.

    If it is a genuine question, you should re ask it. However, the chances of Hack stumbling on an interrogative of probative value is quite small.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I was able to stumble upon the fact that your idol and superman Trump gave Representative Johnson the go ahead TO bring the 61 billion Ukraine Defense Aid Bill to the floor and was passed immediately with a healthy margin. Go figure, Congress misnamed this law, because as we all know, according to kremlnstoogeA123, Ukraine is waging an offensive war against Russia, not a defensive one.
    Ever since Trump recently betrayed kremlinstoogeA123’s belief system, the stooge has become the laughing stock of this blog site. Unfortunately, the only way that he’s been able to live this one down is to increase his proclivities to huff the bag. Poor guy, he really could have been somebody. 🙁
    kremlintoogeA123 after he learns that Trump got on the Ukrainian “defense” bill bandwagon…

    • LOL: John Johnson
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    The dollar isn't what it used to be. I wonder how many dead Ukrainians $61 billion buys these days? I'm sure Tony and Jake have the figures.

    Many Russians will die as well, that is what the creeps in Washington and London and Paris want. I still hold to the notion the ratio is roughly 10U : 1R. It is disgusting and sad that you are cheerleading for the pointless deaths of your distant kin and the destruction of the home of your ancestors.

    No one here has explained what prevents Russia from escalating the destruction of more valuable Ukrainian targets should the need arise to counteract Western assistance to the AFU or Ukrainian terror attacks within Russia.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Philip Owen

  55. QCIC says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird


    How many actors needed to do gay things to be promoted?
     
    First order approximation: all of them.

    Hollywood is that screwed up.

    Replies: @QCIC

    A good baseline assumption is that any name actor is gay, despite any convincing public persona created by press agents. The persona of the actor may include a spouse, kids and attractive heterosexual lovers all of whom can be hired from central casting. My perspective is simply based on exposés which periodically turn up along with all the widely discussed contradictions around these people. Some hold to the notion that being gay is a requirement to be a successful Hollywood actor. This might jive with the common view that many attractive and competent actors cannot get work when they seek the bright lights of LA. The unspoken explanation for their lack of roles is they are not gay.

    My theory is the standard acting job requirement is being both gay and Jewish, though being a goy hermaphrodite may get you to the head of the line. I think being from a wealthy connected family can help as well. I wonder if sexual reassignment surgery is blurring the lines a bit since this may qualify an actor as hermaphrodite in some esoteric framework which these Hollywood creeps follow (producers and directors).

  56. Amazon’s flagship AI

    If I am Mrs. Bezos I am thinking this might be sufficient reason to get out. Hasn’t anybody there watched 2001 Space Odyssey?

  57. QCIC says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @A123

    I was able to stumble upon the fact that your idol and superman Trump gave Representative Johnson the go ahead TO bring the 61 billion Ukraine Defense Aid Bill to the floor and was passed immediately with a healthy margin. Go figure, Congress misnamed this law, because as we all know, according to kremlnstoogeA123, Ukraine is waging an offensive war against Russia, not a defensive one.

    https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TrumpMikeJohnsonMW-600x565.png
    Ever since Trump recently betrayed kremlinstoogeA123's belief system, the stooge has become the laughing stock of this blog site. Unfortunately, the only way that he's been able to live this one down is to increase his proclivities to huff the bag. Poor guy, he really could have been somebody. :-(

    https://media1.tenor.com/m/HFRJAu4bR8kAAAAd/airplane-sniffing.gif
    kremlintoogeA123 after he learns that Trump got on the Ukrainian "defense" bill bandwagon...

    Replies: @QCIC

    The dollar isn’t what it used to be. I wonder how many dead Ukrainians $61 billion buys these days? I’m sure Tony and Jake have the figures.

    Many Russians will die as well, that is what the creeps in Washington and London and Paris want. I still hold to the notion the ratio is roughly 10U : 1R. It is disgusting and sad that you are cheerleading for the pointless deaths of your distant kin and the destruction of the home of your ancestors.

    No one here has explained what prevents Russia from escalating the destruction of more valuable Ukrainian targets should the need arise to counteract Western assistance to the AFU or Ukrainian terror attacks within Russia.

    • Agree: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC


    It is disgusting and sad that you are cheerleading for the pointless deaths of your distant kin and the destruction of the home of your ancestors.
     
    I'm cheerleading the brave actions of the Ukrainian military that is beating back the callous and mean spirited attack of outside aggressors, more often than not including attacks on civilian enclaves. I'm grateful to the US and to other western countries that are supporting Ukraine, so that these soldiers are better equipped and less likely to incur death or injury.

    You don't really care for human life, for if you did you'd be championing Russia's exit back to its own side of the border. You're a spineless appeaser and hypocrite like your buddy kremlinstoogeA123.

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @Philip Owen
    @QCIC

    7R:1U in the set pieces. RU attacks and not very well. RU defence is better the UA but UA hasn't attacked much since 2022 except at Tokmak. Mariupol was their big lost defensive battle. RU losses and Phyrric victories.
    Ky'iv
    Mariupol
    Izyium
    Kherson
    Soledar
    Bakhmut
    Vugledar
    Avdiivka
    Chasiv Yar
    Each one involving at least 10,000 dead usually at least 20,000. Mariupol and Soledar wiped out the L/DPR. Bakhmut finished Wagner.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN

  58. @John Johnson
    You readily believe what the Kiev regime says.

    I didn't source Kiev.

    Warthog is an independent source and they pick up Russian videos from Telegram.

    So you think that video is fake?

    I’ll feed you by noting that the Nepalese you bring up haven’t apparently gone over to the winning Kiev regime side on account of that being fiction.

    I don't see Ukraine offering matching contracts for international mercenaries. Russia offers payments to anyone that joins. I think it makes sense for Ukraine to counter-offer but I have only seen cases where they tried to buy off Wagner associates.

    I view the war as a stalemate with death and the US defense industry as the only clear winners at this time. But more importantly mercenaries don't pick a side based on who is winning. It is a factor but they are primarily there for the income. Prigozhin fought on the Russian side with his private army and he offered to sell out Russian military positions for cash. Money can obviously be the motivating factor.

    Ritter and Macgregor have been far more on target than Hodges and Petraeus.

    Not at all. Petraeus did not repeat monthly claims about Russia's impending doom. Go and try to source such claims.

    Ritter in fact claimed the war was over when it started. His articles from 2 years ago on how Ukraine was down to the last man have been scrubbed. If anyone wants I'm sure his hilarious predictions can be found using the wayback machine for RT.news. His youtube videos are scrubbed but he can't control the wayback machine.

    Ritter went and further embarrassed himself over his predictions of a huge battle for the IDF and Hamas. Nothing he said came true. He sells copium by the ounce to Jew haters. That is his core audience which actually does not include you. He makes videos from what look like his parent's house and his audience hates Jews more than they like thinking critically. You would in fact be rejected by his core audience for not believing the war is one giant Jewish conspiracy.

    I really don't care if you want to find other pro-Russian sources and in fact that would be a welcomed change. Ritter and MacGregor are oversourced at Unz and so is the homosexual Judge who was kicked from Fox News over sexually harassing male employees. Please do find new sources that don't have some weird sexual history like Ritter and Judge Nap. I think people that sexually harass in the workplace should not be treated as valid sources. I've seen it first hand and I think it is gross. They should not be given a new chance after trying to grope employees. That disgusting homosexual troll should be cleaning floors at an adult theater.

    Replies: @Pastit, @Mikhail

    Your source uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry which has told some tall tales (lies).

    Your repeated rant about Ritter and Napolitano was already addressed. No one here seems to okay the manner you bring up. In Nap’s case, he was never charged.

    I value their input on the intended subject matter. On that premise, they’re much better than the goody two shoes moron who uncritically spins BS.

    I’ve mentioned Jacques Baud and Daniel Davis. Tony Shaffer is pretty much in line with them, even though he has a kind of tourette syndrome, where he periodically will flippantly say Putin is a thug, which is quite a relative comment to make on his part.

    Overall, Macgregor and Ritter have been more accurate than Petraeus, who is far from being squeaky clean. Hodges is especially pathetic.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    Your source uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry which has told some tall tales (lies).

    The source is displayed on the video at 1:06 which is Telegram:

    https://youtu.be/dzJzGf1Klng?t=66

    Why can't you state if you think the video is real or not?

    Your repeated rant about Ritter and Napolitano was already addressed. No one here seems to okay the manner you bring up. In Nap’s case, he was never charged.

    Sexual harassment is normally a company policy violation and not a legal offense.

    Do you believe his is innocent of multiple accusations of trying to use his position to get sexual favors from male employees? Both at Fox and as an attorney?

    Overall, Macgregor and Ritter have been more accurate than Petraeus, who is far from being squeaky clean.

    So what exactly did Petraeus say that was as bad as MacGregor's "fall offensive...wait no winter offensive..wait no spring offensive" or Ritter's claim that the war was over?


    The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle," he said. "They've now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over

    Douglas MacGregor in Fox News interview March 5th 2022

    Replies: @Mikhail

  59. @Pastit
    @John Johnson

    You’re sorely misinformed. Your hatred of gays leaves a lot to be desired. Get help.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    Anonymous punks carry on in that way.

  60. @Pastit
    @John Johnson

    You’re sorely misinformed. Your hatred of gays leaves a lot to be desired. Get help.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    You’re sorely misinformed. Your hatred of gays leaves a lot to be desired. Get help.

    I am misinformed about what? The Nap getting booted at Fox for sexually harassing male employees?

    Judge Andrew Napolitano Ousted by Fox News Following Sexual Harassment Allegations
    https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/judge-andrew-napolitano-ousted-fox-news-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-1235033101/

    He has multiple accusations including trying to grope a male waiter in a bathroom.

    Fox News Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano Accused of Sexual Assault and Attempted Rape in Second Lawsuit
    https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/fox-news-judicial-analyst-andrew-napolitano-accused-of-sexual-assault-and-attempted-rape-in-second-lawsuit/

    So where I am misinformed? Do you think this is all a conspiracy against him? How many times have you been accused of trying to grope men?

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @John Johnson

    So, it turns out that the Groyper is also a Groper lol!

    Replies: @John Johnson

  61. @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    Your source uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry which has told some tall tales (lies).

    Your repeated rant about Ritter and Napolitano was already addressed. No one here seems to okay the manner you bring up. In Nap's case, he was never charged.

    I value their input on the intended subject matter. On that premise, they're much better than the goody two shoes moron who uncritically spins BS.

    I've mentioned Jacques Baud and Daniel Davis. Tony Shaffer is pretty much in line with them, even though he has a kind of tourette syndrome, where he periodically will flippantly say Putin is a thug, which is quite a relative comment to make on his part.

    Overall, Macgregor and Ritter have been more accurate than Petraeus, who is far from being squeaky clean. Hodges is especially pathetic.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Your source uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry which has told some tall tales (lies).

    The source is displayed on the video at 1:06 which is Telegram:

    Why can’t you state if you think the video is real or not?

    Your repeated rant about Ritter and Napolitano was already addressed. No one here seems to okay the manner you bring up. In Nap’s case, he was never charged.

    Sexual harassment is normally a company policy violation and not a legal offense.

    Do you believe his is innocent of multiple accusations of trying to use his position to get sexual favors from male employees? Both at Fox and as an attorney?

    Overall, Macgregor and Ritter have been more accurate than Petraeus, who is far from being squeaky clean.

    So what exactly did Petraeus say that was as bad as MacGregor’s “fall offensive…wait no winter offensive..wait no spring offensive” or Ritter’s claim that the war was over?

    The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle,” he said. “They’ve now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over

    Douglas MacGregor in Fox News interview March 5th 2022

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    The source you gave on the Nepalese in the Russian armed forces uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

    Petraeus was gung ho about Afghanistan which proved a failure. Some other stuff on him:

    https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/05/gen-petraeus-too-big-to-jail/

    From what I'm aware of, Napolitano was accused twice of making passes at a younger man, with him not getting a conviction. Once again, I don't support that behavior. In terms of the intended issues for discussion here, he's far better than the goody two shoes sap who uncritically accepts BS.

    I'll say this for Napolitano, he hasn't expressed the kind off of perverted glee you've exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    You're severely hallucinated if you actually think that right now, the Russian forces have lower morale than the Kiev regime's.

    Regarding Macgregor, he has proven to be a bit overly optimistic, while nonetheless being quite erudite on military matters.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  62. @QCIC
    @AP

    It is hard to imagine many French Gen-whatever young men volunteering to charge machine gun nests in Ukraine but stranger things have happened. We might be able to guess their motivations by looking at the propaganda memes flooding their Twitter feeds 24/7. It may be the men of France are being manipulated enough to herd them off to die.

    One propaganda angle for the puppet masters might be to channel and direct the unactualized anger toward sacred-cow immigrants at Russian Slavs. I can easily imagine diabolical French (((government agents))) working this psyop tactic. The immigrant bucks will not mind if the last vestige of protection for French women is sent off to die in Ukraine.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …direct the unactualized anger toward sacred-cow immigrants at Russian Slavs.

    They don’t have to work too hard. The accumulated frustration has to be directed somewhere. The best choice – maybe the only choice – are the Slavs. We are too white, too European, and there are too many of us. And there are the historical hatred that can be easily revived, as AP tells us ‘if not for the bad weather…”, oh, what could have been! (Mostly, we wouldn’t be here to take up place for the higher people that they so much more deserve – the French, Dutch, Welsh, German, all the supremos.)

    POCs as the special people are out of question by definition, migrants are sacred, the LGBTQ weirdos are too powerful and interspersed widely in the society. The rich are traditionally untouchable – plus they orchestrate it behind the scene and there is that “horrible socialist” meme they can always throw at any malcontents.

    Basically if someone has to be targeted it is either the broader Slavs, or to start with the narrower Slavs meaning the Russians. The Frenchies are coming with guns and higher culture…it will be fun. Let the games begin.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    The best choice – maybe the only choice – are the Slavs.
     
    I think you, like many commenters on this site, grossly overestimate the importance of nationality. Those who currently rule the “democratic” West don’t give a hoot about that. The myth is that Israel cares about Jews. Hamas naively believed this and took hostages. They were wrong. The facts are that iIsraeli rulers did nothing to get the hostages back, Israeli forces murdered quite a few of those (including the two idiots who escaped from Hamas), and that on October 7th Israeli military likely killed more Jews than Hamas. It wasn’t the decision of pawns pulling the trigger: they had orders. Orders coming from the elites who have no scruples and no morals. Look at what the US regime is doing to protesting students (and quite a few faculty members, many of which weren’t even protesting). These are not Slavs, they are Americans, But they are treated by the elites with exactly the same disregard for human life and dignity as Slavs or Palis.

    The elites are not nationalistic, racist, or anything of the kind. They just care exclusively about themselves, their money and power,. They are willing to murder anyone who gets in the way, be it a Slav, a Pali, an American, or a Jew. The only way to protect humanity from these sociopaths is to kill them all, to the last person.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Beckow

    , @Coconuts
    @Beckow


    (Mostly, we wouldn’t be here to take up place for the higher people that they so much more deserve – the French, Dutch, Welsh, German, all the supremos.)
     
    Is this worry about the Welsh invading your lands serious?

    In the real world what is observable is not a movement of migration from the West towards the East, but East towards the West. It is Slavs settling the ancestral lands of the British, Dutch and French.

    Replies: @Beckow

  63. @AP
    @QCIC


    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    …in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.

    What was the reason for this?
     
    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer, who later went corporate (much better pay, he wasn't corrupt enough at his job to support a family).

    He said that when the security organs were staffed by people from such background during Stalin's time, they were too bloody and murderous, and the USSR (and later Russia) didn't want that anymore.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies, and that there was a wave of western Ukrainians joining in the 1950s and 1960s. Those people were seen as gifted for such work. That was the person I knew in Russia who ever had anything good to say about Banderists.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Realhistory43, @Gerard1234

    Interesting that western Ukrainians would work for the corrupt Soviet regime that oppressed them, their families/relatives, and their friends? I guess that they really needed the money and career opportunities, eh? Or were they simply highly unusual for western Ukrainians?

    As for respecting one’s enemies, I have no doubt that plenty of Union vets in the ACW respected Confederate vets and vice versa, and that even plenty of Allied WWII vets respected German WWII vets so long as they were not guilty of war crimes.

    BTW, off-topic, but what do you think of Tim Hsiao’s argument in favor of the morality of eating dogs? You can go Google it. I’d post a link to it here but for some reason my Paste button on my computer no longer works. I’ll have to see how to fix it.

  64. @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Let them come, then. About 85% of Napoleon’s Grand Armee fertilized the soil in the Russian Empire.
     
    Most of them died due to the climate.

    Nowadays, that is a Russian disadvantage, due to its crumbling and vulnerable infrastructure, and poorly supplied military.

    Hard to imagine that half of young Frenchmen would be willing to fight Russia, but I don't know any young Frenchmen. Are young Gen Z-ers in western Europe getting more martial? I know my very athletic and intelligent young nephew in Poland has gone into the military academy (their West Point).

    Replies: @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mr. XYZ

    Interestingly enough, if the French will become more akin to Hapsburg-loving European nationalists, then they should become more pro-Ukraine as a part of this process. Those are the kinds of European nationalists that I like.

    Interestingly enough, Kalergi warned about Russia being aggressive regardless of whether it was led by a Red or a White regime back in the 1920s.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ


    Interestingly enough, Kalergi warned about Russia being aggressive regardless of whether it was led by a Red or a White regime back in the 1920s.
     
    He has been very much proven wrong.

    Replies: @Wielgus

  65. @John Johnson
    @Pastit

    You’re sorely misinformed. Your hatred of gays leaves a lot to be desired. Get help.

    I am misinformed about what? The Nap getting booted at Fox for sexually harassing male employees?

    Judge Andrew Napolitano Ousted by Fox News Following Sexual Harassment Allegations
    https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/judge-andrew-napolitano-ousted-fox-news-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-1235033101/

    He has multiple accusations including trying to grope a male waiter in a bathroom.

    Fox News Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano Accused of Sexual Assault and Attempted Rape in Second Lawsuit
    https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/fox-news-judicial-analyst-andrew-napolitano-accused-of-sexual-assault-and-attempted-rape-in-second-lawsuit/

    So where I am misinformed? Do you think this is all a conspiracy against him? How many times have you been accused of trying to grope men?

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    So, it turns out that the Groyper is also a Groper lol!

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Mr. XYZ

    So, it turns out that the Groyper is also a Groper lol!

    Napolitano wants to do a show on liberal immoral behavior and then maybe feel up your balls afterwards. Not into it? He is fine with that.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  66. In a way, I am jealous of everyone who lives on the other side of the Wallace Line.

    [MORE]

  67. @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...direct the unactualized anger toward sacred-cow immigrants at Russian Slavs.
     
    They don't have to work too hard. The accumulated frustration has to be directed somewhere. The best choice - maybe the only choice - are the Slavs. We are too white, too European, and there are too many of us. And there are the historical hatred that can be easily revived, as AP tells us 'if not for the bad weather...", oh, what could have been! (Mostly, we wouldn't be here to take up place for the higher people that they so much more deserve - the French, Dutch, Welsh, German, all the supremos.)

    POCs as the special people are out of question by definition, migrants are sacred, the LGBTQ weirdos are too powerful and interspersed widely in the society. The rich are traditionally untouchable - plus they orchestrate it behind the scene and there is that "horrible socialist" meme they can always throw at any malcontents.

    Basically if someone has to be targeted it is either the broader Slavs, or to start with the narrower Slavs meaning the Russians. The Frenchies are coming with guns and higher culture...it will be fun. Let the games begin.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Coconuts

    The best choice – maybe the only choice – are the Slavs.

    I think you, like many commenters on this site, grossly overestimate the importance of nationality. Those who currently rule the “democratic” West don’t give a hoot about that. The myth is that Israel cares about Jews. Hamas naively believed this and took hostages. They were wrong. The facts are that iIsraeli rulers did nothing to get the hostages back, Israeli forces murdered quite a few of those (including the two idiots who escaped from Hamas), and that on October 7th Israeli military likely killed more Jews than Hamas. It wasn’t the decision of pawns pulling the trigger: they had orders. Orders coming from the elites who have no scruples and no morals. Look at what the US regime is doing to protesting students (and quite a few faculty members, many of which weren’t even protesting). These are not Slavs, they are Americans, But they are treated by the elites with exactly the same disregard for human life and dignity as Slavs or Palis.

    The elites are not nationalistic, racist, or anything of the kind. They just care exclusively about themselves, their money and power,. They are willing to murder anyone who gets in the way, be it a Slav, a Pali, an American, or a Jew. The only way to protect humanity from these sociopaths is to kill them all, to the last person.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @AnonfromTN


    The myth is that Israel cares about Jews. Hamas naively believed this and took hostages. They were wrong. The facts are that iIsraeli rulers did nothing to get the hostages back, Israeli forces murdered quite a few of those (including the two idiots who escaped from Hamas), and that on October 7th Israeli military likely killed more Jews than Hamas.
     
    There're those types recalling Entebbe and some of the more sophisticated Zionists like Abba Eban. Today's Israel has become more militant as evidenced by instances like the Hannibal Directive actions.
    , @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...grossly overestimate the importance of nationality. Those who currently rule the “democratic” West don’t give a hoot about that.
     
    I agree about the elites. But to try to run the very complex global empire requires managing people. The context was: how does Macron get enough young Frenchies to go and die in the Ukie steppes? They can be ordered and paid well, but for an undertaking that risky they need to also stir up some emotions.

    The traditional Western way is to demonize the enemy: first the leader and his entourage, then enlarge to the misguided people supporting him. Add a few historical lies like "they have always attacked us!", it was bad "weather" for the Napoleon fiasco, or "you know, Nazis could have won!", even that Russians and Germans started WW2 maybe even attacking France together (people are very stupid). You also scare people that "Russians will invade Bretagne!" - Russia has never started a war against the West, it has always been vice-versa, but we are back to people simply being stupid.

    In that context the nationality matters. My point is that in the liberal world there is literally no other 'nationality' or group that can be used as an enemy other then Slavs with Russians as the convenient stand-in. Some in the elites may still even have bitter resentments for the WW2 loss or in US for the tense fear of the Cold War that was never properly cured since it just ended with no bang.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  68. Mikhail says: • Website
    @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    Your source uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry which has told some tall tales (lies).

    The source is displayed on the video at 1:06 which is Telegram:

    https://youtu.be/dzJzGf1Klng?t=66

    Why can't you state if you think the video is real or not?

    Your repeated rant about Ritter and Napolitano was already addressed. No one here seems to okay the manner you bring up. In Nap’s case, he was never charged.

    Sexual harassment is normally a company policy violation and not a legal offense.

    Do you believe his is innocent of multiple accusations of trying to use his position to get sexual favors from male employees? Both at Fox and as an attorney?

    Overall, Macgregor and Ritter have been more accurate than Petraeus, who is far from being squeaky clean.

    So what exactly did Petraeus say that was as bad as MacGregor's "fall offensive...wait no winter offensive..wait no spring offensive" or Ritter's claim that the war was over?


    The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle," he said. "They've now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over

    Douglas MacGregor in Fox News interview March 5th 2022

    Replies: @Mikhail

    The source you gave on the Nepalese in the Russian armed forces uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

    Petraeus was gung ho about Afghanistan which proved a failure. Some other stuff on him:

    https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/05/gen-petraeus-too-big-to-jail/

    From what I’m aware of, Napolitano was accused twice of making passes at a younger man, with him not getting a conviction. Once again, I don’t support that behavior. In terms of the intended issues for discussion here, he’s far better than the goody two shoes sap who uncritically accepts BS.

    I’ll say this for Napolitano, he hasn’t expressed the kind off of perverted glee you’ve exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    You’re severely hallucinated if you actually think that right now, the Russian forces have lower morale than the Kiev regime’s.

    Regarding Macgregor, he has proven to be a bit overly optimistic, while nonetheless being quite erudite on military matters.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    I’ll say this for Napolitano, he hasn’t expressed the kind off of perverted glee you’ve exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    LOL so his actual sexual harassment of male employees isn't comparable to my forum posts on a website that is buried by search engines?
    Would you listen to yourself? This is basically you:

    Napolitano may have followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle his junk but....did you read John Johnson's latest post on Ukraine? Now that's perverted glee!

    You should really re-assess your life when you're defending a homosexual groper and a convicted sex criminal who jerked off to what he thought was an underage girl....twice. Yes Scott Ritter did that twice so there goes "but but sting operation conspiracy" defense. Too bad Scott Ritter wasn't on Chris Hanson showing up with a 6 pack of coors. I DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS UNDERAGE THE BEER IS FOR ME. Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.

    Oh and Putin also has Russell Brand who is British but follows the pattern since he showed his boner to a woman at work. He is British but follows the group theme of sexual criminals and losers.

    I've worked a lot of jobs and never once in my life have I thought You know what.....I'm gonna get a boner at work and show it to some chick. Good God that is f-cking insane.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @songbird, @QCIC, @Gerard1234

  69. @Mr. XYZ
    @AP

    Interestingly enough, if the French will become more akin to Hapsburg-loving European nationalists, then they should become more pro-Ukraine as a part of this process. Those are the kinds of European nationalists that I like.

    Interestingly enough, Kalergi warned about Russia being aggressive regardless of whether it was led by a Red or a White regime back in the 1920s.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Interestingly enough, Kalergi warned about Russia being aggressive regardless of whether it was led by a Red or a White regime back in the 1920s.

    He has been very much proven wrong.

    • Replies: @Wielgus
    @Mikhail

    Pilsudski did not coordinate his actions with Russian Whites during the Russian Civil War as he distrusted them at least as much as the Bolsheviks - the Denikin slogan of "Russia one and indivisible" was a major stumbling block. Pilsudski's forces cooperated with the Ukrainian Petlyura but he was little more than a Polish puppet.

    Replies: @Mikhail

  70. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    The dollar isn't what it used to be. I wonder how many dead Ukrainians $61 billion buys these days? I'm sure Tony and Jake have the figures.

    Many Russians will die as well, that is what the creeps in Washington and London and Paris want. I still hold to the notion the ratio is roughly 10U : 1R. It is disgusting and sad that you are cheerleading for the pointless deaths of your distant kin and the destruction of the home of your ancestors.

    No one here has explained what prevents Russia from escalating the destruction of more valuable Ukrainian targets should the need arise to counteract Western assistance to the AFU or Ukrainian terror attacks within Russia.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Philip Owen

    It is disgusting and sad that you are cheerleading for the pointless deaths of your distant kin and the destruction of the home of your ancestors.

    I’m cheerleading the brave actions of the Ukrainian military that is beating back the callous and mean spirited attack of outside aggressors, more often than not including attacks on civilian enclaves. I’m grateful to the US and to other western countries that are supporting Ukraine, so that these soldiers are better equipped and less likely to incur death or injury.

    You don’t really care for human life, for if you did you’d be championing Russia’s exit back to its own side of the border. You’re a spineless appeaser and hypocrite like your buddy kremlinstoogeA123.

    • Agree: John Johnson
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    I think if Russia backs down from this Western aggression in Ukraine it eventually leads to World War 3 and vastly more people die across the globe. This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @John Johnson

  71. Mikhail says: • Website
    @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    The best choice – maybe the only choice – are the Slavs.
     
    I think you, like many commenters on this site, grossly overestimate the importance of nationality. Those who currently rule the “democratic” West don’t give a hoot about that. The myth is that Israel cares about Jews. Hamas naively believed this and took hostages. They were wrong. The facts are that iIsraeli rulers did nothing to get the hostages back, Israeli forces murdered quite a few of those (including the two idiots who escaped from Hamas), and that on October 7th Israeli military likely killed more Jews than Hamas. It wasn’t the decision of pawns pulling the trigger: they had orders. Orders coming from the elites who have no scruples and no morals. Look at what the US regime is doing to protesting students (and quite a few faculty members, many of which weren’t even protesting). These are not Slavs, they are Americans, But they are treated by the elites with exactly the same disregard for human life and dignity as Slavs or Palis.

    The elites are not nationalistic, racist, or anything of the kind. They just care exclusively about themselves, their money and power,. They are willing to murder anyone who gets in the way, be it a Slav, a Pali, an American, or a Jew. The only way to protect humanity from these sociopaths is to kill them all, to the last person.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Beckow

    The myth is that Israel cares about Jews. Hamas naively believed this and took hostages. They were wrong. The facts are that iIsraeli rulers did nothing to get the hostages back, Israeli forces murdered quite a few of those (including the two idiots who escaped from Hamas), and that on October 7th Israeli military likely killed more Jews than Hamas.

    There’re those types recalling Entebbe and some of the more sophisticated Zionists like Abba Eban. Today’s Israel has become more militant as evidenced by instances like the Hannibal Directive actions.

  72. When lowland and highland tribes of Papuans fight, are they echoing an ancient conflict fought between lowland and highland Denisovans hundreds of thousands of years ago? Each side carrying a few genes of its Denisovan predecessor?

    https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/anthropology/papua-new-guinea-genetic-adaptations/

  73. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    The dollar isn't what it used to be. I wonder how many dead Ukrainians $61 billion buys these days? I'm sure Tony and Jake have the figures.

    Many Russians will die as well, that is what the creeps in Washington and London and Paris want. I still hold to the notion the ratio is roughly 10U : 1R. It is disgusting and sad that you are cheerleading for the pointless deaths of your distant kin and the destruction of the home of your ancestors.

    No one here has explained what prevents Russia from escalating the destruction of more valuable Ukrainian targets should the need arise to counteract Western assistance to the AFU or Ukrainian terror attacks within Russia.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Philip Owen

    7R:1U in the set pieces. RU attacks and not very well. RU defence is better the UA but UA hasn’t attacked much since 2022 except at Tokmak. Mariupol was their big lost defensive battle. RU losses and Phyrric victories.
    Ky’iv
    Mariupol
    Izyium
    Kherson
    Soledar
    Bakhmut
    Vugledar
    Avdiivka
    Chasiv Yar
    Each one involving at least 10,000 dead usually at least 20,000. Mariupol and Soledar wiped out the L/DPR. Bakhmut finished Wagner.

    • Disagree: Mikhail
    • Thanks: Mr. XYZ
    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Philip Owen

    If you actually knew anything you would be legally proscribed from saying diddly squat.

    Most of the deceased are killed by exploding artillery rounds. How many artillery rounds has Ukraine fired and how many artillery rounds has Russia fired?

    That is the best estimate kill ratio. It is a pretty wild guess.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @AP, @Philip Owen

    , @QCIC
    @Philip Owen

    Both sides have lost a lot of good men. Probably Russian losses were high in many battles. My impression is that Ukrainian losses are a continuous, not so slow burn adding up to a depressing total. I think this notion is supported by many bits of information, but I wouldn't try to prove it. I believe Russia is recruiting and expanding her forces to protect their country overall and also in preparation for an eventual mop up operation in Ukraine.

    The move on Kiev was apparently rushed and I favor the feint explanation. I suspect Mariupol and possibly Soledar were pivotal as destruction of Western-established strongholds.

    , @AnonfromTN
    @Philip Owen


    RU losses and Phyrric victories.
     
    Sure thing. The hysterics on the imperial patch clearly show that the RF had only losses and Pyrrhic victories in the war in Ukraine.

    Replies: @Jazman

  74. @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC


    It is disgusting and sad that you are cheerleading for the pointless deaths of your distant kin and the destruction of the home of your ancestors.
     
    I'm cheerleading the brave actions of the Ukrainian military that is beating back the callous and mean spirited attack of outside aggressors, more often than not including attacks on civilian enclaves. I'm grateful to the US and to other western countries that are supporting Ukraine, so that these soldiers are better equipped and less likely to incur death or injury.

    You don't really care for human life, for if you did you'd be championing Russia's exit back to its own side of the border. You're a spineless appeaser and hypocrite like your buddy kremlinstoogeA123.

    Replies: @QCIC

    I think if Russia backs down from this Western aggression in Ukraine it eventually leads to World War 3 and vastly more people die across the globe. This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC


    This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.
     
    Total nonsense. My Ukie friends didn't start this war and they're only defending their homeland from the aggressive moves of their neighbors. You should lay the blame for this dangerous situation where it is due, the moronic Putler and those that support him. People like you.

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    I think if Russia backs down from this Western aggression in Ukraine it eventually leads to World War 3 and vastly more people die across the globe. This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    Do you think they should have outwardly aligned themselves with Russia like the LPR/DPR?

    The latest Russian map doesn't show LPR/DPR. What happened?

    Replies: @QCIC

  75. @Philip Owen
    @QCIC

    7R:1U in the set pieces. RU attacks and not very well. RU defence is better the UA but UA hasn't attacked much since 2022 except at Tokmak. Mariupol was their big lost defensive battle. RU losses and Phyrric victories.
    Ky'iv
    Mariupol
    Izyium
    Kherson
    Soledar
    Bakhmut
    Vugledar
    Avdiivka
    Chasiv Yar
    Each one involving at least 10,000 dead usually at least 20,000. Mariupol and Soledar wiped out the L/DPR. Bakhmut finished Wagner.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN

    If you actually knew anything you would be legally proscribed from saying diddly squat.

    Most of the deceased are killed by exploding artillery rounds. How many artillery rounds has Ukraine fired and how many artillery rounds has Russia fired?

    That is the best estimate kill ratio. It is a pretty wild guess.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    On Quora, there's a Julia Ioffe like Elena Gold, who puts Russian KIA at between 50,000-85,000. A reasoned guestimate has the Kiev regime's in the 400,000-500,00 range.

    As Lindsey Graham put it "to the last Ukrainian".

    , @AP
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Most of the deceased are killed by exploding artillery rounds.

     

    Quite a few are also killed by drones.

    How many artillery rounds has Ukraine fired and how many artillery rounds has Russia fired

     

    You forgot to consider the accuracy of the artillery.
    , @Philip Owen
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Shoot and Scoot versus creeping barrages in the early stages.

  76. @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    MTV loved his video.
     
    Wow, the past is a different country. Interesting demographic presentation.

    To judge the song critically: it sounds a bit insipid. "I love street A; I love street B..." Sort of like a road atlas. But I guess a lot of songs are like that, especially songs about cities.

    Then a year later at a different corporate diversity hour they had a real eskimo giving a talk and he told us “of course you can call me an eskimo. What in hell else would you call us?”
     
    once knew a girl who was an Eskimo, and she did also use that word and in fact made (not very good) jokes about being one. She seemed pretty easy-going. Thought I got along pretty well with her.

    I wonder whether Eskimos might in some way be better off than Indians and so not as resentful, but I don't want to judge the Red Man too harshly as my personal observations mostly come from a certain political context, which wouldn't be a flattering filter for anyone. (Required Diversity class)

    One of these chatbots got mad at me for using the word "squaw". But I like how it is one syllable. Totally forget the context.

    Replies: @Philip Owen

    In Alaska, Eskimo is just fine. Inuit is a Canadian thing, then there are Chuchki of course.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Philip Owen

    Eskimo is fine.

    Eskimo pie is not.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/business/dreyers-eskimo-pie-name-change.html

  77. QCIC says:
    @Philip Owen
    @QCIC

    7R:1U in the set pieces. RU attacks and not very well. RU defence is better the UA but UA hasn't attacked much since 2022 except at Tokmak. Mariupol was their big lost defensive battle. RU losses and Phyrric victories.
    Ky'iv
    Mariupol
    Izyium
    Kherson
    Soledar
    Bakhmut
    Vugledar
    Avdiivka
    Chasiv Yar
    Each one involving at least 10,000 dead usually at least 20,000. Mariupol and Soledar wiped out the L/DPR. Bakhmut finished Wagner.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN

    Both sides have lost a lot of good men. Probably Russian losses were high in many battles. My impression is that Ukrainian losses are a continuous, not so slow burn adding up to a depressing total. I think this notion is supported by many bits of information, but I wouldn’t try to prove it. I believe Russia is recruiting and expanding her forces to protect their country overall and also in preparation for an eventual mop up operation in Ukraine.

    The move on Kiev was apparently rushed and I favor the feint explanation. I suspect Mariupol and possibly Soledar were pivotal as destruction of Western-established strongholds.

  78. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Philip Owen

    If you actually knew anything you would be legally proscribed from saying diddly squat.

    Most of the deceased are killed by exploding artillery rounds. How many artillery rounds has Ukraine fired and how many artillery rounds has Russia fired?

    That is the best estimate kill ratio. It is a pretty wild guess.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @AP, @Philip Owen

    On Quora, there’s a Julia Ioffe like Elena Gold, who puts Russian KIA at between 50,000-85,000. A reasoned guestimate has the Kiev regime’s in the 400,000-500,00 range.

    As Lindsey Graham put it “to the last Ukrainian”.

  79. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    I think if Russia backs down from this Western aggression in Ukraine it eventually leads to World War 3 and vastly more people die across the globe. This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @John Johnson

    This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    Total nonsense. My Ukie friends didn’t start this war and they’re only defending their homeland from the aggressive moves of their neighbors. You should lay the blame for this dangerous situation where it is due, the moronic Putler and those that support him. People like you.

    • Disagree: Mikhail
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    The war is the West against Russia with Ukraine simply a battleground inhabited by pawns. NATO expansion, US missile bases in Eastern Europe, dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties, meddling in Russia-aligned countries were major elements of this new Cold War before 2014. Maidan was the key step which brought the heavy action to Ukraine.

    You people didn't really think Victoria Nuland and John McCain had your best interests in mind, did you?

    Evidence suggests the leaders in the West always expected a hot war, one which they thought they could handily win. Nonetheless, I am sure they always knew the country and people of Ukraine might be ripped to shreds in the course of achieving their goals. The people leading this see the Ukrainian and Russian people as comparable, so killing Ukies is a feature, not a bug. I don't think you people thought this thing through.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  80. @Mr. XYZ
    @John Johnson

    So, it turns out that the Groyper is also a Groper lol!

    Replies: @John Johnson

    So, it turns out that the Groyper is also a Groper lol!

    Napolitano wants to do a show on liberal immoral behavior and then maybe feel up your balls afterwards. Not into it? He is fine with that.

    • LOL: sudden death, Mr. XYZ
    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @John Johnson

    He needs a go-go boy to play around with lol!

  81. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    I think if Russia backs down from this Western aggression in Ukraine it eventually leads to World War 3 and vastly more people die across the globe. This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @John Johnson

    I think if Russia backs down from this Western aggression in Ukraine it eventually leads to World War 3 and vastly more people die across the globe. This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    Do you think they should have outwardly aligned themselves with Russia like the LPR/DPR?

    The latest Russian map doesn’t show LPR/DPR. What happened?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I never expected the LPR/DPR political situation to be sorted out until after the fighting is over and things settle down. Why would anyone expect otherwise? There is heavy combat going on, who cares what name is on the stationary?

    The Ukraine should have aligned itself carefully with respect to Russia. Some form of neutrality with most-favored-nation status for Russia might have been a good compromise. Aligning with the West in a way that was actively against Russia was a mistake. This big picture is simple since Ukraine has more to gain by being with Russia than against her. The reality on the ground with external Western pressure and internal intrigues in Ukraine and Russia made for a complicated witches' brew of influences which predictably led to war. The West intentionally set this process in motion and the Ukrainians were the only group with the ability to stop it.

  82. @Mikhail
    @John Johnson

    The source you gave on the Nepalese in the Russian armed forces uncritically quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

    Petraeus was gung ho about Afghanistan which proved a failure. Some other stuff on him:

    https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/05/gen-petraeus-too-big-to-jail/

    From what I'm aware of, Napolitano was accused twice of making passes at a younger man, with him not getting a conviction. Once again, I don't support that behavior. In terms of the intended issues for discussion here, he's far better than the goody two shoes sap who uncritically accepts BS.

    I'll say this for Napolitano, he hasn't expressed the kind off of perverted glee you've exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    You're severely hallucinated if you actually think that right now, the Russian forces have lower morale than the Kiev regime's.

    Regarding Macgregor, he has proven to be a bit overly optimistic, while nonetheless being quite erudite on military matters.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    I’ll say this for Napolitano, he hasn’t expressed the kind off of perverted glee you’ve exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    LOL so his actual sexual harassment of male employees isn’t comparable to my forum posts on a website that is buried by search engines?
    Would you listen to yourself? This is basically you:

    Napolitano may have followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle his junk but….did you read John Johnson’s latest post on Ukraine? Now that’s perverted glee!

    You should really re-assess your life when you’re defending a homosexual groper and a convicted sex criminal who jerked off to what he thought was an underage girl….twice. Yes Scott Ritter did that twice so there goes “but but sting operation conspiracy” defense. Too bad Scott Ritter wasn’t on Chris Hanson showing up with a 6 pack of coors. I DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS UNDERAGE THE BEER IS FOR ME. Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.

    Oh and Putin also has Russell Brand who is British but follows the pattern since he showed his boner to a woman at work. He is British but follows the group theme of sexual criminals and losers.

    I’ve worked a lot of jobs and never once in my life have I thought You know what…..I’m gonna get a boner at work and show it to some chick. Good God that is f-cking insane.

    • Agree: Mr. Hack
    • Troll: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @John Johnson


    Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.
     
    He seems to attract a similar crowd within Russia too:

    https://static.kyivpost.com/storage/2024/04/14/bfaf5b26840eb6ab12648468ad7bc6dc.jpg?w=1280&q=90&f=webp

    Our cohort of Putler fans at this website are an interesting amalgamation of personalities too. Here's a cartoon character based on Mike Averko. Does he look familiar to you?

    http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6013/2632/1600/Huckster.jpg
    I've never been able to determine whether or not Mike Averko has ever held down a real job in his entire life? I could be wrong though, here he's depicted as a hard working traveling vacuum salesman. Mickey, time to fess up?

    Replies: @Mikhail

    , @songbird
    @John Johnson


    a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal,
     
    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group - Hollywood martial arts stars that became famous in the '80s and '90s. That is people like Don "the Dragon" Wilson and Ernie Reyes Jr. (People most have forgotten about) don't know if Jean Claude Van Dam even counts, as he was like a dancer or something, but count him, and Seagal must probably be #2.

    He has had at least seven children. There are people who literally worship him as a lama, in a cult-like way. He once broke Sean Connery's wrist.

    A douchebag certainly. A creep probably.

    Katherine Heigl, who was sixteen at the time the film was made, said that on the last day of filming Seagal told her, "'You know Katie, I got girlfriends your age.' And I said, 'Isn't that illegal?' And he said, 'They don't seem to mind'."
     
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege_2:_Dark_Territory

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger. Many martial arts people open dojos, and they are consumed by paying exorbitant commercial rent.

    Replies: @AP, @John Johnson

    , @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    In our information age we are stuck with many information sources which cannot be fully trusted. Effectively we know nothing about the authors, even though the video dialog seems very personal and we may be fooled into a sense of camaraderie. Quoting people like Napolitano or Ritter or Blinken or Hodges does not mean we claim to know them, trust them, or anything like that. The best one can do is some sort of quality control based on the validity of their previous work. If one of these people is marked by serious charges there may be a 50/50 chance these claims are true, but also a 50/50 chance they are misrepresented and the people in question are not in a position to defend themselves.

    The important thing is to focus on the facts of the news, not the unknowable facts about the news presenter which are none of our business. In some cases their reported transgressions may be so bad that we reject the news information even though we think it could be true. The work blamed on the Japanese unit 731 is a classic example. In a hypothetical moral dilemma, the diabolical scientists may have discovered some important medical fact which could save lives, but someone decided to burn the data instead of using it. The point of this destruction was not to benefit the victims but to remove all sanction from any similar inhumane work in the future. In other words the end does not justify the means.

    As JJ likes to point out, sorting these things out is important business.

    Another big problem is that video and audio can now be faked so well that most people, including experts, can never spot the fake.

    , @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    Boy, Putin attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual grouper. A paedophile
     
    LMAO - President of US Biden - heavily probable incestuous paedophile. This scumbag, satanic, war criminal is a typical political Catholic POS. Biden has officially lead US policy to Banderastan from 2014 when he was Vice-President,and of course now.

    Son of US President Hunter Biden - absolute confirmed incestuous paedophile and non-incestuous paedophile drug-addict loser. It shows the sickness of entire US system that "opposition" fake some criminal investigation into him that's going nowhere - as they are ALL using the corrupt failure whorewhouse that is "Ukraine" for financial crimes.... and there is zero chance him getting even investigated for the recorded paedophilia.

    So as he's doing his paedophilia he is using some Ukraine company to finance all his despicable habits.

    And LOL - that's with President of US in WW2, Roosevelt- heavily probable incestuous paedophile

    President of US, Clinton - sexual degenerate, great charisma but despite that.... definite rapist and possible paedophile

    President of US, Kennedy - sexual degenerate, fake political Catholic, corruptly elected.

    Biggest Ukronazi supporting Senator I have heard of? Lindsay Graham - absolute blatant homo-paedo

    So Ukraine is literally run by paedophiles, FOR paedophiles financial interests and pleasures you dilapidated vermin.

    Founder of FBI, Hoover- weirdo nutjob, homo, criminal, cross-dresser..... and also possible probable incestuous paedophile

    How many American president perverts raped their own slaves and had children from this?

    Near zero famous western music acts actually bothered to perform in 404, so of course the homo Elton John thought it was perfect shithole to find a child. Absolute mass paedophilia and organ harvesting and trafficking is working there for Western interests.

    I will go European - blatant evil homo Macron married to his babushka- not exactly a surprise if his boyfriend/bigamous (((husband))) he has appointed as French PM.

    a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal
     
    Travolta - extremely obese.
    Marlon Brando-extremely obese
    Average American..... extremely obese
    Elvis.....extremely obese....and of course because he is an American hero.... is a definite, loser PAEDOPHILE. All these famous with very chaotic personal lives.
    All the others are Scientologists or whatever

    So WTF are you mentioning the fact Segal is fat for? He is American you spambot, cursed-in-hell permanently amoeba liar.

    I don't think I have ever even seen a George Clooney film you useless f**khead - so he's the loser. About 4 minutes of Batman& Robin I think (worst film ever). Segal has starred in probably the greatest film of all time, Under Siege. It's irrelevant that all the other films I have seen him in are mostly poor - he has the masterpiece of Under Siege to his name - that film must have attracted about 75% of current US Navy to serve in it - LOL, future cannon fodder for when we destroy the American Navy.

    I have only seen Marlon Brando, supposed to be greatest ever Pindosi actor, in one film - The Godfather-and he's in that film for about 2 seconds, where you can't even hear a word he's saying you dickhead.

    Segal from being rich, famous, starred in one of great film ever.... but also showing the moral & principles courage to support the moral and military WINNER in SMO, shows he is on winning side

    Also you disrespectful shit-for-brains, to be talking like that - in post-Soviet, entire eastern Europe, maybe all of continental Europe - they would and have begged Segal to film a movie in their country . I think some Latvian shithole have begged and actually filmed Segal and Van Damme films there you retard. I don't like it but hyper-adoration of these old Hollywood stars is part of post-Soviet space.
    Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian dumps would kill to have Segal, Willis or whoever come live there and support them.

    ((( Sean Penn))) - literally went to 404 to pick up a Ukrainian whore and to continue to be a drug addict lowlife. Played a pogrom diaspora American gangster in the film "Gangster Squad" with the pride an Indian or black would act in role of Gandhi or Nelson Mandela..... That's the type of despicable tramp he is.

    LOL - 70 years ago Soviet Union has the magnificent Paul Robeson..... now the hideous lowlife Sean Penn

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  83. Mikhail says: • Website

    100% unrelated to the intent of this thread. Meshes well with your selective cherry picks like not noting the girly man pro-Kev regime enthusiast.

    I don’t read Anglin and I kind of doubt you’d be so free to say what you did about Seagal and Ritter to their faces. In any event, these matters have zilch to do with Putin and the actual intent of this thread.

  84. @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...direct the unactualized anger toward sacred-cow immigrants at Russian Slavs.
     
    They don't have to work too hard. The accumulated frustration has to be directed somewhere. The best choice - maybe the only choice - are the Slavs. We are too white, too European, and there are too many of us. And there are the historical hatred that can be easily revived, as AP tells us 'if not for the bad weather...", oh, what could have been! (Mostly, we wouldn't be here to take up place for the higher people that they so much more deserve - the French, Dutch, Welsh, German, all the supremos.)

    POCs as the special people are out of question by definition, migrants are sacred, the LGBTQ weirdos are too powerful and interspersed widely in the society. The rich are traditionally untouchable - plus they orchestrate it behind the scene and there is that "horrible socialist" meme they can always throw at any malcontents.

    Basically if someone has to be targeted it is either the broader Slavs, or to start with the narrower Slavs meaning the Russians. The Frenchies are coming with guns and higher culture...it will be fun. Let the games begin.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Coconuts

    (Mostly, we wouldn’t be here to take up place for the higher people that they so much more deserve – the French, Dutch, Welsh, German, all the supremos.)

    Is this worry about the Welsh invading your lands serious?

    In the real world what is observable is not a movement of migration from the West towards the East, but East towards the West. It is Slavs settling the ancestral lands of the British, Dutch and French.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Coconuts


    It is Slavs settling the ancestral lands of the British, Dutch and French.
     
    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.

    the Welsh invading your lands serious?
     
    Not really...:) I was mocking that moron Philip Owen who claims to be Welsh...

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us, it is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down. The atavistic hatred of Slavs among many in the West is often right under the surface, it is self-defeating. It weakens you.

    Recently a fairly high-level Westie told me the Russian perfidy is caused by that 'damn primitive Slav blood, they have always been like that'. I gently pointed out that I am also a Slav, so he caught himself and said: "oh, but you people have a lot of German heritage". Do we? He was serious. Just precious.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Coconuts

  85. • Replies: @sudden death
    @Mikhail

    Too lazy to watch, but graphics without showing reinforced defensive lines are useless - way better also from pro-RF source:

    https://i.postimg.cc/gj5GWXjm/RU-POV-The-Ukrainian-Armed-Forces-completely-retreated-from-the-first-line-of-defense-in-the-Avdiivk.jpg

    Also all month by month RF gains/losses in sq.km can be seen here for comparison, begining from May 2022 and roughly since December 2022, and it's truly nothing but territorial stalemate for both sides compared with previous action:

    https://i.postimg.cc/bvT8vFr6/SMO-gains-2022-24.jpg

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mikhail

  86. @Mikhail
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctPlxiD0G4o

    Replies: @sudden death

    Too lazy to watch, but graphics without showing reinforced defensive lines are useless – way better also from pro-RF source:

    Also all month by month RF gains/losses in sq.km can be seen here for comparison, begining from May 2022 and roughly since December 2022, and it’s truly nothing but territorial stalemate for both sides compared with previous action:

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @sudden death
    @sudden death

    https://i.postimg.cc/3xrVrJMv/UA-vs-Texas.jpg

    Replies: @sudden death

    , @Mikhail
    @sudden death

    Keep dreaming. There's no "stalemate" as Russian forces are getting stronger to the Kiev regime's getting weaker.

    Replies: @sudden death

  87. @sudden death
    Surprisingly positive outcome, even if considering very theoretical, instead of practical, possibility so far;)

    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country, Ipsos poll shows.

    Of those surveyed, 51% are ready to go to war in Ukraine to defend France, with 17% saying “definitely yes” and 34% saying “maybe yes”.
     


    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1786500695513804935

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN, @Mikel, @Bashibuzuk, @Negronicus

    Ain’t no nigga and arab fight in no Ukraine so how it be 51%?

  88. @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ


    Interestingly enough, Kalergi warned about Russia being aggressive regardless of whether it was led by a Red or a White regime back in the 1920s.
     
    He has been very much proven wrong.

    Replies: @Wielgus

    Pilsudski did not coordinate his actions with Russian Whites during the Russian Civil War as he distrusted them at least as much as the Bolsheviks – the Denikin slogan of “Russia one and indivisible” was a major stumbling block. Pilsudski’s forces cooperated with the Ukrainian Petlyura but he was little more than a Polish puppet.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Wielgus

    Denikin wasn't against Polish independence. The issue was over what Poland's eastern border should constitute. Enter the alliance between the Whites and Galician Ukrainian Army.

    https://www.eurasiareview.com/08042016-fuzzy-history-how-poland-saved-the-world-from-russia-analysis/

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  89. @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    I’ll say this for Napolitano, he hasn’t expressed the kind off of perverted glee you’ve exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    LOL so his actual sexual harassment of male employees isn't comparable to my forum posts on a website that is buried by search engines?
    Would you listen to yourself? This is basically you:

    Napolitano may have followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle his junk but....did you read John Johnson's latest post on Ukraine? Now that's perverted glee!

    You should really re-assess your life when you're defending a homosexual groper and a convicted sex criminal who jerked off to what he thought was an underage girl....twice. Yes Scott Ritter did that twice so there goes "but but sting operation conspiracy" defense. Too bad Scott Ritter wasn't on Chris Hanson showing up with a 6 pack of coors. I DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS UNDERAGE THE BEER IS FOR ME. Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.

    Oh and Putin also has Russell Brand who is British but follows the pattern since he showed his boner to a woman at work. He is British but follows the group theme of sexual criminals and losers.

    I've worked a lot of jobs and never once in my life have I thought You know what.....I'm gonna get a boner at work and show it to some chick. Good God that is f-cking insane.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @songbird, @QCIC, @Gerard1234

    Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.

    He seems to attract a similar crowd within Russia too:

    Our cohort of Putler fans at this website are an interesting amalgamation of personalities too. Here’s a cartoon character based on Mike Averko. Does he look familiar to you?
    I’ve never been able to determine whether or not Mike Averko has ever held down a real job in his entire life? I could be wrong though, here he’s depicted as a hard working traveling vacuum salesman. Mickey, time to fess up?

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Mr. Hack

    You found an anonymous cyber boyfriend to match your loser self. How grand. Your source is a cowardly wimp as well.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2007/08/a_new_cold_war.html

  90. Sean says:

    There will not be any great offensives from Russia because of the extreme vulnerability to detection and shelling of all but the smallest formed up units on the battlefield. The Russia army are mounting a broad front attrition attrition strategy and because of the aforementioned difficulty in breakthroughs the Russians are only able to go at a snail’s pace and suffering extra causalities as a result. In this war attack is much, much more difficult than defence and, although Russia is doing far from well, Ukraine is doing worse (evidenced by them backing out of there old defense line strongpoints as they are pinpointed and added to the queue for being destroyed by glide bombs). There is zero reason from the Kremlin’s standpoint to negotiate as long as they can keep up constant pressure and that pressure is in fact ceaseless and very gradually increasing. There is going to be a Russian assault on Kharkov in a few months and the problems of proceeding with a predictable offensive on city with many large buildings prepared for defence might be insurmountable; prolly will result in immense casualties among defenders and attackers. That will lead both sides to modify their war aims. Maybe.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Sean

    We still haven't nearly seen the full brunt of the Ukrainian defensive posture, that's only now starting to be replenished by the trickling in of much needed weapons and supplies. I think that by summertime we'll be able to see where this whole thing is headed. Kharkiv??...

    Replies: @Sean

    , @AnonfromTN
    @Sean


    There is going to be a Russian assault on Kharkov
     
    There won’t be direct Russian assault on any big city in Ukraine. Kharkov will be encircled and then eventually surrender, like Azov bandits encircled in Azovstal in Mariupol.

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @Mikhail
    @Sean

    Or maybe the Kiev regime forces will finally stop fighting as a result of massive suffering and an increased yearning for an improved situation.

    Having the likes of Lindsey Graham as a friend casually letting you suffer in order to fulfill their neocon geopolitical wet dream isn't a great long term motivator.

  91. @Sean
    There will not be any great offensives from Russia because of the extreme vulnerability to detection and shelling of all but the smallest formed up units on the battlefield. The Russia army are mounting a broad front attrition attrition strategy and because of the aforementioned difficulty in breakthroughs the Russians are only able to go at a snail's pace and suffering extra causalities as a result. In this war attack is much, much more difficult than defence and, although Russia is doing far from well, Ukraine is doing worse (evidenced by them backing out of there old defense line strongpoints as they are pinpointed and added to the queue for being destroyed by glide bombs). There is zero reason from the Kremlin's standpoint to negotiate as long as they can keep up constant pressure and that pressure is in fact ceaseless and very gradually increasing. There is going to be a Russian assault on Kharkov in a few months and the problems of proceeding with a predictable offensive on city with many large buildings prepared for defence might be insurmountable; prolly will result in immense casualties among defenders and attackers. That will lead both sides to modify their war aims. Maybe.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @AnonfromTN, @Mikhail

    We still haven’t nearly seen the full brunt of the Ukrainian defensive posture, that’s only now starting to be replenished by the trickling in of much needed weapons and supplies. I think that by summertime we’ll be able to see where this whole thing is headed. Kharkiv??…

    • Replies: @Sean
    @Mr. Hack

    When the assault on Kharkiv starts Ukraine will have huge advantages inherent to defending a large city. Maybe they can stop the Russians in their tracks. However, why have the Russians been so open about Kharkiv being their goal? Lavrov has publicly announced that capturing Kharkiv is the key to Putin's plans. Is the Kremlin perhaps trying to get the Ukrainians to concentrate their best units--the bulk of the fighting power of Ukraine's army--at a single theatre in the East where it can be brought to battle and most easily be destroyed?

  92. @Mikel
    @sudden death


    More than one in two French citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are ready to fight in Ukraine to defend their country
     
    No, they're not.

    Elite control of the information may make Western Zoomers believe that population replacement by 3rd World immigrants is a law of nature or perhaps even that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, Paris and London are his next projects. But it can't convince them to go get their guts spilled out in Kherson. No way. I know enough of them.

    BTW, eventually I decided to abstain in the Basque Parliament elections. I took the time to read the programs of the anti-NATO parties that I was thinking about and I couldn't really bring myself to vote for those rancid losers just for you. However, let's see if they send me the ballots for the European elections. That's a different matter, as Orban has recently reminded.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @sudden death, @Coconuts

    Elite control of the information may make Western Zoomers believe that population replacement by 3rd World immigrants is a law of nature or perhaps even that if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, Paris and London are his next projects.

    I was watching a spot from France-Inter the other day that reminded me that there is a French version of the Putin-Trump axis. This one involves Putin-Le Pen-Trump or something like that. I suspect that Putin and Russia are useful to progressives as an enemy because they can be identified as white and linked to the populist voters they oppose in their own countries. At the same time by attacking Russia progressives deflect arguments that their immigration/decolonisation and LGBT stance is undermining patriotism within their own nations.

    But they are usually not the kind of people who are ready to do any fighting, I would guess their preference would be to send professional soldiers like the Foreign Legion.

    At the other end of the political spectrum what sudden death was saying also seems to have some truth to it. If the cause was presented as patrolling the Eastern borders to prevent the arrival of more refugees coming via Belarus, or resisting Muslim/African incursions into Ukraine, you would probably be able to find some volunteers. Imo this issue is still obscured by a lot of mainstream politics, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it turned out to be the most powerful in terms of mobilising European men.

  93. @sudden death
    @Mikhail

    Too lazy to watch, but graphics without showing reinforced defensive lines are useless - way better also from pro-RF source:

    https://i.postimg.cc/gj5GWXjm/RU-POV-The-Ukrainian-Armed-Forces-completely-retreated-from-the-first-line-of-defense-in-the-Avdiivk.jpg

    Also all month by month RF gains/losses in sq.km can be seen here for comparison, begining from May 2022 and roughly since December 2022, and it's truly nothing but territorial stalemate for both sides compared with previous action:

    https://i.postimg.cc/bvT8vFr6/SMO-gains-2022-24.jpg

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mikhail

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @sudden death
    @sudden death

    Not have thorough knowledge of US Civil War military movements, but modern RF during its nearly 2.5 year (S&M)operationing managed to capture roughly northwestern part of Louisiana& half of southeastern beachstrip part of Texas at the cost of at least 100k dead soldiers.

    Replies: @Greasy William

  94. @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    I’ll say this for Napolitano, he hasn’t expressed the kind off of perverted glee you’ve exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    LOL so his actual sexual harassment of male employees isn't comparable to my forum posts on a website that is buried by search engines?
    Would you listen to yourself? This is basically you:

    Napolitano may have followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle his junk but....did you read John Johnson's latest post on Ukraine? Now that's perverted glee!

    You should really re-assess your life when you're defending a homosexual groper and a convicted sex criminal who jerked off to what he thought was an underage girl....twice. Yes Scott Ritter did that twice so there goes "but but sting operation conspiracy" defense. Too bad Scott Ritter wasn't on Chris Hanson showing up with a 6 pack of coors. I DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS UNDERAGE THE BEER IS FOR ME. Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.

    Oh and Putin also has Russell Brand who is British but follows the pattern since he showed his boner to a woman at work. He is British but follows the group theme of sexual criminals and losers.

    I've worked a lot of jobs and never once in my life have I thought You know what.....I'm gonna get a boner at work and show it to some chick. Good God that is f-cking insane.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @songbird, @QCIC, @Gerard1234

    a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal,

    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group – Hollywood martial arts stars that became famous in the ’80s and ’90s. That is people like Don “the Dragon” Wilson and Ernie Reyes Jr. (People most have forgotten about) don’t know if Jean Claude Van Dam even counts, as he was like a dancer or something, but count him, and Seagal must probably be #2.

    He has had at least seven children. There are people who literally worship him as a lama, in a cult-like way. He once broke Sean Connery’s wrist.

    A douchebag certainly. A creep probably.

    Katherine Heigl, who was sixteen at the time the film was made, said that on the last day of filming Seagal told her, “‘You know Katie, I got girlfriends your age.’ And I said, ‘Isn’t that illegal?’ And he said, ‘They don’t seem to mind’.”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege_2:_Dark_Territory

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger. Many martial arts people open dojos, and they are consumed by paying exorbitant commercial rent.

    • Replies: @AP
    @songbird

    That’s like saying the worst quarterback in the NFL shouldn’t be called terrible because he is making a lot of money and plays the position better than 99% of Americans.

    As a famous celebrity, Seagal is a loser. One step above Weinstein.

    And another non-Slav cheerleading Putin’s war on Slavs.

    Replies: @songbird

    , @John Johnson
    @songbird

    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group

    Yes he is a loser.

    He did indeed make millions and still wants to play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior.

    Here he is pretending to be a ninja master for a Russian audience through the art of choreography:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEx8Moy7ro

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger.

    I don't think being a loser is automatically excluded by wealth or success in Hollywood.

    You can have endless wealth and still be a loser. Seagal has 7 children and instead of spending time with them he wants to fly around the world and pretend that he is a Japanese master warrior with the body of a short order cook. That is a loser.

    Replies: @songbird, @QCIC, @sudden death

  95. AP says:
    @songbird
    @John Johnson


    a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal,
     
    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group - Hollywood martial arts stars that became famous in the '80s and '90s. That is people like Don "the Dragon" Wilson and Ernie Reyes Jr. (People most have forgotten about) don't know if Jean Claude Van Dam even counts, as he was like a dancer or something, but count him, and Seagal must probably be #2.

    He has had at least seven children. There are people who literally worship him as a lama, in a cult-like way. He once broke Sean Connery's wrist.

    A douchebag certainly. A creep probably.

    Katherine Heigl, who was sixteen at the time the film was made, said that on the last day of filming Seagal told her, "'You know Katie, I got girlfriends your age.' And I said, 'Isn't that illegal?' And he said, 'They don't seem to mind'."
     
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege_2:_Dark_Territory

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger. Many martial arts people open dojos, and they are consumed by paying exorbitant commercial rent.

    Replies: @AP, @John Johnson

    That’s like saying the worst quarterback in the NFL shouldn’t be called terrible because he is making a lot of money and plays the position better than 99% of Americans.

    As a famous celebrity, Seagal is a loser. One step above Weinstein.

    And another non-Slav cheerleading Putin’s war on Slavs.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @AP


    As a famous celebrity, Seagal is a loser.
     
    Your bar is too high. Maybe, if you said "superstar.". Or "critical success." But Seagal is internationally recognized. I have seen Japanese artists lift his image for characters.

    And another non-Slav cheerleading Putin’s war on Slavs.
     
    IMO, more like a sexual harasser on the lamb seeking some cut of mob money "invested" (laundered) in terrible movies.
  96. @sudden death
    @Mikhail

    Too lazy to watch, but graphics without showing reinforced defensive lines are useless - way better also from pro-RF source:

    https://i.postimg.cc/gj5GWXjm/RU-POV-The-Ukrainian-Armed-Forces-completely-retreated-from-the-first-line-of-defense-in-the-Avdiivk.jpg

    Also all month by month RF gains/losses in sq.km can be seen here for comparison, begining from May 2022 and roughly since December 2022, and it's truly nothing but territorial stalemate for both sides compared with previous action:

    https://i.postimg.cc/bvT8vFr6/SMO-gains-2022-24.jpg

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mikhail

    Keep dreaming. There’s no “stalemate” as Russian forces are getting stronger to the Kiev regime’s getting weaker.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Mikhail

    Then why RF gains in 2024 aren't anyhow drastically different from RF gains in 2023 if UA army now is consisting of the ammo starved ghosts against the supposedly stronger, larger RF army with NK/Iran supplied ammo+RF domestic made gliding bombs? To say nothing of the gains in 2022 when RF army was allegedly the weakest lol

    Replies: @Mikhail

  97. @Wielgus
    @Mikhail

    Pilsudski did not coordinate his actions with Russian Whites during the Russian Civil War as he distrusted them at least as much as the Bolsheviks - the Denikin slogan of "Russia one and indivisible" was a major stumbling block. Pilsudski's forces cooperated with the Ukrainian Petlyura but he was little more than a Polish puppet.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Denikin wasn’t against Polish independence. The issue was over what Poland’s eastern border should constitute. Enter the alliance between the Whites and Galician Ukrainian Army.

    https://www.eurasiareview.com/08042016-fuzzy-history-how-poland-saved-the-world-from-russia-analysis/

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    The Whites should have sucked it up and accepted the Polish demands since saving Russia from Bolshevism was much more important than getting Gomel and Lviv for Russia.

    Replies: @Mikhail

  98. @Mr. Hack
    @John Johnson


    Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.
     
    He seems to attract a similar crowd within Russia too:

    https://static.kyivpost.com/storage/2024/04/14/bfaf5b26840eb6ab12648468ad7bc6dc.jpg?w=1280&q=90&f=webp

    Our cohort of Putler fans at this website are an interesting amalgamation of personalities too. Here's a cartoon character based on Mike Averko. Does he look familiar to you?

    http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6013/2632/1600/Huckster.jpg
    I've never been able to determine whether or not Mike Averko has ever held down a real job in his entire life? I could be wrong though, here he's depicted as a hard working traveling vacuum salesman. Mickey, time to fess up?

    Replies: @Mikhail

    You found an anonymous cyber boyfriend to match your loser self. How grand. Your source is a cowardly wimp as well.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2007/08/a_new_cold_war.html

  99. @Philip Owen
    @QCIC

    7R:1U in the set pieces. RU attacks and not very well. RU defence is better the UA but UA hasn't attacked much since 2022 except at Tokmak. Mariupol was their big lost defensive battle. RU losses and Phyrric victories.
    Ky'iv
    Mariupol
    Izyium
    Kherson
    Soledar
    Bakhmut
    Vugledar
    Avdiivka
    Chasiv Yar
    Each one involving at least 10,000 dead usually at least 20,000. Mariupol and Soledar wiped out the L/DPR. Bakhmut finished Wagner.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC, @AnonfromTN

    RU losses and Phyrric victories.

    Sure thing. The hysterics on the imperial patch clearly show that the RF had only losses and Pyrrhic victories in the war in Ukraine.

    • Replies: @Jazman
    @AnonfromTN

    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  100. @Mikhail
    @sudden death

    Keep dreaming. There's no "stalemate" as Russian forces are getting stronger to the Kiev regime's getting weaker.

    Replies: @sudden death

    Then why RF gains in 2024 aren’t anyhow drastically different from RF gains in 2023 if UA army now is consisting of the ammo starved ghosts against the supposedly stronger, larger RF army with NK/Iran supplied ammo+RF domestic made gliding bombs? To say nothing of the gains in 2022 when RF army was allegedly the weakest lol

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @sudden death


    Then why RF gains in 2024 aren’t anyhow drastically different from RF gains in 2023 if UA army now is consisting of the ammo starved ghosts against the supposedly stronger, larger RF army with NK/Iran supplied ammo+RF domestic made gliding bombs? To say nothing of the gains in 2022 when RF army was allegedly the weakest lol
     
    It's not about gaining territory at this point, as much as weakening the opponent (Kiev regime) as the other side (Russia) gets stronger.

    There's no "supposedly" here on this.

    Replies: @sudden death

  101. @Philip Owen
    @songbird

    In Alaska, Eskimo is just fine. Inuit is a Canadian thing, then there are Chuchki of course.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  102. @Sean
    There will not be any great offensives from Russia because of the extreme vulnerability to detection and shelling of all but the smallest formed up units on the battlefield. The Russia army are mounting a broad front attrition attrition strategy and because of the aforementioned difficulty in breakthroughs the Russians are only able to go at a snail's pace and suffering extra causalities as a result. In this war attack is much, much more difficult than defence and, although Russia is doing far from well, Ukraine is doing worse (evidenced by them backing out of there old defense line strongpoints as they are pinpointed and added to the queue for being destroyed by glide bombs). There is zero reason from the Kremlin's standpoint to negotiate as long as they can keep up constant pressure and that pressure is in fact ceaseless and very gradually increasing. There is going to be a Russian assault on Kharkov in a few months and the problems of proceeding with a predictable offensive on city with many large buildings prepared for defence might be insurmountable; prolly will result in immense casualties among defenders and attackers. That will lead both sides to modify their war aims. Maybe.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @AnonfromTN, @Mikhail

    There is going to be a Russian assault on Kharkov

    There won’t be direct Russian assault on any big city in Ukraine. Kharkov will be encircled and then eventually surrender, like Azov bandits encircled in Azovstal in Mariupol.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN

    ...There won’t be direct Russian assault on any big city in Ukraine.

    I agree, why bother? But a stalemate would make Kiev's situation worse. The West is begging for it because it is the least bad option available now.

    If Russia would agree - I don't think they will - it would be a bleeding nightmare with decline to small population, constant danger, no economy. Kharkov would be a dead city.

    That may feel satisfying in the short run but in a few years it wouldn't be that great. Russia will be ok no matter what, it doesn't need the land. All they want is to neutralize Nato-in-Ukraine - they have achieved ir.

    It is a catastrophe for Ukraine, they made very bad choices. It is a major setback for Europe, EU is much worse off than it was in 2019 or 2014. Russia is stronger but has been hurt in ways that will come back to haunt the West. US has been checked but has few damages. China is the big winner.

    The gods are visibly moving away from the Euro-centric world, the Izrael-Gaza disaster is the last straw - the West basically self-destructed. Is that what the West really wanted?

  103. Would like GR to review Martin Sellner’s new book. It seems more interesting than I thought it would be.

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  104. IS NOTHING SACRED?!!?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68944117

    Why France is finding vegan croissants hard to stomach

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  105. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    I think if Russia backs down from this Western aggression in Ukraine it eventually leads to World War 3 and vastly more people die across the globe. This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.

    Do you think they should have outwardly aligned themselves with Russia like the LPR/DPR?

    The latest Russian map doesn't show LPR/DPR. What happened?

    Replies: @QCIC

    I never expected the LPR/DPR political situation to be sorted out until after the fighting is over and things settle down. Why would anyone expect otherwise? There is heavy combat going on, who cares what name is on the stationary?

    The Ukraine should have aligned itself carefully with respect to Russia. Some form of neutrality with most-favored-nation status for Russia might have been a good compromise. Aligning with the West in a way that was actively against Russia was a mistake. This big picture is simple since Ukraine has more to gain by being with Russia than against her. The reality on the ground with external Western pressure and internal intrigues in Ukraine and Russia made for a complicated witches’ brew of influences which predictably led to war. The West intentionally set this process in motion and the Ukrainians were the only group with the ability to stop it.

  106. @AP
    @songbird

    That’s like saying the worst quarterback in the NFL shouldn’t be called terrible because he is making a lot of money and plays the position better than 99% of Americans.

    As a famous celebrity, Seagal is a loser. One step above Weinstein.

    And another non-Slav cheerleading Putin’s war on Slavs.

    Replies: @songbird

    As a famous celebrity, Seagal is a loser.

    Your bar is too high. Maybe, if you said “superstar.”. Or “critical success.” But Seagal is internationally recognized. I have seen Japanese artists lift his image for characters.

    And another non-Slav cheerleading Putin’s war on Slavs.

    IMO, more like a sexual harasser on the lamb seeking some cut of mob money “invested” (laundered) in terrible movies.

  107. Sean says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Sean

    We still haven't nearly seen the full brunt of the Ukrainian defensive posture, that's only now starting to be replenished by the trickling in of much needed weapons and supplies. I think that by summertime we'll be able to see where this whole thing is headed. Kharkiv??...

    Replies: @Sean

    When the assault on Kharkiv starts Ukraine will have huge advantages inherent to defending a large city. Maybe they can stop the Russians in their tracks. However, why have the Russians been so open about Kharkiv being their goal? Lavrov has publicly announced that capturing Kharkiv is the key to Putin’s plans. Is the Kremlin perhaps trying to get the Ukrainians to concentrate their best units–the bulk of the fighting power of Ukraine’s army–at a single theatre in the East where it can be brought to battle and most easily be destroyed?

  108. QCIC says:

    Ha ha, why do you ask? This is the 21st century and officially nothing is scared!

    I like this awesome eurotrolling:

    “It’s really good. I don’t think I would recognise the difference,” said Marta, a visitor from Poland, of her pain au chocolat [sans beurre].

    I can imagine continuous eye rolls from the French readers along with derogatory epithets about Poles 🙂

    If they are leaving out the butter, why bother keeping the chocolate? Just stick a few dead crickets in there and be done with it.

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  109. @AnonfromTN
    @Sean


    There is going to be a Russian assault on Kharkov
     
    There won’t be direct Russian assault on any big city in Ukraine. Kharkov will be encircled and then eventually surrender, like Azov bandits encircled in Azovstal in Mariupol.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …There won’t be direct Russian assault on any big city in Ukraine.

    I agree, why bother? But a stalemate would make Kiev’s situation worse. The West is begging for it because it is the least bad option available now.

    If Russia would agree – I don’t think they will – it would be a bleeding nightmare with decline to small population, constant danger, no economy. Kharkov would be a dead city.

    That may feel satisfying in the short run but in a few years it wouldn’t be that great. Russia will be ok no matter what, it doesn’t need the land. All they want is to neutralize Nato-in-Ukraine – they have achieved ir.

    It is a catastrophe for Ukraine, they made very bad choices. It is a major setback for Europe, EU is much worse off than it was in 2019 or 2014. Russia is stronger but has been hurt in ways that will come back to haunt the West. US has been checked but has few damages. China is the big winner.

    The gods are visibly moving away from the Euro-centric world, the Izrael-Gaza disaster is the last straw – the West basically self-destructed. Is that what the West really wanted?

  110. QCIC says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC


    This is what your Ukie friends foolishly got themselves mixed up in. Great job, morons.
     
    Total nonsense. My Ukie friends didn't start this war and they're only defending their homeland from the aggressive moves of their neighbors. You should lay the blame for this dangerous situation where it is due, the moronic Putler and those that support him. People like you.

    Replies: @QCIC

    The war is the West against Russia with Ukraine simply a battleground inhabited by pawns. NATO expansion, US missile bases in Eastern Europe, dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties, meddling in Russia-aligned countries were major elements of this new Cold War before 2014. Maidan was the key step which brought the heavy action to Ukraine.

    You people didn’t really think Victoria Nuland and John McCain had your best interests in mind, did you?

    Evidence suggests the leaders in the West always expected a hot war, one which they thought they could handily win. Nonetheless, I am sure they always knew the country and people of Ukraine might be ripped to shreds in the course of achieving their goals. The people leading this see the Ukrainian and Russian people as comparable, so killing Ukies is a feature, not a bug. I don’t think you people thought this thing through.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    You people didn’t really think Victoria Nuland and John McCain had your best interests in mind, did you?

    Vicky Nuland was an assistant during Maidan.

    Did Nuland somehow force Ukrainian politicians to vote out a pro-Russian president who was disavowed by his own pro-Russia party?

    Putin defenders like to reference Nuland and especially her Jewishness.

    But what did she do exactly that changed the outcome more than actual Ukrainian politicians?

    The people leading this see the Ukrainian and Russian people as comparable, so killing Ukies is a feature, not a bug. I don’t think you people thought this thing through.

    Did the DPR/LPR breakaway states make the right decision to align with Russia?

    Replies: @QCIC

  111. Did the Taiwanese or CIA stage this?

    [MORE]

    https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1787106301924753725

    To me, looks like something staged. Narrow focus, bare background. Punishment is better done using local intermediaries.

  112. @Coconuts
    @Beckow


    (Mostly, we wouldn’t be here to take up place for the higher people that they so much more deserve – the French, Dutch, Welsh, German, all the supremos.)
     
    Is this worry about the Welsh invading your lands serious?

    In the real world what is observable is not a movement of migration from the West towards the East, but East towards the West. It is Slavs settling the ancestral lands of the British, Dutch and French.

    Replies: @Beckow

    It is Slavs settling the ancestral lands of the British, Dutch and French.

    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.

    the Welsh invading your lands serious?

    Not really…:) I was mocking that moron Philip Owen who claims to be Welsh…

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us, it is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down. The atavistic hatred of Slavs among many in the West is often right under the surface, it is self-defeating. It weakens you.

    Recently a fairly high-level Westie told me the Russian perfidy is caused by that ‘damn primitive Slav blood, they have always been like that‘. I gently pointed out that I am also a Slav, so he caught himself and said: “oh, but you people have a lot of German heritage“. Do we? He was serious. Just precious.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Beckow

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us, it is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down. The atavistic hatred of Slavs among many in the West is often right under the surface, it is self-defeating. It weakens you.

    Taking in millions of Ukrainian women and children will slow down the West? What do you base that opinion on?

    You do realize that Canada already has Ukrainian areas?

    Here is a picture of a Ukrainian festival in Canada:

    https://media.blogto.com/events/2018/06/06/lookingdownbloor_1_orig.jpg?w=2048&cmd=resize&quality=70

    That is indeed a terrifying prospect. At that festival there are probably 3, maybe even 4 latke stands for every burger stand.

    Where is the atavistic hatred hiding? Under the bouncy slide?

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @Coconuts
    @Beckow


    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.
     
    Yeah, did you win any medals during the campaigns?

    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities. You are right, I did forget about the Soviet Union's role in the creation of this labour pool. And in inspiring neo-liberalism and free movement of people...

    And everything else in the 'post-WW2 settlement'?


    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us...
     
    Are you being ironic?

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Beckow

  113. @songbird
    @John Johnson


    a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal,
     
    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group - Hollywood martial arts stars that became famous in the '80s and '90s. That is people like Don "the Dragon" Wilson and Ernie Reyes Jr. (People most have forgotten about) don't know if Jean Claude Van Dam even counts, as he was like a dancer or something, but count him, and Seagal must probably be #2.

    He has had at least seven children. There are people who literally worship him as a lama, in a cult-like way. He once broke Sean Connery's wrist.

    A douchebag certainly. A creep probably.

    Katherine Heigl, who was sixteen at the time the film was made, said that on the last day of filming Seagal told her, "'You know Katie, I got girlfriends your age.' And I said, 'Isn't that illegal?' And he said, 'They don't seem to mind'."
     
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege_2:_Dark_Territory

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger. Many martial arts people open dojos, and they are consumed by paying exorbitant commercial rent.

    Replies: @AP, @John Johnson

    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group

    Yes he is a loser.

    He did indeed make millions and still wants to play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior.

    Here he is pretending to be a ninja master for a Russian audience through the art of choreography:

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger.

    I don’t think being a loser is automatically excluded by wealth or success in Hollywood.

    You can have endless wealth and still be a loser. Seagal has 7 children and instead of spending time with them he wants to fly around the world and pretend that he is a Japanese master warrior with the body of a short order cook. That is a loser.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @John Johnson


    play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior... Here he is pretending to be a ninja master
     
    It is called aikido. Whether or not he is good at it, I leave open to interpretation, though he does have a certain following. Looks like a crowd of thousands in that clip.

    Yes he is a loser.
     
    A liar and a scoundrel. A lecher. Not an A-lister, but neither a loser.

    He is easily above the 99th percentile in wealth globally. And well above that in fame. He is outperforming the vast majority of people and nearly everyone in his chosen field.

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser. Just someone who got wealthy by making bad movies.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP, @Mikhail

    , @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!

    +++

    Under Siege was pretty good. Segal lined up with some pretty fine starlets over the years. I guess that's one way to meet your wives.

    I have no idea of the real story behind the scenes, but I wonder if Segal's fans like him because he seems to be his own man, doing things as he wants not as others expect? Most of the projects people hate on probably come to him. He knows they are kind of silly and he does them because the producers pay him. He is an actor and people pay actors to do silly things.

    Maybe someday we can get a match staged just for you: Putin versus Segal. Will Steve take the fall like a man or will he do a Butch Coolidge on us?

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @sudden death
    @John Johnson

    Seagal should try doing some remake of those movie series below cause he straight out morphed into Bud Spencer phenotype;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuPbrwHTQpY

    Replies: @QCIC

  114. Mikhail says: • Website
    @Sean
    There will not be any great offensives from Russia because of the extreme vulnerability to detection and shelling of all but the smallest formed up units on the battlefield. The Russia army are mounting a broad front attrition attrition strategy and because of the aforementioned difficulty in breakthroughs the Russians are only able to go at a snail's pace and suffering extra causalities as a result. In this war attack is much, much more difficult than defence and, although Russia is doing far from well, Ukraine is doing worse (evidenced by them backing out of there old defense line strongpoints as they are pinpointed and added to the queue for being destroyed by glide bombs). There is zero reason from the Kremlin's standpoint to negotiate as long as they can keep up constant pressure and that pressure is in fact ceaseless and very gradually increasing. There is going to be a Russian assault on Kharkov in a few months and the problems of proceeding with a predictable offensive on city with many large buildings prepared for defence might be insurmountable; prolly will result in immense casualties among defenders and attackers. That will lead both sides to modify their war aims. Maybe.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @AnonfromTN, @Mikhail

    Or maybe the Kiev regime forces will finally stop fighting as a result of massive suffering and an increased yearning for an improved situation.

    Having the likes of Lindsey Graham as a friend casually letting you suffer in order to fulfill their neocon geopolitical wet dream isn’t a great long term motivator.

  115. Mikhail says: • Website
    @sudden death
    @Mikhail

    Then why RF gains in 2024 aren't anyhow drastically different from RF gains in 2023 if UA army now is consisting of the ammo starved ghosts against the supposedly stronger, larger RF army with NK/Iran supplied ammo+RF domestic made gliding bombs? To say nothing of the gains in 2022 when RF army was allegedly the weakest lol

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Then why RF gains in 2024 aren’t anyhow drastically different from RF gains in 2023 if UA army now is consisting of the ammo starved ghosts against the supposedly stronger, larger RF army with NK/Iran supplied ammo+RF domestic made gliding bombs? To say nothing of the gains in 2022 when RF army was allegedly the weakest lol

    It’s not about gaining territory at this point, as much as weakening the opponent (Kiev regime) as the other side (Russia) gets stronger.

    There’s no “supposedly” here on this.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Mikhail

    Since the land gains suddenly became not that important, guess another metrics can also be taken into account of gaining super strenghts - like RF soldiers beginning riding in imported open air golf carts instead of armoured cars/IFVs when having to deal with UA drones everywhere near the battlegrounds;)

    Replies: @Mikhail

  116. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    The war is the West against Russia with Ukraine simply a battleground inhabited by pawns. NATO expansion, US missile bases in Eastern Europe, dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties, meddling in Russia-aligned countries were major elements of this new Cold War before 2014. Maidan was the key step which brought the heavy action to Ukraine.

    You people didn't really think Victoria Nuland and John McCain had your best interests in mind, did you?

    Evidence suggests the leaders in the West always expected a hot war, one which they thought they could handily win. Nonetheless, I am sure they always knew the country and people of Ukraine might be ripped to shreds in the course of achieving their goals. The people leading this see the Ukrainian and Russian people as comparable, so killing Ukies is a feature, not a bug. I don't think you people thought this thing through.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    You people didn’t really think Victoria Nuland and John McCain had your best interests in mind, did you?

    Vicky Nuland was an assistant during Maidan.

    Did Nuland somehow force Ukrainian politicians to vote out a pro-Russian president who was disavowed by his own pro-Russia party?

    Putin defenders like to reference Nuland and especially her Jewishness.

    But what did she do exactly that changed the outcome more than actual Ukrainian politicians?

    The people leading this see the Ukrainian and Russian people as comparable, so killing Ukies is a feature, not a bug. I don’t think you people thought this thing through.

    Did the DPR/LPR breakaway states make the right decision to align with Russia?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    So what are you implying, Nuland being an assistant implies McCain was the brains of the operation? LOL, that's a good one!

    The anti-Russia operation in Ukraine goes back to at least WW2 and accelerated during the time before the USSR collapsed. Nuland is a recent player tasked with fronting this project. The bosses approved of her until she made the unforced error during Congressional testimony on US-funded bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine.

    People associate Nuland with Jewish power because her husband is Robert Kagan an evil leader of the Jewish Neocon project. They recognize she is a card-carrying Neocon who is against normal human values shared by most citizens in the USA, Russia and Ukraine.

    I assume the Ukrainian political process was easily manipulated by Western money and intrigues before, during and after Maidan. The Kremlins will have their work cut out keeping this meddling in check even after Ukraine capitulates.

    I live 6,000 miles away and do not speak Russian. I do not know what people in the LPR/DPR should have done but their decision to align with Russia makes sense to me.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  117. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    The best choice – maybe the only choice – are the Slavs.
     
    I think you, like many commenters on this site, grossly overestimate the importance of nationality. Those who currently rule the “democratic” West don’t give a hoot about that. The myth is that Israel cares about Jews. Hamas naively believed this and took hostages. They were wrong. The facts are that iIsraeli rulers did nothing to get the hostages back, Israeli forces murdered quite a few of those (including the two idiots who escaped from Hamas), and that on October 7th Israeli military likely killed more Jews than Hamas. It wasn’t the decision of pawns pulling the trigger: they had orders. Orders coming from the elites who have no scruples and no morals. Look at what the US regime is doing to protesting students (and quite a few faculty members, many of which weren’t even protesting). These are not Slavs, they are Americans, But they are treated by the elites with exactly the same disregard for human life and dignity as Slavs or Palis.

    The elites are not nationalistic, racist, or anything of the kind. They just care exclusively about themselves, their money and power,. They are willing to murder anyone who gets in the way, be it a Slav, a Pali, an American, or a Jew. The only way to protect humanity from these sociopaths is to kill them all, to the last person.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Beckow

    …grossly overestimate the importance of nationality. Those who currently rule the “democratic” West don’t give a hoot about that.

    I agree about the elites. But to try to run the very complex global empire requires managing people. The context was: how does Macron get enough young Frenchies to go and die in the Ukie steppes? They can be ordered and paid well, but for an undertaking that risky they need to also stir up some emotions.

    The traditional Western way is to demonize the enemy: first the leader and his entourage, then enlarge to the misguided people supporting him. Add a few historical lies like “they have always attacked us!“, it was bad “weather” for the Napoleon fiasco, or “you know, Nazis could have won!“, even that Russians and Germans started WW2 maybe even attacking France together (people are very stupid). You also scare people that “Russians will invade Bretagne!” – Russia has never started a war against the West, it has always been vice-versa, but we are back to people simply being stupid.

    In that context the nationality matters. My point is that in the liberal world there is literally no other ‘nationality’ or group that can be used as an enemy other then Slavs with Russians as the convenient stand-in. Some in the elites may still even have bitter resentments for the WW2 loss or in US for the tense fear of the Cold War that was never properly cured since it just ended with no bang.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    My point is that in the liberal world there is literally no other ‘nationality’ or group that can be used as an enemy other then Slavs with Russians as the convenient stand-in.
     
    They are still trying “Islamic terrorists” scarecrow, even though most “Islamic terrorists” today are directly or indirectly armed and trained by the imperial and affiliated secret services (Mujahideenin in Afghanistan, Chechen cutthroats, ISIS, other bandits in Syria, etc.). Then there are Arabs who are routinely considered untermenschen, Chinese, other Asians, Latinos, Africans. So, Slavs, including Russians, only stand out as named enemies whose whiteness cannot be denied.

    Replies: @Beckow

  118. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Philip Owen

    If you actually knew anything you would be legally proscribed from saying diddly squat.

    Most of the deceased are killed by exploding artillery rounds. How many artillery rounds has Ukraine fired and how many artillery rounds has Russia fired?

    That is the best estimate kill ratio. It is a pretty wild guess.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @AP, @Philip Owen

    Most of the deceased are killed by exploding artillery rounds.

    Quite a few are also killed by drones.

    How many artillery rounds has Ukraine fired and how many artillery rounds has Russia fired

    You forgot to consider the accuracy of the artillery.

  119. @Beckow
    @Coconuts


    It is Slavs settling the ancestral lands of the British, Dutch and French.
     
    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.

    the Welsh invading your lands serious?
     
    Not really...:) I was mocking that moron Philip Owen who claims to be Welsh...

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us, it is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down. The atavistic hatred of Slavs among many in the West is often right under the surface, it is self-defeating. It weakens you.

    Recently a fairly high-level Westie told me the Russian perfidy is caused by that 'damn primitive Slav blood, they have always been like that'. I gently pointed out that I am also a Slav, so he caught himself and said: "oh, but you people have a lot of German heritage". Do we? He was serious. Just precious.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Coconuts

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us, it is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down. The atavistic hatred of Slavs among many in the West is often right under the surface, it is self-defeating. It weakens you.

    Taking in millions of Ukrainian women and children will slow down the West? What do you base that opinion on?

    You do realize that Canada already has Ukrainian areas?

    Here is a picture of a Ukrainian festival in Canada:

    That is indeed a terrifying prospect. At that festival there are probably 3, maybe even 4 latke stands for every burger stand.

    Where is the atavistic hatred hiding? Under the bouncy slide?

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ... The West... is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down.
     
    It will slow down the over-runing of the West by their former colonials, is that hard to understand? You have a reading comprehension issue. Adding millions of Ukies will have the effect of slowing down the de-Europeization of the West...

    After 1990 millions CE Euros moved West. If 1990 never happened and they didn't come by now London, Brussels, many German cities, etc.. would be almost fully Third-World. The 'Polish' plumbers, fruit-pickers, students, au-pairs (servants), engineers etc...have partially balanced the migrant tsunami. They also have more kids: in many German schools there are only Third World migrants and a few Polish-Russian-Ukies, and some Germans often from East Germany.

  120. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    I’ll say this for Napolitano, he hasn’t expressed the kind off of perverted glee you’ve exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    LOL so his actual sexual harassment of male employees isn't comparable to my forum posts on a website that is buried by search engines?
    Would you listen to yourself? This is basically you:

    Napolitano may have followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle his junk but....did you read John Johnson's latest post on Ukraine? Now that's perverted glee!

    You should really re-assess your life when you're defending a homosexual groper and a convicted sex criminal who jerked off to what he thought was an underage girl....twice. Yes Scott Ritter did that twice so there goes "but but sting operation conspiracy" defense. Too bad Scott Ritter wasn't on Chris Hanson showing up with a 6 pack of coors. I DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS UNDERAGE THE BEER IS FOR ME. Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.

    Oh and Putin also has Russell Brand who is British but follows the pattern since he showed his boner to a woman at work. He is British but follows the group theme of sexual criminals and losers.

    I've worked a lot of jobs and never once in my life have I thought You know what.....I'm gonna get a boner at work and show it to some chick. Good God that is f-cking insane.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @songbird, @QCIC, @Gerard1234

    In our information age we are stuck with many information sources which cannot be fully trusted. Effectively we know nothing about the authors, even though the video dialog seems very personal and we may be fooled into a sense of camaraderie. Quoting people like Napolitano or Ritter or Blinken or Hodges does not mean we claim to know them, trust them, or anything like that. The best one can do is some sort of quality control based on the validity of their previous work. If one of these people is marked by serious charges there may be a 50/50 chance these claims are true, but also a 50/50 chance they are misrepresented and the people in question are not in a position to defend themselves.

    The important thing is to focus on the facts of the news, not the unknowable facts about the news presenter which are none of our business. In some cases their reported transgressions may be so bad that we reject the news information even though we think it could be true. The work blamed on the Japanese unit 731 is a classic example. In a hypothetical moral dilemma, the diabolical scientists may have discovered some important medical fact which could save lives, but someone decided to burn the data instead of using it. The point of this destruction was not to benefit the victims but to remove all sanction from any similar inhumane work in the future. In other words the end does not justify the means.

    As JJ likes to point out, sorting these things out is important business.

    Another big problem is that video and audio can now be faked so well that most people, including experts, can never spot the fake.

  121. A123 says: • Website

    Genocidal Hamas attacks relief supply entry point: (1)

    Kerem Shalom, now closed, is another. The Israeli military reported 10 projectiles were launched at the crossing in southern Israel and said its fighter jets later struck the source. Hamas said it had been targeting Israeli soldiers in the area. Israel’s Channel 12 TV channel said 10 people were wounded, three seriously. It was unclear how long the crossing would be closed.

    The attack came shortly after the head of the U.N. World Food Program asserted “full-blown famine” in devastated northern Gaza, one of the most prominent warnings yet of the toll of restrictions on food and other aid entering the territory.

    Q: How does Hamas stopping aid help the people of Gaza? A: It doesn’t.

    Hamas was already expending Gaza residents as human shields. So, no one should be surprised by this degenerate behaviour.

    Why do people refuse to recognize that the kidnappers of genocidal Hamas are the problem? Is it willful blindness? Or, psychology detached from reality?

    Islam could end this tomorrow by releasing hostages and laying down arms.

    PEACE 😇
    __________

    (1) https://www.breitbart.com/news/israel-closes-gaza-crossing-after-hamas-attack-and-vows-military-operation-in-the-very-near-future/

  122. @John Johnson
    @songbird

    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group

    Yes he is a loser.

    He did indeed make millions and still wants to play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior.

    Here he is pretending to be a ninja master for a Russian audience through the art of choreography:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEx8Moy7ro

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger.

    I don't think being a loser is automatically excluded by wealth or success in Hollywood.

    You can have endless wealth and still be a loser. Seagal has 7 children and instead of spending time with them he wants to fly around the world and pretend that he is a Japanese master warrior with the body of a short order cook. That is a loser.

    Replies: @songbird, @QCIC, @sudden death

    play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior… Here he is pretending to be a ninja master

    It is called aikido. Whether or not he is good at it, I leave open to interpretation, though he does have a certain following. Looks like a crowd of thousands in that clip.

    Yes he is a loser.

    A liar and a scoundrel. A lecher. Not an A-lister, but neither a loser.

    He is easily above the 99th percentile in wealth globally. And well above that in fame. He is outperforming the vast majority of people and nearly everyone in his chosen field.

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser. Just someone who got wealthy by making bad movies.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @songbird

    It is called aikido.

    It is called a White man wanting to be a Japanese ninja. Most Whites grow out of it by age 12.

    He isn't merely trying to learn a martial art. He wants to show off bad ass dude ninja skills to crowds. That's attention seeking.

    Seagal is the typical 9 year old White boy but in a fat man's body. Kind of cute at age 9 but not when a man does it.

    A liar and a scoundrel. A lecher. Not an A-lister, but neither a loser.

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser. Just someone who got wealthy by making bad movies.

    Well it's subjective since humans measure each other by various standards.

    One person may value Hollywood success more than another. I place absolutely no value in Hollywood and in fact view it as an overall destructive force. In fact I place negative value in anyone that makes a living from it. I know people "in the biz" and I have to keep my true opinions to myself when around them. I have more respect for actual prostitutes.

    I think a man that plays dress up ninja instead of focusing on his family is a loser. He has hopeless insecurities despite his success in some areas. That is why there is the term born loser. It doesn't mean that person will have absolutely zero success in any area and will end up homeless.

    He has spent a lot of time on his ninja craft and he is really just a country fair showman. I'll believe his skills when he enters an octagon in an open competition and not a staged performance. He could probably fight Jake Paul for 10 million dollars.

    , @AP
    @songbird


    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser
     
    You are being pedantic.

    People are judged by their peers and not in comparison to the average person.

    It’s why Dubya is considered an idiot, even though objectively he is smarter and more educated than 95% of the general population (based on entrance exam scores his IQ is about 120 and he graduated from one of the world’s top universities). But as a world leader, he was a disastrous moron.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self, who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable. He’s basically unemployable. As a celebrity and movie star, he is a loser.

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird, @Mr. XYZ

    , @Mikhail
    @songbird

    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn't be hypocritically attacked.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+arrests&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=O9U3ZuzWA4Kh0PEPtqO4uAw&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfjS2jj1w5AdALKl9VKMnXhrpd1IFm3&ved=0ahUKEwis4JGLl_eFAxWCEDQIHbYRDscQ4dUDCBM&oq=sean+penn+arrests&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhFzZWFuIHBlbm4gYXJyZXN0c0ijM1AAWLwocAB4AJABAJgBYKABrwmqAQIxN7gBDMgBAPgBAZgCDKAChQjCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBjRAxjHAcICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIUEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwEYigXCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGNQCGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAgUQLhiABMICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAgUQABiABMICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEYY-wHCAgsQABiABBiGAxiKBZgDAJIHBDExLjGgB-WtAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+ukraine&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=3dU3ZoSYAYjN0PEPooWGgAs&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfj7RLGNaj-6PVsw57ItJnVA1fPHMGA&ved=0ahUKEwjE-q7Yl_eFAxWIJjQIHaKCAbAQ4dUDCA8&oq=sean+penn+ukraine&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz

    Replies: @John Johnson, @songbird

  123. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @songbird

    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group

    Yes he is a loser.

    He did indeed make millions and still wants to play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior.

    Here he is pretending to be a ninja master for a Russian audience through the art of choreography:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEx8Moy7ro

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger.

    I don't think being a loser is automatically excluded by wealth or success in Hollywood.

    You can have endless wealth and still be a loser. Seagal has 7 children and instead of spending time with them he wants to fly around the world and pretend that he is a Japanese master warrior with the body of a short order cook. That is a loser.

    Replies: @songbird, @QCIC, @sudden death

    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!

    +++

    Under Siege was pretty good. Segal lined up with some pretty fine starlets over the years. I guess that’s one way to meet your wives.

    I have no idea of the real story behind the scenes, but I wonder if Segal’s fans like him because he seems to be his own man, doing things as he wants not as others expect? Most of the projects people hate on probably come to him. He knows they are kind of silly and he does them because the producers pay him. He is an actor and people pay actors to do silly things.

    Maybe someday we can get a match staged just for you: Putin versus Segal. Will Steve take the fall like a man or will he do a Butch Coolidge on us?

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!

    Are you some pick typing boomer that takes an hour to copy a url? I made that post in about 3.5 minutes.

    I do have a life and a good one that lets me have a nice long coffee break and share videos with my besties like you and Mikhail.

    Under Siege was pretty good. Segal lined up with some pretty fine starlets over the years. I guess that’s one way to meet your wives.

    I can't watch any of those movies. Same for Van Damme. Too corny and they aren't self-aware. People will say they are "of their time" but I'd much rather watch Dirty Harry or French Connection. The Seagal/Van Damme movies are just corny daytime TV shows that have been stretched into a 2 hour format. Just awful. I don't see how someone can watch a movie like Apocalypse Now and then make Under Siege. I don't get it.

    I did sit through Lionheart and I needed a shower to wash all the cringe off.

    Maybe someday we can get a match staged just for you: Putin versus Segal. Will Steve take the fall like a man or will he do a Butch Coolidge on us?

    Seagal would take the fall and then declare Putin to be the greatest warrior the world has ever seen.

    Replies: @QCIC

  124. Would be funny if Hanania was deported to Rafah.

  125. @songbird
    @John Johnson


    play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior... Here he is pretending to be a ninja master
     
    It is called aikido. Whether or not he is good at it, I leave open to interpretation, though he does have a certain following. Looks like a crowd of thousands in that clip.

    Yes he is a loser.
     
    A liar and a scoundrel. A lecher. Not an A-lister, but neither a loser.

    He is easily above the 99th percentile in wealth globally. And well above that in fame. He is outperforming the vast majority of people and nearly everyone in his chosen field.

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser. Just someone who got wealthy by making bad movies.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP, @Mikhail

    It is called aikido.

    It is called a White man wanting to be a Japanese ninja. Most Whites grow out of it by age 12.

    He isn’t merely trying to learn a martial art. He wants to show off bad ass dude ninja skills to crowds. That’s attention seeking.

    Seagal is the typical 9 year old White boy but in a fat man’s body. Kind of cute at age 9 but not when a man does it.

    A liar and a scoundrel. A lecher. Not an A-lister, but neither a loser.

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser. Just someone who got wealthy by making bad movies.

    Well it’s subjective since humans measure each other by various standards.

    One person may value Hollywood success more than another. I place absolutely no value in Hollywood and in fact view it as an overall destructive force. In fact I place negative value in anyone that makes a living from it. I know people “in the biz” and I have to keep my true opinions to myself when around them. I have more respect for actual prostitutes.

    I think a man that plays dress up ninja instead of focusing on his family is a loser. He has hopeless insecurities despite his success in some areas. That is why there is the term born loser. It doesn’t mean that person will have absolutely zero success in any area and will end up homeless.

    He has spent a lot of time on his ninja craft and he is really just a country fair showman. I’ll believe his skills when he enters an octagon in an open competition and not a staged performance. He could probably fight Jake Paul for 10 million dollars.

  126. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!

    +++

    Under Siege was pretty good. Segal lined up with some pretty fine starlets over the years. I guess that's one way to meet your wives.

    I have no idea of the real story behind the scenes, but I wonder if Segal's fans like him because he seems to be his own man, doing things as he wants not as others expect? Most of the projects people hate on probably come to him. He knows they are kind of silly and he does them because the producers pay him. He is an actor and people pay actors to do silly things.

    Maybe someday we can get a match staged just for you: Putin versus Segal. Will Steve take the fall like a man or will he do a Butch Coolidge on us?

    Replies: @John Johnson

    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!

    Are you some pick typing boomer that takes an hour to copy a url? I made that post in about 3.5 minutes.

    I do have a life and a good one that lets me have a nice long coffee break and share videos with my besties like you and Mikhail.

    Under Siege was pretty good. Segal lined up with some pretty fine starlets over the years. I guess that’s one way to meet your wives.

    I can’t watch any of those movies. Same for Van Damme. Too corny and they aren’t self-aware. People will say they are “of their time” but I’d much rather watch Dirty Harry or French Connection. The Seagal/Van Damme movies are just corny daytime TV shows that have been stretched into a 2 hour format. Just awful. I don’t see how someone can watch a movie like Apocalypse Now and then make Under Siege. I don’t get it.

    I did sit through Lionheart and I needed a shower to wash all the cringe off.

    Maybe someday we can get a match staged just for you: Putin versus Segal. Will Steve take the fall like a man or will he do a Butch Coolidge on us?

    Seagal would take the fall and then declare Putin to be the greatest warrior the world has ever seen.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    You seem to have a lot of videos at your finger tips to support whatever point you are attempting to make. This implies you watch too many of these vids. Maybe you have the process of selecting them down to an efficient science. If so, good for you.

    As an adult I know that Hollywood is full of creeps with their own agendas. Nonetheless, I have been entertained by many Hollywood showmen and women across my life. In his prime Segal was mid-pack. He probably has to keep working to pay alimony.

    If one believes anything about politics, Putin signed up for a tougher job than most. He apparently held his own. The full story is for the history books. I am against Wold War and it doesn't matter what I think about Putin. The only thing I might be able to influence in my own tiny way are the actions of the US government.

  127. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    You people didn’t really think Victoria Nuland and John McCain had your best interests in mind, did you?

    Vicky Nuland was an assistant during Maidan.

    Did Nuland somehow force Ukrainian politicians to vote out a pro-Russian president who was disavowed by his own pro-Russia party?

    Putin defenders like to reference Nuland and especially her Jewishness.

    But what did she do exactly that changed the outcome more than actual Ukrainian politicians?

    The people leading this see the Ukrainian and Russian people as comparable, so killing Ukies is a feature, not a bug. I don’t think you people thought this thing through.

    Did the DPR/LPR breakaway states make the right decision to align with Russia?

    Replies: @QCIC

    So what are you implying, Nuland being an assistant implies McCain was the brains of the operation? LOL, that’s a good one!

    The anti-Russia operation in Ukraine goes back to at least WW2 and accelerated during the time before the USSR collapsed. Nuland is a recent player tasked with fronting this project. The bosses approved of her until she made the unforced error during Congressional testimony on US-funded bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine.

    People associate Nuland with Jewish power because her husband is Robert Kagan an evil leader of the Jewish Neocon project. They recognize she is a card-carrying Neocon who is against normal human values shared by most citizens in the USA, Russia and Ukraine.

    I assume the Ukrainian political process was easily manipulated by Western money and intrigues before, during and after Maidan. The Kremlins will have their work cut out keeping this meddling in check even after Ukraine capitulates.

    I live 6,000 miles away and do not speak Russian. I do not know what people in the LPR/DPR should have done but their decision to align with Russia makes sense to me.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    So what are you implying, Nuland being an assistant implies McCain was the brains of the operation? LOL, that’s a good one!

    Not at all. I'm asking you what Nuland did exactly.

    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party
    https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-parliament-votes-oust-yanukovich-sets-may-election-151836020.html

    Putin defenders talk of Nuland during that time but don't provide any causal statements. The most I have seen is that she made some comments about wanting a change and is of course somehow guilty by way of being Jewish.

    Maybe you can clear that up for them as they haven't been able to explain it rationally. Anglin's followers make comments like "Nuland.....Jewish.....Ukraine....CIA" without explaining how it all goes together.

    Nuland said she would like some new changes in Ukraine. So what? How is that political intervention? I would like some changes in Russia. That doesn't mean I am involved in some conspiracy.

    I assume the Ukrainian political process was easily manipulated by Western money and intrigues before, during and after Maidan.

    You believe the pro-Russian party was manipulated by Western money? What about the 2019 election?

    Was Yanukovich guilty of treason or do you believe he was innocent? Do you think his mansion was paid for with legitimate funds even if he couldn't explain them?

    Replies: @QCIC, @Derer

  128. @John Johnson
    @Beckow

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us, it is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down. The atavistic hatred of Slavs among many in the West is often right under the surface, it is self-defeating. It weakens you.

    Taking in millions of Ukrainian women and children will slow down the West? What do you base that opinion on?

    You do realize that Canada already has Ukrainian areas?

    Here is a picture of a Ukrainian festival in Canada:

    https://media.blogto.com/events/2018/06/06/lookingdownbloor_1_orig.jpg?w=2048&cmd=resize&quality=70

    That is indeed a terrifying prospect. At that festival there are probably 3, maybe even 4 latke stands for every burger stand.

    Where is the atavistic hatred hiding? Under the bouncy slide?

    Replies: @Beckow

    The West… is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down.

    It will slow down the over-runing of the West by their former colonials, is that hard to understand? You have a reading comprehension issue. Adding millions of Ukies will have the effect of slowing down the de-Europeization of the West…

    After 1990 millions CE Euros moved West. If 1990 never happened and they didn’t come by now London, Brussels, many German cities, etc.. would be almost fully Third-World. The ‘Polish’ plumbers, fruit-pickers, students, au-pairs (servants), engineers etc…have partially balanced the migrant tsunami. They also have more kids: in many German schools there are only Third World migrants and a few Polish-Russian-Ukies, and some Germans often from East Germany.

  129. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!

    Are you some pick typing boomer that takes an hour to copy a url? I made that post in about 3.5 minutes.

    I do have a life and a good one that lets me have a nice long coffee break and share videos with my besties like you and Mikhail.

    Under Siege was pretty good. Segal lined up with some pretty fine starlets over the years. I guess that’s one way to meet your wives.

    I can't watch any of those movies. Same for Van Damme. Too corny and they aren't self-aware. People will say they are "of their time" but I'd much rather watch Dirty Harry or French Connection. The Seagal/Van Damme movies are just corny daytime TV shows that have been stretched into a 2 hour format. Just awful. I don't see how someone can watch a movie like Apocalypse Now and then make Under Siege. I don't get it.

    I did sit through Lionheart and I needed a shower to wash all the cringe off.

    Maybe someday we can get a match staged just for you: Putin versus Segal. Will Steve take the fall like a man or will he do a Butch Coolidge on us?

    Seagal would take the fall and then declare Putin to be the greatest warrior the world has ever seen.

    Replies: @QCIC

    You seem to have a lot of videos at your finger tips to support whatever point you are attempting to make. This implies you watch too many of these vids. Maybe you have the process of selecting them down to an efficient science. If so, good for you.

    As an adult I know that Hollywood is full of creeps with their own agendas. Nonetheless, I have been entertained by many Hollywood showmen and women across my life. In his prime Segal was mid-pack. He probably has to keep working to pay alimony.

    If one believes anything about politics, Putin signed up for a tougher job than most. He apparently held his own. The full story is for the history books. I am against Wold War and it doesn’t matter what I think about Putin. The only thing I might be able to influence in my own tiny way are the actions of the US government.

  130. https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/vladimir-putin-horoscope

    Putin’s birth chart

    Scorpio rising (1st decan); Venus in 1st house; MC in Leo; Moon in Gemini (8th house); Sun combust Neptune, Saturn, Mercury in Libra (12th house)

    Vlad is a Scorpio rising, meaning his chart is ruled by Mercury. However, his Mercury is combust at 23 degrees in Libra so we would expect him to look and behave more like a Libra rising.

    -full, neotenous face; short forehead w/ asymmetrical hairline; large, almond eyes with puffy lower eyelids; dark, straight eyebrows; low cheekbones with full cheeks; thin lips in a Cupid’s Bow shape with just a trace of pout; broad nose; large, round chin with cleft in the middle; medium hourglass shaped physique
    -enjoys the finer things in life
    -artistic
    -excellent at mediating disputes
    -highly charming in one on one situations
    -very strong sense of right and wrong and totally unwilling to compromise on what he feels is right
    -falls in and out of love many times
    -huge flirt; exceptionally charming with women
    -indecisive
    -family and relationship oriented
    -vain; appearance conscious; likes to be noticed
    -excellent communicator; quick witted and dominates any discussion that he is in
    -always looking for something new and exciting
    -starts a lot of new projects and then doesn’t finish them
    -get really irritated at people who don’t speak plainly
    -tend to talk at people; don’t really listen to what others are saying
    -always says what is on his mind
    -strong drive for power and desire to change the world
    -not brief; uses a lot more words than necessary in his communication
    -uses music and art as a means to self sooth
    -strong self discipline
    -get along with anyone
    -does whatever he can to make his wife happy
    -avoids open conflict as much as possible, preferring to use manipulation
    -highly social
    -although social and friendly, also detached and cold
    -strong need for approval from others
    -can take a joke at his own expense
    -several failed relationships before settling down
    -tends to latch onto mentor figures
    -not really hardworking, but a lifelong learner who reads a lot
    -not emotional but still needs to talk about his feelings; will have a talkative wife
    -fact, as opposed to emotionally, oriented personality
    -conceited and arrogant
    -natural leader who is obsessed with recognition from others
    -grew up very fast
    -moves around a lot; can’t stand routines; unique sense of home decor
    -drama queen; spergs out over things that really aren’t a big deal at all; acts “extra”, as the kids say
    -able to project confidence even when dealing with major self doubt
    -control freak
    -can’t accept even constructive criticism; dismissive of the views of others
    -involved in international politics (sun in 12th house, look it up if you don’t believe me)
    -poor relationship with father
    -never let’s go of grudges
    -mother either died young or didn’t love Vlad
    -literally has slight psychic powers
    -inherently suspicious of others; paranoid and highly isolated
    -work in foreign lands and make a lot of money there (Saturn in 12th house)
    -started to come into his own between the ages of 28 and 30
    -achieve political power (Saturn in 12th house again, look it up if you don’t believe me)
    -marital life was initial tumultuous before ultimately settling down
    -enjoys writing fictional stories
    -accumulate wealth by all means necessary, even if they are immoral/unethical
    -serious marital problems; either separate from first wife or end up in a marriage that is in name only

    those of you who know more about Putin can tell us how accurate or inaccurate this is. It’s sounds really accurate from what I know about the guy

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    mother either died young or didn’t love Vlad

    The opposite happened. He was an only child and was spoiled with attention by both parents. They lost their other son in the siege of Leningrad.

    His parents were poor but he would take any gift from them even while knowing they couldn't afford it. Just read about the watch story in his autobiography.

    Putin is a spoiled brat with arrested development and permanent insecurities over his small stature.

    not really hardworking, but a lifelong learner who reads a lot

    He skipped every book on WW1/WW2 military strategy. He seemed surprised that they had Western dependencies on computer chips which shows he didn't take a cursory glance at their imports.

    can take a joke at his own expense

    You can get prison time for depicting him as a crab in a child's drawing.

    marital life was initial tumultuous before ultimately settling down

    He is 71 and banging some young gymnast.

    get along with anyone

    Well astronomy has been officially confirmed as a load of bullshit.

    I guess the alignment of the planets don't actually determine your genetic traits and life path.

    those of you who know more about Putin can tell us how accurate or inaccurate this is. It’s sounds really accurate from what I know about the guy

    Have you heard of the prank where they read the same astronomy reading to a large group and they all thought it "sounds right"?

    Replies: @QCIC

  131. Applying fishskins to wounds and rashes seems counter-intuitive.

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  132. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    So what are you implying, Nuland being an assistant implies McCain was the brains of the operation? LOL, that's a good one!

    The anti-Russia operation in Ukraine goes back to at least WW2 and accelerated during the time before the USSR collapsed. Nuland is a recent player tasked with fronting this project. The bosses approved of her until she made the unforced error during Congressional testimony on US-funded bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine.

    People associate Nuland with Jewish power because her husband is Robert Kagan an evil leader of the Jewish Neocon project. They recognize she is a card-carrying Neocon who is against normal human values shared by most citizens in the USA, Russia and Ukraine.

    I assume the Ukrainian political process was easily manipulated by Western money and intrigues before, during and after Maidan. The Kremlins will have their work cut out keeping this meddling in check even after Ukraine capitulates.

    I live 6,000 miles away and do not speak Russian. I do not know what people in the LPR/DPR should have done but their decision to align with Russia makes sense to me.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    So what are you implying, Nuland being an assistant implies McCain was the brains of the operation? LOL, that’s a good one!

    Not at all. I’m asking you what Nuland did exactly.

    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party
    https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-parliament-votes-oust-yanukovich-sets-may-election-151836020.html

    Putin defenders talk of Nuland during that time but don’t provide any causal statements. The most I have seen is that she made some comments about wanting a change and is of course somehow guilty by way of being Jewish.

    Maybe you can clear that up for them as they haven’t been able to explain it rationally. Anglin’s followers make comments like “Nuland…..Jewish…..Ukraine….CIA” without explaining how it all goes together.

    Nuland said she would like some new changes in Ukraine. So what? How is that political intervention? I would like some changes in Russia. That doesn’t mean I am involved in some conspiracy.

    I assume the Ukrainian political process was easily manipulated by Western money and intrigues before, during and after Maidan.

    You believe the pro-Russian party was manipulated by Western money? What about the 2019 election?

    Was Yanukovich guilty of treason or do you believe he was innocent? Do you think his mansion was paid for with legitimate funds even if he couldn’t explain them?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    In this situation of the West pressuring Russia in Ukraine I base my outlook on the big picture which includes these well known points:

    - NATO expansion against Russian security concerns (broken Western promises)
    - USA dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties
    - Aggressive Western meddling in the Russian sphere of influence including Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and probably Chechnya
    - USA emplacing missile sites in Romania and Poland which confirmed Western interest in an expanded nuclear strike capability against Russia.

    I don't care much about the details of political life in Ukraine since I don't know what details are accurate or important. I don't think you have this knowledge either. The current president is simply an actor put in place by Ukrainian Jewish oligarchs to implement a shared project with the West against Russia.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer

    , @Derer
    @John Johnson


    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party
     
    The Ukrainian parliament deeply infiltrated by the Washington apparatchiks and bribes. Exemplified by the VP Biden corruption.

    Yanukovich election: "3149 observers and OECD declared it transparent and honest."

    Do you know that an election is for 4 year term and Yanukovich refusal to put the US military bases on Crimea does not qualify for his impeachment.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AnonfromTN

  133. AP says:
    @songbird
    @John Johnson


    play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior... Here he is pretending to be a ninja master
     
    It is called aikido. Whether or not he is good at it, I leave open to interpretation, though he does have a certain following. Looks like a crowd of thousands in that clip.

    Yes he is a loser.
     
    A liar and a scoundrel. A lecher. Not an A-lister, but neither a loser.

    He is easily above the 99th percentile in wealth globally. And well above that in fame. He is outperforming the vast majority of people and nearly everyone in his chosen field.

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser. Just someone who got wealthy by making bad movies.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP, @Mikhail

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser

    You are being pedantic.

    People are judged by their peers and not in comparison to the average person.

    It’s why Dubya is considered an idiot, even though objectively he is smarter and more educated than 95% of the general population (based on entrance exam scores his IQ is about 120 and he graduated from one of the world’s top universities). But as a world leader, he was a disastrous moron.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self, who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable. He’s basically unemployable. As a celebrity and movie star, he is a loser.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @AP

    My hunch is that Dubya is pretty dumb and his scores and grades could be faked. He comes from a milieu where I believe that sort of thing would be uncontroversial. However, he reportedly flew F101 fighter aircraft which counts for something, though long ago I read a harsh critique of his piloting skills. Probably not as bad as McCain though.

    +++

    I skimmed Seagal's wiki page. I conclude that his first wife doesn't like him very much and that he is a lively character.

    , @songbird
    @AP


    You are being pedantic.
     
    True, but that is the whole point of this forum.

    People are judged by their peers
     
    I agree 100%. But you are placing him in the wrong peer group - movie stars. The correct peer group is martial arts movie stars, who are racially non-Asian and were famous in the '80s/'90s. The kind of people kids from that era who took martial arts admired.

    It is kind of a fringe group and fringe audience.

    Not included are people famous for taking steroids and shooting guns, like Stallone and Schwarzenegger who have little or no training, or didn't gain roles from it. Or people chosen for their looks or acting ability like Tom Cruise.

    Also not included are people like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, who had greater markets or populations to draw fame from. (At least eventually)

    What is needed is some pretension to martial arts. People doing high kicks or splits or throws. People promoting them and being associated with them.

    To be generous, let's include Chuck Norris, even though his fame started earlier and he was the first with his foot in the door. That would probably bump Seagal down to #3, rather than #2. Still a winner, still on the podium.

    Seagal's true peers are people like Cythia Rothruck and Van Damme. Don "the Dragon" Wilson who although a hapa I think only made Western movies.

    Norris has 5 kids. Van Damme 3. Rothruck 1. Seagal 7. He has top fertility of that group.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self,
     
    The hand of time is cruel to us all.

    who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable.
     
    He is half Ashkenazi, and never seems to have felt strong roots. He lived in Japan for a number of years, before abandoning his wife and children there. (That is why I say he is a scoundrel) His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.

    He’s basically unemployable.
     
    this is actually true for a lot of actors that age (what is the last blockbuster Schwarzenegger or Stallone was in?), not to mention martial arts stars specifically. But he is like 72. A good age to retire.

    he is a loser.
     
    A great sinner, whose days of glory are far behind him, certainly, but that is not what most people mean by the word.

    IMO, calling him a loser is tantamount to saying the elderly are losers.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP


    and he graduated from one of the world’s top universities
     
    That was likely due to legacy preferences.
  134. @Mikhail
    @sudden death


    Then why RF gains in 2024 aren’t anyhow drastically different from RF gains in 2023 if UA army now is consisting of the ammo starved ghosts against the supposedly stronger, larger RF army with NK/Iran supplied ammo+RF domestic made gliding bombs? To say nothing of the gains in 2022 when RF army was allegedly the weakest lol
     
    It's not about gaining territory at this point, as much as weakening the opponent (Kiev regime) as the other side (Russia) gets stronger.

    There's no "supposedly" here on this.

    Replies: @sudden death

    Since the land gains suddenly became not that important, guess another metrics can also be taken into account of gaining super strenghts – like RF soldiers beginning riding in imported open air golf carts instead of armoured cars/IFVs when having to deal with UA drones everywhere near the battlegrounds;)

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @sudden death


    Since the land gains suddenly became not that important, guess another metrics can also be taken into account of gaining super strenghts – like RF soldiers beginning riding in imported open air golf carts instead of armoured cars/IFVs when having to deal with UA drones everywhere near the battlegrounds;)
     
    In that wacky alternative world from reality that some still subscribe to. It was never really so much about acquiring land as the Minsk Accords and the almost signed agreement in Istanbul clearly indicate. Once again, the Russian armed forces have gotten stronger since 2/24/22 with the Kiev regime's going in the opposite direction.

    Only a matter of time.

    Replies: @A123

  135. @Greasy William
    https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/vladimir-putin-horoscope

    Putin's birth chart

    Scorpio rising (1st decan); Venus in 1st house; MC in Leo; Moon in Gemini (8th house); Sun combust Neptune, Saturn, Mercury in Libra (12th house)

    Vlad is a Scorpio rising, meaning his chart is ruled by Mercury. However, his Mercury is combust at 23 degrees in Libra so we would expect him to look and behave more like a Libra rising.

    -full, neotenous face; short forehead w/ asymmetrical hairline; large, almond eyes with puffy lower eyelids; dark, straight eyebrows; low cheekbones with full cheeks; thin lips in a Cupid's Bow shape with just a trace of pout; broad nose; large, round chin with cleft in the middle; medium hourglass shaped physique
    -enjoys the finer things in life
    -artistic
    -excellent at mediating disputes
    -highly charming in one on one situations
    -very strong sense of right and wrong and totally unwilling to compromise on what he feels is right
    -falls in and out of love many times
    -huge flirt; exceptionally charming with women
    -indecisive
    -family and relationship oriented
    -vain; appearance conscious; likes to be noticed
    -excellent communicator; quick witted and dominates any discussion that he is in
    -always looking for something new and exciting
    -starts a lot of new projects and then doesn't finish them
    -get really irritated at people who don't speak plainly
    -tend to talk at people; don't really listen to what others are saying
    -always says what is on his mind
    -strong drive for power and desire to change the world
    -not brief; uses a lot more words than necessary in his communication
    -uses music and art as a means to self sooth
    -strong self discipline
    -get along with anyone
    -does whatever he can to make his wife happy
    -avoids open conflict as much as possible, preferring to use manipulation
    -highly social
    -although social and friendly, also detached and cold
    -strong need for approval from others
    -can take a joke at his own expense
    -several failed relationships before settling down
    -tends to latch onto mentor figures
    -not really hardworking, but a lifelong learner who reads a lot
    -not emotional but still needs to talk about his feelings; will have a talkative wife
    -fact, as opposed to emotionally, oriented personality
    -conceited and arrogant
    -natural leader who is obsessed with recognition from others
    -grew up very fast
    -moves around a lot; can't stand routines; unique sense of home decor
    -drama queen; spergs out over things that really aren't a big deal at all; acts "extra", as the kids say
    -able to project confidence even when dealing with major self doubt
    -control freak
    -can't accept even constructive criticism; dismissive of the views of others
    -involved in international politics (sun in 12th house, look it up if you don't believe me)
    -poor relationship with father
    -never let's go of grudges
    -mother either died young or didn't love Vlad
    -literally has slight psychic powers
    -inherently suspicious of others; paranoid and highly isolated
    -work in foreign lands and make a lot of money there (Saturn in 12th house)
    -started to come into his own between the ages of 28 and 30
    -achieve political power (Saturn in 12th house again, look it up if you don't believe me)
    -marital life was initial tumultuous before ultimately settling down
    -enjoys writing fictional stories
    -accumulate wealth by all means necessary, even if they are immoral/unethical
    -serious marital problems; either separate from first wife or end up in a marriage that is in name only


    those of you who know more about Putin can tell us how accurate or inaccurate this is. It's sounds really accurate from what I know about the guy

    Replies: @John Johnson

    mother either died young or didn’t love Vlad

    The opposite happened. He was an only child and was spoiled with attention by both parents. They lost their other son in the siege of Leningrad.

    His parents were poor but he would take any gift from them even while knowing they couldn’t afford it. Just read about the watch story in his autobiography.

    Putin is a spoiled brat with arrested development and permanent insecurities over his small stature.

    not really hardworking, but a lifelong learner who reads a lot

    He skipped every book on WW1/WW2 military strategy. He seemed surprised that they had Western dependencies on computer chips which shows he didn’t take a cursory glance at their imports.

    can take a joke at his own expense

    You can get prison time for depicting him as a crab in a child’s drawing.

    marital life was initial tumultuous before ultimately settling down

    He is 71 and banging some young gymnast.

    get along with anyone

    Well astronomy has been officially confirmed as a load of bullshit.

    I guess the alignment of the planets don’t actually determine your genetic traits and life path.

    those of you who know more about Putin can tell us how accurate or inaccurate this is. It’s sounds really accurate from what I know about the guy

    Have you heard of the prank where they read the same astronomy reading to a large group and they all thought it “sounds right”?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people. It is best if the subject is not known to the soothsayer, that is a lot more interesting.

    The gymnast is 40 now, I guess they were in their 50's and 20's at the start. Not surprising that a hot young thing might hook up with a powerful man on the world stage, hypergamy and all that.

    I want to hear more about VVP's psychic abilities.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson

  136. @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...grossly overestimate the importance of nationality. Those who currently rule the “democratic” West don’t give a hoot about that.
     
    I agree about the elites. But to try to run the very complex global empire requires managing people. The context was: how does Macron get enough young Frenchies to go and die in the Ukie steppes? They can be ordered and paid well, but for an undertaking that risky they need to also stir up some emotions.

    The traditional Western way is to demonize the enemy: first the leader and his entourage, then enlarge to the misguided people supporting him. Add a few historical lies like "they have always attacked us!", it was bad "weather" for the Napoleon fiasco, or "you know, Nazis could have won!", even that Russians and Germans started WW2 maybe even attacking France together (people are very stupid). You also scare people that "Russians will invade Bretagne!" - Russia has never started a war against the West, it has always been vice-versa, but we are back to people simply being stupid.

    In that context the nationality matters. My point is that in the liberal world there is literally no other 'nationality' or group that can be used as an enemy other then Slavs with Russians as the convenient stand-in. Some in the elites may still even have bitter resentments for the WW2 loss or in US for the tense fear of the Cold War that was never properly cured since it just ended with no bang.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    My point is that in the liberal world there is literally no other ‘nationality’ or group that can be used as an enemy other then Slavs with Russians as the convenient stand-in.

    They are still trying “Islamic terrorists” scarecrow, even though most “Islamic terrorists” today are directly or indirectly armed and trained by the imperial and affiliated secret services (Mujahideenin in Afghanistan, Chechen cutthroats, ISIS, other bandits in Syria, etc.). Then there are Arabs who are routinely considered untermenschen, Chinese, other Asians, Latinos, Africans. So, Slavs, including Russians, only stand out as named enemies whose whiteness cannot be denied.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...Slavs, including Russians, only stand out as named enemies whose whiteness cannot be denied.
     
    But the liberal world of today must focus on white enemies. Who else could they go after?

    Arabs who are routinely considered untermenschen, Chinese, other Asians, Latinos, Africans.
     
    Good candidates but they can't be the main designated devils. Their demonization is functional: with Arabs it is Palestine, among Latins only specific leaders are demonized, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, or Brazil. Africans as a group can't do no wrong. Non-Chinese Asians are never attacked with emotional hatred. Chinese are the likely future "devil" enemy, but as of now, they are barely runner-ups.

    Russians are unique in that they fit all the criteria for the designated hated group: white, Christian Europeans, restricted "LGBTQ", long war history with Europe that one can project almost anything - some of it even true.

    The West is stuck, largely out of cheap resources, people don't like to work hard in real jobs, short of men willing to die in the plunder economy the West has been running for centuries. They can still kill for it but can no longer die. That's a huge problem. Plus the migrants, the gender collapse, and the late-stage capitalist massive corruption.

    Russia as an enemy is a god-send, it buys time. Finding the Ukies was a stroke of luck, at the beginning I sensed that the Westie elites were not sure these atavistic morons were for real - even I doubted it - but it turned out that they are. That's why Borrel says gleefully "let's not end the war"...this is good for them, they have no place to go after this.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  137. @John Johnson
    @songbird

    He is objectively fat and a terrible actor. Have never enjoyed one of his films. You would have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch his direct to video releases. But is he really a loser?

    He is worth millions of dollars, while the vast majority of actors have no money. I would say he has done pretty well for himself out of his peer group

    Yes he is a loser.

    He did indeed make millions and still wants to play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior.

    Here he is pretending to be a ninja master for a Russian audience through the art of choreography:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEx8Moy7ro

    But not a loser. Like it or not, he is a winner, if on a smaller scale than Cruise or Schwarzenegger.

    I don't think being a loser is automatically excluded by wealth or success in Hollywood.

    You can have endless wealth and still be a loser. Seagal has 7 children and instead of spending time with them he wants to fly around the world and pretend that he is a Japanese master warrior with the body of a short order cook. That is a loser.

    Replies: @songbird, @QCIC, @sudden death

    Seagal should try doing some remake of those movie series below cause he straight out morphed into Bud Spencer phenotype;)

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @sudden death

    Spencer started out athletic as well.

  138. Mikhail says: • Website
    @songbird
    @John Johnson


    play dress-up Japanese samurai warrior... Here he is pretending to be a ninja master
     
    It is called aikido. Whether or not he is good at it, I leave open to interpretation, though he does have a certain following. Looks like a crowd of thousands in that clip.

    Yes he is a loser.
     
    A liar and a scoundrel. A lecher. Not an A-lister, but neither a loser.

    He is easily above the 99th percentile in wealth globally. And well above that in fame. He is outperforming the vast majority of people and nearly everyone in his chosen field.

    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser. Just someone who got wealthy by making bad movies.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP, @Mikhail

    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn’t be hypocritically attacked.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+arrests&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=O9U3ZuzWA4Kh0PEPtqO4uAw&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfjS2jj1w5AdALKl9VKMnXhrpd1IFm3&ved=0ahUKEwis4JGLl_eFAxWCEDQIHbYRDscQ4dUDCBM&oq=sean+penn+arrests&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhFzZWFuIHBlbm4gYXJyZXN0c0ijM1AAWLwocAB4AJABAJgBYKABrwmqAQIxN7gBDMgBAPgBAZgCDKAChQjCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBjRAxjHAcICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIUEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwEYigXCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGNQCGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAgUQLhiABMICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAgUQABiABMICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEYY-wHCAgsQABiABBiGAxiKBZgDAJIHBDExLjGgB-WtAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+ukraine&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=3dU3ZoSYAYjN0PEPooWGgAs&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfj7RLGNaj-6PVsw57ItJnVA1fPHMGA&ved=0ahUKEwjE-q7Yl_eFAxWIJjQIHaKCAbAQ4dUDCA8&oq=sean+penn+ukraine&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn’t be hypocritically attacked.

    People were making fun of Seagal well before decided to be buddies with Putin. r

    I'm really not a fan of anything Sean Penn has done in the last decade or so. I like him in 80s movies like Colors and Fast Times. I haven't seen his Ukraine documentary but it is in my queue.

    I will put Seagal well ahead of Ritter and Russel Brand however. Seagal is a goofball but doesn't whip out his dick at the office.

    , @songbird
    @Mikhail


    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn’t be hypocritically attacked
     
    Probably. But he is a fairly controversial figure even outside of politics, and within the field of martial arts. People have high expectations for guys who play heroes, but he has a reputation for being an A-hole, liar, and womanizer.

    I think "scoundrel" is a correct assessment, but not really "loser." Though his recent movies are certainly unwatchable.

    Replies: @Mikhail

  139. @AP
    @QCIC


    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    …in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.

    What was the reason for this?
     
    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer, who later went corporate (much better pay, he wasn't corrupt enough at his job to support a family).

    He said that when the security organs were staffed by people from such background during Stalin's time, they were too bloody and murderous, and the USSR (and later Russia) didn't want that anymore.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies, and that there was a wave of western Ukrainians joining in the 1950s and 1960s. Those people were seen as gifted for such work. That was the person I knew in Russia who ever had anything good to say about Banderists.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Realhistory43, @Gerard1234

    Why is there so much problem with the banderitas? Even if they collaborated with the Nazis, it was better for non-Jewish Ukrainians than the Soviet regime that turned them into a shithole.

  140. Mikhail says: • Website
    @sudden death
    @Mikhail

    Since the land gains suddenly became not that important, guess another metrics can also be taken into account of gaining super strenghts - like RF soldiers beginning riding in imported open air golf carts instead of armoured cars/IFVs when having to deal with UA drones everywhere near the battlegrounds;)

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Since the land gains suddenly became not that important, guess another metrics can also be taken into account of gaining super strenghts – like RF soldiers beginning riding in imported open air golf carts instead of armoured cars/IFVs when having to deal with UA drones everywhere near the battlegrounds;)

    In that wacky alternative world from reality that some still subscribe to. It was never really so much about acquiring land as the Minsk Accords and the almost signed agreement in Istanbul clearly indicate. Once again, the Russian armed forces have gotten stronger since 2/24/22 with the Kiev regime’s going in the opposite direction.

    Only a matter of time.

    • Replies: @A123
    @Mikhail


    It was never really so much about acquiring land as the Minsk Accords and the almost signed agreement in Istanbul clearly indicate.
     
    I concur.

    Not to mention that Putin made gains that cannot be measured in km² of land.

    • The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant [NNPP] will drive Russian economic activity in the region.
    • Access to the Dnieper has removed the Collective Punishment Dam. After the fighting ends, a modest amount of construction to refill the canals will restore fresh water to Crimean farmers.

    Russian victims of Kiev aggression are now winning in land, energy, and natural resources.

    PEACE 😇
  141. QCIC says:
    @AP
    @songbird


    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser
     
    You are being pedantic.

    People are judged by their peers and not in comparison to the average person.

    It’s why Dubya is considered an idiot, even though objectively he is smarter and more educated than 95% of the general population (based on entrance exam scores his IQ is about 120 and he graduated from one of the world’s top universities). But as a world leader, he was a disastrous moron.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self, who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable. He’s basically unemployable. As a celebrity and movie star, he is a loser.

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird, @Mr. XYZ

    My hunch is that Dubya is pretty dumb and his scores and grades could be faked. He comes from a milieu where I believe that sort of thing would be uncontroversial. However, he reportedly flew F101 fighter aircraft which counts for something, though long ago I read a harsh critique of his piloting skills. Probably not as bad as McCain though.

    +++

    I skimmed Seagal’s wiki page. I conclude that his first wife doesn’t like him very much and that he is a lively character.

  142. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    mother either died young or didn’t love Vlad

    The opposite happened. He was an only child and was spoiled with attention by both parents. They lost their other son in the siege of Leningrad.

    His parents were poor but he would take any gift from them even while knowing they couldn't afford it. Just read about the watch story in his autobiography.

    Putin is a spoiled brat with arrested development and permanent insecurities over his small stature.

    not really hardworking, but a lifelong learner who reads a lot

    He skipped every book on WW1/WW2 military strategy. He seemed surprised that they had Western dependencies on computer chips which shows he didn't take a cursory glance at their imports.

    can take a joke at his own expense

    You can get prison time for depicting him as a crab in a child's drawing.

    marital life was initial tumultuous before ultimately settling down

    He is 71 and banging some young gymnast.

    get along with anyone

    Well astronomy has been officially confirmed as a load of bullshit.

    I guess the alignment of the planets don't actually determine your genetic traits and life path.

    those of you who know more about Putin can tell us how accurate or inaccurate this is. It’s sounds really accurate from what I know about the guy

    Have you heard of the prank where they read the same astronomy reading to a large group and they all thought it "sounds right"?

    Replies: @QCIC

    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people. It is best if the subject is not known to the soothsayer, that is a lot more interesting.

    The gymnast is 40 now, I guess they were in their 50’s and 20’s at the start. Not surprising that a hot young thing might hook up with a powerful man on the world stage, hypergamy and all that.

    I want to hear more about VVP’s psychic abilities.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @QCIC


    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people
     
    That is more for the personality readings, although even then not always. Saying that the guy would use shady means abroad to amass a fortune and that he would achieve great political power are specific things that would decidedly not apply to most people.

    I don't know if Vlad has any interest in art or music, but that seems very unlikely. I also can't imagine him writing short stories.

    Also, with Putin it's really messed up because his "parents" may actually have been his grandparents... which ironically kinda fits in with his chart

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people. It is best if the subject is not known to the soothsayer, that is a lot more interesting.

    The Chinese Zodiac is even more ridiculous. Everyone born in the same year gets similar personality traits.

    The gymnast is 40 now, I guess they were in their 50’s and 20’s at the start. Not surprising that a hot young thing might hook up with a powerful man on the world stage, hypergamy and all that.

    That kind of implies "those that can do" as if men only operate based on option.

    I had a very good looking woman offer herself to me at work a few years ago and I turned it down. I am not going to betray my wife for some casual sex. Putin probably never actually liked his wife and just viewed her as a trophy.

    I want to hear more about VVP’s psychic abilities.

    Hmmm I'm guessing that clairvoyance is not one of his strong traits.

  143. @sudden death
    @John Johnson

    Seagal should try doing some remake of those movie series below cause he straight out morphed into Bud Spencer phenotype;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuPbrwHTQpY

    Replies: @QCIC

    Spencer started out athletic as well.

  144. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people. It is best if the subject is not known to the soothsayer, that is a lot more interesting.

    The gymnast is 40 now, I guess they were in their 50's and 20's at the start. Not surprising that a hot young thing might hook up with a powerful man on the world stage, hypergamy and all that.

    I want to hear more about VVP's psychic abilities.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson

    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people

    That is more for the personality readings, although even then not always. Saying that the guy would use shady means abroad to amass a fortune and that he would achieve great political power are specific things that would decidedly not apply to most people.

    I don’t know if Vlad has any interest in art or music, but that seems very unlikely. I also can’t imagine him writing short stories.

    Also, with Putin it’s really messed up because his “parents” may actually have been his grandparents… which ironically kinda fits in with his chart

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Greasy William


    Vlad
     
    Poor Westies, cannot get anything in Russia right, even names. Short form of Vladimir is Volodya, not Vlad. Short of Vladislav is Slava, not Vlad, either. Vlad is the short of Vladlen, and artificial Soviet-era name (combination of the first syllables of Vladimir Lenin), which was pretty rare back then and has now essentially disappeared.

    Replies: @A123, @John Johnson, @AP

  145. @Greasy William
    @QCIC


    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people
     
    That is more for the personality readings, although even then not always. Saying that the guy would use shady means abroad to amass a fortune and that he would achieve great political power are specific things that would decidedly not apply to most people.

    I don't know if Vlad has any interest in art or music, but that seems very unlikely. I also can't imagine him writing short stories.

    Also, with Putin it's really messed up because his "parents" may actually have been his grandparents... which ironically kinda fits in with his chart

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    Vlad

    Poor Westies, cannot get anything in Russia right, even names. Short form of Vladimir is Volodya, not Vlad. Short of Vladislav is Slava, not Vlad, either. Vlad is the short of Vladlen, and artificial Soviet-era name (combination of the first syllables of Vladimir Lenin), which was pretty rare back then and has now essentially disappeared.

    • Replies: @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    Vlad The Impaler is much less catchy if you try to change it.

    PEACE 😇

     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/83/98/808398b2747f23ce6867cb2bb931ac08.jpg

    , @John Johnson
    @AnonfromTN

    Poor Westies, cannot get anything in Russia right, even names. Short form of Vladimir is Volodya, not Vlad.

    No one cares.

    Poor Easties in America can't say Big Mac without saying Big Mock. The long a gives them grief.

    It takes them years to say want instead of vant.

    The other funny one is "You want I go?"

    I know a Slav who has been here for like 20 years and still can't break that habit.

    You vant I go get Big Mock.....yes? I like Big Mock with French fries.

    The difference is that I don't look down at him because I don't base my identity on such things. It isn't his first language and I don't care. We can have a Big Mock together. Not a big deal.

    , @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    Short form of Vladimir is Volodya
     
    I prefer Vovchyk.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  146. A123 says: • Website
    @Mikhail
    @sudden death


    Since the land gains suddenly became not that important, guess another metrics can also be taken into account of gaining super strenghts – like RF soldiers beginning riding in imported open air golf carts instead of armoured cars/IFVs when having to deal with UA drones everywhere near the battlegrounds;)
     
    In that wacky alternative world from reality that some still subscribe to. It was never really so much about acquiring land as the Minsk Accords and the almost signed agreement in Istanbul clearly indicate. Once again, the Russian armed forces have gotten stronger since 2/24/22 with the Kiev regime's going in the opposite direction.

    Only a matter of time.

    Replies: @A123

    It was never really so much about acquiring land as the Minsk Accords and the almost signed agreement in Istanbul clearly indicate.

    I concur.

    Not to mention that Putin made gains that cannot be measured in km² of land.

    • The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant [NNPP] will drive Russian economic activity in the region.
    • Access to the Dnieper has removed the Collective Punishment Dam. After the fighting ends, a modest amount of construction to refill the canals will restore fresh water to Crimean farmers.

    Russian victims of Kiev aggression are now winning in land, energy, and natural resources.

    PEACE 😇

  147. @Mikhail
    @songbird

    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn't be hypocritically attacked.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+arrests&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=O9U3ZuzWA4Kh0PEPtqO4uAw&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfjS2jj1w5AdALKl9VKMnXhrpd1IFm3&ved=0ahUKEwis4JGLl_eFAxWCEDQIHbYRDscQ4dUDCBM&oq=sean+penn+arrests&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhFzZWFuIHBlbm4gYXJyZXN0c0ijM1AAWLwocAB4AJABAJgBYKABrwmqAQIxN7gBDMgBAPgBAZgCDKAChQjCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBjRAxjHAcICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIUEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwEYigXCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGNQCGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAgUQLhiABMICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAgUQABiABMICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEYY-wHCAgsQABiABBiGAxiKBZgDAJIHBDExLjGgB-WtAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+ukraine&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=3dU3ZoSYAYjN0PEPooWGgAs&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfj7RLGNaj-6PVsw57ItJnVA1fPHMGA&ved=0ahUKEwjE-q7Yl_eFAxWIJjQIHaKCAbAQ4dUDCA8&oq=sean+penn+ukraine&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz

    Replies: @John Johnson, @songbird

    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn’t be hypocritically attacked.

    People were making fun of Seagal well before decided to be buddies with Putin. r

    I’m really not a fan of anything Sean Penn has done in the last decade or so. I like him in 80s movies like Colors and Fast Times. I haven’t seen his Ukraine documentary but it is in my queue.

    I will put Seagal well ahead of Ritter and Russel Brand however. Seagal is a goofball but doesn’t whip out his dick at the office.

  148. @AnonfromTN
    @Greasy William


    Vlad
     
    Poor Westies, cannot get anything in Russia right, even names. Short form of Vladimir is Volodya, not Vlad. Short of Vladislav is Slava, not Vlad, either. Vlad is the short of Vladlen, and artificial Soviet-era name (combination of the first syllables of Vladimir Lenin), which was pretty rare back then and has now essentially disappeared.

    Replies: @A123, @John Johnson, @AP

    Vlad The Impaler is much less catchy if you try to change it.

    PEACE 😇

     

  149. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    So what are you implying, Nuland being an assistant implies McCain was the brains of the operation? LOL, that’s a good one!

    Not at all. I'm asking you what Nuland did exactly.

    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party
    https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-parliament-votes-oust-yanukovich-sets-may-election-151836020.html

    Putin defenders talk of Nuland during that time but don't provide any causal statements. The most I have seen is that she made some comments about wanting a change and is of course somehow guilty by way of being Jewish.

    Maybe you can clear that up for them as they haven't been able to explain it rationally. Anglin's followers make comments like "Nuland.....Jewish.....Ukraine....CIA" without explaining how it all goes together.

    Nuland said she would like some new changes in Ukraine. So what? How is that political intervention? I would like some changes in Russia. That doesn't mean I am involved in some conspiracy.

    I assume the Ukrainian political process was easily manipulated by Western money and intrigues before, during and after Maidan.

    You believe the pro-Russian party was manipulated by Western money? What about the 2019 election?

    Was Yanukovich guilty of treason or do you believe he was innocent? Do you think his mansion was paid for with legitimate funds even if he couldn't explain them?

    Replies: @QCIC, @Derer

    In this situation of the West pressuring Russia in Ukraine I base my outlook on the big picture which includes these well known points:

    – NATO expansion against Russian security concerns (broken Western promises)
    – USA dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties
    – Aggressive Western meddling in the Russian sphere of influence including Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and probably Chechnya
    – USA emplacing missile sites in Romania and Poland which confirmed Western interest in an expanded nuclear strike capability against Russia.

    I don’t care much about the details of political life in Ukraine since I don’t know what details are accurate or important. I don’t think you have this knowledge either. The current president is simply an actor put in place by Ukrainian Jewish oligarchs to implement a shared project with the West against Russia.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Aggressive Western meddling in the Russian sphere of influence including Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and probably Chechnya

    Why is Ukraine in the Russian sphere of influence? Who gets to decide that?

    What about Syria? Are they in this Russian sphere of influence or is that meddling?

    Who do you agree with on Crimea? Modern Putin or 2008 Putin? They hold contradictory opinions. 2008 Putin said it belongs to Ukraine. Who is correct?

    USA emplacing missile sites in Romania and Poland which confirmed Western interest in an expanded nuclear strike capability against Russia.

    Which missiles sites are you talking about? The 24 SM-3 ballistic-missile interceptors? They do not have nuclear warheads so you're wrong.......again. SM-3s are defensive:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sm-3-missile-defense-the-us-navy-can-hit-a-bullet-with-a-bullet/ar-AA1nZsww

    Do explain how either side can increase their capability with nuclear missiles on the border if both sides are completely annihilated by submarines in any exchange.

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @Derer
    @QCIC

    Putin is wrong for not exploiting reciprocated policies that would be much more effective. Namely, if there are the US missile sites in Poland or Romania, or in China Sea, there should be reciprocal Russian or Chinese bases in Venezuela or Cuba or Nicaragua, (keep working on Mexico and Brazil too). That would make immediate attention from toothless Yankees. It is wrong to allow and be passive to Washington warmongers unilateral and illiterate actions - essentially that leads to indirect encouragement.

  150. @AP
    @songbird


    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser
     
    You are being pedantic.

    People are judged by their peers and not in comparison to the average person.

    It’s why Dubya is considered an idiot, even though objectively he is smarter and more educated than 95% of the general population (based on entrance exam scores his IQ is about 120 and he graduated from one of the world’s top universities). But as a world leader, he was a disastrous moron.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self, who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable. He’s basically unemployable. As a celebrity and movie star, he is a loser.

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird, @Mr. XYZ

    You are being pedantic.

    True, but that is the whole point of this forum.

    People are judged by their peers

    I agree 100%. But you are placing him in the wrong peer group – movie stars. The correct peer group is martial arts movie stars, who are racially non-Asian and were famous in the ’80s/’90s. The kind of people kids from that era who took martial arts admired.

    It is kind of a fringe group and fringe audience.

    [MORE]

    Not included are people famous for taking steroids and shooting guns, like Stallone and Schwarzenegger who have little or no training, or didn’t gain roles from it. Or people chosen for their looks or acting ability like Tom Cruise.

    Also not included are people like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, who had greater markets or populations to draw fame from. (At least eventually)

    What is needed is some pretension to martial arts. People doing high kicks or splits or throws. People promoting them and being associated with them.

    To be generous, let’s include Chuck Norris, even though his fame started earlier and he was the first with his foot in the door. That would probably bump Seagal down to #3, rather than #2. Still a winner, still on the podium.

    Seagal’s true peers are people like Cythia Rothruck and Van Damme. Don “the Dragon” Wilson who although a hapa I think only made Western movies.

    Norris has 5 kids. Van Damme 3. Rothruck 1. Seagal 7. He has top fertility of that group.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self,

    The hand of time is cruel to us all.

    who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable.

    He is half Ashkenazi, and never seems to have felt strong roots. He lived in Japan for a number of years, before abandoning his wife and children there. (That is why I say he is a scoundrel) His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.

    He’s basically unemployable.

    this is actually true for a lot of actors that age (what is the last blockbuster Schwarzenegger or Stallone was in?), not to mention martial arts stars specifically. But he is like 72. A good age to retire.

    he is a loser.

    A great sinner, whose days of glory are far behind him, certainly, but that is not what most people mean by the word.

    IMO, calling him a loser is tantamount to saying the elderly are losers.

    • Agree: QCIC
    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Jackie Chan has a star on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd.

    No Van Damme and no Seagal.

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

    Randy Newman has one. : )

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird

    , @LatW
    @songbird


    His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.
     
    Can't believe you're writing this with a straight face. Back off pseudo-Celt.

    The Tsar banned them into the Pale of Settlement - offloaded them onto us. With everything that comes with it - and you and the darned RusFedians dont' want to take any responsibility.

    This washed up has been is literally fighting against his own people, against his ancestral lands. So ungrateful.

    Pathetic.

    Find something better to do with your life - on the Irish side. At least, the Chuck Norris jokes have some value - as they are entertaining.

    Replies: @songbird, @Gerard1234

  151. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people. It is best if the subject is not known to the soothsayer, that is a lot more interesting.

    The gymnast is 40 now, I guess they were in their 50's and 20's at the start. Not surprising that a hot young thing might hook up with a powerful man on the world stage, hypergamy and all that.

    I want to hear more about VVP's psychic abilities.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson

    It is humorous that astrological readings can be so adaptable for different people. It is best if the subject is not known to the soothsayer, that is a lot more interesting.

    The Chinese Zodiac is even more ridiculous. Everyone born in the same year gets similar personality traits.

    The gymnast is 40 now, I guess they were in their 50’s and 20’s at the start. Not surprising that a hot young thing might hook up with a powerful man on the world stage, hypergamy and all that.

    That kind of implies “those that can do” as if men only operate based on option.

    I had a very good looking woman offer herself to me at work a few years ago and I turned it down. I am not going to betray my wife for some casual sex. Putin probably never actually liked his wife and just viewed her as a trophy.

    I want to hear more about VVP’s psychic abilities.

    Hmmm I’m guessing that clairvoyance is not one of his strong traits.

  152. @AnonfromTN
    @Philip Owen


    RU losses and Phyrric victories.
     
    Sure thing. The hysterics on the imperial patch clearly show that the RF had only losses and Pyrrhic victories in the war in Ukraine.

    Replies: @Jazman

    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Jazman


    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies
     
    Western propaganda, which Ukies habitually parrot, is always a pack of lies.

    However, there is a precedent in the literature. Remember Tolkien’s “The return of the King”? In that book the army of the dead also fought on the side of the good, against Sauron’r orcs. So, that won’t be the first time the dead fight against the evil and beat it.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  153. @Mikhail
    @songbird

    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn't be hypocritically attacked.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+arrests&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=O9U3ZuzWA4Kh0PEPtqO4uAw&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfjS2jj1w5AdALKl9VKMnXhrpd1IFm3&ved=0ahUKEwis4JGLl_eFAxWCEDQIHbYRDscQ4dUDCBM&oq=sean+penn+arrests&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhFzZWFuIHBlbm4gYXJyZXN0c0ijM1AAWLwocAB4AJABAJgBYKABrwmqAQIxN7gBDMgBAPgBAZgCDKAChQjCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBjRAxjHAcICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIUEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwEYigXCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGNQCGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAgUQLhiABMICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAgUQABiABMICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEYY-wHCAgsQABiABBiGAxiKBZgDAJIHBDExLjGgB-WtAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sean+penn+ukraine&sca_esv=16ed921c8ce5d289&sca_upv=1&source=hp&ei=3dU3ZoSYAYjN0PEPooWGgAs&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZjfj7RLGNaj-6PVsw57ItJnVA1fPHMGA&ved=0ahUKEwjE-q7Yl_eFAxWIJjQIHaKCAbAQ4dUDCA8&oq=sean+penn+ukraine&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz

    Replies: @John Johnson, @songbird

    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn’t be hypocritically attacked

    Probably. But he is a fairly controversial figure even outside of politics, and within the field of martial arts. People have high expectations for guys who play heroes, but he has a reputation for being an A-hole, liar, and womanizer.

    I think “scoundrel” is a correct assessment, but not really “loser.” Though his recent movies are certainly unwatchable.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @songbird

    Within the collective Western mainstream mindset, consider how Putin is portrayed when compared to the likes of Biden.

  154. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    My point is that in the liberal world there is literally no other ‘nationality’ or group that can be used as an enemy other then Slavs with Russians as the convenient stand-in.
     
    They are still trying “Islamic terrorists” scarecrow, even though most “Islamic terrorists” today are directly or indirectly armed and trained by the imperial and affiliated secret services (Mujahideenin in Afghanistan, Chechen cutthroats, ISIS, other bandits in Syria, etc.). Then there are Arabs who are routinely considered untermenschen, Chinese, other Asians, Latinos, Africans. So, Slavs, including Russians, only stand out as named enemies whose whiteness cannot be denied.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …Slavs, including Russians, only stand out as named enemies whose whiteness cannot be denied.

    But the liberal world of today must focus on white enemies. Who else could they go after?

    Arabs who are routinely considered untermenschen, Chinese, other Asians, Latinos, Africans.

    Good candidates but they can’t be the main designated devils. Their demonization is functional: with Arabs it is Palestine, among Latins only specific leaders are demonized, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, or Brazil. Africans as a group can’t do no wrong. Non-Chinese Asians are never attacked with emotional hatred. Chinese are the likely future “devil” enemy, but as of now, they are barely runner-ups.

    Russians are unique in that they fit all the criteria for the designated hated group: white, Christian Europeans, restricted “LGBTQ”, long war history with Europe that one can project almost anything – some of it even true.

    The West is stuck, largely out of cheap resources, people don’t like to work hard in real jobs, short of men willing to die in the plunder economy the West has been running for centuries. They can still kill for it but can no longer die. That’s a huge problem. Plus the migrants, the gender collapse, and the late-stage capitalist massive corruption.

    Russia as an enemy is a god-send, it buys time. Finding the Ukies was a stroke of luck, at the beginning I sensed that the Westie elites were not sure these atavistic morons were for real – even I doubted it – but it turned out that they are. That’s why Borrel says gleefully “let’s not end the war“…this is good for them, they have no place to go after this.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Beckow

    After the West will have to face China. That won’t be easy. And the Russians wouldn’t be there to help. The Chinese are actually probably happy with what is happening. It buys them precious time.

    Replies: @Greasy William

  155. @Jazman
    @AnonfromTN

    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies

    Western propaganda, which Ukies habitually parrot, is always a pack of lies.

    However, there is a precedent in the literature. Remember Tolkien’s “The return of the King”? In that book the army of the dead also fought on the side of the good, against Sauron’r orcs. So, that won’t be the first time the dead fight against the evil and beat it.

    • Agree: Jazman
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @AnonfromTN


    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies

     

    Western propaganda, which Ukies habitually parrot, is always a pack of lies.

    Western sources actually don't agree on number of Russians killed. For example the ISW and France have different estimates.

    But we can debate such ideas while in Russia they hunted down a pro-Russian blogger for reporting Avdiivka losses honestly.

    Er I mean he died of suicide.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/pro-war-russian-blogger-who-revealed-huge-avdiivka-losses-dies-by-suicide

  156. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    In this situation of the West pressuring Russia in Ukraine I base my outlook on the big picture which includes these well known points:

    - NATO expansion against Russian security concerns (broken Western promises)
    - USA dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties
    - Aggressive Western meddling in the Russian sphere of influence including Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and probably Chechnya
    - USA emplacing missile sites in Romania and Poland which confirmed Western interest in an expanded nuclear strike capability against Russia.

    I don't care much about the details of political life in Ukraine since I don't know what details are accurate or important. I don't think you have this knowledge either. The current president is simply an actor put in place by Ukrainian Jewish oligarchs to implement a shared project with the West against Russia.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer

    Aggressive Western meddling in the Russian sphere of influence including Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and probably Chechnya

    Why is Ukraine in the Russian sphere of influence? Who gets to decide that?

    What about Syria? Are they in this Russian sphere of influence or is that meddling?

    Who do you agree with on Crimea? Modern Putin or 2008 Putin? They hold contradictory opinions. 2008 Putin said it belongs to Ukraine. Who is correct?

    USA emplacing missile sites in Romania and Poland which confirmed Western interest in an expanded nuclear strike capability against Russia.

    Which missiles sites are you talking about? The 24 SM-3 ballistic-missile interceptors? They do not have nuclear warheads so you’re wrong…….again. SM-3s are defensive:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sm-3-missile-defense-the-us-navy-can-hit-a-bullet-with-a-bullet/ar-AA1nZsww

    Do explain how either side can increase their capability with nuclear missiles on the border if both sides are completely annihilated by submarines in any exchange.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I believe the big picture has a lot of influence on the little events. Sometimes it works the other way, but not always. People who are confused by this conflict should zoom out and think about the big picture.

    Ukraine is in the Russian sphere of influence because it has been closely linked to Russia for over a thousand years. They were part of the same country on and off for centuries until 1991. Obviously they get to decide these things together. The problem is the West manipulated anti-Russian nationalist factions within Ukraine in order to take down Russia. This process goes back to WW2 and the West has flaunted this information.

    The Syrians requested Russian assistance to avoid being overrun by Israel, the USA and Turkey. I bet they were surprised they got the help.

    Are you really confused by Putin? LOL. He meant Crimea belongs to Ukraine as long as Ukraine is a friendly brother or at least partner to Russia. I am sure that in 2000 most Ukrainian leaders fully understood this. The stupid seems to have kicked in rapidly after then.

    ABM defenses are part of the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) framework and are only defensive on paper since they are part of first strike calculations. If the USA didn't want Russia to be concerned over these American missiles bases in former Warsaw-pact countries then our leaders should not have dropped out of the ABM and other important nuclear arms control treaties. The full ABM network also includes Aegis destroyers suitably stationed, probably in the Black, Baltic and Barents Seas. It is well known the US previously developed nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles, earlier nuclear armed versions of Standard Missiles and even nuclear-armed ASROC rocket propelled torpedos which could be updated and adapted to vertical launch canister systems used at the Aegis Ashore sites. Not to mention new higher performance missiles which can be developed. The problem with dropping nuclear treaties includes broken trust and ambiguous intentions on the part of the West. The Russian military takes this seriously, especially with aggressive NATO expansion. While submarines are important, I assume that some serious counter measures exist for nuclear ICBM submarines (in addition to preemptive strikes with nuclear armed torpedos). Both sides have all of these capabilities; the problem is the West decided to make aggressive moves against Russia since some idiot thought the Kremlin was weak enough to fold and submit to Western demands of some sort. This is why there is a war in Ukraine.

  157. @AnonfromTN
    @Jazman


    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies
     
    Western propaganda, which Ukies habitually parrot, is always a pack of lies.

    However, there is a precedent in the literature. Remember Tolkien’s “The return of the King”? In that book the army of the dead also fought on the side of the good, against Sauron’r orcs. So, that won’t be the first time the dead fight against the evil and beat it.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    I do not get so far Ukies killed 460.000 Ru soldiers look like Russians winning with zombies

    Western propaganda, which Ukies habitually parrot, is always a pack of lies.

    Western sources actually don’t agree on number of Russians killed. For example the ISW and France have different estimates.

    But we can debate such ideas while in Russia they hunted down a pro-Russian blogger for reporting Avdiivka losses honestly.

    Er I mean he died of suicide.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/pro-war-russian-blogger-who-revealed-huge-avdiivka-losses-dies-by-suicide

  158. @AnonfromTN
    @Greasy William


    Vlad
     
    Poor Westies, cannot get anything in Russia right, even names. Short form of Vladimir is Volodya, not Vlad. Short of Vladislav is Slava, not Vlad, either. Vlad is the short of Vladlen, and artificial Soviet-era name (combination of the first syllables of Vladimir Lenin), which was pretty rare back then and has now essentially disappeared.

    Replies: @A123, @John Johnson, @AP

    Poor Westies, cannot get anything in Russia right, even names. Short form of Vladimir is Volodya, not Vlad.

    No one cares.

    Poor Easties in America can’t say Big Mac without saying Big Mock. The long a gives them grief.

    It takes them years to say want instead of vant.

    The other funny one is “You want I go?”

    I know a Slav who has been here for like 20 years and still can’t break that habit.

    You vant I go get Big Mock…..yes? I like Big Mock with French fries.

    The difference is that I don’t look down at him because I don’t base my identity on such things. It isn’t his first language and I don’t care. We can have a Big Mock together. Not a big deal.

  159. Russia has cut all the major arteries supplying the tormentors of Donetsk.

    No-matter what people tell you about modern warfare its logistics thats King and the king of transport is rail…always will be in major land conflagrations.

    Kharkiv is losing their supply lines in with these southern transit points fed.

    We now address the question of the Dnipro bridges, why haven’t Russia blown them? Then I would say “how can Ukraine bring Russia its shiney western kit to be blow up, and why waste ammunition because when the time comes Ukraine will blow them up for Russia!”

    • Agree: Derer
  160. @songbird
    @AP


    You are being pedantic.
     
    True, but that is the whole point of this forum.

    People are judged by their peers
     
    I agree 100%. But you are placing him in the wrong peer group - movie stars. The correct peer group is martial arts movie stars, who are racially non-Asian and were famous in the '80s/'90s. The kind of people kids from that era who took martial arts admired.

    It is kind of a fringe group and fringe audience.

    Not included are people famous for taking steroids and shooting guns, like Stallone and Schwarzenegger who have little or no training, or didn't gain roles from it. Or people chosen for their looks or acting ability like Tom Cruise.

    Also not included are people like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, who had greater markets or populations to draw fame from. (At least eventually)

    What is needed is some pretension to martial arts. People doing high kicks or splits or throws. People promoting them and being associated with them.

    To be generous, let's include Chuck Norris, even though his fame started earlier and he was the first with his foot in the door. That would probably bump Seagal down to #3, rather than #2. Still a winner, still on the podium.

    Seagal's true peers are people like Cythia Rothruck and Van Damme. Don "the Dragon" Wilson who although a hapa I think only made Western movies.

    Norris has 5 kids. Van Damme 3. Rothruck 1. Seagal 7. He has top fertility of that group.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self,
     
    The hand of time is cruel to us all.

    who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable.
     
    He is half Ashkenazi, and never seems to have felt strong roots. He lived in Japan for a number of years, before abandoning his wife and children there. (That is why I say he is a scoundrel) His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.

    He’s basically unemployable.
     
    this is actually true for a lot of actors that age (what is the last blockbuster Schwarzenegger or Stallone was in?), not to mention martial arts stars specifically. But he is like 72. A good age to retire.

    he is a loser.
     
    A great sinner, whose days of glory are far behind him, certainly, but that is not what most people mean by the word.

    IMO, calling him a loser is tantamount to saying the elderly are losers.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

    Jackie Chan has a star on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd.

    No Van Damme and no Seagal.

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

    Randy Newman has one. : )

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    I vote for Jet Li, if only to spook John Johnson. Li is short enough to give JJ the heebie jeebies.

    Replies: @songbird

    , @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Jackie Chan has a star on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd.
     
    Jackie Chan is objectively worthier. It comes from being removed from the parental environment and beaten and starved since he was five, in order to do stunts. (Still I think his Hollywood movies were worse than the HK ones.)

    Only Western movie star I would remotely compare him to is Buster Keaton, whose father used to throw him around at about that age as part of a vaudeville act. Keaton was immensely talented especially creatively (honestly, probably not a talent Chan has) but Wuxia isn't really a Hollywood thing, so the stunts are somewhat different.

    No Van Damme and no Seagal.
     
    Van Damme might be the only Western movie star ever to have been able to do a full split. IMO, he should have one, just for that, even if most of his movies were bad. (Off the top of my head I want to say Bloodsport was his best.)

    Randy Newman has one. : )
     
    Well, of course, that was one of the streets in his song. Or was it?

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  161. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Aggressive Western meddling in the Russian sphere of influence including Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and probably Chechnya

    Why is Ukraine in the Russian sphere of influence? Who gets to decide that?

    What about Syria? Are they in this Russian sphere of influence or is that meddling?

    Who do you agree with on Crimea? Modern Putin or 2008 Putin? They hold contradictory opinions. 2008 Putin said it belongs to Ukraine. Who is correct?

    USA emplacing missile sites in Romania and Poland which confirmed Western interest in an expanded nuclear strike capability against Russia.

    Which missiles sites are you talking about? The 24 SM-3 ballistic-missile interceptors? They do not have nuclear warheads so you're wrong.......again. SM-3s are defensive:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sm-3-missile-defense-the-us-navy-can-hit-a-bullet-with-a-bullet/ar-AA1nZsww

    Do explain how either side can increase their capability with nuclear missiles on the border if both sides are completely annihilated by submarines in any exchange.

    Replies: @QCIC

    I believe the big picture has a lot of influence on the little events. Sometimes it works the other way, but not always. People who are confused by this conflict should zoom out and think about the big picture.

    Ukraine is in the Russian sphere of influence because it has been closely linked to Russia for over a thousand years. They were part of the same country on and off for centuries until 1991. Obviously they get to decide these things together. The problem is the West manipulated anti-Russian nationalist factions within Ukraine in order to take down Russia. This process goes back to WW2 and the West has flaunted this information.

    The Syrians requested Russian assistance to avoid being overrun by Israel, the USA and Turkey. I bet they were surprised they got the help.

    Are you really confused by Putin? LOL. He meant Crimea belongs to Ukraine as long as Ukraine is a friendly brother or at least partner to Russia. I am sure that in 2000 most Ukrainian leaders fully understood this. The stupid seems to have kicked in rapidly after then.

    ABM defenses are part of the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) framework and are only defensive on paper since they are part of first strike calculations. If the USA didn’t want Russia to be concerned over these American missiles bases in former Warsaw-pact countries then our leaders should not have dropped out of the ABM and other important nuclear arms control treaties. The full ABM network also includes Aegis destroyers suitably stationed, probably in the Black, Baltic and Barents Seas. It is well known the US previously developed nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles, earlier nuclear armed versions of Standard Missiles and even nuclear-armed ASROC rocket propelled torpedos which could be updated and adapted to vertical launch canister systems used at the Aegis Ashore sites. Not to mention new higher performance missiles which can be developed. The problem with dropping nuclear treaties includes broken trust and ambiguous intentions on the part of the West. The Russian military takes this seriously, especially with aggressive NATO expansion. While submarines are important, I assume that some serious counter measures exist for nuclear ICBM submarines (in addition to preemptive strikes with nuclear armed torpedos). Both sides have all of these capabilities; the problem is the West decided to make aggressive moves against Russia since some idiot thought the Kremlin was weak enough to fold and submit to Western demands of some sort. This is why there is a war in Ukraine.

  162. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Jackie Chan has a star on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd.

    No Van Damme and no Seagal.

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

    Randy Newman has one. : )

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird

    I vote for Jet Li, if only to spook John Johnson. Li is short enough to give JJ the heebie jeebies.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @QCIC

    Do we know where JJ was on the night that Hervé Villechaize "committed suicide?"

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Villechaize

    BTW, this sounds really horrible:


    He was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily
     
    I once had pain in my diaphragm and I think it was the worst pain I ever felt. Not the sharpest exactly, but still the worst. No pain is as bad as core pain, IMO.
  163. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Jackie Chan has a star on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd.

    No Van Damme and no Seagal.

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

    Randy Newman has one. : )

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird

    Jackie Chan has a star on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd.

    Jackie Chan is objectively worthier. It comes from being removed from the parental environment and beaten and starved since he was five, in order to do stunts. (Still I think his Hollywood movies were worse than the HK ones.)

    Only Western movie star I would remotely compare him to is Buster Keaton, whose father used to throw him around at about that age as part of a vaudeville act. Keaton was immensely talented especially creatively (honestly, probably not a talent Chan has) but Wuxia isn’t really a Hollywood thing, so the stunts are somewhat different.

    No Van Damme and no Seagal.

    Van Damme might be the only Western movie star ever to have been able to do a full split. IMO, he should have one, just for that, even if most of his movies were bad. (Off the top of my head I want to say Bloodsport was his best.)

    Randy Newman has one. : )

    Well, of course, that was one of the streets in his song. Or was it?

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Yes. The song pre-dates him becoming en-starred.

    Now to go really off on a tangent, Kris Kardashian made a music video with new lyrics to the Randy Newman song. I love my friends.

    Picture of OJ, Nicole, Kris, and Robert Kardashian at 1:51.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cwqOa7JFE

  164. @songbird
    @Mikhail


    If Segal was pro-Kiev regime like the geopolitically foolish Sean Penn and a certain girly man spokesperson, he wouldn’t be hypocritically attacked
     
    Probably. But he is a fairly controversial figure even outside of politics, and within the field of martial arts. People have high expectations for guys who play heroes, but he has a reputation for being an A-hole, liar, and womanizer.

    I think "scoundrel" is a correct assessment, but not really "loser." Though his recent movies are certainly unwatchable.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Within the collective Western mainstream mindset, consider how Putin is portrayed when compared to the likes of Biden.

  165. The Maasai mayor of Derry is saying that black contributions have been erased from Irish history.

    Someone should make a diverse parody version of the annals, inserting blacks and other groups.

    1350 AD: Shaniqua-the-fatherless Nigerian had her hair touched by Tom Mac Tom Ua Neill. Thereafter she allied with Lizzo ni Oprah and led a great preying incursion into Ulster, forcing the Irish to pay black rent. There was a great want of watermelons and pork chops that year.

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  166. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    In this situation of the West pressuring Russia in Ukraine I base my outlook on the big picture which includes these well known points:

    - NATO expansion against Russian security concerns (broken Western promises)
    - USA dropping out of nuclear arms control treaties
    - Aggressive Western meddling in the Russian sphere of influence including Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and probably Chechnya
    - USA emplacing missile sites in Romania and Poland which confirmed Western interest in an expanded nuclear strike capability against Russia.

    I don't care much about the details of political life in Ukraine since I don't know what details are accurate or important. I don't think you have this knowledge either. The current president is simply an actor put in place by Ukrainian Jewish oligarchs to implement a shared project with the West against Russia.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer

    Putin is wrong for not exploiting reciprocated policies that would be much more effective. Namely, if there are the US missile sites in Poland or Romania, or in China Sea, there should be reciprocal Russian or Chinese bases in Venezuela or Cuba or Nicaragua, (keep working on Mexico and Brazil too). That would make immediate attention from toothless Yankees. It is wrong to allow and be passive to Washington warmongers unilateral and illiterate actions – essentially that leads to indirect encouragement.

  167. @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...Slavs, including Russians, only stand out as named enemies whose whiteness cannot be denied.
     
    But the liberal world of today must focus on white enemies. Who else could they go after?

    Arabs who are routinely considered untermenschen, Chinese, other Asians, Latinos, Africans.
     
    Good candidates but they can't be the main designated devils. Their demonization is functional: with Arabs it is Palestine, among Latins only specific leaders are demonized, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, or Brazil. Africans as a group can't do no wrong. Non-Chinese Asians are never attacked with emotional hatred. Chinese are the likely future "devil" enemy, but as of now, they are barely runner-ups.

    Russians are unique in that they fit all the criteria for the designated hated group: white, Christian Europeans, restricted "LGBTQ", long war history with Europe that one can project almost anything - some of it even true.

    The West is stuck, largely out of cheap resources, people don't like to work hard in real jobs, short of men willing to die in the plunder economy the West has been running for centuries. They can still kill for it but can no longer die. That's a huge problem. Plus the migrants, the gender collapse, and the late-stage capitalist massive corruption.

    Russia as an enemy is a god-send, it buys time. Finding the Ukies was a stroke of luck, at the beginning I sensed that the Westie elites were not sure these atavistic morons were for real - even I doubted it - but it turned out that they are. That's why Borrel says gleefully "let's not end the war"...this is good for them, they have no place to go after this.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    After the West will have to face China. That won’t be easy. And the Russians wouldn’t be there to help. The Chinese are actually probably happy with what is happening. It buys them precious time.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    Russia, China and Iran are the new Axis powers. Except this time they are self sufficient in food and energy. They still don't have the resources of the West but if the US retreats from it's role on the global stage, they could easily achieve all of their goals.

    Of course, just like the original Axis powers, they don't particularly like each other and suffer from horrendous internal problems

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  168. @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Jackie Chan has a star on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd.
     
    Jackie Chan is objectively worthier. It comes from being removed from the parental environment and beaten and starved since he was five, in order to do stunts. (Still I think his Hollywood movies were worse than the HK ones.)

    Only Western movie star I would remotely compare him to is Buster Keaton, whose father used to throw him around at about that age as part of a vaudeville act. Keaton was immensely talented especially creatively (honestly, probably not a talent Chan has) but Wuxia isn't really a Hollywood thing, so the stunts are somewhat different.

    No Van Damme and no Seagal.
     
    Van Damme might be the only Western movie star ever to have been able to do a full split. IMO, he should have one, just for that, even if most of his movies were bad. (Off the top of my head I want to say Bloodsport was his best.)

    Randy Newman has one. : )
     
    Well, of course, that was one of the streets in his song. Or was it?

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    Yes. The song pre-dates him becoming en-starred.

    Now to go really off on a tangent, Kris Kardashian made a music video with new lyrics to the Randy Newman song. I love my friends.

    Picture of OJ, Nicole, Kris, and Robert Kardashian at 1:51.

    • LOL: songbird
  169. @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    So what are you implying, Nuland being an assistant implies McCain was the brains of the operation? LOL, that’s a good one!

    Not at all. I'm asking you what Nuland did exactly.

    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party
    https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-parliament-votes-oust-yanukovich-sets-may-election-151836020.html

    Putin defenders talk of Nuland during that time but don't provide any causal statements. The most I have seen is that she made some comments about wanting a change and is of course somehow guilty by way of being Jewish.

    Maybe you can clear that up for them as they haven't been able to explain it rationally. Anglin's followers make comments like "Nuland.....Jewish.....Ukraine....CIA" without explaining how it all goes together.

    Nuland said she would like some new changes in Ukraine. So what? How is that political intervention? I would like some changes in Russia. That doesn't mean I am involved in some conspiracy.

    I assume the Ukrainian political process was easily manipulated by Western money and intrigues before, during and after Maidan.

    You believe the pro-Russian party was manipulated by Western money? What about the 2019 election?

    Was Yanukovich guilty of treason or do you believe he was innocent? Do you think his mansion was paid for with legitimate funds even if he couldn't explain them?

    Replies: @QCIC, @Derer

    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party

    The Ukrainian parliament deeply infiltrated by the Washington apparatchiks and bribes. Exemplified by the VP Biden corruption.

    Yanukovich election: “3149 observers and OECD declared it transparent and honest.”

    Do you know that an election is for 4 year term and Yanukovich refusal to put the US military bases on Crimea does not qualify for his impeachment.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Derer


    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party

     

    The Ukrainian parliament deeply infiltrated by the Washington apparatchiks and bribes. Exemplified by the VP Biden corruption.

    Even the pro-Russian party?

    Would you describe every election since 2014 as controlled by Washington?

    Replies: @Derer

    , @AnonfromTN
    @Derer

    All of this is last year’s snow, it does not matter any more.

    It appears that Russian leadership decided that the only course of action left to it is extermination of the current Kiev puppet regime. It brought criminal charges against the clown, his predecessor Porky, Avakov, and several lesser Kiev thieves and murderers, current or those who served in Porky’s time. A lot of Ukrainian scoundrels now will have to run away when Russian troops approach. Some might succeed, so the puppeteers will have to deal with a lot of useless Ukrainian thieves with no country to steal from.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mikhail, @Derer

  170. @Derer
    @John Johnson


    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party
     
    The Ukrainian parliament deeply infiltrated by the Washington apparatchiks and bribes. Exemplified by the VP Biden corruption.

    Yanukovich election: "3149 observers and OECD declared it transparent and honest."

    Do you know that an election is for 4 year term and Yanukovich refusal to put the US military bases on Crimea does not qualify for his impeachment.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AnonfromTN

    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party

    The Ukrainian parliament deeply infiltrated by the Washington apparatchiks and bribes. Exemplified by the VP Biden corruption.

    Even the pro-Russian party?

    Would you describe every election since 2014 as controlled by Washington?

    • Replies: @Derer
    @John Johnson

    Yes. Nuland, McCain, Biden fingerprints all over.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  171. @Derer
    @John Johnson


    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party
     
    The Ukrainian parliament deeply infiltrated by the Washington apparatchiks and bribes. Exemplified by the VP Biden corruption.

    Yanukovich election: "3149 observers and OECD declared it transparent and honest."

    Do you know that an election is for 4 year term and Yanukovich refusal to put the US military bases on Crimea does not qualify for his impeachment.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AnonfromTN

    All of this is last year’s snow, it does not matter any more.

    It appears that Russian leadership decided that the only course of action left to it is extermination of the current Kiev puppet regime. It brought criminal charges against the clown, his predecessor Porky, Avakov, and several lesser Kiev thieves and murderers, current or those who served in Porky’s time. A lot of Ukrainian scoundrels now will have to run away when Russian troops approach. Some might succeed, so the puppeteers will have to deal with a lot of useless Ukrainian thieves with no country to steal from.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @AnonfromTN

    A big pile of BS. Why aren't you as concerned about Putler and his bandwagon of "scoundrels and thieves"? It looks like the sanctions and the market are doing a wonderful job of putting them out of business, for at least 5 years, and then what. after the world moves on to other non-carbon sources of energy ?

    Bye, bye Gasprom!
    https://youtu.be/4HhuALHky7U

    7 billion loss in profits in one year; $38 billion loss in capitalization since 2022. Are you kidding me? Even your buddy Beckow won't be able to talk his way out of this one. Watch this clip and weep for Russia. :-(

    How dumb can you be?
    https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/n9j/n9jmxk-kamensky2.cagle.0730.jpg?w=1024&h=670

    , @Mikhail
    @AnonfromTN

    Whether done by the neocon influenced collective West or Russia, a Ukraine project is a considerable task.

    Saner heads in the West are needed to get things stabilized.

    , @Derer
    @AnonfromTN

    I think you are giving too much credence to the Kiev gang...they are designated PR workers and would be long gone if not for the real foreign culprits that are orchestrating this tragic play.

  172. @QCIC
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    I vote for Jet Li, if only to spook John Johnson. Li is short enough to give JJ the heebie jeebies.

    Replies: @songbird

    Do we know where JJ was on the night that Hervé Villechaize “committed suicide?”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Villechaize

    BTW, this sounds really horrible:

    He was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily

    I once had pain in my diaphragm and I think it was the worst pain I ever felt. Not the sharpest exactly, but still the worst. No pain is as bad as core pain, IMO.

  173. @AnonfromTN
    @Derer

    All of this is last year’s snow, it does not matter any more.

    It appears that Russian leadership decided that the only course of action left to it is extermination of the current Kiev puppet regime. It brought criminal charges against the clown, his predecessor Porky, Avakov, and several lesser Kiev thieves and murderers, current or those who served in Porky’s time. A lot of Ukrainian scoundrels now will have to run away when Russian troops approach. Some might succeed, so the puppeteers will have to deal with a lot of useless Ukrainian thieves with no country to steal from.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mikhail, @Derer

    A big pile of BS. Why aren’t you as concerned about Putler and his bandwagon of “scoundrels and thieves”? It looks like the sanctions and the market are doing a wonderful job of putting them out of business, for at least 5 years, and then what. after the world moves on to other non-carbon sources of energy ?

