The Winnipeg or NY Jets for the Kiev regime makes as much sense:

The Kiev regime will need recently resigned Western F15 pilots to effectively fly this plane within a 3 year or more period from the present. It takes 3 and probably more years than that to effectively fly this plane.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYMvNPBg/

Mr. Unz,

The new thread is appreciated.
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Some complain that Skallagrim is too theatrical. So, I offer a more serious review of the Messer.

PEACE 😇

That’s it takes three and probably more years than that to learn how to effectively fly this plane.

“Satan tells you to not fuck niggers”
“We’re all one race the human race”

Chronology:

US says no use of Nordstream 2, but Nordstream 1 fine.

Germany concurs and keeps Nordstream 2 closed but uses Nordstream 1.

Russia says Nordstream 1 broken, and Germany must open Nordstream 2 or freeze.

US says Russia lying.

Germany says Russia financially liable.

Russia says Nordstream 1 really broken.

Russia says Germany running out of gas and will freeze.

Germany says Russia must open Nordstream 1 but won’t use Nordstream 2.

Russia refuses to open Nordstream 1, but wants to open Nordstream 2.

Nordstream 1 gets blown up.

Nordstream 2 still functioning.

Russia says again, Nordstream 1 broken, so Germany must use Nordstream 2 or freeze.

Germany laughs because Germany has prepared for many months for this and has plenty of gas.

Putinists online declare NATO will collapse because US blew up pipeline Russia wanted and not pipeline US wanted because anonymous sources said so.

Germany and US increase funding for Ukraine, send tanks together, cooperation and continue to refuse opening Nordstream 2.

It’s funny, I just last week made a comment to Yahya on the other open thread that the source of all human conflict and unhappiness is the feeling that we are somehow existentially incomplete and inadequate – an idea that I had had before, but had just been suggested to me by comments on that thread in a new and forceful way – and today I pick up – somewhat randomly – a book by Rambachan on the Vedanta of Sankara in which this idea is laid out in the most remarkably lucid and forceful form, as the basis of Vedanta.

And yet there are people who say that there is no great spirit that guides our lives and all is chance 🙂

…for Advaita, suffering is present in the insistent sense of self-lack, self-insufficiency, and incompleteness. It is experienced as a fundamental sense of insecurity of self. The desire to overcome this uncomfortable sense of uncertainty about the value of oneself is often the propelling drive behind the insatiable acquisition of wealth, power, and fame. Such pursuits become, too often, futile efforts to add value to oneself.

Rambachan has a wonderful quote on the religious quest, taken, I think, from Hindu tradition – to gain the already gained, to accomplish the already accomplished 🙂

(the idea being, that ignorance of our true nature causes our sense that we are incomplete. In reality, we are Brahman, and must only wake up to that fact, not add anything to ourselves)

In various forms I’ve encountered this before – in the Diamond Sutra, the Buddha says that one does not gain a single thing from enlightenment, and in the Zen tradition, Huang Po says it is like searching for a jewel that was, all along, embedded in ones forehead.

In the wonderful Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl, which had a significant influence on Christianity and was a prevalent spiritual sensibility throughout the late ancient world (Gnosticism, that is), the same idea is given eloquent voice – that we are forgetful of our true natures, and that is the source of our suffering (the Gnostics, of course, added the element that there are sinister spiritual forces keeping us in bondage, which Paul took over into Christianity).

But it’s nice to see once again this ancient truth – which may be the most important possession of humanity – once again expressed. It had somewhat faded from view in my own life, and yet it is really the summit of spirituality, and the cure for modernity. It’s something that should never be forgotten.

You are a cranky new age nutcase.

While entertaining, it does not resemble reality. Try this instead:

The German Greens hate hydrocarbons

Greens join German Government

Greens kill NordStream to stop hydrocarbons

High energy prices kill German economy

Green party cannot back down

Germany forced to find expensive substitutes

Germany laughs because Germany has prepared for many months for this and has plenty of gas.

Then why are the Germans desperately constructing LNG import terminals? (1)

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.dw.com/en/germany-scholz-opens-countrys-first-lng-terminal/a-64134715

The Greenwald video is a particularly good example of explaining the way “of the way” that Victoria Nuland is the President of Ukraine no matter who the Americans vote for and no matter who the Ukies vote for.

The lull in the fighting, between Donbass separatists and the Kiev government in Ukriane, coincided by Cohenicidence with her removal from power during Trump’s presidency. Between 2017 and 2021 the fighting more or less stopped.

Will anyone rid the region of this troublesome woman? Trump did.

Ohio right now

That's a giant cloud of polyvinyl chloride and a ton of other bad chemicals

The local police blew it up like a beached whale, now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em pic.twitter.com/yUYxNWhZ6H

— UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance (@FalconryFinance) February 10, 2023

Will anyone rid the region of this troublesome woman [Victoria Nuland]? Trump did.

Samantha Power is also back. (1)

Within the statements reported from his 2022 victory speech, Prime Minister Orban warned citizens of the NATO and western allied countries about the manipulation of Ukraine and how he views the Zelenskyy regime: […] “while speaking to supporters on Sunday, Orban singled out Zelenskyy as part of the “overwhelming force” that he said his party had struggled against in the election — “the left at home, the international left, the Brussels bureaucrats, the Soros empire with all its money, the international mainstream media, and in the end, even the Ukrainian president.”

This put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the crosshairs of the western alliance, specifically the EU and U.S. bureaucrats who use their power, position and intelligence apparatus to manipulate foreign nations. A year later and now we see USAID Administrator Samantha Power in Hungary openly discussing her seeding of the NGO’s and political activist systems in order to generate yet another color revolution.

Video Link

Trump 2024 will get rid of her too.

#LetsGoBrandon 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/12/heads-up-state-dept-operative-and-usaid-administrator-samantha-power-is-in-hungary-seeding-another-color-revolution-deep-state-ukraine-2-0/

That’s different.

The first one.

That video tells the story. A really creepy person bragging about working to ruin other people’s lives.

I agree. Give the New York Jets to Kiev.

There was a thing on Facebook a couple years ago where nobody, not even the people in New York, care about the Jets.

@ Beckow from previous Open Thread

Ukraine shrunken to its purer Ukie population, getting rid by any means of the remaining Russians or Russian-speakers, and a full embrace of the West with focus on Poland. It doesn’t have much of a chance to be implemented, but as a goal it meets the basic rationality.

This can be done (and is being done) on the territory Ukraine already has. No further shrinking is necessary.

It would be – based on how the war goes – a mono-ethnic 10-20 million country

If 2/3 of the refugees outside of Ukraine return to Ukraine, the current territory would have around 30 million people. A stalemate at the current lines (give or take Bakhmut and some other settlements) is the most likely result. Though Ukraine taking back more territory towards the Crimean corridor and rural Luhansk is not unlikely. (I doubt that Ukraine will be able to storm large cities like Donetsk)

If Ukraine loses more territories in the East such as Zaporizhia city or Kharkiv (unlikely) it will be a few million less than that.

If Ukraine loses Eastern territories plus Odessa (very unlikely) it will be down to 20 million or so.

The worst case and extremely unlikely scenario would be Russia taking Kiev and all the pre-1939 Soviet territory. This would leave Ukraine with around 12-15 million people, depending on how many refugees settle there from the other side of the Iron Curtain. This territory would be about 140,000 sq. kilometers in size (the map below, plus Transarpathia with Uzhorod and Bukovyna with Chernivtsi) and would thus be slightly larger than Hungary + Slovakia with a similar population of those two countries combined.

It would be poor, but picturesque. Young people would be leaving, ‘tourists’ would visit for the bars and security conferences.

Nonsense. Lviv is a beautiful city that attracts young settlers. And it offers plenty of well paid programming jobs. The city’s population has already increased by 150,000 as a result of this war. Entire companies with their young employees have moved to Lviv from places like Kharkiv. If Kiev were lost, many of the young from that city would move to Free Lviv rather than leave Ukraine entirely, and with peace many would return from where they have been refugees in places like Poland. It would most likely be a million plus city (before the war it had a population of about 750,000).

It would resemble Bulgaria-Romania-Moldova, its best parts would be like eastern Poland or even eastern Slovakia (both quite poor).

Eastern Poland (which doesn’t have any large cities like Lviv) has a per capita GRP of around ~$11,000 which is a lot higher than Belarus’s $8,567. Within western Ukraine, rural Volhynia and Zakarpattiya would probably be similar to that, while Galicia (Lviv) would be significantly higher.

Romania has a per capita GDP that is slightly higher than Russia’s. And that is with its large gypsy population included.

Bulgaria is a lot richer than Belarus, and that is with its large gypsy population.

Moldova is a small, isolated country, it is a stupid comparison.

Well, go for it. But then why are Ukies dying in large numbers to keep half of Donbas? Why did they start bombing civilian cities and killed (3k?) people to keep them in Ukraine?

Because if the Russians take Donbas they will try to take more. Russians will try to take what they can until they are stopped. Better to stop them in Donbas than to allow the Russians to turn Dnipro, or Kharkiv, etc. into wastelands.

Why are men up to 50-60 years old being hunted all over Ukraine so they can be put in the eastern trenches? Why?

Videos are fun but meanwhile none of my 50 year old male relatives has been conscripted.

You have no answer to that because you refuse to accept the crucial, decisive element of the situation: Nato (Washington) is not interested in what happens in Galicia+ (even in Kiev), whether they have call centers

Lviv has programmers and researchers, not call centers. Median salary for programmer in Lviv was $3,000 per month in 2021:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/lviv-software-engineer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,4_IC3537517_KO5,22.htm

who sells them trinkets

The largest cable manufacturers for German cars is in Lviv oblast. Those are not “trinkets.”

Their goal is much simpler: an armed Ukraine in Nato without Russians with eventually bases, missiles as usually. That’s what they want

That’s what Ukrainians want also. To be safe from Russia’s murdering.

But NATRO was and will be a remote possibility. Though the possibility has increased since the Russian invasion.

Nato is a military pact, it has attacked around 5-6 countries in the last 20-25 years

Which one of those countries that NATO attacked has nuclear weapons?

NATO has kept Russia out of countries, though.

(incl. Serbia very brutally in the middle of Europe).

1,2000-2,000 civilians killed according to Yugoslav estmates.

A small fraction of the amount of civilians killed by Russia in Chechnya or Ukraine. Places that didn’t have NATO protection.

If Nato had not moved aggressively to absorb Ukraine there would be no war.

Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true. There is no war over Finland joining NATO. Finland hasn’t joined NATO yet, so there is no NATO protective shield. And Finland is much closer to getting in than Ukraine ever was. Yet Russia isn’t moving against Finland. So clearly the problem is not a nation close to Russia joining NATO.

The problem is Ukraine leaving the Russian World forever. Ukraine is strategically important for Moscow, if Moscow wants to be some sort of Great Power. The Russian Empire and the USSR both included Ukraine.

As our former host correctly summarized, between EU integration and de-Russification policies, Ukraine was leaving Russia behind and cutting itself off completely, becoming as foreign to Russia as Poland, and this was the last chance for Russia to take it back, or to at least salvage as much of it as possible. They hoped to get it all (at least outside Galicia and Volhynia), but will settle for as much as they can.

Regarding your denials: ‘but they postponed it year after year!” – are you really that stupid? That’s how it is done, the goal is the same, the implementation and timing are based on circumstances.

The fact that they never moved forward is more meaningful than their empty declarations year after year.

BTW, you ignored my statement about NATO as a rule not accepting any country than has ongoing territorial disputes. Russian lackeys like you were bragging how, by seizing Crimea and Donbas, Russia made NATO entrance for Ukraine impossible. It was a brilliant move by Putin.

But now you claim that Ukraine was going to enter NATO anyways, and had to be stopped.

Were Russian lackeys like you lying then, or lying now?

Or were you too stupid to keep track?

The Ukie Constitution literally says that Ukraine will join Nato.

It still does, that hasn’t changed. It says that EU and NATO are strategic objectives. Crimea and Donbas are also part of Ukraine according to the Constitution.

And NATO still declares that Ukraine will join NATO. So these things haven’t changed since Russia’s invasion.

What has changed, is that Ukraine’s military has integrated far more with NATO’s military, and had proven itself as a battle-tested worthy potential member of NATO. So, as I wrote, odds of NATO membership have impr0ved as a result of this war, from 5% to 25%.

