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

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

MX-5 Racing from Laguna Seca.

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

PEACE 😇

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Sweden decides over Swedish territory,” he said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was a betrayal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hey Coconuts (from the previous thread):

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

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

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

This is what Roger Scruton said about him:

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

Full name is Kozhevnikov.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It all comes back to this self evident truth:

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

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

How do you know they have that many warheads?

The Samson option is horse shit.

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

Think. I know that is difficult for you.

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

How do you know they have that many warheads?

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

What a surprise.

Think. I know that is difficult for you.

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

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

PEACE 😇

HERE THEY COME

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

Can’t say I am surprised.

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

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

Well that is out.

Time to die for dictator.

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

Are they authentic?

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

How do you know they have that many warheads?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a genuine analysis issue:

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

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

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

PEACE 😇

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Players gotta play, haters gotta hate.

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

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

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

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

Monarchist Reactionary Lives Matter!

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

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

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

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

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

Are they authentic?

They are authentic and that is old news.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All I know is:

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

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

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

You are being dishonest.

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

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

Soviets backed KMT with a secret weapons program against Japan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who reported about this or where was it reported?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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You are being dishonest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They are authentic and that is old news.

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

The real mystery is the MLK tape.

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

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

Sad.

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

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

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

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

Martin Luther King tapes – MLK. Got it.

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

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

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

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

Thanks. I did not have a specific reference.

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

if it goes boom, Vienna will be safe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exactly. Same mentality, same outcome. Well deserved.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assuming I am missing something obvious here?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CORRECT-O-MOON-DOUGH

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

Less Online May 31- June 2 Berkeley CA

https://less.online/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is just lazy, typical American-PR spamboting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shifting gears –

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

WNB even if she paid me 400$ per hour.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They were promised full autonomy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bashibuzuk – 1 Black Dragon Society – 0

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

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

There will be a deal unless we go nuclear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BTW, I thought this was a funny joke:

The Israeli professor Martin Van Creveld.

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

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

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

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

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

…Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as smart?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LMAO. I have scooped LatW on the news page.

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

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

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

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

PEACE 😇

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

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

Does Singapore recognize double nationality?

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

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

You strangely neglect the most critical points:

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

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

PEACE 😇

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

Why would they target neutral countries?

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

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

Just the speculation again;)

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

Dialect Groups Population (2020)

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

Total 3,006,769

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEACE 😇

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

Have you ever heard of this gentleman Bashi?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes.

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

PLO Joe attempts fake tariff scheme: (1)

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

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

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

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

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

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

What a surprise.

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

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

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

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

More accurate than Petraeus, Hodges, Keane et al.

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

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

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

Salt is a pretty effective preservative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where do I say that?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

…Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as smart?

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

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

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

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

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

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

You mean have Russia adopt Swiss-style neutrality?

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

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

You mean have Russia adopt Swiss-style neutrality?

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

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

That is an amusing observation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How come? Any ideas?

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

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

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

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

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

The Putin bootlickers were wrong.

This is not that complicated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Czech Youtuber has some good videos on demographics:

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

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

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

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

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

He’s stealing Trump’s policies!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every piece of land was acquired by blood.

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

You have to pick a consistent standard. If:

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

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

PEACE 😇

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

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

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

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

The future belongs to those who dare to come forward.

He’s stealing Trump’s policies!

No he is not.

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

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

PEACE 😇

What may force change are the natural resource constraints.

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

Will wealthier Muslim countries:

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

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

PEACE 😇