NATO was formed to keep US in Europe, to confront Russia (really to defeat it), and to hold Germany down. It never achieved much militarily, the only wars NATO fought were against Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan – all of them disasters in their own way. But NATO has been commercially and politically very successful – maybe precisely because it avoided taking on stronger countries like Russia.

Then NATO lost the sense of proportion and ignored the reality they are not a powerful offensive military – with no willing troops, shaky home fronts, and in Europe no arms industry. It was all about seminars, speeches, empty slogans, “collaboration” meetings, very pointless stuff in a real war. Today they are facing an un-winnable cul-de-sac: fight a war with Russia over Ukraine (probably without much help from the US) or surrender. No wonder the EU leaders look like chickens running around a shrinking yard, yelling, threatening, but deep inside they know they lost.

Today NATO keeps Russia in Europe, destroys vassals like Ukraine, and holds all of Europe down. Good job morons. All they had to do was sit on the advantage and not take the silly slogans so seriously.

The eager incompetence of true devotees is what destroys ideologies. Christianity had witch-hunts and Jesuits, socialists-commies had maniacs dreaming of abolishing property and markets, fascism went too far seeking an imagined ethnic unity and purity. Liberalism is failing because they took the openness too far – they imported and applied it to everything and tried to export it with wars. But liberals can’t really fight – that’s why they are liberals.

If everything is open there is no hole. We know from physics if there is no hole there is nothing.

NATO was formed to keep US in Europe, to confront Russia (really to defeat it), and to hold Germany down. It never achieved much militarily, the only wars NATO fought were against Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan – all of them disasters in their own way. But NATO has been commercially and politically very successful – maybe precisely because it avoided taking on stronger countries like Russia.

Then NATO lost the sense of proportion and ignored the reality they are not a powerful offensive military – with no willing troops, shaky home fronts, and in Europe no arms industry. It was all about seminars, speeches, empty slogans, “collaboration” meetings, very pointless stuff in a real war. Today they are facing an un-winnable cul-de-sac: fight a war with Russia over Ukraine (probably without much help from the US) or surrender. No wonder the EU leaders look like chickens running around a shrinking yard, yelling, threatening, but deep inside they know they lost.

Today NATO keeps Russia in Europe, destroys vassals like Ukraine, and holds all of Europe down. Good job morons. All they had to do was sit on the advantage and not take the silly slogans so seriously.

The eager incompetence of true devotees is what destroys ideologies. Christianity had witch-hunts and Jesuits, socialists-commies had maniacs dreaming of abolishing property and markets, fascism went too far seeking an imagined ethnic unity and purity. Liberalism is failing because they took the openness too far – they imported and applied it to everything and tried to export it with wars. But liberals can’t really fight – that’s why they are liberals.

If everything is open there

Sorry, it posted twice.

The degradation of NATO may be another example of the feminization (emasculation) of Western society after the fall of the USSR.

I’d like to see a competitor to youtube that blocked two things:
1.) AI slop
2.) Trannies: no thumbnails, no visuals, no audio

Watched The Boy and the Heron (2023) and found it to be kind of “meh.”

The real heft of the movie was the last ten minutes or so. But it didn’t really do a good job of leading up to that. A lot of it felt random or cliched and directionless. Made me think a lot of other films I’ve seen. It was too abstract, with too little grounding, IMO. Hard to understand the allegory beyond the fact that the parakeets were supposed to be fascists.

I don’t think it made a good use of the seven years it took to produce.

I know WW2 was an important event for Japan, but really think too many of their animated films are grounded in it. Each one invites comparisons. The films that segway out of it (like this one) seem trivial compared to the ones that focus on it.

Walmart launches chicken-delivering drones in Atlanta.

NATO was formed to keep US in Europe, to confront Russia (really to defeat it), and to hold Germany down.

Looking at the 1950’s map, NATO had a logical formation. The addition of Greece and Turkey was a tad ambitious, but it made a great deal of sense for securing the Mediterranean. It was meant to counter the threat of Soviet block expansion.

The proper organization to look at as a contrast to NATO is the Warsaw Pact. The USSR was obviously the strongest member, but it combined many countries including East Germany.

But NATO has been commercially and politically very successful – maybe precisely because it avoided taking on stronger countries like Russia.

The coordination of member states to common standards makes a huge amount of sense for logistics. 5.56mm NATO may not be the best round in a technical sense, but delivering unusable ammo is a guaranteed loss.

NATO is supposed to be a defensive arrangement. It really cannot “take on” anyone. Member states have occasionally misused both UN and NATO colors as a fig leaves in attempts to deflect blame, but with little success. Wasn’t the Libya mission approved by UNSC?

Then NATO lost the sense of proportion

NATO really did not have a mission after the end of the Warsaw Pact and breakup of the USSR. The smart move would have been ending NATO and coming up with a new structure that would include Russia. Because this was not done, inertia carried NATO to be in opposition to Russia. That bad logic led to unnecessary & provocative NATO expansions.

Today they are facing an un-winnable cul-de-sac: fight a war with Russia over Ukraine (probably without much help from the US) or surrender. No wonder the EU leaders look like chickens running around a shrinking yard, yelling, threatening, but deep inside they know they lost.

I concur.

It is best to focus on the European troika (Germany, France, UK). The term EU is a bit muddy as it includes Hungary and excludes the UK.

Supporting Kiev regime aggression against Russian ethics has backfired. European leaders killed the Minsk Agreements and the Istanbul talks that could have avoided the current dilemma. Now the European troika is stuck holding the bag for their misjudgments. It boils down to two questions.

-1- What are the European troika’s “win” conditions?
-2- What is the troika’s military plan to get there?

There is no viable military plan to seize everything to 2014 borders including Crimea. Yet we keep hearing about that as their “win” objective.

The European troika needs to reevaluate the situation. Moscow is not going to fold. The Russia economy while not great keeps chugging along. Combat aged Ukrainian men are claiming asylum in Europe at record rates, tens of thousands per month.

Which troika leader will fall out first? Macron looks weakest. However, Merz and Starmer also face precarious domestic situations. All three are unpopular with their own people. Starmer is under 50% with Labor voters.
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Multicultural Globalism has failed as an ideology.
Judeo-Christian Populism is on the rise in Europe.

Is it in time? Or, will there be a disaster first?

PEACE 😇

Update

Almost the entire bulk of Part I of Dave Collum’s 2024 Year in Review is not worth close reading. He is LARPing there as an economics investment guru and not a succinct style.

But I would recommend reading all of the Covid virus and experimental gene medicine part.

https://peakprosperity.com/2024-year-in-review-what-is-a-fact-part-ii/#covid

He took the jab and he claims Cornell made him do it. I did not take the jab but I still think I had at least a 50-50 shot at getting a doctor to sign off on my exemption claim. I have a dynamite story. It doesn’t come across in text and in any case it is rather tedious but all persons who have heard it in person bought it.

I believe that the Covid-19 vaccines maimed and killed more people than did the virus. The lying by the authorities makes them accomplices to crimes against humanity. Without fundamental changes at the highest levels of the biomedical community, I will never take another vaccine. Nobody knows what’s in them.

Now see I think this part is not credible. If they were hauling away half our neighbors in Monty Python Bring Out Your Dead wagons (in 1919-20 they were doing this in Philadelphia and Louisville and a couple other hard-hit American cities) a lot of us would be getting in line to get their jab.

Mass “labour mobility” thriving continued in RF;)

NEW DELHI, December 5. /TASS/. Russia will be able to accept an unlimited number of specialists from India as part of a labor mobility agreement with India, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov told TASS.

He confirmed that an agreement on labor mobility was signed during the Russian-Indian summit in New Delhi.

“We are ready to accept an unlimited number [of Indians]. For the manufacturing industries alone, we need at least 800,000 more people on top of the existing [number],” he said.

“As for trade, for example, that would require another 1.5 million people. The service sector, construction. I think we have scope for cooperation,” he said.

Manturov, however, noted that “this won’t happen in a year.” “There are definitely jobs, in terms of the time it will take to, let’s say, adapt and make decisions about collecting information about who will be sent, when, and to which employers,” he emphasized.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/25830813

Russia has friends everywhere.

Russia and India Just Pulled Off a Geopolitical Masterstroke: RELOS

Why did India suddenly fast-track the RELOS pact right before Putin’s visit?

A Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Support pact.

Think of it as a military friendship treaty:

India ↔ Russia can use each other’s bases

Refuel, repair, rearm

Use ports, airfields, spare parts

Faster deployment

Cheaper operations

Wider reach without building bases everywhere

Basically: strategic support + military mobility + deep trust.

Russia fits perfectly:

Consistent partner for 50+ years

No anti-India agenda

Strong navy & technology

Independent from Western/NATO alignment

Russia has friends everywhere.

Geopolitical Masterstroking 101 – kill and maim own native labour in hundred thousands then import foreign labour in millions for the sake of having friends everywhere;)

Quantity of public obituaries found in RF during 2024-2025 :

Volunteers monitoring publications about deceased SMO members reported a new record: 10,390 obituaries were found in November alone—the highest figure ever recorded.
It is estimated that public reports cover half of the cases, with actual losses potentially reaching 300,000–350,000.

https://twitter.com/SA61W/status/1995541468790788597

You go to Germany, Russian friends come to Lithuania.

Seems like a excellent plan.

Even Gaebrielius Landsbergis is literally now living next to Karlin.

Gaebrielius moved to California as soon as he could.

Gaebrielius knows the fate that awaits Gae’d Lietuva.

As do you.

I think I forgot to share the final round of U.S. motorsport back in October.

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Consider this a late/early gift ???

🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄

Go to r/Lithuania and check the reactions to this. It’s very positive because most people in Gae’d Lietuva are against Middle Eastern and African immigrants.

Where in the other hand there’s a stereotype about how South Asians are hard working and polite.

You need to understand Gae’d Lietuva’s immigration policy.

How do you think Gaebrielius earned his Golden ticket to California so quickly?

Tim Walz should follow the good example of Jacob Frey and try to acclimate himself to Somali food, before being plopped down there.

Since he is a fat fscker the weight loss couldn’t hurt.

Joe Rogan prefaces with “this is a stupid take but I don’t care”.

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The second coming of Jesus is going to be an AI robot.

I agree it is a stupid take.

Scroll to t=10134s or 2:48:54

JR needs to cut his dosage. A lot.

You might want to look at this if you have not already seen it.

https://www.unz.com/runz/donald-trump-and-the-alt-right/#comment-7408258

Another video game idea: an HBD version of Street Fighter.

Character intros including not just blood type (as in original), but haplogroup and skulltype, archaic admix, etc.

More exotic characters, including a Pygmy, an Abo, a Samoan, etc.

Character stages, which attempt to tie into evolved traits in some manner. Like the Gypsy’s stage is just a random other character’s stage, with Gypsies rolled up to it in the background and picking people’s pockets.

A protoganist modeled on a Victorian race-scientist, who only wants to fight so he can befriend new people and measure them with calipers.

An arch villain character who is a blank-slatist, modeled on Gould, who denies each groups different traits and who wants to blend all people together.

73% of lesbos want a women-only planet. What if you disaggregated butches from that?

https://twitter.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1997171810534871346?s=20

Thanks, I had not seen this comment. From this perspective is Pizzagate (as presented by Q) a limited hangout or simply fake?

I don’t know. It’s not a subject I have followed except by accident. I would say it is a rumor. It is a rumor element of the same set as {Oprah Winfrey, Lebron James, Barack Obama @ Diddy freak offs}.

I did do a shallow examination of elite pedos recently going as deep as looking at several items that google search returned to me. I started by re-reading on a whim the Jon Rapoport Ellis Medavoy interview which is an interesting document. It could be straight; one or both of them could be reciting complete bull crap; Medavoy might be intentionally dispersing an intelligence agency smokescreen. In any case there is quotable material in there.

For example this is the most succinct recitation of the metaphysics theory I can recall:

We
are
the
inheritors
of
Power.

It
falls
to
us
to
do
whatever
we
want
to.

For
other
people
the impulses
must
be
checked,
but
we
are
allowed
to
indulge
completely
our
own
impulses.

You
see?

We
owe
it
to
ourselves
to
indulge
our
whims.

It’s
part
of
the
obligation
of
Power.

It
is
how
we
pass
through
all
the
illusions
of
morality
and
come
out
the
other
side,
into
the
bright
light
of
truth. Everyone
else
must
have
morality,
because
they
are
all
crazy.

Without
morality,
they
would
commit
murder
on
the
streets.

But
we
are
the
ultimately
sane
ones,
and
in
order
to
become
fully
sane,
we must
systematically
set
about
destroying
our
old
rules
and
restraints
and
teachings.

Only
in
this
way
can
we
achieve
our
full
potential.

There is scant documentation in the form of sworn testimony and court case evidence. The best documentation is in the category of The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant. I own this book but I only have skimmed it and several years ago at that. Medavoy’s info comes in a discussion of the Jonbenet Ramsey murder case. A novelist and screenwriter and amateur detective (Donald Freed) has an analysis of the case where he starts only from the documented timeline.

Search on Jonbenet Ramsey in the Medavoy interview if you are interested. It is not long.

https://pearl-hifi.com/11_Spirited_Growth/10_Health_Neg/04_Pandemics/01_AIDS/Rappoport__Ellis_Medavoy_Interviews_291pgs.pdf

Donald Freed has not published his analysis but there is an interview he did with a radio news guy.

https://www.evanravitz.com/ramsey/freed.htm

Another angle at the same data is on cavdef.

https://cavdef.org/w/index.php?title=JonBenet_Ramsey_murder

Another case with a large amount of documentation is the Belgium Marc Dutroux case. This guy has dozens of citations.

https://isgp-studies.com/belgian-x-dossiers-of-the-dutroux-affair

Qanon and pizzagate are both black holes if you ever wanted to cite something for any kind of argument if you ask me.

IIRC for making some specific measurement instruments only pre-1945 made metal is suitable, because it was not tainted with some very microscopic effects from atmospheric nuclear fallout when forged, so to be somewhat sure than any human creation is free from AI input maybe only pre-2024 originated material will be suitable from now on.

And preferably only those which were available in some physical form pre-2024, cause even earlier only internet circulated creations can be also altered by AI.

On Dwarkesh Patel’s Second Interview With Ilya Sutskever

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-second-interview

This is about the best information I have seen lately. LLM’s have hit the wall. More data and more computers and more power plants look futile but apparently this is the best idea Capital has got now and for the foreseeable future. If you are confused or dazed why all those people are ranting about how this is like 1929 all over again you might be able to figure this out by reading between the lines of this blog post. If you have a good A one it may be able to translate from the high IQ autistic English.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

May your team win all their games.

The head of the EU foreign policy (previously, a Soviet woman, she is a daughter of a Soviet government official) called Kallas*, was a guest of the Doha forum, in Qatar.

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It’s not a secret, many Europe’s leaders are corrupt people who will sell “Western values” in exchange for a barrel of oil

But, she is not in “Moscow forum”? She doesn’t go to Russia, even though Moscow would have more money to pay her than Doha. Even though relatively, far more Western values in Moscow, than in Doha. And Moscow has less negative influence on Europe than Qatar and probably less hostile intentions.

Why does she go to Doha, but to go to Moscow is forbidden? What’s the notable thing which you think from this and who is the one to blame?

It’s an example of the multi-decades of incompetence from Putin and all the Russian government, in relation to national interests, and the relatively higher intelligence of Arab leaders, in relation to their ideological goals.

Even when European leaders are corrupt and have no real interest in Western values, Moscow was still incompetent enough to fail to influence them. While Arab leaders just by using more skillful methods and not necessarily more money, have far more control and influence in Europe than Moscow even before 2014.

Something similar can be describe in the economic sphere, relative to resource exporting Arab monarchies.

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*Currently part of an anti-corruption investigation.

Was just thinking recently it is amazing how derivative almost everything created by people is. The bad stuff, certainly – but even or especially the good stuff. Perhaps, a true work of genius is just the smallest innovation.

To add some context, I copy paste the automatic translation of a message by a user on a Hebrew language Israeli forum.

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“While the “Trump Russia” scandal was promoted by CNN, which has no validity, the Doha forum was had Western leaders, media influencers and elites, without any critical article from CNN, which has obsessed about alleged “Moscow influence”.”

“A $50 million investment by Doha led to a ban on criticism of Newsmax. CNN built a news center in Doha. Al Jazeera (funded by Qatar) avoided negative reporting on Doha.”

“While the fake Trump Russia scandal was popular in America, in the Trump administration, the money was not from Moscow.”

“Jared Kushner: Asked Doha for half a billion dollars to save 666 Fifth Avenue (a $1.8 billion financial failure). After being refused, Kushner supported the Saudi-UAE boycott of Qatar. In 2019, a Qatari company paid $1.2 billion for a 99-year lease on the property – a month before the mortgage payment.”

“Park Lane Hotel Deal: Qatar purchased the Park Lane Hotel in New York ($623 million) from Steve Vitkov (founder of the Vitkov Group, a Trump diplomat), which was a financial failure. Qatar is also investing in other Vitkov projects through the Apollo Group. Vitkov helped secure a $400 million jet from Qatar for Trump, and Bondi wrote a draft that legally approved it.”

“Pam Bondi’s lobbying: Received $15,000 a month from Qatar while working as a lobbyist, including arranging meetings with senior officials. Now, as Attorney General, she is responsible for approving deals like the plane deal, and under her, enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) will be weakened.”

“Lee Zeldin: Previously criticized Qatar’s influence on research institutes, but after being recruited by a company owned by a Qatari prince, he stopped criticizing. Now heads the EPA.”

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When you read about this, it’s another example of the higher competence and intelligence of the Arab leaders, at least relative to the stated goals, especially compared to the incompetent* leaders of Russia and Ukraine, although which is an example of a low bar, the Arabs are also more competent than most Western leaders.

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*Relative to their stated goals, of course, from the personal financial point of view they are not necessarily worse than Arab princes.

Indians are great workers, but the salaries for working class jobs are very low in Russia, so the delta of Russian salaries in relation to India, is only around 2x-3x.

While in Europe/North America, the working class salaries are more like 10x compared to India.

The salaries in India and Russia (including Moscow, Peter etc)/Ukraine/Belarus are a lot closer to each other, than to salaries in Europe/North America.

So, we can assume, mostly only Indian potential immigrant workers who would fail to access USA/Europe (for example, cannot attain H-1B visa requirements or critical skills permits) will go to Russia.

There will be relatively negative selection for Indian workers in Russia, when you access mainly the potential immigrants workers in India who couldn’t immigrate to Europe/USA. It’s not going to be equivalent rates of the talented Indians in the West.

I like it, Goldwitz has captured the women of the different peoples and now want to blend them into a single race of cattle. The winner takes all. FIGHT!

These AI people are happily and aggressively working to destroy humanity. The situation is reminiscent of the Manhattan project but much worse since these people know exactly what they are doing and just don’t care about the risks. If humanity ever gets off this path to oblivion people will look back and say all of these folks should have been put down.

Have to say that the idea that Ilhan Omar is secretly a Somali revanchist when speaking in Somali very much appeals to my imagination, but, having listened to the clip, though I don’t speak Somali, I find the translation quite dubious.

33 year old top .1% professional athlete has had his blood super dialysized.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-15360733/bryce-harper-blood-removal-procedure.html

Joe Rogan and Chase Hughes, neither of whom has ever spent one hour in a biochemistry lab, discuss the wonders of methylene blue as a nutritional supplement. Chase Harris claims that lab rat neurons are visibly blue upon dissection and that neurons selectively absorb the blue dye and this skyrockets the neuron mitochondrial absorption of red light.

I am definitely not interested in buying the A one those guys are using.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2JwJ0A1QE

This is all in the first 20 minutes. I don’t think I will find out where they go next. For God’s sake fellas just get some SUN on your BALLS.

Does he have a distaste for Adrenochrome? Maybe that comes later.

Aron?

Even when European leaders are corrupt and have no real interest in Western values, Moscow was still incompetent enough to fail to influence them. While Arab leaders just by using more skillful methods and not necessarily more money, have far more control and influence in Europe than Moscow even before 2014.

It may go back even further into the post-war period, when disillusion with the USSR set in after 1968. Soviet prestige had been quite high in parts of the European left in the interwar years and then especially after 1945.

But there was that pivot to Maoism, Third Worldism and later identity politics on the Western left. More recently this has involved redefining Western values to incorporate Islam as a progressive force and ally of feminism and LGBT, and other strange things like that.

It seems like to augment their influence they could have drawn on some aspects of the Soviet tradition, like the feminism, anti-racism and pro-immigration stances, topics the Soviet Union could claim to have led the way on for part of the 20th century.

I remember this Mark Felton video from a while ago:

The different racial groups in the Shanghai police were armed with different weapons to suit their distinct characteristics.

Jorjani was friend-zoned by an Epstein girl.

Forget whether it was from Singapore or Malaysia or somewhere else, but I recently heard some foreigner use the word “genre” as a synonym for “ethnicity” or “race” and thought it was an interesting usage.

This one is more esoteric because it is an older game, but I would also like to see someone hack or redo the old Defender of the Crown game, and replace the Norman enemies (it was Andglo-Saxon protagonists) with various PoCs, dressed in alien clothing, with ethnic weapons, like a Bantu dressed in leopard skin with an assegai.

I think that pixel art would really lend itself to racialist charicatures.

IMO, what is missing from video games is a racialist genre.

The only today countries which can really afford (in terms of the political capital) this kind of propaganda campaign are oil/commodity exporting states, because money for wasting in the propaganda project, is attained without needing to tax the citizens*.

So, bourgeois democracy countries like Taiwan, have more money in the overall economy than feudal small Qatar, but the money to transfer to the government has to be attained by taxing from the citizens, which generates a lot of unpopularity**, including from the elites if progressive taxation is used.

Although Taiwan or Switzerland, have technically more money in the country than Qatar, there isn’t the same kind of money to bribe officials or create international propaganda campaigns, as the money is with the citizens, not with the government. And even some of the Western oil exporters like Norway which have excess money in the government, have too much public pressure in terms of accountancy rules, so the commodity export money is prioritized to be stored for the taxpayers’ future.

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But in the Russian Federation, there is probably the largest available budget for an international propaganda campaign in the world, as the excess money is attained from commodity export without passing through the citizens, while the accountancy is more like in an Arab monarchy, than in Norway.

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Who is managing the probably world’s second most budgeted external news media (excluding Al Jazeera)? In the direct role, Simonyan, who seems to have no understanding of Western or European society.

And what are the results? It seems to be almost no achievement in terms of the government’s priorities, except creating additional unpopularity in the West. While Arab monarchy in Qatar, can manage Al Jazeera to become one of the most influential news sources and then control many other news indirectly, which indicates the higher competence of Gulf Arab political elite at least relative to their stated goals (postsoviet elite are competent at least relative to unstated goals).

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Moscow was successful in terms of winning the competition to host the international sports events like the World Cup and Winter Olympics., Formula 1 (before 2022) annually in Sochi. But Arab oil exporters are also able to win these sports events without a lot of difficulty.

But there was that pivot to Maoism, Third Worldism and later identity politics on the Western left. More recently this has involved redefining Western values to incorporate Islam as a progressive force and ally of feminism and LGBT, and other strange things like that.

Yes there is some examples of Islam, as viewed as a progressive ally, even before the success of OPEC in the 1970s.

In the early 1960s when the oil price was still generally low, Malcolm X views Islam as a kind of solution for racial division. In 1964, he visits Mecca and believes it’s a utopian example of racial harmony. https://www.npr.org/2011/02/21/133877493/malcolm-x-a-fearless-leader

It seems like to augment their influence they could have drawn on some aspects of the Soviet tradition, like the feminism, anti-racism and pro-immigration stances, topics the Soviet Union could claim to have led the way on for part of the 20th century.

And I think it’s ironically, more successful on the progressive side. You can see the EU foreign minister (Kallas), in Doha forum, talking about her appreciation for Qatar, which is an ally of the Islamist movement, unlike the official role parts of the royal families in Saudi or UAE.

Official EU Kallas and official Qatar, are aligned, without feeling any controversary for her, even though the stated values are supposedly the opposite of the “Western values” which is the main theme of her speeches.

At the same time, Moscow is the opposite of “Western values” in her speeches, even though it shares relatively a lot more values, not only for her personally (as a Soviet person until she was age 14/15), but even to the most progressive Western people.

While, the difficult area for the Arab monarchy is the conservative part of the European politically, even though many of the social goals of conservatism, should be a lot more harmonized or shared with Islam, at least relatively to Western progressives***.

