Some people can get out of their real and/or mental bunkers again as immediate aftermath of ATACAMS strike on Bryansk ammo storage site in RF looks like this:

11/19/2024
Lavrov: Russia is strictly committed to preventing a nuclear war
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia always advocates preventing a nuclear war. This is how he answered a question about a possible response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strike with American ATACMS missiles on the Bryansk region.

“We strictly adhere to the position that everything necessary must be done to prevent a nuclear war,” Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference following the G20 summit. “We are convinced that nuclear weapons are, first and foremost, a means of deterrence, of preventing, or preventing any nuclear war. This is how we approach this situation.”

According to the Russian minister, the updated Russian doctrine, which was approved by President Vladimir Putin in November, “does not introduce anything that the West does not know, and does not add anything that would differ from American doctrinal documents on what to do in terms of nuclear weapons.”

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7311930

The jUSA continues to put the lives of Ukranians in danger and that of Russian citizens as well. Biden is sleep walking the jUSA into a disaster of their own making. And jUSA is on the wrong side again (and again!!)!

Our mental calibration for Russia may be off. The Western side of the war evokes cartoon villainy at every level. The list of cartoon aspects is extensive, starting with Zelensky himself, Nordstream, a decade of crazed rhetoric, made up news 24/7 (Ghost of Kiev), to US bioweapons labs, Bandera Nazis in Parliament and everything else. The whole project is a surreal bloody (((neocon))) fever dream. On the other hand, the Russian side is real life. The vile potion brewed up from from Ukie insanity and Western drunken hubris is shockingly dangerous. There have been many Ukie/Western moves which seem tailored to provoke Russian overreaction. Fortunately the Russians are calm and are not deluding themselves into clown world.

Russia has been going very slowly in the SMO. They do not want to kill any unarmed or non-violent Ukrainians. They want to end the conflict by keeping the West at bay without wrecking Russia or Ukraine. However, the Kremlin has continually escalated incrementally along the way. Instead of going straight from T-72 tanks to nuclear weapons in one fateful step they seem to be ratcheting up one small notch at a time. I think there are many reasons for this, but in any case it is completely different from our cartoon expectations molded by the mainstream media. In the current stage of the SMO they are performing daily heavy missile strikes across Ukraine against energy and military infrastructure while slowly grinding away in the East as well as in Kursk. If Russia wants to escalate in response to ATACMS this may show up as more thorough strikes against transportation infrastructure such as ports, bridges and airport facilities across Ukraine.

On what the US options are realistically and unrealistically:

https://www.eurasiareview.com/19112024-contrasting-expectations-for-a-russia-ukraine-settlement-oped/

ATACMS are already being used within the former Ukrainian SSR. Like other much vaunted Western weapons, they’ve not stopped Russian advances and the considerable number of Kiev regime forces decimated. Russia is on its way to victory.

Biden admin just reminding many on why his like minded replacement lost to Trump.

Also keeping in mind the limited number of ATACMS when compared to the qualitatively and quantitatively greater Russian missile arsenal.

As Lindsey Graham aptly put it – fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian is what it’s all about.

The aid from the US has been grudgingly given in quantities that are small compared to what America could provide (for example thirty Abrams tanks compared to the hundreds the US has mothballed), which is because America wants to turn up the heat slowly to as to have it gradually dawn on Russia that they have all the territorial gains they can get and the war is at a permanent stalemate. America can do that but it cannot do it swiftly; to rush things is risking overshooting with too much aid too soon making Ukraine more that a match for Russia, thereby presenting the Russians with the sudden prospect of being defeated.

Russia’s red lines are in effect reminders to the US that if they are being responsible about preventing escalation, they cannot aggressively attempt to hand Ukraine a sure win. The missile strikes inside Russia are very limited in scope and type of targets and they never will go beyond being relatively limited. Ukraine losing the war with Russia would be a less bad option than suddenly eliminating Russia’s military’ leadership and infrastructure. That would be making them desperate enough to get out of the war or get into direct conflict with the US. Only a fool would think they actually know what the decision of Russia would be in those circumstances.

Always good to see signs that your cursed EE animosities are not going to lead us all to the abyss. But unfortunately I think that right now Putin must be considering very carefully if he really wants to lose face so badly in the front of the world.

Militarily speaking, it might be silly for Russia to overreact to a symbolic move that is not going to change things on the ground but there are two problems: 1) This is not a HIMARS attack on Donetsk with civilian victims that nobody in the West is even going to learn about, this is already on the front pages all around the world. 2) If he does not react, there will surely be more escalations. The Balts and their friends are there to make sure of that so it’s not so much about reacting to the ATACMS but about showing that you’re willing to react at all before you have Tomahawks or who knows what raining on your head.

The only good thing about these events is that everybody in Trump’s orbit, including Waltz, is criticizing this stupid decision and the Kremlin must be studying those gestures very carefully because they are the ones that matter the most for the future. Yesterday I heard a clip of Biden himself explaining to journalists how the US could not give certain types of military aid to Ukraine because that would mean World War 3 so it’s not like he didn’t know what was at stake in his more lucid moments. The Democrats should have made an obviously senile President not only drop from the race but from the presidency as well. Kamala may have well ordered the strikes on Russia too but we’re in a situation where nobody can know for sure if he’s taking historic decisions out of pure mental confusion or not. The American public certainly has no clue about such an important matter.

The whole project is a surreal bloody (((neocon))) fever dream. On the other hand, the Russian side is real life. The vile potion brewed up from from Ukie insanity and Western drunken hubris is shockingly dangerous

Let me fix that for you:

The whole project is a surreal bloody NeoConDemocrat fever dream. On the other hand, the (((Russian))) side is real life. The vile potion brewed up from from Ukie insanity and IslamoGloboHomo hubris is shockingly dangerous.

Russia has been going very slowly in the SMO. They do not want to kill any unarmed or non-violent Ukrainians. They want to end the conflict by keeping the West at bay without wrecking Russia or Ukraine.

I concur.

There are inevitably civilian casualties in war. (((Russia))) and Israel are using similar approaches to minimize these injuries. Palestinian Jews have a more difficult problem though. Iranian Hamas and Iranian Hezbollah use captives and their coreligionists as human shields. Führer Zelensky’s forces rarely emulate this core Muslim technique.

If Russia wants to escalate in response to ATACMS this may show up as more thorough strikes against transportation infrastructure such as ports, bridges and airport facilities across Ukraine.

Only the basic ATACMS package is available, which limits the strike range to a max ~200 miles. And, the further it goes, the more chances Russians have for interception. It is a tactical problem for (((Russia))) but not a strategic game changer.

The recent talk from the Kremlin is a warning against further escalation. Putin wants to get to inauguration day without any major issues. Clearly, Trump’s stance will be better than that coming from PLO Joe.

PEACE 😇

Is being colorblind some kind of advantage for hunting but not for gathering?

This whole business reminds me of another failure of a president George HW Bush. After losing in 1992 he used his lame duck period to start a bit of a trade war with Europe and then sent some 30 000 US troops on some dunderheaded mission to Somalia. Clinton was saddled with this US presence which turned disastrous when US troops were defeated and dragged through the streets. Republican partisans then accused Clinton of being to blame because he allowed the UN some control and influence over the op when, of course, none of it would’ve happened had Bush not sent them there on a completely unnecessary mission in the first place. Once decisions like this are made US credibility in the world becomes an issue – so they say – so these lame duck decisions become time bombs for the next president.

(((Russia)))

Is that supposed to be funny?

Maybe. The USA can ramp up production as well. The ATACMS at least seems like a simple missile. Most of the barriers to increased production are probably bureaucratic and institutional and not technical. This means they can be removed or bypassed with a few signatures. Russia will need to increase her production of missile defenses and not expect to outpace Western missile supplies IMO. Russia may also need to strike Ukraine’s transportation systems more heavily to prevent resupply. This could seriously impact Ukrainian civilian life.

But unfortunately I think that right now Putin must be considering very carefully if he really wants to lose face so badly in the front of the world.

Putin was stupid by pretending WW3 was going to break out over some ammo depot being hit in Bryansk. Red lines should be few and realistic. Everyone understands that war is very likely break out if Taiwan were to announce independence.

I see Russia shills are now coping by saying that Putin has once again showed himself too cautious and that this means Russia will have to overdo its reaction in the future. Whereas the simple truth is that Putin rhetorically clowned himself by setting a ridiculous red line that was never realistic. Now he looks like a fool both to the West and his domestic audience.

The bizarre thing is that none of this will change the outcome of the war anyway, which is why the excessive drama is a bit weird.

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They aborted the booster catch. Still seems like a relatively soft landing though.

(((Russia)))

Is that supposed to be funny?

It is poking fun at QCIC’s repeated mischaracterization of the situation. Führer Zelensky loathes Judaism. He is attached to antisemitic neo-Nazis. He went to Jerusalem to intentionally offend Palestinian Jews. Regardless of his genetic lineage, Zelensky is not a Jew.

If you want to go with “neither side is Jewish”, you could make that work.

If you insist on assigning “Jewish” to a side… Anti-Semite, Führer Zelensky is a post-Judaic apostate who hates Jews (unless they are oligarch rich). The attempted mis-labeling is ludicrous. Thus, if there is a Jewish side it must be (((Russia))).

PEACE 😇

Indeed. Bush ambushed Clinton just like this.

It’s fascinating that Biden is repeating a version of the problem.

Within reason, the US can’t ramp up production in the immediate future to make a substantive difference. When compared to other military operations of other countries, Russia hasn’t done what it otherwise could do regarding civilian infrastructure.

The Jack Keanes out there are full of it.

Thanks for stopping by, nice to see you too.

Putin rhetorically clowned himself by setting a ridiculous red line that was never realistic. Now he looks like a fool both to the West and his domestic audience.

Yes, Ukraine has already used Western missiles in Crimea and Donbas multiple times with Western intelligence and guidance so this doesn’t change anything materially but another way of looking at it is that, since it’s not going to change the course of the war (but does have the potential to cause a massacre if a missile is intercepted and falls where it shouldn’t), why humiliate Putin for no gain? And when in the past 75 years did the West help launch an attack on Russia after the Kremlin said that such an attack would constitute an act of war? It’s just a stupid gesture by a literally demented president.

why humiliate Putin for no gain?

Ever study Alzheimer’s cases? One thing the doctors report is assholes almost never mellow out. They usually get worse.

I wiped out trail running a couple days ago. Knee and hip and elbow absorbed all of the kinetic and gravitational potential energy and my chin came to a halt with three or four inches to spare from the ground. I ripped a nickel size chunk of skin down through several of the dermal layers on my elbow. No ripped veins and no blood stains on my long sleeve. Bruise the size of an apple.

I was going downhill. Did you say you walk downhill and run up? My elbow does not completely blame you. Only 49%. There isn’t much reasoning ability in the nerve plexus that moves the elbow.

If you don’t have any disinfectant in your medicine cabinet hand sanitizer is an adequate hack. The kind I use is thick as molasses and it might even be superior to the standard disinfectant product for this purpose.

Lex Fridman interviews Milei if you are bored. No idea what’s in it. I’m not that bored.

It is poking fun at QCIC’s repeated mischaracterization of the situation. Führer Zelensky loathes Judaism. He is attached to antisemitic neo-Nazis. He went to Jerusalem to intentionally offend Palestinian Jews. Regardless of his genetic lineage, Zelensky is not a Jew.

Well you don’t get to define the Jews.

They define themselves by matrilineal decent.

Don’t you believe they are God’s chosen people? Because you are an Evangelical Israel supporter, correct? If so then what authority would you have to define them?

Zelensky is a post-Judaic apostate who hates Jews

And you base that on what? He is welcomed in Israel so what are they missing?

Lex Fridman interviews Milei if you are bored. No idea what’s in it. I’m not that bored.

It might get interesting if Lex asks Milei when he’ll end capital controls; but I doubt that the question would occur to Lex.

https://www.livemint.com/news/milei-lays-out-clearer-currency-path-as-his-popularity-begins-to-dip/amp-11727121285381.html

Well, it is funny but not for the reason you think 🙂

I accept that different factions among organized Jewry have substantially different views on important matters. I also realize there are typically many people who consider themselves part of a religious group but do not always follow all of the tenets. This may apply to Soros as much as it does to Bibi or Jared Kushner. I don’t think Zelensky is particularly Jewish in a religious sense, but the power behind him seems to identify with or flow from a powerful Jewish network. Whether you consider the network to be spiritual, religious, social, criminal or something else is up to you.

Stay frosty.

I agree with your sentiments and would like to add that the wars are won by the foot soldiers and not by brainless building destruction. The Washington cowards know that they need to sent foot soldiers to Ukraine – hell will freeze sooner than that happening. Ukraine army is essentially defeated and green midget’s criminal mind has again convinced west idiots to prolong more Slavs killing.

ENR wrote:

Ever study Alzheimer’s cases? One thing the doctors report is assholes almost never mellow out. They usually get worse.

And now we understand the push for assisted suicide!

Ok, is one of four main reasons:

1) “They are mean and hopeless, give ’em the boot!”
2) Inconsolable, hopeless depression.
3) Greed.
4) Chronic pain.

I don’t follow Keane. I realize he is a TV bobble head and retired General of some kind, but I don’t know any details.

Sorry to hear about that accident. That’s where hiking and especially trail running accidents always happen: on the way down. A good reminder that I should always indeed walk rather than run downhill. It’s too tempting to rush the way back if you’re time limited.

But don’t give up. As you recover, I’d recommend to listen to your body and slowly start running again. Running uphill is quite safe and can’t be beaten as a way of maintaining a good endurance. I actually think that walking downhill on uneven terrain also strengthens your legs like no other exercise. All your legs muscles, from the biggest to the tiniest ones, get hit from all angles as you negotiate the obstacles on the ground (which is what those muscles are designed to do since our hunter-gatherer times). Perhaps not what you want to hear right after having suffered a painful fall but on this point I have to agree with the freak Attia, who regularly practices rucking downhill with the express purpose of strengthening his legs to avoid falls when he gets old.

Be warned that he gave up running though, because he thinks that it causes too much stress on the leg joints. But even if he’s right, what pleasure can one derive from cycling indoors? I guess you might get a bit of a high if you press hard enough but nothing comparable to the final sprint of an uphill run in the middle of nature. But that’s just me. I guess not everybody was born with the same amount of mountain goat genes.

Anyway, take care and remember the RICE technique for bruised joints: rest, ice, compression, elevate.

Lex Fridman interviews Milei if you are bored.

Thanks for that tip. Amazing that YT didn’t warn me today and offered all types of rubbish instead.

But…running downhill on steep trails is so fun!

I know it’s more dangerous but I love it anyway. That and running/jumping full tilt on rocky jettys and breakwalls. It seems like an excellent way to break an ankle but I the rush is too fun to care until I do.
I guess everyone has to have vices and that is better than a cocaine habit!

The Daily Show bit on the airplane picture is pretty funny

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Zelensky is a post-Judaic apostate who hates Jews

And you base that on what?

ROTFLMAO… Let me repeat the irrefutable evidence… Again…

Palestinian Jews denounced Zelensky: (1)

Israeli lawmakers tear into Zelensky for Holocaust comparisons in Knesset speech

Likud MK Yuval Steinitz said it “borders on Holocaust denial.�

“War is always a terrible thing… but every comparison between a regular war, as difficult as it is, and the extermination of millions of Jews in gas chambers in the framework of the Final Solution is a complete distortion of history,� he said in a statement.

A number of Religious Zionism MKs also criticized Zelensky, with the far-right opposition party’s leader, Bezalel Smotrich, slamming the Holocaust comparisons and accusing the Ukrainian leader of trying “to rewrite history and erase the involvement of the Ukrainian people in the extermination of Jews.�

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rotman rejected Zelensky’s request that Israel treat Ukrainians the same way Zelensky claimed Ukraine treated Jews during the Holocaust.

Absolutely everyone grasps that Führer Zelensky hates real Jews.

The core members of the current & popular Israeli governing coalition are:

• Likud who anti-Semite, Führer Zelensky intentionally offended
• Religious Zionism who anti-Semite, Führer Zelensky intentionally offended

Would Palestinian Jews who loathe the Führer provide him residency despite his degeneracy? Based on matrilineal lineage, there would probably be unpleasant toleration. Would neo-Nazi Zelensky go there to be a despised anti-Semitic outcast? Unlikely.

Anti-Semite Zelensky’s best option is running to his Islamophile masters in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, and/or Davos. The European Empire and Führer Zelensky share a common animosity towards traditional Judeo-Christian values. Some faction of the Globalist European WEF will provide a sinecure and safe haven.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-lawmakers-tear-into-zelensky-for-holocaust-comparisons-in-knesset-speech/

Palestinian Jews denounced Zelensky

What is a Palestinian Jew? How do you refer to Israeli Muslims with full citizenship? Are they Palestinian Muslims?

Let me repeat the irrefutable evidence

You cited some conservative Jewish politicians that didn’t like his holocaust comparison.

That isn’t evidence that Zelensky hates Jews.

Absolutely everyone grasps that Führer Zelensky hates real Jews.

No I think everyone at Unz grasps that you are batshit crazy.

Would Palestinian Jews who loathe the Führer provide him residency despite his degeneracy? Based on matrilineal lineage, there would probably be unpleasant toleration.

Well the Chosen People have a Most Holy DNA test for citizenship and he would pass.

You do recognize that Ashkenazi atheists are more likely to get citizenship than Israel serving Evangelical Christians, correct?

Americans rate Zelensky well above Putin and Netenyahu
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/17/americans-confident-in-zelenskyy-but-have-limited-familiarity-with-some-other-world-leaders/

How do you think Israelis would rate him in that same poll?

Based on long ago childhood experience, I will say avoid running on train tracks. If you trip, the way the stones are engineered, they will really go into you.

Heresy. The Catholics don’t see Jews as special.

Stop Judaizing Jewboy!

Jon Leibovitz is a middle aged Jewish lesbian. He’s Rachel Maddow’s doppelgänger.

I accept that different factions among organized Jewry
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I don’t think Zelensky is particularly Jewish in a religious sense

This shines a spotlight on your labeling problem. Bad terminology creates issues when trying to discuss serious topics.

Führer Zelensky is not a credible practioner of Judaism. He:

• Hates Judeo-Christians to the point where he throws Orthodox monks out of monasteries into the gutters.
• Hates Judeo-Christians so much, he goes to Jerusalem to intentionally pick a fight with authentic practioners of Judaism.

Why mislabel someone who hates Jews & Judaism as Jewish? The internal contradiction is inherently irrational. You posit a group of “post-Judaic, organized Jewery, that hates Jews”. That illogical linguistic construct is inherently dysfunctional.

If you believe that there are Jew hating Globalist organizations, why not accurately identify them as non-Jewish. For example, hatred of Judeo-Christian values drives The Great Muslim Replacement. Importing enemy combatants who hate both Jews and Christians is self evidently anti-Jewish. Using accurate terminology, such as IslamoGloboHomo, clearly identifies the sides.

PEACE 😇

It rather confirms that Putin was correct about American and British intent. See look they do want to massacre us! we were seduced by Levi’s, McDonald’s and Maggie Thatcher in the 1980s! No more.

But…running downhill on steep trails is so fun!

It can be done competitively! For cheese!

PEACE 😇

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Sorry to hear about the injury. It sounds like an unpleasant one!

From last thread…
I agree on Kamomala. Her career is doomed to near Andrew Cuomo levels of exile for not beating the “literal rapist, fascist, convicted felon”. She does have the out of blaming everything on all the structural sexism of this fascist country or whatever the messaging will be. That is her only life preserver.

Point granted on the problem of government being handled by mongoloid morons. I’m doubtful of the election changing that much but at least it will be a change of scenery and preferable to the other crew of midwits.
I’m still interested to see what level of derangement the left will engage in during a second Trump term. So far it seems surprisingly much less strident and shrill than in 2016.
If the Democrats play their cards right and dial back on the worst of the Woke nonsense I can see them bouncing right back into power if Trump doesn’t deliver some really big concrete gains in the next four years. If I were Trump or any of his coterie, I wouldn’t waste much time basking in the glory of victory since they have a long row to hoe and all uphill, even with all branches of government being Republican controlled.

Mikel, are you agreeing to the fun part or the breaking the ankle part? Expiring minds need to know!