    Bye, bye Gasprom!

    7 billion loss in profits in one year; $38 billion loss in capitalization since 2022. Are you kidding me? Even your buddy Beckow won’t be able to talk his way out of this one. Watch this clip and weep for Russia. 🙁

    How dumb can you be?

  174. @AnonfromTN
    @Derer

    All of this is last year’s snow, it does not matter any more.

    It appears that Russian leadership decided that the only course of action left to it is extermination of the current Kiev puppet regime. It brought criminal charges against the clown, his predecessor Porky, Avakov, and several lesser Kiev thieves and murderers, current or those who served in Porky’s time. A lot of Ukrainian scoundrels now will have to run away when Russian troops approach. Some might succeed, so the puppeteers will have to deal with a lot of useless Ukrainian thieves with no country to steal from.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mikhail, @Derer

    Whether done by the neocon influenced collective West or Russia, a Ukraine project is a considerable task.

    Saner heads in the West are needed to get things stabilized.

  175. @QCIC
    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    ...in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.
     
    What was the reason for this? Did the government formally explain and justify this policy or was it unspoken and simply understood?

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @AP, @Gerard1234

    Experience and perception for me was that Armenians were well represented in the military and most other sections of public life. However I think it is correct memory that they were not much at the top level for intelligence and the police.

    For the Jews, Andropov? Though every aspect of his background appears mysterious – impossible KGB did not know of his Jewish background.

    On issue of Armenia :

    1. Always had near non-existent Russian population in Armenian SSR – completely different to every other SSR. I think that’s relevant to their low numbers in KGB , together with fact Armenia was given less importance than Azerbaijan (the oil), and Gruzia, which received higher subsidy from Moscow always and had much higher number of top officials working in Moscow.

    2. Deportations of significant number of ethnic Armenians from Gruzian & Azerbaijan SSR into Armenia (vice versa for Azeris from Armenia)

    3. Deportations of Armenians from Crimea during WW2. Also from South Russia after the war. Deported to Altai the most and Kazakhstan, but also the Urals. Those deported-Dashnaks and their families, or other Nazi collaborators and anti-soviets. Every other nationality had same types of people, but with Armenian small population and their well dispersed (historical) communities throughout USSR compared to everyone else other than Russian…. this problem was exacerbated.

    4.Deportations of Armenians from Galicia (strong community there for centuries, also had Uniates equivalent church created ) into Poland post-war.

    5.Transcaucasus SSR established which had plenty, the most Armenians in the siloviki posts compared to the other kavkaz groups . This pattern of Armenian dominance continued in early days of new-made Gruzian & Azerbaijan SSR, until the deportations.

    7 Relative to the small Armenian population, there was mass immigration to Armenian SSR from disputed territories with Turkey and from Iran, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and the entire Middle East from 1920 onwards. That’s a lot people with zero connection to the Russian empire

    Deportations (numerous) for differing reasons of a hot-headed ethnicity, is going to create higher chance of people with revenge motivations, or familial connection to somebody like that- not ideal for selection into KGB.

    Immigration of people with unknown motivations and from some states that have been at war or enemy relation with Russia, into. Armenia – again not easy screening process.

    On Jews:

    1. As is well known, as Soviets come into power everything in political, military, intelligence power structures is represented by Latvians especially and Jews. Also in high concentrations are Poles and Germans. Into the late 1920s through 1930s- as Latvia, Poland and Germany become very fascist and further enemy states of USSR, their hyper-representation in Cheka, OGPU, NKVD decreases significantly, but Jews in power remain the same level

    2. In the purges of 1937,38 – lots of the elites killed, including many Jews, which increases Russian representation, but lots of Jews replaced by other Jews.

    3. Khrushchev goes to power, destalinisation- lots of these Jewish elites phased out. From him to end of USSR, power and identity of individual republics increases significantly. Security agencies filled more with Russian and ethnic Republic guys. Not that there isn’t still central power, but there is greatly expanded power and control of those running the SSR’s – these powers critical to the USSR ending when it did. But point is as powers for ethnic elites increases, Jews who have no SSR, just an oblast with only a fraction of Soviet Jews anyway – not going to have these powers and responsibilities in security/intelligence.

    3. Soviet backing of Arabs in the wars against Israel, large-scale numbers of Jews trying to leave for Israel and for America in the 1970s and 80s. Blood-hungry sections of Pogrom diaspora in US, Jackson-Vanik sanctions

    So I think all that explains why Jews and Armenians less likely to get to top in security. Both are very similar and unique circumstances – the diaspora larger than own state population as mentioned is another. Political & security reasons, not perceived racial characteristics, are reasons for their unofficial banning.
    Only difference is that the Israel equivalent for Armenians is inside another state.

    • Thanks: QCIC
  176. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @AP


    You are being pedantic.
     
    True, but that is the whole point of this forum.

    People are judged by their peers
     
    I agree 100%. But you are placing him in the wrong peer group - movie stars. The correct peer group is martial arts movie stars, who are racially non-Asian and were famous in the '80s/'90s. The kind of people kids from that era who took martial arts admired.

    It is kind of a fringe group and fringe audience.

    Not included are people famous for taking steroids and shooting guns, like Stallone and Schwarzenegger who have little or no training, or didn't gain roles from it. Or people chosen for their looks or acting ability like Tom Cruise.

    Also not included are people like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, who had greater markets or populations to draw fame from. (At least eventually)

    What is needed is some pretension to martial arts. People doing high kicks or splits or throws. People promoting them and being associated with them.

    To be generous, let's include Chuck Norris, even though his fame started earlier and he was the first with his foot in the door. That would probably bump Seagal down to #3, rather than #2. Still a winner, still on the podium.

    Seagal's true peers are people like Cythia Rothruck and Van Damme. Don "the Dragon" Wilson who although a hapa I think only made Western movies.

    Norris has 5 kids. Van Damme 3. Rothruck 1. Seagal 7. He has top fertility of that group.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self,
     
    The hand of time is cruel to us all.

    who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable.
     
    He is half Ashkenazi, and never seems to have felt strong roots. He lived in Japan for a number of years, before abandoning his wife and children there. (That is why I say he is a scoundrel) His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.

    He’s basically unemployable.
     
    this is actually true for a lot of actors that age (what is the last blockbuster Schwarzenegger or Stallone was in?), not to mention martial arts stars specifically. But he is like 72. A good age to retire.

    he is a loser.
     
    A great sinner, whose days of glory are far behind him, certainly, but that is not what most people mean by the word.

    IMO, calling him a loser is tantamount to saying the elderly are losers.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

    His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.

    Can’t believe you’re writing this with a straight face. Back off pseudo-Celt.

    The Tsar banned them into the Pale of Settlement – offloaded them onto us. With everything that comes with it – and you and the darned RusFedians dont’ want to take any responsibility.

    This washed up has been is literally fighting against his own people, against his ancestral lands. So ungrateful.

    Pathetic.

    Find something better to do with your life – on the Irish side. At least, the Chuck Norris jokes have some value – as they are entertaining.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW


    His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.

    >Can’t believe you’re writing this with a straight face.
     
    didn't I start by noting how he had led a "rootless" life? That was a joke. Was going to ask, where would you like Seagal deported to, but then you wrote this:

    This washed up has been is literally fighting against his own people, against his ancestral lands.
     
    You mean you want him in Ukraine lending his support to Ze???!!!!!! And come off it, he is 72, he isn't fighting anyone, or even working on an assembly line.

    Seagal is another clown like Anglin who you take too seriously. You need to laugh more.

    and you and the darned RusFedians dont’ want to take any responsibility.
     
    Well, what would you like me to do with him? I can hardly make him come back to the US and face the wrath of #MeToo.

    BTW, his current wife is a Mongol. She might be from Russia.

    At least, the Chuck Norris jokes have some value – as they are entertaining.
     
    Chuck Norris jokes are about the most politically correct jokes you can make. (Serious question: did they exist before Bush invaded Iraq?) They are supposed to take up the space of politically incorrect jokes, and train people to make inoffensive jokes.

    The give is that the establishment allows you to make a Euro guy sound tough and masculine, if it is only this one, elderly guy, and you don't make any ethnic jokes or jokes about the regime.

    Only defeated normies make Chuck Norris jokes. People who love their people make racist jokes and jokes about Seagal.

    I don't want to do the research on it, but Chuck was a syndicated columnist, and he did Israeli propaganda movies, so I suspect he was a Neocon. And advancing it in print.

    Seagal is an inherently funny character. Way funnier than Chuck. Because he is fat and a douchebag.

    Back off pseudo-Celt.
     
    I prefer Insular Celt or Q Celt. We people who came from islands are real Euros too. Probably purer too.

    Care to give your theory about how Irish is a Celtic language even though there was never a Celtic invasion?

    Obvious answer is that there was and it happened c2500 BC.
    , @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    Can’t believe you’re writing this with a straight face. Back off pseudo-Celt.

    The Tsar banned them into the Pale of Settlement – offloaded them onto us. With everything that comes with it – and you and the darned RusFedians dont’ want to take any responsibility.

     

    LMFAO - The Pale of Settlement was literally WHERE THEY CAME FROM you dumbf**k retard!!
    That's from where they historically came from into Russia you idiot.
    Obviously just like Russians, Germans and before that Swedes, the Jews were about a million times more useful, cultural, skilled than irrelevant dogshit Lativian earthworms.

    The laws itself were racial , but were not racist ( so different to the racist lowlife laws in Latvia and Estonia NOW) and related to economic practicalities. There were still plenty of Jews who didn't live there in the Russian empire, and plenty of Jews originally from or not from there that Potemkin managed to encourage migrate to South Russia and Azov/Black Sea coast of "Ukraine" to work as merchants and certain crafts. LOL - Latvian midgets were not in demand to migrate south.

    As if to reinforce what a shameless liar dipshit you are - until recently Latvia even had a Jewish President!!!! You couldn't make this freakshow up - scumbag politicians, and a ridiculous pitiful loser like yourself who can't stop lying, while having a Jew President and praising & begging for the Jews in America and sucking off various Jews in 404 with your comments on the internet 24/7.

    Idiot.

    Replies: @AP

  177. Learn from him, learn what he does, take it from him and use it against him. (Give him a little kiss.)

    • Replies: @LatW
    @LatW



    Yea, puppy?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKwLY0YRaI0

    Replies: @QCIC

  178. @LatW
    Learn from him, learn what he does, take it from him and use it against him. (Give him a little kiss.)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVrQwA06D9E

    Replies: @LatW

    [MORE]

    Yea, puppy?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @LatW

    Be careful what you pray for. The people who control these things are more protective than you are.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyQc2XUjn0

  179. @John Johnson
    @Derer


    The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovich and that included his pro-Russian party

     

    The Ukrainian parliament deeply infiltrated by the Washington apparatchiks and bribes. Exemplified by the VP Biden corruption.

    Even the pro-Russian party?

    Would you describe every election since 2014 as controlled by Washington?

    Replies: @Derer

    Yes. Nuland, McCain, Biden fingerprints all over.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Derer


    Would you describe every election since 2014 as controlled by Washington?
     
    Yes. Nuland, McCain, Biden fingerprints all over.

    Boy you really walked into that one.

    Washington and the EU did not favor Zelensky in the 2019 election. He was an unknown actor and his election was not what they wanted.

    The pro-NATO/pro-Western candidate was the incumbent Poroshenko and the election outcome was a disappointment to the West:
    But Ukraine's outgoing president cautioned that the Kremlin is celebrating the election of an inexperienced candidate. Russia believes that "Ukraine could be quickly returned to Russia's orbit of influence," Poroshenko said on Twitter. "I call on the international community to help Ukraine to secure all the recent achievements and the strategic choice of the nation for integration to the European Union and the NATO. Please, stay with Ukraine no matter what! Support Ukrainians and be with them!"
    https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/715858365/comedian-wins-ukrainian-presidency-in-landslide

    Which means it was not controlled by Washington.

    You should apply for a dictator defense internship from QCIC or Beckow. I think they offer a 3 day course.

    What you want to do is first have a basic grasp of the last 10 years before making anything up or promoting some type of grand Jewish conspiracy.

    They can teach you skills like learning what periods of history to avoid and how to change the subject when asked specific questions. You'll feel much better about exaggerating and lying once they coach you through the basics.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Derer

  180. @AnonfromTN
    @Derer

    All of this is last year’s snow, it does not matter any more.

    It appears that Russian leadership decided that the only course of action left to it is extermination of the current Kiev puppet regime. It brought criminal charges against the clown, his predecessor Porky, Avakov, and several lesser Kiev thieves and murderers, current or those who served in Porky’s time. A lot of Ukrainian scoundrels now will have to run away when Russian troops approach. Some might succeed, so the puppeteers will have to deal with a lot of useless Ukrainian thieves with no country to steal from.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mikhail, @Derer

    I think you are giving too much credence to the Kiev gang…they are designated PR workers and would be long gone if not for the real foreign culprits that are orchestrating this tragic play.

  181. @LatW
    @LatW



    Yea, puppy?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKwLY0YRaI0

    Replies: @QCIC

    Be careful what you pray for. The people who control these things are more protective than you are.

  182. @Bashibuzuk
    @Beckow

    After the West will have to face China. That won’t be easy. And the Russians wouldn’t be there to help. The Chinese are actually probably happy with what is happening. It buys them precious time.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    Russia, China and Iran are the new Axis powers. Except this time they are self sufficient in food and energy. They still don’t have the resources of the West but if the US retreats from it’s role on the global stage, they could easily achieve all of their goals.

    Of course, just like the original Axis powers, they don’t particularly like each other and suffer from horrendous internal problems

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    I was impressed with Eric Prince’s article in Asia Times. I think that being an insider with an excellent knowledge of the topic at hand, he presents a clear case for the importance of reform in US and Western defence.

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/too-big-to-win/

    He is also quite clear about what explains and who is responsible for the current state of affairs.


    Originally Trotskyites, the Neocons had taken root in the corporatist wing of the Republican Party and gradually increased in influence, to eventually become dominant in the Washington Beltway foreign policy and emblematic of its mentality of continuous warfare funded by an unlimited fiat printing press.

    The so-called “peace dividend” that followed the end of the Cold War was redirected into expanding NATO instead of ending it. The goal was to enrich the military-industrial complex by creating more clients to buy US weapons, at the expense of the opportunity to partner with Russia. Promises of not expanding NATO eastward into former Warsaw Pact countries were broken and NATO troops were deployed on Russia’s border.
     
    Never thought I would agree with the founder of Blackwater / Academy. But yeah, the guy knows what he’s talking about.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  183. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    Russia, China and Iran are the new Axis powers. Except this time they are self sufficient in food and energy. They still don't have the resources of the West but if the US retreats from it's role on the global stage, they could easily achieve all of their goals.

    Of course, just like the original Axis powers, they don't particularly like each other and suffer from horrendous internal problems

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    I was impressed with Eric Prince’s article in Asia Times. I think that being an insider with an excellent knowledge of the topic at hand, he presents a clear case for the importance of reform in US and Western defence.

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/too-big-to-win/

    He is also quite clear about what explains and who is responsible for the current state of affairs.

    Originally Trotskyites, the Neocons had taken root in the corporatist wing of the Republican Party and gradually increased in influence, to eventually become dominant in the Washington Beltway foreign policy and emblematic of its mentality of continuous warfare funded by an unlimited fiat printing press.

    The so-called “peace dividend” that followed the end of the Cold War was redirected into expanding NATO instead of ending it. The goal was to enrich the military-industrial complex by creating more clients to buy US weapons, at the expense of the opportunity to partner with Russia. Promises of not expanding NATO eastward into former Warsaw Pact countries were broken and NATO troops were deployed on Russia’s border.

    Never thought I would agree with the founder of Blackwater / Academy. But yeah, the guy knows what he’s talking about.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I have to confess that I don't know anything about Erick Prince but do find his tell all confessions to be interesting. I'm one of those individuals that enjoys reading the comments section, and I found this very interesting one at the bottom of the list following the main article:


    Erik Prince is the disgraced founder of a private American security firm best known for arms trafficking, murder of civilians, and wartime profiteering. If this guy is so great, China can hire him xD
     
    Sounds like just enough material here to start another very interesting conspiracy theory. What do you think Bashi? :-)

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  184. @sudden death
    @sudden death

    https://i.postimg.cc/3xrVrJMv/UA-vs-Texas.jpg

    Replies: @sudden death

    Not have thorough knowledge of US Civil War military movements, but modern RF during its nearly 2.5 year (S&M)operationing managed to capture roughly northwestern part of Louisiana& half of southeastern beachstrip part of Texas at the cost of at least 100k dead soldiers.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @sudden death

    ...while entirely depleting both Ukraine and NATO's prewar arsenal and severely attritting Ukrainian manpower.

    Replies: @sudden death

  185. @AnonfromTN
    @Greasy William


    Vlad
     
    Poor Westies, cannot get anything in Russia right, even names. Short form of Vladimir is Volodya, not Vlad. Short of Vladislav is Slava, not Vlad, either. Vlad is the short of Vladlen, and artificial Soviet-era name (combination of the first syllables of Vladimir Lenin), which was pretty rare back then and has now essentially disappeared.

    Replies: @A123, @John Johnson, @AP

    Short form of Vladimir is Volodya

    I prefer Vovchyk.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @AP


    I prefer Vovchyk
     
    The it’s Vova – the shortest possible form
  186. @sudden death
    @sudden death

    Not have thorough knowledge of US Civil War military movements, but modern RF during its nearly 2.5 year (S&M)operationing managed to capture roughly northwestern part of Louisiana& half of southeastern beachstrip part of Texas at the cost of at least 100k dead soldiers.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    …while entirely depleting both Ukraine and NATO’s prewar arsenal and severely attritting Ukrainian manpower.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Greasy William

    Should specify what exactly was depleted in NATO arsenal storages;)


    Another large batch of 50 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers in an ambulance version was delivered by the United States in August 2022. In total, the US Army has about 5,000 units in service, and about 8,000 more are in storage. They are gradually being replaced by AMPVs, but the production rate is quite low - about 200 vehicles per year.

    "Given the available information about the US Army's plans to receive about 3,000 AMPVs, it will take about 15 years to complete this contract at a rate of about 200 vehicles per year," Defense Express writes.

    In addition to the United States, Lithuania, Denmark, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and other countries have provided Ukraine with M113s. All figures in official reports indicate that Ukraine received at least 500 M113s. At the same time, many countries reported the transfer of armored personnel carriers without specifying the number. Therefore, in reality, Ukraine has much more of these armored vehicles, according to some reports - more than 1,000.
     

    https://global.espreso.tv/us-m113-armored-personnel-carrier-technical-characteristics-advantages-over-soviet-models#:~:text=Another%20large%20batch%20of%2050,8%2C000%20more%20are%20in%20storage.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson

  187. @LatW
    @songbird


    His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.
     
    Can't believe you're writing this with a straight face. Back off pseudo-Celt.

    The Tsar banned them into the Pale of Settlement - offloaded them onto us. With everything that comes with it - and you and the darned RusFedians dont' want to take any responsibility.

    This washed up has been is literally fighting against his own people, against his ancestral lands. So ungrateful.

    Pathetic.

    Find something better to do with your life - on the Irish side. At least, the Chuck Norris jokes have some value - as they are entertaining.

    Replies: @songbird, @Gerard1234

    His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.

    >Can’t believe you’re writing this with a straight face.

    didn’t I start by noting how he had led a “rootless” life? That was a joke. Was going to ask, where would you like Seagal deported to, but then you wrote this:

    This washed up has been is literally fighting against his own people, against his ancestral lands.

    You mean you want him in Ukraine lending his support to Ze???!!!!!!

    [MORE]
    And come off it, he is 72, he isn’t fighting anyone, or even working on an assembly line.

    Seagal is another clown like Anglin who you take too seriously. You need to laugh more.

    and you and the darned RusFedians dont’ want to take any responsibility.

    Well, what would you like me to do with him? I can hardly make him come back to the US and face the wrath of #MeToo.

    BTW, his current wife is a Mongol. She might be from Russia.

    At least, the Chuck Norris jokes have some value – as they are entertaining.

    Chuck Norris jokes are about the most politically correct jokes you can make. (Serious question: did they exist before Bush invaded Iraq?) They are supposed to take up the space of politically incorrect jokes, and train people to make inoffensive jokes.

    The give is that the establishment allows you to make a Euro guy sound tough and masculine, if it is only this one, elderly guy, and you don’t make any ethnic jokes or jokes about the regime.

    Only defeated normies make Chuck Norris jokes. People who love their people make racist jokes and jokes about Seagal.

    I don’t want to do the research on it, but Chuck was a syndicated columnist, and he did Israeli propaganda movies, so I suspect he was a Neocon. And advancing it in print.

    Seagal is an inherently funny character. Way funnier than Chuck. Because he is fat and a douchebag.

    Back off pseudo-Celt.

    I prefer Insular Celt or Q Celt. We people who came from islands are real Euros too. Probably purer too.

    Care to give your theory about how Irish is a Celtic language even though there was never a Celtic invasion?

    Obvious answer is that there was and it happened c2500 BC.

  188. @Derer
    @John Johnson

    Yes. Nuland, McCain, Biden fingerprints all over.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Would you describe every election since 2014 as controlled by Washington?

    Yes. Nuland, McCain, Biden fingerprints all over.

    Boy you really walked into that one.

    Washington and the EU did not favor Zelensky in the 2019 election. He was an unknown actor and his election was not what they wanted.

    The pro-NATO/pro-Western candidate was the incumbent Poroshenko and the election outcome was a disappointment to the West:
    But Ukraine’s outgoing president cautioned that the Kremlin is celebrating the election of an inexperienced candidate. Russia believes that “Ukraine could be quickly returned to Russia’s orbit of influence,” Poroshenko said on Twitter. “I call on the international community to help Ukraine to secure all the recent achievements and the strategic choice of the nation for integration to the European Union and the NATO. Please, stay with Ukraine no matter what! Support Ukrainians and be with them!”
    https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/715858365/comedian-wins-ukrainian-presidency-in-landslide

    Which means it was not controlled by Washington.

    You should apply for a dictator defense internship from QCIC or Beckow. I think they offer a 3 day course.

    What you want to do is first have a basic grasp of the last 10 years before making anything up or promoting some type of grand Jewish conspiracy.

    They can teach you skills like learning what periods of history to avoid and how to change the subject when asked specific questions. You’ll feel much better about exaggerating and lying once they coach you through the basics.

    • Agree: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Past is prologue.

    I focus on dangerous strategically important actions by the West mostly before 2014 which explain crucial aspects of the Russian defensive outlook in this conflict. You focus on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media (MSM, YT, Telegram, X, etc.). Even if your facts were all solid these events may not be relevant to understanding what is really occurring.

    The earlier strategic events I highlight are not controversial since these Western actions have been recognized by both sides and the media. These aggressive moves (NATO expansion, dropping nuclear arms control treaties, meddling, USA missile bases, etc.) have been downplayed in the Western narrative. The long series of Russian warnings in response to these egregious Western mistakes are largely memory-holed by the media.

    The little trees you like to discuss are part of a large forest.

    +++

    No internships at this time.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Beckow

    , @Derer
    @John Johnson

    You are listening to Poroshenko, and I am listening to Nuland meddling and pushing another Jew "Yats" nick named by her. He was finished or removed after Yatseniuk grab in Parliament. The CIA pick always their boys that would win in NYC (Georgian lunatic, Kasparov or Khodorkovsky).

  189. @Greasy William
    @sudden death

    ...while entirely depleting both Ukraine and NATO's prewar arsenal and severely attritting Ukrainian manpower.

    Replies: @sudden death

    Should specify what exactly was depleted in NATO arsenal storages;)

    Another large batch of 50 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers in an ambulance version was delivered by the United States in August 2022. In total, the US Army has about 5,000 units in service, and about 8,000 more are in storage. They are gradually being replaced by AMPVs, but the production rate is quite low – about 200 vehicles per year.

    “Given the available information about the US Army’s plans to receive about 3,000 AMPVs, it will take about 15 years to complete this contract at a rate of about 200 vehicles per year,” Defense Express writes.

    In addition to the United States, Lithuania, Denmark, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and other countries have provided Ukraine with M113s. All figures in official reports indicate that Ukraine received at least 500 M113s. At the same time, many countries reported the transfer of armored personnel carriers without specifying the number. Therefore, in reality, Ukraine has much more of these armored vehicles, according to some reports – more than 1,000.

    https://global.espreso.tv/us-m113-armored-personnel-carrier-technical-characteristics-advantages-over-soviet-models#:~:text=Another%20large%20batch%20of%2050,8%2C000%20more%20are%20in%20storage.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @sudden death

    NATO is fine in terms of tanks/vehicles, naval vessels; aircraft, bombs, but it has blown through its prewar stockpile of munitions as well as all spare artillery systems and AD batteries that could be provided to Kiev; and even when NATO munitions production peaks in 2025, it still won't be enough to even supply Ukraine with its needs, let alone to stockpile for direct conflict with the Russia/China/Iran axis.

    Right now, NATO has enough resources to keep Ukraine in the fight. That's it. NATO does not have the supplies to provide Ukraine with a means of victory over Russia nor has NATO even announced a plan to expand production to a level that would be necessary for a Ukrainian victory.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @John Johnson
    @sudden death

    while entirely depleting both Ukraine and NATO’s prewar arsenal and severely attritting Ukrainian manpower.

    That's real impressive given that Putin's stated goal was to stop the Eastward expansion of NATO.

    Putin states that he has no choice but to invade to stop NATO:
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/putins-speech-declaring-war-on-ukraine-translated-excerpts

    Well that goal has failed since Finland has joined. Since Ukraine didn't qualify for NATO he could have simply stayed in his borders and NATO would not have 2 new members.


    https://e3.365dm.com/22/05/1600x900/skynews-ukraine-finland-map_5766273.png?20220509150314

    If Putin stated that his goal is to increase NATO military spending and make US defense industry executives swim in cash like Scrooge McDuck then you might have a point.

    US 155mm shell production increases by 500%
    https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-248/#comment-6553349

    Take that US defense industry shareholders!!!! Take those capital gains and by a new boat!!! Putin got you good!


    https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*2kLD3EnaJ-6INo0O-MvjzQ.jpeg

  190. @sudden death
    @Greasy William

    Should specify what exactly was depleted in NATO arsenal storages;)


    Another large batch of 50 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers in an ambulance version was delivered by the United States in August 2022. In total, the US Army has about 5,000 units in service, and about 8,000 more are in storage. They are gradually being replaced by AMPVs, but the production rate is quite low - about 200 vehicles per year.

    "Given the available information about the US Army's plans to receive about 3,000 AMPVs, it will take about 15 years to complete this contract at a rate of about 200 vehicles per year," Defense Express writes.

    In addition to the United States, Lithuania, Denmark, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and other countries have provided Ukraine with M113s. All figures in official reports indicate that Ukraine received at least 500 M113s. At the same time, many countries reported the transfer of armored personnel carriers without specifying the number. Therefore, in reality, Ukraine has much more of these armored vehicles, according to some reports - more than 1,000.
     

    https://global.espreso.tv/us-m113-armored-personnel-carrier-technical-characteristics-advantages-over-soviet-models#:~:text=Another%20large%20batch%20of%2050,8%2C000%20more%20are%20in%20storage.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson

    NATO is fine in terms of tanks/vehicles, naval vessels; aircraft, bombs, but it has blown through its prewar stockpile of munitions as well as all spare artillery systems and AD batteries that could be provided to Kiev; and even when NATO munitions production peaks in 2025, it still won’t be enough to even supply Ukraine with its needs, let alone to stockpile for direct conflict with the Russia/China/Iran axis.

    Right now, NATO has enough resources to keep Ukraine in the fight. That’s it. NATO does not have the supplies to provide Ukraine with a means of victory over Russia nor has NATO even announced a plan to expand production to a level that would be necessary for a Ukrainian victory.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    NATO is fine in terms of tanks/vehicles, naval vessels; aircraft, bombs, but it has blown through its prewar stockpile of munitions as well as all spare artillery systems and AD batteries that could be provided to Kiev; and even when NATO munitions production peaks in 2025, it still won’t be enough to even supply Ukraine with its needs, let alone to stockpile for direct conflict with the Russia/China/Iran axis.

    So in what conflict would the US fight Russia or China directly with non-nuclear weapons?

    This might surprise you but the US would rather have Russia or China simply trade with them rather than risk a direct conflict that could easily escalate into nuclear war.

    As for Iran maybe you missed the news. They launched the most half-assed attack on Israel. In any case Americans are sick of Middle Eastern wars.

    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West. Some real rational thinking there. Russian men had to die to help your country boost artillery shell production and make some defense industry executives even wealthier. This 2.5 week special operation is clearly going as planned.

    You also seem to have missed that everyone underestimates US production capacity. Germans did it two wars in a row.

    The US recently sent Ukraine at least 600 ATACMs missiles and up to 1000. Have fun with that.

    Replies: @Sean, @Greasy William

  191. @sudden death
    @Greasy William

    Should specify what exactly was depleted in NATO arsenal storages;)


    Another large batch of 50 M113 tracked armored personnel carriers in an ambulance version was delivered by the United States in August 2022. In total, the US Army has about 5,000 units in service, and about 8,000 more are in storage. They are gradually being replaced by AMPVs, but the production rate is quite low - about 200 vehicles per year.

    "Given the available information about the US Army's plans to receive about 3,000 AMPVs, it will take about 15 years to complete this contract at a rate of about 200 vehicles per year," Defense Express writes.

    In addition to the United States, Lithuania, Denmark, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and other countries have provided Ukraine with M113s. All figures in official reports indicate that Ukraine received at least 500 M113s. At the same time, many countries reported the transfer of armored personnel carriers without specifying the number. Therefore, in reality, Ukraine has much more of these armored vehicles, according to some reports - more than 1,000.
     

    https://global.espreso.tv/us-m113-armored-personnel-carrier-technical-characteristics-advantages-over-soviet-models#:~:text=Another%20large%20batch%20of%2050,8%2C000%20more%20are%20in%20storage.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson

    while entirely depleting both Ukraine and NATO’s prewar arsenal and severely attritting Ukrainian manpower.

    That’s real impressive given that Putin’s stated goal was to stop the Eastward expansion of NATO.

    Putin states that he has no choice but to invade to stop NATO:
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/putins-speech-declaring-war-on-ukraine-translated-excerpts

    Well that goal has failed since Finland has joined. Since Ukraine didn’t qualify for NATO he could have simply stayed in his borders and NATO would not have 2 new members.


    If Putin stated that his goal is to increase NATO military spending and make US defense industry executives swim in cash like Scrooge McDuck then you might have a point.

    US 155mm shell production increases by 500%
    https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-248/#comment-6553349

    Take that US defense industry shareholders!!!! Take those capital gains and by a new boat!!! Putin got you good!

  192. @Greasy William
    @sudden death

    NATO is fine in terms of tanks/vehicles, naval vessels; aircraft, bombs, but it has blown through its prewar stockpile of munitions as well as all spare artillery systems and AD batteries that could be provided to Kiev; and even when NATO munitions production peaks in 2025, it still won't be enough to even supply Ukraine with its needs, let alone to stockpile for direct conflict with the Russia/China/Iran axis.

    Right now, NATO has enough resources to keep Ukraine in the fight. That's it. NATO does not have the supplies to provide Ukraine with a means of victory over Russia nor has NATO even announced a plan to expand production to a level that would be necessary for a Ukrainian victory.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    NATO is fine in terms of tanks/vehicles, naval vessels; aircraft, bombs, but it has blown through its prewar stockpile of munitions as well as all spare artillery systems and AD batteries that could be provided to Kiev; and even when NATO munitions production peaks in 2025, it still won’t be enough to even supply Ukraine with its needs, let alone to stockpile for direct conflict with the Russia/China/Iran axis.

    So in what conflict would the US fight Russia or China directly with non-nuclear weapons?

    This might surprise you but the US would rather have Russia or China simply trade with them rather than risk a direct conflict that could easily escalate into nuclear war.

    As for Iran maybe you missed the news. They launched the most half-assed attack on Israel. In any case Americans are sick of Middle Eastern wars.

    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West. Some real rational thinking there. Russian men had to die to help your country boost artillery shell production and make some defense industry executives even wealthier. This 2.5 week special operation is clearly going as planned.

    You also seem to have missed that everyone underestimates US production capacity. Germans did it two wars in a row.

    The US recently sent Ukraine at least 600 ATACMs missiles and up to 1000. Have fun with that.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @John Johnson

    Hitler saw America with its continental economy as a model. Defence freeloader Germany's work discipline allied to Russia's resources was a threat to post Cold War US dominance that drove many in the Beltway crazy. The war in Ukraine has smashed the Russian--German economic alliance and now Washington only has to worry about Russia's natural resources flowing to, er, little old China (that Germany sells huge amounts of capital goods to). A master stratagem if ever there was one.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    , @Greasy William
    @John Johnson


    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West.
     
    I'm a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.). I have repeatedly stated in these threads that I think the Russian invasion is criminal and that the popular Russia shills online are complete retards who lack any grasp on reality.

    Your problem is that you just automatically categorize anyone who is skeptical of the NATO/Ukraine war effort as some Russia partisan and that just isn't the case. I don't question that, all things being equal, the West could defeat the new Axis in a slogging match. I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it's will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson, @LatW

  193. IMO, rock bottom of a purity spiral is when you are unhappy because Steven Seagal isn’t on your side.

    • LOL: QCIC
    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    IMO, rock bottom of a purity spiral is when you are unhappy because Steven Seagal isn’t on your side.
     
    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine's side, such as Viggo Mortensen.

    Replies: @songbird, @Gerard1234

  194. @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    Short form of Vladimir is Volodya
     
    I prefer Vovchyk.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    I prefer Vovchyk

    The it’s Vova – the shortest possible form

  195. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @Derer


    Would you describe every election since 2014 as controlled by Washington?
     
    Yes. Nuland, McCain, Biden fingerprints all over.

    Boy you really walked into that one.

    Washington and the EU did not favor Zelensky in the 2019 election. He was an unknown actor and his election was not what they wanted.

    The pro-NATO/pro-Western candidate was the incumbent Poroshenko and the election outcome was a disappointment to the West:
    But Ukraine's outgoing president cautioned that the Kremlin is celebrating the election of an inexperienced candidate. Russia believes that "Ukraine could be quickly returned to Russia's orbit of influence," Poroshenko said on Twitter. "I call on the international community to help Ukraine to secure all the recent achievements and the strategic choice of the nation for integration to the European Union and the NATO. Please, stay with Ukraine no matter what! Support Ukrainians and be with them!"
    https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/715858365/comedian-wins-ukrainian-presidency-in-landslide

    Which means it was not controlled by Washington.

    You should apply for a dictator defense internship from QCIC or Beckow. I think they offer a 3 day course.

    What you want to do is first have a basic grasp of the last 10 years before making anything up or promoting some type of grand Jewish conspiracy.

    They can teach you skills like learning what periods of history to avoid and how to change the subject when asked specific questions. You'll feel much better about exaggerating and lying once they coach you through the basics.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Derer

    Past is prologue.

    I focus on dangerous strategically important actions by the West mostly before 2014 which explain crucial aspects of the Russian defensive outlook in this conflict. You focus on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media (MSM, YT, Telegram, X, etc.). Even if your facts were all solid these events may not be relevant to understanding what is really occurring.

    The earlier strategic events I highlight are not controversial since these Western actions have been recognized by both sides and the media. These aggressive moves (NATO expansion, dropping nuclear arms control treaties, meddling, USA missile bases, etc.) have been downplayed in the Western narrative. The long series of Russian warnings in response to these egregious Western mistakes are largely memory-holed by the media.

    The little trees you like to discuss are part of a large forest.

    +++

    No internships at this time.

    • LOL: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    The little trees you like to discuss are part of a large forest.

    That's a very illustrative way of saying I constantly ignore your specific questions like if 2008 Putin was wrong about Crimea belonging to Ukraine or if the DPR/LPR made the right decision to align with Russia in order to obtain autonomy.

    You should focus on creative writing and not trying to defend a mass murderer who wears special heels to look taller.

    Let your imagination run wild with fictional writing where you don't have to be bothered with historical realities or statements from the dwarf himself that contradict his own narrative.

    , @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...John Johnson focuses on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media
     
    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help. Let's see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made ("Nato not a meter to the east!"), the media control in the West, the forbidden topics, etc...

    Just ignore him. He is increasingly hysterical as Kiev and Nato are losing the war. He doesn't know how to handle it - bad coding? - so he yells about minutia, sticks his head in the sand, denies reality on the ground...and repeats himself like an AI bot in a regressive loop.

    The West screwed up and the Ukies were taken on a bloody ride to nowhere. They threaten now with nukes (and 'French Legion'), as always they project it on Russia. Maybe they will even escalate two or three more cycles - all it means is another 100k dead Ukies and more destroyed Ukraine.

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine - the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face. It doesn't, it only adds dishonor and lack of dignity to the bloody defeat.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @John Johnson

  196. Hilarious episode of Dr. No and friends

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Sean
    @John Johnson


    https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/05/03/why-russia-doesnt-want-to-liberalize/
    [...]
    It might surprise American readers that it is not a great exaggeration to say Mikhail Gorbachev is the most hated man in Russia. Whether or not he deserves that hatred is up for debate, but his actions did lead to the loss of the Soviet Empire, its painful humiliation on the world stage, and plunged millions of Russians into poverty and despair.

    In contrast to Alexander II, Gorbachev was a man of humble origins. The son of Russian peasants, he was the first person in his family to go to university. Gorbachev graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in law and went on to hold multiple posts in Komsomol, the political youth organization. Gorbachev rose to power quickly under the patronage of Mikhail Suslov, one of the leading ideologues of the Politburo. He was hard-working, smart, and untroubled by alcoholism. His honest and open face made him seem non-threatening and trustworthy. Ideologically, he was committed to de-Stalinization of Russia and believed that market reforms and technological advancement could end the long period of stagnation Russians experienced under Khrushchev. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed a more honest and humane socialism was possible.

    However, once more, his reforms failed to achieve the desired results: the Soviet economy did not recover as fast as had been hoped for and a decade-long war in Afghanistan was draining the empire’s resources. Gorbachev felt that there was an urgent need for decisive action. After all, it was his duty as the leader of a great country. He initiated two crucial reforms that would impact the Russian people for decades to come and usher the world into a new era: glasnost and perestroika.

    Glasnost specifically was implemented to loosen Soviet censorship and lead to democratization of the regime: “Those who attempt to suppress the fresh voice, the just voice, according to old standards and attitudes, need to get out of the way,” Gorbachev opined in a in a July 1986 speech, according to TIME. With Perestroika, Gorbachev intended to incorporate some features of a market economy in the Soviet Union, loosen price controls and encourage some private ownership of business. In a 1987 speech, he emphasized that “It is particularly important that the actual pay of every worker be closely linked to his personal contribution to the end result, and that no limit be set.”

    Glasnost and perestroika proved to be too much change in too little time for a political and economic system like that of the Soviet Union. Hyperinflation set in, as the value of the ruble plummeted, and the economy fell into a depression. The Soviet Empire fell almost overnight. Russians and other nations of the crumbling union were suddenly much poorer, more aware of human rights abuses that took place under communist rule, and left completely humiliated.

    As the Soviet Union dissolved and Gorbachev was left the President of nothing, his successor in the new Russian Federation was Boris Yeltsin, a drunk who quickly became a laughingstock and an embarrassment. The country was torn apart by the new type of man that emerged from the ruins, a type that does not care about anything but his personal enrichment: the “New Russian.” Oligarchs feasted on the very livelihoods of ordinary Russians as those in turn sank into despair. And then Putin came to power.

    The Divergent Ends of History and the Last Statesman
    Vladimir Putin is indeed an authoritarian leader who murders his opponents and silences dissent. He is also genuinely popular among Russians. To outsiders, Putin may not seem like a good leader, but to the Russian voter, he very much does. Further, this evaluation of his leadership isn’t just a matter of optics or propaganda, but is backed by some hard data.

    Since 1999, the Russian homicide rate—an excellent measure of demoralization, disorder, and lack of economic opportunity—has plunged 75% nationwide. This significant decrease in the murder rate was not accompanied by any drastic change in incarceration, which suggests that there was a general improvement in quality of life that led to a decrease in homicides.

    There has also been an increase in the fertility rate—another important indicator of the will to live. This was often raised in the many articles over the years of Russia’s impending depopulation. In 1999, Russia’s total fertility rate fell to 1.2. It rose to a high of 1.8 in 2015, though it fell again to 1.5 by 2022. There was also a significant drop in the number of abortions performed in Russian since 2000. For comparison: the number of abortions performed in Russia dropped from 2.1 million in 2000 to just over 500,000 in 2022.

    Arguably the important metric is, of course, the increase in life expectancy over the course of Putin’s career as head of state, which increased from roughly 65 to 73 by 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. This directly demonstrates the end of what were once called deaths of despair in the country. Empirically, the individual sense of humiliation has ended for modern Russians. An indication that the middle class has strengthened can also be found in Russia’s Gini index—a measure of income inequality—which has decreased significantly since 1999 and is forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029.

    The death of liberal dissident Alexei Navalny enraged many Western liberals, like Anne Applebaum and Ian Bremmer. And while it was a tragedy, it is worth noting that Navalny was not very popular among Russians and Putin’s real rival is the Communist Party, which won 19% of the vote in the last election. Democracy does not seem to be that appealing to ordinary Russians, and who can blame them after the latest failed experiment with political liberalism?

    This is a judgment Vladimir Putin personally shares, if we are to trust his telling of Russian history since its founding in the year 882. If so, he isn’t wrong. Every time Russian people attempt to emulate the West, everything goes terribly wrong, and a period of darkness and humiliation follows. There are many ways to explain this observation. Maybe liberal political theory is fundamentally flawed, and doesn’t work as advertised, even in the Western context. Maybe Russians are simply not Western after all, and lack the social technologies needed to make such political liberalism work.

    It is hard to predict what comes next for a civilization that seems incapable of embracing Western-style democracy, but gave the world Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky. Something worth considering in imagining Russia after the Putin era: in many ways, Russia is engaged in its own task of nation-building, transitioning from the historic empire to something closer to the nation-state which 19th century anarchists attempting to assassinate the Tsar imagined it to be. Whatever new society is built at the end of this process, it will—just as its historical experience—remain fundamentally politically and ideologically distinct from the United States.
     

    , @Mr. Hack
    @John Johnson

    More Russian conspiracy theories that go awry and totally off the rails. This is the kind of stuff that I fear Prof. TN watches in his spare time and uses to form his opinions. :-)

    Dr. No should stay in his bunker and not be seen in public!

    Don't know what Sean's follow-up comment has to do with this Crocus Hill conspiracy theory extravaganza?...

    Replies: @Sean

    , @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    The narrator of the video acknowledged the USA is waging a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. What else needs to be said?

  197. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Past is prologue.

    I focus on dangerous strategically important actions by the West mostly before 2014 which explain crucial aspects of the Russian defensive outlook in this conflict. You focus on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media (MSM, YT, Telegram, X, etc.). Even if your facts were all solid these events may not be relevant to understanding what is really occurring.

    The earlier strategic events I highlight are not controversial since these Western actions have been recognized by both sides and the media. These aggressive moves (NATO expansion, dropping nuclear arms control treaties, meddling, USA missile bases, etc.) have been downplayed in the Western narrative. The long series of Russian warnings in response to these egregious Western mistakes are largely memory-holed by the media.

    The little trees you like to discuss are part of a large forest.

    +++

    No internships at this time.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Beckow

    The little trees you like to discuss are part of a large forest.

    That’s a very illustrative way of saying I constantly ignore your specific questions like if 2008 Putin was wrong about Crimea belonging to Ukraine or if the DPR/LPR made the right decision to align with Russia in order to obtain autonomy.

    You should focus on creative writing and not trying to defend a mass murderer who wears special heels to look taller.

    Let your imagination run wild with fictional writing where you don’t have to be bothered with historical realities or statements from the dwarf himself that contradict his own narrative.

  198. Sean says:
    @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    NATO is fine in terms of tanks/vehicles, naval vessels; aircraft, bombs, but it has blown through its prewar stockpile of munitions as well as all spare artillery systems and AD batteries that could be provided to Kiev; and even when NATO munitions production peaks in 2025, it still won’t be enough to even supply Ukraine with its needs, let alone to stockpile for direct conflict with the Russia/China/Iran axis.

    So in what conflict would the US fight Russia or China directly with non-nuclear weapons?

    This might surprise you but the US would rather have Russia or China simply trade with them rather than risk a direct conflict that could easily escalate into nuclear war.

    As for Iran maybe you missed the news. They launched the most half-assed attack on Israel. In any case Americans are sick of Middle Eastern wars.

    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West. Some real rational thinking there. Russian men had to die to help your country boost artillery shell production and make some defense industry executives even wealthier. This 2.5 week special operation is clearly going as planned.

    You also seem to have missed that everyone underestimates US production capacity. Germans did it two wars in a row.

    The US recently sent Ukraine at least 600 ATACMs missiles and up to 1000. Have fun with that.

    Replies: @Sean, @Greasy William

    Hitler saw America with its continental economy as a model. Defence freeloader Germany’s work discipline allied to Russia’s resources was a threat to post Cold War US dominance that drove many in the Beltway crazy. The war in Ukraine has smashed the Russian–German economic alliance and now Washington only has to worry about Russia’s natural resources flowing to, er, little old China (that Germany sells huge amounts of capital goods to). A master stratagem if ever there was one.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Sean

    Despite a 50% increase in population and 11x increase in GDP since 1978, the US sold as many cars in 2023 as it did back in 1978. The US has an extremely financialized economy that is reflected in its stock market performance, but not reflected in its physical economy.

    Replies: @Dmitry

  199. Sean says:
    @John Johnson
    Hilarious episode of Dr. No and friends

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4odUJNXf2Q

    Replies: @Sean, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC

    https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/05/03/why-russia-doesnt-want-to-liberalize/
    […]
    It might surprise American readers that it is not a great exaggeration to say Mikhail Gorbachev is the most hated man in Russia. Whether or not he deserves that hatred is up for debate, but his actions did lead to the loss of the Soviet Empire, its painful humiliation on the world stage, and plunged millions of Russians into poverty and despair.

    In contrast to Alexander II, Gorbachev was a man of humble origins. The son of Russian peasants, he was the first person in his family to go to university. Gorbachev graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in law and went on to hold multiple posts in Komsomol, the political youth organization. Gorbachev rose to power quickly under the patronage of Mikhail Suslov, one of the leading ideologues of the Politburo. He was hard-working, smart, and untroubled by alcoholism. His honest and open face made him seem non-threatening and trustworthy. Ideologically, he was committed to de-Stalinization of Russia and believed that market reforms and technological advancement could end the long period of stagnation Russians experienced under Khrushchev. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed a more honest and humane socialism was possible.

    However, once more, his reforms failed to achieve the desired results: the Soviet economy did not recover as fast as had been hoped for and a decade-long war in Afghanistan was draining the empire’s resources. Gorbachev felt that there was an urgent need for decisive action. After all, it was his duty as the leader of a great country. He initiated two crucial reforms that would impact the Russian people for decades to come and usher the world into a new era: glasnost and perestroika.

    Glasnost specifically was implemented to loosen Soviet censorship and lead to democratization of the regime: “Those who attempt to suppress the fresh voice, the just voice, according to old standards and attitudes, need to get out of the way,” Gorbachev opined in a in a July 1986 speech, according to TIME. With Perestroika, Gorbachev intended to incorporate some features of a market economy in the Soviet Union, loosen price controls and encourage some private ownership of business. In a 1987 speech, he emphasized that “It is particularly important that the actual pay of every worker be closely linked to his personal contribution to the end result, and that no limit be set.”

    Glasnost and perestroika proved to be too much change in too little time for a political and economic system like that of the Soviet Union. Hyperinflation set in, as the value of the ruble plummeted, and the economy fell into a depression. The Soviet Empire fell almost overnight. Russians and other nations of the crumbling union were suddenly much poorer, more aware of human rights abuses that took place under communist rule, and left completely humiliated.

    As the Soviet Union dissolved and Gorbachev was left the President of nothing, his successor in the new Russian Federation was Boris Yeltsin, a drunk who quickly became a laughingstock and an embarrassment. The country was torn apart by the new type of man that emerged from the ruins, a type that does not care about anything but his personal enrichment: the “New Russian.” Oligarchs feasted on the very livelihoods of ordinary Russians as those in turn sank into despair. And then Putin came to power.

    The Divergent Ends of History and the Last Statesman
    Vladimir Putin is indeed an authoritarian leader who murders his opponents and silences dissent. He is also genuinely popular among Russians. To outsiders, Putin may not seem like a good leader, but to the Russian voter, he very much does. Further, this evaluation of his leadership isn’t just a matter of optics or propaganda, but is backed by some hard data.

    Since 1999, the Russian homicide rate—an excellent measure of demoralization, disorder, and lack of economic opportunity—has plunged 75% nationwide. This significant decrease in the murder rate was not accompanied by any drastic change in incarceration, which suggests that there was a general improvement in quality of life that led to a decrease in homicides.

    There has also been an increase in the fertility rate—another important indicator of the will to live. This was often raised in the many articles over the years of Russia’s impending depopulation. In 1999, Russia’s total fertility rate fell to 1.2. It rose to a high of 1.8 in 2015, though it fell again to 1.5 by 2022. There was also a significant drop in the number of abortions performed in Russian since 2000. For comparison: the number of abortions performed in Russia dropped from 2.1 million in 2000 to just over 500,000 in 2022.

    Arguably the important metric is, of course, the increase in life expectancy over the course of Putin’s career as head of state, which increased from roughly 65 to 73 by 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. This directly demonstrates the end of what were once called deaths of despair in the country. Empirically, the individual sense of humiliation has ended for modern Russians. An indication that the middle class has strengthened can also be found in Russia’s Gini index—a measure of income inequality—which has decreased significantly since 1999 and is forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029.

    The death of liberal dissident Alexei Navalny enraged many Western liberals, like Anne Applebaum and Ian Bremmer. And while it was a tragedy, it is worth noting that Navalny was not very popular among Russians and Putin’s real rival is the Communist Party, which won 19% of the vote in the last election. Democracy does not seem to be that appealing to ordinary Russians, and who can blame them after the latest failed experiment with political liberalism?

    This is a judgment Vladimir Putin personally shares, if we are to trust his telling of Russian history since its founding in the year 882. If so, he isn’t wrong. Every time Russian people attempt to emulate the West, everything goes terribly wrong, and a period of darkness and humiliation follows. There are many ways to explain this observation. Maybe liberal political theory is fundamentally flawed, and doesn’t work as advertised, even in the Western context. Maybe Russians are simply not Western after all, and lack the social technologies needed to make such political liberalism work.

    It is hard to predict what comes next for a civilization that seems incapable of embracing Western-style democracy, but gave the world Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky. Something worth considering in imagining Russia after the Putin era: in many ways, Russia is engaged in its own task of nation-building, transitioning from the historic empire to something closer to the nation-state which 19th century anarchists attempting to assassinate the Tsar imagined it to be. Whatever new society is built at the end of this process, it will—just as its historical experience—remain fundamentally politically and ideologically distinct from the United States.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
  200. @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    I was impressed with Eric Prince’s article in Asia Times. I think that being an insider with an excellent knowledge of the topic at hand, he presents a clear case for the importance of reform in US and Western defence.

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/too-big-to-win/

    He is also quite clear about what explains and who is responsible for the current state of affairs.


    Originally Trotskyites, the Neocons had taken root in the corporatist wing of the Republican Party and gradually increased in influence, to eventually become dominant in the Washington Beltway foreign policy and emblematic of its mentality of continuous warfare funded by an unlimited fiat printing press.

    The so-called “peace dividend” that followed the end of the Cold War was redirected into expanding NATO instead of ending it. The goal was to enrich the military-industrial complex by creating more clients to buy US weapons, at the expense of the opportunity to partner with Russia. Promises of not expanding NATO eastward into former Warsaw Pact countries were broken and NATO troops were deployed on Russia’s border.
     
    Never thought I would agree with the founder of Blackwater / Academy. But yeah, the guy knows what he’s talking about.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I have to confess that I don’t know anything about Erick Prince but do find his tell all confessions to be interesting. I’m one of those individuals that enjoys reading the comments section, and I found this very interesting one at the bottom of the list following the main article:

    Erik Prince is the disgraced founder of a private American security firm best known for arms trafficking, murder of civilians, and wartime profiteering. If this guy is so great, China can hire him xD

    Sounds like just enough material here to start another very interesting conspiracy theory. What do you think Bashi? 🙂

    • Troll: Derer
    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    I like his current project, he’s working on a crypted anonymous cell phone. It’s very important for the future of freedom. I also think Prince is an outstanding individual (à la Machiavelli … Prince) that would make an excellent American Napoleon Bonaparte / Caesar. Finally, I think it’s about time someone put some law and order in the US and exterminated the Neocon the way Stalin did with their Trotskyite forebears. A few death camps in the middle of Alaska would come handy. The future generations wouldn’t shed a tear and would be awash with gratitude.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  201. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Past is prologue.

    I focus on dangerous strategically important actions by the West mostly before 2014 which explain crucial aspects of the Russian defensive outlook in this conflict. You focus on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media (MSM, YT, Telegram, X, etc.). Even if your facts were all solid these events may not be relevant to understanding what is really occurring.

    The earlier strategic events I highlight are not controversial since these Western actions have been recognized by both sides and the media. These aggressive moves (NATO expansion, dropping nuclear arms control treaties, meddling, USA missile bases, etc.) have been downplayed in the Western narrative. The long series of Russian warnings in response to these egregious Western mistakes are largely memory-holed by the media.

    The little trees you like to discuss are part of a large forest.

    +++

    No internships at this time.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Beckow

    …John Johnson focuses on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media

    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help. Let’s see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made (“Nato not a meter to the east!“), the media control in the West, the forbidden topics, etc…

    Just ignore him. He is increasingly hysterical as Kiev and Nato are losing the war. He doesn’t know how to handle it – bad coding? – so he yells about minutia, sticks his head in the sand, denies reality on the ground…and repeats himself like an AI bot in a regressive loop.

    The West screwed up and the Ukies were taken on a bloody ride to nowhere. They threaten now with nukes (and ‘French Legion’), as always they project it on Russia. Maybe they will even escalate two or three more cycles – all it means is another 100k dead Ukies and more destroyed Ukraine.

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine – the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face. It doesn’t, it only adds dishonor and lack of dignity to the bloody defeat.

    • LOL: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Beckow


    Let’s see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made (“Nato not a meter to the east!“)
     
    There was not even single such public speech/promise ever done.

    Replies: @Beckow, @Derer

    , @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    I tried to give you the honor that you are due and set you up with a grander intro this morning than this tepid and baseless attack on JJ, in comment #175, but you must have missed it? Or perhaps the news is just so devastating that you'd rather just ignore it and pretend that it just doesn't exist?

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @QCIC
    @Beckow

    Many people in the USA have accepted the misleading or mistaken talking points which JJ repeats. The dialog with him sharpens my thinking.

    He seems to be unwilling to consider an alternative perspective on the Ukraine crisis. Hopefully others reading these exchanges have more commitment to challenging their own beliefs.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Beckow

    , @John Johnson
    @Beckow

    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help.

    You are saying we should ignore the interview where Putin strongly says that Crimea belongs to Ukraine?

    https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html

    Just make your position clear. We can ignore Putin's comments since he has changed his mind?

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine – the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face

    Ukraine didn't qualify for NATO and hadn't started the application process.

    NATO has since expanded East since the war.

    If Putin has the upper hand then why is he again threatening to use nukes?

    Why did he recently order tactical nuclear drills if they have unlimited conventional resources?

    It's not adding up.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Beckow

  202. @John Johnson
    Hilarious episode of Dr. No and friends

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4odUJNXf2Q

    Replies: @Sean, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC

    More Russian conspiracy theories that go awry and totally off the rails. This is the kind of stuff that I fear Prof. TN watches in his spare time and uses to form his opinions. 🙂

    Dr. No should stay in his bunker and not be seen in public!

    Don’t know what Sean’s follow-up comment has to do with this Crocus Hill conspiracy theory extravaganza?…

    • Troll: Derer
    • Replies: @Sean
    @Mr. Hack


    https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/04/biggest-threat-freedom-west-liberalism-itself-john-gray

    The attempted shutdown of the National Conservatism Conference by police in Brussels made for a diverting spectacle. Staged at the centre of the European project, the flagrant attack on free speech and association was a piquant commentary on the bien pensant fancy that the European Union is redeeming the dark continent and refounding it on the basis of liberal values. [...]

    Yet this was not the only example of creeping authoritarianism. In a separate incident, the former Greek finance minister, left-wing political theorist and pro-Palestine speaker Yanis Varoufakis was prohibited from entering German territory and connecting with public meetings in Germany by video link. Throughout these episodes, the EU was silent.

    Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. Confronted by criticism, they respond by trying to suppress debate. An ever-widening category of “hate speech” is deployed against any discourse deemed offensive or a risk to public safety.

    The canonical liberal John Stuart Mill is often invoked against censorship of this sort, and it is true that in On Liberty (1859) he argued that free speech must include the freedom to cause offence. But when, in the same essay, he argued that the value of freedom lay in collective well-being or utility, he specified that “it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being”. Free speech had little value if it served reactionary ends.


    Like many other 19th-century liberals, Mill feared the rise of democratic government because he believed it meant empowering an ignorant and tyrannical majority. Time and again, he vilified the torpid masses who were content with traditional ways of living. Keir Starmer and his shadow cabinet seem curiously confident that history is on the side of progressives like themselves. The little we know of what they plan to do in office involves a further devolution of authority to institutions led by technocrats and lawyers. Behind the scenes, Tony Blair is promoting a model of governance in which democracy figures as an inconvenient afterthought.

    The persisting influence of hyper-liberal extremism in professedly centrist parties invites a dangerous blowback. [...]
     
  203. @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...John Johnson focuses on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media
     
    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help. Let's see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made ("Nato not a meter to the east!"), the media control in the West, the forbidden topics, etc...

    Just ignore him. He is increasingly hysterical as Kiev and Nato are losing the war. He doesn't know how to handle it - bad coding? - so he yells about minutia, sticks his head in the sand, denies reality on the ground...and repeats himself like an AI bot in a regressive loop.

    The West screwed up and the Ukies were taken on a bloody ride to nowhere. They threaten now with nukes (and 'French Legion'), as always they project it on Russia. Maybe they will even escalate two or three more cycles - all it means is another 100k dead Ukies and more destroyed Ukraine.

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine - the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face. It doesn't, it only adds dishonor and lack of dignity to the bloody defeat.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @John Johnson

    Let’s see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made (“Nato not a meter to the east!“)

    There was not even single such public speech/promise ever done.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @sudden death


    ...There was not even single such public speech/promise ever done.
     
    Google it. There were multiple promises made by Germany (Genscher, Kohl), US (Bush, Baker), UK...Why lie about it?

    Don't try the "public speech" nonsense - nobody knows what that means. This is diplomacy and it was communicated and published in the Western media. At least admit that Nato broke its promises and let's move on. Otherwise we may evaporate for your lack of honesty. It is undignified to lie so much. Don't you have any honor left?

    Replies: @sudden death

    , @Derer
    @sudden death

    Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east.” Gorbachev journal.

    You will not find it in the West empire of LIES. Was the "holocaust" mentioned anywhere in the 50's or even 60's by people like Eisenhower. It was created later to fool people like you.

    Replies: @sudden death, @John Johnson

  204. @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...John Johnson focuses on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media
     
    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help. Let's see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made ("Nato not a meter to the east!"), the media control in the West, the forbidden topics, etc...

    Just ignore him. He is increasingly hysterical as Kiev and Nato are losing the war. He doesn't know how to handle it - bad coding? - so he yells about minutia, sticks his head in the sand, denies reality on the ground...and repeats himself like an AI bot in a regressive loop.

    The West screwed up and the Ukies were taken on a bloody ride to nowhere. They threaten now with nukes (and 'French Legion'), as always they project it on Russia. Maybe they will even escalate two or three more cycles - all it means is another 100k dead Ukies and more destroyed Ukraine.

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine - the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face. It doesn't, it only adds dishonor and lack of dignity to the bloody defeat.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @John Johnson

    I tried to give you the honor that you are due and set you up with a grander intro this morning than this tepid and baseless attack on JJ, in comment #175, but you must have missed it? Or perhaps the news is just so devastating that you’d rather just ignore it and pretend that it just doesn’t exist?

    • Troll: Derer
    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack

    What news? Gazprom lost $3 billion on sales of $91 billion. How is that devastating? Any corporation with $100 billion in revenues from essential stuff is a good investment in today's funny-money business environment. But you wouldn't understand it. (Look up what Buffet is buying.)

    Market transitions require investments in new infrastructure, for Gazprom it will take a few years. Then they will sell to China-Asia and LNG, make money, and Germany&Co. will be stuck with higher costs and gradual de-industrialization.

    This is not my view, every analyst says that. It is not complicated, only ostriches living in the dark find it too complex and get excited over trivia. Like you.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  205. @songbird
    IMO, rock bottom of a purity spiral is when you are unhappy because Steven Seagal isn't on your side.

    Replies: @LatW

    IMO, rock bottom of a purity spiral is when you are unhappy because Steven Seagal isn’t on your side.

    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW


    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene. Any male actor who does that is obviously part of a gay cabal, or else enslaved by one. And so a pox on him!

    In addition, he seems to support woke, globalist organizations like Sinn Fein and Òmnium Cultural (or I assume it is woke). And has spoken out against Vox. I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements. Those are things that advertisers use to try to sell products. That is materialism and line go up. Nationalists believe in spirituality.

    Isn't most of Hollywood for Ze? But I would advise you not to use that fact in discourse with nationalists.

    Replies: @LatW, @Matra, @LatW

    , @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    LOL - you do realise that literally EVERY Scandinavian actor in Hollywood has become famous solely by playing Russian characters you dumbf**k? It's as if they are trained to play Russians in acting schools

    Can you imagine any actor retarded enough to have any career-suicide ambition to play some Latvian reject? Any actor with such a lack of self--respect to take some part playing Latvian loser in some boring garbage about some mythical "heroism" against some fake Soviet 'atrocity"? Any film would make the company bankrupt as of course there is zero market for that sh*t or that country.


    Who cares about Seagal
     
    Well, the whole of shithole Latvia,. It's an undisputed fact that every post-soviet, post-Warsaw pact state has a decent section of population that absolutely WORSHIP these guys who made great films immediately after the end of Communism you idiot. So they would come in masses to see him in Latvia, and are extremely jealous that Seagal went to and supports Russia.
    I don't like the fact that these guys are worshipped and local producers would have an old Hollywood actor and pay him everything..... instead of promoting local talent.....but that is the business.

    Your retarded scumbag lying and hypocrisy is even more ridiculous , as I think Seagal HAS filmed in Latvia you dumb idiot....local producers begging him to come. Probably a national holiday in the dump.

    about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    Under Siege was one of greatest films of all time. Whoever is the better actor is irrelevant........Seagal is far more famous.

    But all of that is irrelevant you faggot retard.....is Mortensen even "on Ukraine's side" you dumb moron? Seagal, without doubt knows about Russia. Mortensen, if he even said about Ukraine what you claim ( and of course a freak like you can't be trusted to tell the truth) clearly is just a standard clueless liberal. He knows about as much about Ukraine as he ( and you) know about the "moderate Syrian rebels" who were probably supported by him also, and in a year or 2 will forget completely about 404, just like all 3 of us have forgotten about the "moderate Syrian rebels" and the Syrian war in general ( the satanic ukronazi scum shelling of Belgorod, with one set of strikes killing a Syrian student, was the first in a while time I have even thought about war in Syria)

    That's in addition to Viggo Mortensen showing ZERO interest in filming in Ukraine or playing a Ukrop character or having any knowledge at all of the fake country or EVER even promoting one of his films inside Banderastan.

    It's amazing just how much of a pitiful lying scumbag that filth like you can be, further amusing in that of course a great number of actors and music groups that Latvians would beg to visit the country are banned from visiting.
    LMAO - what is that 60-70 out of the top 100 in Latvian music charts here are Russian acts, most banned?:

    https://music.apple.com/si/playlist/top-100-latvia/pl.5ac047a9ada144aebb9b2f16f5bc8c1d

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

  206. @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    I’ll say this for Napolitano, he hasn’t expressed the kind off of perverted glee you’ve exhibited in some of your posted comments here.

    LOL so his actual sexual harassment of male employees isn't comparable to my forum posts on a website that is buried by search engines?
    Would you listen to yourself? This is basically you:

    Napolitano may have followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle his junk but....did you read John Johnson's latest post on Ukraine? Now that's perverted glee!

    You should really re-assess your life when you're defending a homosexual groper and a convicted sex criminal who jerked off to what he thought was an underage girl....twice. Yes Scott Ritter did that twice so there goes "but but sting operation conspiracy" defense. Too bad Scott Ritter wasn't on Chris Hanson showing up with a 6 pack of coors. I DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS UNDERAGE THE BEER IS FOR ME. Boy Putin just attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual groper, a pedophile, a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal, a self-identified incel named Nick Fuentes, and then we have Andrew Anglin who is a self-described White nationalist that hates White women and talks about banging Asian whores. What a fascinating crew lined up for a homicidal dwarf.

    Oh and Putin also has Russell Brand who is British but follows the pattern since he showed his boner to a woman at work. He is British but follows the group theme of sexual criminals and losers.

    I've worked a lot of jobs and never once in my life have I thought You know what.....I'm gonna get a boner at work and show it to some chick. Good God that is f-cking insane.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @songbird, @QCIC, @Gerard1234

    Boy, Putin attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual grouper. A paedophile

    LMAO – President of US Biden – heavily probable incestuous paedophile. This scumbag, satanic, war criminal is a typical political Catholic POS. Biden has officially lead US policy to Banderastan from 2014 when he was Vice-President,and of course now.

    Son of US President Hunter Biden – absolute confirmed incestuous paedophile and non-incestuous paedophile drug-addict loser. It shows the sickness of entire US system that “opposition” fake some criminal investigation into him that’s going nowhere – as they are ALL using the corrupt failure whorewhouse that is “Ukraine” for financial crimes…. and there is zero chance him getting even investigated for the recorded paedophilia.

    So as he’s doing his paedophilia he is using some Ukraine company to finance all his despicable habits.

    And LOL – that’s with President of US in WW2, Roosevelt- heavily probable incestuous paedophile

    President of US, Clinton – sexual degenerate, great charisma but despite that…. definite rapist and possible paedophile

    President of US, Kennedy – sexual degenerate, fake political Catholic, corruptly elected.

    Biggest Ukronazi supporting Senator I have heard of? Lindsay Graham – absolute blatant homo-paedo

    So Ukraine is literally run by paedophiles, FOR paedophiles financial interests and pleasures you dilapidated vermin.

    Founder of FBI, Hoover- weirdo nutjob, homo, criminal, cross-dresser….. and also possible probable incestuous paedophile

    How many American president perverts raped their own slaves and had children from this?

    Near zero famous western music acts actually bothered to perform in 404, so of course the homo Elton John thought it was perfect shithole to find a child. Absolute mass paedophilia and organ harvesting and trafficking is working there for Western interests.

    I will go European – blatant evil homo Macron married to his babushka- not exactly a surprise if his boyfriend/bigamous (((husband))) he has appointed as French PM.

    a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal

    Travolta – extremely obese.
    Marlon Brando-extremely obese
    Average American….. extremely obese
    Elvis…..extremely obese….and of course because he is an American hero…. is a definite, loser PAEDOPHILE. All these famous with very chaotic personal lives.
    All the others are Scientologists or whatever

    So WTF are you mentioning the fact Segal is fat for? He is American you spambot, cursed-in-hell permanently amoeba liar.

    I don’t think I have ever even seen a George Clooney film you useless f**khead – so he’s the loser. About 4 minutes of Batman& Robin I think (worst film ever). Segal has starred in probably the greatest film of all time, Under Siege. It’s irrelevant that all the other films I have seen him in are mostly poor – he has the masterpiece of Under Siege to his name – that film must have attracted about 75% of current US Navy to serve in it – LOL, future cannon fodder for when we destroy the American Navy.

    I have only seen Marlon Brando, supposed to be greatest ever Pindosi actor, in one film – The Godfather-and he’s in that film for about 2 seconds, where you can’t even hear a word he’s saying you dickhead.

    Segal from being rich, famous, starred in one of great film ever…. but also showing the moral & principles courage to support the moral and military WINNER in SMO, shows he is on winning side

    Also you disrespectful shit-for-brains, to be talking like that – in post-Soviet, entire eastern Europe, maybe all of continental Europe – they would and have begged Segal to film a movie in their country . I think some Latvian shithole have begged and actually filmed Segal and Van Damme films there you retard. I don’t like it but hyper-adoration of these old Hollywood stars is part of post-Soviet space.
    Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian dumps would kill to have Segal, Willis or whoever come live there and support them.

    ((( Sean Penn))) – literally went to 404 to pick up a Ukrainian whore and to continue to be a drug addict lowlife. Played a pogrom diaspora American gangster in the film “Gangster Squad” with the pride an Indian or black would act in role of Gandhi or Nelson Mandela….. That’s the type of despicable tramp he is.

    LOL – 70 years ago Soviet Union has the magnificent Paul Robeson….. now the hideous lowlife Sean Penn

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Gerard1234

    C’mon, man. Biden is a demented half-corpse. He was certainly corrupt when he could remember who paid him bribes, he might have been a pedophile, and whatever else. Now for that pathetic rag doll all of this is in the past (which he does not remember, anyway).

  207. @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    NATO is fine in terms of tanks/vehicles, naval vessels; aircraft, bombs, but it has blown through its prewar stockpile of munitions as well as all spare artillery systems and AD batteries that could be provided to Kiev; and even when NATO munitions production peaks in 2025, it still won’t be enough to even supply Ukraine with its needs, let alone to stockpile for direct conflict with the Russia/China/Iran axis.

    So in what conflict would the US fight Russia or China directly with non-nuclear weapons?

    This might surprise you but the US would rather have Russia or China simply trade with them rather than risk a direct conflict that could easily escalate into nuclear war.

    As for Iran maybe you missed the news. They launched the most half-assed attack on Israel. In any case Americans are sick of Middle Eastern wars.

    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West. Some real rational thinking there. Russian men had to die to help your country boost artillery shell production and make some defense industry executives even wealthier. This 2.5 week special operation is clearly going as planned.

    You also seem to have missed that everyone underestimates US production capacity. Germans did it two wars in a row.

    The US recently sent Ukraine at least 600 ATACMs missiles and up to 1000. Have fun with that.

    Replies: @Sean, @Greasy William

    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West.

    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.). I have repeatedly stated in these threads that I think the Russian invasion is criminal and that the popular Russia shills online are complete retards who lack any grasp on reality.

    Your problem is that you just automatically categorize anyone who is skeptical of the NATO/Ukraine war effort as some Russia partisan and that just isn’t the case. I don’t question that, all things being equal, the West could defeat the new Axis in a slogging match. I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it’s will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.

    • Agree: Philip Owen
    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Greasy William


    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.).
     
    Do tell more on this belief. On second thought...
    , @John Johnson
    @Greasy William


    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West.
     
    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.).

    So even though Putin has an exemplary 20 year service record to Israel you believe that will soon change? It only appears that he enjoys selling them oil and raw diamonds?

    Your problem is that you just automatically categorize anyone who is skeptical of the NATO/Ukraine war effort as some Russia partisan and that just isn’t the case.

    I think your position is completely baseless and I will call it like I see it.

    Maybe you disagree with the dwarf dictator defense squad at Unz but there is absolutely no reason to believe that Russia was behind October 7th and that Putin is about to turn on Israel.

    Even the Russians would come up with a better plan than .... DERRR KILL CHICKS AT A CONCERT I GUESS. OH AND RECORD IT WITH GOPROS. THAT WILL HELP OUR GLOBAL STANDING.

    Israel overall benefitted from the attack and Putin clearly doesn't care about what they do to Gaza.

    Putin every single year mumbles something like "US at fault for Israel/Gaza" and then goes back to selling oil to Israel. He doesn't care. He throws his fans some red meat and then goes back to making money from Israel. His pathetic fans fall for it every year.

    He could at any time threaten to raise the price of their oil but doesn't give a fudge. Putin is out for Putin. He is pals with Netanyahu and Russian is the #3 language in Israel. In some ways it is a Slavic outpost in the Middle East. Ashkenazi Jews by DNA are mostly Slavic.

    Anglin & Co embarrassed themselves by thinking Putin was going to back Iran with Hamas and go against Israel. Putin's top bloggers live in a fantasy world where Putin is about to turn on Israel and Jews globally....while he hires them and does business with them. It's what I call the Hitler Claus fantasy. They want Putin to be their new Hitler so badly that they'll live in a completely fictional world. Anglin wouldn't mention Prigozhin until he absolutely had to but his fans will give him a pass just like his embarrassing "magic negro" period with Kanye. They all want to believe in Hitler Claus while ironically cheering Putin as he "gets them Nazis" in Ukraine. It's all just African big man politics. They have emotionally attached themselves to Putin first and foremost and then try to explain themselves as a secondary. Reminds me of a quote from Mark Twain:

    "There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages"

    , @LatW
    @Greasy William


    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks
     
    It would be very interesting to see if there was any more info out there from the Israeli government of what they have found out about how the attack was organized. What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly) - do you have any info or is this just an instinctive feeling?

    I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it’s will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.
     
    The current setbacks are due to America delaying (and partly lack of rotation on the Ukrainian side).

    Yes, there might be some "loss of will", as you put it, but there are so many investments across the whole of Eastern Europe that there will be a strong motivation to defend all that, there is a genuine security issue there (that will spark a reaction to this ongoing nightmare). Remember that Ukraine is fighting a very large and strong country - a coalition of countries, as mentioned above - (that is now using all the military capacity that it used decades to build up plus everything they had from the Soviet era, some of which was in fact transferred from Ukraine). So, the fact that Ukraine has been able to hold to the extent they have is remarkable.

    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.

    Replies: @Greasy William

  208. @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    Boy, Putin attracts the top tier Americans. A homosexual grouper. A paedophile
     
    LMAO - President of US Biden - heavily probable incestuous paedophile. This scumbag, satanic, war criminal is a typical political Catholic POS. Biden has officially lead US policy to Banderastan from 2014 when he was Vice-President,and of course now.

    Son of US President Hunter Biden - absolute confirmed incestuous paedophile and non-incestuous paedophile drug-addict loser. It shows the sickness of entire US system that "opposition" fake some criminal investigation into him that's going nowhere - as they are ALL using the corrupt failure whorewhouse that is "Ukraine" for financial crimes.... and there is zero chance him getting even investigated for the recorded paedophilia.

    So as he's doing his paedophilia he is using some Ukraine company to finance all his despicable habits.

    And LOL - that's with President of US in WW2, Roosevelt- heavily probable incestuous paedophile

    President of US, Clinton - sexual degenerate, great charisma but despite that.... definite rapist and possible paedophile

    President of US, Kennedy - sexual degenerate, fake political Catholic, corruptly elected.

    Biggest Ukronazi supporting Senator I have heard of? Lindsay Graham - absolute blatant homo-paedo

    So Ukraine is literally run by paedophiles, FOR paedophiles financial interests and pleasures you dilapidated vermin.

    Founder of FBI, Hoover- weirdo nutjob, homo, criminal, cross-dresser..... and also possible probable incestuous paedophile

    How many American president perverts raped their own slaves and had children from this?

    Near zero famous western music acts actually bothered to perform in 404, so of course the homo Elton John thought it was perfect shithole to find a child. Absolute mass paedophilia and organ harvesting and trafficking is working there for Western interests.

    I will go European - blatant evil homo Macron married to his babushka- not exactly a surprise if his boyfriend/bigamous (((husband))) he has appointed as French PM.

    a fat loser actor named Steven Seagal
     
    Travolta - extremely obese.
    Marlon Brando-extremely obese
    Average American..... extremely obese
    Elvis.....extremely obese....and of course because he is an American hero.... is a definite, loser PAEDOPHILE. All these famous with very chaotic personal lives.
    All the others are Scientologists or whatever

    So WTF are you mentioning the fact Segal is fat for? He is American you spambot, cursed-in-hell permanently amoeba liar.

    I don't think I have ever even seen a George Clooney film you useless f**khead - so he's the loser. About 4 minutes of Batman& Robin I think (worst film ever). Segal has starred in probably the greatest film of all time, Under Siege. It's irrelevant that all the other films I have seen him in are mostly poor - he has the masterpiece of Under Siege to his name - that film must have attracted about 75% of current US Navy to serve in it - LOL, future cannon fodder for when we destroy the American Navy.

    I have only seen Marlon Brando, supposed to be greatest ever Pindosi actor, in one film - The Godfather-and he's in that film for about 2 seconds, where you can't even hear a word he's saying you dickhead.

    Segal from being rich, famous, starred in one of great film ever.... but also showing the moral & principles courage to support the moral and military WINNER in SMO, shows he is on winning side

    Also you disrespectful shit-for-brains, to be talking like that - in post-Soviet, entire eastern Europe, maybe all of continental Europe - they would and have begged Segal to film a movie in their country . I think some Latvian shithole have begged and actually filmed Segal and Van Damme films there you retard. I don't like it but hyper-adoration of these old Hollywood stars is part of post-Soviet space.
    Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian dumps would kill to have Segal, Willis or whoever come live there and support them.

    ((( Sean Penn))) - literally went to 404 to pick up a Ukrainian whore and to continue to be a drug addict lowlife. Played a pogrom diaspora American gangster in the film "Gangster Squad" with the pride an Indian or black would act in role of Gandhi or Nelson Mandela..... That's the type of despicable tramp he is.

    LOL - 70 years ago Soviet Union has the magnificent Paul Robeson..... now the hideous lowlife Sean Penn

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    C’mon, man. Biden is a demented half-corpse. He was certainly corrupt when he could remember who paid him bribes, he might have been a pedophile, and whatever else. Now for that pathetic rag doll all of this is in the past (which he does not remember, anyway).

  209. @sudden death
    @Beckow


    Let’s see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made (“Nato not a meter to the east!“)
     
    There was not even single such public speech/promise ever done.

    Replies: @Beckow, @Derer

    …There was not even single such public speech/promise ever done.

    Google it. There were multiple promises made by Germany (Genscher, Kohl), US (Bush, Baker), UK…Why lie about it?

    Don’t try the “public speech” nonsense – nobody knows what that means. This is diplomacy and it was communicated and published in the Western media. At least admit that Nato broke its promises and let’s move on. Otherwise we may evaporate for your lack of honesty. It is undignified to lie so much. Don’t you have any honor left?

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Beckow

    Everybody having any decency perfectly knows what is the public speech of any politician/state servant, but even if you had some, still wouldn't be able to show any single example through all the decades, which contained such promise/statement;)

  210. @Greasy William
    @John Johnson


    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West.
     
    I'm a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.). I have repeatedly stated in these threads that I think the Russian invasion is criminal and that the popular Russia shills online are complete retards who lack any grasp on reality.

    Your problem is that you just automatically categorize anyone who is skeptical of the NATO/Ukraine war effort as some Russia partisan and that just isn't the case. I don't question that, all things being equal, the West could defeat the new Axis in a slogging match. I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it's will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson, @LatW

    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.).

    Do tell more on this belief. On second thought…

  211. QCIC says:
    @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...John Johnson focuses on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media
     
    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help. Let's see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made ("Nato not a meter to the east!"), the media control in the West, the forbidden topics, etc...

    Just ignore him. He is increasingly hysterical as Kiev and Nato are losing the war. He doesn't know how to handle it - bad coding? - so he yells about minutia, sticks his head in the sand, denies reality on the ground...and repeats himself like an AI bot in a regressive loop.

    The West screwed up and the Ukies were taken on a bloody ride to nowhere. They threaten now with nukes (and 'French Legion'), as always they project it on Russia. Maybe they will even escalate two or three more cycles - all it means is another 100k dead Ukies and more destroyed Ukraine.

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine - the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face. It doesn't, it only adds dishonor and lack of dignity to the bloody defeat.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @John Johnson

    Many people in the USA have accepted the misleading or mistaken talking points which JJ repeats. The dialog with him sharpens my thinking.

    He seems to be unwilling to consider an alternative perspective on the Ukraine crisis. Hopefully others reading these exchanges have more commitment to challenging their own beliefs.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC


    Hopefully others reading these exchanges have more commitment to challenging their own beliefs.
     
    True believers and paid bots cannot be persuaded by any evidence. Normal people can.
    , @Beckow
    @QCIC


    Many people in the USA have accepted the misleading or mistaken talking points which JJ repeats.
     
    Yes, and they don't matter much. Most Westies know very little about Russia-Ukraine and lack any moral framework. They have been brainwashed they are "special" and rules only apply in one direction. It is narcissism on steroids and predictably it is slowly destroying the West. A mass psychosis.

    Civilizations can handle setbacks but when they become incoherent they go down. The double whammy of Nato-in-Ukraine and Gaza are too much. They blame outsiders but it is the insane attempt to hold mutually exclusive views that is destroying them. It leads to too much blatant lying and hysteria.

    I agree that a dialogue is necessary, that's what I try, but you can't have a dialogue with complete psychopaths who deny the nose between their eyes. But maybe others see it. In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  212. @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    I tried to give you the honor that you are due and set you up with a grander intro this morning than this tepid and baseless attack on JJ, in comment #175, but you must have missed it? Or perhaps the news is just so devastating that you'd rather just ignore it and pretend that it just doesn't exist?

    Replies: @Beckow

    What news? Gazprom lost $3 billion on sales of $91 billion. How is that devastating? Any corporation with $100 billion in revenues from essential stuff is a good investment in today’s funny-money business environment. But you wouldn’t understand it. (Look up what Buffet is buying.)

    Market transitions require investments in new infrastructure, for Gazprom it will take a few years. Then they will sell to China-Asia and LNG, make money, and Germany&Co. will be stuck with higher costs and gradual de-industrialization.

    This is not my view, every analyst says that. It is not complicated, only ostriches living in the dark find it too complex and get excited over trivia. Like you.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    You seem to miss the whole point of this news. Gazprom is Russia's main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years, how does Russia exactly expect to pay its bills? How will it continue to finance a war that is devastating its economy? How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines to countries like India and even China to resume business into the future? Something that it hasn't been able to create even before its hairbrained schemes in Ukraine? By then, Russia will have become the "Sick man of Europe" like the Ottoman Empire had become in the 19th century. :-(

    https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bv9jn8QqThE/Xwj7rn9TMgI/AAAAAAAADfk/slJaAeVDUPI7dL6H2hTA4fD4aXHB4-WZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/ivan.jpg

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Beckow

  213. @QCIC
    @Beckow

    Many people in the USA have accepted the misleading or mistaken talking points which JJ repeats. The dialog with him sharpens my thinking.

    He seems to be unwilling to consider an alternative perspective on the Ukraine crisis. Hopefully others reading these exchanges have more commitment to challenging their own beliefs.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Beckow

    Hopefully others reading these exchanges have more commitment to challenging their own beliefs.

    True believers and paid bots cannot be persuaded by any evidence. Normal people can.

    • Agree: Mikhail
  214. @Beckow
    @sudden death


    ...There was not even single such public speech/promise ever done.
     
    Google it. There were multiple promises made by Germany (Genscher, Kohl), US (Bush, Baker), UK...Why lie about it?

    Don't try the "public speech" nonsense - nobody knows what that means. This is diplomacy and it was communicated and published in the Western media. At least admit that Nato broke its promises and let's move on. Otherwise we may evaporate for your lack of honesty. It is undignified to lie so much. Don't you have any honor left?

    Replies: @sudden death

    Everybody having any decency perfectly knows what is the public speech of any politician/state servant, but even if you had some, still wouldn’t be able to show any single example through all the decades, which contained such promise/statement;)

  215. @Beckow
    @QCIC


    ...John Johnson focuses on tactically relevant day-to-day events mostly after 2014 which are generally subject to misrepresentation by the government and the media
     
    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help. Let's see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made ("Nato not a meter to the east!"), the media control in the West, the forbidden topics, etc...

    Just ignore him. He is increasingly hysterical as Kiev and Nato are losing the war. He doesn't know how to handle it - bad coding? - so he yells about minutia, sticks his head in the sand, denies reality on the ground...and repeats himself like an AI bot in a regressive loop.

    The West screwed up and the Ukies were taken on a bloody ride to nowhere. They threaten now with nukes (and 'French Legion'), as always they project it on Russia. Maybe they will even escalate two or three more cycles - all it means is another 100k dead Ukies and more destroyed Ukraine.

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine - the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face. It doesn't, it only adds dishonor and lack of dignity to the bloody defeat.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @John Johnson

    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help.

    You are saying we should ignore the interview where Putin strongly says that Crimea belongs to Ukraine?

    https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html

    Just make your position clear. We can ignore Putin’s comments since he has changed his mind?

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine – the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face

    Ukraine didn’t qualify for NATO and hadn’t started the application process.

    NATO has since expanded East since the war.

    If Putin has the upper hand then why is he again threatening to use nukes?

    Why did he recently order tactical nuclear drills if they have unlimited conventional resources?

    It’s not adding up.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I'm thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    We can ignore Putin’s comments since he has changed his mind?
     
    Yes. Everything has changed and people have changed their mind. What do you do when things change? Do you hold on to your previous views? Nato and the West claim the same when they justify changing their mind. As does Kiev. That's the way it works and always has. Nothing is permanent.

    Russia is dealing with the reality that a hostile military alliance is trying to weaken it through Ukraine. We can call it a "proxy war", but it is really just a war. The Ukies are the tools, but they also have their own reasons. If Finland does the same anti-Russia hysteria with open hostility and threats I am pretty sure Russia will respond the same way - so far Finland has been keeping it low-key.

    One more time: if Russia didn't act in 2022 Ukraine was going to be a full Nato member. They would find a way - "qualify" means nothing when history is made. It is just paperwork and words.


    If Putin has the upper hand then why is he again threatening to use nukes?
     
    Maybe because Russia has them? Why not save conventional forces and use the big stuff? With the Frenchie pervert yelling "let's do a Napoleon again" and UK in effect declaring a war on Russia a bit of sobering up doesn't hurt.

    Sending long-range missiles with UK crews to Ukraine to shoot to Russia and kill civilians is a de facto declaration of war - imagine a reverse and Russia sends missiles with crews to Ireland to shoot at Liverpool.

    There are only two choices: either Russia wins or we evaporate in a nuclear exchange. Russia has just restated that.

  216. @John Johnson
    Hilarious episode of Dr. No and friends

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4odUJNXf2Q

    Replies: @Sean, @Mr. Hack, @QCIC

    The narrator of the video acknowledged the USA is waging a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. What else needs to be said?

  217. @John Johnson
    @Beckow

    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help.

    You are saying we should ignore the interview where Putin strongly says that Crimea belongs to Ukraine?

    https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html

    Just make your position clear. We can ignore Putin's comments since he has changed his mind?

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine – the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face

    Ukraine didn't qualify for NATO and hadn't started the application process.

    NATO has since expanded East since the war.

    If Putin has the upper hand then why is he again threatening to use nukes?

    Why did he recently order tactical nuclear drills if they have unlimited conventional resources?

    It's not adding up.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Beckow

    I’m thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC


    I’m thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.
     
    What difference does it make? Neither deserves to be talked to.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  218. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I'm thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    I’m thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.

    What difference does it make? Neither deserves to be talked to.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @AnonfromTN


    I’m thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.
     
    What difference does it make? Neither deserves to be talked to.

    Let me know what you guys decide and make sure to note that the following bloggers have a poor track record on predicting the war compared to a bot/moron:
    Self-described professional military expert Scott Ritter
    Self-described professional military expert Douglas Macgregor
    Mike Whitney
    Pepe Escobar
    The Duran
    MoonOfAlabama
    Andrew Anglin
    Phillip Giraldi

    Gosh maybe they should all be replaced with bots?

  219. @Greasy William
    @John Johnson


    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West.
     
    I'm a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.). I have repeatedly stated in these threads that I think the Russian invasion is criminal and that the popular Russia shills online are complete retards who lack any grasp on reality.

    Your problem is that you just automatically categorize anyone who is skeptical of the NATO/Ukraine war effort as some Russia partisan and that just isn't the case. I don't question that, all things being equal, the West could defeat the new Axis in a slogging match. I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it's will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson, @LatW

    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West.

    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.).

    So even though Putin has an exemplary 20 year service record to Israel you believe that will soon change? It only appears that he enjoys selling them oil and raw diamonds?

    Your problem is that you just automatically categorize anyone who is skeptical of the NATO/Ukraine war effort as some Russia partisan and that just isn’t the case.

    I think your position is completely baseless and I will call it like I see it.

    Maybe you disagree with the dwarf dictator defense squad at Unz but there is absolutely no reason to believe that Russia was behind October 7th and that Putin is about to turn on Israel.

    Even the Russians would come up with a better plan than …. DERRR KILL CHICKS AT A CONCERT I GUESS. OH AND RECORD IT WITH GOPROS. THAT WILL HELP OUR GLOBAL STANDING.

    Israel overall benefitted from the attack and Putin clearly doesn’t care about what they do to Gaza.

    Putin every single year mumbles something like “US at fault for Israel/Gaza” and then goes back to selling oil to Israel. He doesn’t care. He throws his fans some red meat and then goes back to making money from Israel. His pathetic fans fall for it every year.

    He could at any time threaten to raise the price of their oil but doesn’t give a fudge. Putin is out for Putin. He is pals with Netanyahu and Russian is the #3 language in Israel. In some ways it is a Slavic outpost in the Middle East. Ashkenazi Jews by DNA are mostly Slavic.

    Anglin & Co embarrassed themselves by thinking Putin was going to back Iran with Hamas and go against Israel. Putin’s top bloggers live in a fantasy world where Putin is about to turn on Israel and Jews globally….while he hires them and does business with them. It’s what I call the Hitler Claus fantasy. They want Putin to be their new Hitler so badly that they’ll live in a completely fictional world. Anglin wouldn’t mention Prigozhin until he absolutely had to but his fans will give him a pass just like his embarrassing “magic negro” period with Kanye. They all want to believe in Hitler Claus while ironically cheering Putin as he “gets them Nazis” in Ukraine. It’s all just African big man politics. They have emotionally attached themselves to Putin first and foremost and then try to explain themselves as a secondary. Reminds me of a quote from Mark Twain:

    “There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages”

  220. @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC


    I’m thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.
     
    What difference does it make? Neither deserves to be talked to.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    I’m thinking moron, but we may need a statistical analysis to rule out a bot simulating a moron.

    What difference does it make? Neither deserves to be talked to.

    Let me know what you guys decide and make sure to note that the following bloggers have a poor track record on predicting the war compared to a bot/moron:
    Self-described professional military expert Scott Ritter
    Self-described professional military expert Douglas Macgregor
    Mike Whitney
    Pepe Escobar
    The Duran
    MoonOfAlabama
    Andrew Anglin
    Phillip Giraldi

    Gosh maybe they should all be replaced with bots?

  221. Derer says:
    @sudden death
    @Beckow


    Let’s see the speeches and promises the Western leaders made (“Nato not a meter to the east!“)
     
    There was not even single such public speech/promise ever done.

    Replies: @Beckow, @Derer

    Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east.” Gorbachev journal.

    You will not find it in the West empire of LIES. Was the “holocaust” mentioned anywhere in the 50’s or even 60’s by people like Eisenhower. It was created later to fool people like you.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Derer

    Not public spech and can't be verified either, unless Baker himself publicly acknowledged it at the time (or even later) or public official statement/press release by US after meeting with Gorbachev. You won't find it even at public USSR official statements at the time either.

    However previously JJ was refering only to entirely public verifiable statements of Putin, so once again Kremlin fan crowd here tries to gaslight us into the concept of watermelon and walnut being entirely the same, cause both look round from afar and begin with the same first two letters;)

    Regarding Holocaust the most funny thing is that you would be thrown in jail by your hero Putin for that in RF cause denial is an entirely official crime there lol

    , @John Johnson
    @Derer

    Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east.” Gorbachev journal.

    You will not find it in the West empire of LIES.

    I found this in less than a minute:

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/candace-owens/fact-checking-claims-nato-us-broke-agreement-again/

    There was no agreement with Russia.

    There 1994 Budapest Memorandum however was a signed agreement to back the autonomy of Ukraine which included Crimea:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

    Was the “holocaust” mentioned anywhere in the 50’s or even 60’s by people like Eisenhower.

    There was evidence of mass killing from Polish spies like Witold Pilecki before the war was over.

    Pictures like this one were smuggled out which matched the video taken by the Allies when the camps were liberated:
    https://3reich-collector.com/sites/default/files/ww2-german-concentration-camp-kz/holocaust/kl-buchenwald-drawing-prisoner-and-artist-pawel-cholewik_19.jpg

    All a conspiracy I'm sure even though no one denies that Hitler gave the order to starve Leningrad to death in 1941. What a swell guy. Killing Orthodox women and children...cause Jews...or Communism or something.

    But I'm sure the Jews in the Polish camps were actually being given hot tea and cookies while the Allies were just making up all these nasty stories.

    Defending Hitler or Putin in an open forum just doesn't work. Maybe you feel you are making progress but you end up looking like one of those scummy lawyers trying to defend a murderer that everyone knows is guilty.

    Replies: @Derer

  222. LatW says:
    @Greasy William
    @John Johnson


    But so glad that you support the deaths of Russian men to help temporarily lower artillery stocks in the West.
     
    I'm a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks and that Russia will shortly turn its guns against Israel, at which point Moshiach will come and genocide the Palestinians (and Iranians, and Lebanese, etc.). I have repeatedly stated in these threads that I think the Russian invasion is criminal and that the popular Russia shills online are complete retards who lack any grasp on reality.

    Your problem is that you just automatically categorize anyone who is skeptical of the NATO/Ukraine war effort as some Russia partisan and that just isn't the case. I don't question that, all things being equal, the West could defeat the new Axis in a slogging match. I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it's will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson, @LatW

    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks

    It would be very interesting to see if there was any more info out there from the Israeli government of what they have found out about how the attack was organized. What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly) – do you have any info or is this just an instinctive feeling?

    I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it’s will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.

    The current setbacks are due to America delaying (and partly lack of rotation on the Ukrainian side).

    Yes, there might be some “loss of will”, as you put it, but there are so many investments across the whole of Eastern Europe that there will be a strong motivation to defend all that, there is a genuine security issue there (that will spark a reaction to this ongoing nightmare). Remember that Ukraine is fighting a very large and strong country – a coalition of countries, as mentioned above – (that is now using all the military capacity that it used decades to build up plus everything they had from the Soviet era, some of which was in fact transferred from Ukraine). So, the fact that Ukraine has been able to hold to the extent they have is remarkable.

    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @LatW


    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.
     
    Will to protect Europe, maybe. Will to protect the wider US imperium? Absolutely not. Not unless Trump gets back in and probably not even then

    What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly)
     
    1. Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun). That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren't even really attracted to women)
    2. There was one Israeli minister in the aftermath of the attack who pointed the finger at Russia, but he was quickly silenced by the Uncle Shlomo's in the gov and IDF
    3. The attack happened on Putin's birthday
    4. Russia publicly hosted Hamas the day after the attack, and Hamas after the meeting publicly released a statement where they described Russia as Hamas's closest ally

    Replies: @John Johnson, @sudden death, @LatW

  223. Matra says:

    Tweet from Karlin:

    As usual, the most striking thing (to me) about FBK’s investigations of Putin’s palaces (trains, yachts, etc.) is the centrality of TV.

    They’re everywhere – bedroom (mount and retractable), bathroom, lobbies. Ur-boomer media consumption patterns.

    Link

    Biden & Trump watch cable news all day – though low energy Biden probably watches less due to naps. It seems Putin is another TV watcher who (like Orban) is not even on the internet. This is deeply concerning to anyone – like me – who has recently conversed with an older relative who gets all their information from TV.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Matra

    Re: the TVs. It's comforting for the parents' generation to just lounge and watch TV, for older couples it's even a kind of a socializing thing for them. Although many in the parents' generation use Ipads now, too.

    So is there really a large portrait of Putin dressed up as a traditional Tsar in this castle or no? The way it looks on the YouTube clip when you open it or is it just something that the Navalny team drew themselves? The throne looks a bit course - they should've done a replica of a real Tsar's throne, the royal regalia is quite beautiful (not that he deserves to sit in one of those).

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Ivans_ivory_throne.jpg

    , @QCIC
    @Matra

    AK needs to download his Katra back into his body once and awhile and get out into the world.

    A few thoughts:

    - TVs are included by interior decorators. They think it is normal and do not ask. I was disgusted when TVs became popular in cars to tame wild kids. I understand it, but I don't like it. The old days were much more proactive with the addled parent-driver unit screaming "You damn kids back there shut up or I'll box your ears!" accompanied by a flailing arm and swerving car. Good times :)

    - Porn

    - I still think the mansion is where Russia receives and greets space alien ambassadors. This is the real reason for the SMO. Crimea is too close to the palace so Russia cannot afford to have Westerners meddling in their affairs with aliens.

  224. @John Johnson
    @Beckow

    He is a moron or a bot. And not a very good one. Any idiot who thinks that a snippet of a speech about something from twenty years ago is relevant is beyond help.

    You are saying we should ignore the interview where Putin strongly says that Crimea belongs to Ukraine?

    https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html

    Just make your position clear. We can ignore Putin's comments since he has changed his mind?

    But there will not be Nato in Ukraine – the main goal they will deny and lie about thinking it saves their face

    Ukraine didn't qualify for NATO and hadn't started the application process.

    NATO has since expanded East since the war.

    If Putin has the upper hand then why is he again threatening to use nukes?

    Why did he recently order tactical nuclear drills if they have unlimited conventional resources?

    It's not adding up.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Beckow

    We can ignore Putin’s comments since he has changed his mind?

    Yes. Everything has changed and people have changed their mind. What do you do when things change? Do you hold on to your previous views? Nato and the West claim the same when they justify changing their mind. As does Kiev. That’s the way it works and always has. Nothing is permanent.

    Russia is dealing with the reality that a hostile military alliance is trying to weaken it through Ukraine. We can call it a “proxy war”, but it is really just a war. The Ukies are the tools, but they also have their own reasons. If Finland does the same anti-Russia hysteria with open hostility and threats I am pretty sure Russia will respond the same way – so far Finland has been keeping it low-key.

    One more time: if Russia didn’t act in 2022 Ukraine was going to be a full Nato member. They would find a way – “qualify” means nothing when history is made. It is just paperwork and words.

    If Putin has the upper hand then why is he again threatening to use nukes?

    Maybe because Russia has them? Why not save conventional forces and use the big stuff? With the Frenchie pervert yelling “let’s do a Napoleon again” and UK in effect declaring a war on Russia a bit of sobering up doesn’t hurt.

    Sending long-range missiles with UK crews to Ukraine to shoot to Russia and kill civilians is a de facto declaration of war – imagine a reverse and Russia sends missiles with crews to Ireland to shoot at Liverpool.

    There are only two choices: either Russia wins or we evaporate in a nuclear exchange. Russia has just restated that.

  225. @Derer
    @sudden death

    Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east.” Gorbachev journal.

    You will not find it in the West empire of LIES. Was the "holocaust" mentioned anywhere in the 50's or even 60's by people like Eisenhower. It was created later to fool people like you.

    Replies: @sudden death, @John Johnson

    Not public spech and can’t be verified either, unless Baker himself publicly acknowledged it at the time (or even later) or public official statement/press release by US after meeting with Gorbachev. You won’t find it even at public USSR official statements at the time either.

    However previously JJ was refering only to entirely public verifiable statements of Putin, so once again Kremlin fan crowd here tries to gaslight us into the concept of watermelon and walnut being entirely the same, cause both look round from afar and begin with the same first two letters;)

    Regarding Holocaust the most funny thing is that you would be thrown in jail by your hero Putin for that in RF cause denial is an entirely official crime there lol

  226. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I have to confess that I don't know anything about Erick Prince but do find his tell all confessions to be interesting. I'm one of those individuals that enjoys reading the comments section, and I found this very interesting one at the bottom of the list following the main article:


    Erik Prince is the disgraced founder of a private American security firm best known for arms trafficking, murder of civilians, and wartime profiteering. If this guy is so great, China can hire him xD
     
    Sounds like just enough material here to start another very interesting conspiracy theory. What do you think Bashi? :-)

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    I like his current project, he’s working on a crypted anonymous cell phone. It’s very important for the future of freedom. I also think Prince is an outstanding individual (à la Machiavelli … Prince) that would make an excellent American Napoleon Bonaparte / Caesar. Finally, I think it’s about time someone put some law and order in the US and exterminated the Neocon the way Stalin did with their Trotskyite forebears. A few death camps in the middle of Alaska would come handy. The future generations wouldn’t shed a tear and would be awash with gratitude.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I'm so grateful that you've returned. You really help put things into focus for me...

    BTW, Happy Easter. Think back to times when your Ukrainian grandfather was alive, and how he and the family would celebrate the holidays all together.

    https://www.pysanky.info/Easter_Cards/Modern_Gallery/Pages/Traditions_files/New%20Image2-filtered.jpg
    A simpler and better time...

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  227. LatW says:

    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)? Why did you harass the Japanese who lived in the US? Why – wouldn’t that have been a fantastic Eurasia that you could finally enjoy (instead of just fantasize about from afar)? Why are you so hostile to China? Embrace them – “Eurasia, yay”!

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @LatW


    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day?
     
    That's what you don't seem to understand: if Pearl Harbor happened today we wouldn't fight back. Most Americans today are either indifferent to America or even outright hostile to it. To those of us in America who have right wing views, America to us means Covid lockdowns; lawfare (and sometimes mob violence) against Trump and his supporters, gay pride parades, trannies, 3rd world immigration and a rigged economic system that benefits college educated white liberals at the expense of everyone else. Most of us would no more fight for this walking corpse of an empire than 5th century Italians would fight for Rome
    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @LatW


    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.
     
    Your ChatGPT may be hallucinating on you. There are no Americans who salivate over Dugin anything. Michael Millerman is a Canadian. Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is. Amazon canceled him which was a complete waste of their time and energy to have all the meetings they had to make the decision to do so.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @LatW

    , @songbird
    @LatW


    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)?
     
    Some believe it was because Roosevelt wanted to embroil the US in a European war.

    But the Japanese never had the war aims of taking Hawaii or the West Coast as it would have been militarily impossible.

    They were batshit insane enough to think the US would sue for peace. But not batshit insane enough to think they could take Hawaii or the West Coast. There were tens of thousands of troops on Hawaii and it was quite far from Japan.

    Am not sure it was really worth fighting them. What for? The Philippines? We would have had to give that up anyway. IMO, not worth flattening cities for, or letting the communists take over most of Asia for. Not worth fighting Vietnam and Korea.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    , @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day?

     

    LMAO - you do realise that Russian "Eurasianism" has done about a trillion, well, infinite times more for the western or white world than the non-existant Latvian or Baltic "Europeanism" you stupid human-ratshit cross-breed?

    Are you that dumb you don't realise that Japan's contribution also applies to that in contributing much to the white or western world?

    From Russian "Eurasianism"..........we produce genius as Borodin, Khachaturian, Mikoyan,Aivazovsky, Mustai Karim, Alikhanov, patriots like Bagramyan, Vartaniyan, guys like Tsoi and MANY, many more. All except Tsoi making huge contributions to European/Western culture or safety.

    Note that I am only including the "Eurasian " side of us.

    Now, LMAO, WTF does Latvian earthworm "Europeanism" produce?.........absolutely totally f**k all you imbecile

    It's pathetic from scum like you. Note that I can't call you racist scum as you are only being a faux-white supremacist scumbag. You are white. Latvia is geographically located in Europe. That doesn't in anyway make you part of "Europeanism" in the good sense of the word. You're about as European as Albania.

    You have to justify within your loser country why ,from all the countries starting off as small states, Russia is the great culture, great civilisation, the largest country on the planet....and the Baltics are non-entitys. To do this you have to invent some insecure, racist laughable "Mongol", " barbarian" to explain Russia's military victory and dominance and expansion of land....and so the "Eurasian" BS theory to justify how we could easily rule you for 200 years and be one of the worlds great civilisations.

    A schizophrenic weirdo as you has to attach to the "white-supremacist" group falsely - even though Latvia has done absolutely nothing to qualify for the "white-supremacist" group.

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    To anybody with a brain, .........it's as if there was no Golden Horde in the last 1000 years touching Russia you cretin - the influence and after-effects of it have been that minimal you dumb POS . From a genetic point of view - very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that). Culturally the golden horde is near non-existent. Religious influence none. In our language - minimal.

    Now compare that to western Europe where Roman influence is still very detectable, Ottoman influence. The Berber/Moor influence in Spain. Germanic influence in numerous countries, French influence on UK

    Is also as if we haven't shared a border for these centuries with China.........such is the non-influence of this great culture, great Chinese civilisation on us. There is , if anything, more Japanese and Korean influence, particularly in our far East - but outside of business practicalities this is nothing big and would not even go into category of "Eurasianism"

    I say this as a man of Kazan, very proud of it......and of course incomparably more part of Europeanism than any Latvian idiot.

    I suspect there is also some pitiful attempt to link Dugin to Rasputin

    Replies: @LatW, @John Johnson

  228. @Derer
    @sudden death

    Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east.” Gorbachev journal.

    You will not find it in the West empire of LIES. Was the "holocaust" mentioned anywhere in the 50's or even 60's by people like Eisenhower. It was created later to fool people like you.

    Replies: @sudden death, @John Johnson

    Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east.” Gorbachev journal.

    You will not find it in the West empire of LIES.

    I found this in less than a minute:

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/candace-owens/fact-checking-claims-nato-us-broke-agreement-again/

    There was no agreement with Russia.

    There 1994 Budapest Memorandum however was a signed agreement to back the autonomy of Ukraine which included Crimea:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

    Was the “holocaust” mentioned anywhere in the 50’s or even 60’s by people like Eisenhower.

    There was evidence of mass killing from Polish spies like Witold Pilecki before the war was over.

    Pictures like this one were smuggled out which matched the video taken by the Allies when the camps were liberated:
    All a conspiracy I’m sure even though no one denies that Hitler gave the order to starve Leningrad to death in 1941. What a swell guy. Killing Orthodox women and children…cause Jews…or Communism or something.

    But I’m sure the Jews in the Polish camps were actually being given hot tea and cookies while the Allies were just making up all these nasty stories.

    Defending Hitler or Putin in an open forum just doesn’t work. Maybe you feel you are making progress but you end up looking like one of those scummy lawyers trying to defend a murderer that everyone knows is guilty.

    • Replies: @Derer
    @John Johnson

    That is a fake caricature of gypsies made by Mr.Hack .

  229. @John Johnson
    @Derer


    Would you describe every election since 2014 as controlled by Washington?
     
    Yes. Nuland, McCain, Biden fingerprints all over.

    Boy you really walked into that one.

    Washington and the EU did not favor Zelensky in the 2019 election. He was an unknown actor and his election was not what they wanted.

    The pro-NATO/pro-Western candidate was the incumbent Poroshenko and the election outcome was a disappointment to the West:
    But Ukraine's outgoing president cautioned that the Kremlin is celebrating the election of an inexperienced candidate. Russia believes that "Ukraine could be quickly returned to Russia's orbit of influence," Poroshenko said on Twitter. "I call on the international community to help Ukraine to secure all the recent achievements and the strategic choice of the nation for integration to the European Union and the NATO. Please, stay with Ukraine no matter what! Support Ukrainians and be with them!"
    https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/715858365/comedian-wins-ukrainian-presidency-in-landslide

    Which means it was not controlled by Washington.

    You should apply for a dictator defense internship from QCIC or Beckow. I think they offer a 3 day course.

    What you want to do is first have a basic grasp of the last 10 years before making anything up or promoting some type of grand Jewish conspiracy.

    They can teach you skills like learning what periods of history to avoid and how to change the subject when asked specific questions. You'll feel much better about exaggerating and lying once they coach you through the basics.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Derer

    You are listening to Poroshenko, and I am listening to Nuland meddling and pushing another Jew “Yats” nick named by her. He was finished or removed after Yatseniuk grab in Parliament. The CIA pick always their boys that would win in NYC (Georgian lunatic, Kasparov or Khodorkovsky).

  230. LatW says:
    @Matra
    Tweet from Karlin:

    As usual, the most striking thing (to me) about FBK's investigations of Putin's palaces (trains, yachts, etc.) is the centrality of TV.

    They're everywhere - bedroom (mount and retractable), bathroom, lobbies. Ur-boomer media consumption patterns.
     
    Link

    Biden & Trump watch cable news all day - though low energy Biden probably watches less due to naps. It seems Putin is another TV watcher who (like Orban) is not even on the internet. This is deeply concerning to anyone - like me - who has recently conversed with an older relative who gets all their information from TV.

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

    Re: the TVs. It’s comforting for the parents’ generation to just lounge and watch TV, for older couples it’s even a kind of a socializing thing for them. Although many in the parents’ generation use Ipads now, too.

    So is there really a large portrait of Putin dressed up as a traditional Tsar in this castle or no? The way it looks on the YouTube clip when you open it or is it just something that the Navalny team drew themselves? The throne looks a bit course – they should’ve done a replica of a real Tsar’s throne, the royal regalia is quite beautiful (not that he deserves to sit in one of those).

  231. @John Johnson
    @Derer

    Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east.” Gorbachev journal.

    You will not find it in the West empire of LIES.

    I found this in less than a minute:

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/candace-owens/fact-checking-claims-nato-us-broke-agreement-again/

    There was no agreement with Russia.

    There 1994 Budapest Memorandum however was a signed agreement to back the autonomy of Ukraine which included Crimea:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

    Was the “holocaust” mentioned anywhere in the 50’s or even 60’s by people like Eisenhower.

    There was evidence of mass killing from Polish spies like Witold Pilecki before the war was over.

    Pictures like this one were smuggled out which matched the video taken by the Allies when the camps were liberated:
    https://3reich-collector.com/sites/default/files/ww2-german-concentration-camp-kz/holocaust/kl-buchenwald-drawing-prisoner-and-artist-pawel-cholewik_19.jpg

    All a conspiracy I'm sure even though no one denies that Hitler gave the order to starve Leningrad to death in 1941. What a swell guy. Killing Orthodox women and children...cause Jews...or Communism or something.

    But I'm sure the Jews in the Polish camps were actually being given hot tea and cookies while the Allies were just making up all these nasty stories.

    Defending Hitler or Putin in an open forum just doesn't work. Maybe you feel you are making progress but you end up looking like one of those scummy lawyers trying to defend a murderer that everyone knows is guilty.

    Replies: @Derer

    That is a fake caricature of gypsies made by Mr.Hack .

  232. @QCIC
    @Beckow

    Many people in the USA have accepted the misleading or mistaken talking points which JJ repeats. The dialog with him sharpens my thinking.

    He seems to be unwilling to consider an alternative perspective on the Ukraine crisis. Hopefully others reading these exchanges have more commitment to challenging their own beliefs.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Beckow

    Many people in the USA have accepted the misleading or mistaken talking points which JJ repeats.

    Yes, and they don’t matter much. Most Westies know very little about Russia-Ukraine and lack any moral framework. They have been brainwashed they are “special” and rules only apply in one direction. It is narcissism on steroids and predictably it is slowly destroying the West. A mass psychosis.

    Civilizations can handle setbacks but when they become incoherent they go down. The double whammy of Nato-in-Ukraine and Gaza are too much. They blame outsiders but it is the insane attempt to hold mutually exclusive views that is destroying them. It leads to too much blatant lying and hysteria.

    I agree that a dialogue is necessary, that’s what I try, but you can’t have a dialogue with complete psychopaths who deny the nose between their eyes. But maybe others see it. In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.

    • Agree: Mikhail
    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.
     
    On the surface, the second Caribbean crisis is upon us. NATO is conducting unprecedented drills near Russian/Belorussian border, involving 90 thousand soldiers and lots of hardware. In response, Russia initiated a drill of non-strategic nuclear forces to test their preparedness for action. Russian foreign ministry told the UK ambassador that if any UK-supplied rocket lands in the RF, the RF is going to interpret it as UK entering the war, with direct response at UK, not at Ukie puppets. Russian foreign ministry also stated that because F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes and respond accordingly. If you interpret all of this literally, nuclear war is inevitable.

    However, I do not think that nukes will fly. It is likely to end like the previous Caribbean crisis, with both sides backing off. If anything, today’s Western elites are even bigger cowards than in Kennedy’s times. Russia also can afford certain concessions to big players (who never gave a hoot about Ukrainians and never will). The war will end in Ukraine, which will be subjugated and dismembered. The empire will sacrifice this pawn, like it sacrificed quite a few pawns before (the most recent being Afghanistan’s puppet “government”). That will be all.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Beckow, @QCIC, @Jazman

  233. @LatW
    @Greasy William


    I’m a Jewish guy who believes that Russia was behind the Oct 7 attacks
     
    It would be very interesting to see if there was any more info out there from the Israeli government of what they have found out about how the attack was organized. What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly) - do you have any info or is this just an instinctive feeling?

    I just question that all things are indeed equal: I believe the collective West has lost it’s will to live and that loss of will is showing up on the battlefields of Ukraine.
     
    The current setbacks are due to America delaying (and partly lack of rotation on the Ukrainian side).

    Yes, there might be some "loss of will", as you put it, but there are so many investments across the whole of Eastern Europe that there will be a strong motivation to defend all that, there is a genuine security issue there (that will spark a reaction to this ongoing nightmare). Remember that Ukraine is fighting a very large and strong country - a coalition of countries, as mentioned above - (that is now using all the military capacity that it used decades to build up plus everything they had from the Soviet era, some of which was in fact transferred from Ukraine). So, the fact that Ukraine has been able to hold to the extent they have is remarkable.

    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.

    Will to protect Europe, maybe. Will to protect the wider US imperium? Absolutely not. Not unless Trump gets back in and probably not even then

    What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly)

    1. Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun). That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women)
    2. There was one Israeli minister in the aftermath of the attack who pointed the finger at Russia, but he was quickly silenced by the Uncle Shlomo’s in the gov and IDF
    3. The attack happened on Putin’s birthday
    4. Russia publicly hosted Hamas the day after the attack, and Hamas after the meeting publicly released a statement where they described Russia as Hamas’s closest ally

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun). That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women)

    Wow you are naive. You think rape is out of character for Muslims in war? You do realize that the Koran says you can take sex slaves in war? How is that not rape?

    Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women? What do they like? Goats?

    The attack happened on Putin’s birthday

    It also happened on a Jewish holiday which is why the response was delayed.

    Russia publicly hosted Hamas the day after the attack, and Hamas after the meeting publicly released a statement where they described Russia as Hamas’s closest ally

    This meeting with Hamas? It was on the 27th
    https://apnews.com/article/russia-iran-hamas-israel-palestine-9b57f4322f57f3a6ff33e2908cb2a3ef

    It's no secret that Hamas would like Putin to back them. They have the same Hitler Claus disease as Anglin.

    If the October 7th attack was backed by Russia then they would have had better weapons. There also would have been a better plan than:

    1. Attack a bunch of 18 year old girls at a concert
    2. ????????
    3. Success

    Hamas defenders can't even explain the logic of the attack. Scott Ritter said it was a military raid and not a terrorist attack.

    Shooting 18 year old girls in the back as they scream and flee is a military raid according to convicted sex criminal and dedicated Putin fan Scott Ritter. He in fact called it the most successful military raid of the last century.

    https://johnmenadue.com/the-october-7-hamas-assault-on-israel-the-most-successful-military-raid-of-this-century/

    , @sudden death
    @Greasy William

    Not following closely situation in Hamastan, so are there any strictly military reasons for the need to conquer Rafah? Maybe IDF is thinking that should be overall easier affair to do than northern Gaza and want to cut any potential remaining logistics between Gaza north and south or destroy military HAMAS remaining HQ? Or all this is just for inner PR reasons/coalitional politics while trying to eek out some "victory" and/or not wanting to leave in principle any untouched/undamaged places there?

    Replies: @Greasy William

    , @LatW
    @Greasy William


    Will to protect the wider US imperium? Absolutely not.
     
    It depends on what the monied class will do - they may cut the losses if what you call the "US imperium" is reduced in the future or they might realize that this self-neutering might be too costly. Access is everything and few give it up willingly, although you might be right to some extent (also if they let things slide further, they may simply not have the capacity, even if they have the will... well, this is still to be seen). The Americans I see have rather differing views on this, it could be a numbers game in the end.

    Ok, I was wondering if you had any other info besides what was known from open sources (the government and the IDF will not reveal much, ofc, so I was wondering if you've heard anything from the community). Some of the Hamas instructors and mercenaries spoke Russian, however, in and of itself, that doesn't really mean anything, this used to be quite common, from what I understand, as these types of "global South" actors had connections to Russian education institutions and they have connections in Syria. They sometimes use Russian the way we use English.

    Re: Putin's birthday, I heard that that was meant as a "gift" from Hamas to the "Russian people and their leader" for their previous help and cooperation (but who knows).

    1. Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun).
     
    Yes, there was a case in Ukraine where an 80 year woman was raped (very sad). So this is all very recent. Sheryl Sandberg made a documentary about it that just came out.

    That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women)
     
    It wouldn't be about "attraction", but have they done anything like this before, during the previous wars?
  234. @LatW
    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin's Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)? Why did you harass the Japanese who lived in the US? Why - wouldn't that have been a fantastic Eurasia that you could finally enjoy (instead of just fantasize about from afar)? Why are you so hostile to China? Embrace them - "Eurasia, yay"!

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Emil Nikola Richard, @songbird, @Gerard1234

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day?

    That’s what you don’t seem to understand: if Pearl Harbor happened today we wouldn’t fight back. Most Americans today are either indifferent to America or even outright hostile to it. To those of us in America who have right wing views, America to us means Covid lockdowns; lawfare (and sometimes mob violence) against Trump and his supporters, gay pride parades, trannies, 3rd world immigration and a rigged economic system that benefits college educated white liberals at the expense of everyone else. Most of us would no more fight for this walking corpse of an empire than 5th century Italians would fight for Rome

  235. You are listening to Poroshenko, and I am listening to Nuland meddling and pushing another Jew “Yats” nick named by her. He was finished or removed after Yatseniuk grab in Parliament. The CIA pick always their boys that would win in NYC (Georgian lunatic, Kasparov or Khodorkovsky).

    I quoted Poroshenko who described himself on the side of NATO. You would think a direct quote from the losing candidate would be enough but here you are continuing on about the 2019 election and Nuland who left the state department in 2017. She returned under Biden in 2023 which means she was out of office during the time.

    If you had taken the 3 day dictatorship defense course you would know to stop after being caught faking it. QCIC has a lot of good tips on how to change the subject and avoid unwanted timelines that disrupt the general narrative.

    But you want to keep going instead of re-assessing and spending 10-20 minutes on Google reading about the election and learning that the pro-Western candidate did in fact lose. This is where your skills are clearly lacking compared to QCIC and Beckow. They probably don’t want you here as they have the wisdom to not speak of Jewish/CIA meddling conspiracies in conjunction with the 2019 election given that the pro-NATO candidate lost.

    Yet here you are continuing on and as with Anglin you mixed up the timeline on Zelensky. As with Anglin you have picked up bits here and there about Jews and Ukraine and thought you could just slap them together without doing your homework on what actually happened. I really dislike Beckow but he at least doesn’t mumble stuff like “Nuland…Blinken…Zelenksy…there you go” as if mumbling about some Jews in the US and Ukraine ties it all together. That only works at pro-Putin blogs like MoonOfAlabama where he censors dissenting opinion and hints that it is all one grand Jewish conspiracy.

    So maybe head over there or at least pick up some dictator defense notes from Beckow and QCIC.

  236. @Greasy William
    @LatW


    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.
     
    Will to protect Europe, maybe. Will to protect the wider US imperium? Absolutely not. Not unless Trump gets back in and probably not even then

    What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly)
     
    1. Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun). That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren't even really attracted to women)
    2. There was one Israeli minister in the aftermath of the attack who pointed the finger at Russia, but he was quickly silenced by the Uncle Shlomo's in the gov and IDF
    3. The attack happened on Putin's birthday
    4. Russia publicly hosted Hamas the day after the attack, and Hamas after the meeting publicly released a statement where they described Russia as Hamas's closest ally

    Replies: @John Johnson, @sudden death, @LatW

    Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun). That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women)

    Wow you are naive. You think rape is out of character for Muslims in war? You do realize that the Koran says you can take sex slaves in war? How is that not rape?

    Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women? What do they like? Goats?

    The attack happened on Putin’s birthday

    It also happened on a Jewish holiday which is why the response was delayed.

    Russia publicly hosted Hamas the day after the attack, and Hamas after the meeting publicly released a statement where they described Russia as Hamas’s closest ally

    This meeting with Hamas? It was on the 27th
    https://apnews.com/article/russia-iran-hamas-israel-palestine-9b57f4322f57f3a6ff33e2908cb2a3ef

    It’s no secret that Hamas would like Putin to back them. They have the same Hitler Claus disease as Anglin.

    If the October 7th attack was backed by Russia then they would have had better weapons. There also would have been a better plan than:

    1. Attack a bunch of 18 year old girls at a concert
    2. ????????
    3. Success

    Hamas defenders can’t even explain the logic of the attack. Scott Ritter said it was a military raid and not a terrorist attack.

    Shooting 18 year old girls in the back as they scream and flee is a military raid according to convicted sex criminal and dedicated Putin fan Scott Ritter. He in fact called it the most successful military raid of the last century.

    https://johnmenadue.com/the-october-7-hamas-assault-on-israel-the-most-successful-military-raid-of-this-century/

  237. @Greasy William
    @LatW


    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.
     
    Will to protect Europe, maybe. Will to protect the wider US imperium? Absolutely not. Not unless Trump gets back in and probably not even then

    What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly)
     
    1. Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun). That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren't even really attracted to women)
    2. There was one Israeli minister in the aftermath of the attack who pointed the finger at Russia, but he was quickly silenced by the Uncle Shlomo's in the gov and IDF
    3. The attack happened on Putin's birthday
    4. Russia publicly hosted Hamas the day after the attack, and Hamas after the meeting publicly released a statement where they described Russia as Hamas's closest ally

    Replies: @John Johnson, @sudden death, @LatW

    Not following closely situation in Hamastan, so are there any strictly military reasons for the need to conquer Rafah? Maybe IDF is thinking that should be overall easier affair to do than northern Gaza and want to cut any potential remaining logistics between Gaza north and south or destroy military HAMAS remaining HQ? Or all this is just for inner PR reasons/coalitional politics while trying to eek out some “victory” and/or not wanting to leave in principle any untouched/undamaged places there?

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @sudden death


    but have they done anything like this before, during the previous wars?
     
    No. I think like 100 Israeli women were taken as POW's in the 1948 war and all were adamant that they weren't touched.

    Maybe IDF is thinking that should be overall easier affair to do than northern Gaza and want to cut any potential remaining logistics between Gaza north and south or destroy military HAMAS remaining HQ
     
    The IDF is thinking about how gay they are

    Or all this is just for inner PR reasons/coalitional politics while trying to eek out some “victory” and/or not wanting to leave in principle any untouched/undamaged places there?
     
    Yes. That's literally it. If Israel accepts a ceasefire, the govt falls and Bibi goes to jail. If it weren't for those things a ceasefire would have been agreed to in the first couple of weeks. I know Bibi's heart is in the right place but it's hard not to hate him after he allowed the hostages to rot there for so long.

    Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women? What do they like? Goats?
     
    Goats and boys, yeah. Arabs mainly just see women as breeding stock.

    You really have it out for Ritter. Your hate is wasted. He's a disgraced sex criminal, who is probably on the Kremlin payroll, with no influence. How can you hate someone so pathetic?
  238. @LatW
    @songbird


    IMO, rock bottom of a purity spiral is when you are unhappy because Steven Seagal isn’t on your side.
     
    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine's side, such as Viggo Mortensen.

    Replies: @songbird, @Gerard1234

    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.

    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene. Any male actor who does that is obviously part of a gay cabal, or else enslaved by one. And so a pox on him!

    In addition, he seems to support woke, globalist organizations like Sinn Fein and Òmnium Cultural (or I assume it is woke). And has spoken out against Vox. I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements. Those are things that advertisers use to try to sell products. That is materialism and line go up. Nationalists believe in spirituality.

    Isn’t most of Hollywood for Ze? But I would advise you not to use that fact in discourse with nationalists.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene.
     
    Yes, it's really bad. LOL Well, you know how some actors tend to be, they're a bit "out there", so to speak, and Viggo is actually very artsy (he writes poetry, enjoys alternative music, etc). But I do agree that these should be done in a classy way. Frankly, they shouldn't do anything beyond the upper body (for men). But what is this called - "transgressive art"? Yes, it's super annoying in its multitude of manifestations.

    I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.
     

    No, it's not "dear to my heart" (only Aragorn is) and my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me. Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements.
     

    I'm not. Look, I couldn't care less what someone such as Steven Seagal does (haven't seen any of his movies). All I said was that if he is Ashkenazi, then his real homeland should be in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, or the Baltic States. Although I see that he mentions he has Russian roots so in his particular case his family might be from there - he might be using "Russian" for Jewish - which is funny - (and he may not be able to differentiate between Russian or Belarusian, or even Ukrainian - you know, I don't care about such idiocy coming from regular Americans, but smart Americans should differentiate, they know perfectly well).

    Sorry, I shouldn't have called you a "pseudo-Celt" (you're not.. although this made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough).

    Replies: @songbird

    , @Matra
    @songbird

    Last I heard Viggo was married to some Catalan actress, so given the current scene in catalonia he must be a leftist.

    To the person who earlier said Iran's attacks were good for Israel...I would say they were good for Netanyahu, at least in the short term. However, it is possible, even likely, that the interests of Netanyahu and the state of Israel diverged some time ago.

    , @LatW
    @songbird

    You know what's funny...

    You just made me watch the sauna scene - I'd never seen it before (because when I first saw the trailer, the movie seemed kind of scary and clearly appeared too brutal and promised to be too difficult to watch, so it scared me off), having seen it now I have to take back my words that it is "bad" - meaning, it is bad in the sense of how crazy it is, but it is somewhat well acted, I suppose.

    You start to understand why he was nude - he's actually playing a Russian gangster or a hitman who's being attacked in a sauna by other Russian gangsters. The movie is called Eastern Promises and he has a pravoslav church tattood on his back (probably shouldn't write this stuff during the Pravoslav Easter). Anyway, him being nude is just a way to show his vulnerability vis a vis those guys who attack him. It's a very primal scene. It's so deliberately intense that it made me laugh. Of course, that doesn't mean it's not cray cray (totally is and insanely violent, in a real Russia mafia altercation it wouldn't be that crazy, although it is true that they used to hang out in the sauna a lot).

    Replies: @songbird, @Bashibuzuk

  239. LatW says:
    @Greasy William
    @LatW


    So the will (on behalf of Europe) could appear as the danger grows.
     
    Will to protect Europe, maybe. Will to protect the wider US imperium? Absolutely not. Not unless Trump gets back in and probably not even then

    What makes you believe that Russia was involved (directly or indirectly)
     
    1. Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun). That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren't even really attracted to women)
    2. There was one Israeli minister in the aftermath of the attack who pointed the finger at Russia, but he was quickly silenced by the Uncle Shlomo's in the gov and IDF
    3. The attack happened on Putin's birthday
    4. Russia publicly hosted Hamas the day after the attack, and Hamas after the meeting publicly released a statement where they described Russia as Hamas's closest ally

    Replies: @John Johnson, @sudden death, @LatW

    Will to protect the wider US imperium? Absolutely not.

    It depends on what the monied class will do – they may cut the losses if what you call the “US imperium” is reduced in the future or they might realize that this self-neutering might be too costly. Access is everything and few give it up willingly, although you might be right to some extent (also if they let things slide further, they may simply not have the capacity, even if they have the will… well, this is still to be seen). The Americans I see have rather differing views on this, it could be a numbers game in the end.

    [MORE]

    Ok, I was wondering if you had any other info besides what was known from open sources (the government and the IDF will not reveal much, ofc, so I was wondering if you’ve heard anything from the community). Some of the Hamas instructors and mercenaries spoke Russian, however, in and of itself, that doesn’t really mean anything, this used to be quite common, from what I understand, as these types of “global South” actors had connections to Russian education institutions and they have connections in Syria. They sometimes use Russian the way we use English.

    Re: Putin’s birthday, I heard that that was meant as a “gift” from Hamas to the “Russian people and their leader” for their previous help and cooperation (but who knows).

    1. Mass rape, particularly rape of elderly women and pre pubescent girls, as a deliberate means of waging warfare (as opposed to just individual cases of testosterone fueled young soldiers just taking the opportunity to have some fun).

    Yes, there was a case in Ukraine where an 80 year woman was raped (very sad). So this is all very recent. Sheryl Sandberg made a documentary about it that just came out.

    That is a Russian way of war, not an Arab one (Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women)

    It wouldn’t be about “attraction”, but have they done anything like this before, during the previous wars?

  240. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW


    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene. Any male actor who does that is obviously part of a gay cabal, or else enslaved by one. And so a pox on him!

    In addition, he seems to support woke, globalist organizations like Sinn Fein and Òmnium Cultural (or I assume it is woke). And has spoken out against Vox. I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements. Those are things that advertisers use to try to sell products. That is materialism and line go up. Nationalists believe in spirituality.

    Isn't most of Hollywood for Ze? But I would advise you not to use that fact in discourse with nationalists.

    Replies: @LatW, @Matra, @LatW

    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene.

    Yes, it’s really bad. LOL Well, you know how some actors tend to be, they’re a bit “out there”, so to speak, and Viggo is actually very artsy (he writes poetry, enjoys alternative music, etc). But I do agree that these should be done in a classy way. Frankly, they shouldn’t do anything beyond the upper body (for men). But what is this called – “transgressive art”? Yes, it’s super annoying in its multitude of manifestations.

    [MORE]

    I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.

    No, it’s not “dear to my heart” (only Aragorn is) and my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me. Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements.

    I’m not. Look, I couldn’t care less what someone such as Steven Seagal does (haven’t seen any of his movies). All I said was that if he is Ashkenazi, then his real homeland should be in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, or the Baltic States. Although I see that he mentions he has Russian roots so in his particular case his family might be from there – he might be using “Russian” for Jewish – which is funny – (and he may not be able to differentiate between Russian or Belarusian, or even Ukrainian – you know, I don’t care about such idiocy coming from regular Americans, but smart Americans should differentiate, they know perfectly well).

    Sorry, I shouldn’t have called you a “pseudo-Celt” (you’re not.. although this made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough).

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW


    my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me.
     
    IMO, when EEs say this it seems quite indistinguishable from Israelis saying it, shockingly so.

    Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.
     
    Would like to see this war over before it gets to a million dead Slavs.

    made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough)
     
    This is very true. Strangely, it may be only through observing wokes that one can come to a true understanding of nationalism.

    As is often the case, I think language falls short. We would be better off with terms of identity that implicitly include loyalty.

    In today's environment, any nation needs some mechanism of punishment or exclusion for the consanguineous but disloyal. Am sure vast numbers of the woke would fall in line, if they faced the slightest personal cost for disloyalty.

    That said, it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.

    Sorry, I shouldn’t have called you a “pseudo-Celt”
     
    My Irish ancestors would have primarily thought of themselves as Gaels. They felt a strong connection to the Scots, recognizing the Latin meaning of the word. Am not sure the perception of a connection to the French is as old, but it is several hundred years old. IIRC, it caused Belgians to be wary of and hate the Irish who were in their country.

    Celt is probably an exonym. But really all these terms probably are: German, Slav. But they are still useful, IMO.

    I don't know how meaningful all of these connections really are in a direct sense, but in the abstract, I think Europe needs supra-national bonds of blood. Whether or not valid in themselves, these terms could lead to others that are.

    Replies: @A123, @LatW, @Coconuts

  241. @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack

    What news? Gazprom lost $3 billion on sales of $91 billion. How is that devastating? Any corporation with $100 billion in revenues from essential stuff is a good investment in today's funny-money business environment. But you wouldn't understand it. (Look up what Buffet is buying.)

    Market transitions require investments in new infrastructure, for Gazprom it will take a few years. Then they will sell to China-Asia and LNG, make money, and Germany&Co. will be stuck with higher costs and gradual de-industrialization.

    This is not my view, every analyst says that. It is not complicated, only ostriches living in the dark find it too complex and get excited over trivia. Like you.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    You seem to miss the whole point of this news. Gazprom is Russia’s main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years, how does Russia exactly expect to pay its bills? How will it continue to finance a war that is devastating its economy? How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines to countries like India and even China to resume business into the future? Something that it hasn’t been able to create even before its hairbrained schemes in Ukraine? By then, Russia will have become the “Sick man of Europe” like the Ottoman Empire had become in the 19th century. 🙁

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    "a war that is devastating its economy"

    I get the impression that the economy being devastated is the European one, not the Russian one.

    , @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    Gazprom is Russia’s main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years
     
    Russia gets its royalties before Gazprom does its P/L, they always get their share. And why 5 years? You are just making up stuff. Gazprom is also not more than 4-5% of tax revenues and almost all of it are royalties (paid up front) and not taxes on profits.

    How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines...
     
    LNG pipelines? Wow, that is so stupid I don't know how to react...do you know what LNG is? what pipelines are? Since when is Liquified Natural Gas moved in pipelines? The whole point of LNG is to bypass pipelines...


    You don't understand business...and many other things...:) What do you understand?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mr. Hack

  242. Matra says:
    @songbird
    @LatW


    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene. Any male actor who does that is obviously part of a gay cabal, or else enslaved by one. And so a pox on him!

    In addition, he seems to support woke, globalist organizations like Sinn Fein and Òmnium Cultural (or I assume it is woke). And has spoken out against Vox. I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements. Those are things that advertisers use to try to sell products. That is materialism and line go up. Nationalists believe in spirituality.

    Isn't most of Hollywood for Ze? But I would advise you not to use that fact in discourse with nationalists.

    Replies: @LatW, @Matra, @LatW

    Last I heard Viggo was married to some Catalan actress, so given the current scene in catalonia he must be a leftist.

    To the person who earlier said Iran’s attacks were good for Israel…I would say they were good for Netanyahu, at least in the short term. However, it is possible, even likely, that the interests of Netanyahu and the state of Israel diverged some time ago.

    • Thanks: songbird
  243. @sudden death
    @Greasy William

    Not following closely situation in Hamastan, so are there any strictly military reasons for the need to conquer Rafah? Maybe IDF is thinking that should be overall easier affair to do than northern Gaza and want to cut any potential remaining logistics between Gaza north and south or destroy military HAMAS remaining HQ? Or all this is just for inner PR reasons/coalitional politics while trying to eek out some "victory" and/or not wanting to leave in principle any untouched/undamaged places there?

    Replies: @Greasy William

    but have they done anything like this before, during the previous wars?

    No. I think like 100 Israeli women were taken as POW’s in the 1948 war and all were adamant that they weren’t touched.

    Maybe IDF is thinking that should be overall easier affair to do than northern Gaza and want to cut any potential remaining logistics between Gaza north and south or destroy military HAMAS remaining HQ

    The IDF is thinking about how gay they are

    Or all this is just for inner PR reasons/coalitional politics while trying to eek out some “victory” and/or not wanting to leave in principle any untouched/undamaged places there?

    Yes. That’s literally it. If Israel accepts a ceasefire, the govt falls and Bibi goes to jail. If it weren’t for those things a ceasefire would have been agreed to in the first couple of weeks. I know Bibi’s heart is in the right place but it’s hard not to hate him after he allowed the hostages to rot there for so long.

    Arabs aren’t even really attracted to women? What do they like? Goats?

    Goats and boys, yeah. Arabs mainly just see women as breeding stock.

    You really have it out for Ritter. Your hate is wasted. He’s a disgraced sex criminal, who is probably on the Kremlin payroll, with no influence. How can you hate someone so pathetic?

  244. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    I like his current project, he’s working on a crypted anonymous cell phone. It’s very important for the future of freedom. I also think Prince is an outstanding individual (à la Machiavelli … Prince) that would make an excellent American Napoleon Bonaparte / Caesar. Finally, I think it’s about time someone put some law and order in the US and exterminated the Neocon the way Stalin did with their Trotskyite forebears. A few death camps in the middle of Alaska would come handy. The future generations wouldn’t shed a tear and would be awash with gratitude.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I’m so grateful that you’ve returned. You really help put things into focus for me…

    BTW, Happy Easter. Think back to times when your Ukrainian grandfather was alive, and how he and the family would celebrate the holidays all together.


    A simpler and better time…

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    Dear Mr Hack, thank you for your warm wishes.

    Христос воскресе!

    I agree that my childhood years were simpler times.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  245. QCIC says:
    @Matra
    Tweet from Karlin:

    As usual, the most striking thing (to me) about FBK's investigations of Putin's palaces (trains, yachts, etc.) is the centrality of TV.

    They're everywhere - bedroom (mount and retractable), bathroom, lobbies. Ur-boomer media consumption patterns.
     
    Link

    Biden & Trump watch cable news all day - though low energy Biden probably watches less due to naps. It seems Putin is another TV watcher who (like Orban) is not even on the internet. This is deeply concerning to anyone - like me - who has recently conversed with an older relative who gets all their information from TV.

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

    AK needs to download his Katra back into his body once and awhile and get out into the world.

    A few thoughts:

    – TVs are included by interior decorators. They think it is normal and do not ask. I was disgusted when TVs became popular in cars to tame wild kids. I understand it, but I don’t like it. The old days were much more proactive with the addled parent-driver unit screaming “You damn kids back there shut up or I’ll box your ears!” accompanied by a flailing arm and swerving car. Good times 🙂

    – Porn

    – I still think the mansion is where Russia receives and greets space alien ambassadors. This is the real reason for the SMO. Crimea is too close to the palace so Russia cannot afford to have Westerners meddling in their affairs with aliens.

  246. @Beckow
    @QCIC


    Many people in the USA have accepted the misleading or mistaken talking points which JJ repeats.
     
    Yes, and they don't matter much. Most Westies know very little about Russia-Ukraine and lack any moral framework. They have been brainwashed they are "special" and rules only apply in one direction. It is narcissism on steroids and predictably it is slowly destroying the West. A mass psychosis.

    Civilizations can handle setbacks but when they become incoherent they go down. The double whammy of Nato-in-Ukraine and Gaza are too much. They blame outsiders but it is the insane attempt to hold mutually exclusive views that is destroying them. It leads to too much blatant lying and hysteria.

    I agree that a dialogue is necessary, that's what I try, but you can't have a dialogue with complete psychopaths who deny the nose between their eyes. But maybe others see it. In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.

    On the surface, the second Caribbean crisis is upon us. NATO is conducting unprecedented drills near Russian/Belorussian border, involving 90 thousand soldiers and lots of hardware. In response, Russia initiated a drill of non-strategic nuclear forces to test their preparedness for action. Russian foreign ministry told the UK ambassador that if any UK-supplied rocket lands in the RF, the RF is going to interpret it as UK entering the war, with direct response at UK, not at Ukie puppets. Russian foreign ministry also stated that because F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes and respond accordingly. If you interpret all of this literally, nuclear war is inevitable.

    However, I do not think that nukes will fly. It is likely to end like the previous Caribbean crisis, with both sides backing off. If anything, today’s Western elites are even bigger cowards than in Kennedy’s times. Russia also can afford certain concessions to big players (who never gave a hoot about Ukrainians and never will). The war will end in Ukraine, which will be subjugated and dismembered. The empire will sacrifice this pawn, like it sacrificed quite a few pawns before (the most recent being Afghanistan’s puppet “government”). That will be all.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @AnonfromTN


    F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes
     
    Unironically great to hear that, cause NATO F-16's have been constantly stationed&patrolling in Baltic states for whole twenty years since 2004;)

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...That will be all.
     
    Probably. But we are not sure, are we? The Western leaders are more stupid than a generation ago. The commoners are dumb - see JJ's horror show for an example. They don't have the knowledge, and lack experience and judgment - they are like overgrown children who live in their own heads and easily mix up reality with Hollywood fictions. And they hate like scorned teenagers - nothing matters but what they emotionally pump up in their minds. Unlike the 60's no rational dialogue is possible.

    I can see them pulling the trigger - they have no idea the destruction would be mutual. The old men in Washington don't care, it would be the last f..k-you by the Boomers.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @QCIC
    @AnonfromTN

    Let's hope we have plenty of Arkhipovs and no Skynets.

    , @Jazman
    @AnonfromTN

    The 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is not interested in how many enemies there are - they are only interested in how much and where to supply special ammunition.

    What is scary as Medvedem mention during his last comment on social media " Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to understand this more than 60 years ago. But the current infantile morons who have seized power in the West do not want to understand"
    Considering what kind of imbeciles there are, we will not be surprised if these idiots are not even aware of the balance of forces and capabilities of Russia and the Western barbarians in the field of nuclear missiles in general, and in the non-strategic field - especially. Because it’s a very scary ratio.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  247. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.
     
    On the surface, the second Caribbean crisis is upon us. NATO is conducting unprecedented drills near Russian/Belorussian border, involving 90 thousand soldiers and lots of hardware. In response, Russia initiated a drill of non-strategic nuclear forces to test their preparedness for action. Russian foreign ministry told the UK ambassador that if any UK-supplied rocket lands in the RF, the RF is going to interpret it as UK entering the war, with direct response at UK, not at Ukie puppets. Russian foreign ministry also stated that because F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes and respond accordingly. If you interpret all of this literally, nuclear war is inevitable.

    However, I do not think that nukes will fly. It is likely to end like the previous Caribbean crisis, with both sides backing off. If anything, today’s Western elites are even bigger cowards than in Kennedy’s times. Russia also can afford certain concessions to big players (who never gave a hoot about Ukrainians and never will). The war will end in Ukraine, which will be subjugated and dismembered. The empire will sacrifice this pawn, like it sacrificed quite a few pawns before (the most recent being Afghanistan’s puppet “government”). That will be all.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Beckow, @QCIC, @Jazman

    F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes

    Unironically great to hear that, cause NATO F-16’s have been constantly stationed&patrolling in Baltic states for whole twenty years since 2004;)

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    Unironically great to hear that, cause NATO F-16’s have been constantly stationed&patrolling in Baltic states since 2004
     
    There is no war in that area, and won’t be unless some suicidal crazies provoke it. So, that is not much of a trigger. In contrast, there is war in Ukraine. Therefore, I have no doubt that the appearance of the same F16s there would be treated differently.

    Reminds me of Russian joke about briefing of US pilots on an airbase in Poland before they drop nukes on Russia:
    -After your mission do not return to this airbase, it won’t exist. Poland won’t exist, either.
  248. @sudden death
    @AnonfromTN


    F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes
     
    Unironically great to hear that, cause NATO F-16's have been constantly stationed&patrolling in Baltic states for whole twenty years since 2004;)

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    Unironically great to hear that, cause NATO F-16’s have been constantly stationed&patrolling in Baltic states since 2004

    There is no war in that area, and won’t be unless some suicidal crazies provoke it. So, that is not much of a trigger. In contrast, there is war in Ukraine. Therefore, I have no doubt that the appearance of the same F16s there would be treated differently.

    Reminds me of Russian joke about briefing of US pilots on an airbase in Poland before they drop nukes on Russia:
    -After your mission do not return to this airbase, it won’t exist. Poland won’t exist, either.

  249. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.
     
    On the surface, the second Caribbean crisis is upon us. NATO is conducting unprecedented drills near Russian/Belorussian border, involving 90 thousand soldiers and lots of hardware. In response, Russia initiated a drill of non-strategic nuclear forces to test their preparedness for action. Russian foreign ministry told the UK ambassador that if any UK-supplied rocket lands in the RF, the RF is going to interpret it as UK entering the war, with direct response at UK, not at Ukie puppets. Russian foreign ministry also stated that because F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes and respond accordingly. If you interpret all of this literally, nuclear war is inevitable.

    However, I do not think that nukes will fly. It is likely to end like the previous Caribbean crisis, with both sides backing off. If anything, today’s Western elites are even bigger cowards than in Kennedy’s times. Russia also can afford certain concessions to big players (who never gave a hoot about Ukrainians and never will). The war will end in Ukraine, which will be subjugated and dismembered. The empire will sacrifice this pawn, like it sacrificed quite a few pawns before (the most recent being Afghanistan’s puppet “government”). That will be all.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Beckow, @QCIC, @Jazman

    …That will be all.

    Probably. But we are not sure, are we? The Western leaders are more stupid than a generation ago. The commoners are dumb – see JJ’s horror show for an example. They don’t have the knowledge, and lack experience and judgment – they are like overgrown children who live in their own heads and easily mix up reality with Hollywood fictions. And they hate like scorned teenagers – nothing matters but what they emotionally pump up in their minds. Unlike the 60’s no rational dialogue is possible.

    I can see them pulling the trigger – they have no idea the destruction would be mutual. The old men in Washington don’t care, it would be the last f..k-you by the Boomers.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    The Western leaders are more stupid than a generation ago.
     
    If you consider “democratically elected” figureheads as leaders, yes, they are a lot dumber than a generation or two ago. But the decisions are not made by these nonentities, the decisions are made by those who give these puppets their marching orders.

    the old men in Washington don’t care
     
    The old men/women in Washington (or wherever the real powers reside) do care. They are ultimate egotists, they care about themselves and nothing/nobody else. I believe that their egotism will prevent nuclear war. The older they get, the more they fear death (as if they really believe Christian fables; in that case they must be 100% sure to end up in Hell).

    Replies: @Beckow

  250. @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...That will be all.
     
    Probably. But we are not sure, are we? The Western leaders are more stupid than a generation ago. The commoners are dumb - see JJ's horror show for an example. They don't have the knowledge, and lack experience and judgment - they are like overgrown children who live in their own heads and easily mix up reality with Hollywood fictions. And they hate like scorned teenagers - nothing matters but what they emotionally pump up in their minds. Unlike the 60's no rational dialogue is possible.

    I can see them pulling the trigger - they have no idea the destruction would be mutual. The old men in Washington don't care, it would be the last f..k-you by the Boomers.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    The Western leaders are more stupid than a generation ago.

    If you consider “democratically elected” figureheads as leaders, yes, they are a lot dumber than a generation or two ago. But the decisions are not made by these nonentities, the decisions are made by those who give these puppets their marching orders.

    the old men in Washington don’t care

    The old men/women in Washington (or wherever the real powers reside) do care. They are ultimate egotists, they care about themselves and nothing/nobody else. I believe that their egotism will prevent nuclear war. The older they get, the more they fear death (as if they really believe Christian fables; in that case they must be 100% sure to end up in Hell).

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN

    Ok, let's count on the smart ones who have been for some reason hiding. But I am still not that sure - I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere...


    if they really believe Christian fables; in that case they must be 100% sure to end up in Hell...
     
    They are crazy and selfish enough to choose Hell for the rest of us. But ok, you say there are grown-ups there somewhere, I can't wait until they show up. I am pretty sure it is not Starmer or Trump. Not Meloni. And the eminence grise guys are well hidden.

    Replies: @Mikel

  251. @LatW
    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin's Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)? Why did you harass the Japanese who lived in the US? Why - wouldn't that have been a fantastic Eurasia that you could finally enjoy (instead of just fantasize about from afar)? Why are you so hostile to China? Embrace them - "Eurasia, yay"!

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Emil Nikola Richard, @songbird, @Gerard1234

    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.

    Your ChatGPT may be hallucinating on you. There are no Americans who salivate over Dugin anything. Michael Millerman is a Canadian. Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is. Amazon canceled him which was a complete waste of their time and energy to have all the meetings they had to make the decision to do so.

    • Agree: songbird
    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is.
     
    FYI, there are relatively few Russians who know who Dugin is. E.g., I learned about his existence when Ukies murdered his daughter. Using Russian joke, “he is widely known in narrow circles”.
    , @LatW
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is.
     
    Well, now they will, thanks to Tucker. I wonder if anyone will one day invent some ku-ku esoteric "geopolitical" theory that will justify obliterating Tucker's home town, the way that Duginist theories justify eliminating other people's livelihoods.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  252. @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    You seem to miss the whole point of this news. Gazprom is Russia's main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years, how does Russia exactly expect to pay its bills? How will it continue to finance a war that is devastating its economy? How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines to countries like India and even China to resume business into the future? Something that it hasn't been able to create even before its hairbrained schemes in Ukraine? By then, Russia will have become the "Sick man of Europe" like the Ottoman Empire had become in the 19th century. :-(

    https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bv9jn8QqThE/Xwj7rn9TMgI/AAAAAAAADfk/slJaAeVDUPI7dL6H2hTA4fD4aXHB4-WZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/ivan.jpg

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Beckow

    “a war that is devastating its economy”

    I get the impression that the economy being devastated is the European one, not the Russian one.

  253. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @LatW


    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.
     
    Your ChatGPT may be hallucinating on you. There are no Americans who salivate over Dugin anything. Michael Millerman is a Canadian. Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is. Amazon canceled him which was a complete waste of their time and energy to have all the meetings they had to make the decision to do so.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @LatW

    Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is.

    FYI, there are relatively few Russians who know who Dugin is. E.g., I learned about his existence when Ukies murdered his daughter. Using Russian joke, “he is widely known in narrow circles”.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
  254. @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    You seem to miss the whole point of this news. Gazprom is Russia's main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years, how does Russia exactly expect to pay its bills? How will it continue to finance a war that is devastating its economy? How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines to countries like India and even China to resume business into the future? Something that it hasn't been able to create even before its hairbrained schemes in Ukraine? By then, Russia will have become the "Sick man of Europe" like the Ottoman Empire had become in the 19th century. :-(

    https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bv9jn8QqThE/Xwj7rn9TMgI/AAAAAAAADfk/slJaAeVDUPI7dL6H2hTA4fD4aXHB4-WZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/ivan.jpg

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Beckow

    Gazprom is Russia’s main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years

    Russia gets its royalties before Gazprom does its P/L, they always get their share. And why 5 years? You are just making up stuff. Gazprom is also not more than 4-5% of tax revenues and almost all of it are royalties (paid up front) and not taxes on profits.

    How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines…

    LNG pipelines? Wow, that is so stupid I don’t know how to react…do you know what LNG is? what pipelines are? Since when is Liquified Natural Gas moved in pipelines? The whole point of LNG is to bypass pipelines…

    You don’t understand business…and many other things…:) What do you understand?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    A small semantic error and you're trying to make a heyday out of it, well alright - "touche". :-)

    Since you're still having some difficulties understanding what's really going on, here's a simple schematic to help you grasp some of the salient points:

    https://resources.arcamax.com/newspics/234/23451/2345173.jpg
    You seem to believe everything that your Uncle VoVA tells you, do you believe that he'd "cut off his nose to spite his face"? I'm afraid that he's already done it. :-)

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    , @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow


    Russia gets its royalties before Gazprom does its P/L, they always get their share.
     
    It's hard to imagine what its royalties were in 2023 when it recently posted a $7 billion loss for that year? Can you point to any accurate numbers?

    Gazprom is also not more than 4-5% of tax revenues and almost all of it are royalties (paid up front) and not taxes on profits.
     
    I don't know about that. Joe Blog, whom I've posted above (startingat 16:09) states that Gazprom was always paying taxes to the Russian government of 20%, is no longer going to be able to do so as of 2023 and going forward because of its huge losses. He states that in 2022, when it still was posting huge profits before the Ukrainian war, it paid approximately $6 billion in taxes (20% x 31 billion). I don't know who's telling the truth, but I can guess who AP would bet on. :-)
  255. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    The Western leaders are more stupid than a generation ago.
     
    If you consider “democratically elected” figureheads as leaders, yes, they are a lot dumber than a generation or two ago. But the decisions are not made by these nonentities, the decisions are made by those who give these puppets their marching orders.

    the old men in Washington don’t care
     
    The old men/women in Washington (or wherever the real powers reside) do care. They are ultimate egotists, they care about themselves and nothing/nobody else. I believe that their egotism will prevent nuclear war. The older they get, the more they fear death (as if they really believe Christian fables; in that case they must be 100% sure to end up in Hell).

    Replies: @Beckow

    Ok, let’s count on the smart ones who have been for some reason hiding. But I am still not that sure – I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere…

    if they really believe Christian fables; in that case they must be 100% sure to end up in Hell…

    They are crazy and selfish enough to choose Hell for the rest of us. But ok, you say there are grown-ups there somewhere, I can’t wait until they show up. I am pretty sure it is not Starmer or Trump. Not Meloni. And the eminence grise guys are well hidden.

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @Beckow


    I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere…
     
    I wouldn't worry too much. Now that Russia, France and the UK have started threatening each other, I'm sure the statesmen in Kiev will do everything possible to calm them down and avoid escalations, as they have always done: make sure that this war of theirs stays contained without affecting anyone else.

    We need to understand that this is not like the previous Cold War at all. Russia has just threatened to attack the UK but the first news items on the BBC are Stormy Daniel's witness testimony, followed by some alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky. The Russian threats are not mentioned at all, why would any British reader be interested in that? They do get a couple of lines buried inside another piece about the Russian upcoming nuclear drills (just tactical nukes that "don't provoke widespread fallout", they explain) but, most importantly, these nuclear drills don't make it to the list of the 10 most read articles by the BBC readers. Right now the most read one is the devious plot by Putin to kill Zelensky that the BBC informs the Ukrainian authorities have skillfully thwarted followed by the '26 most eye-catching looks from the Met Gala'. Stormy's saga is getting stale even for the BBC readers.

    This all comes right after the US House finally voted to resume the aid to Ukraine because, as the speaker warned, if we don't stop the Russians in Ukraine, the Balkans are next, thus reassuring anyone who may have any doubt that we are led by highly competent statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Seriously speaking though, if the Ukrainians use British missiles to kill civilians or attack strategic bases deep inside Russia or if the French finally show up in Ukraine, I would not expect Putin to do much more than summon the ambassadors once again and utter even harsher threats that the Western MSM will not bother to reproduce. This is all more likely to escalate the way the Donbas war escalated to the SMO. Years of half-hearted measures, diplomatic maneuvers, Skripal clown shows, obfuscation,... until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It's the Kremlin MO.

    Replies: @sudden death, @AnonfromTN, @Beckow

  256. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.
     
    On the surface, the second Caribbean crisis is upon us. NATO is conducting unprecedented drills near Russian/Belorussian border, involving 90 thousand soldiers and lots of hardware. In response, Russia initiated a drill of non-strategic nuclear forces to test their preparedness for action. Russian foreign ministry told the UK ambassador that if any UK-supplied rocket lands in the RF, the RF is going to interpret it as UK entering the war, with direct response at UK, not at Ukie puppets. Russian foreign ministry also stated that because F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes and respond accordingly. If you interpret all of this literally, nuclear war is inevitable.

    However, I do not think that nukes will fly. It is likely to end like the previous Caribbean crisis, with both sides backing off. If anything, today’s Western elites are even bigger cowards than in Kennedy’s times. Russia also can afford certain concessions to big players (who never gave a hoot about Ukrainians and never will). The war will end in Ukraine, which will be subjugated and dismembered. The empire will sacrifice this pawn, like it sacrificed quite a few pawns before (the most recent being Afghanistan’s puppet “government”). That will be all.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Beckow, @QCIC, @Jazman

    Let’s hope we have plenty of Arkhipovs and no Skynets.

  257. LatW says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @LatW


    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.
     
    Your ChatGPT may be hallucinating on you. There are no Americans who salivate over Dugin anything. Michael Millerman is a Canadian. Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is. Amazon canceled him which was a complete waste of their time and energy to have all the meetings they had to make the decision to do so.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @LatW

    Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is.

    Well, now they will, thanks to Tucker. I wonder if anyone will one day invent some ku-ku esoteric “geopolitical” theory that will justify obliterating Tucker’s home town, the way that Duginist theories justify eliminating other people’s livelihoods.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @LatW

    No they will not. Alexander Dugin's English is poor. It is as difficult to listen to him speak English as it is to listen to Robert Kennedy. If Tucker has either of them back in his studio ever again I will be surprised.

    Video and audio require some level of personal appeal. Did you watch or listen to any of Dugin and Tucker?

    Replies: @LatW

  258. @LatW
    @songbird


    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene.
     
    Yes, it's really bad. LOL Well, you know how some actors tend to be, they're a bit "out there", so to speak, and Viggo is actually very artsy (he writes poetry, enjoys alternative music, etc). But I do agree that these should be done in a classy way. Frankly, they shouldn't do anything beyond the upper body (for men). But what is this called - "transgressive art"? Yes, it's super annoying in its multitude of manifestations.

    I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.
     

    No, it's not "dear to my heart" (only Aragorn is) and my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me. Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements.
     

    I'm not. Look, I couldn't care less what someone such as Steven Seagal does (haven't seen any of his movies). All I said was that if he is Ashkenazi, then his real homeland should be in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, or the Baltic States. Although I see that he mentions he has Russian roots so in his particular case his family might be from there - he might be using "Russian" for Jewish - which is funny - (and he may not be able to differentiate between Russian or Belarusian, or even Ukrainian - you know, I don't care about such idiocy coming from regular Americans, but smart Americans should differentiate, they know perfectly well).

    Sorry, I shouldn't have called you a "pseudo-Celt" (you're not.. although this made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough).

    Replies: @songbird

    my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me.

    IMO, when EEs say this it seems quite indistinguishable from Israelis saying it, shockingly so.

    [MORE]

    Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.

    Would like to see this war over before it gets to a million dead Slavs.

    made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough)

    This is very true. Strangely, it may be only through observing wokes that one can come to a true understanding of nationalism.

    As is often the case, I think language falls short. We would be better off with terms of identity that implicitly include loyalty.

    In today’s environment, any nation needs some mechanism of punishment or exclusion for the consanguineous but disloyal. Am sure vast numbers of the woke would fall in line, if they faced the slightest personal cost for disloyalty.

    That said, it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.

    Sorry, I shouldn’t have called you a “pseudo-Celt”

    My Irish ancestors would have primarily thought of themselves as Gaels. They felt a strong connection to the Scots, recognizing the Latin meaning of the word. Am not sure the perception of a connection to the French is as old, but it is several hundred years old. IIRC, it caused Belgians to be wary of and hate the Irish who were in their country.

    Celt is probably an exonym. But really all these terms probably are: German, Slav. But they are still useful, IMO.

    I don’t know how meaningful all of these connections really are in a direct sense, but in the abstract, I think Europe needs supra-national bonds of blood. Whether or not valid in themselves, these terms could lead to others that are.

    • Replies: @A123
    @songbird


    it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.
     
    This is core to SJW🏳️‍🌈Muslims: (1)

    WATCH – Anti-Israel Protester at UCLA Encampment:
    ‘We Don’t Like White People’

     

    In a viral clip [MORE] that has been making the rounds on social media in recent days, an anti-Israel protester at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) can be heard dismissing a counter-protester because he is a “white person.”

    “You’re just a white person; you’re a white person [so] get out — we don’t like white people,” the keffiyeh-wearing woman insisted before chanting, “Free Palestine” as she waved a Palestinian flag.

    Journalist Cam Higby, who challenged the woman and filmed it, explained that she was “speaking Arabic” and “screaming about Jewish colonizers,” when he confronted her and accused her of “being mad that Hamas is hiding behind civilians.”
     
    Non-white Muslims:

    • Back genocidal Hamas aggression.
    • Hate America.
    • Denounce white people, which includes Jews.

    More evidence that Judeo-Christian unity is required to oppose the Muslim racists of IslamoGloboHomo.

    #LetsGoBrandon 😇
    ____________________

    (1) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/05/watch-anti-israel-protester-ucla-encampment-dont-like-white-people/



    https://twitter.com/camhigby/status/1783676944481140854?s=20

    Replies: @songbird

    , @LatW
    @songbird


    As is often the case, I think language falls short. We would be better off with terms of identity that implicitly include loyalty.
     
    Ideally, all of those should be present, all at once - genetics, language, identity, culture, state / group loyalty, love & caring, the idea and social organization of brethren. And it should all be there through a natural, organic, at least partly voluntary impulse. So that there is at least some freedom.

    Alas, the world is much more complex than that and so is the human being. Or maybe all of the above is too much to ask and things have never really been that way, anywhere, or only on very few ocassions.

    , @Coconuts
    @songbird

    In France they have the Institut Iliade that works on this, it is a kind of off-shoot of the New Right movement. They tend to follow the Indo-European and Roman/Hellenistic angle of the New Right, but not exclusively now.



    https://institut-iliade.com/

    Mostly it looks like it is only in French at the moment.

    They have some interesting articles:

    https://institut-iliade.com/europe-occident-un-rappel-necessaire-sur-le-sens-et-la-priorite-du-combat-pour-la-renaissance-de-la-civilisation-europeenne/

    https://institut-iliade.com/europa-en-het-westen/

    On the concept of Europe vs. the West. It is only translated into Dutch so far (for the Belgians?)

    Replies: @songbird, @LatW

  259. @LatW
    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin's Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)? Why did you harass the Japanese who lived in the US? Why - wouldn't that have been a fantastic Eurasia that you could finally enjoy (instead of just fantasize about from afar)? Why are you so hostile to China? Embrace them - "Eurasia, yay"!

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Emil Nikola Richard, @songbird, @Gerard1234

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)?

    Some believe it was because Roosevelt wanted to embroil the US in a European war.

    But the Japanese never had the war aims of taking Hawaii or the West Coast as it would have been militarily impossible.

    They were batshit insane enough to think the US would sue for peace. But not batshit insane enough to think they could take Hawaii or the West Coast. There were tens of thousands of troops on Hawaii and it was quite far from Japan.

    Am not sure it was really worth fighting them. What for? The Philippines? We would have had to give that up anyway. IMO, not worth flattening cities for, or letting the communists take over most of Asia for. Not worth fighting Vietnam and Korea.

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @songbird


    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAuZqD0aQAEIKld.jpg

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

  260. @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I'm so grateful that you've returned. You really help put things into focus for me...

    BTW, Happy Easter. Think back to times when your Ukrainian grandfather was alive, and how he and the family would celebrate the holidays all together.

    https://www.pysanky.info/Easter_Cards/Modern_Gallery/Pages/Traditions_files/New%20Image2-filtered.jpg
    A simpler and better time...

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Dear Mr Hack, thank you for your warm wishes.

    Христос воскресе!

    I agree that my childhood years were simpler times.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I'm curious, did your family celebrate Easter, at least clandestinely? I remember you saying that your aunt and mother (?) enjoyed visiting the local orthodox church.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  261. @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    Gazprom is Russia’s main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years
     
    Russia gets its royalties before Gazprom does its P/L, they always get their share. And why 5 years? You are just making up stuff. Gazprom is also not more than 4-5% of tax revenues and almost all of it are royalties (paid up front) and not taxes on profits.

    How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines...
     
    LNG pipelines? Wow, that is so stupid I don't know how to react...do you know what LNG is? what pipelines are? Since when is Liquified Natural Gas moved in pipelines? The whole point of LNG is to bypass pipelines...


    You don't understand business...and many other things...:) What do you understand?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mr. Hack

    A small semantic error and you’re trying to make a heyday out of it, well alright – “touche”. 🙂

    Since you’re still having some difficulties understanding what’s really going on, here’s a simple schematic to help you grasp some of the salient points:


    You seem to believe everything that your Uncle VoVA tells you, do you believe that he’d “cut off his nose to spite his face”? I’m afraid that he’s already done it. 🙂

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    If cartoons could win wars, American private equity would be sitting on Russian gas and oil right now, and Blackrock and Monsanto would be ploughing the black earth.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/russia-s-oil-and-gas-budget-proceeds-almost-doubled-in-march


    Russia’s oil and gas tax revenue almost doubled in March from a year earlier as global prices of the nation’s crude jumped and its producers adapt to sanctions.

    Budget proceeds from oil and gas levies rose by 90% last month from a year ago to almost 1.31 trillion rubles ($14.1 billion), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Taxes on crude and petroleum products — which accounted for more than 86% of total hydrocarbon revenue last month — contributed the most of the increase, according to Bloomberg News calculations based on data.

    The March budget revenues are also the highest in five months due to the Russian oil-tax payment schedule, under which the so-called profit-based tax is mainly paid four times a year: in March, April, July and October.

    Russia’s oil sector is a key source of revenue for the nation’s coffers, which remain under pressure amid Western sanctions and the cost of the war in Ukraine. As Moscow’s invasion enters its third year, Ukraine has been targeting Russia’s vital energy industry. So far this year, Ukrainian drones damaged 12 major refineries and two smaller plants, with the latest attack occurring this week.

    Budget Revenue Almost Double in March From a Year Ago
     

    Almost forgot - Christos Anesti !

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  262. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    Dear Mr Hack, thank you for your warm wishes.

    Христос воскресе!

    I agree that my childhood years were simpler times.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I’m curious, did your family celebrate Easter, at least clandestinely? I remember you saying that your aunt and mother (?) enjoyed visiting the local orthodox church.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    My grandma was the one who upholding the tradition. She’s the one who insisted on baptizing both of us my brother and I. She came from a very modest background in Penza region. My grandfather being a high ranked military officer could not have professed his belief in God publicly. He only went back to religious practice after the fall of the Soviets. My mom became quite religious in her thirties, I think she was probably agnostic when young. Now she is very devout. I wanted to accompany her to the Easter всеношная служба this year, but she is unfortunately ill. So we just celebrated home with eggs, sweet пасха and кулич the usual stuff.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  263. There are a lot of masterworks of art and music that would have never been made, if the artists involved had been placed in something like the modern idea of education.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    When I took art class in high school the guidance counselor thought it was a terrible idea. "Art class is for the stupid kids."

    Replies: @songbird

  264. A123 says: • Website
    @songbird
    @LatW


    my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me.
     
    IMO, when EEs say this it seems quite indistinguishable from Israelis saying it, shockingly so.

    Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.
     
    Would like to see this war over before it gets to a million dead Slavs.

    made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough)
     
    This is very true. Strangely, it may be only through observing wokes that one can come to a true understanding of nationalism.

    As is often the case, I think language falls short. We would be better off with terms of identity that implicitly include loyalty.

    In today's environment, any nation needs some mechanism of punishment or exclusion for the consanguineous but disloyal. Am sure vast numbers of the woke would fall in line, if they faced the slightest personal cost for disloyalty.

    That said, it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.

    Sorry, I shouldn’t have called you a “pseudo-Celt”
     
    My Irish ancestors would have primarily thought of themselves as Gaels. They felt a strong connection to the Scots, recognizing the Latin meaning of the word. Am not sure the perception of a connection to the French is as old, but it is several hundred years old. IIRC, it caused Belgians to be wary of and hate the Irish who were in their country.

    Celt is probably an exonym. But really all these terms probably are: German, Slav. But they are still useful, IMO.

    I don't know how meaningful all of these connections really are in a direct sense, but in the abstract, I think Europe needs supra-national bonds of blood. Whether or not valid in themselves, these terms could lead to others that are.

    Replies: @A123, @LatW, @Coconuts

    it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.

    This is core to SJW🏳️‍🌈Muslims: (1)

    WATCH – Anti-Israel Protester at UCLA Encampment:
    ‘We Don’t Like White People’

    In a viral clip [MORE] that has been making the rounds on social media in recent days, an anti-Israel protester at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) can be heard dismissing a counter-protester because he is a “white person.”

    “You’re just a white person; you’re a white person [so] get out — we don’t like white people,” the keffiyeh-wearing woman insisted before chanting, “Free Palestine” as she waved a Palestinian flag.

    Journalist Cam Higby, who challenged the woman and filmed it, explained that she was “speaking Arabic” and “screaming about Jewish colonizers,” when he confronted her and accused her of “being mad that Hamas is hiding behind civilians.”

    Non-white Muslims:

    • Back genocidal Hamas aggression.
    • Hate America.
    • Denounce white people, which includes Jews.

    More evidence that Judeo-Christian unity is required to oppose the Muslim racists of IslamoGloboHomo.

    #LetsGoBrandon 😇
    ____________________

    (1) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/05/watch-anti-israel-protester-ucla-encampment-dont-like-white-people/

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @songbird
    @A123

    Excellent point: why support someone whose rhetoric is against you? This is why I support a policy of neutrality.

    Replies: @A123

  265. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW


    my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me.
     
    IMO, when EEs say this it seems quite indistinguishable from Israelis saying it, shockingly so.

    Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.
     
    Would like to see this war over before it gets to a million dead Slavs.

    made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough)
     
    This is very true. Strangely, it may be only through observing wokes that one can come to a true understanding of nationalism.

    As is often the case, I think language falls short. We would be better off with terms of identity that implicitly include loyalty.

    In today's environment, any nation needs some mechanism of punishment or exclusion for the consanguineous but disloyal. Am sure vast numbers of the woke would fall in line, if they faced the slightest personal cost for disloyalty.

    That said, it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.

    Sorry, I shouldn’t have called you a “pseudo-Celt”
     
    My Irish ancestors would have primarily thought of themselves as Gaels. They felt a strong connection to the Scots, recognizing the Latin meaning of the word. Am not sure the perception of a connection to the French is as old, but it is several hundred years old. IIRC, it caused Belgians to be wary of and hate the Irish who were in their country.

    Celt is probably an exonym. But really all these terms probably are: German, Slav. But they are still useful, IMO.

    I don't know how meaningful all of these connections really are in a direct sense, but in the abstract, I think Europe needs supra-national bonds of blood. Whether or not valid in themselves, these terms could lead to others that are.

    Replies: @A123, @LatW, @Coconuts

    As is often the case, I think language falls short. We would be better off with terms of identity that implicitly include loyalty.

    Ideally, all of those should be present, all at once – genetics, language, identity, culture, state / group loyalty, love & caring, the idea and social organization of brethren. And it should all be there through a natural, organic, at least partly voluntary impulse. So that there is at least some freedom.

    Alas, the world is much more complex than that and so is the human being. Or maybe all of the above is too much to ask and things have never really been that way, anywhere, or only on very few ocassions.

  266. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I'm curious, did your family celebrate Easter, at least clandestinely? I remember you saying that your aunt and mother (?) enjoyed visiting the local orthodox church.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    My grandma was the one who upholding the tradition. She’s the one who insisted on baptizing both of us my brother and I. She came from a very modest background in Penza region. My grandfather being a high ranked military officer could not have professed his belief in God publicly. He only went back to religious practice after the fall of the Soviets. My mom became quite religious in her thirties, I think she was probably agnostic when young. Now she is very devout. I wanted to accompany her to the Easter всеношная служба this year, but she is unfortunately ill. So we just celebrated home with eggs, sweet пасха and кулич the usual stuff.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    Bless her soul. I have some family members that are ill during this season, and will include your mother in my prayers as well.

  267. @songbird
    There are a lot of masterworks of art and music that would have never been made, if the artists involved had been placed in something like the modern idea of education.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    When I took art class in high school the guidance counselor thought it was a terrible idea. “Art class is for the stupid kids.”

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    When I took art class in high school the guidance counselor thought it was a terrible idea. “Art class is for the stupid kids.”
     
    Well, in modern times, many people go through high school and then go to an art institute. This is a scam track (one of many), as art institute grads make about the same as someone with a part time job.

    My friend's sister was an "artist" and she used to paint really creepy portraits of people. But they weren't supposed to be creepy.

    But my point was this sort of selection and weeding out should start earlier. Maybe, the Renaissance world wouldn't meet OSHA requirements, but Bernini was only 23 when he carved the Abduction of Persephone. No one coming out of an art institute is going to be able to do that.
  268. @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    Gazprom is Russia’s main cash cow, and now with it being sidelined for at least 5 years
     
    Russia gets its royalties before Gazprom does its P/L, they always get their share. And why 5 years? You are just making up stuff. Gazprom is also not more than 4-5% of tax revenues and almost all of it are royalties (paid up front) and not taxes on profits.

    How many billions of rubles will it need to build LNG pipelines...
     
    LNG pipelines? Wow, that is so stupid I don't know how to react...do you know what LNG is? what pipelines are? Since when is Liquified Natural Gas moved in pipelines? The whole point of LNG is to bypass pipelines...


    You don't understand business...and many other things...:) What do you understand?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mr. Hack

    Russia gets its royalties before Gazprom does its P/L, they always get their share.

    It’s hard to imagine what its royalties were in 2023 when it recently posted a $7 billion loss for that year? Can you point to any accurate numbers?

    Gazprom is also not more than 4-5% of tax revenues and almost all of it are royalties (paid up front) and not taxes on profits.

    I don’t know about that. Joe Blog, whom I’ve posted above (startingat 16:09) states that Gazprom was always paying taxes to the Russian government of 20%, is no longer going to be able to do so as of 2023 and going forward because of its huge losses. He states that in 2022, when it still was posting huge profits before the Ukrainian war, it paid approximately $6 billion in taxes (20% x 31 billion). I don’t know who’s telling the truth, but I can guess who AP would bet on. 🙂

  269. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    My grandma was the one who upholding the tradition. She’s the one who insisted on baptizing both of us my brother and I. She came from a very modest background in Penza region. My grandfather being a high ranked military officer could not have professed his belief in God publicly. He only went back to religious practice after the fall of the Soviets. My mom became quite religious in her thirties, I think she was probably agnostic when young. Now she is very devout. I wanted to accompany her to the Easter всеношная служба this year, but she is unfortunately ill. So we just celebrated home with eggs, sweet пасха and кулич the usual stuff.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Bless her soul. I have some family members that are ill during this season, and will include your mother in my prayers as well.

    • Thanks: Bashibuzuk
  270. @A123
    @songbird


    it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.
     
    This is core to SJW🏳️‍🌈Muslims: (1)

    WATCH – Anti-Israel Protester at UCLA Encampment:
    ‘We Don’t Like White People’

     

    In a viral clip [MORE] that has been making the rounds on social media in recent days, an anti-Israel protester at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) can be heard dismissing a counter-protester because he is a “white person.”

    “You’re just a white person; you’re a white person [so] get out — we don’t like white people,” the keffiyeh-wearing woman insisted before chanting, “Free Palestine” as she waved a Palestinian flag.

    Journalist Cam Higby, who challenged the woman and filmed it, explained that she was “speaking Arabic” and “screaming about Jewish colonizers,” when he confronted her and accused her of “being mad that Hamas is hiding behind civilians.”
     
    Non-white Muslims:

    • Back genocidal Hamas aggression.
    • Hate America.
    • Denounce white people, which includes Jews.

    More evidence that Judeo-Christian unity is required to oppose the Muslim racists of IslamoGloboHomo.

    #LetsGoBrandon 😇
    ____________________

    (1) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/05/watch-anti-israel-protester-ucla-encampment-dont-like-white-people/



    https://twitter.com/camhigby/status/1783676944481140854?s=20

    Replies: @songbird

    Excellent point: why support someone whose rhetoric is against you? This is why I support a policy of neutrality.

    • Replies: @A123
    @songbird



    More evidence that Judeo-Christian unity is required to oppose the Muslim racists of IslamoGloboHomo.
     
    Excellent point: why support someone whose rhetoric is against you? This is why I support a policy of neutrality.
     
    Muslims will kill "neutral" Judeo-Christians. When faced with such Islamist hate & aggression, neutrality does not function as a policy. It allows the enemy a free hand to destroy an ally before moving on.

    Have ICE check every anti-American, pro-Hamas demonstrator. If they are not U.S. citizens, immediately ship them home. It is an obvious solution to protect Judeo-Christians.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @songbird

  271. @Bashibuzuk
    @sudden death

    Now Ukraine is certainly doomed. When was the last time the French won a war?

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Technical, since the Vichy has ceased to exist by March 1945, the last major Allies surrender in WWII was here 明号作戦 Meigōsakusen Operation Code Bright.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_coup_d’état_in_French_Indochina

    After WWII, remaining Japanese soldiers helped train the Viet Minh that threw out the French at Dien Bien Phu.

    That said, the French have the glorious military record in Europe and shouldn’t be discounted.

    On the Imperial Line, what songbird wrote, the early periods were largely mythical and based on Chinese records. There is a Japanese myth that the emperor descended from a Chinese explorer
    Xu Fu goes on a voyage in search of the elixir of immortality (illustrated by Kuniyoshi Utagawa)

    One of oldest noble clans 秦氏 is named after the first unified Chinese, 秦 Qin dynasty

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

    During their period of colonization, a number of origin theories were proposed, including even this one

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Jewish_common_ancestry_theory

    But generally speaking the most plausible theory is a common origin with Koreans and Manchus. And they took actions to that effect, the Imperial family arranged marriages with the Korean king and Qing imperial family.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Thanks Bromance, what about the population genetics vs paleogenetics of the Far East ?

    I am not at all knowledgeable about this topic, so perhaps you might share some insight ?

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

  272. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    When I took art class in high school the guidance counselor thought it was a terrible idea. "Art class is for the stupid kids."

    Replies: @songbird

    When I took art class in high school the guidance counselor thought it was a terrible idea. “Art class is for the stupid kids.”

    Well, in modern times, many people go through high school and then go to an art institute. This is a scam track (one of many), as art institute grads make about the same as someone with a part time job.

    My friend’s sister was an “artist” and she used to paint really creepy portraits of people. But they weren’t supposed to be creepy.

    But my point was this sort of selection and weeding out should start earlier. Maybe, the Renaissance world wouldn’t meet OSHA requirements, but Bernini was only 23 when he carved the Abduction of Persephone. No one coming out of an art institute is going to be able to do that.

  273. A123 says: • Website
    @songbird
    @A123

    Excellent point: why support someone whose rhetoric is against you? This is why I support a policy of neutrality.

    Replies: @A123

    More evidence that Judeo-Christian unity is required to oppose the Muslim racists of IslamoGloboHomo.

    Excellent point: why support someone whose rhetoric is against you? This is why I support a policy of neutrality.

    Muslims will kill “neutral” Judeo-Christians. When faced with such Islamist hate & aggression, neutrality does not function as a policy. It allows the enemy a free hand to destroy an ally before moving on.

    Have ICE check every anti-American, pro-Hamas demonstrator. If they are not U.S. citizens, immediately ship them home. It is an obvious solution to protect Judeo-Christians.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @songbird
    @A123


    If they are not U.S. citizens, immediately ship them home.
     
    A sensible step would be to revise the idea of student visas. Yes, some exchanges may be beneficial. But on the whole it is just some kind of entry scam. A lot of people have zero intention of going back. Some countries obviously in particular.
    __________
    This makes me sympathetic with Mongolian expansionists:
    https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1787504940828488048
  274. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    Technical, since the Vichy has ceased to exist by March 1945, the last major Allies surrender in WWII was here 明号作戦 Meigōsakusen Operation Code Bright.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Hanoi1945.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_coup_d'état_in_French_Indochina

    After WWII, remaining Japanese soldiers helped train the Viet Minh that threw out the French at Dien Bien Phu.

    That said, the French have the glorious military record in Europe and shouldn't be discounted.

    On the Imperial Line, what songbird wrote, the early periods were largely mythical and based on Chinese records. There is a Japanese myth that the emperor descended from a Chinese explorer

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/La_expedici%C3%B3n_de_Xu_Fu%2C_por_Utagawa_Kuniyoshi.jpg
    Xu Fu goes on a voyage in search of the elixir of immortality (illustrated by Kuniyoshi Utagawa)

    One of oldest noble clans 秦氏 is named after the first unified Chinese, 秦 Qin dynasty

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Yantra-shatkona.jpg

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

    During their period of colonization, a number of origin theories were proposed, including even this one

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Jewish_common_ancestry_theory

    But generally speaking the most plausible theory is a common origin with Koreans and Manchus. And they took actions to that effect, the Imperial family arranged marriages with the Korean king and Qing imperial family.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Thanks Bromance, what about the population genetics vs paleogenetics of the Far East ?