Here is VVP stating that Europe must open Nordstream 2 and that he’ll never deliver by Nordstream 1, literally just before someone blows up Nordstream 1 and not Nordstream 2, thereby fulfilling exactly what VVP wanted, and no one else wanted, except that German gas reserves were sufficient, which he could not have known, but the Americans and Germans playing him did.

It is like with Leopard 2s. Their delivery was arranged long before the kabuki over whether they would be or not concluded. Unsurprisingly, given that they share all of the same values, the German and American elites are thick as thieves and play people who buy into this “American occupation of Europe” fantasy like a fiddle.

AK is wrong about aliens. If anything, NPR, rap, jazz, and autotune Madonna will keep them away – radio aposematism.

Maybe, you can shoot some rock at the Earth at half the speed of light. But, maybe, the Earth is just a robotic deer, and the game warden will nab you, and then subject you to a million years of listening to Cardi B’s worst song on a loop.

This is funny:

I don’t find it funny because I don’t have an unacknowledged burning hatred for Western women.

Instead, it is just nonsense. There are no lack of beautiful people on American television. Instead,there is a lack of truly ugly people. Watch the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice to see what a television show with ordinary looking extras is like. It is shocking! Even though British people are the best looking people in the world, of course.

There was a time when I was deep into this Eastern Wisdom too. But then I realized, if it is so simple –

a jewel that was, all along, embedded in ones forehead

– why it is so hard…? Can truth have only accidental realizations in this world, through the enlightened? Why should actually the way to the truth be so hard and for the chosen – shouldn’t truth be shining like the Sun upon everyone?
There must be a catch here.

If someone told you that you will realize Truth immediately but would cease to exist, would you accept that?

To Coconuts and S, about the topic discussed by Charles Maurras in the excerpt posted by Coconuts.

I was going to write a lenghty and unhinged rant, same as usual, and then I learned that someone (Rolo Slavskyi) has published some Shafarevich’s translation on Unz Review.

https://www.unz.com/article/postscript-to-the-three-thousand-year-old-enigma/

https://www.unz.com/article/the-elusive-jewish-solution/

I don’t have an answer for that. Various traditions offer different answers – in Christianity, it’s a result of the Fall. In Hinduism, it’s the Kali Yuga – things inevitably decay before they are renewed. In Gnosticism and early Christianity, it’s dark spiritual powers on high – the Archons of this world, powers and principalities, that keep us in bondage. Another answer is that each soul has particular lessons to learn. I think they all, symbolically, get at the truth.

On the other hand, these truths are so universally attested to in all four corners of the earth in all the great traditions that Truth is in a sense “easy” and universal.

At any moment, at any time, anyone can change their life and access these truths. It’s open to anyone, always. Of course, you must change your life and behavior to really be able to see certain things, and the world does indeed seem to be organized to stop you from living the correct way and from accessing these truths – there does seem to be some malign force opposing you (this Gnostic sense is probably behind all the silly conspiracy theories that are flourishing – the feeling is quite justified, although the theories are ridiculous).

But these questions aren’t really relevant to you losing or maintaining an interest in Eastern (it’s Western, too) wisdom, APP – the fact is, these truths must be tried, you have to live according to them. If they don’t utterly transform your life, then they simply aren’t true 🙂 That’s all there is to it.

The promise is quite simple – it’s not some reward in the afterlife, but bliss (ananda) here and now, as a result of living by these truths, it’s the peace that passeth understanding, now.

The fruits of the Spirit, after all, are – ” ..
love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”.

The promise is for now – it’s quite pragmatic. If it doesn’t bring joy, then they are lies. If correct practice still doesn’t let you “see”, then they aren’t true.

But – this requires a kind of “faith”, as all adventures do. Not blind faith, but the faith to experiment. There is an old Hindu anecdote about a blind man undergoing an operation to restore his vision – the doctor tells him it’s a success and if he opens his eyes he will see. But he doesn’t believe them and refuses to open his eyes 🙂 Without faith, you can’t discover the truth of anything.

As for the rest of mankind, eventually, all come to truth – that we are all immediately there isn’t so significant.

I don’t find it funny because I don’t have an unacknowledged burning hatred for Western women.

Rachel Maddow is a substantial fraction Middle Eastern (a fact surely known by Anglin), but that is besides the point. She is an ugly lesbo, and that is the main thing.

Watch the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice to see what a television show with ordinary looking extras is like. It is shocking!

Are you talking about the show made in 1995? (haven’t seen it) Maddow wasn’t even on TV, until 2005, and then not as the lead.

The beauty standards of the Anglophone media (and some others) have degenerated substantially, since 1995.

Charles Manson wrote a song about that. It was a big hit with the Brian Wilson Neil Young party set.

She is an ugly lesbo, and that is the main thing.

She has chosen to grow into that. She was the apple of her parents’ eyes when she was attending Castro Valley High School. The probability is high (~.95) she has hated all men starting with daddy for a very long time. This has nothing to do with Freud. Freud can tell you close to zilch about modern California.

(She likes homos but you can bet most homos do not like her. She is an industrial level of un-likable.)

She likes homos but you can bet most homos do not like her.

If The Picture of Dorian Gray had one message, it was that Oscar Wilde did not like women.

But I get tired of this feminist rhetoric that masculine men hate women. They don’t, and normal women don’t like soyjacks.

BTW, I see Yahya will not accept Rachel Maddow back into the fold (however beautiful TL asserts she is.) Perhaps, Jennifer Connelly, or ScarJo, if they were younger?

A perceptive person will realise that Archons et co. are perhaps more powerful than all the sparks of Light around them – Archons move and enslave the sparks of Light, not vice versa.

Student of Wisdom will soon thus realize that in all these theories the matters of evil are much more convoluted than the Matters of Good, so perhaps focusing more on the former is the right choice if our final goal is the Truth which perhaps makes us aware that neither Good is so good as we wished, nor the Evil so evil as we were told, and yet the opposition does exist.

Charlie Manson is one talented individual.

I liked his take on Boyd Rice and Michael Moynihan:

The choice of Pointless Existence Without Meaningful Truth versus
Pointless Truth Without Meaningful Existence is a false one.

Videos are fun but meanwhile none of my 50 year old male relatives has been conscripted.

The pro Russian blogger “Slavland Chronicles” says that none of the young men in the families of his Ukrainian relatives have been called up nor do they have any fear of being called up. The press ganging videos that we see on Twitter are likely responses to crisis situations that pop up at various places on the first line of defense. Ukraine has been using cannon fodder to hold the front line while building up the real army in reserve.

I’m not interested in which side is right, I’m interested in which side is winning. And Ukraine is clearly winning if you look at the conflict from a bird’s eye view and ignore all the minutia that people online sperg about.

Your reply has nothing to do with my comment, so I give up.

But, just one more thing, you think you come across as masculine?

1. There’s no such thing as “archons”.

2. Theories of evil are necessarily more convoluted because it is illusory.

Otoh, I don’t think it is unhealthy that you treat these things as real. The descriptive word “illusion” does not mean the descripted phenomenon lacks power, or even personality. Just that it only exists as something partial.

3. Light is there shining brightly, but humans turn away and cower, for fear of what it might reveal about themselves. And this is why they find truth so difficult, even maddening. Introduce bits of it too big for them to them, and watch them go insane.

4. When people say you would have to give up existence to live in truth, they mean you would have to give up what you currently falsely identify as you. A set of lies and copes and fears.

When people say you would have to give up existence to live in truth, they mean you would have to give up what you currently falsely identify as you. A set of lies and copes and fears

Thank you Ma’am !

(Bows…)

I’m a non-dualist, so I don’t believe in two independent opposing principles. Literally everything is a form of the Good, and what we call evil is simply the absence of Good on some level.

As for the Archons, according to Christianity, Jesus already destroyed their power and authority. I think there’s a lot of symbolic truth in that.

Islam presupposes a basic literacy of the Mum’een. Reading the scripture is seen as a part of the Din. In the core of Dar al Islam, the three Califates of the Islamic Golden Age, the majority of male population was literate. Alexis ds Tocqueville wrote of Algeria after the French conquest: “we cams and disorganized their traditional society”.

Well we don’t have reliable data on literacy rates; but it does seem likely that literacy rates were relatively (compared to Europe) high during the Islamic Golden Age. Voltaire mentions in Philosophical Dictionary that: “Before the admirable invention of printing, books were rarer and more expensive than precious stones. Almost no books among the barbarian nations until Charlemagne, and from him to the French king Charles V., surnamed “the wise”; and from this Charles right to François, there is an extreme dearth. The Arabs alone had books from the eighth century of our era to the thirteenth. China was filled with them when we did not know how to read or write.”

It should be pointed out though that literacy and high culture activities in the Islamic world were confined to the urban areas; as in other civilizations. There are many hadiths where Muhammad proclaims to the Faithful that “seeking knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim” and derivations thereof; but this was again predominantly pertinent to the leisured class in the urban Islamic centers. Out in the countryside; the peasants remained mostly non-Muslim (it took 3-4 centuries for Egypt to become majority Muslim) and were neglected by the new Islamic rulers; who saw non-believers first and foremost as a tax base. In the Umayad period the Arab rulers didn’t bother to convert their subjects; since they held ethnic exclusivist notions of Islam. Only in the Abbasid period did conquered people like Persians attempt to join and co-opt Islam into a more universalist faith.

The level of literacy and culture fell abysmally under Western domination.

Here we have the classic chicken and egg problem. Did Western domination cause the decline in the Islamic world; or was the decline itself facilitate Western colonization? Bernard Lewis argues that the turning point in power relations between the West and the Islamic world was in 1683; when the Ottomans were defeated for the second time at Vienna. He posits a variety of causes; the discovery of the New World; exhaustion of mines and precious metals; a decline in trade through the ME; prioritization of military activity over commercial ones; and the Mongol invasions. Others have advanced the notion that Al-Ghazali attacks on neoplatonism discouraged the pursuit of knowledge. But revisionist scholars such as Dr. George Saliba have attempted to refute this argument of decline; instead asserting that it was only relative to the West, not absolute; and that scholarship continued centuries after Al-Ghazali and the Mongol invasion: https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-wealth-of-notions-my-review-of-oded-galors-the-journey-of-humanity/#comment-5302518

I tend to favor the last argument; but my opinion is circumspect; as I believe it’s extremely difficult to discern causal factors when n=1. Even with a millennia behind us, scholars haven’t reached a consensus. “Only Allah encompasses all things in knowledge.”

@ Another Polish Perspective

I think almost certainly that there probably is other life outside of the Earth. However, I’m less certain about the claims of ‘alien contact’ already having been made between them and us.

I’m extremely leery of these particular contemporary ‘UFO’ claims due to the context of the times, ie a drive by some, hook or by crook, to stampede the peoples of the world to give up, whether they really want to or not, what little sovereignty and identity they have left so that these powerful people and their hangers on may unhindered create a global superstate/empire.

This meme has been out there awhile.

A Sept, ’63, episode of the sci-fi show the Outer Limits entitled ‘Architects of Fear’ featured a cabal of ‘progressive’ scientist whom, naturally for everyone else’s ‘own good’, unilaterally took it upon themselves to fake an alien invasion to drive mankind together.

One of the scientist, who has volunteered to be surgically transformed into an alien, is to use a weather balloon…err weather satellite, as an ersatz alien spaceship so he may land at the United Nations and dictate to an awed and terrified world a new era of peace and goodwill.

The plan implodes however and the ‘alien’ scientist ends up dead.

The brief clip below of the episode includes a good message at the end that explains how artificially manufactured fear and terrorization is not a productive way to go in bringing about real world peace.

‘Using Tricks to Scare People’ – The Architects of Fear (Sept ’63)

US President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 speech to the United Nations describing how an ‘alien threat’ would be the ideal device to unite mankind.

‘An Alien Threat From Outside This World’ (Sept 21, 1987)

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

https://www.cultureready.org/blog/reagans-1987-un-speech-alien-threat-resonates-now

Did you ever read/hear the Tracy Twyman bit where she and husband put a curse on Boyd Rice and six weeks later husband was dead?

I think I would have gone straight into a nun enclave but she kept on at it for a few more years. Aye ^ 7.

Ukraine is clearly winning

Pyrrhus was winning. But he was smarter than some people we know.