Le Pen or Wilders, would never go to “Doha forum”, though the stated social values would be at least relatively closer to Islam, than for officials of the progressive Norwegian Labor Party who are open allies with Qatar and often visit Dohan, wearing hijabs if they are female politicians.

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*Generally, in the oil exporting country, the government mostly pay the citizens. While in the commodity importing states, the citizens (at least tax paying citizens in the private sector) mostly pay the government.

**In the postwar bourgeois democracy model, it’s sometimes criticized, as one of the methods, revolution is avoided, by just paying the lowest class population instead of taxing them, as the real motive for the “welfare state” and by paying the middle class by creating more government bureaucracy jobs.

*** In Saudi Arabia, the monarchy is trying to relatively secularize the culture. For example, the hijab seems almost banned to wear on their official television.

He says a lot of things which are not credible. Did he go to Dalton school? I am guessing that was above his dad’s pay grade. This was not in his wikipedia bio the last time I looked and it should be in there if true. Anyway if he was going out with hot chicks in high school I am the reincarnation of Isaac Newton.

Did you know he got cancelled and fired because he ran his mouth to a Vice reporter who was secretly taping him drinking and talking?

Could also be a misuse of ‘gens’. Especially if he was a Roman-appreciator.

Add some minigame where your character has to trust/doubt another guy to cooperate.

officials of the progressive Norwegian Labor Party who are open allies with Qatar and often visit Dohan, wearing hijabs if they are female politicians.

Google AI has

Federica Mogherini (Former EU Foreign Affairs Chief) Wore a headscarf (hijab) during an official visit to Tehran, Iran, in April 2016.

and the home press gave her grief. Nothing since 2016.

Either your A one is hallucinating or mine is. Personally I don’t trust any A one with favorable views on Indian workers. Many of them fall into the class of lower than merely worthless.

Think he was saying “genre”, but there is at least a small possibility that he meant to say “genera”, which would have been even more amusing, as there are many archaics in the same genus.

He was at Dalton school which he confirms was a CIA recruiting zone (~ Don Barr). I embellished the story a bit, but who knows what is real? He was “just friends” with a 14 year old girl fellow student who was going to mysterious modeling gigs (~ Victoria’s Secret?) with older men, since someone said they could get her into Harvard (~ Larry Summers). Jordan said she later had a successful career. At one point he crossed paths with Jeffrey and Ghislaine who came to the girl’s recital to pick her up. JJ gave JE the stink eye.

called Kallas*, was a guest of the Doha forum, in Qatar.

What the hell those people want to learn from that dimwitted woman? She is a failed affirmative action appointee.

Were these two men as innocent as AC Doyle argued?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Slater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edalji

The head of the EU foreign policy (previously, a Soviet woman, she is a daughter of a Soviet government official) called Kallas*, was a guest of the Doha forum, in Qatar.

Along with Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and other leaders. So she was not the only European there.

First of all, she is not a “Soviet woman” and never has been – she is the daughter of Estonia, which retained its own culture, despited having been occupied by the Soviets. (One fact that is omitted in these conversations about her is that her mother, at 6 months old, was deported to Siberia along with her grandmother). Her formative years were mostly in the free Estonia and she is Livonian (Western Christian/Protestant) by culture.

She represents the EU now. She handled the response about the new US national security strategy well – she ignored the anti-European stances, and acknowledged that the EU should be more confident. It was a very subdued, diplomatic response (my response would’ve been much sharper & direct, thankfully, I’m not in the government). And you could see on Don Jr’s face how he disliked it (himself being part Czech… and he has a new date – how often does this guy change women? A bit too often for his stature).

But I understand the point you’re trying to make. Except that you’re avoiding the context and important facts.

It’s not a secret, many Europe’s leaders are corrupt people who will sell “Western values” in exchange for a barrel of oil

Why shouldn’t Europeans buy oil from Arab states? How are the values “sold” here when you pay the market price for this oil? What is so awful about Qatar, the way you seem to put it? Europeans buy LNG from the US – and the US has abandoned quite a few Western values recently (depending, ofc, on how one defines “Western values”).

But, she is not in “Moscow forum”? She doesn’t go to Russia, even though Moscow would have more money to pay her than Doha.

Prior to 2022 and even after 2014 Europe had very close trade relations with Moscow and Moscow was even given undeserved privileges. The reason she is not in Moscow now is because Moscow became hostile after around 2008. It doesn’t matter how much oil money you have if you can’t do normal diplomacy (it was tried, but there was threats in parallel – this is needed for Russia’s internal politics, but it doesn’t work for improving international relations).

Qatar does not threaten Europe, it does not run daily propaganda shows talking about how Europe should be wiped out in “atomic dust” and its leaders don’t tweet obscenities about Europeans the way that Russian politicians do. Qatar acts much more civilized in that sense.

Even though relatively, far more Western values in Moscow, than in Doha.

How so? What exactly is “Western” about Moscow? In terms of political culture, not a few historical buildings.

And Moscow has less negative influence on Europe than Qatar and probably less hostile intentions.

How so? Qatar does not intend to wage war on Europe. What hostile intentions?

“Jared Kushner: Asked Doha for half a billion dollars to save 666 Fifth Avenue (a $1.8 billion financial failure). After being refused, Kushner supported the Saudi-UAE boycott of Qatar. In 2019, a Qatari company paid $1.2 billion for a 99-year lease on the property – a month before the mortgage payment.”

So Jared is not even solvent? Wow. No wonder he’s running around the world looking for “deals”.

Le Pen or Wilders, would never go to “Doha forum”, though the stated social values would be at least relatively closer to Islam, than for officials of the progressive Norwegian Labor Party who are open allies with Qatar and often visit Dohan, wearing hijabs if they are female politicians.

Le Pen and Wilders are not heads of state, but party leaders. And they are on the pro-Zionist or anti-Islam wing of far right – so they probably wouldn’t be going. But anti-Zionist nationalists would, some of them have even gone to Iran.

When Kallas was still a national party leader, she was a liberal – she was never a nationalist or far right (neither pro nor anti Zionist). As a head of the EU foreign policy she has called on Hamas to disarm, however, she does not get to dictate to Arab nationalists who will act as one of the so called non-state actors in the region (while they are really just a militant Palestinian nationalist party – normal political systems were not allowed to develop there – same as in Ichkeria where Russia killed all the relative moderates (Sufis) just because they wanted to separate so when they were decimated more radical militias took their place). So Qatar is the one to be able to mediate there.

Also, Tucker Carlson was apparently one of the moderators at the Doha Forum. We’re seeing new divergences here and some movement, in the light of the recent significant geopolitical changes (that are ongoing in fact).

33 year old top .1% professional athlete has had his blood super dialysized.

If it’s a pro athlete doing it and if it does indeed improve performance, then there may indeed be something to it (although I remain skeptical). This guy is already at the end of his career at 33.

Is it ok to have one third (!!) of one’s blood taken out? Even for a few minutes? It sounds dangerous. This guy is putting ozone in his blood stream? Hmm, this sounds strange (if not a bit crazy).

Joe Rogan and Chase Hughes, neither of whom has ever spent one hour in a biochemistry lab, discuss the wonders of methylene blue as a nutritional supplement.

It’s been popular now for a while in some circles. I’m skeptical. However, Codeage, a company that I somewhat trust, just introduced a methylene blue supplement. I’ll pass though.

When the Japanese adapted the PC-Engine video game console to America, they made it bigger because they felt Americans wouldn’t appreciate something small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16

DW is trying to feminize Latvian boys by highlighting this rather foppish one with a sewing machine. They are trying to say trad Latvians should be gay popinjays or, if females, that they should be goths and have multiple face piercings.

Riga has a long history of dandyism – stylish young, urban men. It’s a very small group but noticeable in the city center. They were around already a 100 years ago (possibly earlier).

This is a wonderful youth – what’s your problem? Men cannot be artisans or clothing designers? We have a long tradition of good architects, for example. If you didn’t notice, he called the main National Library building (“The Castle of Light”), which is supposedly an ultra modern building, an example of “brutalist” architecture (in real life, there is nothing brutal about it) – that is quite funny, because he himself seems to have carved out a much more delicate niche – customized, more individualistic 19th century style (this guy is deeply traditionalist & retrograde – that’s good, not bad). This style has seen a revival recently (given the popularity of movies such as The Blizzard of Souls).

He’s still very young (only 17) and one of the artsy types – he’s more delicate than a typical Latvian boy, however, many Latvian boys tend to be skinny and refined. Not every guy will be this refined. For every guy like this I could show you 10 guys who are more gender normative and more “brutal” or boyish. His girlfriend/future wife will be a similar type. Btw, very few boys have such carefully styled rooms and such attire – you have to have everything custom made. However, I’ve known several boys & men who have been into Iron Age reconstruction – where they wear historically accurate 12th century attire (along with shields, etc), just not daily like this guy.

I guess you failed to notice that they venerate the Song and Dance festival… and how they mentioned that is better than “hip hop” and similar anti-culture.

In his room he has the portrait of the Father of dainas on his wall (the guy who collected all the traditional folk songs and wrote them down – thus probably preserving valuable IE heritage). I’m very happy this guy exists – thanks for showing him to me.

I think society should help these types of guys by replacing foreign mass imports, so that these kinds of guys can carve out a lucrative niche for themselves in interior design, retail, etc., so that they can make a good living out of it.

They are trying to say trad Latvians should be gay popinjays or, if females, that they should be goths and have multiple face piercings.

DW is an annoying leftie channel, for sure, but they cannot dictate anything to anybody – these types have always been present in cities. There are girls with piercings out there, but most girls in art colleges do not have piercings.

That he has chosen to be a traditional 19th century ethno dandy is much better than if he were some more “modern” looking mass culture type. He loves his culture.

Btw, songbird, being a goth or this type of “artisinal” reconstruction person is one way for Euro youths to continue enjoying the European culture without being labeled “racist” (at least in the West, in EE it’s overall easier because the word “racist” does not have such weight over there as it does in the West). The goth subculture, steam punk and all these period reconstruction subcultures are exclusively White.

If you preserve traditional culture AND simultaneously limit immigration (and encourage remigration), then that’s not a bad option going forward.

Also, Tucker Carlson was apparently one of the moderators at the Doha Forum. We’re seeing new divergences here and some movement

There is neither divergence nor movement among the MAGA base: (1)

Trump’s Approval Rating Has Not Changed Among Republicans

Recent online squabbles and upheavals among MAGA related influencers and politicians might lead a person to believe that the conservative base was beginning to crack. In fact, in less than a year of Trump’s return to the White House an army of web personalities have taken to social media to declare MAGA “dead.”

The latest feud between Trump and libertarian favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene has stirred the soup, but there is a reason why MTG chose to resign and the latest polls explain her decision clearly. Trump’s support among Republicans remains steadfast and MTG had little hope of remaining in office without his backing.

There are no divisions in Trump’s base. In fact, Trump has the strongest continuing support within his base compared to any president in the past 25 years with no deviation or decline in the past 6 months.

 

There is no break within centrist Populism.
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What you are seeing is symptomatic of ultra-left Islamophile Globalism. Candace Owens comes across crazier everyday. Al-Jazeera and Al-Tucker are headed to similar credibility as paid shills of Qatar.

NYC has elected far-left socialist SJW🏳️‍🌈Muslim leader Mamdani. How is he going to merge with ultra-left Al-Tucker of Qatar? I doubt it is going to go smoothly.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-approval-rating-has-not-changed-among-republicans

There is neither divergence nor movement among the MAGA base

Too early to see what’s going to come of it. It’s certainly less stable than 10 years ago. What is more important is how the nativist American base leans and whether the nativist base will consider Trump’s policies sufficient. However, given their predisposition, they may still be supportive of Trump even if he starts new wars and allows the rich to fleece them, this is just how this type of voter is. But I don’t even blame them, because there are no other options (they’ll never vote for the Dems).

But from what I understand, Trump’s rating is not high right now. But there is some stable support since he’s been able to demonstrate good things (border).

NYC has elected far-left socialist SJW🏳️‍🌈Muslim leader Mamdani. How is he going to merge with ultra-left Al-Tucker of Qatar? I doubt it is going to go smoothly.

Well, the one thing that the “democrat socialist” Mamdani and pro-nativist Tucker Carlson have in common is that they are not fans of sponsoring Israel’s foreign policy and war. they could reach common ground there, unless Mamdani sells out which is not unlikely. They always do.

Most likely it will also result in relocation of a lot of India citizens, whom happen also to be muslims, into RF as hindu nationalism is way worse for them than islamoputinism these days, which is jailing and deporting Christians whom are acting against islamism:

Egypt: Saeed Abu Mustafa left Islam to follow Christ in 2016 after years of studying both faiths.

Pressures arose, prompting Saeed to flee to Russia, where he joined the Russian Orthodox Church.

In Russia, he criticized Islam and debated Muslims, which eventually landed him in prison for almost a year due to Islamic pressure.

Saeed was then deported back to Egypt, where he was arrested by security services – he remains behind bars to this day.

There are reports Saeed has been mistreated in detention.

Pray for Saeed Abu Mustafa.

Free Abu Mustafa.

https://twitter.com/Agbom_Chukwudi_/status/1997120366276125156

Trump’s actions are inevitably a mixed bag. Nonetheless the work on illegal immigration is successful. The rhetoric and some actions on DIE are also important progress. The MAGA world recognizes we are at the point where the damage on these fronts is almost irreversible, so supporting Trump is important. On the other hand, Trump’s policies in other areas are a terrible mixed bag. Since he is delivering on some key promises people are willing to withhold judgment to see how things play out.

I would like to hear A123’s explanation for the pardon of JO Hernandez and how this can possibly be consistent with a serious US war on illegal drugs.

There is neither divergence nor movement among the MAGA base

Too early to see what’s going to come of it. It’s certainly less stable than 10 years ago

The GOP is vastly more stable now than it was 10 years ago. The internal rivalry between old school anti-worker establishment vs. populist pro-worker MAGA was intense. Trump winning the nomination came with much turmoil.

What is more important is how the nativist American base leans and whether the nativist base will consider Trump’s policies sufficient.

The alternative is foreignists who want to replace Main Street workers. DNC open borders foreignism is quite unappealing.

Now that Trump has announced plans to fix the corrupt H1B visa system, he has to follow through. That is the only obvious major stumbling block at the moment. Lobbyists are creeping about trying to undermine that pro-worker reform.

they may still be supportive of Trump even if he starts new wars and allows the rich to fleece them

There is no sign that will happen. Indeed, just the opposite. The foreignist DNC is the party that starts wars and lets the rich fleece American workers.

But from what I understand, Trump’s rating is not high right now

Your understanding seems to be less than complete.

Trump’s numbers are high right now, they are just not as high as they once were. Numbers for DNC leaders, such as Chuck Schumer, are much lower.

If you look back over the last few weeks, the Schumer Shutdown was disruptive. Polling has everyone down at the moment. There is no visible shift from populist MAGA to foreignist DNC.

PEACE 😇

I would like to hear A123’s explanation for the pardon of JO Hernandez

Presumably there is something behind the scenes that hasn’t leaked. The pardon for Cuellar could also use some clarity (1).

Trump usually has reasons for doing something, even when it’s not apparent at first. Some possibilities,

1. Trump actually believes Cuellar to be innocent. Maybe he has access to exonerating evidence that I don’t.

2. Maybe Trump feels (probably correctly) that politically Cuellar is toast anyway, since his district was one of the ones recently redistricted in the special session. Maybe the pardon will allow Cuellar to dish dirt on just how Democrats decided to flood the country with illegal aliens, or how they use them to commit voter fraud. The private email and memo possibilities are endless…

3. Maybe the pardon taints Cuellar with the Democrat base far more than the bribery charges did. According to Ballotpedia, he already has two primary challengers in Ryan Trevino and Ricardo Villarreal. Maybe the calculation is that the pardon actually weakens Cuellar, making the district flip just that much more likely.

4. Maybe he expects Cuellar to change parties, balancing out the loss of Marjorie Taylor Greene, to add a little margin for the GOP-led House.

5. Maybe he’s just doing it for the lulz, or to make Democrats even more paranoid than they are.

This is all speculation. But just because it’s something I wouldn’t have done doesn’t mean President Trump doesn’t have his reasons…

They do look odd, but I doubt the American Lügenpresse can spin either into a major story. There is good reason to distrust everything that came from the prior White House occupant.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=68991

DW is an annoying leftie channel, for sure, but they cannot dictate anything to anybody

I think most foreign broadcasts of state media are a joke – a total waste of money. Anyone interested in Germany would probably be turned off by DW’s anti-German alignment – the English language news is broadcast out of Berlin with a black anchor. But to a certain extent – it is reflective of internal state media, which is more influential.

Well, I don’t really know that scene, but I assume not masculine men.

This is pretty confused and possibly that is by design. There are no out homos in the national football league. Pro football player might be the most masculine most elite highest status man.

The touchdown dance is the faggiest god dam thing you ever saw since Bohemian Grove. If anybody can explain why they show touchdown dances on the NFL highlight videos I would really like to read that.

Haven’t watched the NFL for a while, but I thought it was strange, when they all started wearing pink.

Quite recently on youtube, have noticed a lot of guys with pink stuff, which I thought was strange. I don’t think they are gay, but it is like their driven by a sense of getting all the different colors of a thing. Maybe, like the new color of a thing is the fashion. But it seems to me very strange and ahistorical.

There is this guy I know who is very masculine and a welder. Someone gave his wife a pink tool or toolbox or something, I forget what it was, since it was years ago, and he professsed to like using it at work, since he knew nobody else would borrow it from him, and it wouldn’t go missing. He is an NFL fan.

Trump’s actions are inevitably a mixed bag. Nonetheless the work on illegal immigration is successful.

Well, we need to be sure that what is being told is really happening. I saw a few positive developments during the summer (mostly Mexican self deportations), but I am also seeing what looks like new Indians everywhere. Today Trump was speaking positively about the Chinese students again. I understand that the economy might “need” them but they take up too much housing.

I shudder to think about what is happening on the East coast and larger, more populous states.

The rhetoric and some actions on DIE are also important progress.

It is good that they are no longer doing the SJW craze (let’s face it – that kind of insanity cannot stick permanently), but on the other hand the rhetoric has been so forceful, that it has permanently alienated different groups of Americans from each other.

I heard an opinion yesterday that since America no longer has an external enemy, it will be looking for the enemy within.

The MAGA world recognizes we are at the point where the damage on these fronts is almost irreversible, so supporting Trump is important.

I agree that the damage seems irreversible – even with deportations, most children are now non-White. Gen Z is only 40 million – how are they going to support the aging population? Marriage is down, births are the lowest ever. The trajectory is for those to go even lower. Housing & groceries are still too expensive. So these are all problems that cannot be solved with the current methods.

Also, if you’re going to import spouses from overseas, do not threaten to deport them later or harass them. Just cancel the spousal visa altogether so you don’t end up harassing the foreign spouse or separating them from their kids. Marry your own women.

The foreign policy will be a huge mess. But they don’t have to do big wars.

Since he is delivering on some key promises people are willing to withhold judgment to see how things play out.

Well, what options do they really have? There are practically no alternatives. Only change of system.

I would like to hear A123’s explanation for the pardon of JO Hernandez and how this can possibly be consistent with a serious US war on illegal drugs.

Yea, what the hell was that all about? It’s just weird. With drugs, you literally have to clean every corner, follow every bum and see where they bought it. I’m not sure having blown up those few ships will have an impact of drugs not coming in.

ICE maced a Mexican congresswoman in a Tucson landmark restaurant last week. Somebody in some faction somewhere has a photo of Trump molesting a naked teenager at Epstein’s place. When that gets out it might escalate to situation serious.

Fake news hoax! : )

I think most foreign broadcasts of state media are a joke

Well, the public broadcaster, it seems, is a problem in every Western country and somehow they turn anti-native and against their own society’s interests very quickly. Yet they serve such an important role. It’s a mixed bag – good reporting mixed in with harmful ideologies & editorial policy. Thankfully, these stations are typically not large and not that well funded. In smaller Euro countries, you can also criticize them and that affects them, in Latvia there is constant fighting going on between them and the patriots (and sometimes even just normies), maybe in Germany this isn’t so easy.

But to have low information, low intelligence populist media as an alternative – is not the solution either. It has to be high quality nationalist media.

Also, somebody does need to be talking about basic human rights and rule of law – yet these two do not mean insanity like normalizing trannies and mass immigration.

The apparent increased importation of Asians (East and South) into the USA is terrible. They should reverse this and do something novel like rehiring competent retirees or tech workers who were previously displaced by imported workers. We should immediately bring back an updated version of the most challenging historical SAT and start socializing it to K-12 and undergrad students in the spring semester. They will need to test all recent college grads with a GRE-type exam. If a person’s scores are too low their degree is tagged as Junior-college level or something along those lines.

The US should immediately begin deporting unconventionally immigrated Somalis and Haitians en masse since they will generally never assimilate.

So far the Venezuela military project looks like a bluff as part of a regime change operation. If it turns into actual combat that may be intended to cause political changes in the USA more than in Venezuela. I worry a bit about a false flag by some third party designed to get the USA trapped in a Venezuela mess. This is probably tempting for many groups and Team Trump is foolish for exposing the US to this risk.

The GOP is vastly more stable now than it was 10 years ago.

True, there was a kind of a coup or takeover in the GOP. But I meant that the political situation as a whole is less stable, not the party. And it still remains to be seen if this new GOP is really “an American workers” party – and not some oligarch project where they have just hijacked nativism. Slogans & loud, divisive rhetoric will not suffice.

I agree that the damage seems irreversible…

In the short run it can’t be reversed and prices will never come down. Self-deportations are often bogus and temporary and Indians continue flooding US-Europe – there are over a billion left back home itching to come.

But in less than a year Trump has made things much better, let’s see if it sticks. We are going through a massive redo of too many things so nobody will be happy.

The foreign policy will be a huge mess…they don’t have to do big wars.

How about small wars? Europe is rearming to confront Russia, will US join in or only sell the arms? Will Moroccan-Paki-Turkish young men be drafted to fight the Russkies? Yeah, it’s a mess.

What do you think about Kaja Kallas forgetting about WW2 German attack on Russia? With most of Europe. Is that normal, can we coexist with lies that blatant?

I watched a debate on France24 (I don’t know why) about the coming draft in France. All four guests were pro-draft, one said France should abolish free university education and only give it to the ones who join the military – he called it the successful US Model. The pro-draft views represent less than 20% of people, among the potential “draftees” less than 10%. Such a huge gap can’t last, these guys are on their way out.

We don’t know what will come next but it will not be a short victorious war against Russia. Then what? Reconquer Algeria, turn unneeded tanks into temporary housing, fight each other? It’s quite a millenium we are having.

The apparent increased importation of Asians (East and South) into the USA is terrible.

It may have accelerated under Biden but it seems like it’s still going on. There’s just a lot who seem recent.

The employers want to hire mostly young, that’s the issue. And Tesla is full of Indians (some of whom seem average to me, not some excellent engineers, but I do not want to sound condescending – I don’t know).

Other than that, I agree about the education. There seem to be a decent amount of resources going into the trades and local colleges which is good.

The US should immediately begin deporting unconventionally immigrated Somalis and Haitians en masse since they will generally never assimilate.

Somalis should’ve never been allowed in in the first place. I saw a few in Seattle recently who even still wore those gowns (traditional male gowns) – really, really out of place there.

So far the Venezuela military project looks like a bluff as part of a regime change operation.

Yea, it does look like bluff, but they shouldn’t have killed them, but arrested them in US waters. I kind of doubt there will ever be real strikes on Venezuela.

Maybe Mossad or perhaps someone else. They can just sink a US ship and make it look like Venezuela did it. Team Trump’s heated rhetoric would obligate them to respond militarily even if that was not their original intention.

The GOP is vastly more stable now than it was 10 years ago.

True, there was a kind of a coup or takeover in the GOP. But I meant that the political situation as a whole is less stable, not the party

The political situation as a whole is more stable now too. Trump’s 1st term was plagued with disruptions such as bogus impeachments and the Russia, Russia, Russia myth.

Trump’s 2nd term has been much more effective actually fixing problems. Legal battles are being fought and won at SCOTUS. Entire swaths of foreignist NGO’s have been shorn of funding with the elimination of USAID and similar entities. Remigration is already over 2 million. Gasoline prices are down. Etc.

