so given the “shrug� mentality of Russians when it comes to narrative control, I don’t think it’s fair to assume that every talking point is overseen directly by the Kremlin.

The saying:
“Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you, for your pains:
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.”

Apparently this is genuinely true of nettles? It’s not true of politics, though. Trying to grasp the narrative “like a man of mettle” comes off as weak and desperate. The more frantically you clutch for control, the less control you have and the more you need. Quite hard to be more self-destructive than going full hall monitor.

The matters in article Ted writes about are more important than people recognize. It goes to censoring schemes and schemes to disable, so any scum can spew what they want, which can be violence inciting, and we can’t make them stop without using force, which if the false courts don’t let you stop people from defaming you by use of courts, the same time dictate you can’t use force to stop them, its tying your hands as you’re attacked and setup for further attack. If someone acting on false claims about you does violence and gets away, because you didn’t use force first to stop scum from saying false things, where are we then. Obviously this isn’t telling anyone to use force, every person is responsible on what they do, and though violence is natural the point is the comparison, that there seems setup being done to make everyone -but the cons and insiders, open to attack and theft or violence the same time dictate people tie their hands if they follow supposed ‘laws’.

In the same pot, mentioned before is the con of courts and ‘litigation privilege’ where predators and con lawyers are able to falsely label or accuse whatever, short of crime, and if they don’t include in causes of action it’s supposedly ‘ok’ even without evidence to bash at you to extort whatever they want. It’s the same as court papers are public and going to be further put online openly before long. If there is no truth to what is said it’s slanderous, defamatory, yet lawyers scribbling ‘laws’ claiming defamation is ‘only if’ blah blah, takes away ability, but keeps the extortion scheme, and pumps the predator world disorder.

Also noticed supposed ‘hacking’ that magically continues, which at this point between corporations, utility monopoly etc in my opinion adds to the scheme because no way anyone ‘hacks’ into those systems. The fake hackings to claim everyone’s info has been hacked so then can be further hacked and people stolen from by predators in the schemes. Similar con, lately noticed the utility monopoly in my area when you call the ‘recording’ before you talk to anyone now claims you’re subject to their ‘online privacy policies’, which if you look, allows them to share your name and info. Why is a supposed ‘utility’ dictating ‘online policies’ if you’re calling them and not ‘online’. For that matter, how is it they got to monopolize electricity. People are not paying attention. In my opinion the stuff is tied together, and it’s unfortunate people assume if they ‘go along’ ignoring they won’t be affected. They’re wrong about that.

Appreciate the article.

“You mean Clifford the Big Red Dog?”

No, I mean Clifford Brown, who was one of the first on this thread to belt out the “the ignorant, degenerate West” refrain so prominent in your own comment history. You thanked him for that comment yourself, but evidently you’ve already forgotten him. Do try and keep up, PhysicistDave; surely, you can catch up on on Clifford the Big Red Dog some other time.

And as for the name Quin-Zhi, which also perplexed you, here’s what looks to be (from the URL) page #5 of the “Quin-Zhi” listing on Facebook. For some reason, that fifth page was the first listing that came up on my search engine, but even so, the name seems pretty legitimately Chinese to me. Are you sure your in-laws are Chinese?

First, Trump fails to contest an election that any five-year-old could see was stolen. Next, he stands idly by while his loyal, indeed devoted supporters get locked away in Guantanamo-like conditions for walking into the Capitol at the invitation of the FBI and the Capitol police.

Now, doubtless at the prodding of mama’s boy Kushner, the Jew who does his thinking for him, Trump (who soon will be fatter even than William Howard Taft) tells the (((criminals))) who have been calumniating him and his millions of voters and supporters for nigh on a decade that he backs them in their efforts to make their never-ending war on white people and Christians go nuclear.

So thanks, meamjojo, for offering readers evidence that Trump is a 100 percent sellout to the Jews and hence as worthless a moron and liar as you yourself are.

Good read sir . Putin’s just dumb. He may be the best bureaucrat of Russia since Stalin but his tactics and strategies of war and propaganda efforts (as you note) are dumb. Why not even tell your troops you’re invading so they can properly prepare logistics and such? Surprise surprise Rooskie derp while Ukraine/US guessed right months ahead and prepared. Not to mention so nation can mobilize (or not)? I’d feel suckered into this at this point if were a Russian when he finally decides to mobilize for real. Bad for moral from the start. Why is he keeping NATO’s choice as Central Bank head? Ton of other blunders. I’m nominally pro-russian as in I believe I believe in multi-lateralism Russia and China are claiming to wish for to offset the Neo-liberal western borg which seeks to turn every society into a soulless low wage consumerism but Putin is the wrong man for the job period. Need a hard core Nationalist or Socialist.

