A Ukraine Narrative Update

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The war in Ukraine had dropped off the front page starting late last year with the Russians slowly grinding down the Ukrainians. Now that summer is not far away, it looks like things will start heating up. The recent drone attacks on the Kremlin have brought the war back to the front pages. The long promised Ukrainian offensive is due any week now and the Russians seem to be preparing something as well.

The drone attack on the Kremlin is another one of those times where you get a glimpse into the psyche of the people running the war for the regime. They greenlight a caper and then claim that the victim of the caper did it to himself. We saw this with the Nord Stream pipeline attack. At first, they cheered, then they made up a story about how the Russians blew up their own pipelines to make Washington look bad.

In this case, the story is the Russians attacked their own buildings so they can have an excuse to kill Zelensky. Poor Zelensky is traveling around Europe right now thinking he is about to get a polonium cocktail from room service. In his last public appearance, he looked like he was about to cry. There is now talk that he may not return to Ukraine at all and just do his job by zoom.

The thing is this caper is a good example of how easily things can get out of hand when you let private actors conduct foreign policy. The attack was no doubt cooked up by the neocons running foreign policy. They have friends at private military and security firms that help the Ukrainians with planning and materials. Maybe British intelligence helps out, off the books naturally.

Unlike the Nord Stream bombing, which was signed off on by Joe Biden, it appears this stunt was done without the admin being told. This is why they sounded even more ridiculous than usual when asked about it. They did not have their cover stories prepared, so they were forced to wing it. That only made things worse, as their instinct is always to lie, which made them look even guiltier.

What this all points to is that the Kagan cult thinks they have one last shot to start a nuclear war with Russia, so they will be pulling out all the stops. That means Ukraine is about to get interesting this summer. Not only will we get the long promised Ukrainian offensive, but we will get lots of random terrorist attacks, along with some efforts to make the big dramatic splash like we saw this week.

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    • Some of my lefty acquaintances have wondered since the war began about when Putler will be assassinated. Like it’s a foregone conclusion that the bad man will go away. Because all bad men go away. It’s the arc of history something something.




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        • Go back further than that. I like to think we are in the Gracchi Revolt period of the Romano-American history timeline. The Senators eliminated both Gracchi brothers. No more pesky populist reformers, problem solved!




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      • They had better be careful what they wish for. There are powerful men in Russia who make Putin look like Edmund Muskie.




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        • The West would be unpleasantly surprised by how a hard-line nationalist, and that’s who’s most likely to succeed Putin, would conduct foreign policy.




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  2. “Poor Zelensky is traveling around Europe right now thinking he is about to get a polonium cocktail from room service.” Classic!!!!




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  3. I hadn’t heard anything at all of the drone attack on the Kremlin.

    I’ll consider that ignorance as a small victory in war on “the news”.

    I’ve been trying to ignore the noos for more than a year now. Which is actually amazingly difficult because the propaganda is so pervasive. Even if I avoid direct engagement someone throws it at me – what do you think about … or did you hear about….

    But this one, nothing.




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  4. “it appears this stunt was done with the admin being told”

    “With” or “without?” I lean toward the latter. The United States has a wide-open border and soft targets, after all. It is one thing to impoverish the serfs, another to put the nomenklatura at risk.

    I suspect the vast majority of war-related actions are done ad hoc by private actors and contractors. Not only does “Biden” have no obvious input most of the time, but the buffoons in his Administration also are window dressing. All stops are being pulled to prevent the war from being a 2024 campaign issue, hence the censorship and arrests of domestic political opponents. If this drags on and Team Biden does not declare victory and skedaddle, it will indicate the “Administration” has no input whatsoever into the matter since everything else they do is totally political.

    As for Zelensky, the bullet will be put into him either from the front or from the back. It is a coin flip. It is tough to decide whether Putin or “Biden” will make the kill shot.

    Finally, every time I think this may end without a nuclear exchange, the Neocons disabuse me of the notion. James Cagney’s line “look at me, ma, I’m on top of the world” is on loop in my head now.




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    • “Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die”

      Great easy read about the declassified plans and facilities US Gov had in place to survive and thrive after a nuclear war.

