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Lenin famously said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” The world has just experienced, and perhaps is continuing to experience, those weeks where decades happen. There is the war in Ukraine, of course, which keeps tempting the world to the abyss, but now there is the collapse of Syria, which promises to make the Middle East more dangerous. On top of that is the political crises in South Korea, France and Romania.
The easiest to diagnose is the Ukraine crisis, which has been creeping toward a conclusion most have understood since it started. The Russian army is slowly grinding up the Ukrainian army, which is slowly retreating. Slowly has been slowly becoming quickly, leading to rumors that big changes await Kiev. Zelensky has all but volunteered to be Trump’s personal footstool to find out what, if anything, Trump plans to do about Ukraine in 2025. The answer is probably nothing.
For their part, the Russians seem to have decided that they will have to sort things out despite whoever is running American foreign policy. The thing to watch is who Tucker Carlson has on from the Trump team after he returns from Russia. There is a good chance that Tucker is operating as an unofficial go between for Trump or who Trump will trust to manage the Ukraine problem. Regardless, the end of Project Ukraine promises to be weeks where decades happen.
The problem that promises to create lots of chaos for the world is the unexpected collapse of the Assad regime in Syria. One of the things you must learn when doing business in the Arab word is that nothing is ever as it appears. That is most certainly true with the fall of Assad and his exile in Russia. While it is clear that the Turks trained and supplied the “rebel” army, made up of mercenaries from around the Muslim world, it is unlikely that they anticipated this result.
It is also certain that the United States and Israel had a hand in developing this “rebel” army and setting it on its course. Like everyone else, they appear to have been unprepared for this result. Strangely, the Russians and the Iranians seem to have anticipated this result or at least were the first to see what was happening, so maybe they had a hand in this as well. The Russians have been operating in that part of the world for generations, so they understand Arab reality.
What we know is that Syria is now “controlled” by a collection of Muslim fanatics who have little in common with one another. They lack the resources and manpower to remain in control for long, so that means the many other factions and their sponsors will be looking to either flow into the void left by Assad or carve out more space for themselves in what used to be Syria. Iran, Russia, Israel, the United States and the Gulf countries will be backing their proxies in this chaos.
As an aside, the Trump demand that the United States stay out of the Syrian crisis is only going to make things worse. One reason is we will see a flood of refugees from Syria into Europe. This will be done on purpose to draw the West into the conflict, despite what Trump says. Then you have the portion of the foreign policy blob that exists to “manage” the Middle East. There is zero chance that they stay out of of what they see as an early Christmas present.
The Arabs are not having all the fun. South Korea just had an attempted coup, which saw the current president try to arrest parliament. The parliament fought back against martial law and then the president backed down. Then parliament tried to impeach the president but could not find the votes. If you want a laugh, Costin Alamariu did a piece on the bizarre politics of Korea. If North Korea decides it is time to invade South Korea, no one should be surprised.
Europe also is experiencing weeks in decades now. The Romanians tried to have an election, and things did not turn out as expected. They carefully followed the rules of “our democracy” by banning opposition parties and making sure the media ignored anyone questioning the authority of the regime. The result was the “far-right” candidate won a big victory in the first round and was holding a massive lead heading into the second round, so the Romanians annulled the election.
The reason they annulled the election is they said there must have been Russian interference causing the unexpected result. You see the logic of “our democracy” in how Western rulers operate. “Our democracy” is a system that always confirms their righteousness and their right to rule. Any other result means someone or something has sabotaged “our democracy.” Since “our democracy” is sacred, any means necessary must be employed to defend it, even annulling elections.
There is something similar happening in France. Last summer, the French populist party scored a stunning win in the first round of legislative elections. This is the party led by the Le Pen family. They were poised to win a majority in the national Assembly until Macron conspired with the other parties to rig enough seats to prevent it. Then Macron finked on his partners and appointed a prime minister none of his partners liked, which has now led to the collapse of the government.
Convention says that when the government is paralyzed this way, there are new elections to break the deadlock. The only way this can happen is for Macron to resign, which he is not going to do, because Notre démocratie est trop importante pour la laisser aux mains des électeurs. This means France is currently without a government, other than Macron playing the organ grinder’s monkey to Trump. French bonds are now less attractive to investors than Greek bonds.
The political chao in France is a foreshadowing of what lies ahead for all the EU countries as the bill for Project Ukraine comes due. Germany is headed for elections in 2025, and they are desperately trying to avoid a Romanian result, so they will probably jail anyone who could be a problem. Britain is now ruled by a party that is slightly less popular than rectal cancer. The opposition party, the Tories, is led by a clown they imported from Nigeria.
Overall, the European economy is in serious trouble. It is a thing that Western media ignores, for the most part, but anyone doing business in Europe or with companies having exposure to Europe understands. It turns out that an economy built on cheap energy from Russia performs poorly when that cheap energy from Russia is replaced by expensive energy from America and even more expensive energy from Russia, sold through Asian intermediaries.