“peterAUS” do you belong to a bellingcat brigade?
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-17/

The 2nd in command of Bellingcat [the MI6/CIA fat and ignorant cutout] said Russia would “collapse� by the coming Sunday, on March 4th.

The reality:

the US will continue to send weaponry to Ukraine, until there is no longer any Ukrainian soldier capable of wielding it. Russia will proceed to destroy these weapons before they reach the line of contact, and if they do they will be captured.

The US will resort to all kinds of mercenaries, including regular troops from its NATO satellites. The devastation of Europe, starting with the Eastern countries, will be inevitable. The decrepit colonial Europe, militarily occupied by the US since the end of WWII, will know the pains of being a colony. And it will discover itself as a disposable resource in the hands of its owner.

Conceived by Imperium as another Afghanistan for Russia, the war in Ukraine will become the new Vietnam for the US. On the wide horizon steppes of Ukraine, the US will lose its sense of perspective. And it will find itself with no way out.

There is no reason for Russia to be in a hurry. Not least because the war leads to a stalemate. We will come to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.

It is so touching and predictable that an admirer of Bandera followers (peterAUS) finds a receptive ear and understanding from a talmudist (j2).

White liberals love that.

They built it.

Let them fix it.

Wow this Punch Brother character goes on about how relentless Sandy Hook “truthers” are and how you should never engage them and what does he do–he engages them again and again and again. (I like the “fuck you” as well, I guess that’s the tell that he should have taken his own advice)

Oh and here’s Natalie Hammond giving a talk to a group of educators about her experiences on 12/14/12. This is a woman who supposedly saw 26 toddlers get massacred and she’s making quips about her shoes and how she had bacon that morning and felt unusually alert. Seems legit.

https://youtu.be/XXPkeLihYbo
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O MY GOSH

CBS Chicago
Whole Foods will be closing its store in Englewood, six years after opening a grocery store in what had once been a food desert on the South Side. CBS 2’s Tara Molina reports.

Many shocked as Englewood Whole Foods is set to close

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Everybody I have ever known that went to either Harvard or Yale, while firmly convinced of their own brilliance, was unimpressive.

Beyond the fact that the emperor obviously has no clothes—- it’s a joke.

One of the joys of the English Language is the multiple uses of words. One of the sub-texts of the hatred of Putin is his failure to sufficiently celebrate sodomites and similar. It makes me smile that the German decision to ban Russian coal inevitably means that in order to stay warm German’s will be reduced to burning faggots.

You forgot res, Travis, RegCæsar, Priss Factor and many more

Sounds good.

Though not apparent from this form, I believe that in Britain (and Scotland) there is no One Drop Rule.

Contra whatever you see on the BBC or Netflix there basically were no black people in Britain before the Windrush. A normal English person in the countryside would never have seen a black. In the cities outside London a rare sight–“oh a black fellow”. Discounting black American GIs posted during the War, estimates are in the range of at most 0.05% of the British population prior to 1948. The joint made Iowa look like Mississippi.

Literally too few blacks to even have a “rule”. But to the extent there was a rule, my guess was it was the same: if visibly black they are “black” and not suitable romantic interests for respectable people.

It’s hard to be perfectly insane.

Normally the general naivete and foolishness gives you a gestalt impression and you don’t remember the details. However, lately, the real go-getters have been putting in the work, really dedicating to leftism, and sounding completely batshit nutty. The regular naive and ignorant leftism sounds practically comfy by comparison.

That and leftist are almost always lying. However, getting outflanked to the left makes them start telling the truth a bit, to try to reign in their own extremism. Nobody genuinely thinks Communism is a good idea, not even Stalin or Pol Pot. They just think saying it’s a good idea might get them political power. And they’re not wrong, are they?

After reading Fetzer’s articles in the Duluth Reader, following the assassination of Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife by sabotaging and/or EMPing his airplane just a few days before he would have been returned to the Senate; I realized way back then that Fetzer was totally for real.

You are just speculating and pilpuling versus an honorable man who pointed out how that plane-crash was engineered by those who demanded that the righteous, universalist Jew was taken out of the picture.

So what is in the NATO-Russia Founding Act that undercuts Mearsheimer’s analysis?

The Act has no impact on NATO enlargement according to the linked fact sheet above. How might this have committed Russia to accept any and all NATO expansion? Maybe that’s not your point, in which I await news from you.