      TLDR; You’d better believe our current government is convinced THEY’D survive a nuclear response.

      The rest of us, not so much.




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    • Right now, it looks like this was done without the inner circle knowing about it. The Pentagon also seemed unprepared for it, but they were cut out of the Nord Stream attack too, if the Hersh reporting is accurate. They may just be better at playing dumb.

      I agree that war policy is increasingly done outside official circles. Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland conspire with the rest of the cult, but they keep the rest of the administration in the dark. What the Pentagon knows probably comes from their surveillance of the cult. I would bet that a private security firm surveils the cult members for their friends in the Pentagon.




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        • I think a better question might be who does the books.

          Re a short quip (my comment didn’t go thru), for instance, the accounting for NGO boats that bring “refugees” and their rubber rafts to 10 miles offshore for the hired cameras, or the US govt buses and buildout of the Darien Gap.

          We’re seeing a global industry, a sector, that doesn’t count costs of goods sod or bottom line profits.

          This leads me to realize that even the participants aren’t in charge; they’re superceded by the system they are part of.

          In other words, a culture. Not a corporation, or party, or country defined by a specific charter, as the US was.

          Its own accounting, economics, religious values, dialect, even opportunity ladder- for instance, the Murdochs value their standing in that culture more than money. Its strange games make no sense to Boomer capitalists, such as promising $800M to Dominion rather than buying out Dominion the $40M its worth (brilliant catch, that one.)
          A cult sounds right. Led by its Kagans, true, but a parallel culture running concurrently.




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          • Edit, (sorry, at work):

            No, scratch that last, a cult, yes, a leading voice, but as part of a larger culture.

            A culture, because the adherents gain their identity from it, and will defend and advance it as we would with our own







      • There likely is quite a bit of tension between the Pentagon and Langley, from the outlines we see, so it would make sense for the military to keep Club Kagan under surveillance via private contractors and informants. We are seeing the factions start to go at each other from time to time now. This will get worse as the GAE recedes. I agree that Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland personally have wildly outsized input into what is happening and that is why they were inserted into their positions in the first place, but ultimately the National Security State is in control and they do as told.

        Kind of a non-sequitur, but the on again, off again “news” coverage has corresponded directly with the situation on the ground. If things are going well for the Ukrainians, there is lots of coverage, and when the tide goes turns against them, silence. The coordination between the propagandists and the National Security State has been remarkable and amazing to watch (or not watch, if Russia is advancing).




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      • If immivasion is done by outside actors, say, NGO ships taking Africans and their rubber boat to 10 miles offshore, then military private companies or corporate economic mercenaries are a dark industry as well.

        Public-private, like Darien Gap, except it’s more like “private-private.”







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  5. So unless Master P was hanging off the top of the Kremlin like King Kong, pretty sure he wasn’t in much danger. What it looks like is a desperate, failed attempt to destroy the Russian flag flying above the dome, because while the Russians win their wars on the battlefield, “our” side wants a Twitter victory to keep their Perpetually Online propagandists and their followers happy.




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  6. You’d think even Zelensky would figure the hourglass is running low and he’d surreptitiously sneak off the stage to somewhere at least moderately safe. His problem, is of course, there is no place he can probably get to where he won’t be found out sooner or later – he’ll be looking over his shoulder night and day. Further, I doubt he’s made of the sterner stuff who could even semi thrive in that kind of scenario. He made a deal with the DC devil and it’ll more likely than not be the end of him one way or another.




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    • “To be an enemy of the United States is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” — Henry Kissinger




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    • There is this talk of reforming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and letting it absorb western Ukraine. That would effectively get Zelensky off the hook and safely to his Italian villa with a few $billion in the bank. It also shifts the proxy war to Poland without the rest of NATO. Russia has to spend another year grinding the Polish Army down to dust.




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      • The Poles were responsible for foolishly listening to Churchill and ignoring German pleas to negotiate a Danzig settlement, thus kicking off WWII. They paid a fearsome price for that bit of stupidity. And that stupidity looks to be repeating itself.