And it still remains to be seen if this new GOP is really “an American workers” party – and not some oligarch project where they have just hijacked nativism

MAGA is showing resistance to being “hijacking” by foreignists and is a sincere effort for American citizen workers. Of course it is not perfect, nothing ever is. As I frequently point out… It took decades of anti-American foreignist misbehaviour to dig the hole. It will take more that a few months for pro-worker Populists to fill it in.
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As an aside, why are we using the terms “foreignist” and “nativist”? They are a valid antonym pair, but both seem a bit clumsy and potentially carry unwanted subtext.

PEACE 😇

The political situation as a whole is more stable now too.

I’m not so sure about this one, but it remains to be seen. Of course, football will always trump everything, so there will be no significant movement out in the streets to “save the Republic” from “fascists”. There could be a few changes during the elections, but that doesn’t really matter, an electorate is not necessarily a political nation.

Entire swaths of foreignist NGO’s have been shorn of funding with the elimination of USAID and similar entities.

Who cares? Only the utmost libs do. For the rest, it doesn’t change much, it doesn’t provide more housing and doesn’t lower the cost of living.

Remigration is already over 2 million.

Is this number accurate? Do you feel it where you live? I felt a little.

Gasoline prices are down.

Yes, they are finally down, but this could be due to the slight economic slowdown.

As an aside, why are we using the terms “foreignist” and “nativist”?

I never used “foreignist” – you wrote that first. “Nativist” is a real term and somewhat accurate and actually means something.

In the short run it can’t be reversed and prices will never come down.

I agree, I doubt the prices will come down, but some asset bubble may burst.

Indians continue flooding US-Europe – there are over a billion left back home itching to come.

True, it’s an ominous problem, but their births just came down under 2. Probably a first in their history.

How about small wars?

Well, are they going to invade Venezuela? Continue supporting Israel?

What do you think about Kaja Kallas forgetting about WW2 German attack on Russia? With most of Europe. Is that normal, can we coexist with lies that blatant?

Do we have to talk about WW2 all day? Yes, it is interesting, but it was 80 years ago. Soon it will be as far back as WW1 is now.

The draft is, of course, an issue – and, yea, the elites need to come closer to the population in order to do this successfully. But the draft itself doesn’t mean you’ll be doing active military duty or go to war. The whole EU could probably muster close to a million troops if needed (out of the population of 450M). That’s assuming that that many are even needed during a large conventional war (which is not even a given). We should go with the Simo Häyhä method (just with drones).

Remigration is already over 2 million.

Is this number accurate? Do you feel it where you live? I felt a little.

It is showing up as lower housing/rent expense in areas where departures of illegals are happening. So, there us every reason to believe the number is real. New arrivals have greatly diminished. This is backed up by numbers from the Dept of Labor Statistics, employment level of native born citizens (1).

There is some impact nearby. I think a few firms with illegals on payroll were checked. They had to hire citizens to do the work.

Gasoline prices are down.

Yes, they are finally down, but this could be due to the slight economic slowdown.

The administration stopped some pointless regulations to allow higher production.

The Biden era slow down and inflation are inherited issues. Trump’s 2nd term, is improving the situation but the Schumer Shutdown did not help.

I never used “foreignist” – you wrote that first. “Nativist” is a real term and somewhat accurate and actually means something.

Foreignist is an equally accurate term and also means something.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foreignist#English

Noun — foreignist (plural foreignists)

One who favors what is foreign.

• If MAGA is nativist — favoring natives
• Then the DNC is foreignist — favoring foreigners

The exact parallel construction is obvious. However, both lack nuance. Realistically neither is deployed much in discussions of American politics. I have not heard anyone use nativist in years.

I suggest Populist and Globalist are better labels.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02073413

Do we have to talk about WW2 all day? Yes, it is interesting, but it was 80 years ago. Soon it will be as far back as WW1 is now.

If you care about Ages this ain’t the Age of Elon. It’s still the Age of the Most Recent Catastrophic Power Rearrangement. Today’s NATO and CIA and Mossad have the same mission statements they had back in 1946. Many of the ruling characters are blood relatives.

Ron Unz’s article posted this morning is marvelous.

Everything that is original, authentic, creative, local – will be better than anonymous global brands.

I don’t like brand culture. The big brands are all woke, and it is like you are paying for that and to be an advertisement for them. And yet there are many people who try to insult or denigrate people who buy more generic things. Seems like such empty social posturing – if there is social policing that needs to be done, IMO, it is not about brands but behaviors.

I found this within a couple of minutes of looking.

He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Iran, and his Iranian passport describes him as “Shia Muslim,” though he hates Islam and doesn’t consider himself Muslim. Jorjani is also, by his own admission, a product of the American elite; he attended the Dalton School, one of the most exclusive private schools on the Upper East Side in New York City.

His reputation assassin was not a Vice reporter. I must have confused him with some other poor schlub. If The Intercept reports it usually it is reliable. They are not Daily Mail.

https://archive.ph/pM1SQ#selection-839.0-839.344

On the other hand their source might be Jorjani. The way I heard him telling it was odd. Like “one day when I was at the Dalton school . . .” Like maybe his friend was a student there and he was attending a play or something.

Maybe JJ is the mastermind behind Trump’s attacks on Iran? Perhaps he wants someone to take out the Mullahs so he can ride in and revive Zoroastrianism in a big way. Or something like that.

There is only Zuul.

In some of these places, the bananas can be continuously harvested year round. (like in Nigeria). But neither Dole nor Chiquita operate in Nigeria.

I don’t like brand culture.

Well, if they are unique, original or somehow nostalgic (and don’t abuse the environment or society) then why not. But I don’t mind generic items either, generic items are not worse quality, right? Best is custom made stuff, ofc.

The big brands are all woke

It is just so cringe, especially because some of those executives don’t even believe in that stuff – or they don’t have to live it out. They all make sure they don’t have to be affected by “diversity”.

At least birds are life, but I can’t help getting the feeling they are just a placeholder or symbolic of PoCs.

Well, that’s a bit too zoological / biological sounding, but maybe… biological diversity is the opposite of what they’re trying to achieve. They are erasing it.

Btw, postal stamps have always had a ton of birds, plants, animals, etc. And there are national birds, flowers, etc. Even before the woke era, I believe.

They don’t dare fill the currency with blacks yet, but you get the feeling like they want to very badly.

It’s very different from colonial and non-colonial powers in this regard. I couldn’t look up to that or venerate those who are not mine (maybe in an abstract way only, as some distant non related figure who just exemplifies human qualities but not to pedestalize), but you have to admit that in the US there were different people here and maybe some of them did something exceptional. If they had been repatriated to Liberia when there was a chance (or never brought in in the first place), you wouldn’t have to go through this now.

It’s not in Qatar (Doha doesn’t require this), but in Iran, Norwegian Labour Party politicians.

Foreign Minister of Norway.

But the more famous which had maybe some local criticism was the Sweden’s Social Democrat Party “First Feminist government” in Iran.

Your A one is more comprehensive. Was this just for a photo op or did they keep their heads covered for their entire visit?

I once went to one of those stupid company diversity meetings where all of the infidel women but one wore their head covered in solidarity with the Muslim Sisterhood. They donned their scarves before the speech and the food and immediately after they removed the scarves and fussed with their hair for ten to thirty minutes. Lucky for me I had achieved peak cynicism before that psychological operation. I didn’t even bother to ask the outlier why she didn’t don the uniform.

Along with Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and other leaders. So she was not the only European there.

Many EU politicians prefer oil money than “Western values”.

But, Kallas is notable, because her speeches, could be, maybe unsympathetically, paraphrased to “Western values, Western values, Western values”.

shouldn’t Europeans buy oil from Arab states? How are the values “sold” here when you pay the market price for this oil? What is so awful about Qatar, the way you seem to put it? Europeans buy LNG from the US – and the US has

The issue isn’t buying oil on the open market, which is just pragmatic politics.*

It’s the EU politicians and international organizations selling their stated values, in exchange for the payment these countries generate from oil selling.

For example, next week in Qatar, they host the UN conference on anti-corruption.

“World’s largest anti-corruption gathering in Doha in December”
https://unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2025/unisma362.html

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It’s a kind of comedy. All the UN countries send their experts on “anti-corruption” to Doha, which gives $400 million luxury plane to Trump, for no motivation except kindness and charity.

Qatar does not threaten Europe, it do

Well, co-financing of both Europe and also the main international terrorist organizations in many European countries. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/6578/html/

It’s a relationship of funding Europe, especially the European media and elite, but also funding the groups and ideology which European taxpayers have to spend the most security defending against (for example, the majority of European counter-terrorism funding will be for the Brotherhood related organizations).

Asymmetry also as mainly upper class receives benefits of petrodollar recycling investments, but the middle class taxpayer also has to fund the counter-terrorism services.

run daily propaganda shows

In English, Al Jazeera is polite and Westernized. But in Al Jazeera Arabic, the speech not necessarily more polite than 60 minutes.

How so? What exactly is “Western” about Moscow? In terms of political culture, not a few historical buildings.

Moscow isn’t a real democracy, but even many Western European countries were not democracies until second half of 20th century. Italy becomes democracy in 1946, West Germany establishes as a democracy in 1949, Portugal becomes democracy in 1974, Greece becomes democracy in 1975, Spain becomes democracy in 1978, East Germany in 1990.

But if you exclude the non-democratic aspect of the government in Russia, it is closer to a European country, just more similar to kind of dysfunctional and less developed part of Europe like Romania or Bulgaria, than like Switzerland.

How so? Qatar does not intend to wage war on Europe. What hostile intentions?

If you are Ukrainian (and maybe some other postsoviet nations), I can understand to be scared of Moscow.

But in other areas of Europe it’s hardly a significant threat in comparison. What if you live in Kosovo?

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2021-003722_EN.html
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-000345_EN.html

Gulf states do not border Europe, so it’s a different dynami

Since the late 20th century, there develops an internal border with the population under the ideological control of Gulf funded organizations. For example, Molenbeek or Schilderswijk.

I even would agree Putin’s policies can be a threat for postsoviet people, especially if you are Ukrainian, secondarily if you are Russian, maybe if you are Dutch people flying to Kuala Lumpur .

But if you are a Western European, living in Western Europe, of course the threat is a lot more direct from Molenbeek than Moscow.

She has a genuine interest in Western values – she is a liberal. You noticed how she spoke of women’s participation in politics (I would not have done that in a Muslim country, but it just speaks for how forceful she can be in promoting these contemporary Western values).

Isn’t her family generating millions of dollars from business in Russia, while she was talking about “boycott Russia to save Western values”?

https://news.err.ee/1609076447/kallas-husband-s-firm-made-1-5m-from-russia-business-since-february-2022

They don’t have real influence, there is a desire for economic cooperation and maybe some help in these mediation efforts in the Middle East conflicts, because these are weighing heavily in all of us. This region cannot be enduring more destruction.

They have the most influence in many countries, directly through the investments in the countries (the largest state investors in cities like London or Paris), but also indirectly through the organizational control of religious institutions which are used by fastest growing demographics in Europe. Why do you think Macron and Starmer (with co-ordination of Mark Carney, in Canada) were declaring the establishment of the “Palestinian State” in September 2025.

Even though, October 7 was at the latest the end of the possibility of another creating even another Arab state in Israel, democratic European politicians in France and UK understand about the future composition of their electorate. Germany, probably in a couple decades will be in a similar situation as France and UK.

So Jared is not even solvent? Wow. No wonder he’s running around the world looking for “deals”.

I think the post was talking about a few years ago, when the Trump family had a lot of financial problems.

Today, it seems like the Trump family are booming and their investment partners. They had a rival plan to buy Warner this week?
https://deadline.com/2025/12/paramount-warner-bros-bid-jared-kushner-middle-east-funds-1236642045/

d non-state actors in the region (while they are really just a militant Palestinian nationalist party

Hamas are Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood organization, which is the same organization Egypt fights on the other side of the border. Muslim Brotherhood is specifically non-nationalist. From the Islamist point of view, the “national” ideology of “Palestinians”, was just cover or marketing for exploitation or inheriting of the cause of KGB created “PLO”, which they killed in Gaza in 2006. Even the PLO, are not really nationalist, but historically secular pan-Arabist organization (funded by Moscow until 1991).

Also, Tucker Carlson was apparently one of the moderators at the Doha Forum. We’re seeing new divergences here and some movement, in the light of the recent significant geopolitical changes (that are ongoing in fact).

Carlson is a kind of genius. He was originally from CNN, then he moved to MSNBC (where he co-hosted a show with Rachel Maddow). Then he worked for Fox (Rupert Murdoch).

All of this is difficult television work, where he has to produce content that generates profits in the free market.

But then he becomes state sponsored by Russia and now changed to Qatar. These are entry points to petrodollar recycling by the governments with the most excess oil wealth in the world.

The people who decide his funding probably don’t understand English significantly, so he can relax in terms of the quality of the content. He doesn’t have to care about a lot, except to say what the funders want sometimes.

And Carlson is probably a pioneer and model for the future, as traditional media model declines.

Why should you work for Fox News, if you can get a lot easier and more money as a petrodollar recycling machine ?

I think most of the Western influencers, politicians and media will be responding like a Pavlov’s dog, when they see the situation he pioneers and this will just be a beginning of a trend. To be able to connect your bank account to government oil wealth, in exchange for just doing political commentary (which is not really work, doesn’t require intelligence, doesn’t require education, doesn’t require talent, etc).

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*Although if European politicians were as believing about “Western values” (feminism, workers’ rights etc) like they sometimes claim in speeches, wouldn’t they impose sanctions on the countries which follow the most anti-Western values like Qatar? It would be non-pragmatic politics. But it shows these politicians are not probably believing their speeches.

Loonie (sp?) reports that ex-prince Andrew is going to Bharain beyond the reach of British and American justice. He claims King Charles has already made the deal with whatever the lead Bharain goon calls himself.

She is daughter of a previous Prime Minister of Estonia, who was a local soviet official until 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siim_Kallas He was director of the local branch of state bank in the 1980s and 1990s.

So, it’s a kind of postsoviet “nepo baby”, that derives from the government officials. But, it is Estonia, it is relatively civilized place, so it seems like former directors of local state banks become later temporary country leader, compared to the alternative of the local KGB directors who become permanent country dictator families in some Central Asian postsoviet states.

We need to appreciate the modesty. Some should cover up more and put the bald guy with glasses in a burka. They also need to hide their teeth, the Fraulein on the left looks like a clownish Dracula. The standards have really dropped.

Feminists combine nunnery with mid-life dissatisfaction. In Sweden they add conformism and lack of joy. Modern feminism is a failed expression of life’s regrets and yearnings – so they bitch and make it worse. In the past feminism found an expression in the concubine lifestyle, imperial cruelty, occasionally in witchcraft. It was less harmful.

He should always have gone there if he wanted sex with teen girls with no problems. Gulf monarchies are untouchable on things like this.

…EU could probably muster close to a million troops

EU can do better. They can draft 10 million if they offer money and incentives. The problem is only a miniscule minority would risk life and health, maybe few 10’s of thousands. After the first 1,000 dead it would be over.

In drones Russia outproduces Europe 5 to 1 and has a huge territory. Most Euro targets are concentrated in smaller areas and are not defendable. Russia has 20 to 1 advantage in missiles and the same geographic logic of small vs. large applies. US could sell – or give – Europe more weapons but the war would only last as long as Washington wants.

The current Euro war-hysteria is an attempt to stall and to end up with a smaller defeat in Ukraine.

WW2…is interesting, but it was 80 years ago.

WW2 created the world we live in. You ignore what doesn’t suit you but whine about the Balt suffering and commie misdeeds in the 1930’s. Could you try to be more consistent?

Well, if they are unique, original or somehow nostalgic (and don’t abuse the environment or society) then why not.

Brand nostalgia can be kind of weird. In many cases, seems like the trademark is the only connection to the past entity. None of the original workers are there. The name may have been sold several times, after the company went bankrupt. The product isn’t even the same. But still some will become interesting in buying it.

Roko is calling for a new word for transhumanism because of trannies.

Tucker is such a chameleon I wonder if he must be insane? Did he ever explain why he wears a Kabbalah red bracelet?

Thanks for the tip on Kushner and Warner which is another horrifying tidbit. I wonder what Mnuchin is up to these days?

The Rest is History guys have a hilarious episode of Admiral Nelson assaulting Rome with the Army of Naples. When the guns started going off they all turned and ran in the first ten minutes of the action. It was a couple years before Nelson showed up again at the London parties.

Sperglord. The word was coined around the same year we first heard of Roko.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

1. I only skimmed it;
2. MIT media lab earning their ketamine + MDMA + cocaine + pink dye money;
3. there ain’t no way these people aren’t using A ones.

If they were clever they would be promoting my A one detector kit startup.

Does your A one have suicidal ideations?

Ha ha ha I forgot the link to the MIT paper.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

and has a huge territory

If you had been following the war, you would’ve noticed that Russia’s huge territory is now a liability. You’re not a military expert. You’re the one who said that the Ukes “would not fight” when I said they would shoot from every window. Which they did.

Yes, Europe can muster more than one million – but we may not need to. We shelter people unlike Russia. Many will fight – many are angry at Russia for what they’ve done – if they even dare approach, they’ll be decimated.

And America will not be able to save them – no matter how hard Trump tries. Both of these monsters will be going down this century – the sooner, the better.

You ignore what doesn’t suit you but whine about the Balt suffering and commie misdeeds in the 1930’s.

In the 1940s. (A deliberate misspelling on your part – I know).

I don’t “whine” about anything – I have not mentioned the trials of the Baltic people ONCE on this forum in 7 years and have deliberately avoided talking about it because people here are jerks – I am not going to discuss my people with them. That doesn’t change the fact that what happened to the Baltic people was a terrible injustice – Russia never admitted (not to mention, was never held accountable for their crimes – this is why we have this war now).

I do not “whine” – I simply brought up the important biographical fact that Kallas’ mom had been ripped out of her home to be sent to die (at the age of 6 months!) when Dmitry was trying to peddle the ridiculous idea that she is a “Soviet woman”. Interestingly, how Dmitry and others (you, too) talk about her dad being a “Soviet functionary” (guess what – you had to join the party if you wanted to have any significant job back then, my mom was approached many times by the Commies to join because she was talented and they needed people who’d be in charge – she refused). Yet her critics never talk about how her mom was deported by the Soviets as a baby.

“Cognitive debt” quickly becomes cognitive damage. Of course integrating AI with infants might be an interesting experiment. Something Dr. Frankenstein would approve of.

Speaking of AI, shouldn’t the A-One gal be wreaking havoc like Godzilla thrashing through a school campus? What is she (Linda McMahon) up to?

But, Kallas is notable, because her speeches, could be, maybe unsympathetically, paraphrased to “Western values, Western values, Western values”.

It gets so tiresome. These Soviet republics with barely any history of democratic institutions or meaningful contributions to Western civilization joined the Western alliances a short time ago, at a time when the West was starting a downward spiral that has left Western Europe unrecognizable in all respects. Unlike the Central Europeans, they have just become subservient members of these decaying alliances. But they feel entitled to lecture us on ‘Western values’. Latw was wondering above if the US is still Western lol. I presume her doubts have no more basis than the frankly good NSS that was recently released not being anti-Russian enough, the only measure of ‘Western values’ these people understand or care about.

Btw, thank you for saying in the previous thread that I had written something “interesting” on this blog. I guess you were just being polite to try and re-litigate the issue of the massacres in Gaza with me but still, I appreciate the remark. I don’t think I have any major insights on the questions you asked me though. In some parts of Western Europe you see people being more militant about certain causes than in others due to a combination of factors that I don’t think are of great importance. I alluded to some of them in that thread. In old separatist and leftist enclaves there is a tradition of alignment with the mid-century anti-colonial, pro-3rd World movements and also I have the feeling that in places like Euskadi the independentist movement is exhausted so militancy orients itself towards new causes like woke stuff, Gaza, etc. This is not a “Northern Spain” phenomenon btw. You see it in Euskadi (Basque Country + Navarre) and Catalonia but the rest of regions in Northern Spain have traditionally been strongholds of the Spanish Right. I don’t follow Spanish politics at all but I remember that some rightwingers in Spain used to be rather pro-Israel.

Having said all that, the really key reason why Western Europeans object to the massacres in Gaza is simply because they dislike mass killings of innocent people. It really is as simple as that and looking for differences in emphasis is missing the forest for the trees. I think that you have been living a long time in Western Europe but I’m not sure you fully understand ordinary people there. Western Europeans have been living in peace and prosperity for generations. And that’s not only the way they want to keep things for themselves but also the way they imagine everyone else in the world should live. When they hear about any place in the world suffering from wars and disasters, they find it their duty to try and help.

Of course, these benevolent feelings are crucially mediated by the information they consume, that they still have a naive trust in, based on past times when there was much more freedom of expression. If their media doesn’t inform them about some particular calamity, it just doesn’t exist for them and they totally ignore it. This is why there is a war in Ukraine, btw. If the MSM had informed about the killings on innocent people in Donbas as much as they inform about the killings in Gaza now, there is no way ordinary Europeans would regard Ukraine as a “democratic ally”.

Bill Gates is saying that African agricultural yields will increase, as Africans follow the instructions of AI over their phones.

What if AI tries to make a quadrillion Africans and turn them into weapons against the rest of us meatbags? Have the AI ethicists thought of Skynet launching millions of African migrants instead of nukes? Or is that their blindspot?

@Emil
Tangentially, it has become clear to me that a lot of podcasters are just spergs. Like, there are a lot of subjects, where you might think it would be interesting to hear specialists talk. For example: about dinosaurs or robots. But to actually listen: most of it is just spergery. It is dull as can be, and pretty low information, when you get past the occasional vocab.

Blockade Africa!

There is a rumor on the internet that Trump insiders have advance dope on a UFO announcement and they are driving the polymarkets berserk.

Polymarket odds soar on possible Trump release of UFO files as speculation intensifies

https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/polymarket-odds-soar-on-possible-trump-release-of-ufo-files-as-speculation-intensifies-article-13717569.html

It sort of makes sense that Roko’s basilisk would turn into negro zombies from the Congo.

lecture us on ‘Western values’. Latw was wondering

I understand this opinion a bit in relation to recent news. We today use the term “Western values” (maybe since 1990s) as including concepts of “liberal democracy”, “anti-corruption”, “civil society” etc. Using some of the terminology promoted by EU, US State Department and the affiliated NGOs.

This year the leader of the USA openly receives $400 million luxury plane from Qatar, which is even unlike Medvedev and Putin for similar “gifts”, received without embarrassment. Medvedev’s reputation was damaged permanently by Navalny’s video in 2017. But for the White House today, a comparable video, would be probably viewed as a flex.

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This emphasis in “Westernization”, can be relatively new, though. In the 18th and 19th century, Westernization, was relating more to technology import and best practices, than values. Prussia was an authoritarian state. But to import Prussian military concepts, was Westernization in the Russian empire or Meiji Japan.

In 1945-1992, the main divide was between economic systems of first and second world. An authoritarian state in the 1980s, could join the Western alliance, just by opposing communist economic theories, at least until the 1970s. So, Franco’s Spain could be part of the West after 1945. South Africa was accepted as part of the West until around 1970s.

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Personally, I think the terms “Western values”, could probably be replaced, nowadays by terminology like “best practices”.

So, American free speech, is a best practice for the world, but American housing policy? Singapore’s housing policy can be like a better model for most countries.

Netherlands’ urban planning is one of the best in the world, but it represents very different values than American urban planning. Which is the Western values? Maybe neither is specifically, but it’s easy to choose which is the best practice.

thank you for saying in the previous thread that I had written something “interesting” on this blog. I guess you were just being polite to try and re-litigate the issue of the massacres in Gaza with me but still, I appreciate the remark

Not really. When people write about topics, where they have personal experience, the quality of the content is usually high or at least it’s interesting.

If Beckow had a blog about life as a Central European person, to write about Central European topics, I would be an immediate follower. On the other hand, if Beckow, has a blog to write about Russian politics, or weather in Hawaii, maybe not.

Western Europeans object to the massacres in Gaza is simply because they dislike

For some gullible people and the extremists in the media, maybe Eurovision organizers etc.

But at least in North West Europe, it feels like more of the non-immigrant people seem to support Israel since October 7. Even middle class professionals, among the Europeans, nowadays seem to support Israel,

While when I first arrived to Europe, with terrorist attacks in France, I had culture shock of people saying “we deserve it” etc.

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Some reasons I can think of explanation.

1. Palestinian flags are an identity marker of immigrant districts in Europe. In Netherlands, the streets where the immigrants live, are covered with the Palestine flag. While in the white areas, you don’t see Palestine flags (except maybe student areas).