What all of this points to as we close out the year is that what lies ahead is a time when decades happen in weeks. The looming chaos that is the next Trump administration only adds to the uncertainty. Through no fault of his own, Trump will inherit an empire surrounded by chaos of its making but lacking the human capital to understand the problems and set them right. Instead, it will be old solutions to the new problems, meaning this may seem like a calm time by comparison.
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I have a bad feeling that Trump is exactly the wrong type of person we need in command right now. He has zero incentive to resist the pressure his jewish handlers will impose to use goyim cannon fodder for the greater Khazar-Israel project.
But the cannon fodder itself can turn its back on the post-country that turned its back on them. It is already happening. The response to the ethnic cleansing of the American military is to aid and abet it by not enlisting. If you are a billionaire and you are paying a bunch of guys to guard the compound, is it your compound, or is it theirs? In the meantime, the Dems are now not just scolding White men, they are scolding White women. I hope they keep it up. As Z said, years are unfolding in weeks and there are… Read more »
The whole billionaire vs mercs argument was summed up perfectly in The Dark Knight Rises
“Do you feel in charge?”
A slave’s feeling of power is derivative of (his feeling of) the power of his master. His vocation is the maintenance of that feeling.
The rarest things in the world are slave revolts and “good cops” (or even putsch-minded cops). They’re almost perfectly contrary to human nature.
I doubt there’s a non-fictional example of either phenomenon.
Looking back at empires afflicted with crisis issues it’s rare for someone to be up for the task. Louis the 16th, Czar Nicolaus and even Charles the First were master tacticians compared to Trump. It’s really nothing against him in the end as the system reform required at this point is well beyond the ability of anyone within the system to do anything about it.
“Through no fault of his own, Trump will inherit an empire surrounded by chaos of its making but lacking the human capital to understand the problems and set them right.” Yep. It’s the classic case of “be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.” If the economy collapses on his watch or the SHTF for any other reason, the Democrats are going to pin the blame on him and make him into the next Herbert Hoover. On some level I think the Democrats understand this. The “solution” to a crisis is always more government. After Trump’s lame-duck… Read more »
I strongly suspect this is why the fraudmeisters sat this one out and allowed Trump to win.
“I’m told Average Joes does not have enough players and is going to be forfeiting the match.”
”It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.”
What we know is that Syria is now “controlled” by a collection of Muslim fanatics who have little in common with one another. And it’s pretty hilarious how the mainstream media is already carrying water for those terrorists. Syrian rebel leader’s victory speech holds a message for Iran – and for Trump and Israel too “Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s road to Damascus has been long. He has talked openly about his change along the way. From young al Qaeda fighter two decades ago, to rebel commander espousing sectarian tolerance.” What? That $10 million bounty on his head for terrorism? Offered by the US?… Read more »
Ah, Monty Python and The Holy Grail. “Lets not bicker and argue over who killed who.”
Far too many things that Monty Python did as bits because they were simply too absurd to be taken seriously (I’m looking at you, Loretta) are now just “today’s news.”
Reminds me of John McCain’s 2011 meeting with the noble Syrian rebel fighters…who quickly turned into ISIS.
Terrorists are people we don’t like. Rebels are the people we do like. Therefore, by definition, the people ruining Syria are rebels and not terrorists. It’s all very simple once you know the code.
It’s just like how it is here on the home front. The difference between a protest and a riot is which side the people involved are on. Leftists, even those with bricks breaking windows are protestors whose demands should at least be considered in a positive light. Rightists, OTOH, are rioters and should be punished.
“Therefore, by definition, the people ruining Syria are rebels and not terrorists.”
They’re currently on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations — but not to worry, they’ll be erased from the list pronto. The $10m bounty on the head of the leader placed by the US government will also disappear.
Brilliant comment.
“Words and Behaviors” by Aldous Huxley should be required reading for every person who can hold a thought.
“Rebels” like the “rebel alliance” in Star Wars. The baddies are always an “Axis” – the goodies are always an “Alliance”.
Also, bad guy states are called a regime. Bad guy allies are called proxy forces, rather than allies.
Right. In case we need to obliterate said ally tomorrow.
‘Well, they were just proxies’….
A lot of things here, and in the West as a whole, operate according to these kinds of a priori “knowledge”. If you can put aside your personal revulsion for the people doing this “reasoning” it actually makes sense. Consider, as Z writes: “Our democracy” is a system that always confirms their righteousness and their right to rule. Any other result means someone or something has sabotaged “our democracy.” This is how the Romanians, for example, can “know” that there was Russian subversion in their election. The results don’t make sense from the globalist point of view, hence someone cheated.… Read more »
I mixed up my conspiracies. Apparently it was China and Tik Tok that whispered in the ears of the Romanians, not Russia.