Check Daniel Davis’ Deep Dive YouTube show daily.

Normal people can simply watch the clip and laugh.

RFK clearly didn’t want to eat the fast food and the Grimace joke was hilarious.

Well, that is a philosophical question. I guess I agree with the fun part the most but would any activity be real fun if it involved no risks at all?

If you believe that there are Jew hating Globalist organizations, why not accurately identify them as non-Jewish. For example, hatred of Judeo-Christian values drives The Great Muslim Replacement. Importing enemy combatants who hate both Jews and Christians is self evidently anti-Jewish. Using accurate terminology, such as IslamoGloboHomo, clearly identifies the sides.

Well by your own definition that means Russia is IslamoGloboHomo since Putin imports Muslims. Rather strange that you make so many excuses for him.

And any country that resists importing Muslims would be on your side, correct?

Heresy. The Catholics don’t see Jews as special.

Stop Judaizing Jewboy!

What are you talking about?

I didn’t say anything about Catholics.

In any case you’re wrong as usual:

“While affirming salvation through an explicit or even implicit faith in Christ,” the Vatican document reads, “the Church does not question the continued love of God for the chosen people of Israel.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/10/459223058/catholics-should-not-try-to-convert-jews-vatican-commission-says

Maybe take a break from the internet instead of throwing around the Jew card because you’re having a bad couple of weeks. You are probably still grumpy over Trump packing the most Rapture Ready Israel First cabinet imaginable.

Rolling logs downhill is strangely fun.

Also, like our (i.e. Americans’) great Founding Father George Washington and somewhat like video game genius Shigeru Miyamoto’s creation Donkey Kong, I have always wanted to roll barrels full of dirt downhill.

Any enthusiasts of running uphill want to combine?

Rachel and Jon are prole feed for good goys. Totally normal that these two have media careers.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow--jon-stewart-made-us-a-better-country-500073027746

Says the Jewboy who gets every major decision wrong.

Sounds exciting I’ll admit. Mikel is the only die-hard uphill running enthusiast so far.

You could team up with A123 and fill the barrels with cheese. Mikel, emil nikola richard, and I can run uphill and dodge them.

If you put this event together I’ll show up.

Improved night vision?

…even with all branches of government being Republican controlled

Are they? US society is controlled by institutions developed over centuries: process, personnel, careers…the institutions oppose Trump and his ideas. The party affiliation is only skin-deep, half of nominal Republicans oppose Trump or are wishy-washy.

They will come up with something. Maybe not as crazy off-the-wall as last time but effective enough. There is an early effort to marginalize Trump’s appointments and tie him down during the crucial first 3-6 months in pointless personnel fights. He needs to change the playing field.

Mr. Hack got me interested in these magic bags from folklore again. I was reading up on Finn McCool’s magic crane bag and discovered that it was really made of people! (Creepy)

Presumably, Felix the Cat’s bag was similar.

https://beanfeasa9.wordpress.com/the-cranebag-an-corrbolg/

Have wondered why they have fences around homes in a lot of these remote places like Yakutia. The easy answer is wild animals – but you would think a lot dangerous animals (tigers, wolves) would be able to jump the fence or else climb it (bears.)

But it has also crossed my mind that they might have some kind of liminal effect. Like, demarcating the territory of man, which makes animals psychologically weary, even though they can physically cross it easily.

This tiger in China displays no ability to jump, perhaps, fearing some trap.

There is an early effort to marginalize Trump’s appointments and tie him down during the crucial first 3-6 months in pointless personnel fights. He needs to change the playing field.

The title of the office is President, not Emperor. To avoid months of institutional gridlock, some seats will be horse traded.

Howard Lutnick has been chosen for Commerce. That suggests the Senate is pushing for their choice at Treasury. Are Thune and Cornyn are able to corral the Senate RINO’s into supporting Trump’s MAGA picks, such as Gaetz & Hegseth? If so, the Senate will get someone to their liking at Treasury.

No trade is “good”. But, as a sacrifice must be made, this is a viable place to do it without excessive damage.

PEACE 😇

Are they? US society is controlled by institutions developed over centuries: process, personnel, careers…the institutions oppose Trump and his ideas. The party affiliation is only skin-deep, half of nominal Republicans oppose Trump or are wishy-washy.

That is what I’m getting at. It’s going to be extremely hard for Trump to implement much of his agenda. My major criticism of him from 2016 was that he clearly didn’t do the the kind of back room political leg work that gets wafflers on board. We can hope he’s gotten better at that this time around. I do think he’s much more focused this time.

I think ultimately the see sawing between the Woke and MAGA factions doesn’t matter that much as there are so many aspects of societal decline which would take decades of concerted effort to turn around.

I’m doubtful that declining societies can regenerate once the momentum reaches a certain level. For example, was there any level of executive competence that Nicholas II could have exercised that would have prevented the fall of Czarist Russia and led to an institutional renewal? I’m inclined to think not.

That seems inconclusive from what I can tell. My 5 minute internet search has made me an authority on the subject.

https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2122885

It does seem that pattern recognition is improved in color blind people which helps break through camouflage, which could help quite a bit with hunting.

My major criticism of him from 2016 was that he clearly didn’t do the the kind of back room political leg work that gets wafflers on board. We can hope he’s gotten better at that this time around. I do think he’s much more focused this time.

Substitute “could not” for “did not”. Presidents have typically built up a reservoir of Soft Power long before they arrive. By the time Trump’s 1st term started it was really too late to build those connections. The Senate had no natural affinity for MAGA. Horse trading seats imposed a number of very poor players in critical positions. Given the obstacles, Trump’s 1st term actually out performed.

Trump spent the last 4 years building Soft Power with endorsements, rallies, fund raising, etc. His 2nd term will start with many more personal connections. This will lead to better, but still not 100% perfect, staffing in the White House.
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Trump also deployed the Iron Fist. He organized primary challenges against the 10 worst House Republicans.

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Eight either had to “retire” or were defeated in the GOP primary. Flipping safe red seats from RINO to MAGA greatly improves the chances for real change in the House. Again, do not expect 100% perfection. The House split is expected to be 7 seats, so some compromises will be required in appropriations.
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Trump is also setting up a strong internal ground game against the FBI and other corrupt agencies. To avoid slow walking of security clearances, the Trump transition team is conducting background checks through private firms (1). The deep state swampies will face fully staffed opposition with President authorized TS clearances in a matter of days.

There will be a great deal of “early retirement” self cleaning before Trump takes office. There is little reason to focus on those who have departed, with the exception of a limited number of egregious violations. The brunt of internal investigation will fall on those who stay on false pretenses and attempt to impede progress.

there are so many aspects of societal decline which would take decades of concerted effort to turn around.

I agree.

It took decades to dig this hole. It cannot be solved in one 4-year term. MAGA is much larger that Donald Trump. It will take multiple MAGA presidencies to bring America back on course.

Is Vance “The Guy”? We will have to see. His connections to Palantir are a bit eyebrow raising.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/18/fbi-whistleblower-says-fbi-intentionally-blocking-security-clearances-for-trump-officials/

From the previous thread:

Our friend Felix obviously had a long run, and as you point out had a certain evolution of his character over time. The episodes that I watched as a kid were produced in the 196o’s and I really got a kick out of his magic bag.

Have never seen one of these. But it surprises me a bit – I had thought that you liked the surreal – but this version was toned down, I think?

The surreal was given a nice recharge with the advent of Felix’s magic bag:

Video LinkThe Mad Professor’s wandering telescope is rather magical too.

I found some gold here, a fuller explanation of Felix’s magic bag:

https://felixthecat.fandom.com/wiki/Felix%27s_Magic_Bag

Apparently, at some stage the magic bag diapeared (no pun indented), which explains why you were never familiar ith it. Great episodes IMHO.

A lot of predators have color vision, but a lot of them use UV, which can actually be seen at night. And UV takes cones.

I keep wishing some Japanese would do a book on the evolutionary sex differences in manga (comics) over there, and it would be translated to English. Seems like a lot of potential content there, including hunting vs. gathering differences with color and and action perception, but also other things like mothering (bigger eyes) and sex strategy (T&A), etc., etc.

…I’m doubtful that declining societies can regenerate once the momentum reaches a certain level…was there any level of executive competence that Nicholas II could have exercised that would have prevented the fall of Czarist Russia and led to an institutional renewal?

More competent leadership can impact the timing – even by decades and that matters. I don’t know about Nich II, WW1 had a huge impact so it is difficult to speculate – but probably a lot less drastic change than the Bolshies, but the Czarist-thing was done one way or another.

The West is in a gradual decline but US is so far the least impacted. Historically when a societal model runs out off steam the center initially strengthens – US is the center of the Western world, and within US there are a few core regions that have done very well. The problem is that as the periphery (‘vassals’) decline the society becomes hugely unbalanced.

The West today is a complex network of mutual parasitism. About 50% of the actual economy in all Western countries is in one way or another ‘government funded‘ – there are complex intermediaries, attempts to hide it, etc…but it is the reality now. That is too much and is not sustainable. Can Trump correct it? Possibly, by restoring some of the old economy (tariffs) and by squeezing the vassals more. That is not good for Europe – the classical vassal dependency with diminishing power.

At the core of Western decline is the destruction of family. Trump seems to have no idea how to fix it, he may not even care. But it is a long-term issue that can be hidden with a burst of economic activity. US-EU are reaching a point when any actual solution would require a massive restructuring of the system with very powerful forces losing a lot – cultural elite, seniors, gender-people…What are the odds that anyone could do that? So more likely it will just go on until the West literally demographically dies out…that is also a kind of a solution.

I hope the Democ-rats are excluded from the Washington rein for at least one generation. A lame duck president who barely walks or talks – embarrassment of the nation – is allowed to make impeachable decision especially when his presidency was overwhelmingly rejected. His backroom manipulators are making filthy obstacles for the president elect.

Those ballistic weapons are operated by the US personnel, they pressed the button and use satellite guidance in striking inside Russia and that is braking the international law because that was done without the war declaration. A non-nuclear country is used by the nuclear military. BTW, it is reported that 5 missiles were disabled and one did not caused any damage.

Trump made a great reaction speech where he said Russia is not the problem but we are, the Biden administration.

Would have thought that any class called “fat studies” would be about observing the behaviors of fat people in the wild. Maybe, capturing them and isolating them in fat camps, or experimenting on them with various interventions and drugs.

But the prospectus of this class doesn’t sound very interesting.
https://www.amren.com/news/2024/11/university-of-maryland-to-offer-fat-studies-course-about-the-intersection-of-blackness-and-fatness/

Perhaps not what you want to hear right after having suffered a painful fall but on this point I have to agree with the freak Attia, who regularly practices rucking downhill with the express purpose of strengthening his legs to avoid falls when he gets old.

Be warned that he gave up running though, because he thinks that it causes too much stress on the leg joints.

What do Andrew Tate, Andrew Huberman, Peter Attia, and Bronze Age Pervert have in common?

A lot. They have a lot in common. And it all starts with Nietzsche. OK that last part is a joke. It might help to know in Attia’s case if he is medicated with the risperdal. That shit is like a 30 pound weight vest for your mind.

I’ve been admitted to their program and I’m going to do my doctoral research on Miley Cyrus’ body image.

In order for MAGA to stay in power they will have to have a successful economy for regular Americans and not for oligarchs, government employees, seniors, landlords, migrants, and the pampered underclass. The way it was always done – the only way it works – is to have a tight labor market where demand slightly exceeds supply. I am not sure Trump understands it – his ‘welcome every legal migrant’ suggests he doesn’t. Or he prefers an oversupply of labor – most business people intuitively do.

Eight either had to “retire� or were defeated in the GOP primary.

Good start, but liberal-RINOs grow in Washington like mushrooms after rain. The environment creates them – there will be more. It’s all about wanting to be liked. 94% of DC voted for Kamala, not that different from Pchyongyang…

The way it was always done – the only way it works – is to have a tight labor market where demand slightly exceeds supply. I am not sure Trump understands it

It is pretty clear that he does.

Deporting illegals, fake asylum claimants, ending “protected” status for Haitians, etc. could lead to a labour in market tightened by 15-20 million. Even if Trump only gets rid of 10 million that is a pretty good start.

The big hope is that he ends the fake concept of ‘birthright citizenship’. The children of parents subject to foreign jurisdiction should only receive citizenship as a subject of that foreign jurisdiction. Even if they are here on a temporary visa the jurisdictional attachment is to the home country of the parents. This would end the ‘anchor baby’ loophole.

PEACE 😇

A large amount of hands-on work in the USA is now performed by illegal immigrants.

If they are deported as they should be, it will create many holes in the economy. Many of these workers are inefficient or even doing make work tasks, but many are not. If the economy is contracting it is much easier to deport them, but if the economy is still perceived as healthy there will be a lot of employer resistance to widespread deportations.

Informed people will make the case that the economic impact of these immigrants is a net loss in the long run (welfare and other expenses for the wife and three kids far exceed the modest value of labor of the unskilled father). Unfortunately, the people currently hiring and profiting from these people will pay lobbyists to protect this immigrant workforce. Rapidly cutting off all benefits, protections and privileges may be essential to inducing these people to leave the USA on their own.

Have never been a Styx Hexenhammer fan, but I was mildly curious about what happened to him a few weeks back when he was charged with domestic battery, as I thought he was with that Elizabeth girl from the Netherlands, and they seemed happy, at first.

Anyhow, this JFG video seems to explain it,

Here’s a bigger game.

China has 1.2 billion souls.

The US only has 350,000,000 souls.

In order to be the great inheritor of the British Empire that controlled 400,000,000 souls the US might need 500,000,000 souls.

He has ninety nine problems and a bitch is number one. He thought re-locating to Amsterdam was a good move. I did not.

Almost all of his takes that I have seen have been banal. One exception. His interview with Red Ice when pizza gate spewed onto the face of the internet. Best explanation in shortest time ever given for how there is nothing occult or Satanic or Eyes Wide Shut about these meetings everyone was jabbering about. Styx’s books are very basic but they are high S/N information. His book on memes that he wrote at Pepe time might be of interest.

I have been to Vermont and I have been to Amsterdam. Not much to compare. Vermont wins.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is proud of his body count and thinks he is alpha plus male. I am pretty sure you would not be impressed if you saw any of the ladies. Quantity has its own quality is sharply limited in real world applications.

The immigration exile debate is a show. The number of bodies and the number of government documents legally filled out and filed per expulsion almost guarantees that even a big dent will never be made. A123 is like a hallucinating chatbot.

Know a guy who runs a small business. He moved it about a year back and none of the migrant crew could follow the most basic spatial instructions. Now that he is in a different location, he is interrupted all the time by migrants bringing doordash to the wrong address. It doesn’t stop because it is always new migrants. An endless stream.

the number of government documents legally filled out and filed per expulsion almost guarantees that even a big dent will never be made. A123 is like a hallucinating chatbot.

Trump’s 2nd term is going to make the number of required documents:

• One for those legally filled out, but illegitimate
• ZERO for illegals

Are you using Google AI? If so, you are being misled by a fiction machine.

PEACE 😇

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Am honestly surprised that he has such female fanbase.

His wife (ex wife?) is extremely photogenic. Perhaps he has a really huge penis.

Rachel and Jon are prole feed for good goys. Totally normal that these two have media careers.

Rachel is an annoying liberal shill who makes a strong case that lesbianism is a bitter bitch club. Even as a millionaire liberal she still comes across as just plain bitter.

Jon Stewart caters to middle class liberal Whites and not proles. Gud Whites of the burbs.

In any case the Grimace/RFK joke was funny and it must be dreadful going through life not being able to laugh at a simple youtube clip just because a liberal Jew made the joke.

How long will it keep for?

Those ballistic weapons are operated by the US personnel, they pressed the button and use satellite guidance in striking inside Russia and that is braking the international law because that was done without the war declaration.

That’s incorrect.

ATACMS uses the same systems as HIMARS. and the Ukrainians have already been using it.

BTW, it is reported that 5 missiles were disabled and one did not caused any damage.

Boy are you trying to live in an echo chamber.

Russian totalitarian state media tried claiming that there was only a fire from the debris after the missiles were shot down.

They were unaware that locals had already captured video of an ammo depot exploding in a massive fireball. Putin seems to act as if it 1985.

Duran the fraud lawyer didn’t bother using Google and repeated what was said on Russian state media.

What a joke.

DERP IT TURNS OUT THAT THE DICTATORS MEDIA WASNT TELLING THE TRUTH

Maybe try using Google after Putin or anyone in his controlled media makes a statement.

In order for MAGA to stay in power they will have to have a successful economy for regular Americans and not for oligarchs, government employees, seniors, landlords, migrants, and the pampered underclass.

Should we take bets on if Trump proposes a capital gains tax cut that includes billionaires?

The Adelson family made a $100 million contribution to the Trump campaign.

Well it’s really an investment and not a contribution.

I am not sure Trump understands it – his ‘welcome every legal migrant’ suggests he doesn’t.

It was Trump that proposed bringing in Dot Indian men.

An underhanded way of suggesting they will just work and won’t have kids. So no worries about them creating a mini-India. They’ll just work and be happy that they get access to porn and hamburgers I guess.

So he basically proposed we bring in a slave eunuch class.

That also shows that he doesn’t understand the Democrats. When the pendulum swings back they would demand that we bring in the women for the Dot Indian Dreamers.

The slowest members of this forum will (again) fail to understand why attacking the internationally recognized territory of the RF with ATACMS is a declaration of war in all by name but here is an explanation by a Ukrainian militant (that was shared by Bild-Zeitung journalist Julian Röpcke, another anti-Russian militant):

WHY UKRAINE DOESN’T USE US MISSILE TO STRIKE INTO RUSSIA WITHOUT US APPROVAL >>

Many supporters of Ukraine have asked me why Ukraine doesn’t do this, essentially getting approval ‘after the fact’.

There’s a simple reason for this – we CAN’T.

BOTH ATACMS and Britain’s Storm Shadow missiles use inertial and satellite navigation, as well as TERCOM (Terrain Contour Matching).

The PROBLEM is that TERCOM requires detailed topographical maps, which are owned and controlled by the United States.

Without this data, TERCOM cannot function, and the accuracy of the missile considerably impaired.

REMEMBER THAT UKRAINE IS GIVEN THESE MISSILES IN LIMITED STOCKS ANYWAY – we cannot AFFORD for them to miss their targets.
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You note that BOTH ATACMS and Britain’s Storm Shadow use the Terrain Contour Guidance system…
…Thus, the United State is effectively blocking NOT ONLY the use of ATACMS, BUT ALSO the British STORM SHADOW, which the British government has repeatedly stated it is willing to allow Ukraine to use for strikes into russia.

Make no mistake, this policy of the United States WILL GIVE VICTORY IN THIS WAR TO RUSSIA.
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Image: A graphic illustrating how TERCOM works.

Also, a 2007 clip of Biden explaining how what he has just done is an impeachable violation of the Constitution:

I’m doubtful that declining societies can regenerate once the momentum reaches a certain level. For example, was there any level of executive competence that Nicholas II could have exercised that would have prevented the fall of Czarist Russia and led to an institutional renewal?

Shoot Lenin, break up large farms and give them to families. They had too many peasants with nothing to lose.

Not that hard.

The provincial government was actually quite stable and was instituting reforms. It wasn’t a problem of Russia going into economic or cultural decline.

The main problem was that Lenin and his murderous pals wanted it all and didn’t even want to share power with other leftists. Lenin in fact knew he lucked out over WW1. He was elated over early Russian losses as he correctly believed that a demoralized army would help usher in the revolution.

If the Tsar stayed in his borders then the early humiliations would not have happened.

Another Tsar who underestimated the enemy….and it was the second time.

The slowest members of this forum will (again) fail to understand why attacking the internationally recognized territory of the RF with ATACMS is a declaration of war in all by name but here is an explanation by a Ukrainian militant (that was shared by Bild-Zeitung journalist Julian Röpcke, another anti-Russian militant):

He isn’t making that argument.

He is speculating on why Ukraine hasn’t used said missiles without US approval.

The maps are most likely stored in the missile.

How is giving them digital maps a declaration of war? We also gave them Garmin devices that have local maps. So what?

You do acknowledge that Russia invaded the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine which means they are in a defensive war?

Homan can’t make a dent.

Prolefeed for good goys…

You don’t get the reference to 1984?