BTW, I see Yahya will not accept Rachel Maddow back into the fold (however beautiful TL asserts she is.) Perhaps, Jennifer Connelly, or ScarJo, if they were younger?

Maddow isn’t even 1/8th Middle Eastern; you twit.

ScarJo looks Germanic/Nordic.

Jennifer Connelly looks Black Irish or Italian.

Would pass as Middle Eastern if a few facial features were tweaked though.

Wouldn’t mind accepting her to the fold. She was born in Cairo after all.

Is also beautiful and intelligent.

You can keep the other two.

Yahya once went ape, when I said I thought blacks do not have a culture,

I don’t recall commenting on that. Though I’m open to being wrong. You are welcome to provide a link to my comment.

Blacks do have a culture; both in Africa and America. The former is primitive and the latter depraved; but they are distinct cultures nonetheless. You are conflating “bad” with “nothing”.

but I don’t think that Euros really have a modern culture either, at least at scale, which, if anything, is even more disgraceful. It is mostly coasting on past glories, and our modern culture is diversity, and it is basically impossible to dissociate from those elements, and degenerate at that.

There are pockets of creditable high-culture in Europe. Most of it is indeed “coasting” on previous accomplishments; but that is both a sin and a virtue. It can be good to preserve the achievements of one’s ancestors; whether in literature, music, film, art or architecture. I don’t see the issue with performing Bach or Mozart in a French cathedral every weekend. Many non-European peoples also tend to replay the same music from their golden ages. The Ancient Egyptians maintained the same aesthetic for thousands of years. On the other hand, innovation and creativity are also worthy endeavors. Contrary to what you might think; the presence of foreigners is no impediment to cultural flourishing. Rome during its imperial heights was filled with immigrants from the Middle East and the Balkans; likewise Alexandria was for a millennia the most culturally productive city in the Western world. The Chinese Golden Age occurred under the cosmopolitan Tang dynasty.

I don’t think anyone has a finger on the causes of Western cultural decline. Some posit a general downward trend starting in WW1; though I view the timeline as variable depending on cultural activity. Western music arguably reached its apex in the 19th century. James Huneker in Old Fogy contended that “no great music [has been] made since the death of Beethoven”. That was certainly far before the woke and migration wave. Nietzsche and Spengler were already discussing the decline of the West a century ago. Your racial obsession blinds you from other consequential factors. Wokeism is a symptom rather than cause of decline.

@Latw

Irish German maybe?

Anglin doesn’t need to be of partial German descent to LARP as a Nazi.

Just look at the likes of songbird.

Apparently Irish-Americans now think themselves Aryan ubermenschen.

The deracination must’ve gotten to some of them. Very sad really.

Hey Bashi,

Just a few additional notes to what we spoke about on the last thread re: October 1993:

There was everything that was needed (constitution, laws, separation of powers, political parties of all persuasion). It’s just that it didn’t square up well with the “reforms” and their “curators”.

Right, this is quite crucial and would be worth analyzing at some point (not that this would change much in today’s context, but it would be interesting to know). However, my point still stands – the system was established in the sense you described, as in, it was set up, but it was still too fragile (the ruling groups were not fully entrenched, we can see there was a struggle for power). Which is, of course, sad to wreck such a new, fragile system instead of trying to strengthen it. Under the Russian system, the president is also stronger than the Duma, so may have been a factor.

It was heading in that direction. That’s why stopping it was a crime even without the protesters’ massacre.

Ok, as long as the Communist entering power were changed into a new form of Slavic Euro democrats or something of that sort, but I doubt they would be. They would regain power and, yes, they may try to stop the oligarchs from being formed, but they would also start all kinds of revanchist activities to re-establish and re-unite the Soviet Union, most likely.

Also, they would lose Western funding. The West simply would not give money to Russian Red-Browns. Russia could probably pull it off on her own, but at the time the Western funding was important – from what I understand, there was borderline hunger (Bush elder was sending chicken drumsticks and canned food), and there was a default? This is of course sad and a disgusting factor that the Soviets had allowed the system to reach such a low bottom, but it was a factor.

Thanks for the two intriguing articles. They both make many good points and are a very good description of the present situation.

Any Euro people wishing to survive will have a lot of rebuilding to do, and probably be starting off small in size and number.

There is absolutely no reason to stage “alien invasion” to scare people off in order to unite them (this point is often completely missed off), UNLESS of course you have a strong suspicion (or even certainty) that aliens do exist and have an interest on Earth, and you want somehow be proactive, especially as you until now have kept your populations rather ignorant about aliens.

So even if this isn’t about [fake] aliens, it is about [real] aliens ultimately.

BTW, a standard scenario – recently presented in the “Moonfall” movie – says that not only aliens exist, but there are good aliens and bad aliens, which is not an obvious point too – why can’t aliens simply be indifferent..?!

As for the current operation, the missile which shot down the “aliens” is Sidewinder, a rather old missile from 1956, which again makes its targets pretty unlikely “real aliens”.

The real alien disclosure should have something to do with crop circles etc.

There are no lack of beautiful people on American television.

Agree. And it’s a net loss for China to have Western men of Anglin’s profile to boost for it.

China needs to be appealing to Western women like Sanna Marin, or it isn’t at all.

Lol at trying to claim that Jennifer Connelly looks more Middle Eastern than Rachel Maddow!

On the other hand, the internet does say Connelly looks like a minor actress called Rena Sofer, both of whose parents were Russian Jews, and so somewhat Middle Eastern, and therefore actually more Middle Eastern than Maddow.

She also looks a lot like Demi Moore, who seems to have an English background and an actress called Cobie Smulders, who is Dutch and English by background too.

Please note that “black Irish” is not actually a genetic thing. Just white Irish people with dark hair and some complete myths, like the “sailors from the Spanish Armada.”

As for “decline”, I disagree that there’s any such thing. Just a lowering of average standards, the same way the IQ of the university system inevitably decreased as the proportion of the population attending university went from 5% to 60%.

Contrary to what you might think; the presence of foreigners is no impediment to cultural flourishing

The presence of foreigners is a key ingredient to cultural flourishing. This is why rulers like Catherine the Great would invite them. The exchange of ideas in person is extremely important. However, that does depend on the foreigners you import. And the types who are necessary for cultural flourishing are obviously few in number and therefore would not qualify as “mass” migration.

Anyone who thinks Rushdie, Einstein or Conrad detracted from the countries they ended up in is being stupid.

Since the current system is ultimately about control, if a factor appears you cant control (eg. real aliens), you could introduce a “double” aka fake aliens to keep populations controlled. Then, when real aliens appear or make their move, you already have your populations primed, eg. “Aliens different from our [fake] aliens are bad aliens”. Note that great majority of alien movies are about hostile aliens, and even in the Star Trek Federation all high-level commanders are humans.

In the end, it is more about politics than technology.

Ukraine has been using… to hold the front line while building up the real army in reserve.

The Ukrainian General Staff are not dumb. Ukraine essentially has two armies (or should have at least). One is on the front lines right now, the other is being prepared for the spring offensive.

In other news:

– RF not doing very well at Vuhledar, to put it mildly.

– Wagner is no longer granted access to zeks, and apparently it is no longer allowed to mention Wagner on the Russian media. Maybe our “friend” Prigozhin took it a bit too far with his crazy PR.

I think a lot of East Asians suffer from a wounded masculinity because your mothers are too controlling. It isn’t always the case, but I imagine that it has only gotten more concentrated the fewer children those mothers have had. Same effort, fewer children, more anxiety.

A lot of highQ peoples would benefit from Bryan Caplan’s subtlety pro-natalist mantra that parenting doesn’t matter. It would make the men happier and more assertive, the women less shrewish, and the birth rate higher, because the cost, both monetary and in time and effort, of child-raising would go down.

Lol at trying to claim that Jennifer Connelly looks more Middle Eastern than Rachel Maddow!

Work on your reading comprehension skills.

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Maddow only has one Jewish grandparent.

Connelly’s mother was fully Jewish. Makes her 2x more Middle Eastern by blood.

My objection to Maddow is not on phenotype; but beauty.

Her being a homosexual also automatically excludes her from the Middle Eastern club.

Connelly needs only a few facial operations and a hijab; and we’ll have her fitting into the Middle East in no-time:

(from previous thread)

The LFTR (~liquid fluoride thorium reactor) as originally developed at Oak Ridge is pretty much an ideal reactor with one exception. It was basically the worst design imaginable in terms of proliferation and produced ready to use U-233 which is actually worse than plutonium in this respect.

U233 is mediocre for weapons production. Only one has been tested and it was a fizzle. Worse yet the U233 cycle is poisoned by U232 which produces very undesirable, frequent, high gamma decay events. This is not a power plant issue, but it can easily break sensitive electronics in weapons applications.

Comparatively, Pu239 is a much easier pathway to a functional fission weapon.

There are ways to work around this aspect which hopefully have been fleshed out.

Because breeder style power plant reactors consume the fissile material they are creating, diversion to other uses is difficult. Over accumulation is an undesirable characteristic to be minimized.

While fission bomb material is also produced by breeding, the reactor construction is quite different.

When I was a kid thorium reserves were thought to be good for tens of thousands of years.

Thorium is inevitably dug up with other Rare Earth Elements. Thousands of years of fuel is not an over statement.

PEACE 😇

if a factor appears you cant control (eg. real aliens), you could introduce a “double” aka fake aliens to keep populations controlled.

Did you watch B5:Crusade?

Exactly that plot with some extra X-Files homage thrown in.

PEACE 😇

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Visitors_from_Down_the_Street#Summary

China needs to be appealing to Western women like Sanna Marin, or it isn’t at all.

This is actually a big one. Ok, so here it is from someone from the region.. 🙂

The man in the video, is he pure Chinese or a Hapa? Seems like pure Chinese. He has a good combo of boyish looks with a somewhat rugged masculinity – that’s always very appealing. He must also have a mellow personality – a White guy equivalent of that probably would have a more difficult personality or even motivation (not necessarily, but likely, since he’d be desirable “relationship material” for many White women) and the relationship dynamic would be very different (I’ve noticed that Asian men are much easier – not to say there aren’t attractive White guys who are easy to communicate with, of course, there are, it’s just with Asians it is immediately noticeable – they are very kind, mellow, non-confrontational or non-edgy, what little experience I’ve had talking to Chinese in particular – this may seem like a non-attractive feature for a man initially but it is actually helpful in the long term).

There are some interesting types, among the Japanese, as well. There were a couple of interesting types in the Marco Polo cast, but I think they were Hapas.

To be fully open with you, the type of Asian guy that a White woman will like, will have symmetrical features, be slightly taller than average and will be more rugged than the average Asian guy. Nothing new here and sorry to sound so blunt and vain, but it is so.

Connelly:
A.) Has had her nose done
B.) Looks Irish as the day is long. I don’t see anything remotely Near Eastern in Connelly’s appearance

I wouldn’t be totally surprised if that would be “aliens” revenge for shooting down their crafts (at least it could be explained in this way).

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages

Interestingly, it happened near “Eastern Palestine, Ohio, USA” which suggests that Western forces supporting Palestinians didn’t acquire their sympathies just now and only due to the loathsome Israeli conduct. They must be much older, in fact.
Well, British upper-class officers liked Arabs much more than Jews, and upper-class Americans used to ape the British (like Henry James, hm).

Connelly’s mother was fully Jewish.

I didn’t even think of that. Sorry.

Her being a homosexual also automatically excludes her from the Middle Eastern club.

A female homosexual, maybe. The Middle East is definitely a land that prioritises ogling men over women.

Under the Russian system, the president is also stronger than the Duma, so may have been a factor.

It was the opposite before the Black October 1993. The Supreme Soviet had the legal prerogative to deposit the president. After the coup and the massacre Bor’ka alkash rewrote the constitution. Then Pynya changed it a couple times more to extend his staying at the helm. The first post-Soviet constitution was sensible and balanced. These apes used it as toilet paper. The parliament was a real legislative body, they made it a rubber stamp machine.

Ok, as long as the Communist entering power were changed into a new form of Slavic Euro democrats or something of that sort, but I doubt they would be. They would regain power and, yes, they may try to stop the oligarchs from being formed, but they would also start all kinds of revanchist activities to re-establish and re-unite the Soviet Union, most likely.