Dammit, it was both of them.
Ooooo, don’t you just know he’s Nancy Pelosi, Edwin Muskie and Pat Schroeder rolled into one quivering, tolerant mass? Because that’s how one rises to power in that festering, Levantine rat-hole.
His “road to Damascus”… they really published that, CNN
It must be increasingly hard for the xirls and xims who write for fashionable gibberish publications like Huffpo, Jezebel, and the New Yorker to keep all this stuff straight. I mean one day a group of Jihaddis is a violent, patriarchal, enemy of all wymmym, trans-persyns, and SCIENCE. Then literally the next day, they are “liberating” the wymmyn of Syria by making them wear veils and Gaia only knows what they’re doing to gays and guys in dresses. You could probably make some quick cash producing a nice cartoon info-graphic about who’s who aimed at 5th grade level reading and… Read more »
Don’t leave out the neocons. Last I checked, they are celebrating over how “our terrorists” stuck it to Putin!
When you don’t let the terrorists win you’re letting the terrorists win.
The Romanian situation is of particular interest. Our Democracy prevailed over the actual winner of the election, Calin Georgescu, because it was claimed the public was manipulated, no, may have been manipulated, to vote the Wrong Way via TikTok (is there anything TikTok can’t do?). As happens when the United States and other Our Democracies overturn election results, Antifa and the propaganda organs were deployed to denounce and terrorize the voters, who foolishly think voting is intended to reflect public preferences. The Romanian Supreme Court went so far as to write social media had shown unfair preference for Calin Georgescu.… Read more »
Lech Walesa is a proud supporter of Donald Tusk, big backer of the EU and friend to ever-increasing ‘diversity’ in Poland.
I was clueless, and even assumed Walesa was dead. The same trajectory happened with Havel.
Brain dead.
Indeed. It is understandable that Walesa would have an affection for a United States that no longer exists (if it ever did), but surely he recognizes what the GAE is doing to Europe because it is so eerily similar.
Wałęsa’s chief concern has always been the welfare and fame of Wałęsa. Only ignorant Westerners who don’t speak Polish venerate this figure (whose personality is really just a simpleton blessed with abundance of low cunning). Havel at least was able to speak the intelectual language of the international saloons. Wałęsa tingled the same romantic sentiment for the “working man” that evolved into celebration of non-white savages once the “working class” fell out of fashion. Today he’s just a relic of a bygone era, with the elderly chattering class paying their ritual tributes every time the anniversary of “Our Democracy” passes… Read more »
Maybe a bit harsh, but to your point Walesa certainly was situated to destroy the records that revealed his informant status and since he did not they emerged. Still, peasant cunning has a quality of its own.
People who clearly remember Havel have made the Trump comparison, celebrity turned reformist liberal, etc. Trump’s trajectory toward an ever more globohomo-friendly Trumpism—fully ceding his mandate to Thiel et al.—mirrors Havel, whose initial rise saw him similarly falsely accused of being a fascoid nationalist/revanchist, when he was always just a normie shitlib. A Trump or a Havel take the place of a people’s revolt. They thwart a potentially real* one with a symbolic one. Neither of them meant to do that. Farage is what you get when the part is played by a bad actor instead of an ineffectual one.… Read more »
*What’s possible is what actually happens.
Great line. It reminds me of a favorite, “the purpose of a system is what it does.”:
They had to have three elections in Ukraine before they got the results they wanted. Look what happened to Ukraine after that. I don’t know what the various ethnicities incorporated into Romania are, but I’m sure there are some.
I really feel angry about all this not because I care about world affairs, but because I feel like I’ve been jerked around and lied to my entire life. America, land of the free. Democratic institutions. Spreading freedom and liberty. LMAO.
The rest of the world is going to become such a basket case his first priority, after immigration policy, needs to be to reshore as fast as possible. Yes, we created a lot of the messes, but there’s nothing we can do that won’t make things worse.
The foreign policy machine in Washington will never allow that to happen.
Yep. You’d have to overcome them and the globalistas who dress up as Republicans. Recall that both Bush terms were rabidly globalist, drenched with neocon leftism.
Microchip plants shuttered in the early 2000’s are opening up all over the place….it’s not as unrealistic as people think.
“The rest of the world is going to become such a basket case”-as opposed to the US because Trump is the lighbringer.
You can walk around cities in the Middle East and Europe and not see people crapping in the street or a half-mile strip of homeless zombies dancing to the tune of fentanyl.
