Lavrov facetiously airbrushing, with cheap paint, mind you, the pivotal Russian role in fabricating, and populating, the Rothschild neocolony in Palestine.

Lavrov blames Anglo-Saxons for pushing Middle East towards big war
https://tass.com/politics/1702181

Trumpet’s spray-on fake orange tan looks better.

NATO = ZOG
Ukraine = ZOG
Russia = ZOG
China = ZOG

The Marvels is set to release this Thursday. Ticket presales indicate it will be the worst performing movie in franchise history. Even Hollywood mouth pieces are now doom calling the MCU.

It is unlikely that Bob Iger will admit his divisive race & gender swaps are the problem. Will a shareholder revolt finally kick him out?

PEACE 😇

A post-Kiev regime controlled Ukraine isn’t so unrealistic given the horrifically tragic svidomite missteps –

Also of note is that deaths are concentrated regionally: 69% in the West, and just 52% in the East. This implies heavier losses from the main bastions of Ukrainian Nationalists. The implications of that are pretty obvious.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/western-officials-increasingly-pushing

Just to correct some misinformation in the previous thread.

Some “stalemate”.

Zelda shirt guy doesn’t make any sense.

Why would it be for a win for Putin at the current lines? He tried to take it all and his main goal of the war was to stop the expansion of NATO. Well that didn’t happen as Finland has joined. He doesn’t have all of Donbas and is willing to negotiate.

Some good fireworks in Crimea
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yq4jCeSaFz0

The Marvels is set to release this Thursday. Ticket presales indicate it will be the worst performing movie in franchise history.

Well finally some good news.

Those comic book movies are played out and 90% of them are garbage.

It is unlikely that Bob Iger will admit his divisive race & gender swaps are the problem. Will a shareholder revolt finally kick him out?

That isn’t the problem. Those movies would still suck even with an all-White cast.

They don’t have good writers and continue to overrely on CGI and merchandise sales.

I used to know someone that worked at one of these studios. He said they don’t even care if Americans like the movies. They make plenty from overseas sales where people watch this garbage because it is eyecandy with subtitles.

Based on the Nashville trannifesto (don’t know why Sailer puts an ‘s’ in there), I speculate that the shooter could have been identified as being psychotic many years beforehand, by an AI handwriting and composition analysis, with physiognomy thrown in.

Christmas = Egg NOG!

What is pictured in wallpainting right next to wall clock? Judging with ignorant eye from afar, looks like it could be some scene about three musketeers and cardinal Richelieu;)

Why would it be for a win for Putin at the current lines?

What did Russia gain:

• Land bridge protecting Crimea
• Dnieper access for Crimean water supply
• ZNPP to power the 4 Oblasts joining Russia
• No NATO ever for Ukraine

What did Russia lose? Two countries, fully integrated and cooperating with European militaries, joined many other European countries in NATO. The change in status is more symbolic than substantial. Thus, Russia made real world physical gains on the ground while conceding symbolism. International leaders and decision makers PERCEIVE that trade = Putin Winning.

You may of course choose to be part of a tiny minority with a different perception of the situation. However, you need to grasp that very few people share your view. And, no one in your microscopic conceptual sliver influences world events in any material way.

PEACE 😇

• Dnieper access for Crimean water supply

I thought that after the Kakhovka Dam destruction, this was no longer true?

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

Quite interesting that Melitopol, one of the Ukrainian cities that Russia actually did conquer, was the birthplace of one of the prominent WWII-era Ukrainian nationalists:

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

Russian rule in Melitopol, in addition to being very oppressive, has also been cringe:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/moscow-reinstates-lenin-statue-in-ukraines-melitopol-years-after-kyiv-took-it-down/

What did Russia gain:
• Dnieper access for Crimean water supply

I thought that after the Kakhovka Dam destruction, this was no longer true?

Kiev’s wanton destruction of the Kakhovka Dam did interrupt short-term water distribution. The point I made is about long-term Russian gains. The critical win is access for future supply.

Russia has a number of options to deal with the damage caused by Zelensky’s thugs. For example, a simple intake structure and lift pumps powered by electricity from Russia’s ZNPP. That is much easier than the Kerch Strait bridge project.

PEACE 😇

Iger shouldn’t have retired until he found a solid successor, and he shouldn’t have come back.

Before he retired the first time, he was considered a legend.

They make plenty from overseas sales where people watch this garbage because it is eyecandy with subtitles.

You may notice a subtle difference between the China and U.S. posters for this movie.

SJW messages don’t make money overseas either.

They don’t have good writers and continue to overrely on CGI and merchandise sales.

I concur.

One can tell good stories -or- push a deviant woke agenda. Disney chose the later.

Poor writing leads to late changes. Requiring CGI rework with insufficient time produces results that are laughable fails. Conditions are so bad, the VFX studios with Disney contracts are unionizing.

The unsold merchandise associated with failed movies and characters is massive. Eternals came out in 2021 and discounters are still flooded with those toys.

Perlmutter was their best merchandising guy. He was forced out for being correct that bad movies will not move toys. Also, he dared to state that female action figures sell vastly worse than male ones, with very rare exceptions. He is one of the people working with Nelson Peltz on the shareholder effort to oust Bob Iger.

PEACE 😇

Why would it be for a win for Putin at the current lines?

What did Russia gain:
No NATO ever for Ukraine

How do you know that was gained when negotiations haven’t happened? We don’t know if Russia will make that demand. He hasn’t demanded that Finland leave NATO.

Ukraine is closer to joining NATO than they were before the war. They didn’t have the votes of France and Germany before the invasion.

There is also the question of Zaporizhia. They weren’t part of LPR/DPR and were strong supporters of Zelensky. Are we supposed to believe they voted to join Russia?

International leaders and decision makers PERCEIVE that trade = Putin Winning.

The world views Putin as winning even though the UN voted 143-5 that the annexations were illegal? Most world leaders view him as an angry dwarf tyrant. Slicing off a piece of Ukraine will not change that view.

You may of course choose to be part of a tiny minority with a different perception of the situation.

I asked why it is a win if he tried to take it all. He also stated that the primary goal is to stop the Eastward expansion of NATO.

I’m judging him based on his own goals as stated in the invasion speech:

“Today, I again consider it necessary to come back to the tragic events taking place in the Donbas and the key issue of ensuring Russian security. Let me start with what I said in my address of February 21. I am referring to what causes us particular concern and anxiety – those fundamental threats against our country that year after year, step by step, are offensively and unceremoniously created by irresponsible politicians in the West.

“I am referring to the expansion of the NATO to the east, moving its military infrastructure closer to Russian borders.

NATO is now closer to Russian borders. Finland shares more border with NATO and is closer to Russia’s population centers.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/putins-speech-declaring-war-on-ukraine-translated-excerpts

Are we supposed to ignore his original speech and pretend the war was about gaining a bridge and a powerplant?

Why would this be a win for Russia based on Putin’s goals? Seems like a disaster where neither side wins.

SJW messages don’t make money overseas either.

Black Panther features Black characters. I don’t see how that would be a SJW message.

I really don’t care if Disney wants to have movies with non-White actors. In fact I don’t get why (White) nerds seem to think all lead characters should be White and male.

The problem is that the movies suck. The new Star Wars movies for example are all terrible. Even if you made the actors all-White they would still be using lazy re-hashed scripts. The best content is on Disney+ and it isn’t related to a lack of minorities. Mandalorian and Andor are good series and have a lot of non-Whites. They also have good writers that focus on quality episodes.

There is also no reason to assume that a White cast would fix these bombs they keep producing. Mark Hamil for example is a lousy screen actor. The originals are great movies but his lines are cringe. There is a reason why Harrison Ford went on to make movies but not Mark Hamil.

I don’t deny that Disney will insert SWJ messages or up the diversity to 11. The gay kid and whiney straight men in Strange World were total cringe. Really would have been a decent movie otherwise.

But I think the main problem is a lack of good story writing. They just don’t care about telling stories. They churn out CGI eye candy and try to hit every diversity box. Returning to all-White casts wouldn’t solve the problem.

The unsold merchandise associated with failed movies and characters is massive. Eternals came out in 2021 and discounters are still flooded with those toys.

There is always Black Panther stuff on clearance at Walmart. I just wish it was useful like toilet paper or paper towels.

Also, he dared to state that female action figures sell vastly worse than male ones, with very rare exceptions.

They at least scaled those down a bit. There was a Christmas where some executive clearly thought that action figures for girls were going to be a big seller. Walmart had them on clearance for months. Total gender denial. Girls here in rural America will play with nerf guns and pink 4x4s but I never see them playing with action figures.

It represents the takeover of New Amsterdam by the English.
The picture can be seen on this site, together with some other murals from room 300 of NY court of appeals:
https://history.nycourts.gov/60-centre-street-lookback/
If you click on it, you can make out the inscription below: “In 1664 the province of New Netherland passed from the Dutch to the English”.
The guy with the wooden leg is the last Dutch governor Petrus Stuyvesant:
https://www.mcny.org/petrus-stuyvesant

News you cannot use.

Only a few days after Ukie military chief Zaluzhny gave not-so-upbeat interview to The Economist, which annoyed Ukie clown-in-chief no end, Zaluzhny’s assistant major Gennady Chistyakov died of explosion in his home in Kiev region. His son was severely wounded.

There are two versions regarding this event.
One, the official, pushed by the Ukie Internal Ministry: he blew himself up while playing with a hand grenade.
Two, the version supported by the photos from the scene and reiterated by Zaluzhniy himself: the process of opening of one of his birthday presents triggered built-in explosive device. Unofficial source in the Ukie Internal Ministry says that the present with the explosive device was from senior assistant to Zaluzhny’s deputy certain Timchenko A.V.

Although I don’t think anyone should shed any tears on the account of Chistyakov’s demise, it is curious that impending catastrophe of the Kiev regime makes the snakes in the snake pit bite each other.

Have you read Unz’ front page piece?

Best bit is something like this isn’t an eye for an eye it’s more like a neighborhood for an eye.

He cites you. The thing about wanting to hang the administrators of the International Crime Court. : )

He cites you.

Yes, I’ve read it. I’ve noticed that Ron noticed.

Let me try another comment that Ron and other people might notice:

There is a lot of talk about humanitarian pauses in the Israeli bombing of Gaza. In plain English, this is a call for pauses to allow “humanitarians” to feed Gaza women and children before Israel murders them. How incredibly humane! Western values in action, no doubt.

And spelling, as well.
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Is Scholz cucking the Jays, when he says he will begin deporting on a ‘grand scale?’

BTW, I didn’t watch it, but DW is running stories like this now:

I believe you are misreading my posts. You inserted the phrase “All White”. If you go back & carefully review, you will see that I never said that. What I offered was:

A123: I concur. One can tell good stories -or- push a deviant woke agenda. Disney chose the later.

So to address your comment:

JJ: Mandalorian and Andor are good series and have a lot of non-Whites. They also have good writers that focus on quality episodes.

Mando Season 1 avoided being SJW Woke, and thus was not guaranteed to have bad writing. If you go back and re-watch, it is “comfortably mid”. The Rey Palpatine trilogy made it look good by comparison. Right show at the right time.

Mando Season 2 was thin & filled with call backs. There was so little story it was incidentally inoffensive. Season 3 is an abominable SJW train wreck featuring Lizzo, and of course bad writing. It can be mocked in humorous fashion though, for example:

Andor Season 1 avoided being SJW Woke, and thus was not guaranteed to have bad writing. It had good writing, good casting, and was effectively done before HQ took the opportunity to look at it. Supposedly they were appalled, pulled the marketing effort for it, and thus ensured it had the minimum number of viewers despite being the best Star Wars product out there.

There will be a Season 2 of Andor, but I have not heard if it is SJW Woke and thus guaranteed to be badly written.

PEACE 😇

Like talking to a wall.

Peter hated Jews.

https://therightstuff.biz/2023/10/28/njp-protest-in-washington-against-israel/

He had the right stuff

Hypothetically Turkey could exit NATO though.

Rogue One and Han Solo were in fact very good films.

It’s a great pity that George Lucas didn’t have those two as the prequels to Star Wars: New Hope.

Loosely enough based on the Space Opera conception but gave a little background to Han as a young criminal and the Rebels as an accidental event.

It’s a pity about the ponderously made 1,2,3.

Instead perhaps the first film should have started where a mysteriously enraged Anakin kills all the child Jedi and has a duel with Obi Wan. Then we see him rebuilt/born as Vader doing something mean like bombard a sand dune slum while looking for his own children. Make it Spicy and have the Twins be the result of a rape by Anakin.