…the economic impact of these immigrants is a net loss in the long run (welfare and other expenses for the wife and three kids far exceed the modest value of labor of the unskilled father). Unfortunately, the people currently hiring and profiting from these people…

We will get an answer to the 400-year old question about America: is it a country or a business?

US has gone back and forward, occasionally fudging the dilemma, but mostly went with being a collection of businesses. Trump looks more on the business side, let’s see…

US is essentially a center of the global business activity – busybodies with ambitions if you wish – and it dramatically benefits the rest of the world. But that requires open borders and fungible money inevitably overtime destroying the host. It happened in the past on a smaller scale. So we have that to look forward to.

Maybe Trump turns out more of a ‘we are a country, dammit!‘ guy and actually manages to prevail, he didn’t last time. It is an uphill fight that goes against the inbred ‘merican ideology. If he does, US will do much better for a while and large parts of the world will do much worse. Then the whole circus will start all over again…’Enterpreneurs’ must have cheap labor and resources…

Is it true that Mr. Hack’s cats are more closely related to walruses than an aadvark is to any other animal?

Should Orban and his followers be returned to their ancestral homeland near the Urals?

The era of the Western dominance, which lasted 500 years, is over – it is now the era of Eurasia, Hungary PM Victor Orban said at the Eurasia Forum in Budapest today.

“Over the past several hundred years, everyone in the West got used to thinking that we are the most beautiful, the most clever, the most developed and rich. And suddenly seeing and recognizing that we are no longer the most beautiful, the most clever, the most developed and rich is not an easy task,” – Orban said.

Russian media are commenting on these statements with great satisfaction.

A photo of my tuxedo cat with a walrus:

Related? Doesn’t look possible.

No updates on your massive research project related to magic bags? Your attention span reminds me of a ping pong ball. 🙂

If Orban’s pronouncements were part of an action plan designed to get Hungary out of the EU and lose any attendant financial support from Brussels, he would be soon strung up like Ceausescu was in neighboring Romania. He’s probably a triple agent flying on his own and distrusted by everybody.

How long will it keep for?

My comment was more humorous than serious. One can find 9mm for 25¢/rd in more reasonable quantities. 22¢/rd, while good, is not really an investment opportunity.

If stored airtight cans (no humidity) at cool temperature, modern ammo can last for decades.

Cardboard box storage in a hot humid shed? I would be potentiality concerned after 5 years or so.

PEACE 😇

Mr. Hack, you are way off in your comparison…Orban is annoyed by his popularity in Hungary (he misses political battles), while Ceausescu craved for popularity.

Remember…the sinister force that kept Soviet Union or Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia together is the same that keep European Union together. Thumb up for Orban.

Despite what Orban says I doubt the West was dominating in 1524. The last Islamic kingdom in Iberia had been overthrown but the Turks were still all over Hungary and the Balkans.

India or China would be more dominant until the mid-18th century at least?

The real dominance of the European great powers plus the US and Japan seems to have been around 1850 to 1945, then Communism was a major counter weight until the 1990s (unless it is considered Western as well). After it would be the period of US world leadership, that may well be coming to an end.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-14110315/Andrew-Tate-Jake-Paul-Mike-Tyson.html

No updates on your massive research project related to magic bags? Your attention span reminds me of a ping pong ball

I have always been interested in the magic items of folklore and remain so, but I view my job on this blog as to try to introduce some variety. For example:

Used to know an old guy who was born on the West Coast of Ireland. Actually in the same village as some of my people – his folks knew my people, but more from coincidence than anything else.

Anyway, when he was a boy, a ship was torpedoed somewhere in the Atlantic. And all these ping pongs washed ashore and nobody knew what they were. They burned them in their fireplaces for fuel.

Btw, I thought we were going to get some original Mr. Hack drawings here? Maybe, some of the old commenters would return, if they could gauge your full artistic measure.
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The West, or let’s say Whitey, dominant since the middle of 1500s.

It’s shocking that the chinks didn’t send a massive colonising fleet to California or Mexico once word actually got out that the Western Hemisphere existed.

It is difficult to know how to invest for some collapse.

Seems to me like if you buy a bunch of gold, someone will know your address.

Guns I believe require some maintenance – and they will still know where you live. (At least the gov)

The superrich have bunkers. But do they psychologically screen their security for loyalty? Would the widow of Steve Jobs or the ex of Jeff Bezos or Mark Cuban really inspire loyalty?

Farmland is good, but not great in a drought, and besides people could grab your produce.

Despite what Orban says I doubt the West was dominating in 1524.

If one doesn’t extrapolate too much from the Conquest of the Aztecs (would this just presage Mexico? Or the US?). And keep the focus on Europe, then I would say furthest back I’d go would probably be Lepanto. (1571.)

At Lepanto, you have some technical or mechanical smarts or logistical advantage being utilized to beat the Turks, so kind of like the developing pattern.

@AP

everyone in the West got used to thinking that we are the most beautiful, the most clever, the most developed and rich. And suddenly seeing and recognizing that we are no longer the most beautiful, the most clever, the most developed and rich is not an easy task

He is dog whistling. What, do you want him to come out and say it? They’d probably assassinate him.

Orban, very much like his good pal Putler, playing the armchair historian to a tee:

Still, he needs to operate under certain constraints:

The Lex Fridman Rick Spence interview (worth close viewing in its entirety) has an excellent presentation for the layman on magic, magick, stage-magic. Time stamped so you do not endure the entirety if you have one of those fleeting attention spans.

The youtube of JF Styx had some great comments. Apparently JF’s ex-wife or ex-girlfriend came to a suspicious and unnatural end. It’s not on JF’s channel so he could not delete the allegations. I do believe JF had almost as much fun commenting on the Styx livestream as Styx had making it in the first place.

Styx admits to being an alcoholic and complete abstinence is the only reliable remedy for that.

They like to keep their peasants close by and closely supervised. The Great Wall was built to keep people inside of it.

Prolefeed for good goys…

You don’t get the reference to 1984?

They aren’t targeting the proles.

Prolefeed would be stuff like wrestling and the crass reality show that Trump headed.

Jon and Rachel target the middle class Gud Whites that work the soulless office jobs of the Ministries.

The Venetians could not be conquered long before that. So money. Very slave master. The greatest doge of all time. Pronounced Ge-DOAT. Hard G. One of those upside down e thingies.

India or China would be more dominant until the mid-18th century at least?

Definitely not India.

They had massive die-offs until the Western invention of the vaccine.

Their sick class/religion combination allows for endless suffering and discourages innovation.

As with Buddhism there is no reason to think about improving society if everything exists as fate decreed. In fact you could anger the wrath of the gods by trying to disrupt the natural order. An order where some of your fellow citizens are so low in class that you cannot hand them money directly less their class cooties get on your hand.

A bullshitting loudmouth calling himself John Johnson is shitting on white people for cheap thrills. His MO includes expressing delight in males getting raped, a most disturbing pattern of behaviour. Keep things like this in mind when he gets all serious and tries to virtue signal, judging by his own words, he is an empty fake:

https://www.unz.com/article/machine-gun-fire-rings-out-during-tuskegee-universitys-100th-homecoming/#comment-6871183

I think he deserves to be reminded of his true nature regularly, especially when he gets all self-righteous and in your face, don’t you guys?

As with Buddhism there is no reason to think about improving society if everything exists as fate decreed.

One of the reasons Buddhism spread is that it encouraged public works.

So the preppers were always right. It’s the rest of us who are a bunch or morons who would sooner or later cause a catastrophe and not even see it coming.

For the first time in history a country has used an IRBM with multiple independent reentry vehicles in a war theater and the leader of the nation with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world has warned the US and Britain that he plans to attack their military facilities if they keep doing what they are doing. But a look at several newspapers around the world, particularly in Europe, shows me that the main news are related to local politics or celebrity/sports stuff. Some don’t even mention the threat at all.

I still doubt that Putin has what it takes to follow through with his threats, not being even necessary for his war effort, but the important thing here is that the world has never been closer to nuclear war and people don’t even care. Not to mention that this insane escalation has been provoked by a man whose own party doesn’t consider mentally fit to be president. It’s actually comical, in a very Groucho Marx way.

The Jewboy and his MO need to be pointed out at all times.

Apparently JF’s ex-wife or ex-girlfriend came to a suspicious and unnatural end.

Interesting. Guess they broke up. I am surprised at that, as I thought they were living in some isolated area in a cabin.

Haven’t paid attention to JF in a while, but I recall allegations that his first woman was some kind of tard or autist, or nut, and her family didn’t want him seeing her. The recent one seemed to play at being retarded or crazy which I thought was weird.
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Anyone know the early life history of Mr. Hack’s cartoonist Marian Kamensky? I can’t find it, except he was born in Slovakia, but I am always suspicious of anyone smirking at the Middle Ages. Seems like cursing your own ancestors. Doesn’t make sense, IMO, unless you are cursing someone else’s.

His MO includes expressing delight in males getting raped, a most disturbing pattern of behaviour

I concur with this.

In the 1930s British politicians already talked about how the bombers would always get through. Yet…

They never built stout concrete shelters to house Londoners and residents of other major cities. They didn’t design decent night fighters etc. Not a fucking peep out of a cunt like Churchill saying that “we better pour some concrete too.�

The only one who did pay attention to making sure there were decent day interceptors and radar was Chamberlain. And look at how his reputation is shit on.

Nothing has changed. The people are expendable.

The fiber optics connecting the Uk and North America can be severed causing a run on the exchanges.

I am surprised at that, as I thought they were living in some isolated area in a cabin.

One of the allegation comments was she was a newbie to the wilderness and he left her out there to croak deliberately. That’s actually a great way to get away with murder if there are no potential witnesses for fifty miles around.

Keep things like this in mind when he gets all serious and tries to virtue signal

How exactly do I virtue signal? By being against a war? That’s called normal. Most people oppose the Russian invasion.

I think he deserves to be reminded of his true nature regularly, especially when he gets all self-righteous and in your face, don’t you guys?

Boy Putin defenders sure are having a tough week. Maybe the North Korean Communists will help Putin kill a few thousand more Ukrainian Slavs and push them out of Kursk. Take that Western Jews!

You should take some Midol if you are thinking about me this much.

Or better yet try explaining to yourself how Putin’s war works in the best interest of Russian families. Because we know you can’t explain it to us.

As I said before the Putin defenders are cracking up. There was a clear decline in mental stability after it turned out that Larry C Bootlicker was wrong about the NK soldiers being a hoax. Then their hero lawyer with the fraud conviction (the Duran) made a video where he repeated Russian State Media and didn’t bother to use Google for all of 30 seconds to fact check them. (slow clap)

They are showing a lot more vitriol and bitterness in their posts. You’d think they would at least have a few weeks of happiness from the Trump win. But I guess not.

I don’t think that Kamensky was trying to curse anybody’s ancestors with this cartoon. I’m not familiar with Kamensky’s portfolio of work, but chose this cartoon as a cute endorsement of AP’s sarcastic jibe at Orban’s ridiculous “historic” claims:

Should Orban and his followers be returned to their ancestral homeland near the Urals?

Like yourself, I’m interested in his ideas and intend to follow-up with more examples of his work.

Btw, I thought we were going to get some original Mr. Hack drawings here? Maybe, some of the old commenters would return, if they could gauge your full artistic measure.

I doubt that I’m talented enough to bring the dead back to life with my cartooning. 🙂

I enjoy looking for suitable cartoons already drawn in order to accentuate a point. There’s a lot of talent out there!

Hmmmm…. What happened to Gaetz? He had beaten a prior DoJ investigation, and the House “ethics” probe was going nowhere. There has to be something else that has not leaked.

It will be interesting to see what happens next. If the problem is specifically with Thune/Cornyn, the power move is running for Rubio’s Senate seat.

PEACE 😇

I like this one! Can appreciate the sentiment and enjoy the artwork. 🙂

Of course, Trump will now change everything for the better.

The NSA and CIA know everything he has ever done. Some NSA or CIA faction blackballed him with a confidential memo. The 100% honest true facts are over your and my pay grade.

J�mon ancestry correlated to BMI.

They didn’t grow rice in Hokkaido until about 100 years ago.

Rice wasn’t widely cultivated in the Ryukyus until about 1200 AD.

https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/ancient-hunter-gatherer-dna-linked-to-higher-bmi-in-modern-japanese-people

They didn’t mention educational attainment SNPs.

His MO includes expressing delight in males getting raped, a most disturbing pattern of behaviour.

To give you a proper context here –

These Russian males (who shouldn’t have been raped, true – that’s a little too much) and males of other nationalities within RusFed, when they signed up to get paid to go to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians should’ve known about the mores and customs of the Russian military – that rape still occasionally happens there or is used as a disciplinary punishment (among other awful things), these things are not exactly secret in the Russian society, even if it’s illegal there to speak truth about the conditions in the military – this info still seeps through.

So these particular males should’ve known that this could happen to them, but they were winging it – assuming it’s so rare that it won’t happen to them. They felt that it was safe to go out there and kill Ukrainians for tens of thousands of bucks. They were under the assumption that they would be ok to shoot somebody’s husband or father, while it will be their wife in Russia who gets the money. So, yea, in a way, justice is served there, in a horrible way.

For the North Koreans who did not volunteer but were conscripted into this as slaves, this may be a different case, although those guys are themselves enjoying somewhat questionable male pastimes while in Russia – smoking weed, watching porn and they even raped a Russian woman. “Freedom!” LOL

Question for you, AP: Do you think that Russia made a huge blunder in supporting the Hapsburgs in 1848-1849 instead of the Hungarians? Wouldn’t an independent Hungary that got its independence thanks to Russian military assistance be very likely to be a Russian stooge and toady, especially considering that it would also be aware that Russia can cut it down to size by reducing it to its Magyar ethnographic borders if it will ever misbehave?

Could it be that seem coastal Native American tribes have this same issue, in that they are more prone to obesity due to the modern diet? They probably shouldn’t be eating grains or rice. Poor things, they really don’t deserve this.

MrH, did you get into the glue again? Just say no, that’s not your thing.

Ah heck, you don’t like it?…must be the parashooting sniper taking aim at Big Bird. 🙂

Who needs glue when the world is crazy and all mixed-up. Just appreciate the imagery of this creative cartoon. 🙂

It’s something like that.

Could it be that seem coastal Native American tribes have this same issue, in that they are more prone to obesity due to the modern diet?

Only ever knew an Inuit girl. She was kind of big-boned.

But I thought the Navajo and Mexicans tend to be a bit on the heavier side. Though I suppose the Navajo only became farmers in like the 1600s.

I kind of got the impression that Aztecs, etc, were generally pretty starved and desperate people.

Even Peru, the land of the potato, seems to be getting chunky.

Should Orban and his followers be returned to their ancestral homeland near the Urals?

Sounds like a great idea, except in Khanty-Mansiysk one has to work hard to extract oil and most of the profits go to Moscow anyway, while in the EU he gets his political extortion money served to him on a platter.

Have noticed Kamensky seems to be somewhat scatological.

Why did he misspell “cannot?”. (Am not sure he should be doing American cartoons…)

He seems to really like Obama (walking on water) for some strange reason. (Or I assume it is him.)

I doubt that I’m talented enough to bring the dead back to life with my cartooning

I hope they are all in good health. Even that Spearchucker guy who was overfond of the word “racist” and who liked to claim he had supermodel girlfriends from Russia. (I always wanted him returned to Nigeria, to continue his adventures there, while reporting on tbe dynamism there.)

Orban is losing popularity.

Odds are greater than zero that if he loses the next election he will try to pull a Lukashenko. Has he brought Chinese policemen into Hungary yet? If not, he might, and they could be helpful for him to restore “order.”

This is the type of escalation some of us have been worried about since the beginning.

Biden is just reading the teleprompter. The words and policy come from above. They could easily retire Joe and bring in Kamala, but there would be no change in policy since she works for the same masters. If Jill were smart, she would let them swap in Kamala so all the crazy shit the Dems plan to do before the inauguration is on her record and not added to Joe’s already terrible legacy. Maybe Harris will not fall for it.

This attack with the new missile seems like a move the Russians would have preferred to avoid in order to delay the West’s reverse engineering of the reentry vehicles and speeding up the development of countermeasures. It doesn’t seem necessary to use the new missile since they can hammer Dnipro with the weapons they are already using in Ukraine. The demonstration is most effective if Dnipro had serious missile defenses. If it did not, the next step is to attack a more heavily defended site, probably Kiev.

I doubt the hawks in Russia will put up with these cautious responses forever.

People should keep in mind how close Saint Petersburg is to the Finnish border and recall that ATACMS was originally designed for a nuclear warhead. The ATACMS modernized replacement, the Precision Strike Missile, is apparently in service and has a range of 300 miles.

The (((global chess players))) have created a terrible mess. Either the West backs off or Russia continues to escalate. There are probably a lot of steps to go, but I think the last one before full nuclear war is destruction of the dollar. If things progress, China might align with the West to temporarily protect the dollar system. In that case Russia might simply be forced to destroy Ukraine to get the West to angrily back off. This would be bad for everyone, but not as bad as World War 3 or nuclear war, though I am not ruling out Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons. This may happen sooner than people expect.

It is shaping up that the least bad thing for Russia may be to allow the US to start a war with Iran. The oil price shock will be terrible for Western economies and China as well. Western forces will do well with initial attacks but will take serious naval losses. Iran can invoke letters of marque with bounties for sunken US vessels around the world. The resulting debacle might eventually convince the West to drop the Ukraine project. It is unclear if Israel would survive the chaos.

In some coastal tribes, they are quite tall and big boned, kind of round looking or full figured (not in a bad way, a bit like Samoans but not as large maybe), and put on weight fast on the modern American diet (or SAD (Standard American diet), as Mark Sisson calls it), they were probably just supposed to eat clams, salmon and veggies – a type of hunter gatherer diet that would’ve kept them full figured but muscular and not fat. (I think their leaders are aware of this because Russel Means once admitted that “we’re not supposed to eat grains”, it’s just that it’s hard to observe this rule one’s daily life.)

Or maybe some starchy root that they had to cook forever to make edible (although that may have been more inland Indians).

I heard that Nez Perce used to eat the camas root? Not only was it tough to dig out, but they had to cook it for a long time to make it digestible and then it produced some valuable sugars apparently.

I kind of got the impression that Aztecs, etc, were generally pretty starved and desperate people.

Wouldn’t Aztecs be quite different racially from Northern Indians? I think the Indians in the North can be quite tall and large.

Odds are greater than zero that if he loses the next election he will try to pull a Lukashenko.

Yes, he’s not at his peak anymore (maybe that’s why the more recent, aggressive gesturing and hyper activity on the international arena). I’m so tired of his shenanigans. How much can one take?

I doubt he can pull a Lukashenko, but you never know these days, he will definitely get help from you know where, and I’m not sure the more democratic, rational, non-populist part of the Hungarian society is strong enough to resist successfully. Would be good if they had a non-populist anti-immigration leader who is not as pro-Russian but also not a woke supporter. Time for some sanity across the West.

go through the deeds in Dnipro and IRBM anything owned by Jews.

The point isn’t so much the war.

It’s the evidently queer Jewboy who promotes the footage of the carnage.

If he does this, then Hungary will get expelled from the EU immediately afterwards, no?

If I ever comment on this thread I will not debate the SMO, too much already. Sorry I’ve said all that I wanted to about it elsewhere.

Maybe the Russians have been preserving Dnipro…the same way the USA preserved Hiroshima during WW2. ðŸ™�

I agree that the Czar’s problems look easy to solve, from a God’s eye view anyway and especially in hindsight.
However, the Czar couldn’t really just act in whatever way he wanted to since he was trying to balance so many competing interests while trying to work within an incredibly bloated and corrupt bureaucracy. Even if he had the perfect clarity of vision to know exactly what to do and when, I think that the resistance along all levels of entrenched interests would have been nearly impossible to overcome.

In this way I think our own situation in the US in analogous. Entrenched interests protecting their turf are very difficult to overcome and the way the impetus of reform can be slowed through the applied friction of the various levels of bureaucracy is easy to underestimate.

If we could be appointed to have God-like powers I’m sure we could solve all sorts of problems that plague our country. It’s easy to imagine but it would require a perfect ability to act unilaterally. The inability for individuals to change systems in that way are why seemingly simple problems are so damnably intractable.