Cogent summation of the European sittiation. Macron is a twerp tyrant. Whatcha gonna do with a young dood that marries somebody’s grandmother? Two serpents, entwined. ‘Trump will inherit an empire surrounded by chaos of its making but lacking the human capital to understand the problems and set them right’ Agree. Donald doesn’t have the kind of folks around him it’d take to put the nation on solid footing. He’s a billionaire, Eighties liberal, too easily swayed by females — the bane of modern man. The Right, desperate, embraces Drumpf as savior but it’s a’wishin’. He’s of the Elite. He did… Read more »
Understanding the ruling class in terms of occultism is a good starting point. In my other post today, which is hopefully out of approval jail now, I referred to this problem as Gnosticism. A lot of things that don’t make sense to us are quite reasonable to the elites with their “hidden knowledge”. Sometimes people look at their behavior and conclude that they must have actual secret knowledge. Hence you get conspiracy theories. I’m sure some of those theories are (mostly) correct but I suspect that most of the time you’re just dealing with an elite that operates according to… Read more »
‘In my other post today, which is hopefully out of approval jail now, I referred to this problem as Gnosticism.’ That’s a good general term for the ‘religion’ of the Western elite. Largely they are Gnostic, and representative of the ancient pagan cults of differing types — mostly solar-based systems. ‘Nothing new under the sun’. The elite families most certainly do belong to various secret and semi-secret (in the case of Britain) organizations and societies. Their existence and power are not conspiracy theories. It’s not possible to evaluate national or global conditions without taking into account these groups and organizations.… Read more »
The only thing that actually surprised some people is Turkish perfidy, which is the last thing that should surprise anyone. As usual, “Cui Bono” cuts through the fog. Whatever the long term effects of turning Syria into Libya, Israel has quite effectively removed Iranian pressure from its immediate borders. You have to hand it to them, The serial campaigns of the past year have been a hybrid war example of defeat in detail that will be studied for generations. Russia appears to have decided that when it comes to ports, Odessa is more important than Tartus, especially when the SAA… Read more »
Unfortunately, it appears that Putin’s Achilles heel is the fact that he is so rational and legalistic that he is unable to truly accept that his Western counterparts are ideologically-driven madmen.
The usual suspects are losing their credibility all over the Western world. A lot of them don’t even like each another. And as we see with people like Joe and Mika, they will publicly kneel before whoever has power even though it contradicts what they just said yesterday. It sure seems like the old centers of power can’t hold much longer.
Like zuckerface boot licking drumpf.
Speaking of France, did anyone else catch the disgusting spectacle at Notre Dame?
Why is this performance not a French woman singing in French?
https://x.com/MTGrepp/status/1865499228639789130
I wonder if they even bothered looking for a French woman.
Who cares. It’s modern France and the French wxh put up with it. The only Notre Dame that matters is in Indiana.
I upvoted this comment but it came out -1. Search me.
I had not seen that – and yes, it is disgusting. Imagine what the original builders of that monument to European Christendom would think. They chose a black of no French ancestry for the same reason they allowed Mussulmen to pretend to repair and then set fire to Notre Dame the first place.
Yeah, the authorities had to say right after the fire that Muslims hadn’t started it on purpose, because such is the case with French parish churches on an almost weekly basis. We’re supposed to feel relieved it was an accident (not that we’ll ever really know). Same sort of mind-fuck they do when their pets go off and stab schoolchildren for no particular reason. Try to pass it off as mental illness.
The truth no government of France would admit.
Did someone “take care of business”? Vis a vis Rainbow warrior in 85?
Not after. I remember authorities announcing it wasn’t arson while it was burning.
The reopening of Notre Dame resembled the reopening of a closed theater rather than a place of worship.
I was fortunate to attend Sunday service there in 05.
At that time the majority of the congregation were elderly.
I hope it is allowed to resume its former roll as a place of worship, not a tourist trap.
I’m sure it’ll remain a place of worship – as a mosque.
Hagia Sophia waves hello!
I went to Mass there once, too (My wife’s onetime regular church). Even then I imagined how much had been stripped away in the Revolution and then again by Vatican II. I am at thankful that at least the proposed “multimedia experience” has not been installed, yet. Like the Louvre it can get a Starbucks
This means France is currently without a government Heh. The staggering thing about these daft situations is that: nobody outside of government really seems to care or notice. Didn’t you boys have some sort of shutdown during Trump first reign, which leftists over here thought was “just terrible”… if I recall, most on this blog didn’t give two hoots because at this point: less government intervention and function seems to be preferential! Seems that, when these ‘shutdowns’ or ‘collapses’ happen, the main, necessary arms of government still function, and the private sector does what it does. It’s just the millions… Read more »
The bond issue is no small thing too as it’s not a popular, recognized government issuing the debt but just some dude that no one likes. “Backed by the full faith and credit of Macron” just doesn’t have a very good ring to it.
“This means France is currently without a government Heh”
Does it make a difference? Did anyone notice? It’s not as if the various political flunkeys who were ministers were doing anything.