The films after meh. Waste of time. The identity of the Emperor was a huge waste of time.

Good overview of Zaluzhny:

https://www.rt.com/russia/586625-zaluzhny-economist-ukraine-russia/

A number of issues addressed here in good detail:

https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/biden-admin-floats-kiev-peace-negotiations?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2#details

Like talking to a wall.

Yes. I know.

But absurd contrivance at post #7 might scare away potential new commenters with valuable insights. So, sanity and reason had to be placed on display. If JJ had done it at post #200+ it would be much easier to ignore.

PEACE 😇

Was Lucas’s influenced by Yogi Bhajan?

Rogue One and Han Solo were in fact very good films.

Agreed and I prefer them to any of the newer stuff. Solo is one of the most underrated Star Wars films. More like an action movie in space.

Instead perhaps the first film should have started where a mysteriously enraged Anakin kills all the child Jedi and has a duel with Obi Wan. Then we see him rebuilt/born as Vader doing something mean like bombard a sand dune slum while looking for his own children.

The third one would be decent if not for Hayden Christensen.

It has some good action scenes but I can’t go back and watch it. His lines are awful. Samuel L Jackson seems out of place. His same angry Black man character but with a Jedi outfit. Total eyeroll.

But the worst Black character by far is jar-jar.

Bibi just announced that Israel will be occupying Gaza permanently after the ground invasion has been completed. It’s Bibi, so he’ll walk it back but that he’s saying it shows that the government and IDF have already examined all options and realized that they have no choice.

Biden is in horrendous electoral shape. He appears weak and feckless to swing voters, no Muslim will vote for him, centrist Dems are being turned off by the increasing antisemitism within the Democratic party and black and Latino voters are frustrated by Dems continuing to put the interest of immigrants over their own.

Not to mention the economy sucks and is getting worse. If the election were held today, Trump would win by 4 points. By the time the actual election gets here, I think Biden will lose by 7 or 8. In fact, things will be so terrible by Nov 24 that I think that 10 points is a possibility. If even my family are growing shaky on Biden, that tells you a lot.

Gaza should be cleaned up in the next few months after which things will temporarily calm down. Russia is clearly preparing to move on Israel but likely needs a couple more years to properly prepare for an invasion.

Mando Season 1 avoided being SJW Woke, and thus was not guaranteed to have bad writing. If you go back and re-watch, it is “comfortably mid”. The Rey Palpatine trilogy made it look good by comparison. Right show at the right time.

I enjoyed all of the Mandalorian seasons even if some of the YOU GO GIRL scenes were overdone. They at least used a female UFC fighter which is vastly preferable to the Hollywood 5’3 90 pound chick that can beat up full grown men.

Even the worst Mandalorian episodes are far better than crap like Kenobi. God what a POS. I couldn’t make it through half the season. I watched 5 minutes of Ashoka on youttube and that was too much.

I don’t normally like comic book movies but I did enjoy Guardians of the Galaxy.

Marvels looks awful. White comic book dorks will take their kids anyways which is half the problem. They will pay full price and then blog about how awful it was.

Dershowitz v Finkelstein:

Did they ask him about Jeff Epstein?

Did they ask him about Jeff Epstein’s classified list of clients?

If so I’ll watch. If not there is nothing Dershowitz has to offer.

I saw Solo and don’t remember it much, so it was neither terrible nor good.

Rogue One was good, and better than anything other than the original trilogy MO.

The Lucas prequels were bad, but had good fight scenes at least. The third one was okay. In part, it was a barely veiled analogy of the Bush administration. Lucas may have been more passionate about this for that reason, resulting in a better film than the previous two.

The last trilogy was terrible, but with nice special effects. I don’t remember if I watched all 3.

I haven’t watched any of the TV shows because I don’t have Disney + and I couldn’t be bothered to pay for them or try to watch them illegally.

My kids agree with me that all the new Starwars stuff is garbage other than Rogue One. They did not grow up with the first series (though they enjoyed it) so they basically don’t care about Star Wars.

I nominate jar-jar as the worst character of all time.

To be fair the bit where he got his hand stuck in the engine was actually good.

So a Biden landslide this time, eh?

I haven’t watched any of the TV shows because I don’t have Disney + and I couldn’t be bothered to pay for them or try to watch them illegally.

Try Netflix. Some of the shows on there are pretty good. Hunter x Hunter (an anime), for instance. And some Latin American movies and TV shows. There’s a stereotype that Latin America involves a lot of sex, shootings, and drugs.

Didn’t Dershowitz engage in some shady behavior a while back to get Finkelstein denied tenure?

What’s the rush?

In the big picture the SMO is still in Phase 1 or Act I if you prefer. In this scheme of nation re-building Phase I includes all serious combat, Phase 2 is about political restructuring and tying up loose ends (including car bombs and IEDs) and Phase 3 is rebuilding.

Based on what we have seen so far, this is my view:

Phase 1 is 3 years.
Phase 2 is 6 years.
Phase 3 is 15 years (1 time constant).

Not to mention the economy sucks and is getting worse. If the election were held today, Trump would win by 4 points. By the time the actual election gets here, I think Biden will lose by 7 or 8. In fact, things will be so terrible by Nov 24 that I think that 10 points is a possibility. If even my family are growing shaky on Biden, that tells you a lot.

It could either be a Trump win by several percentage points, a Trump blowout a la Reagan 1980, or a narrow Biden win. Wasn’t Obama also behind Romney by several points at this point in time in 2011? And yet Obama beat Romney by four points in the popular vote in (November) 2012 and got a comfortable electoral college victory to boot.

I haven’t watched any of the TV shows because I don’t have Disney + and I couldn’t be bothered to pay for them or try to watch them illegally.

Well at $14 it is the price of a movie ticket and worth it for a few months to stream everything. Mandalorian alone is worth the price.

I would also check out the Clone Wars movie. Even though it is animated it is still better than the newer stuff.

They also have some interesting classic stuff. Old Mickey cartoons and stuff.

Can’t seem to find Song of the South though. I’ll write Kathleen Kennedy and ask about it.

There won’t be a Trump blowout.

If he somehow doesn’t catch a felony the Democrats will run someone else. In that scenario he would lose swing states.

The Democrats are just being nice to Biden since he is in office and two wars are going on.

He will be wheeled away at the right moment.

Wasn’t Obama also behind Romney by several points at this point in time in 2011? And yet Obama beat Romney by four points in the popular vote in (November) 2012 and got a comfortable electoral college victory to boot.

The Democrat is normally projected to win unless the Republican can take swing voters.

Independents currently hate Trump but view Biden as unfit for office.

Trump should quit so his MAGA cult will give up and rally around a candidate that beat Biden or a moderate Democrat.

But most likely scenario is that Trump gets a felony and loses even more independents. He is facing 91 charges and it is possible that he could do prison time. The documents case is pretty damning because he is on tape asking someone to help cover it up.

It could either be a Trump win by several percentage points, a Trump blowout a la Reagan 1980, or a narrow Biden win.

The race is beyond the DNC’s margin to cheat. So, only the first two options are possible. As I pointed out earlier (1), Trump has massive strength with moderate & independent voters that specifically impacts swing states.

Every bogus charge against Trump makes him stronger as the “underdog” candidate. The sheer, irrational zealotry of #NeverTrump extremism is propelling his popularity. The #Bidenistas are so self deluded, they cannot comprehend that their persecution campaign is backfiring and making Trump 2024 stronger.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-233/#comment-6247260

Loving darkroom mode on f.lux

It’s the other guy Finkelstein going against Dersh, which should be intellectually entertaining.

Wouldn’t surprise. Dersh has been kveching about penalizing students expressing pro-Pal/anti-Israeli views.

Interesting story about the effects of firing large numbers of artillery shells on the battery crews:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artillery-isis-pentagon.html
Apparently the blasts can cause serious brain damage.

The war is not over yet. I suggest that you reserve your Putlerite ass licking comments for after the war. I don’t think, however, that there will be much to cheer about at that time.

It was the Jewish delegation from Russia that forced Herzl to abandon thoughts of any non-Palestinian locations . Chaim Weizmann also dismissed the idea of any place other than Palestine.

Phase 2 is about political restructuring and tying up loose ends (including car bombs and IEDs) and Phase 3 is rebuilding.

Why would there be an IED phase? Russian polls show overwhelming support for the invaders and even in areas that supported Zelensky and not the pro-Russian parties. Are you suggesting that we can’t trust Russian polls?

Based on what we have seen so far, this is my view:

Phase 1 is 3 years.
Phase 2 is 6 years.
Phase 3 is 15 years (1 time constant).

Well I don’t think Putin is on your timeline.

He has already offered to walk with the occupied oblasts and Crimea.

The dwarf dictator is an ego maniac. He wants his victory parade before he is dead. His Totalitarian TV won’t point out that his stated goal was to stop the Eastward expansion of NATO and not lose over 200k men trying to take land they don’t need. He wants to fly his “Mission Accomplished” banner and pretend he is a great conqueror like his hero Peter.

There is also no reason to assume that the land will remain Russian. Why does the average Russian care if the former DPR/LPR is part of Russia? Future Russians could trade it in exchange to get their Apple stores back. Americans under 30 would probably give up a state rather than lose Apple products. Putin is mortal but most of the sanctions could remain. Russia’s GDP is smaller than Texas. Our corporations don’t need their sales. The gas needs to flow but the technology sanctions could remain. Putin really didn’t think this war out and just assumed he would win.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artillery-isis-pentagon.html
Peter Koenig writes on the brain impact from 5G.
Early reports from scientists note sub sonic waves create the sense of ‘another.’
What is the outcome of this information?
Either we ban these damaging sound waves OR………….
we will see the further research into a form of ‘brain shield’ for a select few or even “domed” cities to prevent the incursion of waves. More likely these cities will be on distant islands almost inaccessible.
War marches on.

The race is beyond the DNC’s margin to cheat. So, only the first two options are possible. As I pointed out earlier (1), Trump has massive strength with moderate & independent voters that specifically impacts swing states.

The DNC doesn’t need to cheat.

They will just pull Biden aside and tell him that he will be primaried if he does not retire.

They are just being nice at the moment.

Every bogus charge against Trump makes him stronger as the “underdog” candidate.

It isn’t an underdog race. The polls show that he would win against Biden. If anything the underdog is Biden. He really doesn’t belong in office or any type of managerial position. He should be at home watching TV.

The DNC will run a moderate White guy against him if needed.

They aren’t going to wheel Biden into the debates and hope it all works out.

For Russia the alternative was a hostile, well armed Ukraine in Nato, up to 10 million Russians expelled or suppressed as 2nd class citizens (like in Latvia), many killed and imprisoned, WW2 Nazis marching, threats to Crimea. It would be a state of war – very expensive and with West having the upper hand.

So they invaded. It turned out to be quite bloody, but they extinguished the worst case scenario of Ukraine in Nato. Russia knows that the pain now is less than pain – and potential catastrophe – would be if they let Kiev get away with it. They can handle Finland later – Finns are nowhere as stupid as the Ukies turned out to be.

Because of the stupid neo-con plan to move Nato to Ukraine and even more stupid Ukie emotional immaturity (volunteering to be the cannon fodder) we are all worse off. Most of all Ukraine. What have we learned?

…DNC will run a moderate White guy against him if needed.

How are they going to pull that off? I am really curious, given the Kamala thing, ethnic politics, the wishy-washy nature of all moderate White Dems – it will not be easy. They are running out of time.

Biden in 2020, his age and obvious incapacity, was a Faustian bargain – an act of desperation. The time has come to pay up, Mephisto is at the door and wants his pound of flesh…so who will tell the Indian woman that her time is up, you know, mulatta served it purpose, mulatta can go now…. It could get ugly.

For Russia the alternative was a hostile, well armed Ukraine in Nato

How was that the case when Ukraine hadn’t applied and didn’t have the support of France or Germany?

They can handle Finland later – Finns are nowhere as stupid as the Ukies turned out to be.

How would they handle Finland if they are now in NATO?

Because of the stupid neo-con plan to move Nato to Ukraine and even more stupid Ukie emotional immaturity (volunteering to be the cannon fodder) we are all worse off. Most of all Ukraine. What have we learned?

What is a neo-con and how was their plan a success when the pro-NATO candidate lost to the neutral Zelensky in 2019?

“Instead perhaps the first film should have started where a mysteriously enraged Anakin kills all the child Jedi and has a duel with Obi Wan.”

