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It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the 2024 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) this week in Astana, Kazakhstan. It can certainly be interpreted as the antechamber to the crucial BRICS annual summit, under the Russian presidency, next October in Kazan.
Let’s start with the final declaration. As much as SCO members state “tectonic shifts are underway” in geopolitics and geoeconomics, as “the use of power methods is increasing, with norms of international law being systematically violated”, they are fully engaged to “increase the SCO’s role in the creation of a new democratic, fair, political and economic international order.”
Well, there could not be a sharper contrast with the unilaterally-imposed “rules-based international order”.
The SCO 10 – with new member Belarus – are explicitly in favor of “a fair solution to the Palestinian issue”. They “oppose unilateral sanctions”. They want to create a SCO investment fund (Iran, via acting President Mohammad Mokhber, supports the creation of a SCO common bank, just like the NDB in BRICS).
Additionally, members that “are parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty stand for compliance with its provisions”. And crucially, they agree that “interaction within the SCO may become the basis for building a new security architecture in Eurasia.”
The last point is actually the heart of the matter. That’s proof that Putin’s proposal last month in front of key Russian diplomats was fully debated in Astana – following Russia’s strategic deal with the DPRK de facto linking security in Asia as indivisible with security in Europe. That is something that remains – and will continue to remain – incomprehensible for the collective West.
A new Eurasia-wide security architecture is an upgrade of the Russian concept of Greater Eurasia Partnership – involving a series of bilateral and multilateral guarantees and, in Putin’s own words, open to “all Eurasian countries that wish to participate”, including NATO members.
The SCO should become one of the key drivers of this new security arrangement – in total contrast with the “rules-based order” – alongside the CSTO, the CIS and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU).
The road map ahead of course includes socio-economic integration and the development of international transportation corridors – from the INSTC (Russia-Iran-India) to the China-supported “Middle Corridor”.
But the two crucial points are military and financial: “To gradually phase out the military presence of external powers” in Eurasia; and to establish alternatives to “Western-controlled economic mechanisms, expanding the use of national currencies in settlements, and establishing independent payment systems.”
Translation: the meticulous process conducted by Russia to deliver a fatal blow to Pax Americana is essentially shared by all SCO members.
Welcome to SCO+
President Putin laid down the basic tenets further on down the road when he confirmed the “commitment of all member states to forming a fair world order based on the central role of the UN and commitment of sovereign states to mutually beneficial partnership.”
He added, “the long-term goals for further expansion of cooperation in politics, economy, energy, agriculture, high technologies and innovation are stated in the project of development strategy of SCO till 2035.”
That’s a quite Chinese approach to long-term strategic planning: China’s five-year plans are already mapped out all the way to 2035.
President Xi doubled down when it comes to the leading Russia-China strategic partnership: both should “strengthen comprehensive strategic coordination, oppose external interference and jointly maintain peace and stability” in Eurasia.
Once again, that’s Russia-China as leaders of Eurasia integration and the drive towards a multi-nodal world (italics mine; nodal with an “n”).
The summit in Astana showed how the SCO has really stepped up the game after incorporating India, Pakistan and Iran – and now Belarus – as new members, plus establishing key players such as Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Azerbaijan as dialogue partners, and strategic Afghanistan and Mongolia as observers.
It’s a long way from the original Shanghai Five – Russia, China, plus three Central Asian “stans” – setting up the organization back in 2001, essentially as an anti-terrorism/separatism body. The SCO has evolved into serious geoeconomic cooperation, discussing in detail, for instance, supply chain security issues.
The SCO now goes way beyond a Heartland-focused economic and security alliance, as it covers 80% of the Eurasian landmass; accounts for more than 40% of the world’s population; boasts a 25% share of global GDP – and rising; and generates global trade value of over $8 trillion in 2022, according to Chinese government numbers. Add to it SCO members hold 20% of global oil reserves and 44% of natural gas.
So it’s no wonder that a key development this year at the Palace of Independence in Astana was the first meeting of the SCO +, under the theme “Strengthening Multilateral Dialogue”.
A real who’s who of SCO partners was there, from President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to member of the Supreme Council of the Emirates Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Chairman of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming.
Russia’s bilaterals with many of these SCO+ actors were quite substantial.
India’s PM Modi did not go to Astana, sending FM Jaishankar, who maintains fabulous relations with Foreign Minister Lavrov. Modi was re-elected to his third term last month and is up to his neck working the domestic front, with his BJP now commanding a much narrower majority in Parliament. Next Monday he will be in Moscow – and will meet Putin.
Proverbial Divide and Rule hacks seized Modi’s no-show in Astana as proof of a serious India-China rift. Nonsense. Jaishankar, after a bilateral meeting with Wang Yi, stated – in a very Chinese metaphorical way – that “the three mutuals – mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest – will guide our bilateral ties.”
That applies to their still unresolved border standoff; to the delicate balance New Delhi has to find to appease the Americans in their Indo-Pacific obsession (no one across Asia uses the term “Indo-Pacific”; it’s Asia-Pacific); and also relates to Indian aspirations when it comes to beinga leader of the Global South compared to China.
China does regard itself as part of the Global South. Wang Yiwei from Renmin University, the author of arguably the best book on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), argues that Beijing welcomes a “sense of identity” provided by the fact it represents the Global South and has been obliged to resist Washington’s hegemony and “deglobalisation” rhetoric.
The New Multi-Nodal Matrix
Astana once again revealed how the main drivers of the SCO are advancing fast on everything from energy cooperation to cross-border transportation corridors. Putin and Xi discussed progress in the construction of the massive Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline as well as Central Asia’s need to have China as a provider of funds and technology to develop their economies.
China is now Kazakhstan’s largest trading partner (two-way trade at $41 billion, and counting). Crucially, when Xi met Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, he backed Astana’s bid to join BRICS+.
Tokayev was beaming: “Deepening friendly and strategic cooperation with China is an unswerving strategic priority for Kazakhstan.” And that means more projects under BRI.
Kazakhstan – which shares a border of more than 1,700 km with Xinjiang – is absolutely central on all these fronts: BRI, SCO, EAEU, soon BRICS and last but not least, the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route.
That’s the famous Middle Corridor linking China to Europe via Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Georgia, Turkiye and the Black Sea.
Yes, this corridor skips Russia: the key reason is that Chinese and European traders are terrified of American secondary sanctions. Beijing, pragmatically, supports building this corridor as a BRI project since 2022. Xi and Tokayev actually opened what can also be called the China-Europe Trans-Caspian Express via video link; they saw the first Chinese trucks arriving on the road to a Kazakh Caspian Sea port.
Xi and Putin discussed the corridor, of course. Russia understands the Chinese constraints. And after all Russia-China trade uses its own – sanction-proof – corridors.
Once again, Divide and Rule hacks – oblivious to the obvious, not to mention finer points of Eurasia integration – resort to their same old dusty narrative: the Global South is fractured, China and Russia don’t see eye to eye on the role of the SCO, BRI and the EAEU. Nonsense, again.
All fronts are progressing in parallel. The SCO Development Bank was initially proposed by China. The Russian Ministry of Finance – which is a mammoth organization, with 10 vice-Ministers – was not so keen, on the grounds that Chinese capital would flood Central Asia. Now that’s changed, as Iran – which has strategic partnerships with both Russia and China – is quite enthusiastic.
The strategically important China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway – a BRI project – developed slowly, but now will be on overdrive, by a mutual Putin-Xi decision. Moscow knows that Beijing – fearing the sanctions tsunami – cannot use the Trans-Siberian as the main overland trade route to Europe.
So the new Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is the solution, reducing the journey to Europe by 900km. Putin personally told Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov there’s no Russian opposition; on the contrary, Moscow fully supports interconnected projects launched by BRICS and/or financed by the EAEU.
It’s fascinating to watch the Russia-China dynamic in play at the heart of multilateral organizations such as the SCO. Moscow sees itself as a leader of the coming multipolar order even if it does not consider itself, technically, as a member of the Global South (Lavrov insists on “Global Majority”).
As for Russia’s “pivot to the East”, it actually started in the 2010s, even before Maidan in Kiev, when Moscow started to seriously consolidate relations with, well, the Global South.
It’s no wonder that now Moscow clearly sees the new evolving multi-nodal reality – SCO and SCO+, BRICS 10 and BRICS+, EAEU, ASEAN, INSTC, new trade settlement platforms, the new Eurasian security architecture – as the beating heart in the complex, long-term strategy of meticulously shattering the domination of Pax Americana.
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Turkiye is impotent in the current crisis that effect Arab people, Saudi Arabia has U.S bases that can attack its Arab neighbors and Egypt is just a beggar country.
It is a good idea for Yemen to have its capabilities improved…they have shown they’re fighters and if the U.S want to come at them through the logical place of Saudi Arabia then they can reduce middle-east oil production to a trickle…so China will have to stop sitting on its hands and help expel the middle-east of its occupiers.
That is what unites the middle-east, to rid themselves of the occupier…because the occupied are always second class…Palistinians a prime example.
The middle-east as a conflict zone has just started…it’s who controls the energy that decides who is to be master…will Arabs always be slaves?
isn’t just amazing that russia and china, are putting order to the world, as the west implodes, like a cheap homemade submarine, taking billionaires down, to gawk at corpses on the titanic. how fitting that the zioneocon empire has a complete vegetable, for their imperial magistrate, who’s only real role, was to read a teleprompter but is unable to preform that function and can longer control his other bodily functions as well.
the “donors” crawl out from under their rocks, refusing to further fund the demonrat tijuana donkey show and demand a new candidate, after having denied the idiotic “democratic” voters a primary in the first place. this is just too good, the whole shit show (in every meaning of the word), is being revealed before our eyes. too bad most americans are too stupid to understand the delicious irony of the situation and are unable to enjoy the situation as much as myself. that’s alright, more popcorn for me (or is that cornpop, i can’t remember). who the gods seek to destroy, they first make senile.
The Western braintrust makes decades-into-the future plans also, but they conceal them from their own masses. The West probably planned the Ukrainian proxy war a good 15-20 years ahead of 2022.
I think Armageddon is now an appointment. The West will not allow the East to peaceably go it’s own way. I think there will be war, either 5 years from now or 15 to 20, I think there will be a war.
Have you ever even seen one of those ” cheap homemade submarines of ours ” ? Maybe you’ve seen a picture ? An icbm ? Stealth fighters ?
In the area of 5 billion dollars each, right ?
And we have ” imperial magistrate vegetables ” ?
What in hell do you smoke ? Do you really believe
you’re b.s. , or have you another agenda ?
Also , I’m curious, do you, vote? Be honest… if you can . You’ve seen the hundreds of thousands of marines, sailors and air men , right?
P. S. Which ” gods ” are you referring to ? ?
This “Multipolar” World has been in the making for 20+ years now. Are we there yet? These Muslim SCO countries seem to like Putin for two main reasons: #1 he’s helping Jihad by flooding Russia with Muslim migrants (14.5 – 16.5 of them already there! Yes, you read that right!), and #2 they get stuff super cheap from Russia due to sanctions.
In other news, Putin/Kremlin seem to be hiding the damage caused by strikes deep into Russian territory, they also seem to be lying that they are responding to these strikes/provocations [1]!
[1] Kremlin’s Fake News – Moscow Did NOT Shoot a US Drone Down as Retaliation For Crimean Beach Bombings! | Rolo Slavskiy / Rurik Substack | 2024-06
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/fake-news-moscow-did-not-shoot-a
Excerpt: Pepe got the story from this [telegram] channel and it posts fake news to hype up Moscow’s successes in the war often. Pepe often does this and claims that his sources are “unconfirmed but credible”. This is an improvement because he used to say stuff like “confirmed and reconfirmed” before posting a giant, steaming whopper. His reporting on this news in the West is then recycled by Russian state media in the guise of “Western experts confirm Putin is doing a great job” even though they are just using fake news from Russian Telegram in the first place.
Excerpt: Macgregor, fresh after his prediction that Kharkov would be in Russian hands by now, pivoted to claiming that Putin has raised a new shadow army almost a million strong to take the rest of Ukraine.
Excerpt: Moscow was forced to go begging bowl in hand to North Korea, a serious state, asking for supplies. Now, riddle me this Multipolaristas: if China is Russia’s war factory, or if Putin has nationalized the economy, why does Lavrov need to go to Pyongyang to ask for weapons and ammo? Wasn’t China backing Russia to the hilt? That is what the BRICS people led me to believe … but all I see is news of China tightening Western sanctions on Russia, shutting down Siberian gas pipelines … is that all kayfabe maskirovka as well?
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Russian Economy under Putin? See the report by the leading Russian economist and a patriot, Sergey Glazyev [1].
[1] 30 years of Russian economy in the arms of a corrupt bureaucracy and the clutches of a comprador oligarch | Sergey Glazyev ( Leading Russian Economist )
https://glazev.ru/articles/6-jekonomika/110734-my-preduprezhdali-30-let-bluzhdaniy-v-trekh-sosnakh-rossiyskaja-jekonomika-v-ob-jatijakh-korrumpirovannoy-bjurokratii-i-lapakh-kompradorskoy-oligarkhii
Excerpt from 228-page detailed report [2]: The increase in GDP growth over this period (1993-2022) amounted to 1.5 times, final consumption (for 1996-2022) – 2.4 times, labor productivity (for 2008-2022) – 1.2 times. During this time, the GDP of China, which began the transition to a market economy from a much lower level of economic development than Russia, grew 12.7 times. If in 1990 the GDP at PPP per capita in the RSFSR was 11 times higher than in China, today it is 3%. Wages in the USSR were an order of magnitude higher than in China, and now the average salary of Chinese workers is higher than that of Russian workers. Since China at the beginning of the transition had the same system of managing the national economy as the USSR, it can be assumed that the reason for such striking discrepancies in the results is the differences in the policy of reforms and approaches to regulating the market economy…
[2] Sergey Glazyev Report 1993-2022 Download (Russian)
https://glazev.ru/redirect?url=https://disk.yandex.ru/i/OkqKYOSFIASbBQ
[3] Sergey Glazyev Blog ( Leading Russian Economist )
https://glazev.ru
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Perhaps Pepe forgot to mention that SCO Muslim countries are probably very happy with the fact that Putin/Kremlin are actually organizing NWO/WEF Muslim migrants invasion/conquest all on their own and at the expense of Russians! It’s been going for years!
Currently estimated, there are 14.5 -16.5 millions Muslim migrants in Russia [1][2][3]!
That’s at least 10% of the population!
There’s also violence that local Muslims do to Russians under Putin. Here’s just one hideous example [4] out of many!
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Machine translated excerpt from [1]: There is no exact information about how many migrants there are in Russia. Bastrykin estimated their number from 14.5 to 16.5 million people. “1.2 million migrants were brought to Moscow, 880 thousand to the Moscow region, 860 thousand to St. Petersburg,” the head of the ICR said.
Machine translated excerpt from [1]: Over the past year, the total number of crimes committed by migrants decreased by 3 percent and amounted to 39 thousand. At the same time, the number of particularly serious crimes committed by migrants increased by 32 percent. The number of sexual crimes, as well as crimes in the field of drug trafficking, has increased significantly. And extremist crimes committed by newcomers increased by as much as 147 percent. Among them is the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. Migrants staying in Russia illegally commit more crimes than “legal” ones. The head of the ICR proposed to consider unlawful presence in Russia as an aggravating circumstance in sentencing.
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Machine translated excerpt from [4]: … in Izhevsk [Russia], representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora created a whole network to provide perverts with underage [Russian] girls. They also r***d the girls themselves. Among the participants in this network were employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. … Thanks to money and connections, the leader of the pedophile gang and the main sadist, Seymur Rzayev, was released and fled to his native Azerbaijan. An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Khayal Bayramov, who was part of a network of pedophiles, who also bullied the girls, received a ridiculous sentence and was immediately released on parole.