I will not debate the SMO, too much already.

You prove yourself a wise man, James.

Since Mr. Hack didn’t make the cartoon I guess we can absolve him of the glue. But dang, that is a trippy and bizarre cartoon.

The #NeverMAGA crazies here claim I never criticize Trump. They are of course wrong…

There was no need for Trump to immediately announce a new candidate for AG. He rushed & made a mistake. Pam Bondi is linked to the clearly inferior, establishment pol DeSantis. She has no track record as a disruptor willing to go head-to-head with FBI corruption.

I hope I am wrong, but this looks like a very bad error on Trump’s part. Anyone tainted by DeSantis’s inferiority is near certain to be a disappointment.

PEACE 😇

I really hate these scihub articles that you open and they have giant vertical watermarks which say “accepted article” making them nigh on impossible to read.

Everyone involved in this watermarking process should be, without exception, sent to the DRC.

You could watch the Lex Fridman interview with Milei and open up debate on is he or is he not neoliberal.

The (((global chess players))) have created a terrible mess.

So is Putin a pawn in that game? Couldn’t he go back to his 1991 borders to thwart their plans?

If things progress, China might align with the West to temporarily protect the dollar system. In that case Russia might simply be forced to destroy Ukraine to get the West to angrily back off.

What do you mean by the dollar system? As a reserve currency?

You do realize that the Ruble hit 100 to 1 with the dollar? It’s a psychological level for Russians. The Russian bank has been trying to keep it below 100 and their inflation is also out of control. So the exact opposite of what Putin’s fans predicted when the war started. The told us that the dollar was doomed because I guess attacking your smaller Christian neighbor will change US currency.

So what exactly is the concern with the dollar that would lead to nukes?

However, the Czar couldn’t really just act in whatever way he wanted to since he was trying to balance so many competing interests while trying to work within an incredibly bloated and corrupt bureaucracy.

Well he could have had Lenin shot instead of sending him into exile.

The Tsar was also trying to redeem himself in WW1 and needlessly put his armies at risk by going on the offensive into Germany before studying their tactics. That was entirely his fault and he did the same with the Japanese. Hindsight is 20/20 but he didn’t bother to do basic research on the Japanese. They learned about the superior Japanese cannons when they were fired upon them. The British witnessed that battle and found it quite amusing.

Nicholas had already started on land reform and understood that a nation of serfs was prone to revolution.

Just stalling Lenin and not marching into East Prussia would have done it.

But a Tsar’s boundless ego coupled with military inexperience led Russia down a very dark path.

Imagine that.

I think Putin holds some power in the hidden power games, but not that much. I think the forces he wants to control can at best be managed but never controlled. As always, I don’t really understand the elite/deep state forces in the USA and understanding the Russian equivalents seems out of the question.

I think you are confused on the Ukraine situation. Any serious backing off by Russia is a capitulation and will be followed by stronger Western aggression against Russia. This has been clear for a long time. I can see that Russia might want to accept some minor back off in order to buy time. However, I suspect the hawks in the Kremlin are so empowered by three years of war on their border that backing off is not possible for Putin, even if that is what he strongly prefers. I did not know about the IRBM with multiple maneuvering warheads. This was a great incremental response to the recent Western escalation announced by Biden.

If Russia wants to reestablish its position of strength against the West it needs to fight and prevail in some way or another. I don’t think collapsing the dollar system necessarily leads to nukes, though it might. Collapsing the dollar and forcing the US government to default on the debt could force the USA to back off in Ukraine which would be an alternative to nukes.

Just watched that one clip where he was talking about meeting Musk.

Got the sense that Milei was pandering significantly to Jews. As he mentioned college protests against Jews, right after threat of depopulation. Possibly he was just recapping what Musk actually said, but I did get the sense he was pandering.

You are complete fucking idiot.

At the moment historians have been able to methodically piece together who did what and why.

The Czar appears to have been shorn of his autocratic powers after the Russo-Japanese War.

When the Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia came, he was not driving policy. He gave into the opinion highly belligerent liberal ministers to do a partial mobilization. The ministers appear to have not understood that Russia could mobilize very very quickly as it turned out. So it was afterall not necessary to call up the peasants.

Wilhelm and Nicholas truly have been absolutely railroaded by their democratically elected bourgeois ministers and political generals.

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, both quite hostile to Putin today go through the run up to war material with granular detail in their The Rest is History Podcast. Autocracy might have stopped the build up to war which ended up being a Democratic Revolution by 1918.

Have always been fascinated about how they learned nixtamalization of corn. It is like they had a food science but by accident.

Have you ever tried to eat any of the wild plants they ate? I have only eaten a few non-mainstream berries raw. Can’t say I enjoyed them. They tasted bland or bitter. Always had stones. Maybe they would be better in cookies, surrounded by sugar, and with the stones removed.

They ate bugs. Probably no need to try those either.

I think you are confused on the Ukraine situation. Any serious backing off by Russia is a capitulation and will be followed by stronger Western aggression against Russia.

No I am not confused. It’s the Putin bootlickin’ crew (MacGregor/Duran/Ritter) that keep getting this war wrong. They were all wrong on Kursk and Kharkiv. The Duran just embarrassed himself again by repeating Russian state media instead of using Google for all of 30 seconds to fact check them.

Ukraine wants it land back. It’s really not complicated. If Putin went back to his 1991 borders then the war would be over.

The West would be thrilled if these countries had democracies and simply traded with the rest of the world. That was the hope in 1991 and then an ex-KGB atheist ignored the constitution and made himself dictator. The original constitution has a term limit for the president.

If Russia wants to reestablish its position of strength against the West it needs to fight and prevail in some way or another.

Russia cannot reclaim its image from 2021. That is impossible. Everyone can see that Russia failed to take Ukraine in 2.5 weeks as planned. Everyone can see that they are bringing in North Koreans to help remove Ukraine from Russia. Putin cannot go back to 2021. The world again views the Russians as losers. It wouldn’t matter if they took half of Ukraine. They’re fighting a smaller power. It’s like if a heavyweight eventually TKOs a lightweight. You don’t get glory from that. You’re still viewed as a loser for taking so long with a strong advantage.

The right thing for Putin to do is put the Russian people above his sensitive ego. Thousands of Russian lives would be saved if he went back to his 1991 borders.

That is of course unlikely so the war will continue and thousands of Russians will die.

Ukrainians do not want to be ruled by a Russian Tsar. They do not want to be Russian so they will keep voting by ATACMS.

You are complete fucking idiot.

At the moment historians have been able to methodically piece together who did what and why.
The Czar appears to have been shorn of his autocratic powers after the Russo-Japanese War.

Lenin took part in the failed revolution of 1905. He tried to overthrow the state which is punishable by death.

The Tsar showed him and other Communist leaders mercy. That was his decision.

1. The Tsar was taking part in land reforms with the prime minster after the 1905 revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolypin_reform

2. Lenin’s brother was executed by the Tsar for trying to kill him. Lenin in fact wrote the Tsar a letter and begged for mercy. The Tsar could have locked up all related Communists.

3. The Tsar still had secret police after 1905 and chose to go light on the Communists. That was his decision.

So go ahead and explain why I’m a “fucking idiot” for stating the Tsar should have expanded upon powers established by actions 1, 2 and 3. I like how you not only get mad at me but actually call me names while showing your own ignorance in your response.

You sound awful testy. Gosh the Putin defenders are having a hard time it seems. They’ve had PMS ever since it turned out that the NK soldiers were not a hoax as Larry C Bootlicker claimed.

Have always been fascinated about how they learned nixtamalization of corn.

I didn’t even know about it until I came to America, and had never had hominy before (it’s good when added to a Mexican style soup, it makes the soup more dense).

Have you ever tried to eat any of the wild plants they ate?

Blackberries off of bushes (they are considered invasive, since they grow like crazy). And I drink elderberry tea (and sometimes kava tea, although that’s not native to North America – not recommending it since it is not for everyone even though it is good). I recently had some raw lion’s mane mushrooms, because that way they retain their nutrients better (even though they taste much better when cooked). But one has to be very careful with PNW plants and mushrooms – there are so many and one has to really learn about them well before picking them. It’s dangerous as some plants are toxic.

Like, for example, you cannot eat the chicken of the woods raw. There are thick books about this, describing every plant and mushroom but I haven’t had a chance to delve into those yet.

…Do you think that Russia made a huge blunder in supporting the Hapsburgs in 1848-1849 instead of the Hungarians?

The context in 1849-9 was very different: Hapsburgs, Russians, Germans were much more concerned with controlling Poland and with preserving monarchies. The ethnic element was secondary. At that time Magyars were allied with Poles who were also occupied by Hapsburgs – people don’t want to admit it but much larger parts of today’s Poland were occupied by Hapsburgs and Germans than by Russia who controlled Warsaw and not much else.

Was it a blunder? No, because it led directly to the Hapsburg Empire becoming dysfunctional and disappearing. That benefitted Russia – and France, UK, also Germany for a while.

Magyars were doomed in 1848-9: they were a small minority in “Hungarian Kingdom”, their enemies were much stronger and the only Magyar ally was Ottoman Turkey (?). (And of course the treacherous England.) Russians simply applied a coup-de-grace. They are good at that.

This neocon twit is at it again:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/video/nikki-haley-comments-tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence-ctm-digvid

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Good article:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/long-range-strikes-won%E2%80%99t-deter-putin-213838

There’s also the thought that Biden might blame Trump for an inherited mess with Afghanistan that made Biden look bad according to this take – believing that this is Biden’s retalliation. Never mind Biden’s clear dislike of Putin and Trump.

Biden is all about Biden as evidenced by his apparent good mood following Kamala’s resounding defeat. In his mind, he beat Trump unlike Hillary and Kamala.

The Russian reply further underscores Russia’s superior position in the NATO proxy war against it.

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Greta has been oh so full of pro-Kiev regime BS. Among the issues not discussed, is whether there’re actually 10,000 DPRK military personnel in Russia and/or former Ukrainian SSR territory presently in dispute. Ditto the byline saying a senior DPRK officer injured in a Kiev regime strike.

Biden’s move is a pathetically petulant attempt to get back at Putin and Trump. This act serves as a reminder to those who didn’t vote for Biden’s replacement. Biden is like the baseball manager who has been thrown out of the game for bad manner and proceeds to stay on the field, engaging in immature histrionics.

…So he basically proposed we bring in a slave eunuch class.

Yes, but the “he’ is too specific. It is not just Trump – almost all US business elite (and the politicians they invest in) want a world of “slave eunuchs”. They don’t think long-term and don’t want to hear about how biology works. It is built into the model.

During times when businesses fear they behave better, but when celebrated and fully in control they gradually revert to what ‘business’ is, it heads towards that proverbial ‘slave eunuch class’. It is nothing personal, not ‘evil’, it is just the way it has be.

Nobody has ever come up with a good alternative, the best we can hope for is a reset every few generations and we haven’t had one for a long time. The attempts to freeze the society (‘conservatism’), libertarian utopias, or socialism have their own issues. Communism was a radical socialist ideology based on demonetizing economy – it works for the basics but removing money from the economy undermines why an economy exists. As an oxymoron it was bound to end.

The beauty of most systems is that the beginnings are usually good, thus the urge to reset.

But dang, that is a trippy and bizarre cartoon.

That’s partly why I like it. It makes you think…if it were Biden at the head of the posse instead of Trump, I’m pretty sure that QCIC would be more approving of it all. Me, I’m not a big fan of either, so I can appreciate it as it is. During Trump’s presidency it was a common meme that our secret services seemed to be working against Trump, and this idea is given full exposure here.

Here’s one that I’ve posted here in the past (it’s simple and to the point):

He seems to really like Obama (walking on water) for some strange reason. (Or I assume it is him.)

I wasn’t able to locate any Kamensky depictions of Obama “walking on water”. Others have though:

My reply to this comment of yours, #159. Thanks for acting as my defense attorney, as you know, QCIC can be such a bombastic prosecutorial type. 🙂

Looks like it will be a CDU landslide in the German elections election. Merz is no Merkel. Slava Ukraini:

I wasn’t able to locate any Kamensky depictions of Obama “walking on water�.

Please see that cartoon with Big Bird on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal. I think you will find Trump is chasing Obama with a baseball bat, while he walks on water, and while a bald eagle pukes on Trump.

I imagine it was from 2016.

I vaguely recall Obama in 2008, before he was elected, saying he was going to stop the rise of the oceans, and an audience of woke Germans in Berlin going completely wild because he was a mulatto. Could Kamensky (living on Slovokia at the time?) have been there applauding wildly? I find it hard to understand why he would depict Obama like that in 2016 (presumably.)

They ate bugs. Probably no need to try those either.

I feel like there might be something to eating bugs – or, rather, making other people eat them.

Laxa wanted to give all the illegal migrants like a million dollars to move back. Completely unaffordable and they would just loop around and come back for the second million.

What about putting them and the people who enable them at resorts where the very nutritious food is those bugs that eat plastic?

Blackberries off of bushes

wild blackberries seem to be very seedy. Perhaps, there are ones in warmer areas that are different? Red Raspberries seem better. I have never eaten cloudberries.

you cannot eat the chicken of the woods raw

I once found a big chicken of the woods. My impulse was to try to sell it to foodies, but I have such little knowledge of mushrooms that I wasn’t sure how to evaluate its condition or aware of what the right channel would be.

What an optimistic bs for the half dead Ukraine. Ukraine will never get back Russian Crimea and Donbas+. They got Crimea by the communist diktat in 1954 and the rest by the administrative borders within one country – now annulled.

Kiev installed morons by Nuland, should have followed Spain restrain in Catalans separation, and not reacting by hate in killing ethnic Russians in Donbas. Those actions, plus NATO slimy arrogance are epicentre of the present conflict. Your f points, driven by hate, in this discussion are baseless.

Yielding to corrupt NATO and brainless Banderide will never happen. Russians are in right and not the buzzing foreign vultures.

I’m sure that Obama walking on water is a joke on perception not necessarily the cartoonists view.
I’m not sure I would take too much time trying to divinate meaning from that cartoon. I realize that it’s got so much weird imagery that it’s tempting to treat it as holding deep secrets to the nature of reality, like some sort of evocative political tarot.

Don’t be tempted to get sucked in. It’s just a weird-ass cartoon!

Biden and Trump are both puppets. I think Biden is simply a lifeless marionette. Trump is some version of a Pinocchio-like figure trying to become independent.

I think we owe the Obama project thanks for clearly showing that the US President is typically a figurehead. I think this was fairly visible with Reagan and W, but wasn’t completely obvious until Obama and now dead man walking Biden.

Don’t despair. Team Biden has been supporting Ukraine in a way which promotes its destruction. There is a solid chance that Ukraine will fare better under Trump, though they may achieve fewer foolish Bandera-CIA goals.

I think Big Bird is the most profound part of the cartoon, with powerful Lady Liberty replaced by a goofy bird. Even that is not low enough, so the powers that be want to take out the bird, too.

The Russians wanted Ukraine to be neutral and not part of NATO. The strong historical, cultural and economic ties between the two countries made this issue completely different from the Baltic countries and Finland joining NATO. Those countries being part of NATO is definitely bad, but not nearly as significant to Russia as Ukraine. Finland may be the one that eventually leads to the break up of NATO since it was the most foolish.

It is clear to many people that Russia is going slowly in Ukraine and trying to minimize civilian casualties.

The majority of the world may not share your view of Russia.

It is clear that Russia is now at her strongest economically and also in terms of productivity since the beginning in 1991.

It is clear that Russian conventional war fighting capability has increased enormously since 2014. This process was very gradual up to 2022 and more rapid since then.

It seems likely that Russian nuclear warfare capability is the strongest in the world.

These changes are a direct result of the Western anti-Russia project, including the Ukraine fiasco. Great job, morons.

Don’t be tempted to get sucked in. It’s just a weird-ass cartoon

Agreed, though I find it fascinating to see these European takes on American politics.

@QCIC

I think Big Bird is the most profound part of the cartoon, with powerful Lady Liberty replaced by a goofy bird. Even that is not low enough, so the powers that be want to take out the bird, too.

My interpretation of that was that it was entirely about the fear that Trump would cut funding to PBS.

Personally I am not a great fan. Of course it is very politically biased. The radio is like some kind of commie broadcast. (“Cut down the tall trees”) But what I find completely unforgivable is that they are trying to fundraise off old Proenneke shows. Maybe, they are interesting, but haven’t they already been paid for 100x over? And isn’t PBS politically aligned against that kind of man and his audience? There is amateur stuff on youtube which is 1000x better than PBS.

It’s too long, but I saw there’s short clips of the interview. I don’t think he is neoliberal, but I rather would have sources I trust analyze that for me. He seems to be a populist, like a smarter Trump. Very articulate, plays to the audience, even mentioning his dogs.

I don’t know much about Argentina other than wine, the Falklands war and a long history of economic and political troubles. I would guess that he could be right for Argentina, but don’t copy his ideas elsewhere if he he has some success. Panders to Jews but maybe plays all sides, I heard he pissed some Westerners off by being friendly to Xi recently. Beggars can’t be choosers, like South Africa(BRICS but not exactly BRICS). He calls himself an anarcho-capitalist, sounds libertarian:

…These changes are a direct result of the Western anti-Russia project, including the Ukraine fiasco. Great job, morons.

It was predictable: attacking potentially very powerful Russia in a half-ass way was the elixir Russia needed. Imagine if they left Russia alone, no NATO in Ukraine-Georgia, no ‘color’ revolutions, treating the Russian minorities as people, etc…

The likely current state of Russia would be a sleepy backwater with a wealthy oligarch class, non-confrontational government, enriched foreign investors, selling its resources for a fraction of their value. One almost wonders of the weird neo-con cabal consists of secret Russia boosters. Zelko has done more for Russia greatness than any foreigner since Catherine the Great. A loud-talking loser who is helping to destroy Ukraine and in the process making Russia much stronger.

Did they know? Are they really that incredibly stupid? One wonders if a bunch of infantile JJohnsons and slightly retarded Mr.Hacks are running the policy. Maybe.

Either the West backs off or Russia continues to escalate.

At this point someone will have to lose face pretty badly. I don’t see how Western leaders can now backpedal on the missile attacks on Russia so it will have to be Russia again but it’s also hard to see Putin taking more blows and doing nothing after his address to the nation and promises of retaliation. This is likely to get worse.

I mentioned the subject to a group of people yesterday, American normies most of them, I presume, and the only one who expressed an opinion said that the reason why nobody cares much about any of this is because Putin’s nuclear missiles will not work, only the ones without nukes do. He’s sure that somebody has stolen the valuable material in the nuclear ones. He is not an idiot when talking about other subjects but I guess this is the prevailing attitude that our MSM has instilled in most people: indifference or an irrational belief that Russia has nothing to do with the USSR and there’s nothing to fear from them anymore.

There’s something weird and sinister in all this. It’s a calculated escalation with not much more military value than insulting Putin’s mother but it does bring the whole world to a situation not experienced in the 75+ years of the nuclear era. If most people in the West don’t care enough to raise their voice against an unnecessary escalation that puts them in grave danger, I guess we just deserve whatever is coming.

I wouldn’t expect too much from Trump’s team either. Gaetz is out but another neocon is in, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to NATO. He declared that if Putin is not stopped in Ukraine, ‘Poland will fall next’. The only positive thing I am able to see is that somehow the US knew 2 days ago that a new type of missile attack on Ukraine was coming and evacuated their embassy. Apparently, they even knew which type of missile was going to be launched. Either they can monitor any Russian move round the clock very effectively or there are some back channels still working. We might get some advanced notice to take shelter if the worst happens. But many normies will die thinking that it’s just a prank.

Don’t be tempted to get sucked in. It’s just a weird-ass cartoon

Agreed, though I find it fascinating to see these European takes on American politics.

Okay, in the annals of art history Kamensky’s cartoon is not about to replace Picasso’s Guernica in importance (an indictment of war), yet both are still kind of “weird-ass” representations in their own right.

Everybody that commented about Kamensky’s cartoon added some insightful observations. I’m pleased to see that it served as a useful vehicle to propel some intelligent commentary. What more can you want from a political cartoon?

The Russians wanted Ukraine to be neutral and not part of NATO.

Well the Russians of course would like all kinds of things.