There was some talking about CCCP 2.0 but I think none really believed it. And the Supreme Soviet was as nationalistic as it was leftist (see the Stanislav Govorukhin being denounced below by a commie). For once, the nationalist and the communist fractions got along and worked against the common neoliberal enemy. The parliament was Red-Brown. The number one task was to stop the criminal privatization, upend the corruption and exterminate the organized crime. It was to be done before anything else. When the conflict ended in Parliament’s defeat, the corrupt nomenklatura and the organized crime, who fought together against the Red Browns, morphed into the nascent oligarchy.

Also, they would lose Western funding. The West simply would not give money to Russian Red-Browns.

The Red Browns wanted to find and clame back the “gold of the Communist Parry” that has vanished in the international financial system. They also wanted to stop Russian gold from leaving the country and bring back the part that has been sent to the US. It would have more than compensated for the loss of Western financial aid. They wanted to stop the cheap selling of Russian technology and ressources.

there was a default?

It was in 1998 when the scoundrels in charge stole the Western financial aid and refused to pay back the loans.

the Soviets had allowed the system to reach such a low bottom, but it was a factor.

The early 90ies economic crisis was prepared and engineered to hasten the collapse of the USSR. The nomenklatura has betrayed the Soviet people. And then they simply disbanded the Union, exported all they could sell, stole the finances and the golden reserves and privatized the economy. It was not a natural process at all.

Just some more friendly input here: in many recent Chinese movies, usually revolving around dragons, it is quite common to see these actors who do all these amazing otherworldly jumps and tricks. Both men and women. It is quite entertaining but I wouldn’t say that in and of itself it adds much to pure sex appeal. It’s better that they lift as it adds a bit of robustness.

B.) Looks Irish as the day is long.

I know; that’s why I said she looks Black Irish.

I don’t see anything remotely Near Eastern in Connelly’s appearance

I know; that’s why I said she requires some facial surgery to pass in the Middle East.

Her hair and skin color already fit the bill; just the facial features are too European for the Middle East.

On the other hand; some native Middle Easterners look more Irish than Connelly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM_zetLvrhE&ab_channel=DalalAbuAmneh-%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A2%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A9

Aaah, the typical Chinese hero movies of the genre “one against tens of thousands”.

The last one I saw, “The Shadow” was very pleasing aesthetically, it was like artsy movie + hero movie in one. Lovers joined in music there (the music below is played by them). Aside from that, there was a lot of calligraphy hanging around which wasn’t translated at all! There was one feisty girl, a princess even, but she died, luckily for everyone, making. a throne free for our true, “shadowy” hero (the treacherous brother-king of the feisty princess died too, so the throne was truly free, but of course she was a problem for her brother too). Nevertheless, a movie was pretty dark, at least dark unlike a typical Chinese hero movie.

I wasn’t sure what was really the moral of the movie – it was a bit unusual for a Chinese movie to claim that everyone can be a king – but with the simple moral like “feisty women and treacherous men have no place in this world” I could agree.

Interestingly, it happened near “Eastern Palestine, Ohio, USA” which suggests that Western forces supporting Palestinians didn’t acquire their sympathies just now and only due to the loathsome Israeli conduct.

Palestine is a common name to refer to the area also known as the Holy Land. It doesn’t necessarily indicate an expression of support for the Palestinian state or people. Edward Gibbon was referring to the area by that name all the way back in 1776:

Under the successors of Alexander, Syria was the seat of the Seleucidae, who reigned over Upper Asia, till the successful revolt of the Parthians confined their dominions between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean. When Syria became subject to the Romans, it formed the eastern frontier of their empire: nor did that province, in its utmost latitude, know any other bounds than the mountains of Cappadocia to the north, and towards the south, the confines of Egypt, and the Red Sea. Phoenicia and Palestine were sometimes annexed to, and sometimes separated from, the jurisdiction of Syria. The former of these was a narrow and rocky coast; the latter was a territory scarcely superior to Wales, either in fertility or extent. [821] Yet Phoenicia and Palestine will forever live in the memory of mankind; since America, as well as Europe, has received letters from the one, and religion from the other. [83] A sandy desert, alike destitute of wood and water, skirts along the doubtful confine of Syria, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. The wandering life of the Arabs was inseparably connected with their independence; and wherever, on some spots less barren than the rest, they ventured to for many settled habitations, they soon became subjects to the Roman empire. [84]

The village in Ohio was founded in 1828, before the conflict started.

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Well, British upper-class officers liked Arabs much more than Jews, and upper-class Americans used to ape the British (like Henry James, hm).

The British upper class were not of one mind.

The British elite in Britain proper tended to support Zionism.

British officers who were sent to the Middle East, such as T.E. Lawrence, Glubb Pasha, and Richard Burton tended to like Arabs better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpytwj_4Hag&ab_channel=BritishPath%C3%A9

Among the British public today, most are ambivalent, and only marginally more Britons support Palestine (22%) vs Israel (16%): https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/03/11/israel-and-palestine-whose-side-britain

Almost no issue irrelevant to culture war has been more culture warred than Israel-Palestine in Britain. The most SJW town council would fly only the rainbow and the Palestinian flags for decades before they would fly the English flag. And you’re not a political tranny if you don’t have a keffiyeh to wear over your lace bra. Meanwhile, Israel flags will get flown alongside Ulster flags and are dear to small c conservatism.

Obviously there are Jewish ultra-progressives who hate this, and anti-Semitic true conservatives, but they’re pissing into the wind. The conflict has become emblematic of two personality types. And these correlate with the bulk of what the different sides of the culture war prefer. Support will therefore inevitably circle around 50/50.

P (jennifer connaly has sucked harvey weinstein’s dick) ~ .6

Palestine is a common name to refer to the area also known as the Holy Land.

Yes, I know this. But in USA you can meet names which clearly refer to the Bible, but mostly to its non-Jewish names like Moab or Canaan. Well, I just checked and there is quite a couple of Sodoms in USA too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom

Don’t tell me that calling your place Sodom isn’t Yahwe-trolling…!

In this context, naming something “Palestine” and not “Judea” seems like a conscious choice.

Thomas Friedman writes 99% garbage. But he did write one eminently sensible sentence.

“Is Iraq the way it is because of Saddam Hussein, or is Saddam Hussein the way he is because of Iraq?”

This idea applies to most places.

Don’t tell me that calling your place Sodom isn’t Yahwe-trolling.

They better not be trolling me.

I’ll blow their damn airport up!

And put a curse upon their souls.

And it will not be lifted till they have repented to their Lord!

Behold.

Twyman and her husband were investigating a lot of creepy stuff. They both were spiritual tourists that ended in some dark and deadly places. The stuff Charlie Manson was blabbering about Boyd and Mike applies even more to Tracy and Brian. And I don’t think that Hareth Bustani was an Arab but I wouldn’t write more about it.

What about the two Koreas ? There’s a limit to nature and a room for nurture.

You can literally “Go to Hell” in Norway. There is an auto race there every year.

https://hellrx.com/?lang=en

HELL RX

This year’s toughest motorsports experience! World RX of Norway in Hell (Lånkebanen)! – just 30 minutes from downtown Trondheim! See the world elites in rallycross give everything!

PEACE 😇

Maddow isn’t even 1/8th Middle Eastern

Ah, now, would you really accept her, if she were 5/8ths?

The early 90ies economic crisis was prepared and engineered to hasten the collapse of the USSR…then they simply disbanded the Union, exported all they could sell, stole the finances and the golden reserves and privatized the economy. It was not a natural process at all.

Yep.

The Fall of Capitalism, ie the impending economic and political collapse of the United States and it’s Western bloc, won’t be a natural process at all either.

This event, too, will have a subsequent looting of the remnants of the Capitalist economic system by those who are behind this manufactured and broadly controlled (crimethink, I know) Capitalist vs Communist dialectic, the worker being ‘worthy of his wages’ they tell themselves.

As you allude, it’s been an orchestrated top/down (rather than bottom/up) affair since the time of this man-made dialectic’s birth in the proto-Capitalist American and proto-Communist French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 respectively.

Your reply has nothing to do with my comment, so I give up.

It strikes me as more than a little borderline, when I blockquote you twice, and you (not replying to my actual reply to you) say that my reply doesn’t address anything you said.

But, just one more thing, you think you come across as masculine?

To whom? You?

What if I told you I was wearing a green sweater, and asking for billions of dollars, exactly like Ze? What if I said that I had the same lisp and haircut as Trudeau? Or that I took photos with shirtless Africans like Macron?

Looks like Russian troops will move forward soon and that Belarus will join the war on the Russian side. I wonder whether Poles will intervene on Ukrainian side as I wrote a couple of days ago.

Yes. Exactly. And today it is not only the Slav they are after, but the Western middle class as well. It’s Westerstroika time.

In early 1992 my family had enough savings to buy cash a car and a country house (datcha), six months later we were ruined and eating humanitarian aid. They gave us a few boxes of expired Slimfast noodle soup. 🙂

It isn’t as hard as many people think. I recommend “A Course in Miracles” (1976)
and its sequel “A Course of Love” (2001). They basically say that we are gods and
goddesses in training. We live in a slow universe for our own protection.
We do create our own reality but very slowly. If our wishes became manifest
faster, we’d destroy ourselves due to all the negativity present in our conscious
and unconscious minds. So first we need to purify ourselves. Once you purify
yourself, you’ll be amazed how quickly your wishes become manifested.
It’s an empirically observable fact.

Fortunately, Poland and Czechia are Late Mature- Early Old Soul countries,
meaning that they’ve become very purified already. Hence the “Holy Poland”
meme. Poland has one of the lowest levels of social dysfunction in the
world, e.g., extremely low levels of murder, rape, and abortion.
Unfortunately, the United States is a Late Young Soul country and Western
Europe is Early Mature Soul level, so both are fairly primitive compared
to Poland or Czechia. There are much more sophisticated models of
the Evolution of Consciousness in existence, e.g., by Ken Wilber, America’s
most translated philosopher, or by Michael Washburn whose approach
employs the tools of Analytic Psychology. However, the Infant-Baby-Young-
Mature-Old Soul level sequence is the easiest to present in a blog like this
one. The Michael teachings are a good reference. I presented a very detailed
version of this model on this blog 3-4 years ago.

If you’re interested in psychedelics, then I recommend the writings of
Thaddeus Golas, evolutionary thinker famous for his mega bestseller
“The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment.” Golas was in fact a Polish-
American thinker, with a degree from Columbia University. He witnessed
it all, Greenwich Village in the 1950s and San Francisco in the 1960s-‘70s.
A fascinating man. The U.S. is very uncomfortable for the Polish – we tend
to be Late Mature-Early Old souls whereas Americans, being Young Souls,
genuflect before the Unholy Trinity of Wealth, Power, and Fame. As a result
we have very little in common.

Teh decisive battle on Jews was fought over in the Labour Party, not the Tory Party which was partly founded by Benjamin Disraeli anyway. And I’m not talking about the Jeremy Corbyn battles.

Instead you’d have to go back to the cabinet formed by Ramsay MacDonald. In this cabinet it was possible to have envisaged the small time chiseling of Arthur Greenwood as chancellor shooting down motorway building, house building car buying frenzy envisioned by, of all people, Oswald Mosley.

Apparently the following racial outbursts happened in the cabinet concerning a Keynsian Credit Boom…before ww2. “Niggers on exported Bicycles” was Chancellor Greenwood’s big idea. Remind you of Boris or Sunak?

that is the Treasury’s Official Position, then as now.

Looks like Russian troops will move forward soon and that Belarus will join the war on the Russian side.

What do you base this prediction on? I’ve been following different sources to get clues about the announced Russian winter offensive but there seems to be a general assessment that Russia has not amassed enough forces to do much more than what’s it already doing with its multiple pushes in different parts of the front. Russia (or Belarus) cannot hide from the satellites the big contingents they would need to change the situation dramatically. Today Michael Hofman did retweet some satellite images of a new field camp detected near Voronezh though.

The decisive battle on Jews was fought over in the Labour Party, not the Tory Party which was partly founded by Benjamin Disraeli anyway. And I’m not talking about the Jeremy Corbyn battles.

Instead you’d have to go back to the cabinet formed by Ramsay MacDonald. In this cabinet it is possible to see the small time chiseling of Arthur Greenwood as chancellor shooting down a domestic motorway building, house building car buying frenzy beautifully proposed by, of all people, Oswald Mosley.