2. Non-immigrant Europeans are super middle age, as a population. If you subtract the immigrant origin population, the median age will be over 50 years old in many European countries.

The non-immigrant origin European are numerically mostly old people, which is a natural market for conservative politics. For example, Reform Party is probably next government in the UK.

3. Professions filter very aggressively in relation to political preferences. Media or journalists in Europe are filtered very aggressively for the left.

But professions like engineers have a lot more balanced political views. Just, nobody hears about their opinion, because they are not writing articles etc. The only time for expression for people with more normal professions, is in the election.

alignment with the mid-century anti-colonial, pro-3rd World movements and also I have the feeling that in places like Euskadi the independentist movement is exhausted so militancy orients itself towards new causes like woke stuff, Gaza, etc. This is not a “Northern Spain” phenomenon btw. You see it in Euskadi (Basque Country + Navarre) and Catalonia

I think it is analogy to Ireland.

Irish Catholics are probably the most left wing and third worldist population in Europe. But Irish protestants go in the opposition direction.

In relation to Israel/Palestine, Catholics in Belfast use the Palestine flag as an identity, while Protestants in Belfast use the Israel flag.

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But the more irrational part of leftist politics in those regions, is Euskadi and Catalonia are still centers of the bourgeoisie, already in the late 19th century they were leaders for industrialization in Iberia, and in the modern time which pay relatively more tax.

In Ireland Catholics, could at least excuse internationalist leftist politics, as empathy with the poor and oppressed from their grandparents’ recent experience.

innocent people in Donbas as much as they inform about the killings in Gaza now, there is no way ordinary Europeans would regard Ukraine as a “democratic ally”.

Is democracy related to not able to fight or complete basic state building task, which includes having the monopoly of violence? It seems like a recipe for losing wars and being invaded.

they feel entitled to lecture us on ‘Western values’. Latw was wondering above if the US is still Western lol. I presume her doubts have no more basis than the frankly good NSS that was recently released not being anti-Russian enough, the only measure of ‘Western values’ these people understand or care about.

Trump and his team did a good job laying out Western values in their NSS. Populist Western countries (America, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc.) have traditional Judeo-Christian values, a.k.a. Western values. Ending new entries and Remigration of undesirables is a common sense necessity.

Globalist European countries (Germany, France, UK, etc.) have multicultural values that discriminate against European Jews and Christians. Recklessly provoking Russia is NOT a Western value.

It is amusing that those without Western values are giving lectures and getting it wrong. When will more European countries leave multicultural values and return to Judeo-Christian Western values? AfD, RN, and especially Reform UK are showing strength.

If the MSM had informed about the killings on innocent people in Donbas as much as they inform about the killings in Gaza now, there is no way ordinary Europeans would regard Ukraine as a “democratic ally”.

If the MSM accurately reported on Gaza, the vast majority of people would be rushing to back Palestinian Jews. Sadly, the Fake Stream Media serves the antisemitic Red-Green Alliance.

• They uncritically parroted propaganda from genocidal Hamas partners at the “Gaza Health Ministry”.
• Refugees flee war zones to reach safety. There should have been daily coverage of Muslim nations refusing to allow their coreligionists out of Gaza.

What are the results of the artificially manufactured European Globalist outrage:

— There are yet more “pieces of paper” claiming a state in Muslim occupied Judea, Samaria, and Gaza that everyone knows will never exist.
— Indigenous Palestinian Jews counted this with “facts on the ground”. Housing for 10,000+ people will be added to the E1 area. This approved construction will permanently sever the Muslim occupied part of Jerusalem from Islamist colonies in Judea and Samaria.
— Netanyahu’s coalition is quite strong. A recent i24 poll suggests they would carry 67+ of the 120 seats if elections were held today.

Imagine how much better off Muslim women, children, and elderly would be if over a million of them had reached safety in Iran, Qatar, and other authentic Islamic lands. Under the ceasefire civilians are still stuck in Gaza being preyed on, sometimes executed by, genocidal Hamas.

There is no guarantee the ceasefire will hold. Genocidal Hamas keeps striking across the yellow line at indigenous Palestinian Jews. If it does hold, what comes next? There is still no plan for the Muslim colony in Gaza to be viable & self sufficient.

PEACE 😇

Maybe Carlson is in a good mood, because he feels like a pioneer, who discovered a hack or money printing machine as an influencer.

If Kiev, Jerusalem or Taipei, want Carlson to change the direction of his comments, they will have to “outbid” Moscow and Doha, which is unlikely they could attain, but it’s win/win for Carlson’s bank account.

If maybe Kiev, Budapest or Jerusalem try to offer $10 million for Carlson, then maybe Moscow or Doha will have to raise to $20 million.

Carlson even said he wants to buy a house in Doha, which is rational as it would cause a lot easier life for his accountant. You don’t want to move money from Russia to USA, as there are sanctions. And Doha also has 0% tax for Americans living there.

It is now illegal in Britain to say the blacks on TV are there because of DIE.

This year the leader of the USA openly receives $400 million luxury plane from Qatar

You do know it was given to the U.S. Air Force?

The leader of the USA received $0. At most, it will eventually end up in the Presidential Library. No one is concerned that Reagan’s Library has an Air Force One.

Also 747 production ended a couple years ago. USAF could not order a new one from Boeing.

Personally, I think the terms “Western values”, could probably be replaced, nowadays by terminology like “best practices”.

So, American free speech, is a best practice for the world, but American housing policy? Singapore’s housing policy can be like a better model for most countries.

Ultradense packed living requires Japanese like values. Singapore housing policy would never work in America. Most people are able to avoid unsafe public transit. Can you image the disaster if 275,000,000+ autos and trucks essential to U.S. culture in a dense pack environment?

Really there is no single “best practice” for Western living. There are compromises. America has inexpensive gasoline and lots of land. Our values thus support suburban, exurban, and even rural sprawl. While this maximizes personal freedom, it would never work in compact city-state geography like Singapore.

For some gullible people and the extremists in the media, maybe Eurovision organizers etc.

But at least in North West Europe, it feels like more of the non-immigrant people seem to support Israel since October 7. Even middle class professionals, among the Europeans, nowadays seem to support Israel

Eurovision found a backbone and reused to cancel Israel. A few countries are threatening to boycott, but we will have to wait to find out how many actually do.

Having to deal with unassimilable populations at home made many much more empathetic to the daily plight of Palestinian Jews. They have been putting up with similar problems for decades. The necessity to control rabble must more & more visible every day.

PEACE 😇

You listen to podcasts about dinosaurs?

See # 2 here is the guy I would like to resuscitate with genetic engineering but except that is science fiction.

If Modi was like a Hindu nationalist, but with Castro’s policy mentality, he would send the Islamists in India to Russia, in disguise as a guest worker program (Islamist outsourcing program).

For comparison, Castro’s crime reduction policy in Cuba, included sending the people from the prisons in Cuba to Miami as part of the Freedom Flotilla.*

But Indian politics doesn’t seem very “machiavellian” like this.

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Modi is not from intelligence services and maybe he acts like a genuine ally. He receives good oil deals and, although it would be useful him to reduce the Islamist population in India, there isn’t a reason for him to behave hostile to Russia in particular (maybe he can use this idea for Canada).

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You listen to podcasts about dinosaurs?

One called “Terrible Lizzards.”. Just tried it once, and found it quite bad.

See # 2 here is the guy I would like to resuscitate with genetic engineering but except that is science fiction.

There are actually protein fragments that survive in certain cases. But recovering a genome or proteome is surely impossible.

Jack Horner had the idea to recreate a T. Rex by using chickens. Might be technically impossible, but it is very plausible that one could turn a chicken into a terrible, man-eating monster, resembling ideas about dinos. They are halfway there already. When you consider the scale of chicken production and slaughter – just turning a miniscule amount of that into experimentation – perhaps, with the failures pressed into chicken nuggets – JBS, Tyson, or McDonald’s probably have the resources – would get you pretty far.

If Modi was like a Hindu nationalist, but with Castro’s policy mentality, he would send the Islamists in India to Russia, in disguise as a guest worker program (Islamist outsourcing program).

Modi sees migration as a way to gain influence and remissions, so, in that context, it would be giving an advantage to his enemies.

A person who writes polemics, or speaks polemically, is called a polemicist.[1] The word derives from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikos) ‘warlike, hostile’,[1][2] from πόλεμος (polemos) ‘war’.[3]

The Neoliberal Feudalism entities are anonymous polemicists. Because of the Jews. I presume they are not artificially intelligent. Begin here but be advised these are not cheerful people.

Goals, Motivations and Strategies of the Owners of Modern Society:
Part 1 Immensurated debt slavery
Neoliberal Feudalism
Apr 19, 2023

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Nobody on the first two pages of my google search results knows who (he/she/they) (is/are).

Many EU politicians prefer oil money than “Western values”.

You need to define “Western values” more accurately. It is too broad. Maybe it’s better to talk about just basic values – honesty & decency, which are human, not Western, Eastern or whatever.

It’s confusing – you talk a lot about “Western values” and how you’ve lived in the “West” for years and then you say things like it’s ok for “Israel to be bigger” and it’s ok to cleanse Palestinians out of their land. So it’s very confusing where you stand. Let’s not throw this meaningless term around, and talk about specific things.

It’s the EU politicians and international organizations selling their stated values, in exchange for the payment these countries generate from oil selling.

The way you put it in your previous post sounded like you accused Kallas of being directly paid by Qatar to appear in that conference (which was a normal conference on global politics and not somehow specifically centered on “Western values”). So you were posting misleading things there.

All the UN countries send their experts on “anti-corruption” to Doha, which gives $400 million luxury plane to Trump, for no motivation except kindness and charity.

Yea, it’s a bit funny but not as funny when Trump’s strategy writers put “democracy” in this new NSS. As to the $400M gift – the proper way to go is to refuse the gift. So the onus was on Trump to refuse it – he is the more corrupt one there, not Qatar. In the Baltic states, I’ve seen an editor in chief of a major news media outlet refuse an expensive wine bottle that was sent as a Christmas gift because he felt it was too much. Dignitaries bring gifts to each other, by protocol, but in Europe there are rules about not accepting gifts that are too luxurious. But you cannot expect this from narcissistic gangsters – they will take everything they see.

In English, Al Jazeera is polite and Westernized. But in Al Jazeera Arabic, the speech not necessarily more polite than 60 minutes.

The criticism in Muslim countries is geared mostly towards the aggressive policies of the US that murder Arabs and Europe is secondary there – because they support them, for example, the French provide planes for bombing Arab countries and sometimes do the bombing – thus they got Bataclan as punishment for that (Bataclan was run by Jews). This is because the Euro elites protect the Jews – and when the Jews receive payback for their aggression towards the others, it falls on Euros. This pattern has a very old history.

If the EU did not participate in the US led killings of Muslims (of whichever faction), there would be no threats to the EU. This is very simple – the EU needs to stop meddling in the Middle East in a violent way and also stop letting in Muslims – problem solved, there would be no more terror threats!

Why do you think Macron and Starmer (with co-ordination of Mark Carney, in Canada) were declaring the establishment of the “Palestinian State” in September 2025.

So you’re saying they have no agency to make political decisions? That’s a bit conceited of you. After the aggression against the Palestinians, many support the Palestinian state – because it would be one of the ways to stop the genocide. Not because someone was paid by Qatar. It’s because of Israel’s overreach.

But if you exclude the non-democratic aspect of the government in Russia, it is closer to a European country, just more similar to kind of dysfunctional and less developed part of Europe like Romania or Bulgaria, than like Switzerland.

Why do you “exclude the non-democratic aspect”? You find it not important enough in the context of “Western values”? Romania and Bulgaria are not special services dictatorships in the way that Russia is a KGB dictatorship. Romania is also Western Christian.

Why should you work for Fox News, if you can get a lot easier and more money as a petrodollar recycling machine ?

Tucker has his own program and his schtick has always been a dissident opinion, it’s a niche which exploded around 2016. His own show gets millions of views.

in exchange for just doing political commentary (which is not really work, doesn’t require intelligence, doesn’t require education, doesn’t require talent, etc).

Political commentary is work that requires both intelligence and talent, as well as research and a bit of guts sometimes. It’s an important part of “Western values” – or maybe just any open society. But for some reason you don’t see that.

I am not saying I hate scenes of wildlife, but I think there is something remarkably sinister about it, in the context of EU currency and the scenario of choosing birds instead of people.

I’m sorry but this sounds a bit paranoid (nothing personal). Maybe you read too much into the NSS.

But I do feel like it wouldn’t have made an obvious difference in the longterm.

Well, my point was that the blacks do have a history in the United States (regardless if one likes it or not – facts do not care about your feelings, remember that one?). So if they had not been brought over or taken back to Liberia relatively early, their history in the US would not have developed much – there would not have been all the Frederick Douglasses and Tubmans, so nobody to put on statues, posters or even coins / paper money.

Yes, the wokes are probably tempted to put blacks on the paper money, but they also know that this is not good timing and that it would be disliked by many.

I like the design. Looks like silver. i imagine there must be few of those coins around now.

There are a ton of old and new coins around, for sure (and there is the 1930s & older art). We use silver mostly, not yellow gold for jewelry (or white gold which looks like silver), for aesthetic purposes. We don’t use much color. It is very subdued, maybe too much.

Maybe you read too much into the NSS.

NSS? I don’t know what that means.

What could go wrong?

I just want them to admit they are cloning people.

Latw was wondering above if the US is still Western lol.

No, I was wondering if the US is still a first world country. And whether there is rule of law and I’m also wondering if the Congress is still functioning. And if the US is going to be led by Jewish oligarchs, then what is the political orientation? What is the role of Project 2025?

The American continent is, of course, geographically speaking, Western in that it is in the Western Hemisphere.

My criticism of the very concise and highly important NSS is not about Russia not being mentioned (literally, “do not mention Russia” – because they’re not an adversary anymore) – no, my criticism is hypocrisy vis a vis the Europeans. All those criticisms that the NSS directs towards “Western Europeans” – can just as well be directed at the US: the US is browner than Europe, the birth rates have tanked, much higher obesity and chronic disease rates than Europe, more unregulated food, lowering male employment, lack of fresh, original ideas, there is hubris instead of self-confidence.

Who wrote this thing? Because I have a ton of questions here. The document has good parts, but it’s a blatant attempt to “have your cake and eat it, too”.

This linked video is a great no-frills description of what is going on with the Western project in Ukraine. He doesn’t get into any backstory, conspiracy fluff or whatever. I think there is some of that to be factored into a complete explanation, but his discussion is a good introduction to why the Russian military response was EXPECTED.

Ever since I was a boy, I have seen people who bear a remarkable resemblance to other people.

I once saw someone like my best friend over in another country in quadruplet form, all wearing yarmulkes. (LatW will accuse me of being a paranoid here)

No, I was wondering if the US is still a first world country. And whether there is rule of law and I’m also wondering if the Congress is still functioning. And if the US is going to be led by Jewish oligarchs, then what is the political orientation? What is the role of Project 2025?

— The U.S. is a 1st World country.

— Rule of law suffered under the prior White House regime, but it still exists. Trump’s team is cleaning up government agencies and scoring wins at SCOTUS to improve the situation.

— Congress is only partially functional. The Democrats have broken what used to be standard processes in the Senate. Ways are being found around some of these obstacles, such as confirming certain types of appointments in bulk.

— IslamoGloboHomo oligarchs are particularly dangerous. They want to flood the country with degenerates and back the campaigns of ultra progressive DA’s. Trump is doing the best he can to limit that impact of these antisemitic oligarchs.

— Project 2025 has zip, zero, nada, zilch to do with Trump. It is a set of papers by the Heritage Foundation, an outside think tank not the administration. Given their corporatist leanings, what I have seen of it is a mixed bag.

no, my criticism is hypocrisy vis a vis the Europeans. All those criticisms that the NSS directs towards “Western Europeans” – can just as well be directed at the US:

The critique is primarily of the European troika [Germany, France, UK] but applies to all of the Globalists including the EU as an institution. The NSS is correct that parts of Europe are in rapid decline towards failure. Issues include but are not limited to:

• More restrictions on free speech
• More disruptive migrants and is doing too little to remigrate them
• More targeting of sovereign nations. The EU interferes with the rule of law in countries like Hungary and Poland
• More anti-business regulations
• Higher energy weakness due to over reliance on wind & solar

Is the U.S. perfect? Of course not. Obamacare has cut back health services for millions of people and driven up spending. We have our own smaller migration issues with 3rd world detritus. Places like California and NYC want to repeat European Globalist errors, albeit they have less reach to do so.

What’s the old saying — Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. America does not have to be perfect to offer good suggestions to Globalist Europe via the NSS. In some respects it is an other old adage — Learn from our mistakes.

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— The U.S. is a 1st World country.

This is something we’re going to have to figure out soon. Just because you say something about yourself (“exceptional”, “greatest”, “richest”, “first world”) – doesn’t mean it is objectively so.

— IslamoGloboHomo oligarchs are particularly dangerous.

The Jewish oligarchs who want to spy on everybody or – even better – take away everyone’s jobs and then put them in some crazy VR reality – those ones are not dangerous?

The EU interferes with the rule of law in countries like Hungary and Poland

Hungary doesn’t have to be in the EU. They can always leave and be like Norway and the UK. They’re free to leave any time if they don’t like the EU and if they are in constant disagreement with other EU states. Agree to disagree – and bye.

— Project 2025 has zip, zero, nada, zilch to do with Trump.

Well, it does have a lot to do with those who are in power now – not sure it is Trump, probably those behind him. Who are they?

The NSS is correct that parts of Europe are in rapid decline towards failure.

Have those who wrote it ever been to Europe? Have those who wrote it looked at the latest marriage / birth stats in the US?

• More restrictions on free speech

Europeans do not want their wives, mothers and daughters being called names and denigrated publicly the way it is done in certain media in the US.

• More disruptive migrants and is doing too little to remigrate them

Migrants will be less disruptive when Euros stop attacking Arabs in their own countries. And when they start cooking at home again so they don’t need delivery services such as DoorDash.

• More anti-business regulations

Only those businesses that don’t observe consumer protections. Euros do not want their children eating hormone filled meat or to be spied on or propagandized to by hostile foreign powers via funny tech appliances.

Obamacare has cut back health services for millions of people and driven up spending.

So what are Americans going to be paying now for health insurance – 2000 bucks per month (every month) for a family of 3 for services they don’t even use?

The Prof Jiang AI hallucination is still trying to punch a hole in the space-time continuum. In this video from about a month ago he has a nice logical discussion of the moon landing hoax. He covers Revelation of the Method which is highly relevant to this one.

Sure, there is consequentialism in history, though sometimes people make the argument that that history gives them intrinsic, inviolable, egalitarian rights as Americans, which, may be true in a political sense, but which isn’t true in a moral, philosophical, or historical one.

Yea, but that’s exactly what the liberals will use in their argument (the opposite one to yours) – that there is a moral obligation to recognize the “struggle against enslavement, injustice, adversity” of these various groups, including blacks, and that becomes and even stronger argument to promote their history. But none of that takes away from the fact that those individuals are part of US history as are a few female pilots – denying that is kind of petty and cowardly. A female pilot is not even such a big deal – in EE, women used to do all kinds of things (fly into space even), out of a huge number of women, one will do something notable. They shouldn’t have to, but they do sometimes.

To be one’s countryman a certain reciprocity or hierarchy is required, and not an artificial or fake one, with institutionalized theft.

Institutionalized theft – that is a separate issue. And that’s recent.

As to hierarchy, well – those people don’t want to be a part of it, because it exploited them – why should they have to celebrate it? That’s why I said – either you shouldn’t have brought them in or tried to send them back as soon as possible. Now you’re stuck with it. Believe me, I would make the exact same argument with those in my own home country who refused to carry out decolonization after 1991 (or even better – for not fighting harder in 1940-1950). Now you’re stuck with a more unstable situation due to not fighting for being more homogenous.

You can’t pick facts – and facts don’t care about your feelings.

Hungary doesn’t have to be in the EU. They can always leave and be like Norway and the UK. They’re free to leave any time if they don’t like the EU and if they are in constant disagreement with other EU states. Agree to disagree – and bye.

ROTFL — Brexit was voted 2015. Theoretically occurred 2020. And, the situation is still so messed up that the UK and EU are at loggerheads. If a large economic power like the UK can’t escape cleanly, smaller countries cannot afford the risk.

Here is a better idea. Germany does not have to be in the EU. They can always leave at any time. Then Germany gets to have 26 nations gang up on them to be given Brexit-style treatment.

The best move would dissolving the failed EU experiment gracefully. It could be replaced with a more limited compact that better respects every nations’ sovereignty.

— Project 2025 has zip, zero, nada, zilch to do with Trump.

Well, it does have a lot to do with those who are in power now – not sure it is Trump, probably those behind him. Who are they?

Why are you so obsessed with this piece of pathetically obvious disinformation?

Project 2025 is a powerless set of think tank documents. It doesn’t have anything to do with Trump, his administration, or those behind him. You can’t find those who do not exist.

• More disruptive migrants and is doing too little to remigrate them

Migrants will be less disruptive when Euros stop attacking Arabs in their own countries

You are crazy if you believe that.

Are you saying the mostly Pakistani Rotherham child sexual exploitation ring was tied to Arabs. Pakistanis are not Arab ethnics.

Muslims harm women and children. Why do you support their violence against innocent Judeo-Christians?

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Is democracy related to not able to fight or complete basic state building task, which includes having the monopoly of violence? It seems like a recipe for losing wars and being invaded.

I am not very sure what you are saying here but I think that, in line with previous statements of yours where you seemed to condone what Kiev did to its civilians in Donbas, you’re defending the idea that a country can kill its own innocent civilians while staying “Western” and democratic.

This actually reinforces my point that there is a clear disconnect between people of the former USSR and Western Europeans. You guys have a much more fatalistic outlook on these matters: bad stuff happens in armed conflicts and there’s not much anyone can do about it. With the possible exception of Bashi, I don’t think there is a single commenter in this blog from the FUSSR who doesn’t view things that way. Bad stuff happened in Donbas or is happening now in Ukraine but let’s move on. External forces or immutable laws are responsible for those tragedies, not the people who actually carry them out.

If you are honest when you say that you value the insights of people who talk about the places they know best, you should trust me on this: this is not at all how people view these topics in Western Europe. People there have not experienced anything like Chechnya, Donbas or Yugoslavia in generations. When I was young some people did remember similar disasters in the distant past but there was a strong collective desire to avoid them at all costs.

Even though I was born in one of the few places in Western Europe that saw pervasive political violence, I grew up constantly hearing about the principle that the end does not justify the means and a good 80% of the Basque population always supported this view. This wasn’t even about such an abstract concept as the one you mention of a state having the right to monopolize violence. It was about how to respond to an oppressor state that used torture and violence to combat legitimate political views. To be fair, the Spaniards themselves, as they moved on from dictatorship, did not follow Kiev’s doctrine and practically did not kill any innocent civilian. They were able to abide by their own rule of law to arrest and try violent actors while legalizing separatism and negotiating a generous autonomy with non-violent independentists. A totally opposite dynamic to Donbas. In more stable parts of Europe that have not experienced any violence at all since WW2 or earlier, the disconnect must be even starker.

As I may have posted here before, to some extent the US is a different matter. Apart from a higher tolerance to violence, especially in marginal parts of society, everybody is aware that the US military commits its share of war crimes. But I still see a huge difference with Russia or Ukraine. People accept the US’s guilt in these crimes but regard them as exceptions to the rule that they genuinely feel sorry about, not inevitable acts that no one can do anything about. Americans know about their war crimes because they investigate and often punish the perpetrators themselves. Nobody would defend My Lai like some people here have defended specific massacres in Donbas and, as we speak, Congress is investigating if some attacks in Venezuela were lawful or not. I don’t know of any similar investigations in Kiev or Moscow.

By the way, Mikel – there was just a political assassination in your super duper mega advanced Western value state of Utah. (In case you didn’t notice). Possibly done by a foreign (Middle Eastern) government that has infiltrated the US government. Ooh, that’s some real first world stuff.

And why should a country such as the US even have such a huge military budget?

Americans know about their war crimes because they investigate and often punish the perpetrators themselves.

If Americans were ever attacked on their home soil by a near peer, peer or above peer power (like Ukraine has been), they would most definitely commit a lot of war crimes. There is absolutely no doubt about that. Just like they already did commit war crimes against the Indians. Or the way they burned children alive in Dresden (not to mention destroyed irreplaceable European heritage).