They would like Poland and the Baltics to be out of NATO.

They would like Germany to be neutral.

They would like Alaska back.

They would like the British to be poor.

All of these points can be the true desires of Russia but none of them provide a moral justification for invading Ukraine and sending over 100k Russian men to their deaths.

If NATO was the main cause then Putin could have provided an ultimatum that Ukraine either change its constitution or face invasion. No such ultimatum was given to Ukraine and Putin ended diplomatic lines before the invasion.

The war is not about NATO. That is merely a side benefit to Russia. The main point of the war was to take Ukraine and turn it into Russia. Adding Ukraine’s population creates a much larger trading bloc plus they get the Donbas coal and nuclear plants. Under a successful decapitation attack they would have pocketed well over 100 billion in 2.5. weeks. It’s armed robbery with the intent of ending a state that they have long resented. Not just because of Western ties but because the Ukrainian people themselves are viewed as more European and not as mixed race as the Russians. The Russian people resent all of the Slavs that are beyond their control. They miss the borders of the USSR where they ruled over the Slavs and didn’t have to learn about how the Baltics have a much higher standard of living and somehow did it without a mass murdering dictator.

Putin wants the Russian borders of 1914. NATO is just the excuse.

It is clear to many people that Russia is going slowly in Ukraine and trying to minimize civilian casualties.

You have made that statement many times and haven’t explained why Russia continues to use crude Iranian drones against Ukrainian cities. They aren’t accurate enough for VIP strikes so how do they fit it into your claim that they are trying to minimize civilian casualties?

It is clear that Russian conventional war fighting capability has increased enormously since 2014. This process was very gradual up to 2022 and more rapid since then.

Then why did they bring in North Korean soldiers? Why have they had to increase the payment to contractors? How long will it take them to capture Kharkiv? Another year? The ISW expects them to run out of tanks by the middle of next year. Will they do it on horseback?

he only one who expressed an opinion said that the reason why nobody cares much about any of this is because Putin’s nuclear missiles will not work, only the ones without nukes do.

I remarked on this after the Russian retreat days after announcing their formal annexation of four regions back in October 2022, but it was mostly a joke expressing amazement at how incompetent and disorganised the Russians were at the time. It would be reckless beyond words to base actual policy on a hunch that their nukes and missiles don’t work but when your supposedly serious political discourse is dominated by the ignorant, fanatical ideologues and the corrupt* there’s no telling what we could blunder in to.

* Not only is Andrew McCabe not in jail, apparently is still considered a respectable commentator as he appeared on CNN last night to weigh in on Trump appointments. These are the people influencing the public and political actors alike.

I agree. The West has wound the Ukraine situation up very tightly. I think this is intentional, since they have observed that any normal level of pressure on Russia is not enough to cause a government crisis and soft coup. I don’t know to what degree those behind this are dangerous gamblers versus simply misinformed on the risks of nuclear war.

I wonder if anyone in the Rada has figured out that if the West does not drop this project, then the safest move for Russia is simply to destroy Ukraine so there is nothing left of interest to the West? Unfortunately this result might fit in great with a New Khazaria/Israel North plan, for those for monitor that theory. Team Trump’s actions may clarify things on this issue.

The good news is the deep state can save face in any situation since they lie and control the media. I suspect they view this project as a fun and risky investment which did not pay off. Since Russia does not want most of Ukraine there are potentially many possible compromises, though many of them seem to require a third party guarantor of some sort.

Regarding Trump appointments:

Despite capturing the gas metering station in Sudzha in Kursk region a couple of months ago the Ukrainians have continued to allow gas transit from there across their own territory to the EU. So Russia continues to get money from the EU for its gas and Ukraine gets transit fees but it doesn’t seem to be big money either way. I get that these are two very corrupt countries but what are the geopolitical reasons for both sides letting this continue? I can guess a few but they are only guesses because despite listening to uncounted hours of analysis of every aspect of this war I’ve never once heard this issue discussed.

Your theories regarding how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a deep state invention really hold no water. Read JJ’s comment just above, where he clearly formulates the real reasons behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:

The war is not about NATO. That is merely a side benefit to Russia. The main point of the war was to take Ukraine and turn it into Russia. Adding Ukraine’s population creates a much larger trading bloc plus they get the Donbas coal and nuclear plants. Under a successful decapitation attack they would have pocketed well over 100 billion in 2.5. weeks. It’s armed robbery with the intent of ending a state that they have long resented. Not just because of Western ties but because the Ukrainian people themselves are viewed as more European and not as mixed race as the Russians. The Russian people resent all of the Slavs that are beyond their control. They miss the borders of the USSR where they ruled over the Slavs and didn’t have to learn about how the Baltics have a much higher standard of living and somehow did it without a mass murdering dictator.

there are potentially many possible compromises, though many of them seem to require a third party guarantor of some sort.

I hope that you’re not seriously considering having Russia to be some sort of guarantor of Ukraine’s sovereignty? That’s already been tried by the Budapest Memorandum, and we all know how that “guarantee” ended. ðŸ™� .

Money trumps ideology?

Hmmmm…. What happened to Gaetz? He had beaten a prior DoJ investigation, and the House “ethics� probe was going nowhere. There has to be something else that has not leaked.

The NSA and CIA know everything he has ever done. Some NSA or CIA faction blackballed him with a confidential memo. The 100% honest true facts are over your and my pay grade.

Upon further reflection, I do not believe this s the case. If it was FBI/CIA/NSA dirt, they would have welcomed the confirmation and used it later.

Here is an alternate take: (1)

Gaetz may have played his hand perfectly. By immediately resigning from Congress after being tapped for attorney general, Gaetz has effectively stopped the House Ethics Committee from releasing its much-anticipated report on his alleged sexual misconduct and drug use. If he runs for governor of Florida in 2026, as he is widely believed to be considering, he can credibly say he was Trump’s first pick to be attorney general of the United States. And he gets a good excuse to resign from being a U.S. congressman, a job he apparently disliked. If the consummate “Florida man” wants to come home to Florida, where his father is a former president of the state Senate and is once again a reelected state senator, Gaetz the younger now has a good reason to do so.

Was this elaborate exercise in musical chairs an actual instance of Trumpian “4-D chess”?

From Trump’s perspective, he has thus killed two birds with one stone. First, he has demonstrated reciprocal loyalty to an arch-MAGA loyalist, Gaetz, and permitted him the ability to play his difficult political hand as well as he could possibly have played it. Second, Bondi’s confirmation fight now looks like a genuine breeze. The Gaetz announcement caught so many off-guard, ruffled so many feathers and was vociferously opposed by so many that anyone — literally anyone — who Trump picked next, after the Gaetz nomination inevitably failed, would have looked calm, cool and sober by comparison.

I am not sure I fully believe this. However, the timing to end the House “ethics” fishing expedition does sound solid.

I just wish Trump picked someone better than Bondi. She spent time as a paid foreign lobbyist for Qatar and Kuwait. (2)

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/22/what_was_the_matt_gaetz_attorney_general_pick_really_about_151990.html

(2) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/22/ag-nominee-pam-bondi-and-chief-of-staff-susie-wiles-ballard-partners-law-firm-lobbyists/

The issue of Ukrainian neutrality is directly related to expansion of NATO, US dismantling nuclear arms control treaties and building US missile bases in Eastern Europe. Russia voiced concerns along the way as the West took each of these fateful steps. Up until 2022 Russia was weak and could only respond with nuclear weapons; that was inappropriate overkill so not much happened. They got off to a shaky start in 2022 but appear to have stabilized for over a year with a winning strategy in the conventional war against the West’s Ukrainian pawns.

Reduced civilian casualties is a relative measure. As I have pointed out the Russian strategy seems to be to kill all AFU troops, probably to leave a relatively pacified population when the SMO eventually ends. I would like to know the actual population of Ukraine at this point. Why would any sane person still be there? Russian warnings to Ukie civilians suggest Moscow’s attacks will be less restricted by potential civilian casualties (human shields) going forward. Many remaining Ukrainian civilians may be in the position of leave now or die.

I don’t know the story behind the Iranian drones. Russian production of advanced weapons which they previously demonstrated but have not widely deployed was obviously slow to ramp up. This category includes drones. Production of missiles, rockets, glide bombs and guided artillery rounds now seems solid. At some level they are rate limited by skilled manpower. I suspect they will do what we need to do in the USA, increase the number of robots and add factory automation to improve productivity with the labor force they have.

I expected Russia to increase her interactions with the North Korean military. We may be seeing early steps leading to an eventual enlargement of the CSTO to include DPRK to protect Russia’s Eastern flank. Great job, morons.

I think you are right about the horses. Before the SMO ends we will see Don Cossacks on horseback with anti-drone shotguns. Be patient, it takes time to build up a decent supply of horses and horsemen. I wonder how much armor they will give the horses? I am also hoping for Buryat troops with anti-drone falcons.

a man not fit to be president again is nonetheless fit to take the world into nuclear Oblivion of course the Democrats are allowing him to do it because its primary purpose is not to assist the crook of Kiev Vladimir zalinski the primary purpose is to Scuttle the incoming Battleship called Donald J Trump

Google’s AI transcription can do George Galloway pretty good. I definitely cannot listen to him though for a raving loon he seems to make a lot of sense.

Not sure if the ATACMS strikes into Russia would be a military game changer, but it seems from Putin’s reaction to the first such strike (going on national TV to say that America is participating in those attacks and Russia will hit the US bases in Europe as retaliation if they continue) that Putin has decided for whatever reason he cannot let the ATACMS strike inside Russia go on.

Believe he is deadly serious about carrying out his threat this time because he went on Russian TV and made the link between continued ATACMS strikes deep into Russia and Russia exercising a supposed right to retaliate against the military bases of the countries, so he alleged, assisting Ukraine with such attacks and OKing them. This was no vague or veiled menace in offhand comments by a Russian official, it was very explicit It’s barely possible that Putin might back down from this pronouncement that all Russia has heard; impossible to without losing an unbearable amount of face and credibility.

Biden has got more than he bargained for, just as the Pentagon warned him he would when they opposed ATACMS strikes inside Russia. If as seems likely the US have to back down over the ATACMS strikes into Russia, American will have to come back with something (cannot be made to look silly), so I expect there will be a massive increase in millitary aid to Ukraine . Worse is better for Zelensky. For now.

In what language are the orders to the NORK infantry passed? There is no way their typical corporal is fluent in Russian under fire. It is hard for me to figure the Russians are dumb enough to put their grunts into a situation which requires communication with NORK grunts.

One way or another it’s just a demo.

Or maybe I’m ignorant and all of North Korea starts studying Russian in 3rd grade. Under candlelight.

It would be reckless beyond words to base actual policy on a hunch that their nukes and missiles don’t work

Certainly. They have so many hundreds of them ready to be launched (and many more in stockpile) that even if only 10% fire correctly and reach their objectives, we’re talking about the end of the world as we know it. But I just cannot be sure that our “leaders” are basing their decisions on these simple facts. We wouldn’t be here if they were.

Excellent interview with Glenn Greenwald on Tucker’s show. Tucker can be a little moronic sometimes and even Greenwald appears too be too hopeful of Trump’s capabilities these days but it’s nice to see that intelligent, informed people come to the same conclusions everywhere by just observing reality. The interview has some interesting insider information too.

I am merely recounting the military and geopolitical milestones which led to this conflict. This is not theory, these are simply the facts of well known intentional acts by the West. They were not hidden and everyone knows about these pivotal aggressive moves. People such as JJ simply want to dishonestly memory hole these events to make it look like Russia started this crisis. The moves NATO made against Russia in Eastern Europe after 1991 could have been immediate causes for war while the Soviet Union still existed. The West patiently waited for Russia to shrivel and progressively took the steps I mentioned (expansion of NATO, dropping arms control treaties, missile bases in Eastern Europe, coups, etc.). Polarizing Ukraine against Russia, instigating a coup and starting a civil war were the last straw.

Russia already had more land, resources and faded industries than she could use. Her best hope was a neutral Ukraine which was a bridge to Western markets. This was the opposite of what the West wanted and they were calling most of the shots until early 2022. Insecure and gullible Ukrainians made the wrong choice. I wonder when the Kremlin archives are opened in a hundred years if they will show that Putin’s long-term dreams for Ukraine would have been highly beneficial to the Ukies (not counting Bandera types), probably beyond their wildest dreams. To the West the Ukies are a hammer to be used to beat Russia. To the RusFed, Ukraine is a natural ally which makes the Federation stronger against the West, but also stabilizes the system internally against excessive Russian power. See Ivashka the Fool for details.

I am referring to a guarantor for Russia to make sure the West lives up to its obligations in any post-SMO treaties. I think China or BRICS are the only possibilities. These countries do not have a military presence in Europe so the guarantee may have to be in the form of some sort of binding economic web. If this happens it will be the final nail in the coffin of the West’s Ukrainian disaster. Ukraine will be effectively subjugated so its marching orders will come from Moscow, until it eventually heals and evolves into a partner in good standing.

I think the recent long range missile strikes made it significantly more difficult for Putin to accept a negotiated compromise. I suggest you immediately send bus, train or plane tickets to your Ukrainian friends to help them leave the country or at least move away from the highest risk areas.

Jussie Smollett got off without ever spending a day in jail.
https://www.amren.com/news/2024/11/jussie-smollett-has-hoax-charges-overturned-in-shock-ruling/

Smollett is biracial[4] and Jewish.[5] His mother is African-American, and his father is Jewish.[6] He has said that his father would “kill you if you called him white”. His father was absent from his life for a significant portion of his childhood.

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

This part is really funny to me: I didn’t realize he was in The Mighty Ducks movie, as the token diversity (which, IMO, was really out of place in 1992 kid’s ice hockey,which is something that was dominated by middle class people with fathers in the home and suburbia). Though I don’t think he is very central in the movie.

Justice for Jussie. How much time and energy was devoted by Steve Sailer to this case?

How are the Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman Fried appeals coming along? It’s a pity they don’t have Diddy’s African genes. Expensive defense attorneys can only do so much.

…even if only 10% fire correctly and reach their objectives, we’re talking about the end of the world as we know it.

They are counting on Russia bluffing – they have been since 2014 and it got us to this point. The missile that hit Dnipro yesterday worked. Logically Russia has a stockpile of them otherwise they wouldn’t use the first one. There is no way for Kiev to win the war and the hope that Russia will agree to a ‘freeze’ is very naive. That was something to try in 2022, there is too much blood now.

Wars have a way of warping people’s minds: both Russia and Ukraine talked themselves into believing it is existential and they would cease to exist if they lose. And NATO is self-confusing with red lines, Russia is bluffing and the profoundly stupid gas station with nukes. We may pay a high price for this collective warped thinking.

Simply not expanding NATO to Ukraine would not be that hard. Just don’t do it, to save face say you never really planned to do it, or blame Bush. This is one of the highest-stakes events in human history over one of the smallest causes. Kind of post-modern, including the blase idiocy of ‘the nukes won’t work’…Sure they won’t, denial is one the phases…

Putin has decided for whatever reason he cannot let the ATACMS strike inside Russia go on.

For the same reason Washington would not allowed Iran using Russian missiles to strike the US soil. This is an expected behaviour of a nuclear power. For some reason some imbeciles in the West always downgrade Russia’s power, despite it has probably greater nuclear arsenal than NATO.

Trump should shut up about revealing his intended policies on Ukraine…the hardly walking and talking sclerotic figure in WH made his impeachable decision for making it more difficult for Trump plan. I believe, if the present green midget refuses to negotiate, Trump will replace him with the one that will. The US billions that went to Ukraine carry an effective caveat in Kiev losing authority in decision making.

I expect there will be a massive increase in millitary aid to Ukraine . Worse is better for Zelensky.

Zelensky has been calling for WW3 since day 1 and he’s finally getting what he asked for because the West is in a state where anyone who opposes whatever the Ukrainians ask for is smeared relentlessly and considered to be a traitor and a coward. This hysteria will also affect Trump’s neocon-infested team if his cunning peace plan doesn’t come to fruition.

A couple of months ago I speculated that if the ATACMS escalation doesn’t work, the next step would be Tomahawks. I came up with that idea just as an example of an outlandish escalatory move but it turns out that it is already being discussed in the media and it looks like Zelensky did request those long-range missiles. If the West gets away with attacking Russia with ATACMS and Storm Shadows, Putin is next going to get Tomahawks flying over Russia for sure. Someone should cut this spiral the sooner the better.

Here is an alternate take: (1)

Gaetz may have played his hand perfectly. By immediately resigning from Congress after being tapped for attorney general, Gaetz has effectively stopped the House Ethics Committee from releasing its much-anticipated report on his alleged sexual misconduct and drug use

Everyone in America now views him as the guy that banged a 17 year old and paid for prostitutes while in office.

Yea well played.

He went from unknown in most circles to the pederast that Trump nominated. That’s really going to help him out in life.

Was this elaborate exercise in musical chairs an actual instance of Trumpian “4-D chess�?

It is most likely a chess move against Gaetz. Nominate him as a ploy to get rid of him and make the real candidate seem reasonable by contrast.

Gaetz is a MAGA follower but is part of the Putin wing that was upset with Trump over the Ukraine aid bill. Gaetz has Republican enemies and this could have been some scheme cooked up as a pay off to one of them.

….Putin has decided for whatever reason he cannot let the ATACMS strike inside Russia go on.

I agree with your post, but not this. Putin is using the ATACMS strikes inside Russia to do what he always wanted and the timing is driven mainly by Russia’s capabilities – they are furiously working on new weapons and manufacturing, but it takes time.

The main constraint on Russia is not the West or the Ukie resistance – it is the willingness of the Russian public to support the war on a related cousin-nation. That’s their Achilles’s heel and Putin has been very cautious not to go inhumane, it could backfire. Kursk incursion and ATACMS strikes give him a cover, he needs the Russian public to be angry and asking for more.

The West is obliging, I am not sure why – maybe the current Western dynamic is ‘let’s hurt the bastards with everything we have before we leave‘… But it mostly hurts the Ukies, why doesn’t anyone care for them? It’s bizarre, as if as many as possible martyred and dead Ukies is the subconscious goal.

The issue of Ukrainian neutrality is directly related to expansion of NATO, US dismantling nuclear arms control treaties and building US missile bases in Eastern Europe.

How many times do we have to go over this? Where are the missile bases in the Baltics if that is the case? They border Russia so where are the “missiles on the border” that Putin spoke of?

I don’t know the story behind the Iranian drones.

Which shows you are willfully obtuse and suffering from cognitive dissonance. There are dozens of videos on how they work and where they have been used.

This is the equivalent to the Russian response of “I’m not interested in politics” when faced with an uncomfortable question. The real answer is that you don’t want to know.

I expected Russia to increase her interactions with the North Korean military. We may be seeing early steps leading to an eventual enlargement of the CSTO to include DPRK to protect Russia’s Eastern flank. Great job, morons.

So you think it is a sign of strength that Putin is using North Koreans to try and dislodge Ukraine from Kursk?

I think you are right about the horses. Before the SMO ends we will see Don Cossacks on horseback with anti-drone shotguns.

To be clear I never said that I expect horses. But it is entirely possible given that Russians continue to use Chinese 4�4 buggies and motorcycles in their attacks. Horses in fact have some advantages over motorcycles like being able to move quietly and lead a pack horse.

When MacGregor was doing his “Great Winter Offensive” rants I was completely joking when I asked if Russia would be sending men across the ice on horseback. It’s actually entirely possible now which says a lot about the war. I think it would be neat if Russia takes the record of the last European cavalry charge. I also said that I would like to see a T-34 in combat and Russia started pulling some from storage early in the year. So looks like I will be 1/2 at least. What else should I wish for? How about a PPSh-41 being used in trench clearing? We saw DPR militia men at the start of the war with nagants because the dwarf dictator didn’t even care enough to make sure they all had AKs. The Russian Maxim equivalent made an appearance on the Ukrainian side and they said it was quite effective for waves of Russians. Not bad for a gun from 1910.

Did anyone expect him to do jail time?

I agree with your post, but not this. Putin is using the ATACMS strikes inside Russia to do what he always wanted and the timing is driven mainly by Russia’s capabilities – they are furiously working on new weapons and manufacturing, but it takes time.

