With the overwhelming support of both parties, Congress just passed another military aid package to Ukraine. This one is for forty billion in weapons, but like most things that come from Congress, it has other items. There is money to resettle Afghans into your neighborhood and money for friends of the empire. This package is on top of similar packages passed this year and the passage of lend-lease, which will let the neocons managing Biden flood Ukraine with weapons.
Unlike prior aid bills, only the dullest, most insulated members of Congress were out in front of the cameras taking credit for it. That means it was the leadership of both parties and select lifers with no connection to their home state. Most were nowhere to be found, as they suspect their vote was not a great career move. A few Republicans opposed the bill and made sure to let everyone know it. This latest package has the feel of last call at a party that should have ended long ago.
The aid package, of course, will have no impact on the war. The situation has settled into a decidedly one-sided affair. The Russians pound the Ukrainians with missiles, artillery and rocket fire. The Ukrainians lack the ability to do much about it other than hunker down in their fortifications and hope for the best. Artillery shells are cheap, so the Russians are happy to rain steel on Ukrainian positions, slowly grinding them down until one day soon the army collapses.
This was not what the State Department promised. By now, the Russian economy was supposed to be collapsed, the army in chaotic retreat and Putin awaiting execution by the revolutionary mobs. That was what the planners promised the Biden administration, who made the same promise to NATO and the EU. The plan was to make sure the Ukrainians could hold out for a few months. The magic of the economic shock and awe campaign would do the heavy work against Russia.
Not only have none of the promises materialized, but it is also becoming clear that the war against Russia was poorly conceived and executed. It has had little impact on the Russians, but the West is taking it on the chin. Energy costs in parts of Europe are 30% higher than the start of the war. Food prices are rocketing upward with the promise of more to come later this year. Then there is the ten million or so Ukrainian refugees that are camped out in various parts of Europe.
Reason should lead Washington and its various puppet governments in Europe to reconsider the war in Ukraine. No one cares about Ukraine, but the point of this war was to harm Russia, maybe even bring about regime change. The payoff would then be easy access to Russian natural resources. The West would get cheap energy from Russia as its war booty. With that off the table, logic says it is time to rethink the strategy and maybe cut a deal with Russia.
On top of the geopolitical blinders, the plan also seems to have been remarkably tone deaf with regards to domestic audiences. The massive public relations campaign at the start of the war worked on the dullards who also always fall for these things, but a large minority remained skeptical. Having been conned by the Covid swindle, many people are simply unwilling to accept anything from the media now. A good forty percent of the public in the West is now permanently skeptical.
The economic cost of this war is bringing the politics of the war back to the usual ground that favors the skeptics. In the United States there is a long list of things that are not working and could use government attention. The southern border is the most obvious example, but the leaders of both parties call you a bigot and demand the FBI investigate you if you mention it. Ukraine is looking like another boondoggle to avoid addressing domestic concerns.
A similar problem is turning up in Europe. The deranged dingbat installed as head of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, has been trying to engineer a boycott of Russian energy products, but that plan has collapsed. The stated reason was that the member nations needed time to find new energy sources. The real reason is the mood in Europe is darkening as reality settles in with the puppet governments. They have little power, but they are still subject to popular revolt.
The question that is starting to circulate around Western capitals is if there is an off-ramp for this growing disaster. Ideally, the EU would be tasked with engaging the Russians in high level talks to put an end to the war. Everyone knows what the Russians want as they have made their position clear. Zelensky will have to accept the deal the EU makes, as he is just an actor hired to play a role. He and his co-stars have already been granted British passports.
The problem is Washington and many EU leaders have branded Putin a war criminal and declared there can never be a deal with Russia. The problem is obvious. If you declare someone evil and then turn around a make a deal with that person, you are now in league with evil. Washington has been demanding regime change in Russia, calling on locals to assassinate him if necessary. It is safe to assume the Russians are not going to be overly generous in negotiations.
There is also the greater problem of the situation on the ground. Putin is the moderate in the Russian political elite. The military wanted to vaporize the Ukrainian strongholds with airpower, but Putin insisted on the slow approach. Now that success on the ground is guaranteed, those hardliners are not going to go along with a deal that does not get the Russians more than they wanted before the war. They will demand the south and east of Ukraine as reward for their support.
What is shaping up for the West, particularly America, is a modern version of the Vietnam conflict in the 1970’s. The political class is locked into a strategy that cannot work, but they cannot reverse course. They believe their only option is to keep doing the same thing, despite the results. At the same time, the public is becoming quickly skeptical of the enterprise, but unable to find a political outlet for it. This makes for a very unstable political situation.
The big difference between Ukraine and Vietnam is that America has not committed troops to the war. On the other hand, this is the age of privatization of government policy, which means there are private military contractors operating in Ukraine, being paid for by the Pentagon. It will not be long before the extent of this becomes clear as foreign fighters are captured on the battlefield. Vietnam started with loads of advisors initially and then led to troops on the ground.
The other difference is that in the 1970’s there were realist in the political class who understood the problem. Nixon was able to craft a way out of Vietnam, even though it cost him his presidency. The political class in the 1970’s was also more in touch with the general public than it is today. Most of Washington is so deranged now they think it is good politics to mock the baby formula shortage as Putin propaganda. No one in 1970’s Washington was this demented or obtuse.
In the 1970’s, Vietnam was a cancer on the American empire. It was not the only cancer, but it was a serious one. The ruling class recognized it and removed that cancer from the body politic. A series of difficult reforms were implemented that removed the disease from the system. This was possible because the country was still dominated by a sensible middle-class and the political class had plenty of reasonable men who actually cared about the country.