Smithtown, Long Island has a street named for its 17th-century founder’s lunch. Richard Smith, in the process (according to legend) of riding a bull for a day to delineate the borders of his namesake town, stopped to eat on the path that would become Bread and Cheese Hollow Road. Smith was from a wealthy English family in Southampton (LI, not UK), so was presumably quite accustomed to bread and cheese as a complete meal.

I remember how at the beginning the arms shipments to Ukraine all had to avoid German airspace, and how Germany was blocking other countries from sending German-made equipment to Ukraine. The German state was probably hoping Ukraine would have been finished off quickly so business as usual could be resumed.

That was before the invasion, and the latter part is just speculation. My impression is there was a general expectation Ukraine would fold quickly. US evacuated its diplomats, and all the talk was about supporting a guerrilla movement after a Russian invasion and occupation, not a regular war effort like now.

Though even those Gepards aren’t scheduled to be sent for a couple more months IIRC.

That’s true, but apart from political considerations there’s also the simple fact that Germany’s military is in a run-down state, e.g. they’ve got only about 100 of those armoured howitzers 2000. I suppose Germany could spare some, but this will also reduce Germany’s ability even more to react to any contingency.

Tailgating? Crimes against humanity. Shut it down immediately. Can’t have that.

Obviously democracy is a literally perfect system and any problem or cost, no matter how minor, is the result of not being democratic enough.

It was definitely a thing in the mid-nineties. I had a job that had me in college dorms and the freshman girls’ dorm was full of fat chicks. I mentioned it to a student and the “freshman 15” was an established pattern at that time.

Low fertility is the result of the banks offering mortgages based on two incomes. First the greedy took them up. Then everycouple had to have two incomes to afford the same house that one bought before. Eventually houses got bigger but not so much and now there are now children and no one to make them homes.

White. Middle class. Some migrants from Italy and Turkey – Hockenheim (20 000 inhabitants), where the F-1 race track is situated in Badenia/ southern Germany. Near Heidelberg.

Interesting thread, especially about the economic effects of the Black sea blockade:

Let’s talk about the state of the war and one of the most underreported yet crucially important issues:

Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports and resulting strangulation of the country’s economy 🧵

— Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) April 30, 2022

You’re mistaken. Russia would more than likely beat us in a conventional war at this point.

Agreed. It’s not a stretch to speculate that Russia already has full spectrum military dominance in any prospective conflict – especially if China is also factored into the equation.

Moreover, I believe the original commenter was also wrong about Russia’s capacity to compete economically with the USA (again, especially with China also factored in). Case in point, Russia is already shrugging off the combined economic attack of the Western world right now, and it’s the Empire that is in the process of crumbling – not Russia.

If we lived in a world without nuclear weapons, one could view it like that with equanimity, but I’m unwilling to dismiss the risk of a defeated Putin retaliating with nuclear weapons and taking much of the West down with him.

It’s a long ways to go to get to this point, and if the Ukrainian military were really to push the Russians this far back, I think somebody else in Russia would need to start looking at eliminating Putin. Things would go much more smoothly on Russia at any negotiating table without Putin around. If the war goes another 4-6 months, Russia’s economy will really start to feel all of the negative effects of the economic sanctions, it will become really messed up.

Things for humanity to do TODAY:

1. Investigate COVID-19….

2. Prosecute those who become identified as behind the crimes against humanity deception….

3. Punish those found guilty of premeditated mass murder to the fullest extent of the law, in a public manner to such an extent that future equally criminally-insane individuals will never attempt such an immeasurably destructive, murderous, cruel and ruthless covert operation ever again.

Peace.

Scottish Nationalists believe the not entirely false view that Scotland suffered from English hegemony in Britain. This belief has made them not anti-hegemony – they are true believers in the EU – but anti-English. This exemplifies the fact that people think ethnically.

When I first heard of them I thought “Scottish nationalists? I suppose they want to keep Scotland from going down the tubes with England and preserve it for the Scots. Cool. Good for them.” Then I read a bit about them. LOL.

An actual Scottish nationalist should sue them for false advertising. These clowns–the clownette in charge–want more immigration to Scotland. They want to destroy Scotland faster.

Truth in labelling they would be called SAG–Scottish Anti-English Globohomo.

Germany has been very slow and helpful mostly under extreme pressure. Not 100% useless but barely and grudgingly helpful, compared to the Eastern Europeans, Anglos, Scandinavians, etc. I remember how at the beginning the arms shipments to Ukraine all had to avoid German airspace, and how Germany was blocking other countries from sending German-made equipment to Ukraine. The German state was probably hoping Ukraine would have been finished off quickly so business as usual could be resumed.

But Germany is better now. Though even those Gepards aren’t scheduled to be sent for a couple more months IIRC.