Or maybe in 2026 they would just watch football…

Vitalik is saying that Musk has turned x into a Death Star laser of coordinated hate.

Then Germany gets to have 26 nations gang up on them to be given Brexit-style treatment.

26 nations will not gang up on Germany. Even with AfD in charge (a long shot).

You just want chaos in Europe so that you can push your deals unto those who do not want them. This has nothing to do with “cultural erasure”.

If you cared about “cultural erasure”, you’d start at home.

The best move would dissolving the failed EU experiment gracefully. It could be replaced with a more limited compact that better respects every nations’ sovereignty.

This is none of your business.

Btw, have you ever even been to Europe?

Why are you so obsessed with this piece of pathetically obvious disinformation?

Because it’s one of the interesting parts – and could be quite significant. There’s definitely something to it (I’ll look when I have time).

So who wrote the NSS?

Are you saying the mostly Pakistani Rotherham child sexual exploitation ring was tied to Arabs. Pakistanis are not Arab ethnics.

Don’t evade an important point – attacking Muslim countries was one of the main reasons for the rise in terrorism. Not the only reason, ofc., but one of the main ones, for sure.

That the British decided to let in the Pakis is their own short sighted behavior. Had they not let them in, there would be no problems.

…External forces or immutable laws are responsible for those tragedies, not the people who actually carry them out.

That’s a derivation of Tolstoy’s philosophy. Not the one I like, but it is present in CE Europe.

…not how people view these topics in Western Europe. People there have not experienced anything like Chechnya, Donbas or Yugoslavia in generations. When I was young some people did remember similar disasters in the distant past

Two problems: Western Euros actively support doing it to others by themselves. What was bombing of Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya and he current Gaza genocide by their premier ally? (They can’t even bring themselves to ban Izrael from Eurovision!)

The distant pass is only a few generations back: Spanish and Greek civil wars, France in Algeria (part of France at that time), Ulster. And WW2. Cheering on Kiev as it murdered Russian civilians in Donbas-Odesa also counts.

People accept the US’s guilt in these crimes but regard them as exceptions to the rule that they genuinely feel sorry about, not inevitable acts that no one can do anything about.

You mean that the West has better PR? Is better at “explaining” it away? How is killing 100k civilians in Iraq an exception? Or 60k in Gaza? My Lai was a miniscule part of what happened in Vietnam – 99% of murdered Viet civilians never got any publicity.

Feeling “guilty” and doing nothing about it is the same as what you claim is part of the Ukie-Russia culture. If the damn easterners would learn how to say “sorry” afterwards when it doesn’t matter and “investigate” (with no results that matter) would that better?

What you really have is the Western culture that is very insincere, pathologically hypocritical, knowing how to talk its way out of what it does. Maybe it’s a part of progress and others will eventually learn how to do it too.

Lol, first they were admitted as part of a quota (“for fairness!”), now it’s forbidden to mention this. Same thing with women, come to think of it.

…Ukes “would not fight” when I said they would shoot from every window. Which they did.

Actually they didn’t, there is not a single case of that happening. The Ukie army is holed up in very deep and elaborate fortress-like structures in Donbas and elsewhere that were built by NATO between 2014-2022. More than half of these steel-fortress reinforced underground bunkers have already been dismantled by Russia. They are planning to destroy all of them. Of course NATO can build more, but it will just continue: expensive building, destruction, retreat…

Kiev would be better off making a deal. I assumed they are rational, it seems they are not.

many are angry at Russia for what they’ve done – if they even dare approach, they’ll be decimated.

It is NATO approaching Russia and not vice-versa, can you read maps? And both sides would be decimated. Who can handle losses better? One million Estonians and 1.4 million Latvians, losing 5k young men would be absolutely devastating and anger does nothing. Nobody else is coming to fight and die for the pointless NATO expansion.

Both of these monsters will be going down this century – the sooner, the better.

Do you predict that US and Russia will go down and the lib-progressive Europe will be at the top again? Interesting, based on what? More likely Europe will dramatically weaken: economy, demographics, military. US and Russia have resources and better unified ‘identity’, Europe is very resources poor and about a quarter of the population will soon be unassimilated Third World migrants. (Other than CE Europe).

Kallas….peddle the ridiculous idea that she is a “Soviet woman”

Her dad was an exemplary Soviet commie, how do you think she was raised? Her mom took up arms on the side of Nazis at the tender age of 6 months, that is unusual but Kallases are not the smartest people.

She was sent to live elsewhere with her family after WW2 – it was common after the bloody war and the Estonian Nazi participation in it. Poland-Czechoslovakia expelled 10 million Germans, including kids. But don’t forget that most of them supported the genocide on Slavs, Jews and “commies” in WW2 killing tes of millions. There is a price to be paid for that. Kallas is simply a moron.

When he was talking about Western values earlier I assumed Dmitri was referring to what he describes here:

We today use the term “Western values” (maybe since 1990s) as including concepts of “liberal democracy”, “anti-corruption”, “civil society” etc. Using some of the terminology promoted by EU, US State Department and the affiliated NGOs.

We can probably say these values trace their origin back to the time of the French and American Revolutions. From what I could remember Qatar is a type of feudal authoritarian monarchy which is based on Islam and Arab tradition. Looking at what wiki says about Qatari politics this seems basically true:

The current hereditary emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, runs the country in an autocratic manner and holds nearly all executive and legislative authority, as well as controlling the judiciary.

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According to Qatar’s constitution, Sharia is a main source of Qatari legislation.

Thinking about the way in which more traditionally minded European monarchists reacted to the French Revolution, i.e. believing that it was unmitigated in its satanism, or exceptional only in how thoroughly bad and evil it was, Qataris might have had some similar instinctive reaction to encountering certain Western values and political models.

This is why there may be a level of ideological opposition there that goes beyond current events. It would explain why Qataris and people who share a similar way of thinking in the Muslim world (like Muslim Brotherhood, conservative Pakistanis etc.) are eager to protect their countries from Western influences, and, if feasible, to be proactively defensive against them.

In his earlier posts I thought Dmitri was referencing the way that, from what looks like an unpromising and relatively weak position, these currents of opinion have been skillful at gaining influence and pushing their agenda in the heart of various Western countries. Qataris and similar will be hanging out with European royalty, buying up the prime areas of Western capitals, influencing university and school curriculum, supporting successful efforts of allied peoples to occupy the territory of European countries… as well as their media activities, which are part of all this.

For these reasons I thought Dmitri’s basic claim, that their influence operations have been much more successful than Russia’s, was quite plausible.

If you cared about “cultural erasure”, you’d start at home.

Huh? We are starting at home.

2,000,000+ illegals gone in 9 months. That path leads at least 10,000,000+ before Trump’s 2nd term ends (48 months).

Trump has started the work on ending H1B driven culture erasure. He still has to follow through on the $100,000/yr fee.

DEI/SJW is being removed. Trump is forcing antisemitic universities to protect students. Male access to women’s spaces and sports is ending. And, the great culture destroyer of USAID has been terminated.

26 nations will not gang up on Germany.

There is only one way to know for sure. Let us put it to the test. When will Germany file under Article 50?

The UK did not expect the mugging they received. Once the German caliphate commits to leaving the EU, they will suddenly find tgat have many fewer “friends”. There will be money to be had.

Even with AfD in charge (a long shot).

Germany would be more compatible with the EU if AfD was in charge. AfD stands for western Judeo-Christian values. Germany’s IslamoGloboHomo elites hate those.

Sadly, you may be correct. German coalition politics are dysfunctional. Far-left CDU/CSU and ultra-left SPD have a scam going to exclude those who support German Jews and Christians. Despite being the most popular party in Germany, the extreme Islamophile left may succeed in excluding the centrist AfD at the federal level.

That the British decided to let in the Pakis is their own short sighted behavior. Had they not let them in, there would be no problems.

I concur.

However, you are being too narrow. Why restrict this impeccable logic to Pakis?

The British (and EU) deciding to let in Muslims is their own short sighted behavior. Had they not let Islamists in, there would be no Jihadi problems.

attacking Muslim countries was one of the main reasons for the rise in terrorism

Stop evading the important point. Most Muslim crimes committed in Europe are not political terrorism. It is driven by the fact that Islamists invade. They do not assimilate.

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Why do you insist that women and children must be at risk to Islamic sexual predators?

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It is funny because they had that gay Tutsi that was selected to be Dr. Who.

Vitalik is Exhibit A of why everybody needs to get some SUN on their BALLS. Which has been pretty tough to do the last couple days in my zip code.

So who wrote the NSS?

Colby’s grandchild wrote it. Your A one sucks.

But none of that takes away from the fact that those individuals are part of US history as are a few female pilots – denying that is kind of petty and cowardly.

Before the civil rights era, none of these figures had any purchase on the mind of real Americans. How can it be a shared history? They weren’t even living in the same space.

According to my google search all the records have been scrubbed now and all connections of Ursula Von Der Leyen to National Socialist ancestry are debunked as hoaxes. What’s the dope in your neighborhood?

Btw, have you ever even been to Europe?

Some have remarked on a certain, tendency towards UK spelling (which I don’t believe is dominant in Israel.)

But whether that is related to education, original posting (the US would probably considerd a promotion), certain scifi novel editions, spellcheck, or connections to the Subcontinent, is something you must decide for yourself. It may be pure accident.

You can’t scrub your ancestry – Merz, Ursula, Baerbock, that lame accountant before, all had direct Nazi ancestors. So do most Germans.

The sophomoric posture where they over-do the anti-anti-Semitism is meant to hide it. The attempt to present WW2 as “only about the Jews” is silly and they know better. They know what their Volk did and to pretend the other 25 million victims of Germans didn’t exist is a crime.

It is the usual German lack of honesty and class – unlike the Anglos they are very bad at lying. As with all European wars Germany will again be the main victim – looking at them one has to say they deserve it.

Who wrote this thing?

Obviously not Trump himself. If I had to bet, I’d go for high IQ people in Trump’s orbit, like Stephen Miller or JD Vance. Rubio must have been kept in the loop for such a document but he clearly doesn’t look to be the main author, unless he has changed his views 180.

In any case, it is a pretty good document. If I had authored it myself, I would have removed any reference to the Monroe Doctrine and made it less adversarial towards China but for some reason these people in the White House keep publishing papers without requesting my input so let’s not make the perfect be enemy of the good. What matters is that it places the US first in its security strategy, not foreign countries or alliances, and that it correctly identifies nation building wars and mindless expansion of NATO as the biggest strategic blunders of the last years. I voted Trump in the hopes of seeing things like these acknowledged and made official policy.

Having recently visited Europe, I also found the criticism of the European institutions and the questioning of their character as real allies with shared values particularly timely and accurate. It is quite ironic that you keep posting your thoughts on a website like this that would not last 5 minutes under the current EU censorship regime. I actually want to be able to read what a Latvian in Seattle with neo-nazi tendencies wants to say. I do not recognize any politician or bureaucrat in the world the right to decide for me if I should be exposed to that content or not.

Btw, have you ever even been to Europe?

Some have remarked on a certain, tendency towards UK spelling

She is asking the question out of denial, ill will, or both. Regardless of the reason for the obvious tangent, there is no point engaging with it.

She does not want to admit there were 68K+ reported rapes in the UK. If I have or have not visited the UK, that does not change that number.

Ditto for the 39K+ reported rapes in Germany and the 42K+ in France. Does it matter if I have visited Germany and/or France? Nope. The numbers are the numbers.

Poland has largely kept out Muslim, MENA and sub-Saharan African, migrants out. And, they had only 1.1K reported rapes in that period. Does it matter if I have visited Poland? Nope. The numbers are the numbers.

Divulging details of my personal travels could lead to doxxing. Not necessarily by her, but once the information is out there it can be found by anyone. And, sharing that information would not change her mind. Even if I spent decades in each of those countries she would find some way to decry such experience as irrelevant.

It is a clear attempt distract from objective facts.
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That she thinks there is some wild conspiracy around the Heritage Foundation and the Project 2025 documents is very funny. For decades, Heritage’s track record has been Christian and anti-communist as their top 2 priorities. Trump and his team have explicitly stated that Project 2025 is not connected to the administration.

Project 2025 is not the Contract With America. Newt Gingrich was influential and in office when that was in play.

This is another distraction from the facts about Muslim migrants and their crimes.
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There is a really good place to start investigating almost any problem in Europe. Name the Muslims and/or Islamophiles! Once you look at the antisemitic IslamoGloboHomo oligarchs, you have a collection of high probability leads.

Nothing is ever 100%. Sometimes stupid people are just stupid. But, large scale problems are largely tied to antisemitic Globalists who want to quash Western Judeo-Christian values. The Great Muslim Replacement is an obvious attempt to harm European Jews and Christians.

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It is quite ironic that you keep posting your thoughts on a website like this that would not last 5 minutes under the current EU censorship regime.

I would be able to express my opinions very easily in the EU and would definitely not need Unz or any other American website. I’m critical of many opinions expressed here on Unz.

There are only a few exceptions and those pertain mostly to Germany. There is always a way to tone things down in rhetoric, but keep the same points. You have no idea what you’re talking about – we have our own nationalist parties, with their own infrastructure where everyone converses.

I do not recognize any politician or bureaucrat in the world the right to decide for me if I should be exposed to that content or not.

The world does not revolve around you. There is content out there that is protected by “free speech” laws in the US that is harmful to the children (and wider society). But American libertarians do not care as long as they get to signal how cool they are.

Obviously not Trump himself. If I had to bet, I’d go for high IQ people in Trump’s orbit, like Stephen Miller or JD Vance.

No, it is someone in the upper rungs of the State department, Stephen Miller mostly writes about domestic things and in a different style. He would not use words such as “attenuated”. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is some Thiel worshipping faggot.

So far I’ve only found two names – Michael Anton (funny last name, rather untypical) and that Colby guy.

Anyway, it doesn’t even matter that much.

Two problems: Western Euros actively support doing it to others by themselves. What was bombing of Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya and he current Gaza genocide by their premier ally?

With regards to the latter, Western Europe is the place where I see the most opposition to that genocide. I couldn’t be further away from Dmitry on the topic of the Gaza massacres but he is right that not even the Arabs show as much opposition to them as the Europeans. And with all the paradoxes and contradictions that you would expect from a population in a state of sharp decline, it’s all driven by real humanitarian reasons.

With regards to the other misadventures you mention, some of them, believe it or not, were also driven by humanitarian reasons, as seen at the time, and in others you need to separate the elites from the people. There is a reason why Europe has ended up having another devastating war in its territory. Ordinary Europeans had no say in the decisions that led to that avoidable outcome. It was all decided by their elites in the same manner that population replacement and gender insanity were also imposed on them. As a matter of fact, it was a long time ago, when people were less zombified, but Western Europe saw massive demonstration against the US-led wars in Muslim countries. Some governments opposed them form the start and others withdrew their forces when governments changed. Afghanistan was probably the only place where the Euros joined forces with the US all along in the quixotic effort of building a democracy there.

Spanish and Greek civil wars, France in Algeria (part of France at that time), Ulster. And WW2.

The only relevant example is France in Algeria and you have a point there. But note that France never bombed civilian areas of Marseille or Ajjacio. It engaged in a bloody colonial war 20 years after the end of WW2, when the idea that Europeans were entitled to civilize the 3rd World was still debatable.

If the damn easterners would learn how to say “sorry” afterwards when it doesn’t matter and “investigate” (with no results that matter) would that better?

I do think that Russia and Ukraine would be better off if they had institutions capable of investigating and punishing the culprits of the Odessa or Chechnya massacres.

But I actually agree with Latw and Dmitry that “Western values” can mean whatever one wants them to mean and these days it’s just an empty slogan.

All I can say with some certainty is that some time ago I knew a collection of countries where people felt proud that, unlike most anywhere else in the world, they enjoyed freedom of opinion and expression. Censorship was an ugly word associated with dictatorships and everybody was against it. The native populations of those countries were not being replaced by foreigners and the rights of gays and other minorities were respected without falling into gender insanity. Coincidentally or not, these countries had enjoyed peace and prosperity for several generations. This is all falling apart now, especially in Europe, and I fear we may go back to much uglier times.

But societies keep changing all the time and from a personal perspective it’s probably best to adapt the best you can and not get too worked up about these changes. While Europe often looks set to return to the 30s-40s of the past century, there are signs of a certain revival in the US and perhaps there’s also the consolation that in the long-term history shows a favorable trend. People everywhere tend to live better than their ancestors.

From what I could remember Qatar is a type of feudal authoritarian monarchy which is based on Islam and Arab tradition.

Well, as I already mentioned, the Doha forum is not about values – it is about global affairs. There are things that go beyond just “values” (or traditions or lifestyle or political systems) that need to be discussed. Also, Dmitry seems to not have noticed that Kallas actually did try to propagate “Western values” (she spoke about the need for “women to be at the table” and threw out some stat that this helps solve conflicts) – I personally believe that was out of place and actually rude to the host who was sitting right next to her. Nor do I believe it would have such a great impact (but I may be wrong).

It would explain why Qataris and people who share a similar way of thinking in the Muslim world (like Muslim Brotherhood, conservative Pakistanis etc.) are eager to protect their countries from Western influences, and, if feasible, to be proactively defensive against them.

This is totally understandable. I don’t see why we can’t have a situation where they keep their culture and we keep ours?

these currents of opinion have been skillful at gaining influence and pushing their agenda in the heart of various Western countries.

The onus is on the Western societies themselves to control how much of that gets through. Of course, the problem there is that the elites benefit from this more than regular people – so this is where the elites would need be held in check – or rather, the elites would need to be nationalist minded.

You can benefit from these interactions (both Qatar and UAE, and others), but you can always push back when there is too much – financing new mosques, uni curricula (same would go for the Jews here, btw), and especially not “supporting successful efforts of allied peoples to occupy the territory of European countries”. Qatar might be more active, but the UAE, frankly, are very modest and keep to themselves in my experience. As to properties, the problem is that we’ve already allowed foreigners to buy our properties (Russian, Chinese, Arab) – so that’s a systemic issue there.

Israel attacked Qatar – and after that there is still an expectation from the West that Qatar should pay for the Gaza reconstruction? Sorry, but that is obnoxious. The sheikh said ‘no’ politely.

For these reasons I thought Dmitri’s basic claim, that their influence operations have been much more successful than Russia’s, was quite plausible.

Russia has done similar things, but on top of that Russia attacked physically and has very aggressive rhetoric, so it is different. If I asked most British how they feel about it, they’d agree or they would say that they want neither of these influences. The EU want to sell them our goods and in order to do that we need to have good relations.

As to the head covering topic: my belief is that when Euro women travel there, they should wear head coverings in the more conservative places and everyone should observe Sharia. Ideally, men should be sent. That said, there should be no Muslim settlement in Europe (with the exception of maybe some Chechens). That way there is mutual respect. Both sides leave each other alone.

When Leyen and Kallas have cocktails do you think they haul their Nazi memorabilia out of the closet? Do they have guilty pleasure reading about Haunabu and Maria Orsic?

Washington Post claims Anton.

https://archive.ph/I9uYy

Does Anton stand behind that claim? We know he is leaving his government job which conveniently disavows any knowledge of his mission impossible. Good night Mister Phelps.

Vitalik seems semi-nomadic, but rumor is that he is mostly in Torna’s country now, which seems to indicate it is not some seasonal malaise, though he probably would benefit from touching grass.

If this rumor is true, would say he is sufficiently insulated from the problems of the youth of Europe, not to care about them intrinsically.

In any case, it is a pretty good document.

It’s more of a political statement than a real strategy document.

I would have removed any reference to the Monroe Doctrine

Right, that’s kind of redundant because the US already broke the Monroe Doctrine after 1945 by interfering in Europe (and by going to war in Europe in the first place – so the US broke their own doctrine, granted it was an early 19th century doctrine but still). Plus, who’s keeping the US from working with Latin America? Imo, the tone they’ve assumed is too aggressive and it will backfire. Nobody likes bullies. Although Trump kind of has his own way where he can turn around and be friendly – maybe some of those Latin guys will like it. The mafia style can be appealing at times (if you’re the right type).

My question though – will the US support “nationalist values” in Latin America the way they want to support those in Europe? Of course not – there is no way that the US will support a protectionist (real nationalist) government anywhere – and this admin will sure as heck not support “indigenous rights” of any sort.

As usual – nationalism for me, but not for thee.

.. that it correctly identifies nation building wars and mindless expansion of NATO as the biggest strategic blunders of the last years.

Did you not notice how Dmitry was using the phrase “nation building” to justify Israel’s war on Gaza? Essentially justify Greater Israel – achieving it by committing ethnic replacement and then calling it “nation building”. So is this admin going to condemn that particular “nation building” war for which we are paying – or not?

As to NATO – it’s done, it is no more, finito. But if the US doesn’t want transatlantic obligations, they don’t get to keep the bennies. Sorry, that’s just life. Can’t have your cake and eat it too – calling oneself “exceptional” or “indispensable” won’t change that.

But I actually agree with Latw and Dmitry that “Western values” can mean whatever one wants them to mean and these days it’s just an empty slogan.

Well, roughly speaking, they can mean two things: either traditional Western values (the idealist tradition from Plato – Kant) or post-modern Western values (“liberal democracy”). But again – I’d prefer to abandon this term entirely in politics & culture related convos, Westerners tend to always claim anything good as theirs. And they forget a lot of negatives that they have themselves committed and brought to others. I think the era of realism has arrived where we have to be brutally honest about things.

Btw, Indo-European is not Western – since it originates in Ukraine.

P.s. You’re extremely naive if you think that Russia would ever “investigate the Chechnya massacres”. You know damn well that they never will nor will the US ever force them to – so your point is completely moot. And comparing Russia to Ukraine here is logically incorrect – Russia was fighting an imperialist war, while Ukraine was defending herself (jus ad bellum).

Before the civil rights era, none of these figures had any purchase on the mind of real Americans. How can it be a shared history? They weren’t even living in the same space.

By this logic, the Anglos should live in MA and the blacks – in Georgia. But that’s really not how it was.

Re: female pilots – my point is why try to erase them the way Hegseth did? You don’t have to lionize them, but why erase as if it didn’t happen? Shows there is some mental issue there. But facts do not care about your feelings.

Anyway, undoubtedly there are Russians that made very significant contributions to civilization – unlike these other folks. But I don’t think you would accept them on half of the currency in Latvia

That’s a completely different historic dynamic. It’s just not a good comparison.

And in Russia, they do honor those Russians who made significant contributions “to civilization”. Civilization is not nation, btw.

Those Russians who have made contributions to our country and our people (such as the balticist V.Toporov) – those we do honor. But, no, we will not put them on our money. It’s mostly national symbols anyway, not historic personalities that are on the money and numismatic coins.

Btw, I do like the 10 dollar bill – the guy is cute. 🙂 If they ever try to remove him, I will go out and protest loudly – “Do not remove the hot guy!” So you’ve got my support on that one. LOL

Trumbull’s Washington could have been on the cover of Vogue.

P(real life Hamilton or Washington were hot) < .1.

Goethe’s Faust is a gnostic text.

James is really going full Guerdjieff with his mustache now.

Stop evading the important point. Most Muslim crimes committed in Europe are not political terrorism. It is driven by the fact that Islamists invade. They do not assimilate.

Is Putin making a mistake by continuing to bring in Muslim immigrants and was he wrong to say that it is good that Russia is becoming more Muslim?

As I may have posted here before, to some extent the US is a different matter. Apart from a higher tolerance to violence, especially in marginal parts of society, everybody is aware that the US military commits its share of war crimes. But I still see a huge difference with Russia or Ukraine. People accept the US’s guilt in these crimes but regard them as exceptions to the rule that they genuinely feel sorry about, not inevitable acts that no one can do anything about. Americans know about their war crimes because they investigate and often punish the perpetrators themselves. Nobody would defend My Lai like some people here have defended specific massacres in Donbas and, as we speak, Congress is investigating if some attacks in Venezuela were lawful or not. I don’t know of any similar investigations in Kiev or Moscow.

Your guy:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025/12/10/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-to-prosecute-donald-trump/

I think Critical Drinker is too negative about the obese aliens in the new Star Trek academy show.

What if they are meant to be the villains of the show, just like how the Klingons and Romulans had their turns?

Word is that Starfleet Academy is already cancelled. They are dropping it in January which is like jettisoning it into a black hole.
    — Replicators can synthesize low cal food. Why are there fatties?
    — Fixing eyesight should be easy. Why does the older lady need glasses?
Wait… That’s supposed to be the captain. Aaaauuuggghhhhh!