Apparently the following racial outbursts happened in the cabinet concerning a domestic Keynsian Credit Boom…before ww2. “N*ggers on exported Bicycles” was Chancellor Greenwood’s big counter idea. Remind you of Boris or Sunak? it’s a 9 minute clip.

that is the Treasury’s Official Position, then as now.

aside from the latent antisemitism, this is an excellent analysis of the current state of the war and the likely trajectory of things going forward: https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/we-are-entering-the-final-phase-of

tl;dr: Russia is given the remainder of the Donbas in exchange for giving up the Crimea landbridge. Ukraine publicly commits to not seek NATO or EU membership.

Right, your recurring bit where you call me a Nazi because I don’t support the dispossession of my people. Tell me, are all Arab elites as high-minded and generous as you?

Similarly, Tholian Fiend took great offence that they actually had Northern Europeans (ie ‘Whites’) playing Vikings in a recent movie by that same name, and not ‘persons of color’ instead.

Tholian Fiend, who probably is actually a sub-continental like many think rather than an actual Scandinavian, and Yahoo, or, Yahya rather, are site trolls and sell outs. They’ve sold their fellow man, their own people, and ultimately their own individual selves out as well, and effectively work for a corrupt and truly genocidal global establishment.

It was for site trolls like these that they invented the ‘ignore commentator’ button for.

I was reading a couple Russian Telegram channels that write about these new camps and also about Lukashenko telling that the time is approaching when Belarus will have to take a side in this conflict, that the decision must be made shortly.

And today it is not only the Slav they are after, but the Western middle class as well. It’s Westerstroika time.

Sounds about right.

In early 1992 my family had enough savings to buy cash a car and a country house (datcha), six months later we were ruined and eating humanitarian aid. They gave us a few boxes of expired Slimfast noodle soup. 🙂

Hopefully, when the Fall of Capitalism takes place, you and yours will not be like those Japanese who got hit at Hiroshima by the atomic bomb, and survived it, went to Nagasaki for ‘safety’, only to get hit again. [Some gallows humor there! 😀 ]

Your reply didn’t address what I said. That’s plain.

However I am sorry for not replying to your reply. I made a misclick and replied to the wrong comment.

Nonetheless, uou don’t strike me as masculine at all. In particular, your posts seem to operate only in black or white, without any shades of grey. You also seem very quick to devalue what triggers you. And you seem keen to assign your own behaviour to others.

I will show you which comments of yours directly correspond to these three observations if you request me.

Belarus doesn’t have a combat effective military. Otherwise Lukashenko might well declare genuine independence. Or the military would probably do it for him.

You can disagree with parts 2 and 3 or the above statement and be reasonable, but not part 1, and this means Lukashenko is not going to join any war in any significant way, or probably any way at all. He’s even gutted what there was of his military to make scrap for the Russians to use.

US says no use of Nordstream 2, but Nordstream 1 fine.

Germany concurs and keeps Nordstream 2 closed but uses Nordstream 1.

Russia says Nordstream 1 broken, and Germany must open Nordstream 2 or freeze.

NS2 can only be functional at half the capacity after the attack (which with it illegally prevented from launching by Pindostan German courts would have needed several months for required pressure to be able to do that), which, in a sane world , would have stopped you from writing this garbage at source.
I see that American BS and “fake it till you make it” doctrine is like a religion

Germany laughs because Germany has prepared for many months for this and has plenty of gas.

For the last time you cretin – Germany doesn’t laugh and has “prepared” for months by:

1.Using much less gas ( about 1/8th)
2.Repeat…Consuming much less gas
3.Buying Russian LNG throughout the SMO. Russian LNG exports to Europe are about 25% of America’s to Europe. Expect American and Russian LNG exports to increase even more to EU – but note for obese American retards that their LNG could never come close to replacing Russian pipeline gas
4.Germany still buying Russian pipeline gas for most of 2022.
5. It was always about AFTER winter of 2022/23

Europe has basically had to waste 700 billion to 1 trillion USD in government bailouts to energy companies and subsidies to the public to pay for the high energy prices . Thats not practical money that defeats Russia – like by switching to different gas sources at premium price or building replacement infrastructure for different energy like NPP…Thats completely evaporated money . EU + Britain GDP is about 19-20 billion USD , so that is 3.5-5% of EU GDP eradicated in practical terms.. More importantly that is a much , much bigger percentage of government spending on schools, hospitals, social programs etc that are now thrown in a ditch. The EU-UK lemming populations should be rioting at this disgrace – but coronavirus seems to have given them the same practical effects as a lobotomy

All because of trying to keep the parasitic 404 as a gas transit country – i.e have Russia fund the military of this freakshow . These “bailout” packages are over 2-3 years, Ukraine transit money was about 2 billion per year. So basically the “geniuses” or should that be cruel satanists of NATO have sacrificed maybe $1 trillion or 700 billion…….to force 1 country to pay another (fake) country $6 billion…….an amount NATO has since more than paid over to 404 anyway. You could not make up this freakshow!

Lukashenko is not going to join any war in any significant way

Would you bet on it ?

😉

Yes, Belarus will, if they do join the war to help Russia, deploy no more than 48,000 soldiers to Ukraine in 2023.

How much are we betting?

Similarly, Tholian Fiend took great offence that they actually had Northern Europeans (ie ‘Whites’) playing Vikings in a recent movie by that same name, and not ‘persons of color’ instead.

I don’t recall this specifically, but I have often found Thulean to be a good sport. He likes to troll a bit occasionally, but who could blame him for that?

Yahoo, or, Yahya

Haha. That makes me remember Kanye, which is doubly funny considering the context.

Yes, Belarus will, if they do join the war to help Russia, deploy no more than 48,000 soldiers to Ukraine in 2023.

How much are we betting?

The SMO represents a great chance for Belarus to have much, or at least the most rabid, of their white-red-white oppositionists destroyed. Maybe after as many of them as possible have drained out into 404 to be killed (as already have)…..then Belarus will take a more active role. Anyway Belarus and even the normally idiotic Gruzia have had OK side-effects from SMO – for Banderastan and Moldova it has obviously been a disaster.

What’s the point in doing this stupid bet if you are not going estimate how many troops 404 has stationed that side if any Northern front reopening?

It was the opposite before the Black October 1993. The Supreme Soviet had the legal prerogative to deposit the president.

Maybe they should’ve taken a bit more time with drafting a new constitution, because from what I understand, Yeltsin wanted to draft a new one from scratch, while Hasbulatov wanted to keep the one from the USSR and just amend it a little. Maybe none of the previous constitutions reflected the situation that was created after the USSR. Was enough time taken to figure out whether there should be parliamentary or presidential form of government?

As to the actual events of the month of October, they say that there was a Двоевластие at that moment which must be a very critical and difficult situation that probably cannot last for very long. I would say it could be characterized as borderline civil war.

Of course, it is tragic and, that this was also October, is quite symbolic.

Understand that those who defended Yeltsin, the normal people (not just some ultra-liberal journalists or whatever), they didn’t defend the oligarchy at the time, but as they phrased it “democracy” (the opposite of fascism and totalitarian communism in their mind).

He [Tholian Fiend] likes to troll a bit occasionally, but who could blame him for that?

I can! 😀

Yahoo, or, Yahya

Haha. That makes me remember Kanye, which is doubly funny considering the context.

Am glad you thought it funny. 🙂

You are more patient than I am with folks. More power to you!

For the last time you cretin – Germany doesn’t laugh and has “prepared” for months by:

1.Using much less gas ( about 1/8th)
2.Repeat…Consuming much less gas
3.Buying Russian LNG throughout the SMO. Russian LNG exports to Europe are about 25% of America’s to Europe. Expect American and Russian LNG exports to increase even more to EU – but note for obese American retards that their LNG could never come close to replacing Russian pipeline gas
4.Germany still buying Russian pipeline gas for most of 2022.
5. It was always about AFTER winter of 2022/23

This is true. While I do believe that Russia dramatically overestimated the economic impact this war would have on the West, there is reason to believe that Europe will suffer long term economic problems from this conflict and that these problems will become worse with time. Remember that the economic impact of the lockdowns also didn’t show up initially.

Economics are the one way that time is on Russia’s side. The US has approximately 90 more days before it enters a long and deep recession. When the US economy finally starts its extremely overdo meltdown, we’ll see how well the Western economies hold up. My guess: not very well

I wonder whether Poles will intervene on Ukrainian side

They have already intervened: Russian troops keep collecting Polish KIA in areas they advance to. But Poland did not intervene on Ukrainian side, it intervened on Polish side: Polish government salivates after Western Ukraine that Stalin took from Poland in 1939. I doubt that Putin would let Poles take a piece of the pie, or even crumbs of that pie, though.

How much are we betting?

Interesting, to see you betting on military matters after your epic Taliban prediction.

But I would be very surprised myself if Lukashenko sends Belarussian troops to Ukraine at this unfavorable stage. Putin may have most of the population behind him but Luka doesn’t. That’s why he finally had to align himself with the Kremlin in the first place. If even Putin is unwilling to take the mobilization measures that would allow him to put an end to the misadventure he started, will shrewd Lukashenko be willing to risk much more?

Looks like Russian troops will move forward soon and that Belarus will join the war on the Russian side. I wonder whether Poles will intervene on Ukrainian side as I wrote a couple of days ago.

I’ve posted before how I believe the self proclaimed ‘progressives’, due to their adoption of the ends justifies the means, have long been ‘projecting’ what is in reality true of themselves upon others.

During the height of the Cold War between American Capitalism and Soviet Communism in 1968, one of the most progressive Multi-Cultural US TV shows there is. StarTrek, broadcast an episode entitled ‘Day of the Dove’.

The episode seems to be a case of almost pure projection.

It tells the story of an ‘alien entity’ which has manipulated a war into being between two equally armed forces, neither side of which is actually intended to ever win. The entity feeds off the hatred generated by the never ending unwinnable war.

To defeat it, the combatants must stand down, perhaps to fight again another day, but only on their own terms.

‘Two forces…, each of them equally armed. Has a war been staged for us, complete with weapons and ideology and patriotic drum beating?’

‘And it goes on, the good old game of war, pawn against pawn! Stopping the bad guys. While somewhere, something sits back and laughs and starts it all over again.’

Script for the very insightful Day of the Dove (Nov 1, 1968)

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/66.htm

I wonder whether Poles will intervene on Ukrainian side as I wrote a couple of days ago.

Are you writing this in full seriousness or as a kind of an “innocent” prompt that “a Fool” would bring up?

Poles would not be alone. Our forces would intervene only at the very end and only if needed. So far it seems, it won’t be. It looks like Mykola will do all of the work for us.

In particular, your posts seem to operate only in black or white, without any shades of grey. You also seem very quick to devalue what triggers you. And you seem keen to assign your own behaviour to others.

Operate? Shades of Grey? Devalue? Trigger? Assign?

Wouldn’t guess that any of this was the terminology employed by the Gaelic warrior class, who fought countless battles, and recited poems about swords and scabbards, and knew their ancestors by heart. Are you sure that you haven’t attempted to reshape the definition of the masculine, so that it would be unrecognizable to anyone in the past? Whether warrior, fisherman, or farmer? Maybe, with the desire to invent some new age man?

This can be done (and is being done) on the territory Ukraine already has.

That is an attempt at genocide by any standards. Nice that you admit to it. Just remember, attempting a genocide of an ethnic group is a crime and trying it against a larger, stronger group usually doesn’t work. The enthusiasts will face consequences.

Lviv has programmers and researchers, not call centers….

Stop lying, there is a total of 35k “IT workers” in the Lviv region, around 70-80% work in customer support, that generally means answering phones or messages. It has some research, but the overall impact on the Ukrainian economy is very marginal, 2-3%, a lot less than in other EE countries. $3k, are you kidding? that’s what a good barista makes.

That’s what Ukrainians want also. To be safe from Russia’s murdering.

It was the Ukies who started to murder the Russians in Donbas in 2014-15, nobody disputes that. You live in a lala-land of your retarded slogans.

1,200-2,000 civilians killed according to Yugoslav estimates.

Killed by Nato. You made my point. Plus Iraq, Libya, Syria…all done by Nato. Why is that ok with you? How can you simply gloss over it? That shows dishonesty and hypocrisy so deep that none of your statements mean much.