Certainly I have ideas; withdrawing one’s labours being the most powerful idea I can think of in a capitalist economy ie. the western world. This is what I mean by “acceptable way� because it is legal and powerful.

I stated that this was not likely to happen because 50% of the workers live from pay check to pay check.

So that idea is useless.

Another idea that may be worth pursuing is to write a letter to your representative that lists your concerns. In its conclusion simply state that unless your concerns are addressed in a meaningful way, you will contribute and volunteer for one of the opposing candidates.

In no way will the electoral system play a part in the salvation of this country.

What ideas do you have, one that won’t get you killed or put into prison?

I’m in my upper seventies…I’m not going to do anything…except laugh at the dumb bastards that think voting will solve anything. Here is a hint the solution may well get many killed or put into prison…it depends on how far the Deep State wants to take it.

If there are not enough people in this country willing to die or be put in prison to save this country…then so be it.

Great reply! For a moment, I thought that I was reading a reply that I had wrote. 🙂 You really took off the gloves for this reply, and of all people it had to be German_ Reader (a commenter that we both respect here) that was on the opposing end. The exploits of the Ukrainian military must be inspiring you.

Russia has lost more men in a month than in the entire 20 year period the US was in Afghanistan. They have lost least a half dozen high ranking generals—unheard of for a professional military. They lost their flagship sea vessel. And the most important signal that things are going badly is that Putin and his acolytes are talking about using nukes more frequently every week.

The US Zionists’ dearest: “Declassification of documents exposing Banderite crimes”
https://www.voltairenet.org/article216718.html

The Russian government has declassified documents relating to the trials of banderites at the end of the Great Patriotic War (World War II).

These documents bring light to the atrocious war crimes perpetrated by the banderites against Ukrainian civilians, in 1944 and 1945, during the retreat of the Nazis faced with the advancing Soviet Army. In particular, a document from the ministry devoted to the eastern territories occupied by the Third Reich, headed by Alfred Rosenberg, uncovers a plan for the complete annihilation of the Donbass and its population by Nazi forces and their Banderite collaborators.

These events were ignored in present-day Ukraine. Indeed, since the end of the Second World War, the Banderites and the Nazis of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) have patiently rewritten the history of their country. Out of any reality, their version has become the current Holy Bible of the Ukrainians.

The ABN documents can be accessed on our site:
ABN Correspondence (en anglais) 1950-2000 https://www.voltairenet.org not /article216616.html
ABN Korrespondenz (en allemand) 1949-55
Ukrainian Quarterly (en anglais) 1944-85 https://www.voltairenet.org/article216622.html
Please send us any other documents that you might have.

The history of Banderites’s artrocities in Poland: https://justice4poland.com/2016/09/30/unthinkable-atrocities-of-banderites-which-the-polish-will-never-forget-18/

Polish website had collected 362 different examples of torture and brutality used by the “heroes of Ukraine� in the early 40’s of the last century against the Poles. Of course, all of these were used against the Russians, and in general against all who did not share the ideas of Bandera and refused to become an accomplice to the Nazi occupiers. But the Poles did a great job restoring the historical facts about the atrocities of the bad people from the UPA.

“There are no words to describe in just a few sentences the crimes committed by Ukrainian Nazis against the Poles in 1939-1947. The hatred that fuelled the killers, who would use such horrible methods to kill their victims, does not fit into human understanding.

Below is the result of years of research by Alexander Korman, who described 362 methods of physical and psychological torture inflicted by terrorists on the Poles by the OUN and the UPA… There were 39 methods of torture for small children alone.

Some pedigree:

https://www.voltairenet.org/article216622.html

Do you really believe this tripe? I bet you do. How much you must HATE being outdone by short-sighted

It’s about selection pressures. The Chinese have been selecting for certain traits for millennia, recommended reading ( Click MORE tag, I participated in the discussion in that comments thread here https://www.unz.com/runz/how-social-darwinism-made-modern-china-248/?showcomments#comment-1866207 ):

How Social Darwinism Made Modern China
Ron Unz • The American Conservative • March 11, 2013

Hey. Biden’s gotta get those poll numbers up somehow. If the war’s all Russia’s fault…

I believe the official EU actions against Russia are minimal and it is the national-level sanctions that go much further.

As a general rule, it is the reverse. The EU ‘sanctions’ are extreme but unenforceable. The bulk of Europe is quietly ignoring or openly repudiating EU overreach.

There are individual nations (e.g. Germany, Poland) working against European norms. They have more extreme policy than even the anti-European EU. However, it is focused on quashing internal actors.