This new cancer on the body politic promises to be much more aggressive, because the body is much weaker. The public is atomized, cynical and exhausted by years of revolution from the top. Of course, the demographics are much different. The millions of paperwork Americans created over the last thirty years lack the human capital to survive the required surgery. The political class is now devoid of anyone who cares enough about the country to champion the necessary reforms.
In another example that shows the universe has a sense of humor, baby boomer politics were forged in the antiwar protests of the 1960’s. The end phase of baby boomer politics will now be determined by the pro-war policies of the boomers. The people who cut their teeth shouting “baby killer” at men in uniform are now baby killers demanding that young men put on a uniform and fight a pointless war of choice. The baby boomer generation of politicians have become the thing they hated.
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Beautifully written post. I feel like simultaneously bursting into laughter and bursting into tears. Hopefully all this will accelerate the demise of the evil empire and the American people can shrug off the yoke of being colonized and find their destiny as an independent people. But there’s some pain ahead, that’s for sure.
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Going with baby boomer politics then and now unnecessarily focuses on what is just a small part of America’s inevitable decline. They are just part of a demographic that not only influences but is carried along with events.
Our rulers and managerial elites are evil and corrupt and what we are going down with their ship. They get the lifeboats.
By the way, it’s interesting to see your assessment which I value highly as opposed to Alex Berenson, someone who is supposedly an insightful journalist. Good for the covidian war but as with most of them not much use.
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Your final paragraph yanks at the paradox that should concern every right-minded citizen.
It is the Anti-War Left that is leading us into this war with Mother Russia! If our Republic had a functioning, inquiring media, this contradiction would be blaring from every rooftop.
Instead, crickets…
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Concern? Gives me hope. The NPCs will believe what they are told to believe. We just have to be the ones to tell them.
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With a little luck, maybe we could get leftists and NPCs to volunteer to fight in Ukraine. Two birds, one камень.
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Imagine the male great grandchildren of the World War 2 generation storming the battlefield in the Ukraine as a transgender whom grew up with his mother working in a corporate cubicle and himself taught in public schools by a purple haired lesbian with a BLM sticker on her car.
That’s the America we are proposing to the world as the ideal for them, plus they get 40 billion of our taxpayers dollars and more to come I am sure.
The joys of living at the end of liberal democracy.
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“Imagine the male great grandchildren of the World War 2 generation storming the battlefield in the Ukraine as a transgender whom grew up with his mother working in a corporate cubicle and himself taught in public schools by a purple haired lesbian with a BLM sticker on her car.”
Your observation is blindingly painful and truthful.
Same for Z’s post today. Good Lord.
There are at least a few silver linings in the black cloud: Given the probable continuation of ethical trends, euthanasia will probably be much more widely available. Unless, perhaps one is a devout Catholic, this might actually be a blessing. Or perhaps you’d prefer to spend years wasting away in a nursing home, cared for by indifferent staff from shit hole countries, or the local dregs who at least can boast no felony convictions?
I don’t think the “calling Putin a war criminal” stuff is that big a hurdle, honestly. These are the spiritual descendants of the same folks who went from “Hitler is the worst guy ever” to “Hitler is the international workingman’s friend!” before the ink on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was dry. They’ll believe whatever The Party tells them to — push out the firmware update to the NPCs in the Media, and all of a sudden Putin is the heroic underdog who is Russia’s only hope against the Dugin-ites.
It’s all that other stuff that’s going to be the problem. All those weapons… every criminal gang from Albania to Vladivostok says thanks. Not to mention Putin pretty much has to demand that the Ukraine end up as a kind of demilitarized zone, aggressively patrolled by “international” monitors, lest Victoria Nuland slither back into her old office and start doing the same old, same old, from whatever’s left of the rump state.
It’s a real pickle….
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Those weapons are going to show up EVERYWHERE for the next decade.
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If I were Russia those captured weapons would be boarded up and dropped off in Mexico.
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I think Russia is on the verge of demilitarizing Ukraine. I think the biggest hurdle for negotiations is the Russians do not trust Washington and they are able to get what they want without making and concessions. Two months ago a deal was possible, as the Russians were not sure what they could get otherwise. Now it is becoming clear they can get more than they initially demanded and not give Washington anything in return.
That is the real disaster. The EU would have been happy to make a deal with Russia on Russian terms, but Washington screwed it up and now tens of millions have to suffer. It is as if he people running American foreign policy have something against Europeans.
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I just don’t know how Russia can ever trust anything coming out of Washington. Unless “Biden’s” ceasefire proposal is written in the still-hot blood of a whole shitload of Kagans, Putin has to assume that they’ll go right back to doing the same old crap the minute the ink is dry.
If I’m Putin, I’m cutting the US out of the dealmaking process entirely. Macron seems to have volunteered to be some kind of peacemaker. Invite everybody but Tapioca Joe to the table, and if the morons in DC are capable of getting the message (which I doubt, but still), they’ll get it then.
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Look up Victoria Nulands history.
Her grandparents were booted out by Stalin.
This is just another war or behalf of Jews and their neuroses.
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“The Cossacks* raped my grandmother!” This, or similar ancestral hatreds, ring very true for many of The Tribe. A very disproportionate number of which exist in positions of power, private and public, in the West.
*Editor flags this as spelling error. It’s correct. I just checked. Apparently can’t handle plurals. And we’re worried about AI taking over? 😀
it’s like the euros have never played Risk. sometimes you win just by getting someone else to lose.