In his perceived inability to save his mother, he first killed a camp of Tusken Raiders. As you described, his rage further devolved into the killings of the Jedi younglings. Developmentally, he best fits into Jane Loevinger’s “self-protective” stage of ego development in which he is need of control to the point of dictating his own sense of moral justice. He in effect emerged as an injustice collector.

In 1927 Andrew Kehoe, the orchestrator of the Bath school bombing that killed 45 people including 38 children did not leave a note, but he left a sign on his property stating, “Criminals are made, not born.” Kehoe’s mother died while he had been away to college and then working.

“Clouded this boy’s future is,” Yoda. This statement in review adds to the emergence of his personality throughout the story arc.

…DNC will run a moderate White guy against him if needed.

How are they going to pull that off? I am really curious, given the Kamala thing, ethnic politics, the wishy-washy nature of all moderate White Dems – it will not be easy. They are running out of time.

Unlike Russia we have an open election. Anyone can run.

You’re wondering why the DNC/MSM would let a milktoast White lawyer challenge an ethnic woman. A fair question.

The answer is that the Democrats know that Kamala is a dud. She can’t even sit through an interview. The MSM wouldn’t be able to provide enough damage control. They can’t even rely on her in a scripted interview. Obama was good at reading his speeches that were written by a White guy. Kalama does weird stuff in interviews like giggling when asked serious questions. Or her infamous fake French accent when she was reading a statement. Everyone sees that and thinks…..WTF??

In the primary she didn’t even take her own state of California. They knew her as the overrated hack that got into politics by sucking off Willy Brown. That’s not a rumor. She literally sucked off a creep twice her age to break into politics. Heck she isn’t even an average politician. Just terrible. Biden and the MSM didn’t do their homework…..as usual. They picked her as the nice 5% Black woman (at best) and went with it.

Biden in 2020, his age and obvious incapacity, was a Faustian bargain – an act of desperation. The time has come to pay up, Mephisto is at the door and wants his pound of flesh…so who will tell the Indian woman that her time is up, you know, mulatta served it purpose, mulatta can go now

No one has to tell her anything. She knows that she is out of her league as VP.

Watch the border interview to see how she can’t even answer basic questions.

No one including Harris thinks running her for president is a good idea. Her job is to be “potential Black female president” for the kids until they figure out how to challenge Trump. They will absolutely take a wish-washy White lawyer over her.

The DNC doesn’t need to cheat.

They will just pull Biden aside and tell him that he will be primaried if he does not retire.
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The DNC will run a moderate White guy against him if needed.

LOL. — Gov. Newsome’s simping trip to China did not get him any traction. And, he is an extremist, not a moderate.

If Biden exits, Not-The-VP Harris is in a near unstoppable position to become the DNC candidate. She polls worse than her boss for the general election. The only way to replace her with out blowing up the party is with another polarizing minority female figure. Perhaps Michelle Obama? Or, AOC?

They aren’t going to wheel Biden into the debates and hope it all works out.

They have no better option. They cannot suddenly declare him medically unfit now. It would open the door to asking, “When did the Veggie-in-Chief become incapacitated”? That is a discussion the DNC cannot afford to have.

Every bogus charge against Trump makes him stronger as the “underdog” candidate.

It isn’t an underdog race. The polls show that he would win against Biden.

Again, it is about PERCEPTION.

Arrogant and abusive persecution of non-crimes hands Trump the “underdog” mantle and associated good will. There is no political contradiction with simultaneously being both the “poll leader” and the “perceived underdog”. This will carry on regardless of who the DNC nominates.

PEACE 😇

You repeat desperate nonsense about Nato, but you know what was going on. If you choose to lie to yourself or to others, that’s your issue. It doesn’t change anything.

Zelko run on a pro-peace platform and then betrayed people who voted for him – it is not so hard to understand. If you don’t know what a “neo-con” is, google it…

How would they handle Finland if they are now in NATO?

Lost business and economics. For details, get a map and a calculator. Over time Finland will become friendly again, they are not stupid, they like to make money.

One more note about Kamala is that she was single until 50.

This is a huge red flag in women that aren’t obese.

It most likely means that no one can stand her. She is wealthy which means she couldn’t even find an upper class brat to use her for sex.

She married a pet husband in 2014 for her political image.

When a thin woman is rejected by men it usually follows that women hate her even more. It means her personality is mind-blowingly awful.

You make a strong case about Kamala, sure, but who is going to tell her and her insane ethno-supporters? They may not take kindly to reality…:)

Unlike Russia we have an open election. Anyone can run.

Really? To start with, you would like Trump to be barred. It is not an open system – the amount of permissions needed is very high. Don’t pretend – everyone knows it is a managed process, more so than in other Western countries where there are fewer barriers. You can justify it by needs of a large unwieldy country, but don’t preach to us.

The process is unlike in many other countries open to cheating – no real checks, very sloppy data, remote voting. Check out how it is done in UK: same night, simple counting, no fuss and almost no opportunity for mischief.

Guardian business:

German industrial production dropped by 1.4% month-on-month in September, following a 0.1% drop in August. On an annual basis, German industrial output was down -3.7% year-on-year.

“There is no end in sight for the weakness in German industry, which has become more broad-based in Q3. Hard to pick out any positives. German industrial production now a staggering 17% below the trend from 2010s, meaning over a hundred billion Euros in lost output.”

It sure was a good idea blowing up NS2.

“Insolvencies have risen in Germany – in another sign that Europe’s largest economy is struggling. The Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) has reported that 1,037 partnerships and corporations in Germany fell into insolvency in October – 44% more than a year ago, and 2% more than in September.”

It’s an absolute tragedy that “we” trashed the most – indeed the only – truly productive economy in Europe.

If the election were held today, Trump would win by 4 points. By the time the actual election gets here, I think Biden will lose by 7 or 8. In fact, things will be so terrible by Nov 24 that I think that 10 points is a possibility. If even my family are growing shaky on Biden, that tells you a lot.

Are you really so naïve, or just pretend? In the age of massive voting fraud the opinions of the people, as well as their votes, don’t matter. Serious people will ensure that whoever they want wins, voters be damned. It’s the democracy, stupid! Only vile dictators care what the people in their countries think.

It sure was a good idea blowing up NS2.

Was NS2 in service delivering gas when it failed? Nope. Thus, that event had no direct impact on activity. The German Greens destroyed the German productivity when they kept NS2 out of service. If it was intact & unused today, the economy would be identical.

Germany needs AfD in government, but it may already be too late.

PEACE 😇

It sure was a good idea blowing up NS2.

I think it was outrageous and a serious German government would punish the perpetrators, but on the other hand, the gas shipments had already been stopped by Russia and it’s difficult to see how they could have been resumed given the war in Ukraine. The disastrous energy policy which to a large extent created the reliance on Russian gas was also self-inflicted. It’s the price German society has to pay for not having violently suppressed the Greens and the anti-nuclear movement back in the 1980s.

In the age of massive voting fraud the opinions of the people, as well as their votes, don’t matter. Serious people will ensure that whoever they want wins, voters be damned.

Voting helps — the wider the margin, the harder it is for the other side to cheat. However, that is only the first step. In 2020 the irregularities were entirely one sided, unprecedented in scope, and the judiciary refused serious review.

The good news this cycle is that MAGA will go toe-to-toe with the DNC in terms of Fultoning and Harvesting. Having set the precedent “every ballot must be counted” serious MAGA supporters can drive Trump over the line by ensuring the maximum number of ballots are for Trump. The precedents set in 2020 will effectively prevent judicial review.

Democracy should not work this way. But at least for the next couple of decades, It is what it is.

PEACE 😇

Trump does have an outside chance. The Be Powers are not a monolith. There are factions. If he does come out on top in the selection process he will be just as owned as Biden–it will just he a different Deep State faction that owns him. Only a demented megalomaniac could want the job.

“The disastrous energy policy which to a large extent created the reliance on Russian gas was also self-inflicted.”

It was only disastrous because Germany was so tied to the US and NATO. Russo-German co-operation should be seen as a good thing, not a bad one.

“it’s difficult to see how they could have been resumed given the war in Ukraine”

Did Germany ban American and British imports in 2003 when the latter invaded Iraq?

Given that Germany had no treaty obligations to Ukraine, and indeed that Ukraine have (and are still AFAIK) transiting Russian gas to Poland and Hungary, and Russia are still paying transit fees, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t have resumed.

The Greens…I see Germany has reopened lignite power stations this autumn.

https://www.powermag.com/germany-restarts-coal-fired-generation-to-support-winter-power-supply/

What was the Green Party’s reaction to that, given that brown coal is about as dirty as coal can be?

Was NS2 in service delivering gas when it failed?

Failed? Good one, where did they teach you to use synonyms?

NS1 was in service and is not anymore…and shipments via Poland were stopped. EU countries now buy a lot more Russian LNG gas, it is more expensive, but why not?

What happened with blowing up NS1-2 is simple: prices went up, large consumers like German mfg can’t afford it and be competitive, and since LNG gas is a commodity more expensive it is more every producer makes – that includes Russia. Their $5 billion investment in NS2 has been paid for with higher prices. German-Dutch-Austrian $5 billion investment has not.

That’s the accounting – boring, but true. (I think Herr Scholz is an accountant.)

It was only disastrous because Germany was so tied to the US and NATO.

Well yes, obviously I wish it were different, and I would have preferred a different Russia policy (one that would have made an attempt to avoid a confrontation over Ukraine instead of pretty much provoking a showdown), but I’m not sure there’s much point to crying over it now. The constraints on Germany are what they are, not much room for an independent policy after Russia’s invasion. Besides, Russia turning all of Ukraine into a satellite state wouldn’t have been in Germany’s interests either.
But anyway, the problems with Germany and the evil scum that is ruling the country are much more fundamental than anything about NS2.

What was the Green Party’s reaction to that, given that brown coal is about as dirty as coal can be?

They insisted on closing down the remaining nuclear power stations earlier this year. Which tells one everything one needs to know about how serious they actually are about acting against climate change. It’s just a pretext for their authoritarian transformation agenda.

Can’t seem to find Song of the South though.

I encourage people to watch Song of the South because it was super-woke for the day.

Was NS2 in service delivering gas when it failed?

Failed? Good one, where did they teach you to use synonyms?

The vastly most likely explanation is an industrial accident. Failed is consistent terminology for an incident involving operator error. Do you really want to go through the hydrate slug explanation again?

If you insist on an unlikely conspiracy theory, you have to contend with three factors not found in military actions:

-1- 50 miles of physical separation
-2- Events 17 hours apart
-3- Only 3 out of 4 tubes hit

Nation level actors have skills and options to avoid these problems. Not-The-President Biden’s administration leaks like a sieve. Thus, there is no reason to believe the U.S. was involved or had advance knowledge. Russia also would have been more competent if it was their plan.

If it was clumsy sabotage — That points to rogue operators, such as Ukrainian irregulars or German Antifa/Greens. If they exist, then tracking them down is highly desirable. Especially as they would likely be German or Ukrainian citizens.

PEACE 😇

– Пересічний гражданин и Офис президента против Залужного, ЕС, США, Арестовича и здравого смысла.

Правда, значительная доля ответственности за веру рядового гражданина в нашу быструю и красивую победу лежит на мне лично.

Но зато я не бегаю от этой ответственности.

Я создал… pic.twitter.com/ucQ7mmA0Qm

— Arestovych (@arestovych) November 4, 2023

Translation, by simplicius76:

It is true that a significant share of responsibility for the faith of the average citizen in our quick and beautiful victory lies with me personally.

But I am not running away from this responsibility.

I created the illusion at that time so that we could survive.

Today I am destroying it so that we can survive further.

My very loose translation of that is, “if we don’t negotiate soon, there won’t be anything – or more importantly anyone – left to negotiate about“.

“if we don’t negotiate soon, there won’t be anything – or more importantly anyone – left to negotiate about“.

Negotiations were on the cards more than a year ago. As they say in Russia, that train has already left the station.

As time clearly works for Russia, the only thing it will negotiate today is unconditional surrender of Kiev regime. Clown-in-chief won’t be around to sign this surrender, might not even be alive by the time it is signed. After all, it was not Hitler who signed unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Russia turning all of Ukraine into a satellite state wouldn’t have been in Germany’s interests either.

How would have that affected Germany’s interests?

I’m not saying that a big European country gobbling up a smaller country would have been a good thing from any perspective but Germany has no direct border with Ukraine, the trade volume is not very big and Ukraine has been some sort of Russian satellite for most of its independence. In fact, the big conflicts began when the pro-western forces finally gained the upper hand in Kiev. So it’s not clear how returning to the historical status quo of a Russia-aligned Ukraine would have much affected the rest of Europe.

