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From the front page of the New York Times news section, an article complaining that racist Poland is treating its Ukrainian neighbor refugees selflessly while failing to surrender to Putin’s minion Belarus’s plot to undermine Western Europe via Muslim African migrants:

Two Refugees, Both on Poland’s Border. But Worlds Apart.

A young man fleeing war in Sudan and a young woman evacuating Ukraine crossed into Poland at the same time. They had very different experiences.

By Jeffrey Gettleman and Monika Pronczuk
March 14, 2022

KUZNICA, Poland — On the day war broke out in Ukraine, Albagir, a 22-year-old refugee from Sudan, was lying on the frozen forest floor at the gateway to Poland, trying to stay alive.

Drones sent by the Polish border patrol were looking for him. So were helicopters. It was night, with subzero temperatures and snow everywhere. Albagir, a pre-med student, and a small band of African refugees were trying to sneak into Poland, down to the last few shriveled dates in their pockets.

“We were losing hope,” he said.

That same night in a small town near Odessa, Katya Maslova, 21, grabbed a suitcase and her tablet, which she uses for her animation work, and jumped with her family into a burgundy Toyota Rav 4. They rushed off in a four-car convoy with eight adults and five children, part of the frantic exodus of people trying to escape war-torn Ukraine.

“At that point, we didn’t know where we were going,” she said.

Over the next two weeks, what would happen to these two refugees crossing into the same country at the same time, both about the same age, could not stand in starker contrast. Albagir was punched in the face, called racial slurs and left in the hands of a border guard who, Albagir said, brutally beat him and seemed to enjoy doing it. Katya wakes up every day to a stocked fridge and fresh bread on the table, thanks to a man she calls a saint.

Their disparate experiences underscore the inequalities of Europe’s refugee crisis. They are victims of two very different geopolitical events, but are pursuing the same mission — escape from the ravages of war.

First, there isn’t a war in Albagir’s Sudan, there was a military coup and protests, but that’s pretty much normal for much of the world. Should run of the mill domestic unrest give billions of people carte blanche to move in to countries on other continents?

As Ukraine presents Europe with its greatest surge of refugees in decades, many conflicts continue to burn in the Middle East and Africa. Depending on which war a person is fleeing, the welcome will be very different.

Also, depending upon how many borders they crossed. Fleeing Ukraine for Poland is rather different from fleeing Sudan for Poland (and then presumably on to some EU member with higher welfare). It’s like if there’s a horrible hurricane in the Bahamas: we’re their nearest neighbor. But there are a whole lot of countries closer to Sudan than Poland.

… And all European Union countries, many of which can trace blood ties to Ukrainians, now allow them to stay for up to three years.

Watching all this on a TV in a safe house in the Polish countryside, where it’s too dangerous for him to even step outside, Albagir, who asked that his last name not be used because he crossed the border illegally, said he was almost in a state of shock.

“Why don’t we see this caring and this love? Why?” he asked. “Are Ukrainians better than us? I don’t know. Why?”

What Albagir experienced has been repeated countless times, from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel, as European governments have made it difficult for migrants from Africa and the Middle East to enter their countries — sometimes using excessive force to keep them out.

His journey was complicated by the fact that he chose to enter Poland from Belarus, a Russian ally that Western countries said manufactured a huge refugee crisis last year. After Belarus invited in tens of thousands of desperate people from conflict-ridden countries like Sudan, Iraq and Syria and directed them to Poland’s frontier as a way to cause havoc in Europe, Poland responded by harshly cracking down at that border.

Ukrainians are victims of a conflict on European soil that creeps closer by the day. The result is a response from Europeans that is largely loaded with compassion. That leaves refugees from more distant wars feeling the sting of inequality and, some say, racism.

“This is the first time we are seeing such contrast between the treatment of different groups of refugees,” said Camille Le Coz, a migration analyst in Brussels, who added that Europeans see Ukrainians as being “like us.”

… As a boy, Albagir said he watched his homeland of Darfur ripped apart by war and saw “everything you can imagine.” Then he fled to Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, to study medicine. But Khartoum soon exploded into chaos too.

So last November he said he traveled to Moscow on a student visa to take courses at a private university,

Albagir sounds like he’s at about the 95th percentile of wealth for Sudanese.

but after Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering severe sanctions, Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized. So he fled again.

His plan was to travel from Russia to Belarus to Poland to Germany, but he said he hadn’t known that Poland had just reinforced its border to repel the migrants coming from Belarus. …

A few nights later, while Ms. Maslova and her family were admiring a stack of toys that their hosts brought for the children, Albagir and three men he was traveling with were arrested. They had made it across the Polish border undetected, but the driver they hired to get them to Germany

See what I predicted about heading for a higher welfare destination than mere Poland?

forgot to turn on his headlights and was stopped. Albagir said Polish police officers stole their SIM cards and power banks; disabled their phones (so they couldn’t call for help); and drove them back to the place they dreaded: the forest. …

A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.

“He punched us, he kicked us, he threw us down, he hit us with sticks,” Albagir said.

He said there was one light-skinned Kurd detained in the garage with them whom the soldier didn’t touch. …

Albagir plans to apply for asylum in Germany, which has a reputation of being generous to all refugees, and finish his studies. He speaks Arabic, English and some Russian and wears gold rimmed specs and has a neat beard. He dreams of becoming a doctor and writing a book about what he just experienced. He said he still can’t believe educated people from relatively prosperous countries would treat people in need this way.

I suspect he’s really thinking that he can’t believe that he, an educated person from Sudan’s elite, got treated badly by some junior high school dropout Belarusian border guard.

When asked if he believed racism was a factor in how they were treated, Albagir did not hesitate.

“Yeah, so much,” he said. “Only racism.”

And from the Daily Mail:

Ukrainian 18-year-old refugee ‘is gang-raped by two men’ on board German hotel ship used to house people fleeing war

Woman, 18, allegedly raped while living in Ukrainian refugee housing in Germany

She was allegedly attacked by two Ukraine citizens, 37 and 26, from Iraq, Nigeria

By LAUREN LEWIS FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 07:22 EDT, 15 March 2022

 
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  1. At least they’re taking some. (Though I swear if they start complaining and asking other countries to help… Who am I kidding, they’re already complaining and offloading them.) And it’s the least they can do given their commitment to policies that will produce even more.

    Guess who definitely isn’t?

    Israel’s Rejection of Ukrainian Refugees Shows It’s The Darkness Unto Nations
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-s-rejection-of-ukrainian-refugees-shows-it-s-the-darkness-unto-the-nations-1.10653757

    I’d have thought it was their rejection of the right of return for all those people living in refugee camps in Jordan that made it ‘The Darkness Unto Nations’ but then I don’t write editorials in Haaretz.

    We keep seeing all these rhetoric flying around and social media convulsions that sound like they should be bad news for Israel but they never translate to it. I still think Bari Weiss was foolish to quit her job to signal to others in the media that this will be bad for Israel but when you look at the precedents set here after the invasion, it makes it look hard to imagine Israel getting away with things in future. And yet it seemed like in 2006 too. Israel is immune to social media hysteria because social media hysteria isn’t the only component at play here (Otherwise we’d all be forced to learn the names of BTS) it’s the media working with social media to create the trending firestorm.

    • Agree: Charon
    • Replies: @Triteleia Laxa
    @Altai

    Israel is immune to progressive hysteria because non-progressive political forces have won every election for 2 decades and have been born by the people into systematic power. They did not win one Presidential election and then go "why is everything I have ever wanted not done now?" before half threw a tantrum and the other half descended into insane conspiracy nonsense. But instead won every election with discipline and had the consistency of effort to change the direction of the country and maintain that change.

    There's no one simple trick, nor substitute.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Altai

    "Israel is immune to social media hysteria because social media hysteria isn’t the only component at play here ... it’s the media working with social media to create the trending firestorm."

    Nobody is boycotting Saudi Arabia because it's bombing the crap out of Yemen using US and British weaponry.

    https://www.unicef.org.uk/press-releases/shameful-milestone-in-yemen-as-10000-children-killed-or-maimed-since-fighting-began-geneva-palais-briefing-note-on-the-situation-of-children-in-yemen/

    Even al Jazeera has as its headline "2 people killed in Kyiv". Further down the page, "Teenage boy Nader Rayan and two men killed in raids in the occupied West Bank and Israel."

    Even in a social media age, holding the megaphone really helps.

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Pixo
    @Altai

    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    Replies: @Rosie, @Colin Wright, @Wilkey, @The Germ Theory of Disease

  2. Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Egypt.

    UPSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: Pretty close to Sudan, pretty easy trip, pretty similar ethnic/cultural/religious matrix, easy to blend in.

    DOWNSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: No welfare, no white women.

    DESTINATION POLAND!!!

    • Replies: @tyrone
    @The Germ Theory of Disease


    DOWNSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: No welfare, no white women.
     
    ......BINGO!!!....NAILED IT!
    , @Anonymous
    @The Germ Theory of Disease

    Where’s the Azov Battalion when you need them (at least the few who aren’t under rubble)?


    https://jungefreiheit.de/kultur/gesellschaft/2022/ukrainerin-vergewaltigt/

    Migranten sollen Ukrainerin in Unterkunft vergewaltigt haben
     
    [From Google Translate]:

    Migrants are said to have raped a Ukrainian woman in accommodation society
    March 15, 2022

    JF-Online

    DUSSELDORF. The police arrested two migrants who are said to have raped a woman in Düsseldorf in early March who fled to Germany from Ukraine. The officials are currently clarifying the nationality of the two men, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday for JUNGE FREIHEIT.

    According to the Bild newspaper, the suspects are a 37-year-old Tunisian and a 26-year-old Nigerian. They also had a Ukrainian passport with them. According to information from the newspaper, officials in the border area have recently encountered migrants who did not come directly from Ukraine, but for example from Africa.

    The police spokeswoman did not want to comment on the residence status and possible criminal records of the two suspects. The men and the 18-year-old Ukrainian are said to have been on the Düsseldorf hotel ship "Oscar Wilde" at the time of the crime, on which 25 Ukrainian refugees were accommodated in addition to normal guests. There they attacked the woman one after the other. The Ukrainian is said to have traveled to Poland in the meantime because she does not feel safe in Germany.

    Federal Police Union: Only harsh penalties and deportations will help

    The head of the federal police union, Heiko Teggatz, appealed to politicians to do everything possible to prevent such cases in the future. "Hard and quick punishment followed by deportation is the only language that such perpetrators understand," he told the Bild newspaper.

    “Smuggling, human trafficking and the promotion of prostitution are part of a crime geography. If these areas of crime are not resolutely counteracted when entering Europe and Germany, criminal gangs will shamelessly exploit the plight of the people from Ukraine.” Young women are the focus of these criminals.

    Union faction leader Andrea Lindholz (CSU) calls on the police authorities to ensure the protection of Ukrainian women with controls in refugee accommodation in the future. The Düsseldorf case obliges us to act immediately.

    Percentage of foreign sex offenders is increasing

    It is not the first time that refugees have been identified as sex offenders. In February, the police in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania arrested an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who is said to have raped an eleven-year-old girl. In August, an immigrant from Guinea allegedly molested a young woman in Cologne.

    The proportion of suspected foreigners in sexual offenses has risen significantly in recent years. It grew from 35 percent to 42.44 percent for rapes between 2000 and 2020, according to a response from the federal government to a small query from the AfD parliamentary group. (quote)
     
    Ukrainian Nazis fight for Victoria Nuland and Jewish nightclub comedians and GAE as their women are raped and sodomized by North Africans and Africans. Lol.
    , @anonymouseperson
    @The Germ Theory of Disease

    You CAMP OF THE SAINTS the good countries, not the bad ones.

  3. Where does New York Times stand on Australia vs Pakistan after 28 years, 2nd test at Karachi?

    You know what I believe in?

    I think people want to see their own kids live long and thrive. Go on and get married, have good jobs which pay well and reproduce.

    But what would I know?

  4. Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start, though I could be wrong.

    In the UK, 89,000 people have “expressed an interest” in housing Ukrainian refugees. Be interesting to see how many end up here. I remember 20,000 Icelanders said they’d take “Syrians” – the final total was a few hundred.

    Is the War On Putin the trigger/excuse for the Great Reset?

    Boris, today – “I don’t doubt that there will be tough times ahead. The process of weaning the world off Russian oil and gas, and hydrocarbons in general, will be difficult.”

    Also Boris, yesterday – “Boris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over the regime’s biggest ever mass execution

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Is the War On Putin the trigger/excuse for the Great Reset?

    Boris, today – “I don’t doubt that there will be tough times ahead. The process of weaning the world off Russian oil and gas, and hydrocarbons in general, will be difficult.”

    Also Boris, yesterday – “Boris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over the regime’s biggest ever mass execution”
     

    I don't think that there is any contradiction there. The long term goal in the West is to phase out imported hydrocarbon fuels. This war is just one more data point that shows that they drive not only climate change but also fund odious regimes. Take away oil money and Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. are much smaller problems. Take away oil money and there's no 9/11, no Iraq War (I and II). Even if global warming is a complete myth there would still be good reasons for not wanting your country to be dependent on imported energy produced by often dubious regimes.

    However, short term this is just not possible. You can't go carbon neutral overnight or even in a decade. So in the short to medium run, the West will have to decide which of these regimes is the least odious, the lesser evil. Russia, by starting this war, has put itself on the bottom of the stack - the country you would least want to buy oil from. This is not an "excuse".

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    , @Almost Missouri
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start,
     
    Yep. As is now standard, the NYT article contains normal-sounding nonsense terms:

    Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized.
     
    What does that mean? Supposedly Albagir wants to learn to heal with medicine. Will healing with medicine somehow "ostracize" his university?

    No, obviously. Wealthy Western welfare states were always his destination. "Studying medicine" was just a vehicle to get there. What he feared is that his vehicle might be ostracized by his intended destination. So he abandoned his vehicle.

    Turned out that was more painful than expected. But he doesn't seem to have any regrets. After all, he has probably crossed at least half a dozen borders and now is only one border away from his goal, in a "safe house", the NYT reporter is talking to him, and he already knows to blame his every misfortune on "racism". So close he can taste it!

    Replies: @anonymouseperson, @DrWatson

    , @Cato
    @YetAnotherAnon


    I remember 20,000 Icelanders said they’d take “Syrians” – the final total was a few hundred.
     
    Iceland is not for everyone -- if you have seen the small northern villages, maybe in Canada, with houses scattered about, no trees, no lawn, you would understand why a Syrian might prefer to settle elsewhere, such as in Turkey.
  5. @Altai
    At least they're taking some. (Though I swear if they start complaining and asking other countries to help... Who am I kidding, they're already complaining and offloading them.) And it's the least they can do given their commitment to policies that will produce even more.

    Guess who definitely isn't?

    Israel's Rejection of Ukrainian Refugees Shows It's The Darkness Unto Nations
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-s-rejection-of-ukrainian-refugees-shows-it-s-the-darkness-unto-the-nations-1.10653757

    I'd have thought it was their rejection of the right of return for all those people living in refugee camps in Jordan that made it 'The Darkness Unto Nations' but then I don't write editorials in Haaretz.

    We keep seeing all these rhetoric flying around and social media convulsions that sound like they should be bad news for Israel but they never translate to it. I still think Bari Weiss was foolish to quit her job to signal to others in the media that this will be bad for Israel but when you look at the precedents set here after the invasion, it makes it look hard to imagine Israel getting away with things in future. And yet it seemed like in 2006 too. Israel is immune to social media hysteria because social media hysteria isn't the only component at play here (Otherwise we'd all be forced to learn the names of BTS) it's the media working with social media to create the trending firestorm.

    Replies: @Triteleia Laxa, @YetAnotherAnon, @Pixo

    Israel is immune to progressive hysteria because non-progressive political forces have won every election for 2 decades and have been born by the people into systematic power. They did not win one Presidential election and then go “why is everything I have ever wanted not done now?” before half threw a tantrum and the other half descended into insane conspiracy nonsense. But instead won every election with discipline and had the consistency of effort to change the direction of the country and maintain that change.

    There’s no one simple trick, nor substitute.

    • Agree: Pixo
    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Triteleia Laxa

    Israeli conservatives actually govern. When they get power, they wield it. American conservatives don't want to govern. Effective governance means, inevitably, migrants die at the border or some feral human gets shot by cops. Then somebody screams, "All men are created equal!" and the egalitarian purity spiral goes off. Israeli conservatives--Israelis, for that matter--have no such delusions about equality, so when alien peoples show up at the border and ask to be let in, Israeli conservatives tell them no.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Gordo, @Rosie

  6. He said there was one light-skinned Kurd detained in the garage with them whom the soldier didn’t touch

    Kurdish privilege, smh

    • LOL: Bardon Kaldian
    • Replies: @Charon
    @AndrewR

    Also, much of his story sounds made up, especially that part. Of course, it's also S.O.P. at the NYT to feed the story to the subject. ("Asked if it might have been racism!")

  7. @Altai
    At least they're taking some. (Though I swear if they start complaining and asking other countries to help... Who am I kidding, they're already complaining and offloading them.) And it's the least they can do given their commitment to policies that will produce even more.

    Guess who definitely isn't?

    Israel's Rejection of Ukrainian Refugees Shows It's The Darkness Unto Nations
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-s-rejection-of-ukrainian-refugees-shows-it-s-the-darkness-unto-the-nations-1.10653757

    I'd have thought it was their rejection of the right of return for all those people living in refugee camps in Jordan that made it 'The Darkness Unto Nations' but then I don't write editorials in Haaretz.

    We keep seeing all these rhetoric flying around and social media convulsions that sound like they should be bad news for Israel but they never translate to it. I still think Bari Weiss was foolish to quit her job to signal to others in the media that this will be bad for Israel but when you look at the precedents set here after the invasion, it makes it look hard to imagine Israel getting away with things in future. And yet it seemed like in 2006 too. Israel is immune to social media hysteria because social media hysteria isn't the only component at play here (Otherwise we'd all be forced to learn the names of BTS) it's the media working with social media to create the trending firestorm.

    Replies: @Triteleia Laxa, @YetAnotherAnon, @Pixo

    “Israel is immune to social media hysteria because social media hysteria isn’t the only component at play here … it’s the media working with social media to create the trending firestorm.”

    Nobody is boycotting Saudi Arabia because it’s bombing the crap out of Yemen using US and British weaponry.

    https://www.unicef.org.uk/press-releases/shameful-milestone-in-yemen-as-10000-children-killed-or-maimed-since-fighting-began-geneva-palais-briefing-note-on-the-situation-of-children-in-yemen/

    Even al Jazeera has as its headline “2 people killed in Kyiv“. Further down the page, “Teenage boy Nader Rayan and two men killed in raids in the occupied West Bank and Israel.”

    Even in a social media age, holding the megaphone really helps.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Yes, because bombarding civilian areas with artillery and shooting at terrorists who are shooting at you are the same thing.

    I won't speak for the Saudis, but the Israelis take elaborate measures to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible, given that Hamas intentionally imbeds its weapons in civilian areas.

    Replies: @JMcG

  8. A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.

    This is what passes for journalistic language these days?

    Besides, I wonder why. Things appear to be hunky-dory between Belarus and Sudan.

    Sudan, Belarus sign friendship and cooperation agreement

    https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-belarus-sign-friendship-and-cooperation-agreement

    • Replies: @Pat Hannagan
    @PiltdownMan

    America can whatever America wants

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as

    At some point you'll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they're not principled.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan, @Reg Cæsar, @Alt Right Moderate

    , @International Jew
    @PiltdownMan

    I sure hope he didn't use the H-word!

    , @Ummm
    @PiltdownMan

    Could it be, perhaps, that this isn't a race issue, but a class issue?

    If you're standing at the polish border, and you're ukrainian - easy to identify. You are probably poor and need help.

    If you're not-white, and especially if you speak a language other than your native, probably you're rich.

    The hypothetical soldier may well be beating on you for being an obvious rich asshole trying to take advantage of a shit situation.

  9. It’s really sad when Rapefugees start preying on Refugees. Yay Ukraine!

    18 year old Ukrainian girl raped on a hotel ship by an Iraqi and a Nigerian migrant who were being housed on it next to paying customers in Germany.

    https://www.bild.de/regional/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-aktuell/duesseldorf-ukrainerin-18-von-zwei-weiteren-fluechtlingen-vergewaltigt-79453682.bild.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    h/t Anonymous Conservative

  10. @PiltdownMan

    A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.
     
    This is what passes for journalistic language these days?

    Besides, I wonder why. Things appear to be hunky-dory between Belarus and Sudan.

    Sudan, Belarus sign friendship and cooperation agreement

    https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-belarus-sign-friendship-and-cooperation-agreement

    https://i.imgur.com/oBIuKQ7.jpg
     

    Replies: @Pat Hannagan, @International Jew, @Ummm

    America can whatever America wants

    At some point you’ll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they’re not principled.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

    • LOL: PiltdownMan
    • Replies: @Veteran Aryan
    @Pat Hannagan

    Allow me to assist.
    https://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo

    Replies: @Pat Hannagan

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Pat Hannagan


    America can whatever America wants
     
    Oh? Where's our border wall? When are our boys due home?

    At some point you’ll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they’re not principled.
     
    I always wondered why we went overseas to fight Hitler, when he was indistinguishable from any other European leader. We really don't understand that continent peninsula at all.

    So Charles Lindbergh wasn't a true American. No more than Stockholm-born Charles Sr, who refused to fight the Kaiser.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

     

    As opposed to the noble aims of the Spanish, French, and British Empires. We have succumbed to Dengism:


    https://media.newyorker.com/photos/590958832179605b11ad4524/master/pass/Rich-thumb-465x279-22561.jpg

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Alt Right Moderate
    @Pat Hannagan

    If anything, Americans have too many principles. For example, they are willing to waste a lot of money and lives on the pie in the sky project of liberal hegemony, or throw away lots of money on green technology companies that go nowhere. A little more self-interested realism would be a refreshing change.

    They do have principles, they are just very stupid principles that only the already rich can afford to abide by.

    Replies: @William Badwhite

  11. Too bad for him he didn’t get some of that sweet Soros money and cross the southern border of the US. He could be living Tiny Duck’s dream life getting railed by every member of the pride parade while having children with every blonde woman in the city.

    • LOL: AndrewR
  12. I’ve been waiting for it to happen, and now, it has. In The Dorf, one city downstream from me, an actual Ukrainian woman who is an actual refugee was raped by two “Ukrainian” “refugees,” one Iraqi, one Nigerian, both carrying (probably fake) Ukrainian passports.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @countenance

    Your report makes this commenter very sad, but not surprised, just as I don't think you are surprised by it. Do you see the insanity of it all? Do you see how "Byzantine" the world is?

    On your own blog, under the headline "Party Line," you correctly write the following:


    (1) That part of the world has been, currently is, and will continue to be way too complex for bumper sticker and hashtag sloganeering and philosophizing and for moral absolutism. If you’re doing this, then, please, stop, please.

    (2) The world is rediscovering why “Byzantine” is both an adjective and a proper noun.
     

    Exactly! But then you go on and oversimplify the very situation you just correctly labeled complex:

    (3) What is simple is that Putin is entirely the aggressor starting on and since February 24. He took what was already a bad situation and unilaterally made it worse. And he did it purely for the purposes of forced territorial aggrandizement...
     
    No, he is not, and not, he did not. If you simply look at what led up to this, you will understand.

    When I was in Romania in 2014, I met a couple of very Western, Ukranian guys at the border, while I was waiting for my US passport to be processed. (Mine always takes longer, and that is the US Empire doing that, not the other countries or their guards.) I asked them about what was going on in their country. They replied, "It's complicated." We all chuckled. That is my line for the whole Ukranian issue: "It's complicated." (And Americans and their government have no business there.)

  13. All of the prestige newspapers have articles lately lamenting, sometimes more obliquely, sometimes directly, the fact that the situation in Ukraine has pushed All Things Black from the tippy-top headlines.

    It seems to be a battle within the newsrooms. On one side there’s the “My War” foreign correspondents, whose time has finally come after many years of boring Obama drone strikes and Trump not getting involved in hostilities anywhere.

    On the other, there’s the All Things Black writers and editors, who thought their time had not only come, but was permanent. In their defense, they are doing what they were hired to do. Finding “racial” angles in seemingly straightforward things like Ukraine war coverage is, in fact, their job.

    • Agree: Buffalo Joe, Abe
    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Giant Duck

    On the one hand, there's endless new video of white people shooting high tech weapons at each other.

    On the other, there is a new academic study of redlining.

    , @The Alarmist
    @Giant Duck

    The missed opportunity was that Albigir didn’t find himself shot in Kiev by the Russians. Can you imagine the worldwide BLM peaceful protests we would have gotten out of that?

    At the moment, only Ukraine is burning. Schadenfreude wanes.

  14. … As a boy, Albagir said he watched his homeland of Darfur ripped apart by war and saw “everything you can imagine.” Then he fled to Khatoum, Sudan´s capital, to study medicine. But Khartoum soon exploded into chaos too.

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @nokangaroos

    Why, it sounds like he is the Typhoid Mary of chaos.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    , @Zero Philosopher
    @nokangaroos

    I love the Asterix cartoons as well, but I guess your reference will be completely lost with the mostly American readership of this blog. 🤣

    Replies: @nokangaroos

  15. Historically colonizers were able to move onto someone else’s territory because they had superiority in organization and technology, whereas the opposite is true today – instead we have highly developed societies that accept millions of people from substantially less developed cultures in as though this won’t have any downside at all. Poland might not ever reach the economic level of neighbors like Germany, but at least they have the guts to keep their culture intact.

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
    • Thanks: Old Prude
    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @Arclight


    Historically colonizers were able to move onto someone else’s territory because they had superiority in organization and technology, whereas the opposite is true today
     
    Truer words ...

    There has never been a mismatch like this between the invaders and the people they are invading. Never.

    One day's sortie by the Italian Navy--a fraction of the Italian Navy!--would end the "Mediterranean Crisis" in an instant.

    The problem is the West now has parasitic elites who've internalized minoritarianism as an ideology and as a tool for ever greater power to abuse and boss around their subjects.
    , @Mike Tre
    @Arclight

    Germany’s acceptance of primitive invaders is something along the lines of a forced confession. The native Germans have been told how evil they are for 100 years.

    , @Alden
    @Arclight

    A thousand years ago Poland not only owned Ukraine but was the most powerful nation in Central Europe. Germany didn’t exist. Most of what much later became Germany was provinces of the Holy Roman Empire.

    Things may change again. Especially of Germany follows the US UK in appointing and electing incompetent blacks and browns to important positions and government and military jobs. Germany is about 2 generations behind the US UK in negrodolatory and turning the biggest cities over to the black and brown trash.

  16. Just spent a long weekend in Warsaw.
    My cheapish hotel 8km from Warsaw was full of healthy Ukrainians and most of the cars in the car park were Ukrainian. Clearly many of the “Ukrainian refugees” are simply the ones who can afford to leave, by car, and able to pay hotel bills. I imagine this is typical of all Warsaw hotels (of all prices).
    No surprise there – some 7m Ukrainians have left over the previous 8 years, many of them workers leaving their families behind. The surprise is that only 2-2.5m have left now. True Russia has only entered the Eastern half of the country and if you stay away from military centres you are safe in W Ukraine – anywhere west of Kiev. And we don’t know how many have left for Russia, though there is talk that Ukrainian officials are blocking this and refusing to discuss any evacuation routes out of Kharkov or Kiev that lead to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out and join their friends and family who already work abroad. That would make them like all the Africans that grabbed the moment when Merkel invited Syrians in to Europe.

    There certainly are poorer refugees. In 1991-95, when I was first in Poland, the Warsaw Central station stank because it was the sleeping place of several hundred homeless who filled the large ticket hall at night, found sleeping spaces in the train tunnels and used the soup kitchen in the open plot of land next door. The train station is again where a few thousand (i guess) are staying now. Recently night temperatures have been typically -5 C (23F and a few degrees warmer now).
    There is a lot of help for the refugees, and I drove a friend to deliver her package of diapers etc there on Sunday. Contrary to reports she tells me there were many men, not just women and children, so I guess the men had to cross the Polish border secretly as men of military age are being refused exit from Ukraine at the official crossing points.

    Weirdest fact of all – the UAH, Ukrainian Hryvnia has actually gone up in value against all currencies since the war started.
    Perhaps all those “former” special forces out there are being paid in UAH.

    • Thanks: JMcG, Almost Missouri, JohnnyWalker123
    • Troll: Yevardian
    • Replies: @Canute
    @michael droy

    Most interesting observations. Thank you for posting.

    , @Jack D
    @michael droy

    Russian rockets don't distinguish between rich and poor so the refugees are of all economic classes. Just because you can afford to flee by car and stay in a hotel doesn't mean that you aren't a refugee.

    you are safe in W Ukraine – anywhere west of Kiev.

    Russians hit a base 10 miles from the Polish border yesterday.

    And we don’t know how many have left for Russia

    Estimates are around 2.7M to the West and 100k to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out

    Sure, the Russian artillery has nothing to do with it.

    Hryvnia has actually gone up in value .

    And the ruble has crashed. Maybe the markets are making forecasts as to who will be the winner of this war.

    Replies: @The Alarmist, @Fluesterwitz

    , @utu
    @michael droy

    Clearly you are spinning your 'experience' one way only to evoke negative feelings about Ukrainian refugees in Poland and to undermine the official narrative. You are not a credible witness if you are a witness at all. Your previous pro Putin comments are revealing.

  17. @countenance
    I've been waiting for it to happen, and now, it has. In The Dorf, one city downstream from me, an actual Ukrainian woman who is an actual refugee was raped by two "Ukrainian" "refugees," one Iraqi, one Nigerian, both carrying (probably fake) Ukrainian passports.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    Your report makes this commenter very sad, but not surprised, just as I don’t think you are surprised by it. Do you see the insanity of it all? Do you see how “Byzantine” the world is?

    On your own blog, under the headline “Party Line,” you correctly write the following:

    (1) That part of the world has been, currently is, and will continue to be way too complex for bumper sticker and hashtag sloganeering and philosophizing and for moral absolutism. If you’re doing this, then, please, stop, please.

    (2) The world is rediscovering why “Byzantine” is both an adjective and a proper noun.

    Exactly! But then you go on and oversimplify the very situation you just correctly labeled complex:

    (3) What is simple is that Putin is entirely the aggressor starting on and since February 24. He took what was already a bad situation and unilaterally made it worse. And he did it purely for the purposes of forced territorial aggrandizement…

    No, he is not, and not, he did not. If you simply look at what led up to this, you will understand.

    When I was in Romania in 2014, I met a couple of very Western, Ukranian guys at the border, while I was waiting for my US passport to be processed. (Mine always takes longer, and that is the US Empire doing that, not the other countries or their guards.) I asked them about what was going on in their country. They replied, “It’s complicated.” We all chuckled. That is my line for the whole Ukranian issue: “It’s complicated.” (And Americans and their government have no business there.)

    • Thanks: Mike Tre, YetAnotherAnon
  18. So last November he said he traveled to Moscow on a student visa to take courses at a private university,

    Albagir sounds like he’s at about the 95th percentile of wealth for Sudanese.

    but after Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering severe sanctions, Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized. So he fled again.

    You might imagine that he would flee home to Sudan. But even those at the 95th percentile of wealth in Sudan dream of life in a non-s**t-hole country.

    I suspect he’s really thinking that he can’t believe that he, an educated person from Sudan’s elite, got treated badly by some junior high school dropout Belarusian border guard.

    And when he reaches Germany he will find that he is no longer a member of the elite, and will boil with rage at the perceived injustice for the rest of his life. Like Ilhan Omar, he will rationalize his reduced status as the result of white racism.

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
    • Thanks: Buffalo Joe
    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @James N. Kennett


    You might imagine that he would flee home to Sudan. But even those at the 95th percentile of wealth in Sudan dream of life in a non-s**t-hole country.
     
    The non-Ukrainians fleeing Ukraine should be loaded on buses and train cars headed straight for the airport, and immediately flown back to whatever country they happen to be from. “Sorry, we have millions of real refugees to cope with. We don’t have room for fake refugees from Sudan.”

    The media has made a game of attacking any right-wing politician or pundit who ever evinced even the slightest sympathy for any of Putin’s policies. But of course they aren’t attacking the left-wing types who have supported Putin’s refugee invasion from Belarus.
    , @Ghost of Bull Moose
    @James N. Kennett


    Like Ilhan Omar, he will rationalize his reduced status as the result of white racism.
     
    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Dar al-harb, has 'reduced status?'
  19. After Belarus invited in tens of thousands of desperate people from conflict-ridden countries like Sudan, Iraq, and Syria and directed them to Poland’s frontier as a way to cause havoc in Europe, Poland responded by harshly cracking down at that border.