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ambitious pols are already pummeling the dems with ads and comments about sending money to ukraine while american babies go without food. it is not a good look. would not be surprised if it shows up in gop primaries, against the gope pols who signed on with potato head joe. also trying to preserve ukraine’s borders while not defending our border is not a good look.
what this post describes, is an organism without an immune system; that is helpless and hapless in equal measure. nature abhors a vacuum and the huge one created by the GAE’s malfeasance will be filled in short order.
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The problem with the Russian economy is it produces stuff people need. Energy, food, fertilizer, strategic minerals. So Putin can punch way above his scale weight. Looks like the normalcy bias is wearing off the Europeans and the realization of freezing/starving to death in the dark this winter is not too appetizing.
On another note, the blather coming out of the Biden junta is flat out dangerous. Even in WWII, the demand from Germany was simply “unconditional surrender”. I don’t recall from any of my studies Roosevelt, Churchill etal publicly calling for execution of the Nazi elite. Certainly Churchill shared that in private, but not in front of the press. The west seems to have forgotten when you start fighting a war all sorts of people get killed that may have no active role. In the way back times doing work as an RA for my adviser for a book, had to go through transcripts of his 16 hours of interviews with Curtis LeMay where he laid out his entire program to “de-house” Japanese workers with incendiaries. In reality (and he knew it) it was an “incinerated workers can’t do any work”. “And so it goes…”
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The thing to watch in the coming years is the fertility rate in Russia. Russians are swelling with pride now and that should result in a baby boom. The Russian population is younger than America. The typical white American is 58 while the typical Russian is 40. Percentage-wise, they have more ovens to make bread and more bakers ready celebrate with some baby making.
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Russia had a birth rate collapse after the Soviet Union, and although Putin has raised the birth rate, that small cohort born from 1993 onwards is entering childbirth years now. So there will be fewer babies.
That said they don’t have the mass immigration of the West. They will be fine long term.
A dying country looks like Ukraine, they never had that birth rate bump, all their promising young left for greener pastures. Somebody decided that Canada will take in 50,000 Ukrainian refugees and there are millions more elsewhere. They’re never going back.
Ukraine is a bad joke of a country, demographically dying, no economy, raped by oligarchs. Yet we still have the flag wavers here and Ukrainian “patriots”.
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Russia had a birth rate collapse after the Soviet Union
Not just a collapse in birth rates. Under Yeltsin, the average life expectancy dropped ten years in a decade: one year per year!
Week in and week out, you had footage showing emaciated babushkas hawking their pitiful household appliances and old clothes in open air markets or from curbside blankets. I never forgot those images, I’m sure the Russians remember them as well.
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> I’m sure the Russians remember them as well.
Part of what is animating things now is that the Russians know full well that what happened in Ukraine over the past 30 years surely would’ve also happened in Russia had they not elected Putin and pushed back against the globalist oligarchs.
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“Give your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across” – Tzu
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“I don’t recall from any of my studies Roosevelt, Churchill et al publicly calling for execution of the Nazi elite.”
The military did the analysis and realized leaving The Austrian Corporal alive and in charge was the key to winning the war. After all, someone else who was more focused and less megalomaniacal might come in and turn things around.
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The US population hadn’t made up its mind on the Viet Nam thing until the Kent State affair and people realized that subjugating the Commies on the other side of the world was considered more important than the lives of some dippy college kids. The Commies there and in other places were eliminated by economic evolution, not AR-15 rifles and F-4 fighter bombers.
Now the fight isn’t against Communism per se, but instead against any form of social or political organization that doesn’t mimic that of the Empire. Since actual practicing Commie states have disappeared and been replaced by state-capitalist regimes that can effectively compete with the pirate Empire, almost everyone else is an adversary.
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And now I see commercials for Kent State featuring negresses who coo about how the school makes students feel taken care of, or dyke professors claiming Kent State accepts you for who you are, rather than expecting you to fit in.
Obsessing about the lives of these dippy college kids hasn’t worked out either.
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The stories of all the foreign fighters going over to Ukraine is pretty funny. You know, they’ve been spent decades being called heroes by losing the fight against nomads and sheepherders and now they’re up against a real army with with sophisticated tactics and weapons and they are completely outmatched. I’m really enjoying those stories
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The funniest were the guys that were so busy taking selfies and posting to social media that no one thought that the Russkies could simply match them to a triangulated cell phone signal and drop in a few cruise missiles. “Good night, Gracie”
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I’ve also noticed that when you see pictures of the foreign fighters it looks like they’ve confused war with fat camp
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The funniest one was the group taking selfies as a tank rolls up on them and blasts at point blank range, turning the entire group into unrecognizable chunks of flesh.
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This “great Canadian hero” sniper ran away from Ukraine after 2 months:
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2022-05-06/retour-du-tireur-d-elite-wali/la-guerre-c-est-une-deception-terrible.php
French media very occasionally still has an interesting story. He got his Instagram photos and virtue signalling done and then got the hell out.
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Great stuff there. My favorite was the American veteran of a one-sided war against poor Arabs, a simultaneous pussy and Real Hero, blubbering on YouTube about how horrible and unfair it all was, but that French Canuck is close. If American or Canada or the Euros had to send actual feminized troops under the command of Homo Milley and Uncle “Step ‘n Fetch it for Raytheon” Loyd, it would be golden.
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Stop picking on Dan Cringeshaw!