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[1] Bystrykin called for a change in Russia’s migration policy: The head of the Investigative Committee called honest figures
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27600/4951703/
[2] Bastrykin: Such a migration policy is a threat to Russia’s national security
https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2024/06/27/bastrykin-takaya-migracionnaya-politika-ugroza-nacionalnoy-bezopasnosti-rossii
[3] Bastrykin’s migration campaign. Under whose banners are the fighters of the NWO called?
https://47news.ru/articles/253015/
[4] Who excuses the members of Azerbaijani diaspora organized criminal group that kidnapped and r***d Russian schoolgirls in Izhevsk, Russia?
https://ruslanostashko.livejournal.com/935815.html
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The Western braintrust
Ahh…I think that should be The Western Brain Fart…
More corruption, more SMO sabotage by the FSB (Yes!) and more West/Ukraine-pleasing from Putin/Kremlin!
[1] The FSB Arrested the Russian Trucker Who Exposed Them For Sabotaging Aid Bound for Donbass | Rolo Slavskiy / Rurik Substack | 2024-07
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-fsb-arrested-the-russian-trucker
[2] Russians in Belgorod Lose All Electricity as Putin Declares the Border Region a “Buffer Zone” | Rolo Slavskiy / Rurik Substack | 2024-07
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/russians-in-belgorod-lose-all-electricity
Excerpt from [2]: Russia is ready to continue gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine after 2024 The Russian side is ready to continue gas supplies to Europe through the territory of Ukraine after the current transit agreement expires at the end of 2024. “We are ready to supply,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak commented to reporters in Astana. “The question is not ours. First of all, it depends on the desire of Ukraine, since transit is through its territory,” he added.
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There is also another and more business-centric reason for the “middle corridor” to bypass Russia besides the convenient and polite excuse of fear of US secondary sanctions. North of the middle corridor, i.e. along the southern belly of Asian Russia, there is hardly an economically significant soul living. A corridor to Europe along this route would be a forever money-losing proposition.
Notsofast was referring to the non-rated submersible that imploded during its descent to the Titanic? It squished a billionaire along with the rest of the tourists?
The Vegetable is Biden.
“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.” It’s a proverb? Colloquialism?
Try to keep up.
Oh , okay . So Biden is in charge ?
.. . And the God that
you wrote is the same as the gods of some colloquial pro verb ? And , I think he was alluding to our collapse… comparing a completely different
event… but, what do I know ? My guess is that you are voting for this as well.
I think this vegetable analogy may be catchy .
Yay, Kazakhstan 👊
OT… sort of.
IMHO, Kazakhstan has the best-looking national women’s volleyball team.
here, this should bring you up to speed:
as to the like a cheap homemade submarine, taking billionaires down, to gawk at corpses on the titanic:
https://www.businessinsider.com/titan-submersible-implosion-among-the-worst-tech-screwups-of-2023-2023-12
did i say that? if i remember correctly i said:
i stand by that.
as to this:
no, i don’t believe i’m b.s., i believe you are. i believe that i am the dispenser of divine sarcasm, here’s your daily dose, you’re welcome. more popcorn for me (or is it cornpop, i can’t remember)
The East is just following the playbook of the West. The rulers leading the dupes on with the promise of a sane and civil society and in a couple of decades it will be as bad or worse than the West. Why not – the dupes are bred to be duped?
Whenever you have Rulers and the ruled, the ruled are ALWAYS the losers and the Rulers are ALWAYS the winners.
I bet it will be a lot sooner than that.
I love seeing men take charge! I feel much more secure, seeing only men doing business. The whole feminist thing has been a huge failure for the world.
” The dispenser of divine sarcasm” ?
That’s impressive . Thanks, now I know.
I’ll try to be a bit more literal when I respond to your vast expertise on all of these articles which you comprehend so completely. Amazing , the depth, it’s astounding or something ?
that would help, that way you won’t appear to be such a dumbass. you might try to develop a sense of humor as well. keep up the good work.
Transparency alert: here we have a Ukrainian in the service of evil, or a sayanim hashara member of the Mossad Tel Aviv Misdirection Bureau, which has hundreds employed to disrupt and propagandize websites globally.
The fertility rate in Russia is no lower than that any industrialized country and is higher than most. Notably, Russia has launched several heretofore successful support programs to boost the fertility rate. Russia’s FR is 1.8; Italy 1.3; South Korea 0.9; Germany 1.5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate#:~:text=Replacement%20rates&text=The%20replacement%20fertility%20rate%20is,mortality%20rates%2C%20especially%20child%20mortality.
Your sources and references are trash Jewish propaganda or Western ZIOCON pap. Dismissible.
The Russian economy, as I have already written about, cites the World Bank, Statistica , and official Russian econometrics-which nobody challenges or proscribes. I have written about the official report of the Russian Central Bank, which reports that unemployment is less than 4%, wages increase exceeds inflation, and the economy is growing at close to 4% a year at this time. Russian Government debt is 14% of GDP. Russia has moved up to the 4th largest economy in the world.
Because the economy has steadily expanded year over year for a decade-on average-this and other factors have created a labor shortage.. About 20 new factories and plants are opened each month in Russia The bulk of inflation in Russia is demand exceeding supply. .
As I have written, Sergei Glasyev is a failed Presidential candidate (4%), a life long academic whose concrete accomplishments are zero. He is a statist, borderline communist, and loves Keynesian economics. He ran on the Communist Party ticket for President. In July 2012, Putin appointed Glazyev as presidential aide for the coordination of the work of federal agencies in developing the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
Being an academic, his ideas, fixed and abstract, were correct enough for Putin to keep him around, but later giving him a desk around the corner in the basement. Elvira Nabiullina was his colleague in the Putin Circle in the Kremlin. Nabiullina leans more to markets in the role of operations of economies. Elvira is an analytic, agnostic regarding ideology and theoretical approaches. She is a technocratic supreme pragmatist. She resembles the Power Plant Engineer that I was. Results are supreme. Empirical, concrete, measurable, and meeting output targets and goals. Glasyev talks and she acts. Engineers and scientists make the world go round.
Your trashy and deceptive, low quality, low worth trash is a method that useless people like you, Mefobills, Bardon Kaldian use. Phony and obscure reference, impossible to access and verify, esoteric and title more than dry hole wells. Highly polemic, uninformative and absurd and preposterous posturing and comparisons.
In most of these cases, the poster is inexperienced and insecure-having accomplished little-or serves in the stable of the ZIOCO, shoveling shit.
ADDENDUM; Workers have had to be added to maintain the economy. All of them are from republics in the Russian Federation, not from Afreaka, or Middle Beast countries or other Third Worlders.
ANOTHER Game Changer !!! How many does this make, Pepé?
Great post, thanks much for the links.
Cheers!
Egestion of the Occupiers is simply a matter of time. The prospect is rather difficult for the ruling financier elite to digest.
Tucker Carlson interviews Russias richest man and this guy, who’s had billions seized from him by Washington, says America is the greatest country because of “democracy”.
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Rich doesn’t make you smart, or he’s playing 3-D chess, and just lying?
The “Crocus City Hall ‘Migrants’” were simple hirelings, promised a payoff when they made it over the border into Ukraine, where they were to meet a representative of Kiev’s security agency. “Migrants” indeed!
There are mercenary hitmen from every known national demographic…exception possibly being Iceland.
Your take appears to be a bit on the pessimistic side. Did your mother’s milk taste like dill pickle brine?
It sounds great on the surface. However, when it comes to condemning violence, the silence of SOC and BRICS is deafening. There is an ongoing Genocide in West Asia (Palestine) perpetuated by the Jews in Israel with full support of the U.S. which remains the dominant power regardless. Russia and China will use smaller nations as bargaining chip to enhance their trade with the West. Mr Putin has already started crawling.
Excellent post, thank you!
The SCO and BRICS bring peace and stability to their members as the west spirals into the chaos of hell.
Imho – at the end of this month Israel’s Satanyahoo gets to make another speech to his crack whore vassals in the United States Congress and sends his IDF into a war with Lebanon.
One way or another Satanyahoo is going to drag Joe Biden and the U.S.A. into a war with Iran.
NATO is losing its war in Ukraine and the United States military has its hands full in the Red Sea against Yemen.
Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States may go down the toilet together.
Things do not look good for the survival of humanity!
F**ktoria Nuland bragged about the billions spent in the 10 years prior to 2013, so yes, it’s a long game.
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Both NATO & BRICS are ruled by Jews pretending to be ‘enemies’ to dialectically advance their global WEF techno-Communst goals.
It doesn’t matter, since both ‘sides’– NATO/Russia– are governed by the same Commie cabal of Jews, pretending to be ‘enemies’ so they can stage wars to liquidate white males in.
The setup is similar to the configuration from Orwells 1984–where the major blocs pretend they’re ‘enemies’ to keep their populations conditioned, confused, terrorized & enslaved to their techno-Communist global government. now you know
There’s no hope for arabs. They are extremely a backward lot, beset by tribal, ethnic differences, religious differences- Sunni, shia, wahabi, salafi, al this, al that, and it goes on. Basically its only money that masks the backwardness of gulf Arabs unlike the more intelligent Shia of Iran. They are happy to be led by the nose by imperialist and colonialist powers and follow orders, they will always be followers ,not leaders
Last week there was a very important piece of news which went unnoticed by western media. It was about Russia-Iran gas deal. It could be seen as the first major step towards the new %100 BRICS-operated OPEC organization for the future multipolar world order. Russia will be transferring huge amounts of natural gas to the southern Iranian port of Chahbahar via the existing pipelines and after making it into LNG the gas will hit international market. This important contract supplement substantial energy requirements of the global majority esp. India and Pakistan on long term basis. Moreover Iran and Russia are now bypassing the dollar by doing nearly all trades in their own currencies. Lets put it this way, the US petrodollar system is f…d.
The snakes will come up with something soon. Maybe Hillary again.
Democrat Deviances – A Psychological Behavioral Disintegration of Intellect By Helena Glass
https://helenaglass.net/2024/07/04/psychological-behavior-of-democrats/
The Democrats attempting to pretend Biden is mentally cognizant even after the Debate is an interesting psychological behavior. Democrats highlighting Trump’s indiscretions is a Pandora Box. The flippant accusations made without any evidence whatsoever is a tremendous disintegration of intellect. But perhaps the most egregious is Democrats who have law degrees up the ying-yang and don’t have the most basic understanding of the US Constitution.
If anything, it provokes the need to abolish the Department of Education given it has grossly failed to teach. But more importantly, will these people ever have a life? When lying is the basis of a person’s character, the only means of having any relationship would be for ‘appearance’ only. Like the Clintons. Billy diddled young women and girls while Hillary diddled younger women. Their marriage meant nothing. It was a convenience because it gave the ‘impression’ of stability while in reality it was deviant.
I see use of the term game changer too often in writings by Pepe Escobar. I think you should use it more sparingly.
But it seems that the situation with Muslim migrants in Russia is no different than in the West: terrorism, rape gangs, crime, etc. He’s probably right in that sense. I hear much the same from Russian tourists down on the beach.
This changes nothing; they were doing all that anyway.
Orban going to meet and greet Putin — THAT was a game-changer.
Orban may be the hole in the wall that starts a trickle. The trickle needs a few more heads to cross the threshold, then comes the deluge.
The West is no longer relevant. The shit-strewn streets, the sour-looking migrants, the scummy enricher children stomping across the European world — nobody wanted it, no one will miss it.
The West wants to get away from what it has become. That is the game changer. How to tell Orban he made the right move? Holler on every platform you can.
We have to save ourselves. The guys at the Kazakhstan summit were already saved.
Dear USA, Just look at yourselves honestly, Face reality. DC is a corrupt cesspool. Exports death & destruction. The peoples of the world have awoken to the evil of the Collective West. Sure like corned rats they will stike-out but as the collapse internally only accelerates the downfall. You may deny the above 3 times if you like.
Yes
LOL
There are THREE Unz Review sides on these deep important issues re Russia etc, mostly talking past each other so we never have a real debate
Pepe Escobar is related to a whole ‘ZAnon’ crew, mostly ex-spooks such as Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson etc, always talking about game changers, imminent Russia great victory etc that never happen … and seem to be pumping for what ultimately boils down to New World Order 2.0 except without the USA-NATO-Euro wypipo running it, instead with China-Russia etc in charge
On the totally opposite side, are the black-pillers with excellent sources, in English led by Slavland Chronicles – see good links from commenters above – and Edward Slavsquat (aka Riley Waggaman) who have solid evidence from dissident Russians (often getting jailed by Putin), that Putin is slow-walking the war helping mass-kill Slavs, running a Klaus Schwab surveillance, covid, vax, immigrant-inviting, anti-ethnic-Russian state, with LGBT & gender stuff the only real difference from the West
Slavland Chronicles had been reprinted on Unz a bit under the author’s former pen name ‘Rolo Slavskiy’, an author who on some foolish impulse changed his pen name to ‘Rurik Skywalker’ … whilst Waggaman -Slavsquat is living in Russia and maybe to be arrested soon for his neg comments on Putin’s top Chabad & Kabbalah friends
Then in the middle on Unz Review, we have Australian and partly Jewish boomer in Moscow John Helmer, pro-Russia but increasingly tilting toward the negative-on-Kremlin blackpill as the Ukie war drags on … Helmer another candidate for possibly getting jailed by the Putin machine like Strelkov, as he is talking too much about Russians being unhappy with Putin, with the Ukie war being run in weak, self-sabotaging ways by Russia
Slavland Chronicles confronts the Pepe Escobar, Scott Ritter etc crowd … but in general these 3 very diff perspectives talk past each other … and far too many Unz commenters buy into the Pepe etc ZAnon narrative – they get blindly angry when anyone suggests Putin is NOT the ‘hero fighting the globalists’, and start claiming that only NATO or Jewish shills dare critique Chabad pal Putin. We need more cross-debate to sort this all out.
Kazakhstan is Russian Cossackland according to Russian Dr. Irene Caesar:
https://irenecaesar.wordpress.com//?s=Kazak&search=Go
The recent and already forgotten rebellion in Kazakhstan was against the terror regime of the slanty eyed Token Jew – Tokajev impostering as president (of the international terror regime of Judaism); just like high heels Jewtina in Mosscow and Zionlendski butcher in Kiev; Jewed up government on top of the mother of Russian cities – Kiev – raping the sacred site of Russian Orthodoxy daily, the Kiev Lavra and everyone else.
May the Russian Russians win this war for themselves and their families;
LOL, frogs in the pot happily singing about how nice and warm their bath water is.
Sure, Escobar may appear to be over enthusiastic, but over time, his predictions pan out. If he is guilty of anything, it is for being TOO prescient.
He is the frog that sensed something is not right, and got out of the pot a long time ago,….now he is trying hard to tell the others still in the pot to escape.
But they laugh at him and sing on.
LOL. Turks play just like the Jews.
Joe Biden told the ABC interviewer that he runs the world and that he runs it in the “gooderist” manner possible.
What’s all this SCO talk?
Rome didn’t crumble in a day.
It was ZIO-yankee NEO-CON warfare that triggered most of conflicts between the Muslim sects that we see today. I wouldn’t call the Muslims backward more like too relaxed waiting for god to bring forward a better world. Western revival of ancient religious dogma’s via proxy wars,that’s what going on. Iranians are way more badass then the Saoedi Arabians that’s a fact. They are also more dogmatic and less radical in their religion.
Peace on earth
No war in the Middle East
When is the FREE and INDEPENDENT Tibet joining Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)? Did Jaishanker talk about it or is he only interested in India-China relationship?
They have a deal in the works. Tibet can join SCO the same time Kashmir and Hawaii do.
The US State Department barely acknowledges the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on its website: only two results for the past two years, and 14 results in the past four years. In contrast, you know how many times the word “Israel” comes up in the results just in the past week? 366 times! Oy, vey.