    I have a feeling that this will be a major strategy in the future if it succeeds for Russia and Belarus. To avoid future leaders in other countries from drawing in refugees to squirt at rivals Belarus needs to have this strategy backfire by filling Belarus with unassimilable aliens instead of Germany.

    [MORE]

    “This is the first time we are seeing such contrast between the treatment of different groups of refugees,”

    Really, the first time? My understanding was that Israel had different policies in place for different groups of refugees. Am I mistaken? We’ve had different policies for “political” Cuban refugees and “humanitarian” or “economic” migrants from Haiti. If not now, then certainly within my lifetime. Not to mention, Albogore is not a refugee! He was in Russia on a student visa. Russia was placed under sanctions. He got frightened that he’d be drafted or his school would close, or maybe because his family wanted a toehold in Germany instead of Russia.

    Also, pre-med is pretty far from becoming a doctor. Even in the US at good schools, there is a lot of weeding out of “pre-med” students. Has he had organic chemistry? How’d he do? Is he looking to take it again?

    So last November he said he traveled to Moscow on a student visa to take courses at a private university,

    Albogir (too lazy to scroll up and check his name) may be a victim of the taboo on human biodiversity. “Private university” sounds like a polite way of saying “for-profit university.” If American for-profits get by on exploiting less intelligent (or just lower/working class) people’s economic or social-climbing desires, I can be pretty sure Russian for-profits are just as unethical. Perhaps more so, if the Russian government does not funnel guaranteed student loans at them. If we were more honest, if we would just tell the truth, not even on a racial level, but on the level of, “you are not tall enough for this ride,” and only brought up the average height difference between the races in self-defense, a lot of people would not be drawn into throwing good money after bad by trying to get the next degree when the level below did not pay off. That would also require government policies to help ensure that there are jobs for people who are not extremely smart. Also, to keep housing and other economic pressures from growing faster than per capita income. This would not help Albacore, as keeping out foreign grifters would be a keystone in re-balancing Western countries.

    Finally, there is the fact that old people, women, and children elicit more compassion than fighting-age men. No Polish family is worried that the 25-year-old Ukrainian mother and her six-year-old son are going to rape the foster family’s daughter. Remember how poorly prepared the Merkeling men were for jobs in Germany? I will bet that the Ukrainian junior high school students are better-educated than Sudanese “pre-med” students. Regardless, there is not likely to be such a mismatch between the jobs in Poland and the abilities of the Ukrainian refugees.

    Lastly, if Poland had taken in 100K Sudanese and sundry, they might have been all compassioned out for the Ukrainian refugees. Ukrainians may be no more deserving in an objective sense than Sudanese students, but surely anyone can recognize that Poland has a greater duty to care for neighboring victims of the country that also victimized Poles than they have toward Africans who cannot manage their societies very well?

    Besides all that, Poland can be pretty sure that the Ukrainians will either assimilate, integrate, or move to the UK and America. Every Sudanese student (between universities) they take is a near-guarantee of a dozen permanent “refugees.” Sudan will never be well-run compared to Europe, but Ukraine, if it stays free, will likely be a nice place to live fifteen years after peace breaks out.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
    • Replies: @Dwright
    @Rob

    Everyone reading this is thinking the same thing:now do Israel

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan

    , @Buzz Mohawk
    @Rob

    Very well stated...

    ... including the part about "pre-med" LOL. That's the best.

    As Steve correctly surmises, that guy is what we in the US might even call a trust fund baby. You know, my wife, about whom I write too much, who grew up under Ceaușescu, always tells me, whenever news like this come up, that it is generally the well-to-do and connected who get out of a rotten situation in a rotten country. She saw that happen while she was stuck there until their revolution in 1989.

    She can spot them a mile away here in America, and we have lots of them.

    Don't buy the "poor refugee" bullshit unless you really know about the person.

  20. @Rob

    After Belarus invited in tens of thousands of desperate people from conflict-ridden countries like Sudan, Iraq, and Syria and directed them to Poland’s frontier as a way to cause havoc in Europe, Poland responded by harshly cracking down at that border.
     
    I have a feeling that this will be a major strategy in the future if it succeeds for Russia and Belarus. To avoid future leaders in other countries from drawing in refugees to squirt at rivals Belarus needs to have this strategy backfire by filling Belarus with unassimilable aliens instead of Germany.

    “This is the first time we are seeing such contrast between the treatment of different groups of refugees,”
     
    Really, the first time? My understanding was that Israel had different policies in place for different groups of refugees. Am I mistaken? We’ve had different policies for “political” Cuban refugees and “humanitarian” or “economic” migrants from Haiti. If not now, then certainly within my lifetime. Not to mention, Albogore is not a refugee! He was in Russia on a student visa. Russia was placed under sanctions. He got frightened that he’d be drafted or his school would close, or maybe because his family wanted a toehold in Germany instead of Russia.

    Also, pre-med is pretty far from becoming a doctor. Even in the US at good schools, there is a lot of weeding out of “pre-med” students. Has he had organic chemistry? How’d he do? Is he looking to take it again?


    So last November he said he traveled to Moscow on a student visa to take courses at a private university,
     
    Albogir (too lazy to scroll up and check his name) may be a victim of the taboo on human biodiversity. “Private university” sounds like a polite way of saying “for-profit university.” If American for-profits get by on exploiting less intelligent (or just lower/working class) people’s economic or social-climbing desires, I can be pretty sure Russian for-profits are just as unethical. Perhaps more so, if the Russian government does not funnel guaranteed student loans at them. If we were more honest, if we would just tell the truth, not even on a racial level, but on the level of, “you are not tall enough for this ride,” and only brought up the average height difference between the races in self-defense, a lot of people would not be drawn into throwing good money after bad by trying to get the next degree when the level below did not pay off. That would also require government policies to help ensure that there are jobs for people who are not extremely smart. Also, to keep housing and other economic pressures from growing faster than per capita income. This would not help Albacore, as keeping out foreign grifters would be a keystone in re-balancing Western countries.

    Finally, there is the fact that old people, women, and children elicit more compassion than fighting-age men. No Polish family is worried that the 25-year-old Ukrainian mother and her six-year-old son are going to rape the foster family’s daughter. Remember how poorly prepared the Merkeling men were for jobs in Germany? I will bet that the Ukrainian junior high school students are better-educated than Sudanese “pre-med” students. Regardless, there is not likely to be such a mismatch between the jobs in Poland and the abilities of the Ukrainian refugees.

    Lastly, if Poland had taken in 100K Sudanese and sundry, they might have been all compassioned out for the Ukrainian refugees. Ukrainians may be no more deserving in an objective sense than Sudanese students, but surely anyone can recognize that Poland has a greater duty to care for neighboring victims of the country that also victimized Poles than they have toward Africans who cannot manage their societies very well?

    Besides all that, Poland can be pretty sure that the Ukrainians will either assimilate, integrate, or move to the UK and America. Every Sudanese student (between universities) they take is a near-guarantee of a dozen permanent “refugees.” Sudan will never be well-run compared to Europe, but Ukraine, if it stays free, will likely be a nice place to live fifteen years after peace breaks out.

    Replies: @Dwright, @Buzz Mohawk

    Everyone reading this is thinking the same thing:now do Israel

    • Replies: @Veteran Aryan
    @Dwright


    Everyone reading this is thinking the same thing:now do Israel
     
    No. A small but powerful contingent were thinking "S.S. St. Louis."
  21. No clue what this is about. Hasn’t the entire Russian military collapsed? I thought Zelensky had been crowned king of Moscow. Ghost of Kiev and all that. If needed, we can send a battalion of our USA high steppin’ transgender prancy boys. Under the command of super hottie Admiral Levine!

    This is our highest value. It’s what young working class white men must die for.

    • Thanks: 3g4me
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    This is our highest value. It’s what young working class white men must die for.

    It was Putin that took 18 year olds of the Russian working class and put them in 1970s tanks. Then he sent them in the direction of Kiev after lying about how they would be welcomed as liberators.

    Only one man doing the killing here and that is Putin.

    Just because Putin opposes the West does not mean he values working class Whites.

    He sent those 18 year olds in as cannon fodder to soak up anti-tank missiles. He doesn't want to send the expensive tanks in yet. So some poor farmer's son is now dead because Putin doesn't want the nifty tanks to get scratched.

    What a guy. Reminds me of Hitler claiming to be pro-White and then starting a war by bombing White Christian women and children. In fact he did that earlier by letting the Luftwaffe practice in Spain.

    Nothing says "I love your group" like indiscriminate killing.

    Putin is a LOSER just like Hitler. A couple of losers that use the White working class as part of their death games. Losers that are just mad at the world for having subpar genitals.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Iron Curtain

    , @Professional Slav
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Looks like you've been reading Ukranian progadanda. I have it on good authority from RIA/RT news that day 20 of the 2 day blitz is going as planned, with barely any casualties, open armed welcome, and definitely no conscripts fighting for Russia.
    Your white men stayed home watching sportsball while the commander in chief got crowned after an African tier election, I'd worry about dying from heart disease and the 'beetus before worrying about anyone going to Eastern Europe.

  22. @Rob

    After Belarus invited in tens of thousands of desperate people from conflict-ridden countries like Sudan, Iraq, and Syria and directed them to Poland’s frontier as a way to cause havoc in Europe, Poland responded by harshly cracking down at that border.
     
    I have a feeling that this will be a major strategy in the future if it succeeds for Russia and Belarus. To avoid future leaders in other countries from drawing in refugees to squirt at rivals Belarus needs to have this strategy backfire by filling Belarus with unassimilable aliens instead of Germany.

    “This is the first time we are seeing such contrast between the treatment of different groups of refugees,”
     
    Really, the first time? My understanding was that Israel had different policies in place for different groups of refugees. Am I mistaken? We’ve had different policies for “political” Cuban refugees and “humanitarian” or “economic” migrants from Haiti. If not now, then certainly within my lifetime. Not to mention, Albogore is not a refugee! He was in Russia on a student visa. Russia was placed under sanctions. He got frightened that he’d be drafted or his school would close, or maybe because his family wanted a toehold in Germany instead of Russia.

    Also, pre-med is pretty far from becoming a doctor. Even in the US at good schools, there is a lot of weeding out of “pre-med” students. Has he had organic chemistry? How’d he do? Is he looking to take it again?


    So last November he said he traveled to Moscow on a student visa to take courses at a private university,
     
    Albogir (too lazy to scroll up and check his name) may be a victim of the taboo on human biodiversity. “Private university” sounds like a polite way of saying “for-profit university.” If American for-profits get by on exploiting less intelligent (or just lower/working class) people’s economic or social-climbing desires, I can be pretty sure Russian for-profits are just as unethical. Perhaps more so, if the Russian government does not funnel guaranteed student loans at them. If we were more honest, if we would just tell the truth, not even on a racial level, but on the level of, “you are not tall enough for this ride,” and only brought up the average height difference between the races in self-defense, a lot of people would not be drawn into throwing good money after bad by trying to get the next degree when the level below did not pay off. That would also require government policies to help ensure that there are jobs for people who are not extremely smart. Also, to keep housing and other economic pressures from growing faster than per capita income. This would not help Albacore, as keeping out foreign grifters would be a keystone in re-balancing Western countries.

    Finally, there is the fact that old people, women, and children elicit more compassion than fighting-age men. No Polish family is worried that the 25-year-old Ukrainian mother and her six-year-old son are going to rape the foster family’s daughter. Remember how poorly prepared the Merkeling men were for jobs in Germany? I will bet that the Ukrainian junior high school students are better-educated than Sudanese “pre-med” students. Regardless, there is not likely to be such a mismatch between the jobs in Poland and the abilities of the Ukrainian refugees.

    Lastly, if Poland had taken in 100K Sudanese and sundry, they might have been all compassioned out for the Ukrainian refugees. Ukrainians may be no more deserving in an objective sense than Sudanese students, but surely anyone can recognize that Poland has a greater duty to care for neighboring victims of the country that also victimized Poles than they have toward Africans who cannot manage their societies very well?

    Besides all that, Poland can be pretty sure that the Ukrainians will either assimilate, integrate, or move to the UK and America. Every Sudanese student (between universities) they take is a near-guarantee of a dozen permanent “refugees.” Sudan will never be well-run compared to Europe, but Ukraine, if it stays free, will likely be a nice place to live fifteen years after peace breaks out.

    Replies: @Dwright, @Buzz Mohawk

    Very well stated…

    … including the part about “pre-med” LOL. That’s the best.

    As Steve correctly surmises, that guy is what we in the US might even call a trust fund baby. You know, my wife, about whom I write too much, who grew up under Ceaușescu, always tells me, whenever news like this come up, that it is generally the well-to-do and connected who get out of a rotten situation in a rotten country. She saw that happen while she was stuck there until their revolution in 1989.

    She can spot them a mile away here in America, and we have lots of them.

    Don’t buy the “poor refugee” bullshit unless you really know about the person.

  23. @PiltdownMan

    A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.
     
    This is what passes for journalistic language these days?

    Besides, I wonder why. Things appear to be hunky-dory between Belarus and Sudan.

    Sudan, Belarus sign friendship and cooperation agreement

    https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-belarus-sign-friendship-and-cooperation-agreement

    https://i.imgur.com/oBIuKQ7.jpg
     

    Replies: @Pat Hannagan, @International Jew, @Ummm

    I sure hope he didn’t use the H-word!

  24. All the people now idealizing Ukraine are in for a rude awakening when, after the dust settles, whatever is left of Ukraine will continue to (1) not celebrate GLBT culture, (2) not do “its part” to welcome Muslim and African “refugees”, (3) continue with the culture of corruption that, even if they wanted it, would disqualify them from EU membership.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @International Jew

    "All the people now idealizing Ukraine" didn't care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

    This is ALL the result of American/Western/Global-Dollar-Empire shenanigans. Poke the bear enough and he will strike back. Naturally, the people paying the most for this, the innocent victims, are the people just trying to live their lives over there.

    History never changes, and we here in the West have terrible, evil, stupid leaders. This is not our country or our civilization anymore. It just isn't. Maybe it hasn't been for many years.

    And, oh, Charles Lindbergh was RIGHT. "History" does not make him a "pariah." Certain opinions and propaganda do. He was CORRECT. America First is a strategy true to George Washington himself. Anyone who argues against it is... wait for it... ANTI-AMERICAN.

    Replies: @Alrenous, @Abe, @John Johnson

    , @kaganovitch
    @International Jew

    (3) continue with the culture of corruption that, even if they wanted it, would disqualify them from EU membership.

    How would the "Culture of Corruption" disqualify them from EU membership? Are the wrong palms being greased there, Heaven forfend?

  25. @Triteleia Laxa
    @Altai

    Israel is immune to progressive hysteria because non-progressive political forces have won every election for 2 decades and have been born by the people into systematic power. They did not win one Presidential election and then go "why is everything I have ever wanted not done now?" before half threw a tantrum and the other half descended into insane conspiracy nonsense. But instead won every election with discipline and had the consistency of effort to change the direction of the country and maintain that change.

    There's no one simple trick, nor substitute.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

    Israeli conservatives actually govern. When they get power, they wield it. American conservatives don’t want to govern. Effective governance means, inevitably, migrants die at the border or some feral human gets shot by cops. Then somebody screams, “All men are created equal!” and the egalitarian purity spiral goes off. Israeli conservatives–Israelis, for that matter–have no such delusions about equality, so when alien peoples show up at the border and ask to be let in, Israeli conservatives tell them no.

    • Replies: @Abolish_public_education
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Israeli conservatives actually govern.

    All Israeli conservatives are big government רינת (RINOs). It's just that the totally discredited, Israeli Left is so extreme (of course) that any political party merely just left-of-center (if only) looks right-wing by comparison.

    The current PM is so conservative that he induced the communist, anti-Israel, Arab parties into his slim majority, ruling coalition. Naturally, he's a big supporter of the country's totally crappy, public education system, including its system of racial preferences for Arabs (and other "underrepresenteds").

    , @Gordo
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    They are not conservatives they are racial nationalists, conservatives want to protect their money while nationalists want to protect their people ( as a man said )

    Replies: @Matt Buckalew

    , @Rosie
    @The Anti-Gnostic


    Israeli conservatives actually govern. When they get power, they wield it.
     
    The problem is more fundamental than that. Israeli conservatives aren't bought off by enemies of the people. It's not a conspiracy theory but a proven fact that politicians are whores to their big donors. If politicians can say one thing and do another, it doesn't how many elections you win.
  26. @International Jew
    All the people now idealizing Ukraine are in for a rude awakening when, after the dust settles, whatever is left of Ukraine will continue to (1) not celebrate GLBT culture, (2) not do "its part" to welcome Muslim and African "refugees", (3) continue with the culture of corruption that, even if they wanted it, would disqualify them from EU membership.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @kaganovitch

    “All the people now idealizing Ukraine” didn’t care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

    This is ALL the result of American/Western/Global-Dollar-Empire shenanigans. Poke the bear enough and he will strike back. Naturally, the people paying the most for this, the innocent victims, are the people just trying to live their lives over there.

    History never changes, and we here in the West have terrible, evil, stupid leaders. This is not our country or our civilization anymore. It just isn’t. Maybe it hasn’t been for many years.

    And, oh, Charles Lindbergh was RIGHT. “History” does not make him a “pariah.” Certain opinions and propaganda do. He was CORRECT. America First is a strategy true to George Washington himself. Anyone who argues against it is… wait for it… ANTI-AMERICAN.

    • Agree: anarchyst, Ben tillman
    • Replies: @Alrenous
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Speaking of folk who were right, Joseph McCarthy has been fully vindicated. Recall he started immediately after WWII, in the 40s.

    Can't exactly blame the anti-McCarthyist truth-suppression on the 60s.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @YetAnotherAnon, @Alden

    , @Abe
    @Buzz Mohawk


    “All the people now idealizing Ukraine” didn’t care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.
     
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-LRS9A-rW4
    , @John Johnson
    @Buzz Mohawk

    “All the people now idealizing Ukraine” didn’t care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

    A Russian appendage? What about the 1994 Budapest convention where Russia agreed to recognize Ukraine's borders including Crimea?

    Just throw that unwanted fact down the Unz rabbit hole?

    "this is my last territorial claim in Europe"

    - Lying Hitler

    "we will not invade Ukraine, that is outrageous"

    - Lying Putin

    A couple losers of history that couldn't even be satisfied as dictators with absolute power. Pathetic.

    Putin is now the most hated man in the world and his economy is trashed. We may even see a full on crash with 40% unemployment. And for what? He can't even explain his reasons behind the war. It changed from blocking NATO (though Ukraine isn't invited) to removing "neo-nazis" which I guess means the Jewish president that unlike Putin was democratically elected and will debate his ideas.

  27. @Giant Duck
    All of the prestige newspapers have articles lately lamenting, sometimes more obliquely, sometimes directly, the fact that the situation in Ukraine has pushed All Things Black from the tippy-top headlines.

    It seems to be a battle within the newsrooms. On one side there's the "My War" foreign correspondents, whose time has finally come after many years of boring Obama drone strikes and Trump not getting involved in hostilities anywhere.

    On the other, there's the All Things Black writers and editors, who thought their time had not only come, but was permanent. In their defense, they are doing what they were hired to do. Finding "racial" angles in seemingly straightforward things like Ukraine war coverage is, in fact, their job.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The Alarmist

    On the one hand, there’s endless new video of white people shooting high tech weapons at each other.

    On the other, there is a new academic study of redlining.

  28. @Giant Duck
    All of the prestige newspapers have articles lately lamenting, sometimes more obliquely, sometimes directly, the fact that the situation in Ukraine has pushed All Things Black from the tippy-top headlines.

    It seems to be a battle within the newsrooms. On one side there's the "My War" foreign correspondents, whose time has finally come after many years of boring Obama drone strikes and Trump not getting involved in hostilities anywhere.

    On the other, there's the All Things Black writers and editors, who thought their time had not only come, but was permanent. In their defense, they are doing what they were hired to do. Finding "racial" angles in seemingly straightforward things like Ukraine war coverage is, in fact, their job.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The Alarmist

    The missed opportunity was that Albigir didn’t find himself shot in Kiev by the Russians. Can you imagine the worldwide BLM peaceful protests we would have gotten out of that?

    At the moment, only Ukraine is burning. Schadenfreude wanes.

  29. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Egypt.

    UPSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: Pretty close to Sudan, pretty easy trip, pretty similar ethnic/cultural/religious matrix, easy to blend in.

    DOWNSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: No welfare, no white women.

    DESTINATION POLAND!!!

    Replies: @tyrone, @Anonymous, @anonymouseperson

    DOWNSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: No welfare, no white women.

    ……BINGO!!!….NAILED IT!

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
  30. Shouldn’t American Antifa be signing up in international brigades in support of the Russian armed forces, so they can punch the Ukro neonazis? Especially since the Ukronazis are real Nazis rather than Loudon County moms and dads.

    If RinoBidenista-Americans in Ukrainian brigades and AntifaSplc-Americans in the Russian brigades were thrown together in combat, who would prevail?

    • Agree: Almost Missouri
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @New Dealer

    Not sure what is worse.

    110 pound college drop outs thinking they are bad a$$ for waving an anarchist flag and breaking coffee shop windows.

    OR

    Ukrainians holding the flag of a German dictator that launched a bloody war against Eastern Europe and planned on wiping out most Slavs.


    I'll take equally stupid for $500 Alex.

    Modern masculine insecurity seems to be a global problem. Putin would be the pinnacle of this. A dictator worth over 100 billion and still wants to invade a smaller neighboring country for reasons he hasn't been able to explain.

    , @Ralph L
    @New Dealer

    Note the NATO flag on the left.

  31. Not only Poland. I gave the link to Denmark, too. What’s the matter with these white people?

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/10/europe/denmark-refugees-ukraine-syrian-intl/index.html

    Denmark opens its arms to Ukrainians, while trying to send Syrian refugees home
    …………………………………..
    But Michala Clante Bendixen, the head of Refugees Welcome Denmark, which advocates for a streamlined asylum system, said the disparity in treatment suggests the government places a higher value on White lives.

    Bendixen said the 2015 migrant crisis had shown that: “If people arrive from Afghanistan or Syria, they will be met with suspicion, they will be called migrants until they [gain] refugee [status]. But now we immediately call Ukrainians refugees. What’s the difference?

    “It’s so disappointing and so terrible that people are so limited in their empathy with other human beings in the world,” she added.

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @Bardon Kaldian


    But Michala Clante Bendixen, the head of Refugees Welcome Denmark, which advocates for a streamlined asylum system, said the disparity in treatment suggests the government places a higher value on White lives.
     
    The West has done the experiment.

    Women simply can not be let anywhere near the issues of border security, "refugees", immigration. They are utterly unfit for this task--their nurturing instinct or reasoning capability whatever it is.

    Women are a disaster or defense and security issues generally. Although men--our aggressiveness--can make a disastrous hash of that as well--1914, Bush, Putin.

    ~~

    China is wise in preventing this. I believe there's only one token woman in their Politburo and now they are taking a stab at the destructive feminizing aspects of modernity--banning soy boy media and limiting video gaming. May work, may not.

    But the future looks bleak for the feminized West.

    Replies: @Old Prude

  32. @Buzz Mohawk
    @International Jew

    "All the people now idealizing Ukraine" didn't care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

    This is ALL the result of American/Western/Global-Dollar-Empire shenanigans. Poke the bear enough and he will strike back. Naturally, the people paying the most for this, the innocent victims, are the people just trying to live their lives over there.

    History never changes, and we here in the West have terrible, evil, stupid leaders. This is not our country or our civilization anymore. It just isn't. Maybe it hasn't been for many years.

    And, oh, Charles Lindbergh was RIGHT. "History" does not make him a "pariah." Certain opinions and propaganda do. He was CORRECT. America First is a strategy true to George Washington himself. Anyone who argues against it is... wait for it... ANTI-AMERICAN.

    Replies: @Alrenous, @Abe, @John Johnson

    Speaking of folk who were right, Joseph McCarthy has been fully vindicated. Recall he started immediately after WWII, in the 40s.

    Can’t exactly blame the anti-McCarthyist truth-suppression on the 60s.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @Alrenous

    Yes, McCarthy was right, in spite of his flaws. The US was and still is infested with communist rats. They just come in different flavors now. Some of them comment here in favor of neocon interference in foreign affairs.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Alrenous

    Amazingly, the left wing imperialist David Aaronovitch devoted half an hour of BBC time to the theme "McCarthy Was Right", a dozen years back.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7hhf


    David Aaronovitch thinks the unthinkable about the McCarthy period.

    The hunt for the so called 'Reds under the beds' during the Cold War is generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot on U.S history. But the release of classified documents reveals that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about the extent of Soviet infiltration into the highest reaches of the U.S government.

    Thanks to the public release of top secret FBI decryptions of Soviet communications, as well as the release under the fifty year rule of FBI records and Soviet archives, we now know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was extensive, reaching to the highest level of the State department and the White House.

    We reveal that many of McCarthy's anticommunist investigations were in fact on target. His fears about the effect Soviet infiltration might be having on US foreign policy, particularly in the Far East were also well founded.

    The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working with the Soviets. We explore why much of this information, available for years to the FBI, was not made public. We also examine how its suppression prevented the prosecution of suspects.

    Finally, we explore the extent to which Joseph McCarthy, with his unsavoury methods and smear tactics, could have done himself a disservice, resulting in his name being forever synonymous with paranoia and the ruthless suppression of free speech.

    Hearing from former FBI, CIA and KGB operatives as well as formerly blacklisted writers, David Aaronovitch, himself from a family of communists tells the untold story of Soviet influence and espionage in the United States.
     
    You don't get lefties using unsavoury tactics and smear campaigns, nosirree!

    I think it was more likely to have been a previous generation of Aaronovitches whose work made "his name being forever synonymous with paranoia".

    Replies: @JMcG

    , @Alden
    @Alrenous

    Some of my heroes. GeneralFrancisco Franco, Joseph Mccarthy, Bull Connor Governor Wallace James Forrrstall the Whites of Tulsa OK who put down a negro insurrection whose purpose was to free a black who’d attempted to rape a 14 year old girl.

  33. @michael droy
    Just spent a long weekend in Warsaw.
    My cheapish hotel 8km from Warsaw was full of healthy Ukrainians and most of the cars in the car park were Ukrainian. Clearly many of the "Ukrainian refugees" are simply the ones who can afford to leave, by car, and able to pay hotel bills. I imagine this is typical of all Warsaw hotels (of all prices).
    No surprise there - some 7m Ukrainians have left over the previous 8 years, many of them workers leaving their families behind. The surprise is that only 2-2.5m have left now. True Russia has only entered the Eastern half of the country and if you stay away from military centres you are safe in W Ukraine - anywhere west of Kiev. And we don't know how many have left for Russia, though there is talk that Ukrainian officials are blocking this and refusing to discuss any evacuation routes out of Kharkov or Kiev that lead to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out and join their friends and family who already work abroad. That would make them like all the Africans that grabbed the moment when Merkel invited Syrians in to Europe.

    There certainly are poorer refugees. In 1991-95, when I was first in Poland, the Warsaw Central station stank because it was the sleeping place of several hundred homeless who filled the large ticket hall at night, found sleeping spaces in the train tunnels and used the soup kitchen in the open plot of land next door. The train station is again where a few thousand (i guess) are staying now. Recently night temperatures have been typically -5 C (23F and a few degrees warmer now).
    There is a lot of help for the refugees, and I drove a friend to deliver her package of diapers etc there on Sunday. Contrary to reports she tells me there were many men, not just women and children, so I guess the men had to cross the Polish border secretly as men of military age are being refused exit from Ukraine at the official crossing points.

    Weirdest fact of all - the UAH, Ukrainian Hryvnia has actually gone up in value against all currencies since the war started.
    Perhaps all those "former" special forces out there are being paid in UAH.

    Replies: @Canute, @Jack D, @utu

    Most interesting observations. Thank you for posting.

  34. Anonymous[279] • Disclaimer says:

    I know that Steve bemoans the force and aggression Vladimir Putin is currently using in order to ‘get a point across’. Not the done thing, you know, all rather beastly.

    But a wider point is that political leaders – if they be worthy of that name – must not and cannot shy away from the use of force and aggression.
    If Europe’s pantyhose political ‘leaders’ actually showed one atom of the ruthlessness and aggression of Vladimir Putin, there simply would not be any of this mickey taking faux third world ‘asylum’ immigration absurdity into the west – and thus no black/brown majority Europe one hundred years down the line.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    Replies: @JMcG, @Anonymous, @Brutusale, @Dube, @Lurker

    , @AnotherDad
    @Anonymous


    But a wider point is that political leaders – if they be worthy of that name – must not and cannot shy away from the use of force and aggression.
    If Europe’s pantyhose political ‘leaders’ actually showed one atom of the ruthlessness and aggression of Vladimir Putin, there simply would not be any of this mickey taking faux third world ‘asylum’ immigration absurdity into the west – and thus no black/brown majority Europe one hundred years down the line.
     
    Willingness to use force--100% correct. But this has nothing to do with Putin and his aggression.

    For example, the US didn't/doesn't need to invade Mexico and "straighten it out" or anything else. It simply needed to enforce its border--deploy troops, build a wall, catch and deport invaders--shoot them if they don't get the message--and fine, sanction, seize, imprison our slimy businessmen employing illegals. Force yes. Invasion not required.

    ~~

    In contrast, Russia's simply been an aggressive "bad neighbor" for the last few hundred years, but particularly during the Soviet period. Unsurprisingly nations like Ukraine, Poland, the Baltics, Hungary, the Czechs and Slovaks given the chance to be "out from under" take it. (Heck the Finns are contemplating joining NATO now.) Ukrainians look at their options--Poland or Belarus--and think "hmm, i'll take A". And Putin instead of just taking care of his people's business, is all butt hurt about it--like an abusive boyfriend whose woman has left.

    Putin's imperialist aggression isn't civilizing, but destructive, anti-civilizing. His bully boy crap is the kind of thing that civilized men have to put down to keep civilization alive.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @nebulafox

  35. They had made it across the Polish border undetected, but the driver they hired to get them to Germany forgot to turn on his headlights and was stopped. Albagir said Polish police officers stole their SIM cards and power banks; disabled their phones (so they couldn’t call for help); and drove them back to the place they dreaded: the forest. …

    A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.

    Did Steve change order or is this guy suggesting that somehow Polish police officers handed them to Belarusian soldiers?

  36. @Alrenous
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Speaking of folk who were right, Joseph McCarthy has been fully vindicated. Recall he started immediately after WWII, in the 40s.

    Can't exactly blame the anti-McCarthyist truth-suppression on the 60s.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @YetAnotherAnon, @Alden

    Yes, McCarthy was right, in spite of his flaws. The US was and still is infested with communist rats. They just come in different flavors now. Some of them comment here in favor of neocon interference in foreign affairs.

    • Agree: Alden
    • Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
    @Buzz Mohawk

    "The US was and still is infested with communist rats."

    Summer of Floyd commies BLM and Antifa were primarily funded by Open Society, The Ford Foundation, The Tides Foundation. In addition, Floydian commies received instruction from ex-military and intelligence mercenaries trained in domestic insurgency and psychological warfare. Some of the more capable Antifians were taught handgun and urban warfare skills. Some of this training was conducted in western Ukraine. The philanthropists behind the above foundations hide their rightist totalitarianism behind the academic woke nonsense (they fund that too). The Floydian BLM commies and anti-fascists were stooges of fascists. Still, black ladies is happy they gots their houses and Warner Bros. contracts.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  37. OFF TOPIC:

    Anybody else see this?

    https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022/03/07/test-blind-is-another-tool-for-discrimination/

    Of course you did.

    I was shocked by the revelation that UCB looks to become an HSI. That’s an Hispanic Serving Institution. The link in the article goes right to the UC’s website outlining how to achieve that goal. How is this not totally racist? Look for lots of new Hispanics, coming from white, black, and filipino sources, as the other races are excluded.

    https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/task-forces/hispanic-serving-institution-task-force

    Frankly, the whole thing stinks. Why should Asians feel like they are the academic elite who are supposed to get admitted en masse to the UC’s? Why should Hispanics get all this special treatment that they haven’t academically earned? Why should taxpayers be on the hook for any of this?

  38. @nokangaroos

    ... As a boy, Albagir said he watched his homeland of Darfur ripped apart by war and saw "everything you can imagine." Then he fled to Khatoum, Sudan´s capital, to study medicine. But Khartoum soon exploded into chaos too.
     
    https://www.asterix.com/illus/asterix-de-a-a-z/les-personnages/perso/r25b.gif

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Zero Philosopher

    Why, it sounds like he is the Typhoid Mary of chaos.

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @kaganovitch


    Why, it sounds like he is the Typhoid Mary of chaos.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Btfsplk

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Joe_Btfsplk_Excerpt.png
  39. Minoritarianism in a nutshell: You must let us loot you!