    I am not at all knowledgeable about this topic, so perhaps you might share some insight ?

    • Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    I believe we've had exchanges on this topic, you are welcome to search my history for "haplogroup"

    I have a question for you too, one of main triggers of Mukden Incident was the assassination of Zhang Zuolin (left) in 1928 by train bomb.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Reuni%C3%B3nDeCaudillosMilitaresChinos.jpeg

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Zhang_zuolin.jpg

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

    The conventional narrative was that it was done by junior Kwantung Army officers acting without orders from Tokyo-- even though Zhang was Japanese client, there was concern that he would switch sides to Soviets.

    But this other article clearly states that it was done by Jew NKVD


    During this time, he was involved in several operations, including the assassination of Zhang Zoulin and the transportation of the Spanish gold reserves to the USSR.[5]
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Eitingon

    It's very unusual for wiki to a conflicting account of on a moderately famous character. I wonder if you have any insights from Russian sources.

    For context, Zhang had a history of double-dealing from Russo-Japanese War. And I've seen Japanese argue that only the alleged Kwantung Army culprit had the logistic means to commit the operation.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTM4h-DxK5_cqHb1aipKq42Swxh1LgcGFlD9KOdykXlcw&s.jpg

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  275. @LatW
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Also there are nearly no Americans who even know who the man is.
     
    Well, now they will, thanks to Tucker. I wonder if anyone will one day invent some ku-ku esoteric "geopolitical" theory that will justify obliterating Tucker's home town, the way that Duginist theories justify eliminating other people's livelihoods.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    No they will not. Alexander Dugin’s English is poor. It is as difficult to listen to him speak English as it is to listen to Robert Kennedy. If Tucker has either of them back in his studio ever again I will be surprised.

    Video and audio require some level of personal appeal. Did you watch or listen to any of Dugin and Tucker?

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Video and audio require some level of personal appeal.
     
    That's not what this is about. It's about what crazy ideas do to the world.

    Did you watch or listen to any of Dugin and Tucker?
     
    No, because I'm bored by Dugin - I approximately know his "beliefs" and have heard the worst and craziest of what he has said (as well as the parts that were somewhat interesting - those weren't all that original) and I'm also aware that he sugarcoats on his true opinions (to make them less confrontational) when he talks to the English speaking audiences (he did this on Alex Jones a while back - he may not have done that this time with Tucker, besides they are in agreement on their world view when it comes to the "Anglosakses").

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  276. @A123
    @songbird



    More evidence that Judeo-Christian unity is required to oppose the Muslim racists of IslamoGloboHomo.
     
    Excellent point: why support someone whose rhetoric is against you? This is why I support a policy of neutrality.
     
    Muslims will kill "neutral" Judeo-Christians. When faced with such Islamist hate & aggression, neutrality does not function as a policy. It allows the enemy a free hand to destroy an ally before moving on.

    Have ICE check every anti-American, pro-Hamas demonstrator. If they are not U.S. citizens, immediately ship them home. It is an obvious solution to protect Judeo-Christians.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @songbird

    If they are not U.S. citizens, immediately ship them home.

    A sensible step would be to revise the idea of student visas. Yes, some exchanges may be beneficial. But on the whole it is just some kind of entry scam. A lot of people have zero intention of going back. Some countries obviously in particular.
    __________
    This makes me sympathetic with Mongolian expansionists:

    [MORE]

    • Agree: A123
  277. LatW says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @LatW

    No they will not. Alexander Dugin's English is poor. It is as difficult to listen to him speak English as it is to listen to Robert Kennedy. If Tucker has either of them back in his studio ever again I will be surprised.

    Video and audio require some level of personal appeal. Did you watch or listen to any of Dugin and Tucker?

    Replies: @LatW

    Video and audio require some level of personal appeal.

    That’s not what this is about. It’s about what crazy ideas do to the world.

    Did you watch or listen to any of Dugin and Tucker?

    No, because I’m bored by Dugin – I approximately know his “beliefs” and have heard the worst and craziest of what he has said (as well as the parts that were somewhat interesting – those weren’t all that original) and I’m also aware that he sugarcoats on his true opinions (to make them less confrontational) when he talks to the English speaking audiences (he did this on Alex Jones a while back – he may not have done that this time with Tucker, besides they are in agreement on their world view when it comes to the “Anglosakses”).

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @LatW


    That’s not what this is about. It’s about what crazy ideas do to the world.
     
    Dugin's ideas aren't going to do anything. He ran for a public office once and received 1% of the votes. The first or second chapter in his geopolitics book is about Freaking Martin Heidegger for crying out loud. The interesting books have absolute zero (that is zero degrees Kelvin) practical application. Only the nerdiest nerds who ever have nerded can get to the end of them.

    Replies: @LatW

  278. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW


    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    I thought Mortensen was okay until he did a nude scene. Any male actor who does that is obviously part of a gay cabal, or else enslaved by one. And so a pox on him!

    In addition, he seems to support woke, globalist organizations like Sinn Fein and Òmnium Cultural (or I assume it is woke). And has spoken out against Vox. I am inclined to think that sauna scene where he only wore Slav-face is more dear to your heart than any solidarity with Western Europeans.

    PS: you should not seek celebrity endorsements. Those are things that advertisers use to try to sell products. That is materialism and line go up. Nationalists believe in spirituality.

    Isn't most of Hollywood for Ze? But I would advise you not to use that fact in discourse with nationalists.

    Replies: @LatW, @Matra, @LatW

    You know what’s funny…

    [MORE]

    You just made me watch the sauna scene – I’d never seen it before (because when I first saw the trailer, the movie seemed kind of scary and clearly appeared too brutal and promised to be too difficult to watch, so it scared me off), having seen it now I have to take back my words that it is “bad” – meaning, it is bad in the sense of how crazy it is, but it is somewhat well acted, I suppose.

    You start to understand why he was nude – he’s actually playing a Russian gangster or a hitman who’s being attacked in a sauna by other Russian gangsters. The movie is called Eastern Promises and he has a pravoslav church tattood on his back (probably shouldn’t write this stuff during the Pravoslav Easter). Anyway, him being nude is just a way to show his vulnerability vis a vis those guys who attack him. It’s a very primal scene. It’s so deliberately intense that it made me laugh. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not cray cray (totally is and insanely violent, in a real Russia mafia altercation it wouldn’t be that crazy, although it is true that they used to hang out in the sauna a lot).

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW

    Cronenberg was famous for body horror.

    Scanners is watchable, but not if you have a weak stomach. It has one really infamous scene in it. (And more gore than that.)

    Videodrome is a horrible movie IMO. It is like someone took Marshall McLuhan and spattered buckets of blood and gore on him, while doing hallucinogenic drugs - it doesn't work and is a disservice to the ideas.


    the movie seemed kind of scary and clearly appeared too brutal and promised to be too difficult to watch,
     
    I don't know your tolerance level for things. If you can take the violence (high but not body horror), then you might like it. It is dark, but only moderately so. There are much darker movies.

    You start to understand why he was nude
     
    Yes, but this was just the pretense. Granted, it is a better pretense than in many other films, but l still don't approve.

    Would like to see a graph of mainstream movies with male nudity, I bet it coincides with gay takeover.

    Replies: @LatW

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    The church tattooed on the back of a vor means that the person did time and was part of the Blatnoy community, not just a regular muzhik inmate. The number of cupolas is the number of years. After a few years they used to tattoo a monastery.

    http://exzk.ru/exzk.ru/pics/tatuirovka-cerkov-480x318.jpg

    I saw the movie when it was released, just another klyukva by a Jewish movie maker who is probably of an ancestry that goes back to the Russian Empire. For me the funniest part of the movie was not even the banya Gay domination wrestling scene, it was the female character riding an Ural motorcycle because her daddy supposedly couldn’t live without. An Ural motorcycle without a sidecar, just plain ridiculous… Развесистая клюква

    http://lurklurk.com/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  279. @LatW
    @songbird

    You know what's funny...

    You just made me watch the sauna scene - I'd never seen it before (because when I first saw the trailer, the movie seemed kind of scary and clearly appeared too brutal and promised to be too difficult to watch, so it scared me off), having seen it now I have to take back my words that it is "bad" - meaning, it is bad in the sense of how crazy it is, but it is somewhat well acted, I suppose.

    You start to understand why he was nude - he's actually playing a Russian gangster or a hitman who's being attacked in a sauna by other Russian gangsters. The movie is called Eastern Promises and he has a pravoslav church tattood on his back (probably shouldn't write this stuff during the Pravoslav Easter). Anyway, him being nude is just a way to show his vulnerability vis a vis those guys who attack him. It's a very primal scene. It's so deliberately intense that it made me laugh. Of course, that doesn't mean it's not cray cray (totally is and insanely violent, in a real Russia mafia altercation it wouldn't be that crazy, although it is true that they used to hang out in the sauna a lot).

    Replies: @songbird, @Bashibuzuk

    Cronenberg was famous for body horror.

    Scanners is watchable, but not if you have a weak stomach. It has one really infamous scene in it. (And more gore than that.)

    Videodrome is a horrible movie IMO. It is like someone took Marshall McLuhan and spattered buckets of blood and gore on him, while doing hallucinogenic drugs – it doesn’t work and is a disservice to the ideas.

    the movie seemed kind of scary and clearly appeared too brutal and promised to be too difficult to watch,

    I don’t know your tolerance level for things. If you can take the violence (high but not body horror), then you might like it. It is dark, but only moderately so. There are much darker movies.

    You start to understand why he was nude

    Yes, but this was just the pretense. Granted, it is a better pretense than in many other films, but l still don’t approve.

    Would like to see a graph of mainstream movies with male nudity, I bet it coincides with gay takeover.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    I don’t know your tolerance level for things. If you can take the violence (high but not body horror), then you might like it.
     
    I have low tolerance for "body horror" (you have to be very, very careful with that), high intensity violence, yes, but not too much horror and gore. It was a bit shocking to see that in the US, how much of it there is, even on Netflix. There are even series or movies that I do like that have it in some parts, that are hard to tolerate, with other parts that are great. Dark without gore is totally possible. It's good to have either a little bit of beauty in it or suspense. Or some deeper story line or significance.

    Yes, but this was just the pretense. Granted, it is a better pretense than in many other films, but l still don’t approve.
     
    His attire (or his lack of it) was there to differentiate him from the other characters, it seems. He wears a dark suit and black glasses in some parts, that's a kind of a cool, classic look. But, yes, he is very bold with his body. A real Russian guy wouldn't be that naked, they do go topless sometimes and they wear those tank tops (undershirts) but they don't walk around almost naked the way he did in this movie. They almost turned him into what they call a petuh (faggot or bottom, it's very low status). Yes, this is objectionable.

    He is somewhat depersonalized and it seems there was an attempt to create a contrast between nudity and those tattoos that were supposed to show his biography.


    Would like to see a graph of mainstream movies with male nudity, I bet it coincides with gay takeover.
     
    Iirc, there is a little bit in Ben-Hur, but not a lot. Maybe the old Tarzan movies.

    They can do topless, they should display the glorious stature of the European man in full, but it should be dignifying. It shouldn't compromise masculinity in anyway. They should not have gays direct these types of scenes, but it will inevitably be Jewish directors - Cronenberg is Jewish. There seems to be an attempt to lead the character a bit far that way. Him being into body horror probably explains the focus on prison tattoos. Definitely risqué.

    Replies: @songbird

  280. @LatW
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Video and audio require some level of personal appeal.
     
    That's not what this is about. It's about what crazy ideas do to the world.

    Did you watch or listen to any of Dugin and Tucker?
     
    No, because I'm bored by Dugin - I approximately know his "beliefs" and have heard the worst and craziest of what he has said (as well as the parts that were somewhat interesting - those weren't all that original) and I'm also aware that he sugarcoats on his true opinions (to make them less confrontational) when he talks to the English speaking audiences (he did this on Alex Jones a while back - he may not have done that this time with Tucker, besides they are in agreement on their world view when it comes to the "Anglosakses").

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    That’s not what this is about. It’s about what crazy ideas do to the world.

    Dugin’s ideas aren’t going to do anything. He ran for a public office once and received 1% of the votes. The first or second chapter in his geopolitics book is about Freaking Martin Heidegger for crying out loud. The interesting books have absolute zero (that is zero degrees Kelvin) practical application. Only the nerdiest nerds who ever have nerded can get to the end of them.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @LatW
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    The first or second chapter in his geopolitics book is about Freaking Martin Heidegger for crying out loud.
     
    That's just his reading of Heidegger - and I fail to see why Dugin's reading is more notable than a thousand other readings of Heidegger (who should be read in original, in German, because of the specific way he uses the German language to build, develop and then explain his unique concepts). It is very common for right wingers to appropriate Heidegger (due to some of his concepts, such as the Heimat, which isn't even to be understood literally, and because of some of the slightly "irrational" aspects of his writing).

    No, his readings of traditionalist writers are a separate thing, however, his messianic rants about the "special role of Russia in the world" - those are "ideas" that lead directly to dead girls in the rubble in neighboring countries. It's simply dishonest to pretend to not see the link there.

  281. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW

    Cronenberg was famous for body horror.

    Scanners is watchable, but not if you have a weak stomach. It has one really infamous scene in it. (And more gore than that.)

    Videodrome is a horrible movie IMO. It is like someone took Marshall McLuhan and spattered buckets of blood and gore on him, while doing hallucinogenic drugs - it doesn't work and is a disservice to the ideas.


    the movie seemed kind of scary and clearly appeared too brutal and promised to be too difficult to watch,
     
    I don't know your tolerance level for things. If you can take the violence (high but not body horror), then you might like it. It is dark, but only moderately so. There are much darker movies.

    You start to understand why he was nude
     
    Yes, but this was just the pretense. Granted, it is a better pretense than in many other films, but l still don't approve.

    Would like to see a graph of mainstream movies with male nudity, I bet it coincides with gay takeover.

    Replies: @LatW

    I don’t know your tolerance level for things. If you can take the violence (high but not body horror), then you might like it.

    I have low tolerance for “body horror” (you have to be very, very careful with that), high intensity violence, yes, but not too much horror and gore. It was a bit shocking to see that in the US, how much of it there is, even on Netflix. There are even series or movies that I do like that have it in some parts, that are hard to tolerate, with other parts that are great. Dark without gore is totally possible. It’s good to have either a little bit of beauty in it or suspense. Or some deeper story line or significance.

    [MORE]

    Yes, but this was just the pretense. Granted, it is a better pretense than in many other films, but l still don’t approve.

    His attire (or his lack of it) was there to differentiate him from the other characters, it seems. He wears a dark suit and black glasses in some parts, that’s a kind of a cool, classic look. But, yes, he is very bold with his body. A real Russian guy wouldn’t be that naked, they do go topless sometimes and they wear those tank tops (undershirts) but they don’t walk around almost naked the way he did in this movie. They almost turned him into what they call a petuh (faggot or bottom, it’s very low status). Yes, this is objectionable.

    He is somewhat depersonalized and it seems there was an attempt to create a contrast between nudity and those tattoos that were supposed to show his biography.

    Would like to see a graph of mainstream movies with male nudity, I bet it coincides with gay takeover.

    Iirc, there is a little bit in Ben-Hur, but not a lot. Maybe the old Tarzan movies.

    They can do topless, they should display the glorious stature of the European man in full, but it should be dignifying. It shouldn’t compromise masculinity in anyway. They should not have gays direct these types of scenes, but it will inevitably be Jewish directors – Cronenberg is Jewish. There seems to be an attempt to lead the character a bit far that way. Him being into body horror probably explains the focus on prison tattoos. Definitely risqué.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW

    I suspect that movies have become more violent in the past 20 years or so. The thing that really makes one suspect it is the more mainstream movies - iirc, there were a lot of decapitations in the Hobbit series. Though of course, there were earlier spikes, like R-rated movies and the video nasties.

    Could it be demographic in some way? Average older age, or less children, or different ethnic composition?


    but it will inevitably be Jewish directors
     
    Was recently thinking about a politically incorrect experiment: Could one use machine learning to recognize Jewish movies?

    When I am watching a movie, I often feel I can recognize that it was scripted or plotted by Jews. It is a lot of different things, in no particular order:

    1.) Excessive romance for an urban environment/fear or dislike of rural
    2.) Strange insertions of politics/political words (like "fascism" or "Franco" in a movie in '90s NYC.)
    3.) What I would call "verbal tilt" Noticeably too much dialogue. Sometimes (though less true today) too many big words spoken too quickly - highlighting an unrealism. No or very few moments of silence.
    4.) What I would call transgressions on the family. This is a broad category that includes many things like divorce, or unmarried people living together, or switching partners.

    And there are many other things too. I don't think it would be possible to get 100% accurate categorizations. To some degree I wonder how much it could be something like "people living in NYC" or "people with verbal tilt" or with "chutzpah." Then there is the problem of categorizing involvement (things like producer vs. director vs. writer) and non-Jews tailoring to the Jewish environment.

    Of course, one major difficulty is that a lot of movies are Jewish movies, so hard to falsify. There are foreign films but they may have their own cultural/HBD differences.

    But I think some percentage of movies, say 10-15% or higher of Hollywood movies might be possible to be classify with very high accuracy.

    Replies: @LatW

  282. @Beckow
    @Coconuts


    It is Slavs settling the ancestral lands of the British, Dutch and French.
     
    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.

    the Welsh invading your lands serious?
     
    Not really...:) I was mocking that moron Philip Owen who claims to be Welsh...

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us, it is being overrun by the former colonial subjects. The infusion of 10 million Ukies will slow it down. The atavistic hatred of Slavs among many in the West is often right under the surface, it is self-defeating. It weakens you.

    Recently a fairly high-level Westie told me the Russian perfidy is caused by that 'damn primitive Slav blood, they have always been like that'. I gently pointed out that I am also a Slav, so he caught himself and said: "oh, but you people have a lot of German heritage". Do we? He was serious. Just precious.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Coconuts

    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.

    Yeah, did you win any medals during the campaigns?

    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities. You are right, I did forget about the Soviet Union’s role in the creation of this labour pool. And in inspiring neo-liberalism and free movement of people…

    And everything else in the ‘post-WW2 settlement’?

    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us…

    Are you being ironic?

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @Coconuts


    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities.
     
    Absurd silliness. Millions of Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Syrians, Africans, Chinese, plenty of Moldovans .....throughout 1991-2010 plenty of very educated Russians were living and working in the EU.
    Plenty Albanians/Kosovans working there. They of course are not in the EU

    If you used your brain - then completely forgetting that Russian gas and oil at cheaper prices to the west, Russia becoming sole debtor from all the different countries of the USSR, ,eliminating much of Warsaw Pact countries debt was essential part of EU development and legacy of Soviet education system was a large role in enhanced western prosperity in the 1990's........you would know EU accession was a sign of working hard as a country and achieving technical standards in products, services, safety. Achieving legal standards in the court and law enforcement system which would result in corruption being reduced and foreign companies want to invest there, build factories, create jobs etc. Adopt western business practices. It had nothing to do with the current freakshow of EU "accession" that has nothing to do with those principles for 404, Moldova and Gruzia.

    Now the situation is reversing - those states that in their souls most European elites never wanted to join as they didn't think were European like them - Poland ( too useless) and Bulgaria/Romania ( too Ottoman) , but in their heads thought that the labour market was too important to miss out on........will be re-realising why they never thought these countries "European" initially.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Coconuts

    , @Beckow
    @Coconuts


    Are you being ironic?
     
    Yes....:)

    But not about the impact of Slavs on slowing down the demographic self-destruction in the Western Europe.

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Coconuts

  283. @songbird
    @LatW


    my solidarity with Western Europeans (not to mention Americans) will depend on their solidarity with me.
     
    IMO, when EEs say this it seems quite indistinguishable from Israelis saying it, shockingly so.

    Which in your circles is not even a zero, but actually negative.
     
    Would like to see this war over before it gets to a million dead Slavs.

    made me think a lot about ethnicity, I concluded that the genes are not enough)
     
    This is very true. Strangely, it may be only through observing wokes that one can come to a true understanding of nationalism.

    As is often the case, I think language falls short. We would be better off with terms of identity that implicitly include loyalty.

    In today's environment, any nation needs some mechanism of punishment or exclusion for the consanguineous but disloyal. Am sure vast numbers of the woke would fall in line, if they faced the slightest personal cost for disloyalty.

    That said, it is really shocking how shameless foreigners are about calling natives racists. Completely shameless. And very frequently so.

    Sorry, I shouldn’t have called you a “pseudo-Celt”
     
    My Irish ancestors would have primarily thought of themselves as Gaels. They felt a strong connection to the Scots, recognizing the Latin meaning of the word. Am not sure the perception of a connection to the French is as old, but it is several hundred years old. IIRC, it caused Belgians to be wary of and hate the Irish who were in their country.

    Celt is probably an exonym. But really all these terms probably are: German, Slav. But they are still useful, IMO.

    I don't know how meaningful all of these connections really are in a direct sense, but in the abstract, I think Europe needs supra-national bonds of blood. Whether or not valid in themselves, these terms could lead to others that are.

    Replies: @A123, @LatW, @Coconuts

    In France they have the Institut Iliade that works on this, it is a kind of off-shoot of the New Right movement. They tend to follow the Indo-European and Roman/Hellenistic angle of the New Right, but not exclusively now.

    [MORE]

    https://institut-iliade.com/

    Mostly it looks like it is only in French at the moment.

    They have some interesting articles:

    https://institut-iliade.com/europe-occident-un-rappel-necessaire-sur-le-sens-et-la-priorite-du-combat-pour-la-renaissance-de-la-civilisation-europeenne/

    https://institut-iliade.com/europa-en-het-westen/

    On the concept of Europe vs. the West. It is only translated into Dutch so far (for the Belgians?)

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Coconuts

    Thanks. I recently saw a UN regional map of Europe, and it looked very strange to me. (They have an official one.)
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Europe

    Northern Europe was Ireland, Britain, the Balts, Scandis, and Finland.

    Western Europe was France, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany and Austria.

    They say this division is for statistical convenience and doesn't represent cultural zones. But I couldn't help but feel that it was intentional in some way to separate the UK from a concept of Western Europe. Part of some nefarious plot.

    , @LatW
    @Coconuts

    Thanks for that link, I see our friend David Engels as one of the speakers in the video. 😊

    Replies: @Coconuts

  284. Sean says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @John Johnson

    More Russian conspiracy theories that go awry and totally off the rails. This is the kind of stuff that I fear Prof. TN watches in his spare time and uses to form his opinions. :-)

    Dr. No should stay in his bunker and not be seen in public!

    Don't know what Sean's follow-up comment has to do with this Crocus Hill conspiracy theory extravaganza?...

    Replies: @Sean

    https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/04/biggest-threat-freedom-west-liberalism-itself-john-gray

    The attempted shutdown of the National Conservatism Conference by police in Brussels made for a diverting spectacle. Staged at the centre of the European project, the flagrant attack on free speech and association was a piquant commentary on the bien pensant fancy that the European Union is redeeming the dark continent and refounding it on the basis of liberal values. […]

    Yet this was not the only example of creeping authoritarianism. In a separate incident, the former Greek finance minister, left-wing political theorist and pro-Palestine speaker Yanis Varoufakis was prohibited from entering German territory and connecting with public meetings in Germany by video link. Throughout these episodes, the EU was silent.

    Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. Confronted by criticism, they respond by trying to suppress debate. An ever-widening category of “hate speech” is deployed against any discourse deemed offensive or a risk to public safety.

    The canonical liberal John Stuart Mill is often invoked against censorship of this sort, and it is true that in On Liberty (1859) he argued that free speech must include the freedom to cause offence. But when, in the same essay, he argued that the value of freedom lay in collective well-being or utility, he specified that “it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being”. Free speech had little value if it served reactionary ends.

    Like many other 19th-century liberals, Mill feared the rise of democratic government because he believed it meant empowering an ignorant and tyrannical majority. Time and again, he vilified the torpid masses who were content with traditional ways of living. Keir Starmer and his shadow cabinet seem curiously confident that history is on the side of progressives like themselves. The little we know of what they plan to do in office involves a further devolution of authority to institutions led by technocrats and lawyers. Behind the scenes, Tony Blair is promoting a model of governance in which democracy figures as an inconvenient afterthought.

    The persisting influence of hyper-liberal extremism in professedly centrist parties invites a dangerous blowback. […]

  285. Bashibuzuk says:
    @LatW
    @songbird

    You know what's funny...

    You just made me watch the sauna scene - I'd never seen it before (because when I first saw the trailer, the movie seemed kind of scary and clearly appeared too brutal and promised to be too difficult to watch, so it scared me off), having seen it now I have to take back my words that it is "bad" - meaning, it is bad in the sense of how crazy it is, but it is somewhat well acted, I suppose.

    You start to understand why he was nude - he's actually playing a Russian gangster or a hitman who's being attacked in a sauna by other Russian gangsters. The movie is called Eastern Promises and he has a pravoslav church tattood on his back (probably shouldn't write this stuff during the Pravoslav Easter). Anyway, him being nude is just a way to show his vulnerability vis a vis those guys who attack him. It's a very primal scene. It's so deliberately intense that it made me laugh. Of course, that doesn't mean it's not cray cray (totally is and insanely violent, in a real Russia mafia altercation it wouldn't be that crazy, although it is true that they used to hang out in the sauna a lot).

    Replies: @songbird, @Bashibuzuk

    The church tattooed on the back of a vor means that the person did time and was part of the Blatnoy community, not just a regular muzhik inmate. The number of cupolas is the number of years. After a few years they used to tattoo a monastery.

    I saw the movie when it was released, just another klyukva by a Jewish movie maker who is probably of an ancestry that goes back to the Russian Empire. For me the funniest part of the movie was not even the banya Gay domination wrestling scene, it was the female character riding an Ural motorcycle because her daddy supposedly couldn’t live without. An Ural motorcycle without a sidecar, just plain ridiculous… Развесистая клюква

    http://lurklurk.com/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk


    just another klyukva by a Jewish movie maker
     
    Another "cranberry"? Never heard that expression before??...

    Replies: @songbird

  286. Netanyahu’s natal chart:

    -intensely masculine features and physique
    -physically attractive; sort of a masculine pretty boy
    -dark complexion
    -low hairline that badly recedes in middle age
    -thin eyes
    -thick eyebrows with a strong brow ridge
    -strong jawline
    -straight lips that are in a perpetual smirk
    -detail oriented, highly organized, multi tasker
    -diligent student
    -excellent writer; strong communicator in general
    -highly charming
    -tireless work ethic
    -become widely known at a “mature age” (whatever that means)
    -arrogant but with low self confidence underneath; get walked all over in your professional life; not very popular with or even respected by, your professional colleagues
    -born leader; easily rise up the ranks to attain positions of authority; professionally and financially successful
    -morning person
    -strong and fit; good at sports; high energy
    -daddy’s boy
    -paranoid, anxious, indecisive
    -career oriented mother who ruled the family home; she was nurturing but the relationship was difficult
    -failed first marriage

    some of that stuff is definitely true, some I just don’t know. Not very specific, though. I know that Bibi was a daddy’s boy but I don’t know anything about his mother or his relationship with her.

    I thought the Putin one was better. I wanted to do one for Zelensky and Shoigu but I can’t find their birth times

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    For Kozhuget Shoigu (or is it Shoigu Kozhuget ?) you better use the Chinese horoscope. 🙂

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  287. @Greasy William
    Netanyahu's natal chart:

    -intensely masculine features and physique
    -physically attractive; sort of a masculine pretty boy
    -dark complexion
    -low hairline that badly recedes in middle age
    -thin eyes
    -thick eyebrows with a strong brow ridge
    -strong jawline
    -straight lips that are in a perpetual smirk
    -detail oriented, highly organized, multi tasker
    -diligent student
    -excellent writer; strong communicator in general
    -highly charming
    -tireless work ethic
    -become widely known at a "mature age" (whatever that means)
    -arrogant but with low self confidence underneath; get walked all over in your professional life; not very popular with or even respected by, your professional colleagues
    -born leader; easily rise up the ranks to attain positions of authority; professionally and financially successful
    -morning person
    -strong and fit; good at sports; high energy
    -daddy's boy
    -paranoid, anxious, indecisive
    -career oriented mother who ruled the family home; she was nurturing but the relationship was difficult
    -failed first marriage

    some of that stuff is definitely true, some I just don't know. Not very specific, though. I know that Bibi was a daddy's boy but I don't know anything about his mother or his relationship with her.

    I thought the Putin one was better. I wanted to do one for Zelensky and Shoigu but I can't find their birth times

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    For Kozhuget Shoigu (or is it Shoigu Kozhuget ?) you better use the Chinese horoscope. 🙂

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://youtu.be/TOTY4mazFdw?feature=shared

    Kozhuget in his younger years (for those who understand Russian).

    BTW, the dude had killed an endangered (Amur ?) tiger, what a fu..ing moron. In Soviet times he would have done time for that. And in October 1993, he was the one who armed the Moscow Noviop mob with the guns from the Civil Defence reserve (the ones which were stocked for the nuclear war / invasion). The mob ended up doing the death squad dirty work after the coup killing hundreds of people, mostly the young Commie and nationalist activists. They targeted the young to prevent them from opposing the regime in the future.

    Later on, he used the airplanes of the Ministry of Exceptional Situations (that was the name of the ministry under his command) to bring heroine from Tadjikistan. The planes weren’t searched or cleared by the customs at the airports. A lot of the heroine was re-exported to EU through the Leningrad region ports that were under the control of Putin’s close circle and the Tambov mob. The money from this trafficking was laundered through the shell companies in Cyprus (I personally knew someone in Moscow who did that laundering for Shoigu and his gang).

    Bottom line, Kozhuget is a pure and unadulterated Noviop scum. No need for an horoscope to know that.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mr. Hack, @AP, @Philip Owen

  288. @Coconuts
    @songbird

    In France they have the Institut Iliade that works on this, it is a kind of off-shoot of the New Right movement. They tend to follow the Indo-European and Roman/Hellenistic angle of the New Right, but not exclusively now.



    https://institut-iliade.com/

    Mostly it looks like it is only in French at the moment.

    They have some interesting articles:

    https://institut-iliade.com/europe-occident-un-rappel-necessaire-sur-le-sens-et-la-priorite-du-combat-pour-la-renaissance-de-la-civilisation-europeenne/

    https://institut-iliade.com/europa-en-het-westen/

    On the concept of Europe vs. the West. It is only translated into Dutch so far (for the Belgians?)

    Replies: @songbird, @LatW

    Thanks. I recently saw a UN regional map of Europe, and it looked very strange to me. (They have an official one.)
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Europe

    Northern Europe was Ireland, Britain, the Balts, Scandis, and Finland.

    Western Europe was France, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany and Austria.

    They say this division is for statistical convenience and doesn’t represent cultural zones. But I couldn’t help but feel that it was intentional in some way to separate the UK from a concept of Western Europe. Part of some nefarious plot.

  289. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    For Kozhuget Shoigu (or is it Shoigu Kozhuget ?) you better use the Chinese horoscope. 🙂

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Kozhuget in his younger years (for those who understand Russian).

    BTW, the dude had killed an endangered (Amur ?) tiger, what a fu..ing moron. In Soviet times he would have done time for that. And in October 1993, he was the one who armed the Moscow Noviop mob with the guns from the Civil Defence reserve (the ones which were stocked for the nuclear war / invasion). The mob ended up doing the death squad dirty work after the coup killing hundreds of people, mostly the young Commie and nationalist activists. They targeted the young to prevent them from opposing the regime in the future.

    Later on, he used the airplanes of the Ministry of Exceptional Situations (that was the name of the ministry under his command) to bring heroine from Tadjikistan. The planes weren’t searched or cleared by the customs at the airports. A lot of the heroine was re-exported to EU through the Leningrad region ports that were under the control of Putin’s close circle and the Tambov mob. The money from this trafficking was laundered through the shell companies in Cyprus (I personally knew someone in Moscow who did that laundering for Shoigu and his gang).

    Bottom line, Kozhuget is a pure and unadulterated Noviop scum. No need for an horoscope to know that.

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack, Philip Owen
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Do you think Shoigu has any active military role or is he merely a figurehead?

    Are he and Putin allies or frenemies?

    , @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu's was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too. I think that the large scale anticipated bombing and destruction of the Kerch bridge will finally seal his doom - it couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Sean, @John Johnson, @Derer

    , @AP
    @Bashibuzuk

    Thanks for the excellent background for these creatures.

    , @Philip Owen
    @Bashibuzuk

    That's a decent but not outstanding flat with good ordinary furniture for the time. They obviously live there. He was keeping the cash in the bank.

    Your claim about trading in heroin is intriguing. A lot came from Uzbekistan through Samara too according to an FSB colonel of my acquaintance. Presumably, that would have been a different gang.

    I have often wondered why night club bouncer Dominic Cummings (the campaign manager for Brexit) was in Samara. He was apparently setting up an airline (illegal for foreigners at the time) with direct flights to Vienna. Only one flight ever took off and the only passenger was left behind. Cummings is very pro Russian. Does he need to be?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @LondonBob

  290. @Bashibuzuk
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://youtu.be/TOTY4mazFdw?feature=shared

    Kozhuget in his younger years (for those who understand Russian).

    BTW, the dude had killed an endangered (Amur ?) tiger, what a fu..ing moron. In Soviet times he would have done time for that. And in October 1993, he was the one who armed the Moscow Noviop mob with the guns from the Civil Defence reserve (the ones which were stocked for the nuclear war / invasion). The mob ended up doing the death squad dirty work after the coup killing hundreds of people, mostly the young Commie and nationalist activists. They targeted the young to prevent them from opposing the regime in the future.

    Later on, he used the airplanes of the Ministry of Exceptional Situations (that was the name of the ministry under his command) to bring heroine from Tadjikistan. The planes weren’t searched or cleared by the customs at the airports. A lot of the heroine was re-exported to EU through the Leningrad region ports that were under the control of Putin’s close circle and the Tambov mob. The money from this trafficking was laundered through the shell companies in Cyprus (I personally knew someone in Moscow who did that laundering for Shoigu and his gang).

    Bottom line, Kozhuget is a pure and unadulterated Noviop scum. No need for an horoscope to know that.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mr. Hack, @AP, @Philip Owen

    Do you think Shoigu has any active military role or is he merely a figurehead?

    Are he and Putin allies or frenemies?

  291. @Bashibuzuk
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://youtu.be/TOTY4mazFdw?feature=shared

    Kozhuget in his younger years (for those who understand Russian).

    BTW, the dude had killed an endangered (Amur ?) tiger, what a fu..ing moron. In Soviet times he would have done time for that. And in October 1993, he was the one who armed the Moscow Noviop mob with the guns from the Civil Defence reserve (the ones which were stocked for the nuclear war / invasion). The mob ended up doing the death squad dirty work after the coup killing hundreds of people, mostly the young Commie and nationalist activists. They targeted the young to prevent them from opposing the regime in the future.

    Later on, he used the airplanes of the Ministry of Exceptional Situations (that was the name of the ministry under his command) to bring heroine from Tadjikistan. The planes weren’t searched or cleared by the customs at the airports. A lot of the heroine was re-exported to EU through the Leningrad region ports that were under the control of Putin’s close circle and the Tambov mob. The money from this trafficking was laundered through the shell companies in Cyprus (I personally knew someone in Moscow who did that laundering for Shoigu and his gang).

    Bottom line, Kozhuget is a pure and unadulterated Noviop scum. No need for an horoscope to know that.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mr. Hack, @AP, @Philip Owen

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu’s was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too. I think that the large scale anticipated bombing and destruction of the Kerch bridge will finally seal his doom – it couldn’t happen to a “nicer” guy.

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mr. Hack

    I find it hilarious whenever some Russian Noviop bigwig is caught with his fingers in the cookie jar and is convicted of "corruption". Especially when you consider that the whole society is built upon corruption with the kremlin godfather Putler sitting at the very top of the corruption apex. Even the judge, who passes down the verdict of "corruption" is on the take too.

    https://www.horsesforsources.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Pay-to-Play.png

    , @Sean
    @Mr. Hack

    Ah, so Halford Makinder was wrong about the Heartland (Ukraine) being controlled by the railway link of a land state. The bridge across the sea to Crimea being the key to world power so all the West has to do is give Ukraine the stuff to demolish it and game over.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    , @John Johnson
    @Mr. Hack

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu’s was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was the main problem. Ironically a former chef seemed to have a better sense of modern battle than Putin's generals and Shoigu.

    I assume Prigozhin was right but the dwarf has major ego issues and does not want to admit that putting an emergency services director in charge of defense is probably not a good idea.

    I needed a plumber the other day and I decided to hire someone with experience as a 911 operator.

    Should work out just fine. I told my wife that I really like his personality and I'm always right about everything so no need to worry.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    , @Derer
    @Mr. Hack

    You are replying to your own post - a sign of dementia. Your fantasy on Ukraine accomplishments contradicts the reality. When will historically Russian Kharkov be liberated from Kiev gang?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  292. @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    The church tattooed on the back of a vor means that the person did time and was part of the Blatnoy community, not just a regular muzhik inmate. The number of cupolas is the number of years. After a few years they used to tattoo a monastery.

    http://exzk.ru/exzk.ru/pics/tatuirovka-cerkov-480x318.jpg

    I saw the movie when it was released, just another klyukva by a Jewish movie maker who is probably of an ancestry that goes back to the Russian Empire. For me the funniest part of the movie was not even the banya Gay domination wrestling scene, it was the female character riding an Ural motorcycle because her daddy supposedly couldn’t live without. An Ural motorcycle without a sidecar, just plain ridiculous… Развесистая клюква

    http://lurklurk.com/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    just another klyukva by a Jewish movie maker

    Another “cranberry”? Never heard that expression before??…

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/klyukva


    From Russian клю́ква (kljúkva, “cranberry, tall tale”). See also разве́систая клю́ква (razvésistaja kljúkva, “highbrush cranberry”), an idiom that means "a tall tale".
     

    klyukva (plural not attested)

    (Russia, neologism) Stereotypes about Russia and Russian people. quotations ▲
    2021, Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor[1]
    Russian moviegoers have a special term for films whose storyline or atmosphere just does not ring true. It’s klyukva, or “cranberry.” Reviews of “Black Widow” bristle with that term.
     
  293. @LatW
    @songbird


    IMO, rock bottom of a purity spiral is when you are unhappy because Steven Seagal isn’t on your side.
     
    Who cares about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine's side, such as Viggo Mortensen.

    Replies: @songbird, @Gerard1234

    actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.

    LOL – you do realise that literally EVERY Scandinavian actor in Hollywood has become famous solely by playing Russian characters you dumbf**k? It’s as if they are trained to play Russians in acting schools

    Can you imagine any actor retarded enough to have any career-suicide ambition to play some Latvian reject? Any actor with such a lack of self–respect to take some part playing Latvian loser in some boring garbage about some mythical “heroism” against some fake Soviet ‘atrocity”? Any film would make the company bankrupt as of course there is zero market for that sh*t or that country.

    Who cares about Seagal

    Well, the whole of shithole Latvia,. It’s an undisputed fact that every post-soviet, post-Warsaw pact state has a decent section of population that absolutely WORSHIP these guys who made great films immediately after the end of Communism you idiot. So they would come in masses to see him in Latvia, and are extremely jealous that Seagal went to and supports Russia.
    I don’t like the fact that these guys are worshipped and local producers would have an old Hollywood actor and pay him everything….. instead of promoting local talent…..but that is the business.

    Your retarded scumbag lying and hypocrisy is even more ridiculous , as I think Seagal HAS filmed in Latvia you dumb idiot….local producers begging him to come. Probably a national holiday in the dump.

    about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.

    Under Siege was one of greatest films of all time. Whoever is the better actor is irrelevant……..Seagal is far more famous.

    But all of that is irrelevant you faggot retard…..is Mortensen even “on Ukraine’s side” you dumb moron? Seagal, without doubt knows about Russia. Mortensen, if he even said about Ukraine what you claim ( and of course a freak like you can’t be trusted to tell the truth) clearly is just a standard clueless liberal. He knows about as much about Ukraine as he ( and you) know about the “moderate Syrian rebels” who were probably supported by him also, and in a year or 2 will forget completely about 404, just like all 3 of us have forgotten about the “moderate Syrian rebels” and the Syrian war in general ( the satanic ukronazi scum shelling of Belgorod, with one set of strikes killing a Syrian student, was the first in a while time I have even thought about war in Syria)

    That’s in addition to Viggo Mortensen showing ZERO interest in filming in Ukraine or playing a Ukrop character or having any knowledge at all of the fake country or EVER even promoting one of his films inside Banderastan.

    It’s amazing just how much of a pitiful lying scumbag that filth like you can be, further amusing in that of course a great number of actors and music groups that Latvians would beg to visit the country are banned from visiting.
    LMAO – what is that 60-70 out of the top 100 in Latvian music charts here are Russian acts, most banned?:

    https://music.apple.com/si/playlist/top-100-latvia/pl.5ac047a9ada144aebb9b2f16f5bc8c1d

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Gerard1234

    Who would you rather end up like? Steven Seagal or Bruce Jenner?

    In 1976 Jenner was the undisputed greatest athlete on earth. That's like movie star times a thousand.

    Astonishing photo collection:

    https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/07/30/bruce-jenners-record-breaking-1976-olympic-decathlon/

    , @LatW
    @Gerard1234


    you do realise that literally EVERY Scandinavian actor in Hollywood has become famous solely by playing Russian characters
     
    For some reason American directors seem to believe that the Nordics make good representations of Russians (although in most movies Russians are portrayed as dark haired, with weird accents, they are "the other"). When in fact only one Russian phenotype can somewhat compare to Nordic - and it's not even that common. Eastern Promises is a good example of this - Viggo is too Nordic and angular looking to look like a typical Russian, yet you might find a Russian guy who is that type (and that type of character).

    Americans sometimes have weird ideas about Europeans and this could be reflecting in casting actors. Afaik, most Nordic actors that became famous in the US did not play anything related to Russia (yes, there is Dolf Lundgren), the Skarsgård brothers have played various roles. They sometimes make them play the villain or "the other", maybe that's why it's sometimes connected to "Russian characters"?

    Anyway, the real Scandinavian cinema, movies such as The Seventh Seal, have nothing to do with Russia and stand on their own.

    It was just a funny coincidence that Viggo in the naked sauna movie that we brought up played a Russian, most of his movies have "Anglo" characters. But he is multi-lingual (and he spoke decent Russian in the movie, accented, yes, but with good, almost natural speed).


    Can you imagine any actor retarded enough to have any career-suicide ambition to play some Latvian reject?
     
    We have our own actors and characters - which I prefer to be directed and played by our own. We have our own culture, we don't measure our culture based on some foreign celebrity or some "high status" larger culture. Our culture is our own and unique. Btw, there are very few famous celebrities who are deep or original these days so I don't get why you even bring up these kinds of comparisons.

    t’s an undisputed fact that every post-soviet, post-Warsaw pact state has a decent section of population that absolutely WORSHIP these guys who made great films immediately after the end of Communism you idiot.
     
    Of course, I know this. My dad took me to watch Rambo, believe it or not, when I was a very young. 😊 I'm aware of this "martial arts actors from the 1990s" worshipping demographic of mostly older guys (I remember it when it was popular, it's cute and endearing to think how our dads thought that was cool). LOL But it's not the majority of society these days. I don't care, I haven't watched any of Seagal's movies.

    So they would come in masses to see him in Latvia, and are extremely jealous that Seagal went to and supports Russia.
     
    Not now, not with the war. Maybe a lot of guys would not care about his politics, but it wouldn't be all that appealing either. He was not welcome in Estonia where he was supposed to appear in some show and rightly so. These guys are not welcome (none of he foreigners who support our enemy should be allowed in).

    And, yea, Stallone filmed one of his movies in Latvia.


    Mortensen, if he even said about Ukraine what you claim
     
    Mortensen recently signed a petition, along with many other famous actors, in support of Ukraine, urging the Congress to not delay the funding. He supports Ukraine because it's a defensive war - but he has been very vocal against the war in Iraq, because that was an invasion, he is overall a pacifist. Back then it was "Not in my name" and "No more wars for oil" and it took some courage because he had to go against the flow. He has a good moral compass when it comes to war. Even if he is a "progressive" or whatever. He's a long time supporter of Denis Kucinich.

    just like all 3 of us have forgotten about the “moderate Syrian rebels” and the Syrian war in general
     
    Actually, no, we haven't. You bombed a lot of innocent people there.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  294. @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu's was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too. I think that the large scale anticipated bombing and destruction of the Kerch bridge will finally seal his doom - it couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Sean, @John Johnson, @Derer

    I find it hilarious whenever some Russian Noviop bigwig is caught with his fingers in the cookie jar and is convicted of “corruption”. Especially when you consider that the whole society is built upon corruption with the kremlin godfather Putler sitting at the very top of the corruption apex. Even the judge, who passes down the verdict of “corruption” is on the take too.

    • Troll: Derer
  295. @Bashibuzuk
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://youtu.be/TOTY4mazFdw?feature=shared

    Kozhuget in his younger years (for those who understand Russian).

    BTW, the dude had killed an endangered (Amur ?) tiger, what a fu..ing moron. In Soviet times he would have done time for that. And in October 1993, he was the one who armed the Moscow Noviop mob with the guns from the Civil Defence reserve (the ones which were stocked for the nuclear war / invasion). The mob ended up doing the death squad dirty work after the coup killing hundreds of people, mostly the young Commie and nationalist activists. They targeted the young to prevent them from opposing the regime in the future.

    Later on, he used the airplanes of the Ministry of Exceptional Situations (that was the name of the ministry under his command) to bring heroine from Tadjikistan. The planes weren’t searched or cleared by the customs at the airports. A lot of the heroine was re-exported to EU through the Leningrad region ports that were under the control of Putin’s close circle and the Tambov mob. The money from this trafficking was laundered through the shell companies in Cyprus (I personally knew someone in Moscow who did that laundering for Shoigu and his gang).

    Bottom line, Kozhuget is a pure and unadulterated Noviop scum. No need for an horoscope to know that.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mr. Hack, @AP, @Philip Owen

    Thanks for the excellent background for these creatures.

  296. @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    LOL - you do realise that literally EVERY Scandinavian actor in Hollywood has become famous solely by playing Russian characters you dumbf**k? It's as if they are trained to play Russians in acting schools

    Can you imagine any actor retarded enough to have any career-suicide ambition to play some Latvian reject? Any actor with such a lack of self--respect to take some part playing Latvian loser in some boring garbage about some mythical "heroism" against some fake Soviet 'atrocity"? Any film would make the company bankrupt as of course there is zero market for that sh*t or that country.


    Who cares about Seagal
     
    Well, the whole of shithole Latvia,. It's an undisputed fact that every post-soviet, post-Warsaw pact state has a decent section of population that absolutely WORSHIP these guys who made great films immediately after the end of Communism you idiot. So they would come in masses to see him in Latvia, and are extremely jealous that Seagal went to and supports Russia.
    I don't like the fact that these guys are worshipped and local producers would have an old Hollywood actor and pay him everything..... instead of promoting local talent.....but that is the business.

    Your retarded scumbag lying and hypocrisy is even more ridiculous , as I think Seagal HAS filmed in Latvia you dumb idiot....local producers begging him to come. Probably a national holiday in the dump.

    about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    Under Siege was one of greatest films of all time. Whoever is the better actor is irrelevant........Seagal is far more famous.

    But all of that is irrelevant you faggot retard.....is Mortensen even "on Ukraine's side" you dumb moron? Seagal, without doubt knows about Russia. Mortensen, if he even said about Ukraine what you claim ( and of course a freak like you can't be trusted to tell the truth) clearly is just a standard clueless liberal. He knows about as much about Ukraine as he ( and you) know about the "moderate Syrian rebels" who were probably supported by him also, and in a year or 2 will forget completely about 404, just like all 3 of us have forgotten about the "moderate Syrian rebels" and the Syrian war in general ( the satanic ukronazi scum shelling of Belgorod, with one set of strikes killing a Syrian student, was the first in a while time I have even thought about war in Syria)

    That's in addition to Viggo Mortensen showing ZERO interest in filming in Ukraine or playing a Ukrop character or having any knowledge at all of the fake country or EVER even promoting one of his films inside Banderastan.

    It's amazing just how much of a pitiful lying scumbag that filth like you can be, further amusing in that of course a great number of actors and music groups that Latvians would beg to visit the country are banned from visiting.
    LMAO - what is that 60-70 out of the top 100 in Latvian music charts here are Russian acts, most banned?:

    https://music.apple.com/si/playlist/top-100-latvia/pl.5ac047a9ada144aebb9b2f16f5bc8c1d

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

    Who would you rather end up like? Steven Seagal or Bruce Jenner?

    In 1976 Jenner was the undisputed greatest athlete on earth. That’s like movie star times a thousand.

    Astonishing photo collection:

    https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/07/30/bruce-jenners-record-breaking-1976-olympic-decathlon/

  297. @LatW
    @songbird


    I don’t know your tolerance level for things. If you can take the violence (high but not body horror), then you might like it.
     
    I have low tolerance for "body horror" (you have to be very, very careful with that), high intensity violence, yes, but not too much horror and gore. It was a bit shocking to see that in the US, how much of it there is, even on Netflix. There are even series or movies that I do like that have it in some parts, that are hard to tolerate, with other parts that are great. Dark without gore is totally possible. It's good to have either a little bit of beauty in it or suspense. Or some deeper story line or significance.

    Yes, but this was just the pretense. Granted, it is a better pretense than in many other films, but l still don’t approve.
     
    His attire (or his lack of it) was there to differentiate him from the other characters, it seems. He wears a dark suit and black glasses in some parts, that's a kind of a cool, classic look. But, yes, he is very bold with his body. A real Russian guy wouldn't be that naked, they do go topless sometimes and they wear those tank tops (undershirts) but they don't walk around almost naked the way he did in this movie. They almost turned him into what they call a petuh (faggot or bottom, it's very low status). Yes, this is objectionable.

    He is somewhat depersonalized and it seems there was an attempt to create a contrast between nudity and those tattoos that were supposed to show his biography.


    Would like to see a graph of mainstream movies with male nudity, I bet it coincides with gay takeover.
     
    Iirc, there is a little bit in Ben-Hur, but not a lot. Maybe the old Tarzan movies.

    They can do topless, they should display the glorious stature of the European man in full, but it should be dignifying. It shouldn't compromise masculinity in anyway. They should not have gays direct these types of scenes, but it will inevitably be Jewish directors - Cronenberg is Jewish. There seems to be an attempt to lead the character a bit far that way. Him being into body horror probably explains the focus on prison tattoos. Definitely risqué.

    Replies: @songbird

    I suspect that movies have become more violent in the past 20 years or so. The thing that really makes one suspect it is the more mainstream movies – iirc, there were a lot of decapitations in the Hobbit series. Though of course, there were earlier spikes, like R-rated movies and the video nasties.

    Could it be demographic in some way? Average older age, or less children, or different ethnic composition?

    [MORE]

    but it will inevitably be Jewish directors

    Was recently thinking about a politically incorrect experiment: Could one use machine learning to recognize Jewish movies?

    When I am watching a movie, I often feel I can recognize that it was scripted or plotted by Jews. It is a lot of different things, in no particular order:

    1.) Excessive romance for an urban environment/fear or dislike of rural
    2.) Strange insertions of politics/political words (like “fascism” or “Franco” in a movie in ’90s NYC.)
    3.) What I would call “verbal tilt” Noticeably too much dialogue. Sometimes (though less true today) too many big words spoken too quickly – highlighting an unrealism. No or very few moments of silence.
    4.) What I would call transgressions on the family. This is a broad category that includes many things like divorce, or unmarried people living together, or switching partners.

    And there are many other things too. I don’t think it would be possible to get 100% accurate categorizations. To some degree I wonder how much it could be something like “people living in NYC” or “people with verbal tilt” or with “chutzpah.” Then there is the problem of categorizing involvement (things like producer vs. director vs. writer) and non-Jews tailoring to the Jewish environment.

    Of course, one major difficulty is that a lot of movies are Jewish movies, so hard to falsify. There are foreign films but they may have their own cultural/HBD differences.

    But I think some percentage of movies, say 10-15% or higher of Hollywood movies might be possible to be classify with very high accuracy.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    I suspect that movies have become more violent in the past 20 years or so.
     

    There may have been an increase in the last 20 or so years or there may simply be more movies, shows and games, in genres that use violence (this was a shock when I came back to the US and, coming from Europe, you immediately see that the levels of violence and its refinement, is much higher, also, in Canada they run warnings, in the US they don't). It's a strange mix because the society is very pain averse (overmedicated, not saying they should endure pain, but this just a fact), yet they don't mind watching a lot of sadistic content. I don't want to be too critical of the US society - it's just it's been on my mind a lot. I do enjoy some violence, too (just not too graphic, more on the athletic side as that's just entertaining and uplifting), but it has gone very far and it's borderline misanthropic in some cases. They really have to work hard these days to come up with more and more refined ways to show how to kill a human being.

    Could it be demographic in some way? Average older age, or less children, or different ethnic composition?
     
    I wouldn't want to connect it with ethnic composition, I see this as a very White problem. Not in a way that there might be something going on in the American psyche (and violence is not new to America), but it might be the concentration of the media content and the competition for viewership - as they all try to outcompete each other to show more violence in an increasingly overproduced manner just to secure viewership. Maybe that's the reason? Also, we need to face our own subjective natures as those who seek out such content.

    (btw, when I first saw a movie with Tupac back when I was very young, I literally hid under my blanket for the whole day afterwards).

    Of course, there are different gradations of violence, different ways to present it. In my ancestral ethics, you're not supposed to encourage violence at all, but the opposite (only the Gods display it sometimes but this is in a sacral way). So in a way we're going against ancestral ethics.

    Was recently thinking about a politically incorrect experiment: Could one use machine learning to recognize Jewish movies?
     
    This would be very useful. It's one of those things that you know it when you see it. Or maybe in some cases, it might be more hidden. You watch, without even realizing what you're watching.

    Those bullet points you mentioned are spot on - I've had those very same observations.

    What I would call “verbal tilt” Noticeably too much dialogue. Sometimes (though less true today) too many big words spoken too quickly – highlighting an unrealism. No or very few moments of silence.

     

    True (btw, in Baltic movies, which can be very slow, there are a lot of silent moments). The White creative male is definitely not as verbally oriented - he may or may not be, but definitely not as much as the Jew - superfluously verbally. (Btw, this is very noticeable with that Huberman guy, too - just lots of talking and throwing out complex phrases and "scientific" words and terms (along with using the word "science" a lot), I don't even mind, as it can be satisfying to listen to all that verbal stream, but... it sometimes takes away from the "real", exactly as you put it, in Heidegger's terms it takes us away from the Dasein, from our moment in time and place, takes us away from our existential Home).

    What I would call transgressions on the family. This is a broad category that includes many things like divorce, or unmarried people living together, or switching partners.
     
    There has been so much of that over the decades that it's probably a topic on its own. There is tremendous damage there. Deliberate in many cases. But I wouldn't just blame the Jews here, the Gentiles are greatly at fault, too.

    Sometimes one encounters digs at Christian symbols.

    I've noticed how the Jewish directors lead Gentiles into representations that are almost extreme, the way it was done with Viggo in that scene. It moves one away from one's identity. And in that scene, he was not completely emasculated because he ended up killing, with his bare hands, both of his opponents who had knives (yea right, eye roll). So it's a very ambiguous scene. It might be deliberately so.

    A lot of movies are so permeated with this that we may not even notice.

    Replies: @songbird

  298. Sean says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu's was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too. I think that the large scale anticipated bombing and destruction of the Kerch bridge will finally seal his doom - it couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Sean, @John Johnson, @Derer

    Ah, so Halford Makinder was wrong about the Heartland (Ukraine) being controlled by the railway link of a land state. The bridge across the sea to Crimea being the key to world power so all the West has to do is give Ukraine the stuff to demolish it and game over.

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Sean

    I never directly read Mackinder, only in translation by Brzezinski. Did he mention the tragic consequences of those like Shoigu on Ukraine's development?

    Replies: @John Johnson

  299. @Sean
    @Mr. Hack

    Ah, so Halford Makinder was wrong about the Heartland (Ukraine) being controlled by the railway link of a land state. The bridge across the sea to Crimea being the key to world power so all the West has to do is give Ukraine the stuff to demolish it and game over.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I never directly read Mackinder, only in translation by Brzezinski. Did he mention the tragic consequences of those like Shoigu on Ukraine’s development?

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Mr. Hack

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

    I hope Shoigu's career lasts through the war.

    https://s.france24.com/media/display/438331c8-9b0b-11ec-93e3-005056a90284/w:1280/p:16x9/030322-choigou-guerassamov-m.jpg

    Those are some cute medals given that he wasn't from the military and in 2012 was a governor.

    Do they give out military looking medals in emergency services for rescuing a cat?

    Putin: You're in charge of defense.
    Shoigu: But I don't have military experience.
    Putin: Here just slap on these medals. It's fine.

    Anyone who thinks I am exaggerating can look at his bio:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Shoigu

    He went from being a Communist to a Minister of Emergency Situations. No military training.

    Replies: @Derer, @Philip Owen

  300. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    In any case, if this goes boom at least we have tried.
     
    On the surface, the second Caribbean crisis is upon us. NATO is conducting unprecedented drills near Russian/Belorussian border, involving 90 thousand soldiers and lots of hardware. In response, Russia initiated a drill of non-strategic nuclear forces to test their preparedness for action. Russian foreign ministry told the UK ambassador that if any UK-supplied rocket lands in the RF, the RF is going to interpret it as UK entering the war, with direct response at UK, not at Ukie puppets. Russian foreign ministry also stated that because F-16s are capable of carrying nukes, Russia will treat their appearance on Ukrainian theater as if they do carry nukes and respond accordingly. If you interpret all of this literally, nuclear war is inevitable.

    However, I do not think that nukes will fly. It is likely to end like the previous Caribbean crisis, with both sides backing off. If anything, today’s Western elites are even bigger cowards than in Kennedy’s times. Russia also can afford certain concessions to big players (who never gave a hoot about Ukrainians and never will). The war will end in Ukraine, which will be subjugated and dismembered. The empire will sacrifice this pawn, like it sacrificed quite a few pawns before (the most recent being Afghanistan’s puppet “government”). That will be all.

    Replies: @sudden death, @Beckow, @QCIC, @Jazman

    The 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is not interested in how many enemies there are – they are only interested in how much and where to supply special ammunition.

    What is scary as Medvedem mention during his last comment on social media ” Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to understand this more than 60 years ago. But the current infantile morons who have seized power in the West do not want to understand”
    Considering what kind of imbeciles there are, we will not be surprised if these idiots are not even aware of the balance of forces and capabilities of Russia and the Western barbarians in the field of nuclear missiles in general, and in the non-strategic field – especially. Because it’s a very scary ratio.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Jazman


    Considering what kind of imbeciles there are, we will not be surprised if these idiots are not even aware of the balance of forces and capabilities of Russia and the Western barbarians in the field of nuclear missiles in general, and in the non-strategic field – especially.
     
    Kennedy was president when the US presidents actually had some power, weren’t just pathetic figureheads fronting for the real rulers.

    My bet is that the people who actually wield power in the West are smarter that “democratic leaders” the sheeple are given to elect. I might be wrong. We’ll see.
  301. @Jazman
    @AnonfromTN

    The 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is not interested in how many enemies there are - they are only interested in how much and where to supply special ammunition.

    What is scary as Medvedem mention during his last comment on social media " Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to understand this more than 60 years ago. But the current infantile morons who have seized power in the West do not want to understand"
    Considering what kind of imbeciles there are, we will not be surprised if these idiots are not even aware of the balance of forces and capabilities of Russia and the Western barbarians in the field of nuclear missiles in general, and in the non-strategic field - especially. Because it’s a very scary ratio.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    Considering what kind of imbeciles there are, we will not be surprised if these idiots are not even aware of the balance of forces and capabilities of Russia and the Western barbarians in the field of nuclear missiles in general, and in the non-strategic field – especially.

    Kennedy was president when the US presidents actually had some power, weren’t just pathetic figureheads fronting for the real rulers.

    My bet is that the people who actually wield power in the West are smarter that “democratic leaders” the sheeple are given to elect. I might be wrong. We’ll see.

  302. @Sean
    @John Johnson

    Hitler saw America with its continental economy as a model. Defence freeloader Germany's work discipline allied to Russia's resources was a threat to post Cold War US dominance that drove many in the Beltway crazy. The war in Ukraine has smashed the Russian--German economic alliance and now Washington only has to worry about Russia's natural resources flowing to, er, little old China (that Germany sells huge amounts of capital goods to). A master stratagem if ever there was one.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Despite a 50% increase in population and 11x increase in GDP since 1978, the US sold as many cars in 2023 as it did back in 1978. The US has an extremely financialized economy that is reflected in its stock market performance, but not reflected in its physical economy.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon, Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @Dmitry
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere


    US sold as many cars in 2023 as it did back in 1978.

     

    It's something like the top of the "S curve" for new products when the market for cars was saturated.

    It begins "every family needs 1 car".

    After that is successful, your marketing team begins new strategy "every family needs 2 cars", but "every family needs 3 cars" is more difficult for the marketing team, there are often not enough adults in the family to use 3 cars, not enough space in the garage.

    You can also do a marketing strategy "you need to buy a new car every year" when the cars were unreliable in the 1970s. But if Toyota and Honda operate reliably for 30 years without problems? Why would people buy a new car every year? You then rest on consumption for status which is probably more sensitive to the economic situation or a different method like leasing.

  303. What happened to Ukies? Today was Putin’s inauguration, and they didn’t even murder any civilians on the RF territory. Did their puppeteers get scared and put the fear of God into their slaves?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @AnonfromTN

    A little more fear of God into the souls of Russia's leadership would be of great benefit:

    https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NykAAOSwUHxjkxhZ/s-l960.jpg

    Yours too, Professor. :-(

    Were you able to send a dozen roses to Putler in time for this highly orchestrated event?...

  304. @songbird
    @LatW


    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)?
     
    Some believe it was because Roosevelt wanted to embroil the US in a European war.

    But the Japanese never had the war aims of taking Hawaii or the West Coast as it would have been militarily impossible.

    They were batshit insane enough to think the US would sue for peace. But not batshit insane enough to think they could take Hawaii or the West Coast. There were tens of thousands of troops on Hawaii and it was quite far from Japan.

    Am not sure it was really worth fighting them. What for? The Philippines? We would have had to give that up anyway. IMO, not worth flattening cities for, or letting the communists take over most of Asia for. Not worth fighting Vietnam and Korea.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    [MORE]

    • Thanks: songbird
    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Your typical Wakoku schlemiel.

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeQsb9-TLmEHVh1rXsGlKkxc3b59ezNaIVhee5Q-fQZif1C87uX-NNkS0&s=10.jpg

  305. Mikel says:
    @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN

    Ok, let's count on the smart ones who have been for some reason hiding. But I am still not that sure - I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere...


    if they really believe Christian fables; in that case they must be 100% sure to end up in Hell...
     
    They are crazy and selfish enough to choose Hell for the rest of us. But ok, you say there are grown-ups there somewhere, I can't wait until they show up. I am pretty sure it is not Starmer or Trump. Not Meloni. And the eminence grise guys are well hidden.

    Replies: @Mikel

    I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere…

    I wouldn’t worry too much. Now that Russia, France and the UK have started threatening each other, I’m sure the statesmen in Kiev will do everything possible to calm them down and avoid escalations, as they have always done: make sure that this war of theirs stays contained without affecting anyone else.

    We need to understand that this is not like the previous Cold War at all. Russia has just threatened to attack the UK but the first news items on the BBC are Stormy Daniel’s witness testimony, followed by some alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky. The Russian threats are not mentioned at all, why would any British reader be interested in that? They do get a couple of lines buried inside another piece about the Russian upcoming nuclear drills (just tactical nukes that “don’t provoke widespread fallout”, they explain) but, most importantly, these nuclear drills don’t make it to the list of the 10 most read articles by the BBC readers. Right now the most read one is the devious plot by Putin to kill Zelensky that the BBC informs the Ukrainian authorities have skillfully thwarted followed by the ’26 most eye-catching looks from the Met Gala’. Stormy’s saga is getting stale even for the BBC readers.

    This all comes right after the US House finally voted to resume the aid to Ukraine because, as the speaker warned, if we don’t stop the Russians in Ukraine, the Balkans are next, thus reassuring anyone who may have any doubt that we are led by highly competent statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Seriously speaking though, if the Ukrainians use British missiles to kill civilians or attack strategic bases deep inside Russia or if the French finally show up in Ukraine, I would not expect Putin to do much more than summon the ambassadors once again and utter even harsher threats that the Western MSM will not bother to reproduce. This is all more likely to escalate the way the Donbas war escalated to the SMO. Years of half-hearted measures, diplomatic maneuvers, Skripal clown shows, obfuscation,… until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It’s the Kremlin MO.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Mikel


    Russia has just threatened to attack the UK
     
    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    Replies: @Mikel, @Derer, @Gerard1234

    , @AnonfromTN
    @Mikel


    the Balkans are next
     
    That depends who you ask. The competition is fierce. Baltic microstates and Poland are also in the running. Hard to predict who eventually wins.
    , @Beckow
    @Mikel


    ...until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It’s the Kremlin MO.

     

    Probably. But it could also develop in many other ways. The under-appreciated part of the Ukie reality by the West is that Russians are all in now - not the government or media, but the people are fully supportive of the war to victory. Kiev has succeeded in turning a hum-drum border-n-language dispute into an existential war for Russia. They did it by stupidly bringing in Nato and by boasting how far they are willing to go.

    The West is tripling down on the same policies that got them into the no-win situation - do they prefer losing the war or nukes? That is pretty insane. The only way that makes sense is if West thinks that Russia will blink (again). If they don't, we are f..ed...I really don't see the environment in the West to de-escalate.

    There is also a non-zero possibility that the first nukes will happen in the Middle East. These are very dangerous times and let's face it, most people are idiots.

    Replies: @Mikhail

  306. @Mikel
    @Beckow


    I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere…
     
    I wouldn't worry too much. Now that Russia, France and the UK have started threatening each other, I'm sure the statesmen in Kiev will do everything possible to calm them down and avoid escalations, as they have always done: make sure that this war of theirs stays contained without affecting anyone else.

    We need to understand that this is not like the previous Cold War at all. Russia has just threatened to attack the UK but the first news items on the BBC are Stormy Daniel's witness testimony, followed by some alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky. The Russian threats are not mentioned at all, why would any British reader be interested in that? They do get a couple of lines buried inside another piece about the Russian upcoming nuclear drills (just tactical nukes that "don't provoke widespread fallout", they explain) but, most importantly, these nuclear drills don't make it to the list of the 10 most read articles by the BBC readers. Right now the most read one is the devious plot by Putin to kill Zelensky that the BBC informs the Ukrainian authorities have skillfully thwarted followed by the '26 most eye-catching looks from the Met Gala'. Stormy's saga is getting stale even for the BBC readers.

    This all comes right after the US House finally voted to resume the aid to Ukraine because, as the speaker warned, if we don't stop the Russians in Ukraine, the Balkans are next, thus reassuring anyone who may have any doubt that we are led by highly competent statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Seriously speaking though, if the Ukrainians use British missiles to kill civilians or attack strategic bases deep inside Russia or if the French finally show up in Ukraine, I would not expect Putin to do much more than summon the ambassadors once again and utter even harsher threats that the Western MSM will not bother to reproduce. This is all more likely to escalate the way the Donbas war escalated to the SMO. Years of half-hearted measures, diplomatic maneuvers, Skripal clown shows, obfuscation,... until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It's the Kremlin MO.

    Replies: @sudden death, @AnonfromTN, @Beckow

    Russia has just threatened to attack the UK

    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @sudden death


    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)
     
    My point precisely. Putin keeps drawing red lines that he then does nothing to defend so his adversaries keep crossing them with increasing disdain. Until one day we'll get a "nuclear SMO" and everybody will ask where the hell that came from (!?)

    It won't be the first time this happens either. WWI broke out in a similar way, more or less. But I'm not sure state leaders in those times were as dumb as the current ones. It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia...

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @sudden death

    , @Derer
    @sudden death


    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)
     
    The Anglos are good at running to bunkers, 23 or 24 times is nothing, more will come. The WWII behaviour is repeating, they promised to fight in Poland but instead run for bunkers.
    , @Gerard1234
    @sudden death


    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)
     
    Well, none were done for the scenario of British missiles entering airspace of the (internationally recognised) borders of Russia you retarded, morbid scumbag dimwit.

    How stupid do you have to be to NOT realise that these statements by the British and Macron, if physically completed, will result in severe destruction to UK and France you thick POS? Hopefully the Olympics will be killed.

    Now sadly, the same hasn't been done for the true borders of Russia, the one we recognise since SMO. We did threaten, the NATO-Nazi's correctly guessed that this was not going to happen.......although on the other side masses of Ukronazis died or suffered from our escalation response.
    Remind me what happened to the "destruction" of Russian economy, LOL. Or what happened to Assad?

    Of course its very easy for a mental midget as you of some pussy-coward non-entity Baltic shithole to fake laughter and smile emoji on here - dogshit like you and the country of Litva is useless to the SMO, you can fake cheer and laugh upto the point the first missile lands and the country surrenders in 2 seconds.. It takes a "special" type of loser-psychopath to act like that as you do.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  307. @AnonfromTN
    What happened to Ukies? Today was Putin’s inauguration, and they didn’t even murder any civilians on the RF territory. Did their puppeteers get scared and put the fear of God into their slaves?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    A little more fear of God into the souls of Russia’s leadership would be of great benefit:

    Yours too, Professor. 🙁

    Were you able to send a dozen roses to Putler in time for this highly orchestrated event?…

  308. @Mikel
    @Beckow


    I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere…
     
    I wouldn't worry too much. Now that Russia, France and the UK have started threatening each other, I'm sure the statesmen in Kiev will do everything possible to calm them down and avoid escalations, as they have always done: make sure that this war of theirs stays contained without affecting anyone else.

    We need to understand that this is not like the previous Cold War at all. Russia has just threatened to attack the UK but the first news items on the BBC are Stormy Daniel's witness testimony, followed by some alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky. The Russian threats are not mentioned at all, why would any British reader be interested in that? They do get a couple of lines buried inside another piece about the Russian upcoming nuclear drills (just tactical nukes that "don't provoke widespread fallout", they explain) but, most importantly, these nuclear drills don't make it to the list of the 10 most read articles by the BBC readers. Right now the most read one is the devious plot by Putin to kill Zelensky that the BBC informs the Ukrainian authorities have skillfully thwarted followed by the '26 most eye-catching looks from the Met Gala'. Stormy's saga is getting stale even for the BBC readers.

    This all comes right after the US House finally voted to resume the aid to Ukraine because, as the speaker warned, if we don't stop the Russians in Ukraine, the Balkans are next, thus reassuring anyone who may have any doubt that we are led by highly competent statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Seriously speaking though, if the Ukrainians use British missiles to kill civilians or attack strategic bases deep inside Russia or if the French finally show up in Ukraine, I would not expect Putin to do much more than summon the ambassadors once again and utter even harsher threats that the Western MSM will not bother to reproduce. This is all more likely to escalate the way the Donbas war escalated to the SMO. Years of half-hearted measures, diplomatic maneuvers, Skripal clown shows, obfuscation,... until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It's the Kremlin MO.

    Replies: @sudden death, @AnonfromTN, @Beckow

    the Balkans are next

    That depends who you ask. The competition is fierce. Baltic microstates and Poland are also in the running. Hard to predict who eventually wins.

  309. @Coconuts
    @Beckow


    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.
     
    Yeah, did you win any medals during the campaigns?

    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities. You are right, I did forget about the Soviet Union's role in the creation of this labour pool. And in inspiring neo-liberalism and free movement of people...

    And everything else in the 'post-WW2 settlement'?


    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us...
     
    Are you being ironic?

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Beckow

    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities.

    Absurd silliness. Millions of Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Syrians, Africans, Chinese, plenty of Moldovans …..throughout 1991-2010 plenty of very educated Russians were living and working in the EU.
    Plenty Albanians/Kosovans working there. They of course are not in the EU

    If you used your brain – then completely forgetting that Russian gas and oil at cheaper prices to the west, Russia becoming sole debtor from all the different countries of the USSR, ,eliminating much of Warsaw Pact countries debt was essential part of EU development and legacy of Soviet education system was a large role in enhanced western prosperity in the 1990’s……..you would know EU accession was a sign of working hard as a country and achieving technical standards in products, services, safety. Achieving legal standards in the court and law enforcement system which would result in corruption being reduced and foreign companies want to invest there, build factories, create jobs etc. Adopt western business practices. It had nothing to do with the current freakshow of EU “accession” that has nothing to do with those principles for 404, Moldova and Gruzia.

    Now the situation is reversing – those states that in their souls most European elites never wanted to join as they didn’t think were European like them – Poland ( too useless) and Bulgaria/Romania ( too Ottoman) , but in their heads thought that the labour market was too important to miss out on……..will be re-realising why they never thought these countries “European” initially.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Gerard1234

    The USSR throughout its history and the RF in the first decade of its existence did too much for “brotherly” republics and countries, forgetting that no good deed ever goes unpunished.

    In the twenty first century the RF attitude appears to be changing to the pragmatic norm: nothing personal, strictly business. I count this as one of the greatest achievements.

    , @Coconuts
    @Gerard1234


    Absurd silliness. Millions of Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Syrians, Africans, Chinese, plenty of Moldovans
     
    The post was a reply to Beckow and was about the movement of Balts and Slavs into France, Netherlands and the UK. None of those nationalities you mention are Slavs except maybe a minority of Moldovans.

    Beckow was writing that they came because they won WW2 and dictated (?) the terms of the post-1945 settlement in Europe.

    I was replying that most entered following the EU accession of their home countries and the introduction of free movement of labour. For example:


    The 2001 UK Census recorded 60,711 Polish-born UK residents;[114] 60,680 of these resided in Great Britain (not including Northern Ireland), compared to 73,951 in 1991.[115] Following immigration after Poland's accession to the EU, the Office for National Statistics estimated that 832,000 Polish-born residents lived in the UK by 2018, making Poles the largest overseas-born group, having outgrown the Indian-born population.[116]
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=There%20are%20approximately%20682%2C000%20people%20born,in%20Poland%20residing%20in%20the%20UK.

    It seems there are 1.5 million+ people who were born in the Baltic and Slavic parts of the EU resident in the UK, compared to around 73,000 RF citizens. Can't find estimates for the number of Belarusians.

  310. @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu's was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too. I think that the large scale anticipated bombing and destruction of the Kerch bridge will finally seal his doom - it couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Sean, @John Johnson, @Derer

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu’s was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was the main problem. Ironically a former chef seemed to have a better sense of modern battle than Putin’s generals and Shoigu.

    I assume Prigozhin was right but the dwarf has major ego issues and does not want to admit that putting an emergency services director in charge of defense is probably not a good idea.

    I needed a plumber the other day and I decided to hire someone with experience as a 911 operator.

    Should work out just fine. I told my wife that I really like his personality and I’m always right about everything so no need to worry.

    • Agree: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @John Johnson

    An emergency service director and a kitchen chef in competition for directing Russia's "defensive' forces within Ukraine. What a slap in the face to those military officers supposedly educated within Russia's military schools. It would be funny if it weren't true. :-(

    https://i.redd.it/mic6b87dtpp81.jpg

  311. LatW says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @LatW


    That’s not what this is about. It’s about what crazy ideas do to the world.
     
    Dugin's ideas aren't going to do anything. He ran for a public office once and received 1% of the votes. The first or second chapter in his geopolitics book is about Freaking Martin Heidegger for crying out loud. The interesting books have absolute zero (that is zero degrees Kelvin) practical application. Only the nerdiest nerds who ever have nerded can get to the end of them.

    Replies: @LatW

    The first or second chapter in his geopolitics book is about Freaking Martin Heidegger for crying out loud.

    That’s just his reading of Heidegger – and I fail to see why Dugin’s reading is more notable than a thousand other readings of Heidegger (who should be read in original, in German, because of the specific way he uses the German language to build, develop and then explain his unique concepts). It is very common for right wingers to appropriate Heidegger (due to some of his concepts, such as the Heimat, which isn’t even to be understood literally, and because of some of the slightly “irrational” aspects of his writing).

    No, his readings of traditionalist writers are a separate thing, however, his messianic rants about the “special role of Russia in the world” – those are “ideas” that lead directly to dead girls in the rubble in neighboring countries. It’s simply dishonest to pretend to not see the link there.

    • Agree: Philip Owen
  312. @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    A small semantic error and you're trying to make a heyday out of it, well alright - "touche". :-)

    Since you're still having some difficulties understanding what's really going on, here's a simple schematic to help you grasp some of the salient points:

    https://resources.arcamax.com/newspics/234/23451/2345173.jpg
    You seem to believe everything that your Uncle VoVA tells you, do you believe that he'd "cut off his nose to spite his face"? I'm afraid that he's already done it. :-)

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    If cartoons could win wars, American private equity would be sitting on Russian gas and oil right now, and Blackrock and Monsanto would be ploughing the black earth.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/russia-s-oil-and-gas-budget-proceeds-almost-doubled-in-march

    Russia’s oil and gas tax revenue almost doubled in March from a year earlier as global prices of the nation’s crude jumped and its producers adapt to sanctions.

    Budget proceeds from oil and gas levies rose by 90% last month from a year ago to almost 1.31 trillion rubles ($14.1 billion), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Taxes on crude and petroleum products — which accounted for more than 86% of total hydrocarbon revenue last month — contributed the most of the increase, according to Bloomberg News calculations based on data.

    The March budget revenues are also the highest in five months due to the Russian oil-tax payment schedule, under which the so-called profit-based tax is mainly paid four times a year: in March, April, July and October.

    Russia’s oil sector is a key source of revenue for the nation’s coffers, which remain under pressure amid Western sanctions and the cost of the war in Ukraine. As Moscow’s invasion enters its third year, Ukraine has been targeting Russia’s vital energy industry. So far this year, Ukrainian drones damaged 12 major refineries and two smaller plants, with the latest attack occurring this week.

    Budget Revenue Almost Double in March From a Year Ago

    Almost forgot – Christos Anesti !

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Budget Revenue Almost Double in March From a Year Ago
     
    Sure, in 2022, as I previously mentioned, Gazprom paid taxes into the government's coffers close to $6 billion. But what about 2023, and now into 2024??

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  313. @Gerard1234
    @Coconuts


    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities.
     
    Absurd silliness. Millions of Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Syrians, Africans, Chinese, plenty of Moldovans .....throughout 1991-2010 plenty of very educated Russians were living and working in the EU.
    Plenty Albanians/Kosovans working there. They of course are not in the EU

    If you used your brain - then completely forgetting that Russian gas and oil at cheaper prices to the west, Russia becoming sole debtor from all the different countries of the USSR, ,eliminating much of Warsaw Pact countries debt was essential part of EU development and legacy of Soviet education system was a large role in enhanced western prosperity in the 1990's........you would know EU accession was a sign of working hard as a country and achieving technical standards in products, services, safety. Achieving legal standards in the court and law enforcement system which would result in corruption being reduced and foreign companies want to invest there, build factories, create jobs etc. Adopt western business practices. It had nothing to do with the current freakshow of EU "accession" that has nothing to do with those principles for 404, Moldova and Gruzia.

    Now the situation is reversing - those states that in their souls most European elites never wanted to join as they didn't think were European like them - Poland ( too useless) and Bulgaria/Romania ( too Ottoman) , but in their heads thought that the labour market was too important to miss out on........will be re-realising why they never thought these countries "European" initially.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Coconuts

    The USSR throughout its history and the RF in the first decade of its existence did too much for “brotherly” republics and countries, forgetting that no good deed ever goes unpunished.

    In the twenty first century the RF attitude appears to be changing to the pragmatic norm: nothing personal, strictly business. I count this as one of the greatest achievements.

    • Agree: Gerard1234
  314. @John Johnson
    @Mr. Hack

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu’s was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was the main problem. Ironically a former chef seemed to have a better sense of modern battle than Putin's generals and Shoigu.

    I assume Prigozhin was right but the dwarf has major ego issues and does not want to admit that putting an emergency services director in charge of defense is probably not a good idea.

    I needed a plumber the other day and I decided to hire someone with experience as a 911 operator.

    Should work out just fine. I told my wife that I really like his personality and I'm always right about everything so no need to worry.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    An emergency service director and a kitchen chef in competition for directing Russia’s “defensive’ forces within Ukraine. What a slap in the face to those military officers supposedly educated within Russia’s military schools. It would be funny if it weren’t true. 🙁

  315. @Mr. Hack
    @Sean

    I never directly read Mackinder, only in translation by Brzezinski. Did he mention the tragic consequences of those like Shoigu on Ukraine's development?

    Replies: @John Johnson

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

    I hope Shoigu’s career lasts through the war.

    Those are some cute medals given that he wasn’t from the military and in 2012 was a governor.

    Do they give out military looking medals in emergency services for rescuing a cat?

    Putin: You’re in charge of defense.
    Shoigu: But I don’t have military experience.
    Putin: Here just slap on these medals. It’s fine.

    Anyone who thinks I am exaggerating can look at his bio:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Shoigu

    He went from being a Communist to a Minister of Emergency Situations. No military training.

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Derer
    @John Johnson

    You sound desperate...do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @Philip Owen
    @John Johnson

    Shoigu is the only regime member to have remained in high office since 1991. He knows where all the bodies are buried.

    When the military blocked the Serdyukov reforms despite their shambles in Georgia, Putin appointed Shoigu to the defence post. Shoigu is an expert on procurement for construction and emergency logistics within Russian levels of corruption. Not a bad choice for an outsider with a mission to upgrade the military. Just before the war, he was announcing that 71.8% of Russian military equipment had been replaced or updated since 2008. It is now obvious that this was not completely true, even the upgrade part. Russia enjoyed unprecedented prosperity during this period so budget and compenents were not an issues.

    Procurement is no longer the top priority and he failed anyway. "Why is he still in position?" is an interesting question. His ethnic fellows are far from power. They could not take revenge on Putin. Is that it?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  316. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    If cartoons could win wars, American private equity would be sitting on Russian gas and oil right now, and Blackrock and Monsanto would be ploughing the black earth.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/russia-s-oil-and-gas-budget-proceeds-almost-doubled-in-march


    Russia’s oil and gas tax revenue almost doubled in March from a year earlier as global prices of the nation’s crude jumped and its producers adapt to sanctions.

    Budget proceeds from oil and gas levies rose by 90% last month from a year ago to almost 1.31 trillion rubles ($14.1 billion), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Taxes on crude and petroleum products — which accounted for more than 86% of total hydrocarbon revenue last month — contributed the most of the increase, according to Bloomberg News calculations based on data.

    The March budget revenues are also the highest in five months due to the Russian oil-tax payment schedule, under which the so-called profit-based tax is mainly paid four times a year: in March, April, July and October.

    Russia’s oil sector is a key source of revenue for the nation’s coffers, which remain under pressure amid Western sanctions and the cost of the war in Ukraine. As Moscow’s invasion enters its third year, Ukraine has been targeting Russia’s vital energy industry. So far this year, Ukrainian drones damaged 12 major refineries and two smaller plants, with the latest attack occurring this week.

    Budget Revenue Almost Double in March From a Year Ago
     

    Almost forgot - Christos Anesti !

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Budget Revenue Almost Double in March From a Year Ago

    Sure, in 2022, as I previously mentioned, Gazprom paid taxes into the government’s coffers close to $6 billion. But what about 2023, and now into 2024??

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    Those figures ARE into 2024. Budget revenues in March 2024 were double those in March 2023.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  317. Good reality check:

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Mikhail

    yeah they really do some good stuff. I roll my eyes when they start editorializing (and Mercouris may be the slowest speaker I've ever heard) but both them and Berletic are good when it comes to factual reporting that you don't get in MSM sources

  318. OK I looked up the silver and bronze guys.

    They look like they are doing better than Bruce.

    The bronze guy is from Odessa and he is now in the Ukraine parliament. I bet nobody tries to pick a fight with him.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Kratschmer
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Avilov

  319. LatW says:
    @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    LOL - you do realise that literally EVERY Scandinavian actor in Hollywood has become famous solely by playing Russian characters you dumbf**k? It's as if they are trained to play Russians in acting schools

    Can you imagine any actor retarded enough to have any career-suicide ambition to play some Latvian reject? Any actor with such a lack of self--respect to take some part playing Latvian loser in some boring garbage about some mythical "heroism" against some fake Soviet 'atrocity"? Any film would make the company bankrupt as of course there is zero market for that sh*t or that country.


    Who cares about Seagal
     
    Well, the whole of shithole Latvia,. It's an undisputed fact that every post-soviet, post-Warsaw pact state has a decent section of population that absolutely WORSHIP these guys who made great films immediately after the end of Communism you idiot. So they would come in masses to see him in Latvia, and are extremely jealous that Seagal went to and supports Russia.
    I don't like the fact that these guys are worshipped and local producers would have an old Hollywood actor and pay him everything..... instead of promoting local talent.....but that is the business.

    Your retarded scumbag lying and hypocrisy is even more ridiculous , as I think Seagal HAS filmed in Latvia you dumb idiot....local producers begging him to come. Probably a national holiday in the dump.

    about Seagal when better actors are on Ukraine’s side, such as Viggo Mortensen.
     
    Under Siege was one of greatest films of all time. Whoever is the better actor is irrelevant........Seagal is far more famous.

    But all of that is irrelevant you faggot retard.....is Mortensen even "on Ukraine's side" you dumb moron? Seagal, without doubt knows about Russia. Mortensen, if he even said about Ukraine what you claim ( and of course a freak like you can't be trusted to tell the truth) clearly is just a standard clueless liberal. He knows about as much about Ukraine as he ( and you) know about the "moderate Syrian rebels" who were probably supported by him also, and in a year or 2 will forget completely about 404, just like all 3 of us have forgotten about the "moderate Syrian rebels" and the Syrian war in general ( the satanic ukronazi scum shelling of Belgorod, with one set of strikes killing a Syrian student, was the first in a while time I have even thought about war in Syria)

    That's in addition to Viggo Mortensen showing ZERO interest in filming in Ukraine or playing a Ukrop character or having any knowledge at all of the fake country or EVER even promoting one of his films inside Banderastan.

    It's amazing just how much of a pitiful lying scumbag that filth like you can be, further amusing in that of course a great number of actors and music groups that Latvians would beg to visit the country are banned from visiting.
    LMAO - what is that 60-70 out of the top 100 in Latvian music charts here are Russian acts, most banned?:

    https://music.apple.com/si/playlist/top-100-latvia/pl.5ac047a9ada144aebb9b2f16f5bc8c1d

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

    you do realise that literally EVERY Scandinavian actor in Hollywood has become famous solely by playing Russian characters

    For some reason American directors seem to believe that the Nordics make good representations of Russians (although in most movies Russians are portrayed as dark haired, with weird accents, they are “the other”). When in fact only one Russian phenotype can somewhat compare to Nordic – and it’s not even that common. Eastern Promises is a good example of this – Viggo is too Nordic and angular looking to look like a typical Russian, yet you might find a Russian guy who is that type (and that type of character).

    Americans sometimes have weird ideas about Europeans and this could be reflecting in casting actors. Afaik, most Nordic actors that became famous in the US did not play anything related to Russia (yes, there is Dolf Lundgren), the Skarsgård brothers have played various roles. They sometimes make them play the villain or “the other”, maybe that’s why it’s sometimes connected to “Russian characters”?

    Anyway, the real Scandinavian cinema, movies such as The Seventh Seal, have nothing to do with Russia and stand on their own.

    It was just a funny coincidence that Viggo in the naked sauna movie that we brought up played a Russian, most of his movies have “Anglo” characters. But he is multi-lingual (and he spoke decent Russian in the movie, accented, yes, but with good, almost natural speed).

    Can you imagine any actor retarded enough to have any career-suicide ambition to play some Latvian reject?

    We have our own actors and characters – which I prefer to be directed and played by our own. We have our own culture, we don’t measure our culture based on some foreign celebrity or some “high status” larger culture. Our culture is our own and unique. Btw, there are very few famous celebrities who are deep or original these days so I don’t get why you even bring up these kinds of comparisons.

    t’s an undisputed fact that every post-soviet, post-Warsaw pact state has a decent section of population that absolutely WORSHIP these guys who made great films immediately after the end of Communism you idiot.

    Of course, I know this. My dad took me to watch Rambo, believe it or not, when I was a very young. 😊 I’m aware of this “martial arts actors from the 1990s” worshipping demographic of mostly older guys (I remember it when it was popular, it’s cute and endearing to think how our dads thought that was cool). LOL But it’s not the majority of society these days. I don’t care, I haven’t watched any of Seagal’s movies.

    So they would come in masses to see him in Latvia, and are extremely jealous that Seagal went to and supports Russia.

    Not now, not with the war. Maybe a lot of guys would not care about his politics, but it wouldn’t be all that appealing either. He was not welcome in Estonia where he was supposed to appear in some show and rightly so. These guys are not welcome (none of he foreigners who support our enemy should be allowed in).

    And, yea, Stallone filmed one of his movies in Latvia.

    Mortensen, if he even said about Ukraine what you claim

    Mortensen recently signed a petition, along with many other famous actors, in support of Ukraine, urging the Congress to not delay the funding. He supports Ukraine because it’s a defensive war – but he has been very vocal against the war in Iraq, because that was an invasion, he is overall a pacifist. Back then it was “Not in my name” and “No more wars for oil” and it took some courage because he had to go against the flow. He has a good moral compass when it comes to war. Even if he is a “progressive” or whatever. He’s a long time supporter of Denis Kucinich.

    just like all 3 of us have forgotten about the “moderate Syrian rebels” and the Syrian war in general

    Actually, no, we haven’t. You bombed a lot of innocent people there.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @LatW

    https://youtu.be/FC7fY1JjwSY

    Yul Brynner played the Russian phenotype quite accuratey, IMHO.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard

  320. @LatW
    @Gerard1234


    you do realise that literally EVERY Scandinavian actor in Hollywood has become famous solely by playing Russian characters
     
    For some reason American directors seem to believe that the Nordics make good representations of Russians (although in most movies Russians are portrayed as dark haired, with weird accents, they are "the other"). When in fact only one Russian phenotype can somewhat compare to Nordic - and it's not even that common. Eastern Promises is a good example of this - Viggo is too Nordic and angular looking to look like a typical Russian, yet you might find a Russian guy who is that type (and that type of character).

    Americans sometimes have weird ideas about Europeans and this could be reflecting in casting actors. Afaik, most Nordic actors that became famous in the US did not play anything related to Russia (yes, there is Dolf Lundgren), the Skarsgård brothers have played various roles. They sometimes make them play the villain or "the other", maybe that's why it's sometimes connected to "Russian characters"?

    Anyway, the real Scandinavian cinema, movies such as The Seventh Seal, have nothing to do with Russia and stand on their own.

    It was just a funny coincidence that Viggo in the naked sauna movie that we brought up played a Russian, most of his movies have "Anglo" characters. But he is multi-lingual (and he spoke decent Russian in the movie, accented, yes, but with good, almost natural speed).


    Can you imagine any actor retarded enough to have any career-suicide ambition to play some Latvian reject?
     
    We have our own actors and characters - which I prefer to be directed and played by our own. We have our own culture, we don't measure our culture based on some foreign celebrity or some "high status" larger culture. Our culture is our own and unique. Btw, there are very few famous celebrities who are deep or original these days so I don't get why you even bring up these kinds of comparisons.

    t’s an undisputed fact that every post-soviet, post-Warsaw pact state has a decent section of population that absolutely WORSHIP these guys who made great films immediately after the end of Communism you idiot.
     
    Of course, I know this. My dad took me to watch Rambo, believe it or not, when I was a very young. 😊 I'm aware of this "martial arts actors from the 1990s" worshipping demographic of mostly older guys (I remember it when it was popular, it's cute and endearing to think how our dads thought that was cool). LOL But it's not the majority of society these days. I don't care, I haven't watched any of Seagal's movies.

    So they would come in masses to see him in Latvia, and are extremely jealous that Seagal went to and supports Russia.
     
    Not now, not with the war. Maybe a lot of guys would not care about his politics, but it wouldn't be all that appealing either. He was not welcome in Estonia where he was supposed to appear in some show and rightly so. These guys are not welcome (none of he foreigners who support our enemy should be allowed in).

    And, yea, Stallone filmed one of his movies in Latvia.


    Mortensen, if he even said about Ukraine what you claim
     
    Mortensen recently signed a petition, along with many other famous actors, in support of Ukraine, urging the Congress to not delay the funding. He supports Ukraine because it's a defensive war - but he has been very vocal against the war in Iraq, because that was an invasion, he is overall a pacifist. Back then it was "Not in my name" and "No more wars for oil" and it took some courage because he had to go against the flow. He has a good moral compass when it comes to war. Even if he is a "progressive" or whatever. He's a long time supporter of Denis Kucinich.

    just like all 3 of us have forgotten about the “moderate Syrian rebels” and the Syrian war in general
     
    Actually, no, we haven't. You bombed a lot of innocent people there.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Yul Brynner played the Russian phenotype quite accuratey, IMHO.

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Mr. Hack


    Yul Brynner played the Russian phenotype quite accurately, IMHO.
     
    Must be those Aryan genes.


    https://discover.23andme.com/last-name/Briner


    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRYl_VNZeWSpjiESaesPuat9diQ15TekDb5zn9e3l12gA&s.jpg

    , @LatW
    @Mr. Hack


    Yul Brynner
     
    This is not a bad casting as it definitely represents "a type", and it goes along with the (true to life) stereotype of the presence of Asians in the Bolshevik army. I also like the style of his uniform pants. lol

    There are many Russian Tatar actors & performers, I'm not too much into them, but supposedly they have some charm.

    There are some classical looking blondes, but I actually prefer brunettes - ruggedly handsome bearded brunettes (the "bogatyr" look). Sort of like Danila Kozlovsky as Prince Oleg (although he has very delicate features, maybe too much so).

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Mr. Hack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnW2shfEH4

    Don't the Ukrainians have barns to keep their horses in?

    Ha ha just kidding.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  321. Mikel says:
    @sudden death
    @Mikel


    Russia has just threatened to attack the UK
     
    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    Replies: @Mikel, @Derer, @Gerard1234

    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    My point precisely. Putin keeps drawing red lines that he then does nothing to defend so his adversaries keep crossing them with increasing disdain. Until one day we’ll get a “nuclear SMO” and everybody will ask where the hell that came from (!?)

    It won’t be the first time this happens either. WWI broke out in a similar way, more or less. But I’m not sure state leaders in those times were as dumb as the current ones. It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia…

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mikel

    "It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia…"

    Yes, Russian elites were very pro-Western. Putin really came out of left-field, in that the oligarchs put him there, then he slowly gathered all power to himself and started making examples of those who didn't get the memo.

    https://theintercept.com/2015/06/11/russian-oligarch-wanted-turn-joke-reality/


    “Look, I’ll suggest that we can not have effective political system, if there’s a tough competition. So I suggest we create an artificial two-party system. So, let’s say, the left and right. A Socially Oriented party and neo-conservatives liberal party. Choose any. And I’ll make another party. At the same time, my own heart is closer to neoconservatives, and I think so, you [Putin] are socially oriented.”

     

    If Russia lives, as I think it will, he'll get a couple of hefty chapters in their history books.

    Now Russia is turning East, and the world balance of power is shifting.

    "We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
    We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
    Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
    And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile."
     

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @AnonfromTN, @Philip Owen

    , @sudden death
    @Mikel

    Desirable to avoid it all, but if past can be any indication then Putin will drop tactical nuke on some snakes island and will act as very surprised/swindled when nobody cares much in both UA&mainstream West and still aren't capitulating, thus nullifying all that invented shitty "de-escalation by escalation" doctrine lol

  322. @sudden death
    @Mikel


    Russia has just threatened to attack the UK
     
    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    Replies: @Mikel, @Derer, @Gerard1234

    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    The Anglos are good at running to bunkers, 23 or 24 times is nothing, more will come. The WWII behaviour is repeating, they promised to fight in Poland but instead run for bunkers.

  323. @Coconuts
    @songbird

    In France they have the Institut Iliade that works on this, it is a kind of off-shoot of the New Right movement. They tend to follow the Indo-European and Roman/Hellenistic angle of the New Right, but not exclusively now.



    https://institut-iliade.com/

    Mostly it looks like it is only in French at the moment.

    They have some interesting articles:

    https://institut-iliade.com/europe-occident-un-rappel-necessaire-sur-le-sens-et-la-priorite-du-combat-pour-la-renaissance-de-la-civilisation-europeenne/

    https://institut-iliade.com/europa-en-het-westen/

    On the concept of Europe vs. the West. It is only translated into Dutch so far (for the Belgians?)

    Replies: @songbird, @LatW

    Thanks for that link, I see our friend David Engels as one of the speakers in the video. 😊

    • Replies: @Coconuts
    @LatW

    It seems like I've come across him in a few different places now.

    Replies: @LatW

  324. @John Johnson
    @Mr. Hack

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

    I hope Shoigu's career lasts through the war.

    https://s.france24.com/media/display/438331c8-9b0b-11ec-93e3-005056a90284/w:1280/p:16x9/030322-choigou-guerassamov-m.jpg

    Those are some cute medals given that he wasn't from the military and in 2012 was a governor.

    Do they give out military looking medals in emergency services for rescuing a cat?

    Putin: You're in charge of defense.
    Shoigu: But I don't have military experience.
    Putin: Here just slap on these medals. It's fine.

    Anyone who thinks I am exaggerating can look at his bio:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Shoigu

    He went from being a Communist to a Minister of Emergency Situations. No military training.

    Replies: @Derer, @Philip Owen

    You sound desperate…do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Derer

    You sound desperate…do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    LOL I pointed out Shoigu's lack of military training when this 2.5 week operation started.

    His bio is public record. Did I state anything about Shoigu that is false?

    It's day 802 of the 2.5 week special operation and Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense. Oh but he has a lot more fancy medals now.

    https://www.kyivpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bezssd-zagolovka-650x433.png

    Is there a medal for skipping military school thanks to your KGB connections?

    You for whatever reason still want to believe in his maifioso midget dictatorship where the most effective general was a former chef who was actually caught feeding the troops rotten meat. Putin saw that and responded by helping him become a private military warlord.

    Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    They still have at least 600 ATACMs missiles to burn through. Could be as high as 950.

    The HIMARs missiles being shipped are in the thousands.

    We still haven't seen the F-16s fly.

    A lot of videos to come of the Great Russian War against a neighbor with 1/8th the infantry.

    https://media.tenor.com/mTYw14p_uigAAAAM/michael-jackson-eating-popcorn.gif

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234

  325. @Mr. Hack
    @LatW

    https://youtu.be/FC7fY1JjwSY

    Yul Brynner played the Russian phenotype quite accuratey, IMHO.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard

    Yul Brynner played the Russian phenotype quite accurately, IMHO.

    Must be those Aryan genes.

    https://discover.23andme.com/last-name/Briner

    [MORE]

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  326. @Mikel
    @sudden death


    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)
     
    My point precisely. Putin keeps drawing red lines that he then does nothing to defend so his adversaries keep crossing them with increasing disdain. Until one day we'll get a "nuclear SMO" and everybody will ask where the hell that came from (!?)

    It won't be the first time this happens either. WWI broke out in a similar way, more or less. But I'm not sure state leaders in those times were as dumb as the current ones. It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia...

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @sudden death

    “It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia…”

    Yes, Russian elites were very pro-Western. Putin really came out of left-field, in that the oligarchs put him there, then he slowly gathered all power to himself and started making examples of those who didn’t get the memo.

    https://theintercept.com/2015/06/11/russian-oligarch-wanted-turn-joke-reality/

    “Look, I’ll suggest that we can not have effective political system, if there’s a tough competition. So I suggest we create an artificial two-party system. So, let’s say, the left and right. A Socially Oriented party and neo-conservatives liberal party. Choose any. And I’ll make another party. At the same time, my own heart is closer to neoconservatives, and I think so, you [Putin] are socially oriented.”

    If Russia lives, as I think it will, he’ll get a couple of hefty chapters in their history books.

    Now Russia is turning East, and the world balance of power is shifting.

    “We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
    We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
    Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
    And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile.”

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @YetAnotherAnon

    https://akarlin.com/quotes/



    Russians are as much Asiatics as European. The mistake of our policy for the past two centuries has been to make the people of Europe believe that we are true Europeans. … We have bowed ourselves like slaves before the Europeans and have only gained their hatred and contempt. It is time to turn away from ungrateful Europe. Our future is in Asia. – Fyodor Dostoevsky.

    Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong. Europe is a geographical expression. – Bismarck (answer to the “Is Russia Europe or Asia?” debates).

    France takes Algeria from Turkey, and almost every year England annexes another Indian principality: none of this disturbs the balance of power; but when Russia occupies Moldavia and Wallachia, albeit only temporarily, that disturbs the balance of power. France occupies Rome and stays there several years during peacetime: that is nothing; but Russia only thinks of occupying Constantinople, and the peace of Europe is threatened. The English declare war on the Chinese, who have, it seems, offended them: no one has the right to intervene; but Russia is obliged to ask Europe for permission if it quarrels with its neighbor. England threatens Greece to support the false claims of a miserable Jew and burns its fleet: that is a lawful action; but Russia demands a treaty to protect millions of Christians, and that is deemed to strengthen its position in the East at the expense of the balance of power. We can expect nothing from the West but blind hatred and malice, which does not understand and does not want to under stand. – Nicholas I.

    , @AnonfromTN
    @YetAnotherAnon


    “We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
    We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
    Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
    And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile.”
     
    Block wrote “The Scythians” in 1918, but it reads like it was written yesterday.

    Another good piece:

    We shall not stir, even though the frenzied Huns
    Plunder the corpses of the slain in battle, drive
    Their cattle into shrines, burn cities down,
    And roast their white-skinned fellow men alive.

    Overall, “The Scythians” is pretty long. For those who are interested, one of the translations into English is here:
    https://allpoetry.com/the-scythians

    , @Philip Owen
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Yeltsin put Europhile Kasyanov in as Prime Minister to balance Putin but Putin's mates at the FSB removed not just Kasyanov but also his potential supporters in one move. The Orthodox Eurasianists supported this but pace Dugin, had little initial influence.

  327. @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    The current news is that Putler is placing Shoigu on a very short leash right now, especially since the Ukies have recently bombed and destroyed 5-6 large ammo dumps in Ukraine. A buddy of Shoigu's was recently convicted of some large scale corruption too. I think that the large scale anticipated bombing and destruction of the Kerch bridge will finally seal his doom - it couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Sean, @John Johnson, @Derer

    You are replying to your own post – a sign of dementia. Your fantasy on Ukraine accomplishments contradicts the reality. When will historically Russian Kharkov be liberated from Kiev gang?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Derer

    No I wasn't you idiot. I was replying to Bashibuzuk's comment. Too much vodka last night, comrade? :-)

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Derer

  328. LatW says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @LatW

    https://youtu.be/FC7fY1JjwSY

    Yul Brynner played the Russian phenotype quite accuratey, IMHO.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard

    Yul Brynner

    This is not a bad casting as it definitely represents “a type”, and it goes along with the (true to life) stereotype of the presence of Asians in the Bolshevik army. I also like the style of his uniform pants. lol

    There are many Russian Tatar actors & performers, I’m not too much into them, but supposedly they have some charm.

    There are some classical looking blondes, but I actually prefer brunettes – ruggedly handsome bearded brunettes (the “bogatyr” look). Sort of like Danila Kozlovsky as Prince Oleg (although he has very delicate features, maybe too much so).

  329. @Mikhail
    Good reality check:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5vCkRlnXLU

    Replies: @Greasy William

    yeah they really do some good stuff. I roll my eyes when they start editorializing (and Mercouris may be the slowest speaker I’ve ever heard) but both them and Berletic are good when it comes to factual reporting that you don’t get in MSM sources

  330. @Derer
    @John Johnson

    You sound desperate...do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    You sound desperate…do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    LOL I pointed out Shoigu’s lack of military training when this 2.5 week operation started.

    His bio is public record. Did I state anything about Shoigu that is false?

    It’s day 802 of the 2.5 week special operation and Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense. Oh but he has a lot more fancy medals now.

    Is there a medal for skipping military school thanks to your KGB connections?

    You for whatever reason still want to believe in his maifioso midget dictatorship where the most effective general was a former chef who was actually caught feeding the troops rotten meat. Putin saw that and responded by helping him become a private military warlord.

    Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    They still have at least 600 ATACMs missiles to burn through. Could be as high as 950.

    The HIMARs missiles being shipped are in the thousands.

    We still haven’t seen the F-16s fly.

    A lot of videos to come of the Great Russian War against a neighbor with 1/8th the infantry.

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense.

     

    M.Ch.S has a high share of former military in their personnel, for obvious reasons you dumbf**k

    M.Ch.S has a not insignificant airfleet - compatible with my first point. Significant number of boats although this can't be compared much with operations of the navy

    Demining operations, evacuation and organising medical treatment of concentrations of injured people

    Rapid responses in moving masses of people and heavy equipment long distances and into dangerous areas

    Drone Surveillance, reacting to realtime satellite data and co-ordinating some mass action in response to it. Engineers who build and install temporary structures

    So there is integration, overlapping, compatibility of military with emergency ministry actions. It can't be compared with Education or Culture or Energy minister becoming Defence Minister you subhuman sack of faeces bot-freak.

    Its obvious that peacetime operations of military across the world involve plenty of actions that classify under work of Emergencies Ministry you idiot. Syria was more than enough succesful qualification of Shoigu for the SMO anyway . In every aspect of MOD he has improved it in modernisation of forces and equipment, development of weapons, organisation/logistics....and of course the mass slaughter of ukronazis.


    Most importantly Shoigu - in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS.

    As if to confirm what a dumb, bot, nutjob you are...........by comparison Banderastan - Abysmal organisation, abysmal weapons modernisation, abysmal arms exports, abysmal losses.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Mr. Hack

    , @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson

    Biden's security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Quite literally it's very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard. US is the exception to this.

    you obviously have zero ideo

    OK - we can all agree that the ukronazi position.

    Poland, Germany, France, UK

    UK is one of the key scumbags in the SMO - they



    LOL - those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line, electronic jamming, interceptions, misses......and of course ukronazi false flag.
    Most importantly they are at tactical and operational level useless.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    LOL I pointed out Shoigu’s lack of military training when this 2.5 week operation started.

     

    Biden's security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Quite literally it's very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard. US is the exception to this.

    You retarded shitheadness becomes more obvious when we examine the large number of countries relevant to the SMO, Minister of Defences that Shoigu has outlasted. Every other country has had to replace from incompetence at least once, sometimes twice their own Minister of Defence since start of the SMO.

    US Defence Secretary has willingly given himself cancer and is crying away from the job

    As if to confirm what a dumb, bot, nutjob you are who has f**k all idea of what you are talking about - Ukraine has a non-military Minister of Defences now, at start of SMO and numerous in the previous 30 years you shameless, f**king imbecile!!

    OK - so we can all agree that Ukraine doesn't classify - MOD and other positions are just, fake, puppet, non-entity jobs in 404 as its the west controlling everything:

    Poland, Germany, France, UK and soon to be US have ALL replaced their Ministers of Defence at least once since February 2022. As I say - incompetence and Russian annihilation of 404 is the recurring theme of this. Most of those Ministers, of course had zero military experience or expertise.

    UK scumbags are interesting - as I think other commentators have mentioned, their recently resigned Minister of Defence "achieved" a very low rank for some standard upper-class Anglo-retard serving for so long . Instead of serving his country and their evil actions in the SMO, this lazy bum actually resigned from his job quite quickly - very clearly so that this parasite can earn some easy money on board of defence contractor, doing speeches talking BS about " we must save Ukraine". UK , also has some separate Minister of the Armed Forces or something like that - and I notice that he is the exact same scumbag as the Minister of Defence guy - unexceptional military career, resigning after very small amount of time on the job, without doubt just so he can be even more of a corrupt POS and earn some very easy , large amounts of money.

    That is the type of corrupt swine/loser Shoigu is competing against.
    Also the implication from your idiot comments on Shoigu is that you have zero idea of how the General Staff of RF functions.

    They still have at least 600 ATACMs missiles to burn through. Could be as high as 950.

    The HIMARs missiles being shipped are in the thousands.

     

    LOL - those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line, electronic jamming, interceptions, misses......and of course ukronazi false flag.
    Most importantly they are at tactical and operational level useless - as evidenced throughout the 2 years. Cheap PR - the only thing the Kiev regime is competent at, is they only thing they can ( sometimes, though often fake) provide.

    A lot of videos to come of the Great Russian War against a neighbor with 1/8th the infantry.
     
    Errr....no, you thick POS. There is no 1/8th difference on the battlefield - although if you say they have been reduced to 1/8th - that is alot more credible, LOL.
  331. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mikel

    "It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia…"

    Yes, Russian elites were very pro-Western. Putin really came out of left-field, in that the oligarchs put him there, then he slowly gathered all power to himself and started making examples of those who didn't get the memo.

    https://theintercept.com/2015/06/11/russian-oligarch-wanted-turn-joke-reality/


    “Look, I’ll suggest that we can not have effective political system, if there’s a tough competition. So I suggest we create an artificial two-party system. So, let’s say, the left and right. A Socially Oriented party and neo-conservatives liberal party. Choose any. And I’ll make another party. At the same time, my own heart is closer to neoconservatives, and I think so, you [Putin] are socially oriented.”

     

    If Russia lives, as I think it will, he'll get a couple of hefty chapters in their history books.

    Now Russia is turning East, and the world balance of power is shifting.

    "We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
    We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
    Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
    And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile."
     

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @AnonfromTN, @Philip Owen

    https://akarlin.com/quotes/

    [MORE]

    Russians are as much Asiatics as European. The mistake of our policy for the past two centuries has been to make the people of Europe believe that we are true Europeans. … We have bowed ourselves like slaves before the Europeans and have only gained their hatred and contempt. It is time to turn away from ungrateful Europe. Our future is in Asia. – Fyodor Dostoevsky.

    Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong. Europe is a geographical expression. – Bismarck (answer to the “Is Russia Europe or Asia?” debates).

    France takes Algeria from Turkey, and almost every year England annexes another Indian principality: none of this disturbs the balance of power; but when Russia occupies Moldavia and Wallachia, albeit only temporarily, that disturbs the balance of power. France occupies Rome and stays there several years during peacetime: that is nothing; but Russia only thinks of occupying Constantinople, and the peace of Europe is threatened. The English declare war on the Chinese, who have, it seems, offended them: no one has the right to intervene; but Russia is obliged to ask Europe for permission if it quarrels with its neighbor. England threatens Greece to support the false claims of a miserable Jew and burns its fleet: that is a lawful action; but Russia demands a treaty to protect millions of Christians, and that is deemed to strengthen its position in the East at the expense of the balance of power. We can expect nothing from the West but blind hatred and malice, which does not understand and does not want to under stand. – Nicholas I.

  332. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mikel

    "It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia…"

    Yes, Russian elites were very pro-Western. Putin really came out of left-field, in that the oligarchs put him there, then he slowly gathered all power to himself and started making examples of those who didn't get the memo.

    https://theintercept.com/2015/06/11/russian-oligarch-wanted-turn-joke-reality/


    “Look, I’ll suggest that we can not have effective political system, if there’s a tough competition. So I suggest we create an artificial two-party system. So, let’s say, the left and right. A Socially Oriented party and neo-conservatives liberal party. Choose any. And I’ll make another party. At the same time, my own heart is closer to neoconservatives, and I think so, you [Putin] are socially oriented.”

     

    If Russia lives, as I think it will, he'll get a couple of hefty chapters in their history books.

    Now Russia is turning East, and the world balance of power is shifting.

    "We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
    We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
    Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
    And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile."
     

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @AnonfromTN, @Philip Owen

    “We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
    We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
    Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
    And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile.”

    Block wrote “The Scythians” in 1918, but it reads like it was written yesterday.

    Another good piece:

    We shall not stir, even though the frenzied Huns
    Plunder the corpses of the slain in battle, drive
    Their cattle into shrines, burn cities down,
    And roast their white-skinned fellow men alive.

    Overall, “The Scythians” is pretty long. For those who are interested, one of the translations into English is here:
    https://allpoetry.com/the-scythians

  333. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Philip Owen

    If you actually knew anything you would be legally proscribed from saying diddly squat.

    Most of the deceased are killed by exploding artillery rounds. How many artillery rounds has Ukraine fired and how many artillery rounds has Russia fired?

    That is the best estimate kill ratio. It is a pretty wild guess.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @AP, @Philip Owen

    Shoot and Scoot versus creeping barrages in the early stages.

  334. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mikel

    "It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia…"

    Yes, Russian elites were very pro-Western. Putin really came out of left-field, in that the oligarchs put him there, then he slowly gathered all power to himself and started making examples of those who didn't get the memo.

    https://theintercept.com/2015/06/11/russian-oligarch-wanted-turn-joke-reality/


    “Look, I’ll suggest that we can not have effective political system, if there’s a tough competition. So I suggest we create an artificial two-party system. So, let’s say, the left and right. A Socially Oriented party and neo-conservatives liberal party. Choose any. And I’ll make another party. At the same time, my own heart is closer to neoconservatives, and I think so, you [Putin] are socially oriented.”

     

    If Russia lives, as I think it will, he'll get a couple of hefty chapters in their history books.

    Now Russia is turning East, and the world balance of power is shifting.

    "We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
    We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
    Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
    And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile."
     

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @AnonfromTN, @Philip Owen

    Yeltsin put Europhile Kasyanov in as Prime Minister to balance Putin but Putin’s mates at the FSB removed not just Kasyanov but also his potential supporters in one move. The Orthodox Eurasianists supported this but pace Dugin, had little initial influence.

  335. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW

    I suspect that movies have become more violent in the past 20 years or so. The thing that really makes one suspect it is the more mainstream movies - iirc, there were a lot of decapitations in the Hobbit series. Though of course, there were earlier spikes, like R-rated movies and the video nasties.

    Could it be demographic in some way? Average older age, or less children, or different ethnic composition?


    but it will inevitably be Jewish directors
     
    Was recently thinking about a politically incorrect experiment: Could one use machine learning to recognize Jewish movies?

    When I am watching a movie, I often feel I can recognize that it was scripted or plotted by Jews. It is a lot of different things, in no particular order:

    1.) Excessive romance for an urban environment/fear or dislike of rural
    2.) Strange insertions of politics/political words (like "fascism" or "Franco" in a movie in '90s NYC.)
    3.) What I would call "verbal tilt" Noticeably too much dialogue. Sometimes (though less true today) too many big words spoken too quickly - highlighting an unrealism. No or very few moments of silence.
    4.) What I would call transgressions on the family. This is a broad category that includes many things like divorce, or unmarried people living together, or switching partners.

    And there are many other things too. I don't think it would be possible to get 100% accurate categorizations. To some degree I wonder how much it could be something like "people living in NYC" or "people with verbal tilt" or with "chutzpah." Then there is the problem of categorizing involvement (things like producer vs. director vs. writer) and non-Jews tailoring to the Jewish environment.

    Of course, one major difficulty is that a lot of movies are Jewish movies, so hard to falsify. There are foreign films but they may have their own cultural/HBD differences.

    But I think some percentage of movies, say 10-15% or higher of Hollywood movies might be possible to be classify with very high accuracy.

    Replies: @LatW

    I suspect that movies have become more violent in the past 20 years or so.

    [MORE]

    There may have been an increase in the last 20 or so years or there may simply be more movies, shows and games, in genres that use violence (this was a shock when I came back to the US and, coming from Europe, you immediately see that the levels of violence and its refinement, is much higher, also, in Canada they run warnings, in the US they don’t). It’s a strange mix because the society is very pain averse (overmedicated, not saying they should endure pain, but this just a fact), yet they don’t mind watching a lot of sadistic content. I don’t want to be too critical of the US society – it’s just it’s been on my mind a lot. I do enjoy some violence, too (just not too graphic, more on the athletic side as that’s just entertaining and uplifting), but it has gone very far and it’s borderline misanthropic in some cases. They really have to work hard these days to come up with more and more refined ways to show how to kill a human being.

    Could it be demographic in some way? Average older age, or less children, or different ethnic composition?

    I wouldn’t want to connect it with ethnic composition, I see this as a very White problem. Not in a way that there might be something going on in the American psyche (and violence is not new to America), but it might be the concentration of the media content and the competition for viewership – as they all try to outcompete each other to show more violence in an increasingly overproduced manner just to secure viewership. Maybe that’s the reason? Also, we need to face our own subjective natures as those who seek out such content.

    (btw, when I first saw a movie with Tupac back when I was very young, I literally hid under my blanket for the whole day afterwards).

    Of course, there are different gradations of violence, different ways to present it. In my ancestral ethics, you’re not supposed to encourage violence at all, but the opposite (only the Gods display it sometimes but this is in a sacral way). So in a way we’re going against ancestral ethics.

    Was recently thinking about a politically incorrect experiment: Could one use machine learning to recognize Jewish movies?

    This would be very useful. It’s one of those things that you know it when you see it. Or maybe in some cases, it might be more hidden. You watch, without even realizing what you’re watching.

    Those bullet points you mentioned are spot on – I’ve had those very same observations.

    What I would call “verbal tilt” Noticeably too much dialogue. Sometimes (though less true today) too many big words spoken too quickly – highlighting an unrealism. No or very few moments of silence.

    True (btw, in Baltic movies, which can be very slow, there are a lot of silent moments). The White creative male is definitely not as verbally oriented – he may or may not be, but definitely not as much as the Jew – superfluously verbally. (Btw, this is very noticeable with that Huberman guy, too – just lots of talking and throwing out complex phrases and “scientific” words and terms (along with using the word “science” a lot), I don’t even mind, as it can be satisfying to listen to all that verbal stream, but… it sometimes takes away from the “real”, exactly as you put it, in Heidegger’s terms it takes us away from the Dasein, from our moment in time and place, takes us away from our existential Home).

    What I would call transgressions on the family. This is a broad category that includes many things like divorce, or unmarried people living together, or switching partners.

    There has been so much of that over the decades that it’s probably a topic on its own. There is tremendous damage there. Deliberate in many cases. But I wouldn’t just blame the Jews here, the Gentiles are greatly at fault, too.

    Sometimes one encounters digs at Christian symbols.

    I’ve noticed how the Jewish directors lead Gentiles into representations that are almost extreme, the way it was done with Viggo in that scene. It moves one away from one’s identity. And in that scene, he was not completely emasculated because he ended up killing, with his bare hands, both of his opponents who had knives (yea right, eye roll). So it’s a very ambiguous scene. It might be deliberately so.

    A lot of movies are so permeated with this that we may not even notice.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW


    (btw, in Baltic movies, which can be very slow, there are a lot of silent moments).
     

    Makes me wonder about Finnish movies - don't believe I have ever seen one. But one might guess they are the quietest or perhaps not.

    With Japan, I think it is two fold. You have a more introverted population, then you have anime, which is created by more introverted people.

    I think there should be moments of quiet in every film. Sometimes it should be about the composition of the frame.

    this was a shock when I came back to the US and, coming from Europe, you immediately see that the levels of violence and its refinement, is much higher
     
    I feel like it is a bit broader than the US. I have seen some foreign movies that I thought were really violent, from Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia. I wonder whether the US is setting the trend, or whatever it is some kind of convergence.

    he ended up killing, with his bare hands, both of his opponents who had knives (yea right, eye roll).
     
    Yes, a knife attacker might be more than a match for a man with a gun, unless he was a quickdraw. I wish Bashi expanded on his criticisms, but it has been a long time since I saw the movie too.

    Replies: @LatW

  336. @John Johnson
    @Mr. Hack

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

    I hope Shoigu's career lasts through the war.

    https://s.france24.com/media/display/438331c8-9b0b-11ec-93e3-005056a90284/w:1280/p:16x9/030322-choigou-guerassamov-m.jpg

    Those are some cute medals given that he wasn't from the military and in 2012 was a governor.

    Do they give out military looking medals in emergency services for rescuing a cat?

    Putin: You're in charge of defense.
    Shoigu: But I don't have military experience.
    Putin: Here just slap on these medals. It's fine.

    Anyone who thinks I am exaggerating can look at his bio:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Shoigu

    He went from being a Communist to a Minister of Emergency Situations. No military training.

    Replies: @Derer, @Philip Owen

    Shoigu is the only regime member to have remained in high office since 1991. He knows where all the bodies are buried.

    When the military blocked the Serdyukov reforms despite their shambles in Georgia, Putin appointed Shoigu to the defence post. Shoigu is an expert on procurement for construction and emergency logistics within Russian levels of corruption. Not a bad choice for an outsider with a mission to upgrade the military. Just before the war, he was announcing that 71.8% of Russian military equipment had been replaced or updated since 2008. It is now obvious that this was not completely true, even the upgrade part. Russia enjoyed unprecedented prosperity during this period so budget and compenents were not an issues.

    Procurement is no longer the top priority and he failed anyway. “Why is he still in position?” is an interesting question. His ethnic fellows are far from power. They could not take revenge on Putin. Is that it?

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Philip Owen


    His ethnic fellows are far from power.
     
    Are you talking about his paternal or his maternal co-ethnics ?

    Replies: @QCIC

  337. @Philip Owen
    @John Johnson

    Shoigu is the only regime member to have remained in high office since 1991. He knows where all the bodies are buried.

    When the military blocked the Serdyukov reforms despite their shambles in Georgia, Putin appointed Shoigu to the defence post. Shoigu is an expert on procurement for construction and emergency logistics within Russian levels of corruption. Not a bad choice for an outsider with a mission to upgrade the military. Just before the war, he was announcing that 71.8% of Russian military equipment had been replaced or updated since 2008. It is now obvious that this was not completely true, even the upgrade part. Russia enjoyed unprecedented prosperity during this period so budget and compenents were not an issues.

    Procurement is no longer the top priority and he failed anyway. "Why is he still in position?" is an interesting question. His ethnic fellows are far from power. They could not take revenge on Putin. Is that it?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    His ethnic fellows are far from power.

    Are you talking about his paternal or his maternal co-ethnics ?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Wiki says Shoigu's mom grew up in Donbas. Was her family Russian and Orthodox?

    +++

    I see Shoigu as one of the many contemporary Russian mysteries which Westerners cannot fathom. He seems like a bad guy but they keep him around. Most of us have no idea how or why he stays around and if he is good or bad. I only mean good in the sense of the right man for the job at hand. My first wild guess is that his role is to prevent the military from becoming politically too powerful. With the continuous internal and external power games this probably requires a very Machiavellian person making crazy deals left and right.

    I suspect the USA has similar intrigues. We don't see them as mysterious since they are very well hidden. That is the fun part of the Russian story: we can sometimes see the puppet's strings (Zelensky comes to mind). We may not know the puppet masters but we see the strings. In the West we notice the jerky motion which could be caused by strings, yet these threads are usually invisible so we explain it away.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mikhail

  338. @Bashibuzuk
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://youtu.be/TOTY4mazFdw?feature=shared

    Kozhuget in his younger years (for those who understand Russian).

    BTW, the dude had killed an endangered (Amur ?) tiger, what a fu..ing moron. In Soviet times he would have done time for that. And in October 1993, he was the one who armed the Moscow Noviop mob with the guns from the Civil Defence reserve (the ones which were stocked for the nuclear war / invasion). The mob ended up doing the death squad dirty work after the coup killing hundreds of people, mostly the young Commie and nationalist activists. They targeted the young to prevent them from opposing the regime in the future.

    Later on, he used the airplanes of the Ministry of Exceptional Situations (that was the name of the ministry under his command) to bring heroine from Tadjikistan. The planes weren’t searched or cleared by the customs at the airports. A lot of the heroine was re-exported to EU through the Leningrad region ports that were under the control of Putin’s close circle and the Tambov mob. The money from this trafficking was laundered through the shell companies in Cyprus (I personally knew someone in Moscow who did that laundering for Shoigu and his gang).

    Bottom line, Kozhuget is a pure and unadulterated Noviop scum. No need for an horoscope to know that.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mr. Hack, @AP, @Philip Owen

    That’s a decent but not outstanding flat with good ordinary furniture for the time. They obviously live there. He was keeping the cash in the bank.

    Your claim about trading in heroin is intriguing. A lot came from Uzbekistan through Samara too according to an FSB colonel of my acquaintance. Presumably, that would have been a different gang.

    I have often wondered why night club bouncer Dominic Cummings (the campaign manager for Brexit) was in Samara. He was apparently setting up an airline (illegal for foreigners at the time) with direct flights to Vienna. Only one flight ever took off and the only passenger was left behind. Cummings is very pro Russian. Does he need to be?

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Philip Owen

    Well, we both know that for some 200 years, the City has been quite successful at investing (laundering) opiates money. Shoigu is also a Malta Knight, with the knights being basically a British connection to the Bank of Vatican.

    That is why if my memory serves me right, just before the start of the war in 2022, Shoigu has been summoned to London. But he refused to go. That's when I realized that it was going to turn ugly. I have always been of opinion that there would be no outright war between the RusFed and the Ukiestan Noviop clans. I was wrong.

    Now that we know better about the British role in preventing the Istanbul peace agreement, it is clear that the Moscow Noviops and the London cosmopolitan elite have fallen out of love with each other. The British cosmopolitan elite has decided to use the short witted Kievan Noviop to make the Moscow Noviop pay for the lack of proper respect displayed during the Scripal affair and the Brexit.

    Slavs die, but the aboriginals always die in Empire’s wars, Gurkha or Sikh why should it matter ?

    And about Shoigu’s procurement talents, we should ask him about the titanium clad multitudes of « invisible » Armata tanks, instead of which we have this monstrosity:

    https://youtu.be/56V2OqwRo8Q?feature=shared

    (The title of the clip is a reference to a Strugatskys’ book. In the book, the Progressors manipulated the local extraterrestrial civilization towards a supposedly « better » historical outcome, but couldn’t prevent an outright nuclear confrontation.)

    Replies: @Coconuts

    , @LondonBob
    @Philip Owen

    Always amused me people who cast aspersions towards Cummings, especially those loyal to the EU, rather obvious he was working for MI6. At least they aren't idiots in MI6, or perhaps weren't.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/dominic-cummings-brands-ukraine-corrupt-mafia-state-as-he-blasts-russia-sanctions/ar-BB1m6MNQ

    Amusing that the Western 'elite' thought China would support them in their campaign against Russia, bizarre.

    Replies: @Beckow

  339. @LatW
    @Coconuts

    Thanks for that link, I see our friend David Engels as one of the speakers in the video. 😊

    Replies: @Coconuts

    It seems like I’ve come across him in a few different places now.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Coconuts


    It seems like I’ve come across him in a few different places now.
     
    Me too. He visited at our faculty, and here and there in some journals, some conservative conferences (and the Spengler conversations). And now this video - wow! It almost looks like he's feeling things out about where he can fit in and how far to the right he can go (he might be quite far). He's a classicist. I wonder what he'll do - I wish the best of luck and he should tread carefully to safeguard his reputation. Nice to see someone youngish. Looks promising.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0nPYTgDsjA

    Replies: @Coconuts

  340. LatW says:
    @Coconuts
    @LatW

    It seems like I've come across him in a few different places now.

    Replies: @LatW

    It seems like I’ve come across him in a few different places now.

    Me too. He visited at our faculty, and here and there in some journals, some conservative conferences (and the Spengler conversations). And now this video – wow! It almost looks like he’s feeling things out about where he can fit in and how far to the right he can go (he might be quite far). He’s a classicist. I wonder what he’ll do – I wish the best of luck and he should tread carefully to safeguard his reputation. Nice to see someone youngish. Looks promising.

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @Coconuts
    @LatW

    Yes, he seems to be a rising figure. His specialism in Spengler is relevant at the moment, hopefully being in universities and with groups like NatCon and Iliade he will be okay. And it looks like he can move between the Belgian, Anglo, French and German spheres.

  341. @Mikel
    @sudden death


    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)
     
    My point precisely. Putin keeps drawing red lines that he then does nothing to defend so his adversaries keep crossing them with increasing disdain. Until one day we'll get a "nuclear SMO" and everybody will ask where the hell that came from (!?)

    It won't be the first time this happens either. WWI broke out in a similar way, more or less. But I'm not sure state leaders in those times were as dumb as the current ones. It could have been so f-ing easy to avoid a NATO war with this Russia...

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @sudden death

    Desirable to avoid it all, but if past can be any indication then Putin will drop tactical nuke on some snakes island and will act as very surprised/swindled when nobody cares much in both UA&mainstream West and still aren’t capitulating, thus nullifying all that invented shitty “de-escalation by escalation” doctrine lol

  342. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Philip Owen
    @Bashibuzuk

    That's a decent but not outstanding flat with good ordinary furniture for the time. They obviously live there. He was keeping the cash in the bank.

    Your claim about trading in heroin is intriguing. A lot came from Uzbekistan through Samara too according to an FSB colonel of my acquaintance. Presumably, that would have been a different gang.

    I have often wondered why night club bouncer Dominic Cummings (the campaign manager for Brexit) was in Samara. He was apparently setting up an airline (illegal for foreigners at the time) with direct flights to Vienna. Only one flight ever took off and the only passenger was left behind. Cummings is very pro Russian. Does he need to be?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @LondonBob

    Well, we both know that for some 200 years, the City has been quite successful at investing (laundering) opiates money. Shoigu is also a Malta Knight, with the knights being basically a British connection to the Bank of Vatican.

    That is why if my memory serves me right, just before the start of the war in 2022, Shoigu has been summoned to London. But he refused to go. That’s when I realized that it was going to turn ugly. I have always been of opinion that there would be no outright war between the RusFed and the Ukiestan Noviop clans. I was wrong.

    Now that we know better about the British role in preventing the Istanbul peace agreement, it is clear that the Moscow Noviops and the London cosmopolitan elite have fallen out of love with each other. The British cosmopolitan elite has decided to use the short witted Kievan Noviop to make the Moscow Noviop pay for the lack of proper respect displayed during the Scripal affair and the Brexit.

    Slavs die, but the aboriginals always die in Empire’s wars, Gurkha or Sikh why should it matter ?

    And about Shoigu’s procurement talents, we should ask him about the titanium clad multitudes of « invisible » Armata tanks, instead of which we have this monstrosity:

    (The title of the clip is a reference to a Strugatskys’ book. In the book, the Progressors manipulated the local extraterrestrial civilization towards a supposedly « better » historical outcome, but couldn’t prevent an outright nuclear confrontation.)

    • Replies: @Coconuts
    @Bashibuzuk


    Slavs die, but the aboriginals always die in Empire’s wars, Gurkha or Sikh why should it matter ?
     
    There is something interesting about this.

    Between 1857-1941 afaik there wasn't much warfare within the territories of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. There was some limited fighting on the North-Western and North-Eastern frontiers, the annexation of Burma in the 1880s.

    It looks like 47,746 soldiers from British India died in WW1, 87,000 in WW2. The population of what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh was 388 million by 1945.

    This can be compared with the number of British soldiers killed in those wars relative to population, or other European countries, or Japan and China within the same time period. Sikhs, Gurkhas and the other martial peoples seem to have been doing a service to the other people of the sub-continent in taking on the losses.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  343. @Gerard1234
    @Coconuts


    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities.
     
    Absurd silliness. Millions of Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Syrians, Africans, Chinese, plenty of Moldovans .....throughout 1991-2010 plenty of very educated Russians were living and working in the EU.
    Plenty Albanians/Kosovans working there. They of course are not in the EU

    If you used your brain - then completely forgetting that Russian gas and oil at cheaper prices to the west, Russia becoming sole debtor from all the different countries of the USSR, ,eliminating much of Warsaw Pact countries debt was essential part of EU development and legacy of Soviet education system was a large role in enhanced western prosperity in the 1990's........you would know EU accession was a sign of working hard as a country and achieving technical standards in products, services, safety. Achieving legal standards in the court and law enforcement system which would result in corruption being reduced and foreign companies want to invest there, build factories, create jobs etc. Adopt western business practices. It had nothing to do with the current freakshow of EU "accession" that has nothing to do with those principles for 404, Moldova and Gruzia.

    Now the situation is reversing - those states that in their souls most European elites never wanted to join as they didn't think were European like them - Poland ( too useless) and Bulgaria/Romania ( too Ottoman) , but in their heads thought that the labour market was too important to miss out on........will be re-realising why they never thought these countries "European" initially.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Coconuts

    Absurd silliness. Millions of Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Syrians, Africans, Chinese, plenty of Moldovans

    The post was a reply to Beckow and was about the movement of Balts and Slavs into France, Netherlands and the UK. None of those nationalities you mention are Slavs except maybe a minority of Moldovans.

    Beckow was writing that they came because they won WW2 and dictated (?) the terms of the post-1945 settlement in Europe.

    I was replying that most entered following the EU accession of their home countries and the introduction of free movement of labour. For example:

    The 2001 UK Census recorded 60,711 Polish-born UK residents;[114] 60,680 of these resided in Great Britain (not including Northern Ireland), compared to 73,951 in 1991.[115] Following immigration after Poland’s accession to the EU, the Office for National Statistics estimated that 832,000 Polish-born residents lived in the UK by 2018, making Poles the largest overseas-born group, having outgrown the Indian-born population.[116]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=There%20are%20approximately%20682%2C000%20people%20born,in%20Poland%20residing%20in%20the%20UK.

    It seems there are 1.5 million+ people who were born in the Baltic and Slavic parts of the EU resident in the UK, compared to around 73,000 RF citizens. Can’t find estimates for the number of Belarusians.

  344. Dmitry says:

    https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-247/#comment-6540560

    have detected a fatal flaw in all vo2max studies

    You seem to be able to read the discussion part where the authors write some speculations which are not supported by the data, you don’t understand the data which is contained in the paper.

    The information in the papers show inverse correlation between V02 max and mortality.

    The software uses probability theory to show the inverse correlation between V02 max and mortality is probably non-random.

    The software shows non-random inverse correlation, it doesn’t provide more than this. The two papers I read unfortunately only have to support causation direction the adjusting for extraneous variables and continuing robust correlation beyond 10 year mortality.

    Why is this a problem with your claims that the direction of causation is “modifying upwards V02 max -> reduce longevity”.

    Because, we already know the correlation exist in the other direction “health -> V02 max”. The authors already accept this in their adjustment. Authors of the meta-analysis accept this also in their conclusion, they believe VO2 max is diagnostic.

    that all the experts in the field,

    YouTube influencers? PhD in sports science?

    the American Medical Association and literally hundreds of PhDs have not been able to discover (even thought the Laukannen team explicitly looked for the presence of that fatal flaw in dozens of published papers)

    They all know (maybe not the sport science person from University of Gran Canaria) it’s just a correlation. The “fatal flaw” is just the additional speculation inside some of the papers, without showing care for the direction of causation, so they can only argue for simultaneity between the variables.

    That’s not my opinion, it’s formal logic.

    Living longer actually decreases your vo2max. Older people unequivocally have lower vo2max on average.

    I feel you just waste time by not understanding the papers you posed.

    The inverse correlation with mortality in the papers you posted is V02 max relative to their age-group.

    an old person is most likely to have several chronic diseases due to age but, if he has exercised intensely during his lifetime, his vo2max will be high.

    Chronic diseases reduce V02. It’s not some kind of controversy. It’s part of the argument of the papers you posted. In the better paper they try to adjust for this in the data they put into the spreadsheet. So it’s one of the assumptions of the way they use the models.

    3) People with any given disease live longer if their vo2max is high than if it is low.

    So your argument is DEAD right there.

    Why does that indicate about the direction of causation?

    Especially “your argument is dead”. It’s not an argument. We know health -> V02 max. That’s part of adjustment they are doing in the papers you posted.

    that refuting your hypothesis requires more sophisticated arguments than what I have said above when in reality it doesn’t.

    It’s not a hypothesis. I think you still don’t understand what the papers are arguing.

    Adjusted for age and removing people who died after 10 years, the V02 max is inversely correlated with mortality.

    The better papers try to adjust for chronic disease and early mortality, to still see the correlation is robust. But the assumptions requires to view disease as discrete, not as a continuum. To not adjust for the genetic predispositions with disease, if these covary with the genetic predispositions with V02 max.

    If you want to argue for the direction of causation, the tests from the software they use doesn’t indicate if your result is because of the omitted variables.

    exercise physiology, especially compared to the world experts in exercise physiology, is not credentialism. That’s like you claiming that you know more than me on computer science and me arguing that that’s credentialism

    About credentialism. I wonder why I was wasting time to attain “elite credentials”. I could have done PhD in sports science in the University of Gran Canaria and lived next to the beach.

    meta-analysis is testing if the evidence in the papers they examined is strong enough after excluding signs of reverse causation, publication bias and a host of other methodological problems, as I explained giving you the exact pages where they describe their methods

    The meta-analysis is only testing if there is a correlation. It seems like you don’t understand the papers you post.

    you can’t diagnose any illness with a vo2max test.

    You could diagnose absence of a lot of illness. It’s actually part of what the meta-analysis implies.

    The “longevity field” is a YouTube marketing term. It’s not an academic field. There is nowhere in the university to study the longevity field with “Professor of longevity”.

    The words “longevity field” are false marketing for consumers because it contains an implication that there are “longevity solutions”. As we know, there are not validated “longevity” drugs or treatments.

    A quick Google search returns a plethora of results:

    University of Southern California – Longevity Institute

    Even the influencer you were writing to me as an expert, says it is longevity field is a false marketing for consumers.

    He’s someone who didn’t complete the medical residency because he became a management consultant for McKinsey.

    He then becomes a kind of celebrity health management consultant for the American elite.

    He uses a standard Management consultant and actuary methodology. Each of his “patients” which are people who pay him for consultancy about their health, pays him $150,000 per year.

    But he doesn’t follow formal procedure. It’s a mix of the religious guru methodology, with some of the management consultancy training and the empirical evidence and statistical techniques from actuarial science.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/how-to-die-in-good-health

    While you are talking about exercise extending the lifespan of people who are over the age of reproduction, which were already outside selection.

    It doesn’t matter in the slightest. You’re not thinking with clarity here. Evolution doesn’t care about the individual past the reproductive age (which in human males is very long). But it cares a lot about fitness during reproductive age and it just so happens that (as everybody knows) fitness allows you to live longer.

    I’m not sure you understand. You are saying intense exercise makes you live longer because “in nature we were supposed to exercise”.

    In nature almost all the selection is over after reproduction age.

    “This is natural to exercise a lot” because the environment selects it. It doesn’t follow exercise would extend longevity beyond the age when almost all selection was removed.

    It’s actually the idea that you can atrophy the organs that nature gave you though lack of use and stay healthy that is pure voodoo magic thinking.

    Most people stay healthy today far beyond what was “natural”.

    There is a lot of controversy in archelogical if humans had fire for most of their evolution

    There is exactly zero controversy on that matter. I hope you meant to say hominids instead of humans but even if it’s just a mistaken term, what does it say about your general scientific knowledge that you can confuse humans with hominids?

    The academic papers about the topic begin “The timing of the human control of fire is a hotly debated issue.”
    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018116108

    Successful groups may have been able to enjoy periods of lower physical activity than the less successful ones but up until very recently in human evolution life was harsh enough for the principle of “survival of the fittest” to apply to humans just as much as to any other species. A pride of successful lions will also enjoy periods of lower physical activity than the ones living on the margins of the hunting grounds but that doesn’t mean that lions that become atrophied and unable to run for a prey have higher life expectancy.

    Again, you seem to not understand the direction of causation.

    I still have a feeling you haven’t been to understand the point I have been explaining as you said “like a parrot”.

    The outcome of the debate Dmitry is trying to have with the whole medical establishment is

    This is the medical establishment only recommends avoiding what we would call physical inactivity. I’m not sure why you believe I am “debating them”.

    I would agree with their advice to at least do 1.5 hours of “moderate physical activity” each week. It even seems conservative as “moderate physical activity” is listed as walking by the CDC. Walking 15 minutes to the office would match their recommendation. I think that’s not enough exercise.

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @Dmitry


    Why is this a problem with your claims that the direction of causation is “modifying upwards V02 max -> reduce longevity”.
     
    LOL. It's not my claim. It's just a claim by reputable experts that I find no reason to dispute and you have written their claim backwards. How can I have any worthwhile discussion with you if you are still confused about what the main issue in the discussion is?

    This is the medical establishment only recommends avoiding what we would call physical inactivity. I’m not sure why you believe I am “debating them”.
     
    Since you also seem unable to understand what the expressions "at least" and "for substantial health benefits" mean (from the HHS guidelines that I posted for you) let's give you an easier to understand recommendation straight from the CDC:

    "For Even Greater Health Benefits
    If you go beyond 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity activity, or 75 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity activity or an equivalent combination, you’ll gain even more health benefits."

    https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/adults/index.htm

    Is this clear enough?


    YouTube influencers? PhD in sports science?
     
    No, what you yourself call the medical establishment. Also from directly the CDC website:

    "Athletes aged 55-80 years who engage in regular endurance training experience less decline in VO2max than comparably aged persons who are more sedentary (13). These athletes may also reduce risks for chronic disease by maintaining normal body weight, blood pressure, glucose tolerance, and lipoprotein lipid levels (13-14)"

    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001482.htm

    Adjusted for age and removing people who died after 10 years, the V02 max is inversely correlated with mortality.
     

    NO. Read it all over again.

    I could have done PhD in sports science in the University of Gran Canaria and lived next to the beach.
     
    No sorry, you obviously couldn't have done that and you are showing the futility of debating a topic with someone who has no clue. The Canary Islands are not exactly known for their Ivy League colleges but they are the perfect place to dedicate one's life to sports physiology for a well known combination of reasons. Due to their subtropical climate and the existence of high altitude sports facilities, it's the favorite place for lots of European athletes and their coaches to spend their winter training season. A good part of European sports physiology research is regularly conducted there.

    It doesn’t follow exercise would extend longevity beyond the age when almost all selection was removed.
     
    It follows perfectly well. Humans evolved to be omnivorous so if you try to follow a herbivore diet you are quite likely to die earlier. Humans also evolved to do vigorous exercise in nature so leading a life with no exercise will equally reduce your longevity.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/how-to-die-in-good-health
     
    Good article about Attia. The author seems to have similar misgivings to mine about him, as I have explained a couple of times to Emil. But he should have probably left out the criticisms that come from Attia's own confession of his personal struggles.

    The software shows non-random inverse correlation, it doesn’t provide more than this. The two papers I read unfortunately only have to support causation direction the adjusting for extraneous variables and continuing robust correlation beyond 10 year mortality.
     
    This type of phrases are indigestible. Leaving grammar and syntax aside, you just seem to be trying to complicate a very simple issue with language that you must think sounds intelligent but you're just insisting that ingesting mercury helps fish grow.

    Instead of complicating things so much, let's do a thought experiment. Let's imagine two totally fictional characters, Demetrius and Mickey. Both are the same age but Demetrius didn't understand the CDC exercise guidelines and does very little exercise. His VO2max was measured to be very low and his BMI is probably in the high 20s. Mickey does a lot of exercise and his Vo2max is very high. His BMI is in the low 20s.

    One day both Demetrius and Mickey are driving on the same road in opposite directions. Unfortunately, Demetrius is very distracted that day because he is giving a lecture on quantum mechanics to a passenger in his car who happens to be a particle physicist. This causes their cars to crash head-on. The physicist only receives minor injuries but both Demetrius and Mickey are rushed in comma to the same hospital where their vo2max measurements were taken.

    It has been a very busy day at the hospital with a new outbreak of Covid so only one IC bed is available. The doctors examine both patients and it's not clear whose injuries are worse so they have to decide which of the two to put in the IC bed and which one to sedate based only on their medical records. It's a tragic decision but, being aware of the literature published on the CDC website and studies like Laukannen et al, they decide that they have more chances of saving a life by sending Mickey to IC.

    What exactly would you say to these doctors to convince them that they should try to save Demetrius instead?

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  345. That Spanish/Brazilian(?) couple who had the misfortune in India have disclosed further details.

    [MORE]

    Apparently, they stopped at this landmark rock in broad daylight to set up camp, and some Indians immediately came out of the grass.

    The guy had been eating peanuts and one of the Indians stuck his hand in that bag of peanuts and began eating them. (This sort of thing is a classic, universal behavior of savages presaging a massacre. Essentially, they are cowardly testing the boundaries of transgression.)

    (BTW, peanuts were introduced by either the Spanish or Portuguese, and they were one of the crops that radically increased the population of India.)

    And the couple got on their bikes and left, relieved that they were not followed. (I think they left their gear behind ) They spent a few hours in the city, and then came back at night to the very same spot to camp for the night!

    They stopped even though they saw a fire in the distance, and knew the guys were there. I guess the girl was a bit afraid, but the man felt comfortable he could defend himself.

    Wow! What idiots! That would be like settlers on the plains meeting some Sioux, having them start to manhandle them, and then jumping on off-road vehicles to escape, spend some time at a fort, and then return at night to the place where they were manhandled.

    Or shipwrecked sailors getting in a motorboat after being abused by Melanesians, only to purposefully return later to the same island.

    Seems to me the social media was a part of it. The woman wanted to dress scantily. The man wanted to show how tough he was.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @songbird

    Completely out of the loop with this particular case, but seems they managed to survive alive, maybe only got beaten and/or raped if themselves(?) could disclose all those details?

    Replies: @songbird

  346. @Mr. Hack
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Budget Revenue Almost Double in March From a Year Ago
     
    Sure, in 2022, as I previously mentioned, Gazprom paid taxes into the government's coffers close to $6 billion. But what about 2023, and now into 2024??

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    Those figures ARE into 2024. Budget revenues in March 2024 were double those in March 2023.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Thanks for this information. It does seem to temper (if not contradict) the information included in the "Joe Blog's video that I posted above. I'll need some more time to try and square this information with Joe's pronouncements of doom and gloom for Gasprom. I'll keep you posted if I can do this...

  347. QCIC says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @Philip Owen


    His ethnic fellows are far from power.
     
    Are you talking about his paternal or his maternal co-ethnics ?

    Replies: @QCIC

    Wiki says Shoigu’s mom grew up in Donbas. Was her family Russian and Orthodox?

    +++

    I see Shoigu as one of the many contemporary Russian mysteries which Westerners cannot fathom. He seems like a bad guy but they keep him around. Most of us have no idea how or why he stays around and if he is good or bad. I only mean good in the sense of the right man for the job at hand. My first wild guess is that his role is to prevent the military from becoming politically too powerful. With the continuous internal and external power games this probably requires a very Machiavellian person making crazy deals left and right.

    I suspect the USA has similar intrigues. We don’t see them as mysterious since they are very well hidden. That is the fun part of the Russian story: we can sometimes see the puppet’s strings (Zelensky comes to mind). We may not know the puppet masters but we see the strings. In the West we notice the jerky motion which could be caused by strings, yet these threads are usually invisible so we explain it away.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Shoigu is part and parcel of the Yeltsin’s old guard, the inner circle, the family as it used to be called (семья). The reason is that he helped crush the 1993 uprising by providing guns to the pro-Yeltsin death squads. He also sold all the gear that was stocked in the Civil Defence reserve and that money might have been invested in the Yeltsin’s family business. As I wrote earlier, he was also involved in heroin smuggling with the Ministry of Emergencies aviation. And his Ministry of Emergencies had also an armed militarized force, that served as a kind of potential security guarantee to Yumashev and Dyachenko (Yeltsin’s daughter). As I wrote in my reply to Mr Owen, Shoigu is a Knight of Malta. The Knights are (one of the) connection(s) between the British Kleptocracy and the Bank of Vatican. Shoigu was involved with money laundering on a massive scale, billions of dollars. That is why he is still around. Shoigu’s mother is of Jewish descent. His dad is Tuvin and Tuvins are the Siberian equivalent of the Chechens. Shoigu is an uber-Noviop. Compared to Putin, Shoigu is a « senior » member of the Kleptocratic Noviop regime.

    https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mnalex2002/19042916/52144/52144_900.jpg

    Shoigu in 1993 at the entrance of the massacred parliament.

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @Mikhail
    @QCIC

    Peskov is another who has led to some wondering.

  348. @songbird
    That Spanish/Brazilian(?) couple who had the misfortune in India have disclosed further details.

    Apparently, they stopped at this landmark rock in broad daylight to set up camp, and some Indians immediately came out of the grass.

    The guy had been eating peanuts and one of the Indians stuck his hand in that bag of peanuts and began eating them. (This sort of thing is a classic, universal behavior of savages presaging a massacre. Essentially, they are cowardly testing the boundaries of transgression.)

    (BTW, peanuts were introduced by either the Spanish or Portuguese, and they were one of the crops that radically increased the population of India.)

    And the couple got on their bikes and left, relieved that they were not followed. (I think they left their gear behind ) They spent a few hours in the city, and then came back at night to the very same spot to camp for the night!

    They stopped even though they saw a fire in the distance, and knew the guys were there. I guess the girl was a bit afraid, but the man felt comfortable he could defend himself.

    Wow! What idiots! That would be like settlers on the plains meeting some Sioux, having them start to manhandle them, and then jumping on off-road vehicles to escape, spend some time at a fort, and then return at night to the place where they were manhandled.

    Or shipwrecked sailors getting in a motorboat after being abused by Melanesians, only to purposefully return later to the same island.

    Seems to me the social media was a part of it. The woman wanted to dress scantily. The man wanted to show how tough he was.

    Replies: @sudden death

    Completely out of the loop with this particular case, but seems they managed to survive alive, maybe only got beaten and/or raped if themselves(?) could disclose all those details?

    • Replies: @songbird
    @sudden death

    The girl was dragged into the bushes and gangraped, while the guy had a knife held to his throat. Guess they were lucky they weren't murdered.

    The case has gained notoriety since the couple are woke and saying it could have happened anywhere and the woman was dressed crazily.

    I think the couple have used the word indeseables, which I find really interesting. Am sure they didn't mean anything genetic, but it does make me think of the Untouchable Caste, if only in a loose way.

    There is actually video of the people, both at the site and later in jail, though it can be hard to assign caste.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  349. @Bashibuzuk
    @Philip Owen

    Well, we both know that for some 200 years, the City has been quite successful at investing (laundering) opiates money. Shoigu is also a Malta Knight, with the knights being basically a British connection to the Bank of Vatican.

    That is why if my memory serves me right, just before the start of the war in 2022, Shoigu has been summoned to London. But he refused to go. That's when I realized that it was going to turn ugly. I have always been of opinion that there would be no outright war between the RusFed and the Ukiestan Noviop clans. I was wrong.

    Now that we know better about the British role in preventing the Istanbul peace agreement, it is clear that the Moscow Noviops and the London cosmopolitan elite have fallen out of love with each other. The British cosmopolitan elite has decided to use the short witted Kievan Noviop to make the Moscow Noviop pay for the lack of proper respect displayed during the Scripal affair and the Brexit.

    Slavs die, but the aboriginals always die in Empire’s wars, Gurkha or Sikh why should it matter ?

    And about Shoigu’s procurement talents, we should ask him about the titanium clad multitudes of « invisible » Armata tanks, instead of which we have this monstrosity:

    https://youtu.be/56V2OqwRo8Q?feature=shared

    (The title of the clip is a reference to a Strugatskys’ book. In the book, the Progressors manipulated the local extraterrestrial civilization towards a supposedly « better » historical outcome, but couldn’t prevent an outright nuclear confrontation.)

    Replies: @Coconuts

    Slavs die, but the aboriginals always die in Empire’s wars, Gurkha or Sikh why should it matter ?

    There is something interesting about this.

    Between 1857-1941 afaik there wasn’t much warfare within the territories of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. There was some limited fighting on the North-Western and North-Eastern frontiers, the annexation of Burma in the 1880s.

    It looks like 47,746 soldiers from British India died in WW1, 87,000 in WW2. The population of what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh was 388 million by 1945.

    This can be compared with the number of British soldiers killed in those wars relative to population, or other European countries, or Japan and China within the same time period. Sikhs, Gurkhas and the other martial peoples seem to have been doing a service to the other people of the sub-continent in taking on the losses.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Coconuts

    Well perhaps the Slavs (whom the Chinese call informally “bellicose tribes”) are fighting the Globalist wars. If RusFed wins, then China will be the next global leader, if it is Ukiestan then the USA will remain the global пахан.

  350. @sudden death
    @songbird

    Completely out of the loop with this particular case, but seems they managed to survive alive, maybe only got beaten and/or raped if themselves(?) could disclose all those details?

    Replies: @songbird

    The girl was dragged into the bushes and gangraped, while the guy had a knife held to his throat. Guess they were lucky they weren’t murdered.

    The case has gained notoriety since the couple are woke and saying it could have happened anywhere and the woman was dressed crazily.

    I think the couple have used the word indeseables, which I find really interesting. Am sure they didn’t mean anything genetic, but it does make me think of the Untouchable Caste, if only in a loose way.

    There is actually video of the people, both at the site and later in jail, though it can be hard to assign caste.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @songbird

    It’ll do for a nice Bollywood movie. Everyone would dance at the end.

  351. The guy had been eating peanuts and one of the Indians stuck his hand in that bag of peanuts and began eating them.

    [MORE]

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk, songbird
    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Does Sundar Pichai know this racist stuff is playing under his nose? I suppose he is Brahmin and maybe at the non-Brahmins most anything goes.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @QCIC
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    In Africa they steal the oil from utility transformers to fry street food. China supposedly has "street oil" which is so ridiculous I can't really believe it exists. I guess people gotta eat so they can...make more people.

    I used to buy a few prepackaged Indian food items at the store (USA). I gave it up when I noticed they are actually made in India.

    In the US, our food comes straight from the chemical factory to the not-so hungry diner. I've heard that's a lot better ;)

  352. @LatW
    @Coconuts


    It seems like I’ve come across him in a few different places now.
     
    Me too. He visited at our faculty, and here and there in some journals, some conservative conferences (and the Spengler conversations). And now this video - wow! It almost looks like he's feeling things out about where he can fit in and how far to the right he can go (he might be quite far). He's a classicist. I wonder what he'll do - I wish the best of luck and he should tread carefully to safeguard his reputation. Nice to see someone youngish. Looks promising.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0nPYTgDsjA

    Replies: @Coconuts

    Yes, he seems to be a rising figure. His specialism in Spengler is relevant at the moment, hopefully being in universities and with groups like NatCon and Iliade he will be okay. And it looks like he can move between the Belgian, Anglo, French and German spheres.

  353. Bashibuzuk says:
    @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Wiki says Shoigu's mom grew up in Donbas. Was her family Russian and Orthodox?

    +++

    I see Shoigu as one of the many contemporary Russian mysteries which Westerners cannot fathom. He seems like a bad guy but they keep him around. Most of us have no idea how or why he stays around and if he is good or bad. I only mean good in the sense of the right man for the job at hand. My first wild guess is that his role is to prevent the military from becoming politically too powerful. With the continuous internal and external power games this probably requires a very Machiavellian person making crazy deals left and right.

    I suspect the USA has similar intrigues. We don't see them as mysterious since they are very well hidden. That is the fun part of the Russian story: we can sometimes see the puppet's strings (Zelensky comes to mind). We may not know the puppet masters but we see the strings. In the West we notice the jerky motion which could be caused by strings, yet these threads are usually invisible so we explain it away.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mikhail

    Shoigu is part and parcel of the Yeltsin’s old guard, the inner circle, the family as it used to be called (семья). The reason is that he helped crush the 1993 uprising by providing guns to the pro-Yeltsin death squads. He also sold all the gear that was stocked in the Civil Defence reserve and that money might have been invested in the Yeltsin’s family business. As I wrote earlier, he was also involved in heroin smuggling with the Ministry of Emergencies aviation. And his Ministry of Emergencies had also an armed militarized force, that served as a kind of potential security guarantee to Yumashev and Dyachenko (Yeltsin’s daughter). As I wrote in my reply to Mr Owen, Shoigu is a Knight of Malta. The Knights are (one of the) connection(s) between the British Kleptocracy and the Bank of Vatican. Shoigu was involved with money laundering on a massive scale, billions of dollars. That is why he is still around. Shoigu’s mother is of Jewish descent. His dad is Tuvin and Tuvins are the Siberian equivalent of the Chechens. Shoigu is an uber-Noviop. Compared to Putin, Shoigu is a « senior » member of the Kleptocratic Noviop regime.

    Shoigu in 1993 at the entrance of the massacred parliament.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Thanks.

    "Shoigu’s mother is of Jewish descent", I thought you might have been implying this connection with your original comment but was not sure:

    So does Putin put up with Shoigu or vice-versa? Or are they just partners in crime?

    What do you think of "Putin's" ridiculous mansion which Navalny liked to squawk about, what do you make of that?

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Bashibuzuk

  354. @Coconuts
    @Bashibuzuk


    Slavs die, but the aboriginals always die in Empire’s wars, Gurkha or Sikh why should it matter ?
     
    There is something interesting about this.

    Between 1857-1941 afaik there wasn't much warfare within the territories of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. There was some limited fighting on the North-Western and North-Eastern frontiers, the annexation of Burma in the 1880s.

    It looks like 47,746 soldiers from British India died in WW1, 87,000 in WW2. The population of what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh was 388 million by 1945.

    This can be compared with the number of British soldiers killed in those wars relative to population, or other European countries, or Japan and China within the same time period. Sikhs, Gurkhas and the other martial peoples seem to have been doing a service to the other people of the sub-continent in taking on the losses.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Well perhaps the Slavs (whom the Chinese call informally “bellicose tribes”) are fighting the Globalist wars. If RusFed wins, then China will be the next global leader, if it is Ukiestan then the USA will remain the global пахан.

  355. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Sean

    Despite a 50% increase in population and 11x increase in GDP since 1978, the US sold as many cars in 2023 as it did back in 1978. The US has an extremely financialized economy that is reflected in its stock market performance, but not reflected in its physical economy.

    Replies: @Dmitry

    US sold as many cars in 2023 as it did back in 1978.

    It’s something like the top of the “S curve” for new products when the market for cars was saturated.

    It begins “every family needs 1 car”.

    After that is successful, your marketing team begins new strategy “every family needs 2 cars”, but “every family needs 3 cars” is more difficult for the marketing team, there are often not enough adults in the family to use 3 cars, not enough space in the garage.

    You can also do a marketing strategy “you need to buy a new car every year” when the cars were unreliable in the 1970s. But if Toyota and Honda operate reliably for 30 years without problems? Why would people buy a new car every year? You then rest on consumption for status which is probably more sensitive to the economic situation or a different method like leasing.

  356. @songbird
    @sudden death

    The girl was dragged into the bushes and gangraped, while the guy had a knife held to his throat. Guess they were lucky they weren't murdered.

    The case has gained notoriety since the couple are woke and saying it could have happened anywhere and the woman was dressed crazily.

    I think the couple have used the word indeseables, which I find really interesting. Am sure they didn't mean anything genetic, but it does make me think of the Untouchable Caste, if only in a loose way.

    There is actually video of the people, both at the site and later in jail, though it can be hard to assign caste.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    It’ll do for a nice Bollywood movie. Everyone would dance at the end.

  357. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    The guy had been eating peanuts and one of the Indians stuck his hand in that bag of peanuts and began eating them.
     



    https://youtu.be/UQlb_sxzUNY?si=0RnUCoHfb4LJMNXd

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

    Does Sundar Pichai know this racist stuff is playing under his nose? I suppose he is Brahmin and maybe at the non-Brahmins most anything goes.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    There is nothing racist about one’s culinary preferences. These two fine young African gentlemen just prefer chicken mafé to Indian food.

  358. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Wiki says Shoigu's mom grew up in Donbas. Was her family Russian and Orthodox?

    +++

    I see Shoigu as one of the many contemporary Russian mysteries which Westerners cannot fathom. He seems like a bad guy but they keep him around. Most of us have no idea how or why he stays around and if he is good or bad. I only mean good in the sense of the right man for the job at hand. My first wild guess is that his role is to prevent the military from becoming politically too powerful. With the continuous internal and external power games this probably requires a very Machiavellian person making crazy deals left and right.

    I suspect the USA has similar intrigues. We don't see them as mysterious since they are very well hidden. That is the fun part of the Russian story: we can sometimes see the puppet's strings (Zelensky comes to mind). We may not know the puppet masters but we see the strings. In the West we notice the jerky motion which could be caused by strings, yet these threads are usually invisible so we explain it away.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mikhail

    Peskov is another who has led to some wondering.

  359. @Coconuts
    @Beckow


    Yeah, because we won WW2. It was the last war in Europe and we are living in the post-WW2 settlement. Cold War was not a war, it was a form of a ceasefire.
     
    Yeah, did you win any medals during the campaigns?

    I know the EU accession for EE countries brought free movement of labour, this brought people from the East in search of economic opportunities. You are right, I did forget about the Soviet Union's role in the creation of this labour pool. And in inspiring neo-liberalism and free movement of people...

    And everything else in the 'post-WW2 settlement'?


    But seriously, the West is not salvageable without us...
     
    Are you being ironic?

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Beckow

    Are you being ironic?

    Yes….:)

    But not about the impact of Slavs on slowing down the demographic self-destruction in the Western Europe.

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Beckow

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    Beckow again showing us that he maintains a pan-Slavic racial identity. Which is really weird considering that he supports the Slav on Slav killing of Putin's war.

    I don't see Poland as a winner in WW2. More like a survivor that was on the winning side.

    Germany lost land but Poland suffered from dysgenics. The Germans tried to wipe out their intellectual class. I would bet that Polish contributions to the sciences have never regained their pre-WW2 levels relative to population size. The infamous Turing machine actually had a lot of Polish contributions but the West loves the idea of a genius fag being behind it all. The Poles already had plenty of land and didn't need East Prussia. They in fact haven't done much with it. Hitler's defenders will make excuses for his invasion even though he planned on turning Poland into farmland. The Poles had an anti-Communist in charge and yet Hitler's apologists still try to make excuses for the supposed anti-Communist dictator who cut a deal with Stalin to chop up Poland. Saving Europe from Communists...unless you're Polish.

    Belarus probably suffered the most. They contributed a huge amount of men and the Germans were extremely cruel to them. Belarus was to be turned into farmland and the Germans had already started on removing the population. Ukraine faired a lot better but not because of Bandera as many falsely assume. Belarus was first on the list and the main area of Soviet partisan activity. Hitler planned on eventually removing/killing all Slavs up to the Urals. The priority for Ukraine was removing the Jews and the Germans also wanted them to keep farming. They were going to take all the Ukrainian grain as part of a plan to starve the USSR and its major cities.

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @Coconuts
    @Beckow


    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.
     
    This explains part of the westward movement of Slavs since 1945 (iirc those parts of Italian territory already contained a lot of Croats and Slovenes), in relation to the post-war peace settlement with Axis nations.

    Less so the part I mentioned that relates neither to the former Axis powers Germany and Italy, or the post-war peace settlement. I can see the victory of the Soviet Union was part of the preconditions for this other later movement, if the Axis had won it would be unlikely to have happened the way it has. But, as I said I think the determining cause and full explanation of this other movement is to be found elsewhere.

    There was more to the post-1945 peace settlement than the territorial aspect, there were the political and ideological elements of it. Some of the explanation for the later movement may be found in those.
  360. @Mikel
    @Beckow


    I think we are up to 25% chance of some nukes going off somewhere…
     
    I wouldn't worry too much. Now that Russia, France and the UK have started threatening each other, I'm sure the statesmen in Kiev will do everything possible to calm them down and avoid escalations, as they have always done: make sure that this war of theirs stays contained without affecting anyone else.

    We need to understand that this is not like the previous Cold War at all. Russia has just threatened to attack the UK but the first news items on the BBC are Stormy Daniel's witness testimony, followed by some alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky. The Russian threats are not mentioned at all, why would any British reader be interested in that? They do get a couple of lines buried inside another piece about the Russian upcoming nuclear drills (just tactical nukes that "don't provoke widespread fallout", they explain) but, most importantly, these nuclear drills don't make it to the list of the 10 most read articles by the BBC readers. Right now the most read one is the devious plot by Putin to kill Zelensky that the BBC informs the Ukrainian authorities have skillfully thwarted followed by the '26 most eye-catching looks from the Met Gala'. Stormy's saga is getting stale even for the BBC readers.

    This all comes right after the US House finally voted to resume the aid to Ukraine because, as the speaker warned, if we don't stop the Russians in Ukraine, the Balkans are next, thus reassuring anyone who may have any doubt that we are led by highly competent statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Seriously speaking though, if the Ukrainians use British missiles to kill civilians or attack strategic bases deep inside Russia or if the French finally show up in Ukraine, I would not expect Putin to do much more than summon the ambassadors once again and utter even harsher threats that the Western MSM will not bother to reproduce. This is all more likely to escalate the way the Donbas war escalated to the SMO. Years of half-hearted measures, diplomatic maneuvers, Skripal clown shows, obfuscation,... until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It's the Kremlin MO.

    Replies: @sudden death, @AnonfromTN, @Beckow

    …until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It’s the Kremlin MO.

    Probably. But it could also develop in many other ways. The under-appreciated part of the Ukie reality by the West is that Russians are all in now – not the government or media, but the people are fully supportive of the war to victory. Kiev has succeeded in turning a hum-drum border-n-language dispute into an existential war for Russia. They did it by stupidly bringing in Nato and by boasting how far they are willing to go.

    The West is tripling down on the same policies that got them into the no-win situation – do they prefer losing the war or nukes? That is pretty insane. The only way that makes sense is if West thinks that Russia will blink (again). If they don’t, we are f..ed…I really don’t see the environment in the West to de-escalate.

    There is also a non-zero possibility that the first nukes will happen in the Middle East. These are very dangerous times and let’s face it, most people are idiots.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Beckow

    French have noticeably backed down a bit, which includes its ambassador attending Putin's inauguration. Ditto what's now being said of the Kerch bridge, with the acknowledgement that it hasn't been a weapons transfer route, making cover for failed attempts to destroy it. Not that this last matter is foolproof.

    The stated goal was to recover all of Ukraine's Commie drawn boundary. Now the hokey endgame spin will be the collective West prevented Russia from taking all of Ukraine, while adding Finland and Sweden to NATO.

    Replies: @Beckow

  361. @Mr. Hack
    @LatW

    https://youtu.be/FC7fY1JjwSY

    Yul Brynner played the Russian phenotype quite accuratey, IMHO.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard

    Don’t the Ukrainians have barns to keep their horses in?

    Ha ha just kidding.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    What mythical feats of strength! And all before the advent of protein drinks and health clubs/gyms that today litter the landscape. :-)

  362. Battle of the Nations
    Russia Canada
    Romania Canada

  363. Die Linke wants to subsidize kebab.
    https://www.rt.com/news/597174-germany-kebab-price-cap/

    • Replies: @A123
    @songbird


    Die Linke wants to subsidize kebab.
     
    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  364. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Does Sundar Pichai know this racist stuff is playing under his nose? I suppose he is Brahmin and maybe at the non-Brahmins most anything goes.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    There is nothing racist about one’s culinary preferences. These two fine young African gentlemen just prefer chicken mafé to Indian food.

  365. Battle of the Nürburgring (NLS Round 1)

    Ummm… Germany versus the rest of the planet…. They do have home track advantage…

    PEACE 😇

    [MORE]

  366. @songbird
    Die Linke wants to subsidize kebab.
    https://www.rt.com/news/597174-germany-kebab-price-cap/

    Replies: @A123

    Die Linke wants to subsidize kebab.

    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.

    PEACE 😇

    • Agree: songbird
    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.
     
    I agree: I love pork, bacon, and good beer. I also love salo (salted or smoked pork fat). But your beloved Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork. So, pork cannot be a Judeo-Christian value. How can you say such non-kosher things?

    Replies: @A123, @Mikhail, @John Johnson

  367. @A123
    @songbird


    Die Linke wants to subsidize kebab.
     
    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.

    I agree: I love pork, bacon, and good beer. I also love salo (salted or smoked pork fat). But your beloved Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork. So, pork cannot be a Judeo-Christian value. How can you say such non-kosher things?

    • LOL: A123
    • Replies: @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    Why do you love Muhammad? And, hate pork, bacon, and good beer?

    Your painfully obvious & disingenuous Taqiyya deception is clearly intended to divide Jews and Christians. Why do you loathe & insult Jesus Christ? Why do you support IslamoGloboHomo?

    If you insist on demanding halal kebabs, you should consider moving to Iran.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @Mikhail
    @AnonfromTN

    Kolbassa/kielbasa sucks without pork. Related is my dislike of kosher salami and baloney. On the other hand, all beef hot dogs are okay IMO.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @John Johnson
    @AnonfromTN

    I agree: I love pork, bacon, and good beer. I also love salo (salted or smoked pork fat). But your beloved Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork. So, pork cannot be a Judeo-Christian value. How can you say such non-kosher things?

    Christian Conservative Judeo-Christian values source the Old Testament selectively.

    Pork and shellfish? It's fine. Let's hit the buffet after church.
    Homosexuality? Banned in Leviticus.

    Also amusing that Judeo-Christian values definitely do not include Jews and Christians marrying each other.

    Judeo-Christian values = Living in the burbs, watching Fox News and having Ben Shapiro give a completely objective lesson on Israel.

  368. Mikhail says: • Website
    @Beckow
    @Mikel


    ...until one day, when nobody expected it, it all goes bang. It’s the Kremlin MO.

     

    Probably. But it could also develop in many other ways. The under-appreciated part of the Ukie reality by the West is that Russians are all in now - not the government or media, but the people are fully supportive of the war to victory. Kiev has succeeded in turning a hum-drum border-n-language dispute into an existential war for Russia. They did it by stupidly bringing in Nato and by boasting how far they are willing to go.

    The West is tripling down on the same policies that got them into the no-win situation - do they prefer losing the war or nukes? That is pretty insane. The only way that makes sense is if West thinks that Russia will blink (again). If they don't, we are f..ed...I really don't see the environment in the West to de-escalate.

    There is also a non-zero possibility that the first nukes will happen in the Middle East. These are very dangerous times and let's face it, most people are idiots.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    French have noticeably backed down a bit, which includes its ambassador attending Putin’s inauguration. Ditto what’s now being said of the Kerch bridge, with the acknowledgement that it hasn’t been a weapons transfer route, making cover for failed attempts to destroy it. Not that this last matter is foolproof.

    The stated goal was to recover all of Ukraine’s Commie drawn boundary. Now the hokey endgame spin will be the collective West prevented Russia from taking all of Ukraine, while adding Finland and Sweden to NATO.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Mikhail


    ...Now the hokey endgame spin will be the collective West prevented Russia from taking all of Ukraine, while adding Finland and Sweden to NATO.
     
    Loss is a loss and the people who planned this whole Nato-in-Ukraine fiasco will know. Obsession with face-saving and blabbing endlessly about Finland will not fix that hurt. This was a concrete, ambitious plan to corner Russia by using Ukraine - if it had worked it would dramatically strengthen the Western dominance of the world. Conversely if it fails it will weaken the West - and no hokey face-saving or saying "ok, we lost but it took 3 or 4 years".

    There is nothing funnier (and sadder) then the claim that Russia planned for a 2.5 week war - it is the lowest form of self-deception combined with irrelevant lying. Why would that matter?

    On the bright side, NY Times today flatly described the 2023 Ukie offensive as failure. So they are making progress - it will tale AP another 6 months to admit it if ever.
  369. A123 says: • Website
    @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.
     
    I agree: I love pork, bacon, and good beer. I also love salo (salted or smoked pork fat). But your beloved Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork. So, pork cannot be a Judeo-Christian value. How can you say such non-kosher things?

    Replies: @A123, @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    Why do you love Muhammad? And, hate pork, bacon, and good beer?

    Your painfully obvious & disingenuous Taqiyya deception is clearly intended to divide Jews and Christians. Why do you loathe & insult Jesus Christ? Why do you support IslamoGloboHomo?

    If you insist on demanding halal kebabs, you should consider moving to Iran.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @A123

    Are you aware that kosher and halal means essentially the same: no pork, no seafood except fish, etc.? Of course, that’s because Mohammad aped these restrictions from Jewish religion. Neither Jews nor Muslims use face drawings for the same reason. So, Judeo-Islamic makes a lot more sense than Judeo-Christian. Sorry to point that out to a nut.

    Replies: @A123, @Mikhail

  370. @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.
     
    I agree: I love pork, bacon, and good beer. I also love salo (salted or smoked pork fat). But your beloved Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork. So, pork cannot be a Judeo-Christian value. How can you say such non-kosher things?

    Replies: @A123, @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    Kolbassa/kielbasa sucks without pork. Related is my dislike of kosher salami and baloney. On the other hand, all beef hot dogs are okay IMO.

    • Agree: A123, AnonfromTN
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Mikhail

    Kolbassa/kielbasa sucks without pork. Related is my dislike of kosher salami and baloney. On the other hand, all beef hot dogs are okay IMO.

    All beef hot dogs are the only upside to having Kosher food available.

    In remote parts of America it's often a choice between a Kosher dog like Nathan's and Jim Bob's multi-meat hot dogs.

    I shudder at how many White people not only feed their kids Bar S hog dogs but burn the shit out of them on the grill. If I get served a Bar S I thank the host and then feed it to the dog.

  371. @LatW
    @songbird


    I suspect that movies have become more violent in the past 20 years or so.
     

    There may have been an increase in the last 20 or so years or there may simply be more movies, shows and games, in genres that use violence (this was a shock when I came back to the US and, coming from Europe, you immediately see that the levels of violence and its refinement, is much higher, also, in Canada they run warnings, in the US they don't). It's a strange mix because the society is very pain averse (overmedicated, not saying they should endure pain, but this just a fact), yet they don't mind watching a lot of sadistic content. I don't want to be too critical of the US society - it's just it's been on my mind a lot. I do enjoy some violence, too (just not too graphic, more on the athletic side as that's just entertaining and uplifting), but it has gone very far and it's borderline misanthropic in some cases. They really have to work hard these days to come up with more and more refined ways to show how to kill a human being.

    Could it be demographic in some way? Average older age, or less children, or different ethnic composition?
     
    I wouldn't want to connect it with ethnic composition, I see this as a very White problem. Not in a way that there might be something going on in the American psyche (and violence is not new to America), but it might be the concentration of the media content and the competition for viewership - as they all try to outcompete each other to show more violence in an increasingly overproduced manner just to secure viewership. Maybe that's the reason? Also, we need to face our own subjective natures as those who seek out such content.

    (btw, when I first saw a movie with Tupac back when I was very young, I literally hid under my blanket for the whole day afterwards).

    Of course, there are different gradations of violence, different ways to present it. In my ancestral ethics, you're not supposed to encourage violence at all, but the opposite (only the Gods display it sometimes but this is in a sacral way). So in a way we're going against ancestral ethics.

    Was recently thinking about a politically incorrect experiment: Could one use machine learning to recognize Jewish movies?
     
    This would be very useful. It's one of those things that you know it when you see it. Or maybe in some cases, it might be more hidden. You watch, without even realizing what you're watching.

    Those bullet points you mentioned are spot on - I've had those very same observations.

    What I would call “verbal tilt” Noticeably too much dialogue. Sometimes (though less true today) too many big words spoken too quickly – highlighting an unrealism. No or very few moments of silence.

     

    True (btw, in Baltic movies, which can be very slow, there are a lot of silent moments). The White creative male is definitely not as verbally oriented - he may or may not be, but definitely not as much as the Jew - superfluously verbally. (Btw, this is very noticeable with that Huberman guy, too - just lots of talking and throwing out complex phrases and "scientific" words and terms (along with using the word "science" a lot), I don't even mind, as it can be satisfying to listen to all that verbal stream, but... it sometimes takes away from the "real", exactly as you put it, in Heidegger's terms it takes us away from the Dasein, from our moment in time and place, takes us away from our existential Home).

    What I would call transgressions on the family. This is a broad category that includes many things like divorce, or unmarried people living together, or switching partners.
     
    There has been so much of that over the decades that it's probably a topic on its own. There is tremendous damage there. Deliberate in many cases. But I wouldn't just blame the Jews here, the Gentiles are greatly at fault, too.

    Sometimes one encounters digs at Christian symbols.

    I've noticed how the Jewish directors lead Gentiles into representations that are almost extreme, the way it was done with Viggo in that scene. It moves one away from one's identity. And in that scene, he was not completely emasculated because he ended up killing, with his bare hands, both of his opponents who had knives (yea right, eye roll). So it's a very ambiguous scene. It might be deliberately so.

    A lot of movies are so permeated with this that we may not even notice.

    Replies: @songbird

    (btw, in Baltic movies, which can be very slow, there are a lot of silent moments).

    [MORE]

    Makes me wonder about Finnish movies – don’t believe I have ever seen one. But one might guess they are the quietest or perhaps not.

    With Japan, I think it is two fold. You have a more introverted population, then you have anime, which is created by more introverted people.

    I think there should be moments of quiet in every film. Sometimes it should be about the composition of the frame.

    this was a shock when I came back to the US and, coming from Europe, you immediately see that the levels of violence and its refinement, is much higher

    I feel like it is a bit broader than the US. I have seen some foreign movies that I thought were really violent, from Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia. I wonder whether the US is setting the trend, or whatever it is some kind of convergence.

    he ended up killing, with his bare hands, both of his opponents who had knives (yea right, eye roll).

    Yes, a knife attacker might be more than a match for a man with a gun, unless he was a quickdraw. I wish Bashi expanded on his criticisms, but it has been a long time since I saw the movie too.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    Makes me wonder about Finnish movies – don’t believe I have ever seen one. But one might guess they are the quietest or perhaps not.
     
    Yes, for them silence is a mode of communication, and there are similarities with the Japanese (both are very introvert). But I do recall that most of the older movies I've watched have been much, much slower, with longer pauses (and not just for the purpose of suspense, but just a lot of stillness... probably would be considered "too slow" for many) than the contemporary mainstream movies (not independent art films).

    As to Finnish movies, there is Aki Kaurismäki (he has a minimalist style with a lot of still shots). Of course, he's a hopeless leftie, as so many of them are.

    There are two very good Winter War movies - Talvisota (about the Winter War) and The Unknown Soldier (about the Continuation war). The first one is well known across the whole Baltic region (watched it years ago), the other one is new (and the highest ever budget Finnish movie). And you can find both on YouTube (with English subtitles).

    Of course, one should take a break from all these war movies (and war themes in general, although there is a little bit of love in The Unknown Soldier). So I watched a romantic movie called The Wait - it's about a love triangle, involving a married couple and their friend (so it's got a questionable, even cringeworthy theme, however, it has some good psychological moments, if one can keep an open minded, and a very beautiful, idyllic northern setting) - but probably not your cup of tea. Remember watching an old black and white Finnish movie, about a woman on the country side, that I really enjoyed, but can't remember the title.

    With some of these movies, there are a lot of references to that particular culture, that only the natives understand and that inspires emotion in them, even if one can find universal themes.

    Do you like Lars von Trier? Was deeply shaken by Antichrist, borderline shocked by parts of it, but found it highly captivating.

    My heart is yearning for something beautiful and deep, without all kinds of crazy shock value, so still looking.

    Replies: @songbird, @Mr. Hack

  372. @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    Why do you love Muhammad? And, hate pork, bacon, and good beer?

    Your painfully obvious & disingenuous Taqiyya deception is clearly intended to divide Jews and Christians. Why do you loathe & insult Jesus Christ? Why do you support IslamoGloboHomo?

    If you insist on demanding halal kebabs, you should consider moving to Iran.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    Are you aware that kosher and halal means essentially the same: no pork, no seafood except fish, etc.? Of course, that’s because Mohammad aped these restrictions from Jewish religion. Neither Jews nor Muslims use face drawings for the same reason. So, Judeo-Islamic makes a lot more sense than Judeo-Christian. Sorry to point that out to a nut.