It’s pathetic. American Diplomacy has been hijacked by the Jews and now it is totally blind to what’s really happening in the world. When State does mention SCO in those results, it’s only to see what the Jew wants them to see, within the following categories:
The Jew Weltanschauung totally controls State.Gov: “how can we bludgeon the rest of humanity with our warped definition of words of mass destruction such as ‘human rights’?”, the Jews ask. It’s grotesque. But it gets worse. If we go look under one of those links, what do we see? Oh, muh Yellow Peril! Here are a few adjectives which State uses to describe China in the page titled “The Elements of the China Challenge“:
My oh my — d’ems fightin’ words! And, when mentioning the SCO on that page — under a footnote, no less — State references another paper: “Russia and China: Axis of Revisionists”. That’s all the rest of the world is to the Jews-based-order: a bunch of “revisionists”. And get this quote: “In the face of the China challenge, the United States must secure freedom.” What does that even mean? I thought the Jews were at least above average at stringing a sentence together. But this is pasteurized blaseness.
Well, we can’t say Pepe didn’t warn them: just in the last few months, Pepe has written more about the SCO than the whole of Jew-controlled State has in over a decade. You’d think some brilliant mind over at State would at least acknowledge the potential the SCO has to upend the whole Jew order. No such luck. The Jews deserve the hard landing they’re gonna get once the shit hits the fan.
Did a search for “game-changer” expression in the articles on UNZ and got over 10 pages of results with about 20 articles per page.
Mr. Orban knows that the U.S. and the U.K have put Europe in a terrible bind. Mr. Orban seems to care about the people living inside his country more than the others care about theirs.
NATO and the EU are not doing anything right; they use extortion and exploitation the same way the United States does and Mr. Qrban and Hungary do not need any more of that.
President Putin tried to respect and do business with Europe and got stabbed in the back and deceived. The U.S. and NATO have advanced to Russia’s borders and are very brazenly killing and injuring Russian civilians.
Western leaders can be bribed or extorted too easily; they are not real leaders.
Franz is right Mr. Orban sees which way the wind is blowing and he intends to take Hungary in that direction. Bravo!
FREE Khalistan, Kashmir, Seven Sisters, Naxaland,… . Free, free– from rivers to the seas…
Can Jaishanker read this banner?
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/if-you-remember-manipuri-women-only-for-nude-protest-against-army-think-again-1436411-2019-01-22
The US runs on money, massive bribes that are not intended to produce anything useful. This started with Nixon’s removal of the US Dollar from the gold standard. Bush tried to industrialize Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan (“Graveyard of Empires”) so as to make them contribute more to the US, and Bush failed badly. Trump used massive deficit spending to produce a “spending boom”, and Obama/Biden continued the practice, producing massive inflation.
The net result is that the US is losing its ability to bribe its population. “It’s crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide”, as the saying goes. It’s also insane to bribe a population with grossly inflated money.
When the bribes become worthless, the current US system goes down. You can already see that happening in the Black coalition. No war, it just sort of falls apart. Riots, yes, the cities infrastructure (drains, transmission lines, roads, mass transit, housing, basic sanitation) are failing, and there will be riots in the ruins.
The wars will be waged among the members of the SCO. Alliances against a declining empire always break up after the empire is defeated.
If you look at the Referendum of 1991 a solid 80% of Ukrainians voted against
independence (with the exception of Galicia and Volhynia); the Verkhowna Juda
declared independence nonetheless, then let the rubes vote again on the wording
of the declaration (this time they voted right);
it´s a long game indeed.
In the Roman Empire, they used “bread and circus” to keep their populations under control.
As you have stated, the USD, artificially inflated by the Petrodollar aka Tax-On-The-World, ………. is used as the “bread” of today.
Then what would be the “circus” of the US Empire?
Is it the Presidential Elections? People are led to root for their favourite candidate, invest all their hopes in him? He is their champion gladiator who will Make their Lives Good Again?
And somehow in all that distraction, they will forget to do the only thing that will help their children have better lives…..to march down to Capitol Hill with pitchforks and torches and toss their corrupt politicians out of government.
Bread and Circus, what genius tools they are. Sigh.
1 million 200 thousand migrants were brought to Moscow in just four months of this year.
https://tsargrad.tv/articles/jeti-ljudi-hotjat-zhit-zdes-vmesto-nas-za-chetyre-mesjaca-v-moskvu-vvezli-bolee-milliona-migrantov_1020468
While Zionlendski is attacking Russian Russia from the West, Jewtin Putin is attacking Russian Russia from the East, or call it Global South (Jew Lavrov): + 12 million foreigners imported by Jewtin & Cons in 2021; + 14.5 million foreigners imported by Jewtin & Cons in 2022. + 11.000 homicides in 2021, + 15.000 homicides in 2022;
Yes, bizznits need migrants – cheap labour – and migrants meet bizznits for coverage, embezzlement and other ops; criminals need criminals (at the best of times). The Russian economy could do and would do much better without „soldiers of fortune“, because foreign bodies in an engine are a killer.
RUSSIANS RESPECT LUKASHENKA EVEN MORE:
THEY FOUND OUT WHY MIGRANTS DON’T GO TO BELARUS
https://tsargrad.tv/articles/russkie-eshhjo-bolshe-zauvazhali-lukashenko-uznali-pochemu-migranty-ne-edut-v-belorusciju_1022474
Idiotic. What prompts you to state that “Russia and china will use smaller nations as bargaining chip (sic) to enhance their trade with the West. Mr Putin has already started crawling.”
Tell me, are you a serious imbiber of boobtoob noose? In other words, where the hell do you get your “information”? Ignorant people shouldn’t stick their noses close to buzz-saws…ditto for fanboyz like “Wholly Catholic and Tashtar” Either A.I. or nitwitz.
IF…there is to be a global government…it will not be the Communist iteration…that bird has molted. It all goes back to the ruling bank$ters, the financier elite. They call the shots.
As for Russia and China, speculation is still in play…it only MAY be the Orwellian concert. But it looks to be real…and not under a unified control mechanism, as there is no PROOF for that.
Do some research on the Russian government and then contrast that with the totally Talmudist U$$A Department of $tate. Can you name ONE Talmudist in a cabinet -level job in the Russian government?
Think hard, Zard.
Do bear in mind that those “Muslim migrants”…mostly in Moscow and St. Petersburg…are not exogamous to a combination of the R.U. and the earlier USSR. There are numerous Muslims in places like Tatarstan INSIDE Russia proper…similarly Chechnia and Dagestan. Then there are those in Khazakstan, Khirgizstan, Uzbekistan and even Turkmenistan…ALL former “states” within the USSR.
So in essence, those are “homegrown” Muslims, migrating to the places where the better jobs can be found in abundance. President Putin is currently directing energy towards a major set of developments in portions of the R.U. which are currently underdeveloped, as against the major centers in Russia itself.
In high contrast, consider the mess in Western Europe, where African migrants, from both the Bantu lands and from Arabic/Berber North Africa…almost all of them Muslim and for various reasons, culturally undigestible in Western nations.
Do your research, dude.
Imho – the “war” will be started at the end of this month when Mr. Satanyahoo orders the United States Congress to declare war on Iran.
Netanyahu soon to appear before the United States Congress? It will be decisive for the succession in this country and the invasion of Lebanon by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme!
https://www.voltairenet.org/article221120.html
The reception of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a joint session of the United States Congress is not just an operation against President Joe Biden, it is also an endorsement of Israels parliamentary majority in its continuation of the massacre in Gaza.
What is more, given Netanyahus insistence on going to war against Hezbollah, involving Iran and bringing in the United States, this will be one more step in his strategy to atomize Persia.
Using your reasoning above.
Can anyone name ONE non-English speaking in a cabinet-level job in the US government?
With totally English speaking Department of State, should one not likewise blame English influence?
How about the correlation between Talmudist and English influence? My bet is that the two are positively correlated.
You make very valid points, but will be ignored. People are looking for a hero to worship so no way can any of that be true.
Thank you for the INFORMED comment that provides detail and context. Further reading and research will reveal that within the Russian Federation, Orthodox and Muslim and even Jews (not Talmud Jews) live side by side in harmony and tolerance.
It is not the ideal in Russia to have allowed immigration of non-Orthodox, but the absolute necessity is undeniable. The economy is growing very fast and expanding rapidly. War production must be maintained for survival.
It is much different importing, temporarily Muslims from you own country (actually “transferring” would be a better concept), then the Western practice of immigration. No similarity.
As you mentioned, many development projects are being undertaken in other Russian Republics that are expanding those economies. That includes the several “-stans”.
These sweeping, absolute statements, with absolutely no substantiation, detail, support, or reference are the common dregs and leavenings of simpletons, and lazy, sloppy people of low ability and aptitude.
Mere garble from a wimpy bar.
Just as we all expected, there is much more to the rising of George Soros, his “Open Society” multi-national subversions. As this man explains, he was (is?) working with the American intelligence agencies, Democrats and Republicans. He got his wings from Ronald Reagan, who in my view, diminishes as time goes by.
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I know all that. It doesn’t make them much better.
What the MSM don’t tell you about Orban’s visits.
Orban went to Kiev to see if he could save the Hungarian minority from Zelensky’s genocide by mobilisation. He wasn’t successful. So he then went to Moscow to discuss with Putin if he could get his permission to occupy the Hungarian region of the Ukraine to save his people from Zelensky’s genocide by mobilisation. He got a positive answer and that sent the EU and NATO into panic mode screaming that Orban does not represent them but went on his visits as a representative of Hungary. Orban smiled to himself, as yeah, he went to look out for his people.
He got his wings from Ronald Reagan,…
It is my understanding that he got his “wings” from Rothschild, either Evelyn or Jacob.
> Bush tried to industrialize Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan
Pepe attracts the ignorants of the world it appears..
Aware of all these guys. Rolo (forgetting his new pen-name) has become a bit too pessimistic and weird. He is still worth reading from time to time, if you can stand the relentless negativity. I actually initiated an interview for him with George Szamuely (emails).
reagan was nothing but a buffoon and a slalking horse for daddy bush and his proto zioneocon cabal, running the show out of the whitehouse basement.
as i’ve said before, the eye of soros must be destroyed, in order to defeat the zorc army and free middle rus (formerly known as ukraine). that repulsive clone of his, must also be stopped, before he spawns more demon clones.
That used to be true, but he has been drinking his own kool-aid a bit too much. If you keep predicting something will happen in 2 years, over, and over, and over, and it finally happens in 50 years … are you ‘right’?
Sadly, the Jews defeated Germany, not the other way around. I don’t think Germany will ever recover.
Most invaders were born after perestroika and glasnost, after the destruction of the USSR, and detest Russians, the Russian language, Russian culture and Orthodoxy in any case.
RUS Ministry of Education and Science / RIA Novosti: In 2024, the number of foreigners who failed the language exam increased by an order of magnitude – from 3 % to 30% (and another 30% paid to pass).
High heeled Vladimir Vladimiorvich Yevtina had 8,000 mosques built for the traveling mosquitos, soldiers of fortune and rapists, even in villages without a single child molester aka goat fucker, let alone a factory or workplace in sight or in the pipeline…
Patriarch Kyrill explicitly stated that Russia has enough workers and unemployed people willing to work and Russia can do without immigration of aliens.
https://tsargrad.tv/materials/rubric/migranty
The Sovereign – nation – is possible only within homogeneous ethnic groups, while despots have always reigned over highly fragmented societies.
A multi-ethnic society is thus necessarily anti-democratic and chaotic, for it lacks philia, this profound, flesh- and blood fraternity of citizens.
Tyrants and despots divide and rule, they want the City divided by ethnic rivalries.
The indispensable condition for ensuring a people’s sovereignty accordingly resides in ist unity.
Ethnic chaos prevents all philia from developing.
A citizenry is formed on the basis of proximity – or it is not formed at all.
“Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance” by Guillaume Faye (2011)
So, it seems as though the options for the west are thus:
1. Stay within the current jew-led western “order” that proposes utopia will be achieved in the west if Europe and the Anglosphere imports infinity sub-80 IQ niggers to flood Europe and the Anglosphere and turn those areas into mulatto cesspools much like the dominican republic.
OR
2. Support SCO and join them….supporting nation states that desire peaceful cooperation between the distinct peoples of Eurasia (Europeans/Russians, east Asians, and middle eastern peoples). NOTE: these peoples have been interacting with each other for thousands and thousands of years.
To me, the choice seems obvious.
This is very much how I see the situation. Xi and Putin are older than Biden and Trump – by this I mean they are running older software. When their generation goes, I don’t know what those societies will look like. The more prosperous they become, the more likely it is they will drift.
The production of the Three Body Problem in China tells me it is cosmic horror o’clock for the happy Marxist materialists. I wonder if they will hold up better than the hapless American suburbanites of the 1950s, whose nightmares whispered to them year after year of things and blobs, of aliens and killers, snatchers and invaders, and of creatures from dark and forgotten places. Only kings and clowns act on dreams after all. Likely the Chinese and the Russians will be paralyzed by self-satisfaction and consumed.
My comments:
In theory, it should be easy to raise wages quite rapidly in Russia. Just increase production capacity for stuff that most likely would be consumed to a greater extent in Russia if wages are raised. Russia has a relatively large population with great potential economies of scale. Therefore, Russia can produce most durable consumer goods domestically (even if I assume that it would not be a bad idea to let the Chinese keep their market share for consumer electronics). Thereby, raised wages would not cause a significantly worse trade balance. And if the factories that would produce all these goods for the consumers would not be owned by oligarchs, capital flight (one way or the other) would not be a problem. The government or middle class people would not send the profits abroad in case they would own the new factories rather than oligarchs and foreigners.
Furthermore, it seems as if capital flight is still a significant problem in Russia. Otherwise, Russia wouldn´t need interest rates in the 15 to 20 % bracket. I think that Russia should consider to ask the Chinese to buy out the Russian oligarchs and then gradually buy back the property from the Chinese. Maybe the Russians could sell some areas on the border to Manchuria to China in return for some companies the Chinese would buy from the oligarchs and then, later on, return to Russia.
Furthermore, I don´t think that Russians will prefer Russian brands unless they are almost forced to do that (because of tariffs, for instance). At least, it will take very long time before Russian brands will be competitive from an image point of view. And can the Russian society wait for, let´s say, 50 years, for that to happen?
Furthermore, I doubt that Russia will be considered as a safe place for rich people´s money until ordinary Russians have reached sufficient level of affluence. Switzerland is safe for rich people´s money because of the general affluence in this society (and because of the political culture in this country). Hence, if the general public in Russia will remain poor, capital flight will never end.
Not with that attitude lol.
If Jews, Chosen for being the least of nations, can recover Jerusalem after thousands of years of misery and exile, I think 80 Million Germans can probably manage to recover Berlin.
It would go easier for them if they stopped turning churches into discotheques though.
The Russian Federation cannot find enough workers among its own peoples: the majority and founding people the East Slavs, the significant and historic minority Tatars, the native-born-in-Russia-for-generations Asian and Eurasian Russians in the Far East.
That’s why the Russian Federation issues new residence permits to more than THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND central Asians every year recently — most of all to Tajiks but also to sígnicant numbers of Kazakhs and Uzbeks. To a lesser extent the RF issued residence or citizenship to some tens of thousands of Armenians, Kyrgyz and Turkmen, and a smattering of Azerbaijanis and Turks.
Except the Armenians, the only meaningfully large recurring sources of immigration to the RF are genetically, culturally, linguistically Turkic or Persian. They’re being let in to fill jobs they increasingly lack working-age Slavic people to do them.
The RF’s fertility rate is below replacement level, in almost every single oblast, Slavic and nonSlavic, except for Chechnya.
Of course Chechnya is small, and there aren’t enough Chechens to fill the empty jobs in the civilian economy or, eventually, in the RF military, that Slavs would be doing if they bothered to have children.
Your are a delusional ignorant paysan. It is already happening.
Orthodox Christianity is replete with kind, sensible, humane, practical, wise advice and principles — but also with incoherent, absurd, needlessly cruel, needlessly complex and unproven and unproveable “doctrines”, and non-useful drivel …. like any other version of the cult.
In reality, Russians overwhelmingly don’t attend church, and they don’t read or know “the” bible much, to say the least. Those fancy cavernous cathedrals are beautiful, but they typically stand nearly empty every day of the week.