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        • Leaving aside my contempt for Ukrainians, the Poles and whatever the Baltic states call themselves have proven that none of them deserve their own country. They’re only fit to be ruled by others who can keep their worst instincts supressed. Those little odious carbuncles need to be slapped down hard so maybe they’ll shut up for a little while and accept rule by their betters.







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        • The Germans were planning on using Poland as an ally in their war against the Soviets. They turned west because France upheld its treaty commitments to Poland.

          The British were not the primary drivers of that unpleasant scenario. The Germans were desperate to have a huge war in Europe regardless of Churchill and the Poles.







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  7. So let’s play armchair general for a minute and try to stand in Gerasimov’s shoes. He knows that the Kagan Cult will escalate relentlessly trying to get Russia to take the bait and overreact, which theoretically would justify a NATO reaction; or failing that, give Brandon cover to send in some token US military force (Vietnam redux). The ultimate escalation would likely involve a false-flag nuclear or dirty bomb explosion somewhere in Ukraine that kills a lot of innocents. In the fevered minds of the Kaganistas, this produces sufficient public outrage at Russia to justify a US military retaliatory nuclear strike and then its turtles all the down to nuclear Armageddon. Since this is a non-optimum outcome, what is the safest and most efficient solution to this problem?

    First question – what is the root of the problem? From whence does this suicidal insanity originate?

    Second question – What is the most efficient way to neutralize the root problem without killing lots of innocents or resorting to nuclear Armageddon?

    Third question – if the fate of the planet is at stake, does it really matter if you piss off Dan Bongino?




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    • In the not too distant past we had some adults in the room involved in the system. Maybe not too many but some. One can’t see any now. When the average guy in the street could do a better job of foreign policy management than any of the people running the show we are in terrible trouble.

      Any of us on this forum knows that no one is going to win a nuclear conflict. Everyone here knows that how a nuclear exchange would go is impossible to predict except massive destruction and death. The Russians have stated such over and over. Yet the Kagan Cult and most of the U.S. Government seems completely OK with nukes flying.

      There is no analyzing this mass psychosis.




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    • OT: found this comment over at Zerohedge; thought you might find it funny:

      “Even a black man like Dan Bongino isn’t safe”







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  9. Talking about bombing cities with no military importance, it’s tough to admit Chomsky was right that the United States is fundamentally a terrorist state. Of course, his reasons was because he hates white people and now he’s changed his tune.

    It shouldn’t be a surprise that’s their go-to in Ukraine, as we’ve been doing this for over 100 years.




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    • There are a lot of folks who were right about Iraq 20 years ago who are now taking jabs, flying rainbow flags, and shouting slava ukraini. Then there are folks like me who were wrong 20 years ago and God willing won’t get fooled again. Curious to look at. Somehow they resisted the mind virus then, but are in its thrall now. Some of this is explained just by partisan politics (many of the same folks would have been gung ho to conquer Iraq if it had been a D president doing it), but partisan politics doesn’t explain all of it.




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  12. Great show! Notice how they start with Stalin when speaking about blood-thirsty Russian/Soviet leaders. Mention Trotsky, Kaganovich, Sverdlov, or possibly Lenin and their heads will explode like the guy in the movie Scanners. The Kagan cult has influence and/or dirt on just about everyone and are unfortunately running the show now. The problem is that they are overrated, incompetent and not very intelligent. The idea that Russians will overthrow Putin after terrorist attacks isn’t delusional, but stupid. Most normal people understand this, but the Kagan cult, who show up on talk shows crossing their legs like women and praising each other for being ‘brilliant,’ don’t have any idea. Hopefully, this bunch of vermin are eventually called out and normal minds prevail.




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  13. Check out this discussion/interview between Bill Kristol and Fredrick Kagan. These people are insane and will never quit. Regarding narrative, it’s bizarre (and terrifying) to watch them and to witness how they view reality.

    First, Kristol laughingly (but seriously) suggests that we let our pilots fly missions in Ukraine, maybe let Ukraine join NATO now so we get involved. They both definitely want the US to provide every weapon possible.