  40. @International Jew
    All the people now idealizing Ukraine are in for a rude awakening when, after the dust settles, whatever is left of Ukraine will continue to (1) not celebrate GLBT culture, (2) not do "its part" to welcome Muslim and African "refugees", (3) continue with the culture of corruption that, even if they wanted it, would disqualify them from EU membership.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @kaganovitch

    (3) continue with the culture of corruption that, even if they wanted it, would disqualify them from EU membership.

    How would the “Culture of Corruption” disqualify them from EU membership? Are the wrong palms being greased there, Heaven forfend?

    • LOL: YetAnotherAnon
  41. @michael droy
    Just spent a long weekend in Warsaw.
    My cheapish hotel 8km from Warsaw was full of healthy Ukrainians and most of the cars in the car park were Ukrainian. Clearly many of the "Ukrainian refugees" are simply the ones who can afford to leave, by car, and able to pay hotel bills. I imagine this is typical of all Warsaw hotels (of all prices).
    No surprise there - some 7m Ukrainians have left over the previous 8 years, many of them workers leaving their families behind. The surprise is that only 2-2.5m have left now. True Russia has only entered the Eastern half of the country and if you stay away from military centres you are safe in W Ukraine - anywhere west of Kiev. And we don't know how many have left for Russia, though there is talk that Ukrainian officials are blocking this and refusing to discuss any evacuation routes out of Kharkov or Kiev that lead to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out and join their friends and family who already work abroad. That would make them like all the Africans that grabbed the moment when Merkel invited Syrians in to Europe.

    There certainly are poorer refugees. In 1991-95, when I was first in Poland, the Warsaw Central station stank because it was the sleeping place of several hundred homeless who filled the large ticket hall at night, found sleeping spaces in the train tunnels and used the soup kitchen in the open plot of land next door. The train station is again where a few thousand (i guess) are staying now. Recently night temperatures have been typically -5 C (23F and a few degrees warmer now).
    There is a lot of help for the refugees, and I drove a friend to deliver her package of diapers etc there on Sunday. Contrary to reports she tells me there were many men, not just women and children, so I guess the men had to cross the Polish border secretly as men of military age are being refused exit from Ukraine at the official crossing points.

    Weirdest fact of all - the UAH, Ukrainian Hryvnia has actually gone up in value against all currencies since the war started.
    Perhaps all those "former" special forces out there are being paid in UAH.

    Replies: @Canute, @Jack D, @utu

    Russian rockets don’t distinguish between rich and poor so the refugees are of all economic classes. Just because you can afford to flee by car and stay in a hotel doesn’t mean that you aren’t a refugee.

    you are safe in W Ukraine – anywhere west of Kiev.

    Russians hit a base 10 miles from the Polish border yesterday.

    And we don’t know how many have left for Russia

    Estimates are around 2.7M to the West and 100k to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out

    Sure, the Russian artillery has nothing to do with it.

    Hryvnia has actually gone up in value .

    And the ruble has crashed. Maybe the markets are making forecasts as to who will be the winner of this war.

    • Replies: @The Alarmist
    @Jack D


    Maybe the markets are making forecasts as to who will be the winner of this war.
     
    At least one, if not both, of the markets you cite is heavily manipulated. There’s certainly no predictive information in RUB pricing, and I suspect UAH is benefitting from disinformation.
    , @Fluesterwitz
    @Jack D


    if you stay away from military centres [emphasis mine] you are safe in W Ukraine – anywhere west of Kiev
     
    You kind of overlooked the importance of the if-clause.
  42. @Bardon Kaldian
    Not only Poland. I gave the link to Denmark, too. What's the matter with these white people?

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/10/europe/denmark-refugees-ukraine-syrian-intl/index.html

    Denmark opens its arms to Ukrainians, while trying to send Syrian refugees home
    …………………………………..
    But Michala Clante Bendixen, the head of Refugees Welcome Denmark, which advocates for a streamlined asylum system, said the disparity in treatment suggests the government places a higher value on White lives.

    Bendixen said the 2015 migrant crisis had shown that: “If people arrive from Afghanistan or Syria, they will be met with suspicion, they will be called migrants until they [gain] refugee [status]. But now we immediately call Ukrainians refugees. What’s the difference?

    “It’s so disappointing and so terrible that people are so limited in their empathy with other human beings in the world,” she added.

    https://c.tenor.com/hL_jjSIoEn0AAAAC/stupid-bitch.gif

    Replies: @AnotherDad

    But Michala Clante Bendixen, the head of Refugees Welcome Denmark, which advocates for a streamlined asylum system, said the disparity in treatment suggests the government places a higher value on White lives.

    The West has done the experiment.

    Women simply can not be let anywhere near the issues of border security, “refugees”, immigration. They are utterly unfit for this task–their nurturing instinct or reasoning capability whatever it is.

    Women are a disaster or defense and security issues generally. Although men–our aggressiveness–can make a disastrous hash of that as well–1914, Bush, Putin.

    ~~

    China is wise in preventing this. I believe there’s only one token woman in their Politburo and now they are taking a stab at the destructive feminizing aspects of modernity–banning soy boy media and limiting video gaming. May work, may not.

    But the future looks bleak for the feminized West.

    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @AnotherDad

    Steve asks "Should run of the mill domestic unrest give billions of people carte blanche to move in to countries on other continents?"

    The correct answer to Steve's question is NO!.

    But the because folks are so damn squishy and emotional these days, judging from the influx of West Africans claiming asylum in Portland, Maine, and all the local ladies fawning over them (including our worthless Governess, Janet Mills), up to and including housing them in the local hotels at huge expense to the tax payers it looks like the women think the answer is "yes".***

    *** That includes Susan Collins, who wants to give them jobs, not ship them home...

  43. Anonymous[295] • Disclaimer says:
    @The Germ Theory of Disease
    Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Egypt.

    UPSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: Pretty close to Sudan, pretty easy trip, pretty similar ethnic/cultural/religious matrix, easy to blend in.

    DOWNSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: No welfare, no white women.

    DESTINATION POLAND!!!

    Replies: @tyrone, @Anonymous, @anonymouseperson

    Where’s the Azov Battalion when you need them (at least the few who aren’t under rubble)?

    https://jungefreiheit.de/kultur/gesellschaft/2022/ukrainerin-vergewaltigt/

    Migranten sollen Ukrainerin in Unterkunft vergewaltigt haben

    [From Google Translate]:

    Migrants are said to have raped a Ukrainian woman in accommodation society
    March 15, 2022

    JF-Online

    DUSSELDORF. The police arrested two migrants who are said to have raped a woman in Düsseldorf in early March who fled to Germany from Ukraine. The officials are currently clarifying the nationality of the two men, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday for JUNGE FREIHEIT.

    According to the Bild newspaper, the suspects are a 37-year-old Tunisian and a 26-year-old Nigerian. They also had a Ukrainian passport with them. According to information from the newspaper, officials in the border area have recently encountered migrants who did not come directly from Ukraine, but for example from Africa.

    The police spokeswoman did not want to comment on the residence status and possible criminal records of the two suspects. The men and the 18-year-old Ukrainian are said to have been on the Düsseldorf hotel ship “Oscar Wilde” at the time of the crime, on which 25 Ukrainian refugees were accommodated in addition to normal guests. There they attacked the woman one after the other. The Ukrainian is said to have traveled to Poland in the meantime because she does not feel safe in Germany.

    Federal Police Union: Only harsh penalties and deportations will help

    The head of the federal police union, Heiko Teggatz, appealed to politicians to do everything possible to prevent such cases in the future. “Hard and quick punishment followed by deportation is the only language that such perpetrators understand,” he told the Bild newspaper.

    “Smuggling, human trafficking and the promotion of prostitution are part of a crime geography. If these areas of crime are not resolutely counteracted when entering Europe and Germany, criminal gangs will shamelessly exploit the plight of the people from Ukraine.” Young women are the focus of these criminals.

    Union faction leader Andrea Lindholz (CSU) calls on the police authorities to ensure the protection of Ukrainian women with controls in refugee accommodation in the future. The Düsseldorf case obliges us to act immediately.

    Percentage of foreign sex offenders is increasing

    It is not the first time that refugees have been identified as sex offenders. In February, the police in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania arrested an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who is said to have raped an eleven-year-old girl. In August, an immigrant from Guinea allegedly molested a young woman in Cologne.

    The proportion of suspected foreigners in sexual offenses has risen significantly in recent years. It grew from 35 percent to 42.44 percent for rapes between 2000 and 2020, according to a response from the federal government to a small query from the AfD parliamentary group. (quote)

    Ukrainian Nazis fight for Victoria Nuland and Jewish nightclub comedians and GAE as their women are raped and sodomized by North Africans and Africans. Lol.

  44. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Altai

    "Israel is immune to social media hysteria because social media hysteria isn’t the only component at play here ... it’s the media working with social media to create the trending firestorm."

    Nobody is boycotting Saudi Arabia because it's bombing the crap out of Yemen using US and British weaponry.

    https://www.unicef.org.uk/press-releases/shameful-milestone-in-yemen-as-10000-children-killed-or-maimed-since-fighting-began-geneva-palais-briefing-note-on-the-situation-of-children-in-yemen/

    Even al Jazeera has as its headline "2 people killed in Kyiv". Further down the page, "Teenage boy Nader Rayan and two men killed in raids in the occupied West Bank and Israel."

    Even in a social media age, holding the megaphone really helps.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Yes, because bombarding civilian areas with artillery and shooting at terrorists who are shooting at you are the same thing.

    I won’t speak for the Saudis, but the Israelis take elaborate measures to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible, given that Hamas intentionally imbeds its weapons in civilian areas.

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Jack D

    The Palestinians only HAVE civilian areas.

    Replies: @Jack D

  45. anon[357] • Disclaimer says:

    The first paragraph of today’s (March 15, 2022) Minneapolis Star-Tribune editorial:

    In 1955, Chicagoan Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy spending the summer in Mississippi, was abducted, tortured and brutally murdered over allegations that he whistled at a white woman. His body was later recovered from the Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan tied around his neck to weigh him down. He had been shot in the head …

  46. OT: Some guy by the name of Gerald Brevard III has been arrested for going around and shooting several homeless people in New York and DC. He killed two of them. He’s black, and his name sure sounds atypical for a black. He’s got a previous record for burglary and abduction.

    https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/suspect-in-deadly-shooting-spree-of-dc-nyc-homeless-people-arrested/

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @Anon

    A Putinazi sleeper cell?

    , @J.Ross
    @Anon

    I wonder if he would have done that if the authorities of New York City did anything whatsoever about aggressive, violent homeless thugs?

  47. @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Yes, because bombarding civilian areas with artillery and shooting at terrorists who are shooting at you are the same thing.

    I won't speak for the Saudis, but the Israelis take elaborate measures to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible, given that Hamas intentionally imbeds its weapons in civilian areas.

    Replies: @JMcG

    The Palestinians only HAVE civilian areas.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @JMcG

    So it's OK to keep rocket launchers inside elementary schools?

    In Gaza they have whatever areas they want since Israel withdrew and does not control the territory.

    Replies: @JMcG

  48. @YetAnotherAnon
    Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start, though I could be wrong.

    In the UK, 89,000 people have "expressed an interest" in housing Ukrainian refugees. Be interesting to see how many end up here. I remember 20,000 Icelanders said they'd take "Syrians" - the final total was a few hundred.

    Is the War On Putin the trigger/excuse for the Great Reset?

    Boris, today - "I don’t doubt that there will be tough times ahead. The process of weaning the world off Russian oil and gas, and hydrocarbons in general, will be difficult."

    Also Boris, yesterday - “Boris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over the regime’s biggest ever mass execution

    Replies: @Jack D, @Almost Missouri, @Cato

    Is the War On Putin the trigger/excuse for the Great Reset?

    Boris, today – “I don’t doubt that there will be tough times ahead. The process of weaning the world off Russian oil and gas, and hydrocarbons in general, will be difficult.”

    Also Boris, yesterday – “Boris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over the regime’s biggest ever mass execution”

    I don’t think that there is any contradiction there. The long term goal in the West is to phase out imported hydrocarbon fuels. This war is just one more data point that shows that they drive not only climate change but also fund odious regimes. Take away oil money and Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. are much smaller problems. Take away oil money and there’s no 9/11, no Iraq War (I and II). Even if global warming is a complete myth there would still be good reasons for not wanting your country to be dependent on imported energy produced by often dubious regimes.

    However, short term this is just not possible. You can’t go carbon neutral overnight or even in a decade. So in the short to medium run, the West will have to decide which of these regimes is the least odious, the lesser evil. Russia, by starting this war, has put itself on the bottom of the stack – the country you would least want to buy oil from. This is not an “excuse”.

    • Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @Jack D


    I don’t think that there is any contradiction there. The long term goal in the West is to phase out imported hydrocarbon fuels. This war is just one more data point that shows that they drive not only climate change but also fund odious regimes.
     
    I doubt this is the case, otherwise the U.S. would have built more nuclear power plants and one side of the political divide would not scale back and outright sabotage domestic energy exploration and extraction. There's some other controlling interest in play in Western Energy policies.

    However, short term this is just not possible. You can’t go carbon neutral overnight or even in a decade. So in the short to medium run, the West will have to decide which of these regimes is the least odious, the lesser evil. Russia, by starting this war, has put itself on the bottom of the stack – the country you would least want to buy oil from. This is not an “excuse”.
     
    The Europeans are still buying Russian oil, and in the event they boycott it the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it.

    Replies: @Jack D, @Anonymous

  49. @James N. Kennett


    So last November he said he traveled to Moscow on a student visa to take courses at a private university,
     
    Albagir sounds like he’s at about the 95th percentile of wealth for Sudanese.

    but after Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering severe sanctions, Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized. So he fled again.
     

     
    You might imagine that he would flee home to Sudan. But even those at the 95th percentile of wealth in Sudan dream of life in a non-s**t-hole country.

    I suspect he’s really thinking that he can’t believe that he, an educated person from Sudan’s elite, got treated badly by some junior high school dropout Belarusian border guard.
     
    And when he reaches Germany he will find that he is no longer a member of the elite, and will boil with rage at the perceived injustice for the rest of his life. Like Ilhan Omar, he will rationalize his reduced status as the result of white racism.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Ghost of Bull Moose

    You might imagine that he would flee home to Sudan. But even those at the 95th percentile of wealth in Sudan dream of life in a non-s**t-hole country.

    The non-Ukrainians fleeing Ukraine should be loaded on buses and train cars headed straight for the airport, and immediately flown back to whatever country they happen to be from. “Sorry, we have millions of real refugees to cope with. We don’t have room for fake refugees from Sudan.”

    The media has made a game of attacking any right-wing politician or pundit who ever evinced even the slightest sympathy for any of Putin’s policies. But of course they aren’t attacking the left-wing types who have supported Putin’s refugee invasion from Belarus.

    • Agree: James N. Kennett
  50. @YetAnotherAnon
    Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start, though I could be wrong.

    In the UK, 89,000 people have "expressed an interest" in housing Ukrainian refugees. Be interesting to see how many end up here. I remember 20,000 Icelanders said they'd take "Syrians" - the final total was a few hundred.

    Is the War On Putin the trigger/excuse for the Great Reset?

    Boris, today - "I don’t doubt that there will be tough times ahead. The process of weaning the world off Russian oil and gas, and hydrocarbons in general, will be difficult."

    Also Boris, yesterday - “Boris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over the regime’s biggest ever mass execution

    Replies: @Jack D, @Almost Missouri, @Cato

    Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start,

    Yep. As is now standard, the NYT article contains normal-sounding nonsense terms:

    Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized.

    What does that mean? Supposedly Albagir wants to learn to heal with medicine. Will healing with medicine somehow “ostracize” his university?

    No, obviously. Wealthy Western welfare states were always his destination. “Studying medicine” was just a vehicle to get there. What he feared is that his vehicle might be ostracized by his intended destination. So he abandoned his vehicle.

    Turned out that was more painful than expected. But he doesn’t seem to have any regrets. After all, he has probably crossed at least half a dozen borders and now is only one border away from his goal, in a “safe house”, the NYT reporter is talking to him, and he already knows to blame his every misfortune on “racism”. So close he can taste it!

    • Replies: @anonymouseperson
    @Almost Missouri

    That whole "international student" thing is a scam. Just another way for non whites to come here.

    , @DrWatson
    @Almost Missouri


    Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized.
     
    Thanks for pointing out this nonsense, it struck me too as disingenuous.

    His university ostracized exactly by whom? The Germans in Germany?

    Did he really travel from Russia all the way to the Polish border? F*cking unbelievable.
  51. @Pat Hannagan
    @PiltdownMan

    America can whatever America wants

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as

    At some point you'll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they're not principled.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan, @Reg Cæsar, @Alt Right Moderate

    Allow me to assist.

    • Replies: @Pat Hannagan
    @Veteran Aryan

    Brilliant!

    Exactly what I meant (but went with the Hunky Dory reference).

    What a great collaboration, Bowie and Reznor along with some Eno thrown in for good measure.

    That song was meant to be on Bowie's Outside album which itself was inspired by, and was his replication on similar themes, Lynch's Twin Peaks.

    I love this period of Lynch and Bowie fusion, leading to Lost Highway and Song to the Siren which I only just listened to the original the other day by Tim Buckley. Tim Buckley, imagine that? I always thought it was Cocteau Twins.

    Back to predicting the future for us all, and America in particular; here's to the Petrodollar:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXplYfYKI6g

  52. @Anonymous
    I know that Steve bemoans the force and aggression Vladimir Putin is currently using in order to 'get a point across'. Not the done thing, you know, all rather beastly.

    But a wider point is that political leaders - if they be worthy of that name - must not and cannot shy away from the use of force and aggression.
    If Europe's pantyhose political 'leaders' actually showed one atom of the ruthlessness and aggression of Vladimir Putin, there simply would not be any of this mickey taking faux third world 'asylum' immigration absurdity into the west - and thus no black/brown majority Europe one hundred years down the line.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @AnotherDad

    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Steve Sailer

    And we know this how? Both sides are putting out propaganda at a furious pace. From a guy whose skepticism of Iraqi WMD was correct, this is disappointing.

    Replies: @HA, @Jack D

    , @Anonymous
    @Steve Sailer

    Is that actually true?

    , @Brutusale
    @Steve Sailer


    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?
     
    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 allies in the Syrian Civil War to assault the cities of (the) Ukraine?

    FIFY

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Dube
    @Steve Sailer

    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?
    With Ukrainian military shielded in the cities, Syrian mercenaries would be deemed to have useful experience in urban actions.

    , @Lurker
    @Steve Sailer

    It's alleged that some number of Syrians, vets of the fight against ISIS may be willing to volunteers. Possibly Orthodox Christians. That claim is pretty far from Putin wanting to hire them.

  53. @Dwright
    @Rob

    Everyone reading this is thinking the same thing:now do Israel

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan

    Everyone reading this is thinking the same thing:now do Israel

    No. A small but powerful contingent were thinking “S.S. St. Louis.”

  54. @James N. Kennett


    So last November he said he traveled to Moscow on a student visa to take courses at a private university,
     
    Albagir sounds like he’s at about the 95th percentile of wealth for Sudanese.

    but after Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering severe sanctions, Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized. So he fled again.
     

     
    You might imagine that he would flee home to Sudan. But even those at the 95th percentile of wealth in Sudan dream of life in a non-s**t-hole country.

    I suspect he’s really thinking that he can’t believe that he, an educated person from Sudan’s elite, got treated badly by some junior high school dropout Belarusian border guard.
     
    And when he reaches Germany he will find that he is no longer a member of the elite, and will boil with rage at the perceived injustice for the rest of his life. Like Ilhan Omar, he will rationalize his reduced status as the result of white racism.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Ghost of Bull Moose

    Like Ilhan Omar, he will rationalize his reduced status as the result of white racism.

    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Dar al-harb, has ‘reduced status?’

  55. @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Is the War On Putin the trigger/excuse for the Great Reset?

    Boris, today – “I don’t doubt that there will be tough times ahead. The process of weaning the world off Russian oil and gas, and hydrocarbons in general, will be difficult.”

    Also Boris, yesterday – “Boris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over the regime’s biggest ever mass execution”
     

    I don't think that there is any contradiction there. The long term goal in the West is to phase out imported hydrocarbon fuels. This war is just one more data point that shows that they drive not only climate change but also fund odious regimes. Take away oil money and Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. are much smaller problems. Take away oil money and there's no 9/11, no Iraq War (I and II). Even if global warming is a complete myth there would still be good reasons for not wanting your country to be dependent on imported energy produced by often dubious regimes.

    However, short term this is just not possible. You can't go carbon neutral overnight or even in a decade. So in the short to medium run, the West will have to decide which of these regimes is the least odious, the lesser evil. Russia, by starting this war, has put itself on the bottom of the stack - the country you would least want to buy oil from. This is not an "excuse".

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    I don’t think that there is any contradiction there. The long term goal in the West is to phase out imported hydrocarbon fuels. This war is just one more data point that shows that they drive not only climate change but also fund odious regimes.

    I doubt this is the case, otherwise the U.S. would have built more nuclear power plants and one side of the political divide would not scale back and outright sabotage domestic energy exploration and extraction. There’s some other controlling interest in play in Western Energy policies.

    However, short term this is just not possible. You can’t go carbon neutral overnight or even in a decade. So in the short to medium run, the West will have to decide which of these regimes is the least odious, the lesser evil. Russia, by starting this war, has put itself on the bottom of the stack – the country you would least want to buy oil from. This is not an “excuse”.

    The Europeans are still buying Russian oil, and in the event they boycott it the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)


    the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it
     
    At a steep discount. The Indians have already baldly stated that they will buy Russian oil FOR THE RIGHT PRICE.

    2nd, these is not enough pipeline capacity or connections to send all the Russian gas to China and it will take them years to build more pipelines.

    Nuclear plants and domestic exploration have their own environmental risks. The "controlling interest" is that Western countries have been captured by their enviro-leftist "Green" contingent that wants you to ride a bicycle not a pickup truck.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @JMcG

    , @Anonymous
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    Carter's ban on sale of agricultural products to the USSR just enriched Canadian and European farmers at the expense of their American counterparts. The Soviets didn't feel a thing.

  56. @AnotherDad
    @Bardon Kaldian


    But Michala Clante Bendixen, the head of Refugees Welcome Denmark, which advocates for a streamlined asylum system, said the disparity in treatment suggests the government places a higher value on White lives.
     
    The West has done the experiment.

    Women simply can not be let anywhere near the issues of border security, "refugees", immigration. They are utterly unfit for this task--their nurturing instinct or reasoning capability whatever it is.

    Women are a disaster or defense and security issues generally. Although men--our aggressiveness--can make a disastrous hash of that as well--1914, Bush, Putin.

    ~~

    China is wise in preventing this. I believe there's only one token woman in their Politburo and now they are taking a stab at the destructive feminizing aspects of modernity--banning soy boy media and limiting video gaming. May work, may not.

    But the future looks bleak for the feminized West.

    Replies: @Old Prude

    Steve asks “Should run of the mill domestic unrest give billions of people carte blanche to move in to countries on other continents?”

    The correct answer to Steve’s question is NO!.

    But the because folks are so damn squishy and emotional these days, judging from the influx of West Africans claiming asylum in Portland, Maine, and all the local ladies fawning over them (including our worthless Governess, Janet Mills), up to and including housing them in the local hotels at huge expense to the tax payers it looks like the women think the answer is “yes”.***

    *** That includes Susan Collins, who wants to give them jobs, not ship them home…

  57. @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    Replies: @JMcG, @Anonymous, @Brutusale, @Dube, @Lurker

    And we know this how? Both sides are putting out propaganda at a furious pace. From a guy whose skepticism of Iraqi WMD was correct, this is disappointing.

    • Replies: @HA
    @JMcG

    "And we know [about the 16,000 Syrians] how?"

    Because even Putin's buddies in China are admitting that 16K are "applying" from the Middle East? India is reporting that, too. Not a single denial from anyone in Russia -- I mean, apart from Putin's fanboys and useful idiots still desperately trying to keep up appearances.

    Mind you, they're not saying the applications are from Syria per se, but is that really the thing that upsets you? You'd be happier if they were Iranians or something? Or do you just choose not to believe things until RT.com gives you permission to do so, even now that their main sources of intel are under house arrest?

    , @Jack D
    @JMcG

    Is TASS a good enough source for you:


    Shoigu announced that it is received "numerous requests from various volunteers from various countries, who want to come to the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to participate in what they believe is a liberation movement," the defense chief said. "The majority of requests came from the Middle East, as we have received over 16,000 of them," he specified.
     
    https://tass.com/politics/1420499

    Replies: @JMcG, @Muggles, @Daniel H

  58. “Why don’t we see this caring and this love? Why?” he asked. “Are Ukrainians better than us? I don’t know. Why?”

    Imagine Sudanese were capable of caring and love, he wouldn’t have to flee his “people”

  59. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Triteleia Laxa

    Israeli conservatives actually govern. When they get power, they wield it. American conservatives don't want to govern. Effective governance means, inevitably, migrants die at the border or some feral human gets shot by cops. Then somebody screams, "All men are created equal!" and the egalitarian purity spiral goes off. Israeli conservatives--Israelis, for that matter--have no such delusions about equality, so when alien peoples show up at the border and ask to be let in, Israeli conservatives tell them no.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Gordo, @Rosie

    Israeli conservatives actually govern.

    All Israeli conservatives are big government רינת (RINOs). It’s just that the totally discredited, Israeli Left is so extreme (of course) that any political party merely just left-of-center (if only) looks right-wing by comparison.

    The current PM is so conservative that he induced the communist, anti-Israel, Arab parties into his slim majority, ruling coalition. Naturally, he’s a big supporter of the country’s totally crappy, public education system, including its system of racial preferences for Arabs (and other “underrepresenteds”).

  60. Anonymous[295] • Disclaimer says:
    @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    Replies: @JMcG, @Anonymous, @Brutusale, @Dube, @Lurker

    Is that actually true?

  61. Unfortunately for Albagir, the nyt has already published his story so he can forget the book and movie deal. Good luck with your Med Studies and I am wondering if you plan to return to the Sudan to practice nedicine. Who am I kidding? I know the answer to that question. And a fact that the nyt and Albagir don’t high lite, he is a black man studying for a medical degree in a European country but he is now living “illegaly now in Poland. The nyt is always on the side of the illegal in any country.

    • Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Buffalo Joe

    "The NYT is always on the side of the illegal in any country."

    Except one.

    Replies: @kaganovitch

  62. The “news” we read/see from this war is very odd.

    There are two types of stories.

    One, is all about refugees. Yes, millions fleeing to other countries. They have sad stories.

    But in truth, we should be happy they are leaving war zones. This always occurs when populated areas are attacked with rockets, bombs, shelling, etc. Civilians should leave immediately. Only a few places in recent wars did we not see this. A few places like Paris and Rome were “open cities” and civilians stayed because they weren’t attacked. The original governments withdrew.

    In a few cases, later, cities were surrounded and civilians couldn’t leave (or were kept from leaving).

    So civilians as refugees is a (relatively) good thing. War isn’t.

    Secondly, we see/read of explosions and big holes in buildings. Very dramatic. Some call this War Porn. This all comes from the Ukrainian side since Russia isn’t being attacked.

    This always happens in wars fought in populated areas. So we learn that modern warfare is fairly good at blowing up things. Russians relied on that in WWII and seem to enjoy massive but largely pointless destruction of mainly empty buildings. Yes, it looks bad .

    Wars are won by defeating enemy armies/fighters, not blowing up buildings.

    There will be a lot of reconstruction in Ukraine in the future. The most corrupt nation in Europe. You do the math… (Good luck getting the Russians to pay for it.)

  63. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Triteleia Laxa

    Israeli conservatives actually govern. When they get power, they wield it. American conservatives don't want to govern. Effective governance means, inevitably, migrants die at the border or some feral human gets shot by cops. Then somebody screams, "All men are created equal!" and the egalitarian purity spiral goes off. Israeli conservatives--Israelis, for that matter--have no such delusions about equality, so when alien peoples show up at the border and ask to be let in, Israeli conservatives tell them no.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Gordo, @Rosie

    They are not conservatives they are racial nationalists, conservatives want to protect their money while nationalists want to protect their people ( as a man said )

    • Replies: @Matt Buckalew
    @Gordo

    Why should I care about the people if those same people want to take my money away? Especially when so many aren’t actually my people.

    Now the fact of the matter is I like America far more than most here so I want to protect its people, but a country that can’t protect peoples assets really forfeits much of any claim to demand protection for its people.

  64. NYTimes writers and liberal politicians need to take pictures of the Africans they have taken in.

    Show us the African family you have living in your basement.

    We will be waiting.

    • Agree: Muggles
  65. @New Dealer
    Shouldn’t American Antifa be signing up in international brigades in support of the Russian armed forces, so they can punch the Ukro neonazis? Especially since the Ukronazis are real Nazis rather than Loudon County moms and dads.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/05/31/multimedia/31xp-antifa-pix1/merlin_159394380_8ef29e27-ed5f-4b5a-b061-290b09989d59-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp

    https://i0.wp.com/www.opindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_2876.jpg?ssl=1

    If RinoBidenista-Americans in Ukrainian brigades and AntifaSplc-Americans in the Russian brigades were thrown together in combat, who would prevail?

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Ralph L

    Not sure what is worse.

    110 pound college drop outs thinking they are bad a$$ for waving an anarchist flag and breaking coffee shop windows.

    OR

    Ukrainians holding the flag of a German dictator that launched a bloody war against Eastern Europe and planned on wiping out most Slavs.

    I’ll take equally stupid for $500 Alex.

    Modern masculine insecurity seems to be a global problem. Putin would be the pinnacle of this. A dictator worth over 100 billion and still wants to invade a smaller neighboring country for reasons he hasn’t been able to explain.

  66. @michael droy
    Just spent a long weekend in Warsaw.
    My cheapish hotel 8km from Warsaw was full of healthy Ukrainians and most of the cars in the car park were Ukrainian. Clearly many of the "Ukrainian refugees" are simply the ones who can afford to leave, by car, and able to pay hotel bills. I imagine this is typical of all Warsaw hotels (of all prices).
    No surprise there - some 7m Ukrainians have left over the previous 8 years, many of them workers leaving their families behind. The surprise is that only 2-2.5m have left now. True Russia has only entered the Eastern half of the country and if you stay away from military centres you are safe in W Ukraine - anywhere west of Kiev. And we don't know how many have left for Russia, though there is talk that Ukrainian officials are blocking this and refusing to discuss any evacuation routes out of Kharkov or Kiev that lead to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out and join their friends and family who already work abroad. That would make them like all the Africans that grabbed the moment when Merkel invited Syrians in to Europe.

    There certainly are poorer refugees. In 1991-95, when I was first in Poland, the Warsaw Central station stank because it was the sleeping place of several hundred homeless who filled the large ticket hall at night, found sleeping spaces in the train tunnels and used the soup kitchen in the open plot of land next door. The train station is again where a few thousand (i guess) are staying now. Recently night temperatures have been typically -5 C (23F and a few degrees warmer now).
    There is a lot of help for the refugees, and I drove a friend to deliver her package of diapers etc there on Sunday. Contrary to reports she tells me there were many men, not just women and children, so I guess the men had to cross the Polish border secretly as men of military age are being refused exit from Ukraine at the official crossing points.

    Weirdest fact of all - the UAH, Ukrainian Hryvnia has actually gone up in value against all currencies since the war started.
    Perhaps all those "former" special forces out there are being paid in UAH.

    Replies: @Canute, @Jack D, @utu

    Clearly you are spinning your ‘experience’ one way only to evoke negative feelings about Ukrainian refugees in Poland and to undermine the official narrative. You are not a credible witness if you are a witness at all. Your previous pro Putin comments are revealing.

  67. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    No clue what this is about. Hasn't the entire Russian military collapsed? I thought Zelensky had been crowned king of Moscow. Ghost of Kiev and all that. If needed, we can send a battalion of our USA high steppin' transgender prancy boys. Under the command of super hottie Admiral Levine!

    This is our highest value. It's what young working class white men must die for.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Professional Slav

    This is our highest value. It’s what young working class white men must die for.

    It was Putin that took 18 year olds of the Russian working class and put them in 1970s tanks. Then he sent them in the direction of Kiev after lying about how they would be welcomed as liberators.

    Only one man doing the killing here and that is Putin.

    Just because Putin opposes the West does not mean he values working class Whites.

    He sent those 18 year olds in as cannon fodder to soak up anti-tank missiles. He doesn’t want to send the expensive tanks in yet. So some poor farmer’s son is now dead because Putin doesn’t want the nifty tanks to get scratched.

    What a guy. Reminds me of Hitler claiming to be pro-White and then starting a war by bombing White Christian women and children. In fact he did that earlier by letting the Luftwaffe practice in Spain.

    Nothing says “I love your group” like indiscriminate killing.

    Putin is a LOSER just like Hitler. A couple of losers that use the White working class as part of their death games. Losers that are just mad at the world for having subpar genitals.