Orthodox christianity is a cherished part of their national identity, but fortunately the Russians generally are not simpletons. Most Russians simply no longer believe the fables and nonsense.
Maybe becoming out of date to say that Jews and orthodox and Muslims live side by side: there are almost no Jews in the russian federation — lucky them — and the great majority of Slavs in the RF do not attend church, read “the” bible, or practice the religion.
Better description of the modern evolving RF: Slavs, who overwhelmingly are not practicing christians, live alongside ten million or more traditional observant Muslims and ten million or more nominal and non-practicing Muslims, and a comparatively insignificant number of Jews and Buddhists.
Let’s stick to the subject at hand, which is Tibet and not your pet peeves…
Tibet first and then everything else…
The Americans’ Indo-Pacific obsession concerns those two oceans, and of course its military threat; Asia-Pacific concerns the land and its people.
Thanks. Here are the links for people that are curious [1][2][3]. I also added Nikola Mikovic below [4] – he writes quite often about Putin’s incompetence, treachery and NWO/WEF/West/Turkey pleasing ways.
— Rolo/Rurik | Riley | John —
[1] Rolo Slavskiy / Rurik | Articles Archive @ Substack
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/archive?sort=new
[2] Riley Waggaman / Edward Slavsquat | Articles Archive @ Substack
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/archive?sort=new
[3] John Helmer | Articles Archive @ TUR / The Unz Review
https://www.unz.com/author/john-helmer/
— Nikola Mikovic —
[4a] Nikola Mikovic | Articles Archive @ Author at Liberum
https://theliberum.com/author/nikola_mikovic/
[4b] Nikola Mikovic | Articles Archive @ Global Comment
https://globalcomment.com/author/nmikovic/
[4c] Nikola Mikovic | Articles Archive @ Diplomatic Courier
https://www.diplomaticourier.com/people/nikola-mikovic
[4d] Nikola Mikovic | Articles Archive @ Asia Times
https://asiatimes.com/author/nikola-mikovic/
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You are wasting everyone time with your mendacity, gaslighting, projections, moving the goal post, etc. One day, Putin will be picked up by patriots and processed! Until that time, i.e., until Russia is freed, enjoy Napoleon complex ridden “Tsar” [1].
[1] Putin wears high heels. Putin’s Napoleon complex … (<4 min short video, fast forward to the 30-second mark) | YouTube
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In his recent interview with Judge Napolitano [1], Pepe actually admitted that he’s been working with two spook agencies but would not reveal which ones. So there you go.
[1] Judge Napolitano interviews Pepe Escobar : Putin’s Next Moves – YouTube | 2024-06-25
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Low class expectoration and putative, childish comment. A Federation that contains 180 nationalities and more languages, includes indigenous people could not exist with an urchin, wimpy bar unemployed Buffon like you with an over-extended bar tab. You have the mind of a child, and children have no experience in life.
Another paper tiger undergraduate pussy that think he roars but what emerges is a meow (“Where’s my nipple with formula”).
You don’t know diddely and post more of this petulant immature waste of time, and I will humiliate you some more, you stupid punk, John Johnson clone
John Johnstein, just as stupid and infantile as ever. Loser, full of envy, self hate.
It’s no wonder that now Moscow clearly sees the new evolving multi-nodal reality – SCO and SCO+, BRICS 10 and BRICS+, EAEU, ASEAN, INSTC, new trade settlement platforms, the new Eurasian security architecture – as the beating heart in the complex, long-term strategy of meticulously shattering the domination of Pax Americana.
Hmm — no “China” mention in that paragraph — WHY?
Is it because the Chinese are not good neighbors — that they are greedy and troublesome.
Note the Ukrainian color of the video in the upper left. Well, the real value in your submission is the admission and demonstration of the inferiority of the Ukrainian people, culture, intelligence, civilization level, and IQ.
Fortunately, you are too stupid to be dangerous.
Delusional fanfiction. Inbred Muslim savages murder Russian Christians, and the response is to blame Ukraine and extol the virtues of diversity? Putin and his jew handlers are little different from the crooks and kikes running the West, probably why Russian jew oligarchs love vacationing in the West and sending their kids to study there.
But remember, there’s two sides and you must pick one goy!
Not so sure as to your statement of “Slavs, who overwhelmingly are not attend practicing Christians”. Quite possible that your charges MAY be true in Moscow and St. Petersburg…but as for the smaller centers and all rural communities in Slavic Russia…Russian Orthodox Christianity…which actually has some spiritual aspects as compared with ALL major Western iterations…do tend to maintain and celebrate their traditions.
That massive demographic is probably why the R.U. government has a rather strong policy on samesex people. Without that religious base, it is highly doubtful whether such a negative system would even need to be considered by the somewhat culturally liberal administration. So far as I can fathom, that particularity is the acid-test.
Sounds like a loser who shouldn’t be anywhere close to the levers of powe-
Interesting choice on Putin’s part. Make the incompetent communist an aide.
A technocrat, like the cretins who crashed the European economy. And a neoliberal, if your description is accurate. Man, it sure would be stupid of Putin to include one of those rats in the Russian central bank!
If things go well, Hungary may get to link up physically with Russia….through Odesa region, Transinistria and a corridor north of Moldova towards the returned Hungarian regions of the Carpathians.
The bonus is that through Hungary, the beleaguered and gutsy Serbs will finally get some relief.
When you actually produce some proof, or at least minor buttressing of your postings; your ad hominem remarks broadly describe your own ignorance.
Depends when you are looking back at it.
If you look back in 10 years, he would look like a fool to be laughed at.
If you look back in 100 years, he would look like a genius whom others laughed at.
Good you “know all that”. So what’s your solution…or do you simply prefer to kvetch.
A word to Anon001:
Please ID yourself. If you don’t, in the future I will put you (and your trash) on iggy.
No one mentioned the breaking news that China will send troops to Ukraine to show support for Putin. The West should take notice. The Chinese contingent won’t be great in numbers. But numbers don’t tell the tale.
The fault lines in our world are now crystal clear.
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Half of the famous Third Secret of Fatima has already come to pass; and this has also been confirmed. See the link below. It would appear that Pope Benedict XVI was forced to abdicate by the West’s financial elite (masons, globalists and Zionists) under duress.
The second half of the Third Secret..uh…well, let me put it this way, you are not going to like it.
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/2013-the-globalist-coup-that-took-the-catholic-church/
Not a problem – glad top help. See my comment #85 for some additional links in one place:
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/why-the-sco-summit-in-kazakhstan-was-a-game-changer/?showcomments#comment-6649847
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Oh? Did I bruise your fragile sensibilities? But when throwing rocks around, one must expect a certain amount of ricochet.
Anyways you brought up India and China. Last time I checked, Kashmir was gobbled up by India.
My pet peeves go well beyond Kashmir.
How about Khalistan?
Illegal annexation of Goa?
Bullying of Mauritius?
Kalapani and Susta areas of Nepal that was gobbled up by India?
Kachateevu Island of Sri Lanka that was gobbled up by India?
Various areas of Bangladesh gobbled up by India?
The incessant infestation of Indian emigres upon the world?
Yes, but was Borat there?
Thanks, I have not seen this article myself yet.
But I was struck by another news article today that Chinese are having military exercises with Belarus under the auspices of the SCO.
It appears that they have found a back door way of helping out in the Ukraine theatre.
One can safely assume that lots more than “anti terrorism” equipment are on their way from China to Belarus:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1315551.shtml
https://www.best-country.com/en/europe/russia/religion
Demographically, the Orthodox Christian birthrate is increasing. The amount of White immigration is an unknown factor. With the West collapsing, a very large immigration might ensue similar to that of the United States before and after WWI, due to overall conditions in Europe.
https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/330358-islam-russia-russian-muslims
Hindus destroyed Nalanda. Corrupted it . Intoduced orgy,srx,extortions,and usuary based loan inside the complex.
It was looted and some monks were killed .The place and the library was left intact until few years local monks out of petty jealousy burnt a lot of books while trying to hurt the competitors.
Read:
Tabakat-s-Nasiri on line page 552 ( also it carries notes from the author of the British -Raj era confirming same indirectly ).
John Keay in INDIA A HISTORY page 244
Still the Indian RSS Hinduvatta quoting Tabat -s Nasiri ( primary source. Author was documenting from his presence as the history was unfolding ) to support their evidence -free claim.
I thought the Game Changer if it happens will be in the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia around October 20th -29th 2024 (It is 4 or 5 Days sometime during that period, I am not sure the Exact Dates, But Fireworks right before The USA Presintial Election on nOVEMBER 5TH.
I thought the Game Changer if it happens will be in the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia around October 20th -29th 2024 (It is 4 or 5 Days sometime during that Period, I am not sure the Exact Dates, But Fireworks right before The USA Presintial Election on NOVEMBER 5TH.
Amy predictions on that and how will it help or hurt the USA
As much as I would like to see it, I doubt it.
My take is that BRICS leaders consider the USA a lost cause. They just want to create as much distance from the US as they can.
They are like a girlfriend trying to get away from a toxic relationship. Breaking up gently and slowly enough that the US won’t punch her, or that nuclear button in a fit of jealous rage.
Well there is definitely video of Lindsay Graham and John McCain in Ukraine in 2016 telling Ukrainian soldiers to be in the offensive in take the fight to Russia in 2017 and how the U.S. had their back and they would go back to Washington and get them whatever they needed. They read the same script Biden used about Russia taking Europe. The only difference is it lacked the “Russian unprovoked attack” tagline since it was way back in 2016. Same script. If you can’t find it I can copy it for you
Hahaha!! You must either be obtuse or mendacious. China is a founding member of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) (Shanghai also happens to be a city in China) and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) as the name of the organisations evidently show.
Good back to your handlers for a better briefing, and ask them to replace you with someone above room temperature IQ.
Add Slovakia and Austria, and things might get interesting.
It’s not my job to offer solutions to Russians, I just don’t want to turn a blind eye to the problems of Muslims (some Muslims) in Russia. Obviously most Russians are not too happy with it but will put up with it if it is necessary.
I don’t know enough about Russia but I do know that Muslims were a part of the Russian empire and the USSR although many of their states broke away when the Soviet Union collapsed and are now part of a commonwealth. Then you could also argue that Muslims, Arabs and Blacks were part of the British and French empires so likewise have a right to emigrate from their commonwealths to the UK and France.
The US then shouldn’t have any Muslims other than Filipino Muslims since they never had another Muslim country in their empire.
But nobody cares about any of this and everywhere goes wherever they can get to.
Pouring out the bath water with the baby still in it?
Not the complex Jewtins but simple saints hold things together (and maybe the Jewtin even got their blessings or at least their prayers – beggings). The material church is a crutch for totally lost souls (often priests themselves). The strength of Orthodoxy seems not as a religion but in a far sterner religiousness of individuals with or without a temple (of dirt).
In the realms of duality on earth you are right too with what you have written; thanks.
https://tsargrad.tv/articles/11-trln-rub-isparilis-pervye-itogi-audita-v-minoborony-ne-zvuchat-v-oficialnyh-otchjotah_1021165
Fish gets smelly from the head downwards.
Yes, Putin/Shoigu/Kremlin/MoD hard at “work” [1]!
Some of them even fled to the West – one of Shoigu’s deputies fled to the West, taking her stolen assets with her [2].
Here’s another wealthy Shoigu’s MoD couple [3]! Shopping in Paris – €150K for earrings + €104K for a ring – all paid by Russians.
Excerpt from [1]: The Ministry of Defense continues a total check. The amount of theft frightens even the frightened. There are reports from sources that millions have disappeared by the millions. And some “valiant” generals, while soldiers with old machine guns went into battle, did not deny themselves anything at all. Read more in the material of Tsargrad. The other day, General Dmitry Trishkin lost his seat. In the Ministry of Defense, he served as the chief military doctor. The reason for the resignation is Andrei Belousov’s visit to the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry and the serious violations identified. Trishkin has been harshly criticized by experts more than once for juggling the facts that he presented to Sergei Shoigu. It is not surprising that under the newly appointed head of the department, he did not last even a month. Vladimir Verteletsky was also detained. He was charged with abuse of office: he caused damage to the state in the amount of 70 million rubles.
[1] “11 TRILLION RUBLES EVAPORATED?”: THE FIRST RESULTS OF THE AUDIT IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE ARE NOT HEARD IN OFFICIAL REPORTS
https://tsargrad.tv/articles/11-trln-rub-isparilis-pervye-itogi-audita-v-minoborony-ne-zvuchat-v-oficialnyh-otchjotah_1021165
[2] Does Anyone Work For Putin Who Isn’t a Western Asset? | Rolo Slavskiy / Rurik Substack
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/does-anyone-work-for-putin-who-isnt
[3] Shoigu’s Partner in Crime Deputy Minister Timur Ivanov Gets Fired! | Rolo Slavskiy / Rurik Substack
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https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/shoigus-partner-in-crime-deputy-minister
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Yes he referenced “the indispensable nation”. Yet claims to be a Christian and references the “Lord Almoghty”. I wonder if these people (I hear republicans do it it too) ever read their Bible. There is no such thing as an “indispensable nation”. They are all “drops in the bucket” as nations and people groups rebel. The U.S. – like many others throughout the millennia – has had its time in the spotlight. The Assyrians were once “the indispensable nation” too. It doesn’t last. It’s hard to be humble and ease off the pedestal gracefully. Look at the UK. Delusions of grandeur- trying to hold on with its American daughters. If the Brits spent their energy fixing the health system and on innovation and not letting crime rise – their quality of life would not be diminishing as my relatives who live there explain. But instead they want to still want to ride the coattail of Pax Britannia 2 = Pax Americana involved in controlling global affairs.
Tibet won’t for the same reason it wasn’t admitted to the UN when it started. Because nobody considered it an independent nation – but part of China. You know that though – you just prefer to troll. Okinawa on the other hand should have been given back its independence as Ryuku -when Japan lost in WW2. Let us know when you start the lobbying group for them.
Thank you for that. It is only since this conflict broke out that I researched such things. I did not realize the majority of people in the Soviet Union voted to preserve it in a new form. But we see those plans were killed. I looked it up because as seeing video of people in places in Donbass and Georgia I saw many speak affectionately toward the Soviet times. (I have also spoken to people from Hungary that also say that growing up was better for them as well). The issues with Gorbachev and Yeltsin make more sense to me now.
You are right. Slovakia will probably get a chunk of the Carpathians back too.
Austria might have to wait for the next round…. Perhaps it will get back access to the sea via Slovenia?
If I remember correctly, the Sound of Music’s Captain Von Clapp was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
Chinese sour grapes… Long live the Most Holy Dalai Lama and Tibet… Down with the Chinese imperialism!
“1.2 million Tibetans killed and 13 of the country’s 6,254 monasteries destroyed”
https://www.shambhala.com/snowlion_articles/tibet_china_conflict/#:~:text=1.2 million Tibetans killed and 13 of the country’s 6%2C254 monasteries destroyed
“According to the Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism, Emperor Shizong destroyed 3,336 of China’s 6,030 Buddhist temples.[9]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Buddhist_Persecutions_in_China#:~:text=According to the Soka Gakkai,of China’s 6%2C030 Buddhist temples.
“and] that they have systematically set out to eradicate this religious belief in Tibet.”
Over 6000 monasteries and sacred places were destroyed by the Chinese.”
https://tibetoffice.org/invasion-after#:~:text=%5Band%5D that they have systematically,were destroyed by the Chinese.
“Tibet won’t for the same reason it wasn’t admitted to the UN when it started.”
When the United Nations was commenced, China too wasn’t in the body but only Formosa and furthermore, reliable sources state that that seat was offered to newly independent India but the Chinese agent Nehru had forked it over to the enemy, foolishly. Things change!
P. S. It was the Jew, Henry K. who handed over the seat to China from the Island so that his peeps can gain control of the burgeoning Chinese trade to get further rich.