France doesn’t really need a government as long as it has the President. Even though he can’t formally govern the internal affairs he has plenty of tools to flip off an unfriendly Parliament.Trump could wish he had the same, instead of “checks and balances” that eventually led to the castration of the office, with the emergence of permanent bureaucracy and preference for managerial governance.
Absolutist traditions win vs the republican ones when strong authority is needed.
One small point on U.S. government “shut-downs”. The only thing they ever shut down is the only stuff normal people get from the government: National Parks and the Smithsonian. Two things that probably could be run by volunteers.
Like we say over at Sev’s joint, we’re under the Do Long Bridge. I figure it this way. The Regime has decided, in its profoundly stupid and inchoate fashion where no one is in charge, just factions, that it is either Bagel Land or Ukraine, to salvage something and hand the Bad Orange Man an unwinnable war. We all know who wins that contest for AINO’s heart and wallet. The great question is, now that those plucky rebels jihadists Freedom Fighters have won, can they hold on to power? Once the Russians wrap up the important (to them) war with… Read more »
Trumps instincts are correct: Let the rest of the world deal with the chaos. Syria, Ukraine, Romania, S. Korea, France? There is no need to meddle in any of these messes [especially since U.S. meddling only makes things WORSE].
Trump needs to stay focused on what is happening within the United States and its borders. There is enough work to be done cleaning up the Biden immigration disaster to keep the entire executive branch busy for the next four years.
I’m not looking to be confrontational.
“Let the rest of the world deal with the chaos.” Israel?
I read that our military was directly involved in the toppling of Syria. How does that help us?
The “America First” sentiment is so inspiring, but almost everyone has a blind spot concerning our greatest ally. What prevents us from consistently applying America First? We’re just being fooled once again.
You could also look at Israel as another pawn in the anti-Russia “Great Game” so beloved by Anglo-Saxon elites: the British Empire in the 1800s, and the American Empire vs. the USSR in the late 20th century. Fall of Assad breaks the “Shia Crescent” and severely reduces Russian power and influence in the region. I find it hard to believe the “rebel alliance” toppled Assad in a matter of days without significant help (intel/arms/funding/”advisors”) from NATO (i.e. Turkey, UK), the Gulf Arabs, and Israel. …and look who’s back in town! It’s those beloved “White Helmets”, the UK-handled ISIS front group:… Read more »
“The European economy is off the rails…”
Along with the US. A vendor gave me a Yeti steel tumbler with his companies logo on it.
Yep: “Designed in Texas. Manufactured in China.” Luckily there is no dual use for highly-machined cylinders. I’m sure if things get spicy in Formosa, the design nerds will do something…
Yep. As my husband says, the dollar is ‘king’ among sh*t fiat currencies . . . but it is itself still a sh*t fiat currency. Nothing ever makes logical sense in Klown World.
Well, maybe we should be thankful that the dollar’s status as, “the cleanest dirty shirt,” gives us a bit more time to try and prepare?
Other than that, I’ve got nothing.
and your steel tumbler was manufactured from Fukushima nuclear recycled parts.
Keeps coffee hotter
The Yeti thermos I bought leaked right out of the box.
“They lack the resources and manpower to remain in control for long, so that means the many other factions and their sponsors will be looking to either flow into the void left by Assad or carve out more space for themselves in what used to be Syria.” Syria has been a failed state, a zombie, a dead man walking, for a long time. This is not primarily because of the Assad regime, but because of insoluble festering resource problems. Those problems will remain to afflict whoever is in charge, or nominally in charge. External powers — Russia, Iran — propped… Read more »
Amazingly, the United States deliberately cut off the Assad regime from its primary energy source and its primary food source in the hope the starving Syrians would rise up against Assad. When that failed, they created ISIS and other “rebel” groups. The result was a slow draining of Syria, but Washington was somehow caught off guard by this collapse. Once again, they did not think past the first set of moves. “Remove Assad, something magical happens and we get a pro-Western regime in Syria!”
The stupidity of the Syria policy is unreal. My kid was in a unit that partially deployed there and came VERY close to going. The U.S. base there was 100% illegal under international law and the Constitution. There was never any Congressional declaration of war on Syria. Syria never attacked the U.S. but the U.S. had a base on Syrian soil to help the “rebels” overthrow Assad. The “rebels” we were backing were Kurds, who want Turkish territory. The Turks are our NATO ally and we are obligated to defend their territory under Article 5. The Turks sent troops into… Read more »
Research shows sanctions never work. But TPTB are too stupid, or conniving and won’t alleviate the suffering of common people. The people who live on less than a dollar a day. All the money that went to the MICIMATT via Ukraine could’ve provided clean drinking water for millions. About three million women and children die from respiratory disease every year, from indoor cooking on wood fueled fires. What an easy problem to solve, but no, the West mandates they must use wind and solar power; they aren’t allowed to develop modern power plants. The hypocrisy that causes inhumane suffering makes… Read more »
isn’t it amazing how no matter what happens these World Economic forum young global leaders like macron and trudeau always manage to stay in power?