During WWI, the velocity of the gas ejected from the back of guns was deadly to anyone standing behind them.

I wonder whether it is mainly some fraction of people who are susceptible – I believe football is like that.

And whether someone with a less gracilized skull might have other physiological or neurological traits that would make them more resistant. (Would guess not.) But it is interesting to think of Abo or Neanderthal loaders being somehow superior, assuming they fired on target, or someone else targeted.

but Germany has no direct border with Ukraine

The EU has though. Sure, I guess you could make an argument that Belarus is now essentially a Russian satellite state and we can live with it, so what if Putin had reduced Ukraine to the same status in a “police action” according to the old Warsaw pact playbook (as he probably imagined when he gave the order for the invasion in February 2022). But there probably would have been a lot of negative repercussions.
Of course the end result of what has actually happened might be even worse. Given the recent string of critical articles in fairly mainstream media and Arestovych’s utterances it looks like Ukraine’s situation might be fairly precarious. Maybe even a sudden collapse is possible. And who knows what will happen then. There would certainly be calls for direct NATO intervention from the usual suspects. Which might not be likely. But a victorious Russia with a battle-hardened army on NATO’s borders isn’t that appealing a prospect in any case (even if I think all these claims “Putin is going to invade the Baltics or Poland next” are just propaganda).

In fact, the big conflicts began when the pro-western forces finally gained the upper hand in Kiev.

Sure, it was a disastrous idea to attempt removing all Russian influence from Ukraine. The very idea of integrating Ukraine into an anti-Russian alliance was total madness.

Oleksander Rostpuko.

I think we’re generally in agreement here, except perhaps for

“I would have preferred a different Russia policy (one that would have made an attempt to avoid a confrontation over Ukraine instead of pretty much provoking a showdown)”

The 2014 coup shocked Russia into instant action over Crimea, but otherwise Russia were content to negotiate for the next 8 years over the status of the Russian population of Donbass and Luhansk – not exactly precipitate action. They were quite happy with the regional autonomy promised by Minsk II.

Only when it became apparent that negotiations were just a delaying tactic while Ukr forces were trained and armed did Russia move.

They must have been pleased when Zelensky was elected on an explicit platform of improving relations with Russia, and deeply disillusioned when his policy was the precise opposite.

You make a strong case about Kamala, sure, but who is going to tell her and her insane ethno-supporters? They may not take kindly to reality…:)

She actually doesn’t have that many supporters.

Hillary was touring colleges at this point. Kamala is kept in a cage. They try to keep the camera off of her. Just search the news feeds to see how rarely they interview her. Everyone knows.

Really? To start with, you would like Trump to be barred.

Yes and no. I want Trump to quit because Biden’s best hope is for him to run. My worst case scenario is a Harris presidency. If Biden somehow wins I’m not convinced he has the guts to ask Harris to leave. In fact I don’t really care if we get a milktoast boring lawyer from either party if it means Harris is out.

As for restrictions I don’t think felons should be allowed to run but that isn’t the law. Trump doesn’t have a felony (yet) and I fully support giving him a fair trial. But I don’t think he has much of a chance. The judge looks ready to charge him over Trump Fraud U. Then there are the classified documents. I just don’t see how he can escape all these charges. He really messed up with the documents. All he had to do was give them back when they asked for them. The guy is a silver spoon brat that can be irrationally stubborn. I would take him over most US politicians but I’m not in denial of his character or lack of it. He disappointed me on the border but he fulfilled job #1 which was keeping out Hillary.

It is not an open system – the amount of permissions needed is very high. Don’t pretend – everyone knows it is a managed process, more so than in other Western countries where there are fewer barriers.

It is very much an open system as seen by third party candidates. The vote sucking libertarian ran in the last election without permission and took votes away from Trump. RFK is hated by the Democrats and plans to run as an independent. The Democrats most likely lost the Bush II election because of Nader’s Green Party run.

The process is unlike in many other countries open to cheating – no real checks, very sloppy data, remote voting.

There is widespread belief among the MAGA crowd that Trump lost to cheating and yet exit polls matched the results. He lost independent Whites while gaining Hispanics. If 1 million more White men voted then we wouldn’t have doofy mcgoo. Millions of Whites don’t even bother voting. It’s so easy with absentee ballots but I guess they have more important things to do like watch 3-4 hours of television.

Only when it became apparent that negotiations were just a delaying tactic while Ukr forces were trained and armed did Russia move.

That was essentially the point I wanted to make. Of course we can’t know exactly what caused Putin’s decision for the invasion, but something must have changed in 2021. The strategic partnership agreement between the US and Ukraine in September 2021 was probably an important factor, as was the evident inability or unwillingness of Germany and France to put pressure on Ukraine regarding the Minsk agreements.

There would certainly be calls for direct NATO intervention from the usual suspects.

I don’t think those calls would be listened to. I don’t know what’s happened exactly, I guess there is a lot I still need to learn about my new country, but Ukraine is pretty much forgotten and has almost become a toxic, divisive issue politically.

Conservative political commentators in the US are totally in overdrive about support for Israel. The lack of nuance is astonishing and hard to believe. I doubt Israelis themselves are so unanimous on their support for the war in Gaza. This morning I was listening to one of these commentators on the radio, not sure who it was, who accused people who oppose the Gaza bombings of being “anti-Semitic”, a view held by everyone in the studio with him. But at some point he managed to tie in the humanitarian aid to Gaza, that he thinks is used by Hamas in malicious ways, with the aid that the US is sending to Ukraine, also being pillaged according to him.

When it comes to foreign matters, the level of the public discourse in the US is quite low. It’s typically an all-or-nothing approach. I don’t doubt there’s still a lot of Ukraine hawks in DC but their influence is clearly on the wane, with many conservatives having decided to ditch Ukraine. The fact that Biden hasn’t managed to get Congress funding for Ukraine for months and that last time Zelensky visited Washington he wasn’t invited to Congress (even though McCarthy was still speaker) speaks for itself.

I guess things in Europe have not changed nearly as much but this is the reality in the US right now, that cannot be ignored. I guess Zelensky was right that the Gaza war is very bad news for Ukraine. However, I don’t think the Russians are capable of making Ukraine collapse, as their difficulties in Avdiivka show. And one shouldn’t forget that they failed to take Kiev, Chenihiv and Sumy when Ukraine had only received minimal help from the West.

Tin foil hats are coming back in vogue!

Actually they are woven from nonlinear magneto-ferroic smart wire and tuned to block EM waves but amplify outgoing brain waves.

The 2014 coup shocked Russia into instant action over Crimea

How exactly was it a coup when all parties wanted Yanukovych removed? Including his own pro-Russian party?

Are you suggesting he was innocent and was unjustly accused of corruption? Do you believe that his million dollar mansion was actually purchased with legal funds? Even though the doors alone cost more than his annual salary?

Yanukovych’s mansion now a museum of corruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezhyhirya_Residence

Really good footage of a Russian holiday parade with fireworks:

Not that they are hit with a cluster after they out of the vehicles. Nice move.

Finland can be the first country to leave NATO (I think). Late in Phase II.

“Finland in NATO: Last in, first out.”
“Easy come, easy go.”

These headlines write themselves. “She’s cute, but not real bright.” (Marin).

I guess things in Europe have not changed nearly as much

In Germany Israel/Palestine is definitely the dominant topic now that has displaced everything else, including Ukraine. And there is very little nuance here either. The entire establishment is trying to outdo each other in “solidarity” with Israel and crying crocodile’s tears about anti-Israel demonstrations by jihad-minded Muslims (wow, what a surprise, who could have known that people from the Mideast have such views…). The more extreme “liberal-conservatives” make approving comparisons with the allied bombing campaign in WW2 (just as that was necessary back then, so flattening Gaza is necessary now, not just to prevent more terror attacks and rescue hostages, but to lay the basis for re-educating Palestinians and curing them of antisemitism). Have even seen the old “Jordan should be the Palestinian state” line in a fairly mainstream publication.
I find it extremely tiresome, even more so than Ukraine. At least Ukraine and the relations with Russia are important issues for the entire European security order, and I find the entire conflict depressing and tragic. Whereas if I’m honest with Israelis and Palestinians it’s more like pity they both can’t lose.

at some point he managed to tie in the humanitarian aid to Gaza, that he thinks is used by Hamas in malicious ways, with the aid that the US is sending to Ukraine, also being pillaged according to him.

Ukie/Pali is a somewhat comparable mindset. Iranian Hamas steals fuel from hospitals and cuts up water pipe to make rockets. The Ukie’s are not as bad, but the level of graft associated with funding Kiev is large. There are new corruption scandals every week or two.

The fact that Biden hasn’t managed to get Congress funding for Ukraine for months and that last time Zelensky visited Washington he wasn’t invited to Congress (even though McCarthy was still speaker) speaks for itself.

The fact that Kiev received a great deal and then Zelensky demanded much more came off as ingratitude.

When the initial rounds went through, it was pitched as helping Ukraine “win”. Now it is clear that Kiev cannot “win” militarily. For those who want to be re-elected, backing Kiev’s failing efforts is much less appealing than it was 12 months ago.

I don’t think the Russians are capable of making Ukraine collapse

Russia does not want Ukraine to collapse. Failed states make bad neighbors. Russia is seeing that up close from their base in Tartus. Lebanon continues to circle the drain.

There is another Ukie/Pali problem. Just like Abbas walked away from Oslo — Zelensky walked away from Minsk. Russia has been willing to negotiate for some time, but Putin has no one credible to make a deal with.

Neither Putin nor Netanyahu cannot allow a pause that would used for rearmament.

PEACE 😇

You repeat desperate nonsense about Nato, but you know what was going on. If you choose to lie to yourself or to others, that’s your issue. It doesn’t change anything.

Everyone can see that you are unable to answer very basic questions about NATO. It’s pretty much expected at this point. You make a statement about NATO or Ukraine and then change then subject when asked to elaborate.

Zelko run on a pro-peace platform and then betrayed people who voted for him – it is not so hard to understand.

Well then explain it for us since Zelensky was elected in 2019 and never initiated the NATO application process.

Do tell what he did in that short period to betray his people.

You clearly spent too much time in a pro-Putin bubble and didn’t realize that most of the pro-Putin bloggers are just plain full of shit. That is what happens when you try to defend the credibility of a mass murdering dwarf who lied to the UN about it being a “training exercise” and swore that he would never invade. He also pledged that DPR/LPR would become Republics which never happened. Putin recently claimed that his Jewish chef turned private warlord died after getting high on cocaine and playing with hand grenades. Do you believe him?

I know from experience to avoid short and bitter men like Putin. They eventually disappoint everyone and that includes their biggest defenders. They have an unchangeable hatred of the world and everyone in it. In fact such bitter men are normally contemptuous of their own defenders. They view them as weak sycophants.

Former Putin fan and DPR leader Igor Girkin has stated that Donbas separatism was never a popular movement and only occurred because of Russian backing. Of course we won’t hear much from Girkin at this point. Putin has him in a cage.

But you for some reason seem to think it is a good idea to keep defending the rodent king and his endless lies.

How would they handle Finland if they are now in NATO?

Lost business and economics. For details, get a map and a calculator. Over time Finland will become friendly again, they are not stupid, they like to make money.

You are suggesting that Russia won’t sell them oil if they are in NATO?

Russia is currently selling NATO countries oil at NATO defined prices.

Or are you talking about another export like beets or ????? Russia is a gas station. No one wants Russian cars or even bicycles. Their military exports are about to drop while US Himars is backordered for over 10 years. Putin is a dream come true for US military companies. Way to go dwarf.

Arestovych’s utterances

The key to understanding what is going on is not political or psychological but practical military science; Valery Zaluzhny’s recent piece in which he says the technology has got beyond the standard military doctrine of mobile warfare in all armies, because surveillance can see everything the opponent does and target them in real time. In addition minefields can be laid and re-laid from the drones and artillery cutting off any breakthrough. Swift advances will remain impossible until some new technology gives the offence its edge back. And–rely on it–you will have a long wait for that.

I know from experience to avoid short and bitter men like Putin

Hitler was not short, if of the same generation he’d tower over Zelensky. Hitler ended bitter (all political lives end in failure because that is the nature of politics and life), but his secret in his prime (Ernst Hanfstaengl said that no one who heard him speak after he achieved power could have any idea of his gifts), was tremendous optimism and a conviction that his way was healthy and natural and must trumuph over what he saw as warped ideologies.

Finland can be the first country to leave NATO (I think). Late in Phase II.

“Finland in NATO: Last in, first out.”
“Easy come, easy go.”