Your point about nukes is true, but military plans can account for that – a fatally weakened, surrounded, check-mated Russia would have a hard time defending itself even w nukes. That’s why being right on the border in close proximity and having the Russia-hating Ukies ready was so important. At a minimum it would keep Russia powerless. You want that, so you, but naturally Russia doesn’t want it.

And stop w Finland: a peaceful, rational country w 5 million people. There is simply no comparison to the Russo-phobic fuming madmen in Ukraine. You make no sense when you try to compare Finland (or Estonia) to Ukraine. Think before you write nonsense.

Nato never moved forward is more meaningful than their empty declarations year after year.

The ‘not meaningful’ and ‘empty‘ was not the way it was presented – that is your desperate spin. It was unquestionable that Nato would get Ukraine at the first opportunity – if you don’t get that you are too naive. At least argue reality and not silly evasive narratives. If you think that ‘territorial conflict’ would prevent it you have no understanding how weasel institutions work: they simply paper over it, declare it something else. What matters is the intent, not how exactly Nato would do it. People who deny it are not serious or idiots.

Nato has been pushed out of Ukraine unless Kiev wins the war in a big way. Nato will feed the conflict, but probably not join in. After Ukies are bled and surrender large parts of their country, Nato will pontificate but stay out. Russia with the war changed the strategic balance.

…but the Western middle class as well.

I generally defend the middle class everywhere, but let’s be honest: large part of the Western middle class is simply parasitic. They consume way beyond anything productive they do. I don’t want to list the endless silly made-up activities that provide their living, from distributing gment goodies and virtual money, endless ‘charity’, green activism, protecting against “Russia”, social media, etc…all of that is possible only because the material basis (land, food, infrastructure, energy…) has been either built up or is often obtained at minimum cost from the rest of the world (that virtual money machine :)…

It is inevitable that the rulers would eventually decide to trim the ‘middle class’ nonsense. It has grown too much, consumes too much, they get in the way when elite wants to enjoy the vistas of Yosemite or Venice. So they are being put in their place – fewer of them and with less ability to consume. Given the incredible self-defeating stupidity of most of the Western middle class this is a good thing. They have become too stupid to protect what they have – they are easily led by very primitive propaganda. I say, time for them to go…

Was right on near everything about Putin’s invasion so far, but made a horrible and fatal calculation for Afghanistan: that anti-Taliban forces might actually try and fight. Everyone should have known that Afghans don’t really fight, they either hide and set bombs/traps, or they instantly fold and switch to whichever they think is the stronger side, but this was extreme.

That’s not to characterise them as lacking courage, as their methods require immense courage sometimes, but it is so totally different from the European paradigm that even someone occasionally accused of racism could not imagine it.

Well, lesson learned. But if I am guilty of extrapolating from Europeans to Afghans, most here are guilty of extrapolating from Afghans to Eastern Slavs.

We live we learn. One error over 10 days can be learned from, but it seems a thousand errors over a year somehow cannot.

But that first sentence I find very curious. Are you not implying that it is only men that can understand subtlety?

By associating “masculinity” with the basic elements of thought, I was hoping to prompt you to learn how to think.

I prefer introspection.

You do?

To pretend to too good a grasp into other people’s heart’s and minds, honestly strikes me somewhat as an attempt at witchcraft, or some other sacrilege.

It is a cliché that someone like you will find attention to your inner life demonic.

“Is Iraq the way it is because of Saddam Hussein, or is Saddam Hussein the way he is because of Iraq?”

You could also say that given the country was Iraq, Saddam or someone like him may have been the best ruler. Certainly applies in spades to Gaddaffi, who was IMHO a great ruler of Libya.

And IMHO also applies to Putin. Given the oligarch dominance in 1990s Russia, it’s a miracle he survived, and it was only because the oligarchs thought he was their man. Those years when he was slowly and cautiously wresting power from them, boiling the oligarch frog… my impression is that he still isn’t in total control but has a modus vivendi with the surviving oligarchs. The war may have strengthened his position has a fair few ran off to Israel.

“Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people,” Solzhenitsyn told the German magazine Der Spiegel in a 2007 interview, when Putin was still president. “And he started to do what was possible, a slow and gradual restoration. These efforts were not noticed, nor appreciated, immediately. In any case, one is hard-pressed to find examples in history when steps by one country to restore its strength were met favorably by other governments.”

One error over 10 days can be learned from, but it seems a thousand errors over a year somehow cannot.

An interesting way to try to get out of being wrong – rather feminine. The one error vs. thousands makes no sense – you made it up, your attempt at self-justification.

In this war you are making the error of extrapolating from partial events – you also buy the Kiev-Nato cheerful half-truths. It is a war with a stronger force grinding down a weaker one. Ukies are getting help, but not where it counts: Nato is not sending enough bodies to have a chance against larger better armed Russians.

The idea is that if Ukies manage to make it painful, Russia will agree to a compromise. The problem with that approach is that wars are not like that: the sides always polarize in the first few years – Russia is less yielding than a year ago. Ukies threw everything into it, yet the grind goes on – there is little chance of retaking Donbas-Crimea.

All else is noise, temporary events that will be irrelevant after the war. Kiev’s best hope was an internal Russian collapse – it didn’t happen. Second best was Nato coming in with actual armies-planes-navy and fighting their war – it also didn’t happen. They can hope for an eventual nuclear standoff, but it is a low-odds event.

The current Kiev-West strategy is to fight for every ditch, every tree and every house: it is costly in lives and historically I can’t recall anyone defeating Russia doing it. They are slow, often incompetent, but they don’t give up once they get going. And the numbers are hard to argue with. You will turn out equally wrong about this war as you were about Taleban.

Ukies threw everything into it, yet the grind goes on – there is little chance of retaking Donbas-Crimea.

Too lazy to search, but quite confident you were writing the same about Kharkov-Kherson last summer;)

You in March:

How are they going to rebuilt military assets if Russia can blow anything that comes in? You can’t hide planes, air fields, artillery or missiles. Go for it, but unless you have some magical way to protect it, it will be a sitting duck

Russia has not yet even achieved air superiority now!

You arguing that Ukraine was surrendering a year ago:

Do you really believe that Ukraine will win this militarily? At best they will negotiate terms of surrender – Ze. is already starting.

You were also predicting the total economic collapse of the West because of *insert some completely ignorant argument about how commodities are the global economy and everything else is financial engineering.* Meanwhile, the Russian economy went into a serious recession in 2022 and the West did not.

And I don’t know what you were smoking when you wrote this absurd fantasy:

2-3 days into the fight, the results so far:
– NATO is gone. It run away and it is unlikely back for a long time. (Galicia is a possible exception that makes no strategic difference.)

– “Nazis” in Kiev are running away for their lives or dying. Zelensky is not a Nazi, he has nothing to fear other than the West or Nazis deciding that he has more value as a martyr. No rest for the wicked as they say.

As for me, I admitted I was wrong. I then explained why my imagination was lacking. And I endeavoured not to make the same mistake again. I did this with my one mistake, immediately, and have expanded my range of possible assumptions since, so that I am not again shocked by the extremity of Afghan behaviour.

Meanwhile, you just ignore, deflect, devalue and never learn your way out of everything. Indeed, you can’t even seem to admit that you have been wrong, despite being wrong near every day, in every way, on this subject for an entire year!

You can call my method feminine if you like, and yours masculine, but that association will not be good for you.

innocent” prompt that “a Fool” would bring up

One of the problems with our world is that people sometimes overcomplicate things. When one goes back to being simple-minded, things sometimes become more evident. As Pelevin once wrote : “when you don’t think a lot becomes clearer”. 😉

Poles would not be alone. Our forces would intervene only at the very end and only if needed.

Yeah, I know. That’s the plan.

It looks like Mykola will do all of the work for us.

Taras, Gritsko and Mykola do not come in unlimited supply. Sooner rather than later, a war of attrition would lead to its logical consequences – the need for the Western backers to either fold or intervene.

Being the simple-minded fool that I am, I believe Westerners would prefer seeing the Eastern Europeans “do the job for them”, just like you would prefer it being done by “Mykola”. Any Eastern European killed is one less to neuter or euthanize during the coming population bottleneck.

I call it the Final Solution to the Slav Problem – FSSP, we could add the Baltic people to the mix, given that they seem eager to participate. Let’s make it FSBSP for inclusivity’s sake. 🙂

That was certainly far before the woke and migration wave. Nietzsche and Spengler were already discussing the decline of the West a century ago. Your racial obsession blinds you from other consequential factors. Wokeism is a symptom rather than cause of decline.

Woke is a special problem because of the belief it includes that cultural discourses create reality, it makes them very sensitive to how people talk about or depict things. The ideas about epistemic violence and hidden systems of power encoded in culture causing physical violence are related to this. I think putting so much emphasis on discourse control and harm elimination is obviously destructive to artistic freedom and creativity.

A relatively common explanation of Western cultural decline, in Nietzsche but in plenty of other writers, was the rise of the mass man and the democratic spirit in politics.

Imo the current mass migration is a problem for creativity because people are inhibited from engaging freely with it and addressing all the issues it raises in an unfiltered way, just as it is becoming more relevant. People creating art are in some way in a dialogue with the society around them and need to have a feel for its values, spirit and social forms, in various Western countries mass immigration is reaching a scale where it is starting to modify these things. Now the process is also being heavily monitored and controlled by bureaucratic political authorities and mass media, taken together I feel this kills inspiration.

It is inevitable that the rulers would eventually decide to trim the ‘middle class’ nonsense. It has grown too much, consumes too much, they get in the way when elite wants to enjoy the vistas of Yosemite or Venice. So they are being put in their place – fewer of them and with less ability to consume. Given the incredible self-defeating stupidity of most of the Western middle class this is a good thing. They have become too stupid to protect what they have – they are easily led by very primitive propaganda. I say, time for them to go…

Cold War era produced the numerous Sovoks in USSR and the numerous Western middle class in the West. Let’s call them Westmids. The Westmids only existed in high numbers because the Western system needed being more attractive than the Soviet one (an easy task). As soon as the Cold War ended, and the Sovok have been dealt with through Perestroika and the ensuing “reforms”, the elites started putting pressure on the Westmids. Mass immigration and the rise of Alphabet People and the “minorities” are tools used to bring the Westmids down. The Westmids are in no way wiser than the Sovoks. And they will also be dealt with through the unfolding Westerstroika.

Sic transit gloria mundi…

taken together I feel this kills inspiration.

Taken together it kills the Western middle class and its way of living. It is a societal regression and a cultural genocide in making.

One of the problems with our world is that people sometimes overcomplicate things.

All I asked was if that’s what you truly believe or it’s just your wishful thinking.

just like you would prefer it being done by “Mykola”

I neither prefer nor wish this. Do not misconstrue my words. Ukrainian people know very well who their friends are.

I call it the Final Solution to the Slav Problem – FSSP, we could add the Baltic people to the mix,

Dream on.

And yet thorium reactors were discontinued one by one, both in USA and Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

Most recently, just few years ago, it was tried in Halden, Norway, where apparently some meltdown-like situation occurred, and research was discontinued again.

From what I remember, thorium salts destroy pretty fast their containment, which results in all kinds of radioactive leakage, recently in Halden.

The repeated mothballing of thorium reactors cannot have to do just with the nuclear weapons industry demanding uranium (in such a case we wouldn’t build them at all) – clearly we could have a couple of military reactors and the rest of them running on thorium.

https://thoriumnuclear.wordpress.com/

I neither prefer nor wish this. Do not misconstrue my words. Ukrainian people know very well who their friends are.

Yes, and for good reason.

If you want something heartwarming, use the AirBnB app and go to a property in Ukraine, especially in places like Kherson. There you see endless supportive reviews from ordinary people in countries that see themselves as Ukrainian friends and who have payed for accomodation they obviously didn’t stay in.

There are many similar phenomena to this. Tanks, military training, foreign volunteers and missiles are just the beginning of it.

This all doesn’t make the Russian invasion good, or mean that the Ukrainians need display less bravery, but it certainly is of value. And appreciated.

Meanwhile, Russian “friends” use this occasion to scam the Russian people out of oil for half of the going price.

If you want something heartwarming, use the AirBnB app and go to a property in Ukraine, especially in places like Kherson. There you see endless supportive reviews from ordinary people in countries that see themselves as Ukrainian friends and who have payed for accomodation they obviously didn’t stay in.