    Also, in Kagan’s mind, Ukraine has been a huge success. The Ukrainians are destroying the Russia military in his view, and it’ll take years to rebuild. NATO has never been stronger. He also believes that Russia will seek

    No joking, Kagan’s big fear is what Russia will do after Ukraine because, he believes, they are losing so badly. Because they will be defeated so badly, they’ll come back for revenge some day by attacking Ukraine again. He also believes that Ukraine needs to take Crimea because of its strategic importance. He truly believes that Ukraine can regain most (if not all) of the territory lost so far.

    These guys are dangerously insane. Kagan is already looking to the US spending hundreds of billions to rebuild Ukraine and its army after their “victory.” Naturally, his co-ethnics on Wall Street will lead that effort. Oh, and of course, the US will need to increase its own military spending. Naturally, Ukraine will join NATO.

    How fucking stupid are these people. Who says these things to the Russians? They are giving the Russians no choice but to take eastern Ukraine and Odessa. Russia has no choice but to completely destroy the Ukrainian military and to turn Ukraine into a landlocked, rump state that’s incapable of having a functioning economy and thus military. My god, these people are dangerous.

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




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      • Watching their mannerisms as they talk is instructive. It’s all just a big game for them. You can how they couldn’t care less about everyone involved, not the Ukrainians, not the Americans, not the European, not anyone (except, of course, their people).

        Yeah, we all know that, but to watch their faces and how they just laugh about US pilots or troops fighting in Ukraine, it becomes so much clearer how they look at the rest of humanity. We are toys, and they really like to play with their toys.




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      • Citizen of a Silly Country: “Bill Kristol and Fredrick Kagan… are insane…”

        From the Occidental point of view.

        But from the Khazarian/Oriental point of view, this is simply utterly unremarkable prosaic normalcy.

        Everything I needed to learn about world affairs was taught to me in Fifth Grade, and then again in Twelfth Grade, when we poor stupid idiot goyische rug rats had to stage performances of “Fiddler on the Roof” for the amusement of our Khazarain overlords.

        https://tinyurl.com/58j5x8y9

        Of course, moi being a complete & total mouth-breathing idiot, I didn’t realize it until the last decade or two.

        But it’s who the Khazarians are.

        Misunderestimate their perfidy at your own meta-peril.

        [Where “meta-peril” is how we, in polite company, describe “the absolute & final & irreversible extinction of one’s ancestors’ bloodlines”.]




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      • Yeah, I noticed that as well.

        What’s amazing is that Kristol and Kagan could be proven 100% wrong and they won’t pay any price. These people have been wrong about everything for 20+ years and nothing happens. It just goes to show how little power we have and how much power the usual suspects have.




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    • As most of you know, it is futile and a waste of breath to debate with the “great liberals” of the world.

      Yes, they are insane and there is the whole “bio-leninism” at play with how they play the freaks, but there is something else. Something more ingrained.

      Take this nasty fat guy in the video with the little pig eyes. Obviously, a hateful and vicious individual, but the final line of his tirade is, “I give a shit about other human beings.” He’s preaching his virtue as a means of doing harm to others; in this case sexually mutilating children as he cusses out a peaceful for simply having a sane opinion. He may truly believe on a conscious level that he cares about others, but clearly underneath it all he *really* wants to harm others.

      I believe this is an evolutionary strategy for power and dominance. Mr. Pig Eyes here may could actually be smart. He could be a genius on computers and maybe a good fundraiser for left wing causes. But for all his say mathematical IQ, what really animates him is harming others. So-called liberals having always been holier-than-thou and insanely power hungry; the two go hand-in-hand. Their psychological strategy is to drag everyone down to the level of n-words and eunuchs and then mercilessly exploit them in the name of “civil rights and equality” or somesuch shibbeloth. It’s all deception, all lies, all the time. They’ll cut off your dick and the say, “You may now thank me for affirming your gender. . .BITCH!”

      Again and again. “You may now thank me for having you eat bugs. . .thank me for being a drug and porn addict. . .thank me for saving the environment by taking all your money. . .thank me for opening the border and not being racist. . .thank me for being culturally enriched by being stabbed in the stomach on the subway. . thank me for killing your unborn kids. . .thank me for making women and children rule over you.”