Man, I thought I watched Rambo and Die Hard too many times.
Looks like all the spec ops badasses did too!
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UK just signed a military pact with Sweden and Finland against Russia.
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Who sent the Finns the supply of stupid pills?
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The Finns would be happy to humiliate Russia after the nose bleed they gave them in the Winter War.
Joining an offensive military alliance who’s dominant partner is on the verge of collapse may prove to be poor timing.
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They gave it back in spades in the Continuation War. But respected the not one Finnish foot on Russian soil. And Stalin had the common sense to leave them alone. Probably one of the great cases of deterrence through strength. Believe the Finns can still mobilize a quarter of the population if necessary and have the structures in place to do it. Why they want to get bound up with the clusterfucks in NATO is beyond me.
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Their cabinet is majority female:
https://apnews.com/article/cabinets-sauli-niinisto-legislature-europe-sweden-a27f6823c01847a09e88caa91267fcf2
The Swedish government – bragging that they’re the first “feminist government” in the world – was elected from the worst educated parliament in Europe.
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“Ooooh, that’s a Bingo!”
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yah, the uk is a behemoth of military ability. guffaw. eu militaries are just a women’s sewing club now.
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This war will end when it’s no longer good for business or the stock market. That’s when all wars end. Judging by the beatings underway in the stock and bond markets, it should be over by Christmas. Indeed the “election” will be the usual farce, but it will be an excuse to dial things down.
Yes, I agree that there are no obvious off-ramps after all the “war criminal/genocide” rhetoric. But Le Duc Tho said the same stuff about Nixon bombing Hanoi. He then went to the table in Paris because that’s what people do when it’s time to talk.
But Zman nails it when he talks about the utter fecklessness of the leadership class. Ensconced in their castles, they send the peasants off to fight and die over some obscure insult or territorial dispute. Thank God we have “our democracy”, wherein we get to vote on all this stuff (lol).
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“This war will end when it’s no longer good for business or the stock market.”
I’d like to push back against the belief that everything reduces to economics. No, these people are fanatics in pursuit of a religious vision.
You profoundly misunderstand the world if you assume everyone is a Reagan Republican.
You telling me that the same people who memory hole COVID disasters, fake WMDs, “peaceful protests,” etc. won’t just pretend that “Putin war criminal” never happened if/when it is convenient to do so?
“The people who cut their teeth shouting “baby killer” at men in uniform are now baby killers demanding that young men put on a uniform and fight a pointless war of choice.”
Well, a couple of things have changed since Vietnam.
Today’s elites are baby-killers all right, but they march in front of Supreme Court justices’ homes to demand that American babies be shredded rather than spray napalm on gook babies in Indochina.
The other thing that has changed is that no one is “demanding that young men put on a uniform and fight.”
The great lesson of Vietnam for the elites is “let somebody else get killed while we smoke weed and fuck.” Whereas TR’s son fought on D-Day and Joe Kennedy died in a B-24, you can bet good money that Malia and Sasha Obama, Chelsea Clinton, Jenna and Barbara Bush and the Yale Class of 2022 won’t be joining the Marines to get their legs blown off for Ukraine’s borders.
The U.S. military is a mercenary corps in which farm boys and the sons of truck drivers from “deplorable” Republican states join so they can get “free college” while deluded into thinking they’re “fighting for freedom” instead of fighting for GloboHomoZio.
And if they survive the war they can go to college on Uncle Sham’s dime and listen to tenured lesbian sociology professors making $140,000 a year lecture them about white privilege and transgenderism.
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The US no longer produces millions of lean young men from patriotic rural areas to fill the ranks. The all-volunteer army is now filled with chubbies and videogaming jocks (and of course more than a few butch sluts who enjoy being the center of attention in the barracks). It would take a draft and years of training to reconstitute a real military here in the US.
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a lot of the young men in this country do not have robust enough skeltons to support military activities. and i don’t think that is something you can correct, post puberty.
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karl: The number of people who think various nut ‘milks’ are healthy is beyond insane. Most are little more than colored sugar water. Minimal calcium or protein. While they’ve been anathematizing meat for years, all the nutritionists today shun scary dairy. Eggs and milk – traditionally cheap sources of high quality protein – are not a big part of the modern diet. And their prices have skyrocketed and availability has plummeted.
I’ve had a number of doctors comment on my ‘robust’ bones – particularly for an old lady. I’ve never been a huge dairy eater, either – but I’ve lifted on and off for 30 years. Playing video games or running isn’t going to compensate.
A draft would make things much, much worse. If you think the quality of U.S. G.I.s are bad, you should look at the quality of the young “men” that don’t meet “the standards”.
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Fewer and fewer of these types volunteer to be cannon fodder, and there is a smaller pool to draw from. It would be hilarious in a sense to watch sense to watch the current fine specimens thrust into a war run by Uncle Loyd and his Raytheon massa.
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I have been wondering if the reason enlistment rates are dropping is because the carrot of free college is no longer appealing to white working class 18 year olds. Plus they will get plenty of diversity propaganda drilled into them in the army. It is a better deal, especially with the rise in wages to develop career skills in some sort of blue collar work. Why join the army and get shot at half way around the world for a country whose government hates you?
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Yep.
How much longer until GloboHomo hires Hessian mercenaries?
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and who will welch on the deal if you step out of line politically, or squawk about the poison jabb.
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Correction: “…both the enemy’s and your own nation’s governments hate you.”
Not as certain about the enemy’s.