I’m aware of that phenomena, it is heart warming indeed, but you don’t need to tell me about this – I could’ve bought a nice car with what I’ve sent. I have helped the wounded. The wounded will need a lot of help after the war, too.

Meanwhile, Russian “friends” use this occasion to scam the Russian people out of oil for half of the going price.

Well, not only that, it looks like India will no longer be buying Russian helicopters, I guess they didn’t withstand the “combat proof”.

All I asked was if that’s what you truly believe or it’s just your wishful thinking.

Why would I wish for others becoming engulfed in violence and suffering ? No sane person would. I am a fool, but I am not a sociopath.

I neither prefer nor wish this. Do not misconstrue my words. Ukrainian people know very well who their friends are.

Their friends are those who wish for this war to end. Not the ones who are cheering for the slaughter.

Dream on.

Again, why would I dream for something so vile ? Do I come accross in my comments as someone who would like to see other people suffering?

But one has to be logical and consequential, follow the dots: Baltics are in NATO and quite close to Kaliningrad and Belarus. If Belarus is dragged into the war, then the violence would probably be spilling to Kaliningrad accross the Suwalki Gap.

It means fighting between Belarus & RusFed on one side and Ukraine, Poland and Baltics on the other. I know that East Europeans think that the West would come to the rescue of their Eastern NATO members. But the West has its own problems. The West might well decide to leave the Balto-Slav sort it out. If I was Western I would not want my people to die for the Suwalki Gap. Just like I don’t want the Balto-Slav that I consider as my people to die in retarded wars under Western patronage.

I have decried the war between Ukiestan and RusFed from day one. And I have noticed that I might have been the only one on this forum to consistently do so.

…The Westmids only existed in high numbers because the Western system needed being more attractive than the Soviet one (an easy task). As soon as the Cold War ended…the elites started putting pressure on the Westmids. Mass immigration and the rise of Alphabet People and the “minorities” are tools used to bring the Westmids down

Precisely…Sic transit gloria mundi…

Westmids’ (let’s use it) best friend was Stalin and the commies: the fear in the Western elite after WW2 made them give and give: incomes up, nice neighborhoods, assured jobs if you behaved, good culture, travel, goodies, etc…

They only needed to do it as long as the commie threat existed – by the late 70’s when the commies went lame, the first ‘reforms’ started. The usual suspects, French, Italian, even Germans, resisted at the beginning and were left alone. The Anglos led the way; they suffer from an incredibly low sense of society and are trained to be ruthlessly individualistic. As always the beginnings were promising: privatizations made a part of the transition generation rich, the older workers were protected, and early migrants were probably more help than trouble. The 90’s were good, esp. since the accumulated Eastern wealth was generously doled out.

It no longer works: you can issue a lot of money backed by nothing, but eventually the numbers don’t work. The pyramid nature of the new capitalism created 1-2 rich generations, but it impoverishing the kids and grandkids. The open borders-mass migration-cheap labor mania has reached absurd levels – look at the US southern border.

The elites are stuck – lowering living standards is risky, although they can count on the accumulated stupidity after decades of heavy propaganda. It takes 20-30 years for people to start acting in their self-interest – we are almost there. Maybe having a war is better :)…or Greta…

Just an intuitive guess with no required evidence about troop movements specifics – imho, all those lukashenkian dances with military drums, at the same time adding weasealisms like “it must be done without harming our sovereign interests”, more likely are meant to keep suspense increasing and therefore notable UA reserves at the north too, while not letting transfer them into east/south where the main RF action may come, but without any RB involvement.

But we”ll se soon as spring is just two weeks away…

And if it starts raining, it will be the worst imaginable time again to do or keep doing the serious offensive there.

You predicted an intractable guerilla war and a Russian occupation.

Their friends are those who wish for this war to end.

They determine that and they have been explicit about it. They and their friends never wanted this war, they were attacked on their territory.

Not the ones who are cheering for the slaughter.

Who was? Was I ever?

If Belarus is dragged into the war

Belarus has gone out of her way to not be dragged into it, but Belarus, unfortunately, is a party to the war by providing Russia with the platform to bomb Ukraine. The Belarusians do not want to fight Ukrainians and vice versa, that’s one of the vilest things I can imagine, but if the Belarusians decide to fight with troops, they will receive it back accordingly. They will be hit on their territory. Their army is not large and has zero experience.

violence would probably be spilling to Kaliningrad accross the Suwalki Gap.

Violence can spill either way. When you go this far, with such an aggressive war, it can spill in the other direction than what you imagine (or desire?). When you mess with borders and deliberately break them, you make them fluid. It can go either way.

It means fighting between Belarus & RusFed on one side and Ukraine, Poland and Baltics on the other.

That’s just not true. It would be a war with NATO. But it will not go that far.

I know that East Europeans think that the West would come to the rescue of their Eastern NATO members.

You don’t know this because you only read your Telegram channels, but the normal Europeans are very angry.

I have decried the war between Ukiestan and RusFed from day one. And I have noticed that I might have been the only one on this forum to consistently do so.

That’s disingenuous. None of us wanted a war like this. If you were consistent and honest, you would have decried the vatniks for supporting it.

And if it starts raining, it will be the worst imaginable time again to do or keep doing the serious offensive there.

It seems that it is more about numerology than anything else – Russian invasion started on 8th anniversary of the beginning of conflict from Feb 2014.

Poland effectively closed its Belarussian border on on Friday, allegedly because Belarus sentenced the only member of Polish minority there I ever hear, Andrzej Poczobut, to prison. Now this is surely useful for Belarussian propaganda.
This guy seems to have inherited his position from his father, which suggests some continuity in Soviet nomenclature even in “opposition” circles. Maybe he just plays his role – I lost sympathy to him when I heard that he refused presidential pardon from Lukashenko. Now, if you oppose regime to such an extent, why do you insist on being in Belarus, and in prison for that? But he of course refuses offers of emigration too.

It takes 20-30 years for people to start acting in their self-interest – we are almost there.

Yes but most poor Westmids believe in democracy. So they will try to fix it democratically for a generation and then they would look around and see that the Great Replacement has been completed, the Great Reset is done and “they own nothing and have to be happy”.

And even if all Westmids turned “full Anglin” and accelerationist, what would they do against the Technosphere and the 0,01 % that can drone them to death and cut them from their CBDC bank accounts (in that order).

🙂

Time to move on. The Great White World is about to be terminated. And it happened not because the Russkies invaded from beyond the horizon in tank columns, but because the men of the West got complacent, have been betrayed by their women and sold out down the river by (((their))) elites.

And now there are talks of UFOs ! That’s even a better distraction than war in Ukraine or Greta the Green.

Who could have thought that this gender neutral guy was such a genius and a prophet (I wouldn’t like to find out just who was it that whispered the lyrics to his ear).

😏

Anyway, the Future belongs to those who survive, not to those who lament.

Bonne Saint Valentin à tous !

♥️♥️♥️

Why are you so obsessed w fighting a straw-man? You misrepresent what I write and then you argue with it. What’s the point? Dont you a better way to argue your side? Let’s get real, I wrote:

2-3 days into the fight, the results so far:
– NATO is gone. It run away and it is unlikely back for a long time.

Nato is gone. If you haven’t noticed we went from an almost certain Nato in Ukraine (I have described why many times), on Russia’s borders with missiles-bases, to Nato lamely sending arms to outnumbered Ukies and losing the war. There is no chance of Ukraine in 1991 borders in Nato – it was almost certain before the war. You will deny, lie about the plans and intentions, blab nonsense about ‘but it was postponed’…but you know that is a lie. More importantly Russians believed it was happening. At this point, Kiev would have to win the war decisively for Nato to come back. Arms, slogans, decorations and verbal support, even a mini-Nato in Galicia, don’t count – they are an order of magnitude less significant that what was going happen.

Ze. was negotiating in March what was a de facto surrender – so again I was right. He was told to cut it out, a decision he will probably come to regret. And lots of people run away – literally millions, why would you deny that?

You were also predicting the total economic collapse of the West because of….Meanwhile, the Russian economy went into a serious recession in 2022 and the West did not.

I was not, you are making it up (you couldn’t even find a quote remotely saying that). I said the war will slow down the Western economies – and it did: 2023 official projection of EU is 0.6% growth, UK 0.1%, Germany 0.3% – the numbers are squishy since the min positives are achieved by under-stating inflation (easy thing to do)

I remember everyone predicting Russia’s economy collapse and it didn’t happen, its GNP dropped by 3%. For 2023 IMF has Russia growing 0.3% – better than Germany or UK.

The real collapse happened in Ukraine, 30% down (some of it lost lands, but no a big part).

Overall you prefer to create a straw-man to discussing reality or what others say. You may also be the last person who pushes the ‘Russia blew up North Stream’, but whatever. The war has tipped in Russia’s favor, I don’t see a realistic Ukie response (maybe you do). But for the sake decency don’t misrepresent what others say. If you like to argue w yourself, why are you here?

If you were consistent and honest, you would have decried the vatniks for supporting it.

But I did. I wrote about the “patriotic pensioners” using this war as a compensation mechanism for their neurotic complexes. But they are not the only ones. Борьба была ровна – боролись два г☆вна…

Anyway, you know that I like you LatW. No need to go full Latvian Rifelman on me for pointing some of your evident and natural biases.

Bonne Saint Valentin ma belle !

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How are you trying to argue that you’ve not been wrong all year? You’re bizarre! This shows where I get people wrong. I understand they have their insecurities, but I always struggle to imagine how controlling those insecurities can be of them. Unfortunately, I am not constitutionally built to get it. Just to see the best in them and point the way.

For everyone else, those who want a profoundly credible account of how the war is being fought on the front lines, here’s an American professional recounting his 10 months. For those who know anything about this subject, his words will be extremely revealing and probably confirming.

For those, like Beckow, for whom they were always right, and everything is just as planned, devalue the guy all you want, but his account is measured and detailed, rather than vague and bombastic.

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/153032226

Yes, if the Russian invasion didn’t fail completely, as it has. I began the war too negative on Ukraine and presented a worst case option. Given that I was talking to people who thought Russian was winning a decisive victory, when it was flailing around, this was a sensible way of hedging my bets.

See what I did with Lukashenko and the Belarussians supposedly invading Ukraine. It was the same back then.

And yet thorium reactors were discontinued one by one, both in USA and Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

What full scale (not lab scale) Thorium reactor was discontinued in the U.S.?
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THTR was a mixed solid U235 + Thorium “Pebble Bed Reactor” [PBR]. This has huge disadvantages versus LFTR. For example, the thorium cycle produces gases such as krypton. The LFTR can shed these gas from the operating fluid. Solid pebbles cannot. There were also science errors in the design of the pebble — small & light enough to escape the bed.

Ultimately, the German THTR was killed by the German Green party for political reasons. However, the poor choice & design of PBR plus related economics made it a pretty easy target for a take down.

Most recently, just few years ago, it was tried in Halden, Norway, where apparently some meltdown-like situation occurred, and research was discontinued again.

I do not remember news about an issue. It was a limited duration experimental scale system. (1)

In one fell swoop, thorium fuel, which is safer, less messy to clean up, and not prone to nuclear weapons proliferation, could quench the complaints of nuclear power critics everywhere.
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By mixing thorium oxide with 10% plutonium oxide, however, criticality is achieved. This fuel, which is called thorium-MOX (mixed-oxide), can then be formed into rods and used in conventional nuclear reactors. Not only does this mean that we can do away with uranium, which is expensive to enrich, dangerous, and leads to nuclear proliferation, but it also means that we finally have an easy way of recycling plutonium. Furthermore, the thorium-MOX fuel cycle produces no new plutonium; it actually reduces the world’s stock of plutonium. Oh, thorium-MOX makes for safer nuclear reactors, too, due to a higher melting point and thermal conductivity.
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Thorium-MOX, in short, is about as exciting as it gets in the nuclear power industry. Before it can be used, though, Thor Energy needs to make sure that the thorium fuel cycle is fully understood. To do this, the company has built a small test reactor in the Norwegian town of Halden, where rods of thorium-MOX provide steam to a nearby paper mill. This reactor will run for five years, after which the fuel will be analyzed to see if it’s ready for commercial reactors

My understanding is that it completed it limited period test and concluded as expected.