    • Thanks: HA
    • Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
    @John Johnson

    "Only one man doing the killing here and that is Putin."

    Putin's a killer, no doubt. Those who oppose him are Western elements who would willingly sacrifice more civilian lives in order to cripple the nascent strategic and financial bloc of China, Russia, India, and Iran. Western governments in thrall to this cartel of malignant oligarchs will have blood on their hands even if they don't enter the war directly. A neocon network within DOS is working on behalf of the cartel to prolong the war, creating the conditions for Putin's Vietnam. No good guys here, including Soros's boy Zelensky. All is evil.

    , @Anonymous
    @John Johnson

    Wowsa, you mean only one man has killed anyone in the last 10 years on this whole globe!

    I could’ve sworn something like 14,000 ethnic Russians had been killed inside the Ukraine since 2014. I could’ve sworn that the illegal coup of 2014 killed people.

    Look we get it, a lot of people are butthurt that Russia won’t accept LGBTQ rights. But we can’t go to nuclear war over it.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @Iron Curtain
    @John Johnson

    Ignorance is bliss. I guess Metaverse will be a place when one can live in a harmony with their ill-conceived ideas about how world is but it will be ok because that’s how meta will be.

  68. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    No clue what this is about. Hasn't the entire Russian military collapsed? I thought Zelensky had been crowned king of Moscow. Ghost of Kiev and all that. If needed, we can send a battalion of our USA high steppin' transgender prancy boys. Under the command of super hottie Admiral Levine!

    This is our highest value. It's what young working class white men must die for.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Professional Slav

    Looks like you’ve been reading Ukranian progadanda. I have it on good authority from RIA/RT news that day 20 of the 2 day blitz is going as planned, with barely any casualties, open armed welcome, and definitely no conscripts fighting for Russia.
    Your white men stayed home watching sportsball while the commander in chief got crowned after an African tier election, I’d worry about dying from heart disease and the ‘beetus before worrying about anyone going to Eastern Europe.

  69. Poland is treating its Ukrainian neighbor refugees

    Poland is treating her Ukrainian brethren selflessly.

    Putin’s minion Belarus’s plot

    Great Russia’s minion White Russia’s plot, using Little Russia. This is a War of the Alphabets.

    Problem is, an obvious solution– stressing one’s difference from Russia by adopting the Latin or Greek script– is untenable. Ukraine is to writing what Bulgarians are to speech– it was their invention. Giving it up would be too painful.

    However, they could always accuse the Russians of cultural appropriation!

    By the way, Korea is always ready to lend the world her hangul.

  70. HA says:
    @JMcG
    @Steve Sailer

    And we know this how? Both sides are putting out propaganda at a furious pace. From a guy whose skepticism of Iraqi WMD was correct, this is disappointing.

    Replies: @HA, @Jack D

    “And we know [about the 16,000 Syrians] how?”

    Because even Putin’s buddies in China are admitting that 16K are “applying” from the Middle East? India is reporting that, too. Not a single denial from anyone in Russia — I mean, apart from Putin’s fanboys and useful idiots still desperately trying to keep up appearances.

    Mind you, they’re not saying the applications are from Syria per se, but is that really the thing that upsets you? You’d be happier if they were Iranians or something? Or do you just choose not to believe things until RT.com gives you permission to do so, even now that their main sources of intel are under house arrest?

  71. A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.

    “He punched us, he kicked us, he threw us down, he hit us with sticks,” Albagir said.

    I’m not one to condone unnecessary violence. But i’m with the Belarusian guy here. This Sudanese POS is openly a parasitic grifter and his kind has been making the border a bigger pain in the ass for this guy and everyone else.

    This parasite bashing was well deserved. Even Jesus got his whip on with money lenders in the temple.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @AnotherDad

    I’m not one to condone unnecessary violence. But i’m with the Belarusian guy here. This Sudanese POS is openly a parasitic grifter and his kind has been making the border a bigger pain in the ass for this guy and everyone else.

    Sudan = Muslim which is not compatible with the West.

    Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise. Britain took in Muslims and they have been rewarded with "car crime" aka Muslim terrorists running over innocent people (often women) because they can't buy guns and guns are what cause crime....unless they don't exist. There are also acid attacks and most have been against women that did someone reprehensible like sleep with another man (GASP). Definitely worth turning someone's face into melted plastic. What a religion.

    Then there is the forced prostitution which no one of course talks about.

    Effeminate border policy ironically leads to strongholds for what is an anti-female religion.

    Replies: @Russ

  72. anonymous[357] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anon
    OT: Some guy by the name of Gerald Brevard III has been arrested for going around and shooting several homeless people in New York and DC. He killed two of them. He's black, and his name sure sounds atypical for a black. He's got a previous record for burglary and abduction.

    https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/suspect-in-deadly-shooting-spree-of-dc-nyc-homeless-people-arrested/

    Replies: @anonymous, @J.Ross

    A Putinazi sleeper cell?

  73. @Altai
    At least they're taking some. (Though I swear if they start complaining and asking other countries to help... Who am I kidding, they're already complaining and offloading them.) And it's the least they can do given their commitment to policies that will produce even more.

    Guess who definitely isn't?

    Israel's Rejection of Ukrainian Refugees Shows It's The Darkness Unto Nations
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-s-rejection-of-ukrainian-refugees-shows-it-s-the-darkness-unto-the-nations-1.10653757

    I'd have thought it was their rejection of the right of return for all those people living in refugee camps in Jordan that made it 'The Darkness Unto Nations' but then I don't write editorials in Haaretz.

    We keep seeing all these rhetoric flying around and social media convulsions that sound like they should be bad news for Israel but they never translate to it. I still think Bari Weiss was foolish to quit her job to signal to others in the media that this will be bad for Israel but when you look at the precedents set here after the invasion, it makes it look hard to imagine Israel getting away with things in future. And yet it seemed like in 2006 too. Israel is immune to social media hysteria because social media hysteria isn't the only component at play here (Otherwise we'd all be forced to learn the names of BTS) it's the media working with social media to create the trending firestorm.

    Replies: @Triteleia Laxa, @YetAnotherAnon, @Pixo

    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    • LOL: Rosie
    • Replies: @Rosie
    @Pixo


    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.
     
    Spare us the lame excuses for the dual strategy. The point is that Israel gets to pick and choose while the rest of us get guilt trips. I don't buy that shit about "densely populated" either. Any place that is White, densely populated or not, always needs more diversity.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Altai

    , @Colin Wright
    @Pixo

    'Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    'And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.'

    Plus, there are all those Syrian refugees they took in.

    , @Wilkey
    @Pixo


    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations. And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.
     
    Oh, bullshit.

    How many Syrian Muslim refugees did it admit? Or Iraqi Muslims or Afghan Muslims or Sudanese Christians or Haitians or Salvadorans?

    So yeah, they allow in the spouses of Jewish immigrants. If the USA or the UK or Australia passed a law allowing in immigrants and refugees only if they were white Christians, or the spouses or white Christians, the MSM would be totally cool with that?

    As for population density, the United Kingdom already has an extremely high population density, yet is getting berated for not taking in enough Ukrainians.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    , @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Pixo

    "Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people."

    You have a very odd way of spelling 'trafficked sex slaves.'

  74. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @Jack D


    I don’t think that there is any contradiction there. The long term goal in the West is to phase out imported hydrocarbon fuels. This war is just one more data point that shows that they drive not only climate change but also fund odious regimes.
     
    I doubt this is the case, otherwise the U.S. would have built more nuclear power plants and one side of the political divide would not scale back and outright sabotage domestic energy exploration and extraction. There's some other controlling interest in play in Western Energy policies.

    However, short term this is just not possible. You can’t go carbon neutral overnight or even in a decade. So in the short to medium run, the West will have to decide which of these regimes is the least odious, the lesser evil. Russia, by starting this war, has put itself on the bottom of the stack – the country you would least want to buy oil from. This is not an “excuse”.
     
    The Europeans are still buying Russian oil, and in the event they boycott it the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it.

    Replies: @Jack D, @Anonymous

    the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it

    At a steep discount. The Indians have already baldly stated that they will buy Russian oil FOR THE RIGHT PRICE.

    2nd, these is not enough pipeline capacity or connections to send all the Russian gas to China and it will take them years to build more pipelines.

    Nuclear plants and domestic exploration have their own environmental risks. The “controlling interest” is that Western countries have been captured by their enviro-leftist “Green” contingent that wants you to ride a bicycle not a pickup truck.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Jack D

    Oil can be transported by rail.

    China has an excellent rail system.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @No jack London

    , @JMcG
    @Jack D

    A Russian oil tanker laden with diesel/heating oil just docked at Dublin. The protests of the union dockers tasked with unloading it were met by shrugs and a variation on “no controlling authority, blah blah blah.”
    Not priced at a discount, either.
    Money talks, bulls**t walks.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ireland-accepts-russian-oil-from-tanker-berthed-at-dublin-port-1.4826933?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fireland-accepts-russian-oil-from-tanker-berthed-at-dublin-port-1.4826933

    Replies: @Alden

  75. @Jack D
    @michael droy

    Russian rockets don't distinguish between rich and poor so the refugees are of all economic classes. Just because you can afford to flee by car and stay in a hotel doesn't mean that you aren't a refugee.

    you are safe in W Ukraine – anywhere west of Kiev.

    Russians hit a base 10 miles from the Polish border yesterday.

    And we don’t know how many have left for Russia

    Estimates are around 2.7M to the West and 100k to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out

    Sure, the Russian artillery has nothing to do with it.

    Hryvnia has actually gone up in value .

    And the ruble has crashed. Maybe the markets are making forecasts as to who will be the winner of this war.

    Replies: @The Alarmist, @Fluesterwitz

    Maybe the markets are making forecasts as to who will be the winner of this war.

    At least one, if not both, of the markets you cite is heavily manipulated. There’s certainly no predictive information in RUB pricing, and I suspect UAH is benefitting from disinformation.

  76. @JMcG
    @Jack D

    The Palestinians only HAVE civilian areas.

    Replies: @Jack D

    So it’s OK to keep rocket launchers inside elementary schools?

    In Gaza they have whatever areas they want since Israel withdrew and does not control the territory.

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Jack D

    Ok. Ukrainians firing on Russians from hospitals are heroes.
    Palestinians firing on Israelis from garden sheds are not.
    Got it.

  77. The comments are open at the nyt. SJWs verus realists. Woman fleeing bombs, black guy fleeing Russia because he doesn’t think a Russian medical degree will be worth squast due to the war. That sums it up. Stay safe.

  78. @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    Replies: @JMcG, @Anonymous, @Brutusale, @Dube, @Lurker

    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 allies in the Syrian Civil War to assault the cities of (the) Ukraine?

    FIFY

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Brutusale


    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 allies in the Syrian Civil War to assault the cities of (the) Ukraine?
     
    We've been calling the Hessians Gen'l Washington attacked in New Jersey on Christmas Day "mercenaries" for over two centuries, when they were no such thing. They had more business here than any Arab has north of the Black Sea.

    Replies: @Jack D

  79. Are we still keeping up with vaccines here at iSteve? Seems like that’s in his wheelhouse now. Wyss Institute has created a lymphoid follicle on a chip. Two-chamber device, B and T cells and dendritic cells in a lower chamber lined with extracellular matrix and run nutrients through a top chamber (there’s diffusion between) and the immune cells self-organize. it’s the fluid flow that makes them decide that they are at work. Pretty clever!

    I hate to stereotype, but the girls and nice liberals in biomed don’t like working on animals. Plus, they are expensive. There’s a lot of research that does not get done, like trying to optimize adjuvants, the material in a vaccine that tells your body New Protein Bad. Plus, if you’ve optimized a mouse adjuvant, so what? It’s not straightforward translating protocols from mouse to man.

    [MORE]

    But now? Someone can try to make a less dangerous version of Freunds adjuvant. just a guess, water in squalene emulsion with CpG oligodeoxynucleotide. Maybe add a mostly-disabled cholera toxin. We can get close looks at human (cell) interactions without ethics approval. Probably will be a useful device in clinical translation, create anticancer T cell modifications in vitro that’s closer to what the cells evolved for. Higher yield, leas exhaustion, that sort of thing.

    There are some startups who want to enable remote biomedical research. You’d learn a programming language, and eventially there would be visual interfaces, and “program” how many test tubes, filled with what chemicals, dumped onto which kind of cells… etc. Then, you’d pay a fee (or your uni would) and machines at BlueEmerald(?) will perform your experiments and collect your data.

    This could be a solution for the replication crisis. It would not be as easy to put one’s thumb on the scale when your experiment is out of your hands. Lab PIs could make sure their Asiam students are not cheating. Data would seriously be worth something when it is not cheaty. When someone has interesting results, everything they have done (except thinking and interpreting) can be audited! The thinking and interpreting can happen in publication, and logical flaws are clearer than the fact that the researcher went through ten experiments to get p = 0.04.

    • Thanks: YetAnotherAnon
  80. @Buzz Mohawk
    @International Jew

    "All the people now idealizing Ukraine" didn't care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

    This is ALL the result of American/Western/Global-Dollar-Empire shenanigans. Poke the bear enough and he will strike back. Naturally, the people paying the most for this, the innocent victims, are the people just trying to live their lives over there.

    History never changes, and we here in the West have terrible, evil, stupid leaders. This is not our country or our civilization anymore. It just isn't. Maybe it hasn't been for many years.

    And, oh, Charles Lindbergh was RIGHT. "History" does not make him a "pariah." Certain opinions and propaganda do. He was CORRECT. America First is a strategy true to George Washington himself. Anyone who argues against it is... wait for it... ANTI-AMERICAN.

    Replies: @Alrenous, @Abe, @John Johnson

    “All the people now idealizing Ukraine” didn’t care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

  81. Ukraine BORDERS Poland, Sudan does not. The African had OTHER options. He could have went to a bordering African country. The Ukrainian had no such option. Also it is human nature to help people like yourselves more so then utterly strange and alien peoples. The Poles are entirely within their rights here.

  82. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Egypt.

    UPSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: Pretty close to Sudan, pretty easy trip, pretty similar ethnic/cultural/religious matrix, easy to blend in.

    DOWNSIDE FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES: No welfare, no white women.

    DESTINATION POLAND!!!

    Replies: @tyrone, @Anonymous, @anonymouseperson

    You CAMP OF THE SAINTS the good countries, not the bad ones.

  83. Anonymous[295] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack D
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)


    the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it
     
    At a steep discount. The Indians have already baldly stated that they will buy Russian oil FOR THE RIGHT PRICE.

    2nd, these is not enough pipeline capacity or connections to send all the Russian gas to China and it will take them years to build more pipelines.

    Nuclear plants and domestic exploration have their own environmental risks. The "controlling interest" is that Western countries have been captured by their enviro-leftist "Green" contingent that wants you to ride a bicycle not a pickup truck.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @JMcG

    Oil can be transported by rail.

    China has an excellent rail system.

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @Anonymous


    Oil can be transported by rail.

    China has an excellent rail system.
     

    Indeed, you used to see a lot more tank cars when i was a kid.

    But there is the issue that China is standard gauge while Russia is on--the superior--1520 "Russian" gauge. (Essentially the metrified version of their original 5' (1524)--"Confederate"--gauge.) I assume they do some sort of gauge transfer scheme but how fast you can ramp up is unclear. Containers are one thing, but for a bulk commodity, what you really want is trains that can just roll source to destination.

    ~

    Shame the world did not end up on a better, broader standard. India, of all places, has the best general purpose gauge (that i know about) in wide use--5'6", noticeably bigger to the eye--probably because the British engineers were savvier about things by the time it was being built out.

    Replies: @Undocumented Shopper

    , @No jack London
    @Anonymous

    Warren Buffet owns Burlington Northern and Santa Fey which ships a lot of oil by rail. Reason to discourage pipelines?

    Replies: @Hibernian

  84. @Alrenous
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Speaking of folk who were right, Joseph McCarthy has been fully vindicated. Recall he started immediately after WWII, in the 40s.

    Can't exactly blame the anti-McCarthyist truth-suppression on the 60s.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @YetAnotherAnon, @Alden

    Amazingly, the left wing imperialist David Aaronovitch devoted half an hour of BBC time to the theme “McCarthy Was Right”, a dozen years back.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7hhf

    David Aaronovitch thinks the unthinkable about the McCarthy period.

    The hunt for the so called ‘Reds under the beds’ during the Cold War is generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot on U.S history. But the release of classified documents reveals that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about the extent of Soviet infiltration into the highest reaches of the U.S government.

    Thanks to the public release of top secret FBI decryptions of Soviet communications, as well as the release under the fifty year rule of FBI records and Soviet archives, we now know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was extensive, reaching to the highest level of the State department and the White House.

    We reveal that many of McCarthy’s anticommunist investigations were in fact on target. His fears about the effect Soviet infiltration might be having on US foreign policy, particularly in the Far East were also well founded.

    The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working with the Soviets. We explore why much of this information, available for years to the FBI, was not made public. We also examine how its suppression prevented the prosecution of suspects.

    Finally, we explore the extent to which Joseph McCarthy, with his unsavoury methods and smear tactics, could have done himself a disservice, resulting in his name being forever synonymous with paranoia and the ruthless suppression of free speech.

    Hearing from former FBI, CIA and KGB operatives as well as formerly blacklisted writers, David Aaronovitch, himself from a family of communists tells the untold story of Soviet influence and espionage in the United States.

    You don’t get lefties using unsavoury tactics and smear campaigns, nosirree!

    I think it was more likely to have been a previous generation of Aaronovitches whose work made “his name being forever synonymous with paranoia“.

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Thanks, there was a bit of a debate here a little while ago as to whether or not Oppenheimer was a Soviet spy.

    Replies: @Alrenous

  85. @JMcG
    @Steve Sailer

    And we know this how? Both sides are putting out propaganda at a furious pace. From a guy whose skepticism of Iraqi WMD was correct, this is disappointing.

    Replies: @HA, @Jack D

    Is TASS a good enough source for you:

    Shoigu announced that it is received “numerous requests from various volunteers from various countries, who want to come to the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to participate in what they believe is a liberation movement,” the defense chief said. “The majority of requests came from the Middle East, as we have received over 16,000 of them,” he specified.

    https://tass.com/politics/1420499

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Jack D

    I thought Russia was seeking to hire 16,000 Syrians. Now your link says they are getting thousands of volunteers from the Middle East. I am frankly skeptical of both those reports.
    Perhaps some Syrians are hoping to get some captured stingers with fresh batteries for use elsewhere.

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Muggles
    @Jack D

    Re: the supposed 16,000 "Syrian volunteers" wanting to join Russians fighting Ukraine.

    Yes, good old TASS. They never print propaganda, never...

    The wording here is all about "applications" to come to Russian controlled Donetsk to supposedly join.

    Doesn't 16,00 sound like a suspiciously round number?

    These applications, if they exist, are probably from some online utility the Russians set up for PR purposes. These Syrians are mainly trying to get to Germany. Perhaps they think this will do it for them.

    Fighting in Ukraine is probably safer than fighting in Syria. Also, they don't want to fight, they want to get to civilized Europe where they can mooch off stupid Euros and have their fancy with loose White women.

    How many of them are volunteering to fight in Ethiopia?

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Daniel H
    @Jack D

    But receiving requests from outsiders (anybody can send a request. I can, you can) to come to Ukraine and fight is a whole 'nuther thing than actually bringing these mercenaries to Ukraine, arming them and unleashing them to commit murder and mayhem.

  86. @Anonymous
    I know that Steve bemoans the force and aggression Vladimir Putin is currently using in order to 'get a point across'. Not the done thing, you know, all rather beastly.

    But a wider point is that political leaders - if they be worthy of that name - must not and cannot shy away from the use of force and aggression.
    If Europe's pantyhose political 'leaders' actually showed one atom of the ruthlessness and aggression of Vladimir Putin, there simply would not be any of this mickey taking faux third world 'asylum' immigration absurdity into the west - and thus no black/brown majority Europe one hundred years down the line.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @AnotherDad

    But a wider point is that political leaders – if they be worthy of that name – must not and cannot shy away from the use of force and aggression.
    If Europe’s pantyhose political ‘leaders’ actually showed one atom of the ruthlessness and aggression of Vladimir Putin, there simply would not be any of this mickey taking faux third world ‘asylum’ immigration absurdity into the west – and thus no black/brown majority Europe one hundred years down the line.

    Willingness to use force–100% correct. But this has nothing to do with Putin and his aggression.

    For example, the US didn’t/doesn’t need to invade Mexico and “straighten it out” or anything else. It simply needed to enforce its border–deploy troops, build a wall, catch and deport invaders–shoot them if they don’t get the message–and fine, sanction, seize, imprison our slimy businessmen employing illegals. Force yes. Invasion not required.

    ~~

    In contrast, Russia’s simply been an aggressive “bad neighbor” for the last few hundred years, but particularly during the Soviet period. Unsurprisingly nations like Ukraine, Poland, the Baltics, Hungary, the Czechs and Slovaks given the chance to be “out from under” take it. (Heck the Finns are contemplating joining NATO now.) Ukrainians look at their options–Poland or Belarus–and think “hmm, i’ll take A”. And Putin instead of just taking care of his people’s business, is all butt hurt about it–like an abusive boyfriend whose woman has left.

    Putin’s imperialist aggression isn’t civilizing, but destructive, anti-civilizing. His bully boy crap is the kind of thing that civilized men have to put down to keep civilization alive.

    • Agree: Jack D
    • Thanks: Muggles, HA
    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @AnotherDad

    Only in this analogy, Russia is an abusive boyfriend who has murdered his girlfriend’s children, and wonders why she won’t take him back.

    As evil and misguided as the West may sometimes be, it isn’t that evil.

    , @nebulafox
    @AnotherDad

    As I've said: he's basically become a walking stereotype out of Bandera's propaganda. Much like Xi Jinping, I'd be cautious about giving Putin too much credit as some kind of 4D thinking genius just because he's not an open clown like we're used to here. One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    That being said, I don't think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin's court. The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he's ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that. So that's a fait accompli now. If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we're still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang

  87. @Jack D
    @michael droy

    Russian rockets don't distinguish between rich and poor so the refugees are of all economic classes. Just because you can afford to flee by car and stay in a hotel doesn't mean that you aren't a refugee.

    you are safe in W Ukraine – anywhere west of Kiev.

    Russians hit a base 10 miles from the Polish border yesterday.

    And we don’t know how many have left for Russia

    Estimates are around 2.7M to the West and 100k to Russia.

    My impression is that many of the refugees have just used this moment to get out

    Sure, the Russian artillery has nothing to do with it.

    Hryvnia has actually gone up in value .

    And the ruble has crashed. Maybe the markets are making forecasts as to who will be the winner of this war.

    Replies: @The Alarmist, @Fluesterwitz

    if you stay away from military centres [emphasis mine] you are safe in W Ukraine – anywhere west of Kiev

    You kind of overlooked the importance of the if-clause.

  88. Oh, how Steve loves to use the term “racist Poland”! Standard
    NY Times policy forever and ever: You are not allowed to use the
    word “Poland” in this newspaper except in a negative context.
    Of course, 43 million German Americans and 7 million Jewish
    Americans fully support this policy. It’s obvious to long-time readers
    of this blog that Steve cannot stand it if Poland is receiving any
    kind of attention. Only Western Europeans and their descendants
    deserve a place in the sun. But Steve’s generation is already
    passing from the scene, and the younger people are less
    narrow-minded.

    In fact, I must give the New York Times some credit. In the last
    2 years or so they suddenly started publishing long articles about various
    Polish celebrities, incl. Iga Światek (tennis champ), Robert Lewandowski
    (footballer), Mata (rapper), and Jakub Józef Orliński (opera countertenor
    who is currently touring the U.S.).

    Meanwhile Poland is hosting over 1.7 million Ukrainian refugees
    (in addition to 1.5 million Ukrainians who had worked and studied
    in Poland prior to the Russian invasion).

    • Replies: @Lex
    @Anon 2

    What are you banging on about? If Steve writes about Poland it's usually something positive regarding not letting in hordes of Muslims etc.

  89. “Should run of the mill domestic unrest give billions of people carte blanche to move into other countries?”

    Yes, says GH asset and head of Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. And his DHS supplies logistics to those domestic agents of synthetic unrest (to procure more restrictive laws). DHS was generated by the Cheney Regency to facilitate domestic skullduggery.

  90. @Almost Missouri
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start,
     
    Yep. As is now standard, the NYT article contains normal-sounding nonsense terms:

    Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized.
     
    What does that mean? Supposedly Albagir wants to learn to heal with medicine. Will healing with medicine somehow "ostracize" his university?

    No, obviously. Wealthy Western welfare states were always his destination. "Studying medicine" was just a vehicle to get there. What he feared is that his vehicle might be ostracized by his intended destination. So he abandoned his vehicle.

    Turned out that was more painful than expected. But he doesn't seem to have any regrets. After all, he has probably crossed at least half a dozen borders and now is only one border away from his goal, in a "safe house", the NYT reporter is talking to him, and he already knows to blame his every misfortune on "racism". So close he can taste it!

    Replies: @anonymouseperson, @DrWatson

    That whole “international student” thing is a scam. Just another way for non whites to come here.

    • Agree: 3g4me
  91. @Arclight
    Historically colonizers were able to move onto someone else's territory because they had superiority in organization and technology, whereas the opposite is true today - instead we have highly developed societies that accept millions of people from substantially less developed cultures in as though this won't have any downside at all. Poland might not ever reach the economic level of neighbors like Germany, but at least they have the guts to keep their culture intact.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    Historically colonizers were able to move onto someone else’s territory because they had superiority in organization and technology, whereas the opposite is true today

    Truer words …

    There has never been a mismatch like this between the invaders and the people they are invading. Never.

    One day’s sortie by the Italian Navy–a fraction of the Italian Navy!–would end the “Mediterranean Crisis” in an instant.

    The problem is the West now has parasitic elites who’ve internalized minoritarianism as an ideology and as a tool for ever greater power to abuse and boss around their subjects.

  92. JMcG says:
    @Jack D
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)


    the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it
     
    At a steep discount. The Indians have already baldly stated that they will buy Russian oil FOR THE RIGHT PRICE.

    2nd, these is not enough pipeline capacity or connections to send all the Russian gas to China and it will take them years to build more pipelines.

    Nuclear plants and domestic exploration have their own environmental risks. The "controlling interest" is that Western countries have been captured by their enviro-leftist "Green" contingent that wants you to ride a bicycle not a pickup truck.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @JMcG

    A Russian oil tanker laden with diesel/heating oil just docked at Dublin. The protests of the union dockers tasked with unloading it were met by shrugs and a variation on “no controlling authority, blah blah blah.”
    Not priced at a discount, either.
    Money talks, bulls**t walks.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ireland-accepts-russian-oil-from-tanker-berthed-at-dublin-port-1.4826933?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fireland-accepts-russian-oil-from-tanker-berthed-at-dublin-port-1.4826933

    • Replies: @Alden
    @JMcG

    Why would Irish dock workers object to Russian oil? Obviously the Irish government has the intelligence not to embargo Russian products.

    Replies: @JMcG

  93. @Jack D
    @JMcG

    So it's OK to keep rocket launchers inside elementary schools?

    In Gaza they have whatever areas they want since Israel withdrew and does not control the territory.

    Replies: @JMcG

    Ok. Ukrainians firing on Russians from hospitals are heroes.
    Palestinians firing on Israelis from garden sheds are not.
    Got it.

  94. @Jack D
    @JMcG

    Is TASS a good enough source for you:


    Shoigu announced that it is received "numerous requests from various volunteers from various countries, who want to come to the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to participate in what they believe is a liberation movement," the defense chief said. "The majority of requests came from the Middle East, as we have received over 16,000 of them," he specified.
     
    https://tass.com/politics/1420499

    Replies: @JMcG, @Muggles, @Daniel H

    I thought Russia was seeking to hire 16,000 Syrians. Now your link says they are getting thousands of volunteers from the Middle East. I am frankly skeptical of both those reports.
    Perhaps some Syrians are hoping to get some captured stingers with fresh batteries for use elsewhere.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @JMcG

    You are obviously not experienced in reading TASS. You don't read the text, you read the subtext. No one in Syria is going to volunteer to risk their life in order to help Russia to kill Nazis in Ukraine. Even Syrians are not that stupid. At least in the old days they could appeal to Communism. What do you appeal to now? Help make Russia safe for oligarch's yachts? He is recruiting mercenaries who will be called "volunteers", not actual volunteers.

  95. @John Johnson
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    This is our highest value. It’s what young working class white men must die for.

    It was Putin that took 18 year olds of the Russian working class and put them in 1970s tanks. Then he sent them in the direction of Kiev after lying about how they would be welcomed as liberators.

    Only one man doing the killing here and that is Putin.

    Just because Putin opposes the West does not mean he values working class Whites.

    He sent those 18 year olds in as cannon fodder to soak up anti-tank missiles. He doesn't want to send the expensive tanks in yet. So some poor farmer's son is now dead because Putin doesn't want the nifty tanks to get scratched.

    What a guy. Reminds me of Hitler claiming to be pro-White and then starting a war by bombing White Christian women and children. In fact he did that earlier by letting the Luftwaffe practice in Spain.

    Nothing says "I love your group" like indiscriminate killing.

    Putin is a LOSER just like Hitler. A couple of losers that use the White working class as part of their death games. Losers that are just mad at the world for having subpar genitals.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Iron Curtain

    “Only one man doing the killing here and that is Putin.”

    Putin’s a killer, no doubt. Those who oppose him are Western elements who would willingly sacrifice more civilian lives in order to cripple the nascent strategic and financial bloc of China, Russia, India, and Iran. Western governments in thrall to this cartel of malignant oligarchs will have blood on their hands even if they don’t enter the war directly. A neocon network within DOS is working on behalf of the cartel to prolong the war, creating the conditions for Putin’s Vietnam. No good guys here, including Soros’s boy Zelensky. All is evil.

    • Thanks: Russ, YetAnotherAnon
  96. @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    Replies: @JMcG, @Anonymous, @Brutusale, @Dube, @Lurker

    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?
    With Ukrainian military shielded in the cities, Syrian mercenaries would be deemed to have useful experience in urban actions.

  97. As I mentioned, in the last couple of years there has been a clear
    change in the New York Times’ editorial policy toward Poland –
    very suddenly the paper has published a number of long articles
    about famous Polish athletes and musicians. I believe the change
    is due to the fact that since 2014 the executive editor of the Times
    has been Dean Baquet who is black. Of course, blacks are fully
    aware that nothing makes the Jews reach for their fainting salts
    as much as mentioning the word “Poland.” So maybe he is doing
    it to spite the Jews or possibly he is trying to redress injustice
    for a group which is clearly marginalized in American life,
    i.e., Polish Americans (10 million in number), based on the
    principle “The Oppressed of the World unite!”

  98. OT proof that woke is also fake.

    https://karlstack.substack.com/p/exclusive-leaked-report-shows-harvard?s=r

    Karlstack has obtained a leaked document that shows a professor of political science at Harvard allegedly fabricated data in order to prove that white people feel threatened by minorities.

    This leaked report was brought forward as a complaint in 2018 against Harvard professor Ryan Enos by an anonymous complainant whose identity is is protected by The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

    A Harvard spokesperson has confirmed that this report sparked an internal and non-public investigation by Harvard’s Committee on Professional Conduct over “research integrity concerns” relating to Enos’ 2016 paper “What the demolition of public housing teaches us about the impact of racial threat on political behavior” published in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS).

    • Thanks: Alden
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @J.Ross

    The social sciences (including economics) are largely BS. Too many people with agendas.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @J.Ross

  99. @Anon
    OT: Some guy by the name of Gerald Brevard III has been arrested for going around and shooting several homeless people in New York and DC. He killed two of them. He's black, and his name sure sounds atypical for a black. He's got a previous record for burglary and abduction.

    https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/suspect-in-deadly-shooting-spree-of-dc-nyc-homeless-people-arrested/

    Replies: @anonymous, @J.Ross

    I wonder if he would have done that if the authorities of New York City did anything whatsoever about aggressive, violent homeless thugs?

  100. @AnotherDad

    A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.

    “He punched us, he kicked us, he threw us down, he hit us with sticks,” Albagir said.
     
    I'm not one to condone unnecessary violence. But i'm with the Belarusian guy here. This Sudanese POS is openly a parasitic grifter and his kind has been making the border a bigger pain in the ass for this guy and everyone else.

    This parasite bashing was well deserved. Even Jesus got his whip on with money lenders in the temple.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    I’m not one to condone unnecessary violence. But i’m with the Belarusian guy here. This Sudanese POS is openly a parasitic grifter and his kind has been making the border a bigger pain in the ass for this guy and everyone else.

    Sudan = Muslim which is not compatible with the West.

    Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise. Britain took in Muslims and they have been rewarded with “car crime” aka Muslim terrorists running over innocent people (often women) because they can’t buy guns and guns are what cause crime….unless they don’t exist. There are also acid attacks and most have been against women that did someone reprehensible like sleep with another man (GASP). Definitely worth turning someone’s face into melted plastic. What a religion.

    Then there is the forced prostitution which no one of course talks about.

    Effeminate border policy ironically leads to strongholds for what is an anti-female religion.

    • Replies: @Russ
    @John Johnson


    Sudan = Muslim which is not compatible with the West.

    Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise.
     
    What our student doesn't know (or pretends not to know) is that the host Poles have much more in common with Ukrainians (especially western Ukrainians) than with Sudanese. Seems so simple that it need not be said, but that's now why it needs saying.

    Perhaps our student looks across the Atlantic and sees throngs of Muslim Somalis freezing their arses off in (formerly) Lutheran Minneapolis. Who made that match? Whomever, by that standard our student when face to face with a Ukrainian thinks he's looking in a mirror.
  101. @Buzz Mohawk
    @International Jew

    "All the people now idealizing Ukraine" didn't care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

    This is ALL the result of American/Western/Global-Dollar-Empire shenanigans. Poke the bear enough and he will strike back. Naturally, the people paying the most for this, the innocent victims, are the people just trying to live their lives over there.

    History never changes, and we here in the West have terrible, evil, stupid leaders. This is not our country or our civilization anymore. It just isn't. Maybe it hasn't been for many years.

    And, oh, Charles Lindbergh was RIGHT. "History" does not make him a "pariah." Certain opinions and propaganda do. He was CORRECT. America First is a strategy true to George Washington himself. Anyone who argues against it is... wait for it... ANTI-AMERICAN.

    Replies: @Alrenous, @Abe, @John Johnson

    “All the people now idealizing Ukraine” didn’t care one whit about that Russian appendage until this issue hit the Mainstream Media. I bet many of them could not find that territory on a map before now.

    A Russian appendage? What about the 1994 Budapest convention where Russia agreed to recognize Ukraine’s borders including Crimea?

    Just throw that unwanted fact down the Unz rabbit hole?

    “this is my last territorial claim in Europe”

    – Lying Hitler

    “we will not invade Ukraine, that is outrageous”

    – Lying Putin

    A couple losers of history that couldn’t even be satisfied as dictators with absolute power. Pathetic.

    Putin is now the most hated man in the world and his economy is trashed. We may even see a full on crash with 40% unemployment. And for what? He can’t even explain his reasons behind the war. It changed from blocking NATO (though Ukraine isn’t invited) to removing “neo-nazis” which I guess means the Jewish president that unlike Putin was democratically elected and will debate his ideas.

  102. @Buzz Mohawk
    @Alrenous

    Yes, McCarthy was right, in spite of his flaws. The US was and still is infested with communist rats. They just come in different flavors now. Some of them comment here in favor of neocon interference in foreign affairs.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb

    “The US was and still is infested with communist rats.”

    Summer of Floyd commies BLM and Antifa were primarily funded by Open Society, The Ford Foundation, The Tides Foundation. In addition, Floydian commies received instruction from ex-military and intelligence mercenaries trained in domestic insurgency and psychological warfare. Some of the more capable Antifians were taught handgun and urban warfare skills. Some of this training was conducted in western Ukraine. The philanthropists behind the above foundations hide their rightist totalitarianism behind the academic woke nonsense (they fund that too). The Floydian BLM commies and anti-fascists were stooges of fascists. Still, black ladies is happy they gots their houses and Warner Bros. contracts.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @SunBakedSuburb


    Summer of Floyd commies BLM and Antifa were primarily funded by Open Society, The Ford Foundation, The Tides Foundation.
     
    Can we burn down Davos in return?
  103. @Jack D
    @JMcG

    Is TASS a good enough source for you:


    Shoigu announced that it is received "numerous requests from various volunteers from various countries, who want to come to the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to participate in what they believe is a liberation movement," the defense chief said. "The majority of requests came from the Middle East, as we have received over 16,000 of them," he specified.
     
    https://tass.com/politics/1420499

    Replies: @JMcG, @Muggles, @Daniel H

    Re: the supposed 16,000 “Syrian volunteers” wanting to join Russians fighting Ukraine.

    Yes, good old TASS. They never print propaganda, never…

    The wording here is all about “applications” to come to Russian controlled Donetsk to supposedly join.

    Doesn’t 16,00 sound like a suspiciously round number?

    These applications, if they exist, are probably from some online utility the Russians set up for PR purposes. These Syrians are mainly trying to get to Germany. Perhaps they think this will do it for them.

    Fighting in Ukraine is probably safer than fighting in Syria. Also, they don’t want to fight, they want to get to civilized Europe where they can mooch off stupid Euros and have their fancy with loose White women.

    How many of them are volunteering to fight in Ethiopia?

    • Agree: Hibernian
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Muggles

    First it wasn't true at all and now that it's coming from Putin's own mouth, well maybe it's true but it really means something else. The fallback excuses are endless.

    Obviously 16k is a rounded #. For those who need translation, Russia has lost a lot of conscripts in Ukraine and is in need of "gun meat" as the Russians say. They are offering a lot of cash (by Syrian standards) for mercenaries and especially ones that won't have any qualms about shooting their cousins like Russian troops sometimes do when they are ordered to shoot at Ukrainian civilians. They are especially looking for people who participated in the genocide in Aleppo and are willing to do the same for Kiev. This is really not hard to figure out but there are none so blind as will not see.

  104. @AnotherDad
    @Anonymous


    But a wider point is that political leaders – if they be worthy of that name – must not and cannot shy away from the use of force and aggression.
    If Europe’s pantyhose political ‘leaders’ actually showed one atom of the ruthlessness and aggression of Vladimir Putin, there simply would not be any of this mickey taking faux third world ‘asylum’ immigration absurdity into the west – and thus no black/brown majority Europe one hundred years down the line.
     
    Willingness to use force--100% correct. But this has nothing to do with Putin and his aggression.

    For example, the US didn't/doesn't need to invade Mexico and "straighten it out" or anything else. It simply needed to enforce its border--deploy troops, build a wall, catch and deport invaders--shoot them if they don't get the message--and fine, sanction, seize, imprison our slimy businessmen employing illegals. Force yes. Invasion not required.

    ~~

    In contrast, Russia's simply been an aggressive "bad neighbor" for the last few hundred years, but particularly during the Soviet period. Unsurprisingly nations like Ukraine, Poland, the Baltics, Hungary, the Czechs and Slovaks given the chance to be "out from under" take it. (Heck the Finns are contemplating joining NATO now.) Ukrainians look at their options--Poland or Belarus--and think "hmm, i'll take A". And Putin instead of just taking care of his people's business, is all butt hurt about it--like an abusive boyfriend whose woman has left.

    Putin's imperialist aggression isn't civilizing, but destructive, anti-civilizing. His bully boy crap is the kind of thing that civilized men have to put down to keep civilization alive.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @nebulafox

    Only in this analogy, Russia is an abusive boyfriend who has murdered his girlfriend’s children, and wonders why she won’t take him back.

    As evil and misguided as the West may sometimes be, it isn’t that evil.

    • Disagree: YetAnotherAnon
  105. @Arclight
    Historically colonizers were able to move onto someone else's territory because they had superiority in organization and technology, whereas the opposite is true today - instead we have highly developed societies that accept millions of people from substantially less developed cultures in as though this won't have any downside at all. Poland might not ever reach the economic level of neighbors like Germany, but at least they have the guts to keep their culture intact.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    Germany’s acceptance of primitive invaders is something along the lines of a forced confession. The native Germans have been told how evil they are for 100 years.

  106. @Jack D
    @JMcG

    Is TASS a good enough source for you:


    Shoigu announced that it is received "numerous requests from various volunteers from various countries, who want to come to the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to participate in what they believe is a liberation movement," the defense chief said. "The majority of requests came from the Middle East, as we have received over 16,000 of them," he specified.
     
    https://tass.com/politics/1420499

    Replies: @JMcG, @Muggles, @Daniel H

    But receiving requests from outsiders (anybody can send a request. I can, you can) to come to Ukraine and fight is a whole ‘nuther thing than actually bringing these mercenaries to Ukraine, arming them and unleashing them to commit murder and mayhem.

  107. @Muggles
    @Jack D

    Re: the supposed 16,000 "Syrian volunteers" wanting to join Russians fighting Ukraine.

    Yes, good old TASS. They never print propaganda, never...

    The wording here is all about "applications" to come to Russian controlled Donetsk to supposedly join.

    Doesn't 16,00 sound like a suspiciously round number?

    These applications, if they exist, are probably from some online utility the Russians set up for PR purposes. These Syrians are mainly trying to get to Germany. Perhaps they think this will do it for them.

    Fighting in Ukraine is probably safer than fighting in Syria. Also, they don't want to fight, they want to get to civilized Europe where they can mooch off stupid Euros and have their fancy with loose White women.

    How many of them are volunteering to fight in Ethiopia?

    Replies: @Jack D

    First it wasn’t true at all and now that it’s coming from Putin’s own mouth, well maybe it’s true but it really means something else. The fallback excuses are endless.

    Obviously 16k is a rounded #. For those who need translation, Russia has lost a lot of conscripts in Ukraine and is in need of “gun meat” as the Russians say. They are offering a lot of cash (by Syrian standards) for mercenaries and especially ones that won’t have any qualms about shooting their cousins like Russian troops sometimes do when they are ordered to shoot at Ukrainian civilians. They are especially looking for people who participated in the genocide in Aleppo and are willing to do the same for Kiev. This is really not hard to figure out but there are none so blind as will not see.

    • Agree: Johann Ricke
  108. “Racist Poland Is Letting in White Ukrainians But Not Africans Migrating Via Belarus”

    Kudos to Poland!

  109. I live in Africa and I would not vouch for any refugee from here. Of course there are some who are honest hard workers, I see some of them working every day, but why would you guys take the chance of finding out?

  110. Geez, does anyone in Washington have a clue?

    The MSN newsfeed just had a bit with Jen Psaki finger waging the Chinese. Unbelievable.

    I guess these people are so used to lecturing and abusing flyover deplorables–gets them all wet and weak in the knees–that they think this sort of behavior is fine.

    Anything we have to say to the Chinese we should be saying calmly and clearly via China experienced diplomats in Beijing. Biden’s spokespeople should only be saying something diplomatic and appropriate:

    “China is a great power. We continually consult with the Chinese. Listen to their concerns and explain ours. We have our separate national interests, but a shared interest in a stable world order of peace and economic development.”

    The last thing in the world any nation wants to get–much less a great power like the Chinese–is a finger waging lecture from Biden’s ugly schoolmarm, as if they are a misbehaving 3rd grader.

    I’m about as diplomatic as the proverbial bull in a china shop, and i could do orders of magnitude better than this. What’s wrong with these people?

    • Agree: northeast
    • Replies: @JMcG
    @AnotherDad

    Never mind the fact that we are borrowing the money from China to supply weapons and intelligence to the Ukraine.
    The mind reels.

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @AnotherDad

    I find "Biden’s ugly schoolmarm" strangely attractive for some reason.

    "Let me get my hands, On your mammary glands ..."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6Jw0TYa_8

    , @Inquiring Mind
    @AnotherDad

    I have a theory of crowd-sourcing in that the American electorate makes the correct decision on who is the president.

    Yeah, yeah, Slick Willie and all of that, but making Bob Dole the president? Whatever some people were smoking, the preponderance of voters were not inhaling any.

    Bush II? Sure, a real disaster with the Iraq War and everything, but Al Gore? We really dodged a bullet on that one? Same for Ketchup Lady's squeeze.

    Much as I believe Barack Obama to be a lightweight, I know of one conservative Republican who voted for him because John McCain would have started WW-III. Mitt? I thought at the time he would be good for the country, but hoo-boy was I proved wrong!

    Hillary as president? I don't have to say anything more.

    Trump vs Biden? Mr. Trump may have been a loose cannon, and maybe his immigration restriction rhetoric was all talk, but his policy mix gave us unprecedented peace and prosperity.

    Did the American Electorate fail us in 2020? Mr. Biden and the last two years is proof positive that he did not win the election. And I believe The Steal was a cooperative, bi-partisan elite, self-organized affair -- much like Murder on the Orient Express, they all did it, and even the Belgian detective was complicit in lying to the Croatian authorities when they rescued the stuck train because he too suffered from the elite impulse in thinking the victim in this instance deserved his fate.

    Mr. Biden is Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry (who is serving in the Biden Administration saying stupid, stupid stuff), Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney all rolled into one dog dump. The American People couldn't have voted him in. America may be past its prime, but 81 million Americans are not that stupid.

  111. Senate voted yes on a permanent year round daylight savings time bill. Still has to pass the Senate.

    • Replies: @Russ
    @Alden


    Senate voted yes on a permanent year round daylight savings time bill. Still has to pass the Senate.
     
    More afternoon/evening Fall/Spring golfing with the lobbyists. Who cares if the children have to await the morning schoolbus in December and January at a pitch-black bus stop? For a body that raises the debt ceiling every time it collectively gets high, the only surprise is that they're not permanently setting the clock three hours ahead. Economics is no constraint so why so astronomy be?
  112. Also, depending upon how many borders they crossed. Fleeing Ukraine for Poland is rather different from fleeing Sudan for Poland (and then presumably on to some EU member with higher welfare). It’s like if there’s a horrible hurricane in the Bahamas: we’re their nearest neighbor. But there are a whole lot of countries closer to Sudan than Poland.

    Right, this has come up before, with the result that the lyingpress gets quiet and changes the subject. A refugee as a matter of definition is a person forced by extreme emergency to flee to the next country — not a wealthy globe-trotter electing to live in a far-off welfare state.

  113. @kaganovitch
    @nokangaroos

    Why, it sounds like he is the Typhoid Mary of chaos.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    Why, it sounds like he is the Typhoid Mary of chaos.

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

    • LOL: Alden
  114. …But after Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering severe sanctions, Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized. So he fled again.

    Oh, there’s a compelling, emotion-fraught reason for fleeing. “My sawbones license from a Russian school may be no good !”

  115. @AnotherDad
    Geez, does anyone in Washington have a clue?

    The MSN newsfeed just had a bit with Jen Psaki finger waging the Chinese. Unbelievable.

    I guess these people are so used to lecturing and abusing flyover deplorables--gets them all wet and weak in the knees--that they think this sort of behavior is fine.


    Anything we have to say to the Chinese we should be saying calmly and clearly via China experienced diplomats in Beijing. Biden's spokespeople should only be saying something diplomatic and appropriate:

    "China is a great power. We continually consult with the Chinese. Listen to their concerns and explain ours. We have our separate national interests, but a shared interest in a stable world order of peace and economic development."

    The last thing in the world any nation wants to get--much less a great power like the Chinese--is a finger waging lecture from Biden's ugly schoolmarm, as if they are a misbehaving 3rd grader.

    I'm about as diplomatic as the proverbial bull in a china shop, and i could do orders of magnitude better than this. What's wrong with these people?

    Replies: @JMcG, @YetAnotherAnon, @Inquiring Mind

    Never mind the fact that we are borrowing the money from China to supply weapons and intelligence to the Ukraine.
    The mind reels.

  116. @Arclight
    Historically colonizers were able to move onto someone else's territory because they had superiority in organization and technology, whereas the opposite is true today - instead we have highly developed societies that accept millions of people from substantially less developed cultures in as though this won't have any downside at all. Poland might not ever reach the economic level of neighbors like Germany, but at least they have the guts to keep their culture intact.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    A thousand years ago Poland not only owned Ukraine but was the most powerful nation in Central Europe. Germany didn’t exist. Most of what much later became Germany was provinces of the Holy Roman Empire.

    Things may change again. Especially of Germany follows the US UK in appointing and electing incompetent blacks and browns to important positions and government and military jobs. Germany is about 2 generations behind the US UK in negrodolatory and turning the biggest cities over to the black and brown trash.

  117. For those beginning to plan their summer vacations to Europe. Here are a few places to avoid.

  118. I’m not sure she’s noticed, but just because you are so confident you know where history is heading doesn’t mean everybody else in the world is going to act like it.

  119. @AnotherDad
    @Anonymous


    But a wider point is that political leaders – if they be worthy of that name – must not and cannot shy away from the use of force and aggression.
    If Europe’s pantyhose political ‘leaders’ actually showed one atom of the ruthlessness and aggression of Vladimir Putin, there simply would not be any of this mickey taking faux third world ‘asylum’ immigration absurdity into the west – and thus no black/brown majority Europe one hundred years down the line.
     
    Willingness to use force--100% correct. But this has nothing to do with Putin and his aggression.

    For example, the US didn't/doesn't need to invade Mexico and "straighten it out" or anything else. It simply needed to enforce its border--deploy troops, build a wall, catch and deport invaders--shoot them if they don't get the message--and fine, sanction, seize, imprison our slimy businessmen employing illegals. Force yes. Invasion not required.

    ~~

    In contrast, Russia's simply been an aggressive "bad neighbor" for the last few hundred years, but particularly during the Soviet period. Unsurprisingly nations like Ukraine, Poland, the Baltics, Hungary, the Czechs and Slovaks given the chance to be "out from under" take it. (Heck the Finns are contemplating joining NATO now.) Ukrainians look at their options--Poland or Belarus--and think "hmm, i'll take A". And Putin instead of just taking care of his people's business, is all butt hurt about it--like an abusive boyfriend whose woman has left.

    Putin's imperialist aggression isn't civilizing, but destructive, anti-civilizing. His bully boy crap is the kind of thing that civilized men have to put down to keep civilization alive.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @nebulafox

    As I’ve said: he’s basically become a walking stereotype out of Bandera’s propaganda. Much like Xi Jinping, I’d be cautious about giving Putin too much credit as some kind of 4D thinking genius just because he’s not an open clown like we’re used to here. One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court. The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that. So that’s a fait accompli now. If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @nebulafox

    One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    Putin wasn't even an agent as often depicted. It was part of a mythos he created.

    He was just a mid level government worker in Dresden and no one cared about what he was working on. When the wall went down he started burning papers on his own even though his bosses didn't care. Well so the story goes anyways. No one knows how much he exaggerated.

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn't mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Someone looked up the boss of Putin who had little to say about him. He certainly had KGB connections but was never an agent.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court.

    That was just an excuse. Ukraine doesn't even quality for NATO. If it was really about NATO silos then Putin would have tried negotiating first. How would they even join NATO with Donbass in dispute? NATO wouldn't want them in for that reason alone.

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Let's say the world recognizes the "people's Donbass" which has been a Russian scam from the beginning. Putin is mortal and I doubt the next leader will have the resolve to maintain such a small territory. The next leader will eventually give it back and apologize in the hope that US/Euro companies return.

    This is really one of the dumbest European invasions of all time. Operation Barbarossa at least was backed by military analysts around the world. It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win. This invasion just doesn't make any sense. Any economic gain from Donbass was wiped out in a day of stock trades. In fact their market is still frozen to keep it from crashing.

    Replies: @Thea, @Hibernian, @Hibernian, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar

    , @Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang
    @nebulafox

    Crimea is a vital point for both sides. One of the major unsettled issues here is “will Ukraine be landlocked”.

    This is why there’s such a blood bath in Mariupol, it’s a must-hold position for both places. The siege of Odessa is looking to be similar.

  120. @Alrenous
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Speaking of folk who were right, Joseph McCarthy has been fully vindicated. Recall he started immediately after WWII, in the 40s.

    Can't exactly blame the anti-McCarthyist truth-suppression on the 60s.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @YetAnotherAnon, @Alden

    Some of my heroes. GeneralFrancisco Franco, Joseph Mccarthy, Bull Connor Governor Wallace James Forrrstall the Whites of Tulsa OK who put down a negro insurrection whose purpose was to free a black who’d attempted to rape a 14 year old girl.

  121. “On the day war broke out in Ukraine, Albagir, a 22-year-old refugee from Sudan…”

    He’s not a refugee, he’s a shopper.

    • Agree: Buffalo Joe
    • LOL: Clyde
    • Replies: @Gamecock
    @Nicholas Stix

    Agreed. By definition. By the UN High Commissioner for Refugees definition.

    The NYTimes writers are ignorant sluts.

    , @Charon
    @Nicholas Stix


    He’s not a refugee, he’s a shopper.
     
    He's not a shopper, he's a shoplifter.
  122. @AnotherDad
    Geez, does anyone in Washington have a clue?

    The MSN newsfeed just had a bit with Jen Psaki finger waging the Chinese. Unbelievable.

    I guess these people are so used to lecturing and abusing flyover deplorables--gets them all wet and weak in the knees--that they think this sort of behavior is fine.


    Anything we have to say to the Chinese we should be saying calmly and clearly via China experienced diplomats in Beijing. Biden's spokespeople should only be saying something diplomatic and appropriate:

    "China is a great power. We continually consult with the Chinese. Listen to their concerns and explain ours. We have our separate national interests, but a shared interest in a stable world order of peace and economic development."

    The last thing in the world any nation wants to get--much less a great power like the Chinese--is a finger waging lecture from Biden's ugly schoolmarm, as if they are a misbehaving 3rd grader.

    I'm about as diplomatic as the proverbial bull in a china shop, and i could do orders of magnitude better than this. What's wrong with these people?

    Replies: @JMcG, @YetAnotherAnon, @Inquiring Mind

    I find “Biden’s ugly schoolmarm” strangely attractive for some reason.

    “Let me get my hands, On your mammary glands …”

  123. @Gordo
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    They are not conservatives they are racial nationalists, conservatives want to protect their money while nationalists want to protect their people ( as a man said )

    Replies: @Matt Buckalew

    Why should I care about the people if those same people want to take my money away? Especially when so many aren’t actually my people.

    Now the fact of the matter is I like America far more than most here so I want to protect its people, but a country that can’t protect peoples assets really forfeits much of any claim to demand protection for its people.

  124. Anonymous[220] • Disclaimer says:
    @John Johnson
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    This is our highest value. It’s what young working class white men must die for.

    It was Putin that took 18 year olds of the Russian working class and put them in 1970s tanks. Then he sent them in the direction of Kiev after lying about how they would be welcomed as liberators.

    Only one man doing the killing here and that is Putin.

    Just because Putin opposes the West does not mean he values working class Whites.

    He sent those 18 year olds in as cannon fodder to soak up anti-tank missiles. He doesn't want to send the expensive tanks in yet. So some poor farmer's son is now dead because Putin doesn't want the nifty tanks to get scratched.

    What a guy. Reminds me of Hitler claiming to be pro-White and then starting a war by bombing White Christian women and children. In fact he did that earlier by letting the Luftwaffe practice in Spain.

    Nothing says "I love your group" like indiscriminate killing.

    Putin is a LOSER just like Hitler. A couple of losers that use the White working class as part of their death games. Losers that are just mad at the world for having subpar genitals.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Iron Curtain

    Wowsa, you mean only one man has killed anyone in the last 10 years on this whole globe!

    I could’ve sworn something like 14,000 ethnic Russians had been killed inside the Ukraine since 2014. I could’ve sworn that the illegal coup of 2014 killed people.

    Look we get it, a lot of people are butthurt that Russia won’t accept LGBTQ rights. But we can’t go to nuclear war over it.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Anonymous

    This may prove to be an unpopular strategy, but if Germany would get its act together, declare her right to build a proper military, and sign a non-aggression pact with Putin, it would be a great start. What would we do in that scenario? Attack and neutralize Germany?

    With what? Tranny Seal Team Six?

    Should this, by the grace of god, happen, this time our leadership role would be to stay out of it, and let those two sort out modern civilization amongst themselves.

    America has turned into an international bus stop for third world carpet baggers, and the slavers who make them jump. All our dreams for the future of this country have been destroyed. I don’t care what happens to America now. I just want to watch, and have fun.

    Could Germany rise again to its former stature, and again assert major influence in the world? Germans are nothing if not creatures of habit. You might be surprised how quickly they can fall back into an organized, aspiring super-power. All they need is the right input.

    They can reboot surprisingly fast…

    https://youtu.be/RcrIaPso-2o

  125. @nebulafox
    @AnotherDad

    As I've said: he's basically become a walking stereotype out of Bandera's propaganda. Much like Xi Jinping, I'd be cautious about giving Putin too much credit as some kind of 4D thinking genius just because he's not an open clown like we're used to here. One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    That being said, I don't think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin's court. The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he's ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that. So that's a fait accompli now. If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we're still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang

    One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    Putin wasn’t even an agent as often depicted. It was part of a mythos he created.

    He was just a mid level government worker in Dresden and no one cared about what he was working on. When the wall went down he started burning papers on his own even though his bosses didn’t care. Well so the story goes anyways. No one knows how much he exaggerated.

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn’t mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Someone looked up the boss of Putin who had little to say about him. He certainly had KGB connections but was never an agent.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court.

    That was just an excuse. Ukraine doesn’t even quality for NATO. If it was really about NATO silos then Putin would have tried negotiating first. How would they even join NATO with Donbass in dispute? NATO wouldn’t want them in for that reason alone.

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Let’s say the world recognizes the “people’s Donbass” which has been a Russian scam from the beginning. Putin is mortal and I doubt the next leader will have the resolve to maintain such a small territory. The next leader will eventually give it back and apologize in the hope that US/Euro companies return.

    This is really one of the dumbest European invasions of all time. Operation Barbarossa at least was backed by military analysts around the world. It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win. This invasion just doesn’t make any sense. Any economic gain from Donbass was wiped out in a day of stock trades. In fact their market is still frozen to keep it from crashing.

    • Replies: @Thea
    @John Johnson


    It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win.
     
    Actually, Japan advised against it and though USSR would win. This opinion formed after witnessing Zhukov’s skill. They refused Hitler’s request to open a Far East front.
    , @Hibernian
    @John Johnson


    Albagir sounds like he’s at about the 95th percentile of wealth for Sudanese.
     
    Or maybe 99th.
    , @Hibernian
    @John Johnson


    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.
     
    They're likely in Old Church Slavonic in both churches, except for sermons which are likely in the vernacular.
    , @Jack D
    @John Johnson


    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.
     
    It will be interesting to see what happens in Latvia and Estonia. As part of the Soviet plan to erase these countries, the Soviets exiled a lot of their people and moved Russians in and Russian speakers are still like 1/3 of the population. The only reason Putin hasn't done a Ukraine on them is that they joined NATO before Putin could pull a "breakaway republic" shtick on them.

    Latvia and Estonia will be aware that their Russians are going to be an eternal excuse for Russian intervention. Protected as they are now by the NATO umbrella, I predict that they are going to crack down hard. No more Russian education. No Russian anything. Learn the local language and identify as a Latvian or Estonian or else leave for Russia.

    Dresden was a nowhere placement in the KGB. The Russians had subverted E. Germany 40 years earlier and the Stasi was everywhere. Who was he going to spy on? It would be like being an American spy in Winnipeg. You could die of boredom.

    Replies: @Iron Curtain

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @John Johnson


    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn’t mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.
     
    Wm F Buckley, Jr read Spanish newspapers. Leroy Anderson read Scandinavian newspapers for the proto-CIA.

    Tom Lehrer did something important working for the (then-closeted) NSA. He invented the Jello Shot.
  126. @Nicholas Stix
    "On the day war broke out in Ukraine, Albagir, a 22-year-old refugee from Sudan..."

    He's not a refugee, he's a shopper.

    Replies: @Gamecock, @Charon

    Agreed. By definition. By the UN High Commissioner for Refugees definition.

    The NYTimes writers are ignorant sluts.

  127. @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?

    Replies: @JMcG, @Anonymous, @Brutusale, @Dube, @Lurker

    It’s alleged that some number of Syrians, vets of the fight against ISIS may be willing to volunteers. Possibly Orthodox Christians. That claim is pretty far from Putin wanting to hire them.

  128. @New Dealer
    Shouldn’t American Antifa be signing up in international brigades in support of the Russian armed forces, so they can punch the Ukro neonazis? Especially since the Ukronazis are real Nazis rather than Loudon County moms and dads.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/05/31/multimedia/31xp-antifa-pix1/merlin_159394380_8ef29e27-ed5f-4b5a-b061-290b09989d59-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp

    https://i0.wp.com/www.opindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_2876.jpg?ssl=1

    If RinoBidenista-Americans in Ukrainian brigades and AntifaSplc-Americans in the Russian brigades were thrown together in combat, who would prevail?

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Ralph L

    Note the NATO flag on the left.

  129. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Alrenous

    Amazingly, the left wing imperialist David Aaronovitch devoted half an hour of BBC time to the theme "McCarthy Was Right", a dozen years back.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7hhf


    David Aaronovitch thinks the unthinkable about the McCarthy period.

    The hunt for the so called 'Reds under the beds' during the Cold War is generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot on U.S history. But the release of classified documents reveals that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about the extent of Soviet infiltration into the highest reaches of the U.S government.

    Thanks to the public release of top secret FBI decryptions of Soviet communications, as well as the release under the fifty year rule of FBI records and Soviet archives, we now know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was extensive, reaching to the highest level of the State department and the White House.

    We reveal that many of McCarthy's anticommunist investigations were in fact on target. His fears about the effect Soviet infiltration might be having on US foreign policy, particularly in the Far East were also well founded.

    The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working with the Soviets. We explore why much of this information, available for years to the FBI, was not made public. We also examine how its suppression prevented the prosecution of suspects.

    Finally, we explore the extent to which Joseph McCarthy, with his unsavoury methods and smear tactics, could have done himself a disservice, resulting in his name being forever synonymous with paranoia and the ruthless suppression of free speech.

    Hearing from former FBI, CIA and KGB operatives as well as formerly blacklisted writers, David Aaronovitch, himself from a family of communists tells the untold story of Soviet influence and espionage in the United States.
     
    You don't get lefties using unsavoury tactics and smear campaigns, nosirree!

    I think it was more likely to have been a previous generation of Aaronovitches whose work made "his name being forever synonymous with paranoia".

    Replies: @JMcG

    Thanks, there was a bit of a debate here a little while ago as to whether or not Oppenheimer was a Soviet spy.

    • Replies: @Alrenous
    @JMcG

    "Spy" suggests the employers of these people didn't know they were speaking with the Soviets. It's only a mild exaggeration to say FDR considered Stalin an American spy. You can argue about who was playing whom but nobody was confused about who was at the table.

    Replies: @JMcG

  130. The White Ukrainians are actual refugees; the africans are merely shoppers, going from country to country, hunting for bargains.

    • Agree: Abe
    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @Nicholas Stix

    Shoplifters. They have no coin.

  131. @Pat Hannagan
    @PiltdownMan

    America can whatever America wants

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as

    At some point you'll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they're not principled.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan, @Reg Cæsar, @Alt Right Moderate

    America can whatever America wants

    Oh? Where’s our border wall? When are our boys due home?

    At some point you’ll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they’re not principled.

    I always wondered why we went overseas to fight Hitler, when he was indistinguishable from any other European leader. We really don’t understand that continent peninsula at all.

    So Charles Lindbergh wasn’t a true American. No more than Stockholm-born Charles Sr, who refused to fight the Kaiser.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

    As opposed to the noble aims of the Spanish, French, and British Empires. We have succumbed to Dengism:

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Reg Cæsar


    I always wondered why we went overseas to fight Hitler, when he was indistinguishable from any other European leader.
     
    #1 He wasn't.

    #2 Hitler declared war on the US, not vice versa.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  132. @AnotherDad
    Geez, does anyone in Washington have a clue?

    The MSN newsfeed just had a bit with Jen Psaki finger waging the Chinese. Unbelievable.

    I guess these people are so used to lecturing and abusing flyover deplorables--gets them all wet and weak in the knees--that they think this sort of behavior is fine.


    Anything we have to say to the Chinese we should be saying calmly and clearly via China experienced diplomats in Beijing. Biden's spokespeople should only be saying something diplomatic and appropriate:

    "China is a great power. We continually consult with the Chinese. Listen to their concerns and explain ours. We have our separate national interests, but a shared interest in a stable world order of peace and economic development."

    The last thing in the world any nation wants to get--much less a great power like the Chinese--is a finger waging lecture from Biden's ugly schoolmarm, as if they are a misbehaving 3rd grader.

    I'm about as diplomatic as the proverbial bull in a china shop, and i could do orders of magnitude better than this. What's wrong with these people?

    Replies: @JMcG, @YetAnotherAnon, @Inquiring Mind

    I have a theory of crowd-sourcing in that the American electorate makes the correct decision on who is the president.

    Yeah, yeah, Slick Willie and all of that, but making Bob Dole the president? Whatever some people were smoking, the preponderance of voters were not inhaling any.

    Bush II? Sure, a real disaster with the Iraq War and everything, but Al Gore? We really dodged a bullet on that one? Same for Ketchup Lady’s squeeze.

    Much as I believe Barack Obama to be a lightweight, I know of one conservative Republican who voted for him because John McCain would have started WW-III. Mitt? I thought at the time he would be good for the country, but hoo-boy was I proved wrong!