    • LOL: A123
    • Replies: @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    I thought you were going for humour. I responded in kind.

    Were you attempting to be serious? Really? You do realize that everyone knows that your 2nd Pillar of Islam is distorting the truth.

     
    https://buseca.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/67727803_115317662913858_4516910913541286937_n.jpg
     

    Openly using Taqiyya deception to create strife between Judeo-Christians is core Islamic behaviour. Are you really that committed to placing your Anti-Christ Muhammad above Jesus?

    I am not sorry to point this out to an irrational fanatic, such as yourself, who hates Jesus.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @Mikhail
    @AnonfromTN

    Muslims can mix meat and dairy unlike kosher.

  373. A123 says: • Website
    @AnonfromTN
    @A123

    Are you aware that kosher and halal means essentially the same: no pork, no seafood except fish, etc.? Of course, that’s because Mohammad aped these restrictions from Jewish religion. Neither Jews nor Muslims use face drawings for the same reason. So, Judeo-Islamic makes a lot more sense than Judeo-Christian. Sorry to point that out to a nut.

    Replies: @A123, @Mikhail

    I thought you were going for humour. I responded in kind.

    Were you attempting to be serious? Really? You do realize that everyone knows that your 2nd Pillar of Islam is distorting the truth.

      

    Openly using Taqiyya deception to create strife between Judeo-Christians is core Islamic behaviour. Are you really that committed to placing your Anti-Christ Muhammad above Jesus?

    I am not sorry to point this out to an irrational fanatic, such as yourself, who hates Jesus.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    Openly using Taqiyya deception
     
    That is one of the things Mohammad aped from Jewish religion. Nothing ingenious.

    In general, Mohammad was not particularly creative. He shortened and translated into Arabic a number of Jewish stories (mostly from the Old Testament) and some Christian stories from the New Testament. His creativity did not go further than making all names (including Mary and Jesus) Arabic-sounding. His Allah is recognizably the same vicious and vindictive Jewish Yahve. He copied a lot of Jewish restrictions and customs: no pork, no seafood except fish, male circumcision, multiple wives, no depiction of people and animals in temples, subservient role of women who were not considered quite human, degrading separate place for women in Synagogue and Mosque, etc. There are some differences. He did not prohibit mixing dairy and meat. Prohibited wine, though. Soviet self-claimed Muslims said that vodka and beer are not prohibited by the Quran, and acted accordingly.

    Overall, Islam in both dogma and practice is a lot closer to Judaism than to Christianity. Christianity was significantly mellowed down from unashamedly genocidal Jewish teachings by humanistic teachings of Jesus (e.g., Sabbath is for men, not men for Sabbath, etc.) and by prominent role of two women in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene.

    So, using British expression, you have no leg to stand on with your “Judeo-Christian”.

    Replies: @AP, @A123, @Bashibuzuk

  374. Mikel says:
    @Dmitry
    @Mikel https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-247/#comment-6540560

    have detected a fatal flaw in all vo2max studies
     
    You seem to be able to read the discussion part where the authors write some speculations which are not supported by the data, you don't understand the data which is contained in the paper.

    The information in the papers show inverse correlation between V02 max and mortality.

    The software uses probability theory to show the inverse correlation between V02 max and mortality is probably non-random.

    The software shows non-random inverse correlation, it doesn't provide more than this. The two papers I read unfortunately only have to support causation direction the adjusting for extraneous variables and continuing robust correlation beyond 10 year mortality.

    Why is this a problem with your claims that the direction of causation is "modifying upwards V02 max -> reduce longevity".

    Because, we already know the correlation exist in the other direction "health -> V02 max". The authors already accept this in their adjustment. Authors of the meta-analysis accept this also in their conclusion, they believe VO2 max is diagnostic.


    that all the experts in the field,
     
    YouTube influencers? PhD in sports science?

    the American Medical Association and literally hundreds of PhDs have not been able to discover (even thought the Laukannen team explicitly looked for the presence of that fatal flaw in dozens of published papers)
     
    They all know (maybe not the sport science person from University of Gran Canaria) it's just a correlation. The "fatal flaw" is just the additional speculation inside some of the papers, without showing care for the direction of causation, so they can only argue for simultaneity between the variables.

    That's not my opinion, it's formal logic.


    Living longer actually decreases your vo2max. Older people unequivocally have lower vo2max on average.

     

    I feel you just waste time by not understanding the papers you posed.

    The inverse correlation with mortality in the papers you posted is V02 max relative to their age-group.

    https://i.imgur.com/RTZWue1.jpeg


    an old person is most likely to have several chronic diseases due to age but, if he has exercised intensely during his lifetime, his vo2max will be high.

     

    Chronic diseases reduce V02. It's not some kind of controversy. It's part of the argument of the papers you posted. In the better paper they try to adjust for this in the data they put into the spreadsheet. So it's one of the assumptions of the way they use the models.

    3) People with any given disease live longer if their vo2max is high than if it is low.

    So your argument is DEAD right there.
     

    Why does that indicate about the direction of causation?

    Especially "your argument is dead". It's not an argument. We know health -> V02 max. That's part of adjustment they are doing in the papers you posted.


    that refuting your hypothesis requires more sophisticated arguments than what I have said above when in reality it doesn’t.
     
    It's not a hypothesis. I think you still don't understand what the papers are arguing.

    Adjusted for age and removing people who died after 10 years, the V02 max is inversely correlated with mortality.

    The better papers try to adjust for chronic disease and early mortality, to still see the correlation is robust. But the assumptions requires to view disease as discrete, not as a continuum. To not adjust for the genetic predispositions with disease, if these covary with the genetic predispositions with V02 max.

    If you want to argue for the direction of causation, the tests from the software they use doesn't indicate if your result is because of the omitted variables.


    exercise physiology, especially compared to the world experts in exercise physiology, is not credentialism. That’s like you claiming that you know more than me on computer science and me arguing that that’s credentialism
     
    About credentialism. I wonder why I was wasting time to attain "elite credentials". I could have done PhD in sports science in the University of Gran Canaria and lived next to the beach.

    meta-analysis is testing if the evidence in the papers they examined is strong enough after excluding signs of reverse causation, publication bias and a host of other methodological problems, as I explained giving you the exact pages where they describe their methods

     

    The meta-analysis is only testing if there is a correlation. It seems like you don't understand the papers you post.

    https://i.imgur.com/RTCgQDk.jpeg


    you can’t diagnose any illness with a vo2max test.
     
    You could diagnose absence of a lot of illness. It's actually part of what the meta-analysis implies.


    The “longevity field” is a YouTube marketing term. It’s not an academic field. There is nowhere in the university to study the longevity field with “Professor of longevity”.

    The words “longevity field” are false marketing for consumers because it contains an implication that there are “longevity solutions”. As we know, there are not validated “longevity” drugs or treatments.
     

    A quick Google search returns a plethora of results:

    University of Southern California – Longevity Institute
     

    Even the influencer you were writing to me as an expert, says it is longevity field is a false marketing for consumers.

    https://i.imgur.com/nc4lWkR.jpeg

    He's someone who didn't complete the medical residency because he became a management consultant for McKinsey.

    He then becomes a kind of celebrity health management consultant for the American elite.

    https://i.imgur.com/IilLuxC.jpeg

    He uses a standard Management consultant and actuary methodology. Each of his "patients" which are people who pay him for consultancy about their health, pays him $150,000 per year.

    But he doesn't follow formal procedure. It's a mix of the religious guru methodology, with some of the management consultancy training and the empirical evidence and statistical techniques from actuarial science.

    https://i.imgur.com/H5nGqLC.jpeg

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/how-to-die-in-good-health



    While you are talking about exercise extending the lifespan of people who are over the age of reproduction, which were already outside selection.

     

    It doesn’t matter in the slightest. You’re not thinking with clarity here. Evolution doesn’t care about the individual past the reproductive age (which in human males is very long). But it cares a lot about fitness during reproductive age and it just so happens that (as everybody knows) fitness allows you to live longer.

     

    I'm not sure you understand. You are saying intense exercise makes you live longer because "in nature we were supposed to exercise".

    In nature almost all the selection is over after reproduction age.

    "This is natural to exercise a lot" because the environment selects it. It doesn't follow exercise would extend longevity beyond the age when almost all selection was removed.


    It’s actually the idea that you can atrophy the organs that nature gave you though lack of use and stay healthy that is pure voodoo magic thinking.

     

    Most people stay healthy today far beyond what was "natural".


    There is a lot of controversy in archelogical if humans had fire for most of their evolution

     

    There is exactly zero controversy on that matter. I hope you meant to say hominids instead of humans but even if it’s just a mistaken term, what does it say about your general scientific knowledge that you can confuse humans with hominids?

     


     The academic papers about the topic begin "The timing of the human control of fire is a hotly debated issue."
    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018116108

    Successful groups may have been able to enjoy periods of lower physical activity than the less successful ones but up until very recently in human evolution life was harsh enough for the principle of “survival of the fittest” to apply to humans just as much as to any other species. A pride of successful lions will also enjoy periods of lower physical activity than the ones living on the margins of the hunting grounds but that doesn’t mean that lions that become atrophied and unable to run for a prey have higher life expectancy.
     
    Again, you seem to not understand the direction of causation.

    I still have a feeling you haven't been to understand the point I have been explaining as you said "like a parrot".


    The outcome of the debate Dmitry is trying to have with the whole medical establishment is

     

    This is the medical establishment only recommends avoiding what we would call physical inactivity. I'm not sure why you believe I am "debating them".

    I would agree with their advice to at least do 1.5 hours of "moderate physical activity" each week. It even seems conservative as "moderate physical activity" is listed as walking by the CDC. Walking 15 minutes to the office would match their recommendation. I think that's not enough exercise.

    Replies: @Mikel

    Why is this a problem with your claims that the direction of causation is “modifying upwards V02 max -> reduce longevity”.

    LOL. It’s not my claim. It’s just a claim by reputable experts that I find no reason to dispute and you have written their claim backwards. How can I have any worthwhile discussion with you if you are still confused about what the main issue in the discussion is?

    This is the medical establishment only recommends avoiding what we would call physical inactivity. I’m not sure why you believe I am “debating them”.

    Since you also seem unable to understand what the expressions “at least” and “for substantial health benefits” mean (from the HHS guidelines that I posted for you) let’s give you an easier to understand recommendation straight from the CDC:

    “For Even Greater Health Benefits
    If you go beyond 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity activity, or 75 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity activity or an equivalent combination, you’ll gain even more health benefits.”

    https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/adults/index.htm

    Is this clear enough?

    YouTube influencers? PhD in sports science?

    No, what you yourself call the medical establishment. Also from directly the CDC website:

    “Athletes aged 55-80 years who engage in regular endurance training experience less decline in VO2max than comparably aged persons who are more sedentary (13). These athletes may also reduce risks for chronic disease by maintaining normal body weight, blood pressure, glucose tolerance, and lipoprotein lipid levels (13-14)”

    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001482.htm

    Adjusted for age and removing people who died after 10 years, the V02 max is inversely correlated with mortality.

    NO. Read it all over again.

    I could have done PhD in sports science in the University of Gran Canaria and lived next to the beach.

    No sorry, you obviously couldn’t have done that and you are showing the futility of debating a topic with someone who has no clue. The Canary Islands are not exactly known for their Ivy League colleges but they are the perfect place to dedicate one’s life to sports physiology for a well known combination of reasons. Due to their subtropical climate and the existence of high altitude sports facilities, it’s the favorite place for lots of European athletes and their coaches to spend their winter training season. A good part of European sports physiology research is regularly conducted there.

    It doesn’t follow exercise would extend longevity beyond the age when almost all selection was removed.

    It follows perfectly well. Humans evolved to be omnivorous so if you try to follow a herbivore diet you are quite likely to die earlier. Humans also evolved to do vigorous exercise in nature so leading a life with no exercise will equally reduce your longevity.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/how-to-die-in-good-health

    Good article about Attia. The author seems to have similar misgivings to mine about him, as I have explained a couple of times to Emil. But he should have probably left out the criticisms that come from Attia’s own confession of his personal struggles.

    The software shows non-random inverse correlation, it doesn’t provide more than this. The two papers I read unfortunately only have to support causation direction the adjusting for extraneous variables and continuing robust correlation beyond 10 year mortality.

    This type of phrases are indigestible. Leaving grammar and syntax aside, you just seem to be trying to complicate a very simple issue with language that you must think sounds intelligent but you’re just insisting that ingesting mercury helps fish grow.

    Instead of complicating things so much, let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine two totally fictional characters, Demetrius and Mickey. Both are the same age but Demetrius didn’t understand the CDC exercise guidelines and does very little exercise. His VO2max was measured to be very low and his BMI is probably in the high 20s. Mickey does a lot of exercise and his Vo2max is very high. His BMI is in the low 20s.

    One day both Demetrius and Mickey are driving on the same road in opposite directions. Unfortunately, Demetrius is very distracted that day because he is giving a lecture on quantum mechanics to a passenger in his car who happens to be a particle physicist. This causes their cars to crash head-on. The physicist only receives minor injuries but both Demetrius and Mickey are rushed in comma to the same hospital where their vo2max measurements were taken.

    It has been a very busy day at the hospital with a new outbreak of Covid so only one IC bed is available. The doctors examine both patients and it’s not clear whose injuries are worse so they have to decide which of the two to put in the IC bed and which one to sedate based only on their medical records. It’s a tragic decision but, being aware of the literature published on the CDC website and studies like Laukannen et al, they decide that they have more chances of saving a life by sending Mickey to IC.

    What exactly would you say to these doctors to convince them that they should try to save Demetrius instead?

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Mikel

    Helena Hounds Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgUazT4prrc

  375. @Mikel
    @Dmitry


    Why is this a problem with your claims that the direction of causation is “modifying upwards V02 max -> reduce longevity”.
     
    LOL. It's not my claim. It's just a claim by reputable experts that I find no reason to dispute and you have written their claim backwards. How can I have any worthwhile discussion with you if you are still confused about what the main issue in the discussion is?

    This is the medical establishment only recommends avoiding what we would call physical inactivity. I’m not sure why you believe I am “debating them”.
     
    Since you also seem unable to understand what the expressions "at least" and "for substantial health benefits" mean (from the HHS guidelines that I posted for you) let's give you an easier to understand recommendation straight from the CDC:

    "For Even Greater Health Benefits
    If you go beyond 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity activity, or 75 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity activity or an equivalent combination, you’ll gain even more health benefits."

    https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/adults/index.htm

    Is this clear enough?


    YouTube influencers? PhD in sports science?
     
    No, what you yourself call the medical establishment. Also from directly the CDC website:

    "Athletes aged 55-80 years who engage in regular endurance training experience less decline in VO2max than comparably aged persons who are more sedentary (13). These athletes may also reduce risks for chronic disease by maintaining normal body weight, blood pressure, glucose tolerance, and lipoprotein lipid levels (13-14)"

    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001482.htm

    Adjusted for age and removing people who died after 10 years, the V02 max is inversely correlated with mortality.
     

    NO. Read it all over again.

    I could have done PhD in sports science in the University of Gran Canaria and lived next to the beach.
     
    No sorry, you obviously couldn't have done that and you are showing the futility of debating a topic with someone who has no clue. The Canary Islands are not exactly known for their Ivy League colleges but they are the perfect place to dedicate one's life to sports physiology for a well known combination of reasons. Due to their subtropical climate and the existence of high altitude sports facilities, it's the favorite place for lots of European athletes and their coaches to spend their winter training season. A good part of European sports physiology research is regularly conducted there.

    It doesn’t follow exercise would extend longevity beyond the age when almost all selection was removed.
     
    It follows perfectly well. Humans evolved to be omnivorous so if you try to follow a herbivore diet you are quite likely to die earlier. Humans also evolved to do vigorous exercise in nature so leading a life with no exercise will equally reduce your longevity.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/how-to-die-in-good-health
     
    Good article about Attia. The author seems to have similar misgivings to mine about him, as I have explained a couple of times to Emil. But he should have probably left out the criticisms that come from Attia's own confession of his personal struggles.

    The software shows non-random inverse correlation, it doesn’t provide more than this. The two papers I read unfortunately only have to support causation direction the adjusting for extraneous variables and continuing robust correlation beyond 10 year mortality.
     
    This type of phrases are indigestible. Leaving grammar and syntax aside, you just seem to be trying to complicate a very simple issue with language that you must think sounds intelligent but you're just insisting that ingesting mercury helps fish grow.

    Instead of complicating things so much, let's do a thought experiment. Let's imagine two totally fictional characters, Demetrius and Mickey. Both are the same age but Demetrius didn't understand the CDC exercise guidelines and does very little exercise. His VO2max was measured to be very low and his BMI is probably in the high 20s. Mickey does a lot of exercise and his Vo2max is very high. His BMI is in the low 20s.

    One day both Demetrius and Mickey are driving on the same road in opposite directions. Unfortunately, Demetrius is very distracted that day because he is giving a lecture on quantum mechanics to a passenger in his car who happens to be a particle physicist. This causes their cars to crash head-on. The physicist only receives minor injuries but both Demetrius and Mickey are rushed in comma to the same hospital where their vo2max measurements were taken.

    It has been a very busy day at the hospital with a new outbreak of Covid so only one IC bed is available. The doctors examine both patients and it's not clear whose injuries are worse so they have to decide which of the two to put in the IC bed and which one to sedate based only on their medical records. It's a tragic decision but, being aware of the literature published on the CDC website and studies like Laukannen et al, they decide that they have more chances of saving a life by sending Mickey to IC.

    What exactly would you say to these doctors to convince them that they should try to save Demetrius instead?

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    Helena Hounds Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

  376. @AnonfromTN
    @A123

    Are you aware that kosher and halal means essentially the same: no pork, no seafood except fish, etc.? Of course, that’s because Mohammad aped these restrictions from Jewish religion. Neither Jews nor Muslims use face drawings for the same reason. So, Judeo-Islamic makes a lot more sense than Judeo-Christian. Sorry to point that out to a nut.

    Replies: @A123, @Mikhail

    Muslims can mix meat and dairy unlike kosher.

  377. @Mikhail
    @Beckow

    French have noticeably backed down a bit, which includes its ambassador attending Putin's inauguration. Ditto what's now being said of the Kerch bridge, with the acknowledgement that it hasn't been a weapons transfer route, making cover for failed attempts to destroy it. Not that this last matter is foolproof.

    The stated goal was to recover all of Ukraine's Commie drawn boundary. Now the hokey endgame spin will be the collective West prevented Russia from taking all of Ukraine, while adding Finland and Sweden to NATO.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …Now the hokey endgame spin will be the collective West prevented Russia from taking all of Ukraine, while adding Finland and Sweden to NATO.

    Loss is a loss and the people who planned this whole Nato-in-Ukraine fiasco will know. Obsession with face-saving and blabbing endlessly about Finland will not fix that hurt. This was a concrete, ambitious plan to corner Russia by using Ukraine – if it had worked it would dramatically strengthen the Western dominance of the world. Conversely if it fails it will weaken the West – and no hokey face-saving or saying “ok, we lost but it took 3 or 4 years“.

    There is nothing funnier (and sadder) then the claim that Russia planned for a 2.5 week war – it is the lowest form of self-deception combined with irrelevant lying. Why would that matter?

    On the bright side, NY Times today flatly described the 2023 Ukie offensive as failure. So they are making progress – it will tale AP another 6 months to admit it if ever.

  378. QCIC says:
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    The guy had been eating peanuts and one of the Indians stuck his hand in that bag of peanuts and began eating them.
     



    https://youtu.be/UQlb_sxzUNY?si=0RnUCoHfb4LJMNXd

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

    In Africa they steal the oil from utility transformers to fry street food. China supposedly has “street oil” which is so ridiculous I can’t really believe it exists. I guess people gotta eat so they can…make more people.

    I used to buy a few prepackaged Indian food items at the store (USA). I gave it up when I noticed they are actually made in India.

    In the US, our food comes straight from the chemical factory to the not-so hungry diner. I’ve heard that’s a lot better 😉

  379. QCIC says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Shoigu is part and parcel of the Yeltsin’s old guard, the inner circle, the family as it used to be called (семья). The reason is that he helped crush the 1993 uprising by providing guns to the pro-Yeltsin death squads. He also sold all the gear that was stocked in the Civil Defence reserve and that money might have been invested in the Yeltsin’s family business. As I wrote earlier, he was also involved in heroin smuggling with the Ministry of Emergencies aviation. And his Ministry of Emergencies had also an armed militarized force, that served as a kind of potential security guarantee to Yumashev and Dyachenko (Yeltsin’s daughter). As I wrote in my reply to Mr Owen, Shoigu is a Knight of Malta. The Knights are (one of the) connection(s) between the British Kleptocracy and the Bank of Vatican. Shoigu was involved with money laundering on a massive scale, billions of dollars. That is why he is still around. Shoigu’s mother is of Jewish descent. His dad is Tuvin and Tuvins are the Siberian equivalent of the Chechens. Shoigu is an uber-Noviop. Compared to Putin, Shoigu is a « senior » member of the Kleptocratic Noviop regime.

    https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mnalex2002/19042916/52144/52144_900.jpg

    Shoigu in 1993 at the entrance of the massacred parliament.

    Replies: @QCIC

    Thanks.

    “Shoigu’s mother is of Jewish descent”, I thought you might have been implying this connection with your original comment but was not sure:

    So does Putin put up with Shoigu or vice-versa? Or are they just partners in crime?

    What do you think of “Putin’s” ridiculous mansion which Navalny liked to squawk about, what do you make of that?

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @QCIC

    Follow-up confirmed considerable doubt that it's Putin's mansion.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Philip Owen

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Putin has been selected as Yeltsin’s replacement by the inner circle after being introduced by Chubais to Berezovskyi. Shoigu was part of the inner circle for a few years before. Berezovskyi was the one who suggested that Putin would make a good choice to guarantee the future family’s interests. Yeltsin was sick of drinking (probably also stress and bad conscience after 1993) and a replacement was needed.

    Putin has shown that he was very loyal to his boss in Peter when Sobchak has been nearly put in jail for corruption and embezzlement. Putin organized his escape to France. He had contacts in the French foreign affairs ministry and probably in the French special services as well. There was the affair of the kidnapping in Chechnya of the French spies parading as Doctors Without Borders in 1995 that was resolved through the mob, Leon’ka Macintosh later received a honorary French citizenship and a Légion d’honneur for his help.

    Putin had excellent connections to the mob. He was actually the one who helped a lot to put some order into the terrible turf wars between mobsters in banditsky Leningrad in the early 90ies. Perhaps he had connections to Leon’ka Makintosh through Barsukov or some other mobster? I’m just guessing here. Bottom line, he helped Sobchak go into exile for a time instead of going to prison. And in 1999 Yeltsin’s inner circle was afraid that they’d be taken to prison. So Putin was in a sense an insurance. He actually proved very loyal.

    And yeah the mansion is his. Typical Noviop chic, as the Russian saying goes : чтобы смотрелось богато (it has to look rich). Speaking of Naval’ny, that Pevchikh chick (pun intended for Russian speakers) has published a three part series on Putin’s raise to power. I lived long enough to amusingly agree with what Naval’ny and his circle now finally say.

    It is exactly what the nationalists said for decades starting with the 1993 coup against the Russian democracy and constitution by Yeltsin. But of course, Pevchikh doesn’t talk about 1993. Her Western handlers would disapprove of her bringing back memories of their support to the overthrow of the first and last Russian democratically elected parliament. Anyway, here is the first part of the series, it has English subs:

    https://youtu.be/-_wMvLpOnPQ?feature=shared

    In prison, Naval’ny finally understood something that people of my political (philosophical?) inclinations understood in 1992 already. That Russia has been stolen from its people by a Noviop cabal. We understood it even before Galkovsky coined the Noviop term. And then Naval’ny died in prison, just like Tesak who was first put in prison because Navalny snitched on him after Tesak and his nationalist buddies crushed a get together in a posh Moscow bar for Noviop golden youth. Tesak got murdered, Navalny died probably of health problems, but they both died in prison. I think there is karma in that for Navalny. Snitching isn’t honourable.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  380. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Thanks.

    "Shoigu’s mother is of Jewish descent", I thought you might have been implying this connection with your original comment but was not sure:

    So does Putin put up with Shoigu or vice-versa? Or are they just partners in crime?

    What do you think of "Putin's" ridiculous mansion which Navalny liked to squawk about, what do you make of that?

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Bashibuzuk

    Follow-up confirmed considerable doubt that it’s Putin’s mansion.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mikhail

    Not according to Bashibuzuk, who is clearly no Putler ass-lick like you are:


    And yeah the mansion is his. Typical Noviop chic, as the Russian saying goes : чтобы смотрелось богато (it has to look rich).
     

    Replies: @Mikhail

    , @Philip Owen
    @Mikhail

    Putin's daily schedule doesn't leave a lot of time for mansions other than official residences of the President. I vote for an FSB holiday camp for senior officers. I was once in Green Khosta near Sochi. The FSB had a holiday camp there with another alleged Putin's Palace being built nearby. If Putin wanted it personally access would be given. There was something complicated about crab fishing rights there too. John Helmer covered the story. I supplied some thoughts about crab fishing that I have forgotten but essentially the surrounding sea is the best crab fishing in Crimea.

  381. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW


    (btw, in Baltic movies, which can be very slow, there are a lot of silent moments).
     

    Makes me wonder about Finnish movies - don't believe I have ever seen one. But one might guess they are the quietest or perhaps not.

    With Japan, I think it is two fold. You have a more introverted population, then you have anime, which is created by more introverted people.

    I think there should be moments of quiet in every film. Sometimes it should be about the composition of the frame.

    this was a shock when I came back to the US and, coming from Europe, you immediately see that the levels of violence and its refinement, is much higher
     
    I feel like it is a bit broader than the US. I have seen some foreign movies that I thought were really violent, from Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia. I wonder whether the US is setting the trend, or whatever it is some kind of convergence.

    he ended up killing, with his bare hands, both of his opponents who had knives (yea right, eye roll).
     
    Yes, a knife attacker might be more than a match for a man with a gun, unless he was a quickdraw. I wish Bashi expanded on his criticisms, but it has been a long time since I saw the movie too.

    Replies: @LatW

    Makes me wonder about Finnish movies – don’t believe I have ever seen one. But one might guess they are the quietest or perhaps not.

    Yes, for them silence is a mode of communication, and there are similarities with the Japanese (both are very introvert). But I do recall that most of the older movies I’ve watched have been much, much slower, with longer pauses (and not just for the purpose of suspense, but just a lot of stillness… probably would be considered “too slow” for many) than the contemporary mainstream movies (not independent art films).

    As to Finnish movies, there is Aki Kaurismäki (he has a minimalist style with a lot of still shots). Of course, he’s a hopeless leftie, as so many of them are.

    There are two very good Winter War movies – Talvisota (about the Winter War) and The Unknown Soldier (about the Continuation war). The first one is well known across the whole Baltic region (watched it years ago), the other one is new (and the highest ever budget Finnish movie). And you can find both on YouTube (with English subtitles).

    [MORE]

    Of course, one should take a break from all these war movies (and war themes in general, although there is a little bit of love in The Unknown Soldier). So I watched a romantic movie called The Wait – it’s about a love triangle, involving a married couple and their friend (so it’s got a questionable, even cringeworthy theme, however, it has some good psychological moments, if one can keep an open minded, and a very beautiful, idyllic northern setting) – but probably not your cup of tea. Remember watching an old black and white Finnish movie, about a woman on the country side, that I really enjoyed, but can’t remember the title.

    With some of these movies, there are a lot of references to that particular culture, that only the natives understand and that inspires emotion in them, even if one can find universal themes.

    Do you like Lars von Trier? Was deeply shaken by Antichrist, borderline shocked by parts of it, but found it highly captivating.

    My heart is yearning for something beautiful and deep, without all kinds of crazy shock value, so still looking.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW


    Do you like Lars von Trier?
     
    Heard someone once praise Europa, but I have never seen one of his movies.

    Honestly, it is kind of hard for me to watch anything related to WW2. I can do it if it is another context and I take a light attitude to it - like a Korean or Chinese film. But particularly the war in Europe is kind of hard for me to stomach.

    It has been propagandized ad nauseum (am talking about really dumb stuff, documentaries which seem designed for political ends) that I immediately fear any treatment will be more propaganda - they have even fused it together with WWI, so the theme of evil Germans leaks backward as well as forward.

    I understand that film with Churchill had a scene promoting race-mixing.

    The one WW2 film I recall seeing that did not seem to be overtly political was this one:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_White

    I think it actually was political very slightly - comparitively - but in a forgivable way. But the overall message I imagined was that Euros should not be fighting each other.

    Perhaps, something Finnish would be more tolerable than the general.

    So I watched a romantic movie called The Wait – it’s about a love triangle, involving a married couple
     
    I can tolerate a romance, but am too puritanical to enjoy one of this type. Have noticed that there seems to be a lot of them. If I controlled censorship, I would honestly probably ban them.

    There seems to be this division. Youth romance which tends to the purer - though often isn't. And older, more jaded stuff which is about already married people or goes towards cynicism.

    Would rather be a supercentenarian watching the youth stuff than the latter stuff. Though to be sure, much of it is also intolerable.

    One of the priorities of any censorship should be to make sure morally hygienic romances are produced for women and girls. It is not necessarily something easy to do - it is hard to fit all the right elements, like pro-natalism or family, but it should be done.

    Replies: @LatW

    , @Mr. Hack
    @LatW

    Aren't Finnish rates of depression and suicide way off the scales? I remember once reading about how one individual would force himself to visit the local town dance club, just so that he could get out of the house and socialize a bit..

  382. Bashibuzuk says:
    @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Thanks.

    "Shoigu’s mother is of Jewish descent", I thought you might have been implying this connection with your original comment but was not sure:

    So does Putin put up with Shoigu or vice-versa? Or are they just partners in crime?

    What do you think of "Putin's" ridiculous mansion which Navalny liked to squawk about, what do you make of that?

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Bashibuzuk

    Putin has been selected as Yeltsin’s replacement by the inner circle after being introduced by Chubais to Berezovskyi. Shoigu was part of the inner circle for a few years before. Berezovskyi was the one who suggested that Putin would make a good choice to guarantee the future family’s interests. Yeltsin was sick of drinking (probably also stress and bad conscience after 1993) and a replacement was needed.

    Putin has shown that he was very loyal to his boss in Peter when Sobchak has been nearly put in jail for corruption and embezzlement. Putin organized his escape to France. He had contacts in the French foreign affairs ministry and probably in the French special services as well. There was the affair of the kidnapping in Chechnya of the French spies parading as Doctors Without Borders in 1995 that was resolved through the mob, Leon’ka Macintosh later received a honorary French citizenship and a Légion d’honneur for his help.

    Putin had excellent connections to the mob. He was actually the one who helped a lot to put some order into the terrible turf wars between mobsters in banditsky Leningrad in the early 90ies. Perhaps he had connections to Leon’ka Makintosh through Barsukov or some other mobster? I’m just guessing here. Bottom line, he helped Sobchak go into exile for a time instead of going to prison. And in 1999 Yeltsin’s inner circle was afraid that they’d be taken to prison. So Putin was in a sense an insurance. He actually proved very loyal.

    And yeah the mansion is his. Typical Noviop chic, as the Russian saying goes : чтобы смотрелось богато (it has to look rich). Speaking of Naval’ny, that Pevchikh chick (pun intended for Russian speakers) has published a three part series on Putin’s raise to power. I lived long enough to amusingly agree with what Naval’ny and his circle now finally say.

    It is exactly what the nationalists said for decades starting with the 1993 coup against the Russian democracy and constitution by Yeltsin. But of course, Pevchikh doesn’t talk about 1993. Her Western handlers would disapprove of her bringing back memories of their support to the overthrow of the first and last Russian democratically elected parliament. Anyway, here is the first part of the series, it has English subs:

    In prison, Naval’ny finally understood something that people of my political (philosophical?) inclinations understood in 1992 already. That Russia has been stolen from its people by a Noviop cabal. We understood it even before Galkovsky coined the Noviop term. And then Naval’ny died in prison, just like Tesak who was first put in prison because Navalny snitched on him after Tesak and his nationalist buddies crushed a get together in a posh Moscow bar for Noviop golden youth. Tesak got murdered, Navalny died probably of health problems, but they both died in prison. I think there is karma in that for Navalny. Snitching isn’t honourable.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    This is the kind of color commentary that only you bring to the table here. This blog becomes pretty dull whenever you take your 6-12 month hiatuses.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  383. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    Those figures ARE into 2024. Budget revenues in March 2024 were double those in March 2023.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Thanks for this information. It does seem to temper (if not contradict) the information included in the “Joe Blog’s video that I posted above. I’ll need some more time to try and square this information with Joe’s pronouncements of doom and gloom for Gasprom. I’ll keep you posted if I can do this…

  384. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Putin has been selected as Yeltsin’s replacement by the inner circle after being introduced by Chubais to Berezovskyi. Shoigu was part of the inner circle for a few years before. Berezovskyi was the one who suggested that Putin would make a good choice to guarantee the future family’s interests. Yeltsin was sick of drinking (probably also stress and bad conscience after 1993) and a replacement was needed.

    Putin has shown that he was very loyal to his boss in Peter when Sobchak has been nearly put in jail for corruption and embezzlement. Putin organized his escape to France. He had contacts in the French foreign affairs ministry and probably in the French special services as well. There was the affair of the kidnapping in Chechnya of the French spies parading as Doctors Without Borders in 1995 that was resolved through the mob, Leon’ka Macintosh later received a honorary French citizenship and a Légion d’honneur for his help.

    Putin had excellent connections to the mob. He was actually the one who helped a lot to put some order into the terrible turf wars between mobsters in banditsky Leningrad in the early 90ies. Perhaps he had connections to Leon’ka Makintosh through Barsukov or some other mobster? I’m just guessing here. Bottom line, he helped Sobchak go into exile for a time instead of going to prison. And in 1999 Yeltsin’s inner circle was afraid that they’d be taken to prison. So Putin was in a sense an insurance. He actually proved very loyal.

    And yeah the mansion is his. Typical Noviop chic, as the Russian saying goes : чтобы смотрелось богато (it has to look rich). Speaking of Naval’ny, that Pevchikh chick (pun intended for Russian speakers) has published a three part series on Putin’s raise to power. I lived long enough to amusingly agree with what Naval’ny and his circle now finally say.

    It is exactly what the nationalists said for decades starting with the 1993 coup against the Russian democracy and constitution by Yeltsin. But of course, Pevchikh doesn’t talk about 1993. Her Western handlers would disapprove of her bringing back memories of their support to the overthrow of the first and last Russian democratically elected parliament. Anyway, here is the first part of the series, it has English subs:

    https://youtu.be/-_wMvLpOnPQ?feature=shared

    In prison, Naval’ny finally understood something that people of my political (philosophical?) inclinations understood in 1992 already. That Russia has been stolen from its people by a Noviop cabal. We understood it even before Galkovsky coined the Noviop term. And then Naval’ny died in prison, just like Tesak who was first put in prison because Navalny snitched on him after Tesak and his nationalist buddies crushed a get together in a posh Moscow bar for Noviop golden youth. Tesak got murdered, Navalny died probably of health problems, but they both died in prison. I think there is karma in that for Navalny. Snitching isn’t honourable.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    This is the kind of color commentary that only you bring to the table here. This blog becomes pretty dull whenever you take your 6-12 month hiatuses.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    A minor detail, if I remember correctly Лёнька Макинтош the вор в законе who got the Légion d’honneur and the French citizenship for the services rendus à la république, was born in Kiev.

    I don’t know if he is still alive today, but he lived in Cannes and was one of the people who financed the famous Orthodox Church there, the one which was built by and for the visiting members of the Russian Imperial family. He was a passionate collector of ancient icons and was also an Israeli citizen before being stripped of citizenship for his prominent role in the Russian mob in the 80ies and 90ies.

    If I am not mistaken, he opened the first private bank in Moscow after the fall of communism, he was involved in Privat Bank with the banker Smolenskyi, one of the major oligarchs in Yeltsin’s times that did a lot for Yeltsin’s (fraudulent) re-election in 1996. Smolenskyi is supposedly quietly living his old days in Vienna.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael_the_Archangel_Church_(Cannes)

    https://youtu.be/O5C6wkS45FA?feature=shared

    An outstanding individual…

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Emil Nikola Richard

  385. @Mikhail
    @QCIC

    Follow-up confirmed considerable doubt that it's Putin's mansion.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Philip Owen

    Not according to Bashibuzuk, who is clearly no Putler ass-lick like you are:

    And yeah the mansion is his. Typical Noviop chic, as the Russian saying goes : чтобы смотрелось богато (it has to look rich).

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Mr. Hack

    He says he isn't a svidomite like you as well. As for the "Putin's palace" hoopla, here's one of numerous links:

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/team-navalnys-46824272

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  386. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    This is the kind of color commentary that only you bring to the table here. This blog becomes pretty dull whenever you take your 6-12 month hiatuses.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    A minor detail, if I remember correctly Лёнька Макинтош the вор в законе who got the Légion d’honneur and the French citizenship for the services rendus à la république, was born in Kiev.

    I don’t know if he is still alive today, but he lived in Cannes and was one of the people who financed the famous Orthodox Church there, the one which was built by and for the visiting members of the Russian Imperial family. He was a passionate collector of ancient icons and was also an Israeli citizen before being stripped of citizenship for his prominent role in the Russian mob in the 80ies and 90ies.

    If I am not mistaken, he opened the first private bank in Moscow after the fall of communism, he was involved in Privat Bank with the banker Smolenskyi, one of the major oligarchs in Yeltsin’s times that did a lot for Yeltsin’s (fraudulent) re-election in 1996. Smolenskyi is supposedly quietly living his old days in Vienna.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael_the_Archangel_Church_(Cannes)

    An outstanding individual…

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I think that there are more French Legionnaires with a Ukrainian background (perhaps Russians too) than one might think possible. I knew one old Ukrainian that was a member of either the Nachtigall or Roland Division that ended up fighting for the French Legion in Indo China. It was a destination for many poor souls that wished to "wash away their past sins" and then reemerge back into society "born again". Of course, a lot of my musings about him are of my own device, as I never probed into the man's private life and affairs.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    St Michael churches are temples to Mars / Ares. Everybody's got a big one. That's what Glastonbery is. Ancient war god cult complex.

    You can get a swell resin Mars statue for your living room off Amazon for like fifty bucks.

    https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qo0b3q3bL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  387. @LatW
    @songbird


    Makes me wonder about Finnish movies – don’t believe I have ever seen one. But one might guess they are the quietest or perhaps not.
     
    Yes, for them silence is a mode of communication, and there are similarities with the Japanese (both are very introvert). But I do recall that most of the older movies I've watched have been much, much slower, with longer pauses (and not just for the purpose of suspense, but just a lot of stillness... probably would be considered "too slow" for many) than the contemporary mainstream movies (not independent art films).

    As to Finnish movies, there is Aki Kaurismäki (he has a minimalist style with a lot of still shots). Of course, he's a hopeless leftie, as so many of them are.

    There are two very good Winter War movies - Talvisota (about the Winter War) and The Unknown Soldier (about the Continuation war). The first one is well known across the whole Baltic region (watched it years ago), the other one is new (and the highest ever budget Finnish movie). And you can find both on YouTube (with English subtitles).

    Of course, one should take a break from all these war movies (and war themes in general, although there is a little bit of love in The Unknown Soldier). So I watched a romantic movie called The Wait - it's about a love triangle, involving a married couple and their friend (so it's got a questionable, even cringeworthy theme, however, it has some good psychological moments, if one can keep an open minded, and a very beautiful, idyllic northern setting) - but probably not your cup of tea. Remember watching an old black and white Finnish movie, about a woman on the country side, that I really enjoyed, but can't remember the title.

    With some of these movies, there are a lot of references to that particular culture, that only the natives understand and that inspires emotion in them, even if one can find universal themes.

    Do you like Lars von Trier? Was deeply shaken by Antichrist, borderline shocked by parts of it, but found it highly captivating.

    My heart is yearning for something beautiful and deep, without all kinds of crazy shock value, so still looking.

    Replies: @songbird, @Mr. Hack

    Do you like Lars von Trier?

    Heard someone once praise Europa, but I have never seen one of his movies.

    [MORE]

    Honestly, it is kind of hard for me to watch anything related to WW2. I can do it if it is another context and I take a light attitude to it – like a Korean or Chinese film. But particularly the war in Europe is kind of hard for me to stomach.

    It has been propagandized ad nauseum (am talking about really dumb stuff, documentaries which seem designed for political ends) that I immediately fear any treatment will be more propaganda – they have even fused it together with WWI, so the theme of evil Germans leaks backward as well as forward.

    I understand that film with Churchill had a scene promoting race-mixing.

    The one WW2 film I recall seeing that did not seem to be overtly political was this one:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_White

    I think it actually was political very slightly – comparitively – but in a forgivable way. But the overall message I imagined was that Euros should not be fighting each other.

    Perhaps, something Finnish would be more tolerable than the general.

    So I watched a romantic movie called The Wait – it’s about a love triangle, involving a married couple

    I can tolerate a romance, but am too puritanical to enjoy one of this type. Have noticed that there seems to be a lot of them. If I controlled censorship, I would honestly probably ban them.

    There seems to be this division. Youth romance which tends to the purer – though often isn’t. And older, more jaded stuff which is about already married people or goes towards cynicism.

    Would rather be a supercentenarian watching the youth stuff than the latter stuff. Though to be sure, much of it is also intolerable.

    One of the priorities of any censorship should be to make sure morally hygienic romances are produced for women and girls. It is not necessarily something easy to do – it is hard to fit all the right elements, like pro-natalism or family, but it should be done.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    Heard someone once praise Europa, but I have never seen one of his movies.
     
    Not even Dogville? It was not bad. Haven't seen Europa, but might be interesting (you can see some of his visual signature there that is the same in other movies). But one has to be careful with these (also, his paternity is not clear).

    It has been propagandized ad nauseum (am talking about really dumb stuff, documentaries which seem designed for political ends) that I immediately fear any treatment will be more propaganda
     
    I'd be hard pressed to think of any American or Russian/Soviet made WWII movie that is not heavily propagandized (in the case of Hollywood, to the point of farce sometimes).

    Anyway, didn't mean to bring up this topic, even on this date, but the Euro made ones are slightly different, as they are meant first for the home audience and not to propagandize the world. Of course, there will be some politics even in these (these Finnish ones are interesting in the way that they treat the "average soldier" who is often heroic, typically a salt of the earth guy, in opposition to the military leadership and all outside powers). Anyway, didn't mean to push this topic, just wanted to run a few titles by you of movies that are very well known in Europe, since you said you hadn't seen any Finnish ones.

    Perhaps, something Finnish would be more tolerable than the general.
     
    These are very different from American and Russian made ones. But to be fully honest, I'm not sure that those who have not fought the Soviet Union are even able to relate to all the nuances there.

    If I controlled censorship, I would honestly probably ban them.
     
    These are just about the complexity of life, depending on how you treat these movies - as simply a description of the culture that is already in place and the social changes that have already transpired or as an attempt to change culture.

    One of the priorities of any censorship should be to make sure morally hygienic romances are produced for women and girls.
     
    Honestly, women and girls don't really need all these movies because for them, romance lives in their heads anyway. Movies don't really have that much power to change women's lives and their internal world.

    Anyway, I found one that's somewhat interesting called The White Reindeer (from 1952). It has some trippy visuals.

    Btw, there are stereotypes in American movies not just about Russians, but other ethnicities as well.

    Replies: @songbird

  388. @LatW
    @songbird


    Makes me wonder about Finnish movies – don’t believe I have ever seen one. But one might guess they are the quietest or perhaps not.
     
    Yes, for them silence is a mode of communication, and there are similarities with the Japanese (both are very introvert). But I do recall that most of the older movies I've watched have been much, much slower, with longer pauses (and not just for the purpose of suspense, but just a lot of stillness... probably would be considered "too slow" for many) than the contemporary mainstream movies (not independent art films).

    As to Finnish movies, there is Aki Kaurismäki (he has a minimalist style with a lot of still shots). Of course, he's a hopeless leftie, as so many of them are.

    There are two very good Winter War movies - Talvisota (about the Winter War) and The Unknown Soldier (about the Continuation war). The first one is well known across the whole Baltic region (watched it years ago), the other one is new (and the highest ever budget Finnish movie). And you can find both on YouTube (with English subtitles).

    Of course, one should take a break from all these war movies (and war themes in general, although there is a little bit of love in The Unknown Soldier). So I watched a romantic movie called The Wait - it's about a love triangle, involving a married couple and their friend (so it's got a questionable, even cringeworthy theme, however, it has some good psychological moments, if one can keep an open minded, and a very beautiful, idyllic northern setting) - but probably not your cup of tea. Remember watching an old black and white Finnish movie, about a woman on the country side, that I really enjoyed, but can't remember the title.

    With some of these movies, there are a lot of references to that particular culture, that only the natives understand and that inspires emotion in them, even if one can find universal themes.

    Do you like Lars von Trier? Was deeply shaken by Antichrist, borderline shocked by parts of it, but found it highly captivating.

    My heart is yearning for something beautiful and deep, without all kinds of crazy shock value, so still looking.

    Replies: @songbird, @Mr. Hack

    Aren’t Finnish rates of depression and suicide way off the scales? I remember once reading about how one individual would force himself to visit the local town dance club, just so that he could get out of the house and socialize a bit..

  389. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    A minor detail, if I remember correctly Лёнька Макинтош the вор в законе who got the Légion d’honneur and the French citizenship for the services rendus à la république, was born in Kiev.

    I don’t know if he is still alive today, but he lived in Cannes and was one of the people who financed the famous Orthodox Church there, the one which was built by and for the visiting members of the Russian Imperial family. He was a passionate collector of ancient icons and was also an Israeli citizen before being stripped of citizenship for his prominent role in the Russian mob in the 80ies and 90ies.

    If I am not mistaken, he opened the first private bank in Moscow after the fall of communism, he was involved in Privat Bank with the banker Smolenskyi, one of the major oligarchs in Yeltsin’s times that did a lot for Yeltsin’s (fraudulent) re-election in 1996. Smolenskyi is supposedly quietly living his old days in Vienna.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael_the_Archangel_Church_(Cannes)

    https://youtu.be/O5C6wkS45FA?feature=shared

    An outstanding individual…

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Emil Nikola Richard

    I think that there are more French Legionnaires with a Ukrainian background (perhaps Russians too) than one might think possible. I knew one old Ukrainian that was a member of either the Nachtigall or Roland Division that ended up fighting for the French Legion in Indo China. It was a destination for many poor souls that wished to “wash away their past sins” and then reemerge back into society “born again”. Of course, a lot of my musings about him are of my own device, as I never probed into the man’s private life and affairs.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

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

    It’s not the same as Légion étrangère.

  390. @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I think that there are more French Legionnaires with a Ukrainian background (perhaps Russians too) than one might think possible. I knew one old Ukrainian that was a member of either the Nachtigall or Roland Division that ended up fighting for the French Legion in Indo China. It was a destination for many poor souls that wished to "wash away their past sins" and then reemerge back into society "born again". Of course, a lot of my musings about him are of my own device, as I never probed into the man's private life and affairs.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

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

    It’s not the same as Légion étrangère.

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
  391. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Mr. Hack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnW2shfEH4

    Don't the Ukrainians have barns to keep their horses in?

    Ha ha just kidding.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    What mythical feats of strength! And all before the advent of protein drinks and health clubs/gyms that today litter the landscape. 🙂

  392. china-russia-all-the-way says:

    Hip hop night at packed club in Kiev this Friday. Why would anyone go to the frontlines when rich kids can evade duty and party in front the faces of the men who serve and die?

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6q_VKpNomb/

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @china-russia-all-the-way

    Hip hop night at packed club in Kiev this Friday. Why would anyone go to the frontlines when rich kids can evade duty and party in front the faces of the men who serve and die?

    You don't think there are nightly parties of Russian rich kids in Kazakhstan?

    Why should the Russian poor go to the front and die when the rich kids ran across the border to wait it out?

    Maybe you missed that over 200k Russian men simply left:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-yX7ZP6gQ

    This happens in every war.

    The wealthy cheer the war while hiding their own sons.

    Putin's Hebrew Dr. No is hiding a male model son in London:
    https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-putin-allys-son-dodging-draft-modelling-london-1781618

    Still waiting for Anglin to cover Putin's propagandist. Gosh it almost seems like he avoids any of Putin's Jewish connections. Anglin will do a hundred posts mentioning Blinken but Putin's Jewish propagandist who hides a male model son..........that's different.

    , @AP
    @china-russia-all-the-way

    Did you know that dancehalls were packed during World War II, in which a higher portion of people died than in this war?

    https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2019/10/02/dance-in-the-second-world-war/

    Even the Royal Opera House was turned into a giant dance hall.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/61/a2553761.shtml#:~:text=A%20Morale%20Booster,records%2C%20sometimes%20only%20a%20piano.

    A Morale Booster

    Today's generation have no idea what part the dance halls played in keeping up morale during the war. Every town and village had a hall where dancing could take place. The bigger dance halls had orchestras, the smaller ones had a three piece band or records, sometimes only a piano.

  393. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    A minor detail, if I remember correctly Лёнька Макинтош the вор в законе who got the Légion d’honneur and the French citizenship for the services rendus à la république, was born in Kiev.

    I don’t know if he is still alive today, but he lived in Cannes and was one of the people who financed the famous Orthodox Church there, the one which was built by and for the visiting members of the Russian Imperial family. He was a passionate collector of ancient icons and was also an Israeli citizen before being stripped of citizenship for his prominent role in the Russian mob in the 80ies and 90ies.

    If I am not mistaken, he opened the first private bank in Moscow after the fall of communism, he was involved in Privat Bank with the banker Smolenskyi, one of the major oligarchs in Yeltsin’s times that did a lot for Yeltsin’s (fraudulent) re-election in 1996. Smolenskyi is supposedly quietly living his old days in Vienna.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael_the_Archangel_Church_(Cannes)

    https://youtu.be/O5C6wkS45FA?feature=shared

    An outstanding individual…

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Emil Nikola Richard

    St Michael churches are temples to Mars / Ares. Everybody’s got a big one. That’s what Glastonbery is. Ancient war god cult complex.

    You can get a swell resin Mars statue for your living room off Amazon for like fifty bucks.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    You can get a swell resin Mars statue
     
    Young people today don't use this kind of terminology! I still do and perhaps songbird does too?....
  394. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    St Michael churches are temples to Mars / Ares. Everybody's got a big one. That's what Glastonbery is. Ancient war god cult complex.

    You can get a swell resin Mars statue for your living room off Amazon for like fifty bucks.

    https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qo0b3q3bL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    You can get a swell resin Mars statue

    Young people today don’t use this kind of terminology! I still do and perhaps songbird does too?….

  395. Would really like to see the Mongols mount some peaceful expedition upon their small, hardy horses from Karakorum onward to the capitals of Europe, to discombulate the PoCs thereabouts, and warn of the coming hard times.

    BTW, I recently finished reading Tim Severin’s In Search of Genghis Khan. Enjoyed it, but it was a great disappointment to me that the expedition never made out of Mongolia. (They had planned to go to Paris and the Atlantic coast.)

    I don’t think Altan would have liked it though, as Severin twice claimed that travellers to Mongolia in the 1800s estimated that 90% of the pop has syphilis, (once at the beginning and once at the end – frankly I don’t see how it is possible) and he was very critical of the local Buddhist establishment of that time. (I.e. before the communists)

    But there were many interesting parts of the book, like the description of the shamaness (not Mongol), or the political environment of the time. (Tail end of USSR) Or how the leader of the expedition lost face by beating his horse. Or how many Mongols were fascinated by Severin’s Western saddle. Or some of the ancient drinking customs and taboos regarding fire. Or the many scripts that Mongols have gone through.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Roman von Ungern Sternberg's search for Genghis is more entertaining.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

    Replies: @songbird, @Bashibuzuk

    , @LatW
    @songbird


    Would really like to see the Mongols mount some peaceful expedition upon their small, hardy horses from Karakorum onward to the capitals of Europe, to discombulate the PoCs thereabouts, and warn of the coming hard times.
     
    Which Asian despot would you prefer to deal with the PoCs in the US?

    Have you watched Marco Polo (the Netflix series)? Not sure how accurate it is, but it portrays Kublai Khan, Genghis' grandson, in a somewhat flattering light. A strong fellow.

    Replies: @songbird

  396. @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    AfD should offer subsidies for pork schnitzel, bacon, and beer.
     
    I agree: I love pork, bacon, and good beer. I also love salo (salted or smoked pork fat). But your beloved Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork. So, pork cannot be a Judeo-Christian value. How can you say such non-kosher things?

    Replies: @A123, @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    I agree: I love pork, bacon, and good beer. I also love salo (salted or smoked pork fat). But your beloved Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork. So, pork cannot be a Judeo-Christian value. How can you say such non-kosher things?

    Christian Conservative Judeo-Christian values source the Old Testament selectively.

    Pork and shellfish? It’s fine. Let’s hit the buffet after church.
    Homosexuality? Banned in Leviticus.

    Also amusing that Judeo-Christian values definitely do not include Jews and Christians marrying each other.

    Judeo-Christian values = Living in the burbs, watching Fox News and having Ben Shapiro give a completely objective lesson on Israel.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
  397. @songbird
    Would really like to see the Mongols mount some peaceful expedition upon their small, hardy horses from Karakorum onward to the capitals of Europe, to discombulate the PoCs thereabouts, and warn of the coming hard times.

    BTW, I recently finished reading Tim Severin's In Search of Genghis Khan. Enjoyed it, but it was a great disappointment to me that the expedition never made out of Mongolia. (They had planned to go to Paris and the Atlantic coast.)

    I don't think Altan would have liked it though, as Severin twice claimed that travellers to Mongolia in the 1800s estimated that 90% of the pop has syphilis, (once at the beginning and once at the end - frankly I don't see how it is possible) and he was very critical of the local Buddhist establishment of that time. (I.e. before the communists)

    But there were many interesting parts of the book, like the description of the shamaness (not Mongol), or the political environment of the time. (Tail end of USSR) Or how the leader of the expedition lost face by beating his horse. Or how many Mongols were fascinated by Severin's Western saddle. Or some of the ancient drinking customs and taboos regarding fire. Or the many scripts that Mongols have gone through.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

    Roman von Ungern Sternberg’s search for Genghis is more entertaining.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    According to Severin, Ungern-Sternberg claimed to be Genghis reincarnated, and he implied that many lamas supported his claim, even though he was a Balt. (LatW and sudden death could also try?)

    @Mr. Hack
    Am not against using old vocab, but I fear I am too set in my patterns of speech.

    Replies: @sudden death

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Roman von Ungern Sternberg
     
    One of my favourite folk heroes.

    🙂

    BTW, speaking of Archangel Michael and warrior deities , I prefer the representation below for that archetype:

    https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/lord-manjushri-arya-nargajuna-and-the-naga-queen-ben-christian.jpg

    The flaming sword of transcendental wisdom burns demons into annihilated quanta. Only empty quantum fields remain where entities dwelled…

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  398. @Mikhail
    @AnonfromTN

    Kolbassa/kielbasa sucks without pork. Related is my dislike of kosher salami and baloney. On the other hand, all beef hot dogs are okay IMO.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Kolbassa/kielbasa sucks without pork. Related is my dislike of kosher salami and baloney. On the other hand, all beef hot dogs are okay IMO.

    All beef hot dogs are the only upside to having Kosher food available.

    In remote parts of America it’s often a choice between a Kosher dog like Nathan’s and Jim Bob’s multi-meat hot dogs.

    I shudder at how many White people not only feed their kids Bar S hog dogs but burn the shit out of them on the grill. If I get served a Bar S I thank the host and then feed it to the dog.

  399. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Roman von Ungern Sternberg's search for Genghis is more entertaining.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

    Replies: @songbird, @Bashibuzuk

    According to Severin, Ungern-Sternberg claimed to be Genghis reincarnated, and he implied that many lamas supported his claim, even though he was a Balt. (LatW and sudden death could also try?)


    Am not against using old vocab, but I fear I am too set in my patterns of speech.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @songbird


    even though he was a Balt
     
    Too lazy to check now, but IIRC he was Baltic born russified German noble, who barely had any significant connection to local ethnic native population, if strictly speaking about ethnicities/loyalties. Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth, but those aggressive/sadist genes probably made him very suitable/thriving in any chaotic warring environment.

    Replies: @songbird, @AnonfromTN

  400. @china-russia-all-the-way
    Hip hop night at packed club in Kiev this Friday. Why would anyone go to the frontlines when rich kids can evade duty and party in front the faces of the men who serve and die?

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6q_VKpNomb/

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP

    Hip hop night at packed club in Kiev this Friday. Why would anyone go to the frontlines when rich kids can evade duty and party in front the faces of the men who serve and die?

    You don’t think there are nightly parties of Russian rich kids in Kazakhstan?

    Why should the Russian poor go to the front and die when the rich kids ran across the border to wait it out?

    Maybe you missed that over 200k Russian men simply left:

    This happens in every war.

    The wealthy cheer the war while hiding their own sons.

    Putin’s Hebrew Dr. No is hiding a male model son in London:
    https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-putin-allys-son-dodging-draft-modelling-london-1781618

    Still waiting for Anglin to cover Putin’s propagandist. Gosh it almost seems like he avoids any of Putin’s Jewish connections. Anglin will do a hundred posts mentioning Blinken but Putin’s Jewish propagandist who hides a male model son……….that’s different.

  401. @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    I thought you were going for humour. I responded in kind.

    Were you attempting to be serious? Really? You do realize that everyone knows that your 2nd Pillar of Islam is distorting the truth.

     
    https://buseca.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/67727803_115317662913858_4516910913541286937_n.jpg
     

    Openly using Taqiyya deception to create strife between Judeo-Christians is core Islamic behaviour. Are you really that committed to placing your Anti-Christ Muhammad above Jesus?

    I am not sorry to point this out to an irrational fanatic, such as yourself, who hates Jesus.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    Openly using Taqiyya deception

    That is one of the things Mohammad aped from Jewish religion. Nothing ingenious.

    In general, Mohammad was not particularly creative. He shortened and translated into Arabic a number of Jewish stories (mostly from the Old Testament) and some Christian stories from the New Testament. His creativity did not go further than making all names (including Mary and Jesus) Arabic-sounding. His Allah is recognizably the same vicious and vindictive Jewish Yahve. He copied a lot of Jewish restrictions and customs: no pork, no seafood except fish, male circumcision, multiple wives, no depiction of people and animals in temples, subservient role of women who were not considered quite human, degrading separate place for women in Synagogue and Mosque, etc. There are some differences. He did not prohibit mixing dairy and meat. Prohibited wine, though. Soviet self-claimed Muslims said that vodka and beer are not prohibited by the Quran, and acted accordingly.

    Overall, Islam in both dogma and practice is a lot closer to Judaism than to Christianity. Christianity was significantly mellowed down from unashamedly genocidal Jewish teachings by humanistic teachings of Jesus (e.g., Sabbath is for men, not men for Sabbath, etc.) and by prominent role of two women in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene.

    So, using British expression, you have no leg to stand on with your “Judeo-Christian”.

    • Replies: @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    Soviet self-claimed Muslims said that vodka and beer are not prohibited by the Quran, and acted accordingly.
     
    Yes, I remember there was a vodka from Tatarstan with the green label, in honor of the Islamic faith.

    And both Azerbaijan and Dagestan make excellent cognacs. My favorite is Bagration.
    , @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    The evidence does not support your deranged conclusion.

    • When Jews migrate to Christendom, they do not commit violent crimes.
    • When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.

     
    https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gb2spLuLqUBmzJoPpceX7Rx632EA-P9_aUFPZNDqCxWFuLCKz_1PEx5VdJWVIWkDSFlw27TC4KfrQ9T2k8Tu_hB7vwYOT_pYSyHRXBn_OJGp1B7OK-1d-HUlNJscIMZa2zZpoZ_7Jd9JjK4eabWbR1b9Iw8h5v64QzKjGKHSM2VdDnMAVZLEK_I5zcE/s680/GM7wRx4bwAAkyq2.png
     

    Do you really want to become like Germany? Your attempts to tear apart Judeo-Christians implies this is so.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @John Johnson, @Derer

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @AnonfromTN

    Maimonides wrote that whenever the Muslims and the Christians were at war, the Jews should rejoice in the Goyim killing each other. But if the Jews ever had to take sides, then siding with Muslims would be preferable because (and I cite): “Muslim minim (heretics) are not idolaters like Christian minim are”. Also, a church is considered an idolater abomination in Judaism, while a mosque is not. So much for Judeo-Christianism.

    Replies: @A123

  402. @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk


    just another klyukva by a Jewish movie maker
     
    Another "cranberry"? Never heard that expression before??...

    Replies: @songbird

    https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/klyukva

    From Russian клю́ква (kljúkva, “cranberry, tall tale”). See also разве́систая клю́ква (razvésistaja kljúkva, “highbrush cranberry”), an idiom that means “a tall tale”.

    klyukva (plural not attested)

    (Russia, neologism) Stereotypes about Russia and Russian people. quotations ▲
    2021, Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor[1]
    Russian moviegoers have a special term for films whose storyline or atmosphere just does not ring true. It’s klyukva, or “cranberry.” Reviews of “Black Widow” bristle with that term.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
  403. Oh dear, what a pity.

    https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/russian-fertiliser-is-the-new-gas-for-europe-top-producer-warns/12412409.html

    Europe is “sleep walking” into becoming dependent on Russian fertiliser, just as it did with gas, says one of the largest producers of crop nutrients.

    Nitrogen fertilisers, which are important to plant growth, are made using natural gas and Russia is exporting more of it to Europe, replacing some of the gas banned by the EU, said Svein Tore Holsether, chief executive of Yara International, one of the world’s largest producers of nitrogen-based mineral fertilisers.

    “Fertiliser is the new gas,” Holsether said. “It is a paradox that the aim is to reduce Europe’s dependency on Russia, and then now we are sleepwalking into handing over critical food and fertilising power to Russia.”

    https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/grinding-to-a-halt-europes-fertilizer-sector-facing-ruin-by-russia/

    Europe managed to rapidly reduce energy dependency on Russia. However, this achievement came at a considerable cost for both households and industries. The fertiliser industry is deeply concerned about repeating the same dependency pattern for fertilisers.

  404. AP says:
    @china-russia-all-the-way
    Hip hop night at packed club in Kiev this Friday. Why would anyone go to the frontlines when rich kids can evade duty and party in front the faces of the men who serve and die?

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6q_VKpNomb/

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP

    Did you know that dancehalls were packed during World War II, in which a higher portion of people died than in this war?

    https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2019/10/02/dance-in-the-second-world-war/

    Even the Royal Opera House was turned into a giant dance hall.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/61/a2553761.shtml#:~:text=A%20Morale%20Booster,records%2C%20sometimes%20only%20a%20piano.

    A Morale Booster

    Today’s generation have no idea what part the dance halls played in keeping up morale during the war. Every town and village had a hall where dancing could take place. The bigger dance halls had orchestras, the smaller ones had a three piece band or records, sometimes only a piano.

  405. @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    Openly using Taqiyya deception
     
    That is one of the things Mohammad aped from Jewish religion. Nothing ingenious.

    In general, Mohammad was not particularly creative. He shortened and translated into Arabic a number of Jewish stories (mostly from the Old Testament) and some Christian stories from the New Testament. His creativity did not go further than making all names (including Mary and Jesus) Arabic-sounding. His Allah is recognizably the same vicious and vindictive Jewish Yahve. He copied a lot of Jewish restrictions and customs: no pork, no seafood except fish, male circumcision, multiple wives, no depiction of people and animals in temples, subservient role of women who were not considered quite human, degrading separate place for women in Synagogue and Mosque, etc. There are some differences. He did not prohibit mixing dairy and meat. Prohibited wine, though. Soviet self-claimed Muslims said that vodka and beer are not prohibited by the Quran, and acted accordingly.

    Overall, Islam in both dogma and practice is a lot closer to Judaism than to Christianity. Christianity was significantly mellowed down from unashamedly genocidal Jewish teachings by humanistic teachings of Jesus (e.g., Sabbath is for men, not men for Sabbath, etc.) and by prominent role of two women in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene.

    So, using British expression, you have no leg to stand on with your “Judeo-Christian”.

    Replies: @AP, @A123, @Bashibuzuk

    Soviet self-claimed Muslims said that vodka and beer are not prohibited by the Quran, and acted accordingly.

    Yes, I remember there was a vodka from Tatarstan with the green label, in honor of the Islamic faith.

    And both Azerbaijan and Dagestan make excellent cognacs. My favorite is Bagration.

  406. @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    According to Severin, Ungern-Sternberg claimed to be Genghis reincarnated, and he implied that many lamas supported his claim, even though he was a Balt. (LatW and sudden death could also try?)

    @Mr. Hack
    Am not against using old vocab, but I fear I am too set in my patterns of speech.

    Replies: @sudden death

    even though he was a Balt

    Too lazy to check now, but IIRC he was Baltic born russified German noble, who barely had any significant connection to local ethnic native population, if strictly speaking about ethnicities/loyalties. Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth, but those aggressive/sadist genes probably made him very suitable/thriving in any chaotic warring environment.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @sudden death

    "Sternberg" doesn't sound very Baltic, but would have thought there would be some mixing over hundreds of years. Some say that proto-Germans came from the Balts.

    Anyway to a rural Mongol, a Russian is nearly the same as an Englishman, so you could try the trick anyway and say he was a Balt and you are him reborn.
    _____
    The story about Plato coming out of his delusional state because of the bad playing of the flute, reminds me of that guy who came out of the coma because Barney the dinosaur was on TV.

    https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1788185039353573516

    Replies: @LatW, @sudden death

    , @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth,
     
    Like Bandera, who was torturing and murdering cats in his younger days. Later he switched to humans. I guess that psycho did the same.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @AP

  407. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Roman von Ungern Sternberg's search for Genghis is more entertaining.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

    Replies: @songbird, @Bashibuzuk

    Roman von Ungern Sternberg

    One of my favourite folk heroes.

    🙂

    BTW, speaking of Archangel Michael and warrior deities , I prefer the representation below for that archetype:

    The flaming sword of transcendental wisdom burns demons into annihilated quanta. Only empty quantum fields remain where entities dwelled…

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    I can never keep those guys straight.

    Was Nargajuna one of those right hand path guys who drank mercury or was he one of those left hand path guys who took his daughter to the sex parties?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  408. @LatW
    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin's Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day? Why did you not allow them to take Hawaii and settle in large numbers on the West coast and bring their culture over (which they partially had already done)? Why did you harass the Japanese who lived in the US? Why - wouldn't that have been a fantastic Eurasia that you could finally enjoy (instead of just fantasize about from afar)? Why are you so hostile to China? Embrace them - "Eurasia, yay"!

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Emil Nikola Richard, @songbird, @Gerard1234

    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day?

    LMAO – you do realise that Russian “Eurasianism” has done about a trillion, well, infinite times more for the western or white world than the non-existant Latvian or Baltic “Europeanism” you stupid human-ratshit cross-breed?

    Are you that dumb you don’t realise that Japan’s contribution also applies to that in contributing much to the white or western world?

    From Russian “Eurasianism”……….we produce genius as Borodin, Khachaturian, Mikoyan,Aivazovsky, Mustai Karim, Alikhanov, patriots like Bagramyan, Vartaniyan, guys like Tsoi and MANY, many more. All except Tsoi making huge contributions to European/Western culture or safety.

    Note that I am only including the “Eurasian ” side of us.

    Now, LMAO, WTF does Latvian earthworm “Europeanism” produce?………absolutely totally f**k all you imbecile

    It’s pathetic from scum like you. Note that I can’t call you racist scum as you are only being a faux-white supremacist scumbag. You are white. Latvia is geographically located in Europe. That doesn’t in anyway make you part of “Europeanism” in the good sense of the word. You’re about as European as Albania.

    You have to justify within your loser country why ,from all the countries starting off as small states, Russia is the great culture, great civilisation, the largest country on the planet….and the Baltics are non-entitys. To do this you have to invent some insecure, racist laughable “Mongol”, ” barbarian” to explain Russia’s military victory and dominance and expansion of land….and so the “Eurasian” BS theory to justify how we could easily rule you for 200 years and be one of the worlds great civilisations.

    A schizophrenic weirdo as you has to attach to the “white-supremacist” group falsely – even though Latvia has done absolutely nothing to qualify for the “white-supremacist” group.

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    To anybody with a brain, ………it’s as if there was no Golden Horde in the last 1000 years touching Russia you cretin – the influence and after-effects of it have been that minimal you dumb POS . From a genetic point of view – very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that). Culturally the golden horde is near non-existent. Religious influence none. In our language – minimal.

    Now compare that to western Europe where Roman influence is still very detectable, Ottoman influence. The Berber/Moor influence in Spain. Germanic influence in numerous countries, French influence on UK

    Is also as if we haven’t shared a border for these centuries with China………such is the non-influence of this great culture, great Chinese civilisation on us. There is , if anything, more Japanese and Korean influence, particularly in our far East – but outside of business practicalities this is nothing big and would not even go into category of “Eurasianism”

    I say this as a man of Kazan, very proud of it……and of course incomparably more part of Europeanism than any Latvian idiot.

    I suspect there is also some pitiful attempt to link Dugin to Rasputin

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Gerard1234

    Just calm down. My question was for the Americans, not you. How much have you had today? 200g? Half a liter? Just take it easy. No need to get so worked up about these topics. They are trivial in the big picture anyway.

    , @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    Those Baltic retards have a higher standard of living than Russia and never wanted to be in the great USSR experiment which could be argued as the greatest failure in human history. Which means they were right the entire time while the people of Russia were duped by a German half-Jew who didn't take Econ 101. Statues of Marx and Engels are still dotted around Russia. I guess Russians have to be reminded that they are a bunch of suckers and millions of Russians died for a dirty German Econ drop-out who was more interested in f-cking his maid than learning the basics of supply and demand.

    Your exact type of resentment against the West provided the fertile ground of bitterness that both Marx and Lenin spoke of exploiting. Meaning the crafters of Communism put their hope in Russian bitterness against Western standards by luring them into believing they could get even with those British and Germans through a new order. And it worked....well the lure anyways.

    That new order failed and in its ruins we see tiny Estonia with a GDP per capita that is over twice that of Russia and without the outhouses.

    World is impressed.

    From a genetic point of view – very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that).

    Russians tell us that race doesn't matter in their multi-racial empire and then they tell us how little Mongol blood they have.

    The Russian empire is a hopeless contradiction and will always be unless it is broken up into individual states.

    Russia is millions of Slavs in a couple cities with epicanthic folds trying to convince themselves of their non-Mongol blood superiority while telling themselves they aren't racist colonizers while bragging about their large country that is the result of colonizing various Asians and Turks.

    It's just a big mess and ends up with a 5'1 angry dwarf violently invading his neighbor while actually giving speeches on how it's wrong for the West to impose themselves on smaller countries.

    Russians simply can't explain themselves. In on the street interviews they look like confused robots. I have no doubt that open media could would be a disaster for the Russian government. If all Russian bullshit could be questioned it would put the people into a hysteria.

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @YetAnotherAnon

  409. @sudden death
    @songbird


    even though he was a Balt
     
    Too lazy to check now, but IIRC he was Baltic born russified German noble, who barely had any significant connection to local ethnic native population, if strictly speaking about ethnicities/loyalties. Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth, but those aggressive/sadist genes probably made him very suitable/thriving in any chaotic warring environment.

    Replies: @songbird, @AnonfromTN

    “Sternberg” doesn’t sound very Baltic, but would have thought there would be some mixing over hundreds of years. Some say that proto-Germans came from the Balts.

    Anyway to a rural Mongol, a Russian is nearly the same as an Englishman, so you could try the trick anyway and say he was a Balt and you are him reborn.
    _____
    The story about Plato coming out of his delusional state because of the bad playing of the flute, reminds me of that guy who came out of the coma because Barney the dinosaur was on TV.

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    “Sternberg” doesn’t sound very Baltic, but would have thought there would be some mixing over hundreds of years.
     
    Yes, there was some mixing, for example, the Lieven family claim to be Livs (descended from the Livonian chieftain, hence the name). Granted, the Livs are not Balts (but Finns). It is not clear what percentage of the Baltic Germans is real Baltic and other nationalities, but it is definitely some (through assimilation). Ungern was from Estonia but his family was most likely real Germanic from Austria. Although he may have been mixed, didn't he claim to have some Hungarian roots? The fascination with Asia is unique to his persona, most Baltic people do not really share it (not in that manner at least, lol).
    , @sudden death
    @songbird


    Plato listening to the Thracian barbarian girl playing the flute wrong on his deathbed
     
    Colorized re-enactment below;)

    https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1788328940647428244
  410. @sudden death
    @songbird


    even though he was a Balt
     
    Too lazy to check now, but IIRC he was Baltic born russified German noble, who barely had any significant connection to local ethnic native population, if strictly speaking about ethnicities/loyalties. Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth, but those aggressive/sadist genes probably made him very suitable/thriving in any chaotic warring environment.

    Replies: @songbird, @AnonfromTN

    Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth,

    Like Bandera, who was torturing and murdering cats in his younger days. Later he switched to humans. I guess that psycho did the same.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @AnonfromTN

    Losing generals often get slandered in the history books. It's usually about as credible as what Andrew Huberman's ex hos have to say about him. I'm pretty sure every little boy has tortured one daddy long leg spider. A cat is a little over the top. Almost everybody treats them somewhat like little humans.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    Like Bandera, who was torturing and murdering cats in his younger days
     
    Bandera was a bad man, but this claim comes from Soviet propaganda, and was repeated by Buzina (amusingly, one of Bandera’s followers in a biography about Bandera wrote that if he did it, it was as a way of testing himself and not out of sadism). It’s a rather dubious story. It’s funny that Soviet Sharikovs would spread a story about Bandera suffocating cats. But of course you would automatically believe it.

    Lenin supposedly really enjoyed clubbing rabbits to death.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  411. A123 says: • Website
    @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    Openly using Taqiyya deception
     
    That is one of the things Mohammad aped from Jewish religion. Nothing ingenious.

    In general, Mohammad was not particularly creative. He shortened and translated into Arabic a number of Jewish stories (mostly from the Old Testament) and some Christian stories from the New Testament. His creativity did not go further than making all names (including Mary and Jesus) Arabic-sounding. His Allah is recognizably the same vicious and vindictive Jewish Yahve. He copied a lot of Jewish restrictions and customs: no pork, no seafood except fish, male circumcision, multiple wives, no depiction of people and animals in temples, subservient role of women who were not considered quite human, degrading separate place for women in Synagogue and Mosque, etc. There are some differences. He did not prohibit mixing dairy and meat. Prohibited wine, though. Soviet self-claimed Muslims said that vodka and beer are not prohibited by the Quran, and acted accordingly.

    Overall, Islam in both dogma and practice is a lot closer to Judaism than to Christianity. Christianity was significantly mellowed down from unashamedly genocidal Jewish teachings by humanistic teachings of Jesus (e.g., Sabbath is for men, not men for Sabbath, etc.) and by prominent role of two women in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene.

    So, using British expression, you have no leg to stand on with your “Judeo-Christian”.

    Replies: @AP, @A123, @Bashibuzuk

    The evidence does not support your deranged conclusion.

    • When Jews migrate to Christendom, they do not commit violent crimes.
    • When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.

     

     

    Do you really want to become like Germany? Your attempts to tear apart Judeo-Christians implies this is so.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    Do you really want to become like Germany?
     
    Germany is kaput for more reasons than one. The US is on the same slippery slope, even though most illegal intruders in the US are Christians. The only important thing is the level of civilization/education of those allowed to come. Their religion is immaterial.
    , @John Johnson
    @A123

    The Afghans must be raping Afghan women or other immigrants.

    I don't see how Afghan men can rape German women. The women are bigger than them.

    In an average Afghan man / German woman fight I would put twenty on the woman.

    German women are tough. They are a lot heartier than as depicted in Hollywood movies where they are normally blond and sweet. It's the Swedes that have a ton of blonds.

    , @Derer
    @A123


    When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.
     
    Isn't present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power...do you need names of that politburo? How long it will take, when Christmas will be replaced by Hanukkah (suddenly coinciding with Christmas)? No violent crime but more damaging white colour crime.

    Replies: @A123, @John Johnson

  412. @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    The evidence does not support your deranged conclusion.

    • When Jews migrate to Christendom, they do not commit violent crimes.
    • When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.

     
    https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gb2spLuLqUBmzJoPpceX7Rx632EA-P9_aUFPZNDqCxWFuLCKz_1PEx5VdJWVIWkDSFlw27TC4KfrQ9T2k8Tu_hB7vwYOT_pYSyHRXBn_OJGp1B7OK-1d-HUlNJscIMZa2zZpoZ_7Jd9JjK4eabWbR1b9Iw8h5v64QzKjGKHSM2VdDnMAVZLEK_I5zcE/s680/GM7wRx4bwAAkyq2.png
     

    Do you really want to become like Germany? Your attempts to tear apart Judeo-Christians implies this is so.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @John Johnson, @Derer

    Do you really want to become like Germany?

    Germany is kaput for more reasons than one. The US is on the same slippery slope, even though most illegal intruders in the US are Christians. The only important thing is the level of civilization/education of those allowed to come. Their religion is immaterial.

  413. Bashibuzuk says:
    @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    Openly using Taqiyya deception
     
    That is one of the things Mohammad aped from Jewish religion. Nothing ingenious.

    In general, Mohammad was not particularly creative. He shortened and translated into Arabic a number of Jewish stories (mostly from the Old Testament) and some Christian stories from the New Testament. His creativity did not go further than making all names (including Mary and Jesus) Arabic-sounding. His Allah is recognizably the same vicious and vindictive Jewish Yahve. He copied a lot of Jewish restrictions and customs: no pork, no seafood except fish, male circumcision, multiple wives, no depiction of people and animals in temples, subservient role of women who were not considered quite human, degrading separate place for women in Synagogue and Mosque, etc. There are some differences. He did not prohibit mixing dairy and meat. Prohibited wine, though. Soviet self-claimed Muslims said that vodka and beer are not prohibited by the Quran, and acted accordingly.

    Overall, Islam in both dogma and practice is a lot closer to Judaism than to Christianity. Christianity was significantly mellowed down from unashamedly genocidal Jewish teachings by humanistic teachings of Jesus (e.g., Sabbath is for men, not men for Sabbath, etc.) and by prominent role of two women in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene.

    So, using British expression, you have no leg to stand on with your “Judeo-Christian”.

    Replies: @AP, @A123, @Bashibuzuk

    Maimonides wrote that whenever the Muslims and the Christians were at war, the Jews should rejoice in the Goyim killing each other. But if the Jews ever had to take sides, then siding with Muslims would be preferable because (and I cite): “Muslim minim (heretics) are not idolaters like Christian minim are”. Also, a church is considered an idolater abomination in Judaism, while a mosque is not. So much for Judeo-Christianism.

    • Replies: @A123
    @Bashibuzuk

    All humans are flawed. Maimonides clearly got this one critical point wrong.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  414. @sudden death
    @Mikel


    Russia has just threatened to attack the UK
     
    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    Replies: @Mikel, @Derer, @Gerard1234

    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)

    Well, none were done for the scenario of British missiles entering airspace of the (internationally recognised) borders of Russia you retarded, morbid scumbag dimwit.

    How stupid do you have to be to NOT realise that these statements by the British and Macron, if physically completed, will result in severe destruction to UK and France you thick POS? Hopefully the Olympics will be killed.

    Now sadly, the same hasn’t been done for the true borders of Russia, the one we recognise since SMO. We did threaten, the NATO-Nazi’s correctly guessed that this was not going to happen…….although on the other side masses of Ukronazis died or suffered from our escalation response.
    Remind me what happened to the “destruction” of Russian economy, LOL. Or what happened to Assad?

    Of course its very easy for a mental midget as you of some pussy-coward non-entity Baltic shithole to fake laughter and smile emoji on here – dogshit like you and the country of Litva is useless to the SMO, you can fake cheer and laugh upto the point the first missile lands and the country surrenders in 2 seconds.. It takes a “special” type of loser-psychopath to act like that as you do.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Gerard1234

    "Hopefully the Olympics will be killed."

    I suppose it would be a sight to behold, live on TV all over the world. But how do you do great damage and leave the TV broadcast unharmed?

  415. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW


    Do you like Lars von Trier?
     
    Heard someone once praise Europa, but I have never seen one of his movies.

    Honestly, it is kind of hard for me to watch anything related to WW2. I can do it if it is another context and I take a light attitude to it - like a Korean or Chinese film. But particularly the war in Europe is kind of hard for me to stomach.

    It has been propagandized ad nauseum (am talking about really dumb stuff, documentaries which seem designed for political ends) that I immediately fear any treatment will be more propaganda - they have even fused it together with WWI, so the theme of evil Germans leaks backward as well as forward.

    I understand that film with Churchill had a scene promoting race-mixing.

    The one WW2 film I recall seeing that did not seem to be overtly political was this one:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_White

    I think it actually was political very slightly - comparitively - but in a forgivable way. But the overall message I imagined was that Euros should not be fighting each other.

    Perhaps, something Finnish would be more tolerable than the general.

    So I watched a romantic movie called The Wait – it’s about a love triangle, involving a married couple
     
    I can tolerate a romance, but am too puritanical to enjoy one of this type. Have noticed that there seems to be a lot of them. If I controlled censorship, I would honestly probably ban them.

    There seems to be this division. Youth romance which tends to the purer - though often isn't. And older, more jaded stuff which is about already married people or goes towards cynicism.

    Would rather be a supercentenarian watching the youth stuff than the latter stuff. Though to be sure, much of it is also intolerable.

    One of the priorities of any censorship should be to make sure morally hygienic romances are produced for women and girls. It is not necessarily something easy to do - it is hard to fit all the right elements, like pro-natalism or family, but it should be done.

    Replies: @LatW

    Heard someone once praise Europa, but I have never seen one of his movies.

    Not even Dogville? It was not bad. Haven’t seen Europa, but might be interesting (you can see some of his visual signature there that is the same in other movies). But one has to be careful with these (also, his paternity is not clear).

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    It has been propagandized ad nauseum (am talking about really dumb stuff, documentaries which seem designed for political ends) that I immediately fear any treatment will be more propaganda

    I’d be hard pressed to think of any American or Russian/Soviet made WWII movie that is not heavily propagandized (in the case of Hollywood, to the point of farce sometimes).

    Anyway, didn’t mean to bring up this topic, even on this date, but the Euro made ones are slightly different, as they are meant first for the home audience and not to propagandize the world. Of course, there will be some politics even in these (these Finnish ones are interesting in the way that they treat the “average soldier” who is often heroic, typically a salt of the earth guy, in opposition to the military leadership and all outside powers). Anyway, didn’t mean to push this topic, just wanted to run a few titles by you of movies that are very well known in Europe, since you said you hadn’t seen any Finnish ones.

    Perhaps, something Finnish would be more tolerable than the general.

    These are very different from American and Russian made ones. But to be fully honest, I’m not sure that those who have not fought the Soviet Union are even able to relate to all the nuances there.

    If I controlled censorship, I would honestly probably ban them.

    These are just about the complexity of life, depending on how you treat these movies – as simply a description of the culture that is already in place and the social changes that have already transpired or as an attempt to change culture.

    One of the priorities of any censorship should be to make sure morally hygienic romances are produced for women and girls.

    Honestly, women and girls don’t really need all these movies because for them, romance lives in their heads anyway. Movies don’t really have that much power to change women’s lives and their internal world.

    Anyway, I found one that’s somewhat interesting called The White Reindeer (from 1952). It has some trippy visuals.

    Btw, there are stereotypes in American movies not just about Russians, but other ethnicities as well.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW


    Not even Dogville?
     
    Almost thought I read the blurb many years ago, but turns out that was Lords of Dogtown. (Which I also never watched)

    To tell you truthfully, would say I am not into artsy movies. For my part, I have a hard time believing that you never saw a Steven Seagall film. I half-believe, as Gerard hints, that you were an extra in one shot in Latvia.

    I’d be hard pressed to think of any American or Russian/Soviet made WWII movie that is not heavily propagandized
     
    even the war in the Pacific often seems to take on woke connotations nowadays. Clint made that movie where he had Americans massacre captured Japs on Iwo Jima, which I found to be pretty ridiculous. Might have happened elsewhere, but seems essentially fictitious there, IMO. (And there are obvious racial undertones.)

    These are just about the complexity of life,
     
    Now this is part of the difficulty of making good romance. You don't want to make everything a fairy tail, or a happy ending.

    A moral movie could be one that encourages wistfulness or makes one seize opportunities rather than let them glide by. Or one which prepares someone for rejection and inures them to it.

    Honestly, women and girls don’t really need all these movies because for them, romance lives in their heads anyway. Movies don’t really have that much power to change women’s lives and their internal world.
     
    I guess I am a propagandist at heart. I like the idea of Rightist messaging, and outteach. A lot of what exists out there is so terrible, so I almost think of it like low-hanging fruit.

    The progs want to make expensive action movies with the girl being some superhero - am sure they don't want to see that. They want a good romance, and those can be cheap to make.

    Btw, there are stereotypes in American movies not just about Russians, but other ethnicities as well.
     
    have a hard time thinking of other Hollywood national stereotypes. Other than evil German.

    The Russians I have mostly thought of as poorly written plot devices. Impersonal creations, but I am not sure what to think about it anymore. Maybe, I was naive about that.

    Mostly think of Hollywood stereotypes in these terms:
    1.) Smart/genius/good blacks
    2.) Dumb/ bad Southerners

    Replies: @LatW

  416. @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day?

     

    LMAO - you do realise that Russian "Eurasianism" has done about a trillion, well, infinite times more for the western or white world than the non-existant Latvian or Baltic "Europeanism" you stupid human-ratshit cross-breed?

    Are you that dumb you don't realise that Japan's contribution also applies to that in contributing much to the white or western world?

    From Russian "Eurasianism"..........we produce genius as Borodin, Khachaturian, Mikoyan,Aivazovsky, Mustai Karim, Alikhanov, patriots like Bagramyan, Vartaniyan, guys like Tsoi and MANY, many more. All except Tsoi making huge contributions to European/Western culture or safety.

    Note that I am only including the "Eurasian " side of us.

    Now, LMAO, WTF does Latvian earthworm "Europeanism" produce?.........absolutely totally f**k all you imbecile

    It's pathetic from scum like you. Note that I can't call you racist scum as you are only being a faux-white supremacist scumbag. You are white. Latvia is geographically located in Europe. That doesn't in anyway make you part of "Europeanism" in the good sense of the word. You're about as European as Albania.

    You have to justify within your loser country why ,from all the countries starting off as small states, Russia is the great culture, great civilisation, the largest country on the planet....and the Baltics are non-entitys. To do this you have to invent some insecure, racist laughable "Mongol", " barbarian" to explain Russia's military victory and dominance and expansion of land....and so the "Eurasian" BS theory to justify how we could easily rule you for 200 years and be one of the worlds great civilisations.

    A schizophrenic weirdo as you has to attach to the "white-supremacist" group falsely - even though Latvia has done absolutely nothing to qualify for the "white-supremacist" group.

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    To anybody with a brain, .........it's as if there was no Golden Horde in the last 1000 years touching Russia you cretin - the influence and after-effects of it have been that minimal you dumb POS . From a genetic point of view - very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that). Culturally the golden horde is near non-existent. Religious influence none. In our language - minimal.

    Now compare that to western Europe where Roman influence is still very detectable, Ottoman influence. The Berber/Moor influence in Spain. Germanic influence in numerous countries, French influence on UK

    Is also as if we haven't shared a border for these centuries with China.........such is the non-influence of this great culture, great Chinese civilisation on us. There is , if anything, more Japanese and Korean influence, particularly in our far East - but outside of business practicalities this is nothing big and would not even go into category of "Eurasianism"

    I say this as a man of Kazan, very proud of it......and of course incomparably more part of Europeanism than any Latvian idiot.

    I suspect there is also some pitiful attempt to link Dugin to Rasputin

    Replies: @LatW, @John Johnson

    Just calm down. My question was for the Americans, not you. How much have you had today? 200g? Half a liter? Just take it easy. No need to get so worked up about these topics. They are trivial in the big picture anyway.

  417. Tank on tank battle recorded:

    Though common in Hollywood movies the tank vs tank battle is actually rare in modern warfare.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @John Johnson

    Here is unique night time footage of a Ukrainian manned Bradley destroying the latest version of the Russian T80. It probably succeeded because the Ukrainian commander was able and bold enough to ride up to it that close (400 meters). It used a Tow missile (some kind of a more potent version of the Javelin?). The most valuable asset in this whole picture is probably the Ukrainian commander / operator and his crew.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3EUePZsRU

  418. @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth,
     
    Like Bandera, who was torturing and murdering cats in his younger days. Later he switched to humans. I guess that psycho did the same.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @AP

    Losing generals often get slandered in the history books. It’s usually about as credible as what Andrew Huberman’s ex hos have to say about him. I’m pretty sure every little boy has tortured one daddy long leg spider. A cat is a little over the top. Almost everybody treats them somewhat like little humans.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Losing generals often get slandered in the history books.
     
    Neither Bandera nor another Ukie “hero” Shukhevych were generals. Nazis made Shukhevich Hauptman (equivalent of captain).

    A cat is a little over the top. Almost everybody treats them somewhat like little humans.
     
    Exactly. How a person treats cats is a good indicator how that person treats humans. Was 100% true in case of Bandera.
  419. @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    The evidence does not support your deranged conclusion.

    • When Jews migrate to Christendom, they do not commit violent crimes.
    • When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.

     
    https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gb2spLuLqUBmzJoPpceX7Rx632EA-P9_aUFPZNDqCxWFuLCKz_1PEx5VdJWVIWkDSFlw27TC4KfrQ9T2k8Tu_hB7vwYOT_pYSyHRXBn_OJGp1B7OK-1d-HUlNJscIMZa2zZpoZ_7Jd9JjK4eabWbR1b9Iw8h5v64QzKjGKHSM2VdDnMAVZLEK_I5zcE/s680/GM7wRx4bwAAkyq2.png
     

    Do you really want to become like Germany? Your attempts to tear apart Judeo-Christians implies this is so.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @John Johnson, @Derer

    The Afghans must be raping Afghan women or other immigrants.

    I don’t see how Afghan men can rape German women. The women are bigger than them.

    In an average Afghan man / German woman fight I would put twenty on the woman.

    German women are tough. They are a lot heartier than as depicted in Hollywood movies where they are normally blond and sweet. It’s the Swedes that have a ton of blonds.

  420. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @AnonfromTN

    Losing generals often get slandered in the history books. It's usually about as credible as what Andrew Huberman's ex hos have to say about him. I'm pretty sure every little boy has tortured one daddy long leg spider. A cat is a little over the top. Almost everybody treats them somewhat like little humans.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    Losing generals often get slandered in the history books.

    Neither Bandera nor another Ukie “hero” Shukhevych were generals. Nazis made Shukhevich Hauptman (equivalent of captain).

    A cat is a little over the top. Almost everybody treats them somewhat like little humans.

    Exactly. How a person treats cats is a good indicator how that person treats humans. Was 100% true in case of Bandera.

  421. @Bashibuzuk
    @AnonfromTN

    Maimonides wrote that whenever the Muslims and the Christians were at war, the Jews should rejoice in the Goyim killing each other. But if the Jews ever had to take sides, then siding with Muslims would be preferable because (and I cite): “Muslim minim (heretics) are not idolaters like Christian minim are”. Also, a church is considered an idolater abomination in Judaism, while a mosque is not. So much for Judeo-Christianism.

    Replies: @A123

    All humans are flawed. Maimonides clearly got this one critical point wrong.

    PEACE 😇

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk, QCIC
    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @A123

    He also thought negroes were monkeys.

    Judeo Christian is a term used only by some Jews and retards. It is a linguistic abortion.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @John Johnson

  422. @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    So my question to all these Americans here who salivate over Dugin’s Eurasianism.

    Why did you fight the Japanese back in the day?

     

    LMAO - you do realise that Russian "Eurasianism" has done about a trillion, well, infinite times more for the western or white world than the non-existant Latvian or Baltic "Europeanism" you stupid human-ratshit cross-breed?

    Are you that dumb you don't realise that Japan's contribution also applies to that in contributing much to the white or western world?

    From Russian "Eurasianism"..........we produce genius as Borodin, Khachaturian, Mikoyan,Aivazovsky, Mustai Karim, Alikhanov, patriots like Bagramyan, Vartaniyan, guys like Tsoi and MANY, many more. All except Tsoi making huge contributions to European/Western culture or safety.

    Note that I am only including the "Eurasian " side of us.

    Now, LMAO, WTF does Latvian earthworm "Europeanism" produce?.........absolutely totally f**k all you imbecile

    It's pathetic from scum like you. Note that I can't call you racist scum as you are only being a faux-white supremacist scumbag. You are white. Latvia is geographically located in Europe. That doesn't in anyway make you part of "Europeanism" in the good sense of the word. You're about as European as Albania.

    You have to justify within your loser country why ,from all the countries starting off as small states, Russia is the great culture, great civilisation, the largest country on the planet....and the Baltics are non-entitys. To do this you have to invent some insecure, racist laughable "Mongol", " barbarian" to explain Russia's military victory and dominance and expansion of land....and so the "Eurasian" BS theory to justify how we could easily rule you for 200 years and be one of the worlds great civilisations.

    A schizophrenic weirdo as you has to attach to the "white-supremacist" group falsely - even though Latvia has done absolutely nothing to qualify for the "white-supremacist" group.

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    To anybody with a brain, .........it's as if there was no Golden Horde in the last 1000 years touching Russia you cretin - the influence and after-effects of it have been that minimal you dumb POS . From a genetic point of view - very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that). Culturally the golden horde is near non-existent. Religious influence none. In our language - minimal.

    Now compare that to western Europe where Roman influence is still very detectable, Ottoman influence. The Berber/Moor influence in Spain. Germanic influence in numerous countries, French influence on UK

    Is also as if we haven't shared a border for these centuries with China.........such is the non-influence of this great culture, great Chinese civilisation on us. There is , if anything, more Japanese and Korean influence, particularly in our far East - but outside of business practicalities this is nothing big and would not even go into category of "Eurasianism"

    I say this as a man of Kazan, very proud of it......and of course incomparably more part of Europeanism than any Latvian idiot.

    I suspect there is also some pitiful attempt to link Dugin to Rasputin

    Replies: @LatW, @John Johnson

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    Those Baltic retards have a higher standard of living than Russia and never wanted to be in the great USSR experiment which could be argued as the greatest failure in human history. Which means they were right the entire time while the people of Russia were duped by a German half-Jew who didn’t take Econ 101. Statues of Marx and Engels are still dotted around Russia. I guess Russians have to be reminded that they are a bunch of suckers and millions of Russians died for a dirty German Econ drop-out who was more interested in f-cking his maid than learning the basics of supply and demand.

    Your exact type of resentment against the West provided the fertile ground of bitterness that both Marx and Lenin spoke of exploiting. Meaning the crafters of Communism put their hope in Russian bitterness against Western standards by luring them into believing they could get even with those British and Germans through a new order. And it worked….well the lure anyways.

    That new order failed and in its ruins we see tiny Estonia with a GDP per capita that is over twice that of Russia and without the outhouses.

    World is impressed.

    From a genetic point of view – very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that).

    Russians tell us that race doesn’t matter in their multi-racial empire and then they tell us how little Mongol blood they have.

    The Russian empire is a hopeless contradiction and will always be unless it is broken up into individual states.

    Russia is millions of Slavs in a couple cities with epicanthic folds trying to convince themselves of their non-Mongol blood superiority while telling themselves they aren’t racist colonizers while bragging about their large country that is the result of colonizing various Asians and Turks.

    It’s just a big mess and ends up with a 5’1 angry dwarf violently invading his neighbor while actually giving speeches on how it’s wrong for the West to impose themselves on smaller countries.

    Russians simply can’t explain themselves. In on the street interviews they look like confused robots. I have no doubt that open media could would be a disaster for the Russian government. If all Russian bullshit could be questioned it would put the people into a hysteria.

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson

    Your post is (again) too stupid to reply to.
    I will reply to another thing I forgot to previously:


    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!
     
    The videos that you as some weird spambot spam on here - are just time-wasting, amusing fakes, stupid misdirections that fundamentally expose your complete non-understanding of what is happening and anything military-related in general.
    About a million videos are there that show the exact opposite of what I assume you are intending to propagate on here. In general I don't waste my own time posting these videos - what's the point?

    BUT, I am a fair observer, so I will acknowledge where there has been a humiliation of Russia by Ukraine and will this one time bother to post a video. This one is undeniable peremoga:

    Putin promised that we would show Ukraine what real decommunisation is. LOL, Ukronazis here are laughing in our faces by showing what a failure of a statement this was by VVP, north-east of Avdeevka. Here the Ukronazis are enjoying en masse their recreation of the wonderful Soviet sanitoriums and the famous mudbath treatments. Such luxury. I am jealous!!:


    m.vk.com
    /video-218709390_456240388

    It's incredible that everything out of focus in the video that looks like a branch or disturbance in the soil, is in fact a Ukronazi enjoying the sanitorium.

    Replies: @Gerard1234

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @John Johnson

    I seem to remember that the Baltic retards played a key role in the Russian Revolution.

    Replies: @Sean

  423. AP says:
    @AnonfromTN
    @sudden death


    Also was quite a psycho, torturing animals in youth,
     
    Like Bandera, who was torturing and murdering cats in his younger days. Later he switched to humans. I guess that psycho did the same.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @AP

    Like Bandera, who was torturing and murdering cats in his younger days

    Bandera was a bad man, but this claim comes from Soviet propaganda, and was repeated by Buzina (amusingly, one of Bandera’s followers in a biography about Bandera wrote that if he did it, it was as a way of testing himself and not out of sadism). It’s a rather dubious story. It’s funny that Soviet Sharikovs would spread a story about Bandera suffocating cats. But of course you would automatically believe it.

    Lenin supposedly really enjoyed clubbing rabbits to death.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @AP


    this claim comes from Soviet propaganda
     

    one of Bandera’s followers in a biography about Bandera wrote that if he did it, it was as a way of testing himself and not out of sadism
     

    Lenin supposedly really enjoyed clubbing rabbits to death.
     
    Classical Ukie response, literally following Russian joke:

    A woman comes to her neighbor asking to return the pot she borrowed. The neighbor answers:
    - First, I never borrowed it. Second, I returned it a long time ago. Third, it was cracked.

    Bravo!

    Replies: @AP

  424. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @sudden death

    "Sternberg" doesn't sound very Baltic, but would have thought there would be some mixing over hundreds of years. Some say that proto-Germans came from the Balts.

    Anyway to a rural Mongol, a Russian is nearly the same as an Englishman, so you could try the trick anyway and say he was a Balt and you are him reborn.
    _____
    The story about Plato coming out of his delusional state because of the bad playing of the flute, reminds me of that guy who came out of the coma because Barney the dinosaur was on TV.

    https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1788185039353573516

    Replies: @LatW, @sudden death

    “Sternberg” doesn’t sound very Baltic, but would have thought there would be some mixing over hundreds of years.

    Yes, there was some mixing, for example, the Lieven family claim to be Livs (descended from the Livonian chieftain, hence the name). Granted, the Livs are not Balts (but Finns). It is not clear what percentage of the Baltic Germans is real Baltic and other nationalities, but it is definitely some (through assimilation). Ungern was from Estonia but his family was most likely real Germanic from Austria. Although he may have been mixed, didn’t he claim to have some Hungarian roots? The fascination with Asia is unique to his persona, most Baltic people do not really share it (not in that manner at least, lol).

  425. @A123
    @Bashibuzuk

    All humans are flawed. Maimonides clearly got this one critical point wrong.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    He also thought negroes were monkeys.

    Judeo Christian is a term used only by some Jews and retards. It is a linguistic abortion.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Maimonides is seen as one of the greatest Judaic thinkers and theologians. I agree and concur, Judeo-Christian is a moronic oxymoron (pun intended). Maimonides would have found it highly amusing.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Emil Nikola Richard

    , @John Johnson
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Judeo Christian is a term used only by some Jews and retards. It is a linguistic abortion.

    Has the term ever been used by a Jew that is targeting a Jewish audience?

    Seems like a term that is only used by Jews and talking head Christians on Fox News/Con Inc that make a living by selling oops I mean that inspire and inform Christian conservatives on what the MSM isn't telling them.

    I really doubt there is a Jewish talk show host somewhere who uses the term Judeo-Christian to his Jewish audience.

    It's a cringe term. The Jews don't believe that Jesus is the Messiah and you can't just join Judaism as an American. You can however be born into it if your parents are Jewish and you don't have to do anything to remain Jewish. If you want to convert you have to study and get special permission and they will actually try to talk you out of it unless you are marrying a Jew (which they also discourage).

    Just a few minor differences. One is a religion open to everyone and the other is blood-based with all kinds of separate rules. Judeo-Christian. Right. Two religions together...with completely different core beliefs and not open to each other's followers. Got it.

  426. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @A123

    He also thought negroes were monkeys.

    Judeo Christian is a term used only by some Jews and retards. It is a linguistic abortion.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @John Johnson

    Maimonides is seen as one of the greatest Judaic thinkers and theologians. I agree and concur, Judeo-Christian is a moronic oxymoron (pun intended). Maimonides would have found it highly amusing.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    I don't think it's a bad term. The issue is that you can't say "Christian values" because if you do, people will automatically assume you are talking about religious Christian, particularly Evangelical, values. When you say "Judeo-Christian", you are talking about a semi secular model or morality that is based on both the Tanach as well as the New Testament.

    People on the far right really love to hate the Judeo-Christian term but I think the angst is misplaced.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @A123

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    Maimonedes is almost the only writer with a good take on Job.

    Not verbatim: the bible repeats that Job was a good and honest man. Nowhere does it describe him as clever.

  427. @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    The evidence does not support your deranged conclusion.

    • When Jews migrate to Christendom, they do not commit violent crimes.
    • When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.

     
    https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gb2spLuLqUBmzJoPpceX7Rx632EA-P9_aUFPZNDqCxWFuLCKz_1PEx5VdJWVIWkDSFlw27TC4KfrQ9T2k8Tu_hB7vwYOT_pYSyHRXBn_OJGp1B7OK-1d-HUlNJscIMZa2zZpoZ_7Jd9JjK4eabWbR1b9Iw8h5v64QzKjGKHSM2VdDnMAVZLEK_I5zcE/s680/GM7wRx4bwAAkyq2.png
     

    Do you really want to become like Germany? Your attempts to tear apart Judeo-Christians implies this is so.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @John Johnson, @Derer

    When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.

    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power…do you need names of that politburo? How long it will take, when Christmas will be replaced by Hanukkah (suddenly coinciding with Christmas)? No violent crime but more damaging white colour crime.

    • Replies: @A123
    @Derer


    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power
     
    There is certainly a Jew Hating politburo at the top doing damage. Thus includes post-Judaic apostates who have turned against their heritage. George IslamoSoros is the most obvious example of politburo antipathy targeting Jews. You can easily find other SJW Globalists who are part of the problem.

    The difficulty with this approach is that tiny numbers of elites are often very unrepresentative of their theoretically linked groups. How well does Not-The-President Biden reflect on Catholics? A small % of any group will be bad. Jamie Dimon is Greek Orthodox. Would you scorn all Orthodox because Jamie Dimon is scum?

    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups. The misbehaviour is not limited to a tiny number of elites. Grenade attacks and bombings are now common and it has a near 100% correlation to the presence of Islam. As I shared in the above graphic there is a strong correlation between Islam and rape in Germany.

    Even if one tries to "pick the good ones", letting them in is guaranteed to fail. They, or their children, can easily be captured by Jihadist radicalization. If you want a country with Christian values, keeping Muslims out is essential.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @A123, @AnonfromTN, @Derer

    , @John Johnson
    @Derer

    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power…do you need names of that politburo?

    Jews are overrepresented in politics but there is no reason to believe that without the Jews there would be some healthy White state where the workers are respected and families are encouraged.

    Take away the Jews and we would still have our White libertarian minded conservatives that view the homeless as morally corrupt and unemployed workers as required by The Hand of the Market.

    Before the Jews came to America we had Holy Roller Whites that lied about race and also "Free market" Whites that supported 60 hour work weeks. One day off for church was good enough for you proles.

    I've seen enough cases where insecure Whites try to exploit the weak for their own pathetic egos. If you removed the Jews it would just make more room for Free Market "F-ck the homeless" Whites and also our Holy Rollers that believe race is just paint color. I'm fine with discussing all theories involving race but Whites in America will probably never act in their best interest as a majority. They sure as hell didn't do that in 1860 which was before the waves of Russian Jews. We will see what happens when they are a minority. I will keep my expectations nice and low.

    Would be nice if the Jew blamers here would spend even 5-10% of the same time criticizing "Good Whites" like Speaker Johnson who actually scolded Schumer for not doing enough to support Israel. Jewish Schumer is the only senator that has questioned Netanyahu publicly. Ironically our MAGA House Republicans would remove the Jewish senators if they could and send more money to Israel. They view Schumer and the other Democrats as an obstruction.

    Replies: @QCIC

  428. @Beckow
    @Coconuts


    Are you being ironic?
     
    Yes....:)

    But not about the impact of Slavs on slowing down the demographic self-destruction in the Western Europe.

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Coconuts

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    Beckow again showing us that he maintains a pan-Slavic racial identity. Which is really weird considering that he supports the Slav on Slav killing of Putin’s war.

    I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2. More like a survivor that was on the winning side.

    Germany lost land but Poland suffered from dysgenics. The Germans tried to wipe out their intellectual class. I would bet that Polish contributions to the sciences have never regained their pre-WW2 levels relative to population size. The infamous Turing machine actually had a lot of Polish contributions but the West loves the idea of a genius fag being behind it all. The Poles already had plenty of land and didn’t need East Prussia. They in fact haven’t done much with it. Hitler’s defenders will make excuses for his invasion even though he planned on turning Poland into farmland. The Poles had an anti-Communist in charge and yet Hitler’s apologists still try to make excuses for the supposed anti-Communist dictator who cut a deal with Stalin to chop up Poland. Saving Europe from Communists…unless you’re Polish.

    Belarus probably suffered the most. They contributed a huge amount of men and the Germans were extremely cruel to them. Belarus was to be turned into farmland and the Germans had already started on removing the population. Ukraine faired a lot better but not because of Bandera as many falsely assume. Belarus was first on the list and the main area of Soviet partisan activity. Hitler planned on eventually removing/killing all Slavs up to the Urals. The priority for Ukraine was removing the Jews and the Germans also wanted them to keep farming. They were going to take all the Ukrainian grain as part of a plan to starve the USSR and its major cities.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2.
     
    Considering the alternative of being exterminated by the Germans - as Anglos were pussy-foot in distance and do nothing - Poland did quite well. A large consolidated Poland with added Silesia, Pomerania, half of East Prussia. A demographic boom: Poland went from 23 million to 40 million under the commies. No ethnic minorities - 7 to 8 million Germans were sent packing with hundreds of thousands killed. Peace and prosperity - one can argue that post-WW2 Poland was in its best shape in history with the highest living standards.

    Germany? Shrunken occupied rump-state where the PM can't go to the bathroom without permission 80 years after the war. 10 million dead Germans and the loss of 1/4 of territory. Today Germany has the same population as it did in 1939 - and about a quarter are new immigrants.

    One interesting fact about WW2: Germany started colonization of Crimea and a few Ukie regions in 1942-43: they sent a few thousand farmers - that's how much they wanted it. They still do, it is an obsession.

    Clearly Germany and its allies lost. We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe - almost nothing has changed in 80 years. The biggest winners were the Slav states, they gained territory, expelled Germans, became strong national states. That is something the German-philic Anglos can't stand, so they stir up shit in Eastern Europe - and the submissive Germans eagerly assist. But it looks like they will lose again...what then?

    Replies: @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard, @John Johnson

  429. LatW says:
    @songbird
    Would really like to see the Mongols mount some peaceful expedition upon their small, hardy horses from Karakorum onward to the capitals of Europe, to discombulate the PoCs thereabouts, and warn of the coming hard times.

    BTW, I recently finished reading Tim Severin's In Search of Genghis Khan. Enjoyed it, but it was a great disappointment to me that the expedition never made out of Mongolia. (They had planned to go to Paris and the Atlantic coast.)

    I don't think Altan would have liked it though, as Severin twice claimed that travellers to Mongolia in the 1800s estimated that 90% of the pop has syphilis, (once at the beginning and once at the end - frankly I don't see how it is possible) and he was very critical of the local Buddhist establishment of that time. (I.e. before the communists)

    But there were many interesting parts of the book, like the description of the shamaness (not Mongol), or the political environment of the time. (Tail end of USSR) Or how the leader of the expedition lost face by beating his horse. Or how many Mongols were fascinated by Severin's Western saddle. Or some of the ancient drinking customs and taboos regarding fire. Or the many scripts that Mongols have gone through.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @LatW

    Would really like to see the Mongols mount some peaceful expedition upon their small, hardy horses from Karakorum onward to the capitals of Europe, to discombulate the PoCs thereabouts, and warn of the coming hard times.

    Which Asian despot would you prefer to deal with the PoCs in the US?

    Have you watched Marco Polo (the Netflix series)? Not sure how accurate it is, but it portrays Kublai Khan, Genghis’ grandson, in a somewhat flattering light. A strong fellow.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @LatW


    Which Asian despot would you prefer to deal with the PoCs in the US
     
    would like to see Genghis redeem himself in the name of civilization. And he commands great loyalty among the Mongols to this day, so would have a loyal corps behind him.

    But seriously, I think Mongols are too urbanized these days and they have been somewhat dispirited by Chinese colonization (Inner) and on the other side (Outer), the regime did a lot of damage to their culture.

    Have you watched Marco Polo (the Netflix series)?
     
    saw the first episode, but I heard they cancelled it. I like things to have a beginning, middle, and end, though, and I don't think they manage that too well in long series, so I might not have liked it very much anyway.

    Some Frenchman once wrote a novel about the Mongols in the style of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Heard it was very popular in Mongolia. The Blue Standard of the Blue Mongols. Perhaps, I should try looking it up.
  430. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @A123

    He also thought negroes were monkeys.

    Judeo Christian is a term used only by some Jews and retards. It is a linguistic abortion.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @John Johnson

    Judeo Christian is a term used only by some Jews and retards. It is a linguistic abortion.

    Has the term ever been used by a Jew that is targeting a Jewish audience?

    Seems like a term that is only used by Jews and talking head Christians on Fox News/Con Inc that make a living by selling oops I mean that inspire and inform Christian conservatives on what the MSM isn’t telling them.

    I really doubt there is a Jewish talk show host somewhere who uses the term Judeo-Christian to his Jewish audience.

    It’s a cringe term. The Jews don’t believe that Jesus is the Messiah and you can’t just join Judaism as an American. You can however be born into it if your parents are Jewish and you don’t have to do anything to remain Jewish. If you want to convert you have to study and get special permission and they will actually try to talk you out of it unless you are marrying a Jew (which they also discourage).

    Just a few minor differences. One is a religion open to everyone and the other is blood-based with all kinds of separate rules. Judeo-Christian. Right. Two religions together…with completely different core beliefs and not open to each other’s followers. Got it.

  431. A123 says: • Website
    @Derer
    @A123


    When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.
     
    Isn't present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power...do you need names of that politburo? How long it will take, when Christmas will be replaced by Hanukkah (suddenly coinciding with Christmas)? No violent crime but more damaging white colour crime.

    Replies: @A123, @John Johnson

    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power

    There is certainly a Jew Hating politburo at the top doing damage. Thus includes post-Judaic apostates who have turned against their heritage. George IslamoSoros is the most obvious example of politburo antipathy targeting Jews. You can easily find other SJW Globalists who are part of the problem.

    The difficulty with this approach is that tiny numbers of elites are often very unrepresentative of their theoretically linked groups. How well does Not-The-President Biden reflect on Catholics? A small % of any group will be bad. Jamie Dimon is Greek Orthodox. Would you scorn all Orthodox because Jamie Dimon is scum?

    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups. The misbehaviour is not limited to a tiny number of elites. Grenade attacks and bombings are now common and it has a near 100% correlation to the presence of Islam. As I shared in the above graphic there is a strong correlation between Islam and rape in Germany.

    Even if one tries to “pick the good ones”, letting them in is guaranteed to fail. They, or their children, can easily be captured by Jihadist radicalization. If you want a country with Christian values, keeping Muslims out is essential.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @A123
    @A123


    Grenade attacks and bombings are now common and it has a near 100% correlation to the presence of Islam.
     
    In Malmo Sweden.

    PEACE 😇
    , @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups.
     
    Ukies call themselves Christians. Lately in Russia Ukie terrorist attacks outnumber Islamic terrorist attacks by ~10:1. Do you see a connection to religion? Looks to me more like a connection to the scum of the Earth.

    Replies: @A123

    , @Derer
    @A123

    I admit there is a prevalence of Muslim terrorism, however it is a response to the Washington and some European morons sticking their biased noses to ME affairs. They artificially making Israel a viable country by unlimited money flow and arms. Muslim are not in US leadership but Jews are. BTW, Begin and others were anti-British terrorists long before Muslims adopted their methods.

    Even Saddam dealt with Muslim fundamentalists much more efficient way than Washington invaders. His removal in addition to Lebanon, Syria farce and subsequent exodus to Europe just increased terrorism. I am starting to think that Washington politburo subtle activities are implemented to damage Europe. They are not friends but competitors.

    My support for Trump is fading, I was impressed with his 2016 inaugural program, which he failed to implement. His present one-sided policies on ME will lose his election. The antisemitism is on the rise. Gore lost to (9:1 odds) Bush because his VP candidate was Lieberman and that was long time ago.

  432. @Derer
    @A123


    When Muslims migrate to Christendom, they damage society.
     
    Isn't present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power...do you need names of that politburo? How long it will take, when Christmas will be replaced by Hanukkah (suddenly coinciding with Christmas)? No violent crime but more damaging white colour crime.

    Replies: @A123, @John Johnson

    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power…do you need names of that politburo?

    Jews are overrepresented in politics but there is no reason to believe that without the Jews there would be some healthy White state where the workers are respected and families are encouraged.

    Take away the Jews and we would still have our White libertarian minded conservatives that view the homeless as morally corrupt and unemployed workers as required by The Hand of the Market.

    Before the Jews came to America we had Holy Roller Whites that lied about race and also “Free market” Whites that supported 60 hour work weeks. One day off for church was good enough for you proles.

    I’ve seen enough cases where insecure Whites try to exploit the weak for their own pathetic egos. If you removed the Jews it would just make more room for Free Market “F-ck the homeless” Whites and also our Holy Rollers that believe race is just paint color. I’m fine with discussing all theories involving race but Whites in America will probably never act in their best interest as a majority. They sure as hell didn’t do that in 1860 which was before the waves of Russian Jews. We will see what happens when they are a minority. I will keep my expectations nice and low.

    Would be nice if the Jew blamers here would spend even 5-10% of the same time criticizing “Good Whites” like Speaker Johnson who actually scolded Schumer for not doing enough to support Israel. Jewish Schumer is the only senator that has questioned Netanyahu publicly. Ironically our MAGA House Republicans would remove the Jewish senators if they could and send more money to Israel. They view Schumer and the other Democrats as an obstruction.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    It is impossible to know what would have happened. Jews have been part of the American picture since the beginning and have influenced cultural ideas to meet their own tastes and agendas forever.

    People just need to stand up and say no. Since everyone is brainwashed and self-deluded I don't see this happening without some sort of crisis to stir action. Unfortunately, most people don't have any better ideas so a crisis is not likely to turn out well.

    Maybe the Jewish people pulling the strings will clean up their own act.

  433. @John Johnson
    @Beckow

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    Beckow again showing us that he maintains a pan-Slavic racial identity. Which is really weird considering that he supports the Slav on Slav killing of Putin's war.

    I don't see Poland as a winner in WW2. More like a survivor that was on the winning side.

    Germany lost land but Poland suffered from dysgenics. The Germans tried to wipe out their intellectual class. I would bet that Polish contributions to the sciences have never regained their pre-WW2 levels relative to population size. The infamous Turing machine actually had a lot of Polish contributions but the West loves the idea of a genius fag being behind it all. The Poles already had plenty of land and didn't need East Prussia. They in fact haven't done much with it. Hitler's defenders will make excuses for his invasion even though he planned on turning Poland into farmland. The Poles had an anti-Communist in charge and yet Hitler's apologists still try to make excuses for the supposed anti-Communist dictator who cut a deal with Stalin to chop up Poland. Saving Europe from Communists...unless you're Polish.

    Belarus probably suffered the most. They contributed a huge amount of men and the Germans were extremely cruel to them. Belarus was to be turned into farmland and the Germans had already started on removing the population. Ukraine faired a lot better but not because of Bandera as many falsely assume. Belarus was first on the list and the main area of Soviet partisan activity. Hitler planned on eventually removing/killing all Slavs up to the Urals. The priority for Ukraine was removing the Jews and the Germans also wanted them to keep farming. They were going to take all the Ukrainian grain as part of a plan to starve the USSR and its major cities.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2.

    Considering the alternative of being exterminated by the Germans – as Anglos were pussy-foot in distance and do nothing – Poland did quite well. A large consolidated Poland with added Silesia, Pomerania, half of East Prussia. A demographic boom: Poland went from 23 million to 40 million under the commies. No ethnic minorities – 7 to 8 million Germans were sent packing with hundreds of thousands killed. Peace and prosperity – one can argue that post-WW2 Poland was in its best shape in history with the highest living standards.

    Germany? Shrunken occupied rump-state where the PM can’t go to the bathroom without permission 80 years after the war. 10 million dead Germans and the loss of 1/4 of territory. Today Germany has the same population as it did in 1939 – and about a quarter are new immigrants.

    One interesting fact about WW2: Germany started colonization of Crimea and a few Ukie regions in 1942-43: they sent a few thousand farmers – that’s how much they wanted it. They still do, it is an obsession.

    Clearly Germany and its allies lost. We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe – almost nothing has changed in 80 years. The biggest winners were the Slav states, they gained territory, expelled Germans, became strong national states. That is something the German-philic Anglos can’t stand, so they stir up shit in Eastern Europe – and the submissive Germans eagerly assist. But it looks like they will lose again…what then?

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Beckow


    We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe – almost nothing has changed in 80 years.
     
    This sounds awfully confident. We are still living in it? "Almost nothing has changed in 80 years?" LOL

    You don't feel that something is slightly changing though?

    And that the "liberal order" that has presided over Europe and that was rooted in this "victory" and which is a direct consequence of this "victory" - that something is happening to it...?

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Beckow

    You left out the extermination of the Jews. Blamed on the Germans. That was even better than the iPhone.

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @John Johnson
    @Beckow


    …I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2.

     

    Considering the alternative of being exterminated by the Germans – as Anglos were pussy-foot in distance and do nothing – Poland did quite well.

    Which would fit my full description of them being a survivor on the winning side.

    They were better off before the war. Gaining East Prussia was not worth losing at least 40,000 intellectuals.

    A demographic boom: Poland went from 23 million to 40 million under the commies.

    The US population also grew after WW2. Having sex is not a Communist accomplishment.

    Germany? Shrunken occupied rump-state where the PM can’t go to the bathroom without permission 80 years after the war.

    No one is suggesting Germany won.

    I pointed out that Germany lost land but Poland lost a lot of intellectuals. I'm not convinced it was a net positive trade off. Poland already had plenty of land in 1939.

    Germany obviously lost the war but West Germany was a world economic leader within 10 years and they outproduced most the capitalist Allies in 1960:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_largest_historical_GDP

    That's pretty amazing given that they were bombed into rubble.

    The biggest winners were the Slav states, they gained territory, expelled Germans, became strong national states.

    I would not describe Poland or Belarus as big winners.

    Poland suffered dysgenically from both Nazi and Soviet rule. Both Hitler and Stalin wanted to grind them down as a people. Stalin was embarrassed by the Germans revealing the Katyn massacre.

    Belarus never fully recovered from the war. They most likely depended on Jewish intellectuals more than Poland. They are now a low population, low GDP totalitarian state. Their GDP per capita is below Mexico.

  434. @A123
    @Derer


    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power
     
    There is certainly a Jew Hating politburo at the top doing damage. Thus includes post-Judaic apostates who have turned against their heritage. George IslamoSoros is the most obvious example of politburo antipathy targeting Jews. You can easily find other SJW Globalists who are part of the problem.

    The difficulty with this approach is that tiny numbers of elites are often very unrepresentative of their theoretically linked groups. How well does Not-The-President Biden reflect on Catholics? A small % of any group will be bad. Jamie Dimon is Greek Orthodox. Would you scorn all Orthodox because Jamie Dimon is scum?

    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups. The misbehaviour is not limited to a tiny number of elites. Grenade attacks and bombings are now common and it has a near 100% correlation to the presence of Islam. As I shared in the above graphic there is a strong correlation between Islam and rape in Germany.

    Even if one tries to "pick the good ones", letting them in is guaranteed to fail. They, or their children, can easily be captured by Jihadist radicalization. If you want a country with Christian values, keeping Muslims out is essential.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @A123, @AnonfromTN, @Derer

    Grenade attacks and bombings are now common and it has a near 100% correlation to the presence of Islam.

    In Malmo Sweden.

    PEACE 😇

  435. @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2.
     
    Considering the alternative of being exterminated by the Germans - as Anglos were pussy-foot in distance and do nothing - Poland did quite well. A large consolidated Poland with added Silesia, Pomerania, half of East Prussia. A demographic boom: Poland went from 23 million to 40 million under the commies. No ethnic minorities - 7 to 8 million Germans were sent packing with hundreds of thousands killed. Peace and prosperity - one can argue that post-WW2 Poland was in its best shape in history with the highest living standards.

    Germany? Shrunken occupied rump-state where the PM can't go to the bathroom without permission 80 years after the war. 10 million dead Germans and the loss of 1/4 of territory. Today Germany has the same population as it did in 1939 - and about a quarter are new immigrants.

    One interesting fact about WW2: Germany started colonization of Crimea and a few Ukie regions in 1942-43: they sent a few thousand farmers - that's how much they wanted it. They still do, it is an obsession.

    Clearly Germany and its allies lost. We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe - almost nothing has changed in 80 years. The biggest winners were the Slav states, they gained territory, expelled Germans, became strong national states. That is something the German-philic Anglos can't stand, so they stir up shit in Eastern Europe - and the submissive Germans eagerly assist. But it looks like they will lose again...what then?

    Replies: @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard, @John Johnson

    We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe – almost nothing has changed in 80 years.

    This sounds awfully confident. We are still living in it? “Almost nothing has changed in 80 years?” LOL

    You don’t feel that something is slightly changing though?

    And that the “liberal order” that has presided over Europe and that was rooted in this “victory” and which is a direct consequence of this “victory” – that something is happening to it…?

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @LatW

    Euro countries and borders have been unchanged for 80 years. Few countries split up along their internal borders. This has never happened in Europe for that long. It was determined by WW2 - the winners kept what they won and the losers got used to it. Stability...The main beneficiaries in the national sense were the Slavs. Now we see a belated attempt at revisionism. As WW2 was an attempt at a revanche for the WW1 settlement.

    I am not an ideologue. The fanciful flights by the liberal-socialist-royalist-commie-libertarian dreamers into the world of ideas are a distraction, an entertainment of sorts. It has little impact on most people - some obsess about it, others are into building the new world, or "the new world order", but it is not much present in most people's lives.

    We adapt very quickly, the terms and slogans bandied around change, there is a lot of building and some destruction - prices are awarded, people clap. And the sun rises and we deal mostly with personal lives. The early Bolshies, fascists and current Westie uber-liberals are outliers: they want to change the personal. They will fail as always. Idiots.

    Replies: @LatW

  436. @Gerard1234
    @sudden death


    Was that maybe 23rd or 24th time it was done, somehow lost the count here?;)
     
    Well, none were done for the scenario of British missiles entering airspace of the (internationally recognised) borders of Russia you retarded, morbid scumbag dimwit.

    How stupid do you have to be to NOT realise that these statements by the British and Macron, if physically completed, will result in severe destruction to UK and France you thick POS? Hopefully the Olympics will be killed.

    Now sadly, the same hasn't been done for the true borders of Russia, the one we recognise since SMO. We did threaten, the NATO-Nazi's correctly guessed that this was not going to happen.......although on the other side masses of Ukronazis died or suffered from our escalation response.
    Remind me what happened to the "destruction" of Russian economy, LOL. Or what happened to Assad?

    Of course its very easy for a mental midget as you of some pussy-coward non-entity Baltic shithole to fake laughter and smile emoji on here - dogshit like you and the country of Litva is useless to the SMO, you can fake cheer and laugh upto the point the first missile lands and the country surrenders in 2 seconds.. It takes a "special" type of loser-psychopath to act like that as you do.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “Hopefully the Olympics will be killed.”

    I suppose it would be a sight to behold, live on TV all over the world. But how do you do great damage and leave the TV broadcast unharmed?

  437. @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    Those Baltic retards have a higher standard of living than Russia and never wanted to be in the great USSR experiment which could be argued as the greatest failure in human history. Which means they were right the entire time while the people of Russia were duped by a German half-Jew who didn't take Econ 101. Statues of Marx and Engels are still dotted around Russia. I guess Russians have to be reminded that they are a bunch of suckers and millions of Russians died for a dirty German Econ drop-out who was more interested in f-cking his maid than learning the basics of supply and demand.

    Your exact type of resentment against the West provided the fertile ground of bitterness that both Marx and Lenin spoke of exploiting. Meaning the crafters of Communism put their hope in Russian bitterness against Western standards by luring them into believing they could get even with those British and Germans through a new order. And it worked....well the lure anyways.

    That new order failed and in its ruins we see tiny Estonia with a GDP per capita that is over twice that of Russia and without the outhouses.

    World is impressed.

    From a genetic point of view – very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that).

    Russians tell us that race doesn't matter in their multi-racial empire and then they tell us how little Mongol blood they have.

    The Russian empire is a hopeless contradiction and will always be unless it is broken up into individual states.

    Russia is millions of Slavs in a couple cities with epicanthic folds trying to convince themselves of their non-Mongol blood superiority while telling themselves they aren't racist colonizers while bragging about their large country that is the result of colonizing various Asians and Turks.

    It's just a big mess and ends up with a 5'1 angry dwarf violently invading his neighbor while actually giving speeches on how it's wrong for the West to impose themselves on smaller countries.

    Russians simply can't explain themselves. In on the street interviews they look like confused robots. I have no doubt that open media could would be a disaster for the Russian government. If all Russian bullshit could be questioned it would put the people into a hysteria.

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @YetAnotherAnon

    Your post is (again) too stupid to reply to.
    I will reply to another thing I forgot to previously:

    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!

    The videos that you as some weird spambot spam on here – are just time-wasting, amusing fakes, stupid misdirections that fundamentally expose your complete non-understanding of what is happening and anything military-related in general.
    About a million videos are there that show the exact opposite of what I assume you are intending to propagate on here. In general I don’t waste my own time posting these videos – what’s the point?

    BUT, I am a fair observer, so I will acknowledge where there has been a humiliation of Russia by Ukraine and will this one time bother to post a video. This one is undeniable peremoga:

    Putin promised that we would show Ukraine what real decommunisation is. LOL, Ukronazis here are laughing in our faces by showing what a failure of a statement this was by VVP, north-east of Avdeevka. Here the Ukronazis are enjoying en masse their recreation of the wonderful Soviet sanitoriums and the famous mudbath treatments. Such luxury. I am jealous!!:


    m.vk.com
    /video-218709390_456240388

    It’s incredible that everything out of focus in the video that looks like a branch or disturbance in the soil, is in fact a Ukronazi enjoying the sanitorium.

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @Gerard1234

    https://m.vk.com/video-218709390_456240388

    Replies: @sudden death

  438. @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    It all originates from the fact that Baltic retards were worthless prostitutes to Russian, Germans , Swedes for most of their existence

    Those Baltic retards have a higher standard of living than Russia and never wanted to be in the great USSR experiment which could be argued as the greatest failure in human history. Which means they were right the entire time while the people of Russia were duped by a German half-Jew who didn't take Econ 101. Statues of Marx and Engels are still dotted around Russia. I guess Russians have to be reminded that they are a bunch of suckers and millions of Russians died for a dirty German Econ drop-out who was more interested in f-cking his maid than learning the basics of supply and demand.

    Your exact type of resentment against the West provided the fertile ground of bitterness that both Marx and Lenin spoke of exploiting. Meaning the crafters of Communism put their hope in Russian bitterness against Western standards by luring them into believing they could get even with those British and Germans through a new order. And it worked....well the lure anyways.

    That new order failed and in its ruins we see tiny Estonia with a GDP per capita that is over twice that of Russia and without the outhouses.

    World is impressed.

    From a genetic point of view – very little to the point of being non-existant in this Mongol heritage in our blood from that period ( not that there would be anything to be ashamed of in that).

    Russians tell us that race doesn't matter in their multi-racial empire and then they tell us how little Mongol blood they have.

    The Russian empire is a hopeless contradiction and will always be unless it is broken up into individual states.

    Russia is millions of Slavs in a couple cities with epicanthic folds trying to convince themselves of their non-Mongol blood superiority while telling themselves they aren't racist colonizers while bragging about their large country that is the result of colonizing various Asians and Turks.

    It's just a big mess and ends up with a 5'1 angry dwarf violently invading his neighbor while actually giving speeches on how it's wrong for the West to impose themselves on smaller countries.

    Russians simply can't explain themselves. In on the street interviews they look like confused robots. I have no doubt that open media could would be a disaster for the Russian government. If all Russian bullshit could be questioned it would put the people into a hysteria.

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @YetAnotherAnon

    I seem to remember that the Baltic retards played a key role in the Russian Revolution.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Yes, Latvian Rife Regiments were instrumental in brining the Bolsheviks to power. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn made a point of mentioning that.

  439. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @Derer

    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power…do you need names of that politburo?

    Jews are overrepresented in politics but there is no reason to believe that without the Jews there would be some healthy White state where the workers are respected and families are encouraged.

    Take away the Jews and we would still have our White libertarian minded conservatives that view the homeless as morally corrupt and unemployed workers as required by The Hand of the Market.

    Before the Jews came to America we had Holy Roller Whites that lied about race and also "Free market" Whites that supported 60 hour work weeks. One day off for church was good enough for you proles.

    I've seen enough cases where insecure Whites try to exploit the weak for their own pathetic egos. If you removed the Jews it would just make more room for Free Market "F-ck the homeless" Whites and also our Holy Rollers that believe race is just paint color. I'm fine with discussing all theories involving race but Whites in America will probably never act in their best interest as a majority. They sure as hell didn't do that in 1860 which was before the waves of Russian Jews. We will see what happens when they are a minority. I will keep my expectations nice and low.

    Would be nice if the Jew blamers here would spend even 5-10% of the same time criticizing "Good Whites" like Speaker Johnson who actually scolded Schumer for not doing enough to support Israel. Jewish Schumer is the only senator that has questioned Netanyahu publicly. Ironically our MAGA House Republicans would remove the Jewish senators if they could and send more money to Israel. They view Schumer and the other Democrats as an obstruction.

    Replies: @QCIC

    It is impossible to know what would have happened. Jews have been part of the American picture since the beginning and have influenced cultural ideas to meet their own tastes and agendas forever.

    People just need to stand up and say no. Since everyone is brainwashed and self-deluded I don’t see this happening without some sort of crisis to stir action. Unfortunately, most people don’t have any better ideas so a crisis is not likely to turn out well.

    Maybe the Jewish people pulling the strings will clean up their own act.

  440. @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Maimonides is seen as one of the greatest Judaic thinkers and theologians. I agree and concur, Judeo-Christian is a moronic oxymoron (pun intended). Maimonides would have found it highly amusing.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Emil Nikola Richard

    I don’t think it’s a bad term. The issue is that you can’t say “Christian values” because if you do, people will automatically assume you are talking about religious Christian, particularly Evangelical, values. When you say “Judeo-Christian”, you are talking about a semi secular model or morality that is based on both the Tanach as well as the New Testament.

    People on the far right really love to hate the Judeo-Christian term but I think the angst is misplaced.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    The basic Abrahamic morality model is similar in the three varieties of the Abrahamic Monotheism. This is not surprising, given that it’s a “root and branches” belief system evolution. Basically, it’s “love God and love thy neighbour”. The notion of the “neighbour” is more restrictive in Judaism, becoming more open in Christianity and (arguably) more broad in Islam (which integrates the practitioners of the other two monotheistic religions in a socially acceptable framework).

    Therefore, there is hardly anything peculiar about the Judaic morality coinciding with some of the tenets of Christian morality. It is the same about Judaic and Muslim morality, or Muslim and Christian morality. And in some instances, Islam and Judaism are closer aligned, as RamBam himself quite clearly stated.

    So if we want to talk about the common Monotheistic morality, we should talk of Abrahamic or even Noahide morality, not a restrictive Judeo-Christian one which is a modern concept born out of the current situation in the Holy Land.

    There are arguably more contradictions between the teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Pharisee Rabbinical Judaism than between the Rabbinical Judaism teachings and the Muhammadan revelation. One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Greasy William, @AnonfromTN

    , @A123
    @Greasy William


    When you say “Judeo-Christian”, you are talking about a semi secular model or morality that is based on both the Tanach as well as the New Testament.
     
    The overlap is largely based on the Old Testament / Ten Commandments. I am not sure how you get to "secular". Judeo-Christian values are akin to traditional Main Street values. I concede the common usage is not 100% religious.

    you can’t say “Christian values” because if you do, people will automatically assume you are talking about religious Christian, particularly Evangelical, values
     
    It is definitely context dependant. I use Christian values and Judeo-Christian values more or less interchangeably. However, others may mean less common, more extreme belief systems.

    People on the far right really love to hate the Judeo-Christian term but I think the angst is misplaced.
     
    Most of the angst I have seen, at least online, is from progressive Islamophiles. The "Open Borders" crowd in Europe despises traditional Judeo-Christian values. They are importing Muslims in an attempt to break Christians and Jews.

    PEACE 😇

  441. @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Maimonides is seen as one of the greatest Judaic thinkers and theologians. I agree and concur, Judeo-Christian is a moronic oxymoron (pun intended). Maimonides would have found it highly amusing.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Emil Nikola Richard

    Maimonedes is almost the only writer with a good take on Job.

    Not verbatim: the bible repeats that Job was a good and honest man. Nowhere does it describe him as clever.

  442. @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2.
     
    Considering the alternative of being exterminated by the Germans - as Anglos were pussy-foot in distance and do nothing - Poland did quite well. A large consolidated Poland with added Silesia, Pomerania, half of East Prussia. A demographic boom: Poland went from 23 million to 40 million under the commies. No ethnic minorities - 7 to 8 million Germans were sent packing with hundreds of thousands killed. Peace and prosperity - one can argue that post-WW2 Poland was in its best shape in history with the highest living standards.

    Germany? Shrunken occupied rump-state where the PM can't go to the bathroom without permission 80 years after the war. 10 million dead Germans and the loss of 1/4 of territory. Today Germany has the same population as it did in 1939 - and about a quarter are new immigrants.

    One interesting fact about WW2: Germany started colonization of Crimea and a few Ukie regions in 1942-43: they sent a few thousand farmers - that's how much they wanted it. They still do, it is an obsession.

    Clearly Germany and its allies lost. We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe - almost nothing has changed in 80 years. The biggest winners were the Slav states, they gained territory, expelled Germans, became strong national states. That is something the German-philic Anglos can't stand, so they stir up shit in Eastern Europe - and the submissive Germans eagerly assist. But it looks like they will lose again...what then?

    Replies: @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard, @John Johnson

    You left out the extermination of the Jews. Blamed on the Germans. That was even better than the iPhone.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    ...the extermination of the Jews. Blamed on the Germans.
     
    That is an interesting one, it happened. The only force that fought it was Russia (Red Army) and the local commies in those countries who were often Jewish. The Anglos literally didn't move a finger. But now they talk...and talk...

    For most non-German Central-East Europeans it was a weird one. Our local Jews were famous Germano-philes, the main carriers of German culture, with German names they proudly chose, loyal to the German overlords like Habsburgs and dismissive of "nationalism" by all smaller nations - often they were the main force fighting it.

    Then the Krauts went medieval on them. And it took the Russians to stop it. But now they hate the Russians. It is really confusing...(But it happens, look at the Poles hating Russians with bloody passion - they wouldn't exist today without them.)

  443. @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson

    Your post is (again) too stupid to reply to.
    I will reply to another thing I forgot to previously:


    JJ, just stop with the videos. Save yourself, its never too late to get a life!
     
    The videos that you as some weird spambot spam on here - are just time-wasting, amusing fakes, stupid misdirections that fundamentally expose your complete non-understanding of what is happening and anything military-related in general.
    About a million videos are there that show the exact opposite of what I assume you are intending to propagate on here. In general I don't waste my own time posting these videos - what's the point?

    BUT, I am a fair observer, so I will acknowledge where there has been a humiliation of Russia by Ukraine and will this one time bother to post a video. This one is undeniable peremoga:

    Putin promised that we would show Ukraine what real decommunisation is. LOL, Ukronazis here are laughing in our faces by showing what a failure of a statement this was by VVP, north-east of Avdeevka. Here the Ukronazis are enjoying en masse their recreation of the wonderful Soviet sanitoriums and the famous mudbath treatments. Such luxury. I am jealous!!:


    m.vk.com
    /video-218709390_456240388

    It's incredible that everything out of focus in the video that looks like a branch or disturbance in the soil, is in fact a Ukronazi enjoying the sanitorium.

    Replies: @Gerard1234

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Gerard1234

    More detailed one week old info about this particular video from relatively sane pro-RF source:


    Yesterday, a well-known video with corpses in the landing was published. I'll tell you what's on it.

    It was taken at a tree grown landstrip above Stepove, I marked it on the map. In total, the operator walked, as OSINTers calculated, rougkly 444 meters, during which time 82 corpses were captured on video, and this is about half of that landstrip. Although there are controversial points there, there may be more bodies, but only this many are definitely identified.

    Most of the bodies belong to Russian soldiers, many are obviously Storms. There are also corpses of Ukrainians, in total, with a stretch, up to 10 people out of 82. There are two such examples in the screenshots: a helmet with blue electrical tape, as well as a corpse in Ukrainian pixel.

    The bodies in the landing had been accumulating for a long time, most likely from the very beginning of the assaults, that is, since October 2023. There are completely skeletonized remains, there are relatively fresh bodies, there are bodies in winter camouflage.

    As we can see, the treestrip was the gateway to Berdychi, but their assault was never successful. I think that this landing was targeted by artillery, and most of the losses here were from it. The assault groups came in and were covered with cassettes.

    The landscape, of course, is reminiscent of the First World War. However, this is not a treestrip; one of the subscribers spoke about another similar position from a completely different direction, where bodies also lay mixed up, but there they mainly came under machine gun fire. It’s just that not all videos are leaked onto the Internet, but this is what war really looks like, and this is the real level of losses in individual areas.
     

    https://t.me/artjockey/873

    Replies: @sudden death, @Gerard1234

  444. @YetAnotherAnon
    @John Johnson

    I seem to remember that the Baltic retards played a key role in the Russian Revolution.

    Replies: @Sean

    Yes, Latvian Rife Regiments were instrumental in brining the Bolsheviks to power. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn made a point of mentioning that.

  445. @Gerard1234
    @Gerard1234

    https://m.vk.com/video-218709390_456240388

    Replies: @sudden death

    More detailed one week old info about this particular video from relatively sane pro-RF source:

    Yesterday, a well-known video with corpses in the landing was published. I’ll tell you what’s on it.

    It was taken at a tree grown landstrip above Stepove, I marked it on the map. In total, the operator walked, as OSINTers calculated, rougkly 444 meters, during which time 82 corpses were captured on video, and this is about half of that landstrip. Although there are controversial points there, there may be more bodies, but only this many are definitely identified.

    Most of the bodies belong to Russian soldiers, many are obviously Storms. There are also corpses of Ukrainians, in total, with a stretch, up to 10 people out of 82. There are two such examples in the screenshots: a helmet with blue electrical tape, as well as a corpse in Ukrainian pixel.

    The bodies in the landing had been accumulating for a long time, most likely from the very beginning of the assaults, that is, since October 2023. There are completely skeletonized remains, there are relatively fresh bodies, there are bodies in winter camouflage.

    As we can see, the treestrip was the gateway to Berdychi, but their assault was never successful. I think that this landing was targeted by artillery, and most of the losses here were from it. The assault groups came in and were covered with cassettes.

    The landscape, of course, is reminiscent of the First World War. However, this is not a treestrip; one of the subscribers spoke about another similar position from a completely different direction, where bodies also lay mixed up, but there they mainly came under machine gun fire. It’s just that not all videos are leaked onto the Internet, but this is what war really looks like, and this is the real level of losses in individual areas.

    https://t.me/artjockey/873

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @sudden death


    EDIT*However, this is not just only one single such treestrip at front;
     
    , @Gerard1234
    @sudden death


    More detailed one week old info about this particular video from relatively sane pro-RF source:

     

    1. They ALL look like Ukrainian victims to me. It's interesting they mention the blue tape - standard NATO psyops propaganda BS - try and separate the undeniably ukronazi fertiliser/dead body (because of the blue tape on them).....from the rest of the bodies and ridiculously claim "Russian" - even though if you know what to look for on the uniforms and extras then you know they aren't, plus green tape is also visible there and not any white tape on any corpses (though difficult to see if anything white-looking that is off the body and could have been "blown off" during the encounter is tape, different to distinctive blue/green). I never go on the tape markings to identify anyway - as scene more easy to manipulate from that.

    2. Thermobaric weapon clearly fired there, which explains the appearance of many of the corpses, the condition of the ground and the trees with many flattened downed to the stump, and the lack of craters in the entire video.

    3.Fragmentation rounds fired there - unless a good amount gets the face then always difficult to tell of course if fired. Here you can see on some of the trees, and by subtraction of those who don't look like thermobaric victims. Looks like a minority of the scene though.

    4. Trenches visible there, equipment for that, - adds to the fact that Ukronazis were entrenched there, and so large numbers accumulated were possible

    5. Guns shown there - not definitive but those ones more often carried by ukronazis.

    6. Of course the usual f**ktard bydlo in ukronazi tsipso on the internet are claiming this as "82 dead Russians" lie and "usual meat wave" projection BS..... but even the psychotic Ukronazi "mainstream" is not promoting this . Even NATO media is not claiming anything against Russia from this video - considering the amount of lying they do, that is very indicative.

    7. You can have victims from different sides on a small spot of the battlefield........but uncollected for both, over a few weeks or months? Appears total BS. One side, one series of annihilation strikes from Russia onto ukronazis.

    So thermobaric weapon used ( v.v.likely Russia), trenches- ukrops embedded there at some stage, uniforms - indicate 404 victims
  446. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    I don't think it's a bad term. The issue is that you can't say "Christian values" because if you do, people will automatically assume you are talking about religious Christian, particularly Evangelical, values. When you say "Judeo-Christian", you are talking about a semi secular model or morality that is based on both the Tanach as well as the New Testament.

    People on the far right really love to hate the Judeo-Christian term but I think the angst is misplaced.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @A123

    The basic Abrahamic morality model is similar in the three varieties of the Abrahamic Monotheism. This is not surprising, given that it’s a “root and branches” belief system evolution. Basically, it’s “love God and love thy neighbour”. The notion of the “neighbour” is more restrictive in Judaism, becoming more open in Christianity and (arguably) more broad in Islam (which integrates the practitioners of the other two monotheistic religions in a socially acceptable framework).

    Therefore, there is hardly anything peculiar about the Judaic morality coinciding with some of the tenets of Christian morality. It is the same about Judaic and Muslim morality, or Muslim and Christian morality. And in some instances, Islam and Judaism are closer aligned, as RamBam himself quite clearly stated.

    So if we want to talk about the common Monotheistic morality, we should talk of Abrahamic or even Noahide morality, not a restrictive Judeo-Christian one which is a modern concept born out of the current situation in the Holy Land.

    There are arguably more contradictions between the teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Pharisee Rabbinical Judaism than between the Rabbinical Judaism teachings and the Muhammadan revelation. One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    Judaism is a part of Western civilization in a way that it is not in Islamic or Eastern civilization. There is no way to separate Western civ from its Christian roots and there is no way to fully separate Christianity from its Jewish roots.

    Christianity is more tightly tied to Judaism than Islam is because Christians literally worship a Jewish guy who regarded the Tanach as inerrant. The founder of Islam, otoh, violently clashed with Jews and was adamant that the Tanach got a ton wrong.

    Replies: @AP

    , @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk


    One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again
     
    You mean the handful of non Jewish Semites who survive the coming genocide of their accursed race?

    Eh, maybe. I'm not convinced.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @AnonfromTN
    @Bashibuzuk


    There are arguably more contradictions between the teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Pharisee Rabbinical Judaism than between the Rabbinical Judaism teachings and the Muhammadan revelation.
     
    True enough. I would like to point out that the morality of the Old and New Testament is very different. Quite a few stories in the Old Testament have clearly tribal overtones describing God-approved cheating and God-approved genocide. In contrast, New Testament is a lot more open-minded and mostly humanistic.

    BTW, the story of Jesus overturning the tables of money-changers and dove sellers in the Temple (“It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves”; Matthew 21:13) sounds remarkably applicable to the financial capitalism we are trying to survive through today.
  447. @sudden death
    @Gerard1234

    More detailed one week old info about this particular video from relatively sane pro-RF source:


    Yesterday, a well-known video with corpses in the landing was published. I'll tell you what's on it.

    It was taken at a tree grown landstrip above Stepove, I marked it on the map. In total, the operator walked, as OSINTers calculated, rougkly 444 meters, during which time 82 corpses were captured on video, and this is about half of that landstrip. Although there are controversial points there, there may be more bodies, but only this many are definitely identified.

    Most of the bodies belong to Russian soldiers, many are obviously Storms. There are also corpses of Ukrainians, in total, with a stretch, up to 10 people out of 82. There are two such examples in the screenshots: a helmet with blue electrical tape, as well as a corpse in Ukrainian pixel.

    The bodies in the landing had been accumulating for a long time, most likely from the very beginning of the assaults, that is, since October 2023. There are completely skeletonized remains, there are relatively fresh bodies, there are bodies in winter camouflage.

    As we can see, the treestrip was the gateway to Berdychi, but their assault was never successful. I think that this landing was targeted by artillery, and most of the losses here were from it. The assault groups came in and were covered with cassettes.

    The landscape, of course, is reminiscent of the First World War. However, this is not a treestrip; one of the subscribers spoke about another similar position from a completely different direction, where bodies also lay mixed up, but there they mainly came under machine gun fire. It’s just that not all videos are leaked onto the Internet, but this is what war really looks like, and this is the real level of losses in individual areas.
     

    https://t.me/artjockey/873

    Replies: @sudden death, @Gerard1234

    EDIT*However, this is not just only one single such treestrip at front;

  448. @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    The basic Abrahamic morality model is similar in the three varieties of the Abrahamic Monotheism. This is not surprising, given that it’s a “root and branches” belief system evolution. Basically, it’s “love God and love thy neighbour”. The notion of the “neighbour” is more restrictive in Judaism, becoming more open in Christianity and (arguably) more broad in Islam (which integrates the practitioners of the other two monotheistic religions in a socially acceptable framework).

    Therefore, there is hardly anything peculiar about the Judaic morality coinciding with some of the tenets of Christian morality. It is the same about Judaic and Muslim morality, or Muslim and Christian morality. And in some instances, Islam and Judaism are closer aligned, as RamBam himself quite clearly stated.

    So if we want to talk about the common Monotheistic morality, we should talk of Abrahamic or even Noahide morality, not a restrictive Judeo-Christian one which is a modern concept born out of the current situation in the Holy Land.

    There are arguably more contradictions between the teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Pharisee Rabbinical Judaism than between the Rabbinical Judaism teachings and the Muhammadan revelation. One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Greasy William, @AnonfromTN

    Judaism is a part of Western civilization in a way that it is not in Islamic or Eastern civilization. There is no way to separate Western civ from its Christian roots and there is no way to fully separate Christianity from its Jewish roots.

    Christianity is more tightly tied to Judaism than Islam is because Christians literally worship a Jewish guy who regarded the Tanach as inerrant. The founder of Islam, otoh, violently clashed with Jews and was adamant that the Tanach got a ton wrong.

    • Replies: @AP
    @Greasy William


    Judaism is a part of Western civilization
     
    Ashkenazi Jews are certainly a part of Western civilization. They are about 50% European by descent (as demonstrated by genetics), and even before secularization they had much European influence - the Yiddish language, after all, is a form of German with some Slavic and Hebrew words. After secularization they of course merged much further, particularly with secularized Europeans. Of course people like Larry David, or Zelensky, or historically speaking Mahler, Freud, etc. are or were more like their European neighbors than like Arabs.

    Non-European Jews seem to be closer to non-Europeans, however.

    I have written it before, but the Persians taught (or forced?) the Jews to abandon their original God and to worship the God worshipped by Persians, under the name of their old God. Jesus was His Son and incarnation. Ultimately, in this way, the God recognized by the Persians triumphed over the Greek gods.

    Under Roman rule, most of the Jews in what is now Israel converted to Christianity. Their descendants are the Palestinian Christians.

    After the Arab conquest, the invaders converted most of the native Christians to Islam and mixed with the converts. Their descendants are the Palestinian Muslims. *

    Did the remaining Jews revert to worship of their old God under Islamic rule? If so than their religion post-Islam is closer to Islam.


    *So the "purest" natives of Israel and the closest thing to truly indigenous ones, are the Palestinian Christians.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. XYZ

  449. @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    The basic Abrahamic morality model is similar in the three varieties of the Abrahamic Monotheism. This is not surprising, given that it’s a “root and branches” belief system evolution. Basically, it’s “love God and love thy neighbour”. The notion of the “neighbour” is more restrictive in Judaism, becoming more open in Christianity and (arguably) more broad in Islam (which integrates the practitioners of the other two monotheistic religions in a socially acceptable framework).

    Therefore, there is hardly anything peculiar about the Judaic morality coinciding with some of the tenets of Christian morality. It is the same about Judaic and Muslim morality, or Muslim and Christian morality. And in some instances, Islam and Judaism are closer aligned, as RamBam himself quite clearly stated.

    So if we want to talk about the common Monotheistic morality, we should talk of Abrahamic or even Noahide morality, not a restrictive Judeo-Christian one which is a modern concept born out of the current situation in the Holy Land.

    There are arguably more contradictions between the teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Pharisee Rabbinical Judaism than between the Rabbinical Judaism teachings and the Muhammadan revelation. One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Greasy William, @AnonfromTN

    One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again

    You mean the handful of non Jewish Semites who survive the coming genocide of their accursed race?

    Eh, maybe. I’m not convinced.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    Can you quote from the Bible about the Ishmael’s seed being accursed?

    If not, then it’s just you being (understandably) angry and haiting on the Arabs.

    And about the Judaism being an inherent part of the Western Civilization, RamBam and his ancestor, Rav Mimoun would have disagreed with you. You are probably too focused on the Ashkenazim branch of the Judaic tree. The Mizrahim and the Sefardim lived along the Arabs without a major religious persecution for centuries.

    Jacques Attali, himself a distant descendant of Rav Mimoun is writing approvingly of the coexistence of the Jews and Moslems in the medieval Andalusia. Unlike in Europe, where your Ashkenazim ancestors have experienced a progrom after pogrom at the hands of their Christian neighbours.

    And speaking of ancestry, do you agree with the matrilineal descent in Judaic bloodlines being important, because if you do, you should know that around 80% of current female Ashkeanzim lineages might well be of European Goyim ancestry.

    So if your argument against Ishmael (Abraham’s first born son) is that his mother wasn’t Jewish, then it might well be the case of most Ashkenazim Jews. If that makes him accursed, then what about them?

  450. A123 says: • Website
    @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    I don't think it's a bad term. The issue is that you can't say "Christian values" because if you do, people will automatically assume you are talking about religious Christian, particularly Evangelical, values. When you say "Judeo-Christian", you are talking about a semi secular model or morality that is based on both the Tanach as well as the New Testament.

    People on the far right really love to hate the Judeo-Christian term but I think the angst is misplaced.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @A123

    When you say “Judeo-Christian”, you are talking about a semi secular model or morality that is based on both the Tanach as well as the New Testament.

    The overlap is largely based on the Old Testament / Ten Commandments. I am not sure how you get to “secular”. Judeo-Christian values are akin to traditional Main Street values. I concede the common usage is not 100% religious.

    you can’t say “Christian values” because if you do, people will automatically assume you are talking about religious Christian, particularly Evangelical, values

    It is definitely context dependant. I use Christian values and Judeo-Christian values more or less interchangeably. However, others may mean less common, more extreme belief systems.

    People on the far right really love to hate the Judeo-Christian term but I think the angst is misplaced.

    Most of the angst I have seen, at least online, is from progressive Islamophiles. The “Open Borders” crowd in Europe despises traditional Judeo-Christian values. They are importing Muslims in an attempt to break Christians and Jews.

    PEACE 😇

  451. @Bashibuzuk
    @Greasy William

    The basic Abrahamic morality model is similar in the three varieties of the Abrahamic Monotheism. This is not surprising, given that it’s a “root and branches” belief system evolution. Basically, it’s “love God and love thy neighbour”. The notion of the “neighbour” is more restrictive in Judaism, becoming more open in Christianity and (arguably) more broad in Islam (which integrates the practitioners of the other two monotheistic religions in a socially acceptable framework).

    Therefore, there is hardly anything peculiar about the Judaic morality coinciding with some of the tenets of Christian morality. It is the same about Judaic and Muslim morality, or Muslim and Christian morality. And in some instances, Islam and Judaism are closer aligned, as RamBam himself quite clearly stated.

    So if we want to talk about the common Monotheistic morality, we should talk of Abrahamic or even Noahide morality, not a restrictive Judeo-Christian one which is a modern concept born out of the current situation in the Holy Land.

    There are arguably more contradictions between the teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Pharisee Rabbinical Judaism than between the Rabbinical Judaism teachings and the Muhammadan revelation. One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again.

    Replies: @Greasy William, @Greasy William, @AnonfromTN

    There are arguably more contradictions between the teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Pharisee Rabbinical Judaism than between the Rabbinical Judaism teachings and the Muhammadan revelation.

    True enough. I would like to point out that the morality of the Old and New Testament is very different. Quite a few stories in the Old Testament have clearly tribal overtones describing God-approved cheating and God-approved genocide. In contrast, New Testament is a lot more open-minded and mostly humanistic.

    BTW, the story of Jesus overturning the tables of money-changers and dove sellers in the Temple (“It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves”; Matthew 21:13) sounds remarkably applicable to the financial capitalism we are trying to survive through today.

  452. @A123
    @Derer


    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power
     
    There is certainly a Jew Hating politburo at the top doing damage. Thus includes post-Judaic apostates who have turned against their heritage. George IslamoSoros is the most obvious example of politburo antipathy targeting Jews. You can easily find other SJW Globalists who are part of the problem.

    The difficulty with this approach is that tiny numbers of elites are often very unrepresentative of their theoretically linked groups. How well does Not-The-President Biden reflect on Catholics? A small % of any group will be bad. Jamie Dimon is Greek Orthodox. Would you scorn all Orthodox because Jamie Dimon is scum?

    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups. The misbehaviour is not limited to a tiny number of elites. Grenade attacks and bombings are now common and it has a near 100% correlation to the presence of Islam. As I shared in the above graphic there is a strong correlation between Islam and rape in Germany.

    Even if one tries to "pick the good ones", letting them in is guaranteed to fail. They, or their children, can easily be captured by Jihadist radicalization. If you want a country with Christian values, keeping Muslims out is essential.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @A123, @AnonfromTN, @Derer

    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups.

    Ukies call themselves Christians. Lately in Russia Ukie terrorist attacks outnumber Islamic terrorist attacks by ~10:1. Do you see a connection to religion? Looks to me more like a connection to the scum of the Earth.

    • Replies: @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    Führer Zelensky, enemy of the Jews, is using terror. Are you surprised that neo-Nazi, Jew haters are both violent and unprincipled?

    Kiev is following a playbook developed by the Muslim colonists in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. So, even if they are not Islamists, Ukies are emulating Muslim morality.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Mikel

  453. A123 says: • Website
    @AnonfromTN
    @A123


    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups.
     
    Ukies call themselves Christians. Lately in Russia Ukie terrorist attacks outnumber Islamic terrorist attacks by ~10:1. Do you see a connection to religion? Looks to me more like a connection to the scum of the Earth.

    Replies: @A123

    Führer Zelensky, enemy of the Jews, is using terror. Are you surprised that neo-Nazi, Jew haters are both violent and unprincipled?

    Kiev is following a playbook developed by the Muslim colonists in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. So, even if they are not Islamists, Ukies are emulating Muslim morality.

    PEACE 😇

    • Troll: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Mikel
    @A123

    Talking about Judeo-Christians, it's official now. Johnson is Speaker of the House only thanks to the support he's just received from the Democrats. Even Nanci Pelosi voted for him, making him a genuine Uniparty speaker.

    This is exactly what I told you the other day was going to happen, instead of your catastrophic prediction of a Dem speaker who would go on to invalidate Trump's candidacy. But it's probably not going to have too much effect. MTG only got 11 Republican votes and the media, even on the right, will not make much of it, since Trump continues to have Johnson's back. Interestingly, one of the 11 Spartans is Ukrainian-American Spartz. Not sure what they are but it looks like she's a woman of principles.

    Replies: @A123

  454. AP says:
    @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    Judaism is a part of Western civilization in a way that it is not in Islamic or Eastern civilization. There is no way to separate Western civ from its Christian roots and there is no way to fully separate Christianity from its Jewish roots.

    Christianity is more tightly tied to Judaism than Islam is because Christians literally worship a Jewish guy who regarded the Tanach as inerrant. The founder of Islam, otoh, violently clashed with Jews and was adamant that the Tanach got a ton wrong.

    Replies: @AP

    Judaism is a part of Western civilization

    Ashkenazi Jews are certainly a part of Western civilization. They are about 50% European by descent (as demonstrated by genetics), and even before secularization they had much European influence – the Yiddish language, after all, is a form of German with some Slavic and Hebrew words. After secularization they of course merged much further, particularly with secularized Europeans. Of course people like Larry David, or Zelensky, or historically speaking Mahler, Freud, etc. are or were more like their European neighbors than like Arabs.

    Non-European Jews seem to be closer to non-Europeans, however.

    I have written it before, but the Persians taught (or forced?) the Jews to abandon their original God and to worship the God worshipped by Persians, under the name of their old God. Jesus was His Son and incarnation. Ultimately, in this way, the God recognized by the Persians triumphed over the Greek gods.

    Under Roman rule, most of the Jews in what is now Israel converted to Christianity. Their descendants are the Palestinian Christians.

    After the Arab conquest, the invaders converted most of the native Christians to Islam and mixed with the converts. Their descendants are the Palestinian Muslims. *

    Did the remaining Jews revert to worship of their old God under Islamic rule? If so than their religion post-Islam is closer to Islam.

    *So the “purest” natives of Israel and the closest thing to truly indigenous ones, are the Palestinian Christians.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @AP


    *So the “purest” natives of Israel and the closest thing to truly indigenous ones, are the Palestinian Christians
     
    What you wrote about the Christian Arabs in Palestine is of course true, but I would bet on the Samaritans as being even more aboriginal (so to speak). After all, theirs is the most archaic version of Judaism and they lived in the Holy Land since at least the Assyrian empire’s time.
    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP


    Non-European Jews seem to be closer to non-Europeans, however.

     

    A lot of Jews of Middle Eastern descent hate Muslims nowadays, though.

    Replies: @AP

  455. @LatW
    @Beckow


    We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe – almost nothing has changed in 80 years.
     
    This sounds awfully confident. We are still living in it? "Almost nothing has changed in 80 years?" LOL

    You don't feel that something is slightly changing though?

    And that the "liberal order" that has presided over Europe and that was rooted in this "victory" and which is a direct consequence of this "victory" - that something is happening to it...?

    Replies: @Beckow

    Euro countries and borders have been unchanged for 80 years. Few countries split up along their internal borders. This has never happened in Europe for that long. It was determined by WW2 – the winners kept what they won and the losers got used to it. Stability…The main beneficiaries in the national sense were the Slavs. Now we see a belated attempt at revisionism. As WW2 was an attempt at a revanche for the WW1 settlement.

    I am not an ideologue. The fanciful flights by the liberal-socialist-royalist-commie-libertarian dreamers into the world of ideas are a distraction, an entertainment of sorts. It has little impact on most people – some obsess about it, others are into building the new world, or “the new world order”, but it is not much present in most people’s lives.

    We adapt very quickly, the terms and slogans bandied around change, there is a lot of building and some destruction – prices are awarded, people clap. And the sun rises and we deal mostly with personal lives. The early Bolshies, fascists and current Westie uber-liberals are outliers: they want to change the personal. They will fail as always. Idiots.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Beckow


    Euro countries and borders have been unchanged for 80 years. Few countries split up along their internal borders. This has never happened in Europe for that long. It was determined by WW2 – the winners kept what they won and the losers got used to it. Stability…
     
    Of course, the Yalta consensus worked and the borders were relatively stable, even despite the collapse of the USSR and the deep sociopolitical changes in the Western world. But it feels like something bigger is happening, it's just hard to pinpoint what it really is. It seems that both the US and RusFed / former USSR have changed or are changing in a fundamental way. Is their power shrinking or not...?

    Maybe RusFed are trying to roll things back as much as they can to something resembling prior to the 1991 (or earlier?), but if the Yalta consensus crumbles, then how can they do that, if the pre-1991 was a part of Yalta? Maybe they want even more than that (Il'yn's program and such)?


    This has never happened in Europe for that long.
     
    The European nations have never been as ripe as nation states before (and solidified), as recent as the 19th century, Germany was still a grouping of feudal states. It is ironic, that so quickly after this ripening, the Euro states are once again compromising themselves with mass immigration.

    The early Bolshies, fascists and current Westie uber-liberals are outliers: they want to change the personal. They will fail as always. Idiots.
     
    Personal is difficult to change (especially in a truly free society), one cannot walk into every single household and change their mores (one can try), and if it succeeds, it can still take a very long time. Even the most oppressive power cannot change every single soul at will, even if they destroy a lot of souls. The soul is free even under physical and political oppression. Right now the attempt is to change the identity. But do we know where identity lies....?

    But you know how the second wave feminists used to say - "the personal is political". It seems like they're taking it from the political end and trying to push it on the personal level. The person then has the power to revert it back to them (as a personal, spiritual revolt).


    Then the Krauts went medieval on them. And it took the Russians to stop it. But now they hate the Russians. It is really confusing…
     
    They have a kind of a fluid, opportunistic MO (almost as a meta-ethnicity) - they stick with one group of Gentiles, then with another, depending on the situation. But they did have some stability in the Pale with our groups, had there been no outside interference, they would've been ok.

    Replies: @Coconuts, @Beckow

  456. @Mr. Hack
    @Mikhail

    Not according to Bashibuzuk, who is clearly no Putler ass-lick like you are:


    And yeah the mansion is his. Typical Noviop chic, as the Russian saying goes : чтобы смотрелось богато (it has to look rich).
     

    Replies: @Mikhail

    He says he isn’t a svidomite like you as well. As for the “Putin’s palace” hoopla, here’s one of numerous links:

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/team-navalnys-46824272

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mikhail

    Of course I am not a svidomyi. I’m not a Ukrainian, although I do have Ukrainian ancestry. I am not a Putin’s fan and I have never been one because Putin is pro-Noviop and anti-nationalist. Also, Putin is another pure (toxic) byproduct of the Yeltsin era.

    I have always disliked the man and often mocked him on UR and elsewhere even before the war, but now that he proved entirely annd lethally inept, I like him even less. My opinion is that Putin is bad for Russians and Slavs in general. Are the Noviop in Kiev any better? The answer is of course not. As the Russian saying goes: “борьба была равна, боролись два г…а”.

    https://youtu.be/DSRNZ1bxKIM?feature=shared

    Replies: @Mikhail, @QCIC

  457. LatW says:
    @John Johnson
    Tank on tank battle recorded:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St59nuOQwmo

    Though common in Hollywood movies the tank vs tank battle is actually rare in modern warfare.

    Replies: @LatW

    Here is unique night time footage of a Ukrainian manned Bradley destroying the latest version of the Russian T80. It probably succeeded because the Ukrainian commander was able and bold enough to ride up to it that close (400 meters). It used a Tow missile (some kind of a more potent version of the Javelin?). The most valuable asset in this whole picture is probably the Ukrainian commander / operator and his crew.

  458. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Beckow

    You left out the extermination of the Jews. Blamed on the Germans. That was even better than the iPhone.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …the extermination of the Jews. Blamed on the Germans.

    That is an interesting one, it happened. The only force that fought it was Russia (Red Army) and the local commies in those countries who were often Jewish. The Anglos literally didn’t move a finger. But now they talk…and talk…

    For most non-German Central-East Europeans it was a weird one. Our local Jews were famous Germano-philes, the main carriers of German culture, with German names they proudly chose, loyal to the German overlords like Habsburgs and dismissive of “nationalism” by all smaller nations – often they were the main force fighting it.

    Then the Krauts went medieval on them. And it took the Russians to stop it. But now they hate the Russians. It is really confusing…(But it happens, look at the Poles hating Russians with bloody passion – they wouldn’t exist today without them.)

  459. LatW says:
    @Beckow
    @LatW

    Euro countries and borders have been unchanged for 80 years. Few countries split up along their internal borders. This has never happened in Europe for that long. It was determined by WW2 - the winners kept what they won and the losers got used to it. Stability...The main beneficiaries in the national sense were the Slavs. Now we see a belated attempt at revisionism. As WW2 was an attempt at a revanche for the WW1 settlement.

    I am not an ideologue. The fanciful flights by the liberal-socialist-royalist-commie-libertarian dreamers into the world of ideas are a distraction, an entertainment of sorts. It has little impact on most people - some obsess about it, others are into building the new world, or "the new world order", but it is not much present in most people's lives.

    We adapt very quickly, the terms and slogans bandied around change, there is a lot of building and some destruction - prices are awarded, people clap. And the sun rises and we deal mostly with personal lives. The early Bolshies, fascists and current Westie uber-liberals are outliers: they want to change the personal. They will fail as always. Idiots.

    Replies: @LatW

    Euro countries and borders have been unchanged for 80 years. Few countries split up along their internal borders. This has never happened in Europe for that long. It was determined by WW2 – the winners kept what they won and the losers got used to it. Stability…

    Of course, the Yalta consensus worked and the borders were relatively stable, even despite the collapse of the USSR and the deep sociopolitical changes in the Western world. But it feels like something bigger is happening, it’s just hard to pinpoint what it really is. It seems that both the US and RusFed / former USSR have changed or are changing in a fundamental way. Is their power shrinking or not…?

    Maybe RusFed are trying to roll things back as much as they can to something resembling prior to the 1991 (or earlier?), but if the Yalta consensus crumbles, then how can they do that, if the pre-1991 was a part of Yalta? Maybe they want even more than that (Il’yn’s program and such)?

    This has never happened in Europe for that long.

    The European nations have never been as ripe as nation states before (and solidified), as recent as the 19th century, Germany was still a grouping of feudal states. It is ironic, that so quickly after this ripening, the Euro states are once again compromising themselves with mass immigration.

    The early Bolshies, fascists and current Westie uber-liberals are outliers: they want to change the personal. They will fail as always. Idiots.

    Personal is difficult to change (especially in a truly free society), one cannot walk into every single household and change their mores (one can try), and if it succeeds, it can still take a very long time. Even the most oppressive power cannot change every single soul at will, even if they destroy a lot of souls. The soul is free even under physical and political oppression. Right now the attempt is to change the identity. But do we know where identity lies….?

    But you know how the second wave feminists used to say – “the personal is political”. It seems like they’re taking it from the political end and trying to push it on the personal level. The person then has the power to revert it back to them (as a personal, spiritual revolt).

    Then the Krauts went medieval on them. And it took the Russians to stop it. But now they hate the Russians. It is really confusing…

    They have a kind of a fluid, opportunistic MO (almost as a meta-ethnicity) – they stick with one group of Gentiles, then with another, depending on the situation. But they did have some stability in the Pale with our groups, had there been no outside interference, they would’ve been ok.

    • Replies: @Coconuts
    @LatW


    But it feels like something bigger is happening, it’s just hard to pinpoint what it really is.
     
    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.



    I feel like something like that could be happening, at least in Britain, maybe France, other countries. Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.

    Even in the lives of individuals, especially people brought up in the post-68 world and imbued with that worldview, once you reach a certain age the narrative of liberation and emancipation seems to naturally become less central or at least open to question.

    There is a French sociologist/political philosopher, Marcel Gauchet, who wrote a famous book called 'The Disenchantment of the World' in the 1980s, a political history of religion from (I think) a Weberian perspective. After arguing that Christianity is the 'religion of the exit from religion', which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world, he wrote a four volume series called 'L’Avènement de la démocratie', about the characteristics of the world of democracy, the state and society that has gradually come to replace the old world of religion.

    I've been finding a lot in those books to think about, he seems to capture many features the trajectory of things that I might have had an intuitive sense of, but couldn't have consciously explained or put into context. I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era. The top of the museum was a kind of art gallery with contemporary secular and religious art. In some way it seemed like a material reflection of the kind of process Gauchet writes about, so this is on my mind at the moment.

    I don't have the last volume of L’Avènement de la démocratie that covers the post-1970 world yet, but I am guessing there will be something interesting related to what is happening at the moment in it.

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

    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @LatW

    , @Beckow
    @LatW


    ...But it feels like something bigger is happening...Is their power shrinking or not…?
     
    Whatever our differences I think most people on this forum agree. It is unsustainable and the power is floating in the air unmoored from anything substantial. In times like these focus matters and the West is fatally unfocused - there is no core and the constant lying and trying to control reality with propaganda backfires.

    Maybe RusFed are trying to roll things back...
     
    Only a figure of speech. Russia is trying to protect itself and as many Russians as it can. Any other nation would do the same. What matters is whether they can do it and it looks like they can.

    The West miscalculated with the Nato-in-Ukraine idiocy in order to put a knife on Russia's neck without thinking through what if Russia calls their bluff. A bad idea, but elites never like to admit to mistakes - so they blow smoke and play for time.


    Personal is difficult to change (especially in a truly free society), one cannot walk into every single household and change their mores... do we know where identity lies?
     
    What do we mean by free ? The chaos generated by the vacuous freedom talk is the best way for the 'personal' to change. We are at the mercy of the most stupid and irresponsible people in our societies - they have been liberated, but to most people it feels quite unfree.

    The West is busily stripping identity from everything and that can't end well.


    ...kind of a fluid, opportunistic MO (almost as a meta-ethnicity) – they stick with one group of Gentiles, then with another
     
    A good observation, but their flightiness can be disorienting. It has a whiff of unhinged opportunism about it. And opportunities are never unlimited.

    Replies: @LatW

  460. @A123
    @AnonfromTN

    Führer Zelensky, enemy of the Jews, is using terror. Are you surprised that neo-Nazi, Jew haters are both violent and unprincipled?

    Kiev is following a playbook developed by the Muslim colonists in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. So, even if they are not Islamists, Ukies are emulating Muslim morality.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Mikel

    Talking about Judeo-Christians, it’s official now. Johnson is Speaker of the House only thanks to the support he’s just received from the Democrats. Even Nanci Pelosi voted for him, making him a genuine Uniparty speaker.

    This is exactly what I told you the other day was going to happen, instead of your catastrophic prediction of a Dem speaker who would go on to invalidate Trump’s candidacy. But it’s probably not going to have too much effect. MTG only got 11 Republican votes and the media, even on the right, will not make much of it, since Trump continues to have Johnson’s back. Interestingly, one of the 11 Spartans is Ukrainian-American Spartz. Not sure what they are but it looks like she’s a woman of principles.

    • Replies: @A123
    @Mikel

    Your prediction that MTG would displace Johnson has been proven wrong.

    Exactly as I told you, it’s official now. Johnson is Speaker of the House only thanks to the support he’s just received from the Democrats. This is quite sad for Judeo-Christians in the short-term. However, it heads off the Constitutional crisis that would have resulted from your desired replacement of Johnson with Hakeem Jefferies.

    The long term picture for MAGA 2024 still looks solid. The documents case is functionally dead: (1)


    Judge in Trump Classified Documents
    Case Suspends Trial Indefinitely

     

    Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an order canceling the original trial date and suspending the trial proceedings pending resolution of multiple pre-trial issues. Lawfare is big mad.

    The date had been widely expected to move amid a tangle of pretrial conflicts between special counsel Jack Smith and Trump’s attorneys. Smith had urged Judge Aileen Cannon to reschedule the trial to begin on July 8, but an order from the judge on Tuesday afternoon suggested that she is unlikely to even decide on a new trial date before late July.

    […] “[F]inalization of a trial date at this juncture — before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and [classified evidence] issues … would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions,” Cannon wrote in the five-page order.
     


     
    Your precious RFKjr has no chance.

    Please let us know when to you are willing to follow Ron DeSantis's lead. It would be helpful if you abandoned your anti-MAGA extremism to build some bridges back to the strongest candidate.

    #LetsGoBrandon 😇
    ________________

    (1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/07/judge-in-trump-classified-documents-case-suspends-trial-indefinitely/

    Replies: @Mikel

  461. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk


    One should not be swayed by the Zeitgeist, in the long run the Semites might well get along again
     
    You mean the handful of non Jewish Semites who survive the coming genocide of their accursed race?

    Eh, maybe. I'm not convinced.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Can you quote from the Bible about the Ishmael’s seed being accursed?

    If not, then it’s just you being (understandably) angry and haiting on the Arabs.

    And about the Judaism being an inherent part of the Western Civilization, RamBam and his ancestor, Rav Mimoun would have disagreed with you. You are probably too focused on the Ashkenazim branch of the Judaic tree. The Mizrahim and the Sefardim lived along the Arabs without a major religious persecution for centuries.

    Jacques Attali, himself a distant descendant of Rav Mimoun is writing approvingly of the coexistence of the Jews and Moslems in the medieval Andalusia. Unlike in Europe, where your Ashkenazim ancestors have experienced a progrom after pogrom at the hands of their Christian neighbours.

    And speaking of ancestry, do you agree with the matrilineal descent in Judaic bloodlines being important, because if you do, you should know that around 80% of current female Ashkeanzim lineages might well be of European Goyim ancestry.

    So if your argument against Ishmael (Abraham’s first born son) is that his mother wasn’t Jewish, then it might well be the case of most Ashkenazim Jews. If that makes him accursed, then what about them?

  462. A123 says: • Website
    @Mikel
    @A123

    Talking about Judeo-Christians, it's official now. Johnson is Speaker of the House only thanks to the support he's just received from the Democrats. Even Nanci Pelosi voted for him, making him a genuine Uniparty speaker.

    This is exactly what I told you the other day was going to happen, instead of your catastrophic prediction of a Dem speaker who would go on to invalidate Trump's candidacy. But it's probably not going to have too much effect. MTG only got 11 Republican votes and the media, even on the right, will not make much of it, since Trump continues to have Johnson's back. Interestingly, one of the 11 Spartans is Ukrainian-American Spartz. Not sure what they are but it looks like she's a woman of principles.

    Replies: @A123

    Your prediction that MTG would displace Johnson has been proven wrong.

    Exactly as I told you, it’s official now. Johnson is Speaker of the House only thanks to the support he’s just received from the Democrats. This is quite sad for Judeo-Christians in the short-term. However, it heads off the Constitutional crisis that would have resulted from your desired replacement of Johnson with Hakeem Jefferies.

    The long term picture for MAGA 2024 still looks solid. The documents case is functionally dead: (1)

    Judge in Trump Classified Documents
    Case Suspends Trial Indefinitely

    Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an order canceling the original trial date and suspending the trial proceedings pending resolution of multiple pre-trial issues. Lawfare is big mad.

    The date had been widely expected to move amid a tangle of pretrial conflicts between special counsel Jack Smith and Trump’s attorneys. Smith had urged Judge Aileen Cannon to reschedule the trial to begin on July 8, but an order from the judge on Tuesday afternoon suggested that she is unlikely to even decide on a new trial date before late July.

    […] “[F]inalization of a trial date at this juncture — before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and [classified evidence] issues … would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions,” Cannon wrote in the five-page order.

    Your precious RFKjr has no chance.

    Please let us know when to you are willing to follow Ron DeSantis’s lead. It would be helpful if you abandoned your anti-MAGA extremism to build some bridges back to the strongest candidate.

    #LetsGoBrandon 😇
    ________________

    (1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/07/judge-in-trump-classified-documents-case-suspends-trial-indefinitely/

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @A123


    Please let us know when to you are willing to follow Ron DeSantis’s lead.
     
    You're just making it more and more difficult with your Judeo-Christian fantasies of predictions that were never made. It's difficult enough as it is, seeing that we're headed towards Uniparty policies no matter who wins in November. Why make it even harder to secure all the votes you're going to need?

    Btw, I still think Johnson is out in 2025, as I did predict if this happened. He's now tainted and I see that the Breitbart people, for example, are already mocking his "coalition government":

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/08/democrats-save-johnson-163-votes-to-continue-johnsons-coalition-government/

    That's if the Republicans keep the House, of course. I suspect many may decide that it's not worth it sending to DC the Uniparty candidates they're going to be offered by the GOP in their states.

    Replies: @A123

  463. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Mikhail
    @Mr. Hack

    He says he isn't a svidomite like you as well. As for the "Putin's palace" hoopla, here's one of numerous links:

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/team-navalnys-46824272

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Of course I am not a svidomyi. I’m not a Ukrainian, although I do have Ukrainian ancestry. I am not a Putin’s fan and I have never been one because Putin is pro-Noviop and anti-nationalist. Also, Putin is another pure (toxic) byproduct of the Yeltsin era.

    I have always disliked the man and often mocked him on UR and elsewhere even before the war, but now that he proved entirely annd lethally inept, I like him even less. My opinion is that Putin is bad for Russians and Slavs in general. Are the Noviop in Kiev any better? The answer is of course not. As the Russian saying goes: “борьба была равна, боролись два г…а”.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Bashibuzuk

    Of possible interest:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qgLYE6BOC8

    As for Putin, he noticeably divorced himself from the oligarchs who initially backed him as a safe replacement to Yeltsin. The record shows he has been quite reasonable regarding Ukraine when compared to the Kiev regime and its main backers.

    , @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    I appreciate all of the different informed views of Russians, Ukrainians, and everyone else here who is an "insider" to one degree or another.

    My concern is over the giant "military machines" on both sides (or all sides) which can be accidentally or purposefully unleashed in this sort of trouble. These military machines are under control until one day it turns out they are not. At that point the real dogs of war may run wild and no one will even remember why. After the many millions of corpses have been eaten by maggots, whoever has the megaphone will make up some crazy story to promote their agenda. I think the Ukraine mess is an extremely dangerous Western project and the West should stop it before it gets out of hand.

    As far as Russian and Ukrainian politicians are concerned how can an outsider possibly have an informed opinion of them? My opinions of Putin are limited to 1) He had a very difficult challenge as a statesman which he seems to have survived 2) As an extemporaneous speaker his skill seems very high and I think he is bright. Other than that, how would I know? I am reasonably convinced Zelensky is purely an actor and NOT a former actor who found his true calling and matured into a leader and statesman. Without knowing his boss I know nothing about what is really happening in Ukrainian politics. Putin may have some agency so maybe we have some insight into the Russian side of things.