And there is decent evidence that, had TR Jr not begged to go in the first wave despite the crippling arthritis and a (hidden) heart condition the Utah landing may have failed.
My family has provided trigger pullers for every conflict starting with King Philips War. The concensus is “we’re out”. One of my sons was going to go into Navy Reserve as an officer, easy admit given educational background. He call the recruiter this past summer and nixed it. Realized there was no place in the “modern” navy for a white male with BScs in NavArch and Marine Engineering. Told him shoudl have taken outside courses in Gender Studies, then he’d probably get an entry appointment as a Lt (jg)
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I’m sure it’s been brought up before, but you have to laugh at the fact that your nom de guerre is cause for arrest in multiple European countries.
The 40 billion in additional Ukraine funding is sickening, especially when it’s being approved by a demented crook with documented ties to corrupt Ukraine dealings. Biden, Pelosi, Romney, Graham, Schumer, Rubio, Schiff, Klobuchar, Nuland, the Trump impeachment team… all with personal entanglements in Ukraine. And now these same people are approving unprecedented sums for the most corrupt country in Europe while the US is in the midst of the worst inflation crisis on record. The plundering frenzy is reaching critical mass.
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The deranged dingbat installed as head of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen…
Our guy in Germany has the inside on Ursi. Required curriculum if you want to understand what’s going on in the EU at the moment. (30 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQeFBXXiAo
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A nice detail is that Ursula hails from the Hübsche dynasty – loosely meaning “beautiful (people)”
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Thanks for that link. The point about fungible peasants is a good one. Probably not the best thing to have if someone needs willing cannon fodder, though.
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His aside on the medical field is great, though of course it’s not only there. I’ve seen women in just about every field stay in it only long enough to score a man.
As best as I can tell from reading the tea leaves of the MSM, our leaders continue to believe that we’re winning both the ground war and the economic war. They view the recent Ukrainian attacks in the north as a sign that the Russians are falling back.
They also believe that Russia’s economy, in particular it’s oil and gas industries, will degrade over the next year as the lack of Western spare parts and technical expertise forces Russia to shut down all or part of various facilities. They believe the same thing for Russia’s military. They think that it will fall apart without Western imports of various components.
The Americans aren’t going to let this go. They think that they’re winning.
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i perceive a change in the ukraine narrative already, and a much reduced prominence to its reporting. we’ll see…
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I’ve noticed the same thing. And I’m not even claiming to be an armchair general, much less a real one, but I can look at a map… those Ukrainian attacks look an awful lot like “attempting to support a breakout from an encircled position” to me.
I think the main problem (aside from the perpetual one that most people are idiots) is that the US hasn’t fought an actual battle since about 1952. Not the kind you can see on a map, anyway — it’s either “park forces in the NVA’s way and wait to get hit, then pound them with air strikes;” or “pound Hajji with air strikes and wait until he surrenders to whatever vehicle, helicopter, or camera crew passes by first.”
So the last time any of the Normies saw an old-school, flags-and-arrows battle map was back in high school, about the Civil War. If they could read a map, things might well be different.
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> The Americans aren’t going to let this go. They think that they’re winning.
Marvel Brain.
Why the Big Lie?
If you expose yourself to MSM reporting on the war in Ukraine, the AFU is winning hugely, slaughtering Russian troops by the tens of thousands, and their farmers have already captured and tractor-towed off half of all Russian tanks from the battlefield. Shills like Hannity go on the air every night and masturbate to these stories as if it was a porn fetish. It doesn’t take much effort to research the truth on the internet and realize that the exact opposite is actually occurring and Ukraine’s best fighting forces are about to capitulate in the Donbas. So why pitch this nonsense and risk being made into fools.
The answer is that they are deathly afraid of what will be exposed when the Russians prevail and go public with the dirty secrets hidden in the dark corners of Ukraine. Ever since the Second World War, the USA has portrayed itself as the planet’s Good Guys and Middle America still swells with pride at that distinction. That chimera evaporates in a heartbeat when the truth about the bioweapons laboratories comes out. And every DC politician that voted to fund those programs is now sweating bullets.
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disagree. covid jabb is a much worse atrocity and much closer to home, and that has not caused any problems for the morloch party.
I wish that were true. As evidence to the contrary, consider all their past failings that became public knowledge. Consequences to those in power? Zero, or very close to it. 🙁
Perjure yourself under sworn testimony (e.g. in Congress?) No problem. Lose important evidence (certain Laptops)? No problem. Violate long-standing ethical and (perhaps) legal requirements? No matter. Illegally handle classified information in a manner that would have put a lesser person in prison for years? Think nothing of it. Forge “evidence” to fraudulently obtain a secret court warrant to surveil a sitting U.S. President? What’s wrong with that? Openly advocate censorship of private media? Standard policy.
I’m sure there are a thousand more examples, but who can keep up with the news?
Of course, malfeasance in government is an ancient problem. But never in my long life have I ever encountered the blatant, in-your-face abuses of government and other powers. They are either so shameless they make no effort to hide it anymore, perhaps some of them think they are truly acting righteous, for The Revolution, or perhaps they simply like flouting the rules and rubbing our faces in it. Perhaps both.
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A recent poll of Americans concluded that Russia was losing the Ukraine conflict.
#1 Reason for American’s involvement: We must protect the democracy in Ukraine.
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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*85% of Americans believe Russians are losing in Ukraine.
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How long has it been since polls were legitimate? Have they ever been so or are they just disinformation for morons?
Publicly released polls are disinformation used to push an agenda. Internal Democrat polls are to accurately determine how many mail-in votes they need to make up.