      This is an evo-strategy as pronounced and implacable as r and K selection and exists CLEARLY in White and Jewish peoples. I hope someday this evolutionary strategy and the people who carry it are wiped from the earth. There is no big misunderstand or unintended consequences from good motivations with these people; THEY INTEND EVIL AND THEY ALWAYS DID. To use their, “its who they are; it’s their values.”




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  16. The west isn’t looking to win in Ukraine necessarily. We just want to bleed Russia for as long as possible and exhaust them in order to weaken domestic support for the Putin regime. Sure, if they could have Putin hanging upside down like Mussolini and the Russians importing a government of American neocons to rule them like at the end of the Cold War, that would be the neocons’ wet dream, but they realize that is unlikely. They just want to put external pressure until the government loses support. This will likely be after Putin dies. I would compare it to our approach against Egypt. Used to be the strongest Arab country and the biggest opponent of Israel under nasser. External pressure and multiple failed attempts to get Egypt into war against the US( Lavan affair, attack on uss Liberty, etc.). Egypt was weakened, but nasser was never really overthrown. But when nasser died, Egypt was ready for a more compliant government and to get with the western program. Putin and nasser are analogues in this scheme of thought. We don’t have to “win” Ukraine. The neocons “win” every second the clock tics if the war is going on still.




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    • You are well named.
      It is apparent to any reasonable observer that Russia and China are becoming stronger as the West is collapsing.
      Your Bronze Age Death Cult masters need to get at least a passing acquaintance with reality.




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      • You misunderstand or I wasn’t clear. I’m saying what the western neocons’ strategy is, not what I want or that Russia will necessarily lose. I regret the terrible loss of life in Ukraine and the destruction of a great Slavic country, although I do now question the average IQ of Ukrainians, yet I still feel they are being used as tools




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        • Everything I have seen before and since the start of the war has made me believe that Ukrainians are the worst people in the world. Not bright with way too much self esteem makes for a bad combination. They’re war crime prone too which makes me hate them more.




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          • “not bright with way too much self esteem”

            Gee, who does that remind you of? Next they’ll be naming their babies Mirosl’avius and chugging Courvoissier with their borshch.




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    • Putin dies then the cult gets Medvedev. The Kagan Cult has miscalculated. What they have accomplished is to put Russia and China into an invincible alliance along with Iran and possibly a few others.

      This may partially explain to urgency of the GAE to engage Russia and China now while they still possess what they think is the most powerful military in the world. At this point they are most likely wrong about that as well.

      There are some sources you can find that will give a pretty good gauge of the average Russian’s views. Previously many were positively inclined to the West and wanted good relations. That has changed. Most Russians are angry and fearful of the West now. That is not likely to change anytime soon.




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    • Perhaps the biggest failure of the neocons, and that’s saying something, is never, in the decades since, updating or modifying their core philosophy of the 1992 Wolfowitz Doctrine, in spite of its limitations and flaws. It enjoys the status of religious doctrine, consequences (especially the unintended ones) be damned. You can sort of forgive, or at least understand, someone thinking the way they did in 1992, but still thinking that way by 2020 is inexcusable.

      It should be apparent, to anyone with a brain cell or two, the recklessness of provoking war with Russia on its doorstep in the absence of any compelling national interest, or even imperial interest. Russia is not Egypt, or Iraq, or Libya, or Syria, or Afghanistan. Not at all.

      It’s enough to make you suspect the whole thing is a show and Putin is in on it. How else to explain such otherwise inexplicable recklessness




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      • “It’s enough to make you suspect the whole thing is a show and Putin is in on it. How else to explain such otherwise inexplicable recklessness.”

        Hubris and stupidity. Both in large measures.




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    • Troll King: ‘The neocons “win” every second the clock tics if the war is going on still.’

      Unless China has the industrial capacity to re-arm Mother Russia from now until the Federal Reserve finally runs out of Fiat Shekels.

      Also keep your eye on India.

      India is the wild card here.