    I assume that Putin does not plan war tactics and probably not even war strategy. The fact that media on all sides suggest that he does these things means nothing to me. He works with people who do those military jobs and some of them may be outside of his control.

    Putin is the leader or at least the public face of a large country with a giant nuclear arsenal. He is surrounded by crooks and criminals on all sides, inside and outside of the country. He may be one himself. Words of a politician are cheap and may not have much connection to the facts behind the scenes. For the most part what matters are actions, but it is a long game. It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Bashibuzuk

  464. Bashibuzuk says:
    @AP
    @Greasy William


    Judaism is a part of Western civilization
     
    Ashkenazi Jews are certainly a part of Western civilization. They are about 50% European by descent (as demonstrated by genetics), and even before secularization they had much European influence - the Yiddish language, after all, is a form of German with some Slavic and Hebrew words. After secularization they of course merged much further, particularly with secularized Europeans. Of course people like Larry David, or Zelensky, or historically speaking Mahler, Freud, etc. are or were more like their European neighbors than like Arabs.

    Non-European Jews seem to be closer to non-Europeans, however.

    I have written it before, but the Persians taught (or forced?) the Jews to abandon their original God and to worship the God worshipped by Persians, under the name of their old God. Jesus was His Son and incarnation. Ultimately, in this way, the God recognized by the Persians triumphed over the Greek gods.

    Under Roman rule, most of the Jews in what is now Israel converted to Christianity. Their descendants are the Palestinian Christians.

    After the Arab conquest, the invaders converted most of the native Christians to Islam and mixed with the converts. Their descendants are the Palestinian Muslims. *

    Did the remaining Jews revert to worship of their old God under Islamic rule? If so than their religion post-Islam is closer to Islam.


    *So the "purest" natives of Israel and the closest thing to truly indigenous ones, are the Palestinian Christians.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. XYZ

    *So the “purest” natives of Israel and the closest thing to truly indigenous ones, are the Palestinian Christians

    What you wrote about the Christian Arabs in Palestine is of course true, but I would bet on the Samaritans as being even more aboriginal (so to speak). After all, theirs is the most archaic version of Judaism and they lived in the Holy Land since at least the Assyrian empire’s time.

    • Agree: AP
  465. @A123
    @Mikel

    Your prediction that MTG would displace Johnson has been proven wrong.

    Exactly as I told you, it’s official now. Johnson is Speaker of the House only thanks to the support he’s just received from the Democrats. This is quite sad for Judeo-Christians in the short-term. However, it heads off the Constitutional crisis that would have resulted from your desired replacement of Johnson with Hakeem Jefferies.

    The long term picture for MAGA 2024 still looks solid. The documents case is functionally dead: (1)


    Judge in Trump Classified Documents
    Case Suspends Trial Indefinitely

     

    Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an order canceling the original trial date and suspending the trial proceedings pending resolution of multiple pre-trial issues. Lawfare is big mad.

    The date had been widely expected to move amid a tangle of pretrial conflicts between special counsel Jack Smith and Trump’s attorneys. Smith had urged Judge Aileen Cannon to reschedule the trial to begin on July 8, but an order from the judge on Tuesday afternoon suggested that she is unlikely to even decide on a new trial date before late July.

    […] “[F]inalization of a trial date at this juncture — before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and [classified evidence] issues … would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions,” Cannon wrote in the five-page order.
     


     
    Your precious RFKjr has no chance.

    Please let us know when to you are willing to follow Ron DeSantis's lead. It would be helpful if you abandoned your anti-MAGA extremism to build some bridges back to the strongest candidate.

    #LetsGoBrandon 😇
    ________________

    (1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/07/judge-in-trump-classified-documents-case-suspends-trial-indefinitely/

    Replies: @Mikel

    Please let us know when to you are willing to follow Ron DeSantis’s lead.

    You’re just making it more and more difficult with your Judeo-Christian fantasies of predictions that were never made. It’s difficult enough as it is, seeing that we’re headed towards Uniparty policies no matter who wins in November. Why make it even harder to secure all the votes you’re going to need?

    Btw, I still think Johnson is out in 2025, as I did predict if this happened. He’s now tainted and I see that the Breitbart people, for example, are already mocking his “coalition government”:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/08/democrats-save-johnson-163-votes-to-continue-johnsons-coalition-government/

    That’s if the Republicans keep the House, of course. I suspect many may decide that it’s not worth it sending to DC the Uniparty candidates they’re going to be offered by the GOP in their states.

    • Replies: @A123
    @Mikel

    Why do you keep trying to fabricate predictions that I never made? It is clearly not working for your #NeverTrump extremism. You are just proving to everyone that you are a deranged prevaricator.

    Remember the "YellowFaceAnon Rule":

    ==========================
        If you tell me what I think,
    I get to tell you what you think.
    ==========================

    Outright lying about my positions is a losing option for you.


    I still think Johnson is out in 2025
     
    I concur. The current situation is unworkable as RINO's can roll the Speaker. Keeping Johnson for the short-term is the least bad option to avoid a Constitutional crisis, not a particularly good one.

    As long as your Leftoid RFKjr does not bring Dems into the House, MAGA should be able to replace Johnson in 2025.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @John Johnson

  466. @AP
    @AnonfromTN


    Like Bandera, who was torturing and murdering cats in his younger days
     
    Bandera was a bad man, but this claim comes from Soviet propaganda, and was repeated by Buzina (amusingly, one of Bandera’s followers in a biography about Bandera wrote that if he did it, it was as a way of testing himself and not out of sadism). It’s a rather dubious story. It’s funny that Soviet Sharikovs would spread a story about Bandera suffocating cats. But of course you would automatically believe it.

    Lenin supposedly really enjoyed clubbing rabbits to death.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    this claim comes from Soviet propaganda

    one of Bandera’s followers in a biography about Bandera wrote that if he did it, it was as a way of testing himself and not out of sadism

    Lenin supposedly really enjoyed clubbing rabbits to death.

    Classical Ukie response, literally following Russian joke:

    A woman comes to her neighbor asking to return the pot she borrowed. The neighbor answers:
    – First, I never borrowed it. Second, I returned it a long time ago. Third, it was cracked.

    Bravo!

    • Replies: @AP
    @AnonfromTN

    Clever for the first two, though the last one doesn't match.

    Anyways, the story about Bandera killing cats just comes from Soviet propaganda.

  467. A123 says: • Website
    @Mikel
    @A123


    Please let us know when to you are willing to follow Ron DeSantis’s lead.
     
    You're just making it more and more difficult with your Judeo-Christian fantasies of predictions that were never made. It's difficult enough as it is, seeing that we're headed towards Uniparty policies no matter who wins in November. Why make it even harder to secure all the votes you're going to need?

    Btw, I still think Johnson is out in 2025, as I did predict if this happened. He's now tainted and I see that the Breitbart people, for example, are already mocking his "coalition government":

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/08/democrats-save-johnson-163-votes-to-continue-johnsons-coalition-government/

    That's if the Republicans keep the House, of course. I suspect many may decide that it's not worth it sending to DC the Uniparty candidates they're going to be offered by the GOP in their states.

    Replies: @A123

    Why do you keep trying to fabricate predictions that I never made? It is clearly not working for your #NeverTrump extremism. You are just proving to everyone that you are a deranged prevaricator.

    Remember the “YellowFaceAnon Rule”:

    ==========================
        If you tell me what I think,
    I get to tell you what you think.
    ==========================

    Outright lying about my positions is a losing option for you.

    I still think Johnson is out in 2025

    I concur. The current situation is unworkable as RINO’s can roll the Speaker. Keeping Johnson for the short-term is the least bad option to avoid a Constitutional crisis, not a particularly good one.

    As long as your Leftoid RFKjr does not bring Dems into the House, MAGA should be able to replace Johnson in 2025.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @A123

    As long as your Leftoid RFKjr does not bring Dems into the House, MAGA should be able to replace Johnson in 2025.

    You are the most deluded person here and that says quite a lot.

    The collapsing pro-Putin wing led by Moscow Marge was outvoted.

    Johnson is safe.

    Trump wants a lackey and Johnson has proven himself in that role.

    Why would MAGA remove him? How would they do that?

    It was Trump and Johnson that hammered out the Ukraine/Israel/Defense Industry porktacular bill. Draining the swamp and then filling it.

    The average MAGA rep is just as confused as yourself and will do whatever Trump tells him.

    Or Biden wins and the Democrats keep Johnson until the war is over. Or they take the House and give him the boot under some new excuse.

    Moscow Marge made her move and it failed......as predicted. She is just a frustrated PTA mom that is in over her head. Putin's defenders have a very consistent pattern in that they don't like having to explain themselves. Marge has crazy Qanon/Jewish world conspiracy beliefs which is why simple questions elude her. A total dingbat that completely lacks any sense of political strategy. What was the point of this vote? She knew it would fail.

    As long as your Leftoid RFKjr does not bring Dems into the House, MAGA should be able to replace Johnson in 2025.

    Polls show that RFK has no chance but takes more voters from Trump than Biden.

    Another reason that Trump should go home and let a moderate Republican win to remove Biden.

  468. @LatW
    @songbird


    Heard someone once praise Europa, but I have never seen one of his movies.
     
    Not even Dogville? It was not bad. Haven't seen Europa, but might be interesting (you can see some of his visual signature there that is the same in other movies). But one has to be careful with these (also, his paternity is not clear).

    It has been propagandized ad nauseum (am talking about really dumb stuff, documentaries which seem designed for political ends) that I immediately fear any treatment will be more propaganda
     
    I'd be hard pressed to think of any American or Russian/Soviet made WWII movie that is not heavily propagandized (in the case of Hollywood, to the point of farce sometimes).

    Anyway, didn't mean to bring up this topic, even on this date, but the Euro made ones are slightly different, as they are meant first for the home audience and not to propagandize the world. Of course, there will be some politics even in these (these Finnish ones are interesting in the way that they treat the "average soldier" who is often heroic, typically a salt of the earth guy, in opposition to the military leadership and all outside powers). Anyway, didn't mean to push this topic, just wanted to run a few titles by you of movies that are very well known in Europe, since you said you hadn't seen any Finnish ones.

    Perhaps, something Finnish would be more tolerable than the general.
     
    These are very different from American and Russian made ones. But to be fully honest, I'm not sure that those who have not fought the Soviet Union are even able to relate to all the nuances there.

    If I controlled censorship, I would honestly probably ban them.
     
    These are just about the complexity of life, depending on how you treat these movies - as simply a description of the culture that is already in place and the social changes that have already transpired or as an attempt to change culture.

    One of the priorities of any censorship should be to make sure morally hygienic romances are produced for women and girls.
     
    Honestly, women and girls don't really need all these movies because for them, romance lives in their heads anyway. Movies don't really have that much power to change women's lives and their internal world.

    Anyway, I found one that's somewhat interesting called The White Reindeer (from 1952). It has some trippy visuals.

    Btw, there are stereotypes in American movies not just about Russians, but other ethnicities as well.

    Replies: @songbird

    Not even Dogville?

    Almost thought I read the blurb many years ago, but turns out that was Lords of Dogtown. (Which I also never watched)

    [MORE]

    To tell you truthfully, would say I am not into artsy movies. For my part, I have a hard time believing that you never saw a Steven Seagall film. I half-believe, as Gerard hints, that you were an extra in one shot in Latvia.

    I’d be hard pressed to think of any American or Russian/Soviet made WWII movie that is not heavily propagandized

    even the war in the Pacific often seems to take on woke connotations nowadays. Clint made that movie where he had Americans massacre captured Japs on Iwo Jima, which I found to be pretty ridiculous. Might have happened elsewhere, but seems essentially fictitious there, IMO. (And there are obvious racial undertones.)

    These are just about the complexity of life,

    Now this is part of the difficulty of making good romance. You don’t want to make everything a fairy tail, or a happy ending.

    A moral movie could be one that encourages wistfulness or makes one seize opportunities rather than let them glide by. Or one which prepares someone for rejection and inures them to it.

    Honestly, women and girls don’t really need all these movies because for them, romance lives in their heads anyway. Movies don’t really have that much power to change women’s lives and their internal world.

    I guess I am a propagandist at heart. I like the idea of Rightist messaging, and outteach. A lot of what exists out there is so terrible, so I almost think of it like low-hanging fruit.

    The progs want to make expensive action movies with the girl being some superhero – am sure they don’t want to see that. They want a good romance, and those can be cheap to make.

    Btw, there are stereotypes in American movies not just about Russians, but other ethnicities as well.

    have a hard time thinking of other Hollywood national stereotypes. Other than evil German.

    The Russians I have mostly thought of as poorly written plot devices. Impersonal creations, but I am not sure what to think about it anymore. Maybe, I was naive about that.

    Mostly think of Hollywood stereotypes in these terms:
    1.) Smart/genius/good blacks
    2.) Dumb/ bad Southerners

    • Replies: @LatW
    @songbird


    For my part, I have a hard time believing that you never saw a Steven Seagall film.
     
    I haven't (I swear), ofc, I had heard of him and that there used to be a hype around him (but not more so than the other of the most popular ones), but he never got on my radar (it may have been on when I was in the room but I haven't purposefully watched one). Btw, we're talking about a specific post-USSR 1990s phenomenon here - the martial arts movie craze.

    It was not the type of entertainment I sought out, but my dad watched some of those so they were on, but he mostly watched them only as a pass time, he was not into that stuff all that much. I do remember Van Damme's splits. I think I remember glimpses of Highlander as well. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But those are somewhat different.

    There is a funny repeating theme in these martial arts movies that we call the "one man show" - that we always laughed about - where the main hero fights with a ton of opponents and always wins. As in, is able to fight off every single one of them all by himself. I understand that it's this guy thing, but it's just so unrealistic and yet they put it in all these movies, what's up with that - can you explain it? :)

    Usually, in movies that are more of a hero's quest, the hero does fight off challengers and overcomes hurdles, in the end wins, but does not fight so many at once. I guess it's more individualistic.

    Btw, there is a whole Russian so called boyevik genre out there (men's movies with a ton of fighting, car chases, etc), just countless of them (with bad ass dialogue that's mostly somewhat shallow but sometimes there are detective elements which can be fun). Often involving some Caucasian gangs and good Russian cops (but that must be different now, now that Ahmat is sila - meaning you can probably no longer portray the Chechens in a bad light as they dead during the "terror" years).


    I half-believe, as Gerard hints, that you were an extra in one shot in Latvia.
     
    Just an extra? Why would you downgrade me like that? Jk. :) My sister could've made a good extra for ninjas though, since she was able to all kinds of summersaults with her long legs, etc. It wasn't Stallone that filmed in Latvia, btw, it was the Justice League, mixed those up. It was in an abandoned Soviet military village. :)

    even the war in the Pacific often seems to take on woke connotations nowadays.
     
    Isn't it great that there is the old, pre-woke era movie archive? They should make sure the wokes do not destroy it out of spite. Like they do with the monuments.

    Clint made that movie where he had Americans massacre captured Japs on Iwo Jima
     
    Haven't seen that one, but how do they even know, unless it's well researched through soldier's diaries, and even that would be rare. These Hollywood movies should be used as research projects - where every time you see something like that, you go into the library and check if it's true (from multiple sources). These movies should have footnotes all over them.

    Now this is part of the difficulty of making good romance. You don’t want to make everything a fairy tail, or a happy ending.
     
    Well, it depends on the purpose of the movie - to just entertain and help one relax, that's when people will want a happy ending, but if it's for reflexion, introspection, that's different. This particular movie, The Wait, was not really a romance, but a drama, in the end, the wife reconnects with her husband, after a rather complex journey and some pain, even if there is no longer fidelity, there is love and loyalty, maybe a new appreciation, because marriage is typically quite long, it's possible there could be a crisis at some point, so the right message is to deliberate, to not rush decisions, so it was not a bad message.

    I like the idea of Rightist messaging, and outteach.
     
    Well, some messaging would be ok, but you won't be able to control your women - not in the way you imagine, I'm assuming. You just have to give them some options and hope they take the better ones (they're not dumb). A considerable number of men, too, are out of control, so it would have to start with them. Although men could fall in the line if women change their behavior. But many people seem to prefer things as they are.

    have a hard time thinking of other Hollywood national stereotypes. Other than evil German.
     
    Yea, but they take that one so far. There is also the dull Scandinavian dressed in a sweater and living in a wood cabin (backward - when it's the opposite in real life), but those are rarely featured. Btw, the timid Asian woman is a myth, too (I've heard that from some dudes that date them that they can be quite controlling and willful).

    The Russians I have mostly thought of as poorly written plot devices.
     
    When they want to show something brutal, they introduce a Russian guy? Or sometimes the opposite - they have the artsy Russian boyfriend (like, remember what's her name in the Sex and the City was dating Barishnikov, but you probably didn't watch that show, lol). The portrayal is not always too close to real life. :)

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird

  469. @LatW
    @songbird


    Would really like to see the Mongols mount some peaceful expedition upon their small, hardy horses from Karakorum onward to the capitals of Europe, to discombulate the PoCs thereabouts, and warn of the coming hard times.
     
    Which Asian despot would you prefer to deal with the PoCs in the US?

    Have you watched Marco Polo (the Netflix series)? Not sure how accurate it is, but it portrays Kublai Khan, Genghis' grandson, in a somewhat flattering light. A strong fellow.

    Replies: @songbird

    Which Asian despot would you prefer to deal with the PoCs in the US

    would like to see Genghis redeem himself in the name of civilization. And he commands great loyalty among the Mongols to this day, so would have a loyal corps behind him.

    But seriously, I think Mongols are too urbanized these days and they have been somewhat dispirited by Chinese colonization (Inner) and on the other side (Outer), the regime did a lot of damage to their culture.

    Have you watched Marco Polo (the Netflix series)?

    saw the first episode, but I heard they cancelled it. I like things to have a beginning, middle, and end, though, and I don’t think they manage that too well in long series, so I might not have liked it very much anyway.

    Some Frenchman once wrote a novel about the Mongols in the style of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Heard it was very popular in Mongolia. The Blue Standard of the Blue Mongols. Perhaps, I should try looking it up.

  470. @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2.
     
    Considering the alternative of being exterminated by the Germans - as Anglos were pussy-foot in distance and do nothing - Poland did quite well. A large consolidated Poland with added Silesia, Pomerania, half of East Prussia. A demographic boom: Poland went from 23 million to 40 million under the commies. No ethnic minorities - 7 to 8 million Germans were sent packing with hundreds of thousands killed. Peace and prosperity - one can argue that post-WW2 Poland was in its best shape in history with the highest living standards.

    Germany? Shrunken occupied rump-state where the PM can't go to the bathroom without permission 80 years after the war. 10 million dead Germans and the loss of 1/4 of territory. Today Germany has the same population as it did in 1939 - and about a quarter are new immigrants.

    One interesting fact about WW2: Germany started colonization of Crimea and a few Ukie regions in 1942-43: they sent a few thousand farmers - that's how much they wanted it. They still do, it is an obsession.

    Clearly Germany and its allies lost. We are living in the post-WW2 settlement of Europe - almost nothing has changed in 80 years. The biggest winners were the Slav states, they gained territory, expelled Germans, became strong national states. That is something the German-philic Anglos can't stand, so they stir up shit in Eastern Europe - and the submissive Germans eagerly assist. But it looks like they will lose again...what then?

    Replies: @LatW, @Emil Nikola Richard, @John Johnson

    …I don’t see Poland as a winner in WW2.

    Considering the alternative of being exterminated by the Germans – as Anglos were pussy-foot in distance and do nothing – Poland did quite well.

    Which would fit my full description of them being a survivor on the winning side.

    They were better off before the war. Gaining East Prussia was not worth losing at least 40,000 intellectuals.

    A demographic boom: Poland went from 23 million to 40 million under the commies.

    The US population also grew after WW2. Having sex is not a Communist accomplishment.

    Germany? Shrunken occupied rump-state where the PM can’t go to the bathroom without permission 80 years after the war.

    No one is suggesting Germany won.

    I pointed out that Germany lost land but Poland lost a lot of intellectuals. I’m not convinced it was a net positive trade off. Poland already had plenty of land in 1939.

    Germany obviously lost the war but West Germany was a world economic leader within 10 years and they outproduced most the capitalist Allies in 1960:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_largest_historical_GDP

    That’s pretty amazing given that they were bombed into rubble.

    The biggest winners were the Slav states, they gained territory, expelled Germans, became strong national states.

    I would not describe Poland or Belarus as big winners.

    Poland suffered dysgenically from both Nazi and Soviet rule. Both Hitler and Stalin wanted to grind them down as a people. Stalin was embarrassed by the Germans revealing the Katyn massacre.

    Belarus never fully recovered from the war. They most likely depended on Jewish intellectuals more than Poland. They are now a low population, low GDP totalitarian state. Their GDP per capita is below Mexico.

  471. Mikhail says: • Website
    @Bashibuzuk
    @Mikhail

    Of course I am not a svidomyi. I’m not a Ukrainian, although I do have Ukrainian ancestry. I am not a Putin’s fan and I have never been one because Putin is pro-Noviop and anti-nationalist. Also, Putin is another pure (toxic) byproduct of the Yeltsin era.

    I have always disliked the man and often mocked him on UR and elsewhere even before the war, but now that he proved entirely annd lethally inept, I like him even less. My opinion is that Putin is bad for Russians and Slavs in general. Are the Noviop in Kiev any better? The answer is of course not. As the Russian saying goes: “борьба была равна, боролись два г…а”.

    https://youtu.be/DSRNZ1bxKIM?feature=shared

    Replies: @Mikhail, @QCIC

    Of possible interest:

    As for Putin, he noticeably divorced himself from the oligarchs who initially backed him as a safe replacement to Yeltsin. The record shows he has been quite reasonable regarding Ukraine when compared to the Kiev regime and its main backers.

  472. Derer says:
    @A123
    @Derer


    Isn’t present America damaged by the Jewish politburo sitting at the wheel of power
     
    There is certainly a Jew Hating politburo at the top doing damage. Thus includes post-Judaic apostates who have turned against their heritage. George IslamoSoros is the most obvious example of politburo antipathy targeting Jews. You can easily find other SJW Globalists who are part of the problem.

    The difficulty with this approach is that tiny numbers of elites are often very unrepresentative of their theoretically linked groups. How well does Not-The-President Biden reflect on Catholics? A small % of any group will be bad. Jamie Dimon is Greek Orthodox. Would you scorn all Orthodox because Jamie Dimon is scum?

    The violence problem in Europe shows that the % of bad actors among Muslims is much higher that other groups. The misbehaviour is not limited to a tiny number of elites. Grenade attacks and bombings are now common and it has a near 100% correlation to the presence of Islam. As I shared in the above graphic there is a strong correlation between Islam and rape in Germany.

    Even if one tries to "pick the good ones", letting them in is guaranteed to fail. They, or their children, can easily be captured by Jihadist radicalization. If you want a country with Christian values, keeping Muslims out is essential.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @A123, @AnonfromTN, @Derer

    I admit there is a prevalence of Muslim terrorism, however it is a response to the Washington and some European morons sticking their biased noses to ME affairs. They artificially making Israel a viable country by unlimited money flow and arms. Muslim are not in US leadership but Jews are. BTW, Begin and others were anti-British terrorists long before Muslims adopted their methods.

    Even Saddam dealt with Muslim fundamentalists much more efficient way than Washington invaders. His removal in addition to Lebanon, Syria farce and subsequent exodus to Europe just increased terrorism. I am starting to think that Washington politburo subtle activities are implemented to damage Europe. They are not friends but competitors.

    My support for Trump is fading, I was impressed with his 2016 inaugural program, which he failed to implement. His present one-sided policies on ME will lose his election. The antisemitism is on the rise. Gore lost to (9:1 odds) Bush because his VP candidate was Lieberman and that was long time ago.

  473. @A123
    @Mikel

    Why do you keep trying to fabricate predictions that I never made? It is clearly not working for your #NeverTrump extremism. You are just proving to everyone that you are a deranged prevaricator.

    Remember the "YellowFaceAnon Rule":

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        If you tell me what I think,
    I get to tell you what you think.
    ==========================

    Outright lying about my positions is a losing option for you.


    I still think Johnson is out in 2025
     
    I concur. The current situation is unworkable as RINO's can roll the Speaker. Keeping Johnson for the short-term is the least bad option to avoid a Constitutional crisis, not a particularly good one.

    As long as your Leftoid RFKjr does not bring Dems into the House, MAGA should be able to replace Johnson in 2025.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @John Johnson

    As long as your Leftoid RFKjr does not bring Dems into the House, MAGA should be able to replace Johnson in 2025.

    You are the most deluded person here and that says quite a lot.

    The collapsing pro-Putin wing led by Moscow Marge was outvoted.

    Johnson is safe.

    Trump wants a lackey and Johnson has proven himself in that role.

    Why would MAGA remove him? How would they do that?

    It was Trump and Johnson that hammered out the Ukraine/Israel/Defense Industry porktacular bill. Draining the swamp and then filling it.

    The average MAGA rep is just as confused as yourself and will do whatever Trump tells him.

    Or Biden wins and the Democrats keep Johnson until the war is over. Or they take the House and give him the boot under some new excuse.

    Moscow Marge made her move and it failed……as predicted. She is just a frustrated PTA mom that is in over her head. Putin’s defenders have a very consistent pattern in that they don’t like having to explain themselves. Marge has crazy Qanon/Jewish world conspiracy beliefs which is why simple questions elude her. A total dingbat that completely lacks any sense of political strategy. What was the point of this vote? She knew it would fail.

    As long as your Leftoid RFKjr does not bring Dems into the House, MAGA should be able to replace Johnson in 2025.

    Polls show that RFK has no chance but takes more voters from Trump than Biden.

    Another reason that Trump should go home and let a moderate Republican win to remove Biden.

  474. LatW says:
    @songbird
    @LatW


    Not even Dogville?
     
    Almost thought I read the blurb many years ago, but turns out that was Lords of Dogtown. (Which I also never watched)

    To tell you truthfully, would say I am not into artsy movies. For my part, I have a hard time believing that you never saw a Steven Seagall film. I half-believe, as Gerard hints, that you were an extra in one shot in Latvia.

    I’d be hard pressed to think of any American or Russian/Soviet made WWII movie that is not heavily propagandized
     
    even the war in the Pacific often seems to take on woke connotations nowadays. Clint made that movie where he had Americans massacre captured Japs on Iwo Jima, which I found to be pretty ridiculous. Might have happened elsewhere, but seems essentially fictitious there, IMO. (And there are obvious racial undertones.)

    These are just about the complexity of life,
     
    Now this is part of the difficulty of making good romance. You don't want to make everything a fairy tail, or a happy ending.

    A moral movie could be one that encourages wistfulness or makes one seize opportunities rather than let them glide by. Or one which prepares someone for rejection and inures them to it.

    Honestly, women and girls don’t really need all these movies because for them, romance lives in their heads anyway. Movies don’t really have that much power to change women’s lives and their internal world.
     
    I guess I am a propagandist at heart. I like the idea of Rightist messaging, and outteach. A lot of what exists out there is so terrible, so I almost think of it like low-hanging fruit.

    The progs want to make expensive action movies with the girl being some superhero - am sure they don't want to see that. They want a good romance, and those can be cheap to make.

    Btw, there are stereotypes in American movies not just about Russians, but other ethnicities as well.
     
    have a hard time thinking of other Hollywood national stereotypes. Other than evil German.

    The Russians I have mostly thought of as poorly written plot devices. Impersonal creations, but I am not sure what to think about it anymore. Maybe, I was naive about that.

    Mostly think of Hollywood stereotypes in these terms:
    1.) Smart/genius/good blacks
    2.) Dumb/ bad Southerners

    Replies: @LatW

    For my part, I have a hard time believing that you never saw a Steven Seagall film.

    I haven’t (I swear), ofc, I had heard of him and that there used to be a hype around him (but not more so than the other of the most popular ones), but he never got on my radar (it may have been on when I was in the room but I haven’t purposefully watched one). Btw, we’re talking about a specific post-USSR 1990s phenomenon here – the martial arts movie craze.

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    It was not the type of entertainment I sought out, but my dad watched some of those so they were on, but he mostly watched them only as a pass time, he was not into that stuff all that much. I do remember Van Damme’s splits. I think I remember glimpses of Highlander as well. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But those are somewhat different.

    There is a funny repeating theme in these martial arts movies that we call the “one man show” – that we always laughed about – where the main hero fights with a ton of opponents and always wins. As in, is able to fight off every single one of them all by himself. I understand that it’s this guy thing, but it’s just so unrealistic and yet they put it in all these movies, what’s up with that – can you explain it? 🙂

    Usually, in movies that are more of a hero’s quest, the hero does fight off challengers and overcomes hurdles, in the end wins, but does not fight so many at once. I guess it’s more individualistic.

    Btw, there is a whole Russian so called boyevik genre out there (men’s movies with a ton of fighting, car chases, etc), just countless of them (with bad ass dialogue that’s mostly somewhat shallow but sometimes there are detective elements which can be fun). Often involving some Caucasian gangs and good Russian cops (but that must be different now, now that Ahmat is sila – meaning you can probably no longer portray the Chechens in a bad light as they dead during the “terror” years).

    I half-believe, as Gerard hints, that you were an extra in one shot in Latvia.

    Just an extra? Why would you downgrade me like that? Jk. 🙂 My sister could’ve made a good extra for ninjas though, since she was able to all kinds of summersaults with her long legs, etc. It wasn’t Stallone that filmed in Latvia, btw, it was the Justice League, mixed those up. It was in an abandoned Soviet military village. 🙂

    even the war in the Pacific often seems to take on woke connotations nowadays.

    Isn’t it great that there is the old, pre-woke era movie archive? They should make sure the wokes do not destroy it out of spite. Like they do with the monuments.

    Clint made that movie where he had Americans massacre captured Japs on Iwo Jima

    Haven’t seen that one, but how do they even know, unless it’s well researched through soldier’s diaries, and even that would be rare. These Hollywood movies should be used as research projects – where every time you see something like that, you go into the library and check if it’s true (from multiple sources). These movies should have footnotes all over them.

    Now this is part of the difficulty of making good romance. You don’t want to make everything a fairy tail, or a happy ending.

    Well, it depends on the purpose of the movie – to just entertain and help one relax, that’s when people will want a happy ending, but if it’s for reflexion, introspection, that’s different. This particular movie, The Wait, was not really a romance, but a drama, in the end, the wife reconnects with her husband, after a rather complex journey and some pain, even if there is no longer fidelity, there is love and loyalty, maybe a new appreciation, because marriage is typically quite long, it’s possible there could be a crisis at some point, so the right message is to deliberate, to not rush decisions, so it was not a bad message.

    I like the idea of Rightist messaging, and outteach.

    Well, some messaging would be ok, but you won’t be able to control your women – not in the way you imagine, I’m assuming. You just have to give them some options and hope they take the better ones (they’re not dumb). A considerable number of men, too, are out of control, so it would have to start with them. Although men could fall in the line if women change their behavior. But many people seem to prefer things as they are.

    have a hard time thinking of other Hollywood national stereotypes. Other than evil German.

    Yea, but they take that one so far. There is also the dull Scandinavian dressed in a sweater and living in a wood cabin (backward – when it’s the opposite in real life), but those are rarely featured. Btw, the timid Asian woman is a myth, too (I’ve heard that from some dudes that date them that they can be quite controlling and willful).

    The Russians I have mostly thought of as poorly written plot devices.

    When they want to show something brutal, they introduce a Russian guy? Or sometimes the opposite – they have the artsy Russian boyfriend (like, remember what’s her name in the Sex and the City was dating Barishnikov, but you probably didn’t watch that show, lol). The portrayal is not always too close to real life. 🙂

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @LatW

    Seagal's Under Siege is worth watching if you are up for a '90s action movie. It is not a martial arts movie at all, though being a bad ass fighter is core to his character. Like many of these movies it is a mixture of action with a bit of humor the way we hope happens in real life as characters work through extremely tough situations. To appreciate it you have to buy into the premise which was not too bad at the time. Not everyone likes the movie but it has a bunch of well done scenes which give the movie a nice flow to work through the plot.

    Replies: @LatW, @John Johnson

    , @songbird
    @LatW


    There is a funny repeating theme in these martial arts movies that we call the “one man show” – that we always laughed about – where the main hero fights with a ton of opponents and always wins. As in, is able to fight off every single one of them all by himself. I understand that it’s this guy thing, but it’s just so unrealistic and yet they put it in all these movies, what’s up with that – can you explain it? 🙂
     
    Action movies seem to tend toward the hyperbolic. Some of those Schwarzenegger ones used to get me laughing so much - it is kind of like comedy for men. Good to watch to relieve stress.

    Of course, it needs careful directing to balance the tone properly and keep it light enough.

    And I think it becomes pretty sad, when the big stars become very old, and still want to be the hero. Hyperbole needs vigor. I often wish that some of these big stars did villain roles because a villain can have henchmen, so it would make it a little more balanced.

    These "one man shows" I think were somewhat a product of that time. Maybe, not entirely, but in some measure. Why then specifically?

    Am not entirely sure, but I think part of it was financial factors. Like blockbusters competing with TV, and VHS at rental stores. Probably martial arts schools reached some threshold where they became more influential. And steroids were a factor as well.

    I think maybe being largely at peace in the '80s, may have influenced the culture in some way, where fighting was allowed to be taken less seriously.
  475. Would like to see Zuck use his yacht to have a naval battle with another tech billionaire.
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    What would Genghis have done with modern horse breeds? (Better endurance) Or were the old Mongolian ones best due to their genetic diversity and hardiness?
    ____
    Curious map about legality of homos over time. Don’t believe it is quite accurate though. Practice does not necessarily match code. Would suggest that they cracked down on gays during at least the Cultural Revolution.

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    • Replies: @Wielgus
    @songbird

    The map went too fast but it looked like for example Weimar Germany was down as criminalising it when de facto, homosexual acts were often tolerated by the authorities. Especially in the bigger cities.

  476. QCIC says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @Mikhail

    Of course I am not a svidomyi. I’m not a Ukrainian, although I do have Ukrainian ancestry. I am not a Putin’s fan and I have never been one because Putin is pro-Noviop and anti-nationalist. Also, Putin is another pure (toxic) byproduct of the Yeltsin era.

    I have always disliked the man and often mocked him on UR and elsewhere even before the war, but now that he proved entirely annd lethally inept, I like him even less. My opinion is that Putin is bad for Russians and Slavs in general. Are the Noviop in Kiev any better? The answer is of course not. As the Russian saying goes: “борьба была равна, боролись два г…а”.

    https://youtu.be/DSRNZ1bxKIM?feature=shared

    Replies: @Mikhail, @QCIC

    I appreciate all of the different informed views of Russians, Ukrainians, and everyone else here who is an “insider” to one degree or another.

    My concern is over the giant “military machines” on both sides (or all sides) which can be accidentally or purposefully unleashed in this sort of trouble. These military machines are under control until one day it turns out they are not. At that point the real dogs of war may run wild and no one will even remember why. After the many millions of corpses have been eaten by maggots, whoever has the megaphone will make up some crazy story to promote their agenda. I think the Ukraine mess is an extremely dangerous Western project and the West should stop it before it gets out of hand.

    As far as Russian and Ukrainian politicians are concerned how can an outsider possibly have an informed opinion of them? My opinions of Putin are limited to 1) He had a very difficult challenge as a statesman which he seems to have survived 2) As an extemporaneous speaker his skill seems very high and I think he is bright. Other than that, how would I know? I am reasonably convinced Zelensky is purely an actor and NOT a former actor who found his true calling and matured into a leader and statesman. Without knowing his boss I know nothing about what is really happening in Ukrainian politics. Putin may have some agency so maybe we have some insight into the Russian side of things.

    I assume that Putin does not plan war tactics and probably not even war strategy. The fact that media on all sides suggest that he does these things means nothing to me. He works with people who do those military jobs and some of them may be outside of his control.

    Putin is the leader or at least the public face of a large country with a giant nuclear arsenal. He is surrounded by crooks and criminals on all sides, inside and outside of the country. He may be one himself. Words of a politician are cheap and may not have much connection to the facts behind the scenes. For the most part what matters are actions, but it is a long game. It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    My opinions of Putin are limited to 1) He had a very difficult challenge as a statesman which he seems to have survived 2) As an extemporaneous speaker his skill seems very high and I think he is bright.

    He actually flubbs on the spot interviews.

    He can appear articulate and well informed but needs the questions in advanced.

    I am reasonably convinced Zelensky is purely an actor and NOT a former actor who found his true calling and matured into a leader and statesman. Without knowing his boss I know nothing about what is really happening in Ukrainian politics.

    I see no reason to believe he has a secret boss. He completely ignored Western warnings on the invasion as he was convinced that Putin would negotiate first. He also ignored Western generals that suggested staying in the defensive posture and not wasting men over the ruins of Bakhmut. Recently he defied US requests to stop targeting Russian oil refineries. Clearly the West does not control him so I don't know who this boss would be. Are you imagining an unknown Palpatine character in the shadows?

    I assume that Putin does not plan war tactics and probably not even war strategy.

    I think that is a safe assumption. He was supposedly convinced that Kiev could be taken in 2 days. It is also rumored that he won't use the internet or a cell phone. He is paranoid that the West will somehow track and kill him. Everything I have seen suggests that he isn't tracking the battle or making major decisions. I think he is making arbitrary demands with the threat of force if there is failure.

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC


    It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.
     
    Agree with this statement.

    We can look now back a few decades and see how USSR come into being and was destroyed. We can also follow the way the post-Soviet republics evolved and come into their present state. Doing this on an amateur level brought me to my present view of the world: the corrupt, inefficient elites are the problem. The elites naturally see the masses as being different from them. Even when the masses and the elites are of the same origin broadly speaking, the elites would invent some myths to justify their supposedly superior rights (Polish Sarmatism, British Israelism, Russian (post-Catherine the Great) Normanism etc.) If the elites are truly alien, then detaching from the masses and ruthlessly exploiting them becomes a natural thing. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that when the elites are really foreign and loathsome, the masses will revolt against them and topple their system.



    Comes in the “cryptocolony” concept developed by Galkovsky. The cryptocolonial elites are in fact comprador and not working in the best interest of their subjugated people. But they would invent something on ideological grounds that would blur the distinction between being foreign and being local, between working for the local, native people and working for some dude overseas. That entirely applies to the post-Soviet elites in RusFed and Ukiestan. That also applies to the RFSSR during Soviet times, especially in the earlier decades. That even applies to some degree to the Russian Empire (although Galkovsky being a Russian Empire fanboy would disagree) after the Peterine reforms. And … that applies nowadays to most Western countries. It so happens that this situation came into play in the West at the time of the fall of USSR and the Eastern Bloc. « Convergence » much…

    What have all these diverse countries and historical societies in common? A rule by cosmopolitan, mostly self-centred and corrupt elites. The early Bolshevik “top tier”, where hardly a single family was 100% Slav, let alone Russian, the Holstein Gottorp Romanovs (of Prussian / Baltic German origin), the Noviop, the Neocon, the European Atlanticist…

    What is the probable outcome? The historical Polish Sarmatism and the Soviet experiment are an indicator: stasis, corruption, decay, civil strife, fall and dismemberment. Who will inherit the spoils of the failed cryptocolonial construct? Those who face it on a geopolitical level. Today, that would be Han Chinese. Who facilitates the fall ? In today’s West, that would be the Globalist faction.

    I have absolutely nothing against the Han Chinese people that I find admirable on many levels. But I am a nativist that would rather have the local population prosper build up and multiply. (Geopolitical) diversity is our strength. Let 200 flowers bloom. To each their own, a global Apartheid with a Zulu being a Zulu, an Arab being an Arab, a Jew being a Jew, a Slav being a Slav, a Frenchman being a Frenchman, an Anglo-Saxon being an Anglo-Saxon etc. I don’t want a Globalist « utopia » with Chinese characteristics for my offspring. I don’t want a « let them eat bugs » (to paraphrase Marie Antouanette) situation for my grandchildren…

    And I rest my case.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Beckow, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

  477. QCIC says:
    @LatW
    @songbird


    For my part, I have a hard time believing that you never saw a Steven Seagall film.
     
    I haven't (I swear), ofc, I had heard of him and that there used to be a hype around him (but not more so than the other of the most popular ones), but he never got on my radar (it may have been on when I was in the room but I haven't purposefully watched one). Btw, we're talking about a specific post-USSR 1990s phenomenon here - the martial arts movie craze.

    It was not the type of entertainment I sought out, but my dad watched some of those so they were on, but he mostly watched them only as a pass time, he was not into that stuff all that much. I do remember Van Damme's splits. I think I remember glimpses of Highlander as well. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But those are somewhat different.

    There is a funny repeating theme in these martial arts movies that we call the "one man show" - that we always laughed about - where the main hero fights with a ton of opponents and always wins. As in, is able to fight off every single one of them all by himself. I understand that it's this guy thing, but it's just so unrealistic and yet they put it in all these movies, what's up with that - can you explain it? :)

    Usually, in movies that are more of a hero's quest, the hero does fight off challengers and overcomes hurdles, in the end wins, but does not fight so many at once. I guess it's more individualistic.

    Btw, there is a whole Russian so called boyevik genre out there (men's movies with a ton of fighting, car chases, etc), just countless of them (with bad ass dialogue that's mostly somewhat shallow but sometimes there are detective elements which can be fun). Often involving some Caucasian gangs and good Russian cops (but that must be different now, now that Ahmat is sila - meaning you can probably no longer portray the Chechens in a bad light as they dead during the "terror" years).


    I half-believe, as Gerard hints, that you were an extra in one shot in Latvia.
     
    Just an extra? Why would you downgrade me like that? Jk. :) My sister could've made a good extra for ninjas though, since she was able to all kinds of summersaults with her long legs, etc. It wasn't Stallone that filmed in Latvia, btw, it was the Justice League, mixed those up. It was in an abandoned Soviet military village. :)

    even the war in the Pacific often seems to take on woke connotations nowadays.
     
    Isn't it great that there is the old, pre-woke era movie archive? They should make sure the wokes do not destroy it out of spite. Like they do with the monuments.

    Clint made that movie where he had Americans massacre captured Japs on Iwo Jima
     
    Haven't seen that one, but how do they even know, unless it's well researched through soldier's diaries, and even that would be rare. These Hollywood movies should be used as research projects - where every time you see something like that, you go into the library and check if it's true (from multiple sources). These movies should have footnotes all over them.

    Now this is part of the difficulty of making good romance. You don’t want to make everything a fairy tail, or a happy ending.
     
    Well, it depends on the purpose of the movie - to just entertain and help one relax, that's when people will want a happy ending, but if it's for reflexion, introspection, that's different. This particular movie, The Wait, was not really a romance, but a drama, in the end, the wife reconnects with her husband, after a rather complex journey and some pain, even if there is no longer fidelity, there is love and loyalty, maybe a new appreciation, because marriage is typically quite long, it's possible there could be a crisis at some point, so the right message is to deliberate, to not rush decisions, so it was not a bad message.

    I like the idea of Rightist messaging, and outteach.
     
    Well, some messaging would be ok, but you won't be able to control your women - not in the way you imagine, I'm assuming. You just have to give them some options and hope they take the better ones (they're not dumb). A considerable number of men, too, are out of control, so it would have to start with them. Although men could fall in the line if women change their behavior. But many people seem to prefer things as they are.

    have a hard time thinking of other Hollywood national stereotypes. Other than evil German.
     
    Yea, but they take that one so far. There is also the dull Scandinavian dressed in a sweater and living in a wood cabin (backward - when it's the opposite in real life), but those are rarely featured. Btw, the timid Asian woman is a myth, too (I've heard that from some dudes that date them that they can be quite controlling and willful).

    The Russians I have mostly thought of as poorly written plot devices.
     
    When they want to show something brutal, they introduce a Russian guy? Or sometimes the opposite - they have the artsy Russian boyfriend (like, remember what's her name in the Sex and the City was dating Barishnikov, but you probably didn't watch that show, lol). The portrayal is not always too close to real life. :)

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird

    Seagal’s Under Siege is worth watching if you are up for a ’90s action movie. It is not a martial arts movie at all, though being a bad ass fighter is core to his character. Like many of these movies it is a mixture of action with a bit of humor the way we hope happens in real life as characters work through extremely tough situations. To appreciate it you have to buy into the premise which was not too bad at the time. Not everyone likes the movie but it has a bunch of well done scenes which give the movie a nice flow to work through the plot.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @QCIC

    Yes, Under Siege is the type of movie I would watch. I will think about it (since now I have a dilemma with my conscience). Is it similar to Das Boot (the movie not the series) or The Hunt for the Red October? Obviously, Das Boot is historical, but I'm thinking in terms of the setting on a ship.

    Looking at his photo from his younger years or more around 30-40, he could've made a good Roman legatus. But it would just be some walking, riding or sword fighting (although that's not easy) - nothing extreme. He just has that look.

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1a/72/4a/1a724a71390e8677c41b242182ac15f1.jpg

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Seagal’s Under Siege is worth watching if you are up for a ’90s action movie. It is not a martial arts movie at all, though being a bad ass fighter is core to his character.

    Meh just watch the first 30 minutes of Out for Justice.

    That is the jist of it. You have watched all the Seagal movies.

    The Schwarzenegger movies are much better.

    Nothing Seagal has done compares to the Terminator or Conan.

    Replies: @QCIC

  478. @LatW
    @songbird


    For my part, I have a hard time believing that you never saw a Steven Seagall film.
     
    I haven't (I swear), ofc, I had heard of him and that there used to be a hype around him (but not more so than the other of the most popular ones), but he never got on my radar (it may have been on when I was in the room but I haven't purposefully watched one). Btw, we're talking about a specific post-USSR 1990s phenomenon here - the martial arts movie craze.

    It was not the type of entertainment I sought out, but my dad watched some of those so they were on, but he mostly watched them only as a pass time, he was not into that stuff all that much. I do remember Van Damme's splits. I think I remember glimpses of Highlander as well. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But those are somewhat different.

    There is a funny repeating theme in these martial arts movies that we call the "one man show" - that we always laughed about - where the main hero fights with a ton of opponents and always wins. As in, is able to fight off every single one of them all by himself. I understand that it's this guy thing, but it's just so unrealistic and yet they put it in all these movies, what's up with that - can you explain it? :)

    Usually, in movies that are more of a hero's quest, the hero does fight off challengers and overcomes hurdles, in the end wins, but does not fight so many at once. I guess it's more individualistic.

    Btw, there is a whole Russian so called boyevik genre out there (men's movies with a ton of fighting, car chases, etc), just countless of them (with bad ass dialogue that's mostly somewhat shallow but sometimes there are detective elements which can be fun). Often involving some Caucasian gangs and good Russian cops (but that must be different now, now that Ahmat is sila - meaning you can probably no longer portray the Chechens in a bad light as they dead during the "terror" years).


    I half-believe, as Gerard hints, that you were an extra in one shot in Latvia.
     
    Just an extra? Why would you downgrade me like that? Jk. :) My sister could've made a good extra for ninjas though, since she was able to all kinds of summersaults with her long legs, etc. It wasn't Stallone that filmed in Latvia, btw, it was the Justice League, mixed those up. It was in an abandoned Soviet military village. :)

    even the war in the Pacific often seems to take on woke connotations nowadays.
     
    Isn't it great that there is the old, pre-woke era movie archive? They should make sure the wokes do not destroy it out of spite. Like they do with the monuments.

    Clint made that movie where he had Americans massacre captured Japs on Iwo Jima
     
    Haven't seen that one, but how do they even know, unless it's well researched through soldier's diaries, and even that would be rare. These Hollywood movies should be used as research projects - where every time you see something like that, you go into the library and check if it's true (from multiple sources). These movies should have footnotes all over them.

    Now this is part of the difficulty of making good romance. You don’t want to make everything a fairy tail, or a happy ending.
     
    Well, it depends on the purpose of the movie - to just entertain and help one relax, that's when people will want a happy ending, but if it's for reflexion, introspection, that's different. This particular movie, The Wait, was not really a romance, but a drama, in the end, the wife reconnects with her husband, after a rather complex journey and some pain, even if there is no longer fidelity, there is love and loyalty, maybe a new appreciation, because marriage is typically quite long, it's possible there could be a crisis at some point, so the right message is to deliberate, to not rush decisions, so it was not a bad message.

    I like the idea of Rightist messaging, and outteach.
     
    Well, some messaging would be ok, but you won't be able to control your women - not in the way you imagine, I'm assuming. You just have to give them some options and hope they take the better ones (they're not dumb). A considerable number of men, too, are out of control, so it would have to start with them. Although men could fall in the line if women change their behavior. But many people seem to prefer things as they are.

    have a hard time thinking of other Hollywood national stereotypes. Other than evil German.
     
    Yea, but they take that one so far. There is also the dull Scandinavian dressed in a sweater and living in a wood cabin (backward - when it's the opposite in real life), but those are rarely featured. Btw, the timid Asian woman is a myth, too (I've heard that from some dudes that date them that they can be quite controlling and willful).

    The Russians I have mostly thought of as poorly written plot devices.
     
    When they want to show something brutal, they introduce a Russian guy? Or sometimes the opposite - they have the artsy Russian boyfriend (like, remember what's her name in the Sex and the City was dating Barishnikov, but you probably didn't watch that show, lol). The portrayal is not always too close to real life. :)

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird

    There is a funny repeating theme in these martial arts movies that we call the “one man show” – that we always laughed about – where the main hero fights with a ton of opponents and always wins. As in, is able to fight off every single one of them all by himself. I understand that it’s this guy thing, but it’s just so unrealistic and yet they put it in all these movies, what’s up with that – can you explain it? 🙂

    Action movies seem to tend toward the hyperbolic. Some of those Schwarzenegger ones used to get me laughing so much – it is kind of like comedy for men. Good to watch to relieve stress.

    [MORE]

    Of course, it needs careful directing to balance the tone properly and keep it light enough.

    And I think it becomes pretty sad, when the big stars become very old, and still want to be the hero. Hyperbole needs vigor. I often wish that some of these big stars did villain roles because a villain can have henchmen, so it would make it a little more balanced.

    These “one man shows” I think were somewhat a product of that time. Maybe, not entirely, but in some measure. Why then specifically?

    Am not entirely sure, but I think part of it was financial factors. Like blockbusters competing with TV, and VHS at rental stores. Probably martial arts schools reached some threshold where they became more influential. And steroids were a factor as well.

    I think maybe being largely at peace in the ’80s, may have influenced the culture in some way, where fighting was allowed to be taken less seriously.

  479. LatW says:
    @QCIC
    @LatW

    Seagal's Under Siege is worth watching if you are up for a '90s action movie. It is not a martial arts movie at all, though being a bad ass fighter is core to his character. Like many of these movies it is a mixture of action with a bit of humor the way we hope happens in real life as characters work through extremely tough situations. To appreciate it you have to buy into the premise which was not too bad at the time. Not everyone likes the movie but it has a bunch of well done scenes which give the movie a nice flow to work through the plot.

    Replies: @LatW, @John Johnson

    Yes, Under Siege is the type of movie I would watch. I will think about it (since now I have a dilemma with my conscience). Is it similar to Das Boot (the movie not the series) or The Hunt for the Red October? Obviously, Das Boot is historical, but I’m thinking in terms of the setting on a ship.

    Looking at his photo from his younger years or more around 30-40, he could’ve made a good Roman legatus. But it would just be some walking, riding or sword fighting (although that’s not easy) – nothing extreme. He just has that look.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @LatW

    Seagal's movie is not as serious as those you mentioned, though there may be some incidental similarities to October. The Ryback character is more of an over the top badass hero, though low key. I think the movie was made in the same vein as the well loved first Die Hard movie, but in a different setting. One guy makes all the difference in the face of some very dangerous bad guys. What's not to like?

    Wiki suggests the hot girl may be of Estonian ancestry. She does a good job in the movie for her modest role.

  480. @AnonfromTN
    @AP


    this claim comes from Soviet propaganda
     

    one of Bandera’s followers in a biography about Bandera wrote that if he did it, it was as a way of testing himself and not out of sadism
     

    Lenin supposedly really enjoyed clubbing rabbits to death.
     
    Classical Ukie response, literally following Russian joke:

    A woman comes to her neighbor asking to return the pot she borrowed. The neighbor answers:
    - First, I never borrowed it. Second, I returned it a long time ago. Third, it was cracked.

    Bravo!

    Replies: @AP

    Clever for the first two, though the last one doesn’t match.

    Anyways, the story about Bandera killing cats just comes from Soviet propaganda.

  481. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    I appreciate all of the different informed views of Russians, Ukrainians, and everyone else here who is an "insider" to one degree or another.

    My concern is over the giant "military machines" on both sides (or all sides) which can be accidentally or purposefully unleashed in this sort of trouble. These military machines are under control until one day it turns out they are not. At that point the real dogs of war may run wild and no one will even remember why. After the many millions of corpses have been eaten by maggots, whoever has the megaphone will make up some crazy story to promote their agenda. I think the Ukraine mess is an extremely dangerous Western project and the West should stop it before it gets out of hand.

    As far as Russian and Ukrainian politicians are concerned how can an outsider possibly have an informed opinion of them? My opinions of Putin are limited to 1) He had a very difficult challenge as a statesman which he seems to have survived 2) As an extemporaneous speaker his skill seems very high and I think he is bright. Other than that, how would I know? I am reasonably convinced Zelensky is purely an actor and NOT a former actor who found his true calling and matured into a leader and statesman. Without knowing his boss I know nothing about what is really happening in Ukrainian politics. Putin may have some agency so maybe we have some insight into the Russian side of things.

    I assume that Putin does not plan war tactics and probably not even war strategy. The fact that media on all sides suggest that he does these things means nothing to me. He works with people who do those military jobs and some of them may be outside of his control.

    Putin is the leader or at least the public face of a large country with a giant nuclear arsenal. He is surrounded by crooks and criminals on all sides, inside and outside of the country. He may be one himself. Words of a politician are cheap and may not have much connection to the facts behind the scenes. For the most part what matters are actions, but it is a long game. It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Bashibuzuk

    My opinions of Putin are limited to 1) He had a very difficult challenge as a statesman which he seems to have survived 2) As an extemporaneous speaker his skill seems very high and I think he is bright.

    He actually flubbs on the spot interviews.

    He can appear articulate and well informed but needs the questions in advanced.

    I am reasonably convinced Zelensky is purely an actor and NOT a former actor who found his true calling and matured into a leader and statesman. Without knowing his boss I know nothing about what is really happening in Ukrainian politics.

    I see no reason to believe he has a secret boss. He completely ignored Western warnings on the invasion as he was convinced that Putin would negotiate first. He also ignored Western generals that suggested staying in the defensive posture and not wasting men over the ruins of Bakhmut. Recently he defied US requests to stop targeting Russian oil refineries. Clearly the West does not control him so I don’t know who this boss would be. Are you imagining an unknown Palpatine character in the shadows?

    I assume that Putin does not plan war tactics and probably not even war strategy.

    I think that is a safe assumption. He was supposedly convinced that Kiev could be taken in 2 days. It is also rumored that he won’t use the internet or a cell phone. He is paranoid that the West will somehow track and kill him. Everything I have seen suggests that he isn’t tracking the battle or making major decisions. I think he is making arbitrary demands with the threat of force if there is failure.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I assume everything about Zelensky is made up except that he plays a gay-ish character on stage, in videos and on television. There is no reason to accept claims that he ignored some Western suggestion or followed some other command in the conflict. I believe he is well paid to drive Ukraine into the grave and eventually will either be executed by the Ukies or will die of drug suicide.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

  482. @QCIC
    @LatW

    Seagal's Under Siege is worth watching if you are up for a '90s action movie. It is not a martial arts movie at all, though being a bad ass fighter is core to his character. Like many of these movies it is a mixture of action with a bit of humor the way we hope happens in real life as characters work through extremely tough situations. To appreciate it you have to buy into the premise which was not too bad at the time. Not everyone likes the movie but it has a bunch of well done scenes which give the movie a nice flow to work through the plot.

    Replies: @LatW, @John Johnson

    Seagal’s Under Siege is worth watching if you are up for a ’90s action movie. It is not a martial arts movie at all, though being a bad ass fighter is core to his character.

    Meh just watch the first 30 minutes of Out for Justice.

    That is the jist of it. You have watched all the Seagal movies.

    The Schwarzenegger movies are much better.

    Nothing Seagal has done compares to the Terminator or Conan.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Terminator and Conan are good and so is Under Siege.

    I was always impressed how they reformed Arnold's character in T2. That one is more of a glam movie but still powerful. What they did reminds me of an arch Republican turning Democrat or is the other way 'round?

  483. @AP
    @Greasy William


    Judaism is a part of Western civilization
     
    Ashkenazi Jews are certainly a part of Western civilization. They are about 50% European by descent (as demonstrated by genetics), and even before secularization they had much European influence - the Yiddish language, after all, is a form of German with some Slavic and Hebrew words. After secularization they of course merged much further, particularly with secularized Europeans. Of course people like Larry David, or Zelensky, or historically speaking Mahler, Freud, etc. are or were more like their European neighbors than like Arabs.

    Non-European Jews seem to be closer to non-Europeans, however.

    I have written it before, but the Persians taught (or forced?) the Jews to abandon their original God and to worship the God worshipped by Persians, under the name of their old God. Jesus was His Son and incarnation. Ultimately, in this way, the God recognized by the Persians triumphed over the Greek gods.

    Under Roman rule, most of the Jews in what is now Israel converted to Christianity. Their descendants are the Palestinian Christians.

    After the Arab conquest, the invaders converted most of the native Christians to Islam and mixed with the converts. Their descendants are the Palestinian Muslims. *

    Did the remaining Jews revert to worship of their old God under Islamic rule? If so than their religion post-Islam is closer to Islam.


    *So the "purest" natives of Israel and the closest thing to truly indigenous ones, are the Palestinian Christians.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. XYZ

    Non-European Jews seem to be closer to non-Europeans, however.

    A lot of Jews of Middle Eastern descent hate Muslims nowadays, though.

    • Replies: @AP
    @Mr. XYZ

    Just as Shiites and Sunnis can have bitter conflicts…

    Replies: @Derer, @Mr. XYZ

  484. QCIC says:
    @LatW
    @QCIC

    Yes, Under Siege is the type of movie I would watch. I will think about it (since now I have a dilemma with my conscience). Is it similar to Das Boot (the movie not the series) or The Hunt for the Red October? Obviously, Das Boot is historical, but I'm thinking in terms of the setting on a ship.

    Looking at his photo from his younger years or more around 30-40, he could've made a good Roman legatus. But it would just be some walking, riding or sword fighting (although that's not easy) - nothing extreme. He just has that look.

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1a/72/4a/1a724a71390e8677c41b242182ac15f1.jpg

    Replies: @QCIC

    Seagal’s movie is not as serious as those you mentioned, though there may be some incidental similarities to October. The Ryback character is more of an over the top badass hero, though low key. I think the movie was made in the same vein as the well loved first Die Hard movie, but in a different setting. One guy makes all the difference in the face of some very dangerous bad guys. What’s not to like?

    Wiki suggests the hot girl may be of Estonian ancestry. She does a good job in the movie for her modest role.

  485. @AP
    @songbird


    You and AP may not like him, and neither do I. But he is not a loser
     
    You are being pedantic.

    People are judged by their peers and not in comparison to the average person.

    It’s why Dubya is considered an idiot, even though objectively he is smarter and more educated than 95% of the general population (based on entrance exam scores his IQ is about 120 and he graduated from one of the world’s top universities). But as a world leader, he was a disastrous moron.

    Seagal, the celebrity, has become bloated and grotesque, a mockery of his younger self, who has fled his homeland for a place that is considered very unfashionable. He’s basically unemployable. As a celebrity and movie star, he is a loser.

    Replies: @QCIC, @songbird, @Mr. XYZ

    and he graduated from one of the world’s top universities

    That was likely due to legacy preferences.

  486. @Mikhail
    @Wielgus

    Denikin wasn't against Polish independence. The issue was over what Poland's eastern border should constitute. Enter the alliance between the Whites and Galician Ukrainian Army.

    https://www.eurasiareview.com/08042016-fuzzy-history-how-poland-saved-the-world-from-russia-analysis/

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    The Whites should have sucked it up and accepted the Polish demands since saving Russia from Bolshevism was much more important than getting Gomel and Lviv for Russia.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ


    The Whites should have sucked it up and accepted the Polish demands since saving Russia from Bolshevism was much more important than getting Gomel and Lviv for Russia.
     
    The Poles supported Petliura who the Whites opposed and the Galician Ukrainians viewed with obvious suspicion as evidenced by Petlura agreeing that Galicia would go to Poland in exchange for Poland's support of him.

    Poland's later acknowledged aim at the time was to weaken Russia as much as possible to better ensure a Polish dominated eastern Europe. The Whites and others weren't aware of the then secret Polish-Soviet talks. What Poland did to the Whites is somewhat akin to the Soviet stance on the Polish Home Army Warsaw Uprising.

    Poland (specifically Pilsudski) could've taken a different path which would've arguably benefited it in the long run.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  487. @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Seagal’s Under Siege is worth watching if you are up for a ’90s action movie. It is not a martial arts movie at all, though being a bad ass fighter is core to his character.

    Meh just watch the first 30 minutes of Out for Justice.

    That is the jist of it. You have watched all the Seagal movies.

    The Schwarzenegger movies are much better.

    Nothing Seagal has done compares to the Terminator or Conan.

    Replies: @QCIC

    Terminator and Conan are good and so is Under Siege.

    I was always impressed how they reformed Arnold’s character in T2. That one is more of a glam movie but still powerful. What they did reminds me of an arch Republican turning Democrat or is the other way ’round?

  488. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    My opinions of Putin are limited to 1) He had a very difficult challenge as a statesman which he seems to have survived 2) As an extemporaneous speaker his skill seems very high and I think he is bright.

    He actually flubbs on the spot interviews.

    He can appear articulate and well informed but needs the questions in advanced.

    I am reasonably convinced Zelensky is purely an actor and NOT a former actor who found his true calling and matured into a leader and statesman. Without knowing his boss I know nothing about what is really happening in Ukrainian politics.

    I see no reason to believe he has a secret boss. He completely ignored Western warnings on the invasion as he was convinced that Putin would negotiate first. He also ignored Western generals that suggested staying in the defensive posture and not wasting men over the ruins of Bakhmut. Recently he defied US requests to stop targeting Russian oil refineries. Clearly the West does not control him so I don't know who this boss would be. Are you imagining an unknown Palpatine character in the shadows?

    I assume that Putin does not plan war tactics and probably not even war strategy.

    I think that is a safe assumption. He was supposedly convinced that Kiev could be taken in 2 days. It is also rumored that he won't use the internet or a cell phone. He is paranoid that the West will somehow track and kill him. Everything I have seen suggests that he isn't tracking the battle or making major decisions. I think he is making arbitrary demands with the threat of force if there is failure.

    Replies: @QCIC

    I assume everything about Zelensky is made up except that he plays a gay-ish character on stage, in videos and on television. There is no reason to accept claims that he ignored some Western suggestion or followed some other command in the conflict. I believe he is well paid to drive Ukraine into the grave and eventually will either be executed by the Ukies or will die of drug suicide.

    • LOL: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @QCIC

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0eZmc6Kz8

    , @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    I assume everything about Zelensky is made up except that he plays a gay-ish character on stage, in videos and on television. There is no reason to accept claims that he ignored some Western suggestion or followed some other command in the conflict.

    There is indeed no reason to believe such things if you lock yourself into sources like Larry C "war is in mop up stage" Johnson and don't bother using Google to investigate a claim.

    Zelensky questions U.S. warnings of "imminent" invasion in Biden call
    https://www.axios.com/2022/01/28/zelensky-biden-call-imminent-invasion

    Zelensky suggests that Russia is just scaremongering with troop build-up
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60174684

    Zelenskiy ‘didn’t want to hear’ warnings of Russia invasion, says Biden
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/11/volodymyr-zelenskiy-didnt-want-to-hear-warnings-of-russia-invasion-says-joe-biden

    The Belarus invasion went through a single bridge. All Zelensky had to do was line up artillery against it or prepare to blow it with engineers. He did neither.

    Once again you decided to make a decision based on feelings instead of investigating. But you seem to like sources such as Larry C Johnson that were completely wrong about the war:

    Larry C. Johnson: "The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What's Left Is Mop-Up" (2022)
    https://www.newsfromtheperimeter.com/home/2022/3/23/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up

    Here is more:

    Zelensky ignored warnings over counteroffensive:
    https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274347443/zelensky-ignored-counteroffensive-warnings-nato-member

    Did you also need sources on how Zelensky ignores US requests to not attack Russian oil refineries? Can I google anything else for you? A sweet potato pie recipe perhaps?

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  489. Mikhail says: • Website
    @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    The Whites should have sucked it up and accepted the Polish demands since saving Russia from Bolshevism was much more important than getting Gomel and Lviv for Russia.

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    The Whites should have sucked it up and accepted the Polish demands since saving Russia from Bolshevism was much more important than getting Gomel and Lviv for Russia.

    The Poles supported Petliura who the Whites opposed and the Galician Ukrainians viewed with obvious suspicion as evidenced by Petlura agreeing that Galicia would go to Poland in exchange for Poland’s support of him.

    Poland’s later acknowledged aim at the time was to weaken Russia as much as possible to better ensure a Polish dominated eastern Europe. The Whites and others weren’t aware of the then secret Polish-Soviet talks. What Poland did to the Whites is somewhat akin to the Soviet stance on the Polish Home Army Warsaw Uprising.

    Poland (specifically Pilsudski) could’ve taken a different path which would’ve arguably benefited it in the long run.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    I absolutely agree that Poland should have also been much more willing to compromise. Getting the Curzon Line as Poland's eastern borders in exchange for having Russia avoid Bolshevism was a bargain very much in Poland's favor in the long-run, as you yourself have just said. And a Russia that didn't have any territorial designs on the rest of Poland and wasn't Communist (and thus wasn't seeking to Communize Poland) could have served as a useful ally and protector for Poland against future German revanchism.

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  490. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I assume everything about Zelensky is made up except that he plays a gay-ish character on stage, in videos and on television. There is no reason to accept claims that he ignored some Western suggestion or followed some other command in the conflict. I believe he is well paid to drive Ukraine into the grave and eventually will either be executed by the Ukies or will die of drug suicide.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

  491. Bashibuzuk says:
    @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    I appreciate all of the different informed views of Russians, Ukrainians, and everyone else here who is an "insider" to one degree or another.

    My concern is over the giant "military machines" on both sides (or all sides) which can be accidentally or purposefully unleashed in this sort of trouble. These military machines are under control until one day it turns out they are not. At that point the real dogs of war may run wild and no one will even remember why. After the many millions of corpses have been eaten by maggots, whoever has the megaphone will make up some crazy story to promote their agenda. I think the Ukraine mess is an extremely dangerous Western project and the West should stop it before it gets out of hand.

    As far as Russian and Ukrainian politicians are concerned how can an outsider possibly have an informed opinion of them? My opinions of Putin are limited to 1) He had a very difficult challenge as a statesman which he seems to have survived 2) As an extemporaneous speaker his skill seems very high and I think he is bright. Other than that, how would I know? I am reasonably convinced Zelensky is purely an actor and NOT a former actor who found his true calling and matured into a leader and statesman. Without knowing his boss I know nothing about what is really happening in Ukrainian politics. Putin may have some agency so maybe we have some insight into the Russian side of things.

    I assume that Putin does not plan war tactics and probably not even war strategy. The fact that media on all sides suggest that he does these things means nothing to me. He works with people who do those military jobs and some of them may be outside of his control.

    Putin is the leader or at least the public face of a large country with a giant nuclear arsenal. He is surrounded by crooks and criminals on all sides, inside and outside of the country. He may be one himself. Words of a politician are cheap and may not have much connection to the facts behind the scenes. For the most part what matters are actions, but it is a long game. It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Bashibuzuk

    It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.

    Agree with this statement.

    We can look now back a few decades and see how USSR come into being and was destroyed. We can also follow the way the post-Soviet republics evolved and come into their present state. Doing this on an amateur level brought me to my present view of the world: the corrupt, inefficient elites are the problem. The elites naturally see the masses as being different from them. Even when the masses and the elites are of the same origin broadly speaking, the elites would invent some myths to justify their supposedly superior rights (Polish Sarmatism, British Israelism, Russian (post-Catherine the Great) Normanism etc.) If the elites are truly alien, then detaching from the masses and ruthlessly exploiting them becomes a natural thing. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that when the elites are really foreign and loathsome, the masses will revolt against them and topple their system.

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    Comes in the “cryptocolony” concept developed by Galkovsky. The cryptocolonial elites are in fact comprador and not working in the best interest of their subjugated people. But they would invent something on ideological grounds that would blur the distinction between being foreign and being local, between working for the local, native people and working for some dude overseas. That entirely applies to the post-Soviet elites in RusFed and Ukiestan. That also applies to the RFSSR during Soviet times, especially in the earlier decades. That even applies to some degree to the Russian Empire (although Galkovsky being a Russian Empire fanboy would disagree) after the Peterine reforms. And … that applies nowadays to most Western countries. It so happens that this situation came into play in the West at the time of the fall of USSR and the Eastern Bloc. « Convergence » much…

    What have all these diverse countries and historical societies in common? A rule by cosmopolitan, mostly self-centred and corrupt elites. The early Bolshevik “top tier”, where hardly a single family was 100% Slav, let alone Russian, the Holstein Gottorp Romanovs (of Prussian / Baltic German origin), the Noviop, the Neocon, the European Atlanticist…

    What is the probable outcome? The historical Polish Sarmatism and the Soviet experiment are an indicator: stasis, corruption, decay, civil strife, fall and dismemberment. Who will inherit the spoils of the failed cryptocolonial construct? Those who face it on a geopolitical level. Today, that would be Han Chinese. Who facilitates the fall ? In today’s West, that would be the Globalist faction.

    I have absolutely nothing against the Han Chinese people that I find admirable on many levels. But I am a nativist that would rather have the local population prosper build up and multiply. (Geopolitical) diversity is our strength. Let 200 flowers bloom. To each their own, a global Apartheid with a Zulu being a Zulu, an Arab being an Arab, a Jew being a Jew, a Slav being a Slav, a Frenchman being a Frenchman, an Anglo-Saxon being an Anglo-Saxon etc. I don’t want a Globalist « utopia » with Chinese characteristics for my offspring. I don’t want a « let them eat bugs » (to paraphrase Marie Antouanette) situation for my grandchildren…

    And I rest my case.

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    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    I think that tying together your whole thesis is that this amorphous clan of elites are conspiring together to bring their endgame to fruition by working together (same goals, similar outcomes). But nothing seems to support this eventuality. The two major powers in the world today, the US and China, are working against one another in a possible surrogate war within Ukraine, and relatedly the elites in both Russia and Ukraine are certainly out to destroy each other. Where's the rational impetus for these trends if the elites are conspiring together to bring all of the world's masses into an abysmal state of servitude? If there is none, then nothing is really changing, and the elites of each country are trying to control their own masses and not working together in any sort of a grand scheme. Business as usual.

    , @Beckow
    @Bashibuzuk


    ...the corrupt, inefficient elites are the problem. The elites naturally see the masses as being different from them. Even when the masses and the elites are of the same origin, the elites invent some myths to justify their supposedly superior rights Polish Sarmatism...
     
    That's the key to all hierarchies. England had Normanism before it was in Russia, probably still does. French aristocracy had the Frank-conquest mythology, Hungary Attila-the-Hun made-up story. The posh people need to feel separate.

    Societies are hierarchical. With time they get more so - the lines harden and the resulting structure has to be justified. The hierarchy is always largely based on privileges - something one doesn't have to work for. Privileges are assigned to us, preferably at birth.

    People go absolutely nuts to grab a privileged status - it is all most people dream of, not hard work or even enjoyment. See Afros, middle-aged fem-women, migrants in the West for a recent example - they want the goodies. But privileges are ubiquitous: Ivy leaguers, "experts", security personnel, anyone working for a large institution, they proliferates like mushrooms after rain. It is human nature. The latter-day commie-ism was all about the designated privileged groups: what do you think was 'nomenklatura'?

    Revolutions are nothing else but sweeping away accumulated privileges because the society can no longer function - it becomes top-heavy and stalls. The mass of people can never have enough privileges and they eventually blow-up the hierarchy. The reset can be postponed by bringing in migrants - they ideally act like a low-level flow into the pyramid.

    One attractive thing about the commies was their early and sincere commitment to the full destruction of previous systems. They really turned it upside down. It was a breath of fresh air and the fear of improved all societies - the Western ones in particular. The elites behaved for a few generations. But the endless survivors and their bitter relatives don't see it that way - as with the silly medieval myths most people think (or pretend to) they were the kings or the knights and in a silly way identify with it. Revos always have it hard, there is little class in not coming from the top. But most of us did.

    , @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Bashibuzuk



    https://twitter.com/OopsGuess/status/1682873945492709376

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  492. @Beckow
    @Coconuts


    Are you being ironic?
     
    Yes....:)

    But not about the impact of Slavs on slowing down the demographic self-destruction in the Western Europe.

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Coconuts

    We won WW2: Poland moved West, so did Croatia and Slovenia. 10 million Germans also moved West expelled from Central-Eastern Europe. If you look at Europe pre-WW2 and after-WW2 it was unquestionably a huge win for all Slavic nations and a big loss for Germans and their allies.

    This explains part of the westward movement of Slavs since 1945 (iirc those parts of Italian territory already contained a lot of Croats and Slovenes), in relation to the post-war peace settlement with Axis nations.

    Less so the part I mentioned that relates neither to the former Axis powers Germany and Italy, or the post-war peace settlement. I can see the victory of the Soviet Union was part of the preconditions for this other later movement, if the Axis had won it would be unlikely to have happened the way it has. But, as I said I think the determining cause and full explanation of this other movement is to be found elsewhere.

    There was more to the post-1945 peace settlement than the territorial aspect, there were the political and ideological elements of it. Some of the explanation for the later movement may be found in those.

  493. Happy Victory Day to you all.

    • Thanks: Gerard1234
    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @YetAnotherAnon

    May 8, 2024. The losers commemorate 79th anniversary of their defeat. May 9th, 2024. The winners celebrate 79th anniversary of their victory.

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  494. @LatW
    @Beckow


    Euro countries and borders have been unchanged for 80 years. Few countries split up along their internal borders. This has never happened in Europe for that long. It was determined by WW2 – the winners kept what they won and the losers got used to it. Stability…
     
    Of course, the Yalta consensus worked and the borders were relatively stable, even despite the collapse of the USSR and the deep sociopolitical changes in the Western world. But it feels like something bigger is happening, it's just hard to pinpoint what it really is. It seems that both the US and RusFed / former USSR have changed or are changing in a fundamental way. Is their power shrinking or not...?

    Maybe RusFed are trying to roll things back as much as they can to something resembling prior to the 1991 (or earlier?), but if the Yalta consensus crumbles, then how can they do that, if the pre-1991 was a part of Yalta? Maybe they want even more than that (Il'yn's program and such)?


    This has never happened in Europe for that long.
     
    The European nations have never been as ripe as nation states before (and solidified), as recent as the 19th century, Germany was still a grouping of feudal states. It is ironic, that so quickly after this ripening, the Euro states are once again compromising themselves with mass immigration.

    The early Bolshies, fascists and current Westie uber-liberals are outliers: they want to change the personal. They will fail as always. Idiots.
     
    Personal is difficult to change (especially in a truly free society), one cannot walk into every single household and change their mores (one can try), and if it succeeds, it can still take a very long time. Even the most oppressive power cannot change every single soul at will, even if they destroy a lot of souls. The soul is free even under physical and political oppression. Right now the attempt is to change the identity. But do we know where identity lies....?

    But you know how the second wave feminists used to say - "the personal is political". It seems like they're taking it from the political end and trying to push it on the personal level. The person then has the power to revert it back to them (as a personal, spiritual revolt).


    Then the Krauts went medieval on them. And it took the Russians to stop it. But now they hate the Russians. It is really confusing…
     
    They have a kind of a fluid, opportunistic MO (almost as a meta-ethnicity) - they stick with one group of Gentiles, then with another, depending on the situation. But they did have some stability in the Pale with our groups, had there been no outside interference, they would've been ok.

    Replies: @Coconuts, @Beckow

    But it feels like something bigger is happening, it’s just hard to pinpoint what it really is.

    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.

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    I feel like something like that could be happening, at least in Britain, maybe France, other countries. Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.

    Even in the lives of individuals, especially people brought up in the post-68 world and imbued with that worldview, once you reach a certain age the narrative of liberation and emancipation seems to naturally become less central or at least open to question.

    There is a French sociologist/political philosopher, Marcel Gauchet, who wrote a famous book called ‘The Disenchantment of the World’ in the 1980s, a political history of religion from (I think) a Weberian perspective. After arguing that Christianity is the ‘religion of the exit from religion’, which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world, he wrote a four volume series called ‘L’Avènement de la démocratie’, about the characteristics of the world of democracy, the state and society that has gradually come to replace the old world of religion.

    I’ve been finding a lot in those books to think about, he seems to capture many features the trajectory of things that I might have had an intuitive sense of, but couldn’t have consciously explained or put into context. I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era. The top of the museum was a kind of art gallery with contemporary secular and religious art. In some way it seemed like a material reflection of the kind of process Gauchet writes about, so this is on my mind at the moment.

    I don’t have the last volume of L’Avènement de la démocratie that covers the post-1970 world yet, but I am guessing there will be something interesting related to what is happening at the moment in it.

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

    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).

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    @Coconuts


    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).
     
    Where exactly can one locate this overview? Thanks!

    Replies: @Coconuts

    , @QCIC
    @Coconuts

    Humanity has recently entered the world of continuous surveillance of every person on the planet via smart phone combined with the ability to process this data via AI. Some would argue these technologies were put in place specifically to control people. This leads to a level of control over humanity which seems unprecedented and is possibly unimaginable for most people. I wonder how these new factors will change the cultural trajectory and are they potent enough to overcome the patterns which are part of the human condition and recognized by philosophers such as you mention?

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    , @LatW
    @Coconuts


    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.
     
    Hegel has a teleological view of history - human history is a progression led by Reason (the "inward guiding soul"). The telos of history, the finality is inherent to the progression. The culture is eventually led to self-awareness as the highest form of rationality.

    Tbh, the above reminds one of Nietzsche's Master and slave morality - maybe not directly, but there is something similar there. The Master morality is that of a civilization that is self-affirming, self-directing, non-reflexive in a sense that it does not stop and think about whether it is "good" or "evil" (it is beyond good and evil, as he describes it, or rather sees the world in terms of "good" and "bad" - themselves being a priori good, it is "aristocratic", maybe a bit similar to how the Greeks may have perceived themselves), it assumes by default its innate "goodness", "rightness" (maybe even superiority, if we dare go that far) - it is the self-driven actor with an overflowing abundance of vitality, strength and energy, symbolized in a phallic statue. Whereas the slave morality is the one of reaction, of ressentment, of brooding and maybe too much introspection. His idea must have been that once you get to that point you start collapsing or degenerating (this is a rather harsh description of the Western civilization, even the Christian one, and maybe even unfair, since this self-reflection and the culture of critique is also something that has moved the Western civilization forward and has created its complexity - but supposedly, it is exactly this complexity that eventually becomes a burden).

    Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.
     
    Nietzsche proclaimed already during his days that "God is dead, we have killed him" (they so often fail to add that second phrase to these prophetic words when they quote him). So this must've not started in 1968, but earlier. Probably around the mid 19th century. Or some might even argue that the seeds of destruction lay somewhere deep, in the origins (in Nietzsche's view, they are to be found in Christianity, these are radical views).

    There is a comfort for many people in these recent post-1968 developments, they may not have wanted to live under an oppressive father figure.


    After arguing that Christianity is the ‘religion of the exit from religion’, which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world
     
    Very interesting. This is a somewhat Nietzschean sounding argument (or rather sounds like a commentary on his thoughts), thanks for pointing that out. Except that Nietzsche proposed a new religion of life affirmation, instead of current moral relativism. So he would've replaced this "exit from religion" with this new thinking. It would've been too intense for most people though.

    A disenchanted world is a somewhat romantic idea though, maybe without it we wouldn't have had the late 19th century romantic art.


    I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era.
     
    This sounds like an enviable visit. By the way, the phallic artifacts were present quite late, as seen in the Rällinge statuette from Sweden which is dated from around the year 1000AD, so very late. The academic version is that it's a statue of Freyr, but it might as well be a statue of Tyr (the Norse version of Mars) - it's somewhat open to interpretation. And interestingly, he's sitting in a lotus position.

    (Btw, you brought up the War Museum in Riga, that you visited, in your comments before - it used to be one of my favorite places to visit, even to just hang out during lunch time).

    The "exit from religion" theme was lightly touched upon David Engels as well - he spoke of the journey of our traditional European culture towards the transcendental and the search for the transcendental. This is the central goal of the culture, the telos.

    And that this is a vital piece that has been omitted in our contemporary (post-modern) culture.

    They tried to fell the mighty tree of Yggdrasil, yet the tree still stands...

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  495. @songbird
    @sudden death

    "Sternberg" doesn't sound very Baltic, but would have thought there would be some mixing over hundreds of years. Some say that proto-Germans came from the Balts.

    Anyway to a rural Mongol, a Russian is nearly the same as an Englishman, so you could try the trick anyway and say he was a Balt and you are him reborn.
    _____
    The story about Plato coming out of his delusional state because of the bad playing of the flute, reminds me of that guy who came out of the coma because Barney the dinosaur was on TV.

    https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1788185039353573516

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    Plato listening to the Thracian barbarian girl playing the flute wrong on his deathbed

    Colorized re-enactment below;)

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    • LOL: songbird
  496. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC


    It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.
     
    Agree with this statement.

    We can look now back a few decades and see how USSR come into being and was destroyed. We can also follow the way the post-Soviet republics evolved and come into their present state. Doing this on an amateur level brought me to my present view of the world: the corrupt, inefficient elites are the problem. The elites naturally see the masses as being different from them. Even when the masses and the elites are of the same origin broadly speaking, the elites would invent some myths to justify their supposedly superior rights (Polish Sarmatism, British Israelism, Russian (post-Catherine the Great) Normanism etc.) If the elites are truly alien, then detaching from the masses and ruthlessly exploiting them becomes a natural thing. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that when the elites are really foreign and loathsome, the masses will revolt against them and topple their system.



    Comes in the “cryptocolony” concept developed by Galkovsky. The cryptocolonial elites are in fact comprador and not working in the best interest of their subjugated people. But they would invent something on ideological grounds that would blur the distinction between being foreign and being local, between working for the local, native people and working for some dude overseas. That entirely applies to the post-Soviet elites in RusFed and Ukiestan. That also applies to the RFSSR during Soviet times, especially in the earlier decades. That even applies to some degree to the Russian Empire (although Galkovsky being a Russian Empire fanboy would disagree) after the Peterine reforms. And … that applies nowadays to most Western countries. It so happens that this situation came into play in the West at the time of the fall of USSR and the Eastern Bloc. « Convergence » much…

    What have all these diverse countries and historical societies in common? A rule by cosmopolitan, mostly self-centred and corrupt elites. The early Bolshevik “top tier”, where hardly a single family was 100% Slav, let alone Russian, the Holstein Gottorp Romanovs (of Prussian / Baltic German origin), the Noviop, the Neocon, the European Atlanticist…

    What is the probable outcome? The historical Polish Sarmatism and the Soviet experiment are an indicator: stasis, corruption, decay, civil strife, fall and dismemberment. Who will inherit the spoils of the failed cryptocolonial construct? Those who face it on a geopolitical level. Today, that would be Han Chinese. Who facilitates the fall ? In today’s West, that would be the Globalist faction.

    I have absolutely nothing against the Han Chinese people that I find admirable on many levels. But I am a nativist that would rather have the local population prosper build up and multiply. (Geopolitical) diversity is our strength. Let 200 flowers bloom. To each their own, a global Apartheid with a Zulu being a Zulu, an Arab being an Arab, a Jew being a Jew, a Slav being a Slav, a Frenchman being a Frenchman, an Anglo-Saxon being an Anglo-Saxon etc. I don’t want a Globalist « utopia » with Chinese characteristics for my offspring. I don’t want a « let them eat bugs » (to paraphrase Marie Antouanette) situation for my grandchildren…

    And I rest my case.

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    I think that tying together your whole thesis is that this amorphous clan of elites are conspiring together to bring their endgame to fruition by working together (same goals, similar outcomes). But nothing seems to support this eventuality. The two major powers in the world today, the US and China, are working against one another in a possible surrogate war within Ukraine, and relatedly the elites in both Russia and Ukraine are certainly out to destroy each other. Where’s the rational impetus for these trends if the elites are conspiring together to bring all of the world’s masses into an abysmal state of servitude? If there is none, then nothing is really changing, and the elites of each country are trying to control their own masses and not working together in any sort of a grand scheme. Business as usual.

  497. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC


    It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.
     
    Agree with this statement.

    We can look now back a few decades and see how USSR come into being and was destroyed. We can also follow the way the post-Soviet republics evolved and come into their present state. Doing this on an amateur level brought me to my present view of the world: the corrupt, inefficient elites are the problem. The elites naturally see the masses as being different from them. Even when the masses and the elites are of the same origin broadly speaking, the elites would invent some myths to justify their supposedly superior rights (Polish Sarmatism, British Israelism, Russian (post-Catherine the Great) Normanism etc.) If the elites are truly alien, then detaching from the masses and ruthlessly exploiting them becomes a natural thing. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that when the elites are really foreign and loathsome, the masses will revolt against them and topple their system.



    Comes in the “cryptocolony” concept developed by Galkovsky. The cryptocolonial elites are in fact comprador and not working in the best interest of their subjugated people. But they would invent something on ideological grounds that would blur the distinction between being foreign and being local, between working for the local, native people and working for some dude overseas. That entirely applies to the post-Soviet elites in RusFed and Ukiestan. That also applies to the RFSSR during Soviet times, especially in the earlier decades. That even applies to some degree to the Russian Empire (although Galkovsky being a Russian Empire fanboy would disagree) after the Peterine reforms. And … that applies nowadays to most Western countries. It so happens that this situation came into play in the West at the time of the fall of USSR and the Eastern Bloc. « Convergence » much…

    What have all these diverse countries and historical societies in common? A rule by cosmopolitan, mostly self-centred and corrupt elites. The early Bolshevik “top tier”, where hardly a single family was 100% Slav, let alone Russian, the Holstein Gottorp Romanovs (of Prussian / Baltic German origin), the Noviop, the Neocon, the European Atlanticist…

    What is the probable outcome? The historical Polish Sarmatism and the Soviet experiment are an indicator: stasis, corruption, decay, civil strife, fall and dismemberment. Who will inherit the spoils of the failed cryptocolonial construct? Those who face it on a geopolitical level. Today, that would be Han Chinese. Who facilitates the fall ? In today’s West, that would be the Globalist faction.

    I have absolutely nothing against the Han Chinese people that I find admirable on many levels. But I am a nativist that would rather have the local population prosper build up and multiply. (Geopolitical) diversity is our strength. Let 200 flowers bloom. To each their own, a global Apartheid with a Zulu being a Zulu, an Arab being an Arab, a Jew being a Jew, a Slav being a Slav, a Frenchman being a Frenchman, an Anglo-Saxon being an Anglo-Saxon etc. I don’t want a Globalist « utopia » with Chinese characteristics for my offspring. I don’t want a « let them eat bugs » (to paraphrase Marie Antouanette) situation for my grandchildren…

    And I rest my case.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Beckow, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    …the corrupt, inefficient elites are the problem. The elites naturally see the masses as being different from them. Even when the masses and the elites are of the same origin, the elites invent some myths to justify their supposedly superior rights Polish Sarmatism…

    That’s the key to all hierarchies. England had Normanism before it was in Russia, probably still does. French aristocracy had the Frank-conquest mythology, Hungary Attila-the-Hun made-up story. The posh people need to feel separate.

    Societies are hierarchical. With time they get more so – the lines harden and the resulting structure has to be justified. The hierarchy is always largely based on privileges – something one doesn’t have to work for. Privileges are assigned to us, preferably at birth.

    People go absolutely nuts to grab a privileged status – it is all most people dream of, not hard work or even enjoyment. See Afros, middle-aged fem-women, migrants in the West for a recent example – they want the goodies. But privileges are ubiquitous: Ivy leaguers, “experts”, security personnel, anyone working for a large institution, they proliferates like mushrooms after rain. It is human nature. The latter-day commie-ism was all about the designated privileged groups: what do you think was ‘nomenklatura’?

    Revolutions are nothing else but sweeping away accumulated privileges because the society can no longer function – it becomes top-heavy and stalls. The mass of people can never have enough privileges and they eventually blow-up the hierarchy. The reset can be postponed by bringing in migrants – they ideally act like a low-level flow into the pyramid.

    One attractive thing about the commies was their early and sincere commitment to the full destruction of previous systems. They really turned it upside down. It was a breath of fresh air and the fear of improved all societies – the Western ones in particular. The elites behaved for a few generations. But the endless survivors and their bitter relatives don’t see it that way – as with the silly medieval myths most people think (or pretend to) they were the kings or the knights and in a silly way identify with it. Revos always have it hard, there is little class in not coming from the top. But most of us did.

  498. @Coconuts
    @LatW


    But it feels like something bigger is happening, it’s just hard to pinpoint what it really is.
     
    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.



    I feel like something like that could be happening, at least in Britain, maybe France, other countries. Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.

    Even in the lives of individuals, especially people brought up in the post-68 world and imbued with that worldview, once you reach a certain age the narrative of liberation and emancipation seems to naturally become less central or at least open to question.

    There is a French sociologist/political philosopher, Marcel Gauchet, who wrote a famous book called 'The Disenchantment of the World' in the 1980s, a political history of religion from (I think) a Weberian perspective. After arguing that Christianity is the 'religion of the exit from religion', which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world, he wrote a four volume series called 'L’Avènement de la démocratie', about the characteristics of the world of democracy, the state and society that has gradually come to replace the old world of religion.

    I've been finding a lot in those books to think about, he seems to capture many features the trajectory of things that I might have had an intuitive sense of, but couldn't have consciously explained or put into context. I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era. The top of the museum was a kind of art gallery with contemporary secular and religious art. In some way it seemed like a material reflection of the kind of process Gauchet writes about, so this is on my mind at the moment.

    I don't have the last volume of L’Avènement de la démocratie that covers the post-1970 world yet, but I am guessing there will be something interesting related to what is happening at the moment in it.

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

    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @LatW

    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).

    Where exactly can one locate this overview? Thanks!

    • Replies: @Coconuts
    @Mr. Hack

    It's in the section further down the page, after the three sub-sections in the biography part at the beginning.

  499. @Derer
    @Mr. Hack

    You are replying to your own post - a sign of dementia. Your fantasy on Ukraine accomplishments contradicts the reality. When will historically Russian Kharkov be liberated from Kiev gang?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    No I wasn’t you idiot. I was replying to Bashibuzuk’s comment. Too much vodka last night, comrade? 🙂

    • Replies: @Sher Singh
    @Mr. Hack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F1JbB_RLXE

    , @Derer
    @Mr. Hack

    Read the names replying to your f #295 - pathetic liar. The first reply is yours, do not delay that visit, they can help your dementia. Putin is causing all your hallucinations, he has invisible hands to reach you at any place.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  500. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I assume everything about Zelensky is made up except that he plays a gay-ish character on stage, in videos and on television. There is no reason to accept claims that he ignored some Western suggestion or followed some other command in the conflict. I believe he is well paid to drive Ukraine into the grave and eventually will either be executed by the Ukies or will die of drug suicide.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    I assume everything about Zelensky is made up except that he plays a gay-ish character on stage, in videos and on television. There is no reason to accept claims that he ignored some Western suggestion or followed some other command in the conflict.

    There is indeed no reason to believe such things if you lock yourself into sources like Larry C “war is in mop up stage” Johnson and don’t bother using Google to investigate a claim.

    Zelensky questions U.S. warnings of “imminent” invasion in Biden call
    https://www.axios.com/2022/01/28/zelensky-biden-call-imminent-invasion

    Zelensky suggests that Russia is just scaremongering with troop build-up
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60174684

    Zelenskiy ‘didn’t want to hear’ warnings of Russia invasion, says Biden
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/11/volodymyr-zelenskiy-didnt-want-to-hear-warnings-of-russia-invasion-says-joe-biden

    The Belarus invasion went through a single bridge. All Zelensky had to do was line up artillery against it or prepare to blow it with engineers. He did neither.

    Once again you decided to make a decision based on feelings instead of investigating. But you seem to like sources such as Larry C Johnson that were completely wrong about the war:

    Larry C. Johnson: “The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What’s Left Is Mop-Up” (2022)
    https://www.newsfromtheperimeter.com/home/2022/3/23/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up

    Here is more:

    Zelensky ignored warnings over counteroffensive:
    https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274347443/zelensky-ignored-counteroffensive-warnings-nato-member

    Did you also need sources on how Zelensky ignores US requests to not attack Russian oil refineries? Can I google anything else for you? A sweet potato pie recipe perhaps?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Ha, ha. I don't listen to Larry Johnson, 'retired' CIA. LOL. I don't rate the sources you list much higher. Larry J. may be delivering some facts, but how can he be trusted (are you related)? Based on the big picture I assume Western leaders are very happy to attack Russian refineries. They don't mind at all that Zelensky has a made up cover story. I mean they don't mind at all that Zelensky's bosses have given him a made up story to promote in the mainstream media. They probably send him tips on make up and inflection and lighting. I wonder if he can win a Tony award in absentia?

    Replies: @John Johnson

  501. @John Johnson
    @Derer

    You sound desperate…do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    LOL I pointed out Shoigu's lack of military training when this 2.5 week operation started.

    His bio is public record. Did I state anything about Shoigu that is false?

    It's day 802 of the 2.5 week special operation and Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense. Oh but he has a lot more fancy medals now.

    https://www.kyivpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bezssd-zagolovka-650x433.png

    Is there a medal for skipping military school thanks to your KGB connections?

    You for whatever reason still want to believe in his maifioso midget dictatorship where the most effective general was a former chef who was actually caught feeding the troops rotten meat. Putin saw that and responded by helping him become a private military warlord.

    Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    They still have at least 600 ATACMs missiles to burn through. Could be as high as 950.

    The HIMARs missiles being shipped are in the thousands.

    We still haven't seen the F-16s fly.

    A lot of videos to come of the Great Russian War against a neighbor with 1/8th the infantry.

    https://media.tenor.com/mTYw14p_uigAAAAM/michael-jackson-eating-popcorn.gif

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234

    Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense.

    M.Ch.S has a high share of former military in their personnel, for obvious reasons you dumbf**k

    M.Ch.S has a not insignificant airfleet – compatible with my first point. Significant number of boats although this can’t be compared much with operations of the navy

    Demining operations, evacuation and organising medical treatment of concentrations of injured people

    Rapid responses in moving masses of people and heavy equipment long distances and into dangerous areas

    Drone Surveillance, reacting to realtime satellite data and co-ordinating some mass action in response to it. Engineers who build and install temporary structures

    So there is integration, overlapping, compatibility of military with emergency ministry actions. It can’t be compared with Education or Culture or Energy minister becoming Defence Minister you subhuman sack of faeces bot-freak.

    Its obvious that peacetime operations of military across the world involve plenty of actions that classify under work of Emergencies Ministry you idiot. Syria was more than enough succesful qualification of Shoigu for the SMO anyway . In every aspect of MOD he has improved it in modernisation of forces and equipment, development of weapons, organisation/logistics….and of course the mass slaughter of ukronazis.

    Most importantly Shoigu – in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS.

    As if to confirm what a dumb, bot, nutjob you are………..by comparison Banderastan – Abysmal organisation, abysmal weapons modernisation, abysmal arms exports, abysmal losses.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234


    Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense.

     

    M.Ch.S has a high share of former military in their personnel, for obvious reasons you dumbf**k

    Wow I guess I really struck a nerve. I don't think I have ever seen you this emotional.

    Let me guess...... you assumed I was making up his lack of military experience and after verifying it is true you're now frustrated and calling me names.

    Might want to wait a few weeks before doing PR work for Putin's emergency services director with his fancy medals that Putin slapped on him like a North Korean general. Maybe you didn't catch that his deputy was arrested after Ukrainian hackers broke into a server and revealed some unflattering information about him taking bribes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUL1W3Dou8

    , @Mr. Hack
    @Gerard1234

    "Most importantly Shoigu – in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS."

    Gerard, are you serious? I think that Putler is on the verge of canning him.

    https://static.kyivpost.com/storage/2024/04/27/9ea76cfeb5604cb52dfaf132f6d69c9a.jpg?w=900&q=90&f=webp

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Gerard1234

  502. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC


    It may take decades to know what was important and why it happened.
     
    Agree with this statement.

    We can look now back a few decades and see how USSR come into being and was destroyed. We can also follow the way the post-Soviet republics evolved and come into their present state. Doing this on an amateur level brought me to my present view of the world: the corrupt, inefficient elites are the problem. The elites naturally see the masses as being different from them. Even when the masses and the elites are of the same origin broadly speaking, the elites would invent some myths to justify their supposedly superior rights (Polish Sarmatism, British Israelism, Russian (post-Catherine the Great) Normanism etc.) If the elites are truly alien, then detaching from the masses and ruthlessly exploiting them becomes a natural thing. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that when the elites are really foreign and loathsome, the masses will revolt against them and topple their system.



    Comes in the “cryptocolony” concept developed by Galkovsky. The cryptocolonial elites are in fact comprador and not working in the best interest of their subjugated people. But they would invent something on ideological grounds that would blur the distinction between being foreign and being local, between working for the local, native people and working for some dude overseas. That entirely applies to the post-Soviet elites in RusFed and Ukiestan. That also applies to the RFSSR during Soviet times, especially in the earlier decades. That even applies to some degree to the Russian Empire (although Galkovsky being a Russian Empire fanboy would disagree) after the Peterine reforms. And … that applies nowadays to most Western countries. It so happens that this situation came into play in the West at the time of the fall of USSR and the Eastern Bloc. « Convergence » much…

    What have all these diverse countries and historical societies in common? A rule by cosmopolitan, mostly self-centred and corrupt elites. The early Bolshevik “top tier”, where hardly a single family was 100% Slav, let alone Russian, the Holstein Gottorp Romanovs (of Prussian / Baltic German origin), the Noviop, the Neocon, the European Atlanticist…

    What is the probable outcome? The historical Polish Sarmatism and the Soviet experiment are an indicator: stasis, corruption, decay, civil strife, fall and dismemberment. Who will inherit the spoils of the failed cryptocolonial construct? Those who face it on a geopolitical level. Today, that would be Han Chinese. Who facilitates the fall ? In today’s West, that would be the Globalist faction.

    I have absolutely nothing against the Han Chinese people that I find admirable on many levels. But I am a nativist that would rather have the local population prosper build up and multiply. (Geopolitical) diversity is our strength. Let 200 flowers bloom. To each their own, a global Apartheid with a Zulu being a Zulu, an Arab being an Arab, a Jew being a Jew, a Slav being a Slav, a Frenchman being a Frenchman, an Anglo-Saxon being an Anglo-Saxon etc. I don’t want a Globalist « utopia » with Chinese characteristics for my offspring. I don’t want a « let them eat bugs » (to paraphrase Marie Antouanette) situation for my grandchildren…

    And I rest my case.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Beckow, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

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    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    His wife is probably local and he must have lived there long enough to have gone native. I tried learning Mandarin a couple of years ago, but it felt so weird that I gave up. This video made me wanna try again. 🙂

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

  503. @John Johnson
    @Derer

    You sound desperate…do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    LOL I pointed out Shoigu's lack of military training when this 2.5 week operation started.

    His bio is public record. Did I state anything about Shoigu that is false?

    It's day 802 of the 2.5 week special operation and Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense. Oh but he has a lot more fancy medals now.

    https://www.kyivpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bezssd-zagolovka-650x433.png

    Is there a medal for skipping military school thanks to your KGB connections?

    You for whatever reason still want to believe in his maifioso midget dictatorship where the most effective general was a former chef who was actually caught feeding the troops rotten meat. Putin saw that and responded by helping him become a private military warlord.

    Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    They still have at least 600 ATACMs missiles to burn through. Could be as high as 950.

    The HIMARs missiles being shipped are in the thousands.

    We still haven't seen the F-16s fly.

    A lot of videos to come of the Great Russian War against a neighbor with 1/8th the infantry.

    https://media.tenor.com/mTYw14p_uigAAAAM/michael-jackson-eating-popcorn.gif

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234

    Biden’s security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Quite literally it’s very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard. US is the exception to this.

    you obviously have zero ideo

    OK – we can all agree that the ukronazi position.

    Poland, Germany, France, UK

    UK is one of the key scumbags in the SMO – they

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line, electronic jamming, interceptions, misses……and of course ukronazi false flag.
    Most importantly they are at tactical and operational level useless.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    Biden’s security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Looks indeed like a terrible pick.

    What is your point? Biden's terrible picks justify Putin's picks?

    I don't like Biden or Putin. Pointing out a poor pick by Biden doesn't somehow make Putin's emergency services director any more competent.

    You and others here project a lot of tribalism. I don't represent the United States government. I didn't vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

    Quite literally it’s very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard.

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was incompetent and the main problem. Which means a general on the ground didn't think that Putin's 9-11 director could handle a war. We will see if Prigozhin or a forum poster for Putin is ultimately correct. I hope they keep Shoigu as long as possible given everything that Prigozhin stated before tragically being killed in an accident involving grenades and vodka. Well that was according to Putin whose word you can trust.

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line

    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn't happen. Russia hasn't proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia's liberation....er killing neonazis ....stopping NATO....or whatever you want to call it this month:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2owYbQnAsQ

    Replies: @Beckow, @Mikel, @Gerard1234

  504. QCIC says:
    @Coconuts
    @LatW


    But it feels like something bigger is happening, it’s just hard to pinpoint what it really is.
     
    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.



    I feel like something like that could be happening, at least in Britain, maybe France, other countries. Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.

    Even in the lives of individuals, especially people brought up in the post-68 world and imbued with that worldview, once you reach a certain age the narrative of liberation and emancipation seems to naturally become less central or at least open to question.

    There is a French sociologist/political philosopher, Marcel Gauchet, who wrote a famous book called 'The Disenchantment of the World' in the 1980s, a political history of religion from (I think) a Weberian perspective. After arguing that Christianity is the 'religion of the exit from religion', which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world, he wrote a four volume series called 'L’Avènement de la démocratie', about the characteristics of the world of democracy, the state and society that has gradually come to replace the old world of religion.

    I've been finding a lot in those books to think about, he seems to capture many features the trajectory of things that I might have had an intuitive sense of, but couldn't have consciously explained or put into context. I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era. The top of the museum was a kind of art gallery with contemporary secular and religious art. In some way it seemed like a material reflection of the kind of process Gauchet writes about, so this is on my mind at the moment.

    I don't have the last volume of L’Avènement de la démocratie that covers the post-1970 world yet, but I am guessing there will be something interesting related to what is happening at the moment in it.

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

    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @LatW

    Humanity has recently entered the world of continuous surveillance of every person on the planet via smart phone combined with the ability to process this data via AI. Some would argue these technologies were put in place specifically to control people. This leads to a level of control over humanity which seems unprecedented and is possibly unimaginable for most people. I wonder how these new factors will change the cultural trajectory and are they potent enough to overcome the patterns which are part of the human condition and recognized by philosophers such as you mention?

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @QCIC

    Is Coconuts' philosopher a dogmatic materialist?

    Evil, Ahriman, Satan, whatever lingo you prefer. It exists and it's insatiable. There ain't no finesse for this baby it's war.

    Join up with Saint Michael or wallow in disgrace.

    https://rosary.team/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/573a9317-96c5-45ee-b7b0-9e16c2707d83.jpg

    Replies: @Coconuts

  505. Sikhs jumping rope.

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  506. @Mr. XYZ
    @AP


    Non-European Jews seem to be closer to non-Europeans, however.

     

    A lot of Jews of Middle Eastern descent hate Muslims nowadays, though.

    Replies: @AP

    Just as Shiites and Sunnis can have bitter conflicts…

    • Replies: @Derer
    @AP


    Just as Shiites and Sunnis can have bitter conflicts…
     
    That point is the single most important plus for the Israel survival in the ocean of Islam.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP

    Yep, absolutely!

  507. @YetAnotherAnon
    Happy Victory Day to you all.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    May 8, 2024. The losers commemorate 79th anniversary of their defeat. May 9th, 2024. The winners celebrate 79th anniversary of their victory.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...May 9th, 2024. The winners celebrate 79th anniversary of their victory.
     
    Great day - the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany and its Euro allies - the Anglos belatedly rushed in to manage it after Russia already won. After a decent interval of forgetting they started the re-write. A sad case of no guts or honor - I wonder how the decent ones among them feel. It's just embarrassing.

    I like the Germans as people, they add a lot to Europe. But their subservient willingness to go along with the revisionist bull.s..t makes them less sympathetic. One suspects bad emotions, maybe a desire for revenge or dreaming of a re-do...

    I wonder when the Poles celebrate the WW2 victory, 1989? Or do they still see it as work-in-progress?

    Replies: @AP

  508. @LatW
    @Beckow


    Euro countries and borders have been unchanged for 80 years. Few countries split up along their internal borders. This has never happened in Europe for that long. It was determined by WW2 – the winners kept what they won and the losers got used to it. Stability…
     
    Of course, the Yalta consensus worked and the borders were relatively stable, even despite the collapse of the USSR and the deep sociopolitical changes in the Western world. But it feels like something bigger is happening, it's just hard to pinpoint what it really is. It seems that both the US and RusFed / former USSR have changed or are changing in a fundamental way. Is their power shrinking or not...?

    Maybe RusFed are trying to roll things back as much as they can to something resembling prior to the 1991 (or earlier?), but if the Yalta consensus crumbles, then how can they do that, if the pre-1991 was a part of Yalta? Maybe they want even more than that (Il'yn's program and such)?


    This has never happened in Europe for that long.
     
    The European nations have never been as ripe as nation states before (and solidified), as recent as the 19th century, Germany was still a grouping of feudal states. It is ironic, that so quickly after this ripening, the Euro states are once again compromising themselves with mass immigration.

    The early Bolshies, fascists and current Westie uber-liberals are outliers: they want to change the personal. They will fail as always. Idiots.
     
    Personal is difficult to change (especially in a truly free society), one cannot walk into every single household and change their mores (one can try), and if it succeeds, it can still take a very long time. Even the most oppressive power cannot change every single soul at will, even if they destroy a lot of souls. The soul is free even under physical and political oppression. Right now the attempt is to change the identity. But do we know where identity lies....?

    But you know how the second wave feminists used to say - "the personal is political". It seems like they're taking it from the political end and trying to push it on the personal level. The person then has the power to revert it back to them (as a personal, spiritual revolt).


    Then the Krauts went medieval on them. And it took the Russians to stop it. But now they hate the Russians. It is really confusing…
     
    They have a kind of a fluid, opportunistic MO (almost as a meta-ethnicity) - they stick with one group of Gentiles, then with another, depending on the situation. But they did have some stability in the Pale with our groups, had there been no outside interference, they would've been ok.

    Replies: @Coconuts, @Beckow

    …But it feels like something bigger is happening…Is their power shrinking or not…?

    Whatever our differences I think most people on this forum agree. It is unsustainable and the power is floating in the air unmoored from anything substantial. In times like these focus matters and the West is fatally unfocused – there is no core and the constant lying and trying to control reality with propaganda backfires.

    Maybe RusFed are trying to roll things back…

    Only a figure of speech. Russia is trying to protect itself and as many Russians as it can. Any other nation would do the same. What matters is whether they can do it and it looks like they can.

    The West miscalculated with the Nato-in-Ukraine idiocy in order to put a knife on Russia’s neck without thinking through what if Russia calls their bluff. A bad idea, but elites never like to admit to mistakes – so they blow smoke and play for time.

    Personal is difficult to change (especially in a truly free society), one cannot walk into every single household and change their mores… do we know where identity lies?

    What do we mean by free ? The chaos generated by the vacuous freedom talk is the best way for the ‘personal’ to change. We are at the mercy of the most stupid and irresponsible people in our societies – they have been liberated, but to most people it feels quite unfree.

    The West is busily stripping identity from everything and that can’t end well.

    …kind of a fluid, opportunistic MO (almost as a meta-ethnicity) – they stick with one group of Gentiles, then with another

    A good observation, but their flightiness can be disorienting. It has a whiff of unhinged opportunism about it. And opportunities are never unlimited.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Beckow


    the power is floating in the air unmoored from anything substantial
     
    This is very well put and this is how I've been feeling over the past year as well. The whole order is shifting and looking for some kind of an anchoring. Some time will pass before a new order is arranged. Let's hope that this is without a large war, but smaller ones are already ongoing (even though the one in Ukraine is not at all small). The Europeans need to be fully aware of this and fight for their space. Or ideally even expand it, if possible. Physically, technologically.

    The results of Xi's visit are still not fully obvious. But it is clear that he's trying to have China enter through the periphery such as Serbia and Hungary. Not sure how well Macron has been able to work him. What is the Slovak press writing in the commentary sections? Anything interesting?

    Must admit that this worries me, because I really don't want China to become a big player on the European scene. Cooperation, yes, maybe some kind of a moderating role - this is something they're clearly aiming at, - but only if it's advantageous for us. They are a powerful actor and can be useful, but certainly wouldn't want them going too far. It will be a bipolar world and having the US and China in our affairs... sounds nightmarish. We should push them out where it doesn't suit us and only allow them in, where it is advantageous and acceptable.


    In times like these focus matters and the West is fatally unfocused – there is no core and the constant lying and trying to control reality with propaganda backfires.
     
    There has been some search for the focus, there is some newly found unity (in Europe there is some understanding of the gravity of the situation, which will help have more unity and move to more practical things like invigorating the military industries). The US? I don't know...

    Only a figure of speech. Russia is trying to protect itself and as many Russians as it can. Any other nation would do the same. What matters is whether they can do it and it looks like they can.
     
    Well, but it's not over and we can only guess how these processes will affect Russia on the inside. The key to the unraveling of the events is inside of Russia (look for the so called needle in the Kashchei's egg there), but it will be affected by the developments on the battle field.

    Of course, they could've "protected" their co-ethnics in a peaceful manner - and btw, not all of those they deem such are really their true co-ethnics. Because they're so called co-ethnics are dispersed across their former colonial territory, they should've learned to make compromises (they partly did but they also chose to stoke separatism which is very dangerous).


    The West miscalculated with the Nato-in-Ukraine idiocy in order to put a knife on Russia’s neck without thinking through what if Russia calls their bluff.
     
    That's only one side of it, Ukraine was objectively breaking away from the post-Soviet Russia, it's been 30 years, in fact, more than that, almost 35 if you count from 1988 (it's when the USSR was really over). It's a long time.

    What do we mean by free ?
     
    In political terms, mostly where there is enough access to a broad spectrum of knowledge, for a wide enough population (the utilitarian argument). And where there is a decent level of education of the population to analyze information.

    The West is busily stripping identity from everything and that can’t end well.
     
    Well, but that's why I asked if we know where identity resides... because for example with the gender thing - transgender actually comes out as absence of identity.

    Btw, I don't necessarily agree that all of the West are "stripping identity of everything" - yes, partly it's true, but there are quite a few who are able to nurture their identity or try to preserve it. It's not a small number of people. People know instinctively that it is valuable. They don't even have to be nationalists or identitarians.


    but their flightiness can be disorienting.
     
    Oh, you bet. It might be part of the MO. It's a little like Turks or Arabs haggling - they are a southern people after all. It can be fascinating to observe (from a safe place). The trick is to learn how to handle it without it being disorienting and allowing it to go too far. Historically, the elites probably tried to take advantage of the positive things that they bring to the table (skills, etc), with the hopes that they can control the negatives (or in the worst case, that the negatives will be absorbed by the lower classes). But when it's uncontrolled, it can turn into cliques, even global ones.

    Of course, I don't want to accuse every single Jewish person of this - that would be biased and above all inaccurate. It might be that there are systems which work better for this, and systems where this gets out of control.


    It has a whiff of unhinged opportunism about it.
     
    Big time, sometimes this works but sometimes it goes too far. But it's actually an art to navigate successfully within an "uncontrolled chaos" (versus the "controlled chaos"). We have the first one now.
    Btw, it looks like America doesn't like it (the establishment at least).
  509. @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense.

     

    M.Ch.S has a high share of former military in their personnel, for obvious reasons you dumbf**k

    M.Ch.S has a not insignificant airfleet - compatible with my first point. Significant number of boats although this can't be compared much with operations of the navy

    Demining operations, evacuation and organising medical treatment of concentrations of injured people

    Rapid responses in moving masses of people and heavy equipment long distances and into dangerous areas

    Drone Surveillance, reacting to realtime satellite data and co-ordinating some mass action in response to it. Engineers who build and install temporary structures

    So there is integration, overlapping, compatibility of military with emergency ministry actions. It can't be compared with Education or Culture or Energy minister becoming Defence Minister you subhuman sack of faeces bot-freak.

    Its obvious that peacetime operations of military across the world involve plenty of actions that classify under work of Emergencies Ministry you idiot. Syria was more than enough succesful qualification of Shoigu for the SMO anyway . In every aspect of MOD he has improved it in modernisation of forces and equipment, development of weapons, organisation/logistics....and of course the mass slaughter of ukronazis.


    Most importantly Shoigu - in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS.

    As if to confirm what a dumb, bot, nutjob you are...........by comparison Banderastan - Abysmal organisation, abysmal weapons modernisation, abysmal arms exports, abysmal losses.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Mr. Hack

    Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense.

    M.Ch.S has a high share of former military in their personnel, for obvious reasons you dumbf**k

    Wow I guess I really struck a nerve. I don’t think I have ever seen you this emotional.

    Let me guess…… you assumed I was making up his lack of military experience and after verifying it is true you’re now frustrated and calling me names.

    Might want to wait a few weeks before doing PR work for Putin’s emergency services director with his fancy medals that Putin slapped on him like a North Korean general. Maybe you didn’t catch that his deputy was arrested after Ukrainian hackers broke into a server and revealed some unflattering information about him taking bribes.

  510. @John Johnson
    @Derer

    You sound desperate…do you have a count of your repeated BS, it must be 50X by now. Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    LOL I pointed out Shoigu's lack of military training when this 2.5 week operation started.

    His bio is public record. Did I state anything about Shoigu that is false?

    It's day 802 of the 2.5 week special operation and Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense. Oh but he has a lot more fancy medals now.

    https://www.kyivpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bezssd-zagolovka-650x433.png

    Is there a medal for skipping military school thanks to your KGB connections?

    You for whatever reason still want to believe in his maifioso midget dictatorship where the most effective general was a former chef who was actually caught feeding the troops rotten meat. Putin saw that and responded by helping him become a private military warlord.

    Get some new material, like end for Ukraine is near.

    They still have at least 600 ATACMs missiles to burn through. Could be as high as 950.

    The HIMARs missiles being shipped are in the thousands.

    We still haven't seen the F-16s fly.

    A lot of videos to come of the Great Russian War against a neighbor with 1/8th the infantry.

    https://media.tenor.com/mTYw14p_uigAAAAM/michael-jackson-eating-popcorn.gif

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234, @Gerard1234

    LOL I pointed out Shoigu’s lack of military training when this 2.5 week operation started.

    Biden’s security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Quite literally it’s very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard. US is the exception to this.

    You retarded shitheadness becomes more obvious when we examine the large number of countries relevant to the SMO, Minister of Defences that Shoigu has outlasted. Every other country has had to replace from incompetence at least once, sometimes twice their own Minister of Defence since start of the SMO.

    US Defence Secretary has willingly given himself cancer and is crying away from the job

    As if to confirm what a dumb, bot, nutjob you are who has f**k all idea of what you are talking about – Ukraine has a non-military Minister of Defences now, at start of SMO and numerous in the previous 30 years you shameless, f**king imbecile!!

    OK – so we can all agree that Ukraine doesn’t classify – MOD and other positions are just, fake, puppet, non-entity jobs in 404 as its the west controlling everything:

    Poland, Germany, France, UK and soon to be US have ALL replaced their Ministers of Defence at least once since February 2022. As I say – incompetence and Russian annihilation of 404 is the recurring theme of this. Most of those Ministers, of course had zero military experience or expertise.

    UK scumbags are interesting – as I think other commentators have mentioned, their recently resigned Minister of Defence “achieved” a very low rank for some standard upper-class Anglo-retard serving for so long . Instead of serving his country and their evil actions in the SMO, this lazy bum actually resigned from his job quite quickly – very clearly so that this parasite can earn some easy money on board of defence contractor, doing speeches talking BS about ” we must save Ukraine”. UK , also has some separate Minister of the Armed Forces or something like that – and I notice that he is the exact same scumbag as the Minister of Defence guy – unexceptional military career, resigning after very small amount of time on the job, without doubt just so he can be even more of a corrupt POS and earn some very easy , large amounts of money.

    That is the type of corrupt swine/loser Shoigu is competing against.
    Also the implication from your idiot comments on Shoigu is that you have zero idea of how the General Staff of RF functions.

    They still have at least 600 ATACMs missiles to burn through. Could be as high as 950.

    The HIMARs missiles being shipped are in the thousands.

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line, electronic jamming, interceptions, misses……and of course ukronazi false flag.
    Most importantly they are at tactical and operational level useless – as evidenced throughout the 2 years. Cheap PR – the only thing the Kiev regime is competent at, is they only thing they can ( sometimes, though often fake) provide.

    A lot of videos to come of the Great Russian War against a neighbor with 1/8th the infantry.

    Errr….no, you thick POS. There is no 1/8th difference on the battlefield – although if you say they have been reduced to 1/8th – that is alot more credible, LOL.

  511. @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson

    Biden's security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Quite literally it's very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard. US is the exception to this.

    you obviously have zero ideo

    OK - we can all agree that the ukronazi position.

    Poland, Germany, France, UK

    UK is one of the key scumbags in the SMO - they



    LOL - those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line, electronic jamming, interceptions, misses......and of course ukronazi false flag.
    Most importantly they are at tactical and operational level useless.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Biden’s security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Looks indeed like a terrible pick.

    What is your point? Biden’s terrible picks justify Putin’s picks?

    I don’t like Biden or Putin. Pointing out a poor pick by Biden doesn’t somehow make Putin’s emergency services director any more competent.

    You and others here project a lot of tribalism. I don’t represent the United States government. I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

    Quite literally it’s very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard.

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was incompetent and the main problem. Which means a general on the ground didn’t think that Putin’s 9-11 director could handle a war. We will see if Prigozhin or a forum poster for Putin is ultimately correct. I hope they keep Shoigu as long as possible given everything that Prigozhin stated before tragically being killed in an accident involving grenades and vodka. Well that was according to Putin whose word you can trust.

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line

    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn’t happen. Russia hasn’t proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia’s liberation….er killing neonazis ….stopping NATO….or whatever you want to call it this month:

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.
     
    Who would you prefer?

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.
     
    He looks dull and out-of-his depth. Possibly a diversity hire. There have been a lot of incompetent West Point grads or worse - how else do you explain the long list of the lost wars? From Vietnam to Afgan. it has been quite dismal.

    ...killing neonazis ….stopping NATO
     
    Can it be both? Is that too complex for you? Any war is about destruction - that's why it is better to avoid them.

    Let's say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance. Russia sends huge amount of weapons and trains fanatical young Frenchies in the hatred of all "Anglos" - the remaining Anglo-Canadian minority is disenfranchised, English-language schools are closed, Shakespeare-Hemingway are banned ("aggressive" culture)....how long before a war would start?

    Or is something so basic beyond your reasoning powers?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @John Johnson

    , @Mikel
    @John Johnson


    You and others here project a lot of tribalism.
     
    Could you please try to avoid this kind of divisive language? Gerard is a well mannered poster who always prefers to bite his tongue rather than respond to provocations but I see no need to test his limits by accusing him of tribalism.
    , @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn’t happen. Russia hasn’t proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.
     
    Seriously are you this much of a retard?
    My main point is that at tactical and operational level, HIMARS and ATACMs are, and have already proven as completely useless against Russia you idiot. Part of that reasons is because of the numbers we are destroying or missiles intercepting.

    Has it seriously disrupted Russian logistics in any direction? LMAO - of course no.
    Has it won 404 any territory (LMAO at that concept)- of course no.
    Any evidence it has been a factor in stopping or delaying any Russian offensive, any decision to seize a town, a village, a road? No.

    Has it won 404 any counteroffensive? Seriously LMFAO now - of course not.
    Will they in anyway compensate for the severe loss of men already on the Ukronazi side? No - if anything these systems will make the problem worse
    Has it stopped people from joining our military/forced mass resignations - of course not

    Some of our heroes will get hit, hopefully not so much, but overall these weapons have been used for pointless, sadistic, PR purposes (mostly against civilian targets as is typical for these animals).... the net effect of the last few months and nearly 2 years of using them ......is that it helps us develop our skills at tracking or hunting down all these mobile launch platforms compared to previously when stationary installations they have been trained at and succeeded in destroying. There is less improvements the NATO/Ukroreikh side can do on the technological and tactical side than we can do on the countermeasure side.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia’s liberation….er killing neonazis ….stopping NATO….or whatever you want to call it this month:

     

    You are a well-known bot for publishing NATO fakes so normally I won't waste time watching, but here I watched the first 10 seconds..... and it's clear either the vehicles destroyed are Russian military and the ukronazis have destroyed those surrounding buildings during that series of hits....or it's vice versa......OR its an entirely artificial scenes in line with constant Ukrop fakes. It certainly can't be the first 2 options at the same time you lying dumbf**k.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  512. @QCIC
    @Coconuts

    Humanity has recently entered the world of continuous surveillance of every person on the planet via smart phone combined with the ability to process this data via AI. Some would argue these technologies were put in place specifically to control people. This leads to a level of control over humanity which seems unprecedented and is possibly unimaginable for most people. I wonder how these new factors will change the cultural trajectory and are they potent enough to overcome the patterns which are part of the human condition and recognized by philosophers such as you mention?

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    Is Coconuts’ philosopher a dogmatic materialist?

    Evil, Ahriman, Satan, whatever lingo you prefer. It exists and it’s insatiable. There ain’t no finesse for this baby it’s war.

    Join up with Saint Michael or wallow in disgrace.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk, QCIC
    • Replies: @Coconuts
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Is Coconuts’ philosopher a dogmatic materialist?
     
    He might be, he is a moderate progressive I think. He is looking at the topic as a sociologist or political scientist, so imo it aims for a descriptive character. If you are interested in secularisation and changes in the relationship between religion and politics, it seems good and something to think about.

    I haven't read the last volume but I may disagree with his views about the era of what he calls the era of 'religion' being definitively over. In the Disenchantment of the World, written in the 80s, he tries to come up with some explanations of why the old religious form of social and political organisation predominated in most human societies. Seeing the demographic problems developing today, the way these worldviews were centred around the issue of the preservation and perpetuation of social communities over the generations might be one possible explanation.

  513. @AnonfromTN
    @YetAnotherAnon

    May 8, 2024. The losers commemorate 79th anniversary of their defeat. May 9th, 2024. The winners celebrate 79th anniversary of their victory.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …May 9th, 2024. The winners celebrate 79th anniversary of their victory.

    Great day – the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany and its Euro allies – the Anglos belatedly rushed in to manage it after Russia already won. After a decent interval of forgetting they started the re-write. A sad case of no guts or honor – I wonder how the decent ones among them feel. It’s just embarrassing.

    I like the Germans as people, they add a lot to Europe. But their subservient willingness to go along with the revisionist bull.s..t makes them less sympathetic. One suspects bad emotions, maybe a desire for revenge or dreaming of a re-do…

    I wonder when the Poles celebrate the WW2 victory, 1989? Or do they still see it as work-in-progress?

    • Replies: @AP
    @Beckow


    Great day – the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany
     
    You call it the biggest victory in human history, but you don't even know who won. Hint: Russia was only about half the USSR, which wasn't even led by a Russian at the time of the victory.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Bashibuzuk, @Beckow

  514. @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Roman von Ungern Sternberg
     
    One of my favourite folk heroes.

    🙂

    BTW, speaking of Archangel Michael and warrior deities , I prefer the representation below for that archetype:

    https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/lord-manjushri-arya-nargajuna-and-the-naga-queen-ben-christian.jpg

    The flaming sword of transcendental wisdom burns demons into annihilated quanta. Only empty quantum fields remain where entities dwelled…

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    I can never keep those guys straight.

    Was Nargajuna one of those right hand path guys who drank mercury or was he one of those left hand path guys who took his daughter to the sex parties?

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    He was a middle path guy, who was so based he negated the path itself. Also supposedly a great Ayurvedic scholar and a pundit / minister to Kanishka the Great.

    http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BH/bh117485.htm

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

  515. @Mr. Hack
    @Derer

    No I wasn't you idiot. I was replying to Bashibuzuk's comment. Too much vodka last night, comrade? :-)

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Derer



  516. ਅਕਾਲ

  517. @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    Biden’s security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Looks indeed like a terrible pick.

    What is your point? Biden's terrible picks justify Putin's picks?

    I don't like Biden or Putin. Pointing out a poor pick by Biden doesn't somehow make Putin's emergency services director any more competent.

    You and others here project a lot of tribalism. I don't represent the United States government. I didn't vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

    Quite literally it’s very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard.

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was incompetent and the main problem. Which means a general on the ground didn't think that Putin's 9-11 director could handle a war. We will see if Prigozhin or a forum poster for Putin is ultimately correct. I hope they keep Shoigu as long as possible given everything that Prigozhin stated before tragically being killed in an accident involving grenades and vodka. Well that was according to Putin whose word you can trust.

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line

    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn't happen. Russia hasn't proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia's liberation....er killing neonazis ....stopping NATO....or whatever you want to call it this month:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2owYbQnAsQ

    Replies: @Beckow, @Mikel, @Gerard1234

    …I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

    Who would you prefer?

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.

    He looks dull and out-of-his depth. Possibly a diversity hire. There have been a lot of incompetent West Point grads or worse – how else do you explain the long list of the lost wars? From Vietnam to Afgan. it has been quite dismal.

    …killing neonazis ….stopping NATO

    Can it be both? Is that too complex for you? Any war is about destruction – that’s why it is better to avoid them.

    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance. Russia sends huge amount of weapons and trains fanatical young Frenchies in the hatred of all “Anglos” – the remaining Anglo-Canadian minority is disenfranchised, English-language schools are closed, Shakespeare-Hemingway are banned (“aggressive” culture)….how long before a war would start?

    Or is something so basic beyond your reasoning powers?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow


    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance.
     
    From the sound of it, the Frenchie's in Quebec might sooner be found in Ukraine helping out the home team boys. Did I miss something, or is this just another one of your crackpot scenarios? :-)

    Replies: @Beckow, @QCIC

    , @John Johnson
    @Beckow


    …I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

     

    Who would you prefer?

    I don't want either of them and I don't have to choose my vote until November. Biden could take a fall and Trump could be in prison. I'll consider my options in the fall.

    He looks dull and out-of-his depth. Possibly a diversity hire. There have been a lot of incompetent West Point grads or worse – how else do you explain the long list of the lost wars? From Vietnam to Afgan. it has been quite dismal.

    Obama was a diversity hire. West Point is not a cake walk and the acceptance rate is 8.6.

    The US secretary of defense does not direct war strategy. However according to Prigozhin the Russian equivalent has a lot of bearing on the battlefield. Prigozhin believed that Shoigu was trying to ammo starve him out of spite. The chain isn't the same in the US military. Your ammo re-supply for artillery wouldn't go through the secretary of defense. Someone clearly botched the invasion and my guess is that Shoigu was a big part of it. He seemed to think a 40 mile supply line through hostile forests was a good idea.


    …killing neonazis ….stopping NATO

     

    Can it be both? Is that too complex for you?

    Prigozhin stated that the war isn't about NeoNazis or NATO. He said it is about egos and I agree.

    I will hold Putin to his original justification for the war which was stopping the Eastward expansion of NATO. He made that clear in his invasion speech which I can reference for the 1000th time if you would like. That goal has failed unless he can somehow talk Finland into leaving. I hold politicians to their word and not the ever changing and imagined goals of their fans. When Democrats in the US change the goal of some public project I don't say GOSH OK IF YOU SAY THAT IS THE NEW GOAL THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE OBTAINABLE. People around the world should hold politicians to their word.

    Or is something so basic beyond your reasoning powers?

    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance.

    You are saying that the US flipped the Ukraine government? How exactly when the pro-Russian party voted to remove Yanukovych for treason? Are you saying he was innocent?

    Did Ukraine pick the Western backed pro-NATO candidate in 2019?

    As for my reasoning powers I have the better track record than every single pro-Putin blogger at Unz. It's pathetic that pro-Putin posters have to cite a convicted sex criminal and homosexual judge who was fired for trying to manhandle younger male workers. Speaks volumes in fact that you and others have to cite youtube videos from Scott "jerkin to teens" Ritter and Judge "let me touch your crotch" Napolitano who also followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle him. It's almost as if it is hard to find normal people that will publicly defend a mass murdering midget. They have to be Con Inc rejects like Scott, Nap and Tucker. Nap lost his paycheck after trying to manhandle young male workers and then switched to Team Dwarf. What a friggin loser. Ritter would be on CNN if he didn't get blacklisted for jerking it to what he thought was a teenage girl....twice.

    Replies: @Beckow

  518. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    I can never keep those guys straight.

    Was Nargajuna one of those right hand path guys who drank mercury or was he one of those left hand path guys who took his daughter to the sex parties?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    He was a middle path guy, who was so based he negated the path itself. Also supposedly a great Ayurvedic scholar and a pundit / minister to Kanishka the Great.

    http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BH/bh117485.htm

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

  519. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Bashibuzuk



    https://twitter.com/OopsGuess/status/1682873945492709376

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    His wife is probably local and he must have lived there long enough to have gone native. I tried learning Mandarin a couple of years ago, but it felt so weird that I gave up. This video made me wanna try again. 🙂

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Bashibuzuk

    Нас мало, но мы в тельняшках!

    You'll note the food was prepared in a hygienic manner.

    I wonder if A123 would enjoy the food?

  520. @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.
     
    Who would you prefer?

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.
     
    He looks dull and out-of-his depth. Possibly a diversity hire. There have been a lot of incompetent West Point grads or worse - how else do you explain the long list of the lost wars? From Vietnam to Afgan. it has been quite dismal.

    ...killing neonazis ….stopping NATO
     
    Can it be both? Is that too complex for you? Any war is about destruction - that's why it is better to avoid them.

    Let's say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance. Russia sends huge amount of weapons and trains fanatical young Frenchies in the hatred of all "Anglos" - the remaining Anglo-Canadian minority is disenfranchised, English-language schools are closed, Shakespeare-Hemingway are banned ("aggressive" culture)....how long before a war would start?

    Or is something so basic beyond your reasoning powers?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @John Johnson

    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance.

    From the sound of it, the Frenchie’s in Quebec might sooner be found in Ukraine helping out the home team boys. Did I miss something, or is this just another one of your crackpot scenarios? 🙂

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    Did I miss something?
     
    You seem to miss everything. Speaking of 'home team boys' only shows your inability to be objective - meaning: to be rational. You can't be both a player and a referee.

    Once you let go off the even-handed approach it is up to who is stronger. Russia is stronger in Ukraine - you can huff-and-puff but that's the reality. Letting off the rational objective world was a fatal mistake by Kiev (and Nato). You never move a fight to the area where you are weaker...then you just lose. Are you ready for it?

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack

    , @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    North American recorded history is so simple that it is very difficult to make decent analogies to illustrate the situation in Ukraine. Instead of looking at some Ukraine-Russia analogy involving Canada or Mexico as intended metaphorically, Americans may view it literally so it makes no sense. We don't have enough historical context to bridge the conceptual gap from the analogy to reality.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  521. Mikel says:
    @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    Biden’s security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Looks indeed like a terrible pick.

    What is your point? Biden's terrible picks justify Putin's picks?

    I don't like Biden or Putin. Pointing out a poor pick by Biden doesn't somehow make Putin's emergency services director any more competent.

    You and others here project a lot of tribalism. I don't represent the United States government. I didn't vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

    Quite literally it’s very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard.

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was incompetent and the main problem. Which means a general on the ground didn't think that Putin's 9-11 director could handle a war. We will see if Prigozhin or a forum poster for Putin is ultimately correct. I hope they keep Shoigu as long as possible given everything that Prigozhin stated before tragically being killed in an accident involving grenades and vodka. Well that was according to Putin whose word you can trust.

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line

    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn't happen. Russia hasn't proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia's liberation....er killing neonazis ....stopping NATO....or whatever you want to call it this month:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2owYbQnAsQ

    Replies: @Beckow, @Mikel, @Gerard1234

    You and others here project a lot of tribalism.

    Could you please try to avoid this kind of divisive language? Gerard is a well mannered poster who always prefers to bite his tongue rather than respond to provocations but I see no need to test his limits by accusing him of tribalism.

    • Agree: Mr. Hack
    • Thanks: Gerard1234
    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  522. @Bashibuzuk
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    His wife is probably local and he must have lived there long enough to have gone native. I tried learning Mandarin a couple of years ago, but it felt so weird that I gave up. This video made me wanna try again. 🙂

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Нас мало, но мы в тельняшках!

    [MORE]

    You’ll note the food was prepared in a hygienic manner.

    I wonder if A123 would enjoy the food?

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  523. @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    Putin still thinks it is a good idea to have an emergency services director in charge of defense.

     

    M.Ch.S has a high share of former military in their personnel, for obvious reasons you dumbf**k

    M.Ch.S has a not insignificant airfleet - compatible with my first point. Significant number of boats although this can't be compared much with operations of the navy

    Demining operations, evacuation and organising medical treatment of concentrations of injured people

    Rapid responses in moving masses of people and heavy equipment long distances and into dangerous areas

    Drone Surveillance, reacting to realtime satellite data and co-ordinating some mass action in response to it. Engineers who build and install temporary structures

    So there is integration, overlapping, compatibility of military with emergency ministry actions. It can't be compared with Education or Culture or Energy minister becoming Defence Minister you subhuman sack of faeces bot-freak.

    Its obvious that peacetime operations of military across the world involve plenty of actions that classify under work of Emergencies Ministry you idiot. Syria was more than enough succesful qualification of Shoigu for the SMO anyway . In every aspect of MOD he has improved it in modernisation of forces and equipment, development of weapons, organisation/logistics....and of course the mass slaughter of ukronazis.


    Most importantly Shoigu - in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS.

    As if to confirm what a dumb, bot, nutjob you are...........by comparison Banderastan - Abysmal organisation, abysmal weapons modernisation, abysmal arms exports, abysmal losses.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Mr. Hack

    “Most importantly Shoigu – in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS.

    Gerard, are you serious? I think that Putler is on the verge of canning him.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    It might be tempting to think of Mr H and JJ as outliers, virulently anti-Russian perhaps for ethnic reasons, old Bloodlands scores still unpaid, something like that.

    But in fact they're pretty much in tune with normie opinion, as evidenced in the opinion pages of the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/russia-nuclear-posturing-nato-ukraine#comments


    He's little!
    He wants to recreate the Soviet Union!
    After Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland are next!
    Economy only the size of Italy!
    Petrol station with nukes!
    Neville Chamberlain!
    Wikipedia quotes!
     
    These people listen to the BBC, read the Guardian (and some of them the Economist and FT), have college degrees and they genuinely think they are well informed. I used to be like that, too.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer, @Emil Nikola Richard, @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack

    , @Gerard1234
    @Mr. Hack


    Gerard, are you serious? I think that Putler is on the verge of canning him.
     
    Elephant man/Hack........didnt Putin have Parkinson's disease, Alzheimers,Cancer, severe walking impediment and general psychosis in the view of your dimwit-self, or at least the dimwits you are relying on now for the "verge of canning Shoigu" comment?

    But of course it is amusing ( and indicative of alot), that nobody gives a flying f**k, has any interest , including yourself, of the numbers of defence ministers that 404 had in the last 3 years, or that between them and the Russian Defence Minister........it's Shoigu who is actually the most "Ukrainian". I very much doubt that anybody on here even knows the name of the Ukronazi minister without checking.
  524. @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow


    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance.
     
    From the sound of it, the Frenchie's in Quebec might sooner be found in Ukraine helping out the home team boys. Did I miss something, or is this just another one of your crackpot scenarios? :-)

    Replies: @Beckow, @QCIC

    Did I miss something?

    You seem to miss everything. Speaking of ‘home team boys‘ only shows your inability to be objective – meaning: to be rational. You can’t be both a player and a referee.

    Once you let go off the even-handed approach it is up to who is stronger. Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality. Letting off the rational objective world was a fatal mistake by Kiev (and Nato). You never move a fight to the area where you are weaker…then you just lose. Are you ready for it?

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    Letting off the rational objective world was a fatal mistake by Kiev (and Nato). You never move the fight to the area where you are weaker…
     
    It was not about winning, it was about damaging the RF. Ukraine is irrelevant in this, it was simply used as a battering ram and will end up being a sacrificial lamb. Big players do not have regrets about sacrificing any number of aborigines. The empire and its NATO sidekicks never gave a hoot about Ukrainians, and never will.

    That’s why it was rational to bring the worst scum Ukraine had to offer to power: people with any decency cannot be used as obedient puppets.

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow


    your inability to be objective
     
    Are you the poster boy here for being objective? :-)

    You can’t be both a player and a referee.
     
    I don't consider myself to be either. Objectively, I see myself as a commenter here. How about you, which part do you play? :-)

    Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality.
     
    Nonsense. If it really were stronger, than why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn't Russia already won this war?

    Replies: @Mikel, @Beckow

  525. @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    Did I miss something?
     
    You seem to miss everything. Speaking of 'home team boys' only shows your inability to be objective - meaning: to be rational. You can't be both a player and a referee.

    Once you let go off the even-handed approach it is up to who is stronger. Russia is stronger in Ukraine - you can huff-and-puff but that's the reality. Letting off the rational objective world was a fatal mistake by Kiev (and Nato). You never move a fight to the area where you are weaker...then you just lose. Are you ready for it?

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack

    Letting off the rational objective world was a fatal mistake by Kiev (and Nato). You never move the fight to the area where you are weaker…

    It was not about winning, it was about damaging the RF. Ukraine is irrelevant in this, it was simply used as a battering ram and will end up being a sacrificial lamb. Big players do not have regrets about sacrificing any number of aborigines. The empire and its NATO sidekicks never gave a hoot about Ukrainians, and never will.

    That’s why it was rational to bring the worst scum Ukraine had to offer to power: people with any decency cannot be used as obedient puppets.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    It was not about winning, it was about damaging the RF.
     
    They are not mutually exclusive. The assorted neo-cons, McCains, neo-liberals who pushed this policy want both. In their wilder dreams they thought "maybe this time it will work and we win..."

    Their goal is very straight-forward: to break up Russia or to control it. The spectacle of them denying it is pathetic, of course they want it all. Only damaging Russia is a fall-back position. And it has been the permanent Western goal for the last 200 years: hurt Russia, damage it, weaken it. Because it is there, big and rich.


    ...The empire and its NATO sidekicks never gave a hoot about Ukrainians
     
    I agree, they actually can't tell them apart from Russians or other Eastern Europeans - that's why they use the extensive labeling we have seen with colors, slogans, symbols. But don't let the Ukies of the hook so easily - they walked into it and yearned for it, without the Ukies none of this was possible.
  526. @Mr. Hack
    @Derer

    No I wasn't you idiot. I was replying to Bashibuzuk's comment. Too much vodka last night, comrade? :-)

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Derer

    Read the names replying to your f #295 – pathetic liar. The first reply is yours, do not delay that visit, they can help your dementia. Putin is causing all your hallucinations, he has invisible hands to reach you at any place.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Derer

    My comment #295 was in response to Bashibuzuk's comment #293. My comment #298 was an addendum to comment #295, a common enough device around these parts whenever somebody wants to further amplify their thoughts that they've already made to a previous comment, you Do Do bird. :-)

    But you're a relative newcomer to this blog, and probably haven't got the lay of the land here yet.

    Keep trying, you might become a somebody here someday......

  527. @Derer
    @Mr. Hack

    Read the names replying to your f #295 - pathetic liar. The first reply is yours, do not delay that visit, they can help your dementia. Putin is causing all your hallucinations, he has invisible hands to reach you at any place.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    My comment #295 was in response to Bashibuzuk’s comment #293. My comment #298 was an addendum to comment #295, a common enough device around these parts whenever somebody wants to further amplify their thoughts that they’ve already made to a previous comment, you Do Do bird. 🙂

    But you’re a relative newcomer to this blog, and probably haven’t got the lay of the land here yet.

    Keep trying, you might become a somebody here someday……

  528. @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    Did I miss something?
     
    You seem to miss everything. Speaking of 'home team boys' only shows your inability to be objective - meaning: to be rational. You can't be both a player and a referee.

    Once you let go off the even-handed approach it is up to who is stronger. Russia is stronger in Ukraine - you can huff-and-puff but that's the reality. Letting off the rational objective world was a fatal mistake by Kiev (and Nato). You never move a fight to the area where you are weaker...then you just lose. Are you ready for it?

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack

    your inability to be objective

    Are you the poster boy here for being objective? 🙂

    You can’t be both a player and a referee.

    I don’t consider myself to be either. Objectively, I see myself as a commenter here. How about you, which part do you play? 🙂

    Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality.

    Nonsense. If it really were stronger, than why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?
     
    Because their SMO was a clear blunder that then turned into a full-blown war where they also failed to prevent the largest transfer of military aid in recent history to their enemy. I wish everybody here stopped debating such obvious facts that we've all been able to watch in real time.

    But of course Russia is stronger than Ukraine and it seems to be getting stronger as the war goes on. Not long ago it wasn't clear that the Russian regular army was capable of doing much without Wagner's assistance. Now we're seeing how they have actually performed better in Avdiivka than Wagner did in Bakhmut. Ukraine quickly stopped the Russians after losing Bakhmut and was even able to recover some salients but they keep losing ground after Avdiivka and even Macron seems to fear that they are going to crumble. Time to stop this carnage before it gets worse for everybody. The other day Putin agreed with Lukashenko about the need for negotiations.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    , @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    ...which part do you play?
     
    I try to observe the reality and don't have a horse in the race. My preference is for peace and normalcy. Ukies with their idiocy and Nato with its aggressiveness are destroying it. My bias is regional - I want prosperous Central Europe not dragged into unnecessary wars, trading with all sides, the Westies not dictating how we live or how we label bathrooms.

    It's not very ambitious. We are not into conquering the world or re-arranging Siberia. You should try it.


    the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine
     
    Why not 2.5 days if you are just making it up? Whose prognosis? Are you seriously arguing that since Russia didn't smash Ukraine in "two weeks" it is a loss? Are you so dense? Maybe Russia is more humane and chose not to kill hundreds of thousands Ukies with "shock and awe" the way US and Nato do it. More civilians were killed in Gaza in six months, in Iraq hundreds of thousands, in Vietnam millions. Who are the "baddies"? Think.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack

  529. @songbird
    Would like to see Zuck use his yacht to have a naval battle with another tech billionaire.
    ________
    What would Genghis have done with modern horse breeds? (Better endurance) Or were the old Mongolian ones best due to their genetic diversity and hardiness?
    ____
    Curious map about legality of homos over time. Don't believe it is quite accurate though. Practice does not necessarily match code. Would suggest that they cracked down on gays during at least the Cultural Revolution.

    https://twitter.com/MartinKolk/status/1787461384323699065

    Replies: @Wielgus

    The map went too fast but it looked like for example Weimar Germany was down as criminalising it when de facto, homosexual acts were often tolerated by the authorities. Especially in the bigger cities.

    • Agree: songbird
  530. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    I assume everything about Zelensky is made up except that he plays a gay-ish character on stage, in videos and on television. There is no reason to accept claims that he ignored some Western suggestion or followed some other command in the conflict.

    There is indeed no reason to believe such things if you lock yourself into sources like Larry C "war is in mop up stage" Johnson and don't bother using Google to investigate a claim.

    Zelensky questions U.S. warnings of "imminent" invasion in Biden call
    https://www.axios.com/2022/01/28/zelensky-biden-call-imminent-invasion

    Zelensky suggests that Russia is just scaremongering with troop build-up
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60174684

    Zelenskiy ‘didn’t want to hear’ warnings of Russia invasion, says Biden
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/11/volodymyr-zelenskiy-didnt-want-to-hear-warnings-of-russia-invasion-says-joe-biden

    The Belarus invasion went through a single bridge. All Zelensky had to do was line up artillery against it or prepare to blow it with engineers. He did neither.

    Once again you decided to make a decision based on feelings instead of investigating. But you seem to like sources such as Larry C Johnson that were completely wrong about the war:

    Larry C. Johnson: "The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What's Left Is Mop-Up" (2022)
    https://www.newsfromtheperimeter.com/home/2022/3/23/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up

    Here is more:

    Zelensky ignored warnings over counteroffensive:
    https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274347443/zelensky-ignored-counteroffensive-warnings-nato-member

    Did you also need sources on how Zelensky ignores US requests to not attack Russian oil refineries? Can I google anything else for you? A sweet potato pie recipe perhaps?

    Replies: @QCIC

    Ha, ha. I don’t listen to Larry Johnson, ‘retired’ CIA. LOL. I don’t rate the sources you list much higher. Larry J. may be delivering some facts, but how can he be trusted (are you related)? Based on the big picture I assume Western leaders are very happy to attack Russian refineries. They don’t mind at all that Zelensky has a made up cover story. I mean they don’t mind at all that Zelensky’s bosses have given him a made up story to promote in the mainstream media. They probably send him tips on make up and inflection and lighting. I wonder if he can win a Tony award in absentia?

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Ha, ha. I don’t listen to Larry Johnson, ‘retired’ CIA. LOL.

    Ok I thought you were part of the group that constantly sources him. Noted.

    I don’t rate the sources you list much higher.

    Most of the videos I post are either made by Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.

    Youtube channels like Kanal13 and Warthog repost them with commentary.

    But I fully support skepticism of all media. Here at Unz there is clearly a double standard where you can get scolded for questioning Ritter or MacGregor. Only questioning the MSM is allowed. Alternative sources are to be treated as holy sages and especially if they blame Jews.

    Based on the big picture I assume Western leaders are very happy to attack Russian refineries.

    Once again you are failing to use Google because you want to believe that Ukraine is under the control of NATO as part of some grand conspiracy. You already made that clear by deciding in your head that I must have been wrong about Zelensky ignoring CIA warnings on Russia.

    https://googlethatforyou.com?q=united%20states%20ukraine%20russian%20refineries

    Ukraine snubs US as it vows to keep on blowing up Russian oil refineries
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-oil-depots-legitimate-targets-123753508.html

    Officials in Kyiv insisted they would continue blowing up energy facilities, despite reports that the US has been warning them to halt drone strikes amid fears they could hinder Joe Biden’s re-election chances.

    The White House had urged Kyiv to stop attacking refineries, depots and storage facilities inside Russia because they could cause petrol prices to rise or prompt an escalation from Moscow.

    Biden doesn't want high gas prices during the election.

    Google it next time instead of assuming I just make everything up.

    You clearly have issues with reality. Biden said directly that Zelensky ignored warnings over the invasion. You have made up your mind using your imagination and don't want to budge even though Biden himself said that the conversation happened. Your imagination is not a source.


    https://www.memecreator.org/static/images/memes/4756133.jpg

    Replies: @QCIC, @Greasy William

  531. Mikel says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow


    your inability to be objective
     
    Are you the poster boy here for being objective? :-)

    You can’t be both a player and a referee.
     
    I don't consider myself to be either. Objectively, I see myself as a commenter here. How about you, which part do you play? :-)

    Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality.
     
    Nonsense. If it really were stronger, than why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn't Russia already won this war?

    Replies: @Mikel, @Beckow

    why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?

    Because their SMO was a clear blunder that then turned into a full-blown war where they also failed to prevent the largest transfer of military aid in recent history to their enemy. I wish everybody here stopped debating such obvious facts that we’ve all been able to watch in real time.

    But of course Russia is stronger than Ukraine and it seems to be getting stronger as the war goes on. Not long ago it wasn’t clear that the Russian regular army was capable of doing much without Wagner’s assistance. Now we’re seeing how they have actually performed better in Avdiivka than Wagner did in Bakhmut. Ukraine quickly stopped the Russians after losing Bakhmut and was even able to recover some salients but they keep losing ground after Avdiivka and even Macron seems to fear that they are going to crumble. Time to stop this carnage before it gets worse for everybody. The other day Putin agreed with Lukashenko about the need for negotiations.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel

    I agree with a lot that you write here. I think that the Ukrainian military really was running on fumes during and after Adviivka. I'm going to be making new assessments in 1-2 months, after more of the recent cache of military equipment reaches the front lines (and the missiles reach the devices that target far away objectives).

    Replies: @Mikel

  532. QCIC says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow


    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance.
     
    From the sound of it, the Frenchie's in Quebec might sooner be found in Ukraine helping out the home team boys. Did I miss something, or is this just another one of your crackpot scenarios? :-)

    Replies: @Beckow, @QCIC

    North American recorded history is so simple that it is very difficult to make decent analogies to illustrate the situation in Ukraine. Instead of looking at some Ukraine-Russia analogy involving Canada or Mexico as intended metaphorically, Americans may view it literally so it makes no sense. We don’t have enough historical context to bridge the conceptual gap from the analogy to reality.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC

    Tell Beckow about the inappropriateness of his proposed analogy, which taken at face value is a strange one, even for him. I don't know how Mr. XYZ would rate it? :-)

  533. @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?
     
    Because their SMO was a clear blunder that then turned into a full-blown war where they also failed to prevent the largest transfer of military aid in recent history to their enemy. I wish everybody here stopped debating such obvious facts that we've all been able to watch in real time.

    But of course Russia is stronger than Ukraine and it seems to be getting stronger as the war goes on. Not long ago it wasn't clear that the Russian regular army was capable of doing much without Wagner's assistance. Now we're seeing how they have actually performed better in Avdiivka than Wagner did in Bakhmut. Ukraine quickly stopped the Russians after losing Bakhmut and was even able to recover some salients but they keep losing ground after Avdiivka and even Macron seems to fear that they are going to crumble. Time to stop this carnage before it gets worse for everybody. The other day Putin agreed with Lukashenko about the need for negotiations.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I agree with a lot that you write here. I think that the Ukrainian military really was running on fumes during and after Adviivka. I’m going to be making new assessments in 1-2 months, after more of the recent cache of military equipment reaches the front lines (and the missiles reach the devices that target far away objectives).

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    I’m going to be making new assessments in 1-2 months, after more of the recent cache of military equipment reaches the front lines
     
    We'll see what happens. There's the F-16s coming too. But it looks unlikely that this new package is going to allow Ukraine to defeat the Russians. And what then? What does it say about Ukraine's strategic prospects that the only way to keep fighting is to receive massive and constant military aid from the US? For some reason Europe and the rest of the allies were unable to fill the gap left by the US and Ukraine started to falter. The mood in the US has visibly changed in the past 2 years. It's not just the Republicans, I've seen polls saying that a majority of Americans oppose sending further multi-billion packages to Ukraine. Besides, there is always going to be the possibility of an economic contraction that makes these extra expenditures even more difficult (impossible if the debt bubble finally implodes) or perhaps another major war on another side of the planet that totally changes the focus of the US Establishment.

    He may have very peculiar views on certain subjects but this precarious dependence of Ukraine on external help to fight the Russians highlights what Beckow has pointed out in the past: it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism. Or at least, as I have myself pointed out repeatedly, don't kill thousands of civilians that the Russians consider their kin. How could that possibly not lead to a blow back in one way or another? The people currently in power in Georgia seem to have understood this lesson quite well. There's lots of countries in the world that would rather have better neighbors (I know this problem quite well this myself) but they manage to get by and not turn their problems into a global crisis.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. Hack

  534. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    North American recorded history is so simple that it is very difficult to make decent analogies to illustrate the situation in Ukraine. Instead of looking at some Ukraine-Russia analogy involving Canada or Mexico as intended metaphorically, Americans may view it literally so it makes no sense. We don't have enough historical context to bridge the conceptual gap from the analogy to reality.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Tell Beckow about the inappropriateness of his proposed analogy, which taken at face value is a strange one, even for him. I don’t know how Mr. XYZ would rate it? 🙂

  535. @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.
     
    Who would you prefer?

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.
     
    He looks dull and out-of-his depth. Possibly a diversity hire. There have been a lot of incompetent West Point grads or worse - how else do you explain the long list of the lost wars? From Vietnam to Afgan. it has been quite dismal.

    ...killing neonazis ….stopping NATO
     
    Can it be both? Is that too complex for you? Any war is about destruction - that's why it is better to avoid them.

    Let's say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance. Russia sends huge amount of weapons and trains fanatical young Frenchies in the hatred of all "Anglos" - the remaining Anglo-Canadian minority is disenfranchised, English-language schools are closed, Shakespeare-Hemingway are banned ("aggressive" culture)....how long before a war would start?

    Or is something so basic beyond your reasoning powers?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @John Johnson

    …I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

    Who would you prefer?

    I don’t want either of them and I don’t have to choose my vote until November. Biden could take a fall and Trump could be in prison. I’ll consider my options in the fall.

    He looks dull and out-of-his depth. Possibly a diversity hire. There have been a lot of incompetent West Point grads or worse – how else do you explain the long list of the lost wars? From Vietnam to Afgan. it has been quite dismal.

    Obama was a diversity hire. West Point is not a cake walk and the acceptance rate is 8.6.

    The US secretary of defense does not direct war strategy. However according to Prigozhin the Russian equivalent has a lot of bearing on the battlefield. Prigozhin believed that Shoigu was trying to ammo starve him out of spite. The chain isn’t the same in the US military. Your ammo re-supply for artillery wouldn’t go through the secretary of defense. Someone clearly botched the invasion and my guess is that Shoigu was a big part of it. He seemed to think a 40 mile supply line through hostile forests was a good idea.

    …killing neonazis ….stopping NATO

    Can it be both? Is that too complex for you?

    Prigozhin stated that the war isn’t about NeoNazis or NATO. He said it is about egos and I agree.

    I will hold Putin to his original justification for the war which was stopping the Eastward expansion of NATO. He made that clear in his invasion speech which I can reference for the 1000th time if you would like. That goal has failed unless he can somehow talk Finland into leaving. I hold politicians to their word and not the ever changing and imagined goals of their fans. When Democrats in the US change the goal of some public project I don’t say GOSH OK IF YOU SAY THAT IS THE NEW GOAL THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE OBTAINABLE. People around the world should hold politicians to their word.

    Or is something so basic beyond your reasoning powers?

    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance.

    You are saying that the US flipped the Ukraine government? How exactly when the pro-Russian party voted to remove Yanukovych for treason? Are you saying he was innocent?

    Did Ukraine pick the Western backed pro-NATO candidate in 2019?

    As for my reasoning powers I have the better track record than every single pro-Putin blogger at Unz. It’s pathetic that pro-Putin posters have to cite a convicted sex criminal and homosexual judge who was fired for trying to manhandle younger male workers. Speaks volumes in fact that you and others have to cite youtube videos from Scott “jerkin to teens” Ritter and Judge “let me touch your crotch” Napolitano who also followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle him. It’s almost as if it is hard to find normal people that will publicly defend a mass murdering midget. They have to be Con Inc rejects like Scott, Nap and Tucker. Nap lost his paycheck after trying to manhandle young male workers and then switched to Team Dwarf. What a friggin loser. Ritter would be on CNN if he didn’t get blacklisted for jerking it to what he thought was a teenage girl….twice.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @John Johnson


    ...I’ll consider my options in the fall.
     
    Maybe a miracle? A lot of people in the West are down to miracles. There are no "options", the second tier is worse. Kamala, the other Indian woman? Or are you thinking again a wife-of-the-president? Unleashing nepotism is never a good thing.

    US flipped the Ukraine government? How exactly when the pro-Russian party voted to remove Yanukovych for treason?
     
    How "exactly"? The Ukie nationalist nuts held guns to their heads. It is called a violent coup. Yanuk was democratically elected, the next election was in 6 months. Whether he stole more than Zelko or Porky is hard to tell - they all steal. Have you checked the blatant corruption in Brussels, or that genius international businessman Hunter?

    US spent $5 billion and worked hard, Nuland and dozens of "ambassadors" marched with the demonstrators. Imagine 1% of that in US or Europe, you would go ballistic. $5k spent on Facebook led to years of hysteria in US.


    my reasoning powers I have the better track record...
     
    You don't. When caught lying you start distractions about 'Riter' or other people nobody knows, you like to fight strawmen. You are quite unhinged with the name-calling, you can't control yourself.

    Summary: Nato helped to overthrow the elected President assisting the nationalists - many with fond Nazi memories. The new government brutally attacked the Russian minority killing 3k civilians in Donbas. Crimea voted to join Russia.

    Ukraine put Nato membership in its Constitution and Nato for 15 years in a row announced that "Ukraine will join Nato". There was a civil war in Donbas with Nato helping Kiev and Russia helping Donbas Russians.

    In 2022 a full-blown war started. Kiev is losing that war and the dream of Ukraine-in-Nato is gone. That's the story - the height of each protagonist and precise timing are of no importance. But you will lie or distract with "Finland" and like a semi-retarded bot repeat that "Putin said in 200... " and now not...Things changed with the war. What do you do when things change? Do you hold on to your previous ideas?

  536. @Mr. Hack
    @Gerard1234

    "Most importantly Shoigu – in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS."

    Gerard, are you serious? I think that Putler is on the verge of canning him.

    https://static.kyivpost.com/storage/2024/04/27/9ea76cfeb5604cb52dfaf132f6d69c9a.jpg?w=900&q=90&f=webp

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Gerard1234

    It might be tempting to think of Mr H and JJ as outliers, virulently anti-Russian perhaps for ethnic reasons, old Bloodlands scores still unpaid, something like that.

    But in fact they’re pretty much in tune with normie opinion, as evidenced in the opinion pages of the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/russia-nuclear-posturing-nato-ukraine#comments

    He’s little!
    He wants to recreate the Soviet Union!
    After Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland are next!
    Economy only the size of Italy!
    Petrol station with nukes!
    Neville Chamberlain!
    Wikipedia quotes!

    These people listen to the BBC, read the Guardian (and some of them the Economist and FT), have college degrees and they genuinely think they are well informed. I used to be like that, too.

    • Agree: QCIC, Mikhail
    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @YetAnotherAnon

    I get most of my information on the war from independent sources.

    In fact sources such as Kanal13 that use Russian videos from telegram give a better view of the war at the front than anything on the MSM. Early Kanal13 videos were contradicting claims from pro-Putin bloggers at Unz that the Russian military was well equipped and had endless supplies. I doubted a "great winter offensive" would happen given that the Russian troops were often in rubber boots and mismatched camo. That wasn't the Russian military we imagined. Kanal13 is based in Azerbaijan and is not part of the MSM.

    Here is a new video from Kanal13 showing Russian men dropped at the front without proper support:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB1KNbHh5F8

    The most commonly sourced opinions on the war at Unz (Larry C Johnson, Ritter, MacGregor) have been hilariously wrong. I listened to about a dozen MacGregor podcasts until I could take no more as he is obviously a cheerleader and not interested in providing honest military analysis of both sides. He never has anything positive to say about the Ukrainian side and just pushes a new "Ukraine is DOOOMED...soon....again" narrative with every video. Ritter was not only wrong about Ukraine but his predictions for the IDF were a complete flop as the complete opposite happened.

    I do have a college degree and I was hounded by both left and right wing professors for questioning the orthodoxy of the establishment. The colleges are mostly liberal/left leaning but the Econ departments are filled with "free market" worshippers that are just as sensitive to criticism as your average liberal professor.

    But feel free to provide media sources that you think I am lacking and can enlighten me as to why I should not be against the 2.5 week special operation now on day 805. As a reminder I was also called a Jew and accused of being indoctrinated by the MSM for suggesting at the start of the war that it would not be easy for the Russians given that the Ukrainians had over 10,000 anti-tank weapons. Within days of the invasion there were videos of Ukrainians blowing up tanks with javelins. It's almost as if the weapons worked as intended. Crazy.

    Replies: @Sean

    , @Derer
    @YetAnotherAnon

    It is not secret that the West's media is controlled/owned by Jews and they are collectively outraged at Putin for spoiling their post-Soviet fun on pillaging wounded Russia. The money from the West Jewish bankers in post-Soviet Russia privatization schemes was mainly available under financial nepotism. Hence, that created Yeltsin Jewish oligarchs from penniless communists. Putin put stop to that and reclaimed the ownership of Russian resources under very difficult conditions. Yes he is "killer" but killer of West's plundering Russia. Origin of the hate.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @YetAnotherAnon

    This is an example of what ChatGPT produces in its end condition when the only LLM input is LLM output. We will soon be seeing a great deal more of it and the ability to skim past it will be needed.

    Don't read any Guardian stuff about Russia or Israel is a requirement but it's not even close to the only one.

    , @Mikhail
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Svido political "humor" is well exhibited by the idiotic cartoons which confuse svido preference with reality.

    , @Mr. Hack
    @YetAnotherAnon


    I used to be like that, too.
     
    So what changed? When was that point where you finally saw the light and had a Putleresque vision of truth and rationality? :-)

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  537. @AP
    @Mr. XYZ

    Just as Shiites and Sunnis can have bitter conflicts…

    Replies: @Derer, @Mr. XYZ

    Just as Shiites and Sunnis can have bitter conflicts…

    That point is the single most important plus for the Israel survival in the ocean of Islam.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Derer

    That, its higher average IQ plus smart fraction, its nukes, and decades of Western, especially US, support.

  538. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    It might be tempting to think of Mr H and JJ as outliers, virulently anti-Russian perhaps for ethnic reasons, old Bloodlands scores still unpaid, something like that.

    But in fact they're pretty much in tune with normie opinion, as evidenced in the opinion pages of the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/russia-nuclear-posturing-nato-ukraine#comments


    He's little!
    He wants to recreate the Soviet Union!
    After Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland are next!
    Economy only the size of Italy!
    Petrol station with nukes!
    Neville Chamberlain!
    Wikipedia quotes!
     
    These people listen to the BBC, read the Guardian (and some of them the Economist and FT), have college degrees and they genuinely think they are well informed. I used to be like that, too.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer, @Emil Nikola Richard, @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack

    I get most of my information on the war from independent sources.

    In fact sources such as Kanal13 that use Russian videos from telegram give a better view of the war at the front than anything on the MSM. Early Kanal13 videos were contradicting claims from pro-Putin bloggers at Unz that the Russian military was well equipped and had endless supplies. I doubted a “great winter offensive” would happen given that the Russian troops were often in rubber boots and mismatched camo. That wasn’t the Russian military we imagined. Kanal13 is based in Azerbaijan and is not part of the MSM.

    Here is a new video from Kanal13 showing Russian men dropped at the front without proper support:

    The most commonly sourced opinions on the war at Unz (Larry C Johnson, Ritter, MacGregor) have been hilariously wrong. I listened to about a dozen MacGregor podcasts until I could take no more as he is obviously a cheerleader and not interested in providing honest military analysis of both sides. He never has anything positive to say about the Ukrainian side and just pushes a new “Ukraine is DOOOMED…soon….again” narrative with every video. Ritter was not only wrong about Ukraine but his predictions for the IDF were a complete flop as the complete opposite happened.

    I do have a college degree and I was hounded by both left and right wing professors for questioning the orthodoxy of the establishment. The colleges are mostly liberal/left leaning but the Econ departments are filled with “free market” worshippers that are just as sensitive to criticism as your average liberal professor.

    But feel free to provide media sources that you think I am lacking and can enlighten me as to why I should not be against the 2.5 week special operation now on day 805. As a reminder I was also called a Jew and accused of being indoctrinated by the MSM for suggesting at the start of the war that it would not be easy for the Russians given that the Ukrainians had over 10,000 anti-tank weapons. Within days of the invasion there were videos of Ukrainians blowing up tanks with javelins. It’s almost as if the weapons worked as intended. Crazy.

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Sean
    @John Johnson

    In the context of a largely immobile front line, the Russians are being killed in large numbers and Ukrainians are too. The ratio of the losses is what matters, and military mathematics suggests Russia is to no inconsiderable extent far from losing. They are of course suffering loses (you have to bring some to get some).

    Russia is so backward in innovation yet tfull of underemployed engineers that American weapons first used against Iraq decadesago (such as JDAM which was deployed in the battle of Bakhmut), get reversed engineered and deployed in Ukraine by the Russians to great effect. Hence the FABs demolishing Ukrainians strongpoints

  539. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Ha, ha. I don't listen to Larry Johnson, 'retired' CIA. LOL. I don't rate the sources you list much higher. Larry J. may be delivering some facts, but how can he be trusted (are you related)? Based on the big picture I assume Western leaders are very happy to attack Russian refineries. They don't mind at all that Zelensky has a made up cover story. I mean they don't mind at all that Zelensky's bosses have given him a made up story to promote in the mainstream media. They probably send him tips on make up and inflection and lighting. I wonder if he can win a Tony award in absentia?

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Ha, ha. I don’t listen to Larry Johnson, ‘retired’ CIA. LOL.

    Ok I thought you were part of the group that constantly sources him. Noted.

    I don’t rate the sources you list much higher.

    Most of the videos I post are either made by Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.

    Youtube channels like Kanal13 and Warthog repost them with commentary.

    But I fully support skepticism of all media. Here at Unz there is clearly a double standard where you can get scolded for questioning Ritter or MacGregor. Only questioning the MSM is allowed. Alternative sources are to be treated as holy sages and especially if they blame Jews.

    Based on the big picture I assume Western leaders are very happy to attack Russian refineries.

    Once again you are failing to use Google because you want to believe that Ukraine is under the control of NATO as part of some grand conspiracy. You already made that clear by deciding in your head that I must have been wrong about Zelensky ignoring CIA warnings on Russia.

    https://googlethatforyou.com?q=united%20states%20ukraine%20russian%20refineries

    Ukraine snubs US as it vows to keep on blowing up Russian oil refineries
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-oil-depots-legitimate-targets-123753508.html

    Officials in Kyiv insisted they would continue blowing up energy facilities, despite reports that the US has been warning them to halt drone strikes amid fears they could hinder Joe Biden’s re-election chances.

    The White House had urged Kyiv to stop attacking refineries, depots and storage facilities inside Russia because they could cause petrol prices to rise or prompt an escalation from Moscow.

    Biden doesn’t want high gas prices during the election.

    Google it next time instead of assuming I just make everything up.

    You clearly have issues with reality. Biden said directly that Zelensky ignored warnings over the invasion. You have made up your mind using your imagination and don’t want to budge even though Biden himself said that the conversation happened. Your imagination is not a source.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I am aware that the MSM and other news sources report that the US is against Ukrainian strikes in Russia for the moment and that Ukraine is supposedly defying the US and making the strikes anyway. I wish this were true but I doubt it. I think you are silly for believing this claim. We don't know the truth percentage of these reports which could be somewhere between completely false and completely true. But it doesn't matter until the US and the West remove most support from Ukraine. At that point it really would be the Ukies going their own way. If the West cared strongly about this now they probably would not have sent 1000 ATACMS missiles, ergo they don't really care.

    There are many strange aspects to the Russian campaign in Ukraine. I think you favor the explanation based on incompetence plus graft, apparently at all levels from VVP on down. There is some validity to this "realist" perspective but I think it only explains a small part of what we observe. In any case it seems the Russians are willing to plow ahead with gradual progress and slow improvement.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @Greasy William
    @John Johnson


    Here at Unz there is clearly a double standard where you can get scolded for questioning Ritter or MacGregor
     
    nobody itt takes those clowns seriously. You are the one who keeps bringing them up
  540. @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    Letting off the rational objective world was a fatal mistake by Kiev (and Nato). You never move the fight to the area where you are weaker…
     
    It was not about winning, it was about damaging the RF. Ukraine is irrelevant in this, it was simply used as a battering ram and will end up being a sacrificial lamb. Big players do not have regrets about sacrificing any number of aborigines. The empire and its NATO sidekicks never gave a hoot about Ukrainians, and never will.

    That’s why it was rational to bring the worst scum Ukraine had to offer to power: people with any decency cannot be used as obedient puppets.

    Replies: @Beckow

    It was not about winning, it was about damaging the RF.

    They are not mutually exclusive. The assorted neo-cons, McCains, neo-liberals who pushed this policy want both. In their wilder dreams they thought “maybe this time it will work and we win…

    Their goal is very straight-forward: to break up Russia or to control it. The spectacle of them denying it is pathetic, of course they want it all. Only damaging Russia is a fall-back position. And it has been the permanent Western goal for the last 200 years: hurt Russia, damage it, weaken it. Because it is there, big and rich.

    …The empire and its NATO sidekicks never gave a hoot about Ukrainians

    I agree, they actually can’t tell them apart from Russians or other Eastern Europeans – that’s why they use the extensive labeling we have seen with colors, slogans, symbols. But don’t let the Ukies of the hook so easily – they walked into it and yearned for it, without the Ukies none of this was possible.

  541. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    It might be tempting to think of Mr H and JJ as outliers, virulently anti-Russian perhaps for ethnic reasons, old Bloodlands scores still unpaid, something like that.

    But in fact they're pretty much in tune with normie opinion, as evidenced in the opinion pages of the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/russia-nuclear-posturing-nato-ukraine#comments


    He's little!
    He wants to recreate the Soviet Union!
    After Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland are next!
    Economy only the size of Italy!
    Petrol station with nukes!
    Neville Chamberlain!
    Wikipedia quotes!
     
    These people listen to the BBC, read the Guardian (and some of them the Economist and FT), have college degrees and they genuinely think they are well informed. I used to be like that, too.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer, @Emil Nikola Richard, @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack

    It is not secret that the West’s media is controlled/owned by Jews and they are collectively outraged at Putin for spoiling their post-Soviet fun on pillaging wounded Russia. The money from the West Jewish bankers in post-Soviet Russia privatization schemes was mainly available under financial nepotism. Hence, that created Yeltsin Jewish oligarchs from penniless communists. Putin put stop to that and reclaimed the ownership of Russian resources under very difficult conditions. Yes he is “killer” but killer of West’s plundering Russia. Origin of the hate.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Derer

    Still plenty of Jewish oligarchs, they didn't all run off to Israel (who would never dream of invading a neighbour).

  542. @Mr. Hack
    @Gerard1234

    "Most importantly Shoigu – in all parameters he has been a great success in TWO government departments. What should be discussed is him being the greatest government official in history you thick POS."

    Gerard, are you serious? I think that Putler is on the verge of canning him.

    https://static.kyivpost.com/storage/2024/04/27/9ea76cfeb5604cb52dfaf132f6d69c9a.jpg?w=900&q=90&f=webp

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Gerard1234

    Gerard, are you serious? I think that Putler is on the verge of canning him.

    Elephant man/Hack……..didnt Putin have Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimers,Cancer, severe walking impediment and general psychosis in the view of your dimwit-self, or at least the dimwits you are relying on now for the “verge of canning Shoigu” comment?

    But of course it is amusing ( and indicative of alot), that nobody gives a flying f**k, has any interest , including yourself, of the numbers of defence ministers that 404 had in the last 3 years, or that between them and the Russian Defence Minister……..it’s Shoigu who is actually the most “Ukrainian”. I very much doubt that anybody on here even knows the name of the Ukronazi minister without checking.

  543. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Ha, ha. I don’t listen to Larry Johnson, ‘retired’ CIA. LOL.

    Ok I thought you were part of the group that constantly sources him. Noted.

    I don’t rate the sources you list much higher.

    Most of the videos I post are either made by Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.

    Youtube channels like Kanal13 and Warthog repost them with commentary.

    But I fully support skepticism of all media. Here at Unz there is clearly a double standard where you can get scolded for questioning Ritter or MacGregor. Only questioning the MSM is allowed. Alternative sources are to be treated as holy sages and especially if they blame Jews.

    Based on the big picture I assume Western leaders are very happy to attack Russian refineries.

    Once again you are failing to use Google because you want to believe that Ukraine is under the control of NATO as part of some grand conspiracy. You already made that clear by deciding in your head that I must have been wrong about Zelensky ignoring CIA warnings on Russia.

    https://googlethatforyou.com?q=united%20states%20ukraine%20russian%20refineries

    Ukraine snubs US as it vows to keep on blowing up Russian oil refineries
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-oil-depots-legitimate-targets-123753508.html

    Officials in Kyiv insisted they would continue blowing up energy facilities, despite reports that the US has been warning them to halt drone strikes amid fears they could hinder Joe Biden’s re-election chances.

    The White House had urged Kyiv to stop attacking refineries, depots and storage facilities inside Russia because they could cause petrol prices to rise or prompt an escalation from Moscow.

    Biden doesn't want high gas prices during the election.

    Google it next time instead of assuming I just make everything up.

    You clearly have issues with reality. Biden said directly that Zelensky ignored warnings over the invasion. You have made up your mind using your imagination and don't want to budge even though Biden himself said that the conversation happened. Your imagination is not a source.


    https://www.memecreator.org/static/images/memes/4756133.jpg

    Replies: @QCIC, @Greasy William

    I am aware that the MSM and other news sources report that the US is against Ukrainian strikes in Russia for the moment and that Ukraine is supposedly defying the US and making the strikes anyway. I wish this were true but I doubt it. I think you are silly for believing this claim. We don’t know the truth percentage of these reports which could be somewhere between completely false and completely true. But it doesn’t matter until the US and the West remove most support from Ukraine. At that point it really would be the Ukies going their own way. If the West cared strongly about this now they probably would not have sent 1000 ATACMS missiles, ergo they don’t really care.

    There are many strange aspects to the Russian campaign in Ukraine. I think you favor the explanation based on incompetence plus graft, apparently at all levels from VVP on down. There is some validity to this “realist” perspective but I think it only explains a small part of what we observe. In any case it seems the Russians are willing to plow ahead with gradual progress and slow improvement.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    I am aware that the MSM and other news sources report that the US is against Ukrainian strikes in Russia for the moment and that Ukraine is supposedly defying the US and making the strikes anyway. I wish this were true but I doubt it. I think you are silly for believing this claim.

    Too many strikes on refineries would run up the global price of gas because of speculators.

    You think it is silly to believe the request is true?

    Do explain why you think it makes sense to believe that two Republican Senators are lying about the request:

    Defenders of Ukraine’s strategy accuse the White House of prioritizing domestic politics over Kyiv’s military goals. “It sounds to me that the Biden administration doesn’t want gas prices to go up in an election year,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a hearing last week. “While Russia is attacking Ukrainians’ oil and gas and energy sector, why shouldn’t the Ukrainians attack the Russian oil and gas and energy sector?” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) asked during a separate recent hearing.

    https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-04-15/ukraine-russia-oil-refineries-attacks-13555782.html

    It's not merely a rumor that has been repeated by the MSM. Representatives from both countries have talked about it. You again are trying to isolate yourself instead of reading from multiple sources.

    If the West cared strongly about this now they probably would not have sent 1000 ATACMS missiles, ergo they don’t really care.

    That's actually a good reason why they thought that Ukraine would listen to them. We provided the weapons so choose another target.

    I think you favor the explanation based on incompetence plus graft, apparently at all levels from VVP on down.

    Shoigu's deputy was recently arrested which is pretty far up the ladder.

    Prighozhin said that Shoigu is incompetent while Putin is basically isolated and clueless. I think that matches what we have seen in the war. Russia has the larger force but we have seen too many WW1/WW2 era mistakes. They're a bumbling giant. Destructive but with vulnerabilities. The war would probably be over if they had someone like Zhukov from the start.

    Replies: @QCIC

  544. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    It might be tempting to think of Mr H and JJ as outliers, virulently anti-Russian perhaps for ethnic reasons, old Bloodlands scores still unpaid, something like that.

    But in fact they're pretty much in tune with normie opinion, as evidenced in the opinion pages of the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/russia-nuclear-posturing-nato-ukraine#comments


    He's little!
    He wants to recreate the Soviet Union!
    After Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland are next!
    Economy only the size of Italy!
    Petrol station with nukes!
    Neville Chamberlain!
    Wikipedia quotes!
     
    These people listen to the BBC, read the Guardian (and some of them the Economist and FT), have college degrees and they genuinely think they are well informed. I used to be like that, too.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer, @Emil Nikola Richard, @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack

    This is an example of what ChatGPT produces in its end condition when the only LLM input is LLM output. We will soon be seeing a great deal more of it and the ability to skim past it will be needed.

    Don’t read any Guardian stuff about Russia or Israel is a requirement but it’s not even close to the only one.

  545. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    It might be tempting to think of Mr H and JJ as outliers, virulently anti-Russian perhaps for ethnic reasons, old Bloodlands scores still unpaid, something like that.

    But in fact they're pretty much in tune with normie opinion, as evidenced in the opinion pages of the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/russia-nuclear-posturing-nato-ukraine#comments


    He's little!
    He wants to recreate the Soviet Union!
    After Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland are next!
    Economy only the size of Italy!
    Petrol station with nukes!
    Neville Chamberlain!
    Wikipedia quotes!
     
    These people listen to the BBC, read the Guardian (and some of them the Economist and FT), have college degrees and they genuinely think they are well informed. I used to be like that, too.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer, @Emil Nikola Richard, @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack

    Svido political “humor” is well exhibited by the idiotic cartoons which confuse svido preference with reality.

    • Agree: Gerard1234
  546. • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Mikhail

    Did you ever read Bloodlands?

    https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471

    The book is remarkable to read once. I cannot imagine stomaching the contents ever again. He committed a sin against the Holocaust since the message on every single page was there was nothing special about the Jew war experience in Poland and Lithuania and the Ukraine. What happened to them was exactly what happened to everybody.

    Snyder has been embarrassing himself ever since trying to get back in the Jew good graces. It's a pity he is not smart enough to see that this is impossible no matter what.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    , @Gerard1234
    @Mikhail


    Timothy Snyder debunked:
     
    The one interesting thing that this idiot "historian' Snyder said was that Yatsenyuk , former Khokhl PM, is Jewish. The news itself not interesting because lots of Ukrops and Russians were saying he was Jewish for years.........but interesting that an American historian, from nowhere, would claim is as that particular information has never been official.

    An individual being Jewish and the PM is not problematic.........but a long list of scumbags who are Jews and consecutive serving in top positions in 404 leadership ,conducting anti-Russian policies - then the Jewish anti-russiain factor does become interesting.
  547. Sean says:
    @John Johnson
    @YetAnotherAnon

    I get most of my information on the war from independent sources.

    In fact sources such as Kanal13 that use Russian videos from telegram give a better view of the war at the front than anything on the MSM. Early Kanal13 videos were contradicting claims from pro-Putin bloggers at Unz that the Russian military was well equipped and had endless supplies. I doubted a "great winter offensive" would happen given that the Russian troops were often in rubber boots and mismatched camo. That wasn't the Russian military we imagined. Kanal13 is based in Azerbaijan and is not part of the MSM.

    Here is a new video from Kanal13 showing Russian men dropped at the front without proper support:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB1KNbHh5F8

    The most commonly sourced opinions on the war at Unz (Larry C Johnson, Ritter, MacGregor) have been hilariously wrong. I listened to about a dozen MacGregor podcasts until I could take no more as he is obviously a cheerleader and not interested in providing honest military analysis of both sides. He never has anything positive to say about the Ukrainian side and just pushes a new "Ukraine is DOOOMED...soon....again" narrative with every video. Ritter was not only wrong about Ukraine but his predictions for the IDF were a complete flop as the complete opposite happened.