Apparently, democracy means that, if you are in hole, the only way out is to keep digging.
The United States has been the “cleanest dirty shirt in the pile” for generations. As dirty as the USA has been, the rest of the world just gets dirtier. I would, possibly, exempt Russia and Eastern Europe from this assessment. Their economies are OK, not great, but OK. Also, they seem to have built up a greater sense of community around a resurgence of Eastern Orthodoxy. China’s economy, predictably, is big giant disaster in the waiting. We would do well to disengage from China (why do I hear “China” in Trump’s voice) as much as possible to prevent economic contagion.
China has been a disaster in the waiting at for least the past 20 years. Meanwhile, they developed more rapidly than any other country before.
With our factories, technology, and money.
True. But whose fault is that?
Oh, no question. But I’m tired of the context-free crowing about the Chinese economic miracle.
It’s a fact though. Why does it matter that it was with US factories etc? Would you not take the opportunity if you were in their place?
The topic was the endless predictions of Chinese collapse that never seem to materialize and the *fact* that China has progressed more than anybody else. Hurt feelings don’t change this.
Does Hun stand for Han? Feeling anger that one’s country was betrayed and its knowledge and manufacturing base and self sufficiency was sold off so that the alien elite – working with ‘old money’ like the Bushes – could profit is rather a horse of a different color. Treason – as historically understood – causes an emotional reaction in no way akin to mere ‘hurt feelings.’ Taking pride in the West’s preeminence does not negate China’s ancient achievements . . . but China’s not my country and the Han are not my people.
Touche Deloitte and CALPERS, 1992.
Don’t give a pass to the Taiwanese businessmen who rushed to move their factories across the Taiwan Strait in the 1990’s. All our cheap stuff went from “Made in Taiwan” to “Made in China” with breathtaking speed during the Clinton years.
I’m not sure that the apparent resurgence of orthodoxy in the post-Soviet world is real or good. Putin means to replace the content of the Russian religion with antifascism, as his big cathedral shows. Has it worked? Judging by the Russians I know—only a few and more leftist than average—it may have. Now that there are no nazis, they’re more anti-nazi than ever. The nazis of their fantasy, like Putin’s, like the church’s, are certain Ukrainians, the broader European “far right,” MAGA Americans (as seen on TV)—and especially us, any resister of anti-whiteness, anyone who can say “white” without hatred.… Read more »
The only thing “democracy” means anymore is vote the right way or it doesn’t count. Or, if it’s allowed to count like Trump’s win, the blob will thwart him and his agenda at every turn – so in effect it won’t count. TPTB couldn’t care less what the dirt people think or want. As Ripley said; I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure – or in our case the only way to have a chance…
‘The Earth is evil. Nobody will miss it’. — Melancholia
A positive sign was the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, keeping its immortal structure instead of wrecking it. Although the technicolor chasuble worn by the archbishop was a reminder we’re still in Clown World. Trump and Musk attended, not Biden or Blinken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atmb9WDhdXQ
These silly spectacles like Notre Dame make me revisit the Human Biodiversity Reading List:
https://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com/#EGI
the syrian fall was US doing. for years we have occupied a large part of Syria that is their best agricultural land and also where their oil is. we take the oil, give it to turkey and they find the opposition to Assad with it. this leaves the Syrian economy in ruins. It is laughable tiat trump says we need to stay out of this. we are already neck deep in it. outr forces in Syria are the ones trump ordered out , but millie refused to follow th orde , and lied to trump telling him that they were… Read more »
That’s part of it. But a big factor is Ukraine. Syria was a Russian client state – which is why Assad is now in Russia. By putting so much effort into Ukraine, they had to choose, and Syria came up short. It’s a good reminder that while Russia was “grinding away” in Ukraine, there was always going to be a price to pay somewhere else. I imagine the Russian Navy is probably suffering quite a bit as the Russian army draws the best troops and funds. (I have nothing to back that up, but it stands to reason.) I would… Read more »
Re: the South Korean political chaos, it seems that in the background of all this was a desperate measure on the part of the South Korean central bank to stave off a systemic bank collapse. They apparently succeeded in doing some things out of the media spotlight to bring about stability in the banking sector…for now. The entire “martial law” gambit may have been a ruse to cover for the banksters.
South Korea is a basketcase disguised as a flourishing democracy and citadel of capitalism. When I lived in that part of the world, what struck me was how much the SK population wanted to reunify with the North and abjectly hated the United States and, of course, Japan, for reasons both quite real and others totally fantasized. Counter-Currents today has an excellent overview of the insanity that grips South Korean: Walk Away from South Korea The presence of American troops there is to prevent reunification, which would happen immediately and rather non-violently if they were absent. To add to the… Read more »
Interesting take. I used to work for a South Korean company – had my reports (re-written in Korean and submitted under my boss’ name) read and praised at corporate meetings. I’ve long agreed we should withdraw all troops from there and that we should not accept any South Korean immigrants, but much of the info in the linked article is new to me.