It’s infuriating to see our dips*** politicians in front of the camera, telling us in oh so serious tones how we have to stand fast with sacred Ukraine against “war criminal” led Russia. They apparently have no idea how stupidly foolish they look.
Very few (although too many unfortunately) are going to buy into this BS as food begins disappearing, prices for what’s left, including fuel go through the roof, the market tanking and illegal sludge continuing to flood across the southern border.
How long will Russia put up with our psychotic shenanigans? How long will the EU, in the conflict’s backyard, continue to do DC’s bidding before they tell them to go pound sand? They’d better get a come to Jesus moment pretty soon, or it’s going to be a long, dark and cold winter – except for millions of torches…
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i have to think russia is quite pleased with the dysfunction in the west. it allows them to do as they please geopolitically, and it has increased their revenues enormously. dollars to donuts they get their $300B of grabbed sovereign funds back, before it’s all over – with penalties and interest of course!
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Have to agree. I don’t see how all of this US dysfunction is anything but great news for Russia.
My kids and I visited a mall (yes, they still exist) just south of the imperial capital. I’d been just a few times before but it is now unrecognizable. The parking lot was littered with garbage and debris. The grounds were covered in empty boxes and plastic bags.
The food court may have been even worse. We were surrounded by a sea of burqas and some tiny Guatemalans.
I wondered what the handful other white people thought of this experience. It almost seems as though many are somehow wired and programmed to simply not notice. It was depressing and sad and reminded me of an Ezra Pound poem.
“I am homesick after mine own kind,
Oh, I know there are folk about me, friendly
faces.
But I am homesick after mine own kind.”
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Here in the SF of western NY we now have a 22 year-old burqa on one of the network newscasts, “breaking barriers.”
Uh huh.
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An hour west of you and the number of towel heads seems to grow every time I do some shopping in Buffalo’s southtowns. As Z-Man says, “Who asked for this?”
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About 20 years behind the Toronto suburbs. If you want to see some real shit try Brampton or Mississauga.
But yeah. Every Bengali, Arab, Indian, and Pakistani seems to have “relatives” in New York that they go visit now.
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My husband, who usually scoffs at this sort of observation when I bring it up, had the same reaction a couple years ago after a trip to a low rent mall on the outskirts of Portland. Malls have always been a symbol of America fundamentally heading in the wrong direction. Now they have come to full fruition-either half empty hulks surrounded by deserted gigantic concrete tundras or dangerous places for the newly arrived to congregate who have no idea this place wasn’t always so cheap and ugly. Avoiding this dynamic is the order of the day. The number of agreeable public spaces is shrinking. I wonder if the average normie senses this but is just too craven to admit it?
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Peabody:
Malls really have been a symbol of America, in many ways.
It was kind of funny, one of my kids found a five dollar bill on the ground in the parking lot that day on our way back to the car.
That money of the ground is yet another symbol of America.
Isn’t something that when the Boomers were in their youth protesting Vietnam, America was at its economic height. My town of Ashland, Kentucky had a 5000 man integrated steel mill, two oil refineries, and the biggest single rail terminal in the Western World.
Now they’re demolishing our steel mill that was there 147 years, the rail yard is just a place to park unused rail stock, and the oil refinery is laying off people and about to get sold off to another grifter corporation. The Boomer Cloud People oversaw all of this, and still think all is well……for them I suppose.
We the people kept voting like our voices matter, and now the awakened ones patiently wait for the whole edifice to completely fall apart.
I knew 40 years it would eventually reach a point of no return when I was 19 years old, and now I’m 58. It’s so sad to see this and know there’s no end until lots of people die, whether it’s us dirt people or the Geriatric sovietized boomers who led us.
God help our young people, who never lived in that time of plentiful jobs and opportunity, but are aware enough that they are the ones who will have to pick up the pieces. They know they don’t know very much, but are very aware of the burden that will be placed upon them.
And we really did nothing to stop this.
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I know that it’s all about the uniparty. I know both parties are shilling this scam for all they were worth.
But… would any of this happened with Trump in charge?
Trump was just a new boss in the same rotten and dying system.
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You guys were the first ones to get a glimpse of what was coming. Most of the then-middle and upper class didn’t care because they didn’t think it would affect them.
Next step is to flood the last high paying segment of the US economy with cheap labour (tech industry). Tech wages are super low in Canada due to our open borders policy and most Canadians (and immigrants once they get citizenship here) in the field go south.
Every year I hear different drums beating to open the borders for the US tech industry, at which point it will go full third world and just about every productive industry will pay poor wages.
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Like all Third World countries, the inhabitants of the United States know this is just large-scale looting and simply shrug their shoulders. A few realize it is end-stage empire. You are correct that the widespread opposition and indifference to the war, particularly among the Griller types, is a new phenomenon. Not a majority but a near-majority. As prices escalate (inflation is a feature, not a bug) opposition will widen. Politics are a fool’s game in a corrupt oligarchy, but it is a tell that so many Republican candidates are anti-war. Of course, they will be destroyed.
The Europeans are vassals and, if anything, even more infantile and emotive than Americans. Still, they have nice lives and see that slipping away. I’ll go out on a limb here: one or more Euro nations will start to break from the US/NATO by autumn, and not a usual suspect like Hungary. The left-wing version of “Freedom Fries” will manifest in the United States, likely in claims that once a Nazi, always a Nazi, as money is funneled to actual Nazis and their biolabs.