If a major warhead decrease is in the cards, this concept could return. However, that seems unlikely in this geopolitical era. Without “free” plutonium, the economics of the Norwegian test did not warrant commercialization.

thorium salts destroy pretty fast their containment, which results in all kinds of radioactive leakage

I am not sure where you got this bit of crazy from, but it is not scientifically sound. You have been mislead or deceived.

Clean FLiBe salt can be handled with modern materials in the Hastelloy series. Removing unwanted fission products is included in every serious LFTR proposal. Incidentally, this also reconditions the FLiBe salt back to its optimum clean state.

LCTR fast neutron reactor concepts do exist in the literature, however the chloride salts are more problematic versus their fluoride brethren. Liquid lead seems to be the most attractive option for this route if desired. A few nutters, funded by GE, promote liquid sodium PRISM. Guess who owns the PRISM design? Could it be GE?

The repeated mothballing of thorium reactors

There has been no repeated mothballing. Again, you have been mislead or deceived.

There has been only one commercial scale retirement. And, it was a poorly chosen & executed solid fuel design. Thus, not insightful to the LFTR concept.

cannot have to do just with the nuclear weapons industry demanding uranium

The military used cold war muscle to kill the early, government funded, LFTR work at ORNL and a few other locations. This kill shot was based on poor science, but it happened nonetheless in the quest for weapons grade plutonium.

After that, the problem was more bureaucracy than military. All of the civilian laws & regulations had the U235 fuel cycle as a built in assumption. How would a thorium breeder be certified for operation when the rules expect something different? The red tape made it impossible. Also, all of the industry experts had a vested interest in keeping upstart competitors at bay.

The desire for Small Modular Reactors [SMR] forced the regulators to open their committees to new ideas. And, LFTR is an excellent SMR option due to passive safety.

You can read much more here:

https://energyfromthorium.com/lftr-overview/

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160131-thorium-nuclear-reactor-trial-begins-could-provide-cleaner-safer-almost-waste-free-energy

Your emotional mumbo-jumbo is an admission that you lost the argument. Nobody cares about your pop-psychology. You just make a fool of yourself.

The points I made were substantial and you didn’t address them. When you lose, you run, it must be the Anglo thing. Russia’s economy didn’t collapse and the Western one slowed down. Russia squashed any realistic plan of Ukraine in Nato – and as of now, Russia is winning the war: 20% of territory, initiative, Ukies’ terrible casualties…

You are unable to address it so you hide behind happy talk ‘Kiev is winning’. It seems an Anglo affliction – you can’t accept ‘losing’ and you will make up things, create myths, lie, anything but face reality. It is your ‘marketing’ identity – you are always selling something…

Toi aussi!

One of the problems with our world is that people sometimes overcomplicate things. When one goes back to being simple-minded, things sometimes become more evident. As Pelevin once wrote : “when you don’t think a lot becomes clearer”.

I urge you to follow your own advice here. The war between Ukraine and Russia is not really all that complicated, and there’s really no reason to look for answers and causes within elaborately made up conspiracy theories etc. Believe me, it is what it looks like. You have a disgruntled player in this war (Russia) that thought that it had an invincible army, and that it was losing Ukraine to the West, and that this was the last optimal time to attack and subdue Ukraine and bring it back into the fold. How was Ukraine to react to this provocation? Quietly acquiesce to Russia’s brazen invasion, in order to maximize good Slavic DNA for future generations, while handing over the keys to its house to a really lousy neighbor?

Ahem, now that Bashi has decided that treacherous “White Women” and not only Jews are responsible for the Wests decline, I think this is the perfect moment to talk about…..food! (The politics here can’t get any sillier lol).

Since returning from my trip I’ve become obsessed with Thai food, and to a lesser extent Japanese food. I’ve always enjoyed Thai food, but was never really that interested in it for some reason. I always preferred Indian food.

What is hitting me right now about Asian food is it’s intense umami flavor – I don’t know why that’s hitting me hard now. I mean, I love Italian, French, Arabic food, but something about the sheer intensity of Asian food right now is really hitting home. Maybe it’s just a phase.

Also, in the past few years there has been a revolution in ingredient availability – off Amazon, you can get all the Thai sauces you see street vendors use straight from Thailand. And, it turns out, these dishes are incredibly easy to make!

The intense, complex flavor appears to come not from some subtle skill in mixing diverse ingredients (well, some dishes do), but largely from the process of fermentation – which is really just aging and bio organisms, which I like. It’s Nature. (some skill in mixing ingredients is called for).

For instance, one of the best and most iconic Thai dishes that everyone loves – basil stir fry – only has garlic and chillies, then a sauce composed of fish sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and sugar, and basil.(and your choice of meat).

But the fermented fish sauce, oyster sauce, and even soy sauce – has incredible intensity and complexity developed through the process of natural aging.

Japanese beef gyudon, which is thinly sliced fatty beef simmered, on rice, uses just soy sauce, mirin, and fish stock. But the incredible fermentation of the fish stock, the wine, the soy – it does everything!

Japanese ginger pork, another incredible dish, uses just ginger, mirin, and soy sauce – yet what deep, complex, intense flavor.

To be sure, much good Italian food is also incredibly simple and uses just a few really good ingredients. Or a good aged Spanish chorizo is just pork, garlic and paprika and salt. Simple! And what is Reggiano Parmesano but just beautifully fermented milk?

It seems that the process of aging is what makes human food incredibly deep and rich and complex – cooperating with nature, as it were. Maybe that’s why processed industrial food is so awful – it doesn’t let nature do it’s thing?

I think these experiments were dropped for political reasons, not technical.

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The “fizzle” was 22 kT, not exactly hopeless.

IIRC, the original idea for the MSRE was to remove most all of the protactinum-232 continuously from the salt bath to to improve neutron economy by avoiding losses on protactinum in the reactor. This removal was demonstrated during the experiment. The removed material decays into U-233 which is returned to the reactor as the fuel. But during this stage it exists outside the reactor as high purity U-233 which could be diverted. I think it has less U-232 than material bred in a conventional reactor and the critical mass is lower than U-235. There is low spontaneous neutron generation so a small gun-type bomb could be made, much simpler than an implosion design. This is the story I read.

The ways to address this issue include good security control over the extracted U-233 (high trust society), set up a process that denatures it immediately or design a reactor that does not remove the Pa-232 from the reactor. I think the last is the route chosen for new designs, but the reactor design is less “elegant”.

I don’t know if they (Russian Politicos) reckon themselves to be invincible. They did expect a coup in Kiev and then to hide under their nuclear umbrella if things go wrong.

Oops. Should have written protactinium-233/ pa-233 instead of 232. 🙁

“This can be done (and is being done) on the territory Ukraine already has.”

That is an attempt at genocide by any standards. Nice that you admit to it

Ukraine is erasing the Russian language and culture on its territory, in accordance with the will of a majority of its people; ethnic Ukrainian kids are learning in their own language now.

Russia is erasing towns and thousands of Russian-speaking people.

An honest person would admit which action is closer to genocide.

Lviv has programmers and researchers, not call centers….

Stop lying, there is a total of 35k “IT workers” in the Lviv region

It has increased since the war as companies have moved from places like Kharkiv and many more of Ukraine’s 200,000 IT workers have transferred to Lviv:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/business/ukraine-tech-companies-putin.html

The entire country of Slovakia only has 28k such workers:

https://www.itminions.be/en/blog/slovakia-tech-talent-goldmine

around 70-80% work in customer support, that generally means answering phones or messages

“Call center work” isn’t IT customer support.

$3k, are you kidding? that’s what a good barista makes

The average wage in Slovakia is less than a thousand Euros per month. So those 35,000 + new arrivals programmers in Lviv are making 3 times the average Slovak wage per month, in a city with a very low cost of living. They are living quite well.

Average German wage is about the same as the average Lviv programmer wage.

And programmers in Bratislava make no more than do programmers in Lviv:

http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=2226&loctype=3&job=3&jobtype=2

Given the Lviv us cheaper, the guys in Lviv do better than their Slovak colleagues.

“That’s what Ukrainians want also. To be safe from Russia’s murdering.”

It was the Ukies who started to murder the Russians in Donbas in 2014-15, nobody disputes that

1. That was started by Russians when they crossed the border into Ukraine with their volunteers and weapons. Girkin and Pavlov weren’t Ukrainians.

2. The Russian mass invasion and murder spree began in 2022, 7 years after 2015. Its already a separate event.

“1,200-2,000 civilians killed according to Yugoslav estimates.”

Killed by Nato. You made my point. Plus Iraq, Libya, Syria…all done by Nato. Why is that ok with you?

And now you lie and claim that is “okay” by me.

A difference between NATO and Russia is that Russia kills far more Slavs though.

Your point about nukes is true, but military plans can account for that – a fatally weakened, surrounded, check-mated Russia would have a hard time defending itself even w nukes

No one is touching obnoxious but tiny North Korea, and everyone tolerates it’s missile overflies over places like Japan. But you think NATO would dare invade Russia?

NATO would forever keep Russia’s hands off Ukraine. This is why Russia doesn’t want NATO there. It wants to reabsorb Ukraine. NATO itself is secondary to the main problem for Russia, which is the eternal loss of Ukraine. Russia would seek to end Ukraine even when – as was the case prior to invasion – NATO membership was very unlikely.

And stop w Finland: a peaceful, rational country w 5 million people. There is simply no comparison to the Russo-phobic fuming madmen in Ukraine

Now you’ve slipped and admitted that the problem wasn’t exactly NATO, but Ukraine.

Finns btw don’t like Russia either and have stronger claims on Russian territory than Ukrainians do. You keep bringing up Volyn from 80 years ago but now you’ve conveniently forgotten what Finland had been up to at that time.

It was unquestionable that Nato would get Ukraine at the first opportunity

Like in 2008? No war then and Yushchenko was president. But it didn’t happen. Nor did it in every year since then.

If you think that ‘territorial conflict’ would prevent it you have no understanding how weasel institutions work: they simply paper over it, declare it something else

Your type like to conveniently change your story. First you brag about how by seizing Crimea and Donbas, Russia has blocked Ukraine from getting into NATO. Brilliant chess move by Putin! But now when you need a pending NATO membership as an excuse for a full invasion and attempt at regime change, that becomes irrelevant.

Your hypocrisy and mendacity on display again and as usual. It also shows how undignified it is, to always lick the Russian boot as you do.

Nato has been pushed out of Ukraine

NATO is more in Ukraine now than it ever has been.

If true, pretty stupid planning – look what a mess that they’re in today.

There’s now a case to be made, after the confirmation of the NS2 bombing that this entire war caper is designed to make sure Germany and Russia form no grand strategic alliance. You sound like a Pollack in 1938. The world didn’t revolve around the clucking Polish back then and it doesn’t revolve around posturing Ukrainians today. Great tectonic plates are moving and Ukraine as the name suggests is just a faultline. Poland as the name suggests just an empty field.

NS2 was not destroyed. Only NS1. Russia has literally said so. You guys are nuts.

Exactly. You said it better than I could.

And meek acquiescence to the status of dhimmitude at the hands of track-suited Chechen gangsters under their Muscovite khan wouldn’t be a good demonstration of the fitness of the DNA they are supposed to be preserving.

The steadfast stubbornness in defending one’s families and homes from the invader reflects a universally positive attribute that is very noble in nature, despite the situation itself being horrible.

If small, experimental reactors are failing, we could expect even more failure from commercial ones…

The Halden incident was heavily covered-up when it happened. I remember reading on it in real time on some French site (in English though) monitoring radiation, which claimed it was about thorium.

The official news from Oct 2016 avoid for some strange reason (lobbying, perhaps) any characterization of “fuel”, but make clear that it was a fuel problem:

https://www-news.iaea.org/ErfView.aspx?mId=8566e7fd-88e6-458c-b487-d51dde9b1049

We can get it was thorium because the experiment started in Jul 2016:

http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/second-thorium-fuel-test-round-started

There was no follow-up to this experiment, which means it was a failure.

The German government know who is to blame, and they don’t think it is the Americans, hence them massively increasing their support to Ukraine and allying even more solidly with the Americans:

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday offered to resume gas supplies to Europe through the intact part of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

“The ball is in the EU’s court. If they want to, then the taps can be turned on and that’s it,” he said in a speech at an energy forum in Moscow.