Disney+ is in direct competition. Wonder Man is also being dumped in January.

I feel pity for the black hole. It is being asked to stomach too much too quickly. Can cosmic phenomena barf?

PEACE 😇

South Sea Company stock price time series.

actually agree with Latw and Dmitry that “Western values” c

Lol don’t add my comments, to LatW.

Their ideas are based on American far-right conspiracy theories, maybe they have absorbed from American social media, but re-appropriated for a rusophobic conclusion, which is at least an original mix.

On the other hand, I was just trying to give some historical knowledge and context, as we can see people like Kallas are using quite recent definitions, which even people from your generation probably didn’t grow up using.

that a country can kill its own innocent civilians while staying “Western” and democratic.

Civil war (like postsoviet Russia-Ukraine conflict) is also common in Western history, you can look at the experience of your grandparents in your origin country, or maybe great-great-great-grand parents of your neighbors in your adopted country.

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By the way, the point about Kiev’s counter-separatist operation after 2014, it’s not something subjective or related to the mentality of Eastern Europe. It’s simply one of the most expected duties of the state, that it has to extend authority over its nominal territory.

If you entered the Ukrainian government in 2014, you would have ordered the same operation. So, also would your favorite politicians. If J.D. Vance was in the Kiev government, he would have ordered the operation. It’s one of the least surprising historical decisions you could expect.

Yes, there are some countries which don’t try to regain their nominal territory, like Colombia in relation to FARC territory. But to not regain your own territory, is one of the classical criterion of the term “failed state”.

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This doesn’t mean the historical decisions are blameless or without the human’s agency. But “our leaders” had painted the borders of Ukraine, which can be seen in all the textbooks, they had then given it (in 1991 accords) to Kiev within those borders, which was signing including Moscow and Kiev.

Any new government in Kiev, legitimate, illegitimate, etc, will extend the authority on those borders, as the function of state. The instrument is the army. They will follow the methods of Soviet army, they have learned in the Soviet academy. And they will use the Soviet heavy weapons, as in response to Soviet heavy weapons used by their opponents.

the principle that the end does not justify the means and a good 80% of the Basque population

While it’s an interesting history, I’m not sure it’s a very analogous experience, as Basque separatist conflict, was less violent and killed less people in 40 years, than a conflict between rival gangs in Russian cities would kill in a single year until the 2000s.

. To be fair, the Spaniards themselves, as they moved on from dictatorship, did not follow Kiev’s doctrine and practically did not kill any innocent civilian. They were able to abide by their own rule of law to arrest and try violent actors while legalizing separatism and negotiating a generous autonomy with non-violent independentists.

The causation is in the other direction. They didn’t kill many innocent civilians in Spain in 1960-2000, not because of kindness, but because it wasn’t a war, unlike in the 1930s.

While Russia and Ukraine conflict in 2014, was within months already a war with heavy weapons were firing on both sides by May.

Important equipment in the conflict were mainly heavy weapons inherited from the superpower, mainly from the 1970s, which were unguided in areas like rockets.

Both sides were using heavy weapons. Even relatively light use of heavy weapons (war was quite low intensity until 2022), caused significant civilian casualties, if the population is not evacuated to a safe zone.

Congress is investigating if some attacks in Venezuela were lawful or not. I don’t know of any similar investigations in Kiev or Moscow.

Of course, the USA in 2025 has more accountability in terms of its military operations, than postsoviet states. But this is also historically recent and not exactly sine qua non of a developed, democratic, civilized, Western, etc country, unless you want to say the USA in the 1950s, was non-developed, non-civilized, non-Western, non-democratic etc.

but he is right that not even the Arabs show as much opposition to them (Israel) as the Europeans. And with all the paradoxes and contradictions that you would expect from a population in a state of sharp decline,

Although it is almost only the European left, which includes a lot of media, if you exclude the immigrants in Europe.

Generally, the non-immigrant Europeans from at least the center-right are more likely to support Israel, while almost everyone from the left will oppose it (although there could be some exceptions in Germany).

It’s becoming a kind of symbolic wedge issue in Europe now between the political sides.

it’s all driven by real humanitarian reasons.

If that was true, then they would care about the places, where there actually humanitarian issues. For example, death rates from malnutrition in Gaza during the war was not that much more than in the USA in the same time period.

But the world is full of places where there are actually famines, while the European left are silent about and historically they sometimes even support the famines (Maoism was becoming fashionable for the European left, when millions of people were dying from famine in China).

Majestic creatures of the Sea.

Will this obnoxious clickbaiter chick ever criticize the US food industry which is the main culprit for the high obesity rates in the US?

By this logic, the Anglos should live in MA and the blacks – in Georgia. But that’s really not how it was.

You are quite right here – there were large parts of Georgia, where due to geography or soil type, cotton wasn’t a major crop and there were no blacks. In fact, feds really screwed the state over by gerrymandering these districts unconstitutionally, intentionally to increase black representation in Congress.

Btw, I do like the 10 dollar bill – the guy is cute. 🙂 If they ever try to remove him, I will go out and protest loudly – “Do not remove the hot guy!” So you’ve got my support on that one. LOL

I knew you would like Hamilton because he was a provocateur about Canada, forming a link in the long chain from Cotton Mather in 1689 or so, when he is reported to have said Canada delenda est., down to Trump in modern times.

Though an immigrant, he had an interesting opinion about immigration. But I fear that what the woke say about him – that he would be woke today – is likely true.

And they will use the Soviet heavy weapons, as in response to Soviet heavy weapons used by their opponents.

Ha ha ha. Vladimir Putin reconquered Crimea with nothing heavier than a slingshot.

Our president looks like Jabba the Hutt and the responsibility for this is entirely upon his fat ass. He eats a quart of haagen dasz several times per week.

I looked the number up on google. A quart of haagen dasz has over 1000 calories. Doctor Mike Israetel claims he is taking a new peptide which selective burns fat and leaves muscle intact. I am pretty sure that is a bogus claim.

I’ve started reading the rousing National Security Strategy document (NSS). It describes an impressively clearheaded and non-woke vision for the USA and the world.

So far, my TL;DR understanding of the message is:

The USA needs to send the non-native Mestizo people South, send the Blacks back to Africa, send the Asians back to whence they came and send ALL the Jews to Israel.

While I doubt these fundamental steps are explicitly described in the text I believe this is the correct interpretation of the document. As long as Team Trump calls it a free vacation most people should be OK with the relocation process.

These moves will seamlessly achieve the strategic goals outlined in the early part of the NSS document. Of course in 2026 AI and robotics make these demographic changes both possible and mandatory.

Note: This MAGA relocation strategy is very direct and fresh so I assume the authors are probably the Colby great-grandsons working with a supercharged government version of ChatGPT or maybe a bootleg copy of DeepSeek.

Pearl’s perspective is simply practical. The message seems to be that women in general will have better lives if they take care of themselves, avoid being too promiscuous and settle down. It seems like a reasonable message. The packaging of the message is contemporary.

Kallas of being directly paid by Qatar to appear in that conference

We don’t know Kallas is directly paid by Qatar. But we can infer her belief in “Western values” (in the recent definition, relating to democracy, women’s rights, worker’s rights, anti-corruption etc), isn’t genuine, as if Western values were so important for her, Qatar would be her main enemy and target, as the country most directly opposed to Western values, which is also one of the main funders of antiwestern values in Europe.

She usually talks about Western values in opposition to Russia. But in Russia (even with mafia politicians) there are a lot more Western values, than in Qatar, which she doesn’t criticize. She wouldn’t even visit Russia or even talk in conferences in Russia, despite the far higher level of Western values in Russia.

It’s like someone says the enemy is sugar, so we shouldn’t eat fruit, because fruit have some sugar. But then you see them eating chocolate bars.

Trump’s strategy writers put “democracy” in this new NSS. As to the $400M gift – the proper way to go is to refuse the gift. So the onus was on Trump to refuse it –

The best option consequentially would be maybe to accept the plane, sold it and then donated the money for something useful for the population like cancer research.

But when you accept the plane including for private use, then give the state favors, it’s “pay for play”, and it’s with a country which funds terrorist groups, funds construction of extremist madrassas in Europe, most opposes Western values, most supports extremism in the regional media etc.

he is the more corrupt one there, not Qatar. I

I don’t think he is that corrupt. But it’s a bad direction for trending.

The criticism in Muslim countries is geared mostly towards the aggressive policies of the US that murder Arabs and Europe i

If this was true, then why is Al Jazeera banned in most of its neighboring Arab countries. Al Jazeera is banned by Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Algeria, etc even banned by the Palestinian Authority. Interestingly the UN is angry at the Palestinian authority for banning it.

As by Arab governments, Al Jazeera is viewed usually as propaganda for Islamist terrorist groups in the Arab society.

EU did not participate in the US led killings of Muslims (of whichever faction), there would be no threats to the EU. This is very simple – the EU needs to stop meddling in the Middle East in a violent way

Of course, not true and this paragraph (I’m not saying this is normal for you), looks like it was written by a 9 year old child.

So you’re saying they have no agency to make political decisions? That’s a bit conceited of you. After the aggression against the Palestinians, many support the Palestinian state – because it would be one of the ways to stop the genocide. Not because someone was paid by Qatar. It’s because of Israel’s overreach.

It’s not a political decision as Starmer/Macron/Carney know the Palestinian state will not be allowed now, unless you think they would change the decision maker, by imposing military operations on Jerusalem.

It was a strange kind of signaling, as they wait until a Palestinian state will definitely not be (after October 7), before claiming its existence.

The reason for the signalling though, is sensible relative to local politics, as it’s related to votes from the fastest growing part of their electoral coalition, or at least potential votes (Macron has a difficult fight to get these votes).

Why do you “exclude the non-democratic aspect”? You find it not important enough in the context of “Western values”? Romania and Bulgaria are not special services dictatorships in the way that Russia is a KGB dictatorship. Romania is also Western Christian.

Because Russia is Western in many ways, including some ways which match Kallas’ definition. For example, Kallas is an EU official. Within the EU, one of the important values is feminism. Well, in Russia, there is also quite a lot of feminism.

Tucker has his own program and his schtick has always been a dissident opinion, it’s a niche which exploded around 2016. His own show gets millions of views.

Smelling the cheapest semi-edible factory bread in French supermarket Auchan in Moscow and talking about it as a proud traditional cuisine and demonstration of higher quality of life than in the “decaying West”, is really spontaneous behavior (he probably immediately throws the food in the trash after exiting the shop). And American nationalists, naturally go to buy a house in, with choice of any countries in the world.. Islamist state of Doha.

By the way, the reason he was so funny in the supermarket, was because he was completely uninterested in the topic. So, he was uninterested, he didn’t check he was in a French supermarket, not Russian supermarket, etc. And he just improvise dialogue based on the terrible junk food he found there.

If he wanted to persuade the audience, or even slightly interested in this theme. Immediately after exiting the supermarket, he would have asked the guide for another shop, then re-filmed everything in a supermarket which had not completely junk food, and was not French, as that could have convinced the audience.

But he knows the sponsor will pay him the same, even if he doesn’t actually need to do any effort (unlike previous employers like Rupert Murdoch, where you would have to work hard). So, he didn’t even care and just released the unconvincing video from Auchan so he could go home early.

Political commentary is work that requires both intelligence and talent, as well as research and a bit of guts sometimes. It’s an important part of “Western values” – or maybe just any open society. But for some reason you don’t see that.

Maybe some idealized political commentary written by experts, with years of training, experience and also regular verification for standards (as in real professions) that their content is accurate.

But the political commentary even from journalists at the high end today who write in the relatively more intelligent media like newspapers, is far below standards we would accept if political commentary was a real profession. While at the low end, political commentary being conquered by influencers, who would have skillset maybe suitable just for viral marketing campaigns.

Does it not seem a great coincidence that both syphilis and ctvt came from the New World?

I wonder if both could somehow be explained by the population bottleneck. Maybe, a reduction in the number of immune system alleles, helped both take root and evolve somehow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor (gross images)

Figure one of the three other transmissible cancers known is in Taz devils, which went through their own bottleneck by dying off on the Australian mainland. Syrian hamsters seem pretty inbred too – just one mitochondrial haplogroup in the captive kind.

Are you saying that it is only women in America who are fat?

And why is it that whenever one travels from America to Europe and stays there for a week they immediately lose weight?

Btw, they ceased a Venezuelan oil tanker. I don’t know if they found drugs there, but they definitely found oil. 🙂

Trump’s strategy writers put “democracy” in this new NSS. As to the $400M gift – the proper way to go is to refuse the gift. So the onus was on Trump to refuse it –

The best option consequentially would be maybe to accept the plane, sold it and then donated the money for something useful for the population like cancer research.
 
But when you accept the plane including for private use,

What plane was given for private use?

There was a 747 given to the USAF for public use.

It’s not a political decision as Starmer/Macron/Carney know the Palestinian state will not be allowed now, unless you think they would change the decision maker, by imposing military operations on Jerusalem.
 
It was a strange kind of signaling, as they wait until a Palestinian state will definitely not be (after October 7), before claiming its existence.

And the whole thing is based on disinformation. (1)

Turns Out Hamas Hid Tons of Infant Formula, Nutritional Shakes to Smear Israel

During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

“The goal, as I said then, was to worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative in a desperate effort to stop Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and force the return of the UN’s aid distribution mechanism, and away from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Now, activists in the Strip are documenting the waste and deliberate disposal of tons of infant formula, nutritional children’s shake, and children’s powdered milk, which Hamas had hoarded away, given the saturation of the coastal enclave with humanitarian aid after the ceasefire two months ago,” Alkhatib wrote.

Sour Patch Lyds ن
@sourpatchlyds

Replying to @afalkhatib
This is consistent with everything Palestinians will tell you, themselves, about their intentional hatred of human life, and especially of children’s lives

 

Islamists, including genocidal Hamas, expend their own children for political advantage. If the media reported the truth, there would be much less sympathy for the Muslim occupation of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/10/hamas-hid-baby-formula-n2667643

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3xoThNNYgZmTCpEAB/based-beff-jezos-and-the-accelerationists

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

Mike Tyson

There is content out there that is protected by “free speech” laws in the US that is harmful to the children (and wider society). But American libertarians do not care as long as they get to signal how cool they are.

That is one of the lamest excuses to defend censorship of opposing views: “protect the children”. We all know why Gavin McIness, Milo Yiannopoulus, Stefan Molyneux and countless others were cancelled. It was not to protect any children. And that was in the US, where people are still protected by the the 1st Amendment. In Europe it’s much worse. People are receiving police visits and being imprisoned for views they post on the internet that have absolutely nothing to do with children.

You can support this EU censorship regime to your heart’s content but accept it for what it is and don’t find flimsy excuses for it. As the new NSS says, it is just logical to reassess if the EU members can still be considered ideological allies while they openly censor unapproved speech. Much more so if we take into account that the views they censor are the ones held by so many people in the US who voted for the current administration.

Russia was fighting an imperialist war, while Ukraine was defending herself (jus ad bellum).

That’s just another fancy word and a fig leaf to try to embellish horrible actions. As I remember it, in Chechnya Russia used its military to fight some radical Islamists that had taken hold of part of its internationally recognized territory and were raiding neighboring regions. In Donbas Ukraine used its military to root out a separatist uprising in its territory that had clear grassroots elements but was also being supported by the country the separatists wanted to join.

Both countries could claim legitimate reasons to use their armed forces but that doesn’t automatically give them the right to commit atrocities and war crimes (jus in bello). This is precisely what the Geneva Conventions were written for.

What is really so difficult to understand about any of this? When I talk to you or Dmitry I really have the impression that I’m speaking a foreign language that you guys cannot understand at all. If this is not a cultural or civilizational divide, I really don’t know what it is. I’ve debated these matters since I was a teenager and not everybody agreed with me at all but, as far as I remember, they definitely understood what I was telling them. It’s quite a remarkable experience, having these conversations.

… If this is not a cultural or civilizational divide

Gandhi responded when asked about what he thought about the Western civilization that it would be a good idea. It’s an aspiration not very real in practice. Other cultures have their own aspirations that they also mostly don’t live up to.

You excuse the huge gap between what is said and what is done. You give the West credit for trying, but are they really? When it matters there are no constraints, no values, no consistency – and it happens again and again, not in some ancient past.

The PR layer has lost its utility and actually makes it worse. We watch as people in the West try to explain away, ignore and outright lie about their own misdeeds. They point to internal dissent (cosmetic), publicity (manipulated), investigation (belated and resulting in nothing) – the charade is annoying.

You don’t know how other people feel about their bloody deeds – for all we know the remote killers in the Ukie-Russian conflict suffer bouts of conscience, pray, drink, are sorry and want to forget. But something tells me that the odds of eventual justice are better in the east – people there are closer to the ground, more real, maybe more brutal, but lying doesn’t come as easy to them. There is still some honor left. In the West it has been all words without honor for too long. That’s the real divide.

Indian workers are already in Severouralsk, to work for the bauxite mine there, which is owned by Rusal.

Some of the only information I found about it, is one of the region’s Telegram channels a couple of months ago, claims they need to have special security, after local people “misunderstood” them as allegedly harassing women.
https://t.me/zakupki_time/55446 Probably, not a reliable resource though.

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Severouralsk is an example of “mono city”, which is rapidly depopulating, so not much social life available for foreign guests, or interest for permanent migration.

But the mine is modern. There is a YouTube visit to the mine.

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The owner of the mine, although always criticizes the invasion of Ukraine, but he still receives a lot of the US sanctions against him. So, to receive Indian workers in the mine, could probably be marketed for some as one of the not so common examples of the BRICS co-operation for “multipolarity”, “resistance to US hegemony” etc.

Civil war (like postsoviet Russia-Ukraine conflict) is also common in Western history

Yes, but that is what it is. Old history that nobody wants to go back to. In the post-Soviet space the hatred and the willingness to kill are still there, along with the fatalistic mentality that I mentioned above.

If you entered the Ukrainian government in 2014, you would have ordered the same operation.

This reaches new heights and goes well beyond living many years among people whose mentality you don’t seem to understand. If I was able to order the shelling of civilian areas knowing that innocent people (my compatriots in your scenario) were going to die, why would I have spent so many years on this blog arguing precisely against such actions? You’re proving that the idea that this blog is a safe haven on a website dominated by conspiracy theorists is just a myth lol.

The causation is in the other direction. They didn’t kill many innocent civilians in Spain in 1960-2000, not because of kindness, but because it wasn’t a war

Another endless reverse-causation confusion? 🙂 If they had killed many civilians, it would have surely become a war. But it didn’t. There were many radical elements in Spain clamoring for revenge after each terrorist attack but, believe it or not, Spain ended up abiding by its own constitutional rules and there was no war. They even handed out long prison sentences to some top level officers and politicians who engaged in “dirty war” tactics. Look up “GAL”.

Basque separatist conflict, was less violent and killed less people in 40 years, than a conflict between rival gangs in Russian cities would kill in a single year until the 2000s.

I think that you are exaggerating quite a lot but, if true, would that not be my point? After WW2 in Western Europe only Northern Ireland saw more political violence than the Basque Country. And still you’re saying that a simple gang war in the post-Soviet cities would generate more deaths than our 40 year-long conflict? That surely paints a picture of big lack of consideration for human lives that looks quite consistent with the wartime atrocities we were discussing.

But I fear that what the woke say about him – that he would be woke today – is likely true.

Maybe he’d be like Gavin Newsom – they even look similar. And Gavin Newsom is like Canada.

George Washington was portrayed well in the series Washington’s Spies.

I was able to order the shelling of civilian areas knowing that innocent people (my compatriots in your scenario) were going to die, why would I have spent so many years on this blog arguing precisely against such actions?

Because you are posting comments on a blog (activity where moralistic speech is rewarding), not working as a government official, who would follow almost the most primary duty of a government, which is to attain authority over its territory.

And if you accepted the loss of your territory by military force, you would be infamous in history as a national traitor who leads a failed state, that didn’t try to follow its most basic function, and will be blamed for the cascade of future territory loss which will be the consequence.

In the American context, do you think even e.g. peacenik Obama would accept the military of Canada, even through hybrid forces, conquering the Western states? It would be politically impossible even for a non-nationalist leader like Obama to accept a Canadian invasion. And the response of politicians you vote for (Republican?) doesn’t need to be stated for that.

Another endless reverse-causation confusion? 🙂 If they had killed many civilians, it would have surely become a war. But it didn’t. There were many radical elements in Spain clamoring for revenge after each terrorist attack but, believe it or not, Spain ended up abiding by its own constitutional rules and there was no war. They even handed out long prison sentences to some top level officers and politicians who engaged in “dirty war” tactics. Look up “GAL”.

Ok you don’t like language about causation.

So, describe in language which doesn’t use the unliked word “causation”.

If the Basque separatists were firing Katyusha rockets and heavy artillery on the Madrid controlled forces, then the Madrid controlled forces would respond with similar heavy weapons, and in both directions the sides would be firing, which would look like what you see in the 2014-2022 phase of the war in Ukraine.

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In Basque country, there were only political assassinations and small terrorist attacks (only two which killed more than 10 people in 40 years, which were on targets outside the territory), not opposing armies. On average around 20 people were killed per year, which is less intensive than a local mafia war in the postsoviet cities.

This is very far from war, which usually requires the two sides to have military forces.

In Basque country, in the worst year from 1960-2000, (1980) 92 people were killed, which has been exceeded by the deaths from Brazilian prison riots in some single years in Brazil.

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I know everyone wants to feel like they have special, relevant experience. But political assassinations in Basque country is not like war, and even theoretically couldn’t have led to a war involving heavy weapons, as Basque forces didn’t have heavy weapons. For comparison, Kiev was fighting against unofficial and now more official Moscow, which have supply of heavy weapons, by the summer 2014, Girkin’s forces were operating e.g. Buk missiles, shooting even Ukrainian military planes in the sky.

Doctor Who is 99% dead. But mostly dead is slightly alive.

BBC is releasing the spinoff series The War Between the Land and the Sea exclusively on their iPlayer streaming service this month. The gender fluid Sea Devils are now referred to as “Homo Aqua”.

Disney+ is apparently legally obligated to place this disaster on their service next year. Will it also be dumped in January?

The last approved project will desecrate Christmas 2026. Then, far too late, Doctor Who will end in its current form.

PEACE 😇

That is one of the lamest excuses to defend censorship of opposing views: “protect the children”.

Not at all. I’m talking about things such as porn (protected by “free speech” trials by that Jewish guy back in the 70s), violence on TV (which is less regulated than in EU and Canada).

Another problem is that there are people who spew a lot of hate but their thoughts aren’t even that original. So you end up having a ton of ragebait, but not that many valuable thoughts.

Are you not aware that this current admin is actually censoring people? They are making lists of non-desirables no at the DOJ.

As I remember it, in Chechnya Russia used its military to fight some radical Islamists that had taken hold of part of its internationally recognized territory and were raiding neighboring regions.

No, that’s not accurate. Ichkeria announced independence and Yeltsin attacked them. The Chechens actually WON the first Chechen war. Later the FSB had to blow up buildings as a false flag to start the second Chechen war, and it was so savage that they killed all the moderates. Only then did the Chechens start reaching out to the Arabs and started the Jihad. Chechens are Sufis, and where never radical until Putin turned them into such by killing tens of thousands of their children.

people there are closer to the ground, more real, maybe more brutal, but lying doesn’t come as easy to them. There is still some honor left. In the West it has been all words without honor for too long. That’s the real divide.

I don’t really agree with this but I’m not going to defend “my side” too much because indeed there is a lot to criticize about the West, both present and past. Didn’t I start this conversation by lamenting how far gone my old country is? Or was that in the previous thread? Besides, it may be too late now but praising oneself too much while accusing others of not having the same virtues is objectively ugly. I fully recognize that.

Having said that, the fact remains that it’s been a very long time since the governments in Western/Central Europe and the Anglosphere have engaged in atrocities against their own populations. I apologize by any conceit in my previous comments but regardless, trying to understand why we’ve ended up having a devastating war on the European continent is inevitable to any curious mind and exploring the differences in mentality may not be such a worthless exercise.

A few years ago, not long before Biden ordered the Afghan retreat, I was debating online a Spanish female soldier who was serving in Bagram. She was sincerely convinced that she was fulfilling a humanitarian mission there. She kept talking about all the work they did to protect children from the horrendous practices that were still prevalent there and how poor Afghan children would suffer if they left. We had some back and forth but when I asked her if they were planing to go solve with their weapons all the rest of horrendous practices around the world after fixing Afghanistan, she disengaged.