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    • Problem is, it’s exhausting the West faster than the Russians. See the latest production numbers out of Germany? Down the most since (ex wartime) since the 20s crash. One of my kids has been parked in Denmark for the last 8 weeks working to get another LNG carrier into service and has spent most of his time since 1/1 shuttling around Europe on similar projects. The Euros know they lucked out with a mild winter. The Danes he’s working with up on the Baltic know damn well the US blew up Nordstream and are not happy. Won’t even bother to go into the BRICs expansion currently underway.




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      • What am I missing about Germany? I don’t understand how their heavy industry remains competitive when the country goes from below-average energy costs before the war to above-average energy cost from now on.

        I don’t what what % energy costs make up of industry costs, but I’d assume quite a bit. This permanent change in energy costs seems like it would require either 1) substantially reduced wages or 2) moving production to countries with cheaper energy costs, likely the US.

        I suppose that the companies could get more efficient, but it’s not as though they weren’t trying to be as efficient as possible before. Of course, they could also dramatically ramp up nuclear energy production but that’s a not going to happen with the Greens and would take years to get online even if they went down that path.

        That just seems like it’s a very big problem for Germany – and thus Europe – but no one seems much concerned. Maybe, I’m overestimating how much this will hurt German industry.




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  17. This is very very very off-topic vis a vis the situation in Ukraine, but it looks like the Z-man’s old buddies over at American Greatness have decided to slit their own wrists. I know they tend to be something of a normie-Con site, but they post some good stuff now and again that’s a lot nearer to our side of the great divide than anything the p*****s at NR would ever produce. They’ve even given pretty free rein to Paul Gottfried to post his stuff whenever he wants to.

    Now they’ve gone ahead and killed the comment sections like so many of these other right-wing sites. The plebes must realize they job is only to consume content and not sass back about anything they take issue with.




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    • It can’t be much fun being mocked in the comments section. Colorblind CivNats have no answer to this reality: institutions are downstream from culture which is downstream from biology.

      Change the biology and you change everything.

      If you bring this up, AmGreat types either have to

      1) sound like Woke crazies and say that there’s no such thing as race or biological differences, which forces them to repudiate natural selection, i.e., openly say that they’re morons; or

      2) acknowledge racial differences and admit that they’re entire worldview and morality are wrong.

      Neither path is acceptable so they shut you down. They really have no other choice.




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      • They aren’t practiced with the leftist technique of arguing with you by claiming they don’t understand anything you’re saying and that every word means something other than it’s common meaning, thus forcing you to run around in circles in a futile attempt to get them to actually respond to your point until you finally give up and leave.




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    • Interesting that they concede that value proposition is the right to comment on articles. Logically, the articles should be the premium content the comment section is free. I wish them luck, but that model never works.




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      • Which raises the question of exactly who or what is funding AG. I hate to sound like Tin Foil Hat Guy, but perhaps even AG is somehow plugged into the Power Structure.




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        • I want to put in a nice word for Julie Kelly but whether wittingly or not, what she’s really doing is putting the fear of God into us. Seems like the regime would be pleased with her reporting in that sense.

          VDH, for his part, is doing a very nice job of getting everyone used to the idea that it’s not our country anymore. And nothing else.




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          • I listen to his podcasts quite a bit, mostly to fill in on an academic weakness in Classicall era history. But Hanson has developed a real edge in the last couple of years—it wasnt there before. Being Swedish, I feel like he’s on the edge of shifting from reticence to Viking berserker at any minute. With no warning. And he’s old enough and has made enough money to not give a shit.




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          • Sam,

            Yeah, you can see the anger building in VDH, but he’s trapped in his colorblind CivNat mindset so he doesn’t know what to do with that anger.

            He just can’t bring himself to cross the great divide to our side, but he also can’t stop looking at the destruction happening to what was once his country. He’s a conflicted man.

            You definitely get the feeling that if he ever breaks free from his CivNat mental shackles, he’s going to go at it hard.