You make a very good point. I can’t speak to the young in Russia but from what I know of China – this video below is a fairly good representation. There are some young in China who love their country and want peace. They respect the U.S. but don’t fawn over it. Others refuse to follow the social media rabbit hole and realize it is mostly a waste of time and not educational. But then you have others who are big Taylor Swift fans and like Hollywood because it is uncensored (not realizing how destructive it is). Then you see the older and wiser generation. But then there is one old woman who interrupts the interview to declare there is no free speech in China (ironically she was bold enough to interrupt to make her point). She actually reminds me of a family I know. The son was sent to the west to study at the age of 13. And though he wanted to return the family told him to stay because life is better in the west. Mind you he actually does not feel his life is better and wanted to return – but because of filial piety he would not go against his father’s wishes. Mind you his father had never lived abroad – but just has it in his mind the west is better and his son should stay there (no the son does not tell his father he disagrees). My point is like that old lady there has always been that element. So as long as the Taylor Swift and Hollywood idol fans don’t get into ruling power – China should be ok. Those three are probably likely to migrate to the west. Which should help keep society intact. We shall see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiEyGpBSu8&pp=ygUlYXNpYW4gYm9zcyBob3cgY2hpbmVzZSB2aWV3IGFtZXJpY2Fucw%3D%3D
I recall watching documentaries after the 2014 Crimea sanctions how Russian agriculture had taken off as many EU goods were replaced by Russian agricultural products. Why not the same with many consumer goods?
Everything about him is holy, except his tongue.
Some other Indian also mentioned this before, I think. Can you give references from TRULY reliable sources to support your claim??
In any case, I believe India DESERVES a permanent UNSC seat too:
Henry K certainly had done something very wrong. He should have handed that permanent UNSC seat over to Maldives. That would made the UN just as effective as letting the Cash My-Cheque regime hold that seat!!! AND it would have the advantage that India could have a permanent UNSC member closer to home! 😀
But, but,… Maldives has switched alignment to China lately.
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/maldives-moving-toward-china-heres-what-know
Khalistan is an immediate concern– so urgent that a Sikh independence leader is bumped off:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar
Completely stupid comment. There was no Formosa. It was the Republic of China at the time and the capital had been Nanjing. Tibet was recognized as part of the Republic of China in spite of British machinations. Subsequently The government ended up in Taiwan because they lost the civil war. They continued to represent all of China at the UN from Taiwan until the 1970’s. I hope you are just trolling and not really this obtuse.
Deep question. I wish I knew the answer. Here are some comments on it, though.
The Roman circus both entertained and demonstrated the power of the central government. Violent men fought at the upper classes’ command. Criminals were executed in as entertainment by the upper classes. Nature itself was dominated by creating artificial nature: wild beast hunts. Etc.
So what duplicates that in the contemporary US?
Off hand, I’d say “Nothing duplicates that”.
Used to be that TV defined reality. Saturday night boxing, shows like “Peter Gunn” or “Dragnet” showed evil being destroyed by private and public actors, nature was held at bay in sitcoms or authoritatively described in documentaries. Etc. No more. Media has badly hurt everybody, and the winners now, in fiction and news, are those that all watching know are hostile to them and people like them. Government power is not displayed, but government hostility is. What could be more hostile than “We’re going to castrate or spay your kids, or maybe just turn them into unemployable monsters.”?
As you remark, bread and circus are political genius, and absolutely displaced the most important events from the US public consciousness. This lasted from at latest the New Deal until, perhaps, 2016 ( if Ron Unz’s work is valid ). In 2016 the bread and circuses began to crack. The attacks that had worked so well on Nixon failed against Trump, and the management of COVID and the BLM riots revealed just how incompetent Federal government was. And then the fissures turned into crevasses after the 2020 elections and the 1/6 affair and subsequent lawfare. And now we have the Biden/Trump debate and the cleanup interview that didn’t clean up, and subsequent Uniparty incoherent panic.
So the circus part is vanishing.
The US Federal government is in the same situation as 1950s Sicily, in a way. What do you do when almost everybody knows how to be a criminal, but not much more? What do you do when everybody lives off of government and has no other skill? You double down — rely even more on force and threats.
The US Federal government is increasingly reliant on force and economic threats. When the bread finally goes, from issuing too many threats and providing too few benefits, (e.g. in shipping lane protection, banking security, suppression of mechanized war, etc.) so does the US Federal government. European governments also.
And Trump won’t be able to use a capital boom and weapons purchase from deficit spending to re-establish the bread and circuses spell. The US is in very serious trouble, and Trump will have to react to that. Trump is a good leader, but he’s old, ready to start a decline in his 80s, and so has only about 4 years to preserve the US. Not enough time. At best, he might set things up for somebody like Diocletian (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century ).
See also: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/western-elites-have-reality-problem ; When the elites can’t affect reality, they try to affect voters. That used to succeed as a sort of circus/bluff combination, doesn’t now. For an example of such a failure, try searching YouTube.com for “feminism not me”.
Putin said he can forgive everything except infidelity…
Stealing fortunes or violently taking mountains of vital cash from the Russian peoples seems like a cavalier act but hardly infidelity going by the “tolerant” Jewish president on top of Russia; just the way he tolerated Russian troops being shell starved… “Tolerance, the last virtue before the downfall”.
I feel ashamed as an ex-Putin-Fanboy!
Kptlt. von Trapp was a U-boat commander who deepsixed an Italian cruiser
in the Otranto strait which was then a major feat.
Then again Mulga´s favourite Bonhoeffer was a U-boat captain too 😁
You should get your fact STRIGHT before you spread out a lie!
https://www.laitimes.com/en/article/6ykk8_7ewtt.html
Debunk the rumors! Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Shevtsova appeared: I didn’t flee to France with a huge amount of money, but in the Kremlin Palace
Everything you quoted about Xi Zang/Tibet is a lie. They are made up by the XiZang independent force.
Dalai this cruel bold donkey will soon be dead. long live my ar**
“Some other Indian also mentioned this before, I think.”
Wonders never cease. The same stupid contention appeared ab0out two decades ago, when internet blogging became popular. I’ll give somewhat the same reply here.
The United Nations was formed in 1945 with the victorious Allied Powers – the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China – as permanent members of the Security Council. India was then still a British colony: it was not yet a UN member, much less a member of the Security Council. Now, AFTER its independence India COULD request for a seat among the Five permanent members but it didn’t do that. It was unlikely to get much support anyway – most Western powers were uncomfortable with the anti-colonial zeitgeist that prevailed over vast areas of the underdeveloped world. Britain’s Churchill used to call the restive Indians something like “a beastly people with a beastly religion.” No Western country even seemed interested in ameliorating the relatively recent 1943-44 Bengal famine. Indeed, the same Churchill was asking “why Gandhi didn’t die?” A few years passed when millions more were killed or wounded as Hindus and Muslims fought each other during the Partition that led to Independence in 1947. All such events apparently did not inspire the West to think much of India, much less offering it a seat in the Security Council. Further, remember that the Republic of China (ROC) was already a veto member. Can anyone believe that Chiang Kai-Shek would give up the ROC seat for India? As years went by, the US itself was pissed off at the pro-Soviet stance of Nehru’s India. So no, despite many attempts at historical revisionism, the West, including France and Britain, never did imagine a permanent Indian representative sitting among them at the Security Council.
So Kissinger didn’t “hand over the seat” to China – the seat was already occupied by the Republic of China (Taiwan) and he didn’t have the power anyway. Kissinger COULD have been the person who asked Zhou En-lai to create a diversion by attacking India at the Himalayas to prevent Indian troops from marching into East Pakistan (today’s Bangladesh). Zhou reportedly demurred.
Global socialism aka Marxism is still very popular in Hungary but not in the bigger cities where most folks have a decent income and are mostly right wing aka national socialist anti-globalist. Hungary’s nationalism is mainly bolstered by the fact that they lost 2/3 of their country after WOII to Slovakia, Croatia and Romania. There’s large Hungarian minority’s in those countries. Go to the country side where there is poverty all over the place and you will find many many Hungarians who would swap Jewish Capitalism for Jewish communism in a second. I lived in Hungary Dombovar and the first week I was there I was invited in by my neighbor Istvan and his wife Jutca . I have always been interested in history and politics so I asked them in my best German how life was under socialism. I never managed to speak Hungarian which is one of the most difficult languages on earth to learn and most elderly people in Hungary only speak German as a second language not English. After I asked the question they both became very emotional, the woman Utca started crying and I felt a bit awkward. Istvan explained to me that life was really good for them under communism. They had no worries, food was so cheap almost for free, they had no issues paying their bills as everything was subsidized. They could go out for dinner in a restaurant every week and had drinks in the local pub more than once a week. Life was amazing for them under communism although they were not 100% free but they were really happy. When liberal capitalism arrived everything in their life changed for the worse. They kept on working in the same company’s for about 400 euros per month, but everything else went up in prices; healthcare, food, medicine, you name it. They explained that life was really tough for them under capitalism. Always a struggle to make ends meat, no more extras, no more weekly restaurants visit, no more beer on Wednesday Friday and Saturday in the local pub. Life became a struggle, they both said they were very stressed. Work also changed , from one day to another, they had to reach targets, work became much harder more stress , weekly bullshit about goals, threats to be fired, more suffering less fun. The majority of folks in that town taught that way. The Hungarians who revolted against the globalist socialist rulers were the business owners, liberals, upper middle class folks ,nationalists and anti-semites as the ruling politicians were majority Jewish. Most folks especially Americans only know the bad about socialism but there was also positive things. Hitler and Mussolini were both socialists but from a different school as Marxism. They were radically anti-marxists and anti-globalists. They both subsidized work food housing etc etc. Facism is often called national socialism for a reason. The Jews want to rule the world till the end of times and they are going to re-implement Marxist socialism all over the white world in fases. Liberal capitalism inflation and a free market will make life harder en harder for working folks especially the poor without house ownership each year. This system is doomed to end and the Jews knew that when it kicked off. Private housing will become unaffordable for most folks. Your dollar euro will loose value every coming year. Everything thing will become more and more expensive. Until the point that riots and revolutions will break out all over the western world. Kennedy who believed in national identity (which makes him anti-globalist) knew that both Hitler and Mussolini were the good guys when he came in power. He saw the same Marxists Jews that controlled the USSR taking over the Western world via the system of Liberal capitalism and democracy. In his famous last speech he was actually talking about Jews in America. Kennedy realized that Hitler was the good guy and that the Anglo-Saxons had fought the wrong enemies. He also knew that the holocaust was fabricated. So the Jews took him out. I am not positive. I think that the Jews are going to win. They get away with anything. We know that the solution is to remove them from international and national finance but who in the world has the power to do that ? Trump ? Hell no, I hope they show mercy for us the European white peoples and wil not fully decimate us but I doubt it. They have proven in the past and today to be mercilessly. Their holy book is the Talmud.
Mere semantics! But your irritation shows that point was well made…
His reincarnation has already been born and he too will plague China until Tibet is free of the Han oppressors.
My comments:
At least, I think that Russia should try to manufacture durable consumer goods that have a relatively low labour cost share per unit (such as cars). White goods can still be produced in Europe. Highly priced Miele products are still made in Germany and Switzerland. Low-priced white goods are made in Italy and Slovenia where wages are lower than in Germany but higher than in Russia.
I also wonder whether goods for commercial use shouldn´t be made in Russia to a greater extent. In Russia, there are huge forests. But as far as I understand, (forest) harvesters have at least up to quite recently not been made in Russia. But maybe that will change now when Ponsse has sold its Russian subsidiary to Dormashimport owned by Aleksey Voronkevich? I also think that (forest) harvesters should have been a suitable product for Russia´s trading partner Belarus. As far as I understand, the Belarussian farm tractor manufacturer Belarus is now offering a couple of badge-engineered Finnish Sampo harvesters or license-built (forest) harvesters based on Sampo machines.
Furthermore, I suspect that there should be tax incentives in Russia for transforming privately held companies into publicly traded companies. At least if we are talking about manufacturing companies that would benefit from rising wages. Like I said above, middle-class investors are less inclined to move assets to offshore accounts or offshore holding companies or send dividends and profits abroad. If oligarchs will remain the only owners in Russia, capital flight will never end and Russia will be forced to maintain high interest rates in order to prevent capital flight. And like I said, Russia will never be considered as a safe place for rich people´s money if too many people make too little money and own almost nothing. Switzerland is considered as a safe place for rich people´s money because of the general affluence among ordinary people.
China´s current strategy is to sell low- and medium priced goods abroad and to import luxury goods. I suspect that it would be a tremendous advantage for China to concentrate on products with a higher degree of added value, like telecom equipment for instance, and to pursue an import substitution strategy. The only major sector which may to some extent be associated with low wages which China should keep as a source of export revenues is perhaps consumer electronics. Japan and South Korea still export such products.
I also think that Russia should consider to offer Russian land on the border to Manchuria in return for turn-key factories, at least if theses factories can produce goods formerly imported from the West. The big problem for Russia would probably not be to operate such factories or have qualified engineers that can design new products in the future. The problem would probably be to create competitive factories with suitable equipment in a short time frame. At the same time, the Chinese seem to be experts in this field. China should perhaps sell industrial robots, automation technology and related consulting services rather than finished cars. I also assume that such products and services are less price sensitive than inexpensive cars. Of course, China will probably continue to be very competitive in the future even as regards entry-level cars because of great economies of scale and a high degree of automation. But I still think that it would be a better idea for China to sell industrial robots, automation technology and related consulting services to Russia rather than finished cars. And Russia also needs methods to make its trade balance less sensitive to higher wages. And like I said, higher wages can in turn indirectly stem the capital flight. Especially if the factories (that would be paid for by transferring land to China) would be given to the general public for free (perhaps in the form of restricted stocks or stocks tied down to some kind of inheritable pension accounts). Somehow, many Russians seem to think that capitalist prosperity is generated in some magical way if very few people own everything and most of the general public owns nothing. People need to be reminded about the fact that you don´t create prosperity by using South America as a role model. The protectionist France during the period “les trentes glorieuses” (1945 to 1975 or rather 1948 to 1973) could perhaps also serve as a source of inspiration for Russian leaders who don´t deep down a want a repeat of the Yeltsin era. Unfortunately, my impression is that a significant portion of the Russian elite don´t want something similar to France back in 1948 to 1973 but rather something similar to the Yeltsin era.
“Zhou reportedly demurred.”
Right before attacking the then weaker India under then misguided notions of then Indian prime minister, who believed falsely that Hindu India and Buddhist China were brothers (hence, the stupid slogan, “Hindi-Chini Bhai, Bhai), Zhou had visited India on a mission to mislead the gullible Nehru that everything was harmonious when in reality China was preparing to attack India.
And that fiasco of her own father’s making had wakened Indira Nehru (Gandhi) to the perfidy of the Chinese leadership. And she had been prepared to meet the Chinese challenge, if it had arisen. And Zhou knew it too and he didn’t want a bloody face with the Russians standing behind her and Mao being unsure of the American assistance in case of war with Russia.
But the day of reckoning is approaching faster than you can count 1, 2, 3 in Chinese and then let’s come back to compare notes… shall we?
One sentence “article” with no references on a phony link farm site named to sound like LA Times “debunking” something?
Putin/Kremlin/FSB must be getting quite desperate to hide the amount of theft within the MoD:
124 Billion USD (11 Trillion RUB)!
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Yep, Kremlin operates like mafia!
Many people fall for it. But he’s been exposed now and lays bare in front of all Russian patriots. They will rise up eventually, hunt down Putin and his buddies, and free Russia!
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Yes that is certainly true, but it got more surreal than that…LOL
Some gladiators became wildly popular, rockstars of their age.
High born women paid well for the privilege of sex with the prevailing champions.
Free men sometimes sold themselves into slavery in gladiatorial stables because they wanted the glamour, excitement and female adoration.
Even the Emperor Commodus succumbed to the cult of circus and participated in the arena.
To me, it is as surreal as the selection of American presidents….pre-selected candidates loudly and colourfully (WWF style) presented to the public for “endorsement”, who after election are promptly controlled by the deep state, who are themselves controlled by shadowy elements.
The only reason why there are no riots in the streets and mobs marching on Capitol Hill, is because the average American still harbours vain hope that “my candidate will make things right”. Elections can be described as a kind of opiate of Democracies.