I think this is the typical mentality that you would find in most any Western soldier or ordinary citizen. They may be naive and inconsistent if you press them but they don’t lie. They actually need to believe that they are the “good guys”. Some of them will commit atrocities, given the circumstances. But I don’t believe most of them would.

I was just riffing on the Star Trek rant. It is well known there are a lot of morbidly obese people in the USA. This situation seems to be spreading to other countries with increasing standards of living along with big Ag, big Pharma and the MSM.

There are folks who have normal weight through a combination of good habits and strong personal discipline. Some of these people have been known to be critical of overweight people from the perspective that the fat people need to take responsibility for their own bodies. This thought process is often independent of considerations of the nutritional value of a given diet or any adulterants added to processed food to make it more compelling.

Seized?

This latest gimmick against Venezuela is probably intended to strengthen the precedent for interdicting the Russian shadow fleet, as if the earlier moves have not been dangerous enough. World War 3, here we come.

The 747 issue is outrageous on many levels. Attempting to defend the “gift” is a fool’s errand. I think the chance of the aircraft eventually becoming a Trump family plane is pretty high, though there may be lip service given to minimize controversy.

Having said that, the fact remains that it’s been a very long time since the governments in Western/Central Europe and the Anglosphere have engaged in atrocities against their own populations.

The experimental genetic medicine 2020 was a violation of Nuremberg code. That is merely the most obvious example. Perhaps you think 2020 was a very long time ago.

Didn’t these guys watch Disney?

Why are you foolishly attacking the donation of a plane to the USAF? It makes you look ridiculous.

Donald Trump already has a customized 757. There is no chance the USAF plane will be converted to personal use. The older and more complex 747 design costs 200-300% more to operate. Also, my understanding is that some of the milspec conversions are irreversible. There is likely no practical way for the 747 to be returned to civilian operation.

After the USAF plane is decommissioned, it may wind up as a display piece in the Trump Presidential Library. This is similar to the retired Air Force One on display at the Reagan Presidential Library.

Have you considered being less histrionic? Calming down a bit would do you good.

PEACE 😇

I was just riffing on the Star Trek rant.

Yea, I watched that clip, the cast is totally insane. 🙂 That black girl with hair that looked like Mickey Mouse ears was funny though. And they want you to pay for this (plus popcorn)? What are they thinking? 🙂

This situation seems to be spreading to other countries with increasing standards of living along with big Ag, big Pharma and the MSM.

Yea, big Ag is a big danger. Well, my point is that you can’t just blame the people when they are surrounded by this type of food. The good American food, which I love, is mostly at the stores like Haggen or Trader Joe’s or the co-op and it’s more expensive.

Some of these people have been known to be critical of overweight people from the perspective that the fat people need to take responsibility for their own bodies.

Maybe you can send the whales overseas for a month or two (the way they used to send kids to the “fat camp”). But you would have to put them on a tanker to ship them out, too heavy.

This latest gimmick against Venezuela is probably intended to strengthen the precedent for interdicting the Russian shadow fleet, as if the earlier moves have not been dangerous enough. World War 3, here we come.

The Ukes are bombing the Russian shadow fleet (if I’m not mistaken, I think it was in the news yesterday, some kind of a big tanker was bombed). I doubt the US would touch a Russian one, too risky. But this Venezuela one – gladly, a much easier target and close. Isn’t the goal for the US to be able to control the oil market as stated in the NSS? Because they just sanction Lukoil (so it might be that they’re trying to push Russia out?) and now they want to take over Venezuela – and they just threatened Colombia, too.

Of course they watched that. They are sperglords and if they don’t win the race the chinks will and we’re all going to be fixed eating rice. It’s like a government emergency powers scenario.

But this Venezuela one – gladly, a much easier target and close. Isn’t the goal for the US to be able to control the oil market as stated in the NSS?

Brzinsky has that bit in Grand Chessboard.

as if Western values were so important for her, Qatar would be her main enemy and target

It’s not the good tone to impose oneself on other cultures, it’s undiplomatic – as I noted, imo, she already went too far talking about women’s rights straight into the sheikh’s face – did you not watch the clip that you yourself posted? I think Amanpour was also too imposing on the Syrian leader about all that minority stuff – this country just came out of a horrible war and many years of oppression and she lectures them as if they should be ready to have “Western standards” tomorrow for breakfast. So annoying.

which is also one of the main funders of antiwestern values in Europe.

They’re funding Muslim diasporas, and they are not directly harming Europeans. That they should not be allowed to fund new mosques in Europe and that they should not be allowed to grow these communities and schools – that is a different matter. That is something that the host countries should dictate. As I noted above, a truly nationalist elite would make sure that this is observed.

She wouldn’t even visit Russia or even talk in conferences in Russia

She is sanctioned by Russia so she cannot even go there.

But it turns out that you (and Coconuts) might be right – the Saudis, Qatar and Jared just bought Warner Brothers. What kind of values are they planning on promoting? It seems that many in the West want their money.

The best option consequentially would be maybe to accept the plane, sold it and then donated the money for something useful for the population like cancer research.

When you send the gift back, you show self-respect and that you’re independent (the third estate or if you’re a politician, even more important) and that you can be trusted. If you accepted the gift and sold it, even for charity, that would signal that you’re needy, that you’re able to take a gift. So no. How hard is it to suggest to the donor that they should just donate to charity directly?

Most likely it will also result in relocation of a lot of India citizens

I agree differences in mentality exist but they also exist within the Western societies and change over time – the previous brutality can come back. The impulse to control and preach to the others is still there and lately it has been gathering momentum.

They may be naive and inconsistent if you press them but they don’t lie. They actually need to believe that they are the “good guys”.

Everybody in a war believes they are the good guys. Nazis thought so – some still do 🙂 How do we define goodness? Most people believe that good ends justify the necessary means. The Spanish woman-soldier in Bagram could be unsophisticated and conformist, it is always easier to go along with the program. Most would commit atrocities (from distance) and pretend otherwise – the West has dozens of ways to explain it away.

The question whether it is a “lie” can’t be solved, we don’t see into human minds. What matters are actions and what can be observed. In practice playing dumb to go along and actually being dumb are the same. In CE-EE is not that different.

impose oneself on other cultures, it’s undiplomatic

She is the representative of the foreign policy of the EU and I pay a portion of her salary from my taxes, and my taxes are very high.

If she is going to lecture about “Western values”, sometimes sounding more rusophobic hysteria than just rational criticism of Russia, and then goes to sit in a building constructed by actual slaves, for an Islamist dictator without saying anything.

funding Muslim diasporas, and they are not directly harming Europeans

I can notice you don’t live in Europe, not only because you would have to wake up as early as me.

it’s with a country which funds terrorist groups, funds construction of extremist madrassas in Europe, most opposes Western values, most supports extremism in the regional media etc.

Why are you so worried about that? Because you’ve accepted Jewish identity?

Unfortunately from the “view from Europe”, more like the opposite, if I lived in Israel, it would be possible to feel slightly confident maybe some politicians would be unhappy if the titular nationality was becoming a minority, and someone might complain if the land was repopulated with extremist mosques, madrassas, or the universities were funded by Qatar, as also the largest skyscrapers were owned by Qatar, the main football teams were owned by Qatar etc.

While in Europe, now this happens, without people even protesting. https://archive.ph/lj7GF

As by Arab governments, Al Jazeera is viewed usually as propaganda for Islamist terrorist groups in the Arab society.

These societies are sectarian.

It’s not sectarian, but related to the level of extremism within their native sect. All Arab countries which ban Qatari media, are Sunni Muslim countries, which ban Al Jazeera, because they promote the Muslim Brotherhood agenda and militant groups.

discussion in the legal and political realm, and there was recognition (if I’m not mistaken, the state of Palestine is recognized by several serious countries – or 80% of the UN?).

Most of the countries which recognize Palestine, were already before the 1990s. For example, the communist bloc.

Until the 2010s, Israel was planning to recognize Palestine, but it had to be part of bilateral negotiations which include mutual recognition of Israel. In this process, the recognition of Palestine would be the reward for the peace negotiations, not precede the peace negotiation.

If Palestine is already recognised without peace negotiation, what would be the motivation for Palestine to recognize Israel etc. It’s even less motivation to begin a peace process.

But Starmer/Macron/Carney of course, don’t have some alternative plan, they are democratic politicians, who need support from the faster growing demographics in their countries if they are going to be re-elected (although for Starmer/Macron, it’s probably impossible to win another election already).

Palestinians, to avert their destruction. I might be

Arabs which call themselves since the 1960s “Palestinian” will continue growing, a long time after populations like Latvia or even Ukraine are almost non-existing.

This is why the “genocide” claim is mysterious, or requires that Israel are the most incompetent people in world history. Even if you exclude Jordan, which is majority Palestinian, the Palestinian population has increased over 10x since 1948. 50% of Gaza’s population are children.

Essentially justify Greater Israel – achieving it by committing ethnic replacement and then calling it “nation building”.

Just to include this quote earlier.

Maybe in 1967, or possible 1982, it would be possible to believe there will be a “Greater Israel” , as Israel had increased its territory multiple times.

But since the 1980s, Israel has given to the Arabs, 75% of the land (if you include Israel in this calculation) it had.

This is the “land for peace” paradigm.

There are two conflict points about this.

1. As Israeli politicians justified, people and relations are more important than land. Giving land back to the Arabs. didn’t reduce GDP (except losing the gas in the Sinai), didn’t reduce Israel’s population etc.

2. But the land, even though it’s not important itself, can be psychologically important, in the sense when you give away land, the other side believe they are winning, will ask for more land etc.

To understand the conflict, they will not look at a chart of GDP, or care about your infrastructure level. They just look at a map.

Israel has been retreating for 40 years, and this is part of their psychological weakness, which invites the additional attacks, even though Israel has been improving in non-land related metrics (like development etc), it looks like it is losing on the map.

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Both 1 and 2 are true. It would be a good idea to give back land for peace, but the psychological effect will probably cause you more problems in the future.

There are very few women in serious power positions in Russia. Practically none. They do have a lot of female libertinism, but that’s a different matter.

Russian society is trending to a matriarchy, maybe not in the top of politics, but the top of politics is only a dozen people, or maybe only one person.

Russian celebrities do this, too – they talk about the “decaying West” every day and then they buy a villa in Italy or send their kids to London (or at least used to before the sanctions kicked in).

Of course, Russians want to live in Italy or London, because these are places they love and which as Russian civilization has always been inspired by and idealized, and are just nice places objectively.

But someone like Carlson, would choose a very particular Islamist state, which has almost no tourism to visit, no cultural interest, no historical interest, no reason to be there? The main reason will be because it’s the finance source, but the secondary reason will because he likely has other money which needs to spent outside of USA as there are sanctions etc.

So he was paid by the Russian government?

I think this is the strongest example of commissioned content, because a supermarket is not interesting for Americans, or part of their cultural conversation. But it’s an important state messaging in the Russian official media in 2024 year, which was saying “even with sanctions, our supermarkets are cheaper than USA supermarkets”.
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But overall, just this idea “let’s visit a supermarket and talk about the price”, is a such a soviet/postsoviet person’s idea, even aside from the conclusion against the “decaying West” (their expensive groceries beyond the salary of the workers).

you watch his previous show that was running from around 2016? In the run up to Trump’s election? You’d see what I mean if you watched it.

I saw him in 2022, when he was saying the USA shouldn’t fund Ukraine, because they persecute Christians etc. And maybe in late 2021, when he was saying Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine. Some of his views seemed at least coherent, when he was paid by Murdoch.

At some time he moved to the Qatar funding, maybe just in the last year. He visited Auchan in early 2024 and gives the interview for Putin. Since then he seems to stop working for the Russian government? He seemed to invest almost no effort in the 2024 content, so hopefully they stop wasting money on him.

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His new media company is funded by an American investor, Omeed Malik, from New York. If you look at 13:40 his says one of the first investments is to “put Tucker Carlson in business with his new network”.

…haul their Nazi memorabilia out of the closet?

I was once at a dinner in a respectable German household. After some drinks and late night talk the mother (!) quietly brought out a big red box – they proudly showed us medals from the eastern front (some great-uncle died attacking Moscow) and praise letters from WW2 German officials. They were moved and almost cried. It was bizarre.

I enjoy those melancholic moments, people have a right to their grief. What happened lately is the accumulated quiet resentment turned into a desire for revenge – any revenge! They can’t take it any more and the assorted Merz-Baerbocks want to get even. The odds of Germany ending up in a shooting war with Russia (again) are quite good. The odds of that being the last time they do it are even better.

Finns and Balts are not far behind, it’s the lack of self-control.

It was kind of funny, though not for Novo Nordisk, when the US broke the Ozempic patents like South Africa broke the AIDS drug patents. “Yes, uh, there is this obscure legislation you see … critical for society, you have to understand our position …”

Tucker’s Moscow grocery story visit clearly recalls and channels Yeltsin’s famous visit to a US supermarket in the fading days of the USSR. At the time that visit was seen to highlight the contrast between Soviet-communist food scarcity (perceived or otherwise) and capitalist bounty. Tucker is old enough to remember this well known event. The comparison between countries is now much more powerful for Americans since many people in the USA for the first time ever faced actual extended shortages during the COVID lockdowns. Secondarily the Tucker segment may also be a rebuttal to liberals who channel Masha Gessen’s criticism of food supplies in Russia. You know who you are. 🙂

…liberals who channel Masha Gessen’s criticism of food supplies in Russia.

Isn’t Masha a Misha now?

The idea that the damn Russkies are always starving, queuing for potatoes (as Johnson told us), freeze on the way to the outhouse, and in any case they are mostly Kazakhs or other Asiats – that idea keeps the Western civilization afloat. It must be true or be made to be true.

The average Western Joe needs to know that no matter how bad he has it there is this satanic country where people live much worse: Russia. (China, Africa or India don’t count, they are coloreds, Joey doesn’t care about different species.)

This is shaping up as a truly existential dilemma: what if Russians don’t starve, drive cars, get dressed, vacation in Egypt or Thailand? The heresy can’t stand.

Wish I bookmarked that Zeihhan video where he is talking at a conference before Indians, and one asks him why the Russians haven’t opened up their thinly populated territories to Indian immigration even though “they have the technology”. And Zeihan says it is racism.

It was pretty funny, but I never saw anyone make a clip of it.

Lately, some have alleged that Indian migration into China has grown geometrically due to a change in visa policy there.

It is kind of hard for me to believe it could be very high though because of the territorial dispute between the two countries.

The other day I overheard an ad for some show that was on Hulu. They were dropping f-bombs, and they tied it into a crosspromotion with Disney+, and I thought, “Wow, they have really stupid people working for them, if they are willing to contaminate the brand like that.

Rahm Emanuel looks like he is about to drop dead.

Now that Disney 100% owns Hulu, some cross promotion is inevitable. Let’s summarize Disney’s current brand status:

• Marvel M-SHE-U — Delivered 3 flops this year. Avengers Doomsday is shooting without a finished script and they have already burned over $600M. It could be the world’s first billion dollar movie.

• Star Wars — Gayest ever with The Acolyte. Is anyone looking forward to The Mandalorian and Grogu? Bueller… Bueller… Andor was decent but too expensive and did not generate enough views.

• Live Action Remakes — Rachel Ziegler as Snow White. That went well. How about The Little Mermaid ? Oh my…. Lilo & Stitch made money, but it is not a repeatable formula.

• Doctor Who — The BBC and Disney conspired to assassinate this IP.

Hulu f-bombs may be better for the Disney’s brand versus the slop they are putting out.

PEACE 😇

Has the Department of War documented their first robot kill yet? Maybe not but it’s gotta be any day now.

DOW Leak: Inside The AI Platform & Internal Memo

https://kaburbank.substack.com/p/dow-leak-inside-the-ai-platform-and

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15375095/disney-openai-ai-video-deal.html

The brand contamination is about to transition from snowball to avalanche.

The white hair is probably due to learning some things man was not meant to know. Interestingly, in his little speech, Rahm at least three times equates ‘progress’ with forbidding things.

It maybe isn’t grief. Might be a sadness that their vicarious exploit of pointless bravery is their foremost pride point. I had similar experience with descendant of Confederate casualty. His prop was a deathbed letter with bloodstains from the fatal wounds. Sheesh.

Get some SUN on your BALLS and get a life. : )

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/HowToBeAProgrammer.pdf

Only say what can be heard.

Disney: permits generated videos with its characters.
OpenAI: permits generated erotic content.

What could ever go wrong, like five minutes after launch.

PS. In the very same newspaper, Bianca Censori (the mate of Kanye) has taught me that the greatest wish of hot women is to traipse around in public with a blank facial expression, as naked as possible.

if you accepted the loss of your territory by military force, you would be infamous in history as a national traitor who leads a failed state

That sounds like a good deal to me. Be called a traitor, or even a faggot, in the FUSSR but refuse to shell my own citizens. Perhaps I am also a victim of the need to feel like a “good guy”. But most of all, what I need is to be able to look at myself in the mirror in the mornings and not feel disgust. That must be pretty difficult task when you have ordered to turn your children and women into mincemeat.

It would be politically impossible even for a non-nationalist leader like Obama to accept a Canadian invasion.

I am definitely wasting my time here and I’m going to have to disengage.

I have tried hard enough but you are clearly unable to distinguish basic concepts like defending one’s territory and committing war crimes. Any US president would meet a Canadian invasion with force but that does NOT mean, like you stubbornly claim, that they would behave like Poroshenko in Donbas or Netanyahu in Gaza. In fact, I’m sure that Obama and Trump would do their level best to avoid killing lots of American civilians in Seattle or Portland. It would actually be quite difficult for them to get servicemen to obey orders to bomb their own citizens.

But feel free to believe whatever you want. If you’ve been raised to think that Chechnya and Gaza are just the laws of nature at play, it is beyond my power and my interest to straighten your thoughts.

Ok you don’t like language about causation.

On the contrary, I love serious discussions about reverse-causation. But, as I have shown with my personal knowledge of the matter, you have the directionality wrong again.

If the Basque separatists were firing Katyusha rockets and heavy artillery on the Madrid controlled forces, then the Madrid controlled forces would respond with similar heavy weapons

But that’s pretty much the opposite of what happened, both in the Basque Country and in Donbas. 100 kg of nitroglycol is as destructive as any artillery shell and that was ETA’s weapon of choice for big attacks in Madrid and elsewhere (with sometimes up to 1 ton, iirc). Madrid did not respond with explosives of any kind.

In Donbas it was the Western media itself that showed how people (often ordinary civilians) occupied police stations and administrative buildings, surrounded them with barricades and organized a referendum. As Kiev met this uprising with increasingly lethal military force, sophisticated weapons poured from across the border and a civil war ensued.

Going back to the reverse-causation topic, the leaders of ETA in the fist decades of the conflict were no idiots at all. They perfectly understood that Spain was not going to grant Euskadi independence just because they killed a few dozen policemen each year. They also knew that a majority of Basques didn’t support their revolutionary movement so their goal, clearly stated in their internal documents, was to provoke a civil war by making Spain return to fascism and retaliate against the Basque population. They meticulously targeted the right objectives for this goal. They killed the Franco-appointed Prime Minister and were about to kill the King and Spanish democratic presidents several times. President Aznar, a good friend of Bush II, barely survived a bomb attack and was hospitalized. Multiple generals and top military brass of known Francoist sympathies were killed with their families in targeted attacks.

But Madrid did not fall into the trap of retaliating in kind. They investigated each attack, arrested the perpetrators that they found (many were never found and their killings remain unpunished to this day) and put them on trials where they were defended by competent lawyers, usually paid by Basque independentist organizations.

To me in 2014 it was spectacularly clear that the strategy of the Donbas militants was exactly the same. Their defiance of the Kiev rule by occupying key buildings looked designed to equally provoke a retaliation by the new Ukrainian rulers. What I wasn’t sure about was what the end goal was: make the Western backers of the new authorities stop the predictable killings or create a casus belli that would make Russia invade. They did get Kiev to react with brutality (with much less provocation than ETA exerted on Madrid) but none of both scenarios materialized, much to my surprise. I didn’t know what Putin would do but I was pretty sure that if Kiev started killing its own civilians the Western leaders (my leaders) would try to stop the carnage. They chose to look the other way instead and the MSM suddenly stopped what up to then had been quite a decent reporting from Donbas. In 2014 we definitely entered a new era but that’s a different topic from the war crimes that was my focus. They are not inevitable and to the extent that they do happen, nothing prevents a civilized government from prosecuting their perpetrators.

Ironically, one of the reasons why Spain chose to follow the rule of law and try to conduct itself democratically was because they wanted to become a “normal country” and be accepted in the European institutions, like Eastern Europeans would do later. In the 80s there was no way the Common Market was going to accept a member that killed thousands of its own civilians. The idea was beyond laughable.

What, no sun on his nether regions? You’re right, he doesn’t need to know. Or maybe he would just burst into flames.

I don’t have a twitter account. Do they permit people to comment that the issue is all of the killing we are doing in Gaza is what they demand be censored?

Palmer Lucky will have the head stuffed and mounted on the wall.

Programming was noble until they started working on AI.

Are you not aware that this current admin is actually censoring people? They are making lists of non-desirables no at the DOJ.

You need to take that up with A123, not with me. I never said that Trump was a principled leader or that he was even going to abide by his own NSS. But the important point here is that cancel culture is very clearly retreating in the US (Israel-related obstacles notwithstanding) while the EU is becoming ever more censorious. The divide is growing. In fact, even the Israel taboo is in retreat. I see many MAGA people criticizing Israel while the likes of Glenn Beck and Buck Sexton feel the need to do a lot of “explaining” to their audiences. They feel the heat.

In Rahm’s case, the white hair may be from doing things no man should do.

I wonder what the ethnic breakdown of Prof. Jiang’s audience is. Here he seems to be saying that the UK looted India of countless trillions and then used the money to build American industry.

That is not civilized. Negroes in the Congo do that stuff. He will collect a sack of ears though. This is the American Way.

Update

Apparently the Bryce Harper boutique medical treatment was not a dialysis clean and replace. They took out a third of his blood and sent it to the blood bank. Now this is the same level of wack job science as those other guys but the woman in the following video claims it works. So far I have not seen a single scrap of supporting evidence. You take a huge chunk of the polluted blood and dump it in the drink. Then your blood making machines inside your bone marrows go to work and they make clean new blood. So with a little modern blood letting science you chop your toxin load by a third.

I forget the time in the show where she blurts that out. The whole show is pretty interesting as they are talking with an aether partisan of the clever kind. Three words for that guy:

Hypotheses non fingo

(Another item that floats out is the fellow is an Objectivist. They are almost as fun as pet goats.)

Then let me show you a trick: https://xcancel.com/RahmEmanuel/status/1998467923774681394

Comments looked plentiful but low-grade. Gaza is mentioned.

In the real world, it is just the opposite. The Muslim taboo is being openly challenged. Sending Muslim Somalis home is very popular. Ditto Muslim Afghanis.

The shill community supporting Muslim violence is also suffering. What little credibility Owens had is long gone. Fuentes “support” has been revealed as a fake (1). Tucker sold out to Qatar. No one believes these nutters.

Are you aware of the UK hunger strike? In the days when antisemitism was headline worthy, it would have been everywhere. Now these degenerates are ignored. I only heard about it because mocking the pro-terror crazies is well deserved: (2)

Zarah Sultana MP

Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalised since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk.

David Lammy cannot pretend to be ignorant of what is happening — he will be fully culpable for the consequences of continued inaction.

Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet

People dying due to their own stupidity and fanaticism is a good outcome

Flighterdoc

Their bodies, their choice….

Spudislander35

The Darwin Awards are being presented Dec 31st.
Any chance we can include these 5?

Lest you feel sympathy for these terrorists, they broke the back of a police office with a sledge hammer.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/12/09/inside-the-social-media-operation-behind-nick-fuentes-and-the-groyper-movement-n2667546

(2) https://xcancel.com/esrtweet/status/1998890130363318315

Now that reminds me of the recent meaty New Yorker article on Oliver Sacks, the beloved Santa Claus of medicine.

As a middle-aged [homosexual albeit possibly celibate] man living alone—he had a huge beard and dressed eccentrically, sometimes wearing a black leather shirt [possibly being a BDSM aficionado*] —Sacks was particularly vulnerable to baseless innuendo. In April, 1974, he was fired. There had been rumors that he was molesting some of the boys.

https://archive.ph/0MFPK

* This proclivity was mentioned in his obituary but I can’t remember if we were told when it began.