PEACE 😇

For the record, there is zero evidence or reason to believe that a nuclear war would “kill everyone on earth.�

There are plenty of folks inside the Beltway who think the US can win a nuclear war with both China and Russia with a “bolt out of the blue� first strike. More than a few of them own property in Uruguay.

He’s trolling, but still:

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Now, some Putintards would, probably, think: “well, when YOU are so smart/smug/whatever, why don’t YOU say what would YOU advise RF top decision makers if asked the same question”.
Here it is: “Glad you’ve asked. I’d say I don’t know now. Had you asked me that very question in November last year I would’ve had a lot to say, of course. Not anymore, I am afraid.
I am more than content to simply watch this debacle keeping unfolding. For one reason only: maybe, just maybe, the kleptocracy in Kremlin gets replaced by something better.”

Sports too. Why should the fastest runner get the gold?

Our country, our beloved country, is in a sorry state. Illiterate Third World opportunists are being waved in across our borders

Two old limey interlopers sitting in a castle in Appalachia bitching about indigenous Americans coming “across our borders�. Is there a more despicable people than the English?? I can’t wait for Putin to nuke London!

It is entirely the Ukrainian government choice as to whether they want to keep fighting. They are highly motivated to do it; remember, everyone, including the Biden administration, expected them to fold within days of the invasion. I don’t expect them to “sue for peace” anytime soon.

The medieval peasant regarded a wheat field much in the same way that a home gardener today regards his strawberry patch, casually picking the ripest and reddest berries for his own use and leaving the rest to the birds.

Fortunately for us, the intelligent and conscientious peasants made the most of their fields, had more food–than the stupid and lazy–left behind more surviving children, who generally found more intelligent and conscientious mates … and hence created the European race that built the glories of Western civilization, including mathematics and modern science. (Which intelligent Europeans–e.g. Thomas Malthus–could use to build mathematical models to explain what they saw around them.)

At least they are teaching the students Catch 22:
You need a math degree to be able to choose which assignments get the most weight.
But you can’t get a math degree unless you choose which assignments get the most weight.

the power if grading scales is that it enables one to pace some kind of measure on the work so that a student knows or has some idea what will be required to improve should they need to do so

it enables less endowed students to work harder

it also aides instructors to advise students what they specifically need to do to improve

“Putin has zero interest in the future of the American people… Undermining ZOG to the extent where historical changes materialize will only give us new enemies. No one is coming to save you.”
— Comments:
1. According to your post, don’t touch ZOG! or we will have “new enemies.” Who exactly are these perspective “new enemies?”
2. Who is supposed to “save you?” Could you put your sweet pacifier aside and become an adult? The Zionized US is a gangster state feeding on the blood and flesh and stolen wealth of the weaker countries. It seems that you are fine with the status quo and want the mass slaughter and massive looting to continue uninterrupted to feel good.

Russia cares not about the US and will be happy to cut off all ties to the rotten empire. Russians have their problems to solve. Just leave them alone. It is the rotten Empire of Lies and Hypocrisy, which has been annoying and attacking Russia.

“We don’t take back our nations by being conquered.” — You mean, you are not aware that “our nations” (the western civilization) are already conquered? Have you heard about MIC and holobiz?

I am class of 1970

Hey, so was I. I wonder if we knew each other in person. Probably not, unless you lived in Bexley (which, by the way, did officially go coed sometime in the early 70s).

Who would want to go to a brain surgeon if they attended this University?

You (Ron Unz) say that “5 million people” have died from “Covid-19” – but this is a condition (“Covid-19”) which no-one is able to define. They just say that the condition is generic symptoms of disease – a cough, fever, ‘brain fog’, tiredness, and all other generic symptoms. There aren’t any distinct signs of the C-19 condition that present in autopsy results. This means there is no evidence of any condition “Covid-19”, and you are talking rubbish.

You might as well as say the ‘evil spirits from the forest’ – as detected via a PCR test which highlights the presence of a meaningless sequence of 200 RNA base pairs – have caused 5 billion deaths. The symptoms that the ‘evil spirits’ induce are all the genetic symptoms that humans commonly exhibit – high temperature, coughing, paleness, heart problems and so on.

This is a scam like Witch Doctors operate. They identify a terrible single malevolent entity that is capable of causing all illness in humans, and then offer a remedy to it. A scientific approach is to observe distinct conditions – distinct sets of symptoms that present in distinct sequences perhaps – and then try to work out the cause of these specific conditions (e.g. Measles, Dengue Fever, etc). In contrast, the ‘Covid-19’ condition has never been defined so we can’t say it exists.

I don’t know what one does with a Philosophy degree.

I imagine that that’s a question a Philosophy Graduate can spend the rest of their life considering.