Excellent point. I must ponder it.
Despite sounding harsh on the US, I really do think it is a shame. The USA has such great potential. The people are by and large decent folk, though somewhat naive and easily fooled. They can have such a great future in front of them. But first they need to ask themselves some uncomfortable soul searching questions.
I think that the problems facing the US go much deeper than “who is president”.
I am still pondering this issue, but at the present time, I think the most important and basic questions Americans need to ask themselves is
1. “Do I know everything?” — implications on Free vs Responsible Speech…how the individual governs himself
2. “Is Individualism NECESSARILY good?” — implications on how they organise their communities
3. “Is Democracy NECESSARILY good?” — implications on how they choose their leaders
Bhai, thank you for confirming you are a bhai.
I knew that monitoring your comments would eventually lead to a confirmation one way or the other….you can’t fool all of them all of the time.
Ron Unz was right on the money. Thanks Ron.
So were all the other guys who advised stubborn ol’ me the same….Thanks!
Sir Jadunath Sarkar writes that a monastery that looked likea fortfied castle was looted and monks were killed by Bakhtiar Khilji But no library was burnt or razed to the ground .
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e-GRnGxoUOjB6Mjeo27NIAu0DgAcP424/view?pli=1
Professor J N Jha comfirms how Hind Barhmin burnt the library as recorded by Buddhist monks
“Of the two Tibetan traditions, the one referred to by me has been given credence not only by Yadava
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but a number of other Indian scholars like R K Mookerji (Education in Ancient India), Sukumar Dutt (Buddhist Monks and Monsteries of India), Buddha Prakash (Aspects of Indian History and Civilization), and S C Vidyabhushana who interprets the text to say that it refers to an actual “scuffle between the Buddhsit and Brahmanical mendicants and the latter, being infuriated, propitiated the Sun god for twelve years, performed a fire- sacrifice and threw the living embers and ashes from the sacrificial pit into the Buddhist temples which eventually destroyed the great library at Nalanda called Ratnodadhi” (History of Indian Logic, p516 as cited by D R Patil, The Antiquarian Remains in Bihar, p.327). ”
https://kafila.online/2014/07/09/how-history-was-unmade-at-nalanda-d-n-jha/
That sounds very similar to what the Hungarian individual told me. He told me he left because it was a kleptocracy similar to Russia under Yeltsin. I have no opinion on it – but that’s what he said happened. The lifestyle description you gave prior to that is pretty much what he said.
PLEASE, God, guide some nation to supply advanced missiles to the Houthis and Hezbollah to end these child-murderers once and for all.
Sadly, that’s not a bad guess.
Americans with sons or grandsons under age 30, PROTECT these precious boys. PREPARE them to leave this murderous country and never return if necessary.
One can choose to go down with the ship. But leaving these young men of ours to be drafted. to go to Hell for the murder of people thousands of miles from our borders who are not attacking us here, to maybe be killed or maimed or paralyzed themselves, HELL NO.
Those smaller settlements and rural areas are sparsely populated compared to SPB, let alone Moscow area.
Their residents are terribly old, there aren’t many of them, and their median age is very high and still rising.
For better and for worse, the rural areas do not provide any basis to expect substantial adherence to the christian cult in the future RF.
That claim makes no sense to me.
It is true that Generalissimo Cash My-Cheque spent most of his energy fighting his “disease of the heart” (the Chinese communists who threatened his personal position as China’s ruler) and more or less let his “disease of the skin” (the japs who threatened the survival of the Chinese nation) run amok killing Chinese nationals. Because of Cash My-Cheque, China’s contribution in fighting the japs was far, far from admirable for China’s size.
Even with that taken into account, China still tied up more than a million jap soldiers. Not to mention that Chinese expedition forces fighting in Burma actually stopped the japs invading British India. The Indians, on the other hand, basically sit out WWII– much like the citizens of Britain’s African colonies did.
Was any Black African country ever considered for a permanent seat at UNSC?
https://indiaschinablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/you-scratch-my-back-but-i-wont-scratch.html
If I may ask a serious question tho….
If a draft is imposed on American boys, what do you think the likelihood that the country will stand for it?
Would secession/civil war be a likely outcome?
So says Ron’s little catamite… the slogan was a historical statement and it proves nothing.
If you say so, Bhai.
Why are you so ashamed of being Indian? I respect Malla because he does not hide it.
But you still refuse to admit it. Have some pride in yourself man!
Strongly agree. Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , 1905, ( https://web.stanford.edu/class/sts175/NewFiles/Weber’s%20Protestant%20Ethic.pdf ) asserts that capitalism (the accumulation of the land, labor, and machines needed to make useful goods out of raw materials) is a religious exercise, not an economic exercise, and that a rational millionaire would emulate Zukerman as opposed to Musk — spend the money on hedonistic (or political) goals instead of on new processes and new machines and new kinds of organization that obeys the religious injunction to be a “good steward” of God’s creation.
Protestants took this parable to heart:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025:14-30&version=ESV Protestant countries tended to increase the amount of goods produced.
As opposed to the Catholic Church, who took another parable to heart and sought what is now called “social justice”: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2012%3A42-48&version=AMP Catholic countries concentrated on distributing goods rather than increasing the amount of goods produced.
Generally speaking, the innovators during the Industrial Revolution did not make out any better than the people who imitated them. As the current “asset stripping” shows, management can (with help from government) get more money by letting capital deteriorate than by improving it.
And the loss to the West was, thus, the loss of the Protestants who would innovate, even if it did not benefit them.
And much the same can be said about the loss of Thomism, the belief that humans have a religious duty to learn about God by learning about the physical universe that God created. Westerners motivated by a religious duty are hard to stop by monetary rewards, and so falsifying experiments (as about half are falsified now) does not appeal to them. The West still has a core of honest scientists, but without general belief that dishonest reporting is a sin (in religious terms), they are swamped by the careerists, who see only that lies get money.
I know that this seems like simple fanaticism to you, and perhaps it is. Think of it as a wild bet that eventually paid off. When the simple fanaticism went away, so did science, and the West got Anthony Fauci.
Chinese Imperial history shows a similar falling away from Confucian doctrine in the later stages of decaying dynasties. When everybody is plundering the innocent, then even innocent officials get plundered, and, after a while, become extinct.
The Protestant Revolution of Northern Europe apparently was the consequence of the German “free warriors of the North” societies developing into free men who were able to manage their own economic and even religious affairs without supervision from an outside organization. They put together a productive economy that had been impossible since the Bronze Age’s engineer/priests (who kept the irrigation systems functional).
This change involved many more brains with much better organization working on economic problems — capital investments, process improvement, etc., as described by Weber above. Note that the people making these decisions ordinarily restricted themselves to “minding their own business”, which was hard enough, without paying much attention to whatever they did not control. This distinction appears to be essential for a capitalist ( in Weber’s sense ) economy.
Somehow the population of the old Western economies managed this. In fact, Tocqueville accused the American democracy of having too much group think.
The need of 2024 governments to find and crush opposition (e.g. the 1/6 affair) has actually managed to fracture American unity.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nea-president-mocked-copying-office-character-dwight-schrute-totally-unhinged-speech
Democracy in the West has deteriorated into political machines.
See:
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2810.html.images for an insider’s account back when political machines were much simpler.
* https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20746/who-running-the-country
Danial Greenfield ignores, deliberately IMHO, the possibility of alliances between personal retinues. He dismisses Obama’s running Biden, and does not even mention that Obama’s network could save and control Biden’s network by supporting Biden’s coalition, and that Biden’s network would resist being jettisoned by Obama’s coalition. Greenfield does, however, show how a retinue works in a Western political machine, and is IMHO therefore worth reading.
Political machines are not good, and (by monopolizing politics) have rendered control of the government by “popular will” impossible. When the money stops, so will the political machines, and what happens after that I don’t know.
Free Tibet & Turkmenistan now! Long live the Holy Lama!! Down with the Communist Party of China!!!
But isn’t India the first to die?
There are only two kinds of parties in your country: liars and traitors.
The two crooks yogi and modi have in fact torn India apart.
Gandhists have made every effort to send the Indian population to the United States.
I could probably see India dismembered to pieces.
Turkmenistan is already free, my dear.
You may be Indian, but the level of your geographical knowledge is clearly American.
Actually not, I highly admire it.
To me, everyone should discover for himself his relationship not only with himself, but with God (whatever he makes “God” out to be).
The crucial, most basic trait that is necessary for any human being, is humility. The willingness to admit that he does not know everything, and therefore is willing to “seek first the kingdom of God”.
Unfortunately the loss of humility, i.e. hubris is the cause of many troubles in the world and our personal lives.
We can see it in:
1. As you mentioned, the Qing dynasty when China regarded itself the pinnacle of civilisation and closed off its borders and its mind, of course it atrophied.
2. The West today regarding itself as the pinnacle of human achievement, closing off their minds and refusing to ask themselves hard painful questions about where they are headed to.
3. Organised religions who regarded themselves as having already found “the answer”, and refusing to seek after the face of God.
4. Individuals who think that they have all the answers, do not seek opinions and fresh perspectives, but rather try to stuff their own opinions down the throats of others….all the while claiming it to be an expression of Free Speech.
5. Etc etc.
Can I assume that you live in the USA? If so, please can you tell me what is the mood on the ground in your country. The last time I was stateside was a decade ago, so I am keen to know what the mood is now.
Are people angry? Or are they still content to plod on with the current state of affairs?
I supposed he meant to write Xinjiang. A Chinaman could reply “Free Khalistan!”. The best would be for both China and India to work towards unity of their own countries, better relations between the two, and stop undermining each other by supporting separatism in the other as this “divide and rule” will ultimately play into the hands of the Collective West to the detrimental of both.
I believe he meant “Turkestan” as in East Turkestan which is advocated for by the Xinjiang secessionists.
He has been corrected before. But his memory isn’t too good. It takes somewhat a good memory to make coherent arguments.
But it is not the usual Indian way to make coherent arguments. They mostly wind and twist, whichever way suits them best at the particular moment.
Some 30% of the residents in my country are of Indian nationality/extraction. We are all too familiar with their ways.
You are totally right. In fact China has been making repeated suggestions to do so. But the Indians are too butthurt over the 1962 war to move on.
If one monitors Chinese media, there is hardly mention of India. However if one monitors Indian media, they on the other hand are all obsessed by China.
Again, you are absolutely right.
With normal countries that have some integrity, this would not usually be the problem. They would honour their agreements.
But Indians, particularly Northern Indians, have a real issue with honouring their deals. One only has to look at how many foreign firms begin to make investments in India, have their hands burnt by (North) Indian swindling, then withdraw and vow never to go back again. If one knows this, then there is no wonder why the “Make in India” initiative that Modi used to boast about is a failure….
Here is a news article about it:
https://english.news.cn/20240110/42c160d295cd4a2c92906737a3374693/c.html
I can personally attest to the Indian national business character. When I was still working, in a consulting firm, we could provide services to clients from any country with the usual service agreement. Usually this meant phased delivery of work, followed by payment by the client.
However with Indian clients, we could not do this, because it had to assumed that the final payment would never reach us. So companies serving the Indian market had to do modifications to the payment structure:
1. Insist on payment in full before any work is done.
2. Front load the phased payment so that even if the last payment is not made, we would still have received what we planned for.
Indians do not realise this. They think they are being clever by swindling people. But in truth, they simply raise the costs for themselves in the long term, as less and less people trust them.
Every time Senor Pepe pens an article vis a vis China, all I have to do to set off the fireworks among the Chow Chows of the Unz kennel club is to mention the Dalai Lama, Tibet and occasionally, the Turkmenistan and of they go to the races… it’s so fucking hilarious.
Do you have to go through all that trouble for a little attention?
You really need a boyfriend. Did the arranged marriage not work out for you?
People are frightened.
I wouldn’t expect you to believe this thesis without seeing it, so here are some videos that show it.
This next video is intended to be exploitative entertainment. However, if you just consider what the women are saying, and ignore the idiot commentator, you get a picture of women running for cover, trying to bail out of office jobs and the world outside their house.
women tired of working
. The complaint is that jobs are “not fulfilling”, but Feminism is 6 decades old. Why is it becoming anathema only now, and only for the Millennials (born 1981-1996)? Everybody but the bulk of women with jobs have been warning about feminism for the past 6 decades.
I propose that the employed women are frightened. When women are afraid, they try to form a personal (and likely temporary) relation with a man and ask for protection. You can see this in: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LzcCpcmGc_c , in which the implied criticism is that no man was present to protect the woman. The other woman present was not criticized for failure to protect, and was in fact treated as a secondary victim.
Here’s an illustration of the same sort of phenomenon:
The Island, season 2. Women fail to adjust to reality. The women’s colony almost died twice, while the men’s colony was never near death. The women in the women’s colony acted stupidly and did not work as hard as did the men in the men’s colony – “laziness”, see video at time stamp“24:50”.
This is not a criticism of the women, BTW. Women generally don’t do well with machines or chemical processes – women simply are not interested and don’t put in the time required for intuitive understanding. Machines/chemical processes are not children, and are in fact often hazardous for children. Women who work as hard as men tend to die in childbirth, which is why pregnant US women were treated up until ~1940 by US men as if made of thin glass.
To summarize the above, women are now trying very hard to attach themselves to men and have children. The usual confusion about motives prevails in most women. Women often do not know why they do things, though, so ostensible motives are quite often not real motives.
If you think about it, Alastair Crooke’s article ( https://www.unz.com/article/we-were-deceived-and-gaslit-for-years-all-in-the-name-of-democracy-then-poof-it-collapsed-overnight/ ) is frightening in the extreme. All the “moral causes” that supposedly underlay society were frauds, all of the leadership that was carefully selected and benevolent were actually amoral killers (or amoral killed or both). The government was not run by elections, but rather by political machines whose professionals were in it only for the money (Plunkitt being a very early example of that). The world that the US was supposed to be making better and safer was actually being treated as a small part of internal US politics by what appear to have been short sighted psychopaths. After about 1990, the world was being milked for all it was worth and the money used cut the last links between voting and “Our Democracy”. All of the ethnic groups that had supposedly been “Americanized” had actually been either destroyed (e.g. the Irish, Polish, Italian vote), or else immiserated and converted to enemies by Federally funded “community organizers” (e.g. the Black coalition and some of the Hispanic population). The most numerous ethnic group in the US is undergoing full scale genocide ( https://www.zerohedge.com/political/linguistic-white-supremacy-lefts-new-crusade-against-english-language )
In other words, something very close to the Zombie Apocalypse has become real in the US. People and groups thought to be fellow citizens have turned into brain damaged, largely ineffective, but very numerous enemies.
There is a massive population movement away from the worst affected areas – the area I live in has multiple internal refugees. If I hadn’t spent several years in a profession where I had to risk my life several times a year, or if I hadn’t seen this coming and avoided the worst of it, I’d be terrified myself. Since I did spend those years, it’s just the same old same old.
Most people are pretending that nothing is wrong, but they know. They know. You can tell that from polling results and from the way the employed have only content free conversations. Or you can tant a man to protect them and, in many cases, children to carry on. Or you can tell by the the way that the Millennial men are unsure that they can support a family and are avoiding marriage.
That’s it, I hope that answers your question.
Good question. There may be resistance and protest worse than that during the vietnam war.
But I’d guess that the great majority of people with draft-age boys will make no effort to get them out of the country; they’ll complain loudly, maybe rally in protest, but otherwise just keep their boys in the usa and just hope they either don’t get an induction notice, or are granted a deferment. That seems like immature, irresponsible “wishful thinking” and bad parenting.
We won’t be participating in any civil war, rioting, or armed revolt in response to a military draft.
If Congress announces a vote on actually activating the draft and any of our boys is age 17 or above, we will move them out of the USA fast. We all have other citizenships. One of them offers a top-tier passport with travel privileges similar to the USA, while another offers an above-average passport. We have two little crash pads abroad — one owned and one rented. Basic and not large, but sufficient for our purposes.