This is why I was not convinced that allowing long range ATACMS was a good idea. It could help Putin do what he really needs which is to draft the urban Slavs. He is clearly doing everything to not draft urban Slavs but he could gain public favor with enough long range attacks. But it’s hard for me to have a strong opinion when I can’t see the targets that Zelensky wants to hit. Maybe the risk is worth it. I’m not sure.

Putin is already cornered. This cannot go on for years and their inflation is getting worse. They don’t know how to control inflation and just mimic Western solutions like cutting interest rates. Well that solution assumes a sort of normal low in the economy and not a war with sanctions. It’s cargo cult mentality.

The Ruble went back to its 2022 invasion low so this is not merely speculation. They point at total GDP which is easy to do if you are writing checks to build tanks. But that isn’t fixing the economy.

Russia is not in good shape if it is taking this long to remove Ukraine from Kursk. That tells me they are lacking professional soldiers and are relying too heavily on conscripts and mercs. Kursk is a bullet trap and the Ukrainians clearly modeled the battle and expected Russian contractors to run directly at them.

But it’s not as if Ukraine is in a great position. Kursk has been a useful bullet trap but they still need men. Maybe they plan on trying to hold it until Trump gets into office and use it as a bargaining chip. But I don’t like the idea of trying to hold a pocket in freezing temperatures.

The other risk is that you run into this corresponding problem of an embarrassed Russian public wanting the government to “get even” for them. As in get us back to the military image we had before your stupid war even if it costs a lot of lives. Most Russians by definition cannot be drafted (women, retired, children) and you get this problem in war whereby the public supports a continuation for national image while 18-24 men have to die for the patriotic feelings of others. Everyone quietly knows the war was a mistake but it must go on in the hope of some type of face-saving conclusion.

@songbird

LOL that Kamensky’s cartoon was a good anchor for an intelligent discussion of its imagery?

or:

LOL that Kamenky’s cartoon wasn’t going to soon overtake Picasso’s Guernica for importance within the pantheon of important paintings included within western art history?

Guernica is not art. It was Picasso taking the piss. He was very good at that although his biography is a poor evidence for the existence of free will.

This Ukraine mess is a decent trap created by the Western warmongers. Using Ukraine as a pawn to fight a proxy war is smart in the nuclear era. Russia does not want to retaliate directly against NATO since that is a major escalation which brings things very close to World War Three. On the other hand, Russia does not want to destroy Ukraine or they would have done this already. The West is obviously trying to provoke Russia. At some point if they get tired of waiting, then they can officially move NATO forces into Ukraine. Russia will attack these forces but at the moment seems unlikely to attack NATO bases outside of Ukraine. As this heats up, Russia is then under direct pressure from NATO assets in Finland, the Baltic countries and from ships and aircraft in the Baltic. So there is a lot of pressure to end this. If Putin accepts a forced deal with the West, it might greatly weaken his coalition and lead to a soft coup. Particularly since the West is not agreement worthy and will violate any agreement unless they gain control of the Russian government first. Alternatively, if Putin signals he will capitulate, the Russian military might take over and pursue a more aggressive course. While the West is escalating and increasing the pressure on Russia, it seems the Kremlin is still hoping for a change of power in Kiev. They would like this to be vaguely legitimate so that most Ukrainians can accept temporary Russian control after the end of the SMO.

It may behoove Russia to take advantage of the fact that the USA is on the edge of war against Iran and less imminently at war with China.

Democrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan

New York Times no paywall: https://archive.ph/ntr2G#selection-679.0-679.56

They were (quietly) planning on Willie Brown’s skank ho losing. : )

Mr. Hack, the cartoon has a horse that had been sodomized with both the American and Russian flags. Am pretty sure that is against the flag code and that Kamensky would be lynched if he tried that in Mongolia (which is a horse-loving country)

But the bald eagle throwing up is an evocative analogy which I may use in the future.

As you may know or have gathered, I am generally not a fan of abstract art. One slight exception is I am not 100% against the Cloud Gate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate

But I was thinking it is also very idiosyncratic how you seem to be a big fan of it, and yet I don’t believe I have ever heard you say you enjoyed some non-English foreign movie (including dubbed) Unless I have forgotten? (I believe fans of abstract art would generally be fans of foreign movies?)

Also. Megyn Kelly wants us all to e-mail her photos of our dicks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14114467/Megyn-Kelly-recreates-Mika-Brzezinskis-raunchy-magazine-pose.html

Wow, I didn’t know alphabetic writing is much older than Chinese.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241120193145.htm

2400 BC, according to this story. (In Syria)

Pretty wild how it didn’t have a more dramatic transformative effect. Don’t some people say that the Med was the original information superhighway?

ATACMS, Storm Shadow, et al aren’t a “game changer”. Ditto HIMARS, Javelins, Bradleys, Abrams, Challengers, Leopards, F16s. Brit establishment UK Sky News said these Western missiles will not change the trajectory of the armed conflict.

It’s something like giving a little kid some sticks to face a bigger kid with clubs and all sorts of other potent weapons.

Trump can change course. Biden just wanted to somehow muddy the water.

Mr. Hack, the cartoon has a horse that had been sodomized with both the American and Russian flags. Am pretty sure that is against the flag code and that Kamensky would be lynched if he tried that in Mongolia (which is a horse-loving country)

But I did state that Kamensky’s cartoon was not destined for greatness?…

But the bald eagle throwing up is an evocative analogy which I may use in the future.

I’m glad that you got something good out of the cartoon. 🙂

As you may know or have gathered, I am generally not a fan of abstract art.

Fortunately (or unfortunately as it may be), your own tastes as regards to artwork doesn’t dictate how most art experts and historians value the importance and place in history of any particular piece. Picasso’s masterpiece “Guernica” has most certainly solidified its place within the ouevre of western artwork.

Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.[1][2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

But I was thinking it is also very idiosyncratic how you seem to be a big fan of it [abstract art], and yet I don’t believe I have ever heard you say you enjoyed some non-English foreign movie (including dubbed) Unless I have forgotten? (I believe fans of abstract art would generally be fans of foreign movies?)

I’m not quite sure how you’ve come to this conclusion about my tastes regarding foreign movies? Outside of a few (obscure?) movies done by some Asian directors that specialize in Manga projects and a dearth of watching many Indian Bollywood productions, I can assure you that my tastes fall far and wide. A great portion of what I watch includes British noir and detective movies, french new waive stuff, Ukrainian, Polish and Russian films. You’re the one who seems to be a wee bit stilted in your viewing preferences, admitting once here at this forum that you’ve never watched any (or much) Frederico Fellini films. I never took you to task for this apparent blind spot in your viewing habits, but for somebody who acts like his viewing habits are the ultimate in cosmopolitan correctness, this seems rather odd to me?…

Guernica is not art. It was Picasso taking the piss.

I’ll take your word for it, being an expert at pissing away so many comments here at this blogsite. ðŸ™�

I agree, the communication/language barrier is part of what they may be trialing. How much Russian do the Norks need to fight a ground war in Kursk and Ukraine? How much Korean do the Russian commanders need? How can they best deploy these troops with a language barrier?

I assume there are quite a few people in North Korea who speak Russian. Much of their military equipment and probably other technology is Russian since the 1950s so it is not unfamiliar to the DPRK military.

Of course it is just a demo. Probably to be followed by larger demos, more training of DPRK troops in Russia, joint exercises, upgrades to Korean equipment and all the usual stuff. The West is not worried about 10,000 troops, they are looking ahead to the “usual stuff” of a military alliance. When Russia was trying to curry favor with the West they put North Korea at least somewhat at arms length. That is now over. Russia, DPRK and China will all have some expectation that the West will pressure South Korea to stir up shit on the peninsula.

I can assure you that my tastes fall far and wide. A great portion of what I watch includes British noir and detective movies, french new waive stuff, Ukrainian, Polish and Russian films.

That covers a lot of ground which I am not too familiar. But I did watch that one Ukrainian movie you recommended.

I am not trying to take you to task here – any preferences are fine, especially racialist – but I am genuinely wondering if you have ever enjoyed some movie from the continent of Asia? Or outside the Euro world? I mean, like subtract India entirely and forget the manga…

For example, I did say I liked the Iranian film Children of Heaven, though I cringed through the many maudlin scenes. I thought the ending was excellent and appreciated the antimaterialist message.

I also liked the Bhutanese Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom. (I am so out-cosmopolitaning you!)

but for somebody who acts like his viewing habits are the ultimate in cosmopolitan correctness,

Heavens, no! Most of the reason I watch foreign movies is to see a cohesive cultural environment. I don’t consider myself a fan of artsy movies – I once rented a German movie and when I was checking it out the Lesbian behind the counter really enthused about it, which gave me pause to consider. I think I like the scenes and ideas that often wouldn’t appeal to the cosmopolitans.

For example, I find many French films unwatchable because the idea of infidelity doesn’t appeal to me.

I guess we have to keep going through this until you understand.

Western missiles being close to the Russian border is a two part issue. Stay with me, it is not that complicated. The first is the Aegis Ashore sites in Romania and Poland. These have vertical launch canisters which can hold missile interceptors and Tomahawk cruise missiles and probably other relevant weapons which are not publicly disclosed. Everyone knows that placing these sites in Eastern Europe to protect Europe against Iranian missiles was a lie. They have a three-fold purpose in my opinion. The first is to be part of the US missile defense system which is designed to defend against a Russian nuclear retaliatory strike and therefore allow a Western first strike. This system has nodes on the ground, in space and on ships all around the world. It makes sense that the architects of the system might want a few sites close to Russia. The second is to launch strike weapons such as cruise missiles at Russian land targets or ships in the Black sea. The third is simply a diplomatic message that the USA and NATO completely disregard Russia’s security interests. Russia got the message.

The second part is that with NATO in the Baltics and Finland, missile launchers can be hidden and moved in at any time. This is why Russia wanted a buffer zone, since these close in attacks demand an immediate response which means accidental escalation is much more likely. If it comes to a real war Russia will probably destroy any potential military assets here from the get go. Who wouldn’t?

I see the DPRK troops in Russia as a sign that Russia got the memo from Washington and Brussels: We plan to destroy Russia at any cost. So Russia is calmly preparing for World War Three.

Has A123, GR, or die-hard, CDU-stalwart-but-Merkel-critic AP read the new Merkel memoir?

I’d almost be curious to see the section on the DDR. If I thought it wasn’t ghostwritten or obfuscating.

Jaguar just trashed their brand.

Volvo is going 100% wholesome: (1)

“Volvo posted a 3 min and 46-second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer. It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced.

Every comment under the ad said it immediately put Volvo in their consideration set.

I never thought about buying a Volvo before… Now… I am considering it.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/volvo-anti-jaguar

They snuck in the black boyfriend to get it past the censors!

They snuck in the black boyfriend to get it past the censors!

Approximately 2 seconds out of a 225 second ad ( ~1%)

Sadly EU subjects still have to deal with Angela Merkel’s legacy. She & her ilk loathe Judeo-Christians. Her European elite cadre continues The Great Muslim Replacement. Corporate & Government politics share a common space. Survival is a minimum necessary skill.
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Take out the 2 seconds of antisemitic multi-cult. What did you think of the other 3+ minutes?

PEACE 😇

In the 1940s and 1950s, Nork elites were very much involved with the USSR. From at least the late 1980s to around 2010, the relationship was considerably decreased. Having an inter-operational language is key. Look at the failed F16 training program for Ukrainian pilots as a case in point. English is the language for F16 training. Of the reported 25 or so considered competent, only 6 were English language fluent. At least one of them has since died.

Besides, Russia doesn’t need grunts from another country. Since 2/24/22, Russian troop numbers have dramatically increased with the comparatively smaller Kiev regime’s going in reverse.

The reported Nork hoopla appears designed to take attention away from Kiev regime losses and to try to better justify the Western approved Western missile use on territory which everyone considers as Russian.

The US Civil War involved a numerically and industrially stronger North against the South. That conflict took 4 years. The South didn’t have the kind of sugar daddy the Kiev regime has had. That sugar daddy has other issues to deal with.

My comment about the drones was unclear. I realize what they do. The Iranian production is the only interesting aspect. I am just surprised since Russia has had vaguely similar drones for decades including a range of large, small, slow and fast reconnaissance drones and probably training targets. My earlier unpopular guess is that the Shahed-136 is a Russian design produced in Iran. In any case buying these from Iran is one less thing Russia has to worry about. Is this hard to understand? This outsourcing doesn’t change the fact that Russia is an actual world leader in the design and production of missiles and nuclear reactors. After about the year 2000, many of their technological supply chains were broken, on life support or full of holes. The West was probably counting on these problems to hobble the Russian military, but so far Russia has stayed ahead of the curve where it counts.

Russia apparently made some hard choices on where to spend the limited military budget prior to 2022. They brought the Zircon, Khinzal, probably Avangard, Sarmat, S-500 and other major weapons systems to readiness since Maidan. Don’t forget about the battlefield laser, nuclear powered torpedo and cruise missile. The Russians also seemed to have no problem producing older munitions like 152 mm shells and Grad rockets but some of the intermediate-class items like glide bomb kits and many other higher tech battlefield items seemed to be a bit slow in coming.

I have no idea why (or if) they were short of AK-47 and AK-74 class small arms. I assume this is being addressed.

I am curious to see if the Russians will revive production of the Su-25 and/or refurbish a bunch of old airframes.

They saw the Bill Hicks bit about going for the anti-marketers market. He was not joking about the just kill yourself now part.

I guess we have to keep going through this until you understand.

A condescending preface from QCIC, this is going to be good!

Everyone knows that placing these sites in Eastern Europe to protect Europe against Iranian missiles was a lie.

Everyone knows. Probably the most convincing argument that man has ever seen on the internet.

The first is to be part of the US missile defense system which is designed to defend against a Russian nuclear retaliatory strike and therefore allow a Western first strike.

Well why don’t you explain nice and slowly to a unlearned student like myself as to what would stop a Russian sub from firing at the US from the pacific or launching a nuclear torpedo at Britain. Go ahead.

The second part is that with NATO in the Baltics and Finland, missile launchers can be hidden and moved in at any time. This is why Russia wanted a buffer zone

So you are saying that they cannot achieve a buffer zone now that Finland is in NATO? That goal has failed? What size exactly did the buffer need to be and what type of attack are we talking about? What type of attack needs Ukraine that could not be launched from Latvia, Romania or Turkey? Please educate us.

Guernica is not art. It was Picasso taking the piss. He was very good at that although his biography is a poor evidence for the existence of free will.

Taking the piss? What???

It was a protest piece against the cruel and indiscriminate bombing of Guernica by the Nazis when they aided Franco.

Basically a warmup exercise for the Luftwaffe before they did the same to Warsaw.

It’s something like giving a little kid some sticks to face a bigger kid with clubs and all sorts of other potent weapons.

Well nothing for the Russians to worry about then. There are only a few hundred of them.

Trump can change course. Biden just wanted to somehow muddy the water.

It actually gives Trump the chance to play good cop bad cop.

He can play it a lot of ways. He can drag his feet and then use it as a bargaining chip. Or he could make some new agreement and get it signed a month later once they are gone.

Worst case for Ukraine is that they have to use them up by Jan 20. That’s plenty of time to take out planes and wreck airports.

Putin should be more worried about the drones. Combined US/German deliveries will be over 700 a month. It sounds like the new German drones have AI and can take out any armored vehicles. Drone teams could hide out for months in Kharkiv unless Putin decides to level it.

Russians have more drones along with missiles, troops etc. It’s a war of attrition which the Kiev regime and its sugar daddy will ultimately lose.

The ad is well done. Subaru, Volvo and various luxury brands have played these new family safety and security riffs before (maybe all car manufacturers, I don’t know). This was a nice synthesis of those beats. The ad has a pleasant Swedish vibe. There was a time when showing a pregnancy test in a US car ad would have been considered weird or crass. They can pull that off now. I didn’t see anything about the stabbing and raping, but I only skimmed through the video once.

But what about the car? I wonder how it compares to a Koenigsegg Gemera (not to be confused with the Talmudic Gemara)?

I can envision a modern and trite, but maybe fun, film class assignment to blow this video out into a feature movie. Extra credit if you include a scene with Death. Double extra credit if you shoot in film. No AI allowed.

I was thinking that an ad with a couple getting car jacked by niggers would be a hit. The United Colours of BMW or something.

The numbers you ask for are a bit subjective. That doesn’t mean the issues are unimportant, it is just so dangerous the numbers are not clear. Less aggressive moves are better. The correct course after 1991 was for the USA to invest in a sincere a post-Soviet peace and continue cautious mutual arms reductions. The Neocons and others wanted to go a different way and decided to pressure Russia.

I am not too worried about intentional cold-blooded armageddon, it is accidental or emotional use of nuclear weapons which is always the big concern. Soon we will have actual concerns over AI in the “kill chain”. Did some idiot programmer include buggy Microsoft code into his AI app controlling the ICBMs, did he get it right (Boeing prime contractor, tops in DEI)?

If the Secretary of the general were a tranny it could be today!

…I can’t see the targets that Zelensky wants to hit. Maybe the risk is worth it.

There are only so many possibilities, ATACMS range is less than 200 miles: military facilities, civilian cities, Kursk nuclear plant. The first two are a part of war and will not do much. Cities or a nuclear plant will trigger Russia and backfire horribly on Ukraine. But with the Samson mentality growing in Kiev they may do it.

This cannot go on for years and their inflation is getting worse…It’s cargo cult mentality.

That is more true about Ukraine and parts of Europe (Germany). Russia can outlast them, that’s all that matters.

You don’t understand ‘cargo cult’. It applies to a society that depends on foreign aid and has come to expect it as its due. That is definitely true about Ukraine. But how would it apply to Russia? Their economy is an exact opposite of a ‘cargo cult’. That is the kind of intellectual sloppiness that gives you a bad name. Like yours ‘there was no plan to move NATO to Ukraine!‘

Russian public wanting the government to “get even� for them

It is a natural sentiment in all wars, most Americans were gleefully counting dead Iraqis, it made them feel good. To this day we hear boastful rants about Vietnam or Germany in WWII based on how many ‘enemies’ they managed to kill before losing wars. You do it about Russians and it is almost an official Anglo policy to ‘kill Russians’ and celebrate. You guys are kind of sick.

Why should Russians be above that? They are winning and the best NATO-Kiev can hope for is a deal they can portray as ‘freeze’ or a tie. The war is not primarily about soldiers but about weapons and the willingness to use them. Nobody is going to run out men. It is indisputable that Russia could flatten all Ukie cities tomorrow, Kiev, Lviv…They have not because of what it would like – NATO, US or Israel have no such scruples in their wars. If you push Russia enough that reluctance will go and their public will demand it. This is a road to hell for Ukies and to inevitable defeat for NATO, but they keep on going.

About the above cartoon with the eagle barfing:

Yes, it is kind of funny and understandable, if you’re trying to make some (pseudo) political point. Which in that particular cartoon was funny and quite accurate, lol.

But do not portray the bald eagle in that manner – the eagle should be kept sacred. The eagle doesn’t barf, he is strong and flies above everyone. The bald eagle doesn’t even regurgitate the food to feed the chicks, unlike some other birds of prey – but carves up the meat into smaller pieces.

To this day we hear boastful rants about Vietnam or Germany in WWII based on how many ‘enemies’ they managed to kill before losing wars.

It’s curious but you are more likely to hear that sort of thing from people in the West who are most sympathetic to Putin and the Russian side in this current war.

Kim Il Sung c.1980 complained that North Koreans were not learning foreign languages properly even when they studied abroad, most typically in the USSR.
There was a situation in reverse during the Korean War – Soviet pilots were operating MiGs but were supposed to talk in Chinese over the radio, to disguise their presence. Of course this did not work, as their Chinese was not good enough, and in any case under stress they spoke in Russian. It was known to the Americans that Soviet pilots were operating MiGs but so as not to widen the conflict it was kept secret.

But do not portray the bald eagle in that manner – the eagle should be kept sacred. The eagle doesn’t barf, he is strong and flies above everyone

I was thinking something along these lines but more like it shouldn’t be visually depicted.

But there might be a place for the linguistic idea. That some pols profane sacred American customs or ideas, causing the bald eagle disgust or pain, and to reject them. (By vomiting on them.)