We will be lucky to avoid nuclear war, and the odds are getting higher each passing day.
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For pessimism, well done. I still have perhaps a month’s worth of canned food from the pandemic stockpile, as well about 199 rounds of ammo, with 1 round left over for…. 🙁
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I’ve saved around two hundred pounds of vacuum-sealed dried foods for the coming famine. LOL. I’ve got beans, rice, mashed potatoes and pancake mix to last for a long time. I plan on buying about 50 pounds more per month for the rest of the year. Perhaps paranoid, but with inflation I think it’s a good long-term investment in any case.
The Euros never did fix the debt issues, they just papered it over by refinanced at a lower rate and then kept racking up more debt. They will soon face a choice of either currency destruction via inflation or kicking Greece, Spain, and (especially) Italy out of the block as their debts are completely unmanageable.
I admit I haven’t followed the news of the war too closely, largely under the not unreasonable assumption that our biased media all but censors the other side’s news, and even if they didn’t, default skepticism decrees that 99% of what I’d read would be lies. Propaganda is the rule in peace time, but doubly so during a war.
All is not as it seems, I would opine. Putin a “moderate”? Maybe, but to these cynical ears, that sounds like an attempt to weakly excuse Russia. But let’s unpack the claim that Putin wanted a slow approach. What, exactly, would have gained from that? It’s not like the Ukrainians are welcoming Russian troops with open arms and ticker tape parades. No, perhaps with the exception of the separatist areas, it’s an invasion by a hostile neighbor. Surely Russia did not expect any international support for their invasion. If that is the case, what would they have had to lose by a harsher, faster invasion?
Let’s face it, here it is well into the third month of a war of a much larger nation, that should be militarily much stronger, against a corrupt, unstable smaller nation. And they haven’t wrapped things up in three months? That shows something is very wrong with Russia’s execution of their invasion, in my opinion. Of course, western forces will take the credit for supporting the valiant Ukraine resistance, but is that true?
Not taking sides, just saying that Russia apparently isn’t the Goliath that I would have expected in this fight.
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C8mon Ben. Unless you’re trolling, you’re smarter than that.
How long was America in Iraq? Viet Nam? Afghanistan? And those were third and second world countries.
The Ukraine and Russia are peer countries. They are both militarized with first world weapons and they are both dug in. Unless the WMDs come out, there will be no quick end to this thing.
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“That shows something is very wrong with Russia’s execution of their invasion”
They invaded with too few troops because their war doctrine, partly based on US high-tech wars in the Middle East, was wrong. Ukraine isn’t Iraq; modern weapons, better geography, better army, more unified population, foreign resupply, etc. Russia needed manpower and a huge focus on artillery–and a willingness to kill Zelensky at the outset.
Russian leadership had the chance to rectify this mistake by calling up their reserves (of which they have a couple million), which would have allowed them to more quickly end the conflict while providing a deterrent to Finland joining NATO, but they foolishly opted for a slow war of attrition that will leave them with a Pyrrhic victory at best.
I fear they will end up surrounded by NATO and will pathetically do nothing to stop this while gaining some worthless territory in Ukraine while also not fully demilitarizing the country. Probably the only way out that avoids this fate is to dramatically escalate, but Putin seems too weak to do that.
The only white pill here is the concomitant US economic and political collapse, or maybe China will take the opportunity to invade Taiwan later this year (is this why Putin is waiting to escalate or is he just weak?). But that’s still a bitter pill to swallow. I feel like we now live in a nightmare world where the bad guys always win and the forces of light and truth are always in retreat with no hope of reversal. Sad times.
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Well the war would have been over weeks ago if NATO stayed out of it, the Ukrainian army could well collapse in the next few weeks or even tomorrow, its hard to say. they have been very brave and continue to fight on but at some point even the hardcore have to start wondering, whats the point, they die like suckers so the US can weaken Russia. Doing a deal with Russia today might keep Odessa and access to the Black sea, but if the Russians take all the coast line, its hard to see them give any of it back, every day Zelensky sounds more and more like the Iraqi information minister, and the BS I read in the MSM gets worse, have a look at the Guardian website for a few days, they went all in on Covid and now they have done the same with the Ukraine/Russia, the only question is what madness will they latch onto next
So far by my count only one senior European politician (Yanis Varoufakis)has called for the war to end and serious talks to start, it has to happen at some point, so why not now
the slow approach involved far fewer personnel, and left more in reserve in case NATO decided to go all in.
“ The baby boomer generation of politicians have become the thing they hated…”
And sadly… so it must go for the kids. Young men that were patriots are going to have to wise up, because any way you cut this, America is not defending the moral high ground. I advise the kids to stay out of the military, and if those cretins impose a draft – burn your cards the same way Blowjob Bill Clinton did. There is no honour or moral high ground to be found in that war.
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There’s something to be said for joining the military for tactical education you can’t get anywhere else, but listening to some podcasts with ex-military people it sounds like very little knowledge is actually gained, the majority of time being spent on silly busywork.
In any case, we need dissident millionaires more than we need dissident colonels. The new order is more about money than overt military force.
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One of the common Boomer gripes to Boomer bashing, aside from the low hanging fruit of NABALT, is that the ruling class of geriatrics, or at least those at the very top, are mostly ‘Silents’. From a practical standpoint, they are politically very similar. The Silents talk a much bigger civnat/bootstrap game but aren’t as solipsistically degenerate as the stereotypical Boomer. Neither lived through (or were old enough to remember) the hardships that the ‘Greatest’ dealt with, particularly the poverty and scarcity of the Depression and pre-antibiotic healthcare. Both groups, almost to a man at the political leadership level, are shameless chickenhawks.