What else would one expect from a “Professor� Greenspun?

But this is what is being denied, unconstitutionally, by the addition of Article 130, a special law that supersedes constitutional law on one subject only — insulting or harming Jews, or the so-called ‘incitement of the public’ exception.

In its rulings in everything from e.g. the s.g. ‘Eurorettung’ to the ‘Erhöhung des Rundfunkbeitrags’, the Bundesverfassungsgericht has shown itself to be more of a political than a judicial body: it literally always rules the way the government wants it to rule — so I don’t think they would ever rule against anything in §130 (link).

This exception is what should be attacked because it’s on very shaky ground. In fact, it doesn’t seem to me to have any real support whatsoever.

What kind of ‘support’ do you mean? — as I said above, I think the political, judicial, and media establishments fully support §130 — and I can tell you that §130, as well as prosecutions that take place due to it, enjoy wide support among ordinary Germans — e.g. when Monika Schaefer was arrested in München (while attending the trial of Sylvia Stolz), I read German media reports of her arrest, including those of outlets located in München and Bayern — when commenting was possible, all of the comments were of the ‘lock her up and throw away the key’ variety.

In this context, the judicial Abkommen that resulted in the prosecution of John Demjanjuk, and later others, is also worth noting: basically, as part of §130 related ‘Holocaust’ dogma, German courts simply stipulate that Jews were murdered in a camp during some time period; this cannot be disputed and need not be proved — once it is established that someone was employed at the camp during this time period, no matter in what capacity, that person is charged with Beihilfe zum Mord — note it need not be proven that the defendant had anything to do with, or even knew about, the alleged killings — conviction is a foregone conclusion, but they always hold a show trial, which usually consists of the extremely elderly defendant (like Ursula, most have been in their 90s) expressing regret and asking for forgiveness, while Jews, both ‘survivors’ as well as relatives of supposed victims, berate the defendant in court.

German civil society is, to some extent, both dominated and corrupted by the ‘Holocaust’.

I believe the official EU actions against Russia are minimal and it is the national-level sanctions that go much further.

The demands will be very much greater now.

Like a Kherson PR, then a Zaporoje PR, then a Nikolaev PR, then a Dniepropetrovsk PR, then a Kharkov PR, then an Odessa PR, etc.

Similarly “you must pay in rubles� is dumb symbolism.

How is it dumb? And the strategy seems to be more than symbolic. By forcing gas/oil importers to pay for Russian gas/oil in Rubles Russia is compelling the west to sell products to Russia, products (advanced technology) that the west at this moment would rather not sell to Russia. “You want Rubles? We will give you Rubles, but sell us those advanced industrial controllers, chip manufacturing infrastructure, etc that we will pay for with Rubles…” Seems like a smart move by Russia. Why accept payment in US dollars when the US state will end up stealing it anyway? What do I know about economics, though.

FYI

Warren Buffett just made fun of malcolm gladwell for his 10k hour rule during today shareholder meeting.

Guess you might be interested.

FACT # 2: A particular country in east Asia saw their currency appreciate rapidly year after year Vs the USD for around five decades after WWII with NO negative consequences for its auto industry. In fact, quite the opposite, it’s auto industry powered ahead.

I refer of course to the nation of Japan.

That’s because Japanese car manufacturers have been building lots of their cars outside of Japan for decades (Click MORE tag, to read below, for example, how they are taking advantage of Mexican Peso weakness, despite having to pay higher wages (US$16/hour minimum for over 40% of auto parts) now, due to USMCA), chronological order:

Make Twitter Great Again?

Criminalize Self-Hate Speech.

If Uncle Toms and Self-Loathing Jews are scum, so are self-hating whites.

Thanks, AP. I should clarify, however, what I meant about the US and the UK not being the same as in 1940.

The demographics for the US are of course quite different now. I think for the worse.

There are currently 204 million white Americans, out of a total US population of 330 million (not that non-whites are of zero military value).

In 1939 the total population of the USA was 131 million. And America’s military built up quite a lot compared to 1939. In 1939 the US army had 174,000 soldiers. Today it has 485,00 soldiers. This does not count reserves or national guard.

UK has 67 million people compared to 46 million in 1939. It’s military is probably worse now, though it does have its own nukes.

USSR had 168 million people in 1939. Russian federation has only 145 million. It is now at war with what had been the second most populous part of the USSR. Its military, though better than it had bee in the 90s, is worse than it had been in 1939. In 1939 the Red Army numbered 1.8 million soldiers. Today’s Russia’s ground forces numbered 285,000 troops (this does not include national guard or reserves).