One might expect that a person with a history like yours would express more warmth towards South Koreans. Can you expand on why you recommend that “we should not accept any South Korean immigrants?“
No personal ire – I don’t think we should accept any non-White immigrants, and South Koreans cannot claim to be refugees.
I know little about Korea, but the desire of the South to reunite with the North seems to support that idea that race commands deeper loyalty that values like freedom or capitalism.
If we get a chance to rebuild, we want to build on truths about human nature that are the most fundamental and trustworthy.
I submit that one of the most fundamental and trustworthy truths upon which to build is that for most non-whites most of the time, race commands deeper loyalty than any values, like religion or freedom.
What’s more, the values whites–and especially white Leftists–hold dear are usually disdained by non-whites. Freedom and democracy, tolerance and diversity, are anything but universal.
I’ve mentioned this story here before but while teaching English in Seoul in 1996, I had a university student tell me (and the class) that he couldn’t wait to reunite with North Korea. When asked why, he pounded the desk and said, “so we will have the largest military in Asia and can make…Japan…apologize!!”
I wonder how strong and general those sentiments remain almost 30 years later?
I don’t know for certain but it is a good guess those sentiments remain. After I was back stateside a propaganda event along these lines really struck me. One of the three major networks of the time had footage of South Korean students protesting American troops and one struck an embassy Marine’s face and drew blood. That was shown once and never again. It hit me that the Korean hostility to the American presence was unknown here (it was to me before being there) and had to be kept secret. If a free and fair election were held to decide… Read more »
China says hello.
A split Korea benefits the panda, too. Trump’s overtures to the Norks in 2019 was a way to start chipping away at China’s ability to use North Korea to stir up regional trouble. I think Trump will go back to this once inaugurated. A re-unified Korea would greatly shift the balance of power in Asia away from China in the long run. Idk, Trump seems determined to upset the post-war apple cart in places like eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the far East where a lot of these old rivalries are no longer relevant.
“The entire “martial law” gambit may have been a ruse to cover for the banksters.”
You mean like covid? 😉
Always follow the money!
I spent most of today around Korean men wearing hard hats and talking like they had marbles in their mouths. These guys are running the show, turning the C grade office buildings they bought in the 80’s that no one goes to anymore into apartment buildings with 1900 dollar studios boasting valet garbage pickup at your apartments door. The hallways spell like garbage and the carpet is stained.they exclusively hire people in the country illegally and both parties hate each other. The Koreans speak much better Spanish than English. I’m a specialist who can’t be hired at Home Depot so… Read more »
Violent regime change has been a common thing in 3rd world shitholes since a lot longer than I’ve been alive, so I dunno why I am supposed to care this time. I guess it makes for some diverting reading on the morning doom scroll. But blaming Russians every time an election doesn’t go the way the regime wants, having become the standard MO of the western oligarchy in the last decade, is now even more conspicuous by its absence here in AINO in 2024. That it just happened again in Romania, but not here, kind of confirms that Trump was… Read more »
Good summary of the present situation by the Z-man. I would add only that the situation in Georgia (the country, not the state) remains uncertain. The political party Georgia Dream, which does not want Georgia to join the European Union, won the election, but the president, who is essentially French and pro-EU, has said that she won’t leave office and there have been demonstrations/ riots (with the backing of various NGOs) seeking to compel the government to reverse its policy and seek EU admission. There may yet be another Maidan coup, although governments are getting better at thwarting them.
All the color revolution crap in Georgia should wind down once Trump is inaugurated. That’s all CIA/State Victoria Nuland/Samantha Power meddling. That crap is going on in Hungary and Romania, too. I think we’ll see Trump empowering the people who won. Russia still controls enough of Georgia to keep them out of NATO…which was the goal of their invasion all those years ago.
First, you must survive the interregnum of chaos, which is no easy task if you live in a big city. Second, you must disappear in plain sight and become the nobody that nobody notices. Third, you must become opportunistic and everything solely within the confines of your cranium. Fourth, think outside the box and use your God-given intelligence to do the unexpected. Simple, secret, solo, and spontaneous. We have numbers, and they cannot lock up everyone and still function as a nation. Let’s roll.
October 7, 2023, is what changed everything in the Middle East. Hamas and all of its supporters were put on notice, and a number of unprecedented events have taken place: direct killings of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, direct missile exchanges between Israel and Iran, massive destruction of Gaza and Lebanon, the exploding pagers – and I have no doubt that this sudden deposing of Assad is part of the pattern. Hezbollah were key to sustaining his rule, and they have been absolutely decimated by Israel. Iran needs to sue for peace and get all the hostages handed back to Israel… Read more »
According to the Venezuelan intelligence officer who was masquerading as my Lyft driver, the countries most likely to feel El Martillo in 2025 and beyond are Mexico, Cuba and his homeland.