I think what is missing from modern America is a sense of the profane. But at least I think no America-based newspaper however degenerate or hostile to Americans would allow Kamensky to abuse animals in such a way (I mean the horse.). Kamensky is probably showing that he is not American in innumerable ways. As I recall, Mr. Hack does seem to post a lot of these foreign artists evoking America in some alien way.

Amusingly, Milkowski is actually a Polish surname, but predictably something of a false cognate, as many Poles are lactose intolerant.

The original satnav commercials should have been about avoiding bad neighborhoods (maybe someone could make an AI one?

I wonder how much Jaguar was destroyed specifically by green regs.
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Bibi was comparing himself to Dreyfus, which I thought seemed very strange culturally. Could it somehow be reflective of the fact that Israel has the most lawyers per capita? So they are more apt to refer to old trials.

…you are more likely to hear that sort of thing from people in the West who are most sympathetic to Putin and the Russian side in this current war.

That’s not true. One hears it from the assorted MICsters like Hodges, Grahams, Haleys…it is common in the British media. Historically it was the way McCain or Cheney talked.

The side sympathetic to Russia doesn’t really exist in the West – there are open destroy-Russia haters and there are the milder ‘let’s have peace, but Russia must behave‘ people. I am not aware of any actual public figure who is pro-Russian although many are accused of it.

It is the magic of defining reality downwards and setting the Overton window. If you think that people who don’t want to destroy the world for NATO-in-Ukraine and to ban the Russian language are ‘pro-Russian’ it’s your right. But it’s objectively a bit bizarre, as if two universes were colliding…

To be fair, the point being made was that Russians are living through the lense of the Great Patriotic War. Not that the US isn’t too.

JJ’s dialectic is that of a Jew though. So instead of just saying the Russians are obsessed by 41-45 which has some validity, he transfers the argument to cute South Pacific Islanders who want the Yankees back so they build effigies of US bombers and construct control towers out of bamboo.

The Russians as you pointed out have something like autarky and can go toe to toe with nuclear armed states.

Western people normally rant about how the Russians couldn’t have beaten Germany without US Charity. There are simple board games like Axis & Allies which roughly simulate this US world view. In order for the Russian player to survive the German onslaught from the West and the Japanese attack by the back door the US and UK land aircraft and a few tank pieces in Moscow and the Russian player must play through 4 turns without doing assaults on Germany.

As game its fun, but the balance of play does not resemble the map that really existed for Russia. So while the Russian player limps along with a begging bowl in the simulation game mechanics, the reality was different as proven by the historical maps and industrial output. China of course plays no role whatsoever. It’s impossible to factor them in correctly in the math. So they do not factor in, even if they tied up the Japanese army. Ultimately it is a game that reflects historical orthodoxy in American and to a lesser extent British triumph.

Yet the war on the board does not look like the war as it occurred on this geo strategic level.

Where have you seen boastful rants about superior WW2 Wehrmacht kill ratios in British media? (Or by British media do you mean things like individual Youtube accounts?)

Maybe the Americans here can say if it is a regular thing on US MSM.

The people who hold views more favourable to Russia and Putin are mostly not allowed beyond the margins of public life, if that. Partly because of their views on Putin, also often because of other views they hold. You are here on Unz, you can make a guess about what some of these views might be.

On the last point, allowing the Kremlin to define the Overton Window on the Ukraine issue, would that be pro-Russian or not?

What about this idea that the Greens in Germany only came to power as a virtue-signaling counter-vote to Trump?

Is this why the European media goes crazy over American politics, to mobilize its base?

What is the difference between a cartoon mocking the eagle and Donald the Fat’s stupid Make America Great Again hats?

What we need is a thorough historian with big balls to make a Rock Solid case that Dreyfus deserved to be hung because he was a traitor and a spy and it should have been proven at the time to everybody’s satisfaction but they goofed up here and there and so forth.

From a 1968 Cold War era episode of Star Trek, an errant hydrogen bomb launched from the United States is about to strike Russia. ‘WWIII’ and an accompanying ‘nuclear holocaust’ is then only averted in the nick of time.

I don’t think we should count on any such luck in real life, however.

[As always someone else (Russia is indicated in this instance) other than the United States (is made to at least appear to have) started it.]

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/55.htm

‘In response to nuclear warhead placed in suborbit by other major power, United States today launching suborbital platform with multi-warhead capacity. Purpose, to maintain balance of power.’…‘Computers indicate an impact somewhere in the heart of the Eur-Asian continent.’

‘You’ve got to let me finish what I started, or in six minutes World War Three begins.’

I personally don’t know a lot about the Dreyfus case – one reason being I think it would be very difficult to find either a neutral or even critical version of events, so I am disinterested in reading about it. (And I imagine the original evidence vanished)

But the controversy of it reminds me a lot of the controversy about trials where the people were obviously guilty, like Leo Frank or the Rosenbergs. And I think a lot of the people supporting Dreyfus were clearly doing it for political reasons. (Why get interested about a trial in France?)

As I recall, AC Doyle was partly inspired to write this story:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Bruce-Partington_Plans

But I am not sure what implications it has on the question. The name Oberstein I am thinking is supposed to be German rather than Jewish, but there is a least a slight possibility of the latter. Or maybe he put it in there as a wink.

What we need is a thorough historian with big balls to make a Rock Solid case that Dreyfus deserved to be hung because he was a traitor and a spy and it should have been proven at the time to everybody’s satisfaction but they goofed up here and there and so forth.

I am thinking that once there was the great Barrès:

The Socialist leader Léon Blum tried to convince him to join the Dreyfusards, but Barrès refused and wrote several anti-Semitic pamphlets. He wrote, “That Dreyfus is guilty, I deduce not from the facts themselves, but from his race.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Barr%C3%A8s

With Gide he was a writer who defined a literary era, but after WW2 he was kind of cancelled for various reasons.

Charles Maurras really launched his long career arguing that Dreyfus had to be guilty as well.

What is the difference between a cartoon mocking the eagle and Donald the Fat’s stupid Make America Great Again hats?

The second annoys Progs, who see it as a dogwhistle? Or a bad goal. And it will probably also lead to some reforms (however ineffectual at solving the core problems), like in space launch, which may blunt the coming Chinese dominance.

@s
I think that episode was supposed to lead to a spinoff show. It would have been interesting to see.

…boastful rants about superior WW2 Wehrmacht kill ratios

Go to Waterstones WW2 section, it has book after book about how Germany could have won in the east – the implication is that they should have won – how they were superior, books on how the Russian hordes burnt and raped their way to Berlin at horrible cost to themselves. Add a few books on M-R, (none on Munich), and the ever-dominant message that WW2 was about Holocaust and the Normandy mini-event in June 1944. You can also see it in the media but that is harder to keep track of.

allowing the Kremlin to define the Overton Window on the Ukraine issue, would that be pro-Russian or not?

Yes, of course, but that’s not the issue.

It doesn’t really matter why people who are holding views more favorable to Russia are marginalized or excluded – there are always reasons. They are effectively banned in most of the West so a normal balanced discussion is impossible. It is not any different than previous censorships – they also always had reasons.

Chesterton originally defended Dreyfus but changed his mind when he heard that Dreyfus was seen in German uniform.
https://simonmayers.com/2013/09/04/g-k-chesterton-and-the-dreyfus-affair/

According to him, the British press obfuscated facts and was overwhelmingly pro-Dreyfus.

Here is a great discussion on the significance of the latest Russian missile system. It clarifies many facts which seem to confuse some people here. I broke my pattern and listened to this video which has all of JJ’s favorites including Scott Ritter. Just remember, Ritter is an actual professional in nuclear arms control. This discussion may help people understand why the US escalation in Ukraine has been so alarming to some of us.

Remember, this conflict is not about Ukraine. It is about the West working to destroy Russia.

Well, Trump just chose Wong (a Romney foreign policy guy) and Sebastian Gorka (a Hungarian, who unlike Orban is very opposed to Putin) for his team.

The Ukrainians who voted for Trump, gambling that he would eventually be much harder on Putin than weak Biden has been, are seeing their odds of being right improve. I think the odds of Trump being tougher versus weaker on Russia than Biden has been are now a solid 30/70 rather than 10/90 as I had feared before the election. Much depends on whether Putin chooses to play the tough guy on Trump; releasing Melania’s naked pictures and escalating bombing was a sign perhaps that things will go that way.

Gorka, writing about Ukraine in October 2023:

https://sebastiangorka.substack.com/p/ukraine-its-actually-about-us?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

how the Russians couldn’t have beaten Germany without US

US supplies to Russia started to ship in the fall of 1943 – by then Russia effectively defeated Germany. The supplies helped, they speeded up Germany’s defeat by a few months. UK shipped some stuff earlier in 1942-3, but it was small.

Japanese attack by the back door

Japan had its hands full in China. But the main reason Japan didn’t attack Russia from the east is that they tried in summer 1938 and got comprehensively defeated, see this:
https://thediplomat.com/2012/08/the-forgotten-soviet-japanese-war-of-1939/

The key to M-R was that it happened in the middle of this battle with Japan when Russia needed peace in the West. Japan felt betrayed by Germany in 1939 and felt no obligation to help them in Barbarossa. That may have decided the war.

But I have no illusion that ordinary Westies will bother to learn the true history – they are happily brainwashed and will repeat the nonsense their rulers have brainwashed them with. It makes them weaker because living a fantasy is never a good idea.

Russians have more drones along with missiles, troops etc. It’s a war of attrition which the Kiev regime and its sugar daddy will ultimately lose.

There is no reason to assume that Russia has more drones. Ukraine started earlier in production and there are reports of shortages on the Russian side.

Everyone can see that the Russians plan to win through attrition. Everyone is aware of the plan and that includes Ukraine. Kind of a duh.

But we can’t all see the state of Russia.

Journalists are imprisoned for telling the truth.

Maybe Russia can last a few more years. Maybe their economy will collapse next year. Maybe the ISW is correct that they will run out of tanks next year. Maybe they won’t.

We really don’t know.

We do know that Putin offered to walk without taking all of Ukraine. We also know that he is using North Korean troops in combat. Both actions suggest that he does not have the resources to accomplish his original goals which would require the complete surrender of Ukraine. If he felt comfortable and had endless resources then he would not have offered to negotiate.

Napolean had major problems in his last battles because so many of his prime soldiers were dead or crippled. Using 16 year olds and foreign conscripts did not give him the same military that he had at the start of the war. The same is true for Hitler. He had all kinds of C grade soldiers at the front during D-day. A lot of foreigners that simply didn’t believe in the war but were forced into it. He in part lost Stalingrad because the Soviets wisely punched a hole through the weaker Romanians that were guarding their flank.

Putin is fighting a war of attrition but there is no Russian war machine that keeps churning out competent troops. A Zed blogger in fact recently stated that they are not even giving contractors 2 weeks of training. They just give them an AK and have them march forward. Such mindless tactics were how the Finns were able to stun the Soviet union and the world. Arrogance and a lack of tactics are the historical weaknesses of the Russian military and Putin is following the same pattern.

It’s not going to get easier with German drones and US mines. The Russians will have to either level Kharkiv or face drone harassment for months. And then what? March to Odessa with Koreans and T-64s? It would be another hostile city. The better solution is to stop the killing and admit it was all a mistake. Their best hope is for Trump to let them take a piece and walk.

Western people normally rant about how the Russians couldn’t have beaten Germany without US Charity.

So while the Russian player limps along with a begging bowl in the simulation game mechanics, the reality was different as proven by the historical maps and industrial output.

Well Stalin said they would have lost without Lend-Lease so I’ll take his word for it and not ranting Americans or some apologist for Putin who plays board games.

Stalin was a brutal mass murderer but also a competent accountant who would personally go over USSR inventory (x number of tanks, trucks, etc).

It wasn’t the military assistance that they needed from the US. It was the food and trucks to deliver it. Part of Hitler’s plan was to cut off Ukrainian grain shipments to the USSR and send them back to Germany. So feed the Germans and starve the Russians.

I was being a little off center there. One of the previous episodes in Karlinstan you may have missed was an epic debate between Mikel (con) and Dmitry (pro) on the the topic of is Milei or is not Milei neoliberal? Since you are siding with Mikel and Dmitry is temporarily out at the spa or something your observation isn’t going to rekindle this. But thank you for the input.

In the anything but Ukraine Dept there is a fine discussion in Naked Capitalism links this morning on the subject of Faraday bags for cell phones and how many of the products with 5 * ratings on Amazon are ineffective. Nobody suggested leaving the phone at home if you want to avoid surveillance.

To be fair they do not want to destroy the Russian capital but just take it over. They might be acting like a bunch of Injun Potlatchers but that is not their motive.

I broke my pattern and listened to this video which has all of JJ’s favorites including Scott Ritter. Just remember, Ritter is an actual professional in nuclear arms control.

Just remember, Ritter is an actual convicted sex offender who is blacklisted in US media and for years took money from Russian totalitarian state media.

If he could get back on the MSM as a paid “military expert” he would ditch alt-right and his clickbait prone fans.

The guy is a whore and should go ahead and switch sides. Or maybe just be honest about his complete lack of morals and work a gloryhole for a living.

TA-DA!

A negro.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/23/us-news/trump-taps-former-nfl-player-scott-turner-to-lead-department-of-housing-and-urban-development/

US supplies to Russia started to ship in the fall of 1943

Why do you insist on lying about stuff that can be googled in 1 minute?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#U.S._deliveries_to_the_Soviet_Union

USSR got 2.5 million tons of goods in 1942, 4.8 million in 1943, 6.2 million in 1944, and 3.7 million in 1945.

The supplies helped, they speeded up Germany’s defeat by a few months

Maybe, or maybe without them the Soviet Union would have bled out, and not have managed to take Berlin. The Soviets stopped the Germans outside Moscow on their own, that’s clear, but there is no consensus from historians about whether the Soviets would have defeated the Germans without Lend Lease, you naturally prefer the pro-Soviets take.

But I have no illusion that ordinary Westies will bother to learn the true history

As we see above, you obviously did not learn true history in your second rate Socialist education system.

happily brainwashed and will repeat the nonsense their rulers have brainwashed them with

Another great example of your accusation being a confession. 🙂

Don’t you ever get tired of re-chewing old vomit with Becks? Give him something fresh to chew on for CRYING OUT LOUD.

Phoenix is number one.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14072743/fastest-growing-regions-america-sunbelt-suburbs.html

Don’t let your ad hominems get in the way of improved understanding.

The video has a nice discussion of the Aegis Ashore sites and their relevance to the Ukraine crisis by a professor named Steven Star. He supports arms control. He also gives a crisp explanation of how nuclear winter is expected to occur as a result of a full scale nuclear war, though I don’t think he used the nuclear winter metaphor.

Ritter gives an impassioned speech explaining that this situation put in motion by Biden’s approval is extremely serious, as in nuclear war is imminent.

Ritter also explains the USSR had previously developed a similar system with conventional warheads just before the INF treaty took force specifically designed to take out Pershing II missiles. He believes this strike in Dnipr is partially a response to the USA disclosing the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system in Denmark last year.

In a brief clip, Douglas Macgregor reports that Russian nuclear rocket forces are at the highest level of readiness ever. This is easy to believe and probably US forces are at a high alert level as well.

Larry Johnson pointed out that we have no idea who is making these dangerous decisions in Washington. He suggests the whole thing looks like an evil plan of some sort. I agree.

Someone pointed out that Trump dropped the US out of the INF treaty.

The punch line is: “The Biden Administration is willing to sacrifice 100 million Americans for Ukraine.”

Viktor Yanukovych’s betrayal of his people was what cost him his presidency, not anything Victoria Nuland or Soros’ Open Society minions had plotted.

You must be enjoying spitting these pathetic lies…Yanukovich removal was organized by McCain (rih) and Nuland team for refusing American military base to be stationed in Crimea. It doesn’t go deeper than that.

I wonder if the Ukrainians will take a Western cruise missile missile and fit it out with a nuclear warhead from the UK or Israel? They will fire this pretend “Neptune” missile from a yacht in the Gulf of Finland and execute a nuclear strike on Saint Petersburg. Prompt deaths will be about a million. Kiev will disavow the attack saying it was rogue elements.

Once Ukraine and their Western partners have shown they are crazy enough, then Russia has to take this sort of thing seriously.

Have you ever personally known anybody in the United States Air Force nuke squads? I would be surprised if Biden could order the use of a nuclear weapon right now under any circumstances. Dr. Strangelove is a comedy.

On the other hand there’s great stuff on the internet about low radioactive fallout suitcase nukes with red mercury and unicorn horn fuzz.

To understand what is happening in the world, it can be useful to understand a people’s cosmology, which is often how a people rationalizes their actions.

Within the Anglosphere, powerful elements and hangers on of the Anglo-Saxon elites have historically had a belief in the unfortunate ideology of ‘British Israelism’, ie the belief that the Anglo-Saxons were of the ‘Ten Lost Tribes of Israel’.

In addition, and possibly simultaneously at times, some of these same British and American elites within Freemasonry have also believed from the time of the 1776 American Revolution that someday the United States and the United Kingdom would reunite and form the dominating central axis of a future global super-state, a ‘New Rome’, the ‘United States of the World’.

In my opinion, empires in general being a bad business, the elites and hangers on of the Anglosphere holding such views should have been overthrown and, or, (at minimum) separated from, long ago.

In this regard, I’ve excerpted and linked below from an outstanding paper entitled ‘Imperial British Israelism: Justification for an Empire’ and from an 1853 then widely distributed and reviewed (now effectively blacklisted) US book called The New Rome; or, the United States of the World.

I highly recommend reading both.

The Anglo-Saxons have historically had some associates, ie some powerful elements and hangers on of the Jewish people, whose cosmology is the Talmud, a commentary upon the Torah. While the Anglo-Saxon and Jewish peoples are two unique distinct peoples, nevertheless, due to the nature of their longstanding dysfunctional relationship, if a person wants insight into the Anglo-Saxons, they should study the Jewish state of Israel. If a person wants insight about the Jewish people, they should in turn study the Anglo-Saxon United States.

British Israelism…

https://www.revneal.org/Writings/Writings/british.htm

CONCLUSION: THE MANDATE OF IMPERIAL BRITISH-ISRAELISM

If the British people are understood as the modern-day descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, then their “just title” to a world empire should be obvious. Their mandate is their birthright as the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, their royalty as descending from Judah and David, and their faith in Jesus Christ. God had promised that they would be as numerous as the stars in the night sky and the sand on all the beaches of the world. Their domain was to be characterized by a large community of nations which would push the inhabitants of the regions they occupied to the very ends of their land. They were to be the most powerful nation on the earth–indeed, they would OWN the world. They would control the strategic positions of the planet, the economic points of power would be within their sphere rule, and under their flags would reside the people who would herald the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. The British people would have nothing to fear from their upstart neighbors on the continent; France had been put in her place through the defeat of Napoleon’s navy at the Battle of Trafalgar, and his army at Waterloo. Both the Kaiser’s Germany and the Fuehrer’s Third Reich would continue to be an irritant, but both would eventually crumble to the mighty Anglo-Saxon Union of the British Empire and the United States, the modern day manifestations of Ephraim and Manasseh.

‘While being waged, each of the world wars had been viewed as the war of Armageddon..’

As [British] Israel, everything they did had cosmic importance, and every war they fought was just, noble, and within God’s plan. While being waged, each of the world wars had been viewed as the war of Armageddon: the First World War had been the “war to end all wars”, and many British-Israelites viewed the Second World War as just a precursor to a war with the Soviet Union which would usher in the Second Coming of Christ and the Millennium.

The New Rome…

https://archive.org/details/newrome00poes/page/105/mode/1up

‘That great uprising of all peoples, that world’s war which is for ever seen to hang, like the sword of Damocles, over the passing joys and troubles of the hour, will fall when the Anglo-Saxon empire [the US-UK] shall lay its slow but unyielding grasp upon the countries of the Germanic confederation. Then will the mastery of Europe be the prize of the death-struggle between the Union [US] and the Czar [Russia].’

https://archive.org/details/newrome00poes/page/109/mode/1up

‘Thus the lines are drawn. The choirs are marshalled on each wing of the world’s stage, Russia leading the one, the United States the other. Yet the world is too small for both, and the contest must end in the downfall of the one and the victory of the other.’

The decision by Japan to sink into China and the Indies meant that Russia was gonna be fine.