It could be that for many years, the boys won’t be able to return to the usa without being arrested and prosecuted for “draft evasion.”
That’s a sad prospect, but we would rather have our boys renounce US Citizenship and never return, than be forced into war for the scumbags ruling us.
lol
many of my countrymen are a fucking embarrassment
ignorant they are, and proud of it
It’s a mere exercise to see how insecure the Chinese are, notwithstanding the claims to greatness by the army of trolls.
Agreed that neither should aid separatists in the other country.
But India should let the Punjabis have their own country.
China should let the Uyghurs have their country too.
And yes, i’d apply that to the USA too: mandatory recurring binding referenda in each State on whether to secede and become independent. In fact, i’d like to simply cut Puerto Rico, Hawaii loose. New York City and LA County as well.
Here you go. Neither China nor India should… but you could ask China to…
So, you still want most of the land to be controlled and ruled by whites, don’t you? What about returning most of USA, Canada, etc to native Americans, the true and original owner of the land?
So little self-awareness!
My, those are very refreshing (to me at least…LOL) insights that I would never have thought of.
Thank you for your valuable perspective!
Thank you for the information, there is nothing better that to hear it from someone on the ground.
It appears that you have made extensive preparations for eventualities, so I am sure you have also prepared your boys well for what may come.
If/when things turn for the worse in the US, it may very well be that when your boys are established overseas, they may send for you and your wife to join them?…..but let’s hope it never become necessary.
Obsessively seeking to see others’ insecurities,
Betrays a certain insecurity in oneself.
One can trace it back to 1962 ass kicking in the Himalayas.
“One can trace it back to 1962 ass kicking in the Himalayas.”
Remember Vietnam? China tucked its tail between its legs… you’re going to get your arse handed to you on a platter. My Kremlin source told me that Putin is not with China when the US is going rain hell on it… where will you run to, unz catamite?
cut and paste word salad error: “Or you can tant a man to protect them and, in many cases, children to carry on. ”
should be: “Or you can tell by the way that women suddenly want a man to protect them and, in many cases, children to carry on. ”
Strangely, some things are just too big to hide, while also being too big to see easily.
More and different indicators:
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/07/10/biden-floods-ohio-town-20000-haitian-migrants-ten-bedroom/
Haiti is a very rough place. I’ve heard stories from people who’ve been there.
https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/haiti-devours-white-missionaries/#comment-6598198
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/14/what-is-the-history-of-foreign-interventions-in-haiti
OK, enough of that.
Do most Uyghurs want to separate? There was a time when Chechens wanted to separate and even fought two wars but have now changed their mind.
The bigger problem is between India and Pakistan than India and China.
Pathetic sepoy troll licking its Yankee masters’ arses.
Xinjiang has been Chinese territory since the Han ie two thousand years. The Uighurs are doing well, as are all inhabitants of the PRC.
Sepoys like Aleatorius suffer from extreme feelings of inferiority, after centuries of English rule and decades of economic failure, particularly when compared to China. A very low point for one of the great civilizations of yore.
No worries, I caught your drift.
Anyways, these days my eyes aren’t what they used to be, so unless I look really closely, my mind sort of fills in the blanks from the general context….LOL
Yes, Haiti is an interesting case. I will say that I never studied it closely, so I can’t really say anything of value. It seems to me to be an extreme case.
But I am interested to visit Rwanda …eventually. I hear good stories about it; how they are pulling themselves out from the funk. To me, if Rwanda can succeed, then so can every other Subsaharan African country.
A hint may be gotten from this surprising Uyghur wedding in small town Xinjiang….attended by an American girl living in China. … Not sure if the Uyghur guy is her new boyfriend tho, but she seems to do a bit of traveling with him lately.
This video above is just a couple of days old. Her other videos are very interesting too. She chose to live in a small town in rural China and shows us how it is like. Quite eye opening, I would say.
Well, Vietnam did indeed give China an ass whooping. But they have since kissed and made up, even to the point that they are now building high speed rail between their countries.
But the ass whooping China gave India was on another scale….and made them butthurt for 60 years …so much so that they insist on Japanese high speed rail instead. But in a very predictably Indian way, now their Japanese built high speed rail dream is a failure.
Better kiss China’s ass and beg for Chinese high speed rail. It is about the only way India will get it.
How did you end up in Australia? China can’t feed you?
“Better kiss China’s ass and beg for Chinese high speed rail.”
A swift kick in the scrawny ass is what China is going to get…
Most of it won’t be “ruled by whites.” The young population of most States is already minority white european. Many cities and counties are majority Hispanic, mostly mestizo white/indian and heavily Spanish-speaking, and not just in SoCal or southern Texas or Miami.
Where we and many Americans live, white europeans like me are a small and still shrinking minority.
Try again, anti-white bigot dumb fuck.
Thanks for a thoughtful response. I hope your family will prepare similarly and be ready to get the heck out.
Kids won’t need to send for us. We already spend half the year abroad, mostly in Mexico, and we plan to sell our US house and buy modest homes in Mexico and South America. Soon.
Good luck and God bless you.
Kadyrov may have the dream of his descendants assuming power — perhaps peacefully in elections — once the Muslim population grows big enough.
On current trends of massive Turkic/Persian central asian immigration into the Russian Federation and sub-replacement slavic fertility … it’s not altogether an outlandish proposition.
No, that is very different than being ruled by a non-white ruler, with non-white laws and customs (e.g. Muslim laws etc), which is what you are advocating for 10 of millions of Hans who are living in Xinjiang today. Furthermore, I PURPOSELY and SPECIFICALLY asked about whites being ruled by the “Native Americans” (whom whites’ ancestor genocided to almost extinction) not just by any non-whites, in order to test your reaction. Sounds like you don’t even want to acknowledge that thought.
So? Why should whites be the majority in all states, or in any states? It wasn’t that ways for several thousands years.
I know my comment makes you angry. But have you given any thought before you open your big mouth on a topic that you know nothing about, like “China should…”, especially right after you advise that “Neither India and China should…?” It is such a blatant hypocrisy that makes my fingers itchy.
I know many whites complain about others being “anti-white”, but a little bit of self-reflection of your own actions would help you a lot. Hope you learn something today.
I didn’t say the Uyghurs should secede or want to secede. I don’t know.
I’m saying they should get periodic binding referenda to choose that option if they wish.
Like many other peoples, e.g. the Maranao and other Muslim peoples of the southern part of the big island Mindanao, in the Philippines;
the Basques to vote on secession from Spain/France;
the Polish/Slovak/Hungarian people in far western ukraine to vote on whether to be independent or join their corresponding ethnic ancestral countries;
the christian and muslim halves of Nigeria to vote on becoming separate countries;
etc.
Let people decide whether voluntary negotiated separation into smaller countries is better than subjugation, resentment, civil strife, or violent revolution.
And I already said that the usa should afford such rights to peoples and states here. It’s not an idea to be considered for China and India alone.
Then you can safely offer referenda to the Uyghurs and see how they vote.
“The Indians, on the other hand, basically sit out WWII– much like the citizens of Britain’s African colonies did.”
Basically, yes, because there was no independent India at the time – it was still a British colony even in 1945, when the UN was formed. Indians did fight during WWII, but largely for their British masters in Europe. They were used by the British to fight but not to fraternize with British or other Europeans; apparently couldn’t even eat together at the same table with the whites. There were also small groups who were assisting the Japanese to attack India. Some of these brave Indians were caught in Singapore.
Busy – I’ll comment on what others here wrote on this thread later.
Just a bit more, then I quit this line of comments.
First, the media: This sort of article is very unusual in US discourse:
https://alt-market.us/trumps-return-get-ready-for-chaos-to-be-unleashed-and-blamed-on-you/
Second, local rumor control [1] consensus seems to be that there will be no 2024 election. The (1.5 plus or minus 0.5)*1o^7 unvetted immigrants admitted by Biden will contain an element about 10^ 4 hostiles who will conduct a Gazan type raid on US society. Its mission would be to demonstrate that US citizens in the continental US are vulnerable to terrorist raids. Why they would do this when similar measures failed in Israel is not entirely clear, but then the raids from Gaza to Israel were successors to decades of roughly similar raids in several countries with effects limited primarily to the Islamic population.
Or, perhaps, similar raids are conducted by PRC agents, these raids against infrastructure. These raids would be better targeted and more destructive, but the end result would be abandonment of urban areas sooner than would be the case under present trends.
Or, perhaps, both.
These attacks would cripple the US, but both would cause it to look inwards, to domestic policies that had permitted such attacks to happen. Frightened people support major revisions to prevent recurrence, so any- and every- thing could be changed.
In any case, rumor control continues with the assertion that the above raids result in a “postponement” of the 2024 election as the US reorganizes itself, quite possibly fissioning into two or three parts. Essentially, the fissioning would enable the US countryside to cut itself lose from the doomed urban areas, and (IMHO) would receive support from a surprisingly large part of the US business/military elite. (I mean, my God, renaming “Fort Bragg” to “Fort Freedom”. Why didn’t the naming commission compromise at “Fort Trotsky”[2] or “Fort Propaganda Term”? A military organization pays attention to symbolism and tradition, as that is all they have once the shooting starts and the casualties mount. See movie, “Hamburger Hill”, for how this works in the US Army (
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The US Dollar would sharply decline in international trade under the above scenario, and the official Federal Government would find itself with loan repayments that could not be met. Business and military elites would find themselves without money to meet payroll, just as the USSR’s elites did, and some would flee to a fragment of the US that appeared to have better prospects and was able to entirely shed repayments due from the US Federal government, which is the urban based political establishment.
There is some fear that the urban based political establishment would ask for NATO or PRC troops, but IMHO logistic considerations (transport and supply) prohibit transfer of enough troops to make a difference. In any case, both NATO and PRC are in considerable trouble. NATO members would almost certainly have to become Russian Federation federates just to support their civil population, and would simply be unable to even consider sending troops to a US meat grinder. As for the PRC, it is at the tag end of a capital boom, has a demographic crash coming up ( so it can’t afford casualties in its military age young men), and is not set up to support an expeditionary force. Once in the US, the PRC troops would be dependent on unreliable logistics support from a bankrupt US Federal Government whose urban areas would require MOUT operations that are notorious for inflicting high casualties on all sides’ troops.
Note that the above is simply a report on local rumor control output that has been “gamed out” to show consequences of a “postponed” election, and not something that I advocate if only because it is very doubtful that I could live through it. Me, I’d prefer something a good deal more sedate. IMHO, canceling elections would be a very bad move, and I certainly hope it does not happen.
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1] “Rumor control” is a rhetorical device, a imaginary organization that controls dissemination of rumors. Attributing a story to “rumor control” implies that the story is widespread and may or may not be true, but should be considered as possible so as to prevent total surprise if it happens.
2] Since Trotsky set grand strategy for the victorious side in the Russian Civil War and was therefore in some sense a military man.
Just as a general comment:
I don’t agree with the idea that just because many of we Americans disagree with our country’s foreign policy (Neo-con, Anglo-Zionist etc.) that somehow we should then “cheerlead” Russia.
None of us want to live in Russia, not even expatriate Russians. Putin is a brute. Disagree with him and you’re in deep trouble.
Russia is a corrupt autocracy, and the idea that its leaders are big Christian believers is just plain nonsense.
Some of you need a wake-up call.
China and India got along just fine until the British showed up. Prior to that it was peace. China learned certain things from astronomy from India. It was also Indian monks that brought Buddhism to China. But after the Brits stole tea from China and planted in India and then used Indian opium to force into China the relationship had never been the same. The last is the British unilaterally drawn border that is causing the problem now
I do not think the article overly far fetched. Indeed I think it, and what you have written has fair chance of occuring.
In fact, I saw it as a likely trend even before Trump was elected the first time. What I noticed was that the US had become fractured and people lived in opinion bubbles. There was no meaningful dialogue between the different sides. A kind of fracture of the state, or at least an intense violent resolution to that fracture could be anticipated….a new civil war.
What surprised me, was that the US has managed to hobble along till now.
The only remark I would make is regarding the participation of PRC in the future troubles about to occur in the US. I agree with you that China will NOT participate, but not for the reasons you stated.
I believe that its economic troubles are not as fatal as made out to be by Western press, or its shrinking population issues. These are all well manageable by the Chinese.
Why I think that China will NOT participate is because of their cultural psyche. They do not enjoy getting involved in other peoples’ affairs. They are essentially inward looking, but will interact with foreign cultures for the purposes of trade etc.
So if we discount Chinese and NATO participation, I think the new civil war will again be settled solely by “Americans” again…whatever that term means now/near future.
Unfortunate that we’re in agreement here, considering what we’re in agreement over. China did manage to invade Vietnam after the US pulled out, so it can intervene in foreign affairs under some circumstances, but between your reasons for it not happening and the reasons I put forward, PRC intervention in the US probably won’t happen. Just as well, the mess is bad enough as things are.
The UK also seems to be falling apart: https://www.unz.com/article/electoral-secession-and-the-end-of-imperial-britain/ The parts about Wales and the Orkneys considering secession reminds me of an old National Lampoon headline: Cornwall Declares War on England! [1]. And the EU nations seem to be falling away from NATO, judging from the most recent elections ( https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ric-grenell-europe-parliamentary-elections/2024/06/10/id/1168217/ ).
You might find Anatomy of a Revolution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Revolution ) interesting, since events seem to be following his outline. Read that and you can see patterns in the West before most people, which, of course, you’ve already done. Remember that Anatomy‘s author, Crane Brinton, wrote in the 1930s (originally, he revised the book twice later), and that Brinton’s statement that “power passes by violent … methods from Right to Left” was written after Left had been being driven out of power in Europe by various Fascists from the English Channel to the USSR’s border, before being re-established post-WW II by the US and USSR. Brinton didn’t always get it right.
And on the other hand, a Swiss start-up claims to be developing a commercially viable thorium salt reactor. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/how-a-swiss-start-up-wants-to-reinvent-nuclear-energy/47298052
Well, next stop is October, 2024/10. The West again acts uniformly, like the old time chorus girls except not so pretty. Nothing like Zeitgeist ( or “emergent properties” and “self synchronization” [2] or “Self organization” [3] or “self organizing criticality” [4] if you like those terms better ). Note that when properties of group elements are random (e.g. a processor that is an element of the system can be randomly running or broken) a self organizing system will be much more efficient than a centrally controlled system, so in biological systems (such as nations) self organizing would tend to dominate.
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I like the variety of stuff you comment on, they are all relevant in interesting topics.
At the risk of sounding very contrarian, I see the breaking up of countries as a (long term) positive thing….LOL. I explain:
I happen to live in micro state / city-state. We have a population of about 5 million, of which about 3 million are citizens. Despite being so tiny, we have the full functions of any country…our own legislature, military, foreign service, etc etc.
For us, being a microstate was not our choice. We were forced into it. Initially we were fearful and there was little confidence that we would survive, let alone succeed. But over time, we have found that being small does have its advantages. We have learned to adapt to our small size, are pretty happy with the way things are.
So I may come across as a little biased when I say that I like the idea of big countries breaking up. Not out of malice, but because perhaps a idealistic utopian hope?
Because when I playfully dream and envisage a brighter future for mankind, what do I imagine? A more peaceful situation when large countries, and therefore large armies are no longer required to protect people from neighbouring countries….It would then be natural for smaller cities or regions to be the norm. Independent cities or small regions defining their own values and lifestyles. People are able to decide what lifestyle and ideals suit them, and migrate to the city that offers that. No need to have one-size-fits all laws that force the unwilling to obey them, rather free choice for all.
I know it all sounds terribly idealistic, but one can dream, right?
Things are moving fast on the thorium front. As I understand it, the Chinese already have a working thorium reactor being tested in a real world setting….I am not sure if it is commercially viable yet, or if the the commercially viable iteration is ready yet.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3224183/china-gives-green-light-nuclear-reactor-burns-thorium-fuel-could-power-country-20000-years
This is interesting….sounds like there is a link to phenomena such as “spooky action at a distance”? or “quantum entanglement”? There things going on, that we still do not have the instruments to measure.