    I do have a college degree and I was hounded by both left and right wing professors for questioning the orthodoxy of the establishment. The colleges are mostly liberal/left leaning but the Econ departments are filled with "free market" worshippers that are just as sensitive to criticism as your average liberal professor.

    But feel free to provide media sources that you think I am lacking and can enlighten me as to why I should not be against the 2.5 week special operation now on day 805. As a reminder I was also called a Jew and accused of being indoctrinated by the MSM for suggesting at the start of the war that it would not be easy for the Russians given that the Ukrainians had over 10,000 anti-tank weapons. Within days of the invasion there were videos of Ukrainians blowing up tanks with javelins. It's almost as if the weapons worked as intended. Crazy.

    Replies: @Sean

    In the context of a largely immobile front line, the Russians are being killed in large numbers and Ukrainians are too. The ratio of the losses is what matters, and military mathematics suggests Russia is to no inconsiderable extent far from losing. They are of course suffering loses (you have to bring some to get some).

    Russia is so backward in innovation yet tfull of underemployed engineers that American weapons first used against Iraq decadesago (such as JDAM which was deployed in the battle of Bakhmut), get reversed engineered and deployed in Ukraine by the Russians to great effect. Hence the FABs demolishing Ukrainians strongpoints

  548. LatW says:
    @Beckow
    @LatW


    ...But it feels like something bigger is happening...Is their power shrinking or not…?
     
    Whatever our differences I think most people on this forum agree. It is unsustainable and the power is floating in the air unmoored from anything substantial. In times like these focus matters and the West is fatally unfocused - there is no core and the constant lying and trying to control reality with propaganda backfires.

    Maybe RusFed are trying to roll things back...
     
    Only a figure of speech. Russia is trying to protect itself and as many Russians as it can. Any other nation would do the same. What matters is whether they can do it and it looks like they can.

    The West miscalculated with the Nato-in-Ukraine idiocy in order to put a knife on Russia's neck without thinking through what if Russia calls their bluff. A bad idea, but elites never like to admit to mistakes - so they blow smoke and play for time.


    Personal is difficult to change (especially in a truly free society), one cannot walk into every single household and change their mores... do we know where identity lies?
     
    What do we mean by free ? The chaos generated by the vacuous freedom talk is the best way for the 'personal' to change. We are at the mercy of the most stupid and irresponsible people in our societies - they have been liberated, but to most people it feels quite unfree.

    The West is busily stripping identity from everything and that can't end well.


    ...kind of a fluid, opportunistic MO (almost as a meta-ethnicity) – they stick with one group of Gentiles, then with another
     
    A good observation, but their flightiness can be disorienting. It has a whiff of unhinged opportunism about it. And opportunities are never unlimited.

    Replies: @LatW

    the power is floating in the air unmoored from anything substantial

    This is very well put and this is how I’ve been feeling over the past year as well. The whole order is shifting and looking for some kind of an anchoring. Some time will pass before a new order is arranged. Let’s hope that this is without a large war, but smaller ones are already ongoing (even though the one in Ukraine is not at all small). The Europeans need to be fully aware of this and fight for their space. Or ideally even expand it, if possible. Physically, technologically.

    The results of Xi’s visit are still not fully obvious. But it is clear that he’s trying to have China enter through the periphery such as Serbia and Hungary. Not sure how well Macron has been able to work him. What is the Slovak press writing in the commentary sections? Anything interesting?

    [MORE]

    Must admit that this worries me, because I really don’t want China to become a big player on the European scene. Cooperation, yes, maybe some kind of a moderating role – this is something they’re clearly aiming at, – but only if it’s advantageous for us. They are a powerful actor and can be useful, but certainly wouldn’t want them going too far. It will be a bipolar world and having the US and China in our affairs… sounds nightmarish. We should push them out where it doesn’t suit us and only allow them in, where it is advantageous and acceptable.

    In times like these focus matters and the West is fatally unfocused – there is no core and the constant lying and trying to control reality with propaganda backfires.

    There has been some search for the focus, there is some newly found unity (in Europe there is some understanding of the gravity of the situation, which will help have more unity and move to more practical things like invigorating the military industries). The US? I don’t know…

    Only a figure of speech. Russia is trying to protect itself and as many Russians as it can. Any other nation would do the same. What matters is whether they can do it and it looks like they can.

    Well, but it’s not over and we can only guess how these processes will affect Russia on the inside. The key to the unraveling of the events is inside of Russia (look for the so called needle in the Kashchei’s egg there), but it will be affected by the developments on the battle field.

    Of course, they could’ve “protected” their co-ethnics in a peaceful manner – and btw, not all of those they deem such are really their true co-ethnics. Because they’re so called co-ethnics are dispersed across their former colonial territory, they should’ve learned to make compromises (they partly did but they also chose to stoke separatism which is very dangerous).

    The West miscalculated with the Nato-in-Ukraine idiocy in order to put a knife on Russia’s neck without thinking through what if Russia calls their bluff.

    That’s only one side of it, Ukraine was objectively breaking away from the post-Soviet Russia, it’s been 30 years, in fact, more than that, almost 35 if you count from 1988 (it’s when the USSR was really over). It’s a long time.

    What do we mean by free ?

    In political terms, mostly where there is enough access to a broad spectrum of knowledge, for a wide enough population (the utilitarian argument). And where there is a decent level of education of the population to analyze information.

    The West is busily stripping identity from everything and that can’t end well.

    Well, but that’s why I asked if we know where identity resides… because for example with the gender thing – transgender actually comes out as absence of identity.

    Btw, I don’t necessarily agree that all of the West are “stripping identity of everything” – yes, partly it’s true, but there are quite a few who are able to nurture their identity or try to preserve it. It’s not a small number of people. People know instinctively that it is valuable. They don’t even have to be nationalists or identitarians.

    but their flightiness can be disorienting.

    Oh, you bet. It might be part of the MO. It’s a little like Turks or Arabs haggling – they are a southern people after all. It can be fascinating to observe (from a safe place). The trick is to learn how to handle it without it being disorienting and allowing it to go too far. Historically, the elites probably tried to take advantage of the positive things that they bring to the table (skills, etc), with the hopes that they can control the negatives (or in the worst case, that the negatives will be absorbed by the lower classes). But when it’s uncontrolled, it can turn into cliques, even global ones.

    Of course, I don’t want to accuse every single Jewish person of this – that would be biased and above all inaccurate. It might be that there are systems which work better for this, and systems where this gets out of control.

    It has a whiff of unhinged opportunism about it.

    Big time, sometimes this works but sometimes it goes too far. But it’s actually an art to navigate successfully within an “uncontrolled chaos” (versus the “controlled chaos”). We have the first one now.
    Btw, it looks like America doesn’t like it (the establishment at least).

  549. @Beckow
    @AnonfromTN


    ...May 9th, 2024. The winners celebrate 79th anniversary of their victory.
     
    Great day - the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany and its Euro allies - the Anglos belatedly rushed in to manage it after Russia already won. After a decent interval of forgetting they started the re-write. A sad case of no guts or honor - I wonder how the decent ones among them feel. It's just embarrassing.

    I like the Germans as people, they add a lot to Europe. But their subservient willingness to go along with the revisionist bull.s..t makes them less sympathetic. One suspects bad emotions, maybe a desire for revenge or dreaming of a re-do...

    I wonder when the Poles celebrate the WW2 victory, 1989? Or do they still see it as work-in-progress?

    Replies: @AP

    Great day – the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany

    You call it the biggest victory in human history, but you don’t even know who won. Hint: Russia was only about half the USSR, which wasn’t even led by a Russian at the time of the victory.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @AP

    TBF, though, Russia probably made up something like 65-70% of the USSR's three-digit IQ people. Central Asians have much less of those, percentage-wise.

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @AP


    Russia was only about half the USSR
     
    ???

    I understand that you have been deeply affected by the ongoing horror show, but you are usually more reliable in your judgment. Get a grip AP, hopefully we’ll live to see better days.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    , @Beckow
    @AP

    Ok...are you going bonkers again?

    Let's see: do English have any victories since it was "Britain"? There were plenty of Scots and Irish. French with Napoleon? (hint: he was a Corsican of Italian heritage). Or your favorite Habsburgs?

    Russia won WW2. Period. The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians, don't even claim it and are very proud so many of them fought with the Nazis. So who? Armenians, Kazakhs? Soviet is not a nation, it is a name for an ideology. You know that, or do you?

    You are one weird and bitter guy...

    Replies: @LatW, @AP

  550. Will the Rwandan migrant center become a hostel for gay tourists in the future?

  551. @Mikhail
    Timothy Snyder debunked:

    https://thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/whatever-you-have-to-tell-yourself/comment-page-7/#comment-97866

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Gerard1234

    Did you ever read Bloodlands?

    The book is remarkable to read once. I cannot imagine stomaching the contents ever again. He committed a sin against the Holocaust since the message on every single page was there was nothing special about the Jew war experience in Poland and Lithuania and the Ukraine. What happened to them was exactly what happened to everybody.

    Snyder has been embarrassing himself ever since trying to get back in the Jew good graces. It’s a pity he is not smart enough to see that this is impossible no matter what.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    Did you ever read Bloodlands?

    The book is remarkable to read once. I cannot imagine stomaching the contents ever again. He committed a sin against the Holocaust since the message on every single page was there was nothing special about the Jew war experience in Poland and Lithuania and the Ukraine. What happened to them was exactly what happened to everybody.

    Snyder has been embarrassing himself ever since trying to get back in the Jew good graces. It’s a pity he is not smart enough to see that this is impossible no matter what.
     
    Haven't read it. Regarding the issue of Jews and that book:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=bloodlands+timothy+snyder+jews&sca_esv=95704d94b5931a97&source=hp&ei=AHlBZvf2E9KeptQPmbm_2Aw&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZkGHEAJaTGEx5tBjFZiyaW4rkTr2QkcN&ved=0ahUKEwj39tTEyImGAxVSj4kEHZncD8sQ4dUDCBQ&oq=bloodlands+timothy+snyder+jews&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz

    Among them -

    https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2036

    https://jacobin.com/2014/09/timothy-snyders-lies/

    According to someone I know in Ivy League academic circles, his wife and himself are on their way out at Yale and going to Toronto, where they'll have a more sympathetic audience.

    This source said his wife is nuttier than him. Here was a rebuttal to her:

    https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5795-letters-january-february-2024

    Another view on Ukraine

    Self-described “peace activist” Marci Shore says she ditched her “ambivalence” towards guns to plead for weapons for Ukraine (“Eyeing the Future, Grappling with the Past,” November/December). Is she glad President Biden is now sending cluster bombs and depleted uranium, which will go on maiming and killing long after war ends? Fifty-five percent of Americans are fed up and say no more money for Ukraine. The bloody largesse of our president may actually ensure more “dark Trump years,” in Shore’s phrase.

    Though US politicians and media blame Putin, American meddling did much to provoke war. In 2013, the State Department’s Victoria Nuland bragged that the US had spent $5 billion on Ukraine since 1991. In 2014, deputies in Kyiv’s new US-backed government repealed the status of Russian as an official language; in the east, neo-Nazis cut off electricity and set fires. After Moscow attacked in 2022, the US thwarted negotiation.

    Consider Putin’s position: every major NATO power—France, the US, UK, Germany—had invaded Russia at some point. What would you do if that alliance, led by the world’s “greatest purveyor of violence” (per M. L. King), had you increasingly surrounded and was recruiting the largest country on your Western border?
    Jay Lyon ’73
    San Francisco, CA
     
  552. Someone needs to hack this:

    [MORE]


    To show this:

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @songbird


    https://twitter.com/james_jinnette1/status/1788254223915745573

    Replies: @songbird

  553. @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ


    The Whites should have sucked it up and accepted the Polish demands since saving Russia from Bolshevism was much more important than getting Gomel and Lviv for Russia.
     
    The Poles supported Petliura who the Whites opposed and the Galician Ukrainians viewed with obvious suspicion as evidenced by Petlura agreeing that Galicia would go to Poland in exchange for Poland's support of him.

    Poland's later acknowledged aim at the time was to weaken Russia as much as possible to better ensure a Polish dominated eastern Europe. The Whites and others weren't aware of the then secret Polish-Soviet talks. What Poland did to the Whites is somewhat akin to the Soviet stance on the Polish Home Army Warsaw Uprising.

    Poland (specifically Pilsudski) could've taken a different path which would've arguably benefited it in the long run.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    I absolutely agree that Poland should have also been much more willing to compromise. Getting the Curzon Line as Poland’s eastern borders in exchange for having Russia avoid Bolshevism was a bargain very much in Poland’s favor in the long-run, as you yourself have just said. And a Russia that didn’t have any territorial designs on the rest of Poland and wasn’t Communist (and thus wasn’t seeking to Communize Poland) could have served as a useful ally and protector for Poland against future German revanchism.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ

    The Whites were okay with an independent Poland. The issue was Poland's border.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  554. The Berlin banning doesn’t include the Kiev regime okay Banderite red and black.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/berlin-police-ban-russian-flags-092600055.html

    Not my kind of sign of the times:

  555. @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    I absolutely agree that Poland should have also been much more willing to compromise. Getting the Curzon Line as Poland's eastern borders in exchange for having Russia avoid Bolshevism was a bargain very much in Poland's favor in the long-run, as you yourself have just said. And a Russia that didn't have any territorial designs on the rest of Poland and wasn't Communist (and thus wasn't seeking to Communize Poland) could have served as a useful ally and protector for Poland against future German revanchism.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    The Whites were okay with an independent Poland. The issue was Poland’s border.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    Yes, I know that. I think that (in an ideal world) both sides should have been much more willing to compromise on the border than they actually were in real life.

    BTW, the Whites were only OK with Polish and Finnish independence but not with anyone else's, right? I mean out of the former Russian Empire's peoples.

    Also, what do you think that the Ukraine equivalent would have been for a White-ruled Russia in the 1940s? Turkey?

    Replies: @Mikhail

  556. @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel

    I agree with a lot that you write here. I think that the Ukrainian military really was running on fumes during and after Adviivka. I'm going to be making new assessments in 1-2 months, after more of the recent cache of military equipment reaches the front lines (and the missiles reach the devices that target far away objectives).

    Replies: @Mikel

    I’m going to be making new assessments in 1-2 months, after more of the recent cache of military equipment reaches the front lines

    We’ll see what happens. There’s the F-16s coming too. But it looks unlikely that this new package is going to allow Ukraine to defeat the Russians. And what then? What does it say about Ukraine’s strategic prospects that the only way to keep fighting is to receive massive and constant military aid from the US? For some reason Europe and the rest of the allies were unable to fill the gap left by the US and Ukraine started to falter. The mood in the US has visibly changed in the past 2 years. It’s not just the Republicans, I’ve seen polls saying that a majority of Americans oppose sending further multi-billion packages to Ukraine. Besides, there is always going to be the possibility of an economic contraction that makes these extra expenditures even more difficult (impossible if the debt bubble finally implodes) or perhaps another major war on another side of the planet that totally changes the focus of the US Establishment.

    He may have very peculiar views on certain subjects but this precarious dependence of Ukraine on external help to fight the Russians highlights what Beckow has pointed out in the past: it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism. Or at least, as I have myself pointed out repeatedly, don’t kill thousands of civilians that the Russians consider their kin. How could that possibly not lead to a blow back in one way or another? The people currently in power in Georgia seem to have understood this lesson quite well. There’s lots of countries in the world that would rather have better neighbors (I know this problem quite well this myself) but they manage to get by and not turn their problems into a global crisis.

    • Agree: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mikel

    Problem is both RusFed and Ukiestan are in a sense artificial countries. They are both byproducts of the Sovok radioactive decay, national unstable isotopes (sorry for my poor analogy). And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.

    Emil is right about bringing Bloodlands into the spotlight, how can you have peace with populations that have for so many generations experienced so much violence? With countries and identities built upon violence since times immemorial?

    As a Russian, I know that we hardly ever have had peace for two generations. It’s the same (if not worse) in Ukraine. Already in 1990, some Ukrainian nationalists (Dmitro Korchinsky) talked about the need to burn down Moscow to bring back the spirit of Rus, that supposedly has been lost among the Moscovite and preserved among the Galician Ruthenians. And of course we know that in RusFed, Dugin and other freaks have also expressed the need to destroy (or at least radically reform and dominate) Ukraine. How can we have peace when these types are free to roam around and spew their hatred and craziness? What is rather sadly funny in a way is that these maniacs got along just fine for a time…

    https://youtu.be/PP3Vm7XIj5A?feature=shared

    Eastern Slavs are not like the French, who can be artificially divided by a border (between France and Belgium) and just tell jokes about it. If we have borders, we will have wars. We’re not like the Swiss, who can build a translinguistic (not sure I can even use that term) confederation around common values either. If we have a country, we’d need to have a dominant language and have something peculiar about the values of our country. It’s a deeply ingrained population psychology. The amount of violence needed to change that is very high. But perhaps we can achieve that by now, after all we have the nuclear weapons. Once it is turned into a radioactive desert, the Bloodlands territory would know peace at last. I don’t feel optimistic…

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mikel, @AP

    , @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel


    it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism.
     
    Before 02/24/22 Zelensky and his inner circle of policymakers almost blithely postured that Putler would not pursue a full fledged war on Ukrainian territory. Everything that's transpired since the initial incursion has been a defensive response to the situation at hand. I suppose that in your book only full capitulation and transfer of any and all territories to Russia, without a fight, would constitute "neutrality and sober realism". That's just not how things realistically usually play out in the real world.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mikel

  557. @sudden death
    @Gerard1234

    More detailed one week old info about this particular video from relatively sane pro-RF source:


    Yesterday, a well-known video with corpses in the landing was published. I'll tell you what's on it.

    It was taken at a tree grown landstrip above Stepove, I marked it on the map. In total, the operator walked, as OSINTers calculated, rougkly 444 meters, during which time 82 corpses were captured on video, and this is about half of that landstrip. Although there are controversial points there, there may be more bodies, but only this many are definitely identified.

    Most of the bodies belong to Russian soldiers, many are obviously Storms. There are also corpses of Ukrainians, in total, with a stretch, up to 10 people out of 82. There are two such examples in the screenshots: a helmet with blue electrical tape, as well as a corpse in Ukrainian pixel.

    The bodies in the landing had been accumulating for a long time, most likely from the very beginning of the assaults, that is, since October 2023. There are completely skeletonized remains, there are relatively fresh bodies, there are bodies in winter camouflage.

    As we can see, the treestrip was the gateway to Berdychi, but their assault was never successful. I think that this landing was targeted by artillery, and most of the losses here were from it. The assault groups came in and were covered with cassettes.

    The landscape, of course, is reminiscent of the First World War. However, this is not a treestrip; one of the subscribers spoke about another similar position from a completely different direction, where bodies also lay mixed up, but there they mainly came under machine gun fire. It’s just that not all videos are leaked onto the Internet, but this is what war really looks like, and this is the real level of losses in individual areas.
     

    https://t.me/artjockey/873

    Replies: @sudden death, @Gerard1234

    More detailed one week old info about this particular video from relatively sane pro-RF source:

    1. They ALL look like Ukrainian victims to me. It’s interesting they mention the blue tape – standard NATO psyops propaganda BS – try and separate the undeniably ukronazi fertiliser/dead body (because of the blue tape on them)…..from the rest of the bodies and ridiculously claim “Russian” – even though if you know what to look for on the uniforms and extras then you know they aren’t, plus green tape is also visible there and not any white tape on any corpses (though difficult to see if anything white-looking that is off the body and could have been “blown off” during the encounter is tape, different to distinctive blue/green). I never go on the tape markings to identify anyway – as scene more easy to manipulate from that.

    2. Thermobaric weapon clearly fired there, which explains the appearance of many of the corpses, the condition of the ground and the trees with many flattened downed to the stump, and the lack of craters in the entire video.

    3.Fragmentation rounds fired there – unless a good amount gets the face then always difficult to tell of course if fired. Here you can see on some of the trees, and by subtraction of those who don’t look like thermobaric victims. Looks like a minority of the scene though.

    4. Trenches visible there, equipment for that, – adds to the fact that Ukronazis were entrenched there, and so large numbers accumulated were possible

    5. Guns shown there – not definitive but those ones more often carried by ukronazis.

    6. Of course the usual f**ktard bydlo in ukronazi tsipso on the internet are claiming this as “82 dead Russians” lie and “usual meat wave” projection BS….. but even the psychotic Ukronazi “mainstream” is not promoting this . Even NATO media is not claiming anything against Russia from this video – considering the amount of lying they do, that is very indicative.

    7. You can have victims from different sides on a small spot of the battlefield……..but uncollected for both, over a few weeks or months? Appears total BS. One side, one series of annihilation strikes from Russia onto ukronazis.

    So thermobaric weapon used ( v.v.likely Russia), trenches- ukrops embedded there at some stage, uniforms – indicate 404 victims

  558. @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ

    The Whites were okay with an independent Poland. The issue was Poland's border.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    Yes, I know that. I think that (in an ideal world) both sides should have been much more willing to compromise on the border than they actually were in real life.

    BTW, the Whites were only OK with Polish and Finnish independence but not with anyone else’s, right? I mean out of the former Russian Empire’s peoples.

    Also, what do you think that the Ukraine equivalent would have been for a White-ruled Russia in the 1940s? Turkey?

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ

    https://www.eurasiareview.com/22052011-pavlo-skoropadsky-and-the-course-of-russian-ukrainian-relations-analysis/

    If I'm not mistaken the Whites recognized Estonian independence. Will have to check to be sure. The Russian Civil War era Whites were at the level of their British establishment counterpart at that point in history. Ireland was being considered for independence and got it unlike other parts of the British Empire which achieved independence later on.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Philip Owen

  559. @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    Yes, I know that. I think that (in an ideal world) both sides should have been much more willing to compromise on the border than they actually were in real life.

    BTW, the Whites were only OK with Polish and Finnish independence but not with anyone else's, right? I mean out of the former Russian Empire's peoples.

    Also, what do you think that the Ukraine equivalent would have been for a White-ruled Russia in the 1940s? Turkey?

    Replies: @Mikhail

    https://www.eurasiareview.com/22052011-pavlo-skoropadsky-and-the-course-of-russian-ukrainian-relations-analysis/

    If I’m not mistaken the Whites recognized Estonian independence. Will have to check to be sure. The Russian Civil War era Whites were at the level of their British establishment counterpart at that point in history. Ireland was being considered for independence and got it unlike other parts of the British Empire which achieved independence later on.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    Sure, back then the British, French, et cetera were morally flawed in still holding onto their colonial empires, though arguably in some cases one might wonder if their rule in their colonies was that bad given just how desperately Third Worlders from their former colonies even nowadays want to move to countries such as Britain and France.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    , @Philip Owen
    @Mikhail

    To be pedantic, these colonies becameself self governing Dominions on the date shown except for the US which declared independence via a revolt. South Africa and Ireland also became independent under the shadow of revolts. Most lingering ties ended in 1931.


    Canada 1867
    Australia 1901
    Newfoundland 1907
    New Zealand 1907
    South Africa 1910
    Ireland 1922
    India 1947
    Pakisan 1947
    Ceylon 1948

    The Irish did not completely split until 1948 although most remaining ties were brokon in 1937. Most colonies of smaller importance were pushed into independence in the mid 1960s. It might be noted that all property owning Blacks could vote in the Cape in South Africa and some in urban Natal. Only white men could be candidates for Parliament though. The Afrikaners removed these rights for Blacks.

  560. Finding the fundamental underlying similarities is important,” Gero says. “When we can talk about whales and how important their grandmothers are, or how important being a good neighbor is, or the importance of cultural diversity in society, that really resonates with people and can drive change in human behavior in order to protect the whales.”

    https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249546255/sperm-whale-communication-ai-language

    Sounds like they want to communicate woke ideas to the whales.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @songbird

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoS1eAVNXWU

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    It should not be too difficult to dox the pseudonymous source in Pasulka's book who flies on private jets and is writing an AI to talk to whales and dolphins. These people deserve to be mocked. Tyler didn't stay anonymous for six weeks when her first book came out.

    What do you suppose the Venn Diagram overlap is with dolphin communicators and dolphin sex pests?

  561. @songbird

    Finding the fundamental underlying similarities is important," Gero says. "When we can talk about whales and how important their grandmothers are, or how important being a good neighbor is, or the importance of cultural diversity in society, that really resonates with people and can drive change in human behavior in order to protect the whales."
     
    https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249546255/sperm-whale-communication-ai-language

    Sounds like they want to communicate woke ideas to the whales.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Emil Nikola Richard

    • LOL: songbird
  562. @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ

    https://www.eurasiareview.com/22052011-pavlo-skoropadsky-and-the-course-of-russian-ukrainian-relations-analysis/

    If I'm not mistaken the Whites recognized Estonian independence. Will have to check to be sure. The Russian Civil War era Whites were at the level of their British establishment counterpart at that point in history. Ireland was being considered for independence and got it unlike other parts of the British Empire which achieved independence later on.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Philip Owen

    Sure, back then the British, French, et cetera were morally flawed in still holding onto their colonial empires, though arguably in some cases one might wonder if their rule in their colonies was that bad given just how desperately Third Worlders from their former colonies even nowadays want to move to countries such as Britain and France.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ


    Sure, back then the British, French, et cetera were morally flawed in still holding onto their colonial empires, though arguably in some cases one might wonder if their rule in their colonies was that bad given just how desperately Third Worlders from their former colonies even nowadays want to move to countries such as Britain and France.
     
    In turn, Russia has its share of non-Russian former Soviets.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  563. @songbird

    Finding the fundamental underlying similarities is important," Gero says. "When we can talk about whales and how important their grandmothers are, or how important being a good neighbor is, or the importance of cultural diversity in society, that really resonates with people and can drive change in human behavior in order to protect the whales."
     
    https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249546255/sperm-whale-communication-ai-language

    Sounds like they want to communicate woke ideas to the whales.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @Emil Nikola Richard

    It should not be too difficult to dox the pseudonymous source in Pasulka’s book who flies on private jets and is writing an AI to talk to whales and dolphins. These people deserve to be mocked. Tyler didn’t stay anonymous for six weeks when her first book came out.

    What do you suppose the Venn Diagram overlap is with dolphin communicators and dolphin sex pests?

  564. @AP
    @Mr. XYZ

    Just as Shiites and Sunnis can have bitter conflicts…

    Replies: @Derer, @Mr. XYZ

    Yep, absolutely!

  565. @Derer
    @AP


    Just as Shiites and Sunnis can have bitter conflicts…
     
    That point is the single most important plus for the Israel survival in the ocean of Islam.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    That, its higher average IQ plus smart fraction, its nukes, and decades of Western, especially US, support.

  566. @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    Sure, back then the British, French, et cetera were morally flawed in still holding onto their colonial empires, though arguably in some cases one might wonder if their rule in their colonies was that bad given just how desperately Third Worlders from their former colonies even nowadays want to move to countries such as Britain and France.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Sure, back then the British, French, et cetera were morally flawed in still holding onto their colonial empires, though arguably in some cases one might wonder if their rule in their colonies was that bad given just how desperately Third Worlders from their former colonies even nowadays want to move to countries such as Britain and France.

    In turn, Russia has its share of non-Russian former Soviets.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Mikhail

    Sure, and it can have many more of them in due time. Though RNGens would first need to get over their xenophobia and nativism.

    (RNGens are citizens of RNG, or the Russian National State. RNG = Rossiyskoyo Natsional'noyo Gosudarstvo.)

  567. @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ


    Sure, back then the British, French, et cetera were morally flawed in still holding onto their colonial empires, though arguably in some cases one might wonder if their rule in their colonies was that bad given just how desperately Third Worlders from their former colonies even nowadays want to move to countries such as Britain and France.
     
    In turn, Russia has its share of non-Russian former Soviets.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    Sure, and it can have many more of them in due time. Though RNGens would first need to get over their xenophobia and nativism.

    (RNGens are citizens of RNG, or the Russian National State. RNG = Rossiyskoyo Natsional’noyo Gosudarstvo.)

  568. @AP
    @Beckow


    Great day – the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany
     
    You call it the biggest victory in human history, but you don't even know who won. Hint: Russia was only about half the USSR, which wasn't even led by a Russian at the time of the victory.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Bashibuzuk, @Beckow

    TBF, though, Russia probably made up something like 65-70% of the USSR’s three-digit IQ people. Central Asians have much less of those, percentage-wise.

  569. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    I’m going to be making new assessments in 1-2 months, after more of the recent cache of military equipment reaches the front lines
     
    We'll see what happens. There's the F-16s coming too. But it looks unlikely that this new package is going to allow Ukraine to defeat the Russians. And what then? What does it say about Ukraine's strategic prospects that the only way to keep fighting is to receive massive and constant military aid from the US? For some reason Europe and the rest of the allies were unable to fill the gap left by the US and Ukraine started to falter. The mood in the US has visibly changed in the past 2 years. It's not just the Republicans, I've seen polls saying that a majority of Americans oppose sending further multi-billion packages to Ukraine. Besides, there is always going to be the possibility of an economic contraction that makes these extra expenditures even more difficult (impossible if the debt bubble finally implodes) or perhaps another major war on another side of the planet that totally changes the focus of the US Establishment.

    He may have very peculiar views on certain subjects but this precarious dependence of Ukraine on external help to fight the Russians highlights what Beckow has pointed out in the past: it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism. Or at least, as I have myself pointed out repeatedly, don't kill thousands of civilians that the Russians consider their kin. How could that possibly not lead to a blow back in one way or another? The people currently in power in Georgia seem to have understood this lesson quite well. There's lots of countries in the world that would rather have better neighbors (I know this problem quite well this myself) but they manage to get by and not turn their problems into a global crisis.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. Hack

    Problem is both RusFed and Ukiestan are in a sense artificial countries. They are both byproducts of the Sovok radioactive decay, national unstable isotopes (sorry for my poor analogy). And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.

    Emil is right about bringing Bloodlands into the spotlight, how can you have peace with populations that have for so many generations experienced so much violence? With countries and identities built upon violence since times immemorial?

    As a Russian, I know that we hardly ever have had peace for two generations. It’s the same (if not worse) in Ukraine. Already in 1990, some Ukrainian nationalists (Dmitro Korchinsky) talked about the need to burn down Moscow to bring back the spirit of Rus, that supposedly has been lost among the Moscovite and preserved among the Galician Ruthenians. And of course we know that in RusFed, Dugin and other freaks have also expressed the need to destroy (or at least radically reform and dominate) Ukraine. How can we have peace when these types are free to roam around and spew their hatred and craziness? What is rather sadly funny in a way is that these maniacs got along just fine for a time…

    Eastern Slavs are not like the French, who can be artificially divided by a border (between France and Belgium) and just tell jokes about it. If we have borders, we will have wars. We’re not like the Swiss, who can build a translinguistic (not sure I can even use that term) confederation around common values either. If we have a country, we’d need to have a dominant language and have something peculiar about the values of our country. It’s a deeply ingrained population psychology. The amount of violence needed to change that is very high. But perhaps we can achieve that by now, after all we have the nuclear weapons. Once it is turned into a radioactive desert, the Bloodlands territory would know peace at last. I don’t feel optimistic…

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    This:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRjH_gJbUqQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzFgGn8g2Y

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiPEn2W_8oE

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @Mikel
    @Bashibuzuk

    Thanks for those insights.

    When I visited briefly some ex-USSR countries in the 90s my impression was that most people were ordinary folks trying to live their lives the best they could and I actually found them surprisingly friendly for Northern Europeans. But you did see plenty of mafia goons, especially at the hotels and luxurious places.

    When I see those videos of goons rounding up civilians in the streets to send them to the front lines I can't help thinking that a few decades ago they would have probably felt very comfortable in a mafia gang. The same goes for many Wagner mercenaries or brutalized people like Alex Parker.

    However, I think that this war is more than a manifestation of a culture of violence and political extremism. It wouldn't have reached this level if there hadn't been external meddling. While showing support to the Ukrainians who wanted integration with the EU, Western countries could have perfectly stayed clear of anything reminiscent of ethnic conflicts and violent regime changes. Even after the damage was done, they could have held what was supposed to be our long-standing policy of punishing regimes that kill their own citizens and warn Kiev that they should stop shelling civilian areas. We have actually gone to war with other countries for doing just that but our politicians chose to turn a blind eye in this particular case.

    Ultimately, Putin is responsible for all the deaths that have occurred since he decided to launch the SMO but I can't imagine this war without the nefarious influence of the West. Let's remember that not very long ago Ukrainians and Russians were voting massively for each other at the Eurovision contest. Even today, when you follow Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels (both typically in Russian language) you get the impression that these are closely-related people who know each other extremely well. Whoever decided that it was a good idea to stoke conflict between them from outside is a criminal.

    One minor point about the French. They may have learned to accept the idea that some closely related Francophones, such as the Walloons and the Jurans, belong to countries with which they've had good relations for many generations but they can be as imperialist as anyone. I would actually say that they are less tolerant of separatism than the Spaniards, which is no small matter. As the Francoists used to say, "Spain, better Red than broken" (España, antes roja que rota). What happens is that the French were quite successful at stamping out all regional differences and they haven't had to contend with strong separatism on the mainland. The Basques and the Bretons didn't have it so bad inside France after all and never put a very strong resistance. But they applied an iron fist to the more restive Corsicans. Even in Algeria, which they considered part of France, they fought bitterly against the separatists at a time when everybody was letting go of their colonies. They still have some colonial outposts in Polynesia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.

    , @AP
    @Bashibuzuk


    And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.
     
    As I have said, the Bolsheviks killed Russia and created a putrid and grotesque monster out of the corpse, attaching other nations to it that they also killed and butchered. This was the Soviet Union.

    But having a foreign elite is something essential to Russia, it started when Russia began. Even before Christianity was adopted. The very name of Rus comes from a foreign elite (a bunch of Norsemen and Wends who took over East Slavic lands, and made money by selling East Slavs as slaves to Arabs). Eastern Slavs ruled by outsiders is a central feature of Russia. They used to be Norsemen/Wends, then Tatars and some Lithuanians were added to the mix (and served as tutors and teachers about how to rule the East Slavs), then a bunch of Germans were added. Then they were wiped out an replaced by Caucasians, Jews, and Latvians. But always it was foreigners ruling East Slavs. Yes, they eventually became Slavicized, they spoke your language and shared your religion (the first wave, the Rus, forced it upon you as they did upon us).

    It happened to England once, when the Normans took over and wiped out the native elite. France was formed by Franks taking over Roman Gaul. And Ukraine had an identical history at first, they too started out as East Slavs ruled by Rus. But after that the elites were locals, either Polonized magnates of local (or at worst Rurikid) origin or native gentry such as Khmelnytsky or Sahaidachny. But in Russia it happened always, over centuries. This was specifically Russian.

    It's odd to retain the name of foreign Rus overlords, while disapproving of a state of affairs involving rule by a multiethnic mix that is only partially East Slavic in origin. Multiethnic Noviops ruling Russia - what could be more Russian then that? If the current crop ends up taking Russia into Chinese vassalage, it will be an echo of a very ancient tradition.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. XYZ

  570. @Mr. Hack
    @Coconuts


    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).
     
    Where exactly can one locate this overview? Thanks!

    Replies: @Coconuts

    It’s in the section further down the page, after the three sub-sections in the biography part at the beginning.

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
  571. @AP
    @Beckow


    Great day – the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany
     
    You call it the biggest victory in human history, but you don't even know who won. Hint: Russia was only about half the USSR, which wasn't even led by a Russian at the time of the victory.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Bashibuzuk, @Beckow

    Russia was only about half the USSR

    ???

    I understand that you have been deeply affected by the ongoing horror show, but you are usually more reliable in your judgment. Get a grip AP, hopefully we’ll live to see better days.

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Bashibuzuk

    Is this ok?


    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-k0AF-3HnfWWrF4U2X0qxcXvg4PWE_jfyyd8H7fIs86w1VoyNNrUN40g&s=10.jpg

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfkoCRmlEPHFa97fUqglLb0CExd_-HKrkZeZ9Juoh4JQ&s.jpg

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSABlELM7sTJN067nNWtdHry2HLoG-PDaixpw&s.jpg

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    , @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    Richard Sorge's spy ring completely infiltrated top ranks in Japan and China to pit the two against each other. Is Sorge a Russian or a Soviet?

    All those deportations, were they done by Russians or Soviets?

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Karte_Entkulakisierung.png

    Comintern was subverting governments and instigating revolutions all around the world, was that Russians or Soviets?

    This extensive list, were they Russians or Soviets?

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

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  572. @Bashibuzuk
    @AP


    Russia was only about half the USSR
     
    ???

    I understand that you have been deeply affected by the ongoing horror show, but you are usually more reliable in your judgment. Get a grip AP, hopefully we’ll live to see better days.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Is this ok?

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Had the Urheimat and present day homeland of the Ukrainians been Green Ukraine, they would've without doubt received all the weapons they needed from the West to win this war. To enable the creation of a powerful Anti Chinese/Russian state in the Far East and kill two birds with one stone.

    But instead we have a situation where the Ukrainian conflict is taking place within a larger geopolitical context, which is the increasing antagonism between US and China. Time is on Russia's side here because the US can't afford to be tied down in Ukraine while China strengthens in the Far East.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  573. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @QCIC

    Is Coconuts' philosopher a dogmatic materialist?

    Evil, Ahriman, Satan, whatever lingo you prefer. It exists and it's insatiable. There ain't no finesse for this baby it's war.

    Join up with Saint Michael or wallow in disgrace.

    https://rosary.team/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/573a9317-96c5-45ee-b7b0-9e16c2707d83.jpg

    Replies: @Coconuts

    Is Coconuts’ philosopher a dogmatic materialist?

    He might be, he is a moderate progressive I think. He is looking at the topic as a sociologist or political scientist, so imo it aims for a descriptive character. If you are interested in secularisation and changes in the relationship between religion and politics, it seems good and something to think about.

    I haven’t read the last volume but I may disagree with his views about the era of what he calls the era of ‘religion’ being definitively over. In the Disenchantment of the World, written in the 80s, he tries to come up with some explanations of why the old religious form of social and political organisation predominated in most human societies. Seeing the demographic problems developing today, the way these worldviews were centred around the issue of the preservation and perpetuation of social communities over the generations might be one possible explanation.

  574. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Bashibuzuk

    Is this ok?


    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-k0AF-3HnfWWrF4U2X0qxcXvg4PWE_jfyyd8H7fIs86w1VoyNNrUN40g&s=10.jpg

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfkoCRmlEPHFa97fUqglLb0CExd_-HKrkZeZ9Juoh4JQ&s.jpg

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSABlELM7sTJN067nNWtdHry2HLoG-PDaixpw&s.jpg

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Had the Urheimat and present day homeland of the Ukrainians been Green Ukraine, they would’ve without doubt received all the weapons they needed from the West to win this war. To enable the creation of a powerful Anti Chinese/Russian state in the Far East and kill two birds with one stone.

    But instead we have a situation where the Ukrainian conflict is taking place within a larger geopolitical context, which is the increasing antagonism between US and China. Time is on Russia’s side here because the US can’t afford to be tied down in Ukraine while China strengthens in the Far East.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    https://youtu.be/sSOu4QLS8a0?feature=shared

    This hipster зрит в корень on many levels. The whole series of his videos direct towards younger audiences, is worth watching. It brings back (unhappy) memories.

    And yeah, the Anglosphere is building up an “Ukraine” to be used in the proxy war against the mainland China in South Asia in case of a Taiwan intervention:

    https://asiatimes.com/author/richard-javad-heydarian/

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/us-emboldening-philippines-to-square-off-with-china-at-sea/

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/move-over-quad-the-new-squad-has-landed/

    I am wondering if Davao will become the Pinoy Crimea. It would be easier if Duterte was a Muslim.

    https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/explainers/challenges-duterte-call-mindanao-independence-secession/

    The Atlantists are also looking to stir anti-Chinese tensions in Central Asia:

    https://unipath-magazine.com/kazakhstan-confirms-partnership-with-nato-u-s/

    https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_210009.htm?selectedLocale=en

    One should perhaps look at the war in Ukraine through that angle, a preventative measure against the stranglehold on China that is guaranteed to happen if ever RusFed is dismantled after losing the war in Ukraine.

  575. @Derer
    @YetAnotherAnon

    It is not secret that the West's media is controlled/owned by Jews and they are collectively outraged at Putin for spoiling their post-Soviet fun on pillaging wounded Russia. The money from the West Jewish bankers in post-Soviet Russia privatization schemes was mainly available under financial nepotism. Hence, that created Yeltsin Jewish oligarchs from penniless communists. Putin put stop to that and reclaimed the ownership of Russian resources under very difficult conditions. Yes he is "killer" but killer of West's plundering Russia. Origin of the hate.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    Still plenty of Jewish oligarchs, they didn’t all run off to Israel (who would never dream of invading a neighbour).

  576. @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Ha, ha. I don’t listen to Larry Johnson, ‘retired’ CIA. LOL.

    Ok I thought you were part of the group that constantly sources him. Noted.

    I don’t rate the sources you list much higher.

    Most of the videos I post are either made by Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.

    Youtube channels like Kanal13 and Warthog repost them with commentary.

    But I fully support skepticism of all media. Here at Unz there is clearly a double standard where you can get scolded for questioning Ritter or MacGregor. Only questioning the MSM is allowed. Alternative sources are to be treated as holy sages and especially if they blame Jews.

    Based on the big picture I assume Western leaders are very happy to attack Russian refineries.

    Once again you are failing to use Google because you want to believe that Ukraine is under the control of NATO as part of some grand conspiracy. You already made that clear by deciding in your head that I must have been wrong about Zelensky ignoring CIA warnings on Russia.

    https://googlethatforyou.com?q=united%20states%20ukraine%20russian%20refineries

    Ukraine snubs US as it vows to keep on blowing up Russian oil refineries
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-oil-depots-legitimate-targets-123753508.html

    Officials in Kyiv insisted they would continue blowing up energy facilities, despite reports that the US has been warning them to halt drone strikes amid fears they could hinder Joe Biden’s re-election chances.

    The White House had urged Kyiv to stop attacking refineries, depots and storage facilities inside Russia because they could cause petrol prices to rise or prompt an escalation from Moscow.

    Biden doesn't want high gas prices during the election.

    Google it next time instead of assuming I just make everything up.

    You clearly have issues with reality. Biden said directly that Zelensky ignored warnings over the invasion. You have made up your mind using your imagination and don't want to budge even though Biden himself said that the conversation happened. Your imagination is not a source.


    https://www.memecreator.org/static/images/memes/4756133.jpg

    Replies: @QCIC, @Greasy William

    Here at Unz there is clearly a double standard where you can get scolded for questioning Ritter or MacGregor

    nobody itt takes those clowns seriously. You are the one who keeps bringing them up

  577. @Bashibuzuk
    @AP


    Russia was only about half the USSR
     
    ???

    I understand that you have been deeply affected by the ongoing horror show, but you are usually more reliable in your judgment. Get a grip AP, hopefully we’ll live to see better days.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Richard Sorge’s spy ring completely infiltrated top ranks in Japan and China to pit the two against each other. Is Sorge a Russian or a Soviet?

    All those deportations, were they done by Russians or Soviets?

    Comintern was subverting governments and instigating revolutions all around the world, was that Russians or Soviets?

    This extensive list, were they Russians or Soviets?

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

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    You don’t know what the Bolshevik were?

    They created the Soviet Union where all minorities had equal rights, but some minorities were more equal than others. And Russians were not a minority, so they actually had lower rights than others.

    For example, all Soviet Republics had their own local communist party. But RSSFR didn’t. The Velikoross didn’t have their own communist party. They had to go through the Union structure and hierarchy to climb to the top, unlike for example the Ukrainian communists.

    All ethnic groups had territory ascribed to them, but Russians hadn’t. The RSSFR was divided into dozens of autonomous regions and republics where the Velikoross were the majority, but nevertheless had to be governed by local minority communist leaders. Korenizatsia (nativisation) was applied inside the RSSFR and outside it. Even in the territory where the Velikoross were the majority.

    Finally, the Bolshevik saw the Great Russian (Velikoross) chauvinism as the enemy to defeat by any means and in early Soviet Union, active antisemitism was punished by death. At the same time, tens of thousands of Russian Orthodox priests were mercilessly killed. Thousands of churches destroyed. Historical buildings and monuments demolished. Lazar Kaganovich has petitioned Stalin for the Saint Basil Cathedral’s destruction, according to him it was blocking the access to the Red Square.

    Does this answer your question?

    (And yeah, asking whether Zorge was Russian is kind of funny. It was ironic, right?)

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

  578. @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Thanks Bromance, what about the population genetics vs paleogenetics of the Far East ?

    I am not at all knowledgeable about this topic, so perhaps you might share some insight ?

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    I believe we’ve had exchanges on this topic, you are welcome to search my history for “haplogroup”

    I have a question for you too, one of main triggers of Mukden Incident was the assassination of Zhang Zuolin (left) in 1928 by train bomb.

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

    The conventional narrative was that it was done by junior Kwantung Army officers acting without orders from Tokyo– even though Zhang was Japanese client, there was concern that he would switch sides to Soviets.

    But this other article clearly states that it was done by Jew NKVD

    During this time, he was involved in several operations, including the assassination of Zhang Zoulin and the transportation of the Spanish gold reserves to the USSR.[5]

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

    It’s very unusual for wiki to a conflicting account of on a moderately famous character. I wonder if you have any insights from Russian sources.

    For context, Zhang had a history of double-dealing from Russo-Japanese War. And I’ve seen Japanese argue that only the alleged Kwantung Army culprit had the logistic means to commit the operation.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    The Bolshevik before WW2 were basically a terrorist organization. And the Soviet regime was an international terrorist regime that imposed itself on the population of the former Russian Empire. Among the highest ranking levels of Soviet power of the 1930ies the proportion of some ethnic minority groups was exaggeratedly higher, while the proportion of the ethnic Velicoross majority was relatively lower. And yeah, many outstanding Cheka/NKVD/OGPU operatives were of Jewish descent. Some among them recruited from the former Left Socialist Revolutionary party. Blumkin comes to mind, a typical example…

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

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

  579. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Had the Urheimat and present day homeland of the Ukrainians been Green Ukraine, they would've without doubt received all the weapons they needed from the West to win this war. To enable the creation of a powerful Anti Chinese/Russian state in the Far East and kill two birds with one stone.

    But instead we have a situation where the Ukrainian conflict is taking place within a larger geopolitical context, which is the increasing antagonism between US and China. Time is on Russia's side here because the US can't afford to be tied down in Ukraine while China strengthens in the Far East.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    This hipster зрит в корень on many levels. The whole series of his videos direct towards younger audiences, is worth watching. It brings back (unhappy) memories.

    And yeah, the Anglosphere is building up an “Ukraine” to be used in the proxy war against the mainland China in South Asia in case of a Taiwan intervention:

    https://asiatimes.com/author/richard-javad-heydarian/

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/us-emboldening-philippines-to-square-off-with-china-at-sea/

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/move-over-quad-the-new-squad-has-landed/

    I am wondering if Davao will become the Pinoy Crimea. It would be easier if Duterte was a Muslim.

    https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/explainers/challenges-duterte-call-mindanao-independence-secession/

    The Atlantists are also looking to stir anti-Chinese tensions in Central Asia:

    https://unipath-magazine.com/kazakhstan-confirms-partnership-with-nato-u-s/

    https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_210009.htm?selectedLocale=en

    One should perhaps look at the war in Ukraine through that angle, a preventative measure against the stranglehold on China that is guaranteed to happen if ever RusFed is dismantled after losing the war in Ukraine.

  580. @AP
    @Beckow


    Great day – the biggest victory in human history. Russia totally destroyed Germany
     
    You call it the biggest victory in human history, but you don't even know who won. Hint: Russia was only about half the USSR, which wasn't even led by a Russian at the time of the victory.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Bashibuzuk, @Beckow

    Ok…are you going bonkers again?

    Let’s see: do English have any victories since it was “Britain”? There were plenty of Scots and Irish. French with Napoleon? (hint: he was a Corsican of Italian heritage). Or your favorite Habsburgs?

    Russia won WW2. Period. The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians, don’t even claim it and are very proud so many of them fought with the Nazis. So who? Armenians, Kazakhs? Soviet is not a nation, it is a name for an ideology. You know that, or do you?

    You are one weird and bitter guy…

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Beckow


    The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians
     
    The Ukrainians claim it and celebrate it. The Balts don't, but that doesn't change the fact that there were large Red Armies in the Baltics, full of Baltic people (both voluntary and conscripted by force). We're not talking about some perceptions 80 years later, but the facts on the ground in the 1940s.

    Replies: @Beckow

    , @AP
    @Beckow


    Let’s see: do English have any victories since it was “Britain”?
     
    English were not only 50% of Britain, but yes after Scotland was integrated these are referred to as British not English victories. The main Allies of World War II are generally considered to be Britain, US, and France. Not England.

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/big-three#:~:text=In%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,the%20war%20should%20be%20fought.

    In World War II, the three great Allied powers—Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/axis-powers-in-world-war-ii

    In English, it's almost always referred to as Britain (or UK), not England. England is only a part of Britain. Because that is what the country is.

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

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain

    Does the deficient Slovak education system confuse the two and refer to Britain as England?

    French with Napoleon?
     
    It was officially called the Empire Français

    Russia won WW2.
     
    A country that included Russian people and the territory of Russia. The Russian state was destroyed in 1917-1920. Its remaining citizens were in exile, and often sided with the Germans in that war.

    The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians, don’t even claim it
     
    Millions of Ukrainians in the Soviet Army were necessary for the Soviet victory. Many of their descendants are fighting Russia now.

    Soviet is not a nation
     
    It was as much of a country as Britain. Or Austria-Hungary. This was the entity that fought the Nazis. Not Russia, which the Soviets destroyed.

    The remaining Russians tended to side with the Germans or were neutral.

    https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/publication/8216a78c-d619-40be-8cfd-8816dbf27f73

    "The main organisation that supplied volunteers from the émigré milieu for the Wehrmacht was the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). The majority of officers held ‘defeatist’ views, which entailed continuing the struggle against the Bolsheviks by any means necessary, even by enlisting in a foreign army... the vanquished side attempted to ‘replay’ the Russian Civil War against the background of the new world conflict. The conservative worldview of former Russian officers who went to the USSR is explained and analysed within the context of the German occupation policies. The émigré volunteers who served in the Wehrmacht were aligned with German anti-Bolshevism and anti-Semitic objectives. Yet, unlike other foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht, they considered themselves Russian nationalists and ignored the anti-Slavic racial dimension to German policy. The émigrés generally empathised with the local population (defined as Orthodox Russians and excluding Russian Jews) and sought to aid them. The exiles mostly understood their role as that of a mediator between the occupants and the occupied. After the war, ROVS members redefined their role in the war as something separate from Nazi ideology. Émigré volunteers were thoroughly distinct from all the other foreign contingents: if the latter fought against ‘Russian Bolshevism’ and Russians per se, the former were heavily invested in the illusion that they could separate the two and, with the Germans as their allies, achieve an independent, nationalistic Russia."

    :::::::::::::::::

    So Russians (among others in the Soviet military) defeated the Germans. Russia did not.

    Replies: @Beckow

  581. @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow


    your inability to be objective
     
    Are you the poster boy here for being objective? :-)

    You can’t be both a player and a referee.
     
    I don't consider myself to be either. Objectively, I see myself as a commenter here. How about you, which part do you play? :-)

    Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality.
     
    Nonsense. If it really were stronger, than why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn't Russia already won this war?

    Replies: @Mikel, @Beckow

    …which part do you play?

    I try to observe the reality and don’t have a horse in the race. My preference is for peace and normalcy. Ukies with their idiocy and Nato with its aggressiveness are destroying it. My bias is regional – I want prosperous Central Europe not dragged into unnecessary wars, trading with all sides, the Westies not dictating how we live or how we label bathrooms.

    It’s not very ambitious. We are not into conquering the world or re-arranging Siberia. You should try it.

    the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine

    Why not 2.5 days if you are just making it up? Whose prognosis? Are you seriously arguing that since Russia didn’t smash Ukraine in “two weeks” it is a loss? Are you so dense? Maybe Russia is more humane and chose not to kill hundreds of thousands Ukies with “shock and awe” the way US and Nato do it. More civilians were killed in Gaza in six months, in Iraq hundreds of thousands, in Vietnam millions. Who are the “baddies”? Think.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Beckow


    Westies not dictating how we live or how we label bathrooms.
     
    The only way to prevent libtards from lecturing how you should live, how you should label your restrooms, and who should compete in women’s sports is punching them in the face real hard. That’s exactly what the RF is doing.
    , @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    You stated, that Russia is stronger than Ukraine and by inference that the war that it started within Ukraine it would win, and I replied:


    Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality.

    Nonsense. If it really were stronger, than why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?
     
    You replied back that the 2.5 year timeframe was of dubious origin, pointing out that perhaps 2.5 days might have been more accurate. Fine, I'll concede this point to you, however, I'm still waiting to hear back a satisfactory explanation from you regarding:

    1) why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held?

    2) Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  582. @Mikhail
    @QCIC

    Follow-up confirmed considerable doubt that it's Putin's mansion.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Philip Owen

    Putin’s daily schedule doesn’t leave a lot of time for mansions other than official residences of the President. I vote for an FSB holiday camp for senior officers. I was once in Green Khosta near Sochi. The FSB had a holiday camp there with another alleged Putin’s Palace being built nearby. If Putin wanted it personally access would be given. There was something complicated about crab fishing rights there too. John Helmer covered the story. I supplied some thoughts about crab fishing that I have forgotten but essentially the surrounding sea is the best crab fishing in Crimea.

  583. @John Johnson
    @Beckow


    …I didn’t vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

     

    Who would you prefer?

    I don't want either of them and I don't have to choose my vote until November. Biden could take a fall and Trump could be in prison. I'll consider my options in the fall.

    He looks dull and out-of-his depth. Possibly a diversity hire. There have been a lot of incompetent West Point grads or worse – how else do you explain the long list of the lost wars? From Vietnam to Afgan. it has been quite dismal.

    Obama was a diversity hire. West Point is not a cake walk and the acceptance rate is 8.6.

    The US secretary of defense does not direct war strategy. However according to Prigozhin the Russian equivalent has a lot of bearing on the battlefield. Prigozhin believed that Shoigu was trying to ammo starve him out of spite. The chain isn't the same in the US military. Your ammo re-supply for artillery wouldn't go through the secretary of defense. Someone clearly botched the invasion and my guess is that Shoigu was a big part of it. He seemed to think a 40 mile supply line through hostile forests was a good idea.


    …killing neonazis ….stopping NATO

     

    Can it be both? Is that too complex for you?

    Prigozhin stated that the war isn't about NeoNazis or NATO. He said it is about egos and I agree.

    I will hold Putin to his original justification for the war which was stopping the Eastward expansion of NATO. He made that clear in his invasion speech which I can reference for the 1000th time if you would like. That goal has failed unless he can somehow talk Finland into leaving. I hold politicians to their word and not the ever changing and imagined goals of their fans. When Democrats in the US change the goal of some public project I don't say GOSH OK IF YOU SAY THAT IS THE NEW GOAL THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE OBTAINABLE. People around the world should hold politicians to their word.

    Or is something so basic beyond your reasoning powers?

    Let’s say Russia flips the Quebec government and the Quebecois enthusiastically sign-up for a Russia-China military alliance.

    You are saying that the US flipped the Ukraine government? How exactly when the pro-Russian party voted to remove Yanukovych for treason? Are you saying he was innocent?

    Did Ukraine pick the Western backed pro-NATO candidate in 2019?

    As for my reasoning powers I have the better track record than every single pro-Putin blogger at Unz. It's pathetic that pro-Putin posters have to cite a convicted sex criminal and homosexual judge who was fired for trying to manhandle younger male workers. Speaks volumes in fact that you and others have to cite youtube videos from Scott "jerkin to teens" Ritter and Judge "let me touch your crotch" Napolitano who also followed a waiter into a bathroom and tried to manhandle him. It's almost as if it is hard to find normal people that will publicly defend a mass murdering midget. They have to be Con Inc rejects like Scott, Nap and Tucker. Nap lost his paycheck after trying to manhandle young male workers and then switched to Team Dwarf. What a friggin loser. Ritter would be on CNN if he didn't get blacklisted for jerking it to what he thought was a teenage girl....twice.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …I’ll consider my options in the fall.

    Maybe a miracle? A lot of people in the West are down to miracles. There are no “options”, the second tier is worse. Kamala, the other Indian woman? Or are you thinking again a wife-of-the-president? Unleashing nepotism is never a good thing.

    US flipped the Ukraine government? How exactly when the pro-Russian party voted to remove Yanukovych for treason?

    How “exactly”? The Ukie nationalist nuts held guns to their heads. It is called a violent coup. Yanuk was democratically elected, the next election was in 6 months. Whether he stole more than Zelko or Porky is hard to tell – they all steal. Have you checked the blatant corruption in Brussels, or that genius international businessman Hunter?

    US spent $5 billion and worked hard, Nuland and dozens of “ambassadors” marched with the demonstrators. Imagine 1% of that in US or Europe, you would go ballistic. $5k spent on Facebook led to years of hysteria in US.

    my reasoning powers I have the better track record…

    You don’t. When caught lying you start distractions about ‘Riter’ or other people nobody knows, you like to fight strawmen. You are quite unhinged with the name-calling, you can’t control yourself.

    Summary: Nato helped to overthrow the elected President assisting the nationalists – many with fond Nazi memories. The new government brutally attacked the Russian minority killing 3k civilians in Donbas. Crimea voted to join Russia.

    Ukraine put Nato membership in its Constitution and Nato for 15 years in a row announced that “Ukraine will join Nato“. There was a civil war in Donbas with Nato helping Kiev and Russia helping Donbas Russians.

    In 2022 a full-blown war started. Kiev is losing that war and the dream of Ukraine-in-Nato is gone. That’s the story – the height of each protagonist and precise timing are of no importance. But you will lie or distract with “Finland” and like a semi-retarded bot repeat that “Putin said in 200… ” and now not…Things changed with the war. What do you do when things change? Do you hold on to your previous ideas?

  584. @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    ...which part do you play?
     
    I try to observe the reality and don't have a horse in the race. My preference is for peace and normalcy. Ukies with their idiocy and Nato with its aggressiveness are destroying it. My bias is regional - I want prosperous Central Europe not dragged into unnecessary wars, trading with all sides, the Westies not dictating how we live or how we label bathrooms.

    It's not very ambitious. We are not into conquering the world or re-arranging Siberia. You should try it.


    the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine
     
    Why not 2.5 days if you are just making it up? Whose prognosis? Are you seriously arguing that since Russia didn't smash Ukraine in "two weeks" it is a loss? Are you so dense? Maybe Russia is more humane and chose not to kill hundreds of thousands Ukies with "shock and awe" the way US and Nato do it. More civilians were killed in Gaza in six months, in Iraq hundreds of thousands, in Vietnam millions. Who are the "baddies"? Think.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack

    Westies not dictating how we live or how we label bathrooms.

    The only way to prevent libtards from lecturing how you should live, how you should label your restrooms, and who should compete in women’s sports is punching them in the face real hard. That’s exactly what the RF is doing.

  585. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mikel

    Problem is both RusFed and Ukiestan are in a sense artificial countries. They are both byproducts of the Sovok radioactive decay, national unstable isotopes (sorry for my poor analogy). And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.

    Emil is right about bringing Bloodlands into the spotlight, how can you have peace with populations that have for so many generations experienced so much violence? With countries and identities built upon violence since times immemorial?

    As a Russian, I know that we hardly ever have had peace for two generations. It’s the same (if not worse) in Ukraine. Already in 1990, some Ukrainian nationalists (Dmitro Korchinsky) talked about the need to burn down Moscow to bring back the spirit of Rus, that supposedly has been lost among the Moscovite and preserved among the Galician Ruthenians. And of course we know that in RusFed, Dugin and other freaks have also expressed the need to destroy (or at least radically reform and dominate) Ukraine. How can we have peace when these types are free to roam around and spew their hatred and craziness? What is rather sadly funny in a way is that these maniacs got along just fine for a time…

    https://youtu.be/PP3Vm7XIj5A?feature=shared

    Eastern Slavs are not like the French, who can be artificially divided by a border (between France and Belgium) and just tell jokes about it. If we have borders, we will have wars. We’re not like the Swiss, who can build a translinguistic (not sure I can even use that term) confederation around common values either. If we have a country, we’d need to have a dominant language and have something peculiar about the values of our country. It’s a deeply ingrained population psychology. The amount of violence needed to change that is very high. But perhaps we can achieve that by now, after all we have the nuclear weapons. Once it is turned into a radioactive desert, the Bloodlands territory would know peace at last. I don’t feel optimistic…

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mikel, @AP

    This:

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    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    It says the Iron Maiden video is unavailable. What song was that, I used to listen to Iron Maiden in my early teens, my favourite album was Somewhere in Time, the album sleeve was so full of amusing detail. Never been much into Panthera though, found them too « mainstream », always preferred less known and more extreme metal bands:

    https://youtu.be/s4wg2eBIvRk?feature=shared

    https://youtu.be/a6SKIXaEROI?feature=shared

    https://youtu.be/CjP2HZ4-5ps?feature=shared

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

  586. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I am aware that the MSM and other news sources report that the US is against Ukrainian strikes in Russia for the moment and that Ukraine is supposedly defying the US and making the strikes anyway. I wish this were true but I doubt it. I think you are silly for believing this claim. We don't know the truth percentage of these reports which could be somewhere between completely false and completely true. But it doesn't matter until the US and the West remove most support from Ukraine. At that point it really would be the Ukies going their own way. If the West cared strongly about this now they probably would not have sent 1000 ATACMS missiles, ergo they don't really care.

    There are many strange aspects to the Russian campaign in Ukraine. I think you favor the explanation based on incompetence plus graft, apparently at all levels from VVP on down. There is some validity to this "realist" perspective but I think it only explains a small part of what we observe. In any case it seems the Russians are willing to plow ahead with gradual progress and slow improvement.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    I am aware that the MSM and other news sources report that the US is against Ukrainian strikes in Russia for the moment and that Ukraine is supposedly defying the US and making the strikes anyway. I wish this were true but I doubt it. I think you are silly for believing this claim.

    Too many strikes on refineries would run up the global price of gas because of speculators.

    You think it is silly to believe the request is true?

    Do explain why you think it makes sense to believe that two Republican Senators are lying about the request:

    Defenders of Ukraine’s strategy accuse the White House of prioritizing domestic politics over Kyiv’s military goals. “It sounds to me that the Biden administration doesn’t want gas prices to go up in an election year,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a hearing last week. “While Russia is attacking Ukrainians’ oil and gas and energy sector, why shouldn’t the Ukrainians attack the Russian oil and gas and energy sector?” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) asked during a separate recent hearing.

    https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-04-15/ukraine-russia-oil-refineries-attacks-13555782.html

    It’s not merely a rumor that has been repeated by the MSM. Representatives from both countries have talked about it. You again are trying to isolate yourself instead of reading from multiple sources.

    If the West cared strongly about this now they probably would not have sent 1000 ATACMS missiles, ergo they don’t really care.

    That’s actually a good reason why they thought that Ukraine would listen to them. We provided the weapons so choose another target.

    I think you favor the explanation based on incompetence plus graft, apparently at all levels from VVP on down.

    Shoigu’s deputy was recently arrested which is pretty far up the ladder.

    Prighozhin said that Shoigu is incompetent while Putin is basically isolated and clueless. I think that matches what we have seen in the war. Russia has the larger force but we have seen too many WW1/WW2 era mistakes. They’re a bumbling giant. Destructive but with vulnerabilities. The war would probably be over if they had someone like Zhukov from the start.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    I think the chitter over reelection and war plans is background noise. It may be interesting at times but I can't use it to understand policy. I believe Biden won through a manipulated election so why would I believe the other less consequential information?


    My view of the Russian war plan is completely different from yours, though I agree there are many events which are unexplained for the moment. I think Russia's approach now (after the first few months) is "you break it, you bought it." Meaning they are not yet ready to control and clean up the post-SMO chaos, which is the price they pay for driving out Western military schemes. I think they need to have a lot more troops and reservists ready for the mop up. Even that will not be enough unless they get a sincere voluntary capitulation from Ukraine. I think the Kremlin is looking for the point where two trend lines cross (lines on graph if you will). Russia's useable manpower is gradually increasing and Ukraine's ability and WILL to resist are gradually decreasing. Russia will keep grinding until the capability fits the requirement. I think they want it to happen this summer, but it is too early to tell if they can make that work.

  587. @Beckow
    @AP

    Ok...are you going bonkers again?

    Let's see: do English have any victories since it was "Britain"? There were plenty of Scots and Irish. French with Napoleon? (hint: he was a Corsican of Italian heritage). Or your favorite Habsburgs?

    Russia won WW2. Period. The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians, don't even claim it and are very proud so many of them fought with the Nazis. So who? Armenians, Kazakhs? Soviet is not a nation, it is a name for an ideology. You know that, or do you?

    You are one weird and bitter guy...

    Replies: @LatW, @AP

    The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians

    The Ukrainians claim it and celebrate it. The Balts don’t, but that doesn’t change the fact that there were large Red Armies in the Baltics, full of Baltic people (both voluntary and conscripted by force). We’re not talking about some perceptions 80 years later, but the facts on the ground in the 1940s.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @LatW


    ...The Ukrainians claim it and celebrate it.
     
    Not from what I have seen. Ukies who celebrate are the Russia-friendly part of the population. In Galicia-Volyn there is pro-Nazi mentality, today also in Kiev. Zelko-ids go through the motions but with so many contingencies that it doesn't count. Ukraine made a choice, they will have to live with the consequences.

    The Balts are lost, you and I will never agree. I suppose the nation that murdered on its own 100k Jews and others is not comfortable remembering WW2.


    perceptions 80 years later...
     
    That is not realistic. WW2 was the biggest event of the last 100 years - the setup for the current world. How a nation recalls it still matters. To be retroactively on the losing side is unwise. It comes with owning the Nazi crimes...are you sure the Balts want that?

    Replies: @LatW

  588. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    I am aware that the MSM and other news sources report that the US is against Ukrainian strikes in Russia for the moment and that Ukraine is supposedly defying the US and making the strikes anyway. I wish this were true but I doubt it. I think you are silly for believing this claim.

    Too many strikes on refineries would run up the global price of gas because of speculators.

    You think it is silly to believe the request is true?

    Do explain why you think it makes sense to believe that two Republican Senators are lying about the request:

    Defenders of Ukraine’s strategy accuse the White House of prioritizing domestic politics over Kyiv’s military goals. “It sounds to me that the Biden administration doesn’t want gas prices to go up in an election year,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a hearing last week. “While Russia is attacking Ukrainians’ oil and gas and energy sector, why shouldn’t the Ukrainians attack the Russian oil and gas and energy sector?” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) asked during a separate recent hearing.

    https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-04-15/ukraine-russia-oil-refineries-attacks-13555782.html

    It's not merely a rumor that has been repeated by the MSM. Representatives from both countries have talked about it. You again are trying to isolate yourself instead of reading from multiple sources.

    If the West cared strongly about this now they probably would not have sent 1000 ATACMS missiles, ergo they don’t really care.

    That's actually a good reason why they thought that Ukraine would listen to them. We provided the weapons so choose another target.

    I think you favor the explanation based on incompetence plus graft, apparently at all levels from VVP on down.

    Shoigu's deputy was recently arrested which is pretty far up the ladder.

    Prighozhin said that Shoigu is incompetent while Putin is basically isolated and clueless. I think that matches what we have seen in the war. Russia has the larger force but we have seen too many WW1/WW2 era mistakes. They're a bumbling giant. Destructive but with vulnerabilities. The war would probably be over if they had someone like Zhukov from the start.

    Replies: @QCIC

    I think the chitter over reelection and war plans is background noise. It may be interesting at times but I can’t use it to understand policy. I believe Biden won through a manipulated election so why would I believe the other less consequential information?

    My view of the Russian war plan is completely different from yours, though I agree there are many events which are unexplained for the moment. I think Russia’s approach now (after the first few months) is “you break it, you bought it.” Meaning they are not yet ready to control and clean up the post-SMO chaos, which is the price they pay for driving out Western military schemes. I think they need to have a lot more troops and reservists ready for the mop up. Even that will not be enough unless they get a sincere voluntary capitulation from Ukraine. I think the Kremlin is looking for the point where two trend lines cross (lines on graph if you will). Russia’s useable manpower is gradually increasing and Ukraine’s ability and WILL to resist are gradually decreasing. Russia will keep grinding until the capability fits the requirement. I think they want it to happen this summer, but it is too early to tell if they can make that work.

  589. @LatW
    @Beckow


    The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians
     
    The Ukrainians claim it and celebrate it. The Balts don't, but that doesn't change the fact that there were large Red Armies in the Baltics, full of Baltic people (both voluntary and conscripted by force). We're not talking about some perceptions 80 years later, but the facts on the ground in the 1940s.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …The Ukrainians claim it and celebrate it.

    Not from what I have seen. Ukies who celebrate are the Russia-friendly part of the population. In Galicia-Volyn there is pro-Nazi mentality, today also in Kiev. Zelko-ids go through the motions but with so many contingencies that it doesn’t count. Ukraine made a choice, they will have to live with the consequences.

    The Balts are lost, you and I will never agree. I suppose the nation that murdered on its own 100k Jews and others is not comfortable remembering WW2.

    perceptions 80 years later…

    That is not realistic. WW2 was the biggest event of the last 100 years – the setup for the current world. How a nation recalls it still matters. To be retroactively on the losing side is unwise. It comes with owning the Nazi crimes…are you sure the Balts want that?

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Beckow


    Not from what I have seen. Ukies who celebrate are the Russia-friendly part of the population.
     
    This is not true - you simply are not in touch with today's Ukraine. They don't do a bombastic May 9 parade, but they commemorate the "defeat of Nazism". They spoke about it at length over the last couple of days, they also wear the poppy now (you can view it as cringe but this is their way out of the red carnation). There is the Bandera cult as well, of course, but things are not as black and white as you paint.

    As to the Balts, the official approach is that both occupations were evil. And rightly so, since even our former government officials from the first Republic (along with Lithuanian officers) were held in German built camps. History is grey, not black or white, my dear friend.

    Replies: @Beckow

  590. LatW says:
    @Coconuts
    @LatW


    But it feels like something bigger is happening, it’s just hard to pinpoint what it really is.
     
    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.



    I feel like something like that could be happening, at least in Britain, maybe France, other countries. Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.

    Even in the lives of individuals, especially people brought up in the post-68 world and imbued with that worldview, once you reach a certain age the narrative of liberation and emancipation seems to naturally become less central or at least open to question.

    There is a French sociologist/political philosopher, Marcel Gauchet, who wrote a famous book called 'The Disenchantment of the World' in the 1980s, a political history of religion from (I think) a Weberian perspective. After arguing that Christianity is the 'religion of the exit from religion', which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world, he wrote a four volume series called 'L’Avènement de la démocratie', about the characteristics of the world of democracy, the state and society that has gradually come to replace the old world of religion.

    I've been finding a lot in those books to think about, he seems to capture many features the trajectory of things that I might have had an intuitive sense of, but couldn't have consciously explained or put into context. I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era. The top of the museum was a kind of art gallery with contemporary secular and religious art. In some way it seemed like a material reflection of the kind of process Gauchet writes about, so this is on my mind at the moment.

    I don't have the last volume of L’Avènement de la démocratie that covers the post-1970 world yet, but I am guessing there will be something interesting related to what is happening at the moment in it.

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

    (the Philosophy section here gives a good short overview).

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @QCIC, @LatW

    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.

    Hegel has a teleological view of history – human history is a progression led by Reason (the “inward guiding soul”). The telos of history, the finality is inherent to the progression. The culture is eventually led to self-awareness as the highest form of rationality.

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    Tbh, the above reminds one of Nietzsche’s Master and slave morality – maybe not directly, but there is something similar there. The Master morality is that of a civilization that is self-affirming, self-directing, non-reflexive in a sense that it does not stop and think about whether it is “good” or “evil” (it is beyond good and evil, as he describes it, or rather sees the world in terms of “good” and “bad” – themselves being a priori good, it is “aristocratic”, maybe a bit similar to how the Greeks may have perceived themselves), it assumes by default its innate “goodness”, “rightness” (maybe even superiority, if we dare go that far) – it is the self-driven actor with an overflowing abundance of vitality, strength and energy, symbolized in a phallic statue. Whereas the slave morality is the one of reaction, of ressentment, of brooding and maybe too much introspection. His idea must have been that once you get to that point you start collapsing or degenerating (this is a rather harsh description of the Western civilization, even the Christian one, and maybe even unfair, since this self-reflection and the culture of critique is also something that has moved the Western civilization forward and has created its complexity – but supposedly, it is exactly this complexity that eventually becomes a burden).

    Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.

    Nietzsche proclaimed already during his days that “God is dead, we have killed him” (they so often fail to add that second phrase to these prophetic words when they quote him). So this must’ve not started in 1968, but earlier. Probably around the mid 19th century. Or some might even argue that the seeds of destruction lay somewhere deep, in the origins (in Nietzsche’s view, they are to be found in Christianity, these are radical views).

    There is a comfort for many people in these recent post-1968 developments, they may not have wanted to live under an oppressive father figure.

    After arguing that Christianity is the ‘religion of the exit from religion’, which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world

    Very interesting. This is a somewhat Nietzschean sounding argument (or rather sounds like a commentary on his thoughts), thanks for pointing that out. Except that Nietzsche proposed a new religion of life affirmation, instead of current moral relativism. So he would’ve replaced this “exit from religion” with this new thinking. It would’ve been too intense for most people though.

    A disenchanted world is a somewhat romantic idea though, maybe without it we wouldn’t have had the late 19th century romantic art.

    I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era.

    This sounds like an enviable visit. By the way, the phallic artifacts were present quite late, as seen in the Rällinge statuette from Sweden which is dated from around the year 1000AD, so very late. The academic version is that it’s a statue of Freyr, but it might as well be a statue of Tyr (the Norse version of Mars) – it’s somewhat open to interpretation. And interestingly, he’s sitting in a lotus position.

    (Btw, you brought up the War Museum in Riga, that you visited, in your comments before – it used to be one of my favorite places to visit, even to just hang out during lunch time).

    The “exit from religion” theme was lightly touched upon David Engels as well – he spoke of the journey of our traditional European culture towards the transcendental and the search for the transcendental. This is the central goal of the culture, the telos.

    And that this is a vital piece that has been omitted in our contemporary (post-modern) culture.

    They tried to fell the mighty tree of Yggdrasil, yet the tree still stands…

    • Replies: @Coconuts
    @LatW


    Tbh, the above reminds one of Nietzsche’s Master and slave morality – maybe not directly, but there is something similar there.
     
    There is this guy:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Koj%C3%A8ve

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

    Before I received it through the post I guessed that Nietzsche would figure in the second volume of Gauchet's 'Advent of Democracy' series which is about the 'Crisis of Liberalism 1880-1914'. When I received it and looked inside, the first chapter is 'Nietzsche, the prophet'. I haven't read this yet to see what his take is, other than it confirms that Nietzsche was a central figure as a herald of this crisis period.

    I wonder if it relates to the attempts to recapture the vitality and aristocratic values of the best periods, but in the new context of the mass societies of the era. Gauchet makes an argument that one of the characteristics of Nazism and Fascism was an attempted recreation of the sacred communities of the past and the kind of communal life structured by myth and religion that used to exist, but this time within the intellectual and material framework provided by liberalism. The power of the old way of being revived within this new context then produced something unusually violent and unstable.


    There is a comfort for many people in these recent post-1968 developments, they may not have wanted to live under an oppressive father figure.
     
    I think personally I appreciated a lot of them, and still do in various ways. It would only be quite recently that I have started to question some of them, as they are reaching what seem to be peculiar or self-defeating stages (for example, anti-natalism and trans end up undermining feminism, the immigration takes cosmopolitanism to extremes and also conflicts with LGBT, democracy etc. when it introduces Islamism).

    Very interesting. This is a somewhat Nietzschean sounding argument (or rather sounds like a commentary on his thoughts), thanks for pointing that out. Except that Nietzsche proposed a new religion of life affirmation, instead of current moral relativism.
     
    Gauchet seems to take this Nietzschean influence in a progressive direction (there is maybe some influence of Kojeve and things here, how they presented the master/slave dialectic), where he sees the exit from religion as being towards human autonomy; collective self-government using the tools of politics, law and history. Christianity is seen as more positive, in terms of how it provided the path by which awareness of this autonomy could come about (possibly this is Hegelian influenced). I think Nietzsche was also aware of the arrival of this era of autonomy, i.e. in the 'God is dead' quote, but he would see it as more challenging.

    A disenchanted world is a somewhat romantic idea though, maybe without it we wouldn’t have had the late 19th century romantic art.
     
    Yes, I think I have seen Romanticism interpreted as an attempt to recapture or preserve something of the spirit of the past in the rationalist post-Enlightenment era.

    By the way, the phallic artifacts were present quite late, as seen in the Rällinge statuette from Sweden which is dated from around the year 1000AD, so very late.
     
    It is interesting that these kind of sculptures were still being produced so late. They remind me of the Indian lingams related to Shiva. They must have old roots.

    It must have been good to be able to be able to go into that museum so easily.


    And that this is a vital piece that has been omitted in our contemporary (post-modern) culture.
     
    This could be one reason why the first crisis of liberalism at the end of the 19th century is starting to become interesting again, as people gradually become aware of this problem.
  591. LatW says:
    @Beckow
    @LatW


    ...The Ukrainians claim it and celebrate it.
     
    Not from what I have seen. Ukies who celebrate are the Russia-friendly part of the population. In Galicia-Volyn there is pro-Nazi mentality, today also in Kiev. Zelko-ids go through the motions but with so many contingencies that it doesn't count. Ukraine made a choice, they will have to live with the consequences.

    The Balts are lost, you and I will never agree. I suppose the nation that murdered on its own 100k Jews and others is not comfortable remembering WW2.


    perceptions 80 years later...
     
    That is not realistic. WW2 was the biggest event of the last 100 years - the setup for the current world. How a nation recalls it still matters. To be retroactively on the losing side is unwise. It comes with owning the Nazi crimes...are you sure the Balts want that?

    Replies: @LatW

    Not from what I have seen. Ukies who celebrate are the Russia-friendly part of the population.

    This is not true – you simply are not in touch with today’s Ukraine. They don’t do a bombastic May 9 parade, but they commemorate the “defeat of Nazism”. They spoke about it at length over the last couple of days, they also wear the poppy now (you can view it as cringe but this is their way out of the red carnation). There is the Bandera cult as well, of course, but things are not as black and white as you paint.

    As to the Balts, the official approach is that both occupations were evil. And rightly so, since even our former government officials from the first Republic (along with Lithuanian officers) were held in German built camps. History is grey, not black or white, my dear friend.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @LatW


    There is the Bandera cult as well...but things are not as black and white as you paint.

    History is grey, not black or white, my dear friend.
     

    How about the present? Is the "war" black and white as you and the West paint it? Or is it only complicated having two sides after a few years? How convenient...:)

    I agree that most issues are gray and absolute positions are by definition deceptive. One exception are existential wars - WW2, current war in Ukraine. It is too dramatic and consequential to stay gray - those wars focus minds. We can't change that.

    WW2 was a war against German Nazi evil - and allies of Germany like Latvians, Ukies... There was complexity, inconsistencies, details, but the overall picture is black-and-white. You and the Balts seem to have a problem with it - but it will not win your any friends. Ukies are risking a lot by the unhelpful WW2 revisionism. It is too soon.

    Replies: @LatW

  592. @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    ...which part do you play?
     
    I try to observe the reality and don't have a horse in the race. My preference is for peace and normalcy. Ukies with their idiocy and Nato with its aggressiveness are destroying it. My bias is regional - I want prosperous Central Europe not dragged into unnecessary wars, trading with all sides, the Westies not dictating how we live or how we label bathrooms.

    It's not very ambitious. We are not into conquering the world or re-arranging Siberia. You should try it.


    the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine
     
    Why not 2.5 days if you are just making it up? Whose prognosis? Are you seriously arguing that since Russia didn't smash Ukraine in "two weeks" it is a loss? Are you so dense? Maybe Russia is more humane and chose not to kill hundreds of thousands Ukies with "shock and awe" the way US and Nato do it. More civilians were killed in Gaza in six months, in Iraq hundreds of thousands, in Vietnam millions. Who are the "baddies"? Think.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack

    You stated, that Russia is stronger than Ukraine and by inference that the war that it started within Ukraine it would win, and I replied:

    Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality.

    Nonsense. If it really were stronger, than why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?

    You replied back that the 2.5 year timeframe was of dubious origin, pointing out that perhaps 2.5 days might have been more accurate. Fine, I’ll concede this point to you, however, I’m still waiting to hear back a satisfactory explanation from you regarding:

    1) why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held?

    2) Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mr. Hack

    Slight correction:

    You replied back that the 2.5 week timeframe was of dubious origin, pointing out that perhaps 2.5 days might have been more accurate. Fine, I’ll concede this point to you,

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  593. @Mikhail
    @Mr. XYZ

    https://www.eurasiareview.com/22052011-pavlo-skoropadsky-and-the-course-of-russian-ukrainian-relations-analysis/

    If I'm not mistaken the Whites recognized Estonian independence. Will have to check to be sure. The Russian Civil War era Whites were at the level of their British establishment counterpart at that point in history. Ireland was being considered for independence and got it unlike other parts of the British Empire which achieved independence later on.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Philip Owen

    To be pedantic, these colonies becameself self governing Dominions on the date shown except for the US which declared independence via a revolt. South Africa and Ireland also became independent under the shadow of revolts. Most lingering ties ended in 1931.

    Canada 1867
    Australia 1901
    Newfoundland 1907
    New Zealand 1907
    South Africa 1910
    Ireland 1922
    India 1947
    Pakisan 1947
    Ceylon 1948

    The Irish did not completely split until 1948 although most remaining ties were brokon in 1937. Most colonies of smaller importance were pushed into independence in the mid 1960s. It might be noted that all property owning Blacks could vote in the Cape in South Africa and some in urban Natal. Only white men could be candidates for Parliament though. The Afrikaners removed these rights for Blacks.

  594. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @songbird


    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAuZqD0aQAEIKld.jpg

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    Your typical Wakoku schlemiel.

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  595. @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    I’m going to be making new assessments in 1-2 months, after more of the recent cache of military equipment reaches the front lines
     
    We'll see what happens. There's the F-16s coming too. But it looks unlikely that this new package is going to allow Ukraine to defeat the Russians. And what then? What does it say about Ukraine's strategic prospects that the only way to keep fighting is to receive massive and constant military aid from the US? For some reason Europe and the rest of the allies were unable to fill the gap left by the US and Ukraine started to falter. The mood in the US has visibly changed in the past 2 years. It's not just the Republicans, I've seen polls saying that a majority of Americans oppose sending further multi-billion packages to Ukraine. Besides, there is always going to be the possibility of an economic contraction that makes these extra expenditures even more difficult (impossible if the debt bubble finally implodes) or perhaps another major war on another side of the planet that totally changes the focus of the US Establishment.

    He may have very peculiar views on certain subjects but this precarious dependence of Ukraine on external help to fight the Russians highlights what Beckow has pointed out in the past: it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism. Or at least, as I have myself pointed out repeatedly, don't kill thousands of civilians that the Russians consider their kin. How could that possibly not lead to a blow back in one way or another? The people currently in power in Georgia seem to have understood this lesson quite well. There's lots of countries in the world that would rather have better neighbors (I know this problem quite well this myself) but they manage to get by and not turn their problems into a global crisis.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. Hack

    it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism.

    Before 02/24/22 Zelensky and his inner circle of policymakers almost blithely postured that Putler would not pursue a full fledged war on Ukrainian territory. Everything that’s transpired since the initial incursion has been a defensive response to the situation at hand. I suppose that in your book only full capitulation and transfer of any and all territories to Russia, without a fight, would constitute “neutrality and sober realism”. That’s just not how things realistically usually play out in the real world.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    My theory is the West/Ukraine was planning to mount a blitzkrieg on Crimea around the time Russia started the SMO. Militaries on all sides would have known something about this based on intel information but it was not part of the public discussion. There is no reason the West would have allowed this information into the hands of a coke-fueled actor, I mean puppet, I mean President. He would blithely keep reading the script and not be given any information which could screw things up. This attack information would have been completely suppressed in the West, especially to prevent whistleblowers from letting the cat out of the bag. Russia probably kept it under wraps to keep her options open and prepare for a serious military reaction on short notice. This information would have been heavily compartmentalized so that her internal factions and traitors could not definitively inform the West of Russian plans or combat status.

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    , @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    I suppose that in your book only full capitulation and transfer of any and all territories to Russia, without a fight, would constitute “neutrality and sober realism”.
     
    I was obviously talking about much earlier than that, in order to prevent it from ever happening. For example, when the Kiev rulers decided to put NATO in their constitution.

    Right now there are Western envoys in Georgia stoking the same animosities against the Russians that they stoked in Ukraine but the Georgian government is soberly assessing that they're better off ignoring those recommendations. If the big bad bear does attack them one day, it's them who are going to bear the consequences, not those Westerners, who may even decide to hold for months the massive assistance they are going to need, just like the Ukrainians have experienced.

    Irredentism is nice but in my book it's even nicer to see your people prosper in peace. It's your people who are dying by the thousands in the trenches right now. You can't possibly be happy with that. Perhaps it's not just the Russians' natural vileness but there were some irresponsible decisions taken on your side as well? In the case of Ukraine it wasn't even just a matter of being aware of who your neighbor is but also of building a project that all Ukrainian citizens could feel included in.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  596. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    It might be tempting to think of Mr H and JJ as outliers, virulently anti-Russian perhaps for ethnic reasons, old Bloodlands scores still unpaid, something like that.

    But in fact they're pretty much in tune with normie opinion, as evidenced in the opinion pages of the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/russia-nuclear-posturing-nato-ukraine#comments


    He's little!
    He wants to recreate the Soviet Union!
    After Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland are next!
    Economy only the size of Italy!
    Petrol station with nukes!
    Neville Chamberlain!
    Wikipedia quotes!
     
    These people listen to the BBC, read the Guardian (and some of them the Economist and FT), have college degrees and they genuinely think they are well informed. I used to be like that, too.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Derer, @Emil Nikola Richard, @Mikhail, @Mr. Hack

    I used to be like that, too.

    So what changed? When was that point where you finally saw the light and had a Putleresque vision of truth and rationality? 🙂

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    "when was that point where you finally saw the light?"

    Iraq.

    I supported the invasion and came to see that all the respectable news outlets had been lying.

    I then saw Libya and Syria being attacked using pretty much the same script.

  597. @songbird
    Someone needs to hack this:
    https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1788675393332936744
    To show this:
    https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1788515449728053527

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    • Replies: @songbird
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Have never followed Coulter closely (believe she was something of a Neocon once) but I must admit that I did enjoy that provocative rhetorical flourish.

    Am not entirely sure that the path for Euros retaking some political power lies in electing an Indian to power. But I did greatly enjoy Vivek's comments that people should check out the TickToc of Haley's daughter. For my part, I would genuinely like to see him be in a VP debate with Harris.

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  598. @Mr. Hack
    @Beckow

    You stated, that Russia is stronger than Ukraine and by inference that the war that it started within Ukraine it would win, and I replied:


    Russia is stronger in Ukraine – you can huff-and-puff but that’s the reality.

    Nonsense. If it really were stronger, than why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held? Why has the original 2.5 week prognosis of subduing Ukraine just passed the 2.5 year mark? Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?
     
    You replied back that the 2.5 year timeframe was of dubious origin, pointing out that perhaps 2.5 days might have been more accurate. Fine, I'll concede this point to you, however, I'm still waiting to hear back a satisfactory explanation from you regarding:

    1) why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held?

    2) Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Slight correction:

    You replied back that the 2.5 week timeframe was of dubious origin, pointing out that perhaps 2.5 days might have been more accurate. Fine, I’ll concede this point to you,

    • Replies: @Sher Singh
    @Mr. Hack

    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784692955176894484/1238579939528413224/IMG_2919.png?ex=663fccf5&is=663e7b75&hm=a84d4d600811428757e8b4f8d49b940a60e7881ab927c0e30e42f3b9b4e6d7d3&

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    , @Beckow
    @Mr. Hack


    1) why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held?

    2) Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?
     

    1) equally applies to Ukraine and 2) is pointless playing with time - things take as long as they need to, there are actually a lot of positives for Russia both domestically and with Ukraine-Nato by stretching it out.

    1) also seemed to be a withdrawal to avoid being exposed in a bad military position, Ukies would benefit from similar withdrawals in some cases.

    You also argue "but Ukraine wants to be in Nato! they have a right to do it". Putting aside that the wish to join Nato is not as universal in Ukraine as you claim - and was a minority viewpoint 10 years ago and in spite of it forced by Nato on Kiev by the Maidan coup-revolution.

    More importantly, we can't always get what we want. Life on this planet is not like that. Kurds want a state, some Hispanics dream of "Mazatlan" (?) in the US southwest, Izrael want 7 million Palis to disappear, and probably vice-versa...Nazis wanted to colonize Ukraine with sturdy German farmers...etc, why would you think that want a group or a nation "wants" is a sacred thing that has to happen?

    Ukraine-in-Nato is an unreachable goal - Russia made that clear. Why provoke a war over it? Ukies have been used, once they realize it they may be quite angry about their half-ass friends...and naive outsiders like you from Phoenix (is it hot already?).

  599. QCIC says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel


    it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism.
     
    Before 02/24/22 Zelensky and his inner circle of policymakers almost blithely postured that Putler would not pursue a full fledged war on Ukrainian territory. Everything that's transpired since the initial incursion has been a defensive response to the situation at hand. I suppose that in your book only full capitulation and transfer of any and all territories to Russia, without a fight, would constitute "neutrality and sober realism". That's just not how things realistically usually play out in the real world.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mikel

    My theory is the West/Ukraine was planning to mount a blitzkrieg on Crimea around the time Russia started the SMO. Militaries on all sides would have known something about this based on intel information but it was not part of the public discussion. There is no reason the West would have allowed this information into the hands of a coke-fueled actor, I mean puppet, I mean President. He would blithely keep reading the script and not be given any information which could screw things up. This attack information would have been completely suppressed in the West, especially to prevent whistleblowers from letting the cat out of the bag. Russia probably kept it under wraps to keep her options open and prepare for a serious military reaction on short notice. This information would have been heavily compartmentalized so that her internal factions and traitors could not definitively inform the West of Russian plans or combat status.

    • LOL: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC

    I am not privy to the workings of Russian political and military command. The only thing I know for sure is that the White House and Pentagon leak like a sieve, whereas the Kremlin does not. So, Putin was likely relying on intel, whereas the West was likely relying on guesswork.

    I don’t know what the plan was in 2022. Stands to reason that the RF planned a limited short operation intended to scare Kiev regime into sensible behavior. They certainly weren’t planning on fighting NATO, as they ended up doing. I am pretty sure that the goals (real, not stated) changed, as Ukies made it crystal clear that the only safe buffer zone the RF can have is the whole Ukraine. Looks like that’s the plan today.

    I agree that nobody would tell the clown anything of importance for two reasons: 1) he is stupid; 2) you can’t trust a cokehead.

    , @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC

    Totally unbelievable. It is quite fantastical to suggest thus and shows that you must be free basing coke to quite a large degree to come up with such drivel. Even Professor Jannisar is having some difficulties in endorsing your thesis. :-)

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @QCIC

    Zoonosis, lab leak, biological war @ China?

    Or the unspeakable biological war @ every useless eater on earth?

    I will give you mine! I vote for lab leak.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  600. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mikel

    Problem is both RusFed and Ukiestan are in a sense artificial countries. They are both byproducts of the Sovok radioactive decay, national unstable isotopes (sorry for my poor analogy). And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.

    Emil is right about bringing Bloodlands into the spotlight, how can you have peace with populations that have for so many generations experienced so much violence? With countries and identities built upon violence since times immemorial?

    As a Russian, I know that we hardly ever have had peace for two generations. It’s the same (if not worse) in Ukraine. Already in 1990, some Ukrainian nationalists (Dmitro Korchinsky) talked about the need to burn down Moscow to bring back the spirit of Rus, that supposedly has been lost among the Moscovite and preserved among the Galician Ruthenians. And of course we know that in RusFed, Dugin and other freaks have also expressed the need to destroy (or at least radically reform and dominate) Ukraine. How can we have peace when these types are free to roam around and spew their hatred and craziness? What is rather sadly funny in a way is that these maniacs got along just fine for a time…

    https://youtu.be/PP3Vm7XIj5A?feature=shared

    Eastern Slavs are not like the French, who can be artificially divided by a border (between France and Belgium) and just tell jokes about it. If we have borders, we will have wars. We’re not like the Swiss, who can build a translinguistic (not sure I can even use that term) confederation around common values either. If we have a country, we’d need to have a dominant language and have something peculiar about the values of our country. It’s a deeply ingrained population psychology. The amount of violence needed to change that is very high. But perhaps we can achieve that by now, after all we have the nuclear weapons. Once it is turned into a radioactive desert, the Bloodlands territory would know peace at last. I don’t feel optimistic…

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mikel, @AP

    Thanks for those insights.

    When I visited briefly some ex-USSR countries in the 90s my impression was that most people were ordinary folks trying to live their lives the best they could and I actually found them surprisingly friendly for Northern Europeans. But you did see plenty of mafia goons, especially at the hotels and luxurious places.

    When I see those videos of goons rounding up civilians in the streets to send them to the front lines I can’t help thinking that a few decades ago they would have probably felt very comfortable in a mafia gang. The same goes for many Wagner mercenaries or brutalized people like Alex Parker.

    However, I think that this war is more than a manifestation of a culture of violence and political extremism. It wouldn’t have reached this level if there hadn’t been external meddling. While showing support to the Ukrainians who wanted integration with the EU, Western countries could have perfectly stayed clear of anything reminiscent of ethnic conflicts and violent regime changes. Even after the damage was done, they could have held what was supposed to be our long-standing policy of punishing regimes that kill their own citizens and warn Kiev that they should stop shelling civilian areas. We have actually gone to war with other countries for doing just that but our politicians chose to turn a blind eye in this particular case.

    Ultimately, Putin is responsible for all the deaths that have occurred since he decided to launch the SMO but I can’t imagine this war without the nefarious influence of the West. Let’s remember that not very long ago Ukrainians and Russians were voting massively for each other at the Eurovision contest. Even today, when you follow Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels (both typically in Russian language) you get the impression that these are closely-related people who know each other extremely well. Whoever decided that it was a good idea to stoke conflict between them from outside is a criminal.

    One minor point about the French. They may have learned to accept the idea that some closely related Francophones, such as the Walloons and the Jurans, belong to countries with which they’ve had good relations for many generations but they can be as imperialist as anyone. I would actually say that they are less tolerant of separatism than the Spaniards, which is no small matter. As the Francoists used to say, “Spain, better Red than broken” (España, antes roja que rota). What happens is that the French were quite successful at stamping out all regional differences and they haven’t had to contend with strong separatism on the mainland. The Basques and the Bretons didn’t have it so bad inside France after all and never put a very strong resistance. But they applied an iron fist to the more restive Corsicans. Even in Algeria, which they considered part of France, they fought bitterly against the separatists at a time when everybody was letting go of their colonies. They still have some colonial outposts in Polynesia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.

  601. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    My theory is the West/Ukraine was planning to mount a blitzkrieg on Crimea around the time Russia started the SMO. Militaries on all sides would have known something about this based on intel information but it was not part of the public discussion. There is no reason the West would have allowed this information into the hands of a coke-fueled actor, I mean puppet, I mean President. He would blithely keep reading the script and not be given any information which could screw things up. This attack information would have been completely suppressed in the West, especially to prevent whistleblowers from letting the cat out of the bag. Russia probably kept it under wraps to keep her options open and prepare for a serious military reaction on short notice. This information would have been heavily compartmentalized so that her internal factions and traitors could not definitively inform the West of Russian plans or combat status.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack, @Emil Nikola Richard

    I am not privy to the workings of Russian political and military command. The only thing I know for sure is that the White House and Pentagon leak like a sieve, whereas the Kremlin does not. So, Putin was likely relying on intel, whereas the West was likely relying on guesswork.

    I don’t know what the plan was in 2022. Stands to reason that the RF planned a limited short operation intended to scare Kiev regime into sensible behavior. They certainly weren’t planning on fighting NATO, as they ended up doing. I am pretty sure that the goals (real, not stated) changed, as Ukies made it crystal clear that the only safe buffer zone the RF can have is the whole Ukraine. Looks like that’s the plan today.

    I agree that nobody would tell the clown anything of importance for two reasons: 1) he is stupid; 2) you can’t trust a cokehead.

  602. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    My theory is the West/Ukraine was planning to mount a blitzkrieg on Crimea around the time Russia started the SMO. Militaries on all sides would have known something about this based on intel information but it was not part of the public discussion. There is no reason the West would have allowed this information into the hands of a coke-fueled actor, I mean puppet, I mean President. He would blithely keep reading the script and not be given any information which could screw things up. This attack information would have been completely suppressed in the West, especially to prevent whistleblowers from letting the cat out of the bag. Russia probably kept it under wraps to keep her options open and prepare for a serious military reaction on short notice. This information would have been heavily compartmentalized so that her internal factions and traitors could not definitively inform the West of Russian plans or combat status.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack, @Emil Nikola Richard

    Totally unbelievable. It is quite fantastical to suggest thus and shows that you must be free basing coke to quite a large degree to come up with such drivel. Even Professor Jannisar is having some difficulties in endorsing your thesis. 🙂

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    I'm high on life, so no drugs required! I'm not looking for endorsements. I am theorizing (AKA speculating) since the basic facts and common explanations don't make much sense and I don't want to wait twenty years for the memoirs. Whatever incompetencies the Russian military may have, I believe they knew the early attack on Kiev would be a failure with painful losses.

    I think the military on all sides can hide information pretty well when required, but I agree this process is never prefect.

  603. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    My theory is the West/Ukraine was planning to mount a blitzkrieg on Crimea around the time Russia started the SMO. Militaries on all sides would have known something about this based on intel information but it was not part of the public discussion. There is no reason the West would have allowed this information into the hands of a coke-fueled actor, I mean puppet, I mean President. He would blithely keep reading the script and not be given any information which could screw things up. This attack information would have been completely suppressed in the West, especially to prevent whistleblowers from letting the cat out of the bag. Russia probably kept it under wraps to keep her options open and prepare for a serious military reaction on short notice. This information would have been heavily compartmentalized so that her internal factions and traitors could not definitively inform the West of Russian plans or combat status.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN, @Mr. Hack, @Emil Nikola Richard

    Zoonosis, lab leak, biological war @ China?

    Or the unspeakable biological war @ every useless eater on earth?

    I will give you mine! I vote for lab leak.

    • Agree: Sean
    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    I think it was framed as a Chinese lab leak by the people who knew perfectly fine what the guys in Wuhan BSL4 worked on. The guys who released the virus at the Military Games were obviously directed to do so by those who ended up attempting the Great Reset under the guise of the pandemic. These guys failed at their ploy only because they didn’t have yet the CBDCs in place. Next time it’ll work as intended.

    Basically, these sociopaths played and framed the Chinese and possibly collaborated with some Chinese Globalist faction. Crimson Contagion (or what was it named that Bill Gates simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak ?) is very incriminating. It is impossible that it’s a coincidence and it was before the Wuhan Military Games that predated the outbreak.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

  604. Another Russian oil refinery bombed by Ukrainian drones 1,500 kilometers away in Bashkiria. Probably just inconsequential news as attested to by the local gang of kremlin stooge high I.Q. pundits that flock to this website. Reported on 05/09/24:

    Slava Ukraini!

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    I read it on Telegram long before the Guardian were awake.

    Still, Ukraine will lose and Zelensky will either get his rewards in Florida or be terminated like the Vietnamese guy did when his use by date came up. Pity about all the dead, but they're not his people after all.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  605. @LatW
    @Beckow


    Not from what I have seen. Ukies who celebrate are the Russia-friendly part of the population.
     
    This is not true - you simply are not in touch with today's Ukraine. They don't do a bombastic May 9 parade, but they commemorate the "defeat of Nazism". They spoke about it at length over the last couple of days, they also wear the poppy now (you can view it as cringe but this is their way out of the red carnation). There is the Bandera cult as well, of course, but things are not as black and white as you paint.

    As to the Balts, the official approach is that both occupations were evil. And rightly so, since even our former government officials from the first Republic (along with Lithuanian officers) were held in German built camps. History is grey, not black or white, my dear friend.

    Replies: @Beckow

    There is the Bandera cult as well…but things are not as black and white as you paint.

    History is grey, not black or white, my dear friend.

    How about the present? Is the “war” black and white as you and the West paint it? Or is it only complicated having two sides after a few years? How convenient…:)

    I agree that most issues are gray and absolute positions are by definition deceptive. One exception are existential wars – WW2, current war in Ukraine. It is too dramatic and consequential to stay gray – those wars focus minds. We can’t change that.

    WW2 was a war against German Nazi evil – and allies of Germany like Latvians, Ukies… There was complexity, inconsistencies, details, but the overall picture is black-and-white. You and the Balts seem to have a problem with it – but it will not win your any friends. Ukies are risking a lot by the unhelpful WW2 revisionism. It is too soon.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Beckow


    How about the present? Is the “war” black and white as you and the West paint it? Or is it only complicated having two sides after a few years?
     
    Well, what is clear is that it's an invasion into the Ukrainian territory, with many international laws broken. But this war doesn't have just "two sides" - the ultimatum of December 2021 was issued not to Ukraine, but to Washington - along with the rest of us (EEs, CEs who are in NATO, that includes your country).

    https://www.facebook.com/100069392071612/posts/4042412449191499/

    I used to read this Dima Vorobiev guy on Quora a few years back and he listed the "new Yalta" bullet points (pretty funny how his side just assumed that some new Yalta can be created just between RusFed and the US, while ignoring everyone else's fundamental security interests, especially those who are directly affected by it - this is a typical RusFed approach).

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-New-Yalta-deal-that-Putin-wants-USA-and-Europe-to-accept

    So they make it look "black and white" but of course it's not. There are blank spots (that affect Eastern & Northern & Southern Europe).


    but it will not win your any friends
     
    We have always known who are friends are and they are consistently the same. In times like these, it is tested once more and you know for sure - and they become even more valuable.

    Replies: @Beckow

  606. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @songbird


    https://twitter.com/james_jinnette1/status/1788254223915745573

    Replies: @songbird

    Have never followed Coulter closely (believe she was something of a Neocon once) but I must admit that I did enjoy that provocative rhetorical flourish.

    Am not entirely sure that the path for Euros retaking some political power lies in electing an Indian to power. But I did greatly enjoy Vivek’s comments that people should check out the TickToc of Haley’s daughter. For my part, I would genuinely like to see him be in a VP debate with Harris.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @songbird

    Vivek is a very smart guy. He’d make an excellent VP but Trump would look even more stupid by comparison. I’d like to see Tulsi as a VP, she’s a « woman of colour », a religious minority, a veteran and it might win women’s and pacifist Democrat vote. But Trump would probably choose someone else, someone who is more pleasing for the Jews.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    , @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @songbird

    What I found so amusing is that had Ramaswamy been an actual American Black, she no doubt would vote for him.

    The soft bigotry of low expectations.

    Replies: @songbird

  607. LatW says:
    @Beckow
    @LatW


    There is the Bandera cult as well...but things are not as black and white as you paint.

    History is grey, not black or white, my dear friend.
     

    How about the present? Is the "war" black and white as you and the West paint it? Or is it only complicated having two sides after a few years? How convenient...:)

    I agree that most issues are gray and absolute positions are by definition deceptive. One exception are existential wars - WW2, current war in Ukraine. It is too dramatic and consequential to stay gray - those wars focus minds. We can't change that.

    WW2 was a war against German Nazi evil - and allies of Germany like Latvians, Ukies... There was complexity, inconsistencies, details, but the overall picture is black-and-white. You and the Balts seem to have a problem with it - but it will not win your any friends. Ukies are risking a lot by the unhelpful WW2 revisionism. It is too soon.

    Replies: @LatW

    How about the present? Is the “war” black and white as you and the West paint it? Or is it only complicated having two sides after a few years?

    Well, what is clear is that it’s an invasion into the Ukrainian territory, with many international laws broken. But this war doesn’t have just “two sides” – the ultimatum of December 2021 was issued not to Ukraine, but to Washington – along with the rest of us (EEs, CEs who are in NATO, that includes your country).

    https://www.facebook.com/100069392071612/posts/4042412449191499/

    I used to read this Dima Vorobiev guy on Quora a few years back and he listed the “new Yalta” bullet points (pretty funny how his side just assumed that some new Yalta can be created just between RusFed and the US, while ignoring everyone else’s fundamental security interests, especially those who are directly affected by it – this is a typical RusFed approach).

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-New-Yalta-deal-that-Putin-wants-USA-and-Europe-to-accept

    So they make it look “black and white” but of course it’s not. There are blank spots (that affect Eastern & Northern & Southern Europe).

    but it will not win your any friends

    We have always known who are friends are and they are consistently the same. In times like these, it is tested once more and you know for sure – and they become even more valuable.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @LatW


    invasion into the Ukrainian territory, with many international laws broken. But this war doesn’t have just “two sides” – the ultimatum of December 2021 was issued not to Ukraine, but to Washington
     
    There is no "international law". The definition of 'laws' is that they are consistent, applied to all sides equally, and the determination is made by an impartial judge.

    There have been some attempts at 'international law', but the West destroyed then by breaking all three basic requirements: the West doesn't apply laws to self, subjectively cherry-picks, and insists on being the sole judge.

    There is no law, countries do what they think is best for them...Russia invaded Ukraine as US invaded about dozen countries and Izrael just invaded Gaza. Russia had enough reasons and was provoked by mistreatment of Russians and by Nato. Wars are hell and sooner it's done better.

    The Ukies are disposable for the West, not quite "Russians", but pretty close. They can't win the war and that was obvious from the start. How did a presumably smart and large nation walk into this trap will be discussed for years. Having the comprador effectively non-Ukie ruling class is probably the main reason.

    There is also among too many Ukies a very stubborn stupidity, yearning to live somewhere else, to be someone else. Too bad. They are being used up by the West. How will tehy explain any of this to themselves?

    Replies: @A123

  608. @Mr. Hack
    @YetAnotherAnon


    I used to be like that, too.
     
    So what changed? When was that point where you finally saw the light and had a Putleresque vision of truth and rationality? :-)

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “when was that point where you finally saw the light?”

    Iraq.

    I supported the invasion and came to see that all the respectable news outlets had been lying.

    I then saw Libya and Syria being attacked using pretty much the same script.

  609. @AP
    @QCIC


    In the previous thread, AnonfromTn wrote:

    …in the USSR people of Jewish and Armenian ancestry were excluded from the top brass in the military, police, and KGB.

    What was the reason for this?
     
    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer, who later went corporate (much better pay, he wasn't corrupt enough at his job to support a family).

    He said that when the security organs were staffed by people from such background during Stalin's time, they were too bloody and murderous, and the USSR (and later Russia) didn't want that anymore.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies, and that there was a wave of western Ukrainians joining in the 1950s and 1960s. Those people were seen as gifted for such work. That was the person I knew in Russia who ever had anything good to say about Banderists.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Realhistory43, @Gerard1234

    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer

    Wow, slow things down, there is a lot of BS in such a small number of words.

    I am not sure what is the most ridiculously idiotic/lie thing in that is-

    1.You in Moscow, LOL
    2. You speaking to a former FSB/KGB officer
    3. The concept of a wakjob like yourself having a friend

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies

    Totally implausible nonsense. The implication from this fantasy that they were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?

    UPA/OUN history – Abysmal fighting skills – acquired zero reputation for fighting skill in WW2. Cowardly actions – most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly, nothing on the battlefield.
    Amusingly did not even attempt in WW2 or in the war against the Soviets ( mostly fighting their “own” people) to fight for “their” cities of Lvov, Ternopol and whatever Ivano-Frankovsk was named. No surprise in that – as they were effectively foreign cities for them , they had no knowledge of the cities to work with LOL.

    2. In a completely pointless war , that they could never win, where the Soviets had effectively given them a Ukrainian state that these homos could only have dreamed of in the 1920-30’s , where the Ukrainian population after the mass death in WW2 and destruction have no appetite for another war , where effect of the war was that bad there was zero appetite to fight against the Soviets in Romania, Hungary and Poland………the Anglo-American sewerslime managed to find some amoeba-brained bydlo deathcult sadists stupid enough and cuckhold enough to do some terrorism against the USSR ( who had just saved the world of course) for a few more years. Just like now – westerners find conveniant idiots fighting pointlessly with guaranteed mass death and kill ratio very high in favour of opposition, zero winning objective.

    3. The degeneracy of UPA banderetards homos is that big, they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka ( you can ask Mr Hack what that is) all day and night, living in hellish, unhygienic, damp, dark , extremely small space conditions, hiding all day for months, years, occasionally coming out to shoot, throw a grenade or threaten Kolkhoz workers…..before going back to gaying eachother and living an existence much worse than in the trenches, and that you would not wish on anybody. What type of freaks would do that?

    This is interesting as a Ukrop scholar like Mr Hack idealises the Zaporizhian Cossacks as an an all-male living together, all-dancing, all-gay ensemble. Every other Cossack group was family-orientated

    Current ukronazis have much of the beautiful women, that they weren’t marrying or having children with anyway – out of the country. They appear in no rush to correct this situation

    Sadist-cuckhold-homo……….the defining ideology and recurring theme of Ukrainian “nationalism” over the centuries.

    And of course, the Ukrainian, Khrushchev mass released about 200000 of them……who then immediately became willing Communist servants.
    They did cause trouble and instigated riots in the Prisons before the release – there was so much of them. Putin a man with great historical perspective, appears to be aware of this and correcting this issue by having as many of them killed as possible on the battlefield

    Anyway – with these pitiful list of limp-wristed, cuckhold activity of ukrop nationalism……it’s very unlikely anybody could have any type of respect for them.

    There was no real antagonism towards them though by Soviet people – I have met, and friends of family that were UPA -they either joked about this being UPA territory or were relaxed about openly talking about it without any anti-Soviet squealing or praise for Bandera/Shukheyevich. It’s only post-1991 ukronazi nationalism that exacerbated this issue.

    • Replies: @AP
    @Gerard1234


    Wow, slow things down
     
    Says the guy who releases a torrent of coprolalis in most of his posts.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies

    Totally implausible nonsense.
     
    His judgment on these matters is probably much better than yours.

    they [UPA] were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?
     
    They were good at assassinations, were difficult to crack and infiltrate (the White emigre organizations in contrast were much easier), were good at insurgency, and yes were ruthless and cruel.

    UPA killed Soviet general Vatutin in an ambush. He was commander of the Ukrainian Front.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vatutin#Death

    UPA also killed the defense minister of communist Poland. They were effective at kidnapping and killing Soviet officials, playing a good game of cat-and-mouse with NKVD.

    UPA/OUN history – Abysmal fighting skills – acquired zero reputation for fighting skill
     
    Soviets' own records show that the Soviets lost more personnel against OUN/UPA than the Russian state did against the Chechens (both wars combined) in the 1990s. And the Chechens fought the pathetic and shambolic 1990s Russian military while UPA were fighting the Soviet juggernaut that had defeated the Soviet military. One UPA soldier in the mountains, forests or swamps was probably worth 3 Chechens (who were rather helpless against the Soviets in the 1940s IIRC - they could only fight the pathetic 90s Russian army with any success).

    Cowardly actions – most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly
     
    Most partisan armies slaughter civilians more effectively than they do enemy military personal. The Algerian FLN, for example, killed about 25,000-30,000 French soldiers and a similar number of civilians (often brutally, by disemboweling them).

    UPA were a lot bloodier against civilians: they murdered 60,00-100,000 Polish civilians and a couple 10,000s non-Polish people, ranging from Ukrainian nationalist rivals, to Soviet sympathizers or collaborators (the latter deaths were not unjustified, though UPA also killed collaborators' families which is inexcusable). In contrast they killed "only" about 17,000 Soviet military/NKVD personnel.

    In terms of other partisan fighters: Hamas has a worse ratio of civilians killed to soldiers killed than does UPA. Soviet partisans provoked Germans into doing their dirty work. They are probably responsible for more civilian deaths than UPA.

    UPA were evil and brutal but they were disciplined and effective.

    they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka
     
    Drones prove that this is what Russian soldiers do in close quarters. Of course you would assume others do that also. You would, after all. Ukrainians aren't Russians.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mr. XYZ, @Gerard1234

  610. Bashibuzuk says:
    @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    This:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRjH_gJbUqQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzFgGn8g2Y

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiPEn2W_8oE

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    It says the Iron Maiden video is unavailable. What song was that, I used to listen to Iron Maiden in my early teens, my favourite album was Somewhere in Time, the album sleeve was so full of amusing detail. Never been much into Panthera though, found them too « mainstream », always preferred less known and more extreme metal bands:

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @LatW
    @Bashibuzuk

    You take a mortal man
    And put him in control
    Watch him become a god
    Watch people's heads a-roll

    Just like the pied piper
    Led rats through the streets
    We dance like marionettes
    Swaying to the symphony of destruction

    [..]

    The Earth starts to rumble
    World powers fall
    A warring for the heavens
    A peaceful man stands tall

    (c) Dave Mustaine

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtGdwCnBYY

    Replies: @QCIC, @Bashibuzuk

    , @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    The Iron Maiden song is "Two minutes to Midnight" which I always liked. It was sort of a peak cold war, anti-nuclear destruction song.

    It fits my theme:

    Conquest/fighting -> Nuclear war -> Cemetery

    My first album was Black Sabbath Paranoid which may be were I got my partial anti-war roots. Mostly I like stuff that is not so heavy, but I love a nice guitar riff in all forms.

    Cemetery Gates is by far the best Pantera song IMO, but I love a good rock ballad. They have heavier crunchy stuff, but not edgy.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  611. Bashibuzuk says:
    @songbird
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Have never followed Coulter closely (believe she was something of a Neocon once) but I must admit that I did enjoy that provocative rhetorical flourish.

    Am not entirely sure that the path for Euros retaking some political power lies in electing an Indian to power. But I did greatly enjoy Vivek's comments that people should check out the TickToc of Haley's daughter. For my part, I would genuinely like to see him be in a VP debate with Harris.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Vivek is a very smart guy. He’d make an excellent VP but Trump would look even more stupid by comparison. I’d like to see Tulsi as a VP, she’s a « woman of colour », a religious minority, a veteran and it might win women’s and pacifist Democrat vote. But Trump would probably choose someone else, someone who is more pleasing for the Jews.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Bashibuzuk


    But Trump would probably choose someone else, someone who is more pleasing for the Jews.
     
    You sound as if the presidential candidate is free to choose the VP candidate. Both are chosen by the people who actually wield power. BTW, the real behind-the-scenes rulers are not necessarily Jews, but necessarily the scum of the Earth.

    Ordinary people have a chance to have any say in presidential choice only when the elections go in two rounds, with the first round weeding out the most repulsive candidates. This was never the case in the US. That’s why we get to “choose” between a demented moron and a moron w/o Alzheimer’s yet again. Not to mention massive voting fraud. LOL.
  612. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @QCIC

    Zoonosis, lab leak, biological war @ China?

    Or the unspeakable biological war @ every useless eater on earth?

    I will give you mine! I vote for lab leak.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    I think it was framed as a Chinese lab leak by the people who knew perfectly fine what the guys in Wuhan BSL4 worked on. The guys who released the virus at the Military Games were obviously directed to do so by those who ended up attempting the Great Reset under the guise of the pandemic. These guys failed at their ploy only because they didn’t have yet the CBDCs in place. Next time it’ll work as intended.

    Basically, these sociopaths played and framed the Chinese and possibly collaborated with some Chinese Globalist faction. Crimson Contagion (or what was it named that Bill Gates simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak ?) is very incriminating. It is impossible that it’s a coincidence and it was before the Wuhan Military Games that predated the outbreak.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    Now see this is why I described it as unspeakable.

    Not because it is impossible. I give it P~.02. It is unspeakable because it opens a can of worms which has no bottom to it.

    Crimson Contagion was the fed's six month exercise.

    Event 201 was Bill Gates' weekend party.

    People with make work jobs (most people now) have to make up all sorts of stupid stuff to do to appear useful. I myself like to go to the gun range and make noisy holes in poster board targets. In the real world the chance that my guns and ammo will ever be of any use is virtually nil. P~.0000001.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Speaking of speculation:

    I think the ringleaders are in on it together, China with the West. This was intentionally a low lethality pathogen. Serious enough to trigger all sorts of draconian government powers which have been on the books for a long time and transfer more power to the elites. But not so serious as to get out of hand since they still need more robots. The virus sent a strong message that someone is willing to use biowarfare on a large scale even if it was mostly a scare tactic. The result made governments stronger relative to their subjects and this citizenry much more compliant. The economic stresses make CBDCs more likely and once these are in place control will be extreme.

    I think ENR mixed two conspiracy theories together. I don't know if a likely Western attack on Crimea in 2022 was directly related to COVID except that it had to wait a couple of years for the bioterrorism project to wind down. A Western-sponsored attack on Crimea would have tactically worked better in 2019 with a couple years less time for the 2015-era sanctions to help Russia rebuild. I think such an attack by the West would have been more likely to lead to Russian nuclear weapons use, but one can make a case there would be no suitable nuclear targets if the West pulled off such an attack.

    I don't know how US/Ukraine military biolabs fit into both conspiracies since I don't see a clear link between the COVID and Khokhol projects. One version is competition between two factions to make over the world. One faction is the Western post-Cold War bunch who want to play soldier and get blood on their hands. The other is the world domination biowarfare crowd who want to take over and make a better world. Once COVID was launched the soldier boys had to stand down and wait a few years. Of course it could be they are really the same team and the plan was to launch a more dangerous pathogen on Russia as the next phase of the COVID op. Based on 2019-2022 virus/mRNA results this new pathogen would not have to kill everyone, but merely be strong enough to break up the existing political structure within Russia, same as the Ukrainian "blow things up project" is supposed to do.

    I guess I could do a mash up of the two theories. Considering how guilty Nuland seemed when Congress caught her with her hand in the cookie jar, maybe a bioattack was the planned Western operation for early 2022. Maybe she was just a patsy and became scared when she realized what she was mixed up in.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  613. @Mr. Hack
    Another Russian oil refinery bombed by Ukrainian drones 1,500 kilometers away in Bashkiria. Probably just inconsequential news as attested to by the local gang of kremlin stooge high I.Q. pundits that flock to this website. Reported on 05/09/24:

    https://youtu.be/g4EUQf15HB4
    Slava Ukraini!

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    I read it on Telegram long before the Guardian were awake.

    Still, Ukraine will lose and Zelensky will either get his rewards in Florida or be terminated like the Vietnamese guy did when his use by date came up. Pity about all the dead, but they’re not his people after all.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Still, Ukraine will lose and Zelensky will either get his rewards in Florida or be terminated like the Vietnamese guy did when his use by date came up. Pity about all the dead, but they’re not his people after all.
     
    How much longer do I need to wait? I've been hearing this bogus claim for 2.5 years now, and Zelensky is still sitting put in Kyiv? And why Florida, and not France or Spain where I think that he already owns property and where his wife and kids probably already live?

    And speaking about kids, you know that their mother is a proud and 100% attractive Ukrainian woman? This notion that if you're Jewish you cannot form positive attachments to the country where you were born in and live your whole life is as worn out and old as the hills and totally stupid.

    If Zelensky is really so ultra-Jewish and incapable of relating to the Ukrainian people, don't let kremlinstoogeA123 know about this. He really does believe that Zelensky is an uber anti-semitic Jew hater. He develops this childish image of the man in almost every one of his stupid comments. He really believes just the opposite of what you do, so who is right and who is wrong? :-)

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  614. QCIC says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC

    Totally unbelievable. It is quite fantastical to suggest thus and shows that you must be free basing coke to quite a large degree to come up with such drivel. Even Professor Jannisar is having some difficulties in endorsing your thesis. :-)

    Replies: @QCIC

    I’m high on life, so no drugs required! I’m not looking for endorsements. I am theorizing (AKA speculating) since the basic facts and common explanations don’t make much sense and I don’t want to wait twenty years for the memoirs. Whatever incompetencies the Russian military may have, I believe they knew the early attack on Kiev would be a failure with painful losses.

    I think the military on all sides can hide information pretty well when required, but I agree this process is never prefect.

  615. @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    I think it was framed as a Chinese lab leak by the people who knew perfectly fine what the guys in Wuhan BSL4 worked on. The guys who released the virus at the Military Games were obviously directed to do so by those who ended up attempting the Great Reset under the guise of the pandemic. These guys failed at their ploy only because they didn’t have yet the CBDCs in place. Next time it’ll work as intended.

    Basically, these sociopaths played and framed the Chinese and possibly collaborated with some Chinese Globalist faction. Crimson Contagion (or what was it named that Bill Gates simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak ?) is very incriminating. It is impossible that it’s a coincidence and it was before the Wuhan Military Games that predated the outbreak.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

    Now see this is why I described it as unspeakable.

    Not because it is impossible. I give it P~.02. It is unspeakable because it opens a can of worms which has no bottom to it.

    Crimson Contagion was the fed’s six month exercise.

    Event 201 was Bill Gates’ weekend party.

    People with make work jobs (most people now) have to make up all sorts of stupid stuff to do to appear useful. I myself like to go to the gun range and make noisy holes in poster board targets. In the real world the chance that my guns and ammo will ever be of any use is virtually nil. P~.0000001.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Thing is they will sooner or later officially accuse the Chinese of unleashing the pandemic on the world. Given what most of us went through during the pandemic, it would lead to a massive anti-Chinese resentment. They could ask for crippling sanctions against the Chinese economy unless the Chinese compensate the whole World for the pandemic dommages.

    Perhaps the only reason why they didn’t yet unleash the propaganda effort is because it’s quite evident that the US knew perfectly well what the Wuhan virologists were at, if only because they were paid in part by the US taxpayer’s money. Also, I am nearly certain that it is just a rehearsal.

    The real thing will most probably start when the CBDC is operational worldwide. That is we still have a few years to prepare, unless they opt for a limited nuclear conflict in the Bloodlands in the meantime. Anyway, they’re too quiet as of late. Certainly cooking up something unsavoury…

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  616. @Bashibuzuk
    @songbird

    Vivek is a very smart guy. He’d make an excellent VP but Trump would look even more stupid by comparison. I’d like to see Tulsi as a VP, she’s a « woman of colour », a religious minority, a veteran and it might win women’s and pacifist Democrat vote. But Trump would probably choose someone else, someone who is more pleasing for the Jews.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    But Trump would probably choose someone else, someone who is more pleasing for the Jews.

    You sound as if the presidential candidate is free to choose the VP candidate. Both are chosen by the people who actually wield power. BTW, the real behind-the-scenes rulers are not necessarily Jews, but necessarily the scum of the Earth.

    Ordinary people have a chance to have any say in presidential choice only when the elections go in two rounds, with the first round weeding out the most repulsive candidates. This was never the case in the US. That’s why we get to “choose” between a demented moron and a moron w/o Alzheimer’s yet again. Not to mention massive voting fraud. LOL.

  617. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    Now see this is why I described it as unspeakable.

    Not because it is impossible. I give it P~.02. It is unspeakable because it opens a can of worms which has no bottom to it.

    Crimson Contagion was the fed's six month exercise.

    Event 201 was Bill Gates' weekend party.

    People with make work jobs (most people now) have to make up all sorts of stupid stuff to do to appear useful. I myself like to go to the gun range and make noisy holes in poster board targets. In the real world the chance that my guns and ammo will ever be of any use is virtually nil. P~.0000001.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Thing is they will sooner or later officially accuse the Chinese of unleashing the pandemic on the world. Given what most of us went through during the pandemic, it would lead to a massive anti-Chinese resentment. They could ask for crippling sanctions against the Chinese economy unless the Chinese compensate the whole World for the pandemic dommages.

    Perhaps the only reason why they didn’t yet unleash the propaganda effort is because it’s quite evident that the US knew perfectly well what the Wuhan virologists were at, if only because they were paid in part by the US taxpayer’s money. Also, I am nearly certain that it is just a rehearsal.

    The real thing will most probably start when the CBDC is operational worldwide. That is we still have a few years to prepare, unless they opt for a limited nuclear conflict in the Bloodlands in the meantime. Anyway, they’re too quiet as of late. Certainly cooking up something unsavoury…

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    How to continue the global market in cocaine, opium, slaves, transplant organs, suitcase nukes, and other exotic contraband we don't even know about?

    https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/05/03/the-fight-to-dethrone-the-dollar

    no paywall: https://archive.ph/CC1SZ

    Apple, google, microsoft, Warren Buffet, and the Central Banks are all sitting on mountains of cash. I have a friend with two palettes of 9mm ammunition in his basement. He is a kook.

    The last time I looked they were sold out but it looks like business is on again.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2023/12/k7-ammo-9mm-115gr-brass-ammunition-100000-round-pallet/

  618. Am shocked that AK:
    1.) Never saw Forbidden Planet until recently.
    2.) Considers it largely forgotten.

    [MORE]

    Could understand if it was Planet of the Vampires or This Island Earth or Planeta Bur. (all interesting, in their way.)

    But it is easily a top ten sci-fi movie, IMO, as well as the #1 or #2 sci-fi film of the decade. Leslie Nielson’s best film.

  619. @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    I think it was framed as a Chinese lab leak by the people who knew perfectly fine what the guys in Wuhan BSL4 worked on. The guys who released the virus at the Military Games were obviously directed to do so by those who ended up attempting the Great Reset under the guise of the pandemic. These guys failed at their ploy only because they didn’t have yet the CBDCs in place. Next time it’ll work as intended.

    Basically, these sociopaths played and framed the Chinese and possibly collaborated with some Chinese Globalist faction. Crimson Contagion (or what was it named that Bill Gates simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak ?) is very incriminating. It is impossible that it’s a coincidence and it was before the Wuhan Military Games that predated the outbreak.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @QCIC

    Speaking of speculation:

    I think the ringleaders are in on it together, China with the West. This was intentionally a low lethality pathogen. Serious enough to trigger all sorts of draconian government powers which have been on the books for a long time and transfer more power to the elites. But not so serious as to get out of hand since they still need more robots. The virus sent a strong message that someone is willing to use biowarfare on a large scale even if it was mostly a scare tactic. The result made governments stronger relative to their subjects and this citizenry much more compliant. The economic stresses make CBDCs more likely and once these are in place control will be extreme.

    I think ENR mixed two conspiracy theories together. I don’t know if a likely Western attack on Crimea in 2022 was directly related to COVID except that it had to wait a couple of years for the bioterrorism project to wind down. A Western-sponsored attack on Crimea would have tactically worked better in 2019 with a couple years less time for the 2015-era sanctions to help Russia rebuild. I think such an attack by the West would have been more likely to lead to Russian nuclear weapons use, but one can make a case there would be no suitable nuclear targets if the West pulled off such an attack.

    I don’t know how US/Ukraine military biolabs fit into both conspiracies since I don’t see a clear link between the COVID and Khokhol projects. One version is competition between two factions to make over the world. One faction is the Western post-Cold War bunch who want to play soldier and get blood on their hands. The other is the world domination biowarfare crowd who want to take over and make a better world. Once COVID was launched the soldier boys had to stand down and wait a few years. Of course it could be they are really the same team and the plan was to launch a more dangerous pathogen on Russia as the next phase of the COVID op. Based on 2019-2022 virus/mRNA results this new pathogen would not have to kill everyone, but merely be strong enough to break up the existing political structure within Russia, same as the Ukrainian “blow things up project” is supposed to do.

    I guess I could do a mash up of the two theories. Considering how guilty Nuland seemed when Congress caught her with her hand in the cookie jar, maybe a bioattack was the planned Western operation for early 2022. Maybe she was just a patsy and became scared when she realized what she was mixed up in.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC

    Covid was 10% disease and 90% psyop. Otherwise it is impossible to explain how by starting SMO in Ukraine in 2022 Putin magically cured the whole world of covid. Covid mRNA “vaccine” was 100% hoax that made some people lots of money.

    It is entirely possible that the real Western rulers will release something a lot more deadly, but it is very likely that their attempt at biological warfare will backfire. They have the means to control the majority of sheeple, but they don’t have the means to control nature.

    Replies: @Sean

  620. @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel


    it would have been much better to pursue a policy of neutrality and sober realism.
     
    Before 02/24/22 Zelensky and his inner circle of policymakers almost blithely postured that Putler would not pursue a full fledged war on Ukrainian territory. Everything that's transpired since the initial incursion has been a defensive response to the situation at hand. I suppose that in your book only full capitulation and transfer of any and all territories to Russia, without a fight, would constitute "neutrality and sober realism". That's just not how things realistically usually play out in the real world.

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mikel

    I suppose that in your book only full capitulation and transfer of any and all territories to Russia, without a fight, would constitute “neutrality and sober realism”.

    I was obviously talking about much earlier than that, in order to prevent it from ever happening. For example, when the Kiev rulers decided to put NATO in their constitution.

    Right now there are Western envoys in Georgia stoking the same animosities against the Russians that they stoked in Ukraine but the Georgian government is soberly assessing that they’re better off ignoring those recommendations. If the big bad bear does attack them one day, it’s them who are going to bear the consequences, not those Westerners, who may even decide to hold for months the massive assistance they are going to need, just like the Ukrainians have experienced.

    Irredentism is nice but in my book it’s even nicer to see your people prosper in peace. It’s your people who are dying by the thousands in the trenches right now. You can’t possibly be happy with that. Perhaps it’s not just the Russians’ natural vileness but there were some irresponsible decisions taken on your side as well? In the case of Ukraine it wasn’t even just a matter of being aware of who your neighbor is but also of building a project that all Ukrainian citizens could feel included in.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel


    I was obviously talking about much earlier than that, in order to prevent it from ever happening. For example, when the Kiev rulers decided to put NATO in their constitution.
     
    Wanting to be a part of NATO seems to be a normal thing for countries that were once under the iron boot of the Soviet Union. I would bet money that both the country that you left and the one where you live now are both NATO members. How is that working out for them?

    the massive assistance they are going to need,
     
    Seems like most everybody here thinks that Russia will be able to indefinitely fund these forever wars with no ultimate negative repercussions to its own economy. Why do you think that the Ukies have been targeting the Russian oil refineries as of late?

    Irredentism is nice but in my book it’s even nicer to see your people prosper in peace.

     

    "My people" choose not to live in peace at any cost. Freedom to be in charge of and responsible for things that go on within their own country is paramount in their minds.

    In the case of Ukraine it wasn’t even just a matter of being aware of who your neighbor is but also of building a project that all Ukrainian citizens could feel included in.

     
    Russia has already provided the opportunities for both recognition of neighborly relations and a project for including all of the citizens of Ukraine. Haven't you heard that Putler has been able to unite all Ukrainians, no matter what region that they're from or whatever language they choose to speak, more than just about anybody else?

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Mikel

  621. @Mikhail
    Timothy Snyder debunked:

    https://thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/whatever-you-have-to-tell-yourself/comment-page-7/#comment-97866

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Gerard1234

    Timothy Snyder debunked:

    The one interesting thing that this idiot “historian’ Snyder said was that Yatsenyuk , former Khokhl PM, is Jewish. The news itself not interesting because lots of Ukrops and Russians were saying he was Jewish for years………but interesting that an American historian, from nowhere, would claim is as that particular information has never been official.

    An individual being Jewish and the PM is not problematic………but a long list of scumbags who are Jews and consecutive serving in top positions in 404 leadership ,conducting anti-Russian policies – then the Jewish anti-russiain factor does become interesting.

  622. • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Mikhail

    do you have any thoughts about this? Everything I have seen indicates that it is just a diversionary attack to suck in Ukrainian reserves and that the real offensive will be launched elsewhere along the line. As best as I can tell, the short term goal seems to be to widen the front so that Russia can make full use of its manpower advantage

    Replies: @AP, @Mikhail

  623. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Speaking of speculation:

    I think the ringleaders are in on it together, China with the West. This was intentionally a low lethality pathogen. Serious enough to trigger all sorts of draconian government powers which have been on the books for a long time and transfer more power to the elites. But not so serious as to get out of hand since they still need more robots. The virus sent a strong message that someone is willing to use biowarfare on a large scale even if it was mostly a scare tactic. The result made governments stronger relative to their subjects and this citizenry much more compliant. The economic stresses make CBDCs more likely and once these are in place control will be extreme.

    I think ENR mixed two conspiracy theories together. I don't know if a likely Western attack on Crimea in 2022 was directly related to COVID except that it had to wait a couple of years for the bioterrorism project to wind down. A Western-sponsored attack on Crimea would have tactically worked better in 2019 with a couple years less time for the 2015-era sanctions to help Russia rebuild. I think such an attack by the West would have been more likely to lead to Russian nuclear weapons use, but one can make a case there would be no suitable nuclear targets if the West pulled off such an attack.

    I don't know how US/Ukraine military biolabs fit into both conspiracies since I don't see a clear link between the COVID and Khokhol projects. One version is competition between two factions to make over the world. One faction is the Western post-Cold War bunch who want to play soldier and get blood on their hands. The other is the world domination biowarfare crowd who want to take over and make a better world. Once COVID was launched the soldier boys had to stand down and wait a few years. Of course it could be they are really the same team and the plan was to launch a more dangerous pathogen on Russia as the next phase of the COVID op. Based on 2019-2022 virus/mRNA results this new pathogen would not have to kill everyone, but merely be strong enough to break up the existing political structure within Russia, same as the Ukrainian "blow things up project" is supposed to do.

    I guess I could do a mash up of the two theories. Considering how guilty Nuland seemed when Congress caught her with her hand in the cookie jar, maybe a bioattack was the planned Western operation for early 2022. Maybe she was just a patsy and became scared when she realized what she was mixed up in.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    Covid was 10% disease and 90% psyop. Otherwise it is impossible to explain how by starting SMO in Ukraine in 2022 Putin magically cured the whole world of covid. Covid mRNA “vaccine” was 100% hoax that made some people lots of money.

    It is entirely possible that the real Western rulers will release something a lot more deadly, but it is very likely that their attempt at biological warfare will backfire. They have the means to control the majority of sheeple, but they don’t have the means to control nature.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @AnonfromTN

    Mainstream news sources, especially social media companies' original position (backed by major social media bans on mentioning the WLLH) on the Wuhan Laboratory Leak Hypothesis was it had been fact checked and found to be politically motivated disinformation. Despite no further substantive information emerging since, of late the bulk of the media have in effect quietly withdrawn their purportedly settled 'the Covid pandemic was not caused by a Wuhan lab leak' verdict of years ago.

    I don't like Jon Stewart, but he hit the nail on the head broadcasting the plain truth about the Wuhan lab leak theory: denial of the existence of excellent circumstantial evidence for it is like rejecting the idea that a 'chocolatey goodness outbreak' in Hershey, Pennsylvania, could have had anything to do with the eponymous confectionary company based there.

  624. @Mr. Hack
    @Mr. Hack

    Slight correction:

    You replied back that the 2.5 week timeframe was of dubious origin, pointing out that perhaps 2.5 days might have been more accurate. Fine, I’ll concede this point to you,

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Beckow

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Sher Singh

    https://media.alvinology.com/uploads/2016/04/bluemangroup.jpg

    Replies: @Sher Singh

  625. Are those elderly people who attacked the Magna Carta on social media?

    • Replies: @songbird
    @songbird

    Did not realize they were both women and one a retired Anglican priest. Wonder if they have any grandchildren or are both lesbos.

    It is curious because one doesn't usually associate these things with the elderly. Maybe, they were selected for the job, since they are old.

    https://anglican.ink/2024/05/10/retired-priest-attempts-to-damage-the-magna-carta/

  626. Am enjoying everyone kicking Huberman now. Makes me want to join in myself, but I really haven’t paid enough attention to him to understand how he differs from JBP.

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    The salient point to me (after seeing dozens of shows and a half dozen of him as guest on other shows):

    he has never uttered one word that I have heard about the corona virus or the experimental gene medicine. What is going on with that?

    I cannot possibly be the only human on the internet who has noticed this.

    He sure would make a handy sacrifice for a Rene Girard scapegoat posse if such things really existed. By the way Rene Girard is an idiot of a bible scholar. Andrew Huberman has also never said anything I have heard about Peter Thiel's thing for teenagers' blood. Blood is a bio-hazardous material if you never have taken a corporate safety training. Same as feces.


    When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
     
    Jonathan Swift

    Replies: @songbird

  627. @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    I suppose that in your book only full capitulation and transfer of any and all territories to Russia, without a fight, would constitute “neutrality and sober realism”.
     
    I was obviously talking about much earlier than that, in order to prevent it from ever happening. For example, when the Kiev rulers decided to put NATO in their constitution.

    Right now there are Western envoys in Georgia stoking the same animosities against the Russians that they stoked in Ukraine but the Georgian government is soberly assessing that they're better off ignoring those recommendations. If the big bad bear does attack them one day, it's them who are going to bear the consequences, not those Westerners, who may even decide to hold for months the massive assistance they are going to need, just like the Ukrainians have experienced.

    Irredentism is nice but in my book it's even nicer to see your people prosper in peace. It's your people who are dying by the thousands in the trenches right now. You can't possibly be happy with that. Perhaps it's not just the Russians' natural vileness but there were some irresponsible decisions taken on your side as well? In the case of Ukraine it wasn't even just a matter of being aware of who your neighbor is but also of building a project that all Ukrainian citizens could feel included in.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I was obviously talking about much earlier than that, in order to prevent it from ever happening. For example, when the Kiev rulers decided to put NATO in their constitution.

    Wanting to be a part of NATO seems to be a normal thing for countries that were once under the iron boot of the Soviet Union. I would bet money that both the country that you left and the one where you live now are both NATO members. How is that working out for them?

    the massive assistance they are going to need,

    Seems like most everybody here thinks that Russia will be able to indefinitely fund these forever wars with no ultimate negative repercussions to its own economy. Why do you think that the Ukies have been targeting the Russian oil refineries as of late?

    Irredentism is nice but in my book it’s even nicer to see your people prosper in peace.

    “My people” choose not to live in peace at any cost. Freedom to be in charge of and responsible for things that go on within their own country is paramount in their minds.

    In the case of Ukraine it wasn’t even just a matter of being aware of who your neighbor is but also of building a project that all Ukrainian citizens could feel included in.

    Russia has already provided the opportunities for both recognition of neighborly relations and a project for including all of the citizens of Ukraine. Haven’t you heard that Putler has been able to unite all Ukrainians, no matter what region that they’re from or whatever language they choose to speak, more than just about anybody else?

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @Mr. Hack


    Wanting to be a part of NATO seems to be a normal thing for countries that were once under the iron boot of the Soviet Union.
     
    Cretinous as always Hack. If Trump was smart ( which he is not) and attempted again to simulate being pro-Russian ( which he certainly is not) for an election campaign and presidency .......then he should make a policy that the BS "2% of GDP defence spending per member" should actually be 3% of GDP as just RETAINER FEE to the US, with the rest spent on their own defence commitments and buying US weapons be separate from the retainer fee.

    That would expose the myths of how much these parasites and prostitutes "want" to be in NATO you idiot.

    To be even more sensible he should exempt the non-European members (like South Korea,Japan and Australia) from it.

    If 3% (stopping it at 50 billion maximum for the important countries) , then it would expose just how much Polish and Baltic scum are falsely inflating their GDP numbers, so the net effect would be the 3% is what 2% is now.

    Even the average lazy, fat American would immediately accept the idea that 3% of GDP retainer fee plus extras is financially sensible and justice for their donations ( mostly suicidal loans and buying up much of 404), and the high risk to the US from their actions against Russia.

    Polish Nazis paying the US 15-20 billion USD minimum each year for the next 10 years , so that the US can (attempt) to stop Russia from flattening Poland, is very fair in view of trillions of dollars damage Russia can do.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    , @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack

    You're just refusing to understand anything of what I'm saying.

    I do understand why Ukraine's military situation improves being in NATO. Everybody understands that. There is no country on this planet whose security doesn't improve dramatically by joining NATO, from South Sudan to Bolivia. But the question is how does global security and the security of the other members of NATO improve by expanding to those countries?

    Everybody with a brain in the US seems to be coming around to the idea that NATO's expansion after the fall of the USSR was a mistake. Here's none other than Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary company Blackwater, attacking that neocon insanity, among others:

    https://im1776.com/too-big-to-win/

    I'm pretty sure that there are people in the current administration holding that kind of views too. Biden was the one who ordered the US withdrawal from Afghanistan after all, and he looks ambivalent about Israel. Obama's administration, that he was a part of, wasn't particularly bellicose against Russia. They did send Nuland to encourage the anti-Russians in Kiev but, as we saw with Trump, this type of thing is often led by the inertia of the permanent bureaucracy entrenched in DC, who hold tremendous power.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  628. @songbird
    Am enjoying everyone kicking Huberman now. Makes me want to join in myself, but I really haven't paid enough attention to him to understand how he differs from JBP.

    https://twitter.com/MatthewBJane/status/1788661513038729403
    https://twitter.com/BronskiJoseph/status/1788603297475039539

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    The salient point to me (after seeing dozens of shows and a half dozen of him as guest on other shows):

    he has never uttered one word that I have heard about the corona virus or the experimental gene medicine. What is going on with that?

    I cannot possibly be the only human on the internet who has noticed this.

    He sure would make a handy sacrifice for a Rene Girard scapegoat posse if such things really existed. By the way Rene Girard is an idiot of a bible scholar. Andrew Huberman has also never said anything I have heard about Peter Thiel’s thing for teenagers’ blood. Blood is a bio-hazardous material if you never have taken a corporate safety training. Same as feces.

    When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

    Jonathan Swift

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    He sure would make a handy sacrifice for a Rene Girard scapegoat posse
     
    Clifford D. Simak, who was famous for his pastoral themes, had the idea that every village and town of the future would have a drunk or hobo that was played by an android, which people could insult or gossip about. That this android would serve to unite and elevate everyone else.

    Celebrities seem to fulfill this function, on the internet.

    Thiel’s thing for teenagers’ blood

     

    Don't forget all those middle-aged women on Epstein's island.

    Heard this one quoted from just today:

    The exact quote from Jonathan Swift's satirical poem "On Poetry: A Rhapsody" is:

    So, naturalists observe, a flea
    Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
    And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
    And so proceed ad infinitum.

    This witty passage uses the metaphor of fleas on fleas to illustrate the concept of an infinite hierarchy. It suggests that no matter how small or insignificant you think you are, there's always someone "smaller" who might have power over you.
     
  629. AP says:
    @Beckow
    @AP

    Ok...are you going bonkers again?

    Let's see: do English have any victories since it was "Britain"? There were plenty of Scots and Irish. French with Napoleon? (hint: he was a Corsican of Italian heritage). Or your favorite Habsburgs?

    Russia won WW2. Period. The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians, don't even claim it and are very proud so many of them fought with the Nazis. So who? Armenians, Kazakhs? Soviet is not a nation, it is a name for an ideology. You know that, or do you?

    You are one weird and bitter guy...

    Replies: @LatW, @AP

    Let’s see: do English have any victories since it was “Britain”?

    English were not only 50% of Britain, but yes after Scotland was integrated these are referred to as British not English victories. The main Allies of World War II are generally considered to be Britain, US, and France. Not England.

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/big-three#:~:text=In%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,the%20war%20should%20be%20fought.

    In World War II, the three great Allied powers—Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/axis-powers-in-world-war-ii

    In English, it’s almost always referred to as Britain (or UK), not England. England is only a part of Britain. Because that is what the country is.

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

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain

    Does the deficient Slovak education system confuse the two and refer to Britain as England?

    French with Napoleon?

    It was officially called the Empire Français

    Russia won WW2.

    A country that included Russian people and the territory of Russia. The Russian state was destroyed in 1917-1920. Its remaining citizens were in exile, and often sided with the Germans in that war.

    The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians, don’t even claim it

    Millions of Ukrainians in the Soviet Army were necessary for the Soviet victory. Many of their descendants are fighting Russia now.

    Soviet is not a nation

    It was as much of a country as Britain. Or Austria-Hungary. This was the entity that fought the Nazis. Not Russia, which the Soviets destroyed.

    The remaining Russians tended to side with the Germans or were neutral.

    https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/publication/8216a78c-d619-40be-8cfd-8816dbf27f73

    “The main organisation that supplied volunteers from the émigré milieu for the Wehrmacht was the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). The majority of officers held ‘defeatist’ views, which entailed continuing the struggle against the Bolsheviks by any means necessary, even by enlisting in a foreign army… the vanquished side attempted to ‘replay’ the Russian Civil War against the background of the new world conflict. The conservative worldview of former Russian officers who went to the USSR is explained and analysed within the context of the German occupation policies. The émigré volunteers who served in the Wehrmacht were aligned with German anti-Bolshevism and anti-Semitic objectives. Yet, unlike other foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht, they considered themselves Russian nationalists and ignored the anti-Slavic racial dimension to German policy. The émigrés generally empathised with the local population (defined as Orthodox Russians and excluding Russian Jews) and sought to aid them. The exiles mostly understood their role as that of a mediator between the occupants and the occupied. After the war, ROVS members redefined their role in the war as something separate from Nazi ideology. Émigré volunteers were thoroughly distinct from all the other foreign contingents: if the latter fought against ‘Russian Bolshevism’ and Russians per se, the former were heavily invested in the illusion that they could separate the two and, with the Germans as their allies, achieve an independent, nationalistic Russia.”

    :::::::::::::::::

    So Russians (among others in the Soviet military) defeated the Germans. Russia did not.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AP

    You try way too hard to somehow justify your deep biases. A weird thing to do. If you hate Russia so much just own up to it, it is not forbidden. These days it is encouraged in the freedom-loving West.

    Soviet is not a nationality. Period. You can blabber and try to explain away Britain but it is an ethnic designation: British. WW2 was won by Russia with her ethnic allies - including the normal Ukrainians who were a huge majority at that time. Germany also had many ethnic allies: Italians, Romanians, Finns, Magyars...that doesn't make the defeat any less German.

    Objectively speaking, Nazi Germany had almost all of Europe on its side when they attacked Russia in 1941 - many nations sent armies to join the Nazis, many others armed them...including Sweden. And they lost badly. As the loss became obvious some of the allies started to peel off, even change sides. But that can't change the reality.

    But due to your obsessive bias you can't accept anything that is positive about Russia, so you will repeat the embarrassing autistic nonsense. Until you lose the war. Then you will probably claim that a "loss is not a loss because"...I am sure you will come up something. Like it didn't happen in 2 weeks, or "Finland is in Nato!"...you do realize that looks like a mental palliative?

    Replies: @AP

  630. LatW says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    It says the Iron Maiden video is unavailable. What song was that, I used to listen to Iron Maiden in my early teens, my favourite album was Somewhere in Time, the album sleeve was so full of amusing detail. Never been much into Panthera though, found them too « mainstream », always preferred less known and more extreme metal bands:

    https://youtu.be/s4wg2eBIvRk?feature=shared

    https://youtu.be/a6SKIXaEROI?feature=shared

    https://youtu.be/CjP2HZ4-5ps?feature=shared

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

    You take a mortal man
    And put him in control
    Watch him become a god
    Watch people’s heads a-roll

    Just like the pied piper
    Led rats through the streets
    We dance like marionettes
    Swaying to the symphony of destruction

    [..]

    The Earth starts to rumble
    World powers fall
    A warring for the heavens
    A peaceful man stands tall

    (c) Dave Mustaine

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @LatW

    I like some Megadeath songs including this one but don't listen to them very often, they don't suit my positive side or maybe they feed the negative side. I think Dave has a very good bead on the anger and meaness in men's souls which brings so much pain and suffering.

    A Tout le Monde is a great song but too sad.

    Replies: @LatW

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    https://youtu.be/UKyM3bofM8M?si=T10Wojl_jW5NJ7P7



    https://youtu.be/3LJ_Lo2dok4?si=DOzbwPjyIqbCVSpP

    https://youtu.be/2gJ1oPXiBw0?si=44cD9ko_fY6Ds5xU

    https://youtu.be/L2XNN0Yt6D8?si=fw39HSdkZRZaaGZ9

    The enemy is not who you think it is.

  631. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    The salient point to me (after seeing dozens of shows and a half dozen of him as guest on other shows):

    he has never uttered one word that I have heard about the corona virus or the experimental gene medicine. What is going on with that?

    I cannot possibly be the only human on the internet who has noticed this.

    He sure would make a handy sacrifice for a Rene Girard scapegoat posse if such things really existed. By the way Rene Girard is an idiot of a bible scholar. Andrew Huberman has also never said anything I have heard about Peter Thiel's thing for teenagers' blood. Blood is a bio-hazardous material if you never have taken a corporate safety training. Same as feces.


    When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
     
    Jonathan Swift

    Replies: @songbird

    He sure would make a handy sacrifice for a Rene Girard scapegoat posse

    Clifford D. Simak, who was famous for his pastoral themes, had the idea that every village and town of the future would have a drunk or hobo that was played by an android, which people could insult or gossip about. That this android would serve to unite and elevate everyone else.

    Celebrities seem to fulfill this function, on the internet.

    Thiel’s thing for teenagers’ blood

    Don’t forget all those middle-aged women on Epstein’s island.

    Heard this one quoted from just today:

    The exact quote from Jonathan Swift’s satirical poem “On Poetry: A Rhapsody” is:

    So, naturalists observe, a flea
    Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
    And these have smaller still to bite ’em,
    And so proceed ad infinitum.

    This witty passage uses the metaphor of fleas on fleas to illustrate the concept of an infinite hierarchy. It suggests that no matter how small or insignificant you think you are, there’s always someone “smaller” who might have power over you.

  632. QCIC says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    It says the Iron Maiden video is unavailable. What song was that, I used to listen to Iron Maiden in my early teens, my favourite album was Somewhere in Time, the album sleeve was so full of amusing detail. Never been much into Panthera though, found them too « mainstream », always preferred less known and more extreme metal bands:

    https://youtu.be/s4wg2eBIvRk?feature=shared

    https://youtu.be/a6SKIXaEROI?feature=shared

    https://youtu.be/CjP2HZ4-5ps?feature=shared

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

    The Iron Maiden song is “Two minutes to Midnight” which I always liked. It was sort of a peak cold war, anti-nuclear destruction song.

    It fits my theme:

    Conquest/fighting -> Nuclear war -> Cemetery

    My first album was Black Sabbath Paranoid which may be were I got my partial anti-war roots. Mostly I like stuff that is not so heavy, but I love a nice guitar riff in all forms.

    Cemetery Gates is by far the best Pantera song IMO, but I love a good rock ballad. They have heavier crunchy stuff, but not edgy.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @QCIC


    My first album was Black Sabbath Paranoid which may be were I got my partial anti-war roots.
     
    The first four Black Sabbath albums are epic. Last report from Osborne is he has never been so high in his life and all of his drugs are now doctor prescriptions.
  633. Sanjay Gupta blaming pork for RFK Jr.’s brain worm strikes me as wokeness. How many tropical countries has he visited?

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  634. QCIC says:
    @LatW
    @Bashibuzuk

    You take a mortal man
    And put him in control
    Watch him become a god
    Watch people's heads a-roll

    Just like the pied piper
    Led rats through the streets
    We dance like marionettes
    Swaying to the symphony of destruction

    [..]

    The Earth starts to rumble
    World powers fall
    A warring for the heavens
    A peaceful man stands tall

    (c) Dave Mustaine

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtGdwCnBYY

    Replies: @QCIC, @Bashibuzuk

    I like some Megadeath songs including this one but don’t listen to them very often, they don’t suit my positive side or maybe they feed the negative side. I think Dave has a very good bead on the anger and meaness in men’s souls which brings so much pain and suffering.

    A Tout le Monde is a great song but too sad.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @QCIC


    I like some Megadeath songs including this one but don’t listen to them very often
     
    Hahaha, me neither, it's just something from my teenage years that my older friends played, one of them could play the riff. My weakness though are laconic verses - I can spend hours reading and enjoying ornate lyrics, but at the end of the day what really gets me is these short punchy sentences that encompass so much.

    Cemetary Gates is good, especially because it is melodic and a combination of various influences that you can hear, such as from the old school British metal with a new kind of interpretation, his vocals, for an untrained / unprofessional voice, are good - it's a powerful melody where he goes from an innocent sounding clean vocal into more rough type of singing and then goes almost into a falsetto. For an unprofessional singer, this is well done and quite beautiful and strong. Btw, he's part Italian - may be Irish Italian mix. And he used to be quite hot as a young man. Phil Anselmo is his name.

    You Irish, by any chance?

    Re: Black Sabbath, my dad used to play it sometimes, along with Led Zep (favorite song: The Immigrant Song (lyrics mention Valhalla)). One of the phrases I heard my dad say several times in my life: "Thankfully, there is no war during my time" and "Thankfully, I've never seen famine in my lifetime". This was clearly affected by what he had heard from my grandfather (although we did not have real famine like in Ukraine), when my father uttered these phrases - sometimes at a friends & family gathering by a richly laid out dining table - nobody paid attention to his words... but I remember those words.

    Speaking of Ozzy, his guitarist was one of the reasons I fell in love with America. Great guitarist with a melancholic, deep vocal. Zakk Wylde. Kind of a folkish & rock ballad mix. West Coast impressions. The eagle flies over rich meadows and woods... Loved his Book of Shadows as a young girl.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhW_r65dZg&list=PLxJJcP5YX06eCmpQk26HmpMV6uE4oF0qH

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

  635. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    The Iron Maiden song is "Two minutes to Midnight" which I always liked. It was sort of a peak cold war, anti-nuclear destruction song.

    It fits my theme:

    Conquest/fighting -> Nuclear war -> Cemetery

    My first album was Black Sabbath Paranoid which may be were I got my partial anti-war roots. Mostly I like stuff that is not so heavy, but I love a nice guitar riff in all forms.

    Cemetery Gates is by far the best Pantera song IMO, but I love a good rock ballad. They have heavier crunchy stuff, but not edgy.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    My first album was Black Sabbath Paranoid which may be were I got my partial anti-war roots.

    The first four Black Sabbath albums are epic. Last report from Osborne is he has never been so high in his life and all of his drugs are now doctor prescriptions.

  636. @Sher Singh
    @Mr. Hack

    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784692955176894484/1238579939528413224/IMG_2919.png?ex=663fccf5&is=663e7b75&hm=a84d4d600811428757e8b4f8d49b940a60e7881ab927c0e30e42f3b9b4e6d7d3&

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    • Replies: @Sher Singh
    @Mr. Hack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckup156qwI

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @QCIC

  637. LatW says:
    @QCIC
    @LatW

    I like some Megadeath songs including this one but don't listen to them very often, they don't suit my positive side or maybe they feed the negative side. I think Dave has a very good bead on the anger and meaness in men's souls which brings so much pain and suffering.

    A Tout le Monde is a great song but too sad.

    Replies: @LatW

    I like some Megadeath songs including this one but don’t listen to them very often

    Hahaha, me neither, it’s just something from my teenage years that my older friends played, one of them could play the riff. My weakness though are laconic verses – I can spend hours reading and enjoying ornate lyrics, but at the end of the day what really gets me is these short punchy sentences that encompass so much.

    [MORE]

    Cemetary Gates is good, especially because it is melodic and a combination of various influences that you can hear, such as from the old school British metal with a new kind of interpretation, his vocals, for an untrained / unprofessional voice, are good – it’s a powerful melody where he goes from an innocent sounding clean vocal into more rough type of singing and then goes almost into a falsetto. For an unprofessional singer, this is well done and quite beautiful and strong. Btw, he’s part Italian – may be Irish Italian mix. And he used to be quite hot as a young man. Phil Anselmo is his name.

    You Irish, by any chance?

    Re: Black Sabbath, my dad used to play it sometimes, along with Led Zep (favorite song: The Immigrant Song (lyrics mention Valhalla)). One of the phrases I heard my dad say several times in my life: “Thankfully, there is no war during my time” and “Thankfully, I’ve never seen famine in my lifetime”. This was clearly affected by what he had heard from my grandfather (although we did not have real famine like in Ukraine), when my father uttered these phrases – sometimes at a friends & family gathering by a richly laid out dining table – nobody paid attention to his words… but I remember those words.

    Speaking of Ozzy, his guitarist was one of the reasons I fell in love with America. Great guitarist with a melancholic, deep vocal. Zakk Wylde. Kind of a folkish & rock ballad mix. West Coast impressions. The eagle flies over rich meadows and woods… Loved his Book of Shadows as a young girl.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @LatW

    Favorite piece from that album:

    You couldn't feel the sunlight upon your face
    Your little world
    A little out of place
    You couldn't hear the ocean
    You couldn't hear the waves
    I know you meant to come back
    I know you meant to stay
    All you touched
    All you know
    All you loved - yeah...
    Well I can see you smile
    Can you see my tears?
    I reach to hold you
    But you ain't there
    You left a hole so big lord, Beyond repair
    I'll try to find forgiveness in talkin' what
    Will never share
    All you touched
    All you know
    All you loved
    You just left 'em with nothing to say
    You're just throwin' it all away
    No you didn't care to see the light of day
    You're just throwin' it all away
    Like the sand upon the beach
    Your crashing waves came took you away

    (c) Zakk Wylde

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VIWPsugr2k

    , @QCIC
    @LatW

    You hit a lot of fun points!

    Phil is a good singer. There is a neat little video by "Rebecca Vocal Athlete" where she does a reaction to this song. Later he was in Down which is slow grind stuff. That band is connected to Corrosion of Conformity which did the killer album King of the Rotten, definitely on my desert island list.

    The Immigrant Song is a classic. I have some distant Irish on one side but don't think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish. My favorite Zep song is The Rover.

    Zak is a good guitarist. I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride, have never heard the album you mentioned. Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.

    Replies: @QCIC, @LatW, @LatW, @LatW

  638. LatW says:
    @LatW
    @QCIC


    I like some Megadeath songs including this one but don’t listen to them very often
     
    Hahaha, me neither, it's just something from my teenage years that my older friends played, one of them could play the riff. My weakness though are laconic verses - I can spend hours reading and enjoying ornate lyrics, but at the end of the day what really gets me is these short punchy sentences that encompass so much.

    Cemetary Gates is good, especially because it is melodic and a combination of various influences that you can hear, such as from the old school British metal with a new kind of interpretation, his vocals, for an untrained / unprofessional voice, are good - it's a powerful melody where he goes from an innocent sounding clean vocal into more rough type of singing and then goes almost into a falsetto. For an unprofessional singer, this is well done and quite beautiful and strong. Btw, he's part Italian - may be Irish Italian mix. And he used to be quite hot as a young man. Phil Anselmo is his name.

    You Irish, by any chance?

    Re: Black Sabbath, my dad used to play it sometimes, along with Led Zep (favorite song: The Immigrant Song (lyrics mention Valhalla)). One of the phrases I heard my dad say several times in my life: "Thankfully, there is no war during my time" and "Thankfully, I've never seen famine in my lifetime". This was clearly affected by what he had heard from my grandfather (although we did not have real famine like in Ukraine), when my father uttered these phrases - sometimes at a friends & family gathering by a richly laid out dining table - nobody paid attention to his words... but I remember those words.

    Speaking of Ozzy, his guitarist was one of the reasons I fell in love with America. Great guitarist with a melancholic, deep vocal. Zakk Wylde. Kind of a folkish & rock ballad mix. West Coast impressions. The eagle flies over rich meadows and woods... Loved his Book of Shadows as a young girl.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhW_r65dZg&list=PLxJJcP5YX06eCmpQk26HmpMV6uE4oF0qH

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

    Favorite piece from that album:

    You couldn’t feel the sunlight upon your face
    Your little world
    A little out of place
    You couldn’t hear the ocean
    You couldn’t hear the waves
    I know you meant to come back
    I know you meant to stay
    All you touched
    All you know
    All you loved – yeah…
    Well I can see you smile
    Can you see my tears?
    I reach to hold you
    But you ain’t there
    You left a hole so big lord, Beyond repair
    I’ll try to find forgiveness in talkin’ what
    Will never share
    All you touched
    All you know
    All you loved
    You just left ’em with nothing to say
    You’re just throwin’ it all away
    No you didn’t care to see the light of day
    You’re just throwin’ it all away
    Like the sand upon the beach
    Your crashing waves came took you away

    (c) Zakk Wylde

  639. QCIC says:
    @LatW
    @QCIC


    I like some Megadeath songs including this one but don’t listen to them very often
     
    Hahaha, me neither, it's just something from my teenage years that my older friends played, one of them could play the riff. My weakness though are laconic verses - I can spend hours reading and enjoying ornate lyrics, but at the end of the day what really gets me is these short punchy sentences that encompass so much.

    Cemetary Gates is good, especially because it is melodic and a combination of various influences that you can hear, such as from the old school British metal with a new kind of interpretation, his vocals, for an untrained / unprofessional voice, are good - it's a powerful melody where he goes from an innocent sounding clean vocal into more rough type of singing and then goes almost into a falsetto. For an unprofessional singer, this is well done and quite beautiful and strong. Btw, he's part Italian - may be Irish Italian mix. And he used to be quite hot as a young man. Phil Anselmo is his name.

    You Irish, by any chance?

    Re: Black Sabbath, my dad used to play it sometimes, along with Led Zep (favorite song: The Immigrant Song (lyrics mention Valhalla)). One of the phrases I heard my dad say several times in my life: "Thankfully, there is no war during my time" and "Thankfully, I've never seen famine in my lifetime". This was clearly affected by what he had heard from my grandfather (although we did not have real famine like in Ukraine), when my father uttered these phrases - sometimes at a friends & family gathering by a richly laid out dining table - nobody paid attention to his words... but I remember those words.

    Speaking of Ozzy, his guitarist was one of the reasons I fell in love with America. Great guitarist with a melancholic, deep vocal. Zakk Wylde. Kind of a folkish & rock ballad mix. West Coast impressions. The eagle flies over rich meadows and woods... Loved his Book of Shadows as a young girl.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhW_r65dZg&list=PLxJJcP5YX06eCmpQk26HmpMV6uE4oF0qH

    Replies: @LatW, @QCIC

    You hit a lot of fun points!

    Phil is a good singer. There is a neat little video by “Rebecca Vocal Athlete” where she does a reaction to this song. Later he was in Down which is slow grind stuff. That band is connected to Corrosion of Conformity which did the killer album King of the Rotten, definitely on my desert island list.

    The Immigrant Song is a classic. I have some distant Irish on one side but don’t think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish. My favorite Zep song is The Rover.

    Zak is a good guitarist. I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride, have never heard the album you mentioned. Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @QCIC

    The CoC album is actually called Wiseblood.

    , @LatW
    @QCIC

    My feeling is that Phil was under appreciated (but he didn't develop his style further). As to his vocals, I absolutely love the "boyish masculine I don't care about anything" type of vocal sometimes. I know it's totally unrefined, but it's funny and punkish.

    Now that I mentioned that, I just remembered another one from the 90s - Cats in the Cradle by Ugly Kid Joe, remember that I really enjoyed that uninhibited, untrained but naturally strong "boyish turned to masculine" vocal. It's a sad song, which he was able to transcend a little. Was very enjoyable and uplifting back in the day (and ofc a great song for parents).


    I have some distant Irish on one side but don’t think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish.
     
    Scots Irish is very close to Irish. They just travelled across the country and were assimilated.

    I first noticed Zakk Wylde in the No More Tears solo... oh yeah. Then I was like "Oh, is this what you're gonna do..?" Only Celtic guys are capable of that kind of thing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32yjbCSVpU

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @LatW
    @QCIC


    Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.
     
    Thanks for mentioning, haven't heard of him. Will check him out. I know before Zakk there was Randy Rhoads. They overlap in styles, Zakk was influenced by southern fried and blues and that type of traditional music, but it was cool that he developed into more of a metal guitarist (and his own persona). He's quite versatile if you listen to all of his albums, he plays a piano, too. You can hear from his solos that the origins are quite bluesy. But I love how he does melancholic ones, and then adds a lot of rhythm and heaviness. What I love about him is that, while he is quite technical, the emotion comes first.
    , @LatW
    @QCIC


    I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride
     
    Haven't heard the whole album, but was listening to Funeral Bells about a year ago - when I was going out for a run on a sunny day, it was super energizing. So listening to it several times. Loved the vocal. This is a relatively recent album of his. He's quite mature now, btw, so these are probably the last heavy ones he's done, he's doing beautiful slow piano songs now.

    have never heard the album you mentioned
     
    That's because it's an old solo album from the 90s. But I first heard it in early 2000s. This wouldn't be very commercial, I think it's something he wrote for himself that wasn't supposed to become popular but it was well produced.
  640. @QCIC
    @LatW

    You hit a lot of fun points!

    Phil is a good singer. There is a neat little video by "Rebecca Vocal Athlete" where she does a reaction to this song. Later he was in Down which is slow grind stuff. That band is connected to Corrosion of Conformity which did the killer album King of the Rotten, definitely on my desert island list.

    The Immigrant Song is a classic. I have some distant Irish on one side but don't think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish. My favorite Zep song is The Rover.

    Zak is a good guitarist. I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride, have never heard the album you mentioned. Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.

    Replies: @QCIC, @LatW, @LatW, @LatW

    The CoC album is actually called Wiseblood.

  641. LatW says:
    @QCIC
    @LatW

    You hit a lot of fun points!

    Phil is a good singer. There is a neat little video by "Rebecca Vocal Athlete" where she does a reaction to this song. Later he was in Down which is slow grind stuff. That band is connected to Corrosion of Conformity which did the killer album King of the Rotten, definitely on my desert island list.

    The Immigrant Song is a classic. I have some distant Irish on one side but don't think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish. My favorite Zep song is The Rover.

    Zak is a good guitarist. I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride, have never heard the album you mentioned. Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.

    Replies: @QCIC, @LatW, @LatW, @LatW

    My feeling is that Phil was under appreciated (but he didn’t develop his style further). As to his vocals, I absolutely love the “boyish masculine I don’t care about anything” type of vocal sometimes. I know it’s totally unrefined, but it’s funny and punkish.

    Now that I mentioned that, I just remembered another one from the 90s – Cats in the Cradle by Ugly Kid Joe, remember that I really enjoyed that uninhibited, untrained but naturally strong “boyish turned to masculine” vocal. It’s a sad song, which he was able to transcend a little. Was very enjoyable and uplifting back in the day (and ofc a great song for parents).

    I have some distant Irish on one side but don’t think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish.

    Scots Irish is very close to Irish. They just travelled across the country and were assimilated.

    I first noticed Zakk Wylde in the No More Tears solo… oh yeah. Then I was like “Oh, is this what you’re gonna do..?” Only Celtic guys are capable of that kind of thing.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @LatW

    I like Ugly Kid Joe and think they are underrated. When I was a kid the original pop version of this song was very popular. It has a great message. I was thrown for a loop when I first heard this nice rockish version of it. I really like some of their harder songs.

  642. LatW says:
    @QCIC
    @LatW

    You hit a lot of fun points!

    Phil is a good singer. There is a neat little video by "Rebecca Vocal Athlete" where she does a reaction to this song. Later he was in Down which is slow grind stuff. That band is connected to Corrosion of Conformity which did the killer album King of the Rotten, definitely on my desert island list.

    The Immigrant Song is a classic. I have some distant Irish on one side but don't think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish. My favorite Zep song is The Rover.

    Zak is a good guitarist. I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride, have never heard the album you mentioned. Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.

    Replies: @QCIC, @LatW, @LatW, @LatW

    Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.

    Thanks for mentioning, haven’t heard of him. Will check him out. I know before Zakk there was Randy Rhoads. They overlap in styles, Zakk was influenced by southern fried and blues and that type of traditional music, but it was cool that he developed into more of a metal guitarist (and his own persona). He’s quite versatile if you listen to all of his albums, he plays a piano, too. You can hear from his solos that the origins are quite bluesy. But I love how he does melancholic ones, and then adds a lot of rhythm and heaviness. What I love about him is that, while he is quite technical, the emotion comes first.

  643. LatW says:
    @QCIC
    @LatW

    You hit a lot of fun points!

    Phil is a good singer. There is a neat little video by "Rebecca Vocal Athlete" where she does a reaction to this song. Later he was in Down which is slow grind stuff. That band is connected to Corrosion of Conformity which did the killer album King of the Rotten, definitely on my desert island list.

    The Immigrant Song is a classic. I have some distant Irish on one side but don't think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish. My favorite Zep song is The Rover.

    Zak is a good guitarist. I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride, have never heard the album you mentioned. Picking a favorite Ozzy guitarist is a controversy for some people! My favorite is Jake E. Lee, his first two solo Badlands albums are very fine metal meets blues work.

    Replies: @QCIC, @LatW, @LatW, @LatW

    I like some songs on his Black Label Society album Blessed Hellride

    Haven’t heard the whole album, but was listening to Funeral Bells about a year ago – when I was going out for a run on a sunny day, it was super energizing. So listening to it several times. Loved the vocal. This is a relatively recent album of his. He’s quite mature now, btw, so these are probably the last heavy ones he’s done, he’s doing beautiful slow piano songs now.

    have never heard the album you mentioned

    That’s because it’s an old solo album from the 90s. But I first heard it in early 2000s. This wouldn’t be very commercial, I think it’s something he wrote for himself that wasn’t supposed to become popular but it was well produced.

  644. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    I read it on Telegram long before the Guardian were awake.

    Still, Ukraine will lose and Zelensky will either get his rewards in Florida or be terminated like the Vietnamese guy did when his use by date came up. Pity about all the dead, but they're not his people after all.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Still, Ukraine will lose and Zelensky will either get his rewards in Florida or be terminated like the Vietnamese guy did when his use by date came up. Pity about all the dead, but they’re not his people after all.

    How much longer do I need to wait? I’ve been hearing this bogus claim for 2.5 years now, and Zelensky is still sitting put in Kyiv? And why Florida, and not France or Spain where I think that he already owns property and where his wife and kids probably already live?

    And speaking about kids, you know that their mother is a proud and 100% attractive Ukrainian woman? This notion that if you’re Jewish you cannot form positive attachments to the country where you were born in and live your whole life is as worn out and old as the hills and totally stupid.

    If Zelensky is really so ultra-Jewish and incapable of relating to the Ukrainian people, don’t let kremlinstoogeA123 know about this. He really does believe that Zelensky is an uber anti-semitic Jew hater. He develops this childish image of the man in almost every one of his stupid comments. He really believes just the opposite of what you do, so who is right and who is wrong? 🙂

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Mr. Hack

    "How much longer do I need to wait? I’ve been hearing this bogus claim for 2.5 years now, and Zelensky is still sitting put in Kyiv?"

    I was never a walkover pundit, predictions about the future are difficult. But no matter what weapons go to Ukraine, they need people to fire them - and Ukraine is running short.

    If NATO start launching missiles from Poland, or attack Konigsberg/Kaliningrad, then we're in a different ball game. But otherwise it's just a matter of time.

    At the moment the US are attempting a Maidan II in Georgia - remember those Special Forces C130 flights to Tblisi I flagged up a few weeks back - March 19 to be exact?

    https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-244/#comment-6474017

    "They ring their bells, but soon they will be wringing their hands".

    https://www.wardsbookofdays.com/19october.htm

  645. @Philip Owen
    Should you wish to invade the UK, this weekend is your chance. The Army plays the Navy at rugby. The result is immaterial. The drinking started at kickoff (2 pm) and continues until Monday night as Monday is a public holiday. Obviously military readiness on Tuesday may not be fantastic. You might think that the defence of the country is in the hands of the RAF but they don't work weekends.

    Replies: @Gerard1234

    The drinking started at kickoff (2 pm) and continues until Monday night as Monday is a public holiday. Obviously military readiness on Tuesday may not be fantastic. You might think that the defence of the country is in the hands of the RAF but they don’t work weekends.

    LOL – didn’t one of RAF “Ace” pilot mass murder alot of innocent civilians during an airshow by doing an idiotic aerobatics loop using a Hawker Hunter, above and parallel (!!!) to a main road, killing 20 or something like that?
    How their reputation has fallen since WW2.

    We don’t have much to worry about if scum like that is their “best” and training their next section of “best”. Even an Estonian wouldn’t be stupid enough to fly like that.

    Like the standard morally and of course financially corrupt British “elite” cockroach – he cheated his way out of justice and did not get ANY jail time for manslaughter or something like that ,if I read correctly at the time about 7 years ago. Looking at the videos – the plane was nose-up and so in climbing phase of the loop, so he obviously was conscious and in control of plane – but he ran out of altitude because of the stupidity of the maneuver.

    How he survived is a mystery – the cockpit fracturing-off from the rest of the body that then becomes a fireball…presumably plenty of other crashes of military aircraft of that size and function crashing nose-up trying to gain altitude, but not heard of the pilot within the separated cockpit surviving like that.

    Similar to yourself – a total shitbag, compulsive liar, overpromoted, cheats justice ( for you would of course be a bullet in your- cursed in- hell fleabrain)….. different to you – most probably he was not some failure businessman and 70 year old incel , does not lie so much when in possesion of good data – starts with you lying on simple things such as meat and egg production in Russia……increases to the idiotic constant excrement on SMO and other things that a POS as yourself habitually lies about – as evidenced just on this thread alone.

    In many ways he is typical anglo-scumbag working against Russia in SMO.

  646. @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel


    I was obviously talking about much earlier than that, in order to prevent it from ever happening. For example, when the Kiev rulers decided to put NATO in their constitution.
     
    Wanting to be a part of NATO seems to be a normal thing for countries that were once under the iron boot of the Soviet Union. I would bet money that both the country that you left and the one where you live now are both NATO members. How is that working out for them?

    the massive assistance they are going to need,
     
    Seems like most everybody here thinks that Russia will be able to indefinitely fund these forever wars with no ultimate negative repercussions to its own economy. Why do you think that the Ukies have been targeting the Russian oil refineries as of late?

    Irredentism is nice but in my book it’s even nicer to see your people prosper in peace.

     

    "My people" choose not to live in peace at any cost. Freedom to be in charge of and responsible for things that go on within their own country is paramount in their minds.

    In the case of Ukraine it wasn’t even just a matter of being aware of who your neighbor is but also of building a project that all Ukrainian citizens could feel included in.

     
    Russia has already provided the opportunities for both recognition of neighborly relations and a project for including all of the citizens of Ukraine. Haven't you heard that Putler has been able to unite all Ukrainians, no matter what region that they're from or whatever language they choose to speak, more than just about anybody else?

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Mikel

    Wanting to be a part of NATO seems to be a normal thing for countries that were once under the iron boot of the Soviet Union.

    Cretinous as always Hack. If Trump was smart ( which he is not) and attempted again to simulate being pro-Russian ( which he certainly is not) for an election campaign and presidency …….then he should make a policy that the BS “2% of GDP defence spending per member” should actually be 3% of GDP as just RETAINER FEE to the US, with the rest spent on their own defence commitments and buying US weapons be separate from the retainer fee.

    That would expose the myths of how much these parasites and prostitutes “want” to be in NATO you idiot.

    To be even more sensible he should exempt the non-European members (like South Korea,Japan and Australia) from it.

    If 3% (stopping it at 50 billion maximum for the important countries) , then it would expose just how much Polish and Baltic scum are falsely inflating their GDP numbers, so the net effect would be the 3% is what 2% is now.

    Even the average lazy, fat American would immediately accept the idea that 3% of GDP retainer fee plus extras is financially sensible and justice for their donations ( mostly suicidal loans and buying up much of 404), and the high risk to the US from their actions against Russia.

    Polish Nazis paying the US 15-20 billion USD minimum each year for the next 10 years , so that the US can (attempt) to stop Russia from flattening Poland, is very fair in view of trillions of dollars damage Russia can do.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Gerard1234


    If Trump was smart ( which he is not)
     
    We agree!

    https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cart2.jpg?w=1860

    Where's kremlinstoogeA123 to the rescue lately?

    Replies: @QCIC

  647. @Mikhail
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6hz2Tuw9o

    Replies: @Greasy William

    do you have any thoughts about this? Everything I have seen indicates that it is just a diversionary attack to suck in Ukrainian reserves and that the real offensive will be launched elsewhere along the line. As best as I can tell, the short term goal seems to be to widen the front so that Russia can make full use of its manpower advantage

    • Replies: @AP
    @Greasy William

    Are his "thoughts" worthy of interest?

    Replies: @Mikhail

    , @Mikhail
    @Greasy William

    Militarily speaking, Russia has more of a luxury to experiment with chances unlike the Kiev regime. Western sources reveal the former's casualties have been comparatively light of late, with plenty more in reserve.

    Related -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Rks5WvzYk&t=444s

  648. @LatW
    @songbird


    His people have lived in Russia or its vicinity before. In a way, it is like he has returned home.
     
    Can't believe you're writing this with a straight face. Back off pseudo-Celt.

    The Tsar banned them into the Pale of Settlement - offloaded them onto us. With everything that comes with it - and you and the darned RusFedians dont' want to take any responsibility.

    This washed up has been is literally fighting against his own people, against his ancestral lands. So ungrateful.

    Pathetic.

    Find something better to do with your life - on the Irish side. At least, the Chuck Norris jokes have some value - as they are entertaining.

    Replies: @songbird, @Gerard1234

    Can’t believe you’re writing this with a straight face. Back off pseudo-Celt.

    The Tsar banned them into the Pale of Settlement – offloaded them onto us. With everything that comes with it – and you and the darned RusFedians dont’ want to take any responsibility.

    LMFAO – The Pale of Settlement was literally WHERE THEY CAME FROM you dumbf**k retard!!
    That’s from where they historically came from into Russia you idiot.
    Obviously just like Russians, Germans and before that Swedes, the Jews were about a million times more useful, cultural, skilled than irrelevant dogshit Lativian earthworms.

    The laws itself were racial , but were not racist ( so different to the racist lowlife laws in Latvia and Estonia NOW) and related to economic practicalities. There were still plenty of Jews who didn’t live there in the Russian empire, and plenty of Jews originally from or not from there that Potemkin managed to encourage migrate to South Russia and Azov/Black Sea coast of “Ukraine” to work as merchants and certain crafts. LOL – Latvian midgets were not in demand to migrate south.

    As if to reinforce what a shameless liar dipshit you are – until recently Latvia even had a Jewish President!!!! You couldn’t make this freakshow up – scumbag politicians, and a ridiculous pitiful loser like yourself who can’t stop lying, while having a Jew President and praising & begging for the Jews in America and sucking off various Jews in 404 with your comments on the internet 24/7.

    Idiot.

    • Replies: @AP
    @Gerard1234


    with your comments on the internet 24/7.
     
    The only one on the internet "24/7" is you. When you claimed somewhere I was on numerous forums (I am not) you merely confessed that you yourself have been on numerous forums where you thought you came across me.

    You, Sharikov, should never been taught how to access the internet, or to perhaps even to read.

    Replies: @Gerard1234

  649. @Greasy William
    @Mikhail

    do you have any thoughts about this? Everything I have seen indicates that it is just a diversionary attack to suck in Ukrainian reserves and that the real offensive will be launched elsewhere along the line. As best as I can tell, the short term goal seems to be to widen the front so that Russia can make full use of its manpower advantage

    Replies: @AP, @Mikhail

    Are his “thoughts” worthy of interest?

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @AP

    https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=ec736c652fbf8951&sca_upv=1&q=%22Alexander+Motyl%22&tbm=nws&source=lnms&prmd=nivsbmtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_38uD_oWGAxV4hIkEHaUADIwQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1024&bih=643&dpr=1

  650. AP says:
    @Gerard1234
    @LatW


    Can’t believe you’re writing this with a straight face. Back off pseudo-Celt.