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        • I don’t know who funds AG, but I’ve been wondering along similar lines lately as well. What I’ve found absolutely maddening lately is the total refusal of so-called conservative commentators to be honest about the widespread voter fraud in 2020 and 2022. You see endless commentary about how the GOP can appeal more to the youth vote or how nominating someone “without baggage” like Meatball Ron means more soccer moms returning to the GOP but – even if there’s some merit to the argument – what difference does it make when the Dems have all the panel trucks full of fake ballots they need to overcome any marginal upticks in the number of votes for the Republican candidate. Even Gottfried of all people has been terrible on this score and churned out a bunch of columns on how the GOP needs to adjust their stand on this, that or the other thing.

          What I suspect is that a lot of deep pockets that are keeping these sites afloat are telling the staff to stay away from the issue of fraud. They just don’t want to go near the issue. Maybe they have some fears about lawsuits or they just don’t want to rock the boat, but the word has gone out to ignore voter fraud. We can get some clicks discussing abortion or trannies in Disneyland and that’s all we need to do to keep the site running.




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          • The strategy of ignoring fraud has a limited shelf life though.

            They can still plausibly blame everything on Trumps toxicity.

            What do they say 10 years from now with an uninterrupted string of D victories?




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    • In the age of cancel culture, I don’t think any publishing outlet wants to be even peripherally responsible for any content they don’t absolutely control, and that includes the comments sections. Coincidentally, something I just wrote at Sailer’s is relevant to this topic:

      Other countries often have laws that strictly control the type of information that can be published about criminal suspects before their trials, and the reasoning behind these laws is pretty cogent. You don’t want to give notoriety to the criminal or to the crime, or further embarrass the victims, or taint the criminal proceedings with public expectations of a verdict, or defame somebody who might end up being judged not guilty who could then come back and sue you. In order to avoid these outcomes, they make use of a codified system that tells publishers beforehand what they can and can’t say. It may not fit with American ideals of freedom of expression, but at least everybody knows where the boundaries are. It was the violation of these laws that took down that Tommy Robinson guy. Anybody remember him?

      The American system is more flexible due to our free speech traditions, but for that very reason it is correspondingly worse. Not only does it allow publishers to influence public opinion by selectively omitting certain facts that they might legally have been able to publish (which is the issue that the Stevies always complain about in these threads), but it also means that American corporations are forced to navigate an ever-changing litigation battle-scape where judge and jury might bankrupt you for saying things you thought were well within your rights. This is the age of cancel culture after all, and who knows where the blade might fall next.

      Is it really out of the realm of possibility that media outlets might choose to voluntarily adopt a more British system of publishing standards, just to protect themselves? If you were a newspaper owner, what would you do? That’s not a rhetorical question, by the way. You really have to think about that if you want to honestly evaluate what might be going on.

      Most people here cheered on the Nick Sandmann civil suit verdict; they really shouldn’t have. That’s the kind of thing that will ensure you’ll never get accurate reporting again, just in case there was any doubt; and it revealed just how shallow the Alt-right’s commitment to free speech really is.

      As a Traditionalist of the paleo-right, I do not have philosophical commitments to free speech ideals. I actually believe there should be restrictions on speech, and that heresy and lèse-majesté should be illegal. I am consistent in what I think. But the Alt-Right is the mirror image of the Progressive Left insofar as it hypocritically demands freedom of speech, but only for the speech it agrees with. If you really believe in free speech, you should have encouraged Nick Sandmann to stand down. You didn’t, and this is what you get.







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    • Yes. And before they killed the comments they had some easily triggered censors who would troll users and get confrontational over ridiculous things. Of course, the sacred cow subjects were about the usual suspects, and the active censors were of the usual suspects.

      The crackdown is only just beginning. What did Biden just say? He wants to Finish The Job.

      Whoah baby! He doesn’t lack subtlety!







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  18. The wickedness of these people was clear with the sanctions on Iraq. Probably a million people died because US sanctions specifically blocked water filtration components – probably half of the body count children. Declassified documents back around 2000 confirmed this wicked intent. I am no great empathizer, but imagine how you would view a country that deliberately starved your kids to death. To think about watching my youngest shrivel up and die makes me hate these people for their evil, evil gaze.