At the risk of sound like a real kook, I will admit that I do not believe the universe to be “chaotic”. I believe it to be magical. I do not believe that there are any mistakes, nor any accidents…..LOL
Now you will think that I am truly mad 😮
A few comments on the China/India thread.
Did Vietnam “win” the frontier war against China? Nope. Officially China went into Vietnam to stop it from unilaterally changing the Sino-Vietnam border. So China didn’t “invade” Vietnam to win territories but to stop a specific behavior. Deng described it as “teaching Vietnam a lesson.” If I remember rightly some readers in a Hong Kong paper (TaKungPo?) predicted it would take a couple of weeks, and they were nearly correct – it lasted about 17 days, I think.
China took about four weeks to accomplish what Neville Maxwell described as “a crushing victory” at the Sino-Indian border (unlike Vietnam, Indian troops ignored the ceasefire in some places, probably because the high Himalayas prevented them from knowledge of the ceasefire). As for fear of the Soviet Union, at any time, that was silly: Chinese troops had a squabble at Chen-pao (Damansky) island with Soviet troops in 1969 – and handed over the intruders’ bodies to the Soviet side. Brezhnev screamed and threatened nuclear war. Why?
The Soviets never entered Chen-pao island again. After Gorbachev took power, the other islands on the Chinese half of the Amur River were handed over to China. China never forgot this gesture and from then on became a firm friend (so the present friendship with Russia has its roots earlier, before Putin emerged as Russia’s top honcho).
According to Hanoi, despite the short period, Chinese destruction at the conflict area was more thorough than what the Americans did in their years of bombing. What Hanoi left out was that most of the “destruction” were buildings and other infrastructure built by China for Vietnam during the “American War.” Excuses for the conflict by some obviously pro-Deng people was that China was angry at Vietnamese “ingratitude” for the aid given to Vietnam in the war against France and later against the US. But to many Chinese, whether in the mainland or overseas, Deng resorted to arms because 1) he wanted to please the Americans and 2) Vietnam took the Soviet side in the Sino-Soviet ideological dispute.
What was left unspeculated was Deng’s desire to undo any accomplishments by Mao, such as the close Sino-Vietnam friendship: Mao got China to undertake massive research for a cure in malaria that saved the lives of uncountable Vietnamese guerrillas fighting in their nation’s jungle. Also, apparently to strengthen Vietnam’s anti-aircraft defense, Mao gave Vietnam a whole island at the Beibu Gulf for better defense against American bombers.
Deng’s neglect of China’s military defense could also be attributed to the fact that the PLA was originally a peasant army trained by Mao at Jingganshan. It explained why the PLA – a people’s army – was cavalierly called out to intimidate the people at Tiananmen. The earliest protesters were workers who were not only poorly paid but many were laid off when State Owned Enterprises were privatized and sold to Party cronies. The injustices were rampant even after Tiananmen (remember the Foxconn workers who committed suicide by jumping off tall buildings). The consequences of pure capitalism were obvious – the huge increases in pollution, corruption, and inequality were not unexpected: they were common during Britain’s early days of industrialization. London’s air was once hardly breathable, the stench at the River Thames was said to have delayed or cancelled parliamentary sessions, and London was known as the whore capital of the world.
And China the newest whore country: I was in Kuala Lumpur when my nephew pointed out the long rows of Chinese prostitutes at Petaling Street.
Hu Jintao tried to ease the evils of pure capitalism but it took a decisive Xi Jinping to really attack corruption, clean up the air and rivers, and reduce inequality so that peasants could have livable lives, women could avoid prostitution, and “common prosperity” a possible, achievable goal. According to the perspicacious Eric Li (despite the propaganda of most Chinese news media) China’s young millennials know the faults of the recent past, and want real reform, not the “reform” that reminds older Chinese of a Shanghai that, like London was, a place of vast economic and hence social inequalities. But to convince the present Dengists still in the Chinese media, the educational institutions, and even in the CPC, a willingness to emancipate the mind is necessary. Only then can a really socialist China emerge.
Will continue later.
Well, looks like the Zombie Apocalypses is kicking off ahead of time:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/14/what-we-know-about-trump-rally-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/14/catastrophic-failure-secret-service-under-scrutiny-after-trump-assassination-attempt/
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/07/13/cbss-brennan-some-gop-reaction-to-trump-shooting-will-raise-further-concern-of-violence/ ,
From early reports and photos, the bullet went through top of the “superior crus”, of Trump’s right ear. That is about as close a call as anybody can get.
This comes at a bad time, as shown by this analogy: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/roots-world-war-iii
And to top things off for the US: https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/measles-detected-nyc-migrant-shelter-bidens-border-crisis-morphs-public-health-crisis
OK back to your comments:
The system of independent cities (microstates) that you describe permitted many experiments in government to be run simultaneously, with one result being Golden Age Athens and the subsequent Greek role as the bureaucracy of the Roman (and then the Byzantine) Empire. The polis system paid off for the Classical Greeks right up until the Peloponnesian War (in part over trade routes) started the coalescence of poleis into cities within an empire.
So for me, the question isn’t so much whether a network of independent trading cities would pay off (it would), as it is how such a network could remain in existence. Certainly Singapore exists, but the price is that it has to act intelligently. How many cities can do that? (rhetorical question).
Certainly Singapore will have to be agile and smart now that the US guarantee of “freedom of the trade routes” is no longer in effect. The defining end of that guarantee was the withdrawal of the American aircraft carrier USN Eisenhower at about the time the Houthi claimed to have hypersonic missiles ( https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-houthis-hypersonic-missile-is-a-game-changer-in-red-sea/ ). The US does not want the USN Eisenhower to be sunk, as that would make it clear to everybody just how useless carriers are in or near littoral regions, which regions include very many trade routes.
No, not really. Much of what was considered certain knowledge is now open to question: Consider: The universe is a bit more friendly to life than randomness would suggest is possible [1], humans understand more about nature than you would expect from an organism shaped by evolution on Earth [2], evolution itself proceeds a deal more quickly than it should [3], the highly unlikely formation of the Earth and the entire Solar System to produce a planet that can support life in a highly unusual planet/moon system in a highly unusual Solar system, the failure to find a foundation for mathematics [4]. Etc. Apparently 19th Century optimism about fundamental human understanding of the universe was not justified.
As far as “chaotic” goes, all I mean by that is that current measurements don’t predict future behavior to a useful degree. See:
. In human affairs, the “chaotic domain” would have been the failure of military competition to maintain the European balance of power. Supposedly it was cheap steel and nitrate chemistry that enabled deployment of massive artillery and automatic weapons (machine guns) that drove Europe into the “chaotic domain” of the World War era. You can draw analogies to Alexander the Great, whose father reformed the phalanx system into a new form that was, literally, a world beater everywhere Alexander went. The resulting Empires put a definite end to an already faltering polis system.
I think just by surviving the assassination attempt, Trump has virtually guaranteed his re-election. Barring a more competent shooter the next time of course.
Oh, by no means do I think that a world made up of city states is realistic. As long mankind resorts to force or worse violence, this vision will never be feasible.
What I am saying, however, is that being small also has its advantages. This notion can be applied in infinite ways. For example if the USA returns to a state where the powers of the Federal Government is reduced, and the individual states take on much more power to rule themselves, it is already a step in this direction.
So while people may get all alarmed at the prospect of the breaking up of UK, or US etc etc, it may not necessarily be a bad thing.
This is delicate subject that is worth discussing.
Speaking not as an idealist, but as a realist…….The view of most of Southeast Asia is that the US “Freedom of Navigation” policy is really an excuse to contain their rival….China. The prevailing hope is that US would just stop stirring up trouble in the region.
Almost all countries in SE Asia are of that opinion, with the one glaring exception…the Philippines which was a former US colony, and is seen by the other SE Asian nations as a tool for the US.
The timing of the Philippines’ recent submission to UN obliquely claiming the Malaysian state of Sabah only reinforces this view. This submission to the UN comes from a decades long dispute that was never really pursued, but was brought to the forefront immediately after Malaysia announced its intention to join BRICS.
That is the overall picture in SE Asia. However Singapore has its own peculiar concerns in the region. Being so much smaller than our neighbours, Singapore sought a US naval presence here in the 1980s to deter our neighbours from gobbling us up.
But if the US would retreat from the region, it would be nothing new to us. At the birth of Singapore in the 1960s, the British (then the regional hegemon) abandoned us.
So if the US were to retreat from the region now, it is very probable that Singapore would seek similar protection from China instead.
What an interesting video. Thanks.
Gahn Wilson, 1953 cartoon, New Yorker
I’m not so sure. Consider the “Rumor Control” scenario. Nothing about the assassination attempt on Trump affects that scenario. First an attack (most likely in October, the traditional time for a political “surprise” before the Presidential election. Then the US Federal government calls off the election, partly due to the attack, partly because they say that (somehow) Trump had something to do with the attack. If nobody believes them, that will affect nothing important, since calling off the Presidential election after an attack would destabilize the US Federal government in any case.
The above paragraph does not mean that Rumor Control is correct. It just means that a destabilized US Federal Government remains a possibility, even after the attempted assassination of Trump.
Again, Anatomy of a Revolution points out that Western revolutions are a process that is difficult to stop. Brinton’s thesis seems to be that Western revolutions are a pursuit of utopia. They require that the current situation be unsatisfactory, and that there is a clear path to something much better, a hazy land systematic perfection such as Rousseau described. In the US case case, the utopia is clear leadership to end specific abuses, and anything that promises to end the abuses will nucleate revolution. Had Trump fallen, somebody “picking up the flag and yelling ‘onward!’ ” would have been enough to keep MAGA going, although not enough to stop a planned attack or to keep an election from being canceled (should such events happen to be in the planning stage somehow).
Gee. what a coincidence! I’ve read the Wikipedia summary of the Sabah affair. It looks like either lawfare or barratry or both. On the bright side, it is a contemporary example of law’s weakness, hence a good example of how Right of Conquest (RoC) came about. Before RoC, intra-European conflicts usually started as legal cases, apparently within at least one of several obscure and non-systematic legal systems, each with its own set of courts and judges. These cases dragged on for years, and quite often one of the parties to the legal action simply gave up and invaded. The other side would say “I’ve been wronged, rally to me!”, get allies, and start fighting also. This led to continuous low level warfare and all sides feeling wronged, although the lawyers apparently liked it.
RoC had comparatively simple rules: If you can chase other troops out of some area, and the locals didn’t throw you out and you could collect taxes and administer basic criminal law, then you owned that area, and nobody had any legal case against you.
So by RoC, Malaysia owns Sabah as its government, and the Philippines had best butt out.
As I wrote though, the World War era showed that RoC had become destructive, and it no longer applies. Perhaps lawyer’s lawfare is better. Perhaps.
I sincerely hope that you have better luck with PRC than did Hong Kong and Shanghai. The world needs functional cities, and their destruction takes us one step closer to the sort of collapse shown in the Limits to Growth models.
The view of most of Southeast Asia is that the US “Freedom of Navigation” policy is really an excuse to contain their rival….China.
Well, I have to agree with you on that. However… it’s more than just the US stirring up trouble.
Back in the 1950s, the US and USSR faced off. Both had enough nuclear weapons to equal WW II’s destruction in the space of an hour. Both were kept from that by military bad memories of WW II. That could not last, however, as men grow old and are replaced by people with different memories. MAD was always going to end with the D part.
So the US switched strategy. If froze its nuclear weapons/power research programs and close US industrial labs, and guaranteed access to world wide markets (including the US market) to anybody not allied to the USSR. That was enough, after China was offered the same deal, to win the Cold War (an de-industrialize the US). The US Navy dominated the deep water and could become locally dominant over almost all littorals, but only a few littorals at any one time. The US was also able to intervene and suppress local wars. By about 1982, the Falklands campaign, only the US and UK were the only two countries capable of expeditionary warfare. By 1990, only the US was so capable, and it used that capability very badly, trying and failing to force Iraq and Afghanistan to abandon their tribes, drop Islam, and adopt liberal democracy.
After 1990, the US lost its near-peer competitor (USSR) and lost its interest in guaranteeing the sea lanes. Piracy quickly developed off the coast of West Africa and the Strait of Malacca. It persists to this day. By 2024, the Houthi were able to interdict the Suez Canal (!!!!!!!), and the US was unable to stop them, aircraft carriers being maybe 3 decades obsolete.
And now we have the BRICS+ opposing the US. The US is losing the NATO-+Ukraine/Russian Federation conflict, borrowing enough money to make repayment impossible (~10^12 USD/100 days), and investing capital very unproductively as a means of paying enough supporters to remain in power.
And who is suppressing piracy? Who is somehow stopping Iran from having its proxy, the Houthi, half closing the Suez Canal? For that matter, who is either stopping the resource war for land in Israel/Gaza or letting the war burn out on its own?
Nobody, that’s who. The action is toward ending a failed US suzerainty, with no apparent plan or even discussion for what happens after the US suzerainty fails. The assumption seems to be good cheer and perfect cooperation after the US suzerainty fails. This is, let us say, bad for business, specifically bad for global trade, because, so far as I know, packs that take down a suzerain have always then turned on each other.
And that’s the environment that Singapore faces. As before, Singapore is going to have to be agile. I seriously hope Singapore can succeed, as the world needs more examples of success just now, and is badly going to need what global trade it can get.
Which side do you think has the better case? If submitted to a court of law, who would win?
I of course already have my opinion. I am just interested in what other people think about it.
These are perhaps not the best examples, because they were forcibly taken from China.
Even the HK case, a lot of info is left out in the Western MSM’s narrative on it.
Here is a 6 minute video of a former Singapore Foreign Minister (Secretary of State) speaking about Hongkong. You can start at the 2:00 mark to skip the long winded question.
Incidentally, the HK Riots were a turning point in SE Asia’s view of the US. We had historically been largely supportive of the US and suspicious of China. But during the HK Riots, it became clear to us that the US was behind the trouble, and the Western MSM was the primary instrument of trouble making. I can describe it more, if you are interested, but will not bore you now.
Oh, I do not think that things are as chaotic as it seems. I believe there is a plan at work here.
But unfortunately I will be traveling later and need to prepare. So I won’t checking onto UR for a few days. The rest of my reply will come after I return.
First subject:
OK, quick answer. That Trump business means I have some work to do on house maintenance.
1) Judging from the article “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabah “. heading “Territorial Disputes”, and the article ” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Borneo_dispute “, in which the 1879 meaning of ” pajakkan ” was contested.
2) https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2024/07/1072364/malaysia-submits-diplomatic-note-un-reject-philippines-bid-claim-seabed suggests that Malaysia is trying to retain legal control, hence oil and gas drilling rights, for the continental shelf that connects Malaysia with the Philippines, and apparently this involves (1), above.
OK, so legal settlement would be better than even a small war. However, it appears that Sabah is really a problem in the making ( “Sabah-based NGOs estimate that out of the 3 million that make up the population of Sabah, 2 million are illegal immigrants” ). It isn’t clear that drilling rights are worth more than the potential civil problems inherent in Sabah sovereignty. If I had Sabah, I’d be interested in unloading it on somebody else, drilling rights or no drilling rights. The Philippines in particular should be wary of establishing an outpost on the mainland, especially an unstable outpost.
As for the legal aspect, I suspect that there isn’t any. The legal history referred to above is, IMHO, best viewed as a demonstration that legal rights and coin flips have a lot in common. The problem is that when the law is perceived as a very expensive and time consuming coin flip, or even as a cheap and quick injustice, law no longer surprises violence.
This must seem an evasion, and it partly is. It’s also a statement that, yes, the US should not be involved.
The futility of going to law for hard cases has been a literary theme:
https://allpoetry.com/The-Benefit-Of-Going-To-Law
https://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/the-hunting-of-the-snark/fit-06.html
Second subject: Generalized “rumor control” scenario reaches the media.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/four-factions-vying-control-america
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massive-secret-service-failure-led-nearly-successful-assassination-donald-trump
The more prosperous a society becomes the more the less evolved can survive and reproduce causing the society to regress.