A Narco led, Javelin/Manpad equipped, reconquista of the American Southwest would be a sight to see.
It’s the last hurrah, but not for everybody. If this isn’t your story, you already know it, you already know yours starts next. Don’t forget it.
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“This latest package has the feel of last call at a party that should have ended long ago.”
The first time I felt the party was about to end was in the mid-80’s after I learned the pernicious power of interest bearing economies. All through the 90’s I was, “Just a matter of time!” After 9/11, it was obvious to me that we were about to collapse. Then the magic negro was inaugurated and I was, “Any minute now!” After Trump was elected, I thought that he was just a token designed to get Whitey back to the table, but as his term continued, I thought, “Could he possibly be an outsider that got in by mistake?” But his insanity (doing the same thing over and over again and expecting success) of selecting the same “swamp creatures” he said he was trying to drain made me realize there was no intention on changing things for the posterity. After his warp speed vaccine betrayal and his lack of action on an obviously stolen election, I knew he was just another figurehead pimping for TPTB. And then Joe Biden. My God, how is the end not here yet? The only thing I see now that could signal the collapse of The Empire of Lies is the dollar losing its reserve currency status. As long as other countries purchased our debt, the puppet masters could continue stealing the posterity’s birthright. If Russia, China, India, Iran, and other players remove the dollar from its petrodollar status, the normies might awake from their stupor after seeing barren supermarket shelves, inflation at Weimer Germany levels, and imposition of martial law. After decades of being fooled, I now think, “What’s next?” I realize the only cure is public necktie ceremonies for politicians, media propagandists, “influencers”, Muslims, and other pernicious vermin. I think I’ll be dead before that happens.
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“they think it is good politics to mock the baby formula shortage as Putin propaganda.”
Check the physiognomy of the person to whom Z refers:
https://ballotpedia.org/Jamie_Raskin
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That concluding paragraph is a killer, so to speak. And Boomer hypocrisy–unhinged cynicism, more like it–applies not only to their martial volte face, but also their stances on free speech and racism. The very Boomers who led the antiwar movement in the 60s, also led the free speech movement and the crusade against racism. Where do those Boomers stand now on those subjects? The answer is obvious. Thanks to the Boomers and their epigoni, speech in AINO has never been more restricted, and so-called “anti-racism” has morphed into anti-white racism.
And this is why I say cynicism instead of hypocrisy: the Boomers never really believed in pacifism, free speech and anti-racism as archetypal goods; they saw them as weapons in the domestic war for absolute power. Now that they have that power, they have revealed themselves as the very things they claimed to hate.
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They will sell out everyone and everything for their Medicare, just as they sold the country out for bonus rooms and wet bars in the 80’s. Medicare won’t pay for an aspirin when we hit our budget crisis in a few years, so it’ll be fitting that they put plastic bags over their heads and check out, dying as selfishly as they lived. Maybe Lululemon can make a designer suicide kit for the more stylish ones.
They still cling to the racial healing shtick as well. That too will unwind as in 10 years the country will be more racially balkanized than it’s ever been. I’ll be hard pressed to find one that I feel sorry for.
We can still enjoy the theatre (until the popcorn runs out) of Nancy quoting Matthew 25:34-40 “feed my people…” as the rationale for $40 billion infusion of our money into the Ukraine. She doesn’t quote the bible or her church on abortion, or even the passages condemning queers. Where are the lightning bolts when you need them?
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Used to watch Meet the Press religiously 25 or so years ago. The more I look back the more I realize it was just a better theatre production back then. At least people like Tim Russert made it seem like you were having an actual debate with actual meaning.
Watching politics now is, the paraphrase a film reviewer whose name escapes me, “A dumb show designed to make people feel smart.”
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She’s mocking God himself. That’s what she’s doing. As she ages, ungracefully, and is staring into hell without even knowing it. One day, not far into the future, she’ll slip away, and that very second she’ll understand. Too late Nancy.
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As the economy continues to slide into the abyss, I see no reason for our politicians to turn inward just because the population wants them to do that. When have primaries even mattered in the last 20 years? These ghouls are locked in. Also, the defense spending according to these imbeciles needs to increase to take up the economic slack, as both sides of the aisle actually believe in the broken window fallacy as described by Bastiat.
Also, these arms are not merely dropped at the Ukrainian border with pizzas. We have people embedded all over Ukraine, directing and choreographing the entire show. A lot of this show is directed at U.S. audiences. Take a hand full of bombed out Russian tanks and spray paint “Wolverines” on them, etc. An homage to a terrible 1980’s B movie that only certain demos would recognize and would not be in either the Russian or Ukrainian lexicon.
Just as they have yet to get off the Covid wet pony, as they prepare for variant XYZ321 (Coming Fall 2022) they’ll keep riding the Ukrainian pony into the ground. The biggest danger, to this day, is that we do something to look flashy for the plebes, and it ends up turning into WW3. And don’t think, just as they lined everyone up for the shots to beat the fake existential crisis, they won’t line everyone up for a military draft in a real crisis. No one really knows how WW3 will go, but it would involve a draft, with Patches Crenshaw introducing bill after bill with Miss Lindsey stripping everyone who doesn’t sign up of their property, driver licenses, etc.
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nah, they are gassed, gasping for air now. it will de-escalate and another inner party faction will take over. look for a period of relative calm to ensue.