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  19. OT but relevant to the zeitgeist, I was reading Moonofalabama for the first time in a few weeks. Last week, he had an article where Kimdotcom explicitly stated that Seth Rich contacted him.




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    • The Seth Rich cope presumes the existence of a Democratic campaign worker who’s not only above partisanship but willing to risk death by ratting out his bosses for principle and patriotism.

      I’m slightly surprised Kim would lie about it. We have no idea who did the leak. All the information we have about it is garbage. Rich’s connection to it is *made up*.

      When the kind of homo who poses for photographs in an ironic American flag suit gets jogged, LAUGH.







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      • Who said he was above partisanship? He was a Bernie bro who was disturbed that the primary was being rigged for Hillary. And I’m willing to bet he had no conception of the consequences.




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      • He was a bummed bernie bro exposing herself as revenge. the datestamps on those files show they were downloaded at the computer, not sent to an outside device . so there’s that too.







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      • You know I have always wavered on this one. I can certainly see the angle of him as a plant. But sometimes I wonder. Is he not roughly analogous to Snowden? Obviously, Snowden is compromised to some extent. But, only to some extent.







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      • fatboy dotcom makes up shit all the time. he claimed at one point to have copies of epstein’s tapes and was going to release them. which of course he did not.




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  20. Wonder if that big Russian troop buildup over the winter — for a “spring offensive” that never materialized — might be launching a spoiling attack on the big Uke summer offensive here soon. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

    Probably not, because I gather the Ukrainians aren’t really built for offense — they’re more built for “sitting in bunkers like chumps getting shelled,” because that’s what their idiot AINO trainers / financiers insisted upon — so a spoiling attack would actually be playing to their one sorta-strength… but still. It would be hilarious.




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    • My impression is so long as you can keep the Ukes sending soldiers into a salient (Bakhmut) to get butchered and methodically shell anything that moves why go on the offensive.




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      • My personal theory is that the Russians will eventually seek piece once they’ve taken everything east of the Dnieper River. River crossings for assaults can be a bitch, and they’ve said they don’t want to occupy all of Ukraine. I just wonder if Zelensky or his puppeteers would agree to terms







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    • I’ve always figured Russia has to keep a large force near Ukraine but not on the front line so as to deter a NATO counterattack







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      • Also draftees are not permitted by Russian law to fight outside the borders. Professional army and Wagnerians only. Now if NATO attacked, I’m sure that provision would be waived. But its the law right now.







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  21. I got in bunch of arguments early on in the sanctions regime. People did not seem to comprehend that a country that is largely self sufficient in 1)energy 2)food and 3) critical natural resources (including gold) is largely proof against a sanctions regime. If that same country supplies most of its now-belligerent neighbors with these critical needs, you’ve created a bigger problem. We had to do a “Russian hunt” at work to suss out any “bad people”, it was silly. Seizing assets out of the financial system is already creating problems. Wait until you are not the dominant reserve currency and nobody wants USD—the credit card gets shut off.




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  22. It makes perfect sense to nuke the Whites. Why?

    Because, when the Whites are gone, the only whites left will be /fellow whites/.

    Alexander, Cesear, DaVinci, Micaelangelo, George Washington;

    by the third generation, none will ever know- all of our history will be /theirs/, for the rest of time.




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  23. Xi and Putin must be wetting themselves with fear. Sage the therapy dog is coming:

    https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/05/03/a-very-good-girl-deploys-on-carrier-ford-sage-the-therapy-dog/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_nt&_PxNeoZBr0r07lrTrak1FNUK4YMix4r3qadt6ls1bLPkK3UTA

    “Cmdr. Genevieve Clark, the chaplain for the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, will serve as Sage’s primary handler…”

    Well, there ya go… bull dyke lesbian with a Carrier Strike Group Therapy Dog… the Iranians had better watch out, too




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    • Bloody hell. Can this possibly be the same country that licked the Krauts, Dagos and the Nips in WWII? The question is, of course, rhetorical.




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    • Is there any lower we can get in clown world? Of course there is but that is terrible. That creature as a chaplain? May God help us all. Go Russia, go China.




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