    Hillary as president? I don’t have to say anything more.

    Trump vs Biden? Mr. Trump may have been a loose cannon, and maybe his immigration restriction rhetoric was all talk, but his policy mix gave us unprecedented peace and prosperity.

    Did the American Electorate fail us in 2020? Mr. Biden and the last two years is proof positive that he did not win the election. And I believe The Steal was a cooperative, bi-partisan elite, self-organized affair — much like Murder on the Orient Express, they all did it, and even the Belgian detective was complicit in lying to the Croatian authorities when they rescued the stuck train because he too suffered from the elite impulse in thinking the victim in this instance deserved his fate.

    Mr. Biden is Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry (who is serving in the Biden Administration saying stupid, stupid stuff), Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney all rolled into one dog dump. The American People couldn’t have voted him in. America may be past its prime, but 81 million Americans are not that stupid.

  133. @nebulafox
    @AnotherDad

    As I've said: he's basically become a walking stereotype out of Bandera's propaganda. Much like Xi Jinping, I'd be cautious about giving Putin too much credit as some kind of 4D thinking genius just because he's not an open clown like we're used to here. One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    That being said, I don't think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin's court. The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he's ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that. So that's a fait accompli now. If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we're still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang

    Crimea is a vital point for both sides. One of the major unsettled issues here is “will Ukraine be landlocked”.

    This is why there’s such a blood bath in Mariupol, it’s a must-hold position for both places. The siege of Odessa is looking to be similar.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
  134. @JMcG
    @Jack D

    A Russian oil tanker laden with diesel/heating oil just docked at Dublin. The protests of the union dockers tasked with unloading it were met by shrugs and a variation on “no controlling authority, blah blah blah.”
    Not priced at a discount, either.
    Money talks, bulls**t walks.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ireland-accepts-russian-oil-from-tanker-berthed-at-dublin-port-1.4826933?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fireland-accepts-russian-oil-from-tanker-berthed-at-dublin-port-1.4826933

    Replies: @Alden

    Why would Irish dock workers object to Russian oil? Obviously the Irish government has the intelligence not to embargo Russian products.

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Alden

    There’s nothing that compares to the finely tuned moral outrage of your average Irish lefty.

  135. @John Johnson
    @nebulafox

    One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    Putin wasn't even an agent as often depicted. It was part of a mythos he created.

    He was just a mid level government worker in Dresden and no one cared about what he was working on. When the wall went down he started burning papers on his own even though his bosses didn't care. Well so the story goes anyways. No one knows how much he exaggerated.

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn't mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Someone looked up the boss of Putin who had little to say about him. He certainly had KGB connections but was never an agent.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court.

    That was just an excuse. Ukraine doesn't even quality for NATO. If it was really about NATO silos then Putin would have tried negotiating first. How would they even join NATO with Donbass in dispute? NATO wouldn't want them in for that reason alone.

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Let's say the world recognizes the "people's Donbass" which has been a Russian scam from the beginning. Putin is mortal and I doubt the next leader will have the resolve to maintain such a small territory. The next leader will eventually give it back and apologize in the hope that US/Euro companies return.

    This is really one of the dumbest European invasions of all time. Operation Barbarossa at least was backed by military analysts around the world. It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win. This invasion just doesn't make any sense. Any economic gain from Donbass was wiped out in a day of stock trades. In fact their market is still frozen to keep it from crashing.

    Replies: @Thea, @Hibernian, @Hibernian, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar

    It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win.

    Actually, Japan advised against it and though USSR would win. This opinion formed after witnessing Zhukov’s skill. They refused Hitler’s request to open a Far East front.

  136. @nokangaroos

    ... As a boy, Albagir said he watched his homeland of Darfur ripped apart by war and saw "everything you can imagine." Then he fled to Khatoum, Sudan´s capital, to study medicine. But Khartoum soon exploded into chaos too.
     
    https://www.asterix.com/illus/asterix-de-a-a-z/les-personnages/perso/r25b.gif

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Zero Philosopher

    I love the Asterix cartoons as well, but I guess your reference will be completely lost with the mostly American readership of this blog. 🤣

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    @Zero Philosopher

    Unfortunately yes.
    The French commentariat now dwell on a distinct similarity to Zemmour :P

  137. @John Johnson
    @nebulafox

    One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    Putin wasn't even an agent as often depicted. It was part of a mythos he created.

    He was just a mid level government worker in Dresden and no one cared about what he was working on. When the wall went down he started burning papers on his own even though his bosses didn't care. Well so the story goes anyways. No one knows how much he exaggerated.

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn't mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Someone looked up the boss of Putin who had little to say about him. He certainly had KGB connections but was never an agent.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court.

    That was just an excuse. Ukraine doesn't even quality for NATO. If it was really about NATO silos then Putin would have tried negotiating first. How would they even join NATO with Donbass in dispute? NATO wouldn't want them in for that reason alone.

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Let's say the world recognizes the "people's Donbass" which has been a Russian scam from the beginning. Putin is mortal and I doubt the next leader will have the resolve to maintain such a small territory. The next leader will eventually give it back and apologize in the hope that US/Euro companies return.

    This is really one of the dumbest European invasions of all time. Operation Barbarossa at least was backed by military analysts around the world. It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win. This invasion just doesn't make any sense. Any economic gain from Donbass was wiped out in a day of stock trades. In fact their market is still frozen to keep it from crashing.

    Replies: @Thea, @Hibernian, @Hibernian, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar

    Albagir sounds like he’s at about the 95th percentile of wealth for Sudanese.

    Or maybe 99th.

  138. @Nicholas Stix
    The White Ukrainians are actual refugees; the africans are merely shoppers, going from country to country, hunting for bargains.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    Shoplifters. They have no coin.

  139. @John Johnson
    @nebulafox

    One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    Putin wasn't even an agent as often depicted. It was part of a mythos he created.

    He was just a mid level government worker in Dresden and no one cared about what he was working on. When the wall went down he started burning papers on his own even though his bosses didn't care. Well so the story goes anyways. No one knows how much he exaggerated.

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn't mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Someone looked up the boss of Putin who had little to say about him. He certainly had KGB connections but was never an agent.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court.

    That was just an excuse. Ukraine doesn't even quality for NATO. If it was really about NATO silos then Putin would have tried negotiating first. How would they even join NATO with Donbass in dispute? NATO wouldn't want them in for that reason alone.

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Let's say the world recognizes the "people's Donbass" which has been a Russian scam from the beginning. Putin is mortal and I doubt the next leader will have the resolve to maintain such a small territory. The next leader will eventually give it back and apologize in the hope that US/Euro companies return.

    This is really one of the dumbest European invasions of all time. Operation Barbarossa at least was backed by military analysts around the world. It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win. This invasion just doesn't make any sense. Any economic gain from Donbass was wiped out in a day of stock trades. In fact their market is still frozen to keep it from crashing.

    Replies: @Thea, @Hibernian, @Hibernian, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    They’re likely in Old Church Slavonic in both churches, except for sermons which are likely in the vernacular.

  140. @Reg Cæsar
    @Pat Hannagan


    America can whatever America wants
     
    Oh? Where's our border wall? When are our boys due home?

    At some point you’ll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they’re not principled.
     
    I always wondered why we went overseas to fight Hitler, when he was indistinguishable from any other European leader. We really don't understand that continent peninsula at all.

    So Charles Lindbergh wasn't a true American. No more than Stockholm-born Charles Sr, who refused to fight the Kaiser.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

     

    As opposed to the noble aims of the Spanish, French, and British Empires. We have succumbed to Dengism:


    https://media.newyorker.com/photos/590958832179605b11ad4524/master/pass/Rich-thumb-465x279-22561.jpg

    Replies: @Jack D

    I always wondered why we went overseas to fight Hitler, when he was indistinguishable from any other European leader.

    #1 He wasn’t.

    #2 Hitler declared war on the US, not vice versa.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Jack D


    #1 He wasn’t.
     
    That was a barb aimed at an all-too-common anti-American slander. The ultimate reply to the charge that the US has too many nukes is "Because your country encouraged us to enter the war."

    Besides, you can't deny that Adolf and the other overdressed fags in his party weren't European. What else could they be?


    #2 Hitler declared war on the US, not vice versa.
     
    We could have laughed at him and concentrated on the Pacific. We should have. We might have won there before the bomb was finished, making the Cold War and its aftermath look very different.
  141. @PiltdownMan

    A huge Belarusian soldier screamed racial slurs and angrily assaulted them.
     
    This is what passes for journalistic language these days?

    Besides, I wonder why. Things appear to be hunky-dory between Belarus and Sudan.

    Sudan, Belarus sign friendship and cooperation agreement

    https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-belarus-sign-friendship-and-cooperation-agreement

    https://i.imgur.com/oBIuKQ7.jpg
     

    Replies: @Pat Hannagan, @International Jew, @Ummm

    Could it be, perhaps, that this isn’t a race issue, but a class issue?

    If you’re standing at the polish border, and you’re ukrainian – easy to identify. You are probably poor and need help.

    If you’re not-white, and especially if you speak a language other than your native, probably you’re rich.

    The hypothetical soldier may well be beating on you for being an obvious rich asshole trying to take advantage of a shit situation.

  142. @John Johnson
    @nebulafox

    One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    Putin wasn't even an agent as often depicted. It was part of a mythos he created.

    He was just a mid level government worker in Dresden and no one cared about what he was working on. When the wall went down he started burning papers on his own even though his bosses didn't care. Well so the story goes anyways. No one knows how much he exaggerated.

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn't mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Someone looked up the boss of Putin who had little to say about him. He certainly had KGB connections but was never an agent.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court.

    That was just an excuse. Ukraine doesn't even quality for NATO. If it was really about NATO silos then Putin would have tried negotiating first. How would they even join NATO with Donbass in dispute? NATO wouldn't want them in for that reason alone.

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Let's say the world recognizes the "people's Donbass" which has been a Russian scam from the beginning. Putin is mortal and I doubt the next leader will have the resolve to maintain such a small territory. The next leader will eventually give it back and apologize in the hope that US/Euro companies return.

    This is really one of the dumbest European invasions of all time. Operation Barbarossa at least was backed by military analysts around the world. It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win. This invasion just doesn't make any sense. Any economic gain from Donbass was wiped out in a day of stock trades. In fact their market is still frozen to keep it from crashing.

    Replies: @Thea, @Hibernian, @Hibernian, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    It will be interesting to see what happens in Latvia and Estonia. As part of the Soviet plan to erase these countries, the Soviets exiled a lot of their people and moved Russians in and Russian speakers are still like 1/3 of the population. The only reason Putin hasn’t done a Ukraine on them is that they joined NATO before Putin could pull a “breakaway republic” shtick on them.

    Latvia and Estonia will be aware that their Russians are going to be an eternal excuse for Russian intervention. Protected as they are now by the NATO umbrella, I predict that they are going to crack down hard. No more Russian education. No Russian anything. Learn the local language and identify as a Latvian or Estonian or else leave for Russia.

    Dresden was a nowhere placement in the KGB. The Russians had subverted E. Germany 40 years earlier and the Stasi was everywhere. Who was he going to spy on? It would be like being an American spy in Winnipeg. You could die of boredom.

    • Agree: Wilkey
    • Replies: @Iron Curtain
    @Jack D

    Stop spreading disinformation, there is internet. Soviets exiled what 20-30K who returned back after 1953. It’s a tragedy but has nothing to do with “depopulation” but territory control. In USSR all national republics had schools - both secondary and college level - in their native language. TV and movie studios in native language, newspapers, radio stations, etc. Just stop spreading patent untruths. Native Latvian population doubled after the WW2 and had no restrictions in cultural life. There was influx of people from other regions primarily to work on industrial projects. Considering that in Latvia case, it lost its Germans (left) and Jews (massacred by locals) and Russians - there were plenty - the need was there.

    Replies: @Jack D

  143. @JMcG
    @Jack D

    I thought Russia was seeking to hire 16,000 Syrians. Now your link says they are getting thousands of volunteers from the Middle East. I am frankly skeptical of both those reports.
    Perhaps some Syrians are hoping to get some captured stingers with fresh batteries for use elsewhere.

    Replies: @Jack D

    You are obviously not experienced in reading TASS. You don’t read the text, you read the subtext. No one in Syria is going to volunteer to risk their life in order to help Russia to kill Nazis in Ukraine. Even Syrians are not that stupid. At least in the old days they could appeal to Communism. What do you appeal to now? Help make Russia safe for oligarch’s yachts? He is recruiting mercenaries who will be called “volunteers”, not actual volunteers.

  144. OT The vax is death, and the Current Thing is not distracting anyone but cattle.
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ed-dowd-millennial-age-group-25-to?s=r

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @J.Ross


    OT The vax is death
     
    How about the obvious: the spike protein is "death"--i.e. bad for you, especially your circulatory system.

    The vax is death, but not compared to getting the Fauci itself. If you are sure you are going to skate--never get the Fauci, then getting the vax is very bad idea. But if you think you are going to eventually get the Fauci, then the vax gives you an upfront limited dose of spikey, without the ability for it to self-replicate as with the virus. And when expose to the real deal, you're much better off. (What all the hospital data clearly indicate.)

    This simple interpretation fits his graphs. 2020, through early 2021, almost all the excess deaths in the 15-44 are Fauci related. Then the vax and later the vax mandates kick in and there's a spike of several thousand additional excess deaths, that's about the size of the Fauci deaths.

    But, of course, there's a much, much larger group of 15-44 year olds who got vax'd in the back half of 2021, then got the Fauci in the back half of 2021. Obvious conclusion: The vax is deadly, but less deadly than Fauci.

    This this is a recurrent issue here. Young guys pointing that the Fauci virus is low risk for them--it will bounce right off them because they are supermen! (AnotherProspectiveSonInLaw is a young healthy guy but the thing kicked his ass really well for a couple weeks. AnotherSon is a young healthy guy and he was fairly sick for a week or so, but "definitely not his worst ever".) And indeed Fauci is low risk of death for young healthy people. But then they turn around and obsess over the vaccine, which has an even lower risk of death for them. Apples to apples is what matters--again unless you think you can skate and not eat any fruit at all. (Just burgers and beer for me!)

    ~~~

    Caveats:
    -- It could be that the configuration of the spike in the vax--original flavor--is much worse for your circulatory system than the mutated spike in the Omicron variant. This is possible ... i simply don't know. This is something that should be a top research priority. But we have mediocre elites so obsessed with beating everyone into compliance, that they don't prioritize getting to the truth and finding the best outcome.

    I'm annoyed with the utter sloth of the vaccine makers--just pumping out the same shit, milking the cow. Personally, i have no desire to get a "booster" or any more shots, until they have updated the spike. (Maybe less damaging, maybe not.)


    --People who have already had the Fauci, especially healthy young men, i would not get the vax. My guess--that's all it is--is that the balance of probabilities suggests the relative risks of another vax forced exposure to spikey (original recipe) versus gain in battling next variant of Fauci--with yet another mutation--is a poor or at least mediocre tradeoff.


    We badly need real, non-politicized--non-religious!--science on these issues.
  145. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Triteleia Laxa

    Israeli conservatives actually govern. When they get power, they wield it. American conservatives don't want to govern. Effective governance means, inevitably, migrants die at the border or some feral human gets shot by cops. Then somebody screams, "All men are created equal!" and the egalitarian purity spiral goes off. Israeli conservatives--Israelis, for that matter--have no such delusions about equality, so when alien peoples show up at the border and ask to be let in, Israeli conservatives tell them no.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Gordo, @Rosie

    Israeli conservatives actually govern. When they get power, they wield it.

    The problem is more fundamental than that. Israeli conservatives aren’t bought off by enemies of the people. It’s not a conspiracy theory but a proven fact that politicians are whores to their big donors. If politicians can say one thing and do another, it doesn’t how many elections you win.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
  146. @John Johnson
    @AnotherDad

    I’m not one to condone unnecessary violence. But i’m with the Belarusian guy here. This Sudanese POS is openly a parasitic grifter and his kind has been making the border a bigger pain in the ass for this guy and everyone else.

    Sudan = Muslim which is not compatible with the West.

    Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise. Britain took in Muslims and they have been rewarded with "car crime" aka Muslim terrorists running over innocent people (often women) because they can't buy guns and guns are what cause crime....unless they don't exist. There are also acid attacks and most have been against women that did someone reprehensible like sleep with another man (GASP). Definitely worth turning someone's face into melted plastic. What a religion.

    Then there is the forced prostitution which no one of course talks about.

    Effeminate border policy ironically leads to strongholds for what is an anti-female religion.

    Replies: @Russ

    Sudan = Muslim which is not compatible with the West.

    Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise.

    What our student doesn’t know (or pretends not to know) is that the host Poles have much more in common with Ukrainians (especially western Ukrainians) than with Sudanese. Seems so simple that it need not be said, but that’s now why it needs saying.

    Perhaps our student looks across the Atlantic and sees throngs of Muslim Somalis freezing their arses off in (formerly) Lutheran Minneapolis. Who made that match? Whomever, by that standard our student when face to face with a Ukrainian thinks he’s looking in a mirror.

  147. @Pixo
    @Altai

    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    Replies: @Rosie, @Colin Wright, @Wilkey, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    Spare us the lame excuses for the dual strategy. The point is that Israel gets to pick and choose while the rest of us get guilt trips. I don’t buy that shit about “densely populated” either. Any place that is White, densely populated or not, always needs more diversity.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Rosie

    'Spare us the lame excuses for the dual strategy. The point is that Israel gets to pick and choose while the rest of us get guilt trips. I don’t buy that shit about “densely populated” either. Any place that is White, densely populated or not, always needs more diversity.'

    Ah, but Jews have decided they're 'not white.' You gotta keep up, Rosie.

    Replies: @Altai

    , @Altai
    @Rosie

    Ireland is a country of just 5 million people with about 20-25% being foreign born (Not counting native born to foreign parents) at this point and a massive housing crisis. It is taking 100k Ukrainians which, of course, will turn into more through chain migration.

    This despite being neutral and not part of NATO and thus playing no part in this fiasco. But imagine if the government refused the 100k? It'd be eaten alive by it's own media and intellectual elites. The person on the street might be happy but wouldn't be able to speak.

    Israel on the other hand has lots of immigrants but they're selected to increase the proportion of the core demographic not displace.

    Replies: @Jack D

  148. It’s okay. Israel will take them in. They’re Jews there.

  149. @Pixo
    @Altai

    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    Replies: @Rosie, @Colin Wright, @Wilkey, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    ‘Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    ‘And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.’

    Plus, there are all those Syrian refugees they took in.

    • LOL: YetAnotherAnon
  150. @Anon 2
    Oh, how Steve loves to use the term “racist Poland”! Standard
    NY Times policy forever and ever: You are not allowed to use the
    word “Poland” in this newspaper except in a negative context.
    Of course, 43 million German Americans and 7 million Jewish
    Americans fully support this policy. It’s obvious to long-time readers
    of this blog that Steve cannot stand it if Poland is receiving any
    kind of attention. Only Western Europeans and their descendants
    deserve a place in the sun. But Steve’s generation is already
    passing from the scene, and the younger people are less
    narrow-minded.

    In fact, I must give the New York Times some credit. In the last
    2 years or so they suddenly started publishing long articles about various
    Polish celebrities, incl. Iga Światek (tennis champ), Robert Lewandowski
    (footballer), Mata (rapper), and Jakub Józef Orliński (opera countertenor
    who is currently touring the U.S.).

    Meanwhile Poland is hosting over 1.7 million Ukrainian refugees
    (in addition to 1.5 million Ukrainians who had worked and studied
    in Poland prior to the Russian invasion).

    Replies: @Lex

    What are you banging on about? If Steve writes about Poland it’s usually something positive regarding not letting in hordes of Muslims etc.

  151. Keep ‘ em out!!

  152. @Rosie
    @Pixo


    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.
     
    Spare us the lame excuses for the dual strategy. The point is that Israel gets to pick and choose while the rest of us get guilt trips. I don't buy that shit about "densely populated" either. Any place that is White, densely populated or not, always needs more diversity.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Altai

    ‘Spare us the lame excuses for the dual strategy. The point is that Israel gets to pick and choose while the rest of us get guilt trips. I don’t buy that shit about “densely populated” either. Any place that is White, densely populated or not, always needs more diversity.’

    Ah, but Jews have decided they’re ‘not white.’ You gotta keep up, Rosie.

    • Replies: @Altai
    @Colin Wright

    Jews are Schrodinger's whites, they're white when it's an advantage and they're non-white when it's not. Sometimes at the same time. Sometimes it's 'just a religion' sometimes they're an ethnicity, depending on what is the better line.

    Much concern has emerged that gentile non-white voices are getting too hard to control and that many fail to see them as 'white'. See Bari Weiss's resignation which even Steve failed to point out has to do with Israel and not 'wokeness' per say. The only way Bari Weiss is at ends with the woke enough to leave a very well-paying and high status job and get sympathetic media coverage for it is her turbo Zionism. She is a lesbian Jew. She is afraid that one day the eye of cancellation will turn on Israel which, unlike the West, is actually guilty of of all the sins they claim as their principal moral drivers.

  153. @Buffalo Joe
    Unfortunately for Albagir, the nyt has already published his story so he can forget the book and movie deal. Good luck with your Med Studies and I am wondering if you plan to return to the Sudan to practice nedicine. Who am I kidding? I know the answer to that question. And a fact that the nyt and Albagir don't high lite, he is a black man studying for a medical degree in a European country but he is now living "illegaly now in Poland. The nyt is always on the side of the illegal in any country.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

    “The NYT is always on the side of the illegal in any country.”

    Except one.

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @The Germ Theory of Disease

    Nah, that one too

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/world/middleeast/israel-migrants-african.html

  154. Anon[399] • Disclaimer says:

    So what exactly is Poland’s long term plan here? Everyone knows that globohomo wants to flood all of Eastern Europe with Africans and Arabs, they’ve been publicly pressing them to that effect since at least 2015. As the left continues to entrench in the USA and western Europe and the hysteria over white supremacy intensifies, so will the pressure exerted on the Visegard 4 and the rest to open up their borders to mass thirdworldization. They have stood more or less firm up to now, but this has been only the gentlest of prodding and nothing compared to the pressure yet to come. The Slavic-sphere sans Russia is not a viable power center and will be easily coerced to do what globohomo commands.

    So what are the dumb Polacks doing? They are agitating for Russian defeat and Russia’s incorporation into the very globohomo order that is already pushing Poland to commit demographic seppuku. Meanwhile the rapefugees are quite correctly licking their chops and going “looks like Polish Poon is back on the menu boys!”

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    It was Putin-allied Belarus that was trying to flood Poland with Third World refugees.

    Replies: @Coemgen, @Veteran Aryan, @Coemgen

    , @Undocumented Shopper
    @Anon

    You've been slamming your brain very hard against that rotating table, but nothing intelligent spilled out.

    Russia was trying to flood Poland with Africans through the Belarus corridor.

    , @IHTG
    @Anon


    The Slavic-sphere sans Russia is not a viable power center and will be easily coerced to do what globohomo commands.
     
    Just the opposite. Now the EU/NATO/"globohomo" needs them on its side against Russia more than ever. Think of how apartheid South Africa held on until the end of the Cold War.
  155. @Pixo
    @Altai

    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    Replies: @Rosie, @Colin Wright, @Wilkey, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations. And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    Oh, bullshit.

    How many Syrian Muslim refugees did it admit? Or Iraqi Muslims or Afghan Muslims or Sudanese Christians or Haitians or Salvadorans?

    So yeah, they allow in the spouses of Jewish immigrants. If the USA or the UK or Australia passed a law allowing in immigrants and refugees only if they were white Christians, or the spouses or white Christians, the MSM would be totally cool with that?

    As for population density, the United Kingdom already has an extremely high population density, yet is getting berated for not taking in enough Ukrainians.

    • Agree: 3g4me
    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Wilkey

    "As for population density, the United Kingdom already has an extremely high population density, yet is getting berated for not taking in enough Ukrainians."

    England has the highest population density of any major European country bar Holland.

    Scotland and Wales have large empty mountainous regions, and like to put out the welcome mat for refugees, knowing 95% of arrivals will end up with the English.

    https://theconversation.com/think-your-country-is-crowded-these-maps-reveal-the-truth-about-population-density-across-europe-90345

    Replies: @Coemgen

  156. @Anon
    So what exactly is Poland's long term plan here? Everyone knows that globohomo wants to flood all of Eastern Europe with Africans and Arabs, they've been publicly pressing them to that effect since at least 2015. As the left continues to entrench in the USA and western Europe and the hysteria over white supremacy intensifies, so will the pressure exerted on the Visegard 4 and the rest to open up their borders to mass thirdworldization. They have stood more or less firm up to now, but this has been only the gentlest of prodding and nothing compared to the pressure yet to come. The Slavic-sphere sans Russia is not a viable power center and will be easily coerced to do what globohomo commands.

    So what are the dumb Polacks doing? They are agitating for Russian defeat and Russia's incorporation into the very globohomo order that is already pushing Poland to commit demographic seppuku. Meanwhile the rapefugees are quite correctly licking their chops and going "looks like Polish Poon is back on the menu boys!"

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Undocumented Shopper, @IHTG

    It was Putin-allied Belarus that was trying to flood Poland with Third World refugees.

    • Replies: @Coemgen
    @Steve Sailer

    From where did Belarus get this flood of Third World refugees?

    Replies: @Bies Podkrakowski, @Jack D

    , @Veteran Aryan
    @Steve Sailer


    It was Putin-allied Belarus that was trying to flood Poland with Third World refugees.
     
    Are they not allowed to warn the frog that it will soon be boiling?
    , @Coemgen
    @Steve Sailer

    Perhaps the "Third World refugees" in Belarus are the result of "liberalization" of Belarus as described in the Rand Corp. paper that PhysicistDave posted in another thread:

    "Promoting liberalization in Belarus likely would not succeed and could provoke a strong Russian response, one that would result in a general deterioration of the security environment in Europe and a setback for U.S. policy."

    excerpted from:
    https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf

    There is a chart showing the promoting of "liberalization" in Belarus as having a high level of benefits.

    Replies: @Jack D

  157. @Pat Hannagan
    @PiltdownMan

    America can whatever America wants

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as

    At some point you'll be thoroughly aware that Americans write the rules, they're not principled.

    The only principle Americans live by is what makes them wealthy is good by them.

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan, @Reg Cæsar, @Alt Right Moderate

    If anything, Americans have too many principles. For example, they are willing to waste a lot of money and lives on the pie in the sky project of liberal hegemony, or throw away lots of money on green technology companies that go nowhere. A little more self-interested realism would be a refreshing change.

    They do have principles, they are just very stupid principles that only the already rich can afford to abide by.

    • Replies: @William Badwhite
    @Alt Right Moderate


    throw away lots of money on green technology companies that go nowhere. A little more self-interested realism would be a refreshing change.
     
    The green tech stuff IS self-interested realism. Its a massive grift by the parasitic ruling class. The whole point is to transfer control of energy and the attendant cash streams to themselves.

    If you need proof that these classes know that man-made climate change is a hoax is their position on immigration. If they believed their own story, they'd know that bringing in hordes of 3rd worlder and having them adopt 1st world energy usage levels would be an environmental disaster. Yet they say nothing about immigration. Ergo...

  158. @AndrewR

    He said there was one light-skinned Kurd detained in the garage with them whom the soldier didn’t touch
     
    Kurdish privilege, smh

    Replies: @Charon

    Also, much of his story sounds made up, especially that part. Of course, it’s also S.O.P. at the NYT to feed the story to the subject. (“Asked if it might have been racism!”)

  159. @Nicholas Stix
    "On the day war broke out in Ukraine, Albagir, a 22-year-old refugee from Sudan..."

    He's not a refugee, he's a shopper.

    Replies: @Gamecock, @Charon

    He’s not a refugee, he’s a shopper.

    He’s not a shopper, he’s a shoplifter.

  160. Anonymous[352] • Disclaimer says:

    Speaking of racism, what the hell is going on with America’s Negroes continually beating the holy stufffing out of Asian Americans, particularly women?

    Do Asian civic leaders just consider this simply a part of being an Asian American woman?

    Do they not feel pain like the rest of us? Is it some ancient Asian tradition to not respond to being attacked and beaten by Negroes?

    Usually, Asian Thought Leader George Takai has an opinion on everything, but he becomes strangely silent regarding repeated Negro on Asian beatings. Is that just an Asian thing? Or is it something else entirely? Is it only negroes?

    Did William Shatner used to beat the living shit out of George Takai, and George just didn’t think enough of it to share, or believed complaining violated some ancient Asian protocol, so reduced his criticisms simply to Shatner being too pushy?

    At this point, after so many beatings, I’m just puzzled. Many Asians seem like odd folks in this regard.

    • Replies: @Dream
    @Anonymous

    Did whites fight back against blacks after WW2?

    Replies: @JMcG

  161. @Anon
    So what exactly is Poland's long term plan here? Everyone knows that globohomo wants to flood all of Eastern Europe with Africans and Arabs, they've been publicly pressing them to that effect since at least 2015. As the left continues to entrench in the USA and western Europe and the hysteria over white supremacy intensifies, so will the pressure exerted on the Visegard 4 and the rest to open up their borders to mass thirdworldization. They have stood more or less firm up to now, but this has been only the gentlest of prodding and nothing compared to the pressure yet to come. The Slavic-sphere sans Russia is not a viable power center and will be easily coerced to do what globohomo commands.

    So what are the dumb Polacks doing? They are agitating for Russian defeat and Russia's incorporation into the very globohomo order that is already pushing Poland to commit demographic seppuku. Meanwhile the rapefugees are quite correctly licking their chops and going "looks like Polish Poon is back on the menu boys!"

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Undocumented Shopper, @IHTG

    You’ve been slamming your brain very hard against that rotating table, but nothing intelligent spilled out.

    Russia was trying to flood Poland with Africans through the Belarus corridor.

  162. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Buffalo Joe

    "The NYT is always on the side of the illegal in any country."

    Except one.

    Replies: @kaganovitch

  163. @Jack D
    @Reg Cæsar


    I always wondered why we went overseas to fight Hitler, when he was indistinguishable from any other European leader.
     
    #1 He wasn't.

    #2 Hitler declared war on the US, not vice versa.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    #1 He wasn’t.

    That was a barb aimed at an all-too-common anti-American slander. The ultimate reply to the charge that the US has too many nukes is “Because your country encouraged us to enter the war.”

    Besides, you can’t deny that Adolf and the other overdressed fags in his party weren’t European. What else could they be?

    #2 Hitler declared war on the US, not vice versa.

    We could have laughed at him and concentrated on the Pacific. We should have. We might have won there before the bomb was finished, making the Cold War and its aftermath look very different.

  164. @John Johnson
    @nebulafox

    One of the many reasons the USSR lost the Cold War is the fact that Russian secret policemen (who were the only part of the Soviet government doing their job by the late 1970s and 1980s) tend to be a lot better with short-term tactics than long-term strategic thinking. Exceptions exist, but they tend to not last long if they try for the throne themselves.

    Putin wasn't even an agent as often depicted. It was part of a mythos he created.

    He was just a mid level government worker in Dresden and no one cared about what he was working on. When the wall went down he started burning papers on his own even though his bosses didn't care. Well so the story goes anyways. No one knows how much he exaggerated.

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn't mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Someone looked up the boss of Putin who had little to say about him. He certainly had KGB connections but was never an agent.

    That being said, I don’t think Zelensky is under any delusions that NATO membership or Donbass/Crimea are worth the conflict. That puts the ball in Putin’s court.

    That was just an excuse. Ukraine doesn't even quality for NATO. If it was really about NATO silos then Putin would have tried negotiating first. How would they even join NATO with Donbass in dispute? NATO wouldn't want them in for that reason alone.

    The church issue is dead: short of absolute Russian victory, he’s ensured that everybody left in Ukraine is going to not even tolerate Russian speaking masses, and he probably knows that.

    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.

    If he decides to go to Jerusalem then, his regime will have to take away temporal prizes: and then that leaves the US in an awkward position if we’re still talking about Donbass or Crimea. As no doubt our leaders will.

    Let's say the world recognizes the "people's Donbass" which has been a Russian scam from the beginning. Putin is mortal and I doubt the next leader will have the resolve to maintain such a small territory. The next leader will eventually give it back and apologize in the hope that US/Euro companies return.

    This is really one of the dumbest European invasions of all time. Operation Barbarossa at least was backed by military analysts around the world. It was considered immoral but no one thought the Reds would win. This invasion just doesn't make any sense. Any economic gain from Donbass was wiped out in a day of stock trades. In fact their market is still frozen to keep it from crashing.

    Replies: @Thea, @Hibernian, @Hibernian, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar

    Yes he worked for the KGB just as there are all kinds of mid level bureaucrats working for the CIA. Doesn’t mean they are involved in anything important. Most do very boring work for average government wages.