So compared to 1939, Russia is in a much worse position vis a vis the Anglo world in terms of both populations and military might. Not even close.

First and foremost, people in the US and UK, ie the Anglosphere, where much of this is emanating from, should refuse and stand down in regards to any support for this war.

US and UK should not be directly or openly involved but they should provide maximum assistance to Ukraine as long as Russian troops are on Ukrainian soil (and make clear that once Russia is chased away from Ukraine support will no longer be necessary as the task will have been achieved). Provide what Soviets provided for Vietnam (they gave Vietnam around 400 Migs). Turn Ukraine into a woodchipper for Russian soldiers where Russia will get bloodied for going where it does not belong, until Russia chooses to pull its hand out of the machine. It will thus be completely Russia’s choice, how much of its soldiers and expensive equipment it wants to waste. Ukraine and its western-supplied arms aren’t going into Russia (except in rare cases on the border, linked to the invasion of Ukraine), Russia is getting its people and equipment wasted in Ukraine in a way that is totally of Russia’s choosing.

American education—and also institutions that depend on the intellectual ability of its members, such as NASA—now exist entirely to put on a farce that “hidden figures” with an IQ of 80 are super-smart and should be given credit not only for the scant achievements of the present but also for the more impressive achievements of the past.

Let me disabuse any American nationalist that may be still hanging around these parts: the US will not survive. No polity can embrace the insane and destructive ideology that has come to rule the US and survive. What’s more, the world will be better off once the US is gone. White Americans will also be better off as long as they awake sufficiently to ward off roving bands of cannibal Negroes.

and the German state

Germany sent Stinger missiles and anti-tank weapons almost immediately after the invasion.
Apparently things like this as well:

#Ukraine: More previously unknown Western military aid to Ukraine is being unveiled – it appears that Germany delivered pretty rare PARM DM22 HEAT off-route anti-tank mines, which can strike enemy vehicles with fin stabilized rockets up 100 meters away. pic.twitter.com/rmXRx57Pmt

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 25, 2022

They’ve also sent Patriot batteries to Slovakia, so Slovakia will send its S-300 system to Ukraine, and similar arrangements are planned with Slovenia and T-72-like tanks. And now they’re even intending to send German Gepard anti-air tanks to Ukraine.
imo this entire “Germany isn’t supporting Ukraine at all, yet financing Russia’s war” narrative is nothing more than a fairly cynical media campaign.

One interesting topic raised by the discussion is the need for the “unifying myths” for white folks.

I agree they are only made possible through struggle.

The current white youth are divided, confused, misled.

Unfortunately they have not even hit bottom yet–and I think the struggle cannot even start in earnest until that has happened.

We are just living in bizarro times–where the craziest sociopaths rule virtually every large institution in the West.

The myths and statues will be of those who rebuild after the inevitable crash–not those who got in the way of the falling knives during it.

There are levels of dysfunction. You are right, since the ruling liberalism is concentrated everywhere in the biggest cities, a nuclear war would – among other things – move the political spectrum dramatically to the conservative side. Now, there is a thought…

«Russia was much less prepared to sanctions then so the Kremlin didn’t risk a total war, despite that they could have won then. »

That too, but most importantly the context was the 2008 defense of south-Ossetia from Saakashvili’s war of aggression: even if the georgian forces were mostly a rabble of far-right extremist ethnic-cleansers, the Russian Federation forces had considerable difficulties pushing them back, and the war showed how disorganised and weak the Russian Federation military has become.

I guess that it took a long time to re-train and re-organize them and make them more effective, and they were not ready in 2014.

AD, when I was a kid I loved going to our friend’s working farm where I could spend all day driving a tractor. I only remember seeing one rat and a few rabbits that I ran over with the disc harrow. What type of soil harbors that many rats?

HA,

I picked you at random. I could have equally well picked PhysicistDave or several other commentators here. At this point so many people are making personal attacks on each other that it is difficult to figure out what they actually think about the war in the Ukraine.

The posts that people make here will have no effect on what happens in the war. They do have a big effect on the quality of discussion on the Unz review. The more intense and personal comments get the less willing posters become to consider the merits of other peoples arguments. The Unz site has a remarkable commitment to making sure that viewpoints that are not represented in the Main Stream Media. As posters we can help support this by accompanying it with intelligent and reasonable debate and not making it sound like the corridor of a lunatic asylum where inmates scream insults at each other from padded cells whose walls are smeared with their faeces. Try to ignore personal attacks. This gets more difficult as debate heats up.

So next time, I think you can pick a better target to pick on. I’m not offended by you choosing to pick on me this time around, but let me point out that that DOES say something about where your personal preferences lie in all this as well, like it or not, and that’s grist for the mill. You’ve just made it so. The abyss stares back.