    The Tsar banned them into the Pale of Settlement – offloaded them onto us. With everything that comes with it – and you and the darned RusFedians dont’ want to take any responsibility.

     

    LMFAO - The Pale of Settlement was literally WHERE THEY CAME FROM you dumbf**k retard!!
    That's from where they historically came from into Russia you idiot.
    Obviously just like Russians, Germans and before that Swedes, the Jews were about a million times more useful, cultural, skilled than irrelevant dogshit Lativian earthworms.

    The laws itself were racial , but were not racist ( so different to the racist lowlife laws in Latvia and Estonia NOW) and related to economic practicalities. There were still plenty of Jews who didn't live there in the Russian empire, and plenty of Jews originally from or not from there that Potemkin managed to encourage migrate to South Russia and Azov/Black Sea coast of "Ukraine" to work as merchants and certain crafts. LOL - Latvian midgets were not in demand to migrate south.

    As if to reinforce what a shameless liar dipshit you are - until recently Latvia even had a Jewish President!!!! You couldn't make this freakshow up - scumbag politicians, and a ridiculous pitiful loser like yourself who can't stop lying, while having a Jew President and praising & begging for the Jews in America and sucking off various Jews in 404 with your comments on the internet 24/7.

    Idiot.

    Replies: @AP

    with your comments on the internet 24/7.

    The only one on the internet “24/7” is you. When you claimed somewhere I was on numerous forums (I am not) you merely confessed that you yourself have been on numerous forums where you thought you came across me.

    You, Sharikov, should never been taught how to access the internet, or to perhaps even to read.

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @AP

    Your claims are getting even dumber and more illogical than usual.

    As you know, I spend minimal time on the Internet, well below average- my style of commentating is of course unique so everybody can tell if Gérard is speaking, even if I didn't attach that name to it. But in English, they are not seeing these comments anywhere except here on Unz - as I have other things to do.

    Clearly your comment is projection - you don't appear to have been here much in the last week so must have been attempting some vile comments on another forum - your retard talking points, disinfo, insidious gutter style of "debating" are easy to spot and leaves a disgusting smelll

  651. QCIC says:
    @LatW
    @QCIC

    My feeling is that Phil was under appreciated (but he didn't develop his style further). As to his vocals, I absolutely love the "boyish masculine I don't care about anything" type of vocal sometimes. I know it's totally unrefined, but it's funny and punkish.

    Now that I mentioned that, I just remembered another one from the 90s - Cats in the Cradle by Ugly Kid Joe, remember that I really enjoyed that uninhibited, untrained but naturally strong "boyish turned to masculine" vocal. It's a sad song, which he was able to transcend a little. Was very enjoyable and uplifting back in the day (and ofc a great song for parents).


    I have some distant Irish on one side but don’t think of our family as Irish. Slightly Scottish.
     
    Scots Irish is very close to Irish. They just travelled across the country and were assimilated.

    I first noticed Zakk Wylde in the No More Tears solo... oh yeah. Then I was like "Oh, is this what you're gonna do..?" Only Celtic guys are capable of that kind of thing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32yjbCSVpU

    Replies: @QCIC

    I like Ugly Kid Joe and think they are underrated. When I was a kid the original pop version of this song was very popular. It has a great message. I was thrown for a loop when I first heard this nice rockish version of it. I really like some of their harder songs.

  652. @AP
    @Beckow


    Let’s see: do English have any victories since it was “Britain”?
     
    English were not only 50% of Britain, but yes after Scotland was integrated these are referred to as British not English victories. The main Allies of World War II are generally considered to be Britain, US, and France. Not England.

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/big-three#:~:text=In%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,the%20war%20should%20be%20fought.

    In World War II, the three great Allied powers—Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/axis-powers-in-world-war-ii

    In English, it's almost always referred to as Britain (or UK), not England. England is only a part of Britain. Because that is what the country is.

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

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain

    Does the deficient Slovak education system confuse the two and refer to Britain as England?

    French with Napoleon?
     
    It was officially called the Empire Français

    Russia won WW2.
     
    A country that included Russian people and the territory of Russia. The Russian state was destroyed in 1917-1920. Its remaining citizens were in exile, and often sided with the Germans in that war.

    The likes of Ukies, Latvians, Estonians, don’t even claim it
     
    Millions of Ukrainians in the Soviet Army were necessary for the Soviet victory. Many of their descendants are fighting Russia now.

    Soviet is not a nation
     
    It was as much of a country as Britain. Or Austria-Hungary. This was the entity that fought the Nazis. Not Russia, which the Soviets destroyed.

    The remaining Russians tended to side with the Germans or were neutral.

    https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/publication/8216a78c-d619-40be-8cfd-8816dbf27f73

    "The main organisation that supplied volunteers from the émigré milieu for the Wehrmacht was the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). The majority of officers held ‘defeatist’ views, which entailed continuing the struggle against the Bolsheviks by any means necessary, even by enlisting in a foreign army... the vanquished side attempted to ‘replay’ the Russian Civil War against the background of the new world conflict. The conservative worldview of former Russian officers who went to the USSR is explained and analysed within the context of the German occupation policies. The émigré volunteers who served in the Wehrmacht were aligned with German anti-Bolshevism and anti-Semitic objectives. Yet, unlike other foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht, they considered themselves Russian nationalists and ignored the anti-Slavic racial dimension to German policy. The émigrés generally empathised with the local population (defined as Orthodox Russians and excluding Russian Jews) and sought to aid them. The exiles mostly understood their role as that of a mediator between the occupants and the occupied. After the war, ROVS members redefined their role in the war as something separate from Nazi ideology. Émigré volunteers were thoroughly distinct from all the other foreign contingents: if the latter fought against ‘Russian Bolshevism’ and Russians per se, the former were heavily invested in the illusion that they could separate the two and, with the Germans as their allies, achieve an independent, nationalistic Russia."

    :::::::::::::::::

    So Russians (among others in the Soviet military) defeated the Germans. Russia did not.

    Replies: @Beckow

    You try way too hard to somehow justify your deep biases. A weird thing to do. If you hate Russia so much just own up to it, it is not forbidden. These days it is encouraged in the freedom-loving West.

    Soviet is not a nationality. Period. You can blabber and try to explain away Britain but it is an ethnic designation: British. WW2 was won by Russia with her ethnic allies – including the normal Ukrainians who were a huge majority at that time. Germany also had many ethnic allies: Italians, Romanians, Finns, Magyars…that doesn’t make the defeat any less German.

    Objectively speaking, Nazi Germany had almost all of Europe on its side when they attacked Russia in 1941 – many nations sent armies to join the Nazis, many others armed them…including Sweden. And they lost badly. As the loss became obvious some of the allies started to peel off, even change sides. But that can’t change the reality.

    But due to your obsessive bias you can’t accept anything that is positive about Russia, so you will repeat the embarrassing autistic nonsense. Until you lose the war. Then you will probably claim that a “loss is not a loss because”…I am sure you will come up something. Like it didn’t happen in 2 weeks, or “Finland is in Nato!”…you do realize that looks like a mental palliative?

    • Replies: @AP
    @Beckow


    You try way too hard
     
    It's not hard to be accurate. USSR was not equal to Russia, Britain is not equal to England.

    If you hate Russia so much
     
    Of course I don't hate Russia. My kids speak Russian and I have learned it, and I enjoy Moscow and hope to return some day.

    Britain but it is an ethnic designation: British
     
    Do your substandard schools teach that Britain is an ethnic designation or is that your own personal failing?

    WW2 was won by Russia
     
    Was it the Russian army?

    The only Russian Armies were fighting on the German side. - Русская освободительная армия under Vlasov, the much smaller 1-я Русская национальная армия under a Russian White emigre.

    There was the Soviet Army, with Russians and Ukrainians and others in it. Led by an ethnic Georgian head of state. Whose people were kept on a short leash by a Georgian terror master, Beria.

    Objectively speaking, Nazi Germany had almost all of Europe on its side when they attacked Russia in 1941
     
    They had some European countries such as Slovakia on their side - others they were busy occupying.

    Objectively speaking they attacked the USSR and not Russia. The first troops went into the Ukraine and Belarus Soviet Republics of the USSR.

    So Germany+Italy+Hungary+Slovakia+ Romania+Bulgaria attacked the USSR (Russia+Ukraine+Kazakhstan+etc. etc.) while also fighting Britain and occupying Poland, France, etc.

    It was not "all of Europe" versus "Russia." "Russia" could not come close to defeating "all of Europe." This kind of stupid lack of understanding of reality can lead to reckless decisions.

    you can’t accept anything that is positive about Russia
     
    Russia has great literature and music, and Moscow is probably the nicest huge city in the world. the Russian people are pleasant and very human on an interpersonal level (they are typical Slavs). They just inherited a nasty political culture from their former masters, so it's better for Ukrainians to stay away and not be under such rule also. I have said these things consistently.

    Why do you have to lie, as usual?

    Until you lose the war. Then you will probably claim that a “loss is not a loss because”…I am sure you will come up something. Like it didn’t happen in 2 weeks, or “Finland is in Nato!”
     
    Your funny "bragging" that Ukraine is not in NATO is a cope for Russia doing poorly and failing in its goal of regime change for Ukraine. It's like Americans congratulating themselves that Iraq does not have nukes.

    Replies: @Beckow

  653. @Gerard1234
    @Mr. Hack


    Wanting to be a part of NATO seems to be a normal thing for countries that were once under the iron boot of the Soviet Union.
     
    Cretinous as always Hack. If Trump was smart ( which he is not) and attempted again to simulate being pro-Russian ( which he certainly is not) for an election campaign and presidency .......then he should make a policy that the BS "2% of GDP defence spending per member" should actually be 3% of GDP as just RETAINER FEE to the US, with the rest spent on their own defence commitments and buying US weapons be separate from the retainer fee.

    That would expose the myths of how much these parasites and prostitutes "want" to be in NATO you idiot.

    To be even more sensible he should exempt the non-European members (like South Korea,Japan and Australia) from it.

    If 3% (stopping it at 50 billion maximum for the important countries) , then it would expose just how much Polish and Baltic scum are falsely inflating their GDP numbers, so the net effect would be the 3% is what 2% is now.

    Even the average lazy, fat American would immediately accept the idea that 3% of GDP retainer fee plus extras is financially sensible and justice for their donations ( mostly suicidal loans and buying up much of 404), and the high risk to the US from their actions against Russia.

    Polish Nazis paying the US 15-20 billion USD minimum each year for the next 10 years , so that the US can (attempt) to stop Russia from flattening Poland, is very fair in view of trillions of dollars damage Russia can do.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    If Trump was smart ( which he is not)

    We agree!

    Where’s kremlinstoogeA123 to the rescue lately?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    Every time the Stormy topic comes up I think of a certain song. I like this killer version. Somehow Daniels is even fitting, as in Jack Daniels!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqa1s4jhkQ8

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  654. @LatW
    @Beckow


    How about the present? Is the “war” black and white as you and the West paint it? Or is it only complicated having two sides after a few years?
     
    Well, what is clear is that it's an invasion into the Ukrainian territory, with many international laws broken. But this war doesn't have just "two sides" - the ultimatum of December 2021 was issued not to Ukraine, but to Washington - along with the rest of us (EEs, CEs who are in NATO, that includes your country).

    https://www.facebook.com/100069392071612/posts/4042412449191499/

    I used to read this Dima Vorobiev guy on Quora a few years back and he listed the "new Yalta" bullet points (pretty funny how his side just assumed that some new Yalta can be created just between RusFed and the US, while ignoring everyone else's fundamental security interests, especially those who are directly affected by it - this is a typical RusFed approach).

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-New-Yalta-deal-that-Putin-wants-USA-and-Europe-to-accept

    So they make it look "black and white" but of course it's not. There are blank spots (that affect Eastern & Northern & Southern Europe).


    but it will not win your any friends
     
    We have always known who are friends are and they are consistently the same. In times like these, it is tested once more and you know for sure - and they become even more valuable.

    Replies: @Beckow

    invasion into the Ukrainian territory, with many international laws broken. But this war doesn’t have just “two sides” – the ultimatum of December 2021 was issued not to Ukraine, but to Washington

    There is no “international law“. The definition of ‘laws‘ is that they are consistent, applied to all sides equally, and the determination is made by an impartial judge.

    There have been some attempts at ‘international law’, but the West destroyed then by breaking all three basic requirements: the West doesn’t apply laws to self, subjectively cherry-picks, and insists on being the sole judge.

    There is no law, countries do what they think is best for them…Russia invaded Ukraine as US invaded about dozen countries and Izrael just invaded Gaza. Russia had enough reasons and was provoked by mistreatment of Russians and by Nato. Wars are hell and sooner it’s done better.

    The Ukies are disposable for the West, not quite “Russians”, but pretty close. They can’t win the war and that was obvious from the start. How did a presumably smart and large nation walk into this trap will be discussed for years. Having the comprador effectively non-Ukie ruling class is probably the main reason.

    There is also among too many Ukies a very stubborn stupidity, yearning to live somewhere else, to be someone else. Too bad. They are being used up by the West. How will tehy explain any of this to themselves?

    • Replies: @A123
    @Beckow


    There is no law, countries do what they think is best for them…Russia invaded Ukraine as US invaded about dozen countries and Izrael just invaded Gaza. Russia had enough reasons and was provoked by mistreatment of Russians and by Nato. Wars are hell and sooner it’s done better.
     
    I concur.

    Kiev built the Collective Punishment Dam to harm civilians in Crimea.

    Wars are hell and sooner it’s done better. -- Which is why it is important to understand that Israel and Russia are the inevitable winners. The Veggie-In-Chief is making both situations worse by propping up Hamas and Kiev.

    The genocidal UN/NWO also voted to increase war. Rewarding Hamas for their October 7 attack is counter productive. False hope is among the worst things to offer.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  655. @songbird
    Are those elderly people who attacked the Magna Carta on social media?

    Replies: @songbird

    Did not realize they were both women and one a retired Anglican priest. Wonder if they have any grandchildren or are both lesbos.

    It is curious because one doesn’t usually associate these things with the elderly. Maybe, they were selected for the job, since they are old.

    https://anglican.ink/2024/05/10/retired-priest-attempts-to-damage-the-magna-carta/

  656. @Mr. Hack
    @Mr. Hack

    Slight correction:

    You replied back that the 2.5 week timeframe was of dubious origin, pointing out that perhaps 2.5 days might have been more accurate. Fine, I’ll concede this point to you,

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Beckow

    1) why has it lost large swaths of land that it once held?

    2) Why hasn’t Russia already won this war?

    1) equally applies to Ukraine and 2) is pointless playing with time – things take as long as they need to, there are actually a lot of positives for Russia both domestically and with Ukraine-Nato by stretching it out.

    1) also seemed to be a withdrawal to avoid being exposed in a bad military position, Ukies would benefit from similar withdrawals in some cases.

    You also argue “but Ukraine wants to be in Nato! they have a right to do it“. Putting aside that the wish to join Nato is not as universal in Ukraine as you claim – and was a minority viewpoint 10 years ago and in spite of it forced by Nato on Kiev by the Maidan coup-revolution.

    More importantly, we can’t always get what we want. Life on this planet is not like that. Kurds want a state, some Hispanics dream of “Mazatlan” (?) in the US southwest, Izrael want 7 million Palis to disappear, and probably vice-versa…Nazis wanted to colonize Ukraine with sturdy German farmers…etc, why would you think that want a group or a nation “wants” is a sacred thing that has to happen?

    Ukraine-in-Nato is an unreachable goal – Russia made that clear. Why provoke a war over it? Ukies have been used, once they realize it they may be quite angry about their half-ass friends…and naive outsiders like you from Phoenix (is it hot already?).

  657. A123 says: • Website
    @Beckow
    @LatW


    invasion into the Ukrainian territory, with many international laws broken. But this war doesn’t have just “two sides” – the ultimatum of December 2021 was issued not to Ukraine, but to Washington
     
    There is no "international law". The definition of 'laws' is that they are consistent, applied to all sides equally, and the determination is made by an impartial judge.

    There have been some attempts at 'international law', but the West destroyed then by breaking all three basic requirements: the West doesn't apply laws to self, subjectively cherry-picks, and insists on being the sole judge.

    There is no law, countries do what they think is best for them...Russia invaded Ukraine as US invaded about dozen countries and Izrael just invaded Gaza. Russia had enough reasons and was provoked by mistreatment of Russians and by Nato. Wars are hell and sooner it's done better.

    The Ukies are disposable for the West, not quite "Russians", but pretty close. They can't win the war and that was obvious from the start. How did a presumably smart and large nation walk into this trap will be discussed for years. Having the comprador effectively non-Ukie ruling class is probably the main reason.

    There is also among too many Ukies a very stubborn stupidity, yearning to live somewhere else, to be someone else. Too bad. They are being used up by the West. How will tehy explain any of this to themselves?

    Replies: @A123

    There is no law, countries do what they think is best for them…Russia invaded Ukraine as US invaded about dozen countries and Izrael just invaded Gaza. Russia had enough reasons and was provoked by mistreatment of Russians and by Nato. Wars are hell and sooner it’s done better.

    I concur.

    Kiev built the Collective Punishment Dam to harm civilians in Crimea.

    Wars are hell and sooner it’s done better. — Which is why it is important to understand that Israel and Russia are the inevitable winners. The Veggie-In-Chief is making both situations worse by propping up Hamas and Kiev.

    The genocidal UN/NWO also voted to increase war. Rewarding Hamas for their October 7 attack is counter productive. False hope is among the worst things to offer.

    PEACE 😇

    • Troll: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @A123


    Kiev built the Collective Punishment Dam to harm civilians in Crimea.
     
    The same old BS story that I successfully countered long ago, just before you supposedly put me on ignore. These "rights" were never renegotiated, as what is considered normal protocol for such actions.

    I'll even go one further, why should Ukraine go out of its way to provide water for an area that is a known staging ground for aggressive enemy military outposts, that Ukraine is now bombing almost every day?
  658. 40 more HIMARs on the way!

    Ukraine Gets HIMARS Boost in New $400M U.S. Package
    https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-himars-united-states-military-aid-package-russia-war-1899566

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    So what is the exchange rate these days?
    My guess is that by needlessly extending the fighting each HIMARS rocket represents 100 dead Ukrainians including many civilians. So this is 40,000 more lives wasted added to the 100,000 just from the most recent tranche of missiles. Great job, morons.

    News flash for Ukrainian people: The leaders of the West want you to die. If nothing else they use your deaths as an excuse to present Russia in an unfavorable light in the media. What a waste.

    Just say no. When they start forcing Ukraine to take the weapons maybe you will gain a sense of what is really going on.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  659. @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Thing is they will sooner or later officially accuse the Chinese of unleashing the pandemic on the world. Given what most of us went through during the pandemic, it would lead to a massive anti-Chinese resentment. They could ask for crippling sanctions against the Chinese economy unless the Chinese compensate the whole World for the pandemic dommages.

    Perhaps the only reason why they didn’t yet unleash the propaganda effort is because it’s quite evident that the US knew perfectly well what the Wuhan virologists were at, if only because they were paid in part by the US taxpayer’s money. Also, I am nearly certain that it is just a rehearsal.

    The real thing will most probably start when the CBDC is operational worldwide. That is we still have a few years to prepare, unless they opt for a limited nuclear conflict in the Bloodlands in the meantime. Anyway, they’re too quiet as of late. Certainly cooking up something unsavoury…

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    How to continue the global market in cocaine, opium, slaves, transplant organs, suitcase nukes, and other exotic contraband we don’t even know about?

    https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/05/03/the-fight-to-dethrone-the-dollar

    no paywall: https://archive.ph/CC1SZ

    Apple, google, microsoft, Warren Buffet, and the Central Banks are all sitting on mountains of cash. I have a friend with two palettes of 9mm ammunition in his basement. He is a kook.

    The last time I looked they were sold out but it looks like business is on again.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2023/12/k7-ammo-9mm-115gr-brass-ammunition-100000-round-pallet/

  660. @Mr. Hack
    @Gerard1234


    If Trump was smart ( which he is not)
     
    We agree!

    https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cart2.jpg?w=1860

    Where's kremlinstoogeA123 to the rescue lately?

    Replies: @QCIC

    Every time the Stormy topic comes up I think of a certain song. I like this killer version. Somehow Daniels is even fitting, as in Jack Daniels!

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC

    Good pick! I saw the Allman Bros play twice back in the day, and they really were a unique and gritty band. Always liked the long bluesey/jazzy organ solos, like the one here starting at 5:12. The guitar solos weren't sub-par either!

    Replies: @QCIC

  661. @Greasy William
    @Mikhail

    do you have any thoughts about this? Everything I have seen indicates that it is just a diversionary attack to suck in Ukrainian reserves and that the real offensive will be launched elsewhere along the line. As best as I can tell, the short term goal seems to be to widen the front so that Russia can make full use of its manpower advantage

    Replies: @AP, @Mikhail

    Militarily speaking, Russia has more of a luxury to experiment with chances unlike the Kiev regime. Western sources reveal the former’s casualties have been comparatively light of late, with plenty more in reserve.

    Related –

  662. I agree with many commenters here who complain that the discussion of Russia-Ukraine war became boring cud chewing. It is obvious that Russian strategy is best described by the method of boiling a frog that is often called Chinese: put the frog into warm water and slowly increase the temperature. Quite a few people here do not seem to realize that Ukraine is not the only frog being boiled that way: the RF is currently boiling the whole European brunch of NATO. The empire frantically attempts to maintain plausible deniability, even though this deniability is becoming less and less plausible.

    The RF opened yet another front in Kharkov region not only to prevent annoying Ukie murdering and wounding Russian civilians in Belgorod region. The RF has a clear objective of making known Ukrainian weaknesses even worse: Ukraine is experiencing severe deficit of manpower and weapons, whereas Russia does not. For those who like to post various fakes about ill equipment and training of the Russian army I can only say this: the developments at all front lines clearly show that even if those fakes were true, it would mean that Ukie army is equipped and trained even worse.

    For those who like to point out striking stupidity of Ukie behavior for many years I’d like to remind that nobody has time machine and that history has no subjunctive mood, The situation is what it is here and now. Everything else is immaterial.

    This blog is sometimes enlivened by discussions unrelated to SMO. My two cents to the discussion of rock music: most songs sounded a lot better when I was young and did not understand the words. I am grateful to rock singers who do not pronounce words clearly: 90% of rock songs are spoiled by stupid lyrics and awkward rhymes.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @AnonfromTN

    Before Youtube I understood roughly half of the lyrics to my favorite rock songs, partially due to some limits of my hearing and also because I favored the music and didn't need the words of some high school kid. While listening to one of the old songs I was disturbed and impressed by how a singer can torture the words to fit any melody. Maybe this habit is one of the trends which led to awful spoken word music like rap? Once the natural connection between the words and melody is stretched too far they can be separated. This can leave boring words on one side and possibly music on the other.

    I don't mind the stupid lyrics in my old faves so much, probably from my approval of youthful enthusiasm and general nostalgia. If I were better with music maybe I could come up with new words for old favorite songs.

    Youtube changed other perceptions of rock by crushing the record-company hype regarding the technical prowess of popular guitarists. Any song which was considered technically challenging back in the day can be played by some 8 year old Asian kid. To be fair, creating the music is the hard part and the kid may not have any emotional base to create from. Of course many people are aware that the skills of non-commercial music composers and performers may not have much overlap.

    Replies: @LatW

  663. @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    Every time the Stormy topic comes up I think of a certain song. I like this killer version. Somehow Daniels is even fitting, as in Jack Daniels!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqa1s4jhkQ8

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Good pick! I saw the Allman Bros play twice back in the day, and they really were a unique and gritty band. Always liked the long bluesey/jazzy organ solos, like the one here starting at 5:12. The guitar solos weren’t sub-par either!

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Mr. Hack

    Nice! They were before my time but I did see a good show by the Gregg Allman band. They warmed up for Buddy Guy or maybe the other way 'round.

  664. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    40 more HIMARs on the way!

    Ukraine Gets HIMARS Boost in New $400M U.S. Package
    https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-himars-united-states-military-aid-package-russia-war-1899566


    https://i.imgflip.com/8pq9wp.jpg

    Replies: @QCIC

    So what is the exchange rate these days?

    [MORE]

    My guess is that by needlessly extending the fighting each HIMARS rocket represents 100 dead Ukrainians including many civilians. So this is 40,000 more lives wasted added to the 100,000 just from the most recent tranche of missiles. Great job, morons.

    News flash for Ukrainian people: The leaders of the West want you to die. If nothing else they use your deaths as an excuse to present Russia in an unfavorable light in the media. What a waste.

    Just say no. When they start forcing Ukraine to take the weapons maybe you will gain a sense of what is really going on.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    News flash for Ukrainian people: The leaders of the West want you to die. If nothing else they use your deaths as an excuse to present Russia in an unfavorable light in the media.

    News flash for Russian people: Your dictator wants you to die.

    How does this war serve the rural Russian people that are fighting it?

    My guess is that by needlessly extending the fighting each HIMARS rocket represents 100 dead Ukrainians including many civilians.

    How many dead Russians does each HIMARS rocket represent?

    https://i.imgflip.com/8pqew4.jpg

    Not sure on your math but each HIMARS is definitely a win for the US defense industry. They all get replaced with the Trump/Johnson bill. All the stocks are being cleared.

    Oh and we are closer to the EU using the frozen 300 billion for Ukraine military spending.

    Another win for the US defense industry! I hope they send Putin a thank you basket.

  665. AP says:
    @Gerard1234
    @AP


    I had a friend in Moscow who was a former FSB officer
     
    Wow, slow things down, there is a lot of BS in such a small number of words.

    I am not sure what is the most ridiculously idiotic/lie thing in that is-

    1.You in Moscow, LOL
    2. You speaking to a former FSB/KGB officer
    3. The concept of a wakjob like yourself having a friend

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies
     
    Totally implausible nonsense. The implication from this fantasy that they were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?

    UPA/OUN history - Abysmal fighting skills - acquired zero reputation for fighting skill in WW2. Cowardly actions - most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly, nothing on the battlefield.
    Amusingly did not even attempt in WW2 or in the war against the Soviets ( mostly fighting their "own" people) to fight for "their" cities of Lvov, Ternopol and whatever Ivano-Frankovsk was named. No surprise in that - as they were effectively foreign cities for them , they had no knowledge of the cities to work with LOL.

    2. In a completely pointless war , that they could never win, where the Soviets had effectively given them a Ukrainian state that these homos could only have dreamed of in the 1920-30's , where the Ukrainian population after the mass death in WW2 and destruction have no appetite for another war , where effect of the war was that bad there was zero appetite to fight against the Soviets in Romania, Hungary and Poland.........the Anglo-American sewerslime managed to find some amoeba-brained bydlo deathcult sadists stupid enough and cuckhold enough to do some terrorism against the USSR ( who had just saved the world of course) for a few more years. Just like now - westerners find conveniant idiots fighting pointlessly with guaranteed mass death and kill ratio very high in favour of opposition, zero winning objective.


    3. The degeneracy of UPA banderetards homos is that big, they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka ( you can ask Mr Hack what that is) all day and night, living in hellish, unhygienic, damp, dark , extremely small space conditions, hiding all day for months, years, occasionally coming out to shoot, throw a grenade or threaten Kolkhoz workers.....before going back to gaying eachother and living an existence much worse than in the trenches, and that you would not wish on anybody. What type of freaks would do that?

    This is interesting as a Ukrop scholar like Mr Hack idealises the Zaporizhian Cossacks as an an all-male living together, all-dancing, all-gay ensemble. Every other Cossack group was family-orientated

    Current ukronazis have much of the beautiful women, that they weren't marrying or having children with anyway - out of the country. They appear in no rush to correct this situation

    Sadist-cuckhold-homo..........the defining ideology and recurring theme of Ukrainian "nationalism" over the centuries.


    And of course, the Ukrainian, Khrushchev mass released about 200000 of them......who then immediately became willing Communist servants.
    They did cause trouble and instigated riots in the Prisons before the release - there was so much of them. Putin a man with great historical perspective, appears to be aware of this and correcting this issue by having as many of them killed as possible on the battlefield

    Anyway - with these pitiful list of limp-wristed, cuckhold activity of ukrop nationalism......it's very unlikely anybody could have any type of respect for them.

    There was no real antagonism towards them though by Soviet people - I have met, and friends of family that were UPA -they either joked about this being UPA territory or were relaxed about openly talking about it without any anti-Soviet squealing or praise for Bandera/Shukheyevich. It's only post-1991 ukronazi nationalism that exacerbated this issue.

    Replies: @AP

    Wow, slow things down

    Says the guy who releases a torrent of coprolalis in most of his posts.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies

    Totally implausible nonsense.

    His judgment on these matters is probably much better than yours.

    they [UPA] were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?

    They were good at assassinations, were difficult to crack and infiltrate (the White emigre organizations in contrast were much easier), were good at insurgency, and yes were ruthless and cruel.

    UPA killed Soviet general Vatutin in an ambush. He was commander of the Ukrainian Front.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vatutin#Death

    UPA also killed the defense minister of communist Poland. They were effective at kidnapping and killing Soviet officials, playing a good game of cat-and-mouse with NKVD.

    UPA/OUN history – Abysmal fighting skills – acquired zero reputation for fighting skill

    Soviets’ own records show that the Soviets lost more personnel against OUN/UPA than the Russian state did against the Chechens (both wars combined) in the 1990s. And the Chechens fought the pathetic and shambolic 1990s Russian military while UPA were fighting the Soviet juggernaut that had defeated the Soviet military. One UPA soldier in the mountains, forests or swamps was probably worth 3 Chechens (who were rather helpless against the Soviets in the 1940s IIRC – they could only fight the pathetic 90s Russian army with any success).

    Cowardly actions – most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly

    Most partisan armies slaughter civilians more effectively than they do enemy military personal. The Algerian FLN, for example, killed about 25,000-30,000 French soldiers and a similar number of civilians (often brutally, by disemboweling them).

    UPA were a lot bloodier against civilians: they murdered 60,00-100,000 Polish civilians and a couple 10,000s non-Polish people, ranging from Ukrainian nationalist rivals, to Soviet sympathizers or collaborators (the latter deaths were not unjustified, though UPA also killed collaborators’ families which is inexcusable). In contrast they killed “only” about 17,000 Soviet military/NKVD personnel.

    In terms of other partisan fighters: Hamas has a worse ratio of civilians killed to soldiers killed than does UPA. Soviet partisans provoked Germans into doing their dirty work. They are probably responsible for more civilian deaths than UPA.

    UPA were evil and brutal but they were disciplined and effective.

    they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka

    Drones prove that this is what Russian soldiers do in close quarters. Of course you would assume others do that also. You would, after all. Ukrainians aren’t Russians.

    • Agree: Mr. Hack
    • Thanks: Mr. XYZ
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @AP

    With your interests in WWII history, perhaps you can help me out. I recall several times in the past reading about DeGaul's respect for the OUN/UPA fighters, specifically lamenting that if his soldiers had shown the ferocity and bravery that these Ukrainians had exhibited, France would have liberated itself from the Nazi scourge much sooner. I spent a good deal of time yesterday looking for such a quote in order to reply to Gerard's comment and came up empty handed. I'm sure that I didn't just dream this up...

    Replies: @Gerard1234

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP


    Most partisan armies slaughter civilians more effectively than they do enemy military personal. The Algerian FLN, for example, killed about 25,000-30,000 French soldiers and a similar number of civilians (often brutally, by disemboweling them).

     

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

    According to the link above, the total number of French civilians that the FLN killed was actually around 6,000. However, it also killed several tens of thousands of harkis, who were pro-French Muslim Algerians. It (unfortunately, but quite understandably) viewed them as traitors and was thus (very tragically and unfortunately) quite merciless towards them. Interestingly enough, France was not very eager to accept the harkis in and after 1962 either. Some of them had to move to France illegally and/or with the help of French military personnel who defied orders from up above. They subsequently sometimes lived in transit/detention camps in France for a very long time before they were actually given a chance to integrate into French society and acquire French citizenship.

    I'm mostly wary of Muslim immigration into Europe, but I do think that an exception should have been made for the harkis. A second-best alternative, of course, would have been to resettle them in other Muslim countries, if doing so would have actually been safe for them.
    , @Gerard1234
    @AP


    They were good at assasinations
     
    LOL - you list 2 in 35 years, one of them shouldn't even classify as an assasination. So "good" that in 35 years it's about 2-3 high profile Poles and 1-2 Russians killed by UPA.
    That's an unbelievablely bad, useless record you idiot. Where are the assassinations in Moscow, Leningrad, anywhere with concentrations of so-called "Ukrainians" in Far East, Kazakhstan or anywhere else? Where in Kiev, Donbass after WW2? WHAT high profile officials in Galicia of UKSSR even had their group of people infiltrated by UPA? None.

    Now compare to the NKVD who in much shorter time eliminated Dyakiv, Konavalets, Shukhevich, Bandera and numerous other high-profile UPA/OUN excrement (most assassinated before 1951), in and outside of Galicia, in USSR and internationally.
    Extensive, complex and very successful infiltration operations involved for all those top 4 listed you retard and plenty of others . The White Russian émigré statement is both nonsensical and schizophrenic

    Replies: @AP

  666. @Mr. Hack
    @QCIC

    Good pick! I saw the Allman Bros play twice back in the day, and they really were a unique and gritty band. Always liked the long bluesey/jazzy organ solos, like the one here starting at 5:12. The guitar solos weren't sub-par either!

    Replies: @QCIC

    Nice! They were before my time but I did see a good show by the Gregg Allman band. They warmed up for Buddy Guy or maybe the other way ’round.

  667. @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel


    I was obviously talking about much earlier than that, in order to prevent it from ever happening. For example, when the Kiev rulers decided to put NATO in their constitution.
     
    Wanting to be a part of NATO seems to be a normal thing for countries that were once under the iron boot of the Soviet Union. I would bet money that both the country that you left and the one where you live now are both NATO members. How is that working out for them?

    the massive assistance they are going to need,
     
    Seems like most everybody here thinks that Russia will be able to indefinitely fund these forever wars with no ultimate negative repercussions to its own economy. Why do you think that the Ukies have been targeting the Russian oil refineries as of late?

    Irredentism is nice but in my book it’s even nicer to see your people prosper in peace.

     

    "My people" choose not to live in peace at any cost. Freedom to be in charge of and responsible for things that go on within their own country is paramount in their minds.

    In the case of Ukraine it wasn’t even just a matter of being aware of who your neighbor is but also of building a project that all Ukrainian citizens could feel included in.

     
    Russia has already provided the opportunities for both recognition of neighborly relations and a project for including all of the citizens of Ukraine. Haven't you heard that Putler has been able to unite all Ukrainians, no matter what region that they're from or whatever language they choose to speak, more than just about anybody else?

    Replies: @Gerard1234, @Mikel

    You’re just refusing to understand anything of what I’m saying.

    I do understand why Ukraine’s military situation improves being in NATO. Everybody understands that. There is no country on this planet whose security doesn’t improve dramatically by joining NATO, from South Sudan to Bolivia. But the question is how does global security and the security of the other members of NATO improve by expanding to those countries?

    Everybody with a brain in the US seems to be coming around to the idea that NATO’s expansion after the fall of the USSR was a mistake. Here’s none other than Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary company Blackwater, attacking that neocon insanity, among others:

    https://im1776.com/too-big-to-win/

    I’m pretty sure that there are people in the current administration holding that kind of views too. Biden was the one who ordered the US withdrawal from Afghanistan after all, and he looks ambivalent about Israel. Obama’s administration, that he was a part of, wasn’t particularly bellicose against Russia. They did send Nuland to encourage the anti-Russians in Kiev but, as we saw with Trump, this type of thing is often led by the inertia of the permanent bureaucracy entrenched in DC, who hold tremendous power.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel

    No Mikel, I think that I understand you perfectly well, but it's you that somehow don't understand what I'm saying (reposted from above):


    "My people” choose not to live in peace at any cost. Freedom, to be in charge of and responsible for things that go on within their own country is paramount in their minds.
     
    I would also add:

    Not have the policies, historical memories/narratives dictated and censored in Moscow. This kind of nonsense has been going on for centuries and needs to be changed.

    Replies: @Mikel

  668. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    So what is the exchange rate these days?
    My guess is that by needlessly extending the fighting each HIMARS rocket represents 100 dead Ukrainians including many civilians. So this is 40,000 more lives wasted added to the 100,000 just from the most recent tranche of missiles. Great job, morons.

    News flash for Ukrainian people: The leaders of the West want you to die. If nothing else they use your deaths as an excuse to present Russia in an unfavorable light in the media. What a waste.

    Just say no. When they start forcing Ukraine to take the weapons maybe you will gain a sense of what is really going on.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    News flash for Ukrainian people: The leaders of the West want you to die. If nothing else they use your deaths as an excuse to present Russia in an unfavorable light in the media.

    News flash for Russian people: Your dictator wants you to die.

    How does this war serve the rural Russian people that are fighting it?

    My guess is that by needlessly extending the fighting each HIMARS rocket represents 100 dead Ukrainians including many civilians.

    How many dead Russians does each HIMARS rocket represent?

    Not sure on your math but each HIMARS is definitely a win for the US defense industry. They all get replaced with the Trump/Johnson bill. All the stocks are being cleared.

    Oh and we are closer to the EU using the frozen 300 billion for Ukraine military spending.

    Another win for the US defense industry! I hope they send Putin a thank you basket.

  669. @AP
    @Gerard1234


    Wow, slow things down
     
    Says the guy who releases a torrent of coprolalis in most of his posts.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies

    Totally implausible nonsense.
     
    His judgment on these matters is probably much better than yours.

    they [UPA] were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?
     
    They were good at assassinations, were difficult to crack and infiltrate (the White emigre organizations in contrast were much easier), were good at insurgency, and yes were ruthless and cruel.

    UPA killed Soviet general Vatutin in an ambush. He was commander of the Ukrainian Front.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vatutin#Death

    UPA also killed the defense minister of communist Poland. They were effective at kidnapping and killing Soviet officials, playing a good game of cat-and-mouse with NKVD.

    UPA/OUN history – Abysmal fighting skills – acquired zero reputation for fighting skill
     
    Soviets' own records show that the Soviets lost more personnel against OUN/UPA than the Russian state did against the Chechens (both wars combined) in the 1990s. And the Chechens fought the pathetic and shambolic 1990s Russian military while UPA were fighting the Soviet juggernaut that had defeated the Soviet military. One UPA soldier in the mountains, forests or swamps was probably worth 3 Chechens (who were rather helpless against the Soviets in the 1940s IIRC - they could only fight the pathetic 90s Russian army with any success).

    Cowardly actions – most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly
     
    Most partisan armies slaughter civilians more effectively than they do enemy military personal. The Algerian FLN, for example, killed about 25,000-30,000 French soldiers and a similar number of civilians (often brutally, by disemboweling them).

    UPA were a lot bloodier against civilians: they murdered 60,00-100,000 Polish civilians and a couple 10,000s non-Polish people, ranging from Ukrainian nationalist rivals, to Soviet sympathizers or collaborators (the latter deaths were not unjustified, though UPA also killed collaborators' families which is inexcusable). In contrast they killed "only" about 17,000 Soviet military/NKVD personnel.

    In terms of other partisan fighters: Hamas has a worse ratio of civilians killed to soldiers killed than does UPA. Soviet partisans provoked Germans into doing their dirty work. They are probably responsible for more civilian deaths than UPA.

    UPA were evil and brutal but they were disciplined and effective.

    they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka
     
    Drones prove that this is what Russian soldiers do in close quarters. Of course you would assume others do that also. You would, after all. Ukrainians aren't Russians.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mr. XYZ, @Gerard1234

    With your interests in WWII history, perhaps you can help me out. I recall several times in the past reading about DeGaul’s respect for the OUN/UPA fighters, specifically lamenting that if his soldiers had shown the ferocity and bravery that these Ukrainians had exhibited, France would have liberated itself from the Nazi scourge much sooner. I spent a good deal of time yesterday looking for such a quote in order to reply to Gerard’s comment and came up empty handed. I’m sure that I didn’t just dream this up…

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @Mr. Hack

    The OUN/UPA were as good at fighting....as the Nazis were at being pro-Jewish.

    I think what you are referring to is one of the Getmans of the 17th century who is supposed to have fought in or for France, and de Gaulle alleged to have said it during his Soviet-friendly visit to Kiev.

    It does look like De Gaulle actually saying those compliments about a Getman is a complete myth. It's just issue of if it's a myth that just developed innocently..... or a pitiful Banderetard in North America typical disinformation.

    If it's the first thing, then the comment is forgivable as every East European country has at least one of these fake myths developed of some famous westerner praising someone they have never heard of - even for us. I have no idea if Margaret Thatcher had even watched it when she is alleged to have claimed that Soviet version of Sherlock Holmes was the best.

  670. Watch this Russian tank get hit by a javalin:

    Incredible explosion!

    If Putin had stayed in his borders we never would have seen how well these American weapons work.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top. This is how A-10 aircraft chewed up T-72 tanks in the Gulf Wars. This only worked because the Iraqis didn't have a good air defense especially MANPADS. Now we have lots more FPV drones and top attack rockets.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

  671. QCIC says:
    @AnonfromTN
    I agree with many commenters here who complain that the discussion of Russia-Ukraine war became boring cud chewing. It is obvious that Russian strategy is best described by the method of boiling a frog that is often called Chinese: put the frog into warm water and slowly increase the temperature. Quite a few people here do not seem to realize that Ukraine is not the only frog being boiled that way: the RF is currently boiling the whole European brunch of NATO. The empire frantically attempts to maintain plausible deniability, even though this deniability is becoming less and less plausible.

    The RF opened yet another front in Kharkov region not only to prevent annoying Ukie murdering and wounding Russian civilians in Belgorod region. The RF has a clear objective of making known Ukrainian weaknesses even worse: Ukraine is experiencing severe deficit of manpower and weapons, whereas Russia does not. For those who like to post various fakes about ill equipment and training of the Russian army I can only say this: the developments at all front lines clearly show that even if those fakes were true, it would mean that Ukie army is equipped and trained even worse.

    For those who like to point out striking stupidity of Ukie behavior for many years I’d like to remind that nobody has time machine and that history has no subjunctive mood, The situation is what it is here and now. Everything else is immaterial.

    This blog is sometimes enlivened by discussions unrelated to SMO. My two cents to the discussion of rock music: most songs sounded a lot better when I was young and did not understand the words. I am grateful to rock singers who do not pronounce words clearly: 90% of rock songs are spoiled by stupid lyrics and awkward rhymes.

    Replies: @QCIC

    Before Youtube I understood roughly half of the lyrics to my favorite rock songs, partially due to some limits of my hearing and also because I favored the music and didn’t need the words of some high school kid. While listening to one of the old songs I was disturbed and impressed by how a singer can torture the words to fit any melody. Maybe this habit is one of the trends which led to awful spoken word music like rap? Once the natural connection between the words and melody is stretched too far they can be separated. This can leave boring words on one side and possibly music on the other.

    I don’t mind the stupid lyrics in my old faves so much, probably from my approval of youthful enthusiasm and general nostalgia. If I were better with music maybe I could come up with new words for old favorite songs.

    Youtube changed other perceptions of rock by crushing the record-company hype regarding the technical prowess of popular guitarists. Any song which was considered technically challenging back in the day can be played by some 8 year old Asian kid. To be fair, creating the music is the hard part and the kid may not have any emotional base to create from. Of course many people are aware that the skills of non-commercial music composers and performers may not have much overlap.

    • Replies: @LatW
    @QCIC


    Before Youtube I understood roughly half of the lyrics to my favorite rock songs, partially due to some limits of my hearing and also because I favored the music and didn’t need the words of some high school kid.
     
    Oh, that's interesting, because I used to think that that was a handicap of non-English speakers. When I was learning English as a kid, I used to get frustrated that I couldn't make out all the lyrics clearly, we would even sometimes sing along just phonetically. Then we got the lyrics from the internet finally, although even before that there were small businesses in the mid 90s that sold English lyrics - I'm not kidding, seriously, these little businesses were selling bootlegged tapes and printed out lyrics for those who wanted them. So we finally got them and were able to read them, not that they were anything spectacular, just knowing what those words were was good.

    I also found it really cool how the vowels are changed when they are sung. Funny.

    And, yes, Cats in the cradle is a great song, even if it is very sad, and the Ugly Kid Joe version makes it sound a bit more dramatic.


    Any song which was considered technically challenging back in the day can be played by some 8 year old Asian kid.
     
    Yea, I've noticed there are now a lot of shorts with pretty girls playing famous riffs. There's a bunch of videos with girls doing Cemetery Gates, too. I mean it's cute and they do an ok job, but it's better when a guy does it. It's a more explosive energy that way.

    Here's one with a really cute girl doing Dr Feelgood, lol. She does a good job and it's very close to the original sound, but she's just so soft looking. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YhNQ-tpEZn0

    Replies: @Greasy William, @QCIC

  672. QCIC says:
    @John Johnson
    Watch this Russian tank get hit by a javalin:

    https://youtu.be/Z9QIJItW4tE?t=5

    Incredible explosion!

    If Putin had stayed in his borders we never would have seen how well these American weapons work.

    Replies: @QCIC

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top. This is how A-10 aircraft chewed up T-72 tanks in the Gulf Wars. This only worked because the Iraqis didn’t have a good air defense especially MANPADS. Now we have lots more FPV drones and top attack rockets.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @QCIC

    And now it's the turn of the Abrams and Leopards.

    FYI, the Iraqis didn't for the most part have the most up to date T-72s at the time on top of hvaing a largely not well trained force.

    , @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top.

    Well yes I think everyone knows that by now. But at the start of the war we had Putin defenders telling us that the javalin and similar weapons won't work. Scott Ritter told us that America no longer produces anything.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    The newer version was supposed to be the T-14 and it turned out to be a buggy mess.

    They're sticking with the T-90.

    Replies: @Derer, @QCIC

  673. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top. This is how A-10 aircraft chewed up T-72 tanks in the Gulf Wars. This only worked because the Iraqis didn't have a good air defense especially MANPADS. Now we have lots more FPV drones and top attack rockets.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    And now it’s the turn of the Abrams and Leopards.

    FYI, the Iraqis didn’t for the most part have the most up to date T-72s at the time on top of hvaing a largely not well trained force.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
  674. @AP
    @Gerard1234


    with your comments on the internet 24/7.
     
    The only one on the internet "24/7" is you. When you claimed somewhere I was on numerous forums (I am not) you merely confessed that you yourself have been on numerous forums where you thought you came across me.

    You, Sharikov, should never been taught how to access the internet, or to perhaps even to read.

    Replies: @Gerard1234

    Your claims are getting even dumber and more illogical than usual.

    As you know, I spend minimal time on the Internet, well below average- my style of commentating is of course unique so everybody can tell if Gérard is speaking, even if I didn’t attach that name to it. But in English, they are not seeing these comments anywhere except here on Unz – as I have other things to do.

    Clearly your comment is projection – you don’t appear to have been here much in the last week so must have been attempting some vile comments on another forum – your retard talking points, disinfo, insidious gutter style of “debating” are easy to spot and leaves a disgusting smelll

  675. @Mr. Hack
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Still, Ukraine will lose and Zelensky will either get his rewards in Florida or be terminated like the Vietnamese guy did when his use by date came up. Pity about all the dead, but they’re not his people after all.
     
    How much longer do I need to wait? I've been hearing this bogus claim for 2.5 years now, and Zelensky is still sitting put in Kyiv? And why Florida, and not France or Spain where I think that he already owns property and where his wife and kids probably already live?

    And speaking about kids, you know that their mother is a proud and 100% attractive Ukrainian woman? This notion that if you're Jewish you cannot form positive attachments to the country where you were born in and live your whole life is as worn out and old as the hills and totally stupid.

    If Zelensky is really so ultra-Jewish and incapable of relating to the Ukrainian people, don't let kremlinstoogeA123 know about this. He really does believe that Zelensky is an uber anti-semitic Jew hater. He develops this childish image of the man in almost every one of his stupid comments. He really believes just the opposite of what you do, so who is right and who is wrong? :-)

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “How much longer do I need to wait? I’ve been hearing this bogus claim for 2.5 years now, and Zelensky is still sitting put in Kyiv?”

    I was never a walkover pundit, predictions about the future are difficult. But no matter what weapons go to Ukraine, they need people to fire them – and Ukraine is running short.

    If NATO start launching missiles from Poland, or attack Konigsberg/Kaliningrad, then we’re in a different ball game. But otherwise it’s just a matter of time.

    At the moment the US are attempting a Maidan II in Georgia – remember those Special Forces C130 flights to Tblisi I flagged up a few weeks back – March 19 to be exact?

    https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-244/#comment-6474017

    “They ring their bells, but soon they will be wringing their hands”.

    https://www.wardsbookofdays.com/19october.htm

  676. @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack

    You're just refusing to understand anything of what I'm saying.

    I do understand why Ukraine's military situation improves being in NATO. Everybody understands that. There is no country on this planet whose security doesn't improve dramatically by joining NATO, from South Sudan to Bolivia. But the question is how does global security and the security of the other members of NATO improve by expanding to those countries?

    Everybody with a brain in the US seems to be coming around to the idea that NATO's expansion after the fall of the USSR was a mistake. Here's none other than Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary company Blackwater, attacking that neocon insanity, among others:

    https://im1776.com/too-big-to-win/

    I'm pretty sure that there are people in the current administration holding that kind of views too. Biden was the one who ordered the US withdrawal from Afghanistan after all, and he looks ambivalent about Israel. Obama's administration, that he was a part of, wasn't particularly bellicose against Russia. They did send Nuland to encourage the anti-Russians in Kiev but, as we saw with Trump, this type of thing is often led by the inertia of the permanent bureaucracy entrenched in DC, who hold tremendous power.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    No Mikel, I think that I understand you perfectly well, but it’s you that somehow don’t understand what I’m saying (reposted from above):

    “My people” choose not to live in peace at any cost. Freedom, to be in charge of and responsible for things that go on within their own country is paramount in their minds.

    I would also add:

    Not have the policies, historical memories/narratives dictated and censored in Moscow. This kind of nonsense has been going on for centuries and needs to be changed.

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    historical memories/narratives dictated and censored in Moscow. This kind of nonsense has been going on for centuries and needs to be changed.
     
    Sure, with American taxpayers' money. Let's see how well it works long term that change of centuries old narratives in the Old World at the expense of US citizens who also risk nuclear war to honor those memories they know nothing about.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  677. @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel

    No Mikel, I think that I understand you perfectly well, but it's you that somehow don't understand what I'm saying (reposted from above):


    "My people” choose not to live in peace at any cost. Freedom, to be in charge of and responsible for things that go on within their own country is paramount in their minds.
     
    I would also add:

    Not have the policies, historical memories/narratives dictated and censored in Moscow. This kind of nonsense has been going on for centuries and needs to be changed.

    Replies: @Mikel

    historical memories/narratives dictated and censored in Moscow. This kind of nonsense has been going on for centuries and needs to be changed.

    Sure, with American taxpayers’ money. Let’s see how well it works long term that change of centuries old narratives in the Old World at the expense of US citizens who also risk nuclear war to honor those memories they know nothing about.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel

    The US taxpayers are benefiting from the good high paying defense jobs being created in order to provide the necessary tools that Ukraine needs in order to expel the unwanted aggressor from its lands. Every Russian missile system eliminated are more Ukrainian lives saved and shows to the world that the US doesn't turn its back on its friends and allies.

    Replies: @Mikel

  678. QCIC says:

    This short video is a good primer to help a typical American to understand why the anti-Russia project in Ukraine is impractical, counter-productive and dangerous. It doesn’t cover the history which Brovkin reviews in other talks. It also does not get into important though more subjective discussions of the esoteric Western Deep State, Noviops and world cabals which some of us think are important.

    [MORE]

  679. This one is for JJ,

    Putin 5.0
    Is short the new tall?
    I’m wondering if Putin had the doors made taller to emphasize how short he is?

    Steven Seagal good brief comment at 1:09.

    A cryptic comment by an academic at 2:30 for Bashibuzuk.

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Is short the new tall?

    Women are most likely programmed to prefer men that are taller than them.

    In fact I remember a study that shows White women will select for height over wealth once you are outside the extremes.

    I don't see a short trend happening for that reason.

    Putin's height is often highlighted because it is related to his zeal for power and the invasion of Ukraine. It shows that even with untold wealth he is still hopelessly insecure.

    He wears special heels to look taller and it is illegal to call him a dwarf.

    The war is part of his ongoing life of compensation. If he was born the 5'6 that he pretends to be then this war would not have happened. He is most likely 5'1 based on earlier pictures with Medvedev. That is very small for a Russian man.

    I’m wondering if Putin had the doors made taller to emphasize how short he is

    It would actually be worse if he came through normal sized doors. With extra large doors it is harder to see his relative size.

    But it does remind me of the small guy that can barely get into his big truck. Not a good look.

  680. @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    historical memories/narratives dictated and censored in Moscow. This kind of nonsense has been going on for centuries and needs to be changed.
     
    Sure, with American taxpayers' money. Let's see how well it works long term that change of centuries old narratives in the Old World at the expense of US citizens who also risk nuclear war to honor those memories they know nothing about.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    The US taxpayers are benefiting from the good high paying defense jobs being created in order to provide the necessary tools that Ukraine needs in order to expel the unwanted aggressor from its lands. Every Russian missile system eliminated are more Ukrainian lives saved and shows to the world that the US doesn’t turn its back on its friends and allies.

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    The US taxpayers are benefiting from the good high paying defense jobs being created
     
    That's just magical thinking. The US taxpayers are benefiting from adding to a stratospheric debt that the US government maintains by fleecing them to the tune of 1 trillion every year just for interest payments because a few of them get high paying jobs in exchange. I thought you said you work in finance! Put differently, if there was no war in Ukraine, would you be in favor of adding to the debt with constant military packages of tens of billions of dollars spent on some nonexistent country because that "benefits the taxpayers"?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  681. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top. This is how A-10 aircraft chewed up T-72 tanks in the Gulf Wars. This only worked because the Iraqis didn't have a good air defense especially MANPADS. Now we have lots more FPV drones and top attack rockets.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top.

    Well yes I think everyone knows that by now. But at the start of the war we had Putin defenders telling us that the javalin and similar weapons won’t work. Scott Ritter told us that America no longer produces anything.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    The newer version was supposed to be the T-14 and it turned out to be a buggy mess.

    They’re sticking with the T-90.

    • Replies: @Derer
    @John Johnson

    Never mind the tanks...in your one-sided updates/news you are noticeably silent about the Kharkov offensive. I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy - end is near.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    , @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    People probably want to make a giant tank (T-14) until they realize it is easier to hit. The last Azeri-Armenian combat showed how vulnerable tanks are to drones. Top attack missile vulnerability was already known. Some people like to fight the last war so it takes time for reality to bite, even if they have already seen real combat videos with new lessons.

    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability. It is still true that our productive capacity is way down from earlier peaks and it is tough to guess how things would play out in a real economic crisis. It was known by 2022 that the original wave of sanctions against Russia made her stronger, so expecting the next round to work better required some optimism.

    Replies: @Greasy William

  682. @A123
    @Beckow


    There is no law, countries do what they think is best for them…Russia invaded Ukraine as US invaded about dozen countries and Izrael just invaded Gaza. Russia had enough reasons and was provoked by mistreatment of Russians and by Nato. Wars are hell and sooner it’s done better.
     
    I concur.

    Kiev built the Collective Punishment Dam to harm civilians in Crimea.

    Wars are hell and sooner it’s done better. -- Which is why it is important to understand that Israel and Russia are the inevitable winners. The Veggie-In-Chief is making both situations worse by propping up Hamas and Kiev.

    The genocidal UN/NWO also voted to increase war. Rewarding Hamas for their October 7 attack is counter productive. False hope is among the worst things to offer.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Kiev built the Collective Punishment Dam to harm civilians in Crimea.

    The same old BS story that I successfully countered long ago, just before you supposedly put me on ignore. These “rights” were never renegotiated, as what is considered normal protocol for such actions.

    I’ll even go one further, why should Ukraine go out of its way to provide water for an area that is a known staging ground for aggressive enemy military outposts, that Ukraine is now bombing almost every day?

  683. @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel

    The US taxpayers are benefiting from the good high paying defense jobs being created in order to provide the necessary tools that Ukraine needs in order to expel the unwanted aggressor from its lands. Every Russian missile system eliminated are more Ukrainian lives saved and shows to the world that the US doesn't turn its back on its friends and allies.

    Replies: @Mikel

    The US taxpayers are benefiting from the good high paying defense jobs being created

    That’s just magical thinking. The US taxpayers are benefiting from adding to a stratospheric debt that the US government maintains by fleecing them to the tune of 1 trillion every year just for interest payments because a few of them get high paying jobs in exchange. I thought you said you work in finance! Put differently, if there was no war in Ukraine, would you be in favor of adding to the debt with constant military packages of tens of billions of dollars spent on some nonexistent country because that “benefits the taxpayers”?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mikel

    The sale of weaponry to Ukraine is being counted against Ukraine's debt load, for these sales are not gifts, but purchases made where Ukraine is on the hook for paying for them. Good jobs in the defense sector are only a side benefit. The US is also able to rid itself of old stored weaponry and able to manufacture newer and better weaponry to replenish its own stockpiles.

  684. @QCIC
    This one is for JJ,

    Putin 5.0
    Is short the new tall?
    I'm wondering if Putin had the doors made taller to emphasize how short he is?

    Steven Seagal good brief comment at 1:09.

    A cryptic comment by an academic at 2:30 for Bashibuzuk.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezy1LviMasI

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Is short the new tall?

    Women are most likely programmed to prefer men that are taller than them.

    In fact I remember a study that shows White women will select for height over wealth once you are outside the extremes.

    I don’t see a short trend happening for that reason.

    Putin’s height is often highlighted because it is related to his zeal for power and the invasion of Ukraine. It shows that even with untold wealth he is still hopelessly insecure.

    He wears special heels to look taller and it is illegal to call him a dwarf.

    The war is part of his ongoing life of compensation. If he was born the 5’6 that he pretends to be then this war would not have happened. He is most likely 5’1 based on earlier pictures with Medvedev. That is very small for a Russian man.

    I’m wondering if Putin had the doors made taller to emphasize how short he is

    It would actually be worse if he came through normal sized doors. With extra large doors it is harder to see his relative size.

    But it does remind me of the small guy that can barely get into his big truck. Not a good look.

  685. LatW says:
    @QCIC
    @AnonfromTN

    Before Youtube I understood roughly half of the lyrics to my favorite rock songs, partially due to some limits of my hearing and also because I favored the music and didn't need the words of some high school kid. While listening to one of the old songs I was disturbed and impressed by how a singer can torture the words to fit any melody. Maybe this habit is one of the trends which led to awful spoken word music like rap? Once the natural connection between the words and melody is stretched too far they can be separated. This can leave boring words on one side and possibly music on the other.

    I don't mind the stupid lyrics in my old faves so much, probably from my approval of youthful enthusiasm and general nostalgia. If I were better with music maybe I could come up with new words for old favorite songs.

    Youtube changed other perceptions of rock by crushing the record-company hype regarding the technical prowess of popular guitarists. Any song which was considered technically challenging back in the day can be played by some 8 year old Asian kid. To be fair, creating the music is the hard part and the kid may not have any emotional base to create from. Of course many people are aware that the skills of non-commercial music composers and performers may not have much overlap.

    Replies: @LatW

    Before Youtube I understood roughly half of the lyrics to my favorite rock songs, partially due to some limits of my hearing and also because I favored the music and didn’t need the words of some high school kid.

    Oh, that’s interesting, because I used to think that that was a handicap of non-English speakers. When I was learning English as a kid, I used to get frustrated that I couldn’t make out all the lyrics clearly, we would even sometimes sing along just phonetically. Then we got the lyrics from the internet finally, although even before that there were small businesses in the mid 90s that sold English lyrics – I’m not kidding, seriously, these little businesses were selling bootlegged tapes and printed out lyrics for those who wanted them. So we finally got them and were able to read them, not that they were anything spectacular, just knowing what those words were was good.

    I also found it really cool how the vowels are changed when they are sung. Funny.

    And, yes, Cats in the cradle is a great song, even if it is very sad, and the Ugly Kid Joe version makes it sound a bit more dramatic.

    Any song which was considered technically challenging back in the day can be played by some 8 year old Asian kid.

    Yea, I’ve noticed there are now a lot of shorts with pretty girls playing famous riffs. There’s a bunch of videos with girls doing Cemetery Gates, too. I mean it’s cute and they do an ok job, but it’s better when a guy does it. It’s a more explosive energy that way.

    Here’s one with a really cute girl doing Dr Feelgood, lol. She does a good job and it’s very close to the original sound, but she’s just so soft looking. 🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YhNQ-tpEZn0

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @LatW

    she looks like Margot Robbie

    , @QCIC
    @LatW

    She has been around for a few years. I think she had to practice in the mirror a lot to come up with relatable facial expressions.

    That may be part of what you are referring to. When a guy is riffing out and making silly and sincere facial expressions it looks OK. Not so much with many axe women.

    There is always Mel to show us the world is stranger and probably better than we think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jQ-UeggLQ&t=3s

    Replies: @LatW, @Bashibuzuk

  686. @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top.

    Well yes I think everyone knows that by now. But at the start of the war we had Putin defenders telling us that the javalin and similar weapons won't work. Scott Ritter told us that America no longer produces anything.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    The newer version was supposed to be the T-14 and it turned out to be a buggy mess.

    They're sticking with the T-90.

    Replies: @Derer, @QCIC

    Never mind the tanks…in your one-sided updates/news you are noticeably silent about the Kharkov offensive. I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy – end is near.

    • Replies: @Mikhail
    @Derer


    I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy – end is near.
     
    But that little dwarf dictator who cancelled an election unlike Putin could say:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQzdAsjWGPg
    , @John Johnson
    @Derer

    Never mind the tanks…in your one-sided updates/news you are noticeably silent about the Kharkov offensive.

    I've seen some probing attacks but not a major offensive.

    It makes sense for Putin to send whatever reserves he has available before the new hardware arrives. Thanks again to Johnson and Trump for working out that giant pork bill that benefits both Ukraine and the US defense industry.

    Putin might as well play whatever cards he has remaining. The EU is about to give Ukraine the frozen Russian assets to buy even more military hardware. It really makes sense for him to hit the giant GO button.

    Ukraine will have enough HIMARS/ATACMS to take out at least 1000 armored vehicles with ease. That's 4 to 6 thousand soldiers being wiped out before they get into combat.

    Don't worry about me, I will benefit regardless just like the US defense industry. I'll be in a Vegas hot tub when this is all over. Put your thoughts towards the Russian soldier with 3 kids that has no chance of seeing the enemy or returning home.

    I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy – end is near.

    Haven't seen that. Provide a source please.

    Putin has hinted through Lavrov that he wants a demilitarized zone. That suggests they would accept a chunk of Eastern Ukraine to end the war. Which means Putin's original goal of keeping NATO from moving East has failed. Maybe he can somehow talk Finland into leaving but I doubt it. This war has all just been one giant waste for both the people of Russia and Ukraine. It's all the result of a 5'1 angry dwarf who most likely has a tiny penis that helps push his bitterness to an 11. The resentment is real. You can look in Putin's eyes and just see a lifetime of bitterness even though he is a billionaire dictator. Hitler had a weird penis issue where he had to pee like a girl until it was fixed. Stalin was very short and wouldn't allow himself to be photographed next to FDR or Churchhill. Psychopathic dictators tend to follow a pattern of hating society in general.

  687. Oh, this one’s damn good. The Creeping Death solo. How do you like it, Kirk? Hahaha.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jCUrPZAlAlQ

    Fade to Black outro – excellent!

  688. Only two European idiots voted against Palestinian membership in the UN – Czechia and Hungary. Some Western cowards abstained. The world voted overwhelmingly for Palestine. Interesting is the independent position of Australia voting for Palestine while Canadian hypocrite abstained.

  689. @Mr. Hack
    @Sher Singh

    https://media.alvinology.com/uploads/2016/04/bluemangroup.jpg

    Replies: @Sher Singh

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Sher Singh

    https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/984204/screenshots/3443201/__03.gif

    Replies: @Sher Singh

    , @QCIC
    @Sher Singh

    What about a dog? Asking for friend...

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  690. @Mikel
    @Mr. Hack


    The US taxpayers are benefiting from the good high paying defense jobs being created
     
    That's just magical thinking. The US taxpayers are benefiting from adding to a stratospheric debt that the US government maintains by fleecing them to the tune of 1 trillion every year just for interest payments because a few of them get high paying jobs in exchange. I thought you said you work in finance! Put differently, if there was no war in Ukraine, would you be in favor of adding to the debt with constant military packages of tens of billions of dollars spent on some nonexistent country because that "benefits the taxpayers"?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    The sale of weaponry to Ukraine is being counted against Ukraine’s debt load, for these sales are not gifts, but purchases made where Ukraine is on the hook for paying for them. Good jobs in the defense sector are only a side benefit. The US is also able to rid itself of old stored weaponry and able to manufacture newer and better weaponry to replenish its own stockpiles.

  691. Europeans (other than Romanians) want less immigration:

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Mr. XYZ

    Although attendance at our small church in Phoenix was filled with a record crowd this recent past Easter (330 attendees), I'm sure that there will still be enough empty pews to accompany more war refugees going forward on a regular basis. Tell them to go to America "the land of the free, the home of the brave".

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  692. @Sher Singh
    @Mr. Hack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckup156qwI

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @QCIC

    • Replies: @Sher Singh
    @Mr. Hack

    https://twitter.com/BezirganMocha/status/1789437039202521416

    Will start putting them behind more now.

  693. @Mr. XYZ
    Europeans (other than Romanians) want less immigration:

    https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1789324621642105066?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    Although attendance at our small church in Phoenix was filled with a record crowd this recent past Easter (330 attendees), I’m sure that there will still be enough empty pews to accompany more war refugees going forward on a regular basis. Tell them to go to America “the land of the free, the home of the brave”.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Mr. Hack

    I suspect that Americans could also sour much more on Muslim immigration if the quality of our Muslim immigrants will be reduced to Western Europe's level in the future. We currently in large part get the Muslim cognitive elites.

    The Afghan refugees will be a good integration experiment--just how well will they successfully integrate and assimilate into American society? Though admittedly being a pro-US Afghan does involve something of a self-selection process.

  694. @LatW
    @QCIC


    Before Youtube I understood roughly half of the lyrics to my favorite rock songs, partially due to some limits of my hearing and also because I favored the music and didn’t need the words of some high school kid.
     
    Oh, that's interesting, because I used to think that that was a handicap of non-English speakers. When I was learning English as a kid, I used to get frustrated that I couldn't make out all the lyrics clearly, we would even sometimes sing along just phonetically. Then we got the lyrics from the internet finally, although even before that there were small businesses in the mid 90s that sold English lyrics - I'm not kidding, seriously, these little businesses were selling bootlegged tapes and printed out lyrics for those who wanted them. So we finally got them and were able to read them, not that they were anything spectacular, just knowing what those words were was good.

    I also found it really cool how the vowels are changed when they are sung. Funny.

    And, yes, Cats in the cradle is a great song, even if it is very sad, and the Ugly Kid Joe version makes it sound a bit more dramatic.


    Any song which was considered technically challenging back in the day can be played by some 8 year old Asian kid.
     
    Yea, I've noticed there are now a lot of shorts with pretty girls playing famous riffs. There's a bunch of videos with girls doing Cemetery Gates, too. I mean it's cute and they do an ok job, but it's better when a guy does it. It's a more explosive energy that way.

    Here's one with a really cute girl doing Dr Feelgood, lol. She does a good job and it's very close to the original sound, but she's just so soft looking. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YhNQ-tpEZn0

    Replies: @Greasy William, @QCIC

    she looks like Margot Robbie

    • Agree: QCIC
  695. @Derer
    @John Johnson

    Never mind the tanks...in your one-sided updates/news you are noticeably silent about the Kharkov offensive. I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy - end is near.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy – end is near.

    But that little dwarf dictator who cancelled an election unlike Putin could say:

  696. Someone who knows what he’s talking about, much unlike some others:

  697. A good read on the situation in Georgia:

    https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/05/11/dont-confuse-them-with-facts/

    Georgia has experienced economic growth in conjunction with not joining the idiotic sanctions regimen to “punish” Russia, which have backfired against those advocating it. NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ use of “outside agitators” (regarding pro-Palestinian protests on US college campuses) applies to the Georgian situation.

  698. AP says:
    @Beckow
    @AP

    You try way too hard to somehow justify your deep biases. A weird thing to do. If you hate Russia so much just own up to it, it is not forbidden. These days it is encouraged in the freedom-loving West.

    Soviet is not a nationality. Period. You can blabber and try to explain away Britain but it is an ethnic designation: British. WW2 was won by Russia with her ethnic allies - including the normal Ukrainians who were a huge majority at that time. Germany also had many ethnic allies: Italians, Romanians, Finns, Magyars...that doesn't make the defeat any less German.

    Objectively speaking, Nazi Germany had almost all of Europe on its side when they attacked Russia in 1941 - many nations sent armies to join the Nazis, many others armed them...including Sweden. And they lost badly. As the loss became obvious some of the allies started to peel off, even change sides. But that can't change the reality.

    But due to your obsessive bias you can't accept anything that is positive about Russia, so you will repeat the embarrassing autistic nonsense. Until you lose the war. Then you will probably claim that a "loss is not a loss because"...I am sure you will come up something. Like it didn't happen in 2 weeks, or "Finland is in Nato!"...you do realize that looks like a mental palliative?

    Replies: @AP

    You try way too hard

    It’s not hard to be accurate. USSR was not equal to Russia, Britain is not equal to England.

    If you hate Russia so much

    Of course I don’t hate Russia. My kids speak Russian and I have learned it, and I enjoy Moscow and hope to return some day.

    Britain but it is an ethnic designation: British

    Do your substandard schools teach that Britain is an ethnic designation or is that your own personal failing?

    WW2 was won by Russia

    Was it the Russian army?

    The only Russian Armies were fighting on the German side. – Русская освободительная армия under Vlasov, the much smaller 1-я Русская национальная армия under a Russian White emigre.

    There was the Soviet Army, with Russians and Ukrainians and others in it. Led by an ethnic Georgian head of state. Whose people were kept on a short leash by a Georgian terror master, Beria.

    Objectively speaking, Nazi Germany had almost all of Europe on its side when they attacked Russia in 1941

    They had some European countries such as Slovakia on their side – others they were busy occupying.

    Objectively speaking they attacked the USSR and not Russia. The first troops went into the Ukraine and Belarus Soviet Republics of the USSR.

    So Germany+Italy+Hungary+Slovakia+ Romania+Bulgaria attacked the USSR (Russia+Ukraine+Kazakhstan+etc. etc.) while also fighting Britain and occupying Poland, France, etc.

    It was not “all of Europe” versus “Russia.” “Russia” could not come close to defeating “all of Europe.” This kind of stupid lack of understanding of reality can lead to reckless decisions.

    you can’t accept anything that is positive about Russia

    Russia has great literature and music, and Moscow is probably the nicest huge city in the world. the Russian people are pleasant and very human on an interpersonal level (they are typical Slavs). They just inherited a nasty political culture from their former masters, so it’s better for Ukrainians to stay away and not be under such rule also. I have said these things consistently.

    Why do you have to lie, as usual?

    Until you lose the war. Then you will probably claim that a “loss is not a loss because”…I am sure you will come up something. Like it didn’t happen in 2 weeks, or “Finland is in Nato!”

    Your funny “bragging” that Ukraine is not in NATO is a cope for Russia doing poorly and failing in its goal of regime change for Ukraine. It’s like Americans congratulating themselves that Iraq does not have nukes.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AP

    Your usual collection of total nonsense. Few obvious corrections:

    British are a nation, the people from the British islands. It is also an ethnic designation, 'Soviet' is not.

    The war in Ukraine is primarily about Nato wanting to expand there to Russia's borders, bases, missiles, etc... That won't happen - so Russia will win.

    Denying that Russians were the main force and the leaders in defeating Germany and its allies shows a rather extreme dislike of Russia and Russians. You may deny it, but you have been denying a lot of things that are obvious to others.

    All of Europe joined Germany in its aggressive war on Russia: either with troops or by providing resources. The only exceptions were UK and Ireland. If you can name one country that didn't send armies, volunteers or weapons tell us. I will be waiting.

    Finally, Bulgaria was not one of the countries that attacked Russia in WW2, they refused to send soldiers. You even get small stuff wrong...

  699. AP says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @Mikel

    Problem is both RusFed and Ukiestan are in a sense artificial countries. They are both byproducts of the Sovok radioactive decay, national unstable isotopes (sorry for my poor analogy). And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.

    Emil is right about bringing Bloodlands into the spotlight, how can you have peace with populations that have for so many generations experienced so much violence? With countries and identities built upon violence since times immemorial?

    As a Russian, I know that we hardly ever have had peace for two generations. It’s the same (if not worse) in Ukraine. Already in 1990, some Ukrainian nationalists (Dmitro Korchinsky) talked about the need to burn down Moscow to bring back the spirit of Rus, that supposedly has been lost among the Moscovite and preserved among the Galician Ruthenians. And of course we know that in RusFed, Dugin and other freaks have also expressed the need to destroy (or at least radically reform and dominate) Ukraine. How can we have peace when these types are free to roam around and spew their hatred and craziness? What is rather sadly funny in a way is that these maniacs got along just fine for a time…

    https://youtu.be/PP3Vm7XIj5A?feature=shared

    Eastern Slavs are not like the French, who can be artificially divided by a border (between France and Belgium) and just tell jokes about it. If we have borders, we will have wars. We’re not like the Swiss, who can build a translinguistic (not sure I can even use that term) confederation around common values either. If we have a country, we’d need to have a dominant language and have something peculiar about the values of our country. It’s a deeply ingrained population psychology. The amount of violence needed to change that is very high. But perhaps we can achieve that by now, after all we have the nuclear weapons. Once it is turned into a radioactive desert, the Bloodlands territory would know peace at last. I don’t feel optimistic…

    Replies: @QCIC, @Mikel, @AP

    And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.

    As I have said, the Bolsheviks killed Russia and created a putrid and grotesque monster out of the corpse, attaching other nations to it that they also killed and butchered. This was the Soviet Union.

    But having a foreign elite is something essential to Russia, it started when Russia began. Even before Christianity was adopted. The very name of Rus comes from a foreign elite (a bunch of Norsemen and Wends who took over East Slavic lands, and made money by selling East Slavs as slaves to Arabs). Eastern Slavs ruled by outsiders is a central feature of Russia. They used to be Norsemen/Wends, then Tatars and some Lithuanians were added to the mix (and served as tutors and teachers about how to rule the East Slavs), then a bunch of Germans were added. Then they were wiped out an replaced by Caucasians, Jews, and Latvians. But always it was foreigners ruling East Slavs. Yes, they eventually became Slavicized, they spoke your language and shared your religion (the first wave, the Rus, forced it upon you as they did upon us).

    It happened to England once, when the Normans took over and wiped out the native elite. France was formed by Franks taking over Roman Gaul. And Ukraine had an identical history at first, they too started out as East Slavs ruled by Rus. But after that the elites were locals, either Polonized magnates of local (or at worst Rurikid) origin or native gentry such as Khmelnytsky or Sahaidachny. But in Russia it happened always, over centuries. This was specifically Russian.

    It’s odd to retain the name of foreign Rus overlords, while disapproving of a state of affairs involving rule by a multiethnic mix that is only partially East Slavic in origin. Multiethnic Noviops ruling Russia – what could be more Russian then that? If the current crop ends up taking Russia into Chinese vassalage, it will be an echo of a very ancient tradition.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @AP

    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine. «Один народ» однако. The only difference is RusFed being bigger and having more natural resources.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.

    Our people (yes it’s one people) will be degraded, digested and used as a fertilizer for something entirely alien to grow on the lands on which our ancestors lived for thousands of years. This war is hastening this outcome.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years. And yeah so many Bolshevik and Left SR were among these Slav-haiters that it is obvious that they didn’t mean anything positive for our future. And both the Moscovite and Kievan Noviop scum are flesh from the flesh of these Slav-despising scum. They enjoy us killing each other.

    Most people don’t understand this, but I know that you are way smarter than most. Anger can be misdirected even when justified. Even very intelligent people can be swayed by emotion.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @AP

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP


    France was formed by Franks taking over Roman Gaul.
     
    Didn't the Romans also replace the Celts in Gaul? I mean, Yes, the Gallic population retained a lot of Celtic DNA, very likely, but the Gallic elites and middle-classes were certainly Romanized over the centuries, no? The original Gauls were Celts, no? Including their elites and whatever small middle-classes they might have had prior to the Roman conquest, right?

    Interestingly enough, from a Russian nationalist perspective, one can celebrate the departure of a lot of Russia's elites. The old Russian (but non-ethnically Russian) nobility and aristocracy left en masse during the Russian Civil War (if they weren't murdered by the Bolsheviks), the Jews left en masse starting from the 1970s, and continuing up to the present-day, with this mass emigration now including half-Jews and quarter-Jews and even some eighth-Jews more and more. The Volga Germans have mostly moved en masse "back home" to Germany in the 1990s and beyond, thus eliminating whatever elite replacement potential they might have had. Who else is left? I don't think that Russia would actually be sufficiently attractive for mass Chinese immigration to it--would it be? Or just Moscow and St. Petersburg would be?

    Off-topic, but in regards to Israel's future elite, it's likely to be a mix of secular Jews and Eastern Slavs, sometimes in combination with one another in the ancestry of the very same people. The ex-USSR immigrants to Israel of mixed East Slavic and Jewish descent are likely to intermarry in huge numbers with secular Israeli Jews over the long-run. Secular Israeli Jews are the only Jewish group in Israel that is mostly non-hostile to the idea of marrying such people, after all, especially if they aren't actually halakhically Jewish. Israel getting a future elite who will either not be halakhically Jewish or have relatives who will not be halakhically Jewish. That would be a truly beautiful sight to behold. And I myself will be eagerly watching and celebrating this!

  700. Bashibuzuk says:
    @LatW
    @Bashibuzuk

    You take a mortal man
    And put him in control
    Watch him become a god
    Watch people's heads a-roll

    Just like the pied piper
    Led rats through the streets
    We dance like marionettes
    Swaying to the symphony of destruction

    [..]

    The Earth starts to rumble
    World powers fall
    A warring for the heavens
    A peaceful man stands tall

    (c) Dave Mustaine

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtGdwCnBYY

    Replies: @QCIC, @Bashibuzuk

    [MORE]

    The enemy is not who you think it is.

  701. @John Johnson
    @QCIC

    Most tanks are vulnerable from the top.

    Well yes I think everyone knows that by now. But at the start of the war we had Putin defenders telling us that the javalin and similar weapons won't work. Scott Ritter told us that America no longer produces anything.

    Half the problem with the Russian tanks is the vulnerable ammo storage inside the turret. It will be interesting to see if they come up with a more protected autoloader arrangement on the next version of T80/T90 as has been discussed.

    The newer version was supposed to be the T-14 and it turned out to be a buggy mess.

    They're sticking with the T-90.

    Replies: @Derer, @QCIC

    People probably want to make a giant tank (T-14) until they realize it is easier to hit. The last Azeri-Armenian combat showed how vulnerable tanks are to drones. Top attack missile vulnerability was already known. Some people like to fight the last war so it takes time for reality to bite, even if they have already seen real combat videos with new lessons.

    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability. It is still true that our productive capacity is way down from earlier peaks and it is tough to guess how things would play out in a real economic crisis. It was known by 2022 that the original wave of sanctions against Russia made her stronger, so expecting the next round to work better required some optimism.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @QCIC


    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability
     
    Nobody is predicting the demise of US/Western weapons production capability, what people are saying is that NATO is maxed out with what it can produce without dramatically scaling up its current armaments manufacturing capacity. I'm talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants. So far, the West hasn't even begun to do this and it is unclear that it ever will. In WWII and the Cold War, the West had the political will to effectively martial its industrial and economic resources into military production. That does not appear to be the case today. At least not yet. The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together. But why would anyone anticipate the West doing that?

    Replies: @Mikel, @QCIC, @John Johnson

  702. Bashibuzuk says:
    @AP
    @Bashibuzuk


    And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.
     
    As I have said, the Bolsheviks killed Russia and created a putrid and grotesque monster out of the corpse, attaching other nations to it that they also killed and butchered. This was the Soviet Union.

    But having a foreign elite is something essential to Russia, it started when Russia began. Even before Christianity was adopted. The very name of Rus comes from a foreign elite (a bunch of Norsemen and Wends who took over East Slavic lands, and made money by selling East Slavs as slaves to Arabs). Eastern Slavs ruled by outsiders is a central feature of Russia. They used to be Norsemen/Wends, then Tatars and some Lithuanians were added to the mix (and served as tutors and teachers about how to rule the East Slavs), then a bunch of Germans were added. Then they were wiped out an replaced by Caucasians, Jews, and Latvians. But always it was foreigners ruling East Slavs. Yes, they eventually became Slavicized, they spoke your language and shared your religion (the first wave, the Rus, forced it upon you as they did upon us).

    It happened to England once, when the Normans took over and wiped out the native elite. France was formed by Franks taking over Roman Gaul. And Ukraine had an identical history at first, they too started out as East Slavs ruled by Rus. But after that the elites were locals, either Polonized magnates of local (or at worst Rurikid) origin or native gentry such as Khmelnytsky or Sahaidachny. But in Russia it happened always, over centuries. This was specifically Russian.

    It's odd to retain the name of foreign Rus overlords, while disapproving of a state of affairs involving rule by a multiethnic mix that is only partially East Slavic in origin. Multiethnic Noviops ruling Russia - what could be more Russian then that? If the current crop ends up taking Russia into Chinese vassalage, it will be an echo of a very ancient tradition.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. XYZ

    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine. «Один народ» однако. The only difference is RusFed being bigger and having more natural resources.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.

    Our people (yes it’s one people) will be degraded, digested and used as a fertilizer for something entirely alien to grow on the lands on which our ancestors lived for thousands of years. This war is hastening this outcome.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years. And yeah so many Bolshevik and Left SR were among these Slav-haiters that it is obvious that they didn’t mean anything positive for our future. And both the Moscovite and Kievan Noviop scum are flesh from the flesh of these Slav-despising scum. They enjoy us killing each other.

    Most people don’t understand this, but I know that you are way smarter than most. Anger can be misdirected even when justified. Even very intelligent people can be swayed by emotion.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk


    Our people (yes it’s one people) will be degraded,
     
    I never would have placed you as an adept of the Putler doctrine. He must have made quite an impression on you when he wrote his historical treatise about Russian/Ukrainian history that he had published just before he invaded Ukraine. If they're truly "one people" his invasion of Ukraine starts to make some sense, as he tries to pound this idea into the heads of misguided Ukrainians who think that they have their own language, history and culture. Perhaps AP, with his infatuation of Moscow is starting to see things your way too?...

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @AP
    @Bashibuzuk


    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine.
     
    True, but this is a recent consequence of Russification. It wasn't like that before. Pre-Soviet Ukrainian elites were of native descent with in some cases Polish admixture.

    Moreover in Ukraine there is a region that does not follow the pattern: Galicia. Not coincidentally, the least Russified part of Ukraine.

    Because having a Noviop elite goes hand-in-hand with cultural, linguistic Russification.

    Being ruled by a foreign multicultural elite is an essential aspect of Russian culture. In Ukraine it is a recent phenomenon, reintroduced by the Soviets after having been absent for many centuries. Full Galicianization and de-Russification would have been necessary to rid Ukraine of this problem and to heal Ukraine. It is unfortunate that Donbas and Crimea were part of Ukraine until 2014, it might have been possible in that case.

    But the Russification is far from complete. Russified Ukrainians may have adopted from the Russians the use of the Russian language and tolerance of having a foreign Noviop elite, but they have retained their aversion to being ruled by a despot.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.
     
    Russia was the one who attacked though. The Ukrainian Noviops did not send their army into Russia. This may not be because Ukraine's Noviops are "better" than Russian ones - their country is simply smaller. But still - guilt here is not equal at all.

    Our people (yes it’s one people)
     
    Like all Slavs are one people. But we are far from identical. Our political cultures are very incompatible. The Russian Eurasianist Vernadsky claimed that Ukrainians retained the Old Rus democratic folkways that Muscovy/Russia lost, but it's just as likely to be the product of being an integral part of Poland for generations. Politically, Russians are the heirs of their tsars' Tatar overlords and teachers, Ukrainians hate despots and are Republican in nature, they don't tolerate Khans or Despots.

    Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from Rus. But Ukraine is a child of Rzeczpospolita. Russia is not. Russia learned from its Eastern overlords. Ukraine did not. And this makes a big difference between the two peoples.

    This stark political incompatibility is masked by genetic, linguistic and interpersonal similarities but it is revealed, with bloody consequences, whenever Russia tries to politically integrate - or rather, subjugate - Ukraine.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years
     
    I couldn't agree more.

    I'm angry at Putin and scum such as Solovyev or Simonyon (neither one a Slav) who support and cheerlead this invasion. Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed as the decent Americans who sincerely supported the evil Iraq war because they were convinced that it was the necessary thing to do. Killing invaders coming into one's homeland is sadly necessary and Ukraine needs to have the tools to do that until the Russians stay home, but there is nothing to celebrate about that.

    Replies: @LatW, @Mr. XYZ

  703. @LatW
    @QCIC


    Before Youtube I understood roughly half of the lyrics to my favorite rock songs, partially due to some limits of my hearing and also because I favored the music and didn’t need the words of some high school kid.
     
    Oh, that's interesting, because I used to think that that was a handicap of non-English speakers. When I was learning English as a kid, I used to get frustrated that I couldn't make out all the lyrics clearly, we would even sometimes sing along just phonetically. Then we got the lyrics from the internet finally, although even before that there were small businesses in the mid 90s that sold English lyrics - I'm not kidding, seriously, these little businesses were selling bootlegged tapes and printed out lyrics for those who wanted them. So we finally got them and were able to read them, not that they were anything spectacular, just knowing what those words were was good.

    I also found it really cool how the vowels are changed when they are sung. Funny.

    And, yes, Cats in the cradle is a great song, even if it is very sad, and the Ugly Kid Joe version makes it sound a bit more dramatic.


    Any song which was considered technically challenging back in the day can be played by some 8 year old Asian kid.
     
    Yea, I've noticed there are now a lot of shorts with pretty girls playing famous riffs. There's a bunch of videos with girls doing Cemetery Gates, too. I mean it's cute and they do an ok job, but it's better when a guy does it. It's a more explosive energy that way.

    Here's one with a really cute girl doing Dr Feelgood, lol. She does a good job and it's very close to the original sound, but she's just so soft looking. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YhNQ-tpEZn0

    Replies: @Greasy William, @QCIC

    She has been around for a few years. I think she had to practice in the mirror a lot to come up with relatable facial expressions.

    That may be part of what you are referring to. When a guy is riffing out and making silly and sincere facial expressions it looks OK. Not so much with many axe women.

    There is always Mel to show us the world is stranger and probably better than we think.

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @LatW
    @QCIC

    Yes, I've seen this Mel before, very beautiful.

    Damn good Master of Puppets cover. Kirk & James would be proud. :)

    No, I just think that with some instruments and genres, men should display, showcase, present their creativity... entertain. Let's be honest, it's their job. And they have their own type of energy.

    Women are best for singing. But, of course, anyone playing an instrument well, is great and to be appreciated.

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    She should be listening to some nasheed instead of the Kuffar’s Heavy Metal.

    La yajooz (this must not be permitted).

    This girl’s parents are most definitely munafeekoon (religious hypocrites).

    They must make her go back to the Good, the True and the Merciful !

    https://youtu.be/qLDKA1HZViw?si=Jwxbn4ThUb1y-pok

    😎

    Replies: @QCIC

  704. @AP
    @Beckow


    You try way too hard
     
    It's not hard to be accurate. USSR was not equal to Russia, Britain is not equal to England.

    If you hate Russia so much
     
    Of course I don't hate Russia. My kids speak Russian and I have learned it, and I enjoy Moscow and hope to return some day.

    Britain but it is an ethnic designation: British
     
    Do your substandard schools teach that Britain is an ethnic designation or is that your own personal failing?

    WW2 was won by Russia
     
    Was it the Russian army?

    The only Russian Armies were fighting on the German side. - Русская освободительная армия under Vlasov, the much smaller 1-я Русская национальная армия under a Russian White emigre.

    There was the Soviet Army, with Russians and Ukrainians and others in it. Led by an ethnic Georgian head of state. Whose people were kept on a short leash by a Georgian terror master, Beria.

    Objectively speaking, Nazi Germany had almost all of Europe on its side when they attacked Russia in 1941
     
    They had some European countries such as Slovakia on their side - others they were busy occupying.

    Objectively speaking they attacked the USSR and not Russia. The first troops went into the Ukraine and Belarus Soviet Republics of the USSR.

    So Germany+Italy+Hungary+Slovakia+ Romania+Bulgaria attacked the USSR (Russia+Ukraine+Kazakhstan+etc. etc.) while also fighting Britain and occupying Poland, France, etc.

    It was not "all of Europe" versus "Russia." "Russia" could not come close to defeating "all of Europe." This kind of stupid lack of understanding of reality can lead to reckless decisions.

    you can’t accept anything that is positive about Russia
     
    Russia has great literature and music, and Moscow is probably the nicest huge city in the world. the Russian people are pleasant and very human on an interpersonal level (they are typical Slavs). They just inherited a nasty political culture from their former masters, so it's better for Ukrainians to stay away and not be under such rule also. I have said these things consistently.

    Why do you have to lie, as usual?

    Until you lose the war. Then you will probably claim that a “loss is not a loss because”…I am sure you will come up something. Like it didn’t happen in 2 weeks, or “Finland is in Nato!”
     
    Your funny "bragging" that Ukraine is not in NATO is a cope for Russia doing poorly and failing in its goal of regime change for Ukraine. It's like Americans congratulating themselves that Iraq does not have nukes.

    Replies: @Beckow

    Your usual collection of total nonsense. Few obvious corrections:

    British are a nation, the people from the British islands. It is also an ethnic designation, ‘Soviet’ is not.

    The war in Ukraine is primarily about Nato wanting to expand there to Russia’s borders, bases, missiles, etc… That won’t happen – so Russia will win.

    Denying that Russians were the main force and the leaders in defeating Germany and its allies shows a rather extreme dislike of Russia and Russians. You may deny it, but you have been denying a lot of things that are obvious to others.

    All of Europe joined Germany in its aggressive war on Russia: either with troops or by providing resources. The only exceptions were UK and Ireland. If you can name one country that didn’t send armies, volunteers or weapons tell us. I will be waiting.

    Finally, Bulgaria was not one of the countries that attacked Russia in WW2, they refused to send soldiers. You even get small stuff wrong…

  705. @Sher Singh
    @Mr. Hack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckup156qwI

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @QCIC

    What about a dog? Asking for friend…

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP

  706. @QCIC
    @LatW

    She has been around for a few years. I think she had to practice in the mirror a lot to come up with relatable facial expressions.

    That may be part of what you are referring to. When a guy is riffing out and making silly and sincere facial expressions it looks OK. Not so much with many axe women.

    There is always Mel to show us the world is stranger and probably better than we think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jQ-UeggLQ&t=3s

    Replies: @LatW, @Bashibuzuk

    Yes, I’ve seen this Mel before, very beautiful.

    Damn good Master of Puppets cover. Kirk & James would be proud. 🙂

    No, I just think that with some instruments and genres, men should display, showcase, present their creativity… entertain. Let’s be honest, it’s their job. And they have their own type of energy.

    Women are best for singing. But, of course, anyone playing an instrument well, is great and to be appreciated.

  707. @Derer
    @John Johnson

    Never mind the tanks...in your one-sided updates/news you are noticeably silent about the Kharkov offensive. I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy - end is near.

    Replies: @Mikhail, @John Johnson

    Never mind the tanks…in your one-sided updates/news you are noticeably silent about the Kharkov offensive.

    I’ve seen some probing attacks but not a major offensive.

    It makes sense for Putin to send whatever reserves he has available before the new hardware arrives. Thanks again to Johnson and Trump for working out that giant pork bill that benefits both Ukraine and the US defense industry.

    Putin might as well play whatever cards he has remaining. The EU is about to give Ukraine the frozen Russian assets to buy even more military hardware. It really makes sense for him to hit the giant GO button.

    Ukraine will have enough HIMARS/ATACMS to take out at least 1000 armored vehicles with ease. That’s 4 to 6 thousand soldiers being wiped out before they get into combat.

    Don’t worry about me, I will benefit regardless just like the US defense industry. I’ll be in a Vegas hot tub when this is all over. Put your thoughts towards the Russian soldier with 3 kids that has no chance of seeing the enemy or returning home.

    I have seen Zelensky reporting being very gloomy – end is near.

    Haven’t seen that. Provide a source please.

    Putin has hinted through Lavrov that he wants a demilitarized zone. That suggests they would accept a chunk of Eastern Ukraine to end the war. Which means Putin’s original goal of keeping NATO from moving East has failed. Maybe he can somehow talk Finland into leaving but I doubt it. This war has all just been one giant waste for both the people of Russia and Ukraine. It’s all the result of a 5’1 angry dwarf who most likely has a tiny penis that helps push his bitterness to an 11. The resentment is real. You can look in Putin’s eyes and just see a lifetime of bitterness even though he is a billionaire dictator. Hitler had a weird penis issue where he had to pee like a girl until it was fixed. Stalin was very short and wouldn’t allow himself to be photographed next to FDR or Churchhill. Psychopathic dictators tend to follow a pattern of hating society in general.

  708. @QCIC
    @Sher Singh

    What about a dog? Asking for friend...

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    I actually wonder if Muhammed's hatred of dogs comes from war.

    War dogs were used by various groups including Persians and Turks before Muhammed declared them to unclean.

    Muhammed might have considered them to be unfair or unprincipled in war.

    They would be released on the enemy and without any regard for the dogs. Imagine a dozen rabid dogs storming your position before the battle has even started. These were big dogs that would tear your s-ht up. These tactics were developed by Romans hundreds of years before then. The Romans even had dog armor:

    https://i.pinimg.com/736x/70/2c/b5/702cb5cb6b7627fb87d3f1ddec1d761d--hunting-dogs-roman-history.jpg

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Bashibuzuk

    , @AP
    @Bashibuzuk

    I mentioned this before, but the old Scythian word for dog is "spaka." Like Slavic sobaka.

    Replies: @Beckow, @Bashibuzuk

  709. Bashibuzuk says:
    @QCIC
    @LatW

    She has been around for a few years. I think she had to practice in the mirror a lot to come up with relatable facial expressions.

    That may be part of what you are referring to. When a guy is riffing out and making silly and sincere facial expressions it looks OK. Not so much with many axe women.

    There is always Mel to show us the world is stranger and probably better than we think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jQ-UeggLQ&t=3s

    Replies: @LatW, @Bashibuzuk

    She should be listening to some nasheed instead of the Kuffar’s Heavy Metal.

    La yajooz (this must not be permitted).

    This girl’s parents are most definitely munafeekoon (religious hypocrites).

    They must make her go back to the Good, the True and the Merciful !

    😎

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    !!!

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  710. @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    People probably want to make a giant tank (T-14) until they realize it is easier to hit. The last Azeri-Armenian combat showed how vulnerable tanks are to drones. Top attack missile vulnerability was already known. Some people like to fight the last war so it takes time for reality to bite, even if they have already seen real combat videos with new lessons.

    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability. It is still true that our productive capacity is way down from earlier peaks and it is tough to guess how things would play out in a real economic crisis. It was known by 2022 that the original wave of sanctions against Russia made her stronger, so expecting the next round to work better required some optimism.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability

    Nobody is predicting the demise of US/Western weapons production capability, what people are saying is that NATO is maxed out with what it can produce without dramatically scaling up its current armaments manufacturing capacity. I’m talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants. So far, the West hasn’t even begun to do this and it is unclear that it ever will. In WWII and the Cold War, the West had the political will to effectively martial its industrial and economic resources into military production. That does not appear to be the case today. At least not yet. The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together. But why would anyone anticipate the West doing that?

    • Replies: @Mikel
    @Greasy William


    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.
     
    If that war stayed conventional, yes. But what reason would the members of the Axis of Evil have to let the West defeat them instead of using the most powerful weapons they have? They are the evil ones, after all. More importantly though, why wage that war at all? None of those countries is a threat to us and I'm sure we could even get along reasonably well if we leave them alone and negotiate rational compromises of behavior.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    , @QCIC
    @Greasy William

    Most weapons are relatively easy to manufacture. The barriers to production are institutional, which is a good thing since we don't need more death machines. On the other hand, if some guy from the government rolls into a board meeting with a wad of cash and a 12 gauge you might be surprised how fast productivity can pick up. Yes, many of us have become dim and lazy, but man, CNC equipment works great. The same is true in Russia to a smaller degree.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    , @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    I’m talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants.

    The US has increased 155mm shell production by over 500%.

    They're on track to make 100,000 shells per month:
    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/09/15/production-of-key-munition-years-ahead-of-schedule-pentagon-says/

    Lockheed is on track to make 288 HIMARs launchers per year
    https://www.govconwire.com/2024/05/lockheed-books-861m-army-contract-modification-for-himars-launcher-production/

    I'd say that is enough. I don't see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production. 1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed. They aren't dumb shells launched in the general direction of the enemy. I see no reason to believe that Russian BMP production can match HIMARs missile production. If I were Putin I would launch a major offensive against Kharkiv before finding out how many missiles the US can produce and ship. Prigozhin hated HIMARs and talked about how it terrified the men. I think HIMARs is the answer and not a shell exchange.

    Let's bet low on US production - Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2

    The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?

    Russia is siding with Israel and not Iran.

    China is currently meeting with France on good terms.

    This is not WW2. China will trade with any European country with money and they didn't back Russia's invasion in the UN. They will happily sell weapons to anyone.

    China is out for China. If Putin didn't have oil and cash then Xi would be ignoring him.

    The Chinese have a thousand year desire to "one up" all European countries and that includes Russia. They're insulted that so much history is due to European progress and not Chinese. The Chinese still want to view themselves as the master race.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @YetAnotherAnon, @Greasy William, @QCIC

  711. @AP
    @Gerard1234


    Wow, slow things down
     
    Says the guy who releases a torrent of coprolalis in most of his posts.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies

    Totally implausible nonsense.
     
    His judgment on these matters is probably much better than yours.

    they [UPA] were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?
     
    They were good at assassinations, were difficult to crack and infiltrate (the White emigre organizations in contrast were much easier), were good at insurgency, and yes were ruthless and cruel.

    UPA killed Soviet general Vatutin in an ambush. He was commander of the Ukrainian Front.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vatutin#Death

    UPA also killed the defense minister of communist Poland. They were effective at kidnapping and killing Soviet officials, playing a good game of cat-and-mouse with NKVD.

    UPA/OUN history – Abysmal fighting skills – acquired zero reputation for fighting skill
     
    Soviets' own records show that the Soviets lost more personnel against OUN/UPA than the Russian state did against the Chechens (both wars combined) in the 1990s. And the Chechens fought the pathetic and shambolic 1990s Russian military while UPA were fighting the Soviet juggernaut that had defeated the Soviet military. One UPA soldier in the mountains, forests or swamps was probably worth 3 Chechens (who were rather helpless against the Soviets in the 1940s IIRC - they could only fight the pathetic 90s Russian army with any success).

    Cowardly actions – most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly
     
    Most partisan armies slaughter civilians more effectively than they do enemy military personal. The Algerian FLN, for example, killed about 25,000-30,000 French soldiers and a similar number of civilians (often brutally, by disemboweling them).

    UPA were a lot bloodier against civilians: they murdered 60,00-100,000 Polish civilians and a couple 10,000s non-Polish people, ranging from Ukrainian nationalist rivals, to Soviet sympathizers or collaborators (the latter deaths were not unjustified, though UPA also killed collaborators' families which is inexcusable). In contrast they killed "only" about 17,000 Soviet military/NKVD personnel.

    In terms of other partisan fighters: Hamas has a worse ratio of civilians killed to soldiers killed than does UPA. Soviet partisans provoked Germans into doing their dirty work. They are probably responsible for more civilian deaths than UPA.

    UPA were evil and brutal but they were disciplined and effective.

    they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka
     
    Drones prove that this is what Russian soldiers do in close quarters. Of course you would assume others do that also. You would, after all. Ukrainians aren't Russians.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mr. XYZ, @Gerard1234

    Most partisan armies slaughter civilians more effectively than they do enemy military personal. The Algerian FLN, for example, killed about 25,000-30,000 French soldiers and a similar number of civilians (often brutally, by disemboweling them).

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

    According to the link above, the total number of French civilians that the FLN killed was actually around 6,000. However, it also killed several tens of thousands of harkis, who were pro-French Muslim Algerians. It (unfortunately, but quite understandably) viewed them as traitors and was thus (very tragically and unfortunately) quite merciless towards them. Interestingly enough, France was not very eager to accept the harkis in and after 1962 either. Some of them had to move to France illegally and/or with the help of French military personnel who defied orders from up above. They subsequently sometimes lived in transit/detention camps in France for a very long time before they were actually given a chance to integrate into French society and acquire French citizenship.

    I’m mostly wary of Muslim immigration into Europe, but I do think that an exception should have been made for the harkis. A second-best alternative, of course, would have been to resettle them in other Muslim countries, if doing so would have actually been safe for them.

  712. @Mr. Hack
    @Mr. XYZ

    Although attendance at our small church in Phoenix was filled with a record crowd this recent past Easter (330 attendees), I'm sure that there will still be enough empty pews to accompany more war refugees going forward on a regular basis. Tell them to go to America "the land of the free, the home of the brave".

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    I suspect that Americans could also sour much more on Muslim immigration if the quality of our Muslim immigrants will be reduced to Western Europe’s level in the future. We currently in large part get the Muslim cognitive elites.

    The Afghan refugees will be a good integration experiment–just how well will they successfully integrate and assimilate into American society? Though admittedly being a pro-US Afghan does involve something of a self-selection process.

    • LOL: QCIC
  713. @Mr. Hack
    @Sher Singh

    https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/984204/screenshots/3443201/__03.gif

    Replies: @Sher Singh

    Will start putting them behind more now.

  714. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    I actually wonder if Muhammed’s hatred of dogs comes from war.

    War dogs were used by various groups including Persians and Turks before Muhammed declared them to unclean.

    Muhammed might have considered them to be unfair or unprincipled in war.

    They would be released on the enemy and without any regard for the dogs. Imagine a dozen rabid dogs storming your position before the battle has even started. These were big dogs that would tear your s-ht up. These tactics were developed by Romans hundreds of years before then. The Romans even had dog armor:

    • Replies: @Sher Singh
    @John Johnson

    https://twitter.com/ascindro/status/1789400252534907203

    Muslims hate dogs because Zoroastrians adore them.
    Same reason why Muslims shave the mustache.

    It's to counter signal Aryans.
    Same reason Muslims do circumcision & fuck young boys instead of grown women.

    Same reason Muslims are made to clean the floor of mosques with pig's blood.

    ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    No the dog is considered impure in Rabbinical Judaism. Muhammad just copy pasted that Judaic custom. He did it with circumcising and pork avoidance and also the Halal bleeding of the animals. Islam is basically Judaism 2.0.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  715. Sher Singh says:
    @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    I actually wonder if Muhammed's hatred of dogs comes from war.

    War dogs were used by various groups including Persians and Turks before Muhammed declared them to unclean.

    Muhammed might have considered them to be unfair or unprincipled in war.

    They would be released on the enemy and without any regard for the dogs. Imagine a dozen rabid dogs storming your position before the battle has even started. These were big dogs that would tear your s-ht up. These tactics were developed by Romans hundreds of years before then. The Romans even had dog armor:

    https://i.pinimg.com/736x/70/2c/b5/702cb5cb6b7627fb87d3f1ddec1d761d--hunting-dogs-roman-history.jpg

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Bashibuzuk

    Muslims hate dogs because Zoroastrians adore them.
    Same reason why Muslims shave the mustache.

    It’s to counter signal Aryans.
    Same reason Muslims do circumcision & fuck young boys instead of grown women.

    Same reason Muslims are made to clean the floor of mosques with pig’s blood.

    ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ

  716. @Greasy William
    @QCIC


    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability
     
    Nobody is predicting the demise of US/Western weapons production capability, what people are saying is that NATO is maxed out with what it can produce without dramatically scaling up its current armaments manufacturing capacity. I'm talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants. So far, the West hasn't even begun to do this and it is unclear that it ever will. In WWII and the Cold War, the West had the political will to effectively martial its industrial and economic resources into military production. That does not appear to be the case today. At least not yet. The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together. But why would anyone anticipate the West doing that?

    Replies: @Mikel, @QCIC, @John Johnson

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.

    If that war stayed conventional, yes. But what reason would the members of the Axis of Evil have to let the West defeat them instead of using the most powerful weapons they have? They are the evil ones, after all. More importantly though, why wage that war at all? None of those countries is a threat to us and I’m sure we could even get along reasonably well if we leave them alone and negotiate rational compromises of behavior.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Mikel

    I was talking about something akin to the Cold War. No nukes were ever used in that one.

    It's all academic, however, as the US is politically incapable of waging a new Cold War. It's amazing to me how many people can't see that

  717. Bashibuzuk says:
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    I believe we've had exchanges on this topic, you are welcome to search my history for "haplogroup"

    I have a question for you too, one of main triggers of Mukden Incident was the assassination of Zhang Zuolin (left) in 1928 by train bomb.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Reuni%C3%B3nDeCaudillosMilitaresChinos.jpeg

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Zhang_zuolin.jpg

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

    The conventional narrative was that it was done by junior Kwantung Army officers acting without orders from Tokyo-- even though Zhang was Japanese client, there was concern that he would switch sides to Soviets.

    But this other article clearly states that it was done by Jew NKVD


    During this time, he was involved in several operations, including the assassination of Zhang Zoulin and the transportation of the Spanish gold reserves to the USSR.[5]
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Eitingon

    It's very unusual for wiki to a conflicting account of on a moderately famous character. I wonder if you have any insights from Russian sources.

    For context, Zhang had a history of double-dealing from Russo-Japanese War. And I've seen Japanese argue that only the alleged Kwantung Army culprit had the logistic means to commit the operation.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    The Bolshevik before WW2 were basically a terrorist organization. And the Soviet regime was an international terrorist regime that imposed itself on the population of the former Russian Empire. Among the highest ranking levels of Soviet power of the 1930ies the proportion of some ethnic minority groups was exaggeratedly higher, while the proportion of the ethnic Velicoross majority was relatively lower. And yeah, many outstanding Cheka/NKVD/OGPU operatives were of Jewish descent. Some among them recruited from the former Left Socialist Revolutionary party. Blumkin comes to mind, a typical example…

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

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    speaking of which, young Trotsky looks EXACTLY the same as actor Andrew Garfield. It's actually comical: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sqfmx9/andrew_garfield_looks_exactly_like_trotsky/

    Replies: @QCIC

    , @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Sounds like damage control. The Bolshevik revolutionaries were heavily Jewish. Even more so for the losing but more democratic Mensheviks.

    Admitting that is not the end of the world. I think the better question is why so many secular Jews were attracted to Communism. I don't take the position that the entire revolution was a Jewish conspiracy but facts are facts.

    From the Jerusalem Post:

    Some observers saw Lenin and his band as a motley group of Jewish revolutionaries. Alexander Guchkov, the Russian minister of war in the Russian Provisional Government after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917, told the British military attaché General Alfred Knox that “the extreme element consists of Jews and imbeciles.” Lenin’s train had included 19 members of his Bolshevik party, several of his allies among the Mensheviks and six Jewish members of the Jewish Labor Bund. Almost half the passengers on the train were Jewish.
    https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Derer

    , @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    I get that, there were also ethnic Chinese who fought with Bolsheviks, in fact quite prominently

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

    But you guys were all on the same team. Like when you try to imply that Russians did the heavy lifting in defeating Nazis, I don't dispute that.

    On the same token, Jews and Caucasians in secret services made critical contributions that led to Victory Day (some are of course negative like the internal purges).

    The subversion activities between Japan and China was somewhat decisive so that Soviets didn't have face a second front. Like this engagement against Japan, Russia got kind of beaten

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

    It's fine you are only vaguely interested in East Asian history, but if you are implying that China is enjoying сидеть на горе и наблюдать, как дерутся тигры, China did nothing to instigate this conflict.

    What Soviets did was akin to if China planted agents in Minsk to sabotage the negotiations between NATO and Russia.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  718. @Mikel
    @Greasy William


    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.
     
    If that war stayed conventional, yes. But what reason would the members of the Axis of Evil have to let the West defeat them instead of using the most powerful weapons they have? They are the evil ones, after all. More importantly though, why wage that war at all? None of those countries is a threat to us and I'm sure we could even get along reasonably well if we leave them alone and negotiate rational compromises of behavior.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    I was talking about something akin to the Cold War. No nukes were ever used in that one.

    It’s all academic, however, as the US is politically incapable of waging a new Cold War. It’s amazing to me how many people can’t see that

  719. @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    I actually wonder if Muhammed's hatred of dogs comes from war.

    War dogs were used by various groups including Persians and Turks before Muhammed declared them to unclean.

    Muhammed might have considered them to be unfair or unprincipled in war.

    They would be released on the enemy and without any regard for the dogs. Imagine a dozen rabid dogs storming your position before the battle has even started. These were big dogs that would tear your s-ht up. These tactics were developed by Romans hundreds of years before then. The Romans even had dog armor:

    https://i.pinimg.com/736x/70/2c/b5/702cb5cb6b7627fb87d3f1ddec1d761d--hunting-dogs-roman-history.jpg

    Replies: @Sher Singh, @Bashibuzuk

    No the dog is considered impure in Rabbinical Judaism. Muhammad just copy pasted that Judaic custom. He did it with circumcising and pork avoidance and also the Halal bleeding of the animals. Islam is basically Judaism 2.0.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    No the dog is considered impure in Rabbinical Judaism. Muhammad just copy pasted that Judaic custom.

    No he did not copy Judaism.

    In Islam they are only allowed as working dogs and must be kept outside.

    There is nothing in Judaism that says they will offend angels if they are indoors.

    Muslims also believe that black dogs are cursed.

    If a dog licks a bowl used by people then it must be cleaned 7 times with water and once with earth:
    It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The purification of the vessel of one of you, if a dog licks it, is to wash it seven times, the first time with soil.” Nararted by Muslim, 279.

    Muslims still teach that dog saliva is worse than human. Statistically it is safer to kiss a dog on the lips than a random person.

    This was not a copy-paste like other parts of the Koran. Muhammed really hated dogs.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  720. Bashibuzuk says:
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    Richard Sorge's spy ring completely infiltrated top ranks in Japan and China to pit the two against each other. Is Sorge a Russian or a Soviet?

    All those deportations, were they done by Russians or Soviets?

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Karte_Entkulakisierung.png

    Comintern was subverting governments and instigating revolutions all around the world, was that Russians or Soviets?

    This extensive list, were they Russians or Soviets?

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

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    You don’t know what the Bolshevik were?

    They created the Soviet Union where all minorities had equal rights, but some minorities were more equal than others. And Russians were not a minority, so they actually had lower rights than others.

    For example, all Soviet Republics had their own local communist party. But RSSFR didn’t. The Velikoross didn’t have their own communist party. They had to go through the Union structure and hierarchy to climb to the top, unlike for example the Ukrainian communists.

    All ethnic groups had territory ascribed to them, but Russians hadn’t. The RSSFR was divided into dozens of autonomous regions and republics where the Velikoross were the majority, but nevertheless had to be governed by local minority communist leaders. Korenizatsia (nativisation) was applied inside the RSSFR and outside it. Even in the territory where the Velikoross were the majority.

    Finally, the Bolshevik saw the Great Russian (Velikoross) chauvinism as the enemy to defeat by any means and in early Soviet Union, active antisemitism was punished by death. At the same time, tens of thousands of Russian Orthodox priests were mercilessly killed. Thousands of churches destroyed. Historical buildings and monuments demolished. Lazar Kaganovich has petitioned Stalin for the Saint Basil Cathedral’s destruction, according to him it was blocking the access to the Red Square.

    Does this answer your question?

    (And yeah, asking whether Zorge was Russian is kind of funny. It was ironic, right?)

    • Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    Sorge was of course neither Russian (fully) nor Jewish, but he was probably Stalin's most important spy no?

    Sorge's mole was a Jap communist who was the then PM's braintrust; who drove Japanese opinion against KMT China. That's like if Dugin was a Chinese mole (he did get on the Chicom payroll but that's later)

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

    His other agents were a mix of ethnicities,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eastern_Bloc_agents_in_the_United_States#Sorge_ring

    (((Harry Dexter White))) was close to FDR and may have been a Soviet spy who subverted US negotiation with Japan, pre-Pearl Harbor

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Japan_policy

    The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) was originally a Soviet client with designs to overthrow Imperial Japan, its founder was a confidant of Stalin's

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

    They were all equally Soviet, regardless of ethnicities, right?

    et demain L'Internationale, Sera le genre humain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcS_sjbJNDI

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  721. @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    The Bolshevik before WW2 were basically a terrorist organization. And the Soviet regime was an international terrorist regime that imposed itself on the population of the former Russian Empire. Among the highest ranking levels of Soviet power of the 1930ies the proportion of some ethnic minority groups was exaggeratedly higher, while the proportion of the ethnic Velicoross majority was relatively lower. And yeah, many outstanding Cheka/NKVD/OGPU operatives were of Jewish descent. Some among them recruited from the former Left Socialist Revolutionary party. Blumkin comes to mind, a typical example…

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

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    speaking of which, young Trotsky looks EXACTLY the same as actor Andrew Garfield. It’s actually comical: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sqfmx9/andrew_garfield_looks_exactly_like_trotsky/

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Greasy William

    Probably related.

  722. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    She should be listening to some nasheed instead of the Kuffar’s Heavy Metal.

    La yajooz (this must not be permitted).

    This girl’s parents are most definitely munafeekoon (religious hypocrites).

    They must make her go back to the Good, the True and the Merciful !

    https://youtu.be/qLDKA1HZViw?si=Jwxbn4ThUb1y-pok

    😎

    Replies: @QCIC

    !!!

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4q0AAOSwDLdkrbPp/s-l1600.jpg

    https://youtu.be/Pg2np37JNEg?si=FnEMFwy9QP46-b9S

    Replies: @QCIC

  723. QCIC says:
    @Greasy William
    @QCIC


    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability
     
    Nobody is predicting the demise of US/Western weapons production capability, what people are saying is that NATO is maxed out with what it can produce without dramatically scaling up its current armaments manufacturing capacity. I'm talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants. So far, the West hasn't even begun to do this and it is unclear that it ever will. In WWII and the Cold War, the West had the political will to effectively martial its industrial and economic resources into military production. That does not appear to be the case today. At least not yet. The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together. But why would anyone anticipate the West doing that?

    Replies: @Mikel, @QCIC, @John Johnson

    Most weapons are relatively easy to manufacture. The barriers to production are institutional, which is a good thing since we don’t need more death machines. On the other hand, if some guy from the government rolls into a board meeting with a wad of cash and a 12 gauge you might be surprised how fast productivity can pick up. Yes, many of us have become dim and lazy, but man, CNC equipment works great. The same is true in Russia to a smaller degree.

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @QCIC

    The technical and even economic capabilities are there but, like I said, it is a question of political will. Expanding production capacity would cost money and with the US running perpetual deficits of 8% GDP, Congress simply isn't going to appropriate any more money to military spending than they already are

    Replies: @Beckow

  724. I thought Jared Taylor made two novel and interesting points in this speech:
    1.) Why are there no George Floyd statues set on high columns? (He didn’t actually ask this directly but I felt I felt he begged the question.)

    2.) Do you know how many children’s book biographies of Oprah there are? (This he asked and answered, about 40.)

    [MORE]

  725. @QCIC
    @Greasy William

    Most weapons are relatively easy to manufacture. The barriers to production are institutional, which is a good thing since we don't need more death machines. On the other hand, if some guy from the government rolls into a board meeting with a wad of cash and a 12 gauge you might be surprised how fast productivity can pick up. Yes, many of us have become dim and lazy, but man, CNC equipment works great. The same is true in Russia to a smaller degree.

    Replies: @Greasy William

    The technical and even economic capabilities are there but, like I said, it is a question of political will. Expanding production capacity would cost money and with the US running perpetual deficits of 8% GDP, Congress simply isn’t going to appropriate any more money to military spending than they already are

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Greasy William


    ...the US running perpetual deficits of 8% GDP, Congress simply isn’t going to appropriate any more money to military spending
     
    They will. Creating virtual money is addictive and the West is going through the maximum addiction phase (in everything). It is helicopter money time.

    Something broke in the perception of virtual money - the numbers got so big that the previous lame attempts to reign it in became pointless. Why not go all the way? Whether the collapse happens with $35 trillion or with $50 trillion makes no difference...The timing will be driven by the external events not by numbers.

    There is still feint hope that the total dominance will return and the West will re-conquer the world: get cheap resources and again enforce the tribute not only on allies but on everyone...the good times will return. But probably not, looks like China, Russia and the world have had enough. So why not load up on some easy money with military spending? (It makes morons like JJ very happy.)

    Replies: @Greasy William

  726. @Greasy William
    @Bashibuzuk

    speaking of which, young Trotsky looks EXACTLY the same as actor Andrew Garfield. It's actually comical: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sqfmx9/andrew_garfield_looks_exactly_like_trotsky/

    Replies: @QCIC

    Probably related.

  727. @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    No the dog is considered impure in Rabbinical Judaism. Muhammad just copy pasted that Judaic custom. He did it with circumcising and pork avoidance and also the Halal bleeding of the animals. Islam is basically Judaism 2.0.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    No the dog is considered impure in Rabbinical Judaism. Muhammad just copy pasted that Judaic custom.

    No he did not copy Judaism.

    In Islam they are only allowed as working dogs and must be kept outside.

    There is nothing in Judaism that says they will offend angels if they are indoors.

    Muslims also believe that black dogs are cursed.

    If a dog licks a bowl used by people then it must be cleaned 7 times with water and once with earth:
    It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The purification of the vessel of one of you, if a dog licks it, is to wash it seven times, the first time with soil.” Nararted by Muslim, 279.

    Muslims still teach that dog saliva is worse than human. Statistically it is safer to kiss a dog on the lips than a random person.

    This was not a copy-paste like other parts of the Koran. Muhammed really hated dogs.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    You should read before you write:


    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.
    The Rambam explains that the reason is because their damage is frequent and significant.
    The Shulchan Aruch states the Halacha, that it is prohibited to raise a bad dog that may damage, unless he is bound with metal chains.
    [משנה ב"ק עט: ובגמ' פג. רמב"ם הלכות נזקי ממון פ"ה ה"ט, שו"ע חו"מ סימן תט סעיף ג]

    The Maharal writes in “Beer Hagola” that man is the king of all creations and the dog is the opposite; he is the lowest and most degraded of all animals and distant of man. He brings from our Sages in Gemara Shabbat 155: that a dog is considered the poorest of all animals, and from the writings that show his degradedness, when a low creature was mentioned it says in Shmuel B. 3. “Am I a dog’s head” and in Job 30. “Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock”. And it is known among all people.
    [באר הגולה עמוד צח על פרק הכונס ב"ק ס.]
     
    https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/4723

    In the 32nd verse of the fifth Sura, or chapter, of the Quran is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain and Abel. In it we read:

    For this reason we have ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it as though he had killed all men. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved the lives of all men. And certainly our messengers came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them commit excesses in the land.

    But this is not plagiarism, either. Although Muhammad and early Islam borrowed a great deal from the rabbinic Judaism of their times without acknowledging it, such is not the case here. On the contrary: the whole thrust of 5:32 is that the precept in question is an originally Jewish one that the “Children of Israel” have sinfully failed to live up to. Indeed, the Arabic verb generally rendered by Quranic translations as “we have ordained” or “we have prescribed” is katabuna, “we have written.” So whether or not the Quran was aware of where in Jewish tradition the precept came from (Muhammad may have thought it to be biblical), it was understood to belong to the sacred literature of the Jewish people, revealed to them by God’s “messengers” before the advent of Islam.

    This presents us with an important and (to the best of my knowledge) hitherto neglected piece of evidence that bears on an intriguing textual problem. The problem lies in determining the original form of the “whoever saves a life” precept, because it exists in two different versions. The best-known place for the first version is the standard edition of the Mishnaic tractate of Sanhedrin, the fourth chapter of which deals with trials and court procedure. There, in a discussion of the need to warn witnesses of the heavy responsibility resting on their shoulders in cases involving possible capital punishment, the Mishnah declares that they should be told:

    Therefore, Adam [from whom all humanity descended] was created singly, to teach us that whoever destroys a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world and whoever saves a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.
     
    https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2016/10/the-origins-of-the-precept-whoever-saves-a-life-saves-the-world/

    And yeah, just so you know, I am not too interested in Abrahamic religions. I just happen to read before I write…

    🙂

    Replies: @John Johnson, @John Johnson, @A123

  728. @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    The Bolshevik before WW2 were basically a terrorist organization. And the Soviet regime was an international terrorist regime that imposed itself on the population of the former Russian Empire. Among the highest ranking levels of Soviet power of the 1930ies the proportion of some ethnic minority groups was exaggeratedly higher, while the proportion of the ethnic Velicoross majority was relatively lower. And yeah, many outstanding Cheka/NKVD/OGPU operatives were of Jewish descent. Some among them recruited from the former Left Socialist Revolutionary party. Blumkin comes to mind, a typical example…

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

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Sounds like damage control. The Bolshevik revolutionaries were heavily Jewish. Even more so for the losing but more democratic Mensheviks.

    Admitting that is not the end of the world. I think the better question is why so many secular Jews were attracted to Communism. I don’t take the position that the entire revolution was a Jewish conspiracy but facts are facts.

    From the Jerusalem Post:

    Some observers saw Lenin and his band as a motley group of Jewish revolutionaries. Alexander Guchkov, the Russian minister of war in the Russian Provisional Government after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917, told the British military attaché General Alfred Knox that “the extreme element consists of Jews and imbeciles.” Lenin’s train had included 19 members of his Bolshevik party, several of his allies among the Mensheviks and six Jewish members of the Jewish Labor Bund. Almost half the passengers on the train were Jewish.
    https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    What do you mean by damage control?

    You think that I am trying to obfuscate the fact that many Bolshevik leaders (including Lenin) had Jewish ancestry?

    Why would I be interested in hiding such a thing?

    I have often been accused of antisemitism, but never of philosemitism. However, one has to distinguish between Rabbinical Jews and Sabbatean Frankists…

    https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/the-allure-of-the-antinomian-or-how-jacob-frank-seduced-me/

    Read about it Johnny and think of the implications…

    😉

    , @Derer
    @John Johnson


    The first politburo was created in Russia by the Bolshevik Party in 1917 during the Russian Revolution that occurred during that year. The first Politburo had seven members: Vladimir Lenin, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Grigori Sokolnikov, and Andrei Bubnov.
     
    From that only insignificant Bubnov was Russian and Stalin Georgian, the rest were Bolshevik Jews (Lenin's mother was Jewish), that group implemented Karl Marx (Jew) theory of Bolshevism.
  729. Bashibuzuk says:
    @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    No the dog is considered impure in Rabbinical Judaism. Muhammad just copy pasted that Judaic custom.

    No he did not copy Judaism.

    In Islam they are only allowed as working dogs and must be kept outside.

    There is nothing in Judaism that says they will offend angels if they are indoors.

    Muslims also believe that black dogs are cursed.

    If a dog licks a bowl used by people then it must be cleaned 7 times with water and once with earth:
    It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The purification of the vessel of one of you, if a dog licks it, is to wash it seven times, the first time with soil.” Nararted by Muslim, 279.

    Muslims still teach that dog saliva is worse than human. Statistically it is safer to kiss a dog on the lips than a random person.

    This was not a copy-paste like other parts of the Koran. Muhammed really hated dogs.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    You should read before you write:

    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.
    The Rambam explains that the reason is because their damage is frequent and significant.
    The Shulchan Aruch states the Halacha, that it is prohibited to raise a bad dog that may damage, unless he is bound with metal chains.
    [משנה ב”ק עט: ובגמ’ פג. רמב”ם הלכות נזקי ממון פ”ה ה”ט, שו”ע חו”מ סימן תט סעיף ג]

    The Maharal writes in “Beer Hagola” that man is the king of all creations and the dog is the opposite; he is the lowest and most degraded of all animals and distant of man. He brings from our Sages in Gemara Shabbat 155: that a dog is considered the poorest of all animals, and from the writings that show his degradedness, when a low creature was mentioned it says in Shmuel B. 3. “Am I a dog’s head” and in Job 30. “Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock”. And it is known among all people.
    [באר הגולה עמוד צח על פרק הכונס ב”ק ס.]

    https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/4723

    In the 32nd verse of the fifth Sura, or chapter, of the Quran is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain and Abel. In it we read:

    For this reason we have ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it as though he had killed all men. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved the lives of all men. And certainly our messengers came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them commit excesses in the land.

    But this is not plagiarism, either. Although Muhammad and early Islam borrowed a great deal from the rabbinic Judaism of their times without acknowledging it, such is not the case here. On the contrary: the whole thrust of 5:32 is that the precept in question is an originally Jewish one that the “Children of Israel” have sinfully failed to live up to. Indeed, the Arabic verb generally rendered by Quranic translations as “we have ordained” or “we have prescribed” is katabuna, “we have written.” So whether or not the Quran was aware of where in Jewish tradition the precept came from (Muhammad may have thought it to be biblical), it was understood to belong to the sacred literature of the Jewish people, revealed to them by God’s “messengers” before the advent of Islam.

    This presents us with an important and (to the best of my knowledge) hitherto neglected piece of evidence that bears on an intriguing textual problem. The problem lies in determining the original form of the “whoever saves a life” precept, because it exists in two different versions. The best-known place for the first version is the standard edition of the Mishnaic tractate of Sanhedrin, the fourth chapter of which deals with trials and court procedure. There, in a discussion of the need to warn witnesses of the heavy responsibility resting on their shoulders in cases involving possible capital punishment, the Mishnah declares that they should be told:

    Therefore, Adam [from whom all humanity descended] was created singly, to teach us that whoever destroys a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world and whoever saves a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.

    https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2016/10/the-origins-of-the-precept-whoever-saves-a-life-saves-the-world/

    And yeah, just so you know, I am not too interested in Abrahamic religions. I just happen to read before I write…

    🙂

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    That's not a copy paste. Dogs are viewed unfavorably in Judaism but are still tolerated.

    Go ahead and cite the Torah where it says you can't keep a dog inside or angels won't enter.

    Find the Jewish equivalent of this verse:

    “Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture” He meant the images of creatures that have souls. (Bukhari 5.338)

    Or cite the Torah where it says black dogs are cursed and should be killed:

    Moreover, the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said, “If dogs were not a nation among nations, then I would have commanded that they be killed. So kill any all-black dog.” [Abu Daawood, at-Tirmithi, An-Nasaa’i and Ibn Maajah]

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Ennui

    , @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.

    You're citing an offshoot version of the Torah from 1180 and Jews do not have to follow that rule.

    https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-mishneh-torah/

    I just happen to read before I write…

    Well it looks like you didn't read the date of the publication.

    Maybe ask next time before jumping to condescension.

    Muslims and Jews do not follow the same rules when it comes to dogs and you shouldn't need a Torah to know that. It's Islam that finds dogs, pigs and pictures of either to be offensive. Jews can have dogs indoors and you won't see a sign like this in a Jewish neighborhood:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.3576365.1504649663!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_960/image.jpg

    Jews also won't flip out over images of porky pig or peppa pig. Give a Muslim a peppa pig mug and see how well that goes. They're offended by images of living things and a cartoon pig is double sin points.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @A123
    @Bashibuzuk

    You should take a look at this article (1). It makes a good case that absence of pet dogs among Jews is largely traditional & practical, rather that explicitly religious.

    While there are religious claims, we already know that certain interpreters, such as Maimonides are catastrophically error prone:


    Maimonides ruled that raising a dog is forbidden “unless it is secured by chains.” And in the Talmud, Rabbi Natan contends that raising an “evil dog” in the home violates the biblical prohibition not to “place blood in your home.” Rashi is clear on what constitutes such an animal: “It bites and it barks, thereby causing women to miscarry.”

     

    All of these warnings are about disruptiveness of homebound dogs. Not theological constructs. Consider that:

    when it comes to working dogs, we are appreciative of their skills and look after their needs.

    Jewish tradition is familiar with the canine in its role as guard dog and sheepdog. Jewish communities have benefited from the sled dog, tracking dog, water dog and police dog, and dogs in other forms of work.

     

    The modern form of the tradition has much more practical explanations:

    Families with many children are another factor affecting the current attitude toward dogs in certain Jewish communities. Large families are replete with needs, and bringing a dog into a busy home could be burdensome, given the animal’s need for exercise, food, attention and potentially costly veterinarian fees.

    In Israel, there is the added issue that dogs respond poorly to wartime conditions, and there are many cases of overstressed dogs who suffer from post-traumatic symptoms and need time-consuming attention.

     

    Bottom line. If you are Jew, having a well behaved dog as a pet is permitted. It is simply not particularly popular for a variety of nonreligious reasons.

    Once again Judeo-Christian values are different from Islam's.

    PEACE 😇
    ___________

    (1) https://www.jpost.com/Metro/Is-your-dog-Jewish-416456

  730. Bashibuzuk says:
    @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Sounds like damage control. The Bolshevik revolutionaries were heavily Jewish. Even more so for the losing but more democratic Mensheviks.

    Admitting that is not the end of the world. I think the better question is why so many secular Jews were attracted to Communism. I don't take the position that the entire revolution was a Jewish conspiracy but facts are facts.

    From the Jerusalem Post:

    Some observers saw Lenin and his band as a motley group of Jewish revolutionaries. Alexander Guchkov, the Russian minister of war in the Russian Provisional Government after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917, told the British military attaché General Alfred Knox that “the extreme element consists of Jews and imbeciles.” Lenin’s train had included 19 members of his Bolshevik party, several of his allies among the Mensheviks and six Jewish members of the Jewish Labor Bund. Almost half the passengers on the train were Jewish.
    https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Derer

    What do you mean by damage control?

    You think that I am trying to obfuscate the fact that many Bolshevik leaders (including Lenin) had Jewish ancestry?

    Why would I be interested in hiding such a thing?

    I have often been accused of antisemitism, but never of philosemitism. However, one has to distinguish between Rabbinical Jews and Sabbatean Frankists…

    https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/the-allure-of-the-antinomian-or-how-jacob-frank-seduced-me/

    Read about it Johnny and think of the implications…

    😉

  731. @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    You should read before you write:


    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.
    The Rambam explains that the reason is because their damage is frequent and significant.
    The Shulchan Aruch states the Halacha, that it is prohibited to raise a bad dog that may damage, unless he is bound with metal chains.
    [משנה ב"ק עט: ובגמ' פג. רמב"ם הלכות נזקי ממון פ"ה ה"ט, שו"ע חו"מ סימן תט סעיף ג]

    The Maharal writes in “Beer Hagola” that man is the king of all creations and the dog is the opposite; he is the lowest and most degraded of all animals and distant of man. He brings from our Sages in Gemara Shabbat 155: that a dog is considered the poorest of all animals, and from the writings that show his degradedness, when a low creature was mentioned it says in Shmuel B. 3. “Am I a dog’s head” and in Job 30. “Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock”. And it is known among all people.
    [באר הגולה עמוד צח על פרק הכונס ב"ק ס.]
     
    https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/4723

    In the 32nd verse of the fifth Sura, or chapter, of the Quran is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain and Abel. In it we read:

    For this reason we have ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it as though he had killed all men. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved the lives of all men. And certainly our messengers came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them commit excesses in the land.

    But this is not plagiarism, either. Although Muhammad and early Islam borrowed a great deal from the rabbinic Judaism of their times without acknowledging it, such is not the case here. On the contrary: the whole thrust of 5:32 is that the precept in question is an originally Jewish one that the “Children of Israel” have sinfully failed to live up to. Indeed, the Arabic verb generally rendered by Quranic translations as “we have ordained” or “we have prescribed” is katabuna, “we have written.” So whether or not the Quran was aware of where in Jewish tradition the precept came from (Muhammad may have thought it to be biblical), it was understood to belong to the sacred literature of the Jewish people, revealed to them by God’s “messengers” before the advent of Islam.

    This presents us with an important and (to the best of my knowledge) hitherto neglected piece of evidence that bears on an intriguing textual problem. The problem lies in determining the original form of the “whoever saves a life” precept, because it exists in two different versions. The best-known place for the first version is the standard edition of the Mishnaic tractate of Sanhedrin, the fourth chapter of which deals with trials and court procedure. There, in a discussion of the need to warn witnesses of the heavy responsibility resting on their shoulders in cases involving possible capital punishment, the Mishnah declares that they should be told:

    Therefore, Adam [from whom all humanity descended] was created singly, to teach us that whoever destroys a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world and whoever saves a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.
     
    https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2016/10/the-origins-of-the-precept-whoever-saves-a-life-saves-the-world/

    And yeah, just so you know, I am not too interested in Abrahamic religions. I just happen to read before I write…

    🙂

    Replies: @John Johnson, @John Johnson, @A123

    That’s not a copy paste. Dogs are viewed unfavorably in Judaism but are still tolerated.

    Go ahead and cite the Torah where it says you can’t keep a dog inside or angels won’t enter.

    Find the Jewish equivalent of this verse:

    “Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture” He meant the images of creatures that have souls. (Bukhari 5.338)

    Or cite the Torah where it says black dogs are cursed and should be killed:

    Moreover, the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said, “If dogs were not a nation among nations, then I would have commanded that they be killed. So kill any all-black dog.” [Abu Daawood, at-Tirmithi, An-Nasaa’i and Ibn Maajah]

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @John Johnson

    What do Muslims think about wolves?

    , @Ennui
    @John Johnson

    Johnson, a gentile who just wants to grill, but also feels strongly about setting the record straight regarding the Talmud and the Bolsheviks, LOL

    Replies: @John Johnson

  732. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    !!!

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    I don't know how this connects with Trotsky but Jay Baruchel gets a free pass for bringing Hiccup Haddock to life!

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Bashibuzuk

  733. @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    You should read before you write:


    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.
    The Rambam explains that the reason is because their damage is frequent and significant.
    The Shulchan Aruch states the Halacha, that it is prohibited to raise a bad dog that may damage, unless he is bound with metal chains.
    [משנה ב"ק עט: ובגמ' פג. רמב"ם הלכות נזקי ממון פ"ה ה"ט, שו"ע חו"מ סימן תט סעיף ג]

    The Maharal writes in “Beer Hagola” that man is the king of all creations and the dog is the opposite; he is the lowest and most degraded of all animals and distant of man. He brings from our Sages in Gemara Shabbat 155: that a dog is considered the poorest of all animals, and from the writings that show his degradedness, when a low creature was mentioned it says in Shmuel B. 3. “Am I a dog’s head” and in Job 30. “Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock”. And it is known among all people.
    [באר הגולה עמוד צח על פרק הכונס ב"ק ס.]
     
    https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/4723

    In the 32nd verse of the fifth Sura, or chapter, of the Quran is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain and Abel. In it we read:

    For this reason we have ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it as though he had killed all men. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved the lives of all men. And certainly our messengers came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them commit excesses in the land.

    But this is not plagiarism, either. Although Muhammad and early Islam borrowed a great deal from the rabbinic Judaism of their times without acknowledging it, such is not the case here. On the contrary: the whole thrust of 5:32 is that the precept in question is an originally Jewish one that the “Children of Israel” have sinfully failed to live up to. Indeed, the Arabic verb generally rendered by Quranic translations as “we have ordained” or “we have prescribed” is katabuna, “we have written.” So whether or not the Quran was aware of where in Jewish tradition the precept came from (Muhammad may have thought it to be biblical), it was understood to belong to the sacred literature of the Jewish people, revealed to them by God’s “messengers” before the advent of Islam.

    This presents us with an important and (to the best of my knowledge) hitherto neglected piece of evidence that bears on an intriguing textual problem. The problem lies in determining the original form of the “whoever saves a life” precept, because it exists in two different versions. The best-known place for the first version is the standard edition of the Mishnaic tractate of Sanhedrin, the fourth chapter of which deals with trials and court procedure. There, in a discussion of the need to warn witnesses of the heavy responsibility resting on their shoulders in cases involving possible capital punishment, the Mishnah declares that they should be told:

    Therefore, Adam [from whom all humanity descended] was created singly, to teach us that whoever destroys a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world and whoever saves a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.
     
    https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2016/10/the-origins-of-the-precept-whoever-saves-a-life-saves-the-world/

    And yeah, just so you know, I am not too interested in Abrahamic religions. I just happen to read before I write…

    🙂

    Replies: @John Johnson, @John Johnson, @A123

    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.

    You’re citing an offshoot version of the Torah from 1180 and Jews do not have to follow that rule.

    https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-mishneh-torah/

    I just happen to read before I write…

    Well it looks like you didn’t read the date of the publication.

    Maybe ask next time before jumping to condescension.

    Muslims and Jews do not follow the same rules when it comes to dogs and you shouldn’t need a Torah to know that. It’s Islam that finds dogs, pigs and pictures of either to be offensive. Jews can have dogs indoors and you won’t see a sign like this in a Jewish neighborhood:

    Jews also won’t flip out over images of porky pig or peppa pig. Give a Muslim a peppa pig mug and see how well that goes. They’re offended by images of living things and a cartoon pig is double sin points.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    You don’t even seem to know how important the Talmud is in Rabbinical Judaism.

    Read about it before you write Johnny…

    🙂

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @John Johnson

  734. @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.

    You're citing an offshoot version of the Torah from 1180 and Jews do not have to follow that rule.

    https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-mishneh-torah/

    I just happen to read before I write…

    Well it looks like you didn't read the date of the publication.

    Maybe ask next time before jumping to condescension.

    Muslims and Jews do not follow the same rules when it comes to dogs and you shouldn't need a Torah to know that. It's Islam that finds dogs, pigs and pictures of either to be offensive. Jews can have dogs indoors and you won't see a sign like this in a Jewish neighborhood:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.3576365.1504649663!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_960/image.jpg

    Jews also won't flip out over images of porky pig or peppa pig. Give a Muslim a peppa pig mug and see how well that goes. They're offended by images of living things and a cartoon pig is double sin points.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    You don’t even seem to know how important the Talmud is in Rabbinical Judaism.

    Read about it before you write Johnny…

    🙂

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Bashibuzuk

    Maybe he was specifically talking about the quote from the 11th century rabbi?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_ben_Isaac_ha-Gadol

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    You don’t even seem to know how important the Talmud is in Rabbinical Judaism.

    Read about it before you write Johnny…

    You said Muhammed's hatred of dogs was a copy-paste from Judaism and then you didn't provide the Talmud equivalent of the Koran verses I cited.

    You then cited an offshoot version of the Torah from 1180 where the verse on dogs was an addition.

    Amusingly you said I don't read before I post and yet it was you that didn't know that you were citing additions from 1180.

    Unless you want to argue that Muhammed had a magic donkey that could take him into the future and copy the Jews over a verse that was a suggestion in a very specific context from the 12th century then stop posting already.

    You also clearly haven't lived around Jews or Muslims if you think they have the same rules.

    https://www.myjewishlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dogs-tel-aviv-2-1008x630.jpg

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  735. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4q0AAOSwDLdkrbPp/s-l1600.jpg

    https://youtu.be/Pg2np37JNEg?si=FnEMFwy9QP46-b9S

    Replies: @QCIC

    I don’t know how this connects with Trotsky but Jay Baruchel gets a free pass for bringing Hiccup Haddock to life!

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @QCIC

    Jay Baruchel is only 1/4 Jewish, though likely to be identified as such by gentiles due to his looks and Jewish last name, and also still Jewish enough to be allowed to immigrate to Israel by himself based on Israel's Law of Return.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Jay_Baruchel_Joint_Base_McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst_2014_crop.jpg/800px-Jay_Baruchel_Joint_Base_McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst_2014_crop.jpg

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Sorry, I replied to the wrong comment. It was supposed to go into the discussion of the Trotskyi’s physical appearance and similarities with currently living Hollywood actors. And of course the Stranglers’ song is a good tune that fits with discussing comrad Leiba Bronstein (Leon Trotskyi).

  736. @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    You don’t even seem to know how important the Talmud is in Rabbinical Judaism.

    Read about it before you write Johnny…

    🙂

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @John Johnson

    Maybe he was specifically talking about the quote from the 11th century rabbi?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_ben_Isaac_ha-Gadol

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. XYZ

    Rav Eliezer was outstanding in Talmudic exegesis. He is authoritative on all Talmudic matters. If he says that for a faithful (today we would say Orthodox) Jew a dog is unclean then the dog is most definitely unclean.

    Now, a liberal post-Haskalah, Freudian psychoanalysis and Frankfurt school progressive Jew might not only live with a dog under the same roof, but perhaps even sleep with one. It doesn’t matter. What the spiritual authorities of Judaism declared still holds true.

    There are many Muslims nowadays who have dogs, some of them have a dog in their own apartment. Does it mean that a dog has suddenly become clean from the Islamic pov ? Of course not. Fact is that both these Abrahamic religions decreed dogs to be unclean, while the different Christian denominations didn’t. And a really interesting question would be why Christians didn’t apply the Semitic bias towards dogs.

    But that’s another topic altogether. Christianity is not Judaism 2.0. It’s way more than just a religious evolution of Judaic thought. Christianity is an opening towards the wider non-Semitic world.

    Islam is a return to Semitic roots, as Oswald Spengler wrote (non verbatim); Islam was a counter-reformist movement among the Semitic populations in the Levant. It was supposed to bring back the “pure faith of Abraham” and “correct the Trinitarian errors” and “rectify the Talmudic deviations”.

    Anyone who doesn’t understand this is either ignorant or naive or both.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

  737. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    I don't know how this connects with Trotsky but Jay Baruchel gets a free pass for bringing Hiccup Haddock to life!

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Bashibuzuk

    Jay Baruchel is only 1/4 Jewish, though likely to be identified as such by gentiles due to his looks and Jewish last name, and also still Jewish enough to be allowed to immigrate to Israel by himself based on Israel’s Law of Return.

  738. @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    That's not a copy paste. Dogs are viewed unfavorably in Judaism but are still tolerated.

    Go ahead and cite the Torah where it says you can't keep a dog inside or angels won't enter.

    Find the Jewish equivalent of this verse:

    “Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture” He meant the images of creatures that have souls. (Bukhari 5.338)

    Or cite the Torah where it says black dogs are cursed and should be killed:

    Moreover, the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said, “If dogs were not a nation among nations, then I would have commanded that they be killed. So kill any all-black dog.” [Abu Daawood, at-Tirmithi, An-Nasaa’i and Ibn Maajah]

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Ennui

    What do Muslims think about wolves?

  739. @Mr. Hack
    @AP

    With your interests in WWII history, perhaps you can help me out. I recall several times in the past reading about DeGaul's respect for the OUN/UPA fighters, specifically lamenting that if his soldiers had shown the ferocity and bravery that these Ukrainians had exhibited, France would have liberated itself from the Nazi scourge much sooner. I spent a good deal of time yesterday looking for such a quote in order to reply to Gerard's comment and came up empty handed. I'm sure that I didn't just dream this up...

    Replies: @Gerard1234

    The OUN/UPA were as good at fighting….as the Nazis were at being pro-Jewish.

    I think what you are referring to is one of the Getmans of the 17th century who is supposed to have fought in or for France, and de Gaulle alleged to have said it during his Soviet-friendly visit to Kiev.

    It does look like De Gaulle actually saying those compliments about a Getman is a complete myth. It’s just issue of if it’s a myth that just developed innocently….. or a pitiful Banderetard in North America typical disinformation.

    If it’s the first thing, then the comment is forgivable as every East European country has at least one of these fake myths developed of some famous westerner praising someone they have never heard of – even for us. I have no idea if Margaret Thatcher had even watched it when she is alleged to have claimed that Soviet version of Sherlock Holmes was the best.

    • LOL: Mr. Hack
  740. A123 says: • Website
    @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    You should read before you write:


    Regarding a dog: the Mishnah in Bava Kama 79: states that one should not raise a dog unless it is tied to a chain. The Gemara in Bava Kama 83. adds that if he lives on the border he can tie the dog during the day and release it at night. Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol says that one who raises dogs is like one who raises pigs, regarding that he is cursed.
    The Rambam explains that the reason is because their damage is frequent and significant.
    The Shulchan Aruch states the Halacha, that it is prohibited to raise a bad dog that may damage, unless he is bound with metal chains.
    [משנה ב"ק עט: ובגמ' פג. רמב"ם הלכות נזקי ממון פ"ה ה"ט, שו"ע חו"מ סימן תט סעיף ג]

    The Maharal writes in “Beer Hagola” that man is the king of all creations and the dog is the opposite; he is the lowest and most degraded of all animals and distant of man. He brings from our Sages in Gemara Shabbat 155: that a dog is considered the poorest of all animals, and from the writings that show his degradedness, when a low creature was mentioned it says in Shmuel B. 3. “Am I a dog’s head” and in Job 30. “Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock”. And it is known among all people.
    [באר הגולה עמוד צח על פרק הכונס ב"ק ס.]
     
    https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/4723

    In the 32nd verse of the fifth Sura, or chapter, of the Quran is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain and Abel. In it we read:

    For this reason we have ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it as though he had killed all men. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved the lives of all men. And certainly our messengers came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them commit excesses in the land.

    But this is not plagiarism, either. Although Muhammad and early Islam borrowed a great deal from the rabbinic Judaism of their times without acknowledging it, such is not the case here. On the contrary: the whole thrust of 5:32 is that the precept in question is an originally Jewish one that the “Children of Israel” have sinfully failed to live up to. Indeed, the Arabic verb generally rendered by Quranic translations as “we have ordained” or “we have prescribed” is katabuna, “we have written.” So whether or not the Quran was aware of where in Jewish tradition the precept came from (Muhammad may have thought it to be biblical), it was understood to belong to the sacred literature of the Jewish people, revealed to them by God’s “messengers” before the advent of Islam.

    This presents us with an important and (to the best of my knowledge) hitherto neglected piece of evidence that bears on an intriguing textual problem. The problem lies in determining the original form of the “whoever saves a life” precept, because it exists in two different versions. The best-known place for the first version is the standard edition of the Mishnaic tractate of Sanhedrin, the fourth chapter of which deals with trials and court procedure. There, in a discussion of the need to warn witnesses of the heavy responsibility resting on their shoulders in cases involving possible capital punishment, the Mishnah declares that they should be told:

    Therefore, Adam [from whom all humanity descended] was created singly, to teach us that whoever destroys a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world and whoever saves a single life in Israel is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.
     
    https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2016/10/the-origins-of-the-precept-whoever-saves-a-life-saves-the-world/

    And yeah, just so you know, I am not too interested in Abrahamic religions. I just happen to read before I write…

    🙂

    Replies: @John Johnson, @John Johnson, @A123

    You should take a look at this article (1). It makes a good case that absence of pet dogs among Jews is largely traditional & practical, rather that explicitly religious.

    While there are religious claims, we already know that certain interpreters, such as Maimonides are catastrophically error prone:

    Maimonides ruled that raising a dog is forbidden “unless it is secured by chains.” And in the Talmud, Rabbi Natan contends that raising an “evil dog” in the home violates the biblical prohibition not to “place blood in your home.” Rashi is clear on what constitutes such an animal: “It bites and it barks, thereby causing women to miscarry.”

    All of these warnings are about disruptiveness of homebound dogs. Not theological constructs. Consider that:

    when it comes to working dogs, we are appreciative of their skills and look after their needs.

    Jewish tradition is familiar with the canine in its role as guard dog and sheepdog. Jewish communities have benefited from the sled dog, tracking dog, water dog and police dog, and dogs in other forms of work.

    The modern form of the tradition has much more practical explanations:

    Families with many children are another factor affecting the current attitude toward dogs in certain Jewish communities. Large families are replete with needs, and bringing a dog into a busy home could be burdensome, given the animal’s need for exercise, food, attention and potentially costly veterinarian fees.

    In Israel, there is the added issue that dogs respond poorly to wartime conditions, and there are many cases of overstressed dogs who suffer from post-traumatic symptoms and need time-consuming attention.

    Bottom line. If you are Jew, having a well behaved dog as a pet is permitted. It is simply not particularly popular for a variety of nonreligious reasons.

    Once again Judeo-Christian values are different from Islam’s.

    PEACE 😇
    ___________

    (1) https://www.jpost.com/Metro/Is-your-dog-Jewish-416456

  741. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Mr. XYZ
    @Bashibuzuk

    Maybe he was specifically talking about the quote from the 11th century rabbi?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_ben_Isaac_ha-Gadol

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Rav Eliezer was outstanding in Talmudic exegesis. He is authoritative on all Talmudic matters. If he says that for a faithful (today we would say Orthodox) Jew a dog is unclean then the dog is most definitely unclean.

    Now, a liberal post-Haskalah, Freudian psychoanalysis and Frankfurt school progressive Jew might not only live with a dog under the same roof, but perhaps even sleep with one. It doesn’t matter. What the spiritual authorities of Judaism declared still holds true.

    There are many Muslims nowadays who have dogs, some of them have a dog in their own apartment. Does it mean that a dog has suddenly become clean from the Islamic pov ? Of course not. Fact is that both these Abrahamic religions decreed dogs to be unclean, while the different Christian denominations didn’t. And a really interesting question would be why Christians didn’t apply the Semitic bias towards dogs.

    But that’s another topic altogether. Christianity is not Judaism 2.0. It’s way more than just a religious evolution of Judaic thought. Christianity is an opening towards the wider non-Semitic world.

    Islam is a return to Semitic roots, as Oswald Spengler wrote (non verbatim); Islam was a counter-reformist movement among the Semitic populations in the Levant. It was supposed to bring back the “pure faith of Abraham” and “correct the Trinitarian errors” and “rectify the Talmudic deviations”.

    Anyone who doesn’t understand this is either ignorant or naive or both.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Bashibuzuk

    I think that what made Christianity unique was its mass appeal to Europeans. Islam also appealed to huge numbers of non-Semites, but significantly less to Europeans, likely in large part because the Muslims failed to conquer most of Europe and to hold the parts of Europe that they did conquer for long enough (though mass expulsions of Muslims and quasi-Muslims certainly helped as well).

    I wonder if Ataturk is the reason that the Turks developed a relatively moderate form of Islam or whether a larger factor is the fact that Anatolia was conquered by Muslims relatively late and was conquered by Central Asian Turks rather than by Arabs. The parts of the Muslim world that are non-Semitic but were nevertheless conquered by Arabs, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, also tend to be more radical than the parts of the Muslim world that only became Muslim later.

  742. @Bashibuzuk
    @AP

    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine. «Один народ» однако. The only difference is RusFed being bigger and having more natural resources.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.

    Our people (yes it’s one people) will be degraded, digested and used as a fertilizer for something entirely alien to grow on the lands on which our ancestors lived for thousands of years. This war is hastening this outcome.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years. And yeah so many Bolshevik and Left SR were among these Slav-haiters that it is obvious that they didn’t mean anything positive for our future. And both the Moscovite and Kievan Noviop scum are flesh from the flesh of these Slav-despising scum. They enjoy us killing each other.

    Most people don’t understand this, but I know that you are way smarter than most. Anger can be misdirected even when justified. Even very intelligent people can be swayed by emotion.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @AP

    Our people (yes it’s one people) will be degraded,

    I never would have placed you as an adept of the Putler doctrine. He must have made quite an impression on you when he wrote his historical treatise about Russian/Ukrainian history that he had published just before he invaded Ukraine. If they’re truly “one people” his invasion of Ukraine starts to make some sense, as he tries to pound this idea into the heads of misguided Ukrainians who think that they have their own language, history and culture. Perhaps AP, with his infatuation of Moscow is starting to see things your way too?…

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    For me all Balto-Slavs are more or less one people. Russians (Velikoross) are just one, if the most numerous, of the branches of a single population tree with its roots going back millennia.

    I am not a nationalist, the nations are a product of enlightenment with its abstract categories such as “equality, brotherhood, liberty” produced in Masonic lodges and philosophical cafés. I am a bloodline tribalist.

    In a globalized world, the nations are doomed to disappear. As long as humans exist, bloodlines will prevail and keep on living. We have existed through our ancestors from the down of human (pre)history. We will exist in the future.

    Killing one’s genetic kin for ideological or national abstractions is a sin in my personal spiritual beliefs. Blood is thicker than water, genomes more important than lexicons. Even if one day the world is one under some benevolent AI-assisted genderless overlords, people may choose to unite and act on the foundation of a common genetic ancestry.

    Perhaps Karlin is right and it would be accomplished on a network basis. We’ll see…

    https://youtu.be/gmCcXf0Ejm4?si=FftPKBxT-iCC-neD

    And of course some music for your ears enjoyment. Have a good weekend dear Mr Hack.

    https://youtu.be/aGTCEoBpcLY?si=-MOEADOWHcgF6NLY

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  743. Can see why some people want to change only a few genes of the Asian elephant and set him up in Siberia. (Though it is not my favored approach.). The only time I ever rode one, I was surprised by how hairy it seemed.

    [MORE]

  744. Bashibuzuk says:
    @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk


    Our people (yes it’s one people) will be degraded,
     
    I never would have placed you as an adept of the Putler doctrine. He must have made quite an impression on you when he wrote his historical treatise about Russian/Ukrainian history that he had published just before he invaded Ukraine. If they're truly "one people" his invasion of Ukraine starts to make some sense, as he tries to pound this idea into the heads of misguided Ukrainians who think that they have their own language, history and culture. Perhaps AP, with his infatuation of Moscow is starting to see things your way too?...

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    For me all Balto-Slavs are more or less one people. Russians (Velikoross) are just one, if the most numerous, of the branches of a single population tree with its roots going back millennia.

    I am not a nationalist, the nations are a product of enlightenment with its abstract categories such as “equality, brotherhood, liberty” produced in Masonic lodges and philosophical cafés. I am a bloodline tribalist.

    In a globalized world, the nations are doomed to disappear. As long as humans exist, bloodlines will prevail and keep on living. We have existed through our ancestors from the down of human (pre)history. We will exist in the future.

    Killing one’s genetic kin for ideological or national abstractions is a sin in my personal spiritual beliefs. Blood is thicker than water, genomes more important than lexicons. Even if one day the world is one under some benevolent AI-assisted genderless overlords, people may choose to unite and act on the foundation of a common genetic ancestry.

    Perhaps Karlin is right and it would be accomplished on a network basis. We’ll see…

    And of course some music for your ears enjoyment. Have a good weekend dear Mr Hack.

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Bashibuzuk

    So it appears that both you and Putler are really not only ideological partners but "bloodline tribalists" too. I don't have the time to respond fully to your comment here and may do so later. You see I'm getting ready to go to my Orthodox church today, where we'll be celebrating "Pomynalna Nedilia". I'm not sure that we'll be going as far as our local cemetery or not to celebrate properly, you understand how tenuous old customs can become in the modern world. Anyway, you'll be glad to know that Orthodoxy allows people of different ideologies, bloodlines and tribes to all become part of one large spiritual family (if it only were true in real life,all of the time), for at least 2-3 hours once per week. Although we have many Russian speaking Ukrainians that show up for Sunday mass, I met the first family of real Russians (VelikoRos) attending last Sunday on Easter. A fine looking family with beautiful children. We all shared the communion feast from the same chalice. Progress!

    Your mother is still in my prayers and I'll light a candle in her honor to get well today!

  745. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    I don't know how this connects with Trotsky but Jay Baruchel gets a free pass for bringing Hiccup Haddock to life!

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Bashibuzuk

    Sorry, I replied to the wrong comment. It was supposed to go into the discussion of the Trotskyi’s physical appearance and similarities with currently living Hollywood actors. And of course the Stranglers’ song is a good tune that fits with discussing comrad Leiba Bronstein (Leon Trotskyi).

  746. Bashibuzuk says:

    Popular Chinese economist Lu Qiyuan recently claimed the US has four years to prevent a major political, social and financial crisis. It must do at least one of three things: implement structural political reform; prevent the dollar from losing its role as the global reserve currency; or create a new wave of economic growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

    If Lu Qiyuan is right, the US is facing a Herculean task. Structural reform of the US political system would meet strong opposition from America’s corporate and financial giants, the main beneficiaries and sponsors of the current political system. They are firmly in control of the national media and ensconced in the national bureaucracy.

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/ai-wont-save-us-but-cybernetics-could/

    • Replies: @A123
    @Bashibuzuk


    US has four years to prevent a major political, social and financial crisis. It must do at least one of three things:

    [1] implement structural political reform;
    [2] prevent the dollar from losing its role as the global reserve currency; or
    [3] create a new wave of economic growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
     
    MAGA is certainly going to work on #1 in Trump's 2nd term. The country cannot survive another 4 years of unelected leadership by Not-The-President Biden. So there is real risk here from another stolen election.

    For #2, what else can be the global reserve currency? Both EUR and RMB are much worse off than the U.S. dollar in terms of fragility. The CCP still has their entire property and construction industry tied up with uncertainty. They are still trying to sort out Evergrande, and that started back in 2021 (if not earlier). Beyond the Big 3, no other option provides sufficient liquidity.

    Gold is a commodity, not money. Despite what many hard currency advocates declare, it is actually quite difficult to run gold denominated businesses. That is one of the reasons why national currencies exist. Will bars of gold be shipped about to physically settle transactions? If not, what nations get to be repositories? What happens when foil wrapped tungsten bars are discovered?

    #3 implies more output can be produced with less labour. For this to improve society, it requires #1. The U.S. already has too many people and the associated wage suppression. Successful AI efforts need to be combined with mass deportation so that citizens (not illegals and Globalist elites) capture a significant portion of the gains as wages. Without this, AI could easily lead to fewer jobs and an expanding underclass.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Who wants to live in such a cybernetic world, other than Karlin?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  747. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. Hack

    For me all Balto-Slavs are more or less one people. Russians (Velikoross) are just one, if the most numerous, of the branches of a single population tree with its roots going back millennia.

    I am not a nationalist, the nations are a product of enlightenment with its abstract categories such as “equality, brotherhood, liberty” produced in Masonic lodges and philosophical cafés. I am a bloodline tribalist.

    In a globalized world, the nations are doomed to disappear. As long as humans exist, bloodlines will prevail and keep on living. We have existed through our ancestors from the down of human (pre)history. We will exist in the future.

    Killing one’s genetic kin for ideological or national abstractions is a sin in my personal spiritual beliefs. Blood is thicker than water, genomes more important than lexicons. Even if one day the world is one under some benevolent AI-assisted genderless overlords, people may choose to unite and act on the foundation of a common genetic ancestry.

    Perhaps Karlin is right and it would be accomplished on a network basis. We’ll see…

    https://youtu.be/gmCcXf0Ejm4?si=FftPKBxT-iCC-neD

    And of course some music for your ears enjoyment. Have a good weekend dear Mr Hack.

    https://youtu.be/aGTCEoBpcLY?si=-MOEADOWHcgF6NLY

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    So it appears that both you and Putler are really not only ideological partners but “bloodline tribalists” too. I don’t have the time to respond fully to your comment here and may do so later. You see I’m getting ready to go to my Orthodox church today, where we’ll be celebrating “Pomynalna Nedilia”. I’m not sure that we’ll be going as far as our local cemetery or not to celebrate properly, you understand how tenuous old customs can become in the modern world. Anyway, you’ll be glad to know that Orthodoxy allows people of different ideologies, bloodlines and tribes to all become part of one large spiritual family (if it only were true in real life,all of the time), for at least 2-3 hours once per week. Although we have many Russian speaking Ukrainians that show up for Sunday mass, I met the first family of real Russians (VelikoRos) attending last Sunday on Easter. A fine looking family with beautiful children. We all shared the communion feast from the same chalice. Progress!

    Your mother is still in my prayers and I’ll light a candle in her honor to get well today!

  748. AP says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @AP

    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine. «Один народ» однако. The only difference is RusFed being bigger and having more natural resources.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.

    Our people (yes it’s one people) will be degraded, digested and used as a fertilizer for something entirely alien to grow on the lands on which our ancestors lived for thousands of years. This war is hastening this outcome.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years. And yeah so many Bolshevik and Left SR were among these Slav-haiters that it is obvious that they didn’t mean anything positive for our future. And both the Moscovite and Kievan Noviop scum are flesh from the flesh of these Slav-despising scum. They enjoy us killing each other.

    Most people don’t understand this, but I know that you are way smarter than most. Anger can be misdirected even when justified. Even very intelligent people can be swayed by emotion.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @AP

    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine.

    True, but this is a recent consequence of Russification. It wasn’t like that before. Pre-Soviet Ukrainian elites were of native descent with in some cases Polish admixture.

    Moreover in Ukraine there is a region that does not follow the pattern: Galicia. Not coincidentally, the least Russified part of Ukraine.

    Because having a Noviop elite goes hand-in-hand with cultural, linguistic Russification.

    Being ruled by a foreign multicultural elite is an essential aspect of Russian culture. In Ukraine it is a recent phenomenon, reintroduced by the Soviets after having been absent for many centuries. Full Galicianization and de-Russification would have been necessary to rid Ukraine of this problem and to heal Ukraine. It is unfortunate that Donbas and Crimea were part of Ukraine until 2014, it might have been possible in that case.

    But the Russification is far from complete. Russified Ukrainians may have adopted from the Russians the use of the Russian language and tolerance of having a foreign Noviop elite, but they have retained their aversion to being ruled by a despot.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.

    Russia was the one who attacked though. The Ukrainian Noviops did not send their army into Russia. This may not be because Ukraine’s Noviops are “better” than Russian ones – their country is simply smaller. But still – guilt here is not equal at all.

    Our people (yes it’s one people)

    Like all Slavs are one people. But we are far from identical. Our political cultures are very incompatible. The Russian Eurasianist Vernadsky claimed that Ukrainians retained the Old Rus democratic folkways that Muscovy/Russia lost, but it’s just as likely to be the product of being an integral part of Poland for generations. Politically, Russians are the heirs of their tsars’ Tatar overlords and teachers, Ukrainians hate despots and are Republican in nature, they don’t tolerate Khans or Despots.

    Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from Rus. But Ukraine is a child of Rzeczpospolita. Russia is not. Russia learned from its Eastern overlords. Ukraine did not. And this makes a big difference between the two peoples.

    This stark political incompatibility is masked by genetic, linguistic and interpersonal similarities but it is revealed, with bloody consequences, whenever Russia tries to politically integrate – or rather, subjugate – Ukraine.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years

    I couldn’t agree more.

    I’m angry at Putin and scum such as Solovyev or Simonyon (neither one a Slav) who support and cheerlead this invasion. Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed as the decent Americans who sincerely supported the evil Iraq war because they were convinced that it was the necessary thing to do. Killing invaders coming into one’s homeland is sadly necessary and Ukraine needs to have the tools to do that until the Russians stay home, but there is nothing to celebrate about that.

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @LatW
    @AP


    Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed
     
    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they're "brainwashed" and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their "younger brothers" who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?

    You do realize that besides vermin like Solovyov and Simonyan there is also the loud mouthed Skabeeva and Mardan who are blonde Russians?

    You do realize that besides Putin there is a whole military political and FSB structure underneath him who are running this? Most of the military and special services is Russian.

    You do realize that the missiles that are fired into Ukraine are operated from somewhere near the Caspian sea or south Russia by pure Slavs? Including women. Every single one of them has a name.

    As to the Noviop issue, it's not even so much about ethnicities but the goals of these political classes. The problem is the selfishness and subservience to capital, at the expense of the interests of the nation. And it's not even that bad in Ukraine, since they have some patriots as well.

    Replies: @QCIC, @AP

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP


    Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from Rus. But Ukraine is a child of Rzeczpospolita. Russia is not. Russia learned from its Eastern overlords. Ukraine did not. And this makes a big difference between the two peoples.

     

    How come Belarus did not inherit a deep democratic tradition from being a part of the PLC for a long time like Ukraine did?

    Replies: @AP

  749. @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Dog’s are considered impure in Judeo-Islamic traditions. Unlike Aryan people, Semites usually fear and despise dogs. Ancestral Aryan religions considered dogs as friendly animals and psychpomps in the crossing through the neither world towards a happier place.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @AP

    I mentioned this before, but the old Scythian word for dog is “spaka.” Like Slavic sobaka.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @AP

    The Persian word for dog is "sag"...Maybe the Poles are not totally off about the Sarmatians...

    , @Bashibuzuk
    @AP

    Scythian is an ethnonym used by the Greek. We know that some Central Asian Scythians named themselves Saka, other Massagetae etc. It is possible that at least some Black Sea region Scythian clans used the name Skolot as a self identification. It is built around the IE root “kol” which is used in Slavic kol itself as an axis around which a movement is possible, koleso (wheel) or kolovrat (i.e. swastika, also the nickname of Evpatyi Kolovrat who with his men survived the Ryazan’ massacre and unleashed a brief but bloody partisan war against the troops of Batu Khan). Skolot would mean “one who lives with wheels”. Interestingly, the Kushans were called by the Han Yue Zhi, [people of] Big Wheels and were related to the Scythians going to form the Indo-Scythian Empire in Northern Hindustan (including the nowadays Pakistan and Afghanistan).

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

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

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

    Our ancestors were somewhat connected to these people, but nowadays their descendants are mostly found among the Turkic ethnic groups. Acculturation, due to inability to unite and face first the Sarmatians, later the Xiognu and finally the Gök Turks (whose first dynasty might have been of Scythian Pazyrik descent) lead to the downfall of the great Scythian Steppe.

    Regional differences must not prevent defending the common space inherited from the ancestors. A house divided will fall. Putin will vacate his place and move into history books. People who live in modern day RusFed and Ukiestan would still be neighbours and will have to coexist despite the linguistic and cultural differences that led to the current conflict.

    History is a great teacher, when we are opened to learn.

    Replies: @Beckow

  750. @Greasy William
    @QCIC

    The technical and even economic capabilities are there but, like I said, it is a question of political will. Expanding production capacity would cost money and with the US running perpetual deficits of 8% GDP, Congress simply isn't going to appropriate any more money to military spending than they already are

    Replies: @Beckow

    …the US running perpetual deficits of 8% GDP, Congress simply isn’t going to appropriate any more money to military spending

    They will. Creating virtual money is addictive and the West is going through the maximum addiction phase (in everything). It is helicopter money time.

    Something broke in the perception of virtual money – the numbers got so big that the previous lame attempts to reign it in became pointless. Why not go all the way? Whether the collapse happens with $35 trillion or with $50 trillion makes no difference…The timing will be driven by the external events not by numbers.

    There is still feint hope that the total dominance will return and the West will re-conquer the world: get cheap resources and again enforce the tribute not only on allies but on everyone…the good times will return. But probably not, looks like China, Russia and the world have had enough. So why not load up on some easy money with military spending? (It makes morons like JJ very happy.)

    • Replies: @Greasy William
    @Beckow


    They will. Creating virtual money is addictive and the West is going through the maximum addiction phase (in everything).
     
    They can't. They shot their bolt with the Covid printing and if they do anymore it's hyperinflation which detonates the entire rotten system. Look what's happening with Japan. Fiat money has reached its end game

    If the US was going to expand its armaments manufacturing capacity, you would have seen it do so by now.

    Replies: @Beckow

  751. @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    The Bolshevik before WW2 were basically a terrorist organization. And the Soviet regime was an international terrorist regime that imposed itself on the population of the former Russian Empire. Among the highest ranking levels of Soviet power of the 1930ies the proportion of some ethnic minority groups was exaggeratedly higher, while the proportion of the ethnic Velicoross majority was relatively lower. And yeah, many outstanding Cheka/NKVD/OGPU operatives were of Jewish descent. Some among them recruited from the former Left Socialist Revolutionary party. Blumkin comes to mind, a typical example…

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

    Replies: @Greasy William, @John Johnson, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    I get that, there were also ethnic Chinese who fought with Bolsheviks, in fact quite prominently

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

    But you guys were all on the same team. Like when you try to imply that Russians did the heavy lifting in defeating Nazis, I don’t dispute that.

    On the same token, Jews and Caucasians in secret services made critical contributions that led to Victory Day (some are of course negative like the internal purges).

    The subversion activities between Japan and China was somewhat decisive so that Soviets didn’t have face a second front. Like this engagement against Japan, Russia got kind of beaten

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

    It’s fine you are only vaguely interested in East Asian history, but if you are implying that China is enjoying сидеть на горе и наблюдать, как дерутся тигры, China did nothing to instigate this conflict.

    What Soviets did was akin to if China planted agents in Minsk to sabotage the negotiations between NATO and Russia.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    China is currently doing the right thing to win time and prepare to face the Atlanticists in a struggle for global supremacy. It cannot win this struggle without access to resources. RusFed and Central Asia are the ressource base that China will inevitably need. RusFed war in Ukraine is tying up the Western Powers (Atlanticists), while China is preparing for action.

    Comrade Xi was informed about the start of Putin’s war on Atlanticist Ukraine. Have the Chinese instigated this war between RusFed and NATO / Ukraine ? The answer is of course no, just like the Russians have not instigated the Japanese - Chinese conflict, there were internal causes that contributed to the beginning of this conflict and determined its historical dynamics. Now, the Soviets were not Russians, the Soviets were an internationalist totalitarian regime that subjugated the Russian population and subjected it to a totalitarian reign of terror.

    Did the Soviets interfere in Chinese affairs? Of course they did, just like they did interfere in European, Latin American and African affairs. They saw the whole world as a battlefield between capitalism and socialism/communism. Would they have imposed a global “Russian Empire” if they would have won the Cold War? The answer is no, the Russian people was supposed to disappear in the great communist melting pot. Just like all other nations eventually were supposed to disappear in a communist paradise to come.

    We are talking about a millenarian (materialistic) quasi-religious movement here. A movement that has nothing to do with the Great Russian ethnicity.

  752. Wish someone would Bill & Ted Joe Stalin and put him in charge of the next Eurovision context.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    I saw the photos from Sweden. There was no coverage of the mob logistics. Where do all those people go when they have to go to the bathroom? Did the city managers install 2000 portable latrine booths?

    Replies: @songbird

    , @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    Almost a year old but it's pretty good if you haven't yet seen it:

    The influences of the Star Wars series
    Chen G.

    John Williams fans

    https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/35430-essay-the-influences-of-the-star-wars-series-film-and-score/

  753. @AP
    @Bashibuzuk

    I mentioned this before, but the old Scythian word for dog is "spaka." Like Slavic sobaka.

    Replies: @Beckow, @Bashibuzuk

    The Persian word for dog is “sag”…Maybe the Poles are not totally off about the Sarmatians…

  754. A123 says: • Website
    @Bashibuzuk

    Popular Chinese economist Lu Qiyuan recently claimed the US has four years to prevent a major political, social and financial crisis. It must do at least one of three things: implement structural political reform; prevent the dollar from losing its role as the global reserve currency; or create a new wave of economic growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

    If Lu Qiyuan is right, the US is facing a Herculean task. Structural reform of the US political system would meet strong opposition from America’s corporate and financial giants, the main beneficiaries and sponsors of the current political system. They are firmly in control of the national media and ensconced in the national bureaucracy.
     
    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/ai-wont-save-us-but-cybernetics-could/

    Replies: @A123, @QCIC

    US has four years to prevent a major political, social and financial crisis. It must do at least one of three things:

    [1] implement structural political reform;
    [2] prevent the dollar from losing its role as the global reserve currency; or
    [3] create a new wave of economic growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

    MAGA is certainly going to work on #1 in Trump’s 2nd term. The country cannot survive another 4 years of unelected leadership by Not-The-President Biden. So there is real risk here from another stolen election.

    For #2, what else can be the global reserve currency? Both EUR and RMB are much worse off than the U.S. dollar in terms of fragility. The CCP still has their entire property and construction industry tied up with uncertainty. They are still trying to sort out Evergrande, and that started back in 2021 (if not earlier). Beyond the Big 3, no other option provides sufficient liquidity.

    Gold is a commodity, not money. Despite what many hard currency advocates declare, it is actually quite difficult to run gold denominated businesses. That is one of the reasons why national currencies exist. Will bars of gold be shipped about to physically settle transactions? If not, what nations get to be repositories? What happens when foil wrapped tungsten bars are discovered?

    #3 implies more output can be produced with less labour. For this to improve society, it requires #1. The U.S. already has too many people and the associated wage suppression. Successful AI efforts need to be combined with mass deportation so that citizens (not illegals and Globalist elites) capture a significant portion of the gains as wages. Without this, AI could easily lead to fewer jobs and an expanding underclass.

    PEACE 😇

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @A123


    For #2, what else can be the global reserve currency? Both EUR and RMB are much worse off than the U.S. dollar in terms of fragility. The CCP still has their entire property and construction industry tied up with uncertainty. They are still trying to sort out Evergrande, and that started back in 2021 (if not earlier). Beyond the Big 3, no other option provides sufficient liquidity.
     
    https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/cbdc.htm

    Replies: @A123

  755. @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    You don’t know what the Bolshevik were?

    They created the Soviet Union where all minorities had equal rights, but some minorities were more equal than others. And Russians were not a minority, so they actually had lower rights than others.

    For example, all Soviet Republics had their own local communist party. But RSSFR didn’t. The Velikoross didn’t have their own communist party. They had to go through the Union structure and hierarchy to climb to the top, unlike for example the Ukrainian communists.

    All ethnic groups had territory ascribed to them, but Russians hadn’t. The RSSFR was divided into dozens of autonomous regions and republics where the Velikoross were the majority, but nevertheless had to be governed by local minority communist leaders. Korenizatsia (nativisation) was applied inside the RSSFR and outside it. Even in the territory where the Velikoross were the majority.

    Finally, the Bolshevik saw the Great Russian (Velikoross) chauvinism as the enemy to defeat by any means and in early Soviet Union, active antisemitism was punished by death. At the same time, tens of thousands of Russian Orthodox priests were mercilessly killed. Thousands of churches destroyed. Historical buildings and monuments demolished. Lazar Kaganovich has petitioned Stalin for the Saint Basil Cathedral’s destruction, according to him it was blocking the access to the Red Square.

    Does this answer your question?

    (And yeah, asking whether Zorge was Russian is kind of funny. It was ironic, right?)

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Sorge was of course neither Russian (fully) nor Jewish, but he was probably Stalin’s most important spy no?

    Sorge’s mole was a Jap communist who was the then PM’s braintrust; who drove Japanese opinion against KMT China. That’s like if Dugin was a Chinese mole (he did get on the Chicom payroll but that’s later)

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

    His other agents were a mix of ethnicities,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eastern_Bloc_agents_in_the_United_States#Sorge_ring

    (((Harry Dexter White))) was close to FDR and may have been a Soviet spy who subverted US negotiation with Japan, pre-Pearl Harbor

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Japan_policy

    The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) was originally a Soviet client with designs to overthrow Imperial Japan, its founder was a confidant of Stalin’s

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

    They were all equally Soviet, regardless of ethnicities, right?

    et demain L’Internationale, Sera le genre humain.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms


    L’Internationale, Sera le genre humain.
     
    https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/from-principle-to-practice-making-stakeholder-capitalism-work

    Think of it as a necessary dialectical step before we get to what Strugatsky brothers have named the Noon World.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon:_22nd_Century

    The nations are bound to be dissolved through technological and cultural shifts. But it doesn’t mean that identity has to be lost. Humans had identities before the advent of nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century. Humans will have identities in the future as well. The interconnected world will be made of networks.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  756. Bashibuzuk says:
    @AP
    @Bashibuzuk

    I mentioned this before, but the old Scythian word for dog is "spaka." Like Slavic sobaka.

    Replies: @Beckow, @Bashibuzuk

    Scythian is an ethnonym used by the Greek. We know that some Central Asian Scythians named themselves Saka, other Massagetae etc. It is possible that at least some Black Sea region Scythian clans used the name Skolot as a self identification. It is built around the IE root “kol” which is used in Slavic kol itself as an axis around which a movement is possible, koleso (wheel) or kolovrat (i.e. swastika, also the nickname of Evpatyi Kolovrat who with his men survived the Ryazan’ massacre and unleashed a brief but bloody partisan war against the troops of Batu Khan). Skolot would mean “one who lives with wheels”. Interestingly, the Kushans were called by the Han Yue Zhi, [people of] Big Wheels and were related to the Scythians going to form the Indo-Scythian Empire in Northern Hindustan (including the nowadays Pakistan and Afghanistan).

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

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

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

    Our ancestors were somewhat connected to these people, but nowadays their descendants are mostly found among the Turkic ethnic groups. Acculturation, due to inability to unite and face first the Sarmatians, later the Xiognu and finally the Gök Turks (whose first dynasty might have been of Scythian Pazyrik descent) lead to the downfall of the great Scythian Steppe.

    Regional differences must not prevent defending the common space inherited from the ancestors. A house divided will fall. Putin will vacate his place and move into history books. People who live in modern day RusFed and Ukiestan would still be neighbours and will have to coexist despite the linguistic and cultural differences that led to the current conflict.

    History is a great teacher, when we are opened to learn.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Bashibuzuk


    ...Scythian clans used the name Skolot as a self identification. It is built around the IE root “kol” which is used in Slavic kol itself as an axis around which a movement is possible, koleso (wheel)...Skolot would mean “one who lives with wheels”.
     
    "kol" is better translated as round, something that had a circular shape. 'o-kol-o' still means 'around'. (The 'okolie' term was sometimes used for 'our lands'.) The transition to 'koleso' was derivative and much later. I am skeptical it is related to 'wheel', it can be related to the custom of people in a circle, 'kolo', there is an ancient dance called 'kolo'.

    The idea that Scythians would name themselves after an idyllic tribal dance is amusing. Probably not.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  757. Bashibuzuk says:
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    I get that, there were also ethnic Chinese who fought with Bolsheviks, in fact quite prominently

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

    But you guys were all on the same team. Like when you try to imply that Russians did the heavy lifting in defeating Nazis, I don't dispute that.

    On the same token, Jews and Caucasians in secret services made critical contributions that led to Victory Day (some are of course negative like the internal purges).

    The subversion activities between Japan and China was somewhat decisive so that Soviets didn't have face a second front. Like this engagement against Japan, Russia got kind of beaten

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

    It's fine you are only vaguely interested in East Asian history, but if you are implying that China is enjoying сидеть на горе и наблюдать, как дерутся тигры, China did nothing to instigate this conflict.

    What Soviets did was akin to if China planted agents in Minsk to sabotage the negotiations between NATO and Russia.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    China is currently doing the right thing to win time and prepare to face the Atlanticists in a struggle for global supremacy. It cannot win this struggle without access to resources. RusFed and Central Asia are the ressource base that China will inevitably need. RusFed war in Ukraine is tying up the Western Powers (Atlanticists), while China is preparing for action.

    Comrade Xi was informed about the start of Putin’s war on Atlanticist Ukraine. Have the Chinese instigated this war between RusFed and NATO / Ukraine ? The answer is of course no, just like the Russians have not instigated the Japanese – Chinese conflict, there were internal causes that contributed to the beginning of this conflict and determined its historical dynamics. Now, the Soviets were not Russians, the Soviets were an internationalist totalitarian regime that subjugated the Russian population and subjected it to a totalitarian reign of terror.

    Did the Soviets interfere in Chinese affairs? Of course they did, just like they did interfere in European, Latin American and African affairs. They saw the whole world as a battlefield between capitalism and socialism/communism. Would they have imposed a global “Russian Empire” if they would have won the Cold War? The answer is no, the Russian people was supposed to disappear in the great communist melting pot. Just like all other nations eventually were supposed to disappear in a communist paradise to come.