    Wm F Buckley, Jr read Spanish newspapers. Leroy Anderson read Scandinavian newspapers for the proto-CIA.

    Tom Lehrer did something important working for the (then-closeted) NSA. He invented the Jello Shot.

    • Thanks: Esso
  165. @Alden
    @JMcG

    Why would Irish dock workers object to Russian oil? Obviously the Irish government has the intelligence not to embargo Russian products.

    Replies: @JMcG

    There’s nothing that compares to the finely tuned moral outrage of your average Irish lefty.

    • Agree: Hibernian
  166. @John Johnson
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    This is our highest value. It’s what young working class white men must die for.

    It was Putin that took 18 year olds of the Russian working class and put them in 1970s tanks. Then he sent them in the direction of Kiev after lying about how they would be welcomed as liberators.

    Only one man doing the killing here and that is Putin.

    Just because Putin opposes the West does not mean he values working class Whites.

    He sent those 18 year olds in as cannon fodder to soak up anti-tank missiles. He doesn't want to send the expensive tanks in yet. So some poor farmer's son is now dead because Putin doesn't want the nifty tanks to get scratched.

    What a guy. Reminds me of Hitler claiming to be pro-White and then starting a war by bombing White Christian women and children. In fact he did that earlier by letting the Luftwaffe practice in Spain.

    Nothing says "I love your group" like indiscriminate killing.

    Putin is a LOSER just like Hitler. A couple of losers that use the White working class as part of their death games. Losers that are just mad at the world for having subpar genitals.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Iron Curtain

    Ignorance is bliss. I guess Metaverse will be a place when one can live in a harmony with their ill-conceived ideas about how world is but it will be ok because that’s how meta will be.

  167. @Anon
    So what exactly is Poland's long term plan here? Everyone knows that globohomo wants to flood all of Eastern Europe with Africans and Arabs, they've been publicly pressing them to that effect since at least 2015. As the left continues to entrench in the USA and western Europe and the hysteria over white supremacy intensifies, so will the pressure exerted on the Visegard 4 and the rest to open up their borders to mass thirdworldization. They have stood more or less firm up to now, but this has been only the gentlest of prodding and nothing compared to the pressure yet to come. The Slavic-sphere sans Russia is not a viable power center and will be easily coerced to do what globohomo commands.

    So what are the dumb Polacks doing? They are agitating for Russian defeat and Russia's incorporation into the very globohomo order that is already pushing Poland to commit demographic seppuku. Meanwhile the rapefugees are quite correctly licking their chops and going "looks like Polish Poon is back on the menu boys!"

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Undocumented Shopper, @IHTG

    The Slavic-sphere sans Russia is not a viable power center and will be easily coerced to do what globohomo commands.

    Just the opposite. Now the EU/NATO/”globohomo” needs them on its side against Russia more than ever. Think of how apartheid South Africa held on until the end of the Cold War.

  168. @Jack D
    @John Johnson


    There will be less tolerance for anything Russian after this. Watch for an end to dual-language anything. Learn the language or move East.
     
    It will be interesting to see what happens in Latvia and Estonia. As part of the Soviet plan to erase these countries, the Soviets exiled a lot of their people and moved Russians in and Russian speakers are still like 1/3 of the population. The only reason Putin hasn't done a Ukraine on them is that they joined NATO before Putin could pull a "breakaway republic" shtick on them.

    Latvia and Estonia will be aware that their Russians are going to be an eternal excuse for Russian intervention. Protected as they are now by the NATO umbrella, I predict that they are going to crack down hard. No more Russian education. No Russian anything. Learn the local language and identify as a Latvian or Estonian or else leave for Russia.

    Dresden was a nowhere placement in the KGB. The Russians had subverted E. Germany 40 years earlier and the Stasi was everywhere. Who was he going to spy on? It would be like being an American spy in Winnipeg. You could die of boredom.

    Replies: @Iron Curtain

    Stop spreading disinformation, there is internet. Soviets exiled what 20-30K who returned back after 1953. It’s a tragedy but has nothing to do with “depopulation” but territory control. In USSR all national republics had schools – both secondary and college level – in their native language. TV and movie studios in native language, newspapers, radio stations, etc. Just stop spreading patent untruths. Native Latvian population doubled after the WW2 and had no restrictions in cultural life. There was influx of people from other regions primarily to work on industrial projects. Considering that in Latvia case, it lost its Germans (left) and Jews (massacred by locals) and Russians – there were plenty – the need was there.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Iron Curtain


    Stop spreading disinformation, there is internet. Soviets exiled what 20-30K who returned back after 1953
     
    OK, you want to play internet.

    Soviet deportations from Latvia were a series of mass deportations by the Soviet Union from Latvia in 1941 and 1945–1951, in which around 60,000 inhabitants of Latvia were deported to inhospitable remote areas of the Soviet Union, which had occupied the country in 1940 and again in 1944/1945.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Latvia#:~:text=Soviet%20deportations%20from%20Latvia%20were,and%20again%20in%201944%2F1945.

    (And another 20k in Estonia, so 80K for the two).

    So 20-30K is really 80K? Who is spreading disinformation now? I never said how many but you just flat lied about it.

    As for returning back, first you had to have survived. "Of the total number of deportees [from Latvia alone], more than 5000 people died in exile." That's also on the internet.
  169. @JMcG
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Thanks, there was a bit of a debate here a little while ago as to whether or not Oppenheimer was a Soviet spy.

    Replies: @Alrenous

    “Spy” suggests the employers of these people didn’t know they were speaking with the Soviets. It’s only a mild exaggeration to say FDR considered Stalin an American spy. You can argue about who was playing whom but nobody was confused about who was at the table.

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Alrenous

    I was referring to the modern opinion of Oppenheimer. A lot of people who accept that Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall (Theodore Alvin Holtzberg) were commie spies have a lot more difficulty accepting the fact that Oppenheimer seems to have been as well.

  170. @Wilkey
    @Pixo


    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations. And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.
     
    Oh, bullshit.

    How many Syrian Muslim refugees did it admit? Or Iraqi Muslims or Afghan Muslims or Sudanese Christians or Haitians or Salvadorans?

    So yeah, they allow in the spouses of Jewish immigrants. If the USA or the UK or Australia passed a law allowing in immigrants and refugees only if they were white Christians, or the spouses or white Christians, the MSM would be totally cool with that?

    As for population density, the United Kingdom already has an extremely high population density, yet is getting berated for not taking in enough Ukrainians.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “As for population density, the United Kingdom already has an extremely high population density, yet is getting berated for not taking in enough Ukrainians.”

    England has the highest population density of any major European country bar Holland.

    Scotland and Wales have large empty mountainous regions, and like to put out the welcome mat for refugees, knowing 95% of arrivals will end up with the English.

    https://theconversation.com/think-your-country-is-crowded-these-maps-reveal-the-truth-about-population-density-across-europe-90345

    • Replies: @Coemgen
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Stornoway has a population of around 7,000 people and it has a mosque.

    Are the devout Christian Gaelic speakers converting to Islam or are 5% of migrants to Great Britain settling in remote sparsely populated locations?

    How many migrants does Great Britain receive each year? What's 5% of that number?

    Replies: @Wilkey

  171. @Alden
    Senate voted yes on a permanent year round daylight savings time bill. Still has to pass the Senate.

    Replies: @Russ

    Senate voted yes on a permanent year round daylight savings time bill. Still has to pass the Senate.

    More afternoon/evening Fall/Spring golfing with the lobbyists. Who cares if the children have to await the morning schoolbus in December and January at a pitch-black bus stop? For a body that raises the debt ceiling every time it collectively gets high, the only surprise is that they’re not permanently setting the clock three hours ahead. Economics is no constraint so why so astronomy be?

    • Thanks: 3g4me
  172. @Anonymous
    @Jack D

    Oil can be transported by rail.

    China has an excellent rail system.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @No jack London

    Oil can be transported by rail.

    China has an excellent rail system.

    Indeed, you used to see a lot more tank cars when i was a kid.

    But there is the issue that China is standard gauge while Russia is on–the superior–1520 “Russian” gauge. (Essentially the metrified version of their original 5′ (1524)–“Confederate”–gauge.) I assume they do some sort of gauge transfer scheme but how fast you can ramp up is unclear. Containers are one thing, but for a bulk commodity, what you really want is trains that can just roll source to destination.

    ~

    Shame the world did not end up on a better, broader standard. India, of all places, has the best general purpose gauge (that i know about) in wide use–5’6″, noticeably bigger to the eye–probably because the British engineers were savvier about things by the time it was being built out.

    • Replies: @Undocumented Shopper
    @AnotherDad


    But there is the issue that China is standard gauge while Russia is on–the superior–1520 “Russian” gauge. (Essentially the metrified version of their original 5′ (1524)–“Confederate”–gauge.) I assume they do some sort of gauge transfer scheme but how fast you can ramp up is unclear. Containers are one thing, but for a bulk commodity, what you really want is trains that can just roll source to destination.
     
    It is also possible to add a third rail to a track so that two gauges can be used:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_gauge
    And China has at least one such railroad:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin–Suifenhe_railway
  173. @Anonymous
    Speaking of racism, what the hell is going on with America’s Negroes continually beating the holy stufffing out of Asian Americans, particularly women?

    Do Asian civic leaders just consider this simply a part of being an Asian American woman?

    Do they not feel pain like the rest of us? Is it some ancient Asian tradition to not respond to being attacked and beaten by Negroes?

    Usually, Asian Thought Leader George Takai has an opinion on everything, but he becomes strangely silent regarding repeated Negro on Asian beatings. Is that just an Asian thing? Or is it something else entirely? Is it only negroes?

    Did William Shatner used to beat the living shit out of George Takai, and George just didn’t think enough of it to share, or believed complaining violated some ancient Asian protocol, so reduced his criticisms simply to Shatner being too pushy?

    At this point, after so many beatings, I’m just puzzled. Many Asians seem like odd folks in this regard.

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1503846770090119169?s=20&t=D-nBHk_bd-i0v3REQvR9-Q

    Replies: @Dream

    Did whites fight back against blacks after WW2?

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Dream

    Well, they did on the USS Kitty Hawk in 1972.

  174. @Zero Philosopher
    @nokangaroos

    I love the Asterix cartoons as well, but I guess your reference will be completely lost with the mostly American readership of this blog. 🤣

    Replies: @nokangaroos

    Unfortunately yes.
    The French commentariat now dwell on a distinct similarity to Zemmour 😛

  175. @AnotherDad
    @Anonymous


    Oil can be transported by rail.

    China has an excellent rail system.
     

    Indeed, you used to see a lot more tank cars when i was a kid.

    But there is the issue that China is standard gauge while Russia is on--the superior--1520 "Russian" gauge. (Essentially the metrified version of their original 5' (1524)--"Confederate"--gauge.) I assume they do some sort of gauge transfer scheme but how fast you can ramp up is unclear. Containers are one thing, but for a bulk commodity, what you really want is trains that can just roll source to destination.

    ~

    Shame the world did not end up on a better, broader standard. India, of all places, has the best general purpose gauge (that i know about) in wide use--5'6", noticeably bigger to the eye--probably because the British engineers were savvier about things by the time it was being built out.

    Replies: @Undocumented Shopper

    But there is the issue that China is standard gauge while Russia is on–the superior–1520 “Russian” gauge. (Essentially the metrified version of their original 5′ (1524)–“Confederate”–gauge.) I assume they do some sort of gauge transfer scheme but how fast you can ramp up is unclear. Containers are one thing, but for a bulk commodity, what you really want is trains that can just roll source to destination.

    It is also possible to add a third rail to a track so that two gauges can be used:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_gauge
    And China has at least one such railroad:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin–Suifenhe_railway

  176. @Anonymous
    @Jack D

    Oil can be transported by rail.

    China has an excellent rail system.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @No jack London

    Warren Buffet owns Burlington Northern and Santa Fey which ships a lot of oil by rail. Reason to discourage pipelines?

    • Replies: @Hibernian
    @No jack London

    The RR tracks in and around Chicago have been full of tank cars for at least the last 5 years.

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan

  177. @J.Ross
    OT The vax is death, and the Current Thing is not distracting anyone but cattle.
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ed-dowd-millennial-age-group-25-to?s=r

    Replies: @AnotherDad

    OT The vax is death

    How about the obvious: the spike protein is “death”–i.e. bad for you, especially your circulatory system.

    The vax is death, but not compared to getting the Fauci itself. If you are sure you are going to skate–never get the Fauci, then getting the vax is very bad idea. But if you think you are going to eventually get the Fauci, then the vax gives you an upfront limited dose of spikey, without the ability for it to self-replicate as with the virus. And when expose to the real deal, you’re much better off. (What all the hospital data clearly indicate.)

    This simple interpretation fits his graphs. 2020, through early 2021, almost all the excess deaths in the 15-44 are Fauci related. Then the vax and later the vax mandates kick in and there’s a spike of several thousand additional excess deaths, that’s about the size of the Fauci deaths.

    But, of course, there’s a much, much larger group of 15-44 year olds who got vax’d in the back half of 2021, then got the Fauci in the back half of 2021. Obvious conclusion: The vax is deadly, but less deadly than Fauci.

    This this is a recurrent issue here. Young guys pointing that the Fauci virus is low risk for them–it will bounce right off them because they are supermen! (AnotherProspectiveSonInLaw is a young healthy guy but the thing kicked his ass really well for a couple weeks. AnotherSon is a young healthy guy and he was fairly sick for a week or so, but “definitely not his worst ever”.) And indeed Fauci is low risk of death for young healthy people. But then they turn around and obsess over the vaccine, which has an even lower risk of death for them. Apples to apples is what matters–again unless you think you can skate and not eat any fruit at all. (Just burgers and beer for me!)

    ~~~

    Caveats:
    — It could be that the configuration of the spike in the vax–original flavor–is much worse for your circulatory system than the mutated spike in the Omicron variant. This is possible … i simply don’t know. This is something that should be a top research priority. But we have mediocre elites so obsessed with beating everyone into compliance, that they don’t prioritize getting to the truth and finding the best outcome.

    I’m annoyed with the utter sloth of the vaccine makers–just pumping out the same shit, milking the cow. Personally, i have no desire to get a “booster” or any more shots, until they have updated the spike. (Maybe less damaging, maybe not.)

    –People who have already had the Fauci, especially healthy young men, i would not get the vax. My guess–that’s all it is–is that the balance of probabilities suggests the relative risks of another vax forced exposure to spikey (original recipe) versus gain in battling next variant of Fauci–with yet another mutation–is a poor or at least mediocre tradeoff.

    We badly need real, non-politicized–non-religious!–science on these issues.

  178. JYT would like us to believe all people are created equal.

    Name one majority black/brown country that is semi-functional, modern, clean, and low crime?

    Just one.

  179. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    It was Putin-allied Belarus that was trying to flood Poland with Third World refugees.

    Replies: @Coemgen, @Veteran Aryan, @Coemgen

    From where did Belarus get this flood of Third World refugees?

    • Replies: @Bies Podkrakowski
    @Coemgen

    From the same place as everybody else: from third world. They brought them by planes.

    Replies: @Coemgen

    , @Jack D
    @Coemgen

    The Russians were trying to undermine the West by flooding it with Africans. (This was not their only tactic but Putin likes to spread the love around and undermine the West in many different ways, large and small. He thinks that the West hates Russia and he hates them back.)

    The "refugee" smugglers are always looking for new routes into the EU. Belarus, as instructed by Putin, put out the word that if you come to Belarus we'll give you a visa and help you get across the border to Poland and the smugglers took them up on it ("refugees" have no interest in actually settling in Belarus which is just as poor as their own countries). Then when the refugees were pushed back over the border by Poland, the Belarus would beat them and try to push the back over the border again. They had no interest in helping these people, they just wanted to use them as tools and foist them onto the EU.

    Replies: @Coemgen

  180. When the corporate media calls you racist, you must be doing something right.
    What do these effete prima donnas care about reality or facts?

    They just published a claim that a New Cold War will defeat “populism”.
    What kind of stupid decries populism and then talks about “democracy”?

    The kind of stupid you get from the poison pens of these mediots.
    Its some kind of insanity that anyone takes such drivel as “news”.

  181. @Pixo
    @Altai

    Israel has the highest share of immigrants and refugees among developed nations, as well as being the most densely populated, excepting micronations.

    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.

    Replies: @Rosie, @Colin Wright, @Wilkey, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    “Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people.”

    You have a very odd way of spelling ‘trafficked sex slaves.’

    • Agree: 3g4me
  182. @Alt Right Moderate
    @Pat Hannagan

    If anything, Americans have too many principles. For example, they are willing to waste a lot of money and lives on the pie in the sky project of liberal hegemony, or throw away lots of money on green technology companies that go nowhere. A little more self-interested realism would be a refreshing change.

    They do have principles, they are just very stupid principles that only the already rich can afford to abide by.

    Replies: @William Badwhite

    throw away lots of money on green technology companies that go nowhere. A little more self-interested realism would be a refreshing change.

    The green tech stuff IS self-interested realism. Its a massive grift by the parasitic ruling class. The whole point is to transfer control of energy and the attendant cash streams to themselves.

    If you need proof that these classes know that man-made climate change is a hoax is their position on immigration. If they believed their own story, they’d know that bringing in hordes of 3rd worlder and having them adopt 1st world energy usage levels would be an environmental disaster. Yet they say nothing about immigration. Ergo…

  183. @Colin Wright
    @Rosie

    'Spare us the lame excuses for the dual strategy. The point is that Israel gets to pick and choose while the rest of us get guilt trips. I don’t buy that shit about “densely populated” either. Any place that is White, densely populated or not, always needs more diversity.'

    Ah, but Jews have decided they're 'not white.' You gotta keep up, Rosie.

    Replies: @Altai

    Jews are Schrodinger’s whites, they’re white when it’s an advantage and they’re non-white when it’s not. Sometimes at the same time. Sometimes it’s ‘just a religion’ sometimes they’re an ethnicity, depending on what is the better line.

    Much concern has emerged that gentile non-white voices are getting too hard to control and that many fail to see them as ‘white’. See Bari Weiss’s resignation which even Steve failed to point out has to do with Israel and not ‘wokeness’ per say. The only way Bari Weiss is at ends with the woke enough to leave a very well-paying and high status job and get sympathetic media coverage for it is her turbo Zionism. She is a lesbian Jew. She is afraid that one day the eye of cancellation will turn on Israel which, unlike the West, is actually guilty of of all the sins they claim as their principal moral drivers.

  184. @Rosie
    @Pixo


    And outside of its direct neighbors, Israel probably has the largest share of Ukrainian born people. Not all Jews either, plenty of non-Jewish spouses of completely secular half Jews, etc.
     
    Spare us the lame excuses for the dual strategy. The point is that Israel gets to pick and choose while the rest of us get guilt trips. I don't buy that shit about "densely populated" either. Any place that is White, densely populated or not, always needs more diversity.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Altai

    Ireland is a country of just 5 million people with about 20-25% being foreign born (Not counting native born to foreign parents) at this point and a massive housing crisis. It is taking 100k Ukrainians which, of course, will turn into more through chain migration.

    This despite being neutral and not part of NATO and thus playing no part in this fiasco. But imagine if the government refused the 100k? It’d be eaten alive by it’s own media and intellectual elites. The person on the street might be happy but wouldn’t be able to speak.

    Israel on the other hand has lots of immigrants but they’re selected to increase the proportion of the core demographic not displace.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Altai


    Israel on the other hand has lots of immigrants but they’re selected to increase the proportion of the core demographic not displace.
     
    Feel free to invent your own imaginary facts to suit your prejudices.

    Meanwhile, here is the reality:

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701345

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/485139

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/490467

    Personally, I would prefer that Israel not take these folks, but they don't listen to me.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @Moses

  185. Ahahhahha….

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/16/middleeast/mideast-summary-03-16-2022-intl/index.html

    How the Ukraine war revealed Europe’s selective empathy on refugees
    …………………………….
    Martin Griffiths, the United Nations’ Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week that there is a “shocking different set of priorities for people,” but added that it’s not uncommon for neighboring countries to absorb a large number of refugees, citing Syrians in Turkey and Afghans in Pakistan as examples.

    Denmark is known for having some of Europe’s strictest anti-immigration policies. The government has welcomed Ukrainian refugees with open arms and, while saying all refugees are treated the same, it is urging some Syrian refugees living there to return home, despite the ongoing conflict in their country.
    ……………………………………………………
    In France, far-right presidential contender Eric Zemmour told BFM TV on March 8 that it would be acceptable to have different rules for refugees coming from Europe and those from Arab Muslim countries.

    “Everyone knows that Arab or Muslim immigration is too distant from us and it’s more difficult to acculturate and assimilate them. So effectively, we are closer to European Christians,” he said.

    A few days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov was asked about the possibility of accepting refugees, he said no European country was afraid of the migration wave that is about to come.

    “These are people who are Europeans, so we and all other countries are ready to welcome them,” he said. “In other words, this is not the refugee wave that we are used to, where we don’t know what to do, people with an uncertain past — are they terrorists [or not]?”
    ………………………………………………………………………….
    In 2018, at the height of Europe’s migrant crisis, Central European countries decided to skip an EU summit on migration, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban saying the issue would become a “pan-European frenzy.” The countries had earlier rejected proposals from other European nations to allow a certain number of refugees into their countries. Now, Central European countries like Hungary and Slovakia are taking in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.

    “For a continent that tries to pride itself on the superiority of pluralism over bigotry, following the awful experiences of the Holocaust, of the Bosnian genocide, and civil rights struggles across the continent and the West more generally,” said Hellyer, “it’s a sad reminder that far too many of us continue to be immensely tribal and racist.”

  186. @Iron Curtain
    @Jack D

    Stop spreading disinformation, there is internet. Soviets exiled what 20-30K who returned back after 1953. It’s a tragedy but has nothing to do with “depopulation” but territory control. In USSR all national republics had schools - both secondary and college level - in their native language. TV and movie studios in native language, newspapers, radio stations, etc. Just stop spreading patent untruths. Native Latvian population doubled after the WW2 and had no restrictions in cultural life. There was influx of people from other regions primarily to work on industrial projects. Considering that in Latvia case, it lost its Germans (left) and Jews (massacred by locals) and Russians - there were plenty - the need was there.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Stop spreading disinformation, there is internet. Soviets exiled what 20-30K who returned back after 1953

    OK, you want to play internet.

    Soviet deportations from Latvia were a series of mass deportations by the Soviet Union from Latvia in 1941 and 1945–1951, in which around 60,000 inhabitants of Latvia were deported to inhospitable remote areas of the Soviet Union, which had occupied the country in 1940 and again in 1944/1945.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Latvia#:~:text=Soviet%20deportations%20from%20Latvia%20were,and%20again%20in%201944%2F1945.

    (And another 20k in Estonia, so 80K for the two).

    So 20-30K is really 80K? Who is spreading disinformation now? I never said how many but you just flat lied about it.

    As for returning back, first you had to have survived. “Of the total number of deportees [from Latvia alone], more than 5000 people died in exile.” That’s also on the internet.

  187. @Altai
    @Rosie

    Ireland is a country of just 5 million people with about 20-25% being foreign born (Not counting native born to foreign parents) at this point and a massive housing crisis. It is taking 100k Ukrainians which, of course, will turn into more through chain migration.

    This despite being neutral and not part of NATO and thus playing no part in this fiasco. But imagine if the government refused the 100k? It'd be eaten alive by it's own media and intellectual elites. The person on the street might be happy but wouldn't be able to speak.

    Israel on the other hand has lots of immigrants but they're selected to increase the proportion of the core demographic not displace.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Israel on the other hand has lots of immigrants but they’re selected to increase the proportion of the core demographic not displace.

    Feel free to invent your own imaginary facts to suit your prejudices.

    Meanwhile, here is the reality:

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701345

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/485139

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/490467

    Personally, I would prefer that Israel not take these folks, but they don’t listen to me.

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @Jack D

    "Feel free to invent your own imaginary facts to suit your prejudices."

    Well, it's not shrunken heads, lampshades, and tattooed skins, but don't hold that against him.

    , @Moses
    @Jack D

    Erm….Israel passed a law explicitly stating that it exists by and for Jews.

    I think that’s great.

    And as a Jew I feel other peoples have the same right to their own ethnostates.

    My fellow Jews would do well to stop trying to mix ethnicities in other states. The 1924 immigration act was just.

    It was wrong for Jews like Emmanuel Cellar to push the 1965 immigration act opening the floodgates to ethnically alien peoples. And it’s wrong for Jewish NGOs to flood Europe with non-Europeans whilst preserving a Jewish ethnostate in Israel.

    Replies: @Jack D

  188. It’s beyond old how Whites / Westerners are expected to be door mats for the endless waves of brown and black people Once those black fake refugees are let in, then the rape rate will sky rocket as they can’t help themselves around attractive white women, terrorist attacks will suddenly be a reality as well. What’s in it for Europeans? Nothing. But it does benefit the little hat wearing folks who abuse these issues as a way to divide and conquer Europe.

  189. @Alrenous
    @JMcG

    "Spy" suggests the employers of these people didn't know they were speaking with the Soviets. It's only a mild exaggeration to say FDR considered Stalin an American spy. You can argue about who was playing whom but nobody was confused about who was at the table.

    Replies: @JMcG

    I was referring to the modern opinion of Oppenheimer. A lot of people who accept that Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall (Theodore Alvin Holtzberg) were commie spies have a lot more difficulty accepting the fact that Oppenheimer seems to have been as well.

  190. @Dream
    @Anonymous

    Did whites fight back against blacks after WW2?

    Replies: @JMcG

    Well, they did on the USS Kitty Hawk in 1972.

  191. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @Jack D


    I don’t think that there is any contradiction there. The long term goal in the West is to phase out imported hydrocarbon fuels. This war is just one more data point that shows that they drive not only climate change but also fund odious regimes.
     
    I doubt this is the case, otherwise the U.S. would have built more nuclear power plants and one side of the political divide would not scale back and outright sabotage domestic energy exploration and extraction. There's some other controlling interest in play in Western Energy policies.

    However, short term this is just not possible. You can’t go carbon neutral overnight or even in a decade. So in the short to medium run, the West will have to decide which of these regimes is the least odious, the lesser evil. Russia, by starting this war, has put itself on the bottom of the stack – the country you would least want to buy oil from. This is not an “excuse”.
     
    The Europeans are still buying Russian oil, and in the event they boycott it the Chinese, Indians, and others will provide a ready market for it.

    Replies: @Jack D, @Anonymous

    Carter’s ban on sale of agricultural products to the USSR just enriched Canadian and European farmers at the expense of their American counterparts. The Soviets didn’t feel a thing.

  192. @Jack D
    @Altai


    Israel on the other hand has lots of immigrants but they’re selected to increase the proportion of the core demographic not displace.
     
    Feel free to invent your own imaginary facts to suit your prejudices.

    Meanwhile, here is the reality:

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701345

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/485139

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/490467

    Personally, I would prefer that Israel not take these folks, but they don't listen to me.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @Moses

    “Feel free to invent your own imaginary facts to suit your prejudices.”

    Well, it’s not shrunken heads, lampshades, and tattooed skins, but don’t hold that against him.

  193. @SunBakedSuburb
    @Buzz Mohawk

    "The US was and still is infested with communist rats."

    Summer of Floyd commies BLM and Antifa were primarily funded by Open Society, The Ford Foundation, The Tides Foundation. In addition, Floydian commies received instruction from ex-military and intelligence mercenaries trained in domestic insurgency and psychological warfare. Some of the more capable Antifians were taught handgun and urban warfare skills. Some of this training was conducted in western Ukraine. The philanthropists behind the above foundations hide their rightist totalitarianism behind the academic woke nonsense (they fund that too). The Floydian BLM commies and anti-fascists were stooges of fascists. Still, black ladies is happy they gots their houses and Warner Bros. contracts.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Summer of Floyd commies BLM and Antifa were primarily funded by Open Society, The Ford Foundation, The Tides Foundation.

    Can we burn down Davos in return?

  194. Anonymous[352] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous
    @John Johnson

    Wowsa, you mean only one man has killed anyone in the last 10 years on this whole globe!

    I could’ve sworn something like 14,000 ethnic Russians had been killed inside the Ukraine since 2014. I could’ve sworn that the illegal coup of 2014 killed people.

    Look we get it, a lot of people are butthurt that Russia won’t accept LGBTQ rights. But we can’t go to nuclear war over it.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    This may prove to be an unpopular strategy, but if Germany would get its act together, declare her right to build a proper military, and sign a non-aggression pact with Putin, it would be a great start. What would we do in that scenario? Attack and neutralize Germany?

    With what? Tranny Seal Team Six?

    Should this, by the grace of god, happen, this time our leadership role would be to stay out of it, and let those two sort out modern civilization amongst themselves.

    America has turned into an international bus stop for third world carpet baggers, and the slavers who make them jump. All our dreams for the future of this country have been destroyed. I don’t care what happens to America now. I just want to watch, and have fun.

    Could Germany rise again to its former stature, and again assert major influence in the world? Germans are nothing if not creatures of habit. You might be surprised how quickly they can fall back into an organized, aspiring super-power. All they need is the right input.

    They can reboot surprisingly fast…

  195. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Wilkey

    "As for population density, the United Kingdom already has an extremely high population density, yet is getting berated for not taking in enough Ukrainians."

    England has the highest population density of any major European country bar Holland.

    Scotland and Wales have large empty mountainous regions, and like to put out the welcome mat for refugees, knowing 95% of arrivals will end up with the English.

    https://theconversation.com/think-your-country-is-crowded-these-maps-reveal-the-truth-about-population-density-across-europe-90345

    Replies: @Coemgen

    Stornoway has a population of around 7,000 people and it has a mosque.

    Are the devout Christian Gaelic speakers converting to Islam or are 5% of migrants to Great Britain settling in remote sparsely populated locations?

    How many migrants does Great Britain receive each year? What’s 5% of that number?

    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @Coemgen

    As of 2011, 5% of England's population is Islamic versus only 1.4% of Scotland's. England, per capita, has about 3.5 times as many Muslims. England has a bit more than 10 times Scotland's population.

    Thus Muslims in England outnumber Muslims is Scotland by over 35-1. So it may actually be an overstatement to say that Scotland is getting 5% of the UK's immigrants.

    As of the 2011 Census - the latest for which data appears to be available - 96.0% of Scotland's residents identified as white versus only 85.4% of England's residents. So England has, per capita, about 3.5 times as many non-whites as Scotland. However, Eastern Europeans appear somewhat more likely to end up in Scotland than non-white immigrants.

    My guess is that Scotland is getting a larger share of *recent* immigrants than it did historically. It's a critical mass kind of thing. A random person from BFE, Pakistan ends up in Scotland and then a decade or two later the whole village has relocated there, with all the lovely genetic diseases you get from people who make a habit of marrying their first cousins.

    And of course that is also not an attempt to slight the degree to which the crazies in the "Scottish" "National" Party would be more than happy to commit ethnic cleansing on their own people. If Scotland ever does secede from Britain I'm sure they will do everything in their power to flood the Scottish Highlands with blacks and Muslims, although Britain will probably find itself rebuilding Hadrian's Wall to keep most of them out.

    Replies: @Coemgen

  196. @Brutusale
    @Steve Sailer


    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to assault the cities of Ukraine?
     
    So that's why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 allies in the Syrian Civil War to assault the cities of (the) Ukraine?

    FIFY

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 allies in the Syrian Civil War to assault the cities of (the) Ukraine?

    We’ve been calling the Hessians Gen’l Washington attacked in New Jersey on Christmas Day “mercenaries” for over two centuries, when they were no such thing. They had more business here than any Arab has north of the Black Sea.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Reg Cæsar

    Technically, they were auxiliaries rather than mercenaries. You rent mercenaries retail, one at a time, whereas you rent an auxiliary army wholesale from their ruler , in entire units with their native uniforms, flags, equipment, and officers. A turnkey rent-an-army In Hesse, the lucrative rent-an-army business was the economic driver of their entire economy.

    As for whether they had "business" here, well economically they did (see above), politically they didn't - the US was not at war with Hesse. It was, as they say in The Godfather movies, "just business", nothing personal, that they were killing Americans.

    The British did not have a large standing army so it was easier and cheaper for them to rent one than to grow their own.

    Calling the Hessians mercenaries goes back to the Declaration, where George is accused of:


    transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation
     
    Please forgive Jefferson for his poor word choice. The Hessians were thought of by the Americans as greedy for plunder and they did not enjoy a high reputation among the colonials.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  197. Anonymous[139] • Disclaimer says:
    @J.Ross
    OT proof that woke is also fake.

    https://karlstack.substack.com/p/exclusive-leaked-report-shows-harvard?s=r

    Karlstack has obtained a leaked document that shows a professor of political science at Harvard allegedly fabricated data in order to prove that white people feel threatened by minorities.