This, he assured me, has nothing to do with any sort of foreign policy strategy and everything to do with the permanent re-alignment of politics inside the US.
Per spooky, once Trump is done in Latin America the GOP can stop pretending to pander to negros, perras, and maricones.
Isn’t it pretty to think so?
As usual, reading Z and the comments is one of the best news updates I know of
What got me was the astonishing turnaround. Eretz Ysrael looks like a real possibility. The reason for the October 7 operation was to give Israel and her proxies leave to attack. Now that the Iranian and Russian supply lines to Hamas / Hiz’b’allah have been sundered, their senior leadership decimated, it seems Israel has turned the tide. As Matt Bracken notes, Iran will not reach the Med now; Pipelinestan and the New Silk Road are going to go through the JudeoSunni axis, and Israel has backdoor access to the BRICS thru the Sunnis. Denied access to lucrative Russian resources, NATO… Read more »
Other than the anti-antisemitism stuff and Bondi, I tend to agree. I’m not sure she has any job except running interference for the deputies under her (former Trump lawyers in the NY State cases) as they pursue investigations behind the election interference by NY government officials. All of this stuff collapsing suddenly is because of the election here. Trump tied the hands of the regime with his antiwar positions. Now that he has won, everything is unraveling. Russia went all-in on Ukraine, but it probably was not necessary now that Trump has won. But by doing so, they had to… Read more »
With Syria, it appears that the CIA and/or Turkey bribed a lot of commanders (Israel may have also done this) to stand aside. That is the danger of the corrupt regimes, but that trick is limited. It is unlikely to work in Russia, or Iran. Now Erdogan (the big winner) has a direct land route to Israel. He may desire to attack Israel in the view that its weak, that the US will at least step aside if not actively aid him because Ukraine, etc. With his economy still free-falling, he has incentive for War. Germany and Austria are now… Read more »
“Free Palestine movement accidentally freed Syria”
Like the Roman Empire, there was a lot to be said for the Ottoman Empire. Just sayin’…..
Just sayin’…..what? Clink some nads there, say something substantive.
I think he’s going for the truism that the Roman/Byzantine and Ottoman empires in Anatolia kept the lid on Levantine anarchy and Persian influence. Syria has always been the chew toy between the two regional powers, but that balance has been broken since 1918 and the rise of the American and Soviet/Russian geostrategic proxy wars and the creation of Bagel Land which created a permanent open wound that never heals.
Thanks Rick! I need more coffee haha..
And the sphere of influence stretched all the way to Egypt at minimum. Turkey won’t be satisfied for long with those scraps. Persians will lick their wounds, but will be back for round 2 as always in their long history.
What are the states lying on the way to the Sinai Peninsula?
Is this whole CEO murder thing Sir-real to anyone else?
The theme the media settled on for this season’s pro-censorship propaganda push was “bro.” Kamala (brat! the opposite of bro!) was rejected—and so Democracy died and fascism reigns—by the tech bros, the Rogan bros, the Bernie bros, the old-fashioned “brother” bros (said Obama), etc. Suddenly there’s this bro, comically stereotypical. They say he wrote reviews of two Elon biographies. He’s exactly what the feds characterize as the problem: Uncensored Internet White Man. Led astray! To stochastic terror! He’s soooooo perfect… But the conservatives, with their overwhelming desire (sexual) to defend any corporate executive, no matter how clearly he marks himself… Read more »
Imagine a guy like Luigi showing up at the J6 protests, and imagine he’s not a lone wolf but there are 20-30 just like him… I’ve said for a long time that the over-the-top response to J6 was straight up fear born from the knowledge that THEY GOT LUCKY. Lucky that 99.9% of the protesters went home before dark, and none were really violent. We live in a very open and vulnerable society. Countless county health department employees are very, very, lucky that people played along with the COVID charade. It’s not hard to find where those people live and… Read more »
Russia either sold Syria out or more likely, they were stretched to thin to help.
Or the more likely option is they just accepted that Assad had run out of time.
There’s a theory out there that Russia traded Syria for Ukraine. Guess we’ll see
This stuff happening now is a blessing for Trump. It all falls on the current regime’s head. Trump wants deportations to be the center of his first few months. It will require the most political capital, which he will spend on kicking people out. He will have to fight a GOP Senate that will try to stuff “comprehensive immigration reform” – amnesty – into legislation. Figure $100B for that, paid for by…… ….Ukraine. Trump met with Zekensky in France. I think it’s a safe bet that meeting was about transition planning Bashir Assad style. Trump’s Ukraine emissary will likely have… Read more »
I think the better label is “muh duhmocracy…”