Long ago I used to like visiting Buckeye once a year, sometime in January in order to visit one of the many orange groves in the area. The citrus groves are now all but gone, and hence there’s no good reason for me to travel there any more. It was right next door to the seedier part of of South Phoenix. Good to read that they’re building some new real estate in the area. Miss the delicious fruit though.

Wow, AP! Gorka is really playing your tune. This is a skillfully crafted and intentionally misleading discussion of the points he pretends to address. These rants (Gorka’s and yours) leave us wondering if you guys are gullible or simply so bullheaded that nothing penetrates or maybe just not too bright. Probably all three, combined with desperate fear of Putin.

What political box does a Gorka appointment tick for Team Trump?

Napolean had major problems in his last battles because so many of his prime soldiers were dead or crippled. Using 16 year olds and foreign conscripts did not give him the same military that he had at the start of the war. The same is true for Hitler.

Napoleon’s greatest losses were to typhus (lice ridden Polish quarters) in the march to Moscow. Hitler’s mistake was in not following the advice of every military expert and of concentrating on an ASAP attack on Moscow. Incidentally, the ATACMS strikes could target Russia generals. A hail of Storm Shadow missile on a command post the other day seems to have been aimed at killing generals, and maybe even the Russian minister of defence. That was a mistake of insufficient incrementality because it’s made clear to Putin what is going to happen if he allows the strikes into Russia to continue. You think the Russian generals are going to be happy about being systematically assassinated because Putin is too scared to hit a US base with a hypersonic nonnuclear thunderbolt?

If he felt comfortable and had endless resources then he would not have offered to negotiate.

The Russian army was collapsing back then, because the losses were exceeding the supply. But the US thought he was also considering detonating a nuclear weapon on the Ukrainian army. The Russian army is now increasing in number relative to the Ukrainian army.

The better solution is to stop the killing and admit it was all a mistake. Their best hope is for Trump to let them take a piece and walk.

Russia has taken two years and about 100,000 dead to get where it is. If it stops, and walks back, to any extent, Ukraine will rearm and build impenetrable defence lines along any new line of contact making tens of thousands of Russia deaths for nothing.

No Ukrainian leader can recognize a ‘piece’ of Russia’s gains as now legitimately part of Russia, and so the war would not end. This is a genuine conflict of interest between Ukraine and Russia, it has to be burnt out to the bitter end for there to be peace.

Arrogance and a lack of tactics are the historical weaknesses of the Russian military and Putin is following the same pattern.

Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk tactics, and will. The US tried to introduce the ATACMS strikes in a very low key way, they want it to be incremental, so does that suggest that the US is going to gladly go up the ladder of escalation tit for tat from conventional hypersonic strikes to nuclear ones on the US homeland?

Putin is fighting a war of attrition but there is no Russian war machine that keeps churning out competent troops.

The historical strength of Russia is strategic space, and operational art prioritizing mass effect that does not require competent troops. Putin cannot allow the Ukraine–US assemblage to use ATACMS to annihilate troop concentrations (and Generals) deep inside Russia.

It’s understandable that Chesterton was doubtful about it, it looks like Dreyfus was ultimately innocent but the case became a massive thing in French poltical life. It ended up being as much about competing ideas of France as about what Dreyfus or the other officers had done.

On one side there was the anti-Dreyfus faction, supported by monarchists, nationalists and a lot of conservative Catholics, on the other, the Dreyfus supporters, there were Republicans and liberals/progressives.

Maurras argued that whether Dreyfus was guilty was less important than the honour of the army and the needs of national defence, the case inspired him to examine more generally how Liberal and Republican values could put the future of France at risk and that set the course of the rest of his career.

Did he ever stab anyone, like the HUDD guy in Trump’s first term? (Ben Carson.)

For that matter, did Carson really go after people with rocks, bricks and hammers, and actually try to stab his friend – hitting the belt buckle and having the blade snap? Or was he just trying to get some street cred?

Did he ever stab anyone[?]

I don’t know. I imagine if anybody ever tried to rip off his watermelon he’d make ’em pay.

It’s a lot more fun thinking this stuff up than it was in 2020. Remember when Biden hired a furry? I guess that was pretty good.

I think that episode was supposed to lead to a spinoff show. It would have been interesting to see.

Yes, it would of been.

The episode, ‘Assignment Earth’, was famous for a variety of reasons… the actress Terri Garr..a person (Gary Seven) whom Spock’s neck pinch had no effect, and Bruce Mars the cop who had played the infamous Finnegan on that other Star Trek episode, ‘Shore Leave’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment:_Earth

I am not at all familiar with these famous French writers. But of English writers I think Chesterton is notable for having asked the “Jewish Question.”. Many years ago, I recall seeing some Chesterton program on the Catholic cable channel here, and so I was quite surprised, when I originally encountered his essay, as he seems not to have been cancelled back then, and I think still.)

I was vaguely under the impression that the Dreyfus Affair had led to this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_French_law_on_the_Separation_of_the_Churches_and_the_State

Which I could see potentially affecting Chesterton’s views on the matter. But I am possibly wrong about that, as it seems to have been part of a longer process of secularization.

One of my favorites. You left out Isis.

Go to Waterstones WW2 section, it has book after book about how Germany could have won in the east

I’m intrigued by what the titles of these were and who was publishing them. At the moment Waterstones is pretty woke and has always leaned mainstream liberal, so where was all of the pro-WW2 Nazi Germany stuff coming from?

…on how the Russian hordes burnt and raped their way to Berlin…

Like Anthony Beevor’s Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (2002) or Catherine Merridale’s Ivan’s War (2006)? These books do contain some hard accounts of what life was like for the soldiers in the Red Army, and deal with the rape issue, people can read them and see how pro-Nazi they are (authors are both boomer liberals, looks like influenced by Solzhenitsyn & Vassily Grossman in the case of Beevor).

Add a few books on M-R, (none on Munich)…

In my local public library catalogue (a decent size one) and there were 10 books about Munich 1938 and none about Molotov/Ribbentrop (of course). Searching for books about Molotov/Ribbentrop in the national library and all the major academic research libraries comes back with this:

https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=Molotov%20Ribbentrop&page=3

There aren’t that many of them in English, difficult to imagine any of them on sale in a Waterstones.

The issue about Munich and frequency of accusations of appeasement in British and US public life has its own section in the Wikipedia article on Munich 1938, under ‘Ghost of Munich’.

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

You can also see it in the media but that is harder to keep track of.

Are you sure? In the current British media environment any commentary favourable to Nazi Germany in a mass media source would be noteworthy, you would expect instant cancellation for someone involved in that, and for it to be publicised.

It doesn’t really matter why people who are holding views more favorable to Russia are marginalized or excluded

It’s interesting in the case of those actually do have some sympathy for the mid-century German regime and evade the issue of German treatment of Slavs, but who otoh are prepared to favour Russia and Putin over Ukraine, I guess this is related to anti-Communism.

Bruce Mars the cop who had played the infamous Finnegan on that other Star Trek episode, ‘Shore Leave’.

Yes, definitely not the best moment in TOS. It kind of seems like a very young children’s show or cartoon, when Kirk is chasing him. Gone is the snappy dialogue completely.

I think that was the first of ten episodes they shot at the Vasquez Rocks. (Definitely overused the location, but it had to do with union rules, and the fact they couldn’t shoot far from LA.)

Fair point.

In my defense, the fruit was hanging very low and my post took no effort or time.

That, or our resident cartoon-contrarian who believes HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, up is down, black is white, etc. (was the noon landing a hoax?) is just arguing for the opposite of reality as usual.

I have a question for AP and Hack. I am trying to get over my frustration and move on to acceptance and dialog, so here I go.

Let’s say you realize that Ukraine is at high risk of being thoroughly destroyed and worse yet that this might lead to Wold War Three. While your feelings on the Ukrainian issue are not changed this epiphany may be leading you to accept that fighting Russia has little meaning if all the Ukrainians are dead or gone. So this line of reasoning leads you to think about some sort of compromise between Ukraine, Russia and the West that would wrap up this conflict and help your people live. Obviously you are loathe to compromise and the entire conversation offends your sensibilities of justice and fairness. Nonetheless, you entertain the notion that those concepts may have little meaning to dead people.

If you recognize Russia’s stated goals for the SMO as merely an important talking point (so we are not granting them inevitability), what are the minimum things that either have to be removed from the Russian list of goals or added to Ukraine’s goals to reach a treaty? If I recall, the Russian list includes these stipulations: Crimea is Russian permanently, the DPR/LPR areas are Russian, no Ukraine in NATO ever (so Ukraine is neutral), Ukraine is disarmed, Kiev will respect Russian language and culture and NeoNazis will be treated as criminals.

I think the no NATO in Ukraine and at least partial disarmament are the most important for Russia, tied with Crimea. Respect for and protection of Russian language and culture are second. Everything else is probably negotiable. There are hidden wrinkles as always, Transnistria comes to mind.

Since you see Russia as an aggressive dangerous power, the NATO issue is obviously centrally important to people on your side of the issue. If Russia agreed to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty can you think of any arrangement that would make such a compromise acceptable? Let’s say Russia and NATO both agree to be hands off from the post-SMO Ukraine. Would a guarantee from some combination of the EU and BRICS be conceivably strong enough to protect Ukraine’s interests? Would the UN have a role?

If they can get past that compromise, what does Ukraine want in addition? Can you think of anything Russia can give up which means more to Ukraine than it does to Russia?

Thank you.

“Unicorn horn fuzz”, nice!

You raise a widely held concern about modern US soldiers actually refusing to launch the warheads when they receive the order. I have known a couple of people in the launch role or close to it. The ones I knew would probably launch. I think most Air Force pilots and Navy submariners would launch. Some of the the silo people might not. This risk may be used as a justification for AI control of the weapons in the not too distant future.

The world had 528 above ground nuclear tests.

Most modern nukes have small levels of fallout compared to the burning nuclear reactors. How many reactors would melt down in a nuclear armageddon scenario? More than a few, see 3-11-11 for details.

Yanukovich removal was organized by McCain (rih) and Nuland team for refusing American military base to be stationed in Crimea. It doesn’t go deeper than that.

A nice fairy tale. Maybe the Freemasons were also involved? Illuminati? The Jews, of course?

I was in Kiev in the summer of 2013, everywhere there utterly despised Yanukovich, even the taxi drivers. Expressing hatred towards him and his goons was a universal pastime. There was even random graffiti, for example inside a perekhod (passages under a busy street) someone wrote “don’t urinate here, it is not Donbas.” Many were fatalistic – “we should just move West, Yanukovich will turn this country into a disgusting Russia, nothing we can do about it but leave.” But others needed a spark, they was ready to explode and save their country.

There were several sparks – Yanukovuch’s sudden cancellation of the EU deal, his beating of the protestors, his new laws making Ukraine like Russia or Belarus. McCain or Nuland didn’t do these things (lol). They did provide diplomatic support when it happened, and this helped. But giving them credit for it is like giving the French credit for the American Revolution, or saying the Germans created the Bolshevik Revolution. Even more ridiculous, because the French and German involvement was more critical than the American at Maidan. French brought troops and the French Navy, German delivered Lenin, Nuland brought cookies.

you may have missed was an epic debate between Mikel (con) and Dmitry (pro) on the the topic of is Milei or is not Milei neoliberal?

Not exactly but close. What I argued is that the term neoliberal as normally used doesn’t have any specific ideological meaning but is commonly associated with politicians who implemented Chicago school economic policies like Thatcher, Reagan or Pinochet. As everybody knows, Milei is an explicit follower of the Austrian school of economics, which has very different views on several important matters, like monetary policy or the very role of the state.

Did you know that the new FDA director nominee, Dr. Makary, was recently interviewed by Peter Attia? I think they both have Egyptian ancestry and graduated from Johns Hopkins. He sounds like a cool guy with interesting and disruptive ideas. If the other Trump nominees don’t get us killed or poisoned with nuclear fallout radiation, we may get a little healthier, though he also needs to get the approval of the Senate snakes.

Did Attia ask him about his psych meds?

Russia’s recent advance notice demo concerns a hypersonic missile that can each anywhere in Europe. They also have the “father of all bombs” as it’s known as.

In retrospect, the Kiev regime and its sugar daddies never had a chance. Losers are known for having excuses.

Wow, AP! Gorka is really playing your tune.

He is also a thick accented foreign-born American, the type AP likes to shape American policy 🙂

On the bright side, imagine what Trump’s cabinet would look like if his son Don Jr. and Elon weren’t fighting to keep neocons out.

Apparently many of the Soviet troops sent to fight the Finns were Ukies.

This idea the Russians are feeding in ethnic Russians is kinda funny.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/19112024-contrasting-expectations-for-a-russia-ukraine-settlement-oped/

Excerpt (supporting hyperlinks at the above linked) –

A year ago, the Kiev regime could’ve gotten a better deal. Going back further, the Minsk Accords was an even better option for it. The longer the proxy war against Russia continues, the greater the likelihood of the Kiev regime losing more Ukrainian territory.

Don’t be fooled by the clownishly pompous likes of Sebastian Gorka. On a November 16 RT aired show (at the 15:45 mark), Gorka said that if Russia refused a Trump peace proposal, the incoming US president will flood Ukraine with arms. Like Pataki, the Brit-Hungarian-American Gorka is no Orban or Szijjártó.

Seasoned military analysts including Daniel Davis, Jacques Baud, Brian Berletic, Lawrence Wilkerson, Douglas Macgregor, Mark Sleboda and Scott Ritter, have conclusively shown how the Collective West is pretty much tapped out on what it can (within reason) militarily provide the Kiev regime, in conjunction with a dwindling number of available Kiev regime armed forces personnel.

Daniel Davis has astutely detailed why the recently reported move by the Biden administration isn’t going to change the eventual outcome.

More projection from you given that the Kiev regime is a corrupt, lying, undemocratic and neo-Nazi/ Banderite influenced entity with blood on its hands before and after 2/24/22.

Keep believing the possibility that Ukraine has more drones than Russia when they obviously don’t.

Still no clear evidence of Norks, which seems much like the earlier Ghost of Kiev, Russians running out of missiles and computer chip claims.

What if enough Ukrainians realize they are fighting a war more for the West than for themselves? Western support for Bandera fellow travelers and involvement in Maidan is well known. The fact that Zelensky was supported or even created by one of the most powerful Jewish criminals in Ukraine is not a secret either. Are facts such as these enough to fuel a strong anti-war coalition within Ukraine? Is the widespread press ganging of troops a sign that the tipping point in Ukraine is not far away?

He is also a thick accented foreign-born American

Do you ever see those cali movement youtubes? Those guys have some great exercises but the one yesterday had a couple of new features. The quiet guy (it’s like Penn and Teller if you have never watched them–the bald guy does all the talking and the hairy guy never talks; just does half the demos) finally spoke.

1. He said yes there is such a condition as too shredded as hard as that might be for some of you all out there to believe;

2. but the really really bizarre thing is he sounds almost exactly like the bald guy. Same accent. Same pattern of ups and downs in his sentence annunciations.

If anybody recognizes the accent I would be interested to know. If these guys are a pair of Polish Askenazi homos from Tel Aviv I will be disappointed but not shocked.

The Vasquez Rocks certainly was an all around popular place to shoot film at. IIRC that’s where Kirk almost bought it at the hands of…err…claws rather, of that sleestak looking Gorn creature. 😉

Thanks. The following sentence from the article seems incorrect.

Russia’s number of military bases in the Middle East and elsewhere dwarfs that of the US.

If anybody recognizes the accent I would be interested to know.

Possibly German but I think he tries to hide it so it’s difficult to say for sure. I do a better job at hiding mine but sometimes I still get caught.

I’m not big on watching sports, but I have to share this somewhere. After beating Scotland and England, we trashed Wales:

The top three rugby teams are usually South Africa, Australia, New Zealand.

Yanukovych’s biggest mistake was in not stationing hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in Ukraine on a permanent basis. That would have saved his bacon for sure. I don’t know if Russia would have actually accepted this, though.

Interestingly enough, had Yanukovych actually brought Ukraine into Eurasia, I would have expected the Eurasian project to subsequently see a huge popularity boost in Ukraine as a result of the subsequent greater economic prosperity in Ukraine being attributed to it. Generous Russian subsidies would have also helped, of course. Though this would have arguably been bad for the West because it would have resulted in the de facto recreation of the USSR, but under an authoritarian crony capitalist model rather than under a Communist model.

“Merkel feels sorrow over Trump victory.”

That one was a bit more iconic than Shore Leave, though I believe sort of a knock off of an A. E. van Vogt story.

This commercial was pretty clever. But I am not sure about the game.

Thanks. The following sentence from the article seems incorrect.

Russia’s number of military bases in the Middle East and elsewhere dwarfs that of the US.

You think the US has more than Russia?

John Bolton is no Russophile and considers Gorka a Con man:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/23/john-bolton-sebastian-gorka-counter-terrorism-chief

Just watched the one on Edith Keeler.

As I previously noted –

Zelensky decisively defeated Poroshenko in 2019. The latter ran on a nationalist anti-Russian platform with the former taking a much more moderate stance. Shortly after taking office, Zelensky changed course on account of the violent minority uber nationalist element.

The US killed many German and Japanese civilians during WW II. Yet, in a relatively short period of time, anti-American sentiment in Germany and Japan greatly dissipated.

Look at how Georgia has changed since the Saakashvili era. There’s room to believe that better times are ahead.

Yes, I think the US has more bases.

So there was never any disagreement going back to the initial inquiry.

Having opinions on the JQ was almost de rigueur for Anglo elites of that generation. Sometimes this can veer into the humorous, such as recent attempts to retroactively “cancel” Roald Dahl by various Jewish lobbies.

Imagine what Trump’s cabinet would look like if his son Don Jr. and Elon weren’t fighting to keep neocons out

Michael Tracey has been very good cataloguing Trump’s foreign policy picks.

Here is Mike Waltz, Trump's incoming National Security Advisor, on November 4, 2024, saying that Trump's plan to end the Ukraine war will consist of intensifying sanctions on Russia, and "taking the handcuffs off" Ukraine by allowing them to strike further inside Russia pic.twitter.com/pfUYPzlQU5

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 15, 2024

If you look at the most important foreign policy people in the Biden admin it’s surely Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken. So their direct successors are Waltz and Rubio. There are some bright spots like Gabbard or Vance, but the question remains how much influence they will have.

As they say: personnel is policy. I am not convinced Trump is as keen on a détente as many seem to think. It was Trump who pulled out of the INF treaty first and who escalated lethal aid to Ukraine. Something his predecessor refused to do.

I think Russia will come to understand that trusting any US admin, including Trump’s, is a fool’s errand. A protacted conflict is bad for Europe but that’s my base case. The future for Ukraine is grim whatever happens.

I am not at all familiar with these famous French writers.

For various reasons probably related to their politics they have hardly been translated into English, and what was available is mostly long out of print. It’s somewhat strange given how prominent they were in their time, and Barrès is a good writer.

Many years ago, I recall seeing some Chesterton program on the Catholic cable channel here, and so I was quite surprised, when I originally encountered his essay, as he seems not to have been cancelled back then, and I think still.)

It’s interesting that he managed to escape that, maybe it was because he is mainly popular with one specific group and is not as well known outside it? But here over the past few years the BBC have made loads of episodes of their Father Brown series, so Chesterton does remain in the mainstream as well. I had vaguely heard some discussion of his views on Jews when they were talking about making him a saint but I haven’t read the essay.

I was vaguely under the impression that the Dreyfus Affair had led to this:

I think it did, I can’t remember the details of why they disestablished the Church at that specific time though.

The Soviets stopped the Germans outside Moscow on their own, that’s clear, but there is no consensus from historians about whether the Soviets would have defeated the Germans without Lend Lease, you naturally prefer the pro-Soviets take.

Maybe there’s the naval blockade angle to consider as well. The Allies put German occupied Europe under a naval blockade to prevent them from trading with the rest of the world, and worked to buy up the supplies Germany was interested in obtaining in Spain and Portugal.

If Britain and the US had been neutral to favourable to Germany, they could have allowed both Germany and the USSR to trade freely with the rest of the world and their own possessions. Germany and the Soviets could have made use of the British and US merchant marines on normal commercial terms.

The mistake the Stavka made was going on the offensive from two directions in Prussia, whilst also attacking Austro-Hungary as well. They should have concentrated their forces and gone straight for Berlin.