So while Russia is violently suppressing any remaining resistance you believe Finland would leave NATO? Is that right? Why?

What would prevent Russia from invading Finland on the basis that they can’t be allowed to ever join NATO again?

I know from experience to avoid short and bitter men like Putin

Hitler was not short, if of the same generation he’d tower over Zelensky.

You are saying that since Hitler wasn’t short I should ignore the pattern.

Note that I said short and bitter men. Putin has the bitter incel vibe when he does an interview. He can’t help it. His own biographer said he is stuck in the stage when he was bullied as a child. It perfectly fits his personality. He is still angry over being bullied and wants to “one up” everyone. That is short man syndrome.

But in general I do avoid personal relations with short men. Zelensky doesn’t have the bitter vibe and I’ve known short guys that were quite likable by both men and women. But unfortunately in America we have a lot of very bitter men at the moment. It’s just not worth the risk. I live well and I don’t want issues with bitter men. To be clear I don’t put all the blame on them. I am fully aware that White women can be harsh on them. Maybe not most but enough to where the pattern is there. I do think that most White women would date an average height felon over a 5’3 man (Putin’s actual height). Is what it is. But the dating market is rather screwed up for everyone and I’m completely open to discussions on how it can be fixed. We are going to have more angry shooter incel types if something doesn’t change.

was tremendous optimism and a conviction that his way was healthy and natural and must trumuph over what he saw as warped ideologies

Not a Hitler fan but I understand his disgust with the mainstream right/left of his time. The USSR under Lenin really did discuss invading Germany after WW1. That was only shelved after losing to Poland. It’s entirely possible that Stalin planned on invading in the 40s. Germany had the devil at their door and the Con Incs of his time wanted to smoke cigars and talk business and Christianity instead of facing a very real threat. Quite familiar.

Only a demented megalomaniac could want the job.

We had two megalomaniacs in 2020. Both were (and still are) stupid, but only one was demented. Then again, as American joke puts it, “Biden was always so dumb, that when he got demented, his family didn’t even notice”.

GR will likely be disappointed that thieves stole this “art exhibit” featuring a fully functional golden toilet that was called America, only two days after it was installed.

Russia is a gas station

Yes, like the one in “Wrong Turn’, or the one in “The Hills Have Eyes; the ones that have attendants who try to tell the idiot travelers to turn back. Put it another way, only a fool would act as if Russia was harmless after it gave unmistakable evidence of lacking all restraint in the use of force, Ukraine by 2021 surely ought to have known what to expect.

Finland’s security with respect to Russia depends more on good relations with Russia than with NATO.

I don’t think Russia has any designs to take over Finland. I assume they don’t want Finland to be used as a source of Western-sponsored problems for Russia. Finland could readily stay neutral and have decent relations with both sides.

I assume after the West stirred up the mess in Ukraine it was easy to pressure the hawks in Finland to act. Once the West got some traction they probably told Finland you are either for us or against us, so pick a side. Once Finland eventually drops out of NATO, it will be interesting to learn if they have statesmen who are wise enough to institute a foreign policy of selfish neutrality without being pulled too far into the Russian orbit.

The racial and cultural transformations happening in many of the European countries may drive holdouts like Finland, Poland and even Russia into a cultural alliance sooner rather than later.

Fact based commentary and reporting;

https://www.rt.com/russia/586781-vasily-kashin-ukraine-is-losing/

https://www.rt.com/business/586744-uk-companies-breaching-russia-sanctions/

https://www.rt.com/news/586783-us-doubts-impact-of-atacms-missiles-in-ukraine/

https://www.rt.com/russia/586729-ukraine-worst-winter-ever-kuleba/

https://www.rt.com/news/586774-ukraine-average-solider-age-rises-amid-high-casualties/

His own biographer said he is stuck in the stage when he was bullied as a child

It’s just not true that dictators were bullied apart from Pol Pot. Stalin was physically aggressive despite being short with a withered arm. Mussolini wasnot tall but a very violent youth who stabbed someone . I doubt that Putin was bullied into his teen years because he was a notorious troublemaker in school ;Putin was quite a tough slum kid, he ran with the local juvenile thugs until gang’s leader got jailed. Just becoming a member of the KGB was a noteworthy achievement for someone of his background.

I do think that most White women would date an average height felon over a 5’3 man

AOTBE (certainly does not apply to Putin with his status), but is that because of personality? Five foot three for a man nowadays in like 4’8” for a woman.

Even if completely pushed out of Ukraine, Russia can always just keep fighting from within their own borders. Disengaging from the hostilities will be Ukraine’s greatest challenge. Assuming for the sake of argument that they lost in Ukraine. Russia would never sign a peace treaty, and Putin ceasing to be in charge of a defeated Russia will no more solve Ukraine’s Russia problem that the Kaiser ceasing to rule a defeated Germany solved France’s Germany problem

Interesting that the public discourse in Germany is also so pro-Israel. Perhaps the historical guilt issue must be playing a role. I think that in the rest of Western Europe the Palestinians get plenty of public support but only as the victims of a quasi-colonial situation and the ones who always put the brunt of the civilian casualties. It’s seldom an unrestricted support though, they started using terrorist tactics very early on (the Munich massacre, etc) and never made themselves too appealing to Western eyes. In fact, support for Israel is common among European right wingers who regard Palestinians as too alien civilizationally. But I guess most Europeans share your lack of sympathy for any of both sides.

What changed was that Ukraine’s economy kept improving as it was integrating with Europe, and pro-Russian Medvedchuk had his media empire taken away, and the Russian language was getting phased out. The first fact meant that Ukraine would not be forced to crawl back to Russia out of economic desperation and the second meant cultural estrangement. Essentially, Ukraine would be lost to Russia permanently. The hope of it one day following Belarus was receding.

Only a military intervention could (hopefully) change this.

NATO membership was not realistically viable, but it it were to have happened the result would not be an attack on Russia (no one is even attacking annoying North Korea) but permanent end to hopes of invading Ukraine.

German politicians making self-flagellating approving statements about Allied bombing is painfully stupid.
Prompted by Emil Nikola Richard’s post on the proposed “Bat Bomb” I was discussing the civilian toll of Allied bombing of Germany and Japan with my wife. She was mentioning a book which mentioned the sinking of the civilian loaded Wilhem Gustloff, which was I believe the worst maritime disaster in history.
The disregard for civilians in WW2 by the Allies was horrific and any honest accounting of the history would recognize that there truly were no good guys.

My grandparents survived the Western bombing of German cities. In Munich they avoided hitting factories and targeted residential quarters.

Just stopped by to see if anything has changed on these threads, and nope it hasn’t. One obvious paid shill putting in a lot of hours and effort to monopolize the whole thread, as usual. Hope the money is worth it.

Within the West, the right-left support choice for Israel or Palestine is not so unpredictable or mysterious.

A wealthy, very developed, Western “first world” country, fights using modern technology against non-Western Jihadist “resistance” with Kalashnikovs.

In the Lenin/Star wars categories, “bourgeois imperialism” vs romantic partisans.

So, the support and the opposition groups in the West, are similar as for conflicts like the 2003 Iraq war between the USA vs Iraq or USA vs North Vietnam.

Left-wing and postcolonialist people are supporting Palestine (anti-government people, university students/academics, educated people, Muslim immigrants, LGBT groups, BLM, countries like Sweden and Ireland, people with “conspiracy theories”), while “pro-West” and center-right politically people support more on average Israel.

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Although with some overlapping, Ukraine vs Russia had a bit different mix of the support and opposition in the West.

Ukraine was seen as a weak country, fighting the strong country Russia. Ukraine was viewed as the romantic partisans fighting against the Russian imperialism. Both Russia and Ukraine are non-Western, second world countries. But Ukraine signals that it wants to join the West.

So, a lot of the left-wing* in the West supports Ukraine, because they always want to support the weaker side against the stronger side. Also some of the right-wing, pro-Western people support Ukraine, because Ukraine since Euromaidan signals it wants to join the West.*

But far-right and far-left both support Russia against Ukraine.**

Also because Russia against Ukraine, it is two white countries fighting each other, a lot of the postcolonial people feel it was distracting against their objective. While the Israel vs Palestine conflict can return to the “anti-colonial theme” and returns to the earlier 2020s culture war of BLM etc.

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*Including LGBT groups support Ukraine. These groups also support Palestine against Israel. Even although Israel is full of LGBT flags and people with purple hair, while Ukraine is conservative in relation to LGBT. Also Russia would be viewed as an LGBT paradise in relation to Palestine.

**Politically far-right and far-left Western people also are likely almost all supporting Palestine against Israel.

He will be wheeled away at the right moment.

Not if Trump gets a felony. Then Biden would be delighted to have a rematch with him.

Also because Russia against Ukraine, it is two white countries fighting each other, a lot of the postcolonial people feel it was distracting against their objective. While the Israel vs Palestine conflict can return to the “anti-colonial theme” and fits with the earlier culture war of BLM etc.

White nations can also be victims of imperialism. Eastern Europe is full of such white nations.

*Including LGBT groups support Ukraine. These groups also support Palestine against Israel. Even although Israel is full of LGBT flags and people with purple hair, while Ukraine is conservative in relation to LGBT. Also Russia would be viewed as an LGBT paradise in relation to Palestine.

Ukraine, while conservative on LGBTQ+ issues by Western standards, is more progressive on such issues than Russia is. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has actually helped pave the way for more LGBTQ+ acceptance among Ukrainians, who view LGBTQ+ hate as a symbol of predatory Russian imperialism and thus as something that Ukraine should strive to distance itself from:

https://time.com/6273445/putin-lgbt-rights-ukraine-russia/

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/16/ukraine-russia-war-putin-homophobia-lgbtq-rights-military-civil-unions/

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2023-10-01/ty-article-magazine/.premium/if-putin-hates-gays-were-all-for-them-russias-war-changes-lives-of-ukrainian-lgbtq/0000018a-dcb1-d476-abcf-fef38cb80000

And Yes, being gay in Palestine would be worst of all out of all of these countries.

as was the evident inability or unwillingness of Germany and France to put pressure on Ukraine regarding the Minsk agreements.

Why exactly should Ukraine have ever given up its EU aspirations, even though they were a long way away from joining the EU before the Russian invasion of their country? What exactly would have been the point of Ukraine seceding from the USSR and going through all of that suffering in the 1990s and beyond if it couldn’t even eventually join the EU?

I’m sure public opinion is important if Biden wants some kind of crazy high funding to Ukraine, like the new $60 billion funding to Ukraine he wants, after the $75 billion they have given to Ukraine.

But for the general alliance, the geopolitical alignments of USA to Ukraine is probably becoming more significant than partisan politics. So, some extent of American support to Ukraine could become independent of public views.

There’s now beginning some new almost Cold War blocs. After around autumn 2022, Russia becomes dependent in terms of military equipment to Iran and North Korea.

So, there is now three of the main unfriendly countries for America becoming like a Cold War bloc “Russia-Iran-North Korea”. If they just add Cuba and Venezuela.

Ukraine is now on the American side of the blocs, even if Ukraine would be unpopular with the public in America this geopolitical alignment is probably not changing until at least Putin retires.*

If you remember the effect of the blocs in America’s 20th century Cold War policy in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua. For example the Washington DC supports the Contras in Nicaragua because of the geopolitics, not because of “pro-Contras” opinion in the American population.

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*Putin will be President until at least 2030.

and pro-Russian Medvedchuk had his media empire taken away,

This specifically I think could have been criticized, but could have still been viewed as defensible for the very same reason that Britain censoring pro-Nazi speech during WWII is viewed as defensible. Russia was already in a low-level war with Ukraine in 2021. One could, of course, question whether the pre-February 2022 situation (unlike the post-February 2022 situation) was sufficient to justify taking away Medvedchuk’s media empire, of course. Between 1939 and 1945, Britain was in a full state of war with Germany, not simply in a state of low-level undeclared war.

Ukraine is now on the American side of the blocs, even if Ukraine would be unpopular with the public in America this geopolitical alignment is probably not changing until at least Putin retires.*

The best way for Russia to get itself back in the West’s and specifically the US’s good graces is to withdraw from all of Ukraine, including from Crimea, and to take a hardline anti-China stance (which carries its own risks for Russia, of course).

She was mentioning a book which mentioned the sinking of the civilian loaded Wilhem Gustloff, which was I believe the worst maritime disaster in history.

Quite interesting that Wilhelm Gustloff the ship fared as badly as Wilhelm Gustloff the man.

BTW, the Jewish killer of Wilhelm Gustloff the man was able to survive the Holocaust by spending WWII in a Swiss prison. Lucky him!