I might like to read Rachel Aviv’s diaries.

Franz Kafka told Max Broad to burn everything which he didn’t do. I have a friend who every new years eve burns his diary that has just turned five years old. It’s sort of like a stop loss and he says there isn’t any value in them anyway after five years.

There is a great discussion on Goebel’s diaries in Unz’s latest post comments. David Irving used them an supposedly they are practically indecipherable.

Just like how there is an inverse Cramer, one could probably come up with an inverse Disney.

“He’s a dork from Harvard…of course he can be trusted!” (Zuckerberg)

The meaning of every emigrant is to return to the homeland. Whoever does not want this and does not work toward it is a lost soul.

I’ve only come across this new permutation of the ‘drain theory’ recently. The version I was familiar with in the past was explaining the Industrial Revolution in Britain itself via a claimed drain from India. There are also variants arguing that the cause of it was the profits of the slave trade or sale of opium to China. The extension to the US and Canada (and/or Australia) seems new.

She could have a call-in podcast, Tell Aviv.

Also note that Sacks claimed to write 1.5 million words per year. Keep that up for a mere decade, or even just five years, and you have by far the longest draft in history. (KJV is 0.78 million words, Stephen King’s The Stand is about 0.5 million words, Casanova’s memoirs are 1.2 million words, the entire Wheel of Time is 4.4 million words. My own commenting production here is 0.28 million words by now. Time well spent.)

“Sometimes Sacks, who would eventually publish sixteen books, wrote continuously in his journal for six hours.” That’s what a gay no-fap life looks like. I’m guessing he didn’t watch much TV either.

Zuck’s move into VR doesn’t seem to be working out. Call it “Palmer Luckey’s revenge.”
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Don’t know whether to believe this reddit post about Jiang, but certain points seems to call into question the idea that he is a Chinese state asset, namely:

Supports Taiwan’s de facto sovereignty and Hong Kong’s autonomy on civic grounds: they are the only Chinese polities where local courts can overrule the executive—living disproof of Beijing’s claim that “Chinese culture” requires top-down rule.

Did he have a motorcycle?

In his basement laboratory he is cookin’ up an MNRA medication delivered by mosquito which cures everybody of Virtual Reality Headset Vomit.

Censorship in Western Academia and the War in Ukraine

https://www.newglobalpolitics.org/censorship-in-western-academia-and-the-war-in-ukraine/

The discussion of drafting of troops (mobilization) in Ukraine and Russia has always seemed odd. There is a war in both countries, of course they are drafting people. Most countries do it, full stop.

From an American perspective, the strangest aspect is that Kiev did not draft young men from the beginning. This is counter productive on several levels, but maybe (((they))) believed the push back against the Western psyop would be too strong if they drafted the young men.

This is counter productive on several levels, but maybe (((they))) believed the push back against the Western psyop would be too strong if they drafted the young men.

You may be on to something.

The (((Anti-Christ))) Muhammad raped Aisha when she was 9. Therefore, (((Islamists))) do not care about youth. Taqiyya deception is required by the (((Quran))). Everyone should expect psyops from (((Muslim oligarchs))).

You would do better to use the phrase European psyop. The Islamophile European troika set policy in 2022. Both Führer Zelensky and the Veggie-in-Chief were puppets to European masters.

PEACE 😇

I’ve only come across this new permutation of the ‘drain theory’ recently.

From what I can tell, it seems to be a relatively new framing. <8 years old.

The idea that the damn Russkies are always starving, queuing for potatoes (as Johnson told us)

I cited a potato shortage that Putin acknowledged:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/27/putin-acknowledges-russias-potato-shortage-amid-record-price-increases-a89240

The lines for potatoes were real and Putin said they were trying to fix the problem.

I never said they were always starving.

freeze on the way to the outhouse, and in any case they are mostly Kazakhs or other Asiats – that idea keeps the Western civilization afloat. It must be true or be made to be true.

Russia leads Europe in percentage of people that use an outhouse.

Once again you are trying to imply that I am making this all up.

Russia is Struggling with a Shitty Problem. Literally
https://hromadske.ua/en/posts/russia-is-struggling-with-a-shitty-problem-literally

Quote me where I said that Russians are always starving or show everyone that you are again exaggerating through the use of fiction to try and make some type of point.

Here is a tip: When I make a statement with a source don’t bother to try and circle back with an attempt at damage control in the hope that I don’t respond.

Boy you sure spend a lot of time thinking about an entertainment company that primarily makes content for children.

I truly do not understand why a grown White man would put extensive effort into explaining what is wrong with an adaptation of Snow White. It’s actually a movie for girls and not adult male virgins.

With all the complaints about Disney by adult virgins and Star Wars toy collectors I’m sure their profit must be down as these basement experts assuredly know the entertainment industry better than the executives.

Disney profit up again
https://www.abc27.com/news/us-world/business/ap-disneys-3q-profit-climbs-as-it-sees-strength-at-domestic-parks-adds-streaming-subscribers/

Excerpt: The Walt Disney Co. earned $5.26 billion, or $2.92 per share, for the three months ended June 28. A year earlier it earned $2.62 billion, or $1.43 per share.

Take that Disney!!! More profits!!!! (shakes fist at multi-billion dollar corporation)

shell my own citizens. Perhaps I am also a victim of the need to feel like a “good guy”. But

Well, such a politician would also be overthrown etc and replaced with a politician who would try to defend territory.

It’s like saying “I could never be in the army, because I could never kill another human”. Ok that is a personal speculation about profession choices.

But it’s the role of the army, including why taxpayers fund it, to defend territory. And that’s the role of governments also and why they have armies.

As Kiev met this uprising with increasingly lethal military force, sophisticated weapons poured from across the border and a civil war ensued.

It was a civil war, in the sense Ukraine and the Russian Federation are not completely separated successor states of the USSR. After 1991, from Moscow’s view, Ukraine was supposed to be part of Russia’s at least indirect sphere of control, in the way separation of Russia and Ukraine would never have been acceptable in 1991 if this was not imagined.

The crazy event was the collapse of the Soviet Union, which throws centuries of the Russian empire to the trash, and from there, Moscow has the long term, to choose between losing control of the second most important fraction of the union, or war.

But the conflict in 2014 is not a civil war, in the sense of internal to Ukraine.

Initial forces were special forces of the Russian armed forces and these formed units including the Ukrainian citizens, controlled by Moscow, equipped by Moscow (with good equipment in the summer) etc. The commander of the special military operation, Girkin says openly to everyone now, he was sent to Sloviansk by his commanders and with a special forces unit.

Even including a lot of militias recruiting from local volunteers, non-professional local people, they were actually more elite than a lot of the forces fighting in Ukraine since 2022.

the leaders of ETA in the fist decades of the conflict were no idiots at all. They perfectly

The topic about ETA and Basque is very interesting, and I would enjoy your comments about it a lot more than, another discussion about Ukraine.

But as analogy to the war in Ukraine, it’s just stupid.

Unless we can find some similarity between ETA and the Russian military.

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The most recent analogy in Spain, to the events in Ukraine, will be not even the civil war in the 1930s, but probably the Peninsular War in the beginning of the 19th century.

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

know what Putin would do but I was pretty sure that if Kiev started killing its own civilians

Both sides are not exactly prioritizing the welfare of local citizens, to say mildly, but I don’t understand the emphasis. Missiles were flying in both directions and Ukrainian television*, said it was the separatist units, while Russian television said it was the Ukrainian units. This is the artillery war.

The greatest crime in summer 2014 was from the aerial conflict, resulting in killing of Dutch people, who were just going on vacation to Malaysia, without any relation of the Netherlands to the crazy postsoviet conflicts.

But this artillery war is how the postsoviet armies fight and the degraded version of how the Soviet army would fight in the 1970s/1980s, maybe not in the textbooks, but we saw the unpleasant for local people reality since 2014.

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*I watched Ukrainian reports on YouTube already in 2013, when it was more directly reporting the situation in Kiev. And before 2012, I had always received a very positive image of Ukrainians, if this is a sample of how strangely the culture reversed. It’s like some following a television serial, when the good characters were suddenly supposed to be reversed in the third season.

Boy you sure spend a lot of time thinking about an entertainment company that primarily makes content for children.

Disney is the largest film production studio globally. A large part of its content is meant for adults, even men (ESPN.)

But kids are important because they are very impressionable and also the future. And girls are important because they are the mothers or spinsters of the future – they will bear the children of the future, or not bear them.

Take that Disney!!! More profits!!!! (shakes fist at multi-billion dollar corporation)

“Go woke, go broke” doesn’t seem an effective maxim, as the legal environment doesn’t appear to allow any competitors at scale to be non-woke within the Western sphere.

However, it is probably safe to say that they have lost some amount of esteem and influence through certain unnecessary woke decisions. Until the recent Zootopia sequel, it seemed like their influence in China (a place with scalar non-woke competition) had largely vanished.

That’s a good point, The propaganda Cold War between capitalism and communism, was focused a lot on food shortages, with films of empty shelves in Moscow 1980s, would enter Reagan’s anti-communist speeches.

And this is the real context, for why the Russian government’s boomers today, are proud of supermarkets and want to distribute the images of them internationally.

Nowadays the food distribution system is very modern and efficient, on the globalized, capitalist model, like almost everywhere in the world (except some places like Venezuela), so the international supermarket doesn’t have empty shelves, and has a wide range of products, in colorful and hygienic plastic packaging, attractive lighting and international brands.

But unlike in the soviet supermarket, the food is also not subsidized*, so it’s not like for like comparison, between a soviet and capitalist supermarket.**

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The funny and sad part, is most of the items Carlson buys in the report, would hardly be recognized as edible foods in Soviet times, which had high quality in many basic products.

Carlson’s main happiness seems that the lowest quality of junk food, has started to conquer the postsoviet space.

The cardboard boxes he buys are more like industrial waste byproducts, and the price of these in postsoviet supermarket is exactly the same as in any supermarkets in Europe, actually often in Russia these types of products will be a little higher than in the German budget supermarket chains in Europe.

If he wanted to expend effort to promote Russia, he would have showed some more normal products. The price comparison in Russia with the West is also better for more normal food like sunflower oil or buckwheat, than for the processed products, which are not particularly cheaper than Europe or the USA.

Instead, he just avoids price-comparison or showing us the bill, and just claims it is cheaper (if we check each product, I would find cheaper in Europe for many of them using – Aldi or Lidl).

Of course, he just wants to complete the work and go home. It’s not an interesting topic for him, although very interesting for some of us.

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*For example, Black Friday, produces empty shelves even in American shops.

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Some of the funny part aside from the fake bread, are the Tucker Carlson’s love of “cheese puffs”, or the box of “unicorn cereal” at 5:12

The consumption preferences of adults in the wealthy countries today, are often more similar to what had been stereotyped as children’s preferences in previous generations.

We see the wealthy society, allows the humans to express more of their innate desires, which had to be socially suppressed in epochs of history which had been mainly an experience of scarcity of resources, in the poorer societies and previous generations.

And the children’s preferences are the innate preferences, which previously been socially suppressed for adults.

Maybe, you see this most obviously, with the food preferences in the supermarket, when nowadays adults buy what our grandparents’ would have described as children’s party food.

But you also see this is a lot, in terms of the adults’ music taste, which is more like teenagers’ music of the past epochs.

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The most obvious example of this is when people are very wealthy. Then you see the real innate human preference unrestricted by scarcity and repression of not being extremely powerful, for example, even the obsession to build palaces and castles from fairy stories like Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Cats might’ve been aristocrats adjacent to monarchs in past lives:

https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/are-cats-a-higher-life-form/

it’s the role of the army, including why taxpayers fund it, to defend territory. And that’s the role of governments also and why they have armies.

For a person who I remember used to mention Hobbes and other philosophers here, you show an amazing degree of confusion.

As I have already explained multiple times, you keep confusing the right of a state to exercise the monopoly of violence with the right to commit war crimes against its own population, which is bad enough. But in fact your confusion goes even deeper than that. A sate cannot function properly if it doesn’t retain the monopoly of violence (which does not mean that it can sometimes choose not to use violence for the common good). However, this has never been posited as a primary principle that trumps any other function of the state. That is totally absurd and gives the same legitimacy to the use of violence by Hamas, Idi Amin or Giorgia Meloni.

To begin with, for a government to legitimately use the monopoly of violence on a given territory the people living there must recognize the legitimacy of that government. In a territory where a large part of the population wants to secede this is the very thing that is in dispute. Which government they accept to be ruled by.

Even more important, in my view, is what other functions the state has apart from using force (ie what it wants to monopolize violence for). In the social contract we’re all supposed to have accepted consenting to the monopoly of violence by the state, it has always been understood, since the times of the Enlightenment philosophers, that the main role of the state is to protect the lives and well-being of its citizens. A state that disregards this crucial role and doesn’t hesitate to kill its own citizens to show who retains the use of force is a return to barbarism and hardly different from a street gang (where I presume the private armies of the Ukrainian oligarchs used to recruit their members from).

But as analogy to the war in Ukraine, it’s just stupid.

It is indeed stupid to insist in explaining the moral/political similarities in both conflicts (which is why I was always so interested in Donbas) to people like Latw or you. I have already admitted as much. But I feel quite confident that I have made a decent effort in laying out not only these similarities but also how the strategic goals of both insurgencies were pretty much the same. Could it not be that it is my interlocutors’ intelligence the limiting factor here?

I don’t understand the emphasis.

Perhaps some direct questions will provide more clarity than any theoretical argumentation:

– Do you think that many people in Donbas and Crimea in 2014 wanted to join Russia?

-If this was so, did they have the right to see this aspiration fulfilled or should they had forever remained part of Ukraine because Yeltsin gave up their territories?

– In your and Latw’s conception of the functions of a state, Poroshenko was legitimized to kill a couple thousand civilians to recover Donbas. But is there a limit to how many co-citizens he was entitled to kill? If his use of military force to assert the “role of governments” had resulted in the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians, would some external force like Putin or NATO been justified in stopping the carnage or is there just no such limit when a government is defending its territorial integrity?

…Russkies are always starving, queuing for potatoes (as Johnson told us)

Do you know the meaning of a comma (‘,”)? Don’t you study punctuation? What does the comma separate in that sentence? You are fighting a strawman.

Russia leads Europe in percentage of people that use an outhouse.

No, Romania does. Romania is in Europe, if you don’t know that get a map.
The three top outhouse countries in Europe are:

– Romania 24% people use an outhouse
– Bulgaria 15%
– Lithuania (ouch) 11%

Russia is 8-10%. (Latvia is the same) So you were making it up. Get Eurostat, they put all data you will need online. They are more reputable than what you quote with “.ua” (seriously, in a war?)

I find the probability that Tucker writes his own reports is very low. Less than 1 in 40 or 50. When his interviews go more improv is when his best shows stick out. These improv episodes do not ever stick out as highly brains powered.

When Sam Altman got aggro with the “are you accusing me of murder?” play why the hell didn’t Tucker say “actually I am”? It’s his show. He doesn’t have to take that crap.

The poor Indian code monkey was obviously murdered.

The SFPD is covering up for somebody.

Sam Altman sure looks like the “person of interest” to me!

I am like 4 or 5 shows behind watching Professor Jiang. The last one I saw was this one:

Before I saw the tenth or twelfth absurdity he was teaching to his students I was more keen to keep up. If you are rolling your own LLM I would not put Professor Jiang at the top of the list of feedstock. My current view is he the Chinese spooks’ answer to P. Zeihan. The presentation as a high school class is oriental slyness in action.

I still haven’t seen his material showing up in the Hua Bin unz dot com post comments section. It seems like there ought to be a natural large overlap in the Venn diagram consumer map.

Do you know the meaning of a comma (‘,”)? Don’t you study punctuation? What does the comma separate in that sentence? You are fighting a strawman.

That was your sentence.

In American English we don’t use the word queuing to describe people waiting in line.

But you don’t seem to dispute that the potato lines were real and that I did not make them up.

So it seems you are resorting to grammar checking in order to avoid an uncomfortable point for which you have no retort.

No, Romania does. Romania is in Europe, if you don’t know that get a map.
The three top outhouse countries in Europe are:

Well provide a source then.

Prometheus’ party pad has been excavated in Suffolk.

The moment the earliest known human-made fire was uncovered

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e

Here is the thing. The Russians have rendered HIMARS all but useless.

– Convicted sex offender and self-described Russian military expert Scott Ritter

25 HIMARS hits on Russian equipment

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

In Latvia & Lithuania it’s not because they have no other options, but because many people have summer homes out in the country (or very old homes that they’ve inherited).

If you are rolling your own LLM I would not put Professor Jiang at the top of the list of feedstock.

I’d like to test out that one that was limited to books from the 1800s found on Archive – but improved, by feeding it rare ethnographic volumes, found behind lock and key today.

Eat salmon while you still can. The orcas and dolphins are teaming up to eat all the big ones.

Can’t understand why they would make a movie trailer that opens with a dog peeing. Nor why they would put it in a movie, or who would okay it.

… dispute that the potato lines were real

Not everything that is real is relevant. You can find lines for potatoes, eggs, gas, fresh produce, butter…etc…in UK, US, Europe. What you did is you took an irrelevant, minor item of zero importance and tried to elevate it to a “crisis”. It amounts to lying – or exaggerated and out-of-context propaganda – you do it consciously.

…provide a source

I did: Eurostat, a reputable EU statistics bureau. While you quote outfits with an .ua location that are fighting a war. The difference is obvious.

…in Latvia-Lithuania it’s because of summer homes out in the country or very old homes that they’ve inherited

Riiight…and in Russia they don’t have country dachas and old inherited homes? Amazing. Obviously the same applies to both.

You fail to explain Romania-Bulgaria (in EU), but then nobody can…:) What doesn’t fit your stereotypes is simply ignored. The ostrich approach won’t get you far.

how strangely the (Ukrainian) culture reversed.

This is slightly misleading observation. The ‘culture’ is dictated by the Kiev neonazis who hijacked the power and keep it beyond their mandate. Would Zelensky be reelected? Of course the European NATO swines promised (‘do not sign anything, we will help you to fight to the last Ukrainian’) and encouraged Kiev gang – who does not care about the enormity of deaths but about their own enrichment – to keep the killing fields going. Essentially from the beginning, for the Ukraine, fighting neutrality turned out to be a very idiotic choice.

He doesn’t care what you say. He only cares what the A one says. The A one keeps telling him he is brilliant.

Sam Altman also likes to interact with his A one. It turns out when they do the trials for user engagement flattering the stupid assholes wins big.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-caring-baby-impossible-without-chatgpt

The Use of Knowledge in Society
F. A. Hayek 1945

https://www.kysq.org/docs/Hayek_45.pdf

After Hayek met Margaret Thatcher he described her as the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. Perhaps he was losing his vision powers at that stage in his life journey.

Did Ulam ever figure out how the prime numbered pixels show diagonal lines?

https://www.madandmoonly.com/doctormatt/mathematics/ulamSpirals/primeSpiral-pleaseAttribute.png

https://www.madandmoonly.com/doctormatt/mathematics/ulamSpirals/ulamSpirals.htm

Simon Webb wouldn’t shed many tears if Starmer were Ceaușescued.

How can he speak so freely when so many are in the clink?

It is interesting to see Keith Woods interview these woke Poles.

Oh, yea, they are real intelligent rascals. 🙂 But the salmon is more affected by the shipping in the sound than the orcas, imo. They eat Chinook (which is super tasty), but the best one is sockeye – and it lives in the rivers. It’s very healthy and very lean. Chinook is much fattier so has a more buttery taste.

The orca is technically a dolphin, but I prefer to think of them as whales due to their grandiosity.

Btw, I was going to ask you – have you seen the anime series Star Blazers?

In your and Latw’s conception of the functions of a state, Poroshenko was legitimized to kill a couple thousand civilians to recover Donbas.

I never said that it is legitimate to have civilian victims or that this can be legitimized (other than the right to defend oneself). I have always said that Ukraine was forced to defend themselves – the hostilities were encouraged by Russia, volunteers from Russia were sent it, weapons were from Russia and Russia used heavy artillery against Donbas (“the Northern wind”). My argument was simply that these civilian victims were inevitable, given the scale of hostilities. There is no need to single out Ukraine, when many countries have done this, and some countries have actually invaded which is MUCH much worse (from the Kantian perspective 0r just pure basic ethics).

Btw, I was going to ask you – have you seen the anime series Star Blazers?

Never saw it, but, IIRC, Silvio enjoyed it as a boy.

Some months ago, I was camping, and had canned sockeye with the bones in it, for the first time.

The idea of eating canned fish is kind of weird to me, except for tuna. (though I know someone who likes sardines.). Also, being very American, the first time I ate a fish that came with bones in it, I was actually in another country.

Some supposedly eat the bones?! because they are soft or softened by the canning. But I thought it was pretty good fried up and in sandwiches, with the bones peeled out of it.

She is the representative of the foreign policy of the EU and I pay a portion of her salary from my taxes, and my taxes are very high.

Well, first of all, you’re a recent newcomer and should be grateful for the opportunity to reside and work in the EU – you could’ve always stayed in Russia, if you prefer the politics there and if you’re ok being mobilized into an active war.

Everyone pays taxes – you’re not special. Many pay a lot, especially in the North. There are millions of real Europeans who support what she does (and possibly millions who do not – even I myself do not agree with everything she does). Citizenship in the EU countries is something much deeper than just paying taxes, it’s a common understanding of norms, a community, long traditions, old roots. It’s not some swap meet or street market where you come in and request things as an immigrant just because you pay taxes. You are being provided a lot of services via these taxes that you would not get in Russia, for example. Have you even tried to learn Dutch or served in the Dutch army?

If she is going to lecture about “Western values”, [..] and then goes to sit in a building constructed by actual slaves, for an Islamist dictator without saying anything.

Those are not slaves but very low paid workers. It might be different in Qatar, but I know a little about the UAE and the lower strata of workers are indeed in a kind of a lousy situation – they are low paid service workers and contrast with the international professionals who work there, but they are not slaves. Besides, the EU has to maintain good relations with the Gulf states.

America deals with Qatar all the time, it is their strategic partner now – you don’t seem to complain about that. Russia has always dealt with dictators – yet they often criticize “Nazism”, other people’s nationalism – but they are fine with Central Asian, Latin American, etc., dictators.

or the universities were funded by Qatar, as also the largest skyscrapers were owned by Qatar, the main football teams were owned by Qatar etc.

So when these are owned by Russians or Jews, or Trump’s sons – then it is ok? Well, now you know how we feel – for years, we had to put up with rich Russians and Jews buying up our stuff.

The idea of eating canned fish is kind of weird to me, except for tuna. (though I know someone who likes sardines.).

I’ll eat canned fish just for the sake of eating fish, but there is plenty of fresh fish, and very easy to make. Sardines are pretty healthy and filling.

Also, being very American, the first time I ate a fish that came with bones in it, I was actually in another country.

Yea, I know what you mean. Most fish is fillet, but wild caught fish often will have bones. The bones in the canned salmon are soft (but I do not eat them, although there might be collagen in them – I take collagen as a separate supplement). The salmon I have is always fillet.

https://nwwildfoods.com/products/wild-alaskan-sockeye-salmon?variant=44392875032860

So what kinds of fish do you have in New England? Shouldn’t you have pretty good salmon as well? Because I see it at the store. And lobster, no?

I finally got around to Professor Jiang’s Secret History episode 21.

He is claiming the Hannibal victory Battle Cannae never happened.

This one.

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

The one where wikipedia says on 2 Aug 216 B.C. 50 000 Carthages beat 86 000 Romes. Clearly Ron Unz has a little more digging before he gets to the final chapter of his revised history.

Btw, recently I came across this antioxidant called astaxanthin (which is supposedly more potent than other antioxidants). It is found in ocean creatures, and sockeye salmon has a lot of it, it’s in algae, lobster, krill that’s where the red color comes from. (Remember how the Basques stole all the krill? Now I know why).

…Ukraine was forced to defend themselves – the hostilities were encouraged by Russia, volunteers sent it, weapons used…

That’s a slippery slope. The above can be said about every conflict. Encourage, volunteers, foreign weapons…all civil conflicts are like that. The central gment doesn’t have the right to bomb and kill its own citizens who disagree with it. Do you really think that if Russians are somehow involved there are no laws or basic human rights?

You can’t have ethnic specific laws and standards. Not in EU. Kiev massively overreacted in 2014 – after the elected President was overthrown they banned the Russian language in schools-offices and sent military to suppress any opposition by the Russian minority. That’s insane and can’t be justified.