    This leaked report was brought forward as a complaint in 2018 against Harvard professor Ryan Enos by an anonymous complainant whose identity is is protected by The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

    A Harvard spokesperson has confirmed that this report sparked an internal and non-public investigation by Harvard's Committee on Professional Conduct over "research integrity concerns" relating to Enos' 2016 paper "What the demolition of public housing teaches us about the impact of racial threat on political behavior" published in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS).

    Replies: @Anonymous

    The social sciences (including economics) are largely BS. Too many people with agendas.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Anonymous

    Yes but: this is like a Oz

    , @J.Ross
    @Anonymous

    Yes but: they do have rules and nominally follow general academic standards. Tim Wise is a destructive charlatan, but he didn't plagiarize his BS bigoted thesis from one of his students. This is actually a stronger attack than Alain Sokal's.

  198. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    It was Putin-allied Belarus that was trying to flood Poland with Third World refugees.

    Replies: @Coemgen, @Veteran Aryan, @Coemgen

    It was Putin-allied Belarus that was trying to flood Poland with Third World refugees.

    Are they not allowed to warn the frog that it will soon be boiling?

  199. Albagir, a pre-med student

    He’s also an aspiring rapper.

    • Replies: @Veteran Aryan
    @Moses


    He’s also an aspiring rapper.
     
    I hear that he had turned his life around and was thinking of going back to school.
  200. @Anonymous
    @J.Ross

    The social sciences (including economics) are largely BS. Too many people with agendas.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @J.Ross

    Yes but: this is like a Oz

  201. @Anonymous
    @J.Ross

    The social sciences (including economics) are largely BS. Too many people with agendas.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @J.Ross

    Yes but: they do have rules and nominally follow general academic standards. Tim Wise is a destructive charlatan, but he didn’t plagiarize his BS bigoted thesis from one of his students. This is actually a stronger attack than Alain Sokal’s.

  202. @Reg Cæsar
    @Brutusale


    So that’s why Putin is trying to hire 16,000 allies in the Syrian Civil War to assault the cities of (the) Ukraine?
     
    We've been calling the Hessians Gen'l Washington attacked in New Jersey on Christmas Day "mercenaries" for over two centuries, when they were no such thing. They had more business here than any Arab has north of the Black Sea.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Technically, they were auxiliaries rather than mercenaries. You rent mercenaries retail, one at a time, whereas you rent an auxiliary army wholesale from their ruler , in entire units with their native uniforms, flags, equipment, and officers. A turnkey rent-an-army In Hesse, the lucrative rent-an-army business was the economic driver of their entire economy.

    As for whether they had “business” here, well economically they did (see above), politically they didn’t – the US was not at war with Hesse. It was, as they say in The Godfather movies, “just business”, nothing personal, that they were killing Americans.

    The British did not have a large standing army so it was easier and cheaper for them to rent one than to grow their own.

    Calling the Hessians mercenaries goes back to the Declaration, where George is accused of:

    transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation

    Please forgive Jefferson for his poor word choice. The Hessians were thought of by the Americans as greedy for plunder and they did not enjoy a high reputation among the colonials.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Jack D


    ...the US was not at war with Hesse.
     
    No, just with their potentate's cousin-in-law. So there is a shirttail excuse for their presence here.
  203. @Jack D
    @Reg Cæsar

    Technically, they were auxiliaries rather than mercenaries. You rent mercenaries retail, one at a time, whereas you rent an auxiliary army wholesale from their ruler , in entire units with their native uniforms, flags, equipment, and officers. A turnkey rent-an-army In Hesse, the lucrative rent-an-army business was the economic driver of their entire economy.

    As for whether they had "business" here, well economically they did (see above), politically they didn't - the US was not at war with Hesse. It was, as they say in The Godfather movies, "just business", nothing personal, that they were killing Americans.

    The British did not have a large standing army so it was easier and cheaper for them to rent one than to grow their own.

    Calling the Hessians mercenaries goes back to the Declaration, where George is accused of:


    transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation
     
    Please forgive Jefferson for his poor word choice. The Hessians were thought of by the Americans as greedy for plunder and they did not enjoy a high reputation among the colonials.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    …the US was not at war with Hesse.

    No, just with their potentate’s cousin-in-law. So there is a shirttail excuse for their presence here.

  204. @Moses

    Albagir, a pre-med student
     
    He’s also an aspiring rapper.

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan

    He’s also an aspiring rapper.

    I hear that he had turned his life around and was thinking of going back to school.

  205. @Coemgen
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Stornoway has a population of around 7,000 people and it has a mosque.

    Are the devout Christian Gaelic speakers converting to Islam or are 5% of migrants to Great Britain settling in remote sparsely populated locations?

    How many migrants does Great Britain receive each year? What's 5% of that number?

    Replies: @Wilkey

    As of 2011, 5% of England’s population is Islamic versus only 1.4% of Scotland’s. England, per capita, has about 3.5 times as many Muslims. England has a bit more than 10 times Scotland’s population.

    Thus Muslims in England outnumber Muslims is Scotland by over 35-1. So it may actually be an overstatement to say that Scotland is getting 5% of the UK’s immigrants.

    As of the 2011 Census – the latest for which data appears to be available – 96.0% of Scotland’s residents identified as white versus only 85.4% of England’s residents. So England has, per capita, about 3.5 times as many non-whites as Scotland. However, Eastern Europeans appear somewhat more likely to end up in Scotland than non-white immigrants.

    My guess is that Scotland is getting a larger share of *recent* immigrants than it did historically. It’s a critical mass kind of thing. A random person from BFE, Pakistan ends up in Scotland and then a decade or two later the whole village has relocated there, with all the lovely genetic diseases you get from people who make a habit of marrying their first cousins.

    And of course that is also not an attempt to slight the degree to which the crazies in the “Scottish” “National” Party would be more than happy to commit ethnic cleansing on their own people. If Scotland ever does secede from Britain I’m sure they will do everything in their power to flood the Scottish Highlands with blacks and Muslims, although Britain will probably find itself rebuilding Hadrian’s Wall to keep most of them out.

    • Replies: @Coemgen
    @Wilkey

    Scotland was a destination for Irish migrants during much of the 19th and most of the 20th century.

    The Irish migrants were not settling in the Highlands and Islands--especially not the outer Hebrides. There were limited opportunities to make a living there. The natives, such as Donald Trump's mother, were leaving the Highlands and Islands to make a living.

    Why would recent migrants be settling in the outer Hebrides? How can they afford to live there?

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

  206. @Jack D
    @Altai


    Israel on the other hand has lots of immigrants but they’re selected to increase the proportion of the core demographic not displace.
     
    Feel free to invent your own imaginary facts to suit your prejudices.

    Meanwhile, here is the reality:

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701345

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/485139

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/490467

    Personally, I would prefer that Israel not take these folks, but they don't listen to me.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @Moses

    Erm….Israel passed a law explicitly stating that it exists by and for Jews.

    I think that’s great.

    And as a Jew I feel other peoples have the same right to their own ethnostates.

    My fellow Jews would do well to stop trying to mix ethnicities in other states. The 1924 immigration act was just.

    It was wrong for Jews like Emmanuel Cellar to push the 1965 immigration act opening the floodgates to ethnically alien peoples. And it’s wrong for Jewish NGOs to flood Europe with non-Europeans whilst preserving a Jewish ethnostate in Israel.

    • Thanks: JMcG
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Moses

    And the American Constitution gave blacks the right to vote but they didn't actually have it for a century in the South. Just because you pass some law doesn't mean that reality matches the law.

    The French in Quebec have a similar law that enshrines it as a place for French speakers but if you go to Montreal, half the people are English speakers. The law is symbolic and aspirational. It doesn't reflect what actually exists. If it actually existed, they wouldn't need a law. Does Poland have a law that all the business signs need to be in Polish? No, they don't need one.

    Israel took hundreds of thousands of Christian or pagan Ethiopians on the dubious basis that they were "Jewish". The main reason was that the Sephardic "Shas" party wanted to beef up their numbers vs. the Ashkenazi parties and thought that the Ethiopians would fall into their camp, so their Iranian Jewish chief rabbi (who was also the head of their political party - Iranians are into theocracy) issued a ruling that a certain Ethiopian tribe was Jewish. (Ashkenazi Rabbis didn't think so.) Now these Ethiopians want to bring even more Ethiopians who aren't even pretend Jewish on the basis of "family reunification" and the Israel Supreme Ct. (leftist like American courts) ruled that it should be done even though the Israeli gov't didn't want to do it.

    Meanwhile, the Ashkenazis, not to be outdone. brought in millions of Soviet "Jews", some of whom were Jewish but a lot of whom weren't.

    This is added to the millions of Arabs that are already in Israel and the many hundreds of thousands of Thai, Filipino, Chinese, etc. guest workers and the Africans who have been smuggled over the border and you get something that is anything but an ethnostate. They can't preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    Replies: @Dube, @Moses, @Joe Stalin

  207. @Coemgen
    @Steve Sailer

    From where did Belarus get this flood of Third World refugees?

    Replies: @Bies Podkrakowski, @Jack D

    From the same place as everybody else: from third world. They brought them by planes.

    • Replies: @Coemgen
    @Bies Podkrakowski

    Who is this mysterious "they?" The Russians?

    Aside, the "refugees" are probably not coming by plane as a rule. If you ride European rail you'll encounter car loads of sub-Saharan Africans with brand new clothes and no luggage. It's f'ing bizarre to see this.

  208. @Wilkey
    @Coemgen

    As of 2011, 5% of England's population is Islamic versus only 1.4% of Scotland's. England, per capita, has about 3.5 times as many Muslims. England has a bit more than 10 times Scotland's population.

    Thus Muslims in England outnumber Muslims is Scotland by over 35-1. So it may actually be an overstatement to say that Scotland is getting 5% of the UK's immigrants.

    As of the 2011 Census - the latest for which data appears to be available - 96.0% of Scotland's residents identified as white versus only 85.4% of England's residents. So England has, per capita, about 3.5 times as many non-whites as Scotland. However, Eastern Europeans appear somewhat more likely to end up in Scotland than non-white immigrants.

    My guess is that Scotland is getting a larger share of *recent* immigrants than it did historically. It's a critical mass kind of thing. A random person from BFE, Pakistan ends up in Scotland and then a decade or two later the whole village has relocated there, with all the lovely genetic diseases you get from people who make a habit of marrying their first cousins.

    And of course that is also not an attempt to slight the degree to which the crazies in the "Scottish" "National" Party would be more than happy to commit ethnic cleansing on their own people. If Scotland ever does secede from Britain I'm sure they will do everything in their power to flood the Scottish Highlands with blacks and Muslims, although Britain will probably find itself rebuilding Hadrian's Wall to keep most of them out.

    Replies: @Coemgen

    Scotland was a destination for Irish migrants during much of the 19th and most of the 20th century.

    The Irish migrants were not settling in the Highlands and Islands–especially not the outer Hebrides. There were limited opportunities to make a living there. The natives, such as Donald Trump’s mother, were leaving the Highlands and Islands to make a living.

    Why would recent migrants be settling in the outer Hebrides? How can they afford to live there?

    • Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Coemgen

    "Why would recent migrants be settling in the outer Hebrides?"

    In order to breed out the natives, and make absolutely certain that Whitey has no place on Earth left whatsoever to escape from sacred diversity --- not even a barren rock in the frigid north Atlantic.

    "How can they afford to live there?"

    Jizya, aka welfare. Though I'm sure a few generous hedge fund billionaires would be more than happy to subsidize them if need be. ROI and all that.

    Replies: @Brutusale

  209. @Bies Podkrakowski
    @Coemgen

    From the same place as everybody else: from third world. They brought them by planes.

    Replies: @Coemgen

    Who is this mysterious “they?” The Russians?

    Aside, the “refugees” are probably not coming by plane as a rule. If you ride European rail you’ll encounter car loads of sub-Saharan Africans with brand new clothes and no luggage. It’s f’ing bizarre to see this.

  210. @Coemgen
    @Wilkey

    Scotland was a destination for Irish migrants during much of the 19th and most of the 20th century.

    The Irish migrants were not settling in the Highlands and Islands--especially not the outer Hebrides. There were limited opportunities to make a living there. The natives, such as Donald Trump's mother, were leaving the Highlands and Islands to make a living.

    Why would recent migrants be settling in the outer Hebrides? How can they afford to live there?

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

    “Why would recent migrants be settling in the outer Hebrides?”

    In order to breed out the natives, and make absolutely certain that Whitey has no place on Earth left whatsoever to escape from sacred diversity — not even a barren rock in the frigid north Atlantic.

    “How can they afford to live there?”

    Jizya, aka welfare. Though I’m sure a few generous hedge fund billionaires would be more than happy to subsidize them if need be. ROI and all that.

    • Replies: @Brutusale
    @The Germ Theory of Disease

    And there's this.

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

  211. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    It was Putin-allied Belarus that was trying to flood Poland with Third World refugees.

    Replies: @Coemgen, @Veteran Aryan, @Coemgen

    Perhaps the “Third World refugees” in Belarus are the result of “liberalization” of Belarus as described in the Rand Corp. paper that PhysicistDave posted in another thread:

    “Promoting liberalization in Belarus likely would not succeed and could provoke a strong Russian response, one that would result in a general deterioration of the security environment in Europe and a setback for U.S. policy.”

    excerpted from:
    https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf

    There is a chart showing the promoting of “liberalization” in Belarus as having a high level of benefits.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Coemgen

    No, not at all. Liberalization meant trying to turn Belarus into a pro-Western democracy instead of a totalitarian Russian puppet state. Putin would call promoting liberalization a "color revolution".

    This had nothing to do with the African immigrants who were recruited and given visas into Belarus with the express goal of pushing them over the border to the EU/ Poland. Nor was this immigration promoted by the West - it was just another dirty trick that the Kremlin boys thought up.

    Even if promoting liberalization in general means trying to make Belarus the kind of place that has open borders, no African refugee in his right mind wants to stay in poverty stricken dictatorial Belarus where the welfare benefits (especially for an African) are meager to none. And to the extent that they wanted to stay, the Belarussians beat the crap out of them to change their minds. They were just supposed to be passing thru, not staying. Oh, hell no.

    Not that promoting liberalization got far - with the help of Russian troops, Lukashenko had all the liberals arrested.

    So no, one has nothing to do with the other.

  212. Who is this mysterious “they?” The Russians?

    Mysterious “they” sending flood of third world migrants from Belarusia are Belarussians.

  213. @Coemgen
    @Steve Sailer

    From where did Belarus get this flood of Third World refugees?

    Replies: @Bies Podkrakowski, @Jack D

    The Russians were trying to undermine the West by flooding it with Africans. (This was not their only tactic but Putin likes to spread the love around and undermine the West in many different ways, large and small. He thinks that the West hates Russia and he hates them back.)

    The “refugee” smugglers are always looking for new routes into the EU. Belarus, as instructed by Putin, put out the word that if you come to Belarus we’ll give you a visa and help you get across the border to Poland and the smugglers took them up on it (“refugees” have no interest in actually settling in Belarus which is just as poor as their own countries). Then when the refugees were pushed back over the border by Poland, the Belarus would beat them and try to push the back over the border again. They had no interest in helping these people, they just wanted to use them as tools and foist them onto the EU.

    • Replies: @Coemgen
    @Jack D

    It looks like the influx of third world "refugees" into Belarus is what is called "liberalization" in this Rand Corp. paper that PhysicistDave posted a link to:

    https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf

  214. @Moses
    @Jack D

    Erm….Israel passed a law explicitly stating that it exists by and for Jews.

    I think that’s great.

    And as a Jew I feel other peoples have the same right to their own ethnostates.

    My fellow Jews would do well to stop trying to mix ethnicities in other states. The 1924 immigration act was just.

    It was wrong for Jews like Emmanuel Cellar to push the 1965 immigration act opening the floodgates to ethnically alien peoples. And it’s wrong for Jewish NGOs to flood Europe with non-Europeans whilst preserving a Jewish ethnostate in Israel.

    Replies: @Jack D

    And the American Constitution gave blacks the right to vote but they didn’t actually have it for a century in the South. Just because you pass some law doesn’t mean that reality matches the law.

    The French in Quebec have a similar law that enshrines it as a place for French speakers but if you go to Montreal, half the people are English speakers. The law is symbolic and aspirational. It doesn’t reflect what actually exists. If it actually existed, they wouldn’t need a law. Does Poland have a law that all the business signs need to be in Polish? No, they don’t need one.

    Israel took hundreds of thousands of Christian or pagan Ethiopians on the dubious basis that they were “Jewish”. The main reason was that the Sephardic “Shas” party wanted to beef up their numbers vs. the Ashkenazi parties and thought that the Ethiopians would fall into their camp, so their Iranian Jewish chief rabbi (who was also the head of their political party – Iranians are into theocracy) issued a ruling that a certain Ethiopian tribe was Jewish. (Ashkenazi Rabbis didn’t think so.) Now these Ethiopians want to bring even more Ethiopians who aren’t even pretend Jewish on the basis of “family reunification” and the Israel Supreme Ct. (leftist like American courts) ruled that it should be done even though the Israeli gov’t didn’t want to do it.

    Meanwhile, the Ashkenazis, not to be outdone. brought in millions of Soviet “Jews”, some of whom were Jewish but a lot of whom weren’t.

    This is added to the millions of Arabs that are already in Israel and the many hundreds of thousands of Thai, Filipino, Chinese, etc. guest workers and the Africans who have been smuggled over the border and you get something that is anything but an ethnostate. They can’t preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    • Replies: @Dube
    @Jack D

    They can’t preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    Not sure I understand the simile. Please explain.

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Moses
    @Jack D

    Oh my sides! My fellow tribal members like you are so predictable Jack. True to stereotype, sadly.

    You wrote a lot of words to obfuscate that Israel is an ethnostate through and through. We both know better. Stop pretending it ain't. It spits on the graves of Israeli state founders David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Chaim Weizmann et al.

    Israel as an expressly Jewish ethnostate is a good thing. Every racial group deserves their own ethnostate.

    Btw you and your kids have done your Israel Birthright Heritage Trips, right? All expenses paid by the Israeli govt and Jewish donors. I highly recommend it.

    , @Joe Stalin
    @Jack D


    And the American Constitution gave blacks the right to vote but they didn’t actually have it for a century in the South. Just because you pass some law doesn’t mean that reality matches the law.
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYSEBneYFX8
  215. @Jack D
    @Coemgen

    The Russians were trying to undermine the West by flooding it with Africans. (This was not their only tactic but Putin likes to spread the love around and undermine the West in many different ways, large and small. He thinks that the West hates Russia and he hates them back.)

    The "refugee" smugglers are always looking for new routes into the EU. Belarus, as instructed by Putin, put out the word that if you come to Belarus we'll give you a visa and help you get across the border to Poland and the smugglers took them up on it ("refugees" have no interest in actually settling in Belarus which is just as poor as their own countries). Then when the refugees were pushed back over the border by Poland, the Belarus would beat them and try to push the back over the border again. They had no interest in helping these people, they just wanted to use them as tools and foist them onto the EU.

    Replies: @Coemgen

    It looks like the influx of third world “refugees” into Belarus is what is called “liberalization” in this Rand Corp. paper that PhysicistDave posted a link to:

    https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf

  216. @Almost Missouri
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start,
     
    Yep. As is now standard, the NYT article contains normal-sounding nonsense terms:

    Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized.
     
    What does that mean? Supposedly Albagir wants to learn to heal with medicine. Will healing with medicine somehow "ostracize" his university?

    No, obviously. Wealthy Western welfare states were always his destination. "Studying medicine" was just a vehicle to get there. What he feared is that his vehicle might be ostracized by his intended destination. So he abandoned his vehicle.

    Turned out that was more painful than expected. But he doesn't seem to have any regrets. After all, he has probably crossed at least half a dozen borders and now is only one border away from his goal, in a "safe house", the NYT reporter is talking to him, and he already knows to blame his every misfortune on "racism". So close he can taste it!

    Replies: @anonymouseperson, @DrWatson

    Albagir feared that his university might be ostracized.

    Thanks for pointing out this nonsense, it struck me too as disingenuous.

    His university ostracized exactly by whom? The Germans in Germany?

    Did he really travel from Russia all the way to the Polish border? F*cking unbelievable.

  217. @Coemgen
    @Steve Sailer

    Perhaps the "Third World refugees" in Belarus are the result of "liberalization" of Belarus as described in the Rand Corp. paper that PhysicistDave posted in another thread:

    "Promoting liberalization in Belarus likely would not succeed and could provoke a strong Russian response, one that would result in a general deterioration of the security environment in Europe and a setback for U.S. policy."

    excerpted from:
    https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf

    There is a chart showing the promoting of "liberalization" in Belarus as having a high level of benefits.

    Replies: @Jack D

    No, not at all. Liberalization meant trying to turn Belarus into a pro-Western democracy instead of a totalitarian Russian puppet state. Putin would call promoting liberalization a “color revolution”.

    This had nothing to do with the African immigrants who were recruited and given visas into Belarus with the express goal of pushing them over the border to the EU/ Poland. Nor was this immigration promoted by the West – it was just another dirty trick that the Kremlin boys thought up.

    Even if promoting liberalization in general means trying to make Belarus the kind of place that has open borders, no African refugee in his right mind wants to stay in poverty stricken dictatorial Belarus where the welfare benefits (especially for an African) are meager to none. And to the extent that they wanted to stay, the Belarussians beat the crap out of them to change their minds. They were just supposed to be passing thru, not staying. Oh, hell no.

    Not that promoting liberalization got far – with the help of Russian troops, Lukashenko had all the liberals arrested.

    So no, one has nothing to do with the other.

  218. @Jack D
    @Moses

    And the American Constitution gave blacks the right to vote but they didn't actually have it for a century in the South. Just because you pass some law doesn't mean that reality matches the law.

    The French in Quebec have a similar law that enshrines it as a place for French speakers but if you go to Montreal, half the people are English speakers. The law is symbolic and aspirational. It doesn't reflect what actually exists. If it actually existed, they wouldn't need a law. Does Poland have a law that all the business signs need to be in Polish? No, they don't need one.

    Israel took hundreds of thousands of Christian or pagan Ethiopians on the dubious basis that they were "Jewish". The main reason was that the Sephardic "Shas" party wanted to beef up their numbers vs. the Ashkenazi parties and thought that the Ethiopians would fall into their camp, so their Iranian Jewish chief rabbi (who was also the head of their political party - Iranians are into theocracy) issued a ruling that a certain Ethiopian tribe was Jewish. (Ashkenazi Rabbis didn't think so.) Now these Ethiopians want to bring even more Ethiopians who aren't even pretend Jewish on the basis of "family reunification" and the Israel Supreme Ct. (leftist like American courts) ruled that it should be done even though the Israeli gov't didn't want to do it.

    Meanwhile, the Ashkenazis, not to be outdone. brought in millions of Soviet "Jews", some of whom were Jewish but a lot of whom weren't.

    This is added to the millions of Arabs that are already in Israel and the many hundreds of thousands of Thai, Filipino, Chinese, etc. guest workers and the Africans who have been smuggled over the border and you get something that is anything but an ethnostate. They can't preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    Replies: @Dube, @Moses, @Joe Stalin

    They can’t preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    Not sure I understand the simile. Please explain.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Dube

    Pre-WWII Poland was a multi-ethnic state, much like Israel is now. In addition to a large (10%) Jewish minority, there were Ukrainians (15%), ethnic Germans, Belarusians, Lithuanians and various other peoples. Ethnic Poles were only 69% of the total.

    By the end of the war, for various reasons (the Holocaust, the seizure by Russia of Galicia, their own ethnic cleansing) Poland ended up being a place where 98% of the people were ethnic Poles. So it's possible to create an ethnically pure country where one did not exist before, but only by killing or expelling millions of people. In the case of the Poles, it was (somewhat) accidental - before the war started, no one , not even the most fervent nationalists, imagined that Poland would be ethnically cleansed in only 5 years. Their pre-war plan was to squeeze out the Jews long term thru economic boycotts - persuading them to leave for Palestine or elsewhere, not to murder them all. Likewise, their plan for the Ukrainians was to get them to speak Polish, not to shed their territory.

    I don't think the Israelis are contemplating anything remotely like that. In particular the large Arab Israeli minority is being increasingly integrated into the government and economy and no one is pressing them to leave, let alone kill them.

  219. @YetAnotherAnon
    Sounds more as if he travelled to Moscow on a student visa with Europe in mind from the start, though I could be wrong.

    In the UK, 89,000 people have "expressed an interest" in housing Ukrainian refugees. Be interesting to see how many end up here. I remember 20,000 Icelanders said they'd take "Syrians" - the final total was a few hundred.

    Is the War On Putin the trigger/excuse for the Great Reset?

    Boris, today - "I don’t doubt that there will be tough times ahead. The process of weaning the world off Russian oil and gas, and hydrocarbons in general, will be difficult."

    Also Boris, yesterday - “Boris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over the regime’s biggest ever mass execution

    Replies: @Jack D, @Almost Missouri, @Cato

    I remember 20,000 Icelanders said they’d take “Syrians” – the final total was a few hundred.

    Iceland is not for everyone — if you have seen the small northern villages, maybe in Canada, with houses scattered about, no trees, no lawn, you would understand why a Syrian might prefer to settle elsewhere, such as in Turkey.

  220. @No jack London
    @Anonymous

    Warren Buffet owns Burlington Northern and Santa Fey which ships a lot of oil by rail. Reason to discourage pipelines?

    Replies: @Hibernian

    The RR tracks in and around Chicago have been full of tank cars for at least the last 5 years.

    • Replies: @Veteran Aryan
    @Hibernian


    The RR tracks in and around Chicago have been full of tank cars for at least the last 5 years.
     
    It's the same here; rail yards are filled with empty tank cars. Meanwhile, pipelines continue being built at a furious pace.
  221. @Jack D
    @Moses

    And the American Constitution gave blacks the right to vote but they didn't actually have it for a century in the South. Just because you pass some law doesn't mean that reality matches the law.

    The French in Quebec have a similar law that enshrines it as a place for French speakers but if you go to Montreal, half the people are English speakers. The law is symbolic and aspirational. It doesn't reflect what actually exists. If it actually existed, they wouldn't need a law. Does Poland have a law that all the business signs need to be in Polish? No, they don't need one.

    Israel took hundreds of thousands of Christian or pagan Ethiopians on the dubious basis that they were "Jewish". The main reason was that the Sephardic "Shas" party wanted to beef up their numbers vs. the Ashkenazi parties and thought that the Ethiopians would fall into their camp, so their Iranian Jewish chief rabbi (who was also the head of their political party - Iranians are into theocracy) issued a ruling that a certain Ethiopian tribe was Jewish. (Ashkenazi Rabbis didn't think so.) Now these Ethiopians want to bring even more Ethiopians who aren't even pretend Jewish on the basis of "family reunification" and the Israel Supreme Ct. (leftist like American courts) ruled that it should be done even though the Israeli gov't didn't want to do it.

    Meanwhile, the Ashkenazis, not to be outdone. brought in millions of Soviet "Jews", some of whom were Jewish but a lot of whom weren't.

    This is added to the millions of Arabs that are already in Israel and the many hundreds of thousands of Thai, Filipino, Chinese, etc. guest workers and the Africans who have been smuggled over the border and you get something that is anything but an ethnostate. They can't preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    Replies: @Dube, @Moses, @Joe Stalin

    Oh my sides! My fellow tribal members like you are so predictable Jack. True to stereotype, sadly.

    You wrote a lot of words to obfuscate that Israel is an ethnostate through and through. We both know better. Stop pretending it ain’t. It spits on the graves of Israeli state founders David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Chaim Weizmann et al.

    Israel as an expressly Jewish ethnostate is a good thing. Every racial group deserves their own ethnostate.

    Btw you and your kids have done your Israel Birthright Heritage Trips, right? All expenses paid by the Israeli govt and Jewish donors. I highly recommend it.

  222. “IMPEACH POLAND!”

    /s

  223. @Hibernian
    @No jack London

    The RR tracks in and around Chicago have been full of tank cars for at least the last 5 years.

    Replies: @Veteran Aryan

    The RR tracks in and around Chicago have been full of tank cars for at least the last 5 years.

    It’s the same here; rail yards are filled with empty tank cars. Meanwhile, pipelines continue being built at a furious pace.

  224. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Coemgen

    "Why would recent migrants be settling in the outer Hebrides?"

    In order to breed out the natives, and make absolutely certain that Whitey has no place on Earth left whatsoever to escape from sacred diversity --- not even a barren rock in the frigid north Atlantic.

    "How can they afford to live there?"

    Jizya, aka welfare. Though I'm sure a few generous hedge fund billionaires would be more than happy to subsidize them if need be. ROI and all that.

    Replies: @Brutusale

  225. @Jack D
    @Moses

    And the American Constitution gave blacks the right to vote but they didn't actually have it for a century in the South. Just because you pass some law doesn't mean that reality matches the law.

    The French in Quebec have a similar law that enshrines it as a place for French speakers but if you go to Montreal, half the people are English speakers. The law is symbolic and aspirational. It doesn't reflect what actually exists. If it actually existed, they wouldn't need a law. Does Poland have a law that all the business signs need to be in Polish? No, they don't need one.

    Israel took hundreds of thousands of Christian or pagan Ethiopians on the dubious basis that they were "Jewish". The main reason was that the Sephardic "Shas" party wanted to beef up their numbers vs. the Ashkenazi parties and thought that the Ethiopians would fall into their camp, so their Iranian Jewish chief rabbi (who was also the head of their political party - Iranians are into theocracy) issued a ruling that a certain Ethiopian tribe was Jewish. (Ashkenazi Rabbis didn't think so.) Now these Ethiopians want to bring even more Ethiopians who aren't even pretend Jewish on the basis of "family reunification" and the Israel Supreme Ct. (leftist like American courts) ruled that it should be done even though the Israeli gov't didn't want to do it.

    Meanwhile, the Ashkenazis, not to be outdone. brought in millions of Soviet "Jews", some of whom were Jewish but a lot of whom weren't.

    This is added to the millions of Arabs that are already in Israel and the many hundreds of thousands of Thai, Filipino, Chinese, etc. guest workers and the Africans who have been smuggled over the border and you get something that is anything but an ethnostate. They can't preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    Replies: @Dube, @Moses, @Joe Stalin

    And the American Constitution gave blacks the right to vote but they didn’t actually have it for a century in the South. Just because you pass some law doesn’t mean that reality matches the law.

  226. @Dube
    @Jack D

    They can’t preserve an ethnostate in Israel because they never had one to begin with nor are they ever going to get one unless they do genocide like was done in Poland.

    Not sure I understand the simile. Please explain.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Pre-WWII Poland was a multi-ethnic state, much like Israel is now. In addition to a large (10%) Jewish minority, there were Ukrainians (15%), ethnic Germans, Belarusians, Lithuanians and various other peoples. Ethnic Poles were only 69% of the total.

    By the end of the war, for various reasons (the Holocaust, the seizure by Russia of Galicia, their own ethnic cleansing) Poland ended up being a place where 98% of the people were ethnic Poles. So it’s possible to create an ethnically pure country where one did not exist before, but only by killing or expelling millions of people. In the case of the Poles, it was (somewhat) accidental – before the war started, no one , not even the most fervent nationalists, imagined that Poland would be ethnically cleansed in only 5 years. Their pre-war plan was to squeeze out the Jews long term thru economic boycotts – persuading them to leave for Palestine or elsewhere, not to murder them all. Likewise, their plan for the Ukrainians was to get them to speak Polish, not to shed their territory.

    I don’t think the Israelis are contemplating anything remotely like that. In particular the large Arab Israeli minority is being increasingly integrated into the government and economy and no one is pressing them to leave, let alone kill them.

  227. In the case of the Poles, it was (somewhat) accidental – before the war started, no one , not even the most fervent nationalists, imagined that Poland would be ethnically cleansed in only 5 years.

    Thanks. We appear to agree that “genocide” is not a charge against the Polish state.

    The term “cleanse” is interesting as it expresses or claims to identify active approval by some agent. “Ethnic cleanser” is not just another product in a special section on a shelf. You touch on some very complex history, as you do understand.

  228. @Veteran Aryan
    @Pat Hannagan

    Allow me to assist.
    https://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo

    Replies: @Pat Hannagan

    Brilliant!

    Exactly what I meant (but went with the Hunky Dory reference).

    What a great collaboration, Bowie and Reznor along with some Eno thrown in for good measure.

    That song was meant to be on Bowie’s Outside album which itself was inspired by, and was his replication on similar themes, Lynch’s Twin Peaks.

    I love this period of Lynch and Bowie fusion, leading to Lost Highway and Song to the Siren which I only just listened to the original the other day by Tim Buckley. Tim Buckley, imagine that? I always thought it was Cocteau Twins.

    Back to predicting the future for us all, and America in particular; here’s to the Petrodollar:

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