…“liberal-conservatives” make approving comparisons with the allied bombing campaign in WW2, just as that was necessary back then, so flattening Gaza is necessary now

I hope those are extreme views. Today one can’t be sure, the knives are out. In Prague some cultural figures talk about eliminating Palis and “it has to be done!” The open-border fanatics of yesteryear are screaming “kick them out!, let’s not be soft!“. But Prague is self-consciously absurd city, they overdo everything.

You restated your nonsense. Why? We know that you hate Russians and will deny the nose between your eyes about Nato. Maybe follow John Mearsheimer, he is easy to find. You know that admitting Nato was moving to Ukraine fatally weakens your arguments so you lie about it. It won’t change anything.

Russia is currently selling NATO countries oil at NATO defined prices

They are selling it at market prices and also the LNG gas – the buyers are lining up and pay, mostly in EU. Some directly, others through intermediaries.

Finland used to export to Russia and get most of its raw materials at very low prices – it is built into the geography, get a map. Many Finnish firms made most of their profits that way and closing itself off from Russia hurts the Finnish economy. They will pay more and sell less, they are not exactly able to reorient.

Every Finnish businessmen knows it – why don’t you? Being in Nato does nothing: Finland had peaceful relations with Russia since it lost war to them in 1945. Now they are a primary preventive target in any war and lose business – the cocain-smoking floozie really screwed them, didn’t she?

…The best way for Russia to get itself back in the West’s and specifically the US’s good graces is to withdraw from all of Ukraine, including from Crimea, and to take a hardline anti-China stance

The way Russia was pre-2014? Or back in the 90’s? How did that work for Russia?

When they were in good graces, they were pushed around, ignored, Nato was rapidly expanding to their borders, trade was “sanctioned” based on some 1970’s laws, the West openly pined for another Yeltsin. They started to demonize Russia in 2002-3 when the first group of oligarchs was pushed out.

If that was good graces what is the motivation for Russia to want it back? There were milder Western politicians but they were gradually removed by the fanatics: Berlusconi, Schroeder, anyone not fully on-board was removed. Russians may be slow, but they are not stupid – they eventually looked at what was going on and not at the pretty speeches and the false camaraderie.

It is not going to reverse – we are in for an existential fight and one of the sides will bear the consequences. Or probably both.

White nations can also be victims of imperialism. Eastern Europe is full of such white nations.

At the moment it doesn’t seem to work like that, at least in the Anglosphere. Probably it is because American culture defines who is and isn’t white at the moment, in terms of the term being politically meaningful. And the criteria seems to be if a person was in the US, would they be considered white or not?

People in Eastern/Central Europe who have duskier complexions or maybe look more central Asian might be able to avoid it, if they could be placed in the Latino or Asian by looks category in the US.

So, there is now three of the main unfriendly countries for America becoming like a Cold War bloc “Russia-Iran-North Korea”. If they just add Cuba and Venezuela.

Ukraine is now on the American side of the blocs, even if Ukraine would be unpopular with the public in America this geopolitical alignment is probably not changing until at least Putin retires.

It is hard to see that as a coherent “bloc”. A better analogy is ships sailing the same direction. They may temporarily form a “convoy”, but it does not indicate a durable structure.

Among the reasons why the Populist center is ending support for Ukraine — Backing Kiev is a strategic error that forces Russia closer to genuine anti-American figures like Khamenei. Ending the fight in Ukraine by creating new borders along current lines will help rebuild the relationship between Christian America and Christian Russia.

Far-left Globalists, including NeoConDemocrats, want to keep the cold war mentality going. Reasons for this include:

• They still believe the debunked “Russia, Russia, Russia” myth.
• They love of MegaCorporations and thus the MIC.
• They believe Russia is too white.

That last one is particularly puzzling, but it really is in circulation. I suspect that it is actually a coded dog whistle message that Russia is too Christian.
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I again point out that “The West” is not particularly meaningful terminology.

♦ The U.S. led Judeo-Christian Populist West is headed one direction. This will become more clear in Trump’s 2nd term.
♦ The Brussels/Paris/Berlin led Islamophile Globalist West is headed 180° the other.

Every time “The West” is used as a phrase it begs the question, “Which West”?

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kremlinstoogeA123 is once again showing the depths of his appeasing soul. Every single scholar or pundit that reviews the topic of the end-times within Revelation, comes to the same conclusion, that Russia will take a leading and most important role (the head of the countries of the north) and attack and try to subdue Israel. His attempt to conflate Christianity in the US and within Russia is a fruitless exercise of pure nonsense. As an ardent supporter of Israel he should know better.

They believe Russia is too white.

That last one is particularly puzzling, but it really is in circulation. I suspect that it is actually a coded dog whistle message that Russia is too Christian.

Are you sure that its not the little “whistles” going off within your glue vaporized brain that provide you with these “puzzling” messages, kremlinstoogeA123?. Totally and unsubstantiated ideas emanating from our local master of strange conspiracy theories. Weave us some more kremlinstoogeA123, they’re actually quite amusing. 🙂

Pop quiz – you have two places infested with muslims, both local and immigrants, but in one you can burn Quran freely, while in other Quran is considered as sacred for all and such deed is punishable by jail and beatings in it.

Which one should be considered more Islamophiliac?;)

People in Eastern/Central Europe who have duskier complexions or maybe look more central Asian might be able to avoid it, if they could be placed in the Latino or Asian by looks category in the US.

A friend from my university days, back in the early 90s, was from one of the former Soviet republics between Russia and Iran. When he got a US drivers license he listed his race as Caucasian. The woman working there disputed that he was Caucasian, inquiring if perhaps he was Hispanic. His response –

“If I’m not Caucasian, then who is Caucasian”?

I sometimes see his name in the news when his country does something newsworthy.

Every single scholar or pundit that reviews the topic of the end-times within Revelation

Well, there always is the preterist interpretation that looks at the book of Revelation as describing events in the first century that have already occurred. I’ve always been rather partial to that view myself.

It’s hardly so handy for selling blockbuster Evangelical action series though!

What you are describing is general guidelines for the distribution of sympathies towards both sides of the Israel/Arab conflict in Western Europe (not sure about EE). But one shouldn’t confuse general sympathy or proclivity with actual support for any one side. My experience with many people of different Western European countries is that very few people feel the need to side with one or the other.

As G_R said, it’s a tedious issue that has been there forever in everyone’s lifetimes and it’s difficult to feel that anyone can do much about it or even say anything new about it. Israel is generally seen as much closer socially to us so it could potentially get much more support but, on the one hand, there is the very heavy-handed tactics that they always use and on the other hand, the religious thing that, to some extent or the other, leads Israelis to have further expansionists tendencies is also perceived as alienating.

The only more or less novel thing that I could say is that here in the US the MSM drive to support Israel unconditionally is much stronger than in Western Europe (with the apparent exception of Germany) and there is also a very important religious component that is absent in Europe. Mormons seem to be as supportive of Israel as evangelicals, which is not surprising considering the central role that Israel plays in their sacred books. Utah is full of Jewish toponyms everywhere: Nephi, Lehi, Zion, Moab, Nebo, Kanab,… People around me who didn’t express much interest in the Ukraine war have put up US-Israel flags on their front yards.

Earlier this evening I came out of the railway station in my shithole city and outside there was one of those digital advertising columns (hope that’s the right word, not sure), featuring this official announcement from the Bundestag:

The German Bundestag
Solidarity with Israel
The German Bundestag stands firmly and determinedly on the side of Israel and her people

Just ridiculous.

In fact, support for Israel is common among European right wingers who regard Palestinians as too alien civilizationally.

They are idiots. I can’t say I like Palestinians on a personal level, and yes, their nihilistic terroristic tactics have always been pretty repellent. But Israel is still in the wrong with its occupation and colonization policies. There is nothing to be gained by supporting expansionist Zionism either, diaspora Jews will still keep pushing their anti-nationalist bs for everybody else, and if one’s unlucky one will be dragged into a catastrophic Mideast war. Really have nothing but contempt for those pro-Israel right-wingers and their bloodthirsty fantasies.

She was mentioning a book which mentioned the sinking of the civilian loaded Wilhem Gustloff, which was I believe the worst maritime disaster in history.

There were others in WW2 which were somewhat similar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_hospital_ship_Armenia

Anyway, I normally don’t even think there’s much point to re-litigating something like the allied bombing offensive in WW2. But there’s something profoundly warped about those militant Westerners who always believe they’re re-fighting WW2 and get off on rather extreme fantasies about cathartic violence and collective punishment. It’s a type that seems to have proliferated in Germany in recent years, strange phenomenon.

“The US has gone through 96% of the funds that it has currently allocated for Ukraine, national security council spokesperson John Kirby has told reporters.

The US believes that Ukraine can win back its territory, Kirby said, but acknowledged that progress had been slow, Reuters reports.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/08/russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-avdiivka-zelenskiy-putin#pinned-post

Thanks for those.

I think the reason it irritates me, or my wife for that matter, so much is that, living in ‘Murica we have had WW2 heroic triumphalist narratives spoon fed to us from earliest childhood. It’s just everywhere whether in pop culture or history books and yet is far from reality.

So, especially raising and home-schooling a bunch of kids we really want to provide a more accurate rendition. This boils down pretty simply really…War is Hell and there are rarely any truly Good Guys on the State level.

There was a movie that has always stuck with me called

Grave of the Fireflies

which is really a WW2 movie, but told from the perspective of a pair of Japanese orphans who are cast adrift after the end of the Allied bombing campaign.

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

My Dad ended up bring the film home when I was around 12 and I found it to be a completely enthralling yet crushing movie. It is still one of my favorite movies of all time.

It’s kind of funny that my Dad picked it up since he was more into Steven Segal/ Chuck Norris type campy action movies which I disliked and avoided. I asked him about a year ago if he remembered it out of curiosity on why he picked it out, but he didn’t have any recollection of it.

Grave of the Fireflies

I’ve heard of it. Don’t think I’m going to watch it though, doesn’t sound very cheerful.

Haven’t read anything specifically about the American bombing campaign against Japan. I did read John Dower’s War without mercy about the Pacific war more generally. Found it annoying in parts with its somewhat preachy antiracism tbh, but it contains a lot of interesting information (also about the Japanese and how they perceived the war and subject peoples in their conquered territories).
Regarding the air war in Europe I liked Richard Overy’s The bombing war, which deals with pretty much everything one could ask for (even subjects that are usually neglected, like German bombing in the Soviet Union or the impact of the air war on Italy). Haven’t seen anything more profound since, most of the opinions one reads on the subject aren’t very interesting anyway, either justifying bombing as collective punishment or condemning it as war crimes…if you’ve seen one argument of either type, you’ve seen them all.

People around me who didn’t express much interest in the Ukraine war have put up US-Israel flags on their front yards.

Woah. I have never seen an Israeli flag or a Ukraine flag displayed in my zip code. No bumper stickers, lapel pins, or t-shirts. No stupidity displays at that level of crude.

On the other hand Anglin’s comment threads are . . . I don’t know what to say about Anglin’s comment threads. And I have commented in them! : )

Well, there always is the preterist interpretation that looks at the book of Revelation as describing events in the first century that have already occurred.

Hmmm… If we are past Revelations, is this Purgatory?

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You know that admitting Nato was moving to Ukraine fatally weakens your arguments so you lie about it. It won’t change anything.

Stop making stuff up.

Go ahead and quote me or let everyone see that you can’t respond without using your imagination.

I never said NATO was moving to Ukraine. In fact I’ve cited the article where NATO said that Ukraine still doesn’t qualify:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-nato-membership-can-join-when-allies-agree-conditions-are-met-leaders-say/

I don’t know if Ukraine will join NATO. Of course they would like to join at this point. Who wouldn’t want protection after being invaded by a larger power? However they could stay out as part of a deal with Russia. Or a country like Turkey could decide to vote against them.

I am also on record stating that they don’t need to join NATO for the sake of their own security. In 5 years this type of invasion will be even more difficult. The drone swarms will be ready which will make moving tanks and armored vehicles near impossible. China could in fact lose in an invasion if Taiwan prepares properly. The Taiwanese president however is a bit of a nitwit so that is up in the air.

Russia is currently selling NATO countries oil at NATO defined prices

They are selling it at market prices and also the LNG gas – the buyers are lining up and pay, mostly in EU. Some directly, others through intermediaries.

G7 countries are imposing a price cap. Russia however of course sells at market rate to non-G7 countries and the cap is basically an honor system. But the point is that Russia will sell oil to its own political opponents. They’re not going to cut oil to Finland for joining NATO. Finland doesn’t need anything else from Russia. Their main trade partners are Western.