Not sure about the abyss metaphor, this seems a bit over stated.

For the record my views on war in Ukraine are:

-the United States and the west have a lot of responsibility for this mess. There is a strain of Russophobia in the west that made them interfere irresponsibly in the Ukraine both during and before the 2014 uprising. This is particularly tragic as Putin started his rule as someone who was relatively pro Western by Russian standards. If we had been more reasonable 20 years ago this mess could have been avoided and the West, the Ukraine and Russia would all be much better off. Russia is a natural ally.

-Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a horrible mistake. It has made relations with Ukraine unsalvagable and increased their traditional Russophobia, to say nothing of lives lost on either side.

-Putin describing the Ukrainians as Nazis is both untrue and unhelpful. They may have accepted the participation of the Azov battalion, given the odds that they faced they could not afford to be picky. Once you describe your opponents as Nazis it it difficult to negotiate with them, they will be insulted and your supporters with see negotiations as a sell out.

-the Russian push toward Kiev was a severe military set back for them. I am not sure about how they are doing in the south and west. It may be too soon to say.

-Russian forces committed some atrocities during the push towards Kiev. It is unclear if they were systematic and came from the top or were the result of indiscipline at a lower level. There is evidence that most Russian units behaved correctly towards Ukrainian civilians and that the atrocities were committed by units including but not limited to Chechens.

-Scott Ritters sex life has no bearing whatsoever on his opinions as a military commentator. I have no idea if he is any good being a military commentator though.

-I would like to see a compromise settle the war as quickly as possible. I am more and more pessimistic about this happening.

Irony alert.

meamjojo the Hasbara Hack tags Putin a “dipshit” contrasted with failed Rock-n-Roller Blinken (and presumably porn artist noZ-Elensky).

EightSevenEight, and you know this how?

«all playing A destabilizing game to maintain dominance over the potential of a dynamic modern Russia»#

It is Brzinski’s game, and before him that of Pilsudski:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheism
«Prometheism or Prometheanism (Polish: Prometeizm) was a political project initiated by Józef PiÅ‚sudski, statesman of the Second Polish Republic from 1918 to 1935. Its aim was to weaken the Russian Empire and its successor states, including the Soviet Union, by supporting nationalist independence movements among the major non-Russian peoples that lived within the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union. Between the World Wars, Prometheism and PiÅ‚sudski’s other concept, of an “Intermarium federation”, constituted two complementary geopolitical strategies for him and for some of his political heirs. […] Marshal PiÅ‚sudski, who as early as 1904, in a memorandum to the Japanese government, pointed out the need to employ, in the struggle against Russia, the numerous non-Russian nations that inhabited the basins of the Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas»

Why do you mad antisemites do it?

Why do people sling “antisemite” slur when the facts eviscerate all rational refutation?

oh.
this is WizofOz, not rational people.

You aren’t using your imagination. These bastards are such sick bastards they are giving Ukraine weapons to increase the max carnage. Nobody in power gives one bloody booger if all of Ukraine, Kiev, Lvov is obliterated.

Again, the purpose of the WEF Elites is the maximization is MENA refugees flows. Infidel Ukrainians & Russians are 100% expendable. Kiev, Sebastopol, Lviv, Sochi… if they fall to carnage that is an acceptable price for making the EU less European.

I know that neither side’s partisans want to hear it, but the TRUTH is the TRUTH. The fighting between Ukraine & Russia was deliberately engineered from the outside. It is a relatively tiny piece of a much larger struggle.

PEACE 😇

Travellers are often called gypsy/Roma in Britain. The actual Romani have only recently started immigrating to Britain.

«I was helping this Ukranian girl to get her giant luggage off the train in Stuttgart beginning of April, and she only knew English, not German. Turns out, Germany is helping them relocate»

Germany has a huge natality problem, and german business and real estate owners want a lot more immigrants to keep wages low and rents high. Their fathers and grandfathers have been telling them how much money they made from turkish immigrants in the 50s and 60s, and they want to repeat that opportunity.

The transition from merit based grading to the ‘dumb down’ system of no accountability in education started in the 50’s. So who can we blame?

Are you going psychotic again? Let it go, I was joking about the hot-oven dwellers of Finland.

By the way, how do you know how “large” the “leased” Soviet base would be? Wouldn’t it be extremely vulnerable? More of a target than a threat? Kind of like a Nato base on the Azov See? Those who don’t learn from history will repeat it…

You are absolutely correct about the German intellectuals and the German state but our German Reader is better than them, he at least supports arming Ukraine.