    We are talking about a millenarian (materialistic) quasi-religious movement here. A movement that has nothing to do with the Great Russian ethnicity.

  758. Here is a mailer for feeding elderly Jews in Israel:

    [MORE]

    The meals that they deliver to elderly in America are really awful.

    Even if one believed in leap-frogging loyalties, the idea that you could make sure that elderly Israelis are getting good meals more than 5000 miles away, when local elderly are being fed dogsh-t seems logically unhinged. Usually distance makes supply chains more difficult.

    I just can’t believe that it would be worthwhile to advertise for such a “charity.”. Maybe, it could be some kind of shell corporation for Mossad operations? Perhaps, some way of selecting local agents?

  759. AI regulation seems somewhat beyond the point, IMO

    Who has the money for the most GPUs and access to the biggest datasets (your private stuff) ? The State or NSA, and who will regulate them?

  760. Wonder wether the Romans ever had a discussion about resettling migrants away from the Roman core, whether failed, opposed by those in power, or abortive.

    Was thinking “No, that would be too modern a concept.”. But then I thought of the Assyrians, and it became somewhat more plausible to me. Would we even know if it had happened?

    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    You might find some answers to your questions by studying the early initial periods of Romanian history. There probably was the inclusion of other ethnicities besides Romans that were a part 0f the initial colonising efforts in this new land. Romanian history is quite interesting, especially if you can get beyond the fact that it's a Balkan country:


    The Romans called the people of Romania Dacians. In 101-102 AD the Roman Emperor Trajan led a campaign against the Dacians. A further campaign was fought in 105-106 AD and the Romans crushed the Dacians at the battle of Sarmizegetusa. Afterward, Dacia became a Roman province. Settlers from other parts of the Roman Empire were brought in and the local people became ‘Romanized’. They began to speak Latin.

     

    https://localhistories.org/a-brief-history-of-romania/

    Where is Seraphim (our only Russophile Romanian) when you need him? :-)

    Replies: @sudden death, @songbird, @Philip Owen

  761. @Bashibuzuk

    Popular Chinese economist Lu Qiyuan recently claimed the US has four years to prevent a major political, social and financial crisis. It must do at least one of three things: implement structural political reform; prevent the dollar from losing its role as the global reserve currency; or create a new wave of economic growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

    If Lu Qiyuan is right, the US is facing a Herculean task. Structural reform of the US political system would meet strong opposition from America’s corporate and financial giants, the main beneficiaries and sponsors of the current political system. They are firmly in control of the national media and ensconced in the national bureaucracy.
     
    https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/ai-wont-save-us-but-cybernetics-could/

    Replies: @A123, @QCIC

    Who wants to live in such a cybernetic world, other than Karlin?

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Question is whether we can avoid living in this kind of future.

    Replies: @QCIC

  762. Bashibuzuk says:
    @A123
    @Bashibuzuk


    US has four years to prevent a major political, social and financial crisis. It must do at least one of three things:

    [1] implement structural political reform;
    [2] prevent the dollar from losing its role as the global reserve currency; or
    [3] create a new wave of economic growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
     
    MAGA is certainly going to work on #1 in Trump's 2nd term. The country cannot survive another 4 years of unelected leadership by Not-The-President Biden. So there is real risk here from another stolen election.

    For #2, what else can be the global reserve currency? Both EUR and RMB are much worse off than the U.S. dollar in terms of fragility. The CCP still has their entire property and construction industry tied up with uncertainty. They are still trying to sort out Evergrande, and that started back in 2021 (if not earlier). Beyond the Big 3, no other option provides sufficient liquidity.

    Gold is a commodity, not money. Despite what many hard currency advocates declare, it is actually quite difficult to run gold denominated businesses. That is one of the reasons why national currencies exist. Will bars of gold be shipped about to physically settle transactions? If not, what nations get to be repositories? What happens when foil wrapped tungsten bars are discovered?

    #3 implies more output can be produced with less labour. For this to improve society, it requires #1. The U.S. already has too many people and the associated wage suppression. Successful AI efforts need to be combined with mass deportation so that citizens (not illegals and Globalist elites) capture a significant portion of the gains as wages. Without this, AI could easily lead to fewer jobs and an expanding underclass.

    PEACE 😇

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    For #2, what else can be the global reserve currency? Both EUR and RMB are much worse off than the U.S. dollar in terms of fragility. The CCP still has their entire property and construction industry tied up with uncertainty. They are still trying to sort out Evergrande, and that started back in 2021 (if not earlier). Beyond the Big 3, no other option provides sufficient liquidity.

    https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/cbdc.htm

    • Replies: @A123
    @Bashibuzuk


    https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/cbdc.htm
     
    CBDC is an authoritarian front in any denomination. If the €uro goes first, it will only make the U.S. Dollar stronger as a reserve currency.

    PEACE 😇
  763. @songbird
    Wish someone would Bill & Ted Joe Stalin and put him in charge of the next Eurovision context.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Emil Nikola Richard

    I saw the photos from Sweden. There was no coverage of the mob logistics. Where do all those people go when they have to go to the bathroom? Did the city managers install 2000 portable latrine booths?

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Some say they arrested Greta for real this time.
    _____
    Was recently wishing there was a website where one could suggest previous influences on a film or TV show.

    Have long noticed what seem to be old influences on a lot of the famous episodes of Star Trek.

    Just noticed one I hadn't put together before on one of my favorite episodes of TNG, one called "Booby Trap" (minus the woke parts) where they find an alien ship hundreds of years old from some extinct race that died in a war of mutual destruction.

    Not an exact rip off (no alien ship), but the Murray Leinster story "Second Landing" bears many similarities, whether coincidence or, as I think, probably not.

    Replies: @QCIC

  764. @Bashibuzuk
    @A123


    For #2, what else can be the global reserve currency? Both EUR and RMB are much worse off than the U.S. dollar in terms of fragility. The CCP still has their entire property and construction industry tied up with uncertainty. They are still trying to sort out Evergrande, and that started back in 2021 (if not earlier). Beyond the Big 3, no other option provides sufficient liquidity.
     
    https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/cbdc.htm

    Replies: @A123

    https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/cbdc.htm

    CBDC is an authoritarian front in any denomination. If the €uro goes first, it will only make the U.S. Dollar stronger as a reserve currency.

    PEACE 😇

  765. @songbird
    Wish someone would Bill & Ted Joe Stalin and put him in charge of the next Eurovision context.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Emil Nikola Richard

    Almost a year old but it’s pretty good if you haven’t yet seen it:

    The influences of the Star Wars series
    Chen G.

    John Williams fans

    https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/35430-essay-the-influences-of-the-star-wars-series-film-and-score/

  766. Bashibuzuk says:
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Bashibuzuk

    Sorge was of course neither Russian (fully) nor Jewish, but he was probably Stalin's most important spy no?

    Sorge's mole was a Jap communist who was the then PM's braintrust; who drove Japanese opinion against KMT China. That's like if Dugin was a Chinese mole (he did get on the Chicom payroll but that's later)

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

    His other agents were a mix of ethnicities,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eastern_Bloc_agents_in_the_United_States#Sorge_ring

    (((Harry Dexter White))) was close to FDR and may have been a Soviet spy who subverted US negotiation with Japan, pre-Pearl Harbor

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Japan_policy

    The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) was originally a Soviet client with designs to overthrow Imperial Japan, its founder was a confidant of Stalin's

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

    They were all equally Soviet, regardless of ethnicities, right?

    et demain L'Internationale, Sera le genre humain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcS_sjbJNDI

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    L’Internationale, Sera le genre humain.

    https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/from-principle-to-practice-making-stakeholder-capitalism-work

    Think of it as a necessary dialectical step before we get to what Strugatsky brothers have named the Noon World.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon:_22nd_Century

    The nations are bound to be dissolved through technological and cultural shifts. But it doesn’t mean that identity has to be lost. Humans had identities before the advent of nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century. Humans will have identities in the future as well. The interconnected world will be made of networks.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    Nations perform great service to the money power, who already have for themselves this post-national network world. They make huge profits building them up and chopping them down. They distract power rivals pitting them against one another. They destroy surplus useless eaters.

    How does Balanji's fantasy world serve those functions?

    Hmmmmmm?

    Replies: @QCIC

  767. @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    You don’t even seem to know how important the Talmud is in Rabbinical Judaism.

    Read about it before you write Johnny…

    🙂

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @John Johnson

    You don’t even seem to know how important the Talmud is in Rabbinical Judaism.

    Read about it before you write Johnny…

    You said Muhammed’s hatred of dogs was a copy-paste from Judaism and then you didn’t provide the Talmud equivalent of the Koran verses I cited.

    You then cited an offshoot version of the Torah from 1180 where the verse on dogs was an addition.

    Amusingly you said I don’t read before I post and yet it was you that didn’t know that you were citing additions from 1180.

    Unless you want to argue that Muhammed had a magic donkey that could take him into the future and copy the Jews over a verse that was a suggestion in a very specific context from the 12th century then stop posting already.

    You also clearly haven’t lived around Jews or Muslims if you think they have the same rules.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    Do you understand that what you amusingly described as a « Torah offshoot » is a piece of authoritative Talmudic exegesis?

    Or is it too complicated for you to comprehend?

    🙂

    Today’s reformed liberal Jews have as much in common with pure Rabbinical Judaism as the liberal progressive « Christians » have in common with the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    To use today’s postmodern situation to describe a religion (whatever the religion) is touchingly naive.

    Read more before you write…

    Replies: @John Johnson, @A123

  768. @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Thanks Bromance, what about the population genetics vs paleogenetics of the Far East ?

    I am not at all knowledgeable about this topic, so perhaps you might share some insight ?

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    What is mt haplogroup of the Sun goddess?

    🙂

    Basically, I was asking whether there is any difference in the genetic makeup of the highest dynastic group of the Japanese elite. Do we know that?

  769. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @songbird

    I saw the photos from Sweden. There was no coverage of the mob logistics. Where do all those people go when they have to go to the bathroom? Did the city managers install 2000 portable latrine booths?

    Replies: @songbird

    Some say they arrested Greta for real this time.
    _____
    Was recently wishing there was a website where one could suggest previous influences on a film or TV show.

    Have long noticed what seem to be old influences on a lot of the famous episodes of Star Trek.

    Just noticed one I hadn’t put together before on one of my favorite episodes of TNG, one called “Booby Trap” (minus the woke parts) where they find an alien ship hundreds of years old from some extinct race that died in a war of mutual destruction.

    Not an exact rip off (no alien ship), but the Murray Leinster story “Second Landing” bears many similarities, whether coincidence or, as I think, probably not.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @songbird

    I assume the plots of most Star Trek episodes were directly influenced by published stories and in some cases lifted with the minimal changes needed to avoid lawsuits. I suspect this is true for most video sci-fi art since there is a large untapped body of written ideas. If a writer had a brilliant fresh premise why not publish it instead of writing a low-paying script for a TV show? The exception might be a great premise that works best visually and is too brief for a movie.

    Replies: @songbird

  770. @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Sounds like damage control. The Bolshevik revolutionaries were heavily Jewish. Even more so for the losing but more democratic Mensheviks.

    Admitting that is not the end of the world. I think the better question is why so many secular Jews were attracted to Communism. I don't take the position that the entire revolution was a Jewish conspiracy but facts are facts.

    From the Jerusalem Post:

    Some observers saw Lenin and his band as a motley group of Jewish revolutionaries. Alexander Guchkov, the Russian minister of war in the Russian Provisional Government after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917, told the British military attaché General Alfred Knox that “the extreme element consists of Jews and imbeciles.” Lenin’s train had included 19 members of his Bolshevik party, several of his allies among the Mensheviks and six Jewish members of the Jewish Labor Bund. Almost half the passengers on the train were Jewish.
    https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Derer

    The first politburo was created in Russia by the Bolshevik Party in 1917 during the Russian Revolution that occurred during that year. The first Politburo had seven members: Vladimir Lenin, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Grigori Sokolnikov, and Andrei Bubnov.

    From that only insignificant Bubnov was Russian and Stalin Georgian, the rest were Bolshevik Jews (Lenin’s mother was Jewish), that group implemented Karl Marx (Jew) theory of Bolshevism.

  771. @Bashibuzuk
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms


    L’Internationale, Sera le genre humain.
     
    https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/from-principle-to-practice-making-stakeholder-capitalism-work

    Think of it as a necessary dialectical step before we get to what Strugatsky brothers have named the Noon World.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon:_22nd_Century

    The nations are bound to be dissolved through technological and cultural shifts. But it doesn’t mean that identity has to be lost. Humans had identities before the advent of nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century. Humans will have identities in the future as well. The interconnected world will be made of networks.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    Nations perform great service to the money power, who already have for themselves this post-national network world. They make huge profits building them up and chopping them down. They distract power rivals pitting them against one another. They destroy surplus useless eaters.

    How does Balanji’s fantasy world serve those functions?

    Hmmmmmm?

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    My impression is that world-level groups support the growth of indigent populations in the third world even as Westerners and East Asians are pressured to reduce birthrates and contract their populations. But why? Gates supposed drive to cull 'useless eaters' seems to contradict this, but I'm not convinced.

    My first exposure to this idea goes back to the nineteen seventies when public health measures targeting newborns and infants in Africa, South Asia and South America were a popular topic. This probably started in the nineteen fifties. Alarmed skeptics pointed out that decreasing infant morality in primitive areas with high birth rates would lead the populations to grow rapidly and that follow up measures could simply not counteract this fundamental process (other than mass starvation). I think the planned steps were: 1) Decrease infant mortality, 2) Increase local food supply, 3) Attempt to create a more advanced self-supporting technological civilization. I'm not sure 2 and 3 really happened and may not be feasible anyway.

  772. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTM4h-DxK5_cqHb1aipKq42Swxh1LgcGFlD9KOdykXlcw&s.jpg

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    What is mt haplogroup of the Sun goddess?

    🙂

    Basically, I was asking whether there is any difference in the genetic makeup of the highest dynastic group of the Japanese elite. Do we know that?

  773. @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Who wants to live in such a cybernetic world, other than Karlin?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Question is whether we can avoid living in this kind of future.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @Bashibuzuk

    Realistically, I think that avoiding this future requires one of two things: a meme more powerful than any major religion or simply a war. Maybe these come together!

    In my more positive moments I think in terms of a serious worldwide economic setback which leads to the loss of only the most intricate technical products since their supply chains are simply so tricky to maintain. These products include the semiconductors needed for AI along with the most expensive big-Pharma products.

  774. QCIC says:
    @songbird
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Some say they arrested Greta for real this time.
    _____
    Was recently wishing there was a website where one could suggest previous influences on a film or TV show.

    Have long noticed what seem to be old influences on a lot of the famous episodes of Star Trek.

    Just noticed one I hadn't put together before on one of my favorite episodes of TNG, one called "Booby Trap" (minus the woke parts) where they find an alien ship hundreds of years old from some extinct race that died in a war of mutual destruction.

    Not an exact rip off (no alien ship), but the Murray Leinster story "Second Landing" bears many similarities, whether coincidence or, as I think, probably not.

    Replies: @QCIC

    I assume the plots of most Star Trek episodes were directly influenced by published stories and in some cases lifted with the minimal changes needed to avoid lawsuits. I suspect this is true for most video sci-fi art since there is a large untapped body of written ideas. If a writer had a brilliant fresh premise why not publish it instead of writing a low-paying script for a TV show? The exception might be a great premise that works best visually and is too brief for a movie.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @QCIC


    If a writer had a brilliant fresh premise why not publish it instead of writing a low-paying script for a TV show?
     
    don't know if there was ever a clear hierarchy of scifi publishing over scifi TV. A lot of scifi writers were low paid, especially back at the time of TOS, but I think it is true for anyone but the top elite. Many were resentful of Crichton, who had a quick path to success, and didn't have to spend years writing for mags.

    People like Clark and Asimov were famous for a while and made their living writing, but I think they only acheived mass celebrity and fortune by the late '70s or '80s. Ironically, some of their worst books were their biggest successes because of the way promotion had changed.

    A lot of famous scifi writers also wrote for TV. Bradbury, Asimov, Sturgeon, Ellison.

    I assume the plots of most Star Trek episodes were directly influenced by published stories and in some cases lifted with the minimal changes needed to avoid lawsuits.
     
    It is definitely a high percentage. Some of the Borg stuff was a rip off of Ayn Rand. Sprague de Camp seems to have influenced a few TOS episodes, like that one with the Gorn or that creature that sucks something out of blood.
  775. Bashibuzuk says:
    @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    You don’t even seem to know how important the Talmud is in Rabbinical Judaism.

    Read about it before you write Johnny…

    You said Muhammed's hatred of dogs was a copy-paste from Judaism and then you didn't provide the Talmud equivalent of the Koran verses I cited.

    You then cited an offshoot version of the Torah from 1180 where the verse on dogs was an addition.

    Amusingly you said I don't read before I post and yet it was you that didn't know that you were citing additions from 1180.

    Unless you want to argue that Muhammed had a magic donkey that could take him into the future and copy the Jews over a verse that was a suggestion in a very specific context from the 12th century then stop posting already.

    You also clearly haven't lived around Jews or Muslims if you think they have the same rules.

    https://www.myjewishlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dogs-tel-aviv-2-1008x630.jpg

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Do you understand that what you amusingly described as a « Torah offshoot » is a piece of authoritative Talmudic exegesis?

    Or is it too complicated for you to comprehend?

    🙂

    Today’s reformed liberal Jews have as much in common with pure Rabbinical Judaism as the liberal progressive « Christians » have in common with the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    To use today’s postmodern situation to describe a religion (whatever the religion) is touchingly naive.

    Read more before you write…

    • LOL: A123
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Do you understand that what you amusingly described as a « Torah offshoot » is a piece of authoritative Talmudic exegesis?

    Or is it too complicated for you to comprehend?

    Still at it, eh?

    Well cite the original verse that Muhammed copied from Judaism.

    Show us the verse that says Jews can't have dogs indoors or need to kill the black ones.

    Find something better than an offshoot from the 12th century.

    If you don't have it then man up and admit you were wrong.

    It's not a big deal.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @A123
    @Bashibuzuk


    the liberal progressive « Christians » have in common with the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.
     
    It is well known that IslamoGloboHomo has suborned theoretically Christian institutions. Muhammad Francis of Islam is the first, and hopefully last, non-Christian Pope.

    Is this too complicated for you to comprehend?
    ___

    Are there modest numbers of Orthodox Jews who, hundreds of years later, take the flawed words of Maimonides excessively literally? Yes. The good news is that this is a minority of even the Orthodox population.

    This 180° diametrically opposed to Islam where the Quran is steeped in inflexible literalism and intolerance.

    You would be well served by taking time to understand more before you write...

    PEACE 😇
  776. @Greasy William
    @QCIC


    The demise of the Russian economy was widely overstated and so is the demise of US productive capability
     
    Nobody is predicting the demise of US/Western weapons production capability, what people are saying is that NATO is maxed out with what it can produce without dramatically scaling up its current armaments manufacturing capacity. I'm talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants. So far, the West hasn't even begun to do this and it is unclear that it ever will. In WWII and the Cold War, the West had the political will to effectively martial its industrial and economic resources into military production. That does not appear to be the case today. At least not yet. The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together. But why would anyone anticipate the West doing that?

    Replies: @Mikel, @QCIC, @John Johnson

    I’m talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants.

    The US has increased 155mm shell production by over 500%.

    They’re on track to make 100,000 shells per month:
    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/09/15/production-of-key-munition-years-ahead-of-schedule-pentagon-says/

    Lockheed is on track to make 288 HIMARs launchers per year
    https://www.govconwire.com/2024/05/lockheed-books-861m-army-contract-modification-for-himars-launcher-production/

    I’d say that is enough. I don’t see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production. 1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed. They aren’t dumb shells launched in the general direction of the enemy. I see no reason to believe that Russian BMP production can match HIMARs missile production. If I were Putin I would launch a major offensive against Kharkiv before finding out how many missiles the US can produce and ship. Prigozhin hated HIMARs and talked about how it terrified the men. I think HIMARs is the answer and not a shell exchange.

    Let’s bet low on US production – Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2

    The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?

    Russia is siding with Israel and not Iran.

    China is currently meeting with France on good terms.

    This is not WW2. China will trade with any European country with money and they didn’t back Russia’s invasion in the UN. They will happily sell weapons to anyone.

    China is out for China. If Putin didn’t have oil and cash then Xi would be ignoring him.

    The Chinese have a thousand year desire to “one up” all European countries and that includes Russia. They’re insulted that so much history is due to European progress and not Chinese. The Chinese still want to view themselves as the master race.

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @John Johnson

    https://youtu.be/XCS7UeUCxx8?si=m9pq6eY1LVsSELyt


    https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1788848954039214156
    https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1786819580725526757

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @John Johnson

    "Let’s bet low on US production – Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2"

    Is the United States the United States of either WW1 or WW2?

    I think not. Sad, but there it is. In both world wars it was the greatest industrial power on earth. Now it doesn't make any merchant ships.

    Back in my 1970s youth I was so impressed with the few US machine tools in my engineering works - some of the Brit ones were pre-1945! But even in the 1980s I watched the lab gear in my then employer switching slowly from American to German and Japanese. Now it would all be Chinese.

    In the late 80s nearly all mainframes were IBM, and nearly all PCs made in the US. Seen that vanish, it's all Far East now.

    , @Greasy William
    @John Johnson


    They’re on track to make 100,000 shells per month
     
    Production is set to peak at 80k shells per month. Europe less than half that. At most, the West will be able to provide Ukraine with a million shells per annum and likely at least 20% less than that. Ukraine needs at least 1.5 million shells a year to make significant territorial gains.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?
     
    Because it exists. There is no love lost between these states but they are bound together by values and common interests. WWII Germany, Italy and Japan weren't exactly buddy buddy with each other either.

    I don’t see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production
     
    ATACMS, HIMARS and drones are not wunderwaffen and they are not replacements for artillery.

    1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed.
     
    1. Everyone admits that ATACMs and HIMARs are not being produced in the quantities that Ukraine needs
    2. How many air defense missiles are the US producing? That is nowhere near enough to provide for Ukraine's needs in that sector, needs that will only grow with time.

    In any case, I concede that the US is producing sufficient armaments to keep Ukraine in the fight, so long as the Ukrainians are able to continue providing the manpower. What I dispute is that the United States is producing sufficient armaments to achieve offensive success in a prolonged, high intensity, war with the Russia/Iran/China bloc. Or even just with Russia.

    I agree that the United States theoretically could scale up armaments production to a level where it could overwhelm Russia but, for political reasons, I just don't believe that the US and allies will do so

    Let’s bet low on US production – Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2
     
    WWII US wasn't riven with internal dissent to the point of being dysfunctional. WWII Germany and Japan both had crippling resource shortages
    , @QCIC
    @John Johnson

    More Western weapons will force the Ukrainian people to decide what they really want at the end of the SMO. If their leaders accept the weapons then Russia will continue destruction of Ukraine until there is no point for the West to send weapons. We saw a step change this spring with more serious strikes on power plants instead of substations, along with other important infrastructure. The Russians have given Kharkov ample warning of an attack at some point in the foreseeable future. Presumably they are increasing preparations, working an operational plan and waiting for more civilians to get out of Dodge. If the West ups the ante there are plenty of juicy targets throughout Ukraine which Russia has in its expanded target set. As more able-bodied men are killed or leave it becomes progressively harder for Ukraine to repair the infrastructure damage. As the destruction mounts more people will leave. Then damage to bridges, runways and roads starts to accumulate since it is repaired much more slowly than in 2022, if at all. At this point some damage may never be fixed as Russia decides how to remake the map of the country.

    The combined countries of NATO can outproduce Russia in terms of weapons if they can borrow the money to pay for it. Despite this, Russia can probably produce enough weapons to protect her borders since she is not in a position to do any serious expeditionary warfare (which would require much more equipment). China and Russia combined can likely outproduce all of NATO in some military equipment areas. If the West squeezes China to keep Russia at arms length, she will still supply critical items in exchange for energy and solidarity.

  777. QCIC says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Bashibuzuk

    Nations perform great service to the money power, who already have for themselves this post-national network world. They make huge profits building them up and chopping them down. They distract power rivals pitting them against one another. They destroy surplus useless eaters.

    How does Balanji's fantasy world serve those functions?

    Hmmmmmm?

    Replies: @QCIC

    My impression is that world-level groups support the growth of indigent populations in the third world even as Westerners and East Asians are pressured to reduce birthrates and contract their populations. But why? Gates supposed drive to cull ‘useless eaters’ seems to contradict this, but I’m not convinced.

    My first exposure to this idea goes back to the nineteen seventies when public health measures targeting newborns and infants in Africa, South Asia and South America were a popular topic. This probably started in the nineteen fifties. Alarmed skeptics pointed out that decreasing infant morality in primitive areas with high birth rates would lead the populations to grow rapidly and that follow up measures could simply not counteract this fundamental process (other than mass starvation). I think the planned steps were: 1) Decrease infant mortality, 2) Increase local food supply, 3) Attempt to create a more advanced self-supporting technological civilization. I’m not sure 2 and 3 really happened and may not be feasible anyway.

  778. @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    Do you understand that what you amusingly described as a « Torah offshoot » is a piece of authoritative Talmudic exegesis?

    Or is it too complicated for you to comprehend?

    🙂

    Today’s reformed liberal Jews have as much in common with pure Rabbinical Judaism as the liberal progressive « Christians » have in common with the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    To use today’s postmodern situation to describe a religion (whatever the religion) is touchingly naive.

    Read more before you write…

    Replies: @John Johnson, @A123

    Do you understand that what you amusingly described as a « Torah offshoot » is a piece of authoritative Talmudic exegesis?

    Or is it too complicated for you to comprehend?

    Still at it, eh?

    Well cite the original verse that Muhammed copied from Judaism.

    Show us the verse that says Jews can’t have dogs indoors or need to kill the black ones.

    Find something better than an offshoot from the 12th century.

    If you don’t have it then man up and admit you were wrong.

    It’s not a big deal.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    So you think that to plagiarize a religious tradition one has to copy paste some “verses” verbatim?

    That’s what I call touchingly naive.

    🙂

    Replies: @John Johnson

  779. @Bashibuzuk
    @AP

    Scythian is an ethnonym used by the Greek. We know that some Central Asian Scythians named themselves Saka, other Massagetae etc. It is possible that at least some Black Sea region Scythian clans used the name Skolot as a self identification. It is built around the IE root “kol” which is used in Slavic kol itself as an axis around which a movement is possible, koleso (wheel) or kolovrat (i.e. swastika, also the nickname of Evpatyi Kolovrat who with his men survived the Ryazan’ massacre and unleashed a brief but bloody partisan war against the troops of Batu Khan). Skolot would mean “one who lives with wheels”. Interestingly, the Kushans were called by the Han Yue Zhi, [people of] Big Wheels and were related to the Scythians going to form the Indo-Scythian Empire in Northern Hindustan (including the nowadays Pakistan and Afghanistan).

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

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

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

    Our ancestors were somewhat connected to these people, but nowadays their descendants are mostly found among the Turkic ethnic groups. Acculturation, due to inability to unite and face first the Sarmatians, later the Xiognu and finally the Gök Turks (whose first dynasty might have been of Scythian Pazyrik descent) lead to the downfall of the great Scythian Steppe.

    Regional differences must not prevent defending the common space inherited from the ancestors. A house divided will fall. Putin will vacate his place and move into history books. People who live in modern day RusFed and Ukiestan would still be neighbours and will have to coexist despite the linguistic and cultural differences that led to the current conflict.

    History is a great teacher, when we are opened to learn.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …Scythian clans used the name Skolot as a self identification. It is built around the IE root “kol” which is used in Slavic kol itself as an axis around which a movement is possible, koleso (wheel)…Skolot would mean “one who lives with wheels”.

    “kol” is better translated as round, something that had a circular shape. ‘o-kol-o‘ still means ‘around’. (The ‘okolie’ term was sometimes used for ‘our lands’.) The transition to ‘koleso’ was derivative and much later. I am skeptical it is related to ‘wheel’, it can be related to the custom of people in a circle, ‘kolo’, there is an ancient dance called ‘kolo’.

    The idea that Scythians would name themselves after an idyllic tribal dance is amusing. Probably not.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Beckow

    Actually, now that you write about it, the Skolot name might indeed mean something like “people of our circle”. That would sense as well. And we should remember that they didn’t speak a Balto-Slavic language, but an Iranian one.

  780. QCIC says:
    @Bashibuzuk
    @QCIC

    Question is whether we can avoid living in this kind of future.

    Replies: @QCIC

    Realistically, I think that avoiding this future requires one of two things: a meme more powerful than any major religion or simply a war. Maybe these come together!

    In my more positive moments I think in terms of a serious worldwide economic setback which leads to the loss of only the most intricate technical products since their supply chains are simply so tricky to maintain. These products include the semiconductors needed for AI along with the most expensive big-Pharma products.

  781. LatW says:
    @AP
    @Bashibuzuk


    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine.
     
    True, but this is a recent consequence of Russification. It wasn't like that before. Pre-Soviet Ukrainian elites were of native descent with in some cases Polish admixture.

    Moreover in Ukraine there is a region that does not follow the pattern: Galicia. Not coincidentally, the least Russified part of Ukraine.

    Because having a Noviop elite goes hand-in-hand with cultural, linguistic Russification.

    Being ruled by a foreign multicultural elite is an essential aspect of Russian culture. In Ukraine it is a recent phenomenon, reintroduced by the Soviets after having been absent for many centuries. Full Galicianization and de-Russification would have been necessary to rid Ukraine of this problem and to heal Ukraine. It is unfortunate that Donbas and Crimea were part of Ukraine until 2014, it might have been possible in that case.

    But the Russification is far from complete. Russified Ukrainians may have adopted from the Russians the use of the Russian language and tolerance of having a foreign Noviop elite, but they have retained their aversion to being ruled by a despot.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.
     
    Russia was the one who attacked though. The Ukrainian Noviops did not send their army into Russia. This may not be because Ukraine's Noviops are "better" than Russian ones - their country is simply smaller. But still - guilt here is not equal at all.

    Our people (yes it’s one people)
     
    Like all Slavs are one people. But we are far from identical. Our political cultures are very incompatible. The Russian Eurasianist Vernadsky claimed that Ukrainians retained the Old Rus democratic folkways that Muscovy/Russia lost, but it's just as likely to be the product of being an integral part of Poland for generations. Politically, Russians are the heirs of their tsars' Tatar overlords and teachers, Ukrainians hate despots and are Republican in nature, they don't tolerate Khans or Despots.

    Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from Rus. But Ukraine is a child of Rzeczpospolita. Russia is not. Russia learned from its Eastern overlords. Ukraine did not. And this makes a big difference between the two peoples.

    This stark political incompatibility is masked by genetic, linguistic and interpersonal similarities but it is revealed, with bloody consequences, whenever Russia tries to politically integrate - or rather, subjugate - Ukraine.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years
     
    I couldn't agree more.

    I'm angry at Putin and scum such as Solovyev or Simonyon (neither one a Slav) who support and cheerlead this invasion. Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed as the decent Americans who sincerely supported the evil Iraq war because they were convinced that it was the necessary thing to do. Killing invaders coming into one's homeland is sadly necessary and Ukraine needs to have the tools to do that until the Russians stay home, but there is nothing to celebrate about that.

    Replies: @LatW, @Mr. XYZ

    Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed

    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they’re “brainwashed” and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their “younger brothers” who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?

    You do realize that besides vermin like Solovyov and Simonyan there is also the loud mouthed Skabeeva and Mardan who are blonde Russians?

    You do realize that besides Putin there is a whole military political and FSB structure underneath him who are running this? Most of the military and special services is Russian.

    You do realize that the missiles that are fired into Ukraine are operated from somewhere near the Caspian sea or south Russia by pure Slavs? Including women. Every single one of them has a name.

    As to the Noviop issue, it’s not even so much about ethnicities but the goals of these political classes. The problem is the selfishness and subservience to capital, at the expense of the interests of the nation. And it’s not even that bad in Ukraine, since they have some patriots as well.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @LatW

    Considering just a few well-known facts like NATO expansion, obvious Western meddling in Ukraine (at least at some level) and a few other topics discussed here, the public reaction of Russians with regard to the SMO seems extremely measured. I assume this cool temper is based on awareness of the many wars Russia has survived. It may be the Russian media sends out mixed messages which have only nurtured a very slow growth of pro-Russia, anti-Western sentiment since the Kremlins may not want to promote Russian Nationalism.

    I base this perspective on my vision of what I expect to happen in similar hypothetical circumstances in the USA. Virulent and destructive sentiments would have been readily drummed up and propagandized incessantly to all ages. If foreign missiles killed any Americans on US soil nuclear response strikes would have been widely demanded. The reaction level would be more like Zionist Jews against Gaza than what we saw with Russians against Donetsk.

    The response of Russian citizens in Belgorod seems shockingly mild compared to what I would expect from similar people in the USA.

    Replies: @LatW

    , @AP
    @LatW


    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they’re “brainwashed” and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their “younger brothers” who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?
     
    You are correct and that is part of the brainswashing.

    I remember when 70% of Americans genuinely believed that Iraq was behind 9-11 and/or Saddam Hussein was about to get WMD's. This stupidity enabled the horrific and criminal invasion of Iraq. But the believers and participants were mostly not evil people. Their motivation was the keep their families safe and free the people of Iraq from a brutal dictator. These regular American people who made the Iraq war possible for not bad people, for the most part.

    Same with most Russians, who do indeed mostly support this war. They, too, have been led to support and take part in a horrible crime because of their brainwashing. Many believe that Ukrainians are under Nazi occupation, that Russians in Ukraine are being mass-murdered by the Ukrainian government and have to be rescued, that Russia is in mortal danger if it doesn't attack (the stupid NATO excuse, like Saddam's WMDs), that Ukrainians will be happier if they are liberated and living together in one happy state like the 1970s USSR.* In Russia as it was in Iraq - an effective way of motivating decent people to take part in such crimes is to convince them that they are doing the right, and the good thing.

    Ukrainians have a right to fight back and to kill those who try to kill them. Because those invaders, whatever their motivation, are deadly, and because with invasion and occupation there inevitably comes sadism by an unrestrained minority. And the Ukrainians should be helped in doing so. Hopefully they will achieve the means to kill those who launch missiles at them even from the Caspian region.

    *I know, one can find real sub-animals online who write gleefully about dead Ukrainian kids, and packs of sadists such as Rusich - but these are not typical Russian war-supporters.

    Replies: @LatW, @Mr. XYZ

  782. @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    I’m talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants.

    The US has increased 155mm shell production by over 500%.

    They're on track to make 100,000 shells per month:
    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/09/15/production-of-key-munition-years-ahead-of-schedule-pentagon-says/

    Lockheed is on track to make 288 HIMARs launchers per year
    https://www.govconwire.com/2024/05/lockheed-books-861m-army-contract-modification-for-himars-launcher-production/

    I'd say that is enough. I don't see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production. 1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed. They aren't dumb shells launched in the general direction of the enemy. I see no reason to believe that Russian BMP production can match HIMARs missile production. If I were Putin I would launch a major offensive against Kharkiv before finding out how many missiles the US can produce and ship. Prigozhin hated HIMARs and talked about how it terrified the men. I think HIMARs is the answer and not a shell exchange.

    Let's bet low on US production - Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2

    The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?

    Russia is siding with Israel and not Iran.

    China is currently meeting with France on good terms.

    This is not WW2. China will trade with any European country with money and they didn't back Russia's invasion in the UN. They will happily sell weapons to anyone.

    China is out for China. If Putin didn't have oil and cash then Xi would be ignoring him.

    The Chinese have a thousand year desire to "one up" all European countries and that includes Russia. They're insulted that so much history is due to European progress and not Chinese. The Chinese still want to view themselves as the master race.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @YetAnotherAnon, @Greasy William, @QCIC

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    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    I did not notice any negroes in the cavalry parade regiment but I didn't look that close. Does the cavalry parade regiment have a diversity committee?

    I did notice the horse poop in the street after they went by. I bet there were negroes working in the horse poop sweep detail.

    The gauntlet has now been thrust before the Olympics opening ceremonies committee. Horse poop is a lot easier to clean up than dead Arabs.

    Horse poop is fun to type.

  783. A123 says: • Website
    @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    Do you understand that what you amusingly described as a « Torah offshoot » is a piece of authoritative Talmudic exegesis?

    Or is it too complicated for you to comprehend?

    🙂

    Today’s reformed liberal Jews have as much in common with pure Rabbinical Judaism as the liberal progressive « Christians » have in common with the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    To use today’s postmodern situation to describe a religion (whatever the religion) is touchingly naive.

    Read more before you write…

    Replies: @John Johnson, @A123

    the liberal progressive « Christians » have in common with the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    It is well known that IslamoGloboHomo has suborned theoretically Christian institutions. Muhammad Francis of Islam is the first, and hopefully last, non-Christian Pope.

    Is this too complicated for you to comprehend?
    ___

    Are there modest numbers of Orthodox Jews who, hundreds of years later, take the flawed words of Maimonides excessively literally? Yes. The good news is that this is a minority of even the Orthodox population.

    This 180° diametrically opposed to Islam where the Quran is steeped in inflexible literalism and intolerance.

    You would be well served by taking time to understand more before you write…

    PEACE 😇

    • LOL: Bashibuzuk
  784. @Beckow
    @Bashibuzuk


    ...Scythian clans used the name Skolot as a self identification. It is built around the IE root “kol” which is used in Slavic kol itself as an axis around which a movement is possible, koleso (wheel)...Skolot would mean “one who lives with wheels”.
     
    "kol" is better translated as round, something that had a circular shape. 'o-kol-o' still means 'around'. (The 'okolie' term was sometimes used for 'our lands'.) The transition to 'koleso' was derivative and much later. I am skeptical it is related to 'wheel', it can be related to the custom of people in a circle, 'kolo', there is an ancient dance called 'kolo'.

    The idea that Scythians would name themselves after an idyllic tribal dance is amusing. Probably not.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    Actually, now that you write about it, the Skolot name might indeed mean something like “people of our circle”. That would sense as well. And we should remember that they didn’t speak a Balto-Slavic language, but an Iranian one.

  785. @Beckow
    @Greasy William


    ...the US running perpetual deficits of 8% GDP, Congress simply isn’t going to appropriate any more money to military spending
     
    They will. Creating virtual money is addictive and the West is going through the maximum addiction phase (in everything). It is helicopter money time.

    Something broke in the perception of virtual money - the numbers got so big that the previous lame attempts to reign it in became pointless. Why not go all the way? Whether the collapse happens with $35 trillion or with $50 trillion makes no difference...The timing will be driven by the external events not by numbers.

    There is still feint hope that the total dominance will return and the West will re-conquer the world: get cheap resources and again enforce the tribute not only on allies but on everyone...the good times will return. But probably not, looks like China, Russia and the world have had enough. So why not load up on some easy money with military spending? (It makes morons like JJ very happy.)

    Replies: @Greasy William

    They will. Creating virtual money is addictive and the West is going through the maximum addiction phase (in everything).

    They can’t. They shot their bolt with the Covid printing and if they do anymore it’s hyperinflation which detonates the entire rotten system. Look what’s happening with Japan. Fiat money has reached its end game

    If the US was going to expand its armaments manufacturing capacity, you would have seen it do so by now.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @Greasy William


    ...Fiat money has reached its end game
     
    Maybe, but it is still going on. The inflation is higher than what governments claim. That means the so-called GNP growth is lower - in real per capita terms most Western economies are smaller than 20 years ago. The fake money has led to fake numbers.

    Issuing endless fiat money masks the real situation, so they must keep it up. The idea that more fake money leads to hyper-inflation is too linear - eventually it will, but as long as the Western material resources are sufficient for basics like food, energy, housing, healthcare... the flood of fiat money into the economy doesn't have to trigger hyper-inflation. Instead it makes everyone feel better than their real material circumstances. It is a palliative to avoid people seeing how bad it really got.

    The problem is perception - the devaluation of money that people see in their day-to-day life is juxtaposed against governments telling them how good they have it. Systems become unstable when the gap between what people see and what they are told by elites becomes too big.

    I agree about weapons manufacturing - the West lacks material capacity to do it. They can use more fake money to buy it from those who can still do it, mostly countries in Asia like Korea, China, India...But it will lead to a bizarre situation where the West is paying for its dominance by issuing fake money to people who it insists on dominating. It will not be very stable.

  786. @QCIC
    @songbird

    I assume the plots of most Star Trek episodes were directly influenced by published stories and in some cases lifted with the minimal changes needed to avoid lawsuits. I suspect this is true for most video sci-fi art since there is a large untapped body of written ideas. If a writer had a brilliant fresh premise why not publish it instead of writing a low-paying script for a TV show? The exception might be a great premise that works best visually and is too brief for a movie.

    Replies: @songbird

    If a writer had a brilliant fresh premise why not publish it instead of writing a low-paying script for a TV show?

    don’t know if there was ever a clear hierarchy of scifi publishing over scifi TV. A lot of scifi writers were low paid, especially back at the time of TOS, but I think it is true for anyone but the top elite. Many were resentful of Crichton, who had a quick path to success, and didn’t have to spend years writing for mags.

    People like Clark and Asimov were famous for a while and made their living writing, but I think they only acheived mass celebrity and fortune by the late ’70s or ’80s. Ironically, some of their worst books were their biggest successes because of the way promotion had changed.

    A lot of famous scifi writers also wrote for TV. Bradbury, Asimov, Sturgeon, Ellison.

    I assume the plots of most Star Trek episodes were directly influenced by published stories and in some cases lifted with the minimal changes needed to avoid lawsuits.

    It is definitely a high percentage. Some of the Borg stuff was a rip off of Ayn Rand. Sprague de Camp seems to have influenced a few TOS episodes, like that one with the Gorn or that creature that sucks something out of blood.

  787. @songbird
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Have never followed Coulter closely (believe she was something of a Neocon once) but I must admit that I did enjoy that provocative rhetorical flourish.

    Am not entirely sure that the path for Euros retaking some political power lies in electing an Indian to power. But I did greatly enjoy Vivek's comments that people should check out the TickToc of Haley's daughter. For my part, I would genuinely like to see him be in a VP debate with Harris.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    What I found so amusing is that had Ramaswamy been an actual American Black, she no doubt would vote for him.

    The soft bigotry of low expectations.

    • Replies: @songbird
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    True, and even people like Sowelll definitely have their own shortfalls, but an American black (sort of being their own ethnic group) wouldn't necessarily have an ethnic interest in widening visa programs to import an Indian elite. Not that ostensible ethnic interests always determine policy, but I suspect Coulter was speaking to that point specifically.

  788. QCIC says:
    @LatW
    @AP


    Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed
     
    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they're "brainwashed" and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their "younger brothers" who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?

    You do realize that besides vermin like Solovyov and Simonyan there is also the loud mouthed Skabeeva and Mardan who are blonde Russians?

    You do realize that besides Putin there is a whole military political and FSB structure underneath him who are running this? Most of the military and special services is Russian.

    You do realize that the missiles that are fired into Ukraine are operated from somewhere near the Caspian sea or south Russia by pure Slavs? Including women. Every single one of them has a name.

    As to the Noviop issue, it's not even so much about ethnicities but the goals of these political classes. The problem is the selfishness and subservience to capital, at the expense of the interests of the nation. And it's not even that bad in Ukraine, since they have some patriots as well.

    Replies: @QCIC, @AP

    Considering just a few well-known facts like NATO expansion, obvious Western meddling in Ukraine (at least at some level) and a few other topics discussed here, the public reaction of Russians with regard to the SMO seems extremely measured. I assume this cool temper is based on awareness of the many wars Russia has survived. It may be the Russian media sends out mixed messages which have only nurtured a very slow growth of pro-Russia, anti-Western sentiment since the Kremlins may not want to promote Russian Nationalism.

    I base this perspective on my vision of what I expect to happen in similar hypothetical circumstances in the USA. Virulent and destructive sentiments would have been readily drummed up and propagandized incessantly to all ages. If foreign missiles killed any Americans on US soil nuclear response strikes would have been widely demanded. The reaction level would be more like Zionist Jews against Gaza than what we saw with Russians against Donetsk.

    The response of Russian citizens in Belgorod seems shockingly mild compared to what I would expect from similar people in the USA.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
    • Replies: @LatW
    @QCIC


    the public reaction of Russians with regard to the SMO seems extremely measured.
     
    You're now an expert on Russian public (and private) opinion? :)

    I base this perspective on my vision of what I expect to happen in similar hypothetical circumstances in the USA.
     
    Ukraine did not invade Russia and did not kill Russian civilians en masse (the way Russia did to Ukraine). If the USA attacked its hypothetical former colonial land or just any neighboring land, killing civilians there and bombing cities, then if there was retaliation towards the US, it would be deserved. And large parts of the world would be on the side of the victim of the invasion, not the US.

    Granted, if the US did not have friendly neighbors and was not surrounded by water, it's possible that the US would be an aggressive country towards its neighbors. The question then would be how much more careful the US would be compared to Russia to not start devastating wars with an unpredictable outcome. The US is after all largely Protestant and "rational" (although it has strong streaks of irrationality and self-proclaimed "exceptionalism" similar to Russia).

    Replies: @QCIC

  789. @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    Do you understand that what you amusingly described as a « Torah offshoot » is a piece of authoritative Talmudic exegesis?

    Or is it too complicated for you to comprehend?

    Still at it, eh?

    Well cite the original verse that Muhammed copied from Judaism.

    Show us the verse that says Jews can't have dogs indoors or need to kill the black ones.

    Find something better than an offshoot from the 12th century.

    If you don't have it then man up and admit you were wrong.

    It's not a big deal.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    So you think that to plagiarize a religious tradition one has to copy paste some “verses” verbatim?

    That’s what I call touchingly naive.

    🙂

    • LOL: A123
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    So you think that to plagiarize a religious tradition one has to copy paste some “verses” verbatim?

    I didn't ask for a verbatim verse. I asked for a comparable verse.

    Muhammed didn't copy a Jewish rule about how dogs can't be indoors. In fact dogs and pictures are banned in the same verse:
    Angels do not enter a house which has either a dog or a picture in it

    There is nothing in Judaism about killing black dogs
    The Messenger of Allah said: “When one of you stands in prayer, what definitely constitutes a barrier for him is an object placed in front of him of the same height as the back of a camel-saddle. If it is not in front of him and of the same height as the back of a camel-saddle, then some [stray] donkey, or some woman passing, or some black dog will cut off his prayer.” I said: “O Abu Dharr! What is it that makes a black dog different from a red or yellow dog?” He replied: “O dear cousin! I asked the Messenger of Allah the exact same question. He said that the black dog is a devil.”

    Muhammed hated dogs and thought the black ones were cursed. It's not a case of him copying Judaism. That happened in other areas but not here. He hated dogs and liked cats.
    https://www.21cats.org/what-did-the-prophet-say-about-cats-in-islam/

  790. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @songbird

    What I found so amusing is that had Ramaswamy been an actual American Black, she no doubt would vote for him.

    The soft bigotry of low expectations.

    Replies: @songbird

    True, and even people like Sowelll definitely have their own shortfalls, but an American black (sort of being their own ethnic group) wouldn’t necessarily have an ethnic interest in widening visa programs to import an Indian elite. Not that ostensible ethnic interests always determine policy, but I suspect Coulter was speaking to that point specifically.

  791. @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    I’m talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants.

    The US has increased 155mm shell production by over 500%.

    They're on track to make 100,000 shells per month:
    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/09/15/production-of-key-munition-years-ahead-of-schedule-pentagon-says/

    Lockheed is on track to make 288 HIMARs launchers per year
    https://www.govconwire.com/2024/05/lockheed-books-861m-army-contract-modification-for-himars-launcher-production/

    I'd say that is enough. I don't see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production. 1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed. They aren't dumb shells launched in the general direction of the enemy. I see no reason to believe that Russian BMP production can match HIMARs missile production. If I were Putin I would launch a major offensive against Kharkiv before finding out how many missiles the US can produce and ship. Prigozhin hated HIMARs and talked about how it terrified the men. I think HIMARs is the answer and not a shell exchange.

    Let's bet low on US production - Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2

    The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?

    Russia is siding with Israel and not Iran.

    China is currently meeting with France on good terms.

    This is not WW2. China will trade with any European country with money and they didn't back Russia's invasion in the UN. They will happily sell weapons to anyone.

    China is out for China. If Putin didn't have oil and cash then Xi would be ignoring him.

    The Chinese have a thousand year desire to "one up" all European countries and that includes Russia. They're insulted that so much history is due to European progress and not Chinese. The Chinese still want to view themselves as the master race.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @YetAnotherAnon, @Greasy William, @QCIC

    “Let’s bet low on US production – Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2”

    Is the United States the United States of either WW1 or WW2?

    I think not. Sad, but there it is. In both world wars it was the greatest industrial power on earth. Now it doesn’t make any merchant ships.

    Back in my 1970s youth I was so impressed with the few US machine tools in my engineering works – some of the Brit ones were pre-1945! But even in the 1980s I watched the lab gear in my then employer switching slowly from American to German and Japanese. Now it would all be Chinese.

    In the late 80s nearly all mainframes were IBM, and nearly all PCs made in the US. Seen that vanish, it’s all Far East now.

  792. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @John Johnson

    https://youtu.be/XCS7UeUCxx8?si=m9pq6eY1LVsSELyt


    https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1788848954039214156
    https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1786819580725526757

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    I did not notice any negroes in the cavalry parade regiment but I didn’t look that close. Does the cavalry parade regiment have a diversity committee?

    I did notice the horse poop in the street after they went by. I bet there were negroes working in the horse poop sweep detail.

    The gauntlet has now been thrust before the Olympics opening ceremonies committee. Horse poop is a lot easier to clean up than dead Arabs.

    Horse poop is fun to type.

  793. @LatW
    @Coconuts


    I think there is some idea from Hegel, that when people become conscious of the existence of a particular historical era and are aware of what its general characteristic were/are, it indicates the period in question is coming to a conclusion.
     
    Hegel has a teleological view of history - human history is a progression led by Reason (the "inward guiding soul"). The telos of history, the finality is inherent to the progression. The culture is eventually led to self-awareness as the highest form of rationality.

    Tbh, the above reminds one of Nietzsche's Master and slave morality - maybe not directly, but there is something similar there. The Master morality is that of a civilization that is self-affirming, self-directing, non-reflexive in a sense that it does not stop and think about whether it is "good" or "evil" (it is beyond good and evil, as he describes it, or rather sees the world in terms of "good" and "bad" - themselves being a priori good, it is "aristocratic", maybe a bit similar to how the Greeks may have perceived themselves), it assumes by default its innate "goodness", "rightness" (maybe even superiority, if we dare go that far) - it is the self-driven actor with an overflowing abundance of vitality, strength and energy, symbolized in a phallic statue. Whereas the slave morality is the one of reaction, of ressentment, of brooding and maybe too much introspection. His idea must have been that once you get to that point you start collapsing or degenerating (this is a rather harsh description of the Western civilization, even the Christian one, and maybe even unfair, since this self-reflection and the culture of critique is also something that has moved the Western civilization forward and has created its complexity - but supposedly, it is exactly this complexity that eventually becomes a burden).

    Some of the social, economic and ideological consequences of 1945, that really started to crystallise and manifest themselves post-1968, are reaching a kind of logical conclusion. Looking at birthrates, contemporary feminism, LGBTQ+, demographic change due to migration, things like this.
     
    Nietzsche proclaimed already during his days that "God is dead, we have killed him" (they so often fail to add that second phrase to these prophetic words when they quote him). So this must've not started in 1968, but earlier. Probably around the mid 19th century. Or some might even argue that the seeds of destruction lay somewhere deep, in the origins (in Nietzsche's view, they are to be found in Christianity, these are radical views).

    There is a comfort for many people in these recent post-1968 developments, they may not have wanted to live under an oppressive father figure.


    After arguing that Christianity is the ‘religion of the exit from religion’, which led ultimately to the possibility of a disenchanted world
     
    Very interesting. This is a somewhat Nietzschean sounding argument (or rather sounds like a commentary on his thoughts), thanks for pointing that out. Except that Nietzsche proposed a new religion of life affirmation, instead of current moral relativism. So he would've replaced this "exit from religion" with this new thinking. It would've been too intense for most people though.

    A disenchanted world is a somewhat romantic idea though, maybe without it we wouldn't have had the late 19th century romantic art.


    I visited a kind of religious museum yesterday where the exhibits started with a bell beaker burial and moved through the Roman era (there were some interesting phallic artifacts and small statues of Mars, probably related to the legions, a Celtic mother goddess figure) into the long Christian era.
     
    This sounds like an enviable visit. By the way, the phallic artifacts were present quite late, as seen in the Rällinge statuette from Sweden which is dated from around the year 1000AD, so very late. The academic version is that it's a statue of Freyr, but it might as well be a statue of Tyr (the Norse version of Mars) - it's somewhat open to interpretation. And interestingly, he's sitting in a lotus position.

    (Btw, you brought up the War Museum in Riga, that you visited, in your comments before - it used to be one of my favorite places to visit, even to just hang out during lunch time).

    The "exit from religion" theme was lightly touched upon David Engels as well - he spoke of the journey of our traditional European culture towards the transcendental and the search for the transcendental. This is the central goal of the culture, the telos.

    And that this is a vital piece that has been omitted in our contemporary (post-modern) culture.

    They tried to fell the mighty tree of Yggdrasil, yet the tree still stands...

    Replies: @Coconuts

    Tbh, the above reminds one of Nietzsche’s Master and slave morality – maybe not directly, but there is something similar there.

    There is this guy:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Koj%C3%A8ve

    [MORE]

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

    Before I received it through the post I guessed that Nietzsche would figure in the second volume of Gauchet’s ‘Advent of Democracy’ series which is about the ‘Crisis of Liberalism 1880-1914’. When I received it and looked inside, the first chapter is ‘Nietzsche, the prophet’. I haven’t read this yet to see what his take is, other than it confirms that Nietzsche was a central figure as a herald of this crisis period.

    I wonder if it relates to the attempts to recapture the vitality and aristocratic values of the best periods, but in the new context of the mass societies of the era. Gauchet makes an argument that one of the characteristics of Nazism and Fascism was an attempted recreation of the sacred communities of the past and the kind of communal life structured by myth and religion that used to exist, but this time within the intellectual and material framework provided by liberalism. The power of the old way of being revived within this new context then produced something unusually violent and unstable.

    There is a comfort for many people in these recent post-1968 developments, they may not have wanted to live under an oppressive father figure.

    I think personally I appreciated a lot of them, and still do in various ways. It would only be quite recently that I have started to question some of them, as they are reaching what seem to be peculiar or self-defeating stages (for example, anti-natalism and trans end up undermining feminism, the immigration takes cosmopolitanism to extremes and also conflicts with LGBT, democracy etc. when it introduces Islamism).

    Very interesting. This is a somewhat Nietzschean sounding argument (or rather sounds like a commentary on his thoughts), thanks for pointing that out. Except that Nietzsche proposed a new religion of life affirmation, instead of current moral relativism.

    Gauchet seems to take this Nietzschean influence in a progressive direction (there is maybe some influence of Kojeve and things here, how they presented the master/slave dialectic), where he sees the exit from religion as being towards human autonomy; collective self-government using the tools of politics, law and history. Christianity is seen as more positive, in terms of how it provided the path by which awareness of this autonomy could come about (possibly this is Hegelian influenced). I think Nietzsche was also aware of the arrival of this era of autonomy, i.e. in the ‘God is dead’ quote, but he would see it as more challenging.

    A disenchanted world is a somewhat romantic idea though, maybe without it we wouldn’t have had the late 19th century romantic art.

    Yes, I think I have seen Romanticism interpreted as an attempt to recapture or preserve something of the spirit of the past in the rationalist post-Enlightenment era.

    By the way, the phallic artifacts were present quite late, as seen in the Rällinge statuette from Sweden which is dated from around the year 1000AD, so very late.

    It is interesting that these kind of sculptures were still being produced so late. They remind me of the Indian lingams related to Shiva. They must have old roots.

    It must have been good to be able to be able to go into that museum so easily.

    And that this is a vital piece that has been omitted in our contemporary (post-modern) culture.

    This could be one reason why the first crisis of liberalism at the end of the 19th century is starting to become interesting again, as people gradually become aware of this problem.

  794. @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    I’m talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants.

    The US has increased 155mm shell production by over 500%.

    They're on track to make 100,000 shells per month:
    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/09/15/production-of-key-munition-years-ahead-of-schedule-pentagon-says/

    Lockheed is on track to make 288 HIMARs launchers per year
    https://www.govconwire.com/2024/05/lockheed-books-861m-army-contract-modification-for-himars-launcher-production/

    I'd say that is enough. I don't see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production. 1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed. They aren't dumb shells launched in the general direction of the enemy. I see no reason to believe that Russian BMP production can match HIMARs missile production. If I were Putin I would launch a major offensive against Kharkiv before finding out how many missiles the US can produce and ship. Prigozhin hated HIMARs and talked about how it terrified the men. I think HIMARs is the answer and not a shell exchange.

    Let's bet low on US production - Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2

    The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?

    Russia is siding with Israel and not Iran.

    China is currently meeting with France on good terms.

    This is not WW2. China will trade with any European country with money and they didn't back Russia's invasion in the UN. They will happily sell weapons to anyone.

    China is out for China. If Putin didn't have oil and cash then Xi would be ignoring him.

    The Chinese have a thousand year desire to "one up" all European countries and that includes Russia. They're insulted that so much history is due to European progress and not Chinese. The Chinese still want to view themselves as the master race.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @YetAnotherAnon, @Greasy William, @QCIC

    They’re on track to make 100,000 shells per month

    Production is set to peak at 80k shells per month. Europe less than half that. At most, the West will be able to provide Ukraine with a million shells per annum and likely at least 20% less than that. Ukraine needs at least 1.5 million shells a year to make significant territorial gains.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?

    Because it exists. There is no love lost between these states but they are bound together by values and common interests. WWII Germany, Italy and Japan weren’t exactly buddy buddy with each other either.

    I don’t see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production

    ATACMS, HIMARS and drones are not wunderwaffen and they are not replacements for artillery.

    1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed.

    1. Everyone admits that ATACMs and HIMARs are not being produced in the quantities that Ukraine needs
    2. How many air defense missiles are the US producing? That is nowhere near enough to provide for Ukraine’s needs in that sector, needs that will only grow with time.

    In any case, I concede that the US is producing sufficient armaments to keep Ukraine in the fight, so long as the Ukrainians are able to continue providing the manpower. What I dispute is that the United States is producing sufficient armaments to achieve offensive success in a prolonged, high intensity, war with the Russia/Iran/China bloc. Or even just with Russia.

    I agree that the United States theoretically could scale up armaments production to a level where it could overwhelm Russia but, for political reasons, I just don’t believe that the US and allies will do so

    Let’s bet low on US production – Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2

    WWII US wasn’t riven with internal dissent to the point of being dysfunctional. WWII Germany and Japan both had crippling resource shortages

  795. The nemesis of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been replaced.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    The “Plywood Marshal” has been named at the top of the security council though. I wonder whether this means that Patrushev is retiring.

    , @Mikhail
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Russia’s top security official dismissed
    https://www.rt.com/russia/597473-patrushev-gone/

    Former Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu will replace Nikolay Patrushev

  796. @John Johnson
    @Greasy William

    I’m talking about building large numbers of brand new factories, not just running three shifts at already existing plants.

    The US has increased 155mm shell production by over 500%.

    They're on track to make 100,000 shells per month:
    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/09/15/production-of-key-munition-years-ahead-of-schedule-pentagon-says/

    Lockheed is on track to make 288 HIMARs launchers per year
    https://www.govconwire.com/2024/05/lockheed-books-861m-army-contract-modification-for-himars-launcher-production/

    I'd say that is enough. I don't see the point in trying to make a million shells per month when they have ATACMs and HIMARs in high production. 1000 ATACMs missiles go exactly where they are directed. They aren't dumb shells launched in the general direction of the enemy. I see no reason to believe that Russian BMP production can match HIMARs missile production. If I were Putin I would launch a major offensive against Kharkiv before finding out how many missiles the US can produce and ship. Prigozhin hated HIMARs and talked about how it terrified the men. I think HIMARs is the answer and not a shell exchange.

    Let's bet low on US production - Germany in both world wars, Japan in WW2

    The Russia/China/Iran axis, otoh, has been prepping for large scale war for a decade now.

    There is no question that US and friends could defeat the new axis bloc if Western leaders could get their act together.

    Why do you believe this is an Axis bloc?

    Russia is siding with Israel and not Iran.

    China is currently meeting with France on good terms.

    This is not WW2. China will trade with any European country with money and they didn't back Russia's invasion in the UN. They will happily sell weapons to anyone.

    China is out for China. If Putin didn't have oil and cash then Xi would be ignoring him.

    The Chinese have a thousand year desire to "one up" all European countries and that includes Russia. They're insulted that so much history is due to European progress and not Chinese. The Chinese still want to view themselves as the master race.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere, @YetAnotherAnon, @Greasy William, @QCIC

    More Western weapons will force the Ukrainian people to decide what they really want at the end of the SMO. If their leaders accept the weapons then Russia will continue destruction of Ukraine until there is no point for the West to send weapons. We saw a step change this spring with more serious strikes on power plants instead of substations, along with other important infrastructure. The Russians have given Kharkov ample warning of an attack at some point in the foreseeable future. Presumably they are increasing preparations, working an operational plan and waiting for more civilians to get out of Dodge. If the West ups the ante there are plenty of juicy targets throughout Ukraine which Russia has in its expanded target set. As more able-bodied men are killed or leave it becomes progressively harder for Ukraine to repair the infrastructure damage. As the destruction mounts more people will leave. Then damage to bridges, runways and roads starts to accumulate since it is repaired much more slowly than in 2022, if at all. At this point some damage may never be fixed as Russia decides how to remake the map of the country.

    The combined countries of NATO can outproduce Russia in terms of weapons if they can borrow the money to pay for it. Despite this, Russia can probably produce enough weapons to protect her borders since she is not in a position to do any serious expeditionary warfare (which would require much more equipment). China and Russia combined can likely outproduce all of NATO in some military equipment areas. If the West squeezes China to keep Russia at arms length, she will still supply critical items in exchange for energy and solidarity.

  797. @AP
    @Gerard1234


    Wow, slow things down
     
    Says the guy who releases a torrent of coprolalis in most of his posts.

    He also said there was a sort of grudging respect for the Banderist enemies

    Totally implausible nonsense.
     
    His judgment on these matters is probably much better than yours.

    they [UPA] were good at torturing and so suitable for the job?
     
    They were good at assassinations, were difficult to crack and infiltrate (the White emigre organizations in contrast were much easier), were good at insurgency, and yes were ruthless and cruel.

    UPA killed Soviet general Vatutin in an ambush. He was commander of the Ukrainian Front.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vatutin#Death

    UPA also killed the defense minister of communist Poland. They were effective at kidnapping and killing Soviet officials, playing a good game of cat-and-mouse with NKVD.

    UPA/OUN history – Abysmal fighting skills – acquired zero reputation for fighting skill
     
    Soviets' own records show that the Soviets lost more personnel against OUN/UPA than the Russian state did against the Chechens (both wars combined) in the 1990s. And the Chechens fought the pathetic and shambolic 1990s Russian military while UPA were fighting the Soviet juggernaut that had defeated the Soviet military. One UPA soldier in the mountains, forests or swamps was probably worth 3 Chechens (who were rather helpless against the Soviets in the 1940s IIRC - they could only fight the pathetic 90s Russian army with any success).

    Cowardly actions – most noted for killing and torturing women, children and the elderly
     
    Most partisan armies slaughter civilians more effectively than they do enemy military personal. The Algerian FLN, for example, killed about 25,000-30,000 French soldiers and a similar number of civilians (often brutally, by disemboweling them).

    UPA were a lot bloodier against civilians: they murdered 60,00-100,000 Polish civilians and a couple 10,000s non-Polish people, ranging from Ukrainian nationalist rivals, to Soviet sympathizers or collaborators (the latter deaths were not unjustified, though UPA also killed collaborators' families which is inexcusable). In contrast they killed "only" about 17,000 Soviet military/NKVD personnel.

    In terms of other partisan fighters: Hamas has a worse ratio of civilians killed to soldiers killed than does UPA. Soviet partisans provoked Germans into doing their dirty work. They are probably responsible for more civilian deaths than UPA.

    UPA were evil and brutal but they were disciplined and effective.

    they prefered sodomising eachother in the Kriyivka
     
    Drones prove that this is what Russian soldiers do in close quarters. Of course you would assume others do that also. You would, after all. Ukrainians aren't Russians.

    Replies: @Mr. Hack, @Mr. XYZ, @Gerard1234

    They were good at assasinations

    LOL – you list 2 in 35 years, one of them shouldn’t even classify as an assasination. So “good” that in 35 years it’s about 2-3 high profile Poles and 1-2 Russians killed by UPA.
    That’s an unbelievablely bad, useless record you idiot. Where are the assassinations in Moscow, Leningrad, anywhere with concentrations of so-called “Ukrainians” in Far East, Kazakhstan or anywhere else? Where in Kiev, Donbass after WW2? WHAT high profile officials in Galicia of UKSSR even had their group of people infiltrated by UPA? None.

    Now compare to the NKVD who in much shorter time eliminated Dyakiv, Konavalets, Shukhevich, Bandera and numerous other high-profile UPA/OUN excrement (most assassinated before 1951), in and outside of Galicia, in USSR and internationally.
    Extensive, complex and very successful infiltration operations involved for all those top 4 listed you retard and plenty of others . The White Russian émigré statement is both nonsensical and schizophrenic

    • Replies: @AP
    @Gerard1234


    LOL – you list 2 in 35 years, one of them shouldn’t even classify as an assasination.
     
    UPA killed many hundreds of less-famous Communist officials and NKVD personnel.

    Here is just from one county, in a few months:

    https://i.imgur.com/3jBEWjt.png

    But Soviet General Vatutin and the defense minister of Communist Poland Świerczewski were indeed high-profile targets successfully liquidated.

    So “good” that in 35 years it’s about 2-3 high profile Poles and 1-2 Russians killed by UPA.
     
    UPA wasn't active for 35 years.

    If you meant OUN and UPA, you can add Polish interior minister Pieracki who was assassinated in Warsaw in 1934.

    Now compare to the NKVD
     
    NKVD had the resources of a world power with 170 million people.

    OUN/UPA was a stateless organization with perhaps 50,000 members in any given time.

    What a stupid comparison.

    Dyakiv, Konavalets, Shukhevich, Bandera
     
    OUN's targets were high government officials (or a general) with security details. Bandera and Konovalets were living as civilians in residential areas. Bandera, living as an exile, was killed in his apartment building. Anyone could have done that.

    The White Russian émigré statement is both nonsensical
     
    White emigre organizations were thoroughly and easily penetrated by NKVD, a huge contrast with OUN which took the Soviets years to crack and was not done completely.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_All-Military_Union

    The ROVS, along with other similar Russian émigré organizations, became a prime target for the Soviet secret intelligence service, the OGPU. The OGPU even set up a fictitious anticommunist monarchist organization, the Monarchist Union of Central Russia, which was used to undermine the ROVS′s activities in the Soviet Union. The ROVS′s secret counter-intelligence branch, the "Inner Line" (in Russian "Внутренная Линия") set up by General Alexander Kutepov in the mid-1920s, was also severely compromised, among other things by suspected recruitment by the OGPU of Gen Nikolai Skoblin, a senior operative in the Inner Line.[5]

    Two of the ROVS's successive chairmen, General Alexander Kutepov and General Yevgeny Miller, were kidnapped by Soviet agents, in 1930 and 1937 respectively. Miller was brought to the Soviet Union and was interrogated and executed. General Fyodor Abramov [ru], who succeeded Miller as chairman, had to quit the post shortly afterward and was expelled from Bulgaria, where he had resided, since his son was exposed as a Soviet agent.[6] The OGPU′s successful operations against the ROVS, as well as infighting, intrigues, and antagonisms in the wider Russian émigré community, demoralised and rendered impotent an organisation. When World War II began in 1939, it had also become largely irrelevant because of the geopolitical realignment.[5]

    :::::::::::::::

    Do you think that Solzhenitsyn was lying when he said that OUN members were the backbone of resistance in the gulags?

    Replies: @Gerard1234

  798. @QCIC
    @LatW

    Considering just a few well-known facts like NATO expansion, obvious Western meddling in Ukraine (at least at some level) and a few other topics discussed here, the public reaction of Russians with regard to the SMO seems extremely measured. I assume this cool temper is based on awareness of the many wars Russia has survived. It may be the Russian media sends out mixed messages which have only nurtured a very slow growth of pro-Russia, anti-Western sentiment since the Kremlins may not want to promote Russian Nationalism.

    I base this perspective on my vision of what I expect to happen in similar hypothetical circumstances in the USA. Virulent and destructive sentiments would have been readily drummed up and propagandized incessantly to all ages. If foreign missiles killed any Americans on US soil nuclear response strikes would have been widely demanded. The reaction level would be more like Zionist Jews against Gaza than what we saw with Russians against Donetsk.

    The response of Russian citizens in Belgorod seems shockingly mild compared to what I would expect from similar people in the USA.

    Replies: @LatW

    the public reaction of Russians with regard to the SMO seems extremely measured.

    You’re now an expert on Russian public (and private) opinion? 🙂

    I base this perspective on my vision of what I expect to happen in similar hypothetical circumstances in the USA.

    Ukraine did not invade Russia and did not kill Russian civilians en masse (the way Russia did to Ukraine). If the USA attacked its hypothetical former colonial land or just any neighboring land, killing civilians there and bombing cities, then if there was retaliation towards the US, it would be deserved. And large parts of the world would be on the side of the victim of the invasion, not the US.

    Granted, if the US did not have friendly neighbors and was not surrounded by water, it’s possible that the US would be an aggressive country towards its neighbors. The question then would be how much more careful the US would be compared to Russia to not start devastating wars with an unpredictable outcome. The US is after all largely Protestant and “rational” (although it has strong streaks of irrationality and self-proclaimed “exceptionalism” similar to Russia).

    • Replies: @QCIC
    @LatW

    I only go by what you and Hack and AP tell me :)

    Which suggests a test case: Generally speaking, how do Gerard's attitudes on the Western fostered Ukrainian Nationalist project compare to the mainstream attitudes of the Russian population? By mainstream I am excluding military personnel and families, government workers or defense contractors. My impression is that even in 2022 most Russians were less concerned about the Ukraine mess than Gerard and did not see the Western meddling in fully existential terms.

    Considering the wars in Chechnya, Georgia and Armenia along with active threats by NATO, this seems very surprising.

    What are the general Russian attitudes on this issue now in 2024 (let's say pre-Crocus)? How sharply did these Russian attitudes change between 2014 and 2022?

  799. AP says:
    @LatW
    @AP


    Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed
     
    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they're "brainwashed" and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their "younger brothers" who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?

    You do realize that besides vermin like Solovyov and Simonyan there is also the loud mouthed Skabeeva and Mardan who are blonde Russians?

    You do realize that besides Putin there is a whole military political and FSB structure underneath him who are running this? Most of the military and special services is Russian.

    You do realize that the missiles that are fired into Ukraine are operated from somewhere near the Caspian sea or south Russia by pure Slavs? Including women. Every single one of them has a name.

    As to the Noviop issue, it's not even so much about ethnicities but the goals of these political classes. The problem is the selfishness and subservience to capital, at the expense of the interests of the nation. And it's not even that bad in Ukraine, since they have some patriots as well.

    Replies: @QCIC, @AP

    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they’re “brainwashed” and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their “younger brothers” who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?

    You are correct and that is part of the brainswashing.

    I remember when 70% of Americans genuinely believed that Iraq was behind 9-11 and/or Saddam Hussein was about to get WMD’s. This stupidity enabled the horrific and criminal invasion of Iraq. But the believers and participants were mostly not evil people. Their motivation was the keep their families safe and free the people of Iraq from a brutal dictator. These regular American people who made the Iraq war possible for not bad people, for the most part.

    Same with most Russians, who do indeed mostly support this war. They, too, have been led to support and take part in a horrible crime because of their brainwashing. Many believe that Ukrainians are under Nazi occupation, that Russians in Ukraine are being mass-murdered by the Ukrainian government and have to be rescued, that Russia is in mortal danger if it doesn’t attack (the stupid NATO excuse, like Saddam’s WMDs), that Ukrainians will be happier if they are liberated and living together in one happy state like the 1970s USSR.* In Russia as it was in Iraq – an effective way of motivating decent people to take part in such crimes is to convince them that they are doing the right, and the good thing.

    Ukrainians have a right to fight back and to kill those who try to kill them. Because those invaders, whatever their motivation, are deadly, and because with invasion and occupation there inevitably comes sadism by an unrestrained minority. And the Ukrainians should be helped in doing so. Hopefully they will achieve the means to kill those who launch missiles at them even from the Caspian region.

    *I know, one can find real sub-animals online who write gleefully about dead Ukrainian kids, and packs of sadists such as Rusich – but these are not typical Russian war-supporters.

    • LOL: Mikhail
    • Replies: @LatW
    @AP


    These regular American people who made the Iraq war possible for not bad people, for the most part.
     
    But we must admit that there was a bit of a wave of jingoism there as well. It was all kind of intermingled, because there was still a lingering solidarity with the US after 9/11 at least in the EE (but then it was all overwhelmed by the search for casus belli against Iraq which had not been directly involved in 9/11).

    I think the big difference ethically is whether one is attacked or not - if the war is defensive, it might be acceptable to have this wave of patriotism (although it is not rational), but when you're urging to invade and destroy others, it is crazy. But of course, we know how these things go, people often get riled up even before offensive wars, and some countries feel attacked even if they are just threatened or they perceived themselves as being threatened, or their interests being compromised.


    In Russia as it was in Iraq – an effective way of motivating decent people to take part in such crimes is to convince them that they are doing the right, and the good thing.
     
    That's just propaganda and it's quite easy for this propaganda to have its effect when the population is predisposed to feel that way anyway, when the propaganda simply states what they feel internally and what they want to hear. The problem is that they talk that way conventionally as well, in their everyday conversations. This is not what they are propagandized to believe, this is what they have always believed. That said, if the propaganda machine was turned off and some more objective narratives or at least less agitating messages put in place, it could have an effect (of course, it might be too late now anyway). Remember that this propaganda didn't start in 2022, there were years of stoking hatred against Ukraine. There have been a few instances when they are clearly lied about how things really are. Or things are overblown.

    The issue is not just propaganda. Do you remember the POW with the cigarette who was shot? (I don't want to bring up anything that might be uncomfortable, but we have to be direct). The person who pulled the trigger on him... that person, who easily could've been a "Velikoross", and most likely was, he could've chosen not to shoot, but to keep him captive. Yet because the Ukrainian defender was defiant in the face of death, he was killed in rage, exactly because he chose to stay Ukrainian and not grovel. These types of atrocities happened in 1940s in the Baltics as well with exactly that same emotional context. If they can't be pacified and do not submit, they are killed. So I know what it is.

    So we can't let off the hook those who make these kinds of choices. Especially after having walked into another's home.


    I know, one can find real sub-animals online who write gleefully about dead Ukrainian kids, and packs of sadists such as Rusich – but these are not typical Russian war-supporters.
     
    The problem is not just these sub-animals - that part is just sad that they have fallen that low, it inspires pity and a deep wish that this had never happened. The problem is not just these people, but a whole list of various war supporters and opinion makers. They may not express themselves in such an amoral way, but they still espouse views that justify war crimes and the extermination of Ukrainians.

    Another thing that pisses me off is that the Russian people who have always touted themselves as brave, anarchic and bold and what not, still to this day have not managed to topple him. That means they don't take any responsibility for what is going on. He should've been removed in 2012, and by people, not even the FSB. That's when we should've helped the Russians to do it - but probably should've been done by Euros, not Americans, since American meddling would've been seen as suspicious. A lot of normal and somewhat decent Russians wanted him gone already in 2012. I understand that it's not only about him - the whole system needs to be cleansed out, but at least that could've given us a break and maybe the war would be averted.

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @AP

    AP, out of curiosity, would you likewise consider the Russians who engaged in the Tsar's overthrow in 1917 to be bad people, albeit unintentionally? After all, the Tsar, for all of his flaws, was an absolute angel in comparison to what came less than a year later and beyond. Even the anti-Semitic laws and the Pale of Settlement pale in comparison to the subsequent Holocaust, which would likely not have been possibly without the Soviet Union, even though the Soviets didn't actually do it and indeed helped to stop it (I'm talking about the geopolitical climate that allowed Hitler to take over most of Europe; the Soviet Union was in large part responsible for that because it was too scary for the Anglo-French to ally with it against the Nazis). And the Soviet Union did have Jewish quotas, anti-Semitic discrimination, and internal restrictions on movement for everyone, including for Jews as well, later on in its existence.

    And would you consider the German people to be bad for overthrowing the Hohenzollerns in November 1918 and thus making it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to come to power in Germany 15 years later?

    Really, most of the 20th century's problems were the result of the Romanovs and Hohenzollerns being replaced by regimes that were much, much worse than they themselves were.

  800. AP says:
    @Gerard1234
    @AP


    They were good at assasinations
     
    LOL - you list 2 in 35 years, one of them shouldn't even classify as an assasination. So "good" that in 35 years it's about 2-3 high profile Poles and 1-2 Russians killed by UPA.
    That's an unbelievablely bad, useless record you idiot. Where are the assassinations in Moscow, Leningrad, anywhere with concentrations of so-called "Ukrainians" in Far East, Kazakhstan or anywhere else? Where in Kiev, Donbass after WW2? WHAT high profile officials in Galicia of UKSSR even had their group of people infiltrated by UPA? None.

    Now compare to the NKVD who in much shorter time eliminated Dyakiv, Konavalets, Shukhevich, Bandera and numerous other high-profile UPA/OUN excrement (most assassinated before 1951), in and outside of Galicia, in USSR and internationally.
    Extensive, complex and very successful infiltration operations involved for all those top 4 listed you retard and plenty of others . The White Russian émigré statement is both nonsensical and schizophrenic

    Replies: @AP

    LOL – you list 2 in 35 years, one of them shouldn’t even classify as an assasination.

    UPA killed many hundreds of less-famous Communist officials and NKVD personnel.

    Here is just from one county, in a few months:

    But Soviet General Vatutin and the defense minister of Communist Poland Świerczewski were indeed high-profile targets successfully liquidated.

    So “good” that in 35 years it’s about 2-3 high profile Poles and 1-2 Russians killed by UPA.

    UPA wasn’t active for 35 years.

    If you meant OUN and UPA, you can add Polish interior minister Pieracki who was assassinated in Warsaw in 1934.

    Now compare to the NKVD

    NKVD had the resources of a world power with 170 million people.

    OUN/UPA was a stateless organization with perhaps 50,000 members in any given time.

    What a stupid comparison.

    Dyakiv, Konavalets, Shukhevich, Bandera

    OUN’s targets were high government officials (or a general) with security details. Bandera and Konovalets were living as civilians in residential areas. Bandera, living as an exile, was killed in his apartment building. Anyone could have done that.

    The White Russian émigré statement is both nonsensical

    White emigre organizations were thoroughly and easily penetrated by NKVD, a huge contrast with OUN which took the Soviets years to crack and was not done completely.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_All-Military_Union

    The ROVS, along with other similar Russian émigré organizations, became a prime target for the Soviet secret intelligence service, the OGPU. The OGPU even set up a fictitious anticommunist monarchist organization, the Monarchist Union of Central Russia, which was used to undermine the ROVS′s activities in the Soviet Union. The ROVS′s secret counter-intelligence branch, the “Inner Line” (in Russian “Внутренная Линия”) set up by General Alexander Kutepov in the mid-1920s, was also severely compromised, among other things by suspected recruitment by the OGPU of Gen Nikolai Skoblin, a senior operative in the Inner Line.[5]

    Two of the ROVS’s successive chairmen, General Alexander Kutepov and General Yevgeny Miller, were kidnapped by Soviet agents, in 1930 and 1937 respectively. Miller was brought to the Soviet Union and was interrogated and executed. General Fyodor Abramov [ru], who succeeded Miller as chairman, had to quit the post shortly afterward and was expelled from Bulgaria, where he had resided, since his son was exposed as a Soviet agent.[6] The OGPU′s successful operations against the ROVS, as well as infighting, intrigues, and antagonisms in the wider Russian émigré community, demoralised and rendered impotent an organisation. When World War II began in 1939, it had also become largely irrelevant because of the geopolitical realignment.[5]

    :::::::::::::::

    Do you think that Solzhenitsyn was lying when he said that OUN members were the backbone of resistance in the gulags?

    • Replies: @Gerard1234
    @AP


    UPA killed many hundreds of less-famous Communist officials and NKVD personnel.

    Here is just from one county, in a few months:
     
    By "less-famous Communist officials", you mean euphemism of "literate and educated Ukrainians" - you are talking about UNARMED CIVILIANS - working in the kolhoz, the schools, the postal service, any part of civilian administration. Trying to introduce civilisation to the destroyed by centuries of inbreeding Galicia.

    and NKVD personnel.
     
    LMAO - Banderites killed......150000
    Banderited captured...200000

    Soviet army and NKVD losses.....8000

    Thats just an hilariously embarrassing discrepancy, which says everything. About the failure ukronazi deathcult. They were competent at NOTHING ( except sodomising each other in the Kriyivka all day - ask Mr Hack or AnonfromTN what that is, leading a horrendous life that you wouldn't wish on worst enemy, for objective of ""Ukrainian" state that Soviet Union had given them , in a war it was impossible to win and even the sickest fascists in Europe had no similar type of appetite for..........all so that most of these freaks could then just become big servants to the Communist party!!!)

    But Soviet General Vatutin and the defense minister of Communist Poland Świerczewski were indeed high-profile targets successfully liquidated.
     
    General Vatutin is one of the greatest men in history. An amazing hero. Its sickening that steets, monuments and other things in 404 named after him were renamed by the ukroNazi regime ( often replacing his name with the worst scum in history). Being from Voronezh he was more "Ukrainian" than these Galician freaks anyway . So an absolute greatest man in world history who has just liberated Kiev (which says everything about these satanists)..... is victim of these cockroach, zero talent, opportunistic scum action.

    I would not call it an "assasination" or "successfully liquidated" - just a lowest of the low action. Done during the post-WW2 insurgency would be "legitimate" to classify as "assasination", but it wasn't . None of them were. It was considered absolute delinquent tactic by all militaries in "white" world over the centuries deliberately to assassinate their opposing generals or other high-ranking commanders . Just not acceptable.


    For the different killing of the Polish Interior minister in the 1930s - That operation was only possible because he escaped via Czechoslovakian border, i.e with their help. Many of the UPA terrorists escaped via that border in union with Czecholovakian intelligence. Was it more the Slovaks or the Czechs assisting with this? Don't know as you have land disputes with Poland, Catholicism, Hungarian issue that could favour the other sides alternatively- although it says everything that the Poles were such hated dickheads that Czecholovakia would assist UPA terrorists like this.

    What UPA filth did required zero sophistication, as cowards it was done when heroes like Vatutin fighting against an actual serious opponent with serious intelligence operations. A much greater expectation of dying in an air raid or on or around the battlefield......not this filth. So in no way does that class as "assassination" or "successfully liquidated" you idiot

    Bandera and Konovalets were living as civilians in residential areas. Bandera, living as an exile, was killed in his apartment building. Anyone could have done that.
     
    They were both active members of the organised ukronazi diaspora, assisting UPA actions. Living under aliases, monitored /protected by western intelligence. Infliltration and killing required skill.

    Most of the active UPA officers were killed thanks to our intelligence activity anyway.
    Now compare lowlifes like Bandera, Konovalets,Shukhevich..... to White Russians as Denikin, Kerensky, Vrangel, Semyonov who managed to live peaceful, often long lives. Not all, but many of the main leaders survived and escaped.

    NKVD had the resources of a world power with 170 million people.

    OUN/UPA was a stateless organization with perhaps 50,000 members in any given time.

    What a stupid comparison.

     

    Cretin - those "170 million" were massively rebuilding a devastated country you idiot. Has also experienced a mass population loss, post-war famine ( , martial law required in some places (like Odessa), and of course has the largest country on the planet to look after that isn't Galicia. As I said - 150000 Banderites were killed and 200k imprisoned - the 50000 number is irrelevant, and of course braindead misleading to not include the entire galician population number
  801. LatW says:
    @AP
    @LatW


    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they’re “brainwashed” and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their “younger brothers” who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?
     
    You are correct and that is part of the brainswashing.

    I remember when 70% of Americans genuinely believed that Iraq was behind 9-11 and/or Saddam Hussein was about to get WMD's. This stupidity enabled the horrific and criminal invasion of Iraq. But the believers and participants were mostly not evil people. Their motivation was the keep their families safe and free the people of Iraq from a brutal dictator. These regular American people who made the Iraq war possible for not bad people, for the most part.

    Same with most Russians, who do indeed mostly support this war. They, too, have been led to support and take part in a horrible crime because of their brainwashing. Many believe that Ukrainians are under Nazi occupation, that Russians in Ukraine are being mass-murdered by the Ukrainian government and have to be rescued, that Russia is in mortal danger if it doesn't attack (the stupid NATO excuse, like Saddam's WMDs), that Ukrainians will be happier if they are liberated and living together in one happy state like the 1970s USSR.* In Russia as it was in Iraq - an effective way of motivating decent people to take part in such crimes is to convince them that they are doing the right, and the good thing.

    Ukrainians have a right to fight back and to kill those who try to kill them. Because those invaders, whatever their motivation, are deadly, and because with invasion and occupation there inevitably comes sadism by an unrestrained minority. And the Ukrainians should be helped in doing so. Hopefully they will achieve the means to kill those who launch missiles at them even from the Caspian region.

    *I know, one can find real sub-animals online who write gleefully about dead Ukrainian kids, and packs of sadists such as Rusich - but these are not typical Russian war-supporters.

    Replies: @LatW, @Mr. XYZ

    These regular American people who made the Iraq war possible for not bad people, for the most part.

    But we must admit that there was a bit of a wave of jingoism there as well. It was all kind of intermingled, because there was still a lingering solidarity with the US after 9/11 at least in the EE (but then it was all overwhelmed by the search for casus belli against Iraq which had not been directly involved in 9/11).

    I think the big difference ethically is whether one is attacked or not – if the war is defensive, it might be acceptable to have this wave of patriotism (although it is not rational), but when you’re urging to invade and destroy others, it is crazy. But of course, we know how these things go, people often get riled up even before offensive wars, and some countries feel attacked even if they are just threatened or they perceived themselves as being threatened, or their interests being compromised.

    In Russia as it was in Iraq – an effective way of motivating decent people to take part in such crimes is to convince them that they are doing the right, and the good thing.

    That’s just propaganda and it’s quite easy for this propaganda to have its effect when the population is predisposed to feel that way anyway, when the propaganda simply states what they feel internally and what they want to hear. The problem is that they talk that way conventionally as well, in their everyday conversations. This is not what they are propagandized to believe, this is what they have always believed. That said, if the propaganda machine was turned off and some more objective narratives or at least less agitating messages put in place, it could have an effect (of course, it might be too late now anyway). Remember that this propaganda didn’t start in 2022, there were years of stoking hatred against Ukraine. There have been a few instances when they are clearly lied about how things really are. Or things are overblown.

    [MORE]

    The issue is not just propaganda. Do you remember the POW with the cigarette who was shot? (I don’t want to bring up anything that might be uncomfortable, but we have to be direct). The person who pulled the trigger on him… that person, who easily could’ve been a “Velikoross”, and most likely was, he could’ve chosen not to shoot, but to keep him captive. Yet because the Ukrainian defender was defiant in the face of death, he was killed in rage, exactly because he chose to stay Ukrainian and not grovel. These types of atrocities happened in 1940s in the Baltics as well with exactly that same emotional context. If they can’t be pacified and do not submit, they are killed. So I know what it is.

    So we can’t let off the hook those who make these kinds of choices. Especially after having walked into another’s home.

    I know, one can find real sub-animals online who write gleefully about dead Ukrainian kids, and packs of sadists such as Rusich – but these are not typical Russian war-supporters.

    The problem is not just these sub-animals – that part is just sad that they have fallen that low, it inspires pity and a deep wish that this had never happened. The problem is not just these people, but a whole list of various war supporters and opinion makers. They may not express themselves in such an amoral way, but they still espouse views that justify war crimes and the extermination of Ukrainians.

    Another thing that pisses me off is that the Russian people who have always touted themselves as brave, anarchic and bold and what not, still to this day have not managed to topple him. That means they don’t take any responsibility for what is going on. He should’ve been removed in 2012, and by people, not even the FSB. That’s when we should’ve helped the Russians to do it – but probably should’ve been done by Euros, not Americans, since American meddling would’ve been seen as suspicious. A lot of normal and somewhat decent Russians wanted him gone already in 2012. I understand that it’s not only about him – the whole system needs to be cleansed out, but at least that could’ve given us a break and maybe the war would be averted.

  802. @Greasy William
    @Beckow


    They will. Creating virtual money is addictive and the West is going through the maximum addiction phase (in everything).
     
    They can't. They shot their bolt with the Covid printing and if they do anymore it's hyperinflation which detonates the entire rotten system. Look what's happening with Japan. Fiat money has reached its end game

    If the US was going to expand its armaments manufacturing capacity, you would have seen it do so by now.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …Fiat money has reached its end game

    Maybe, but it is still going on. The inflation is higher than what governments claim. That means the so-called GNP growth is lower – in real per capita terms most Western economies are smaller than 20 years ago. The fake money has led to fake numbers.

    Issuing endless fiat money masks the real situation, so they must keep it up. The idea that more fake money leads to hyper-inflation is too linear – eventually it will, but as long as the Western material resources are sufficient for basics like food, energy, housing, healthcare… the flood of fiat money into the economy doesn’t have to trigger hyper-inflation. Instead it makes everyone feel better than their real material circumstances. It is a palliative to avoid people seeing how bad it really got.

    The problem is perception – the devaluation of money that people see in their day-to-day life is juxtaposed against governments telling them how good they have it. Systems become unstable when the gap between what people see and what they are told by elites becomes too big.

    I agree about weapons manufacturing – the West lacks material capacity to do it. They can use more fake money to buy it from those who can still do it, mostly countries in Asia like Korea, China, India…But it will lead to a bizarre situation where the West is paying for its dominance by issuing fake money to people who it insists on dominating. It will not be very stable.

  803. QCIC says:
    @LatW
    @QCIC


    the public reaction of Russians with regard to the SMO seems extremely measured.
     
    You're now an expert on Russian public (and private) opinion? :)

    I base this perspective on my vision of what I expect to happen in similar hypothetical circumstances in the USA.
     
    Ukraine did not invade Russia and did not kill Russian civilians en masse (the way Russia did to Ukraine). If the USA attacked its hypothetical former colonial land or just any neighboring land, killing civilians there and bombing cities, then if there was retaliation towards the US, it would be deserved. And large parts of the world would be on the side of the victim of the invasion, not the US.

    Granted, if the US did not have friendly neighbors and was not surrounded by water, it's possible that the US would be an aggressive country towards its neighbors. The question then would be how much more careful the US would be compared to Russia to not start devastating wars with an unpredictable outcome. The US is after all largely Protestant and "rational" (although it has strong streaks of irrationality and self-proclaimed "exceptionalism" similar to Russia).

    Replies: @QCIC

    I only go by what you and Hack and AP tell me 🙂

    Which suggests a test case: Generally speaking, how do Gerard’s attitudes on the Western fostered Ukrainian Nationalist project compare to the mainstream attitudes of the Russian population? By mainstream I am excluding military personnel and families, government workers or defense contractors. My impression is that even in 2022 most Russians were less concerned about the Ukraine mess than Gerard and did not see the Western meddling in fully existential terms.

    Considering the wars in Chechnya, Georgia and Armenia along with active threats by NATO, this seems very surprising.

    What are the general Russian attitudes on this issue now in 2024 (let’s say pre-Crocus)? How sharply did these Russian attitudes change between 2014 and 2022?

  804. @John Johnson
    @Bashibuzuk

    That's not a copy paste. Dogs are viewed unfavorably in Judaism but are still tolerated.

    Go ahead and cite the Torah where it says you can't keep a dog inside or angels won't enter.

    Find the Jewish equivalent of this verse:

    “Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture” He meant the images of creatures that have souls. (Bukhari 5.338)

    Or cite the Torah where it says black dogs are cursed and should be killed:

    Moreover, the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said, “If dogs were not a nation among nations, then I would have commanded that they be killed. So kill any all-black dog.” [Abu Daawood, at-Tirmithi, An-Nasaa’i and Ibn Maajah]

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Ennui

    Johnson, a gentile who just wants to grill, but also feels strongly about setting the record straight regarding the Talmud and the Bolsheviks, LOL

    • LOL: Gerard1234
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Ennui

    Johnson, a gentile who just wants to grill, but also feels strongly about setting the record straight regarding the Talmud and the Bolsheviks, LOL

    You are suggesting I'm Jewish? Wouldn't that also make me Muslim since I had to correct Bashibuzuk on Muhammed?

    I was reading around 200 articles a month but I had to cut that down. I've corrected posters on all kinds of topics like weapons, tank design, WW2, Russian history, currency policy, Rand, Christianity, and power plant design.

    I can't count the number of pro-Putin supporters I have had to correct in regard to the Maidan revolution. They really seem to screw up that period and mistakenly think Zelensky was inserted in 2014. Maybe I'm a Muslim Ukrainian?

    Whatever helps you sleep at night. Anglin's fangirls also like to think I'm Jewish. It helps them cope with the fact that they can't rationally explain their support for Putin. I must be a Jewish agent so they don't have to answer any questions and make basic rational explanations like a White man. They can be as emotionally attached to Putin as their bitter hearts desire.

  805. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Mikhail

    Did you ever read Bloodlands?

    https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471

    The book is remarkable to read once. I cannot imagine stomaching the contents ever again. He committed a sin against the Holocaust since the message on every single page was there was nothing special about the Jew war experience in Poland and Lithuania and the Ukraine. What happened to them was exactly what happened to everybody.

    Snyder has been embarrassing himself ever since trying to get back in the Jew good graces. It's a pity he is not smart enough to see that this is impossible no matter what.

    Replies: @Mikhail

    Did you ever read Bloodlands?

    The book is remarkable to read once. I cannot imagine stomaching the contents ever again. He committed a sin against the Holocaust since the message on every single page was there was nothing special about the Jew war experience in Poland and Lithuania and the Ukraine. What happened to them was exactly what happened to everybody.

    Snyder has been embarrassing himself ever since trying to get back in the Jew good graces. It’s a pity he is not smart enough to see that this is impossible no matter what.

    Haven’t read it. Regarding the issue of Jews and that book:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=bloodlands+timothy+snyder+jews&sca_esv=95704d94b5931a97&source=hp&ei=AHlBZvf2E9KeptQPmbm_2Aw&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZkGHEAJaTGEx5tBjFZiyaW4rkTr2QkcN&ved=0ahUKEwj39tTEyImGAxVSj4kEHZncD8sQ4dUDCBQ&oq=bloodlands+timothy+snyder+jews&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz

    Among them –

    https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2036

    https://jacobin.com/2014/09/timothy-snyders-lies/

    According to someone I know in Ivy League academic circles, his wife and himself are on their way out at Yale and going to Toronto, where they’ll have a more sympathetic audience.

    This source said his wife is nuttier than him. Here was a rebuttal to her:

    https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5795-letters-january-february-2024

    Another view on Ukraine

    Self-described “peace activist” Marci Shore says she ditched her “ambivalence” towards guns to plead for weapons for Ukraine (“Eyeing the Future, Grappling with the Past,” November/December). Is she glad President Biden is now sending cluster bombs and depleted uranium, which will go on maiming and killing long after war ends? Fifty-five percent of Americans are fed up and say no more money for Ukraine. The bloody largesse of our president may actually ensure more “dark Trump years,” in Shore’s phrase.

    Though US politicians and media blame Putin, American meddling did much to provoke war. In 2013, the State Department’s Victoria Nuland bragged that the US had spent $5 billion on Ukraine since 1991. In 2014, deputies in Kyiv’s new US-backed government repealed the status of Russian as an official language; in the east, neo-Nazis cut off electricity and set fires. After Moscow attacked in 2022, the US thwarted negotiation.

    Consider Putin’s position: every major NATO power—France, the US, UK, Germany—had invaded Russia at some point. What would you do if that alliance, led by the world’s “greatest purveyor of violence” (per M. L. King), had you increasingly surrounded and was recruiting the largest country on your Western border?
    Jay Lyon ’73
    San Francisco, CA

  806. @Emil Nikola Richard
    The nemesis of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been replaced.

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/12/20/84771475-13409881-image-m-65_1715541720424.jpg

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mikhail

    The “Plywood Marshal” has been named at the top of the security council though. I wonder whether this means that Patrushev is retiring.

  807. @Emil Nikola Richard
    The nemesis of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been replaced.

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/12/20/84771475-13409881-image-m-65_1715541720424.jpg

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mikhail

    Russia’s top security official dismissed
    https://www.rt.com/russia/597473-patrushev-gone/

    Former Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu will replace Nikolay Patrushev

  808. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/05/11/why-neo-nazi-problem-in-ukraine-persists-analysts/

    Excerpt –

    The Forward newspaper cataloged some of these deplorables, including Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose followers acted as local militia members for the SS and German army.

    “Ukraine has several dozen monuments and scores of street names glorifying this Nazi collaborator, enough to require two separate Wikipedia pages,” the Forward reported.

    In Kiev regime controlled Ukraine, churches can honor Bandera without penalty as a long standing is suppressed.

  809. The Texas Supreme Court has just severely screwed up in preventing the recovery of childrearing costs for a healthy child in a wrongful conception case:

    https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-supreme-court/116162264.html#footnote_ref_7

    https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/05/10/texas-supreme-court-rules-against-el-paso-woman-seeking-damages-failed-sterilization-pregnancy/73640377007/

    Judicial logic such as this has previously been strongly criticized:

    https://studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/vol82no2/Vikingstad.pdf

    But Yeah, this doesn’t bode very well for my child support insurance idea. After all, if courts, at least in conservative US states, reject the idea that the birth and rearing of a healthy child constitutes an actual harm or loss to its parents, then how exactly can one actually have an insurable interest in one’s own child support obligation? One can only insure for things that are losses, after all, not for things that are benefits, like stupid Rightoid judges always believe healthy children to be.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Mr. XYZ

    Such a judicial ruling is also very stupid even from a pro-life perspective. If the expectation will be that parents of children who were conceived as a result of a negligently performed sterilization will not be able to recover full or even any childcare costs, then this would make these parents more likely to opt for abortion, or adoption if they or at least the pregnant woman considers abortion to be immoral. Adoption might not be a problem for pro-lifers, but abortion certainly is. And they can go to another US state to get an abortion, one where abortion is still legal even right now. Kansas is nearby, for instance.

  810. @Bashibuzuk
    @Mr. XYZ

    Rav Eliezer was outstanding in Talmudic exegesis. He is authoritative on all Talmudic matters. If he says that for a faithful (today we would say Orthodox) Jew a dog is unclean then the dog is most definitely unclean.

    Now, a liberal post-Haskalah, Freudian psychoanalysis and Frankfurt school progressive Jew might not only live with a dog under the same roof, but perhaps even sleep with one. It doesn’t matter. What the spiritual authorities of Judaism declared still holds true.

    There are many Muslims nowadays who have dogs, some of them have a dog in their own apartment. Does it mean that a dog has suddenly become clean from the Islamic pov ? Of course not. Fact is that both these Abrahamic religions decreed dogs to be unclean, while the different Christian denominations didn’t. And a really interesting question would be why Christians didn’t apply the Semitic bias towards dogs.

    But that’s another topic altogether. Christianity is not Judaism 2.0. It’s way more than just a religious evolution of Judaic thought. Christianity is an opening towards the wider non-Semitic world.

    Islam is a return to Semitic roots, as Oswald Spengler wrote (non verbatim); Islam was a counter-reformist movement among the Semitic populations in the Levant. It was supposed to bring back the “pure faith of Abraham” and “correct the Trinitarian errors” and “rectify the Talmudic deviations”.

    Anyone who doesn’t understand this is either ignorant or naive or both.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    I think that what made Christianity unique was its mass appeal to Europeans. Islam also appealed to huge numbers of non-Semites, but significantly less to Europeans, likely in large part because the Muslims failed to conquer most of Europe and to hold the parts of Europe that they did conquer for long enough (though mass expulsions of Muslims and quasi-Muslims certainly helped as well).

    I wonder if Ataturk is the reason that the Turks developed a relatively moderate form of Islam or whether a larger factor is the fact that Anatolia was conquered by Muslims relatively late and was conquered by Central Asian Turks rather than by Arabs. The parts of the Muslim world that are non-Semitic but were nevertheless conquered by Arabs, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, also tend to be more radical than the parts of the Muslim world that only became Muslim later.

  811. @AP
    @Bashibuzuk


    And Sovok itself is a bastardized child of the Russian Empire, imposed upon its native populations by an extractive and corrupt elites (the role played by Baltic Germans into the Russian Empire and the British and Dutch behind them is not widely known). So it was actually going for centuries, it’s hard to pinpoint when it started.
     
    As I have said, the Bolsheviks killed Russia and created a putrid and grotesque monster out of the corpse, attaching other nations to it that they also killed and butchered. This was the Soviet Union.

    But having a foreign elite is something essential to Russia, it started when Russia began. Even before Christianity was adopted. The very name of Rus comes from a foreign elite (a bunch of Norsemen and Wends who took over East Slavic lands, and made money by selling East Slavs as slaves to Arabs). Eastern Slavs ruled by outsiders is a central feature of Russia. They used to be Norsemen/Wends, then Tatars and some Lithuanians were added to the mix (and served as tutors and teachers about how to rule the East Slavs), then a bunch of Germans were added. Then they were wiped out an replaced by Caucasians, Jews, and Latvians. But always it was foreigners ruling East Slavs. Yes, they eventually became Slavicized, they spoke your language and shared your religion (the first wave, the Rus, forced it upon you as they did upon us).

    It happened to England once, when the Normans took over and wiped out the native elite. France was formed by Franks taking over Roman Gaul. And Ukraine had an identical history at first, they too started out as East Slavs ruled by Rus. But after that the elites were locals, either Polonized magnates of local (or at worst Rurikid) origin or native gentry such as Khmelnytsky or Sahaidachny. But in Russia it happened always, over centuries. This was specifically Russian.

    It's odd to retain the name of foreign Rus overlords, while disapproving of a state of affairs involving rule by a multiethnic mix that is only partially East Slavic in origin. Multiethnic Noviops ruling Russia - what could be more Russian then that? If the current crop ends up taking Russia into Chinese vassalage, it will be an echo of a very ancient tradition.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Mr. XYZ

    France was formed by Franks taking over Roman Gaul.

    Didn’t the Romans also replace the Celts in Gaul? I mean, Yes, the Gallic population retained a lot of Celtic DNA, very likely, but the Gallic elites and middle-classes were certainly Romanized over the centuries, no? The original Gauls were Celts, no? Including their elites and whatever small middle-classes they might have had prior to the Roman conquest, right?

    Interestingly enough, from a Russian nationalist perspective, one can celebrate the departure of a lot of Russia’s elites. The old Russian (but non-ethnically Russian) nobility and aristocracy left en masse during the Russian Civil War (if they weren’t murdered by the Bolsheviks), the Jews left en masse starting from the 1970s, and continuing up to the present-day, with this mass emigration now including half-Jews and quarter-Jews and even some eighth-Jews more and more. The Volga Germans have mostly moved en masse “back home” to Germany in the 1990s and beyond, thus eliminating whatever elite replacement potential they might have had. Who else is left? I don’t think that Russia would actually be sufficiently attractive for mass Chinese immigration to it–would it be? Or just Moscow and St. Petersburg would be?

    Off-topic, but in regards to Israel’s future elite, it’s likely to be a mix of secular Jews and Eastern Slavs, sometimes in combination with one another in the ancestry of the very same people. The ex-USSR immigrants to Israel of mixed East Slavic and Jewish descent are likely to intermarry in huge numbers with secular Israeli Jews over the long-run. Secular Israeli Jews are the only Jewish group in Israel that is mostly non-hostile to the idea of marrying such people, after all, especially if they aren’t actually halakhically Jewish. Israel getting a future elite who will either not be halakhically Jewish or have relatives who will not be halakhically Jewish. That would be a truly beautiful sight to behold. And I myself will be eagerly watching and celebrating this!

  812. @Mr. XYZ
    The Texas Supreme Court has just severely screwed up in preventing the recovery of childrearing costs for a healthy child in a wrongful conception case:

    https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-supreme-court/116162264.html#footnote_ref_7

    https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/05/10/texas-supreme-court-rules-against-el-paso-woman-seeking-damages-failed-sterilization-pregnancy/73640377007/

    Judicial logic such as this has previously been strongly criticized:

    https://studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/vol82no2/Vikingstad.pdf

    But Yeah, this doesn't bode very well for my child support insurance idea. After all, if courts, at least in conservative US states, reject the idea that the birth and rearing of a healthy child constitutes an actual harm or loss to its parents, then how exactly can one actually have an insurable interest in one's own child support obligation? One can only insure for things that are losses, after all, not for things that are benefits, like stupid Rightoid judges always believe healthy children to be.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    Such a judicial ruling is also very stupid even from a pro-life perspective. If the expectation will be that parents of children who were conceived as a result of a negligently performed sterilization will not be able to recover full or even any childcare costs, then this would make these parents more likely to opt for abortion, or adoption if they or at least the pregnant woman considers abortion to be immoral. Adoption might not be a problem for pro-lifers, but abortion certainly is. And they can go to another US state to get an abortion, one where abortion is still legal even right now. Kansas is nearby, for instance.

  813. @AP
    @LatW


    You do realize that the majority of Russians support the invasion? Why do you assume that this is just because they’re “brainwashed” and not because they genuinely believe that Ukrainians are their “younger brothers” who betrayed them by siding with Americans and W.Europeans?
     
    You are correct and that is part of the brainswashing.

    I remember when 70% of Americans genuinely believed that Iraq was behind 9-11 and/or Saddam Hussein was about to get WMD's. This stupidity enabled the horrific and criminal invasion of Iraq. But the believers and participants were mostly not evil people. Their motivation was the keep their families safe and free the people of Iraq from a brutal dictator. These regular American people who made the Iraq war possible for not bad people, for the most part.

    Same with most Russians, who do indeed mostly support this war. They, too, have been led to support and take part in a horrible crime because of their brainwashing. Many believe that Ukrainians are under Nazi occupation, that Russians in Ukraine are being mass-murdered by the Ukrainian government and have to be rescued, that Russia is in mortal danger if it doesn't attack (the stupid NATO excuse, like Saddam's WMDs), that Ukrainians will be happier if they are liberated and living together in one happy state like the 1970s USSR.* In Russia as it was in Iraq - an effective way of motivating decent people to take part in such crimes is to convince them that they are doing the right, and the good thing.

    Ukrainians have a right to fight back and to kill those who try to kill them. Because those invaders, whatever their motivation, are deadly, and because with invasion and occupation there inevitably comes sadism by an unrestrained minority. And the Ukrainians should be helped in doing so. Hopefully they will achieve the means to kill those who launch missiles at them even from the Caspian region.

    *I know, one can find real sub-animals online who write gleefully about dead Ukrainian kids, and packs of sadists such as Rusich - but these are not typical Russian war-supporters.

    Replies: @LatW, @Mr. XYZ

    AP, out of curiosity, would you likewise consider the Russians who engaged in the Tsar’s overthrow in 1917 to be bad people, albeit unintentionally? After all, the Tsar, for all of his flaws, was an absolute angel in comparison to what came less than a year later and beyond. Even the anti-Semitic laws and the Pale of Settlement pale in comparison to the subsequent Holocaust, which would likely not have been possibly without the Soviet Union, even though the Soviets didn’t actually do it and indeed helped to stop it (I’m talking about the geopolitical climate that allowed Hitler to take over most of Europe; the Soviet Union was in large part responsible for that because it was too scary for the Anglo-French to ally with it against the Nazis). And the Soviet Union did have Jewish quotas, anti-Semitic discrimination, and internal restrictions on movement for everyone, including for Jews as well, later on in its existence.

    And would you consider the German people to be bad for overthrowing the Hohenzollerns in November 1918 and thus making it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to come to power in Germany 15 years later?

    Really, most of the 20th century’s problems were the result of the Romanovs and Hohenzollerns being replaced by regimes that were much, much worse than they themselves were.

  814. What do you say to a castrated man named Nicholas who is also a computer programmer?

    “You, Nick, are a eunuch who likes Unix!”

  815. @John Johnson
    @Mr. XYZ

    So, it turns out that the Groyper is also a Groper lol!

    Napolitano wants to do a show on liberal immoral behavior and then maybe feel up your balls afterwards. Not into it? He is fine with that.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    He needs a go-go boy to play around with lol!

  816. @Philip Owen
    @Bashibuzuk

    That's a decent but not outstanding flat with good ordinary furniture for the time. They obviously live there. He was keeping the cash in the bank.

    Your claim about trading in heroin is intriguing. A lot came from Uzbekistan through Samara too according to an FSB colonel of my acquaintance. Presumably, that would have been a different gang.

    I have often wondered why night club bouncer Dominic Cummings (the campaign manager for Brexit) was in Samara. He was apparently setting up an airline (illegal for foreigners at the time) with direct flights to Vienna. Only one flight ever took off and the only passenger was left behind. Cummings is very pro Russian. Does he need to be?

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @LondonBob

    Always amused me people who cast aspersions towards Cummings, especially those loyal to the EU, rather obvious he was working for MI6. At least they aren’t idiots in MI6, or perhaps weren’t.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/dominic-cummings-brands-ukraine-corrupt-mafia-state-as-he-blasts-russia-sanctions/ar-BB1m6MNQ

    Amusing that the Western ‘elite’ thought China would support them in their campaign against Russia, bizarre.

    • Replies: @Beckow
    @LondonBob


    ...Amusing that the Western ‘elite’ thought China would support them in their campaign against Russia, bizarre.
     
    They only listen to each other and their own fully controlled media. It has led to collapse in rationality, they believe want they want to believe. At meetings any dissenters are ostracized, the "can do" team attitude subsumes everything. The credentialed mid-wits and middle-aged women totally misunderstand how it works - the China will be with us was a bookish misreading of the real China. Once that failed in 2022 they should had called it off, there was no "defeating Russia" possible any more. But they are idiots with lemming tendencies.

    Cummings is still MI6 - some people there wanted it published in an attempt to bring the media space back to reality. They are scrambling, Nuland is gone for a reason.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  817. @songbird
    Wonder wether the Romans ever had a discussion about resettling migrants away from the Roman core, whether failed, opposed by those in power, or abortive.

    Was thinking "No, that would be too modern a concept.". But then I thought of the Assyrians, and it became somewhat more plausible to me. Would we even know if it had happened?

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    You might find some answers to your questions by studying the early initial periods of Romanian history. There probably was the inclusion of other ethnicities besides Romans that were a part 0f the initial colonising efforts in this new land. Romanian history is quite interesting, especially if you can get beyond the fact that it’s a Balkan country:

    The Romans called the people of Romania Dacians. In 101-102 AD the Roman Emperor Trajan led a campaign against the Dacians. A further campaign was fought in 105-106 AD and the Romans crushed the Dacians at the battle of Sarmizegetusa. Afterward, Dacia became a Roman province. Settlers from other parts of the Roman Empire were brought in and the local people became ‘Romanized’. They began to speak Latin.

    https://localhistories.org/a-brief-history-of-romania/

    Where is Seraphim (our only Russophile Romanian) when you need him? 🙂

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Mr. Hack

    We''ll probably never know for sure, but it seems Romans were pissed at Dacians way more than they were pissed at Gauls after the war and quite thoroughly genocided/emptied the place during and/or afterwards the hostilities, therefore the need to bring in the newcomer settlers, cause there were barely anyone left intact (both local nobility and commoners) after conquest of Dacia was completed:


    When founding a new province, Rome would generally impose on the natives a self-serving, territorial structure of administration {1-103.} (civitas peregrina). The local people would be divided up by tribes, unless a tribe had shown uncommon belligerence, in which case it was broken up. Tribal elites were drawn into the civitatis, which remained initially under military supervision. This tribal aristocracy benefited from Rome's favours — for instance, by being the first to be granted Roman citizenship — and would eventually provide leaders (princeps) for the civitatis. The latter provided the organizational framework for progressive Romanization and were the basis for future towns. It seems that the Romans suspended this practice in the case of Dacia, where there is no trace of any civitas. One reason must have been the absence of a tribal elite; already decimated under Decebalus' autocratic rule, the elite was largely eliminated along with the rest of the Dacian nobility, the pileati, as a consequence of Trajan's wars. Remarkably, only one tribal name survived, in vicus Anar(torum), a village belonging to the Anartes tribe in northern Transylvania;[50] however, the village was inhabited not by Dacians but by Celts, their former subjects. There also survives the name of a princeps: T. Aurelius Afer, a tribal leader who originated in Splonum (Dalmatia), and was thus not a Dacian either.The other reason why the Romans may not have formed civitatis was that the residual population was to sparse to warrant such a vehicle for Romanization. Therefore, as noted, Dacia's towns were created not on the basis of, or alongside civitatis, but from military settlements and their satellite communities. This meant that what was left of the indigenous population did not participate in the urban experience that fostered Romanization. The epigraphs found in the province show no 'Thraco-Dacian' names in the membership of urban institutions, whether as council members or as priests of the cult.
     
    http://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/18.html

    Replies: @LatW

    , @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    That is a good point: they probably utilized some of the influx in conquests and settlements, almost as if the US had put some Mexicans in Iraq - but their world was more connected.

    Hopefully, more of these scrolls will be read, and they will tell us more about the world of that time.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    , @Philip Owen
    @Mr. Hack

    My IRL acquaintance Ben Llewelyn, actually a Texan who adopted a Welsh name after moving here has considered the Dacian/Vlach/Romanian transitions. Here is one of his videos on the subject.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKoGntgHoYo

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

  818. @LondonBob
    @Philip Owen

    Always amused me people who cast aspersions towards Cummings, especially those loyal to the EU, rather obvious he was working for MI6. At least they aren't idiots in MI6, or perhaps weren't.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/dominic-cummings-brands-ukraine-corrupt-mafia-state-as-he-blasts-russia-sanctions/ar-BB1m6MNQ

    Amusing that the Western 'elite' thought China would support them in their campaign against Russia, bizarre.

    Replies: @Beckow

    …Amusing that the Western ‘elite’ thought China would support them in their campaign against Russia, bizarre.

    They only listen to each other and their own fully controlled media. It has led to collapse in rationality, they believe want they want to believe. At meetings any dissenters are ostracized, the “can do” team attitude subsumes everything. The credentialed mid-wits and middle-aged women totally misunderstand how it works – the China will be with us was a bookish misreading of the real China. Once that failed in 2022 they should had called it off, there was no “defeating Russia” possible any more. But they are idiots with lemming tendencies.

    Cummings is still MI6 – some people there wanted it published in an attempt to bring the media space back to reality. They are scrambling, Nuland is gone for a reason.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Beckow


    Nuland is gone for a reason.
     
    Don't count your chickens. She just did an interview and does not rule out going back to work. It's more like suspended animation.

    It might be funny if you have that humor style for Donald the Fat to get re selected and make Victoria Nuland his Secretary of State. She has the requisite devotion to Israel. Also it's about what we deserve.

    Did you ever read the Rationalists scribbles when Johnson first gave Cummings the job? A Rationalist politician makes about as much sense as a Rationalist sex worker but there's one of those bloggers out there too if you are inclined. Aella if I am spelling her name correct. Apparently she has really great stuff behind a paywall but I haven't looked at any of that.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

  819. @Bashibuzuk
    @John Johnson

    So you think that to plagiarize a religious tradition one has to copy paste some “verses” verbatim?

    That’s what I call touchingly naive.

    🙂

    Replies: @John Johnson

    So you think that to plagiarize a religious tradition one has to copy paste some “verses” verbatim?

    I didn’t ask for a verbatim verse. I asked for a comparable verse.

    Muhammed didn’t copy a Jewish rule about how dogs can’t be indoors. In fact dogs and pictures are banned in the same verse:
    Angels do not enter a house which has either a dog or a picture in it

    There is nothing in Judaism about killing black dogs
    The Messenger of Allah said: “When one of you stands in prayer, what definitely constitutes a barrier for him is an object placed in front of him of the same height as the back of a camel-saddle. If it is not in front of him and of the same height as the back of a camel-saddle, then some [stray] donkey, or some woman passing, or some black dog will cut off his prayer.” I said: “O Abu Dharr! What is it that makes a black dog different from a red or yellow dog?” He replied: “O dear cousin! I asked the Messenger of Allah the exact same question. He said that the black dog is a devil.”

    Muhammed hated dogs and thought the black ones were cursed. It’s not a case of him copying Judaism. That happened in other areas but not here. He hated dogs and liked cats.
    https://www.21cats.org/what-did-the-prophet-say-about-cats-in-islam/

  820. @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    You might find some answers to your questions by studying the early initial periods of Romanian history. There probably was the inclusion of other ethnicities besides Romans that were a part 0f the initial colonising efforts in this new land. Romanian history is quite interesting, especially if you can get beyond the fact that it's a Balkan country:


    The Romans called the people of Romania Dacians. In 101-102 AD the Roman Emperor Trajan led a campaign against the Dacians. A further campaign was fought in 105-106 AD and the Romans crushed the Dacians at the battle of Sarmizegetusa. Afterward, Dacia became a Roman province. Settlers from other parts of the Roman Empire were brought in and the local people became ‘Romanized’. They began to speak Latin.

     

    https://localhistories.org/a-brief-history-of-romania/

    Where is Seraphim (our only Russophile Romanian) when you need him? :-)

    Replies: @sudden death, @songbird, @Philip Owen

    We”ll probably never know for sure, but it seems Romans were pissed at Dacians way more than they were pissed at Gauls after the war and quite thoroughly genocided/emptied the place during and/or afterwards the hostilities, therefore the need to bring in the newcomer settlers, cause there were barely anyone left intact (both local nobility and commoners) after conquest of Dacia was completed:

    When founding a new province, Rome would generally impose on the natives a self-serving, territorial structure of administration {1-103.} (civitas peregrina). The local people would be divided up by tribes, unless a tribe had shown uncommon belligerence, in which case it was broken up. Tribal elites were drawn into the civitatis, which remained initially under military supervision. This tribal aristocracy benefited from Rome’s favours — for instance, by being the first to be granted Roman citizenship — and would eventually provide leaders (princeps) for the civitatis. The latter provided the organizational framework for progressive Romanization and were the basis for future towns. It seems that the Romans suspended this practice in the case of Dacia, where there is no trace of any civitas. One reason must have been the absence of a tribal elite; already decimated under Decebalus’ autocratic rule, the elite was largely eliminated along with the rest of the Dacian nobility, the pileati, as a consequence of Trajan’s wars. Remarkably, only one tribal name survived, in vicus Anar(torum), a village belonging to the Anartes tribe in northern Transylvania;[50] however, the village was inhabited not by Dacians but by Celts, their former subjects. There also survives the name of a princeps: T. Aurelius Afer, a tribal leader who originated in Splonum (Dalmatia), and was thus not a Dacian either.The other reason why the Romans may not have formed civitatis was that the residual population was to sparse to warrant such a vehicle for Romanization. Therefore, as noted, Dacia’s towns were created not on the basis of, or alongside civitatis, but from military settlements and their satellite communities. This meant that what was left of the indigenous population did not participate in the urban experience that fostered Romanization. The epigraphs found in the province show no ‘Thraco-Dacian’ names in the membership of urban institutions, whether as council members or as priests of the cult.

    http://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/18.html

    • Replies: @LatW
    @sudden death

    The language, man...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vd7nBA-Ek

    At least 8 words are Baltic.

    They had a wolf totem. This might be connected to koryos (as in karas in Lithuanian).

    Maybe just very defiant and that's why they were decimated.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  821. China is more of a modern country, in the sense that a large portion of its GDP is based on the sale of modern and elecronic goods that appeal to a Western audience. Also, I don’t remember how many gazillions of Chines funds are already tied up in US bonds, US real estate and even US companies? You don’t really think that Russia could ever pick up this slack if things ever soured substantially between the West and China? It’s walking a tightrope right now between Russia and the West and will emerge as the big winner in the Russia/Ukraine war, as long as it doesn’t invade Taiwan or do any other stupidity.

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Mr. Hack



    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNI1-qfW8AAhZA-.jpg

    Replies: @sudden death

  822. @Ennui
    @John Johnson

    Johnson, a gentile who just wants to grill, but also feels strongly about setting the record straight regarding the Talmud and the Bolsheviks, LOL

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Johnson, a gentile who just wants to grill, but also feels strongly about setting the record straight regarding the Talmud and the Bolsheviks, LOL

    You are suggesting I’m Jewish? Wouldn’t that also make me Muslim since I had to correct Bashibuzuk on Muhammed?

    I was reading around 200 articles a month but I had to cut that down. I’ve corrected posters on all kinds of topics like weapons, tank design, WW2, Russian history, currency policy, Rand, Christianity, and power plant design.

    I can’t count the number of pro-Putin supporters I have had to correct in regard to the Maidan revolution. They really seem to screw up that period and mistakenly think Zelensky was inserted in 2014. Maybe I’m a Muslim Ukrainian?

    Whatever helps you sleep at night. Anglin’s fangirls also like to think I’m Jewish. It helps them cope with the fact that they can’t rationally explain their support for Putin. I must be a Jewish agent so they don’t have to answer any questions and make basic rational explanations like a White man. They can be as emotionally attached to Putin as their bitter hearts desire.

  823. @Beckow
    @LondonBob


    ...Amusing that the Western ‘elite’ thought China would support them in their campaign against Russia, bizarre.
     
    They only listen to each other and their own fully controlled media. It has led to collapse in rationality, they believe want they want to believe. At meetings any dissenters are ostracized, the "can do" team attitude subsumes everything. The credentialed mid-wits and middle-aged women totally misunderstand how it works - the China will be with us was a bookish misreading of the real China. Once that failed in 2022 they should had called it off, there was no "defeating Russia" possible any more. But they are idiots with lemming tendencies.

    Cummings is still MI6 - some people there wanted it published in an attempt to bring the media space back to reality. They are scrambling, Nuland is gone for a reason.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    Nuland is gone for a reason.

    Don’t count your chickens. She just did an interview and does not rule out going back to work. It’s more like suspended animation.

    It might be funny if you have that humor style for Donald the Fat to get re selected and make Victoria Nuland his Secretary of State. She has the requisite devotion to Israel. Also it’s about what we deserve.

    Did you ever read the Rationalists scribbles when Johnson first gave Cummings the job? A Rationalist politician makes about as much sense as a Rationalist sex worker but there’s one of those bloggers out there too if you are inclined. Aella if I am spelling her name correct. Apparently she has really great stuff behind a paywall but I haven’t looked at any of that.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    It might be funny if you have that humor style for Donald the Fat to get re selected and make Victoria Nuland his Secretary of State. She has the requisite devotion to Israel. Also it’s about what we deserve.
     
    Man, you have lower opinion of the US than I do. I think it’s extremely toxic for the humanity as an empire, but has decent potential as a normal country (assuming it can still become that). In my view, at least 80% of its residents are good people who deserve to live in a normal country, but at the moment all US institutions are hijacked by the insane minority heading for the cliff.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

  824. @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Beckow


    Nuland is gone for a reason.
     
    Don't count your chickens. She just did an interview and does not rule out going back to work. It's more like suspended animation.

    It might be funny if you have that humor style for Donald the Fat to get re selected and make Victoria Nuland his Secretary of State. She has the requisite devotion to Israel. Also it's about what we deserve.

    Did you ever read the Rationalists scribbles when Johnson first gave Cummings the job? A Rationalist politician makes about as much sense as a Rationalist sex worker but there's one of those bloggers out there too if you are inclined. Aella if I am spelling her name correct. Apparently she has really great stuff behind a paywall but I haven't looked at any of that.

    Replies: @AnonfromTN

    It might be funny if you have that humor style for Donald the Fat to get re selected and make Victoria Nuland his Secretary of State. She has the requisite devotion to Israel. Also it’s about what we deserve.

    Man, you have lower opinion of the US than I do. I think it’s extremely toxic for the humanity as an empire, but has decent potential as a normal country (assuming it can still become that). In my view, at least 80% of its residents are good people who deserve to live in a normal country, but at the moment all US institutions are hijacked by the insane minority heading for the cliff.

    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @AnonfromTN

    Don't be a downer man we have the circuses. : )

    Battle of the Nations
    Poland Germany

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCB73YHj4s4

    I posted this on Sailer's Stallman thread twenty minutes ago. He will probably get around to letting it out in a couple days.

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashaferian/Drive/master/Mt.Xinu%20BSD%20Poster.png

  825. @AnonfromTN
    @Emil Nikola Richard


    It might be funny if you have that humor style for Donald the Fat to get re selected and make Victoria Nuland his Secretary of State. She has the requisite devotion to Israel. Also it’s about what we deserve.
     
    Man, you have lower opinion of the US than I do. I think it’s extremely toxic for the humanity as an empire, but has decent potential as a normal country (assuming it can still become that). In my view, at least 80% of its residents are good people who deserve to live in a normal country, but at the moment all US institutions are hijacked by the insane minority heading for the cliff.

    Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

    Don’t be a downer man we have the circuses. : )

    Battle of the Nations
    Poland Germany

    [MORE]

    I posted this on Sailer’s Stallman thread twenty minutes ago. He will probably get around to letting it out in a couple days.

  826. Sher Singh says:

    “Men knew that the gods whom they served could not give them freedom
    from danger and calamity, and they did not demand that they should. We
    find in the myths no sense of bitterness at the harshness and unfairness of
    life, but rather a spirit of heroic resignation: humanity is born to trouble,
    but courage, adventure, and the wonders of life are matters for
    thankfulness, to be enjoyed while life is still granted to us. The great gifts
    of the gods were readiness to face the world as it was, the luck that
    sustains men in tight places, and the opportunity to win that glory which
    alone can survive death.”

    https://archive.org/stream/TheReligiousAttitudesOfTheIndo-europeans_621/ReligiousAttitudesOfTheIndo-europeans_djvu.txt

    Alles geben die Götter, die unendlichen,
    ihren Lieblingen ganz:
    alle Freuden, die unendlichen,
    alle Schmerzen, die unendlichen, ganz.

    The eternal Gods give everything
    utterly to their favourites,
    all joys, and
    all sorrows for all eternity —
    utterly and completely.


    If there’s anything more powerful than fate,
    Then it’s courage, which bears fate unshaken.

    ਅਕਾਲ

  827. @sudden death
    @Mr. Hack

    We''ll probably never know for sure, but it seems Romans were pissed at Dacians way more than they were pissed at Gauls after the war and quite thoroughly genocided/emptied the place during and/or afterwards the hostilities, therefore the need to bring in the newcomer settlers, cause there were barely anyone left intact (both local nobility and commoners) after conquest of Dacia was completed:


    When founding a new province, Rome would generally impose on the natives a self-serving, territorial structure of administration {1-103.} (civitas peregrina). The local people would be divided up by tribes, unless a tribe had shown uncommon belligerence, in which case it was broken up. Tribal elites were drawn into the civitatis, which remained initially under military supervision. This tribal aristocracy benefited from Rome's favours — for instance, by being the first to be granted Roman citizenship — and would eventually provide leaders (princeps) for the civitatis. The latter provided the organizational framework for progressive Romanization and were the basis for future towns. It seems that the Romans suspended this practice in the case of Dacia, where there is no trace of any civitas. One reason must have been the absence of a tribal elite; already decimated under Decebalus' autocratic rule, the elite was largely eliminated along with the rest of the Dacian nobility, the pileati, as a consequence of Trajan's wars. Remarkably, only one tribal name survived, in vicus Anar(torum), a village belonging to the Anartes tribe in northern Transylvania;[50] however, the village was inhabited not by Dacians but by Celts, their former subjects. There also survives the name of a princeps: T. Aurelius Afer, a tribal leader who originated in Splonum (Dalmatia), and was thus not a Dacian either.The other reason why the Romans may not have formed civitatis was that the residual population was to sparse to warrant such a vehicle for Romanization. Therefore, as noted, Dacia's towns were created not on the basis of, or alongside civitatis, but from military settlements and their satellite communities. This meant that what was left of the indigenous population did not participate in the urban experience that fostered Romanization. The epigraphs found in the province show no 'Thraco-Dacian' names in the membership of urban institutions, whether as council members or as priests of the cult.
     
    http://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/18.html

    Replies: @LatW

    The language, man…

    At least 8 words are Baltic.

    They had a wolf totem. This might be connected to koryos (as in karas in Lithuanian).

    Maybe just very defiant and that’s why they were decimated.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    There is nearly nothing left from the Dacian language, just a few dozen plant names and many hundreds toponymes. Not enough to reconstruct anything. Not even a simple sentence, much less that fancy paragraph that you presented as Dacian without offering an explanation why and how it was reconstructed. But what is still extant might suggest that it was somewhat close to Illyrian.

    Romanian still presents many words that sound like modern day Albanian despite more than a thousand five hundred years of Latin language dominance in Romania/Moldavia and the Slavic language influence that is also far from negligible. Also, the Slavs and Hungarians have historically called Romanians /Moldavians the Vlakh people.

    Interestingly enough, the Slavs have also called that way all those Celts who have been Latinized and were still present in their ancestral territories when the Slavs and the Magyar migrated there. It is a borrowing from the Germanic language (Gothic?) name given to Celts in general and is a direct cognate of Welch. So it would make sense for Dacian language to have been a “middle” language between Celtic and Illyrian. The geographical setting suggests this too. Would that make it close to ancient Balto-Slavic ? Perhaps, but probably not.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @LatW

  828. @AP
    @Bashibuzuk


    AP, the Noviop also rule Ukraine.
     
    True, but this is a recent consequence of Russification. It wasn't like that before. Pre-Soviet Ukrainian elites were of native descent with in some cases Polish admixture.

    Moreover in Ukraine there is a region that does not follow the pattern: Galicia. Not coincidentally, the least Russified part of Ukraine.

    Because having a Noviop elite goes hand-in-hand with cultural, linguistic Russification.

    Being ruled by a foreign multicultural elite is an essential aspect of Russian culture. In Ukraine it is a recent phenomenon, reintroduced by the Soviets after having been absent for many centuries. Full Galicianization and de-Russification would have been necessary to rid Ukraine of this problem and to heal Ukraine. It is unfortunate that Donbas and Crimea were part of Ukraine until 2014, it might have been possible in that case.

    But the Russification is far from complete. Russified Ukrainians may have adopted from the Russians the use of the Russian language and tolerance of having a foreign Noviop elite, but they have retained their aversion to being ruled by a despot.

    Katsapy & Khokhly fighting each other are like two ants parasited by a Ophiocordyceps unilateralis trying to kill each other while dying from the fungal infection.
     
    Russia was the one who attacked though. The Ukrainian Noviops did not send their army into Russia. This may not be because Ukraine's Noviops are "better" than Russian ones - their country is simply smaller. But still - guilt here is not equal at all.

    Our people (yes it’s one people)
     
    Like all Slavs are one people. But we are far from identical. Our political cultures are very incompatible. The Russian Eurasianist Vernadsky claimed that Ukrainians retained the Old Rus democratic folkways that Muscovy/Russia lost, but it's just as likely to be the product of being an integral part of Poland for generations. Politically, Russians are the heirs of their tsars' Tatar overlords and teachers, Ukrainians hate despots and are Republican in nature, they don't tolerate Khans or Despots.

    Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from Rus. But Ukraine is a child of Rzeczpospolita. Russia is not. Russia learned from its Eastern overlords. Ukraine did not. And this makes a big difference between the two peoples.

    This stark political incompatibility is masked by genetic, linguistic and interpersonal similarities but it is revealed, with bloody consequences, whenever Russia tries to politically integrate - or rather, subjugate - Ukraine.

    Every person of our blood dying in that war is a win for those who haited and despised our people for hundreds of years
     
    I couldn't agree more.

    I'm angry at Putin and scum such as Solovyev or Simonyon (neither one a Slav) who support and cheerlead this invasion. Not at regular Russians, who are as stupidly brainwashed as the decent Americans who sincerely supported the evil Iraq war because they were convinced that it was the necessary thing to do. Killing invaders coming into one's homeland is sadly necessary and Ukraine needs to have the tools to do that until the Russians stay home, but there is nothing to celebrate about that.

    Replies: @LatW, @Mr. XYZ

    Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from Rus. But Ukraine is a child of Rzeczpospolita. Russia is not. Russia learned from its Eastern overlords. Ukraine did not. And this makes a big difference between the two peoples.

    How come Belarus did not inherit a deep democratic tradition from being a part of the PLC for a long time like Ukraine did?

    • Replies: @AP
    @Mr. XYZ

    They were part of Lithuania rather than Poland; it seems the Lithuanians were less likely to leave their mark. And also the country was very heavily destroyed during World War II and also deeply Russified - much more than Ukraine. Karlin once posted poll data showing that Belarus as a whole was comparable to Donbas in terms of attitudes towards or like Russia. Not totally Russian but close to it.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @John Johnson

  829. Bashibuzuk says:
    @LatW
    @sudden death

    The language, man...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vd7nBA-Ek

    At least 8 words are Baltic.

    They had a wolf totem. This might be connected to koryos (as in karas in Lithuanian).

    Maybe just very defiant and that's why they were decimated.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    There is nearly nothing left from the Dacian language, just a few dozen plant names and many hundreds toponymes. Not enough to reconstruct anything. Not even a simple sentence, much less that fancy paragraph that you presented as Dacian without offering an explanation why and how it was reconstructed. But what is still extant might suggest that it was somewhat close to Illyrian.

    Romanian still presents many words that sound like modern day Albanian despite more than a thousand five hundred years of Latin language dominance in Romania/Moldavia and the Slavic language influence that is also far from negligible. Also, the Slavs and Hungarians have historically called Romanians /Moldavians the Vlakh people.

    Interestingly enough, the Slavs have also called that way all those Celts who have been Latinized and were still present in their ancestral territories when the Slavs and the Magyar migrated there. It is a borrowing from the Germanic language (Gothic?) name given to Celts in general and is a direct cognate of Welch. So it would make sense for Dacian language to have been a “middle” language between Celtic and Illyrian. The geographical setting suggests this too. Would that make it close to ancient Balto-Slavic ? Perhaps, but probably not.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Bashibuzuk

    Ah yeah, of course Thracian is probably also potentially somewhat related to Dacian. But the bottom line is:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romanian_words_of_possible_pre-Roman_origin

    Anything Baltic sounding in that list?

    , @LatW
    @Bashibuzuk

    Actually, the names of their kings sound quite Greek... but there are a few personal names that sound quite interesting...

    Replies: @LatW

  830. @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    There is nearly nothing left from the Dacian language, just a few dozen plant names and many hundreds toponymes. Not enough to reconstruct anything. Not even a simple sentence, much less that fancy paragraph that you presented as Dacian without offering an explanation why and how it was reconstructed. But what is still extant might suggest that it was somewhat close to Illyrian.

    Romanian still presents many words that sound like modern day Albanian despite more than a thousand five hundred years of Latin language dominance in Romania/Moldavia and the Slavic language influence that is also far from negligible. Also, the Slavs and Hungarians have historically called Romanians /Moldavians the Vlakh people.

    Interestingly enough, the Slavs have also called that way all those Celts who have been Latinized and were still present in their ancestral territories when the Slavs and the Magyar migrated there. It is a borrowing from the Germanic language (Gothic?) name given to Celts in general and is a direct cognate of Welch. So it would make sense for Dacian language to have been a “middle” language between Celtic and Illyrian. The geographical setting suggests this too. Would that make it close to ancient Balto-Slavic ? Perhaps, but probably not.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @LatW

    Ah yeah, of course Thracian is probably also potentially somewhat related to Dacian. But the bottom line is:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romanian_words_of_possible_pre-Roman_origin

    Anything Baltic sounding in that list?

  831. @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    There is nearly nothing left from the Dacian language, just a few dozen plant names and many hundreds toponymes. Not enough to reconstruct anything. Not even a simple sentence, much less that fancy paragraph that you presented as Dacian without offering an explanation why and how it was reconstructed. But what is still extant might suggest that it was somewhat close to Illyrian.

    Romanian still presents many words that sound like modern day Albanian despite more than a thousand five hundred years of Latin language dominance in Romania/Moldavia and the Slavic language influence that is also far from negligible. Also, the Slavs and Hungarians have historically called Romanians /Moldavians the Vlakh people.

    Interestingly enough, the Slavs have also called that way all those Celts who have been Latinized and were still present in their ancestral territories when the Slavs and the Magyar migrated there. It is a borrowing from the Germanic language (Gothic?) name given to Celts in general and is a direct cognate of Welch. So it would make sense for Dacian language to have been a “middle” language between Celtic and Illyrian. The geographical setting suggests this too. Would that make it close to ancient Balto-Slavic ? Perhaps, but probably not.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @LatW

    Actually, the names of their kings sound quite Greek… but there are a few personal names that sound quite interesting…

    • Replies: @LatW
    @LatW

    They've just been experimenting with this:

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

    Replies: @sudden death

  832. @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    You might find some answers to your questions by studying the early initial periods of Romanian history. There probably was the inclusion of other ethnicities besides Romans that were a part 0f the initial colonising efforts in this new land. Romanian history is quite interesting, especially if you can get beyond the fact that it's a Balkan country:


    The Romans called the people of Romania Dacians. In 101-102 AD the Roman Emperor Trajan led a campaign against the Dacians. A further campaign was fought in 105-106 AD and the Romans crushed the Dacians at the battle of Sarmizegetusa. Afterward, Dacia became a Roman province. Settlers from other parts of the Roman Empire were brought in and the local people became ‘Romanized’. They began to speak Latin.

     

    https://localhistories.org/a-brief-history-of-romania/

    Where is Seraphim (our only Russophile Romanian) when you need him? :-)

    Replies: @sudden death, @songbird, @Philip Owen

    That is a good point: they probably utilized some of the influx in conquests and settlements, almost as if the US had put some Mexicans in Iraq – but their world was more connected.

    Hopefully, more of these scrolls will be read, and they will tell us more about the world of that time.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @songbird

    This reminds me of the huge number of peoples who were brought in to settle Vojvodina and the Banat by the Hapsburgs in the 18th and 19th centuries. Also Bukovina to some extent.

    https://i.redd.it/idkt68dzcdk91.png

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Ethnic_map_of_the_Serbian_Voivodeship_and_the_Banat_Military_Frontier%2C_1855.svg

  833. @LatW
    @Bashibuzuk

    Actually, the names of their kings sound quite Greek... but there are a few personal names that sound quite interesting...

    Replies: @LatW

    They’ve just been experimenting with this:

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

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @LatW

    From those reconstructed lists there are relatively not so few words (geras gilus gira klevas ramus sausas skaudus sunka suras tauta daina) which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings.

    Considering it was I-II centuries when battles with Romans took place and IIRC according to linguistic theories Lithuanian and Latvian languages might began to split into separates from the same pool just roughly around VII century, then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?

    Replies: @sudden death, @LatW

  834. First word in the list: Rusidava…

    With dava meaning town/village.

    What would Rusi mean ?

    (Just kidding.)

    🙂

    • LOL: LatW
  835. @Mr. XYZ
    @AP


    Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from Rus. But Ukraine is a child of Rzeczpospolita. Russia is not. Russia learned from its Eastern overlords. Ukraine did not. And this makes a big difference between the two peoples.

     

    How come Belarus did not inherit a deep democratic tradition from being a part of the PLC for a long time like Ukraine did?

    Replies: @AP

    They were part of Lithuania rather than Poland; it seems the Lithuanians were less likely to leave their mark. And also the country was very heavily destroyed during World War II and also deeply Russified – much more than Ukraine. Karlin once posted poll data showing that Belarus as a whole was comparable to Donbas in terms of attitudes towards or like Russia. Not totally Russian but close to it.

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @AP

    How much more Western-oriented do you think that Belarus would have been with the M-R Pact but without Soviet participation in WWII (such as if there is no 1940 Fall of France)?

    As a side note, on Substack, Anatoly Karlin has very recently agreed that based on his own defeatist logic (the idea that the West should have let Ukraine fall and then open its doors wide open to Ukrainians in order to save Ukrainian lives), it would have likewise been the ethical choice for Russia back in 1914 to let Serbia fall to Austria-Hungary without directly going to war against either Austria-Hungary or Germany and instead to subsequently open Russia's doors wide open to Serbian refugees. I wonder just how many Serbian refugees would have moved to Russia in such a scenario. Any thoughts on this? And what about Macedonian nationalists moving to Russia en masse as well had Macedonia ended up going to Bulgaria in any 1910s partition of Serbia?

    , @John Johnson
    @AP

    Karlin once posted poll data showing that Belarus as a whole was comparable to Donbas in terms of attitudes towards or like Russia. Not totally Russian but close to it.

    Dobas attitudes are basically the dominance of the thugs.

    That's no exaggeration. Just watch the Vice videos on the takeover. It's like watching local rejects from a dive bar try to run a country. They would do stuff like take a vote on executing someone without evidence of a crime. So basically back to hanging people based on allegations of witchcraft. Superstition takes over quickly when you don't have adults in the room.

    Belarus most likely suffered from dygenics during WW2.

    They lost too many independent thinkers which are required for a democracy to function.

    They have a gdp per capita that is below Mexico.

  836. @AP
    @Mr. XYZ

    They were part of Lithuania rather than Poland; it seems the Lithuanians were less likely to leave their mark. And also the country was very heavily destroyed during World War II and also deeply Russified - much more than Ukraine. Karlin once posted poll data showing that Belarus as a whole was comparable to Donbas in terms of attitudes towards or like Russia. Not totally Russian but close to it.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @John Johnson

    How much more Western-oriented do you think that Belarus would have been with the M-R Pact but without Soviet participation in WWII (such as if there is no 1940 Fall of France)?

    As a side note, on Substack, Anatoly Karlin has very recently agreed that based on his own defeatist logic (the idea that the West should have let Ukraine fall and then open its doors wide open to Ukrainians in order to save Ukrainian lives), it would have likewise been the ethical choice for Russia back in 1914 to let Serbia fall to Austria-Hungary without directly going to war against either Austria-Hungary or Germany and instead to subsequently open Russia’s doors wide open to Serbian refugees. I wonder just how many Serbian refugees would have moved to Russia in such a scenario. Any thoughts on this? And what about Macedonian nationalists moving to Russia en masse as well had Macedonia ended up going to Bulgaria in any 1910s partition of Serbia?

  837. @songbird
    @Mr. Hack

    That is a good point: they probably utilized some of the influx in conquests and settlements, almost as if the US had put some Mexicans in Iraq - but their world was more connected.

    Hopefully, more of these scrolls will be read, and they will tell us more about the world of that time.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    This reminds me of the huge number of peoples who were brought in to settle Vojvodina and the Banat by the Hapsburgs in the 18th and 19th centuries. Also Bukovina to some extent.

  838. @AP
    @Mr. XYZ

    They were part of Lithuania rather than Poland; it seems the Lithuanians were less likely to leave their mark. And also the country was very heavily destroyed during World War II and also deeply Russified - much more than Ukraine. Karlin once posted poll data showing that Belarus as a whole was comparable to Donbas in terms of attitudes towards or like Russia. Not totally Russian but close to it.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @John Johnson

    Karlin once posted poll data showing that Belarus as a whole was comparable to Donbas in terms of attitudes towards or like Russia. Not totally Russian but close to it.

    Dobas attitudes are basically the dominance of the thugs.

    That’s no exaggeration. Just watch the Vice videos on the takeover. It’s like watching local rejects from a dive bar try to run a country. They would do stuff like take a vote on executing someone without evidence of a crime. So basically back to hanging people based on allegations of witchcraft. Superstition takes over quickly when you don’t have adults in the room.

    Belarus most likely suffered from dygenics during WW2.

    They lost too many independent thinkers which are required for a democracy to function.

    They have a gdp per capita that is below Mexico.

    • Agree: Philip Owen
  839. @LatW
    @LatW

    They've just been experimenting with this:

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

    Replies: @sudden death

    From those reconstructed lists there are relatively not so few words (geras gilus gira klevas ramus sausas skaudus sunka suras tauta daina) which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings.

    Considering it was I-II centuries when battles with Romans took place and IIRC according to linguistic theories Lithuanian and Latvian languages might began to split into separates from the same pool just roughly around VII century, then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @sudden death

    Wrote it all above without any previous/further checking, but now it's really sure that even among professional linguists the theory of east-southern Baltic language branch is relatively established and known, even if not the single possible among other competing ones:


    There is significant evidence of at least a long-term proximity link, and possibly a genetic link, between Dacian and the modern Baltic languages. The Bulgarian linguist Ivan Duridanov, in his first publication claimed that Thracian and Dacian are genetically linked to the Baltic languages[190][191] and in the next one he made the following classification:"The Thracian language formed a close group with the Baltic (resp. Balto-Slavic), the Dacian and the "Pelasgian" languages. More distant were its relations with the other Indo-European languages, and especially with Greek, the Italic and Celtic languages, which exhibit only isolated phonetic similarities with Thracian; the Tokharian and the Hittite were also distant. "[192]

    Duridanov's cognates of the reconstructed Dacian words are found mostly in the Baltic languages, followed by Albanian without considering Thracian. Parallels have enabled linguists, using the techniques of comparative linguistics, to decipher the meanings of several Dacian and Thracian placenames with, they claim, a high degree of probability. Of 74 Dacian placenames attested in primary sources and considered by Duridanov, a total of 62 have Baltic cognates, most of which were rated "certain" by Duridanov.[193] Polomé considers that these parallels are unlikely to be coincidence.[194] Duridanov's explanation is that proto-Dacian and proto-Thracian speakers were in close geographical proximity with proto-Baltic speakers for a prolonged period, perhaps during the period 3000–2000 BC.[153] A number[195] of scholars such as the Russian Topоrov[196] have pointed to the many close parallels between Dacian and Thracian placenames and those of the Baltic language-zone – Lithuania, Latvia and in East Prussia (where an extinct but well-documented Baltic language, Old Prussian, was spoken until it was displaced by German during the Middle Ages).[197]

    After creating a list of names of rivers and personal names with a high number of parallels, the Romanian linguist Mircea M. Radulescu classified the Daco-Moesian and Thracian as Baltic languages of the south and also proposed such classification for Illyrian.[5] The German linguist Schall also attributed a southern Baltic classification to Dacian.[3] The American linguist Harvey Mayer refers to both Dacian and Thracian as Baltic languages. He claims to have sufficient evidence for classifying them as Baltoidic or at least "Baltic-like," if not exactly, Baltic dialects or languages[198][6] and classifies Dacians and Thracians as "Balts by extension".[199] According to him, Albanian, the descendant of Illyrian, escaped any heavy Baltic influence of Daco-Thracian.[199] Mayer claims that he extracted an unambiguous evidence for regarding Dacian and Thracian as more tied to Lithuanian than to Latvian.[6][200] The Czech archaeologist Kristian Turnvvald classified Dacian as Danubian Baltic.[201] The Venezuelan-Lithuanian historian Jurate de Rosales classifies Dacian and Thracian as Baltic languages.[202][203]
     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_language
    , @LatW
    @sudden death


    which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings
     
    Well, it's a curiosity and highly hypothetical, so who knows, but, yea, a bit uncanny. I wonder if the Bulgarian guys who did these reconstruction experiments knew Lithuanian a bit (because if they did and were just modeling it close to Lithuanian, then that wouldn't count, imo, but if there is something original and substantial that they found on their end (through toponyms and personal names) and simply compared it to Lithuanian, then that might be more interesting). A lot of the male names are ending with -is, -us, -os, but that could also be similar to Greek (or even some remnant from the original IE language). There was a guy named Diegis (which sounds like "the fire-y one" or something).

    then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?
     
    They should study way more before making such statements, however, there were the Dniepr Balts, and if that was a possible offshoot then there might be others, even though this is further away (and the Dniepr Balts could have been the ones who may have just stayed in the Urheimat in Ukraine).

    Now Zalmoxis by Mircae Eliade is on my reading list, I've only read the Myth of the Eternal Return and that was way back, so don't recall now if he mentioned this deity in it, probably did since this is a dying and resurrecting deity (kind of like our Midsummer deity).

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @sudden death

  840. @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    Biden’s security advisor is some (((homo))) Sullivan. From what I can see his appointment in this position is no less ridiculous than if Biden promoted Barbara Streisand to the job

    Looks indeed like a terrible pick.

    What is your point? Biden's terrible picks justify Putin's picks?

    I don't like Biden or Putin. Pointing out a poor pick by Biden doesn't somehow make Putin's emergency services director any more competent.

    You and others here project a lot of tribalism. I don't represent the United States government. I didn't vote for Biden and I would like him gone.

    Quite literally it’s very common in every western country for the Minister of Defence to not be somebody who has served in the military, an ordinary citizen you useless retard.

    Well the US defense secretary is a West Point graduate.

    Prigozhin thought Shoigu was incompetent and the main problem. Which means a general on the ground didn't think that Putin's 9-11 director could handle a war. We will see if Prigozhin or a forum poster for Putin is ultimately correct. I hope they keep Shoigu as long as possible given everything that Prigozhin stated before tragically being killed in an accident involving grenades and vodka. Well that was according to Putin whose word you can trust.

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line

    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn't happen. Russia hasn't proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia's liberation....er killing neonazis ....stopping NATO....or whatever you want to call it this month:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2owYbQnAsQ

    Replies: @Beckow, @Mikel, @Gerard1234

    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn’t happen. Russia hasn’t proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.

    Seriously are you this much of a retard?
    My main point is that at tactical and operational level, HIMARS and ATACMs are, and have already proven as completely useless against Russia you idiot. Part of that reasons is because of the numbers we are destroying or missiles intercepting.

    Has it seriously disrupted Russian logistics in any direction? LMAO – of course no.
    Has it won 404 any territory (LMAO at that concept)- of course no.
    Any evidence it has been a factor in stopping or delaying any Russian offensive, any decision to seize a town, a village, a road? No.

    Has it won 404 any counteroffensive? Seriously LMFAO now – of course not.
    Will they in anyway compensate for the severe loss of men already on the Ukronazi side? No – if anything these systems will make the problem worse
    Has it stopped people from joining our military/forced mass resignations – of course not

    Some of our heroes will get hit, hopefully not so much, but overall these weapons have been used for pointless, sadistic, PR purposes (mostly against civilian targets as is typical for these animals)…. the net effect of the last few months and nearly 2 years of using them ……is that it helps us develop our skills at tracking or hunting down all these mobile launch platforms compared to previously when stationary installations they have been trained at and succeeded in destroying. There is less improvements the NATO/Ukroreikh side can do on the technological and tactical side than we can do on the countermeasure side.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia’s liberation….er killing neonazis ….stopping NATO….or whatever you want to call it this month:

    You are a well-known bot for publishing NATO fakes so normally I won’t waste time watching, but here I watched the first 10 seconds….. and it’s clear either the vehicles destroyed are Russian military and the ukronazis have destroyed those surrounding buildings during that series of hits….or it’s vice versa……OR its an entirely artificial scenes in line with constant Ukrop fakes. It certainly can’t be the first 2 options at the same time you lying dumbf**k.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Gerard1234

    Seriously are you this much of a retard?
    My main point is that at tactical and operational level, HIMARS and ATACMs are, and have already proven as completely useless against Russia you idiot.

    Part of that reasons is because of the numbers we are destroying or missiles intercepting.

    Who is we? Are you part of the Russian military? Basement defense force?

    I was responding to this comment of yours:

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line

    Did you have an example of a HIMARs being hit while in transportation or storage?

    the net effect of the last few months and nearly 2 years of using them ……is that it helps us develop our skills at tracking or hunting down all these mobile launch platforms compared to previously when stationary installations they have been trained at and succeeded in destroying.

    So you don't believe that over 600 ATACMs missiles are anything to worry about? Even though they are out of the range of Russian artillery?

    Here is the damage from one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4cQ0t-paYs

    Why is Putin attacking right now? You don't think he is trying to take land before the missiles arrive?

    and it’s clear either the vehicles destroyed are Russian military and the ukronazis have destroyed those surrounding buildings during that series of hits

    Russia is known to completely level a village but you believe it was the Ukrainians?

  841. Sean says:
    @AnonfromTN
    @QCIC

    Covid was 10% disease and 90% psyop. Otherwise it is impossible to explain how by starting SMO in Ukraine in 2022 Putin magically cured the whole world of covid. Covid mRNA “vaccine” was 100% hoax that made some people lots of money.

    It is entirely possible that the real Western rulers will release something a lot more deadly, but it is very likely that their attempt at biological warfare will backfire. They have the means to control the majority of sheeple, but they don’t have the means to control nature.

    Replies: @Sean

    Mainstream news sources, especially social media companies’ original position (backed by major social media bans on mentioning the WLLH) on the Wuhan Laboratory Leak Hypothesis was it had been fact checked and found to be politically motivated disinformation. Despite no further substantive information emerging since, of late the bulk of the media have in effect quietly withdrawn their purportedly settled ‘the Covid pandemic was not caused by a Wuhan lab leak’ verdict of years ago.

    I don’t like Jon Stewart, but he hit the nail on the head broadcasting the plain truth about the Wuhan lab leak theory: denial of the existence of excellent circumstantial evidence for it is like rejecting the idea that a ‘chocolatey goodness outbreak’ in Hershey, Pennsylvania, could have had anything to do with the eponymous confectionary company based there.

  842. @sudden death
    @LatW

    From those reconstructed lists there are relatively not so few words (geras gilus gira klevas ramus sausas skaudus sunka suras tauta daina) which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings.

    Considering it was I-II centuries when battles with Romans took place and IIRC according to linguistic theories Lithuanian and Latvian languages might began to split into separates from the same pool just roughly around VII century, then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?

    Replies: @sudden death, @LatW

    Wrote it all above without any previous/further checking, but now it’s really sure that even among professional linguists the theory of east-southern Baltic language branch is relatively established and known, even if not the single possible among other competing ones:

    There is significant evidence of at least a long-term proximity link, and possibly a genetic link, between Dacian and the modern Baltic languages. The Bulgarian linguist Ivan Duridanov, in his first publication claimed that Thracian and Dacian are genetically linked to the Baltic languages[190][191] and in the next one he made the following classification:”The Thracian language formed a close group with the Baltic (resp. Balto-Slavic), the Dacian and the “Pelasgian” languages. More distant were its relations with the other Indo-European languages, and especially with Greek, the Italic and Celtic languages, which exhibit only isolated phonetic similarities with Thracian; the Tokharian and the Hittite were also distant. “[192]

    Duridanov’s cognates of the reconstructed Dacian words are found mostly in the Baltic languages, followed by Albanian without considering Thracian. Parallels have enabled linguists, using the techniques of comparative linguistics, to decipher the meanings of several Dacian and Thracian placenames with, they claim, a high degree of probability. Of 74 Dacian placenames attested in primary sources and considered by Duridanov, a total of 62 have Baltic cognates, most of which were rated “certain” by Duridanov.[193] Polomé considers that these parallels are unlikely to be coincidence.[194] Duridanov’s explanation is that proto-Dacian and proto-Thracian speakers were in close geographical proximity with proto-Baltic speakers for a prolonged period, perhaps during the period 3000–2000 BC.[153] A number[195] of scholars such as the Russian Topоrov[196] have pointed to the many close parallels between Dacian and Thracian placenames and those of the Baltic language-zone – Lithuania, Latvia and in East Prussia (where an extinct but well-documented Baltic language, Old Prussian, was spoken until it was displaced by German during the Middle Ages).[197]

    After creating a list of names of rivers and personal names with a high number of parallels, the Romanian linguist Mircea M. Radulescu classified the Daco-Moesian and Thracian as Baltic languages of the south and also proposed such classification for Illyrian.[5] The German linguist Schall also attributed a southern Baltic classification to Dacian.[3] The American linguist Harvey Mayer refers to both Dacian and Thracian as Baltic languages. He claims to have sufficient evidence for classifying them as Baltoidic or at least “Baltic-like,” if not exactly, Baltic dialects or languages[198][6] and classifies Dacians and Thracians as “Balts by extension”.[199] According to him, Albanian, the descendant of Illyrian, escaped any heavy Baltic influence of Daco-Thracian.[199] Mayer claims that he extracted an unambiguous evidence for regarding Dacian and Thracian as more tied to Lithuanian than to Latvian.[6][200] The Czech archaeologist Kristian Turnvvald classified Dacian as Danubian Baltic.[201] The Venezuelan-Lithuanian historian Jurate de Rosales classifies Dacian and Thracian as Baltic languages.[202][203]

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

  843. Will Putin remove the make-believe military medals that he slapped on Shoigu?

    Or did he earn those when he was an emergency services director?

    Maybe he rescued a LOT of cats.

  844. @Mr. Hack
    China is more of a modern country, in the sense that a large portion of its GDP is based on the sale of modern and elecronic goods that appeal to a Western audience. Also, I don't remember how many gazillions of Chines funds are already tied up in US bonds, US real estate and even US companies? You don't really think that Russia could ever pick up this slack if things ever soured substantially between the West and China? It's walking a tightrope right now between Russia and the West and will emerge as the big winner in the Russia/Ukraine war, as long as it doesn't invade Taiwan or do any other stupidity.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Previously you was writing that recent statistical reduction of exports into West doesn't matter cause CCP'ied China simply has to circumvent US protectionism by having to export more on paper at first in such countries as Mexico, when the final destination is still the same as earlier;)

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

  845. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @Mr. Hack



    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNI1-qfW8AAhZA-.jpg

    Replies: @sudden death

    Previously you was writing that recent statistical reduction of exports into West doesn’t matter cause CCP’ied China simply has to circumvent US protectionism by having to export more on paper at first in such countries as Mexico, when the final destination is still the same as earlier;)

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @sudden death

    Both can increase as long as one increases faster than the other,their relative proportions change.


    Taiwanese are sceptical after Naz’ied Lithuania suggests changing its representative office name.


    https://archive.md/O59ko/e1637c6e091debcafd747a120996e4dc13c2661f.jpg


    Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda proposed changing the name.

    “The adjustment [of the name] could serve as Lithuania’s signal towards the normalisation of diplomatic relations with China,” Nausėda said.

    Talk is cheap.

    Replies: @sudden death

  846. @sudden death
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Previously you was writing that recent statistical reduction of exports into West doesn't matter cause CCP'ied China simply has to circumvent US protectionism by having to export more on paper at first in such countries as Mexico, when the final destination is still the same as earlier;)

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Both can increase as long as one increases faster than the other,their relative proportions change.

    Taiwanese are sceptical after Naz’ied Lithuania suggests changing its representative office name.

    Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda proposed changing the name.

    “The adjustment [of the name] could serve as Lithuania’s signal towards the normalisation of diplomatic relations with China,” Nausėda said.

    Talk is cheap.

    • Replies: @sudden death
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    heh, somehow got offended by the use of official, one and only greatest ruling party name in China while desperately trying to stick non existent one to Lithuania in response?;)

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

  847. LatW says:
    @sudden death
    @LatW

    From those reconstructed lists there are relatively not so few words (geras gilus gira klevas ramus sausas skaudus sunka suras tauta daina) which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings.

    Considering it was I-II centuries when battles with Romans took place and IIRC according to linguistic theories Lithuanian and Latvian languages might began to split into separates from the same pool just roughly around VII century, then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?

    Replies: @sudden death, @LatW

    which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings

    Well, it’s a curiosity and highly hypothetical, so who knows, but, yea, a bit uncanny. I wonder if the Bulgarian guys who did these reconstruction experiments knew Lithuanian a bit (because if they did and were just modeling it close to Lithuanian, then that wouldn’t count, imo, but if there is something original and substantial that they found on their end (through toponyms and personal names) and simply compared it to Lithuanian, then that might be more interesting). A lot of the male names are ending with -is, -us, -os, but that could also be similar to Greek (or even some remnant from the original IE language). There was a guy named Diegis (which sounds like “the fire-y one” or something).

    then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?

    They should study way more before making such statements, however, there were the Dniepr Balts, and if that was a possible offshoot then there might be others, even though this is further away (and the Dniepr Balts could have been the ones who may have just stayed in the Urheimat in Ukraine).

    Now Zalmoxis by Mircae Eliade is on my reading list, I’ve only read the Myth of the Eternal Return and that was way back, so don’t recall now if he mentioned this deity in it, probably did since this is a dying and resurrecting deity (kind of like our Midsummer deity).

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    The cognates between Baltic and Dacian are indeed very interesting. Of note, the few words recorded by the Roman envoys to the army of Attila are mostly also cognates of Balto-Slavic words. Therefore, a dozen generations after the fall of Dacia to Roman conquest and after experiencing some 7-8 generations of Gothic rule by the local people, some Balto-Slav language was still widely used in that area by the multiethnic army of the Huns as a common language of communication. This might have only been possible if the territory on which the Western Hunnish Empire was founded was massively populated with speakers of some Balto-Slavic language. It is noteworthy that it was prior to the purported Slavic expansion under the Avar Khaganate.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

    , @sudden death
    @LatW

    btw, if speaking of purely phonetic impressions of modern Romance and Baltic language, I'd say there may be less of distance between current Lithuanian and Italian when interpreting along the same melody, than the potential distance from both when doing the same in Polish or Deutsch. Ofc, it's all very subjective, cause judging is done from inside perspective and wasn't able to locate other language versions so far, but Italian seems to be overall softer in pronunciation, while Lithuanian is bit harder/harsher:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2On48v--L2o

    Vs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY0wq9Ix8eA

  848. @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @sudden death

    Both can increase as long as one increases faster than the other,their relative proportions change.


    Taiwanese are sceptical after Naz’ied Lithuania suggests changing its representative office name.


    https://archive.md/O59ko/e1637c6e091debcafd747a120996e4dc13c2661f.jpg


    Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda proposed changing the name.

    “The adjustment [of the name] could serve as Lithuania’s signal towards the normalisation of diplomatic relations with China,” Nausėda said.

    Talk is cheap.

    Replies: @sudden death

    heh, somehow got offended by the use of official, one and only greatest ruling party name in China while desperately trying to stick non existent one to Lithuania in response?;)

    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @sudden death

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8U-81BXgAAYeX8.jpg

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfDpw3g9ohvQnraCi1ypLsLjN2zalbsDLD7g&s.jpg


    As Lithuanian exports to Russia via Central Asia increase, their relative proportion of all Russian imports decreases because the growth of imports from China/others is even greater.

    Hard to understand right?

  849. Bashibuzuk says:
    @LatW
    @sudden death


    which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings
     
    Well, it's a curiosity and highly hypothetical, so who knows, but, yea, a bit uncanny. I wonder if the Bulgarian guys who did these reconstruction experiments knew Lithuanian a bit (because if they did and were just modeling it close to Lithuanian, then that wouldn't count, imo, but if there is something original and substantial that they found on their end (through toponyms and personal names) and simply compared it to Lithuanian, then that might be more interesting). A lot of the male names are ending with -is, -us, -os, but that could also be similar to Greek (or even some remnant from the original IE language). There was a guy named Diegis (which sounds like "the fire-y one" or something).

    then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?
     
    They should study way more before making such statements, however, there were the Dniepr Balts, and if that was a possible offshoot then there might be others, even though this is further away (and the Dniepr Balts could have been the ones who may have just stayed in the Urheimat in Ukraine).

    Now Zalmoxis by Mircae Eliade is on my reading list, I've only read the Myth of the Eternal Return and that was way back, so don't recall now if he mentioned this deity in it, probably did since this is a dying and resurrecting deity (kind of like our Midsummer deity).

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @sudden death

    The cognates between Baltic and Dacian are indeed very interesting. Of note, the few words recorded by the Roman envoys to the army of Attila are mostly also cognates of Balto-Slavic words. Therefore, a dozen generations after the fall of Dacia to Roman conquest and after experiencing some 7-8 generations of Gothic rule by the local people, some Balto-Slav language was still widely used in that area by the multiethnic army of the Huns as a common language of communication. This might have only been possible if the territory on which the Western Hunnish Empire was founded was massively populated with speakers of some Balto-Slavic language. It is noteworthy that it was prior to the purported Slavic expansion under the Avar Khaganate.

    • Replies: @Bashibuzuk
    @Bashibuzuk

    https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/0/001/005/171/012.htm

  850. @sudden death
    @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    heh, somehow got offended by the use of official, one and only greatest ruling party name in China while desperately trying to stick non existent one to Lithuania in response?;)

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    As Lithuanian exports to Russia via Central Asia increase, their relative proportion of all Russian imports decreases because the growth of imports from China/others is even greater.

    Hard to understand right?

  851. @Gerard1234
    @John Johnson


    You are suggesting the ATACMs will be destroyed when they are transported.

    Scott Ritter made similar claims about HIMARs and it didn’t happen. Russia hasn’t proven capable at stopping weapons coming in from Poland.
     
    Seriously are you this much of a retard?
    My main point is that at tactical and operational level, HIMARS and ATACMs are, and have already proven as completely useless against Russia you idiot. Part of that reasons is because of the numbers we are destroying or missiles intercepting.

    Has it seriously disrupted Russian logistics in any direction? LMAO - of course no.
    Has it won 404 any territory (LMAO at that concept)- of course no.
    Any evidence it has been a factor in stopping or delaying any Russian offensive, any decision to seize a town, a village, a road? No.

    Has it won 404 any counteroffensive? Seriously LMFAO now - of course not.
    Will they in anyway compensate for the severe loss of men already on the Ukronazi side? No - if anything these systems will make the problem worse
    Has it stopped people from joining our military/forced mass resignations - of course not

    Some of our heroes will get hit, hopefully not so much, but overall these weapons have been used for pointless, sadistic, PR purposes (mostly against civilian targets as is typical for these animals).... the net effect of the last few months and nearly 2 years of using them ......is that it helps us develop our skills at tracking or hunting down all these mobile launch platforms compared to previously when stationary installations they have been trained at and succeeded in destroying. There is less improvements the NATO/Ukroreikh side can do on the technological and tactical side than we can do on the countermeasure side.

    They are however really good at shelling villages into rubble. New video of Russia’s liberation….er killing neonazis ….stopping NATO….or whatever you want to call it this month:

     

    You are a well-known bot for publishing NATO fakes so normally I won't waste time watching, but here I watched the first 10 seconds..... and it's clear either the vehicles destroyed are Russian military and the ukronazis have destroyed those surrounding buildings during that series of hits....or it's vice versa......OR its an entirely artificial scenes in line with constant Ukrop fakes. It certainly can't be the first 2 options at the same time you lying dumbf**k.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Seriously are you this much of a retard?
    My main point is that at tactical and operational level, HIMARS and ATACMs are, and have already proven as completely useless against Russia you idiot.

    Part of that reasons is because of the numbers we are destroying or missiles intercepting.

    Who is we? Are you part of the Russian military? Basement defense force?

    I was responding to this comment of yours:

    LOL – those numbers will be reduced to a fraction by strikes in storage away from frontline, strikes in transportation and storage at or near the front line

    Did you have an example of a HIMARs being hit while in transportation or storage?

    the net effect of the last few months and nearly 2 years of using them ……is that it helps us develop our skills at tracking or hunting down all these mobile launch platforms compared to previously when stationary installations they have been trained at and succeeded in destroying.

    So you don’t believe that over 600 ATACMs missiles are anything to worry about? Even though they are out of the range of Russian artillery?

    Here is the damage from one:

    Why is Putin attacking right now? You don’t think he is trying to take land before the missiles arrive?

    and it’s clear either the vehicles destroyed are Russian military and the ukronazis have destroyed those surrounding buildings during that series of hits

    Russia is known to completely level a village but you believe it was the Ukrainians?

  852. @Bashibuzuk
    @LatW

    The cognates between Baltic and Dacian are indeed very interesting. Of note, the few words recorded by the Roman envoys to the army of Attila are mostly also cognates of Balto-Slavic words. Therefore, a dozen generations after the fall of Dacia to Roman conquest and after experiencing some 7-8 generations of Gothic rule by the local people, some Balto-Slav language was still widely used in that area by the multiethnic army of the Huns as a common language of communication. This might have only been possible if the territory on which the Western Hunnish Empire was founded was massively populated with speakers of some Balto-Slavic language. It is noteworthy that it was prior to the purported Slavic expansion under the Avar Khaganate.

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk

  853. @Mr. Hack
    @songbird

    You might find some answers to your questions by studying the early initial periods of Romanian history. There probably was the inclusion of other ethnicities besides Romans that were a part 0f the initial colonising efforts in this new land. Romanian history is quite interesting, especially if you can get beyond the fact that it's a Balkan country:


    The Romans called the people of Romania Dacians. In 101-102 AD the Roman Emperor Trajan led a campaign against the Dacians. A further campaign was fought in 105-106 AD and the Romans crushed the Dacians at the battle of Sarmizegetusa. Afterward, Dacia became a Roman province. Settlers from other parts of the Roman Empire were brought in and the local people became ‘Romanized’. They began to speak Latin.

     

    https://localhistories.org/a-brief-history-of-romania/

    Where is Seraphim (our only Russophile Romanian) when you need him? :-)

    Replies: @sudden death, @songbird, @Philip Owen

    My IRL acquaintance Ben Llewelyn, actually a Texan who adopted a Welsh name after moving here has considered the Dacian/Vlach/Romanian transitions. Here is one of his videos on the subject.

    • Thanks: Mr. Hack
    • Replies: @Mr. Hack
    @Philip Owen

    I found them on my own about a week ago and have already watched 2-3 installments. His video about the development of the Romanian language is a good one and should be of interest to others here (Bashibuzuk?). He really got into the subject matter!

    Replies: @Philip Owen

  854. TURTLE POWER? WHAT HAPPENED??

  855. @LatW
    @sudden death


    which are still used in everyday modern Lithuanian language with the same old meanings
     
    Well, it's a curiosity and highly hypothetical, so who knows, but, yea, a bit uncanny. I wonder if the Bulgarian guys who did these reconstruction experiments knew Lithuanian a bit (because if they did and were just modeling it close to Lithuanian, then that wouldn't count, imo, but if there is something original and substantial that they found on their end (through toponyms and personal names) and simply compared it to Lithuanian, then that might be more interesting). A lot of the male names are ending with -is, -us, -os, but that could also be similar to Greek (or even some remnant from the original IE language). There was a guy named Diegis (which sounds like "the fire-y one" or something).

    then Dacian could have been geographically east-southern european offshot of common archaic Baltic language?
     
    They should study way more before making such statements, however, there were the Dniepr Balts, and if that was a possible offshoot then there might be others, even though this is further away (and the Dniepr Balts could have been the ones who may have just stayed in the Urheimat in Ukraine).

    Now Zalmoxis by Mircae Eliade is on my reading list, I've only read the Myth of the Eternal Return and that was way back, so don't recall now if he mentioned this deity in it, probably did since this is a dying and resurrecting deity (kind of like our Midsummer deity).

    Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @sudden death

    btw, if speaking of purely phonetic impressions of modern Romance and Baltic language, I’d say there may be less of distance between current Lithuanian and Italian when interpreting along the same melody, than the potential distance from both when doing the same in Polish or Deutsch. Ofc, it’s all very subjective, cause judging is done from inside perspective and wasn’t able to locate other language versions so far, but Italian seems to be overall softer in pronunciation, while Lithuanian is bit harder/harsher:

    Vs.

  856. @Philip Owen
    @Mr. Hack

    My IRL acquaintance Ben Llewelyn, actually a Texan who adopted a Welsh name after moving here has considered the Dacian/Vlach/Romanian transitions. Here is one of his videos on the subject.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKoGntgHoYo

    Replies: @Mr. Hack

    I found them on my own about a week ago and have already watched 2-3 installments. His video about the development of the Romanian language is a good one and should be of interest to others here (Bashibuzuk?). He really got into the subject matter!

    • Replies: @Philip Owen
    @Mr. Hack

    He seems to do everything very thoroughly, including setting up his studio, not just the subject matter. He rolls his Rs like a first language Welsh speaker. Many first language English speakers in Wales did 50 years ago but it has mostly disappeared. Certainly in the cities on the south coast where most people live now.

  857. @Mr. Hack
    @Philip Owen

    I found them on my own about a week ago and have already watched 2-3 installments. His video about the development of the Romanian language is a good one and should be of interest to others here (Bashibuzuk?). He really got into the subject matter!

    Replies: @Philip Owen

    He seems to do everything very thoroughly, including setting up his studio, not just the subject matter. He rolls his Rs like a first language Welsh speaker. Many first language English speakers in Wales did 50 years ago but it has mostly disappeared. Certainly in the cities on the south coast where most people live now.

  858. @AP
    @Gerard1234


    LOL – you list 2 in 35 years, one of them shouldn’t even classify as an assasination.
     
    UPA killed many hundreds of less-famous Communist officials and NKVD personnel.

    Here is just from one county, in a few months:

    https://i.imgur.com/3jBEWjt.png

    But Soviet General Vatutin and the defense minister of Communist Poland Świerczewski were indeed high-profile targets successfully liquidated.

    So “good” that in 35 years it’s about 2-3 high profile Poles and 1-2 Russians killed by UPA.
     
    UPA wasn't active for 35 years.

    If you meant OUN and UPA, you can add Polish interior minister Pieracki who was assassinated in Warsaw in 1934.

    Now compare to the NKVD
     
    NKVD had the resources of a world power with 170 million people.

    OUN/UPA was a stateless organization with perhaps 50,000 members in any given time.

    What a stupid comparison.

    Dyakiv, Konavalets, Shukhevich, Bandera
     
    OUN's targets were high government officials (or a general) with security details. Bandera and Konovalets were living as civilians in residential areas. Bandera, living as an exile, was killed in his apartment building. Anyone could have done that.

    The White Russian émigré statement is both nonsensical
     
    White emigre organizations were thoroughly and easily penetrated by NKVD, a huge contrast with OUN which took the Soviets years to crack and was not done completely.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_All-Military_Union

    The ROVS, along with other similar Russian émigré organizations, became a prime target for the Soviet secret intelligence service, the OGPU. The OGPU even set up a fictitious anticommunist monarchist organization, the Monarchist Union of Central Russia, which was used to undermine the ROVS′s activities in the Soviet Union. The ROVS′s secret counter-intelligence branch, the "Inner Line" (in Russian "Внутренная Линия") set up by General Alexander Kutepov in the mid-1920s, was also severely compromised, among other things by suspected recruitment by the OGPU of Gen Nikolai Skoblin, a senior operative in the Inner Line.[5]

    Two of the ROVS's successive chairmen, General Alexander Kutepov and General Yevgeny Miller, were kidnapped by Soviet agents, in 1930 and 1937 respectively. Miller was brought to the Soviet Union and was interrogated and executed. General Fyodor Abramov [ru], who succeeded Miller as chairman, had to quit the post shortly afterward and was expelled from Bulgaria, where he had resided, since his son was exposed as a Soviet agent.[6] The OGPU′s successful operations against the ROVS, as well as infighting, intrigues, and antagonisms in the wider Russian émigré community, demoralised and rendered impotent an organisation. When World War II began in 1939, it had also become largely irrelevant because of the geopolitical realignment.[5]

    :::::::::::::::

    Do you think that Solzhenitsyn was lying when he said that OUN members were the backbone of resistance in the gulags?

    Replies: @Gerard1234

    UPA killed many hundreds of less-famous Communist officials and NKVD personnel.

    Here is just from one county, in a few months:

    By “less-famous Communist officials”, you mean euphemism of “literate and educated Ukrainians” – you are talking about UNARMED CIVILIANS – working in the kolhoz, the schools, the postal service, any part of civilian administration. Trying to introduce civilisation to the destroyed by centuries of inbreeding Galicia.

    and NKVD personnel.

    LMAO – Banderites killed……150000
    Banderited captured…200000

    Soviet army and NKVD losses…..8000

    Thats just an hilariously embarrassing discrepancy, which says everything. About the failure ukronazi deathcult. They were competent at NOTHING ( except sodomising each other in the Kriyivka all day – ask Mr Hack or AnonfromTN what that is, leading a horrendous life that you wouldn’t wish on worst enemy, for objective of “”Ukrainian” state that Soviet Union had given them , in a war it was impossible to win and even the sickest fascists in Europe had no similar type of appetite for……….all so that most of these freaks could then just become big servants to the Communist party!!!)

    But Soviet General Vatutin and the defense minister of Communist Poland Świerczewski were indeed high-profile targets successfully liquidated.

    General Vatutin is one of the greatest men in history. An amazing hero. Its sickening that steets, monuments and other things in 404 named after him were renamed by the ukroNazi regime ( often replacing his name with the worst scum in history). Being from Voronezh he was more “Ukrainian” than these Galician freaks anyway . So an absolute greatest man in world history who has just liberated Kiev (which says everything about these satanists)….. is victim of these cockroach, zero talent, opportunistic scum action.

    I would not call it an “assasination” or “successfully liquidated” – just a lowest of the low action. Done during the post-WW2 insurgency would be “legitimate” to classify as “assasination”, but it wasn’t . None of them were. It was considered absolute delinquent tactic by all militaries in “white” world over the centuries deliberately to assassinate their opposing generals or other high-ranking commanders . Just not acceptable.

    For the different killing of the Polish Interior minister in the 1930s – That operation was only possible because he escaped via Czechoslovakian border, i.e with their help. Many of the UPA terrorists escaped via that border in union with Czecholovakian intelligence. Was it more the Slovaks or the Czechs assisting with this? Don’t know as you have land disputes with Poland, Catholicism, Hungarian issue that could favour the other sides alternatively- although it says everything that the Poles were such hated dickheads that Czecholovakia would assist UPA terrorists like this.

    What UPA filth did required zero sophistication, as cowards it was done when heroes like Vatutin fighting against an actual serious opponent with serious intelligence operations. A much greater expectation of dying in an air raid or on or around the battlefield……not this filth. So in no way does that class as “assassination” or “successfully liquidated” you idiot

    Bandera and Konovalets were living as civilians in residential areas. Bandera, living as an exile, was killed in his apartment building. Anyone could have done that.

    They were both active members of the organised ukronazi diaspora, assisting UPA actions. Living under aliases, monitored /protected by western intelligence. Infliltration and killing required skill.

    Most of the active UPA officers were killed thanks to our intelligence activity anyway.
    Now compare lowlifes like Bandera, Konovalets,Shukhevich….. to White Russians as Denikin, Kerensky, Vrangel, Semyonov who managed to live peaceful, often long lives. Not all, but many of the main leaders survived and escaped.

    NKVD had the resources of a world power with 170 million people.

    OUN/UPA was a stateless organization with perhaps 50,000 members in any given time.

    What a stupid comparison.

    Cretin – those “170 million” were massively rebuilding a devastated country you idiot. Has also experienced a mass population loss, post-war famine ( , martial law required in some places (like Odessa), and of course has the largest country on the planet to look after that isn’t Galicia. As I said – 150000 Banderites were killed and 200k imprisoned – the 50000 number is irrelevant, and of course braindead misleading to not include the entire galician population number

  859. African mercenary in 1v1 fight against Ukrainian drone:
    https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-african-mercenary-eliminated-by-ukrainian-bomb-drone/

    Hey remember how MacGregor and Ritter said this war would go on for years and Putin would start using African mercenaries in a battle for towns near the Russian border? But those mercenaries would face constant drone attacks after being led in by turtle shaped tanks?

    All going as planned.

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