Every Finnish businessmen knows it – why don’t you? Being in Nato does nothing

NATO protects you from Russian invasion. Putin’s henchmen are on video talking about how they should have taken the Baltics when they had the chance. They have TV debates where they speak of the Baltics as lost territories. Russians seem to think their borders should go to Germany and some even still want Eastern Germany. This mentality of Russians assuming their neighbors belong to them was described by the British over 100 years ago.

Moldova has neutrality in their constitution and Belarus leaked the Russian invasion plan that showed them as next.

Finland had peaceful relations with Russia since it lost war to them in 1945. Now they are a primary preventive target in any war and lose business

LOL you really must be imagining another dictator. Putin rants about all kinds of countries and then sells them oil. Why hasn’t he passed sanctions on Finland? Yea I’m sure he’ll get right on that.

The dwarf is just out to conquer. He would have taken Finland or Kazakhstan if he had known that Ukraine would kick his tanks out of Kiev. Putin is on record stating that it was a shame that the USSR collapsed. A fake Christian if there ever was one. He tried recreating the Russian empire and was pushed back to Donbas.

Eliminating the Ukrainian identity is a Russian fantasy. They view Ukrainians as snobbish half-Westerners. The Ukrainians have more Nordic blood and don’t have all the random conquered people of the Russian empire. Quite strange that White nationalists like Anglin support Putin when Russia is the multi-racial/multi-religious empire and Ukraine is not only Whiter but has stricter immigration controls.

The dirty secret of the Israeli Arab conflict is that, for all the murderous passion it generates, the overwhelming majority of humanity really doesn’t care either way. One side could literally genocide the other and I seriously think that 90% of all people in the world (outside of Jews and Arabs/Muslims, I mean) wouldn’t give a shit.

I sometimes see his name in the news when his country does something newsworthy.

A very close and prominent friend of the Aliyev family who rules over Azerbaijan?

BTW, interesting story: When my mom went to the doctor’s office (I think that it was the doctor’s office, at least) and one of the paperwork asked about race, my mom inquired as to what “Caucasian” means. My parents are originally from Russia, so it’s a completely understandable question because from a Russian perspective, “Caucasian” means someone from the Caucasus. The Korean lady/secretary who was speaking to my mother moved her mouth near my mom’s ear, covered her mouth with her hand, and extremely quietly said “White”.

They are idiots. I can’t say I like Palestinians on a personal level, and yes, their nihilistic terroristic tactics have always been pretty repellent. But Israel is still in the wrong with its occupation and colonization policies. There is nothing to be gained by supporting expansionist Zionism either, diaspora Jews will still keep pushing their anti-nationalist bs for everybody else, and if one’s unlucky one will be dragged into a catastrophic Mideast war. Really have nothing but contempt for those pro-Israel right-wingers and their bloodthirsty fantasies.

The way that I see it, Israeli right-wingers have several flaws:

1. Their treatment of the Palestinians
2. Their treatment of Israelis of Jewish descent who aren’t halakhically Jewish (some of them wanted to cancel Israel’s Law of Return’s Grandchild Clause before Israel’s version of 9/11 occurred, when these plans were quietly shelved indefinitely)
3. The refusal of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to work a lot or to do military service (they prefer engaging in Torah study while eating kosher Twinkies lol)

John Dower’s War without mercy about the Pacific war more generally. Found it annoying in parts with its somewhat preachy antiracism

The conceit of that book is bogus– the Japanese got lighter post-war treatment than Germans. Probably has to do with this, but Dowers is not going to touch that subject.

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

Beijing in 1939 under Japanese occupation. Yeah, brutal, sadistic

This was the Zhongnanhai pool, open to public. Ten years later CCP liberated it and became Mao’s private pool. Which he used to take advantage of Khrushchev.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/khrushchev-in-water-wings-on-mao-humiliation-and-the-sino-soviet-split-80852370/

All political indications point to “yes”, LOL.

More seriously though, I think that people obsessing over Revelations is a waste of time. Things will happen how they happen when they happen regardless of how much one worries over it. I refuse to give much spiritual/ brain space to worrying about the end of the world.

Jesus gave plenty of actionable instructions on how to relate to others and God which should take way more precedence in people’s minds than geeking out over prophecy, especially since 100% of those who have predicted the end of the world have been wrong thus far. Prophecy obsession can be a dangerous distraction for a lot of Christians.

No, I don’t think the level of indifference is that high. If one side went fully genocidal people would care.

Btw, I’m not sure how serious you are about those Gog and Magog predictions, probably not much, but the other day I actually checked some of the literature you cited and I don’t understand where your Ecclesiastes calculations come from. You mentioned “28 epics in the book of Ecclesiastes. 214 years of history for each epic” but I don’t see any of that in several online Ecclesiastes resources I consulted, for example here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&version=NIV

Not that I’ve read the whole thing but it doesn’t seem to contain anything of what you talked about. Are you sure you’re using the right sources for your prophecies or is it all just a joke?

“I feel that I have been playing such a psychological war with my Chinese counterparts for many years. In this sense, the Chinese are completely different from the South Koreans, whose only tactic is to toss the chess board upside down.”

No, I don’t think the level of indifference is that high. If one side went fully genocidal people would care.

I think you overestimate humanity. But if your right, that’s a good thing, I guess.

Not that I’ve read the whole thing but it doesn’t seem to contain anything of what you talked about.

Some of the prophecies I understand and some of them I really don’t. I admit that I don’t get the Ecclesiates one. I also don’t get the the one about why Gog and Magog has to happen in either 2027 or 2030.

I base my predictions on a few things:
1. Even if the prophecies are bullshit, Magog is 100%, without a doubt, Russia. The Magogites are uncircumcised Indo Europeans from the remotest part of the north, and Moscow metro and Jerusalem metro latitudinally overlap. Magog is clearly Russia and anyone who says otherwise is gay.
2. The Vilna Gaon said that the first signal that Gog/Magog was coming would be the Russian invasion of Crimea (although he admittedly also said some other stuff about Turkey that doesn’t seem to apply, at least not yet)
3. That Al Asqua Flood was as successful as it was could only have happened via Divine intervention. This is indisputable. There is no way that even an organization as incompetent as the IDF could have fucked up that catastrophically purely by chance.
4. The level of antisemitism that has erupted in the Western world since Oct 7th is completely unprecedented. The hatred has truly reached genocidal proportions and it absolutely is not limited to the Arab and Muslim populations residing in the Western countries, in fact it seems to be the strongest among the white far left. I myself have already lost two white American friends who have gone completely out of their minds with antisemitic rage since the massacre on the 7th. This level of antisemitism means that something big is coming, and coming soon.
5. The Zohar says that the war of Gog and Magog begins via a massive Ishmaelite attack on the Jewish people in the Land of Israel at the end of Sukkot.
6. Gog and Magog is supposed to happen before the year 5800 on the Jewish calendar
7. There were 15 judges of biblical Israel before a proper kingdom was formed. The 4th judge was a woman. A biblical judge was extremely similar to what we today call a prime minister. The fourth PM of the modern state of Israel was a woman. Bibi is the 15th PM of the state of Israel.
8. Russia is clearly gearing up for a confrontation with Israel. Judaism has always held that Russia is the Third Rome (and Russia has always regarded itself as such). The United States is in terminal decline but it isn’t dead yet; a Russian confrontation with Israel means a Russian confrontation with the United States. And a Russian confrontation with the United States means a nuclear exchange.

To me that’s a pretty convincing case. And that’s without even adding the stuff that I don’t get but sounds legit when I listen to others explain it.

Greasy William’s comment inspired me to do some googling and I found this gem:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/current-events-in-ukraine-the-vilna-gaon-on-moshiach/

Contains some funny stuff about Ukraine too:

Historically the Ukrainian and Russian people have not treated Jews well. Stalin killed more people than Hitler; they were both evil. Vladamir Putin, the current leader of Russia, seems to approve of Stalin. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians are guilty of murdering many Jews. Having a JINO (Jew In Name Only) president, does not whitewash the horrible crimes of the Ukrainian people against the Jews. Forgetting the crimes perpetrated against our people is a disgrace to the memory of our holy martyrs who died in G-d’s name על קידוש השם.

(1648-1657), Khmelnytsky Pogroms Cossacks, Crimean Tatars – murdered 30,000 Jews and completely destroyed 300 Jewish communities. From 1888 until today there is a “hero’s” statue dedicated to the honor or Bohdan Khmelnytsky (the murderer of Jews. Since 2001 it is registered as a monument of national importance. It is located in Kyviv and is the symbol of the city (I pray that a Russian rocket will blow it up soon). It’s a symbol of shame.

That’s quite a monument.

Nothing in wikipedia about cossack pogroms. The original inscription said something something unified Russia and it has been covered up.

When you are living in a politically repressive society and cannot speak freely without fear of retribution its important to learn to express yourself elliptically and with tactful ambiguity.

Igor is back!

You’re obviously kidding. I checked Ecclesiastes because it looked like an easy one to verify lol.

Anyway, this thing with some American lefties demonstrating against Israel must be primarily an action-reaction phenomenon. You can’t have these levels of high volume, non-stop pro-Israel propaganda going on without some people going bananas in the opposite direction. It’s a natural human reaction. In fact, I had to stop watching the Republican debate for the same reason. Netanyahu is an innocent dove compared to most Republicans. And I don’t know what’s left to say for these candidates on the rest of the issues, especially when they don’t get to confront the big showman.

I’ll reply from the previous thread on key points and cutting out blockquotes, partly to save space. Let’s try keep it chronological.

Your reference to a Suzdal prince sacking Kiev is a bit of a, well so what? Turns out the princes of Chernigov and Smolensk took part too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Kiev_(1169)

The Rus realm fragmented into civil war for most of the 12th century. This was typical for most Medieval European realms like England, France, Holy Roman Empire, Italy and etc. Making this the basis for some kind of ancient Russian-Ukrainian schism is nonsensical. It’s perhaps similar to some kind of neo-Burgundian nationalism against France (at least Burgundy was a tribe and then Kingdom clearly distinct from France at different points in time, migrations at fall of Western Roman Empire and again at 15th century peak of Burgundian Kingdom just before its fall) or Catalan separatism against Spain. Perhaps even Canada vs USA since such hypothetical analogies (especially geopolitical alignment and foreign great power military alliances) about USA invading Canada devolving into trench war with Canadians then harping on about “ancient Canadian nationhood” sounding completely ridiculous and citing things like the War of 1812 (Canadian genesis only began in 19th century and Canadian distinction in WW1 participation along with French Quebec are only remarkable things about Canada historically, honestly). The 4chan analogy of a botched American invasion of Mexico to the current Ukraine War is apples and oranges comparison though, since Russia is not USA and Ukraine isn’t Mexico. Analogies can only be taken so far.

Otherwise, the Rus fragmentation (connected decline of Piast Poland too) explains why Eastern Europe was easy prey for Mongols. Also the whole notion of Russians somehow being more “Asian Muscovite savages” than Ukrainians is nonsense since Ukraine was ruled by Mongols and Tatars for at least several decades and Russia for maybe about 50 or 100 years longer (depends how one counts it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kiev_(1240)

As for Pagan Lithuania, it’s actually very impressive that it punched above its own weight in its era (14th century especially). Repelling multiple invasions and raids from the Teutonic Knights, also exploiting Mongol and Tatar decline to take over Rus lands. Pagan Lithuania was the last Pagan kingdom in Europe until the 15th century (Paganism presumably persisted till 16th century).

The union with Poland was a catastrophe in hindsight. Guaranteed lots of strife. Likely would’ve been better if Lithuania remained Pagan, but friction with Orthodox and especially Catholics was too much. Even among Lithuanians, there was a significant minority of Orthodox nobles and there were some civil wars contesting the union and Jogaila’s acquiescence to it (some of it was dynastic too admittedly, ie one prince wanted to rule instead of the incumbent without necessarily changing the union). Especially since Poland became the senior partner in the long term. Just one of many below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Civil_War_(1389%E2%80%931392)

Almost everything about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (PLC) is terrible. Catholic oppression of Orthodox Christians and Casimir III inviting Jews to jointly take part in exploiting subject populations, especially economically. Jesuit invitation too. The only good thing about the PLC was its confrontations with the Ottomans but that’s because the Ottomans chose to try expanding north from Bessarabia/Moldova and Ottoman conquest of Vienna would’ve been unacceptable for PLC (southern Ottoman border expanded).

The anti-Jewish “pogroms” or really, riots, though pose a major historical riddle. If everyone in Ukraine was always Ukrainian with Russians never being a significant part of Ukraine, then that means Ukraine has an ugly track record of “anti-Semitism” as I saw Norman Finklestein discuss in a video. If the “pogroms” in Ukraine are Russia’s fault, the problem with that is that it means Ukraine is basically legitimately Russian, no matter how “anti-Semitic” one thinks Russians are. Perhaps on the Unz Review it’s easier to say that the “pogroms” have always been exaggerated, especially the ones in the Russian Empire in the few decades before WW1. Really they were just a bunch of street clashes between Jews vs Russians/Ukrainians since Jews had a disproportionate part in fomenting revolutionary unrest against the Tsardom and non-Jews in the Russian Empire had many legitimate grievances against Jews. The total of Jewish “victims” was only anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand overall. Pogroms weren’t directed by the Russian state as historical evidence in hindsight makes clear. The ones under Bogdan Khmelnitsky since 1648 were significantly larger in scope though (possibly a few 10s of 1000s) since it was a rebellion that morphed into an all out war and the pent up grievances against Jewish moneychangers and theft of Orthodox Church land was much larger and more repressed (Khmelnitsky rebelled over a vicious personal dispute with a Polish noble and the Polish Kings ineffective mediation). There was some chaos in WW1 and the Russian Civil War too. Anyway, the Jewish aspect of this is perhaps the most interesting of all.

When Russia retook most of Ukraine and Belarus (unlike Russia, Poland-Lithuania weren’t Rus successor states), Polish nobles were tolerated until 19th century Polish rebellions. The Romanovs had notable success in undoing Uniatism in Galicia, Western Ukraine and Belarus. I even took the time to read some of Adam Zamoyski’s works (who’s devotedly pro-PLC), and even he acknowledged in his book Poland: A History, that most of the rebellions against Russia in Lithuania were actually just Polish nobles (until 1860’s iirc, sort of), with Lithuanian peasants having no interest in taking part. Same for Belarus and Ukraine parts with Polish nobles.

In the 19th century it’s true proto-Ukrainians took some more hold. Really any record of Ukrainians as anything more than regionally distinct “Ruthenians”/”Little Rus” from Russians before 18th century is weak. Although even Putin in his text on the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians acknowledges things like the Elms Ukaz of 1876.

As for Galicia and WW1, as your own personal example illustrates, the mental and psychological complexes originating from ancestral legacies of religious conversion and one may dare say, apostasy, can be very powerful.

Regarding Ukraine and the Russian Civil War, reality is Poles and Ukrainians clashed over Galicia with Poland strong-arming Ukrainians to cede Galicia which Ukrainian Rada acceded to since they thought that concession and prospective Polish help against Bolsheviks was worth it. Pretty obvious Poland picked a fight with Bolsheviks and even Whites when it intervened in Ukraine then. Calling Petlyura a Polish lackey may be harsh, but it’s essentially true since before him there were Ukrainian servants of Germany during Germany’s occupation of Ukraine in 1918. Quite sad to think that Ukraine was not only occupied by Germany which lost WW1, but then Poland which only became independent in November 1918 domineered over Ukraine, for the Bolsheviks to then take over Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War

As for Serbs, your resentment over Austria-Hungary losing WW1 is still palpable (and part of your comment history). Your enthusiasm for Austria’s attack of Serbia is also bizarre. Austria-Hungary attacking Serbia in July 1914 is one of the single worst decisions ever made in European history.

The big “problem” is that Russian nationalist/”imperial” history takes are mostly true, although some Ukrainian/Ruthenian regional particularism is well rooted. We’re just scratching the surface of this history and it can be discussed endlessly. But that’s perhaps more than enough about history.

Otherwise, since 2014 it looks like Serbia is actually in better shape than Ukraine as unbelievable as that may have seemed. To a degree, Serbia and Ukraine are inverse tragedies since Western nations can’t suffer Serbia’s ties to Russia while Russians can’t suffer Ukraine’s ties to the West.

With refugees and returnees, it obviously goes without stating it that the longer the current Ukraine War lasts, the worse the reconstruction and return of emigrants will be. Ukraine obviously isn’t exactly the same as Iraq, Libya, Syria or Serbia/Yugoslavia (Ukraine War seems to have less “ethnic cleansing” in particular, so far at least). Still, nothing suggests Ukraine will have some sort of good recovery as almost 10 million fled in total is terrible, especially a few million Russians to Russia, especially about return of displaced persons. Even economic recovery will have the scandal over seized Russian assets overshadowing it. Not to mention downturns in world economy. Overall, it’s a really sad picture for Ukraine devotees.

I don’t think you should be so scared of Russia. IIRC, Bibi said that he thought Putin was smart and sophisticated.

Btw, I can’t believe I ever thought about buying a book about Netanyahu’s own personal memoirs a few years ago lol. Especially since they’re incomplete now anyway.

The level of antisemitism that has erupted in the Western world since Oct 7th is completely unprecedented. The hatred has truly reached genocidal proportions and it absolutely is not limited to the Arab and Muslim populations residing in the Western countries, in fact it seems to be the strongest among the white far left.

I find it amusing lol. You’re absolutely right that those most opposed to Jews/Israel are actually Leftists and Jihad minded Muslims.

The problem is that the Holocaust and other such “education” doesn’t work on those groups. Leftists just throw the Holocaust and Jewish victimhood right back at Jews in their left-wing ideological paradigms (“Jews and Israel are the real Nazis”). Muslims never really cared about the Holocaust anyway.

But the whole “anti-Semitism” term is ridiculous since Semitism/Semitic literally refers to the ethnic/racial community of Semites or Semitic peoples. That includes all Arabs with even Ethiopians and Somalis. So by this logic Jews are anti-Semitic insofar as they’re anti-Arab and also anti-Ethiopian (the lost tribes of Israel issue in Africa needs more research) since Jews are anti-goyim in general. It’s also questionable to what extent Jews are actually “Semitic” at all since there’s Khazarian and European admixture (I’m not sure about how true Palestinian claims of Jewish settlers just being Poles and Hungarians of the Jewish faith is true either).

“Free Free Palestine, Palestine will be free from the River to the Sea” could be added to “Holocaust no excuse for Palestine” after all, since the latter is connected to the former.

But for anyone that’s not Jewish or Muslim to dip their toes into Israel-Palestine is foolish, myself included.

Btw, I would do Abigail Shapiro, but not beyond one night, since even the way Ben Shapiro talks is obnoxious enough and that sort of thing runs in the family.

That has to be the most powerful links I’ve ever scrolled through.

But to continue from the previous thread, I think Silviosilver clarified he was actually not a Serb but a Yugoslav. The more one researches Serbia/Yugoslavia the more one realizes those are 2 incompatible nationalities.

Lots of interesting things can be said about Serbia. When one looks at all the types out there on Twitter/X focused on Serbia/Balkans, I wouldn’t blame Serbs for being “nutters”. Like imagine being exposed to types like that Gunther Fehlinger guy who became famous after calling to dismantle “genocide BRICS” and dismember Brazil and India, he even posted maps of alternative separatist statelets on “ex-Brazil” and “ex-India”. Before becoming more famous for that I think he just constantly called on Serbia to be sanctioned, bombed, “Genocide Serbia” every single Tweet, etc. Crazy calls for constant NATO expansion and Atlanticist zealotry. He might be some sort of purposeful troll since he’s from Austria but could be part of some prominent NATO/Euro-Atlantic Committee. IIRC, some time ago some Serbs doxxed Gunther’s home address and the Austrian police responded in a thread to his complaint that they didn’t take him seriously and he should just calm down. There is that saying that the Balkans begins in Austria.

Otherwise Serbia’s ties to Russia are obviously strongly rooted in Orthodox Christianity and historical-political connections over at least the last 2-3 centuries. Regarding current Serbia, I feel it will either end like Carthage in the 3rd Punic War (Carthaginian complaints about Numidian encroachment ignored; Serbia and Kosovo Albanians with surprisingly many Cato equivalents out there calling for Serbia to be destroyed) or really just sack of Carthage in 146 BC (Baghdad 2003 is a less severe but more recent version), or Serbia will somehow make a major turnaround like September 15th, 1918 when Serbia broke through the Macedonian front and had its moment sort of close to Balkan hegemony (thrown away with Yugoslavia of course). I was reminded of the latter as I brushed up on my WW1 history of Eastern Europe for the discussion with AP by reading a WW1 book. Serbia’s breakthrough with the Entente in Macedonia is underrated since it was almost like reverse Gavrilo Princip assassination that triggered a WW1 spiral as the Macedonian breakthrough led to a WW1 winding down spiral instead.

I tried reading Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon a few years ago too but it was ridiculously long. Got stuck somewhere around the Adriatic Coast. Although it’s a work about history, it’s also some prominent English woman’s travel monologue and she has firmly pro-Jewish and anti-German opinions in the inter-war Europe context. She stands out for having pro-Serb sympathies, which fell out of fashion in the West long ago, of course.

Regarding Serbia and Kosovo after some browsing, in the current climate it feels like this isn’t even newsworthy anymore:

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

I suggest that you reserve your Kiev Zio ass licking comments for after the war.

Harris and Michelle Obama are unelectable, the affirmative action presidency was fulfilled by Hussein Obama and that will apply for couple of generations.

Btw, I would do Abigail Shapiro

So you admit that you hate Jews.

I have tried so hard to see what some people see in her. I’ve even tried turning my head sideways. I admit that she looks like she may have been somewhat cute when she was like 18 or 19, but I really do find her homely now.

And I’ve got weird tastes, too. I think that young Julie Kavner (voice of Marge Simpson) was cute. I like Jenny Slate and Ilana Glazer, who I suspect most men would find gross. I was a big fan of pre nose job Jennifer Grey. I even think that a young Hannah Arendt is kinda hot. But I just can’t see anything appealing about Shapiro.

And having sat through a couple of her vids, I can also confirm that she is really fucking annoying.

since Jews are anti-goyim in general

It’s really not true. I’d admit it if it was. There are a lot of bad things you can say about Jews but Jews aren’t goy haters. A lot of us hate Ishmaelites but that’s as far as it goes.

But the whole “anti-Semitism” term is ridiculous since Semitism/Semitic literally refers to the ethnic/racial community of Semites or Semitic peoples

It was a term born during the era of scientific racism that was supposed to sound more palatable than “Jew Hater”. Although the term made no sense for the reason you said above, it stuck around and it isn’t going anywhere.

The problem is that the Holocaust and other such “education” doesn’t work on those groups

I do think Holocaust is the greatest crime in human history and I believe that Holocaust education is important, but the Boomer fixation on it has always felt irrelevant to me as a Millenial. I was raised Christian and when we had our big Holocaust learning in 7th grade I just remember thinking, “dude, I don’t care”. I agreed that it was awful but I didn’t get why I needed to hear so much about it and I certainly didn’t see what relevance it had to the Middle East. Even the Jewish kids in my class didn’t seem to particularly care, at least not until we saw the camp footage (which bothered me too), and even that they got over pretty quick (so did I).

I don’t think you should be so scared of Russia. IIRC, Bibi said that he thought Putin was smart and sophisticated.

Bibi is an idiot and I can’t believe that people can’t tell that Russia is redirecting it’s attention to Israel. Israel had some utility for Putin when he was trying to maintain detente with America. That’s over now and Putin sees Israel as the greatest weak point of the US imperium and Putin intends to go after it with all means available to him.

Putin didn’t publicly meet with Hamas in Moscow only days after the slaughter because he has poor judgement. He wants to signal that he is the real leader of the anti Israel bloc and that he is the only hope Ishmael (and white leftists, I guess) have of annihilating Israel. China taking Israel off all of its maps, sending ships to the Mediterranean and starting an antisemitic campaign on Chinese social media also isn’t just a coincidence. The Russia/Iran/China bloc is clearly prepping for a showdown with the United States. I truly don’t understand how anyone can deny it.

But for anyone that’s not Jewish or Muslim to dip their toes into Israel-Palestine is foolish, myself included.

Considering it’s about to cause WWIII, I think it’s relevant to everyone.

Btw, I can’t believe I ever thought about buying a book about Netanyahu’s own personal memoirs a few years ago lol.

Why would you want to read the memoirs of a guy who is notorious for lying about everything? Just make up your own and pretend that Bibi wrote them; they’d likely be more entertaining and more accurate

You are so naive in believing that Finland joined NATO on their free will. You do not understand the Washington politburo methods of persuasion/coercion. That same politburo just “successfully” persuaded Ukrainian to join NATO.