Before we get diverted to strife. I offer culture.

The 12 Hours of Bathurst 2025

The race highlights are below. The full race replay is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/@GTWorld/streams

PEACE 😇

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ONE BAD MOTHER

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99% of the population finds that incredibly boring.

Race fans seem oblivious to the fact that most of us would rather watch the westminster dog show than practically any circle race.

Girkin is a cautionary tale. One should never trust the Kremlinoid Noviops. Just ask Assad about it …

OTOH:

https://vk.com/wall-129997795_90001

And more recently:

https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/descendant-of-austro-hungarian-emperor-calls-for-dismantling-of-russia/

So basically the flamboyant (former FSB officer) “Russian Nationalist”, who (while on Malofeyev’s payroll) ignited the conflict in the Eastern Ukraine, is also a good acquaintance of the very man who is the current head of the Habsburg lineage, who is a professional spook, who nowadays calls for dismantling RusFed and whose ancestors’ policy was instrumental in fostering Ukrainian nationalism that Girkin pretended standing up to.

It gets curiouser and curiouser…

Isn’t it?

🙂

Race fans seem oblivious to the fact that most of us would rather watch the westminster dog show than practically any circle race.

ROTFL

Why are you always so negative and confrontational?

Trump voters would prefer a high quality auto race. I admit that some Harris voters, such as yourself, would prefer the dog show.

Do you have any attendance or viewership numbers for your pro-Harris dog show? If so, I will try to find figures for some comparable racing events.
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FYI — Bathurst (a.k.a. Mount Panorama) is not a circle. It is a difficult multi turn track with significant elevation changes.

PEACE 😇

The context for the SMO is the West attacking Russia after turning a Russophile, Russian-speaking region into a hostile pawn. With this as a foundation I think the West has a very difficult time overcoming the perspective in the following images. There is really nothing like it in the Anglo countries.

I would watch a circle race with cars driven by dogs.

This is the type of conspiracy theory comment that sets you apart from the average Ivan that gravitates to this blogsite, plenty to think about and read further on. This and your comments regarding ancient cultures (Corded Ware, Yamnaya, etc;) make you an outstanding contributor here.

Apparently King Karl was once a game show host. I wonder if he takes any of this seriously?

I think Assad knew that Russia had only given him a temporary reprieve. He was unable to act on it, probably too exhausted by the entire situation. I doubt he feels cheated by Russia, but maybe let down by his own men.

Apparently King Karl was once a game show host. I wonder if he takes any of this seriously?

He’s an Archiduc, Strelkov/Girkin being a monarchist was well aware of the title and rank of the person who honoured him with a visit in Moscow. The Habsburg-Lothringen dynastic house roots go as far back as Charlemagne’s time. They are among the non-official “owners” of the European Community. He is a professional Intelligence Officer, he’s the co-founder of Bellingcat (along his pal Christo Grozev) that was instrumental in the Malaysian airliner controversy and the Navalny case. His dad, Otto Von Habsburg supported the creation of the WEF and the Vienna institute for Complex Systems analysis, aimed at tricking the imbecile Sovok “elite” into the Detente. He was one of the godfathers of the European Union. He worked for the allies during the War, met Trudeau the father in Quebec, collaborated with Koudenhove-Calergi on Pan Europa project. But yeah, perhaps Karl is just doing what he’s doing for LOLs only.

Jason Whitlock on the real reason the Mavericks gave Luka Doncic away.

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He does not mention Adelson’s religion. : )

His dad Otto was an off the wall wack job as well.

Interesting move that might very well help both teams. Mavericks in the short term. The Lakers in the long run.

…perhaps Karl is just doing what he’s doing

Karl Habsburg and his buddies have never gone away. The Austro-German upper class and nobility were imperialist wanna-be’s with very ambitious plans in the Balkans-Eastern Europe – they were and are fanatically anti-Russian, their main competitor.

Then they lost WW1 and had to switch to quiet support of Nazis, privately they despised the vulgarity. At home they were under huge pressure from the socialist-leaning masses…it took them decades after WW2 to stabilize it.

Koudenhove-Calergi is their hero – Euro-level “rule” makes it easier to control the pesky local nationalist-traditionalist and socialist majorities. They see the WW2 German anti-Anglo-French-Jew attack as a huge mistake: privately they say WW2 should had been fully directed at the Slavs, meaning the Russians – that’s were the “goodies” are.

It’s a sad social group, I know them well. They feel cheated by history and are bitter about their post-WW1-WW2 fate. What drives them is resentment, they despise Ukies, Poles, Czechs and dream of using them as cannon-fodder since there are too many of them. When outsiders barge in and stir it up, the post-Habsurgs immediately revert to their old behavior, they are incorrible. They have a Koudenhove memorial in Vienna – but not for Sobieski’s victory over Ottomans in 1683. The fools among the Slavs who believe them and join in always come to regret it and end up losing.

Thanks. I didn’t want to make any pretense of understanding European Royal power. I know it is still pivotally important, but had no idea of the resume of this Archiduc! Assuming the wiki page is vaguely accurate, the game show gig may have been intended to hide some of the sharp edges from the rubes — such as me 🙂

He was a Habsburg. Heir to a 1000 years old dynasty. That has an impact upstart arrivistes such as Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin have a hard time grasping. Same applies to the American political ignoramuses as well that would find it hard to explain whom the Habsburg truly are. One has to at least read some Fursov, then it becomes much more clear that “some aristocrats are more equal than others”. The British Royals for instance are nowhere close to the Habsburgs as the aristocratic self-awareness goes. And as I wrote above, the Lothringen branch of the Habsburg goes way back to the seventh century CE.

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

Karl is heir to more than a thousand years’ tradition. A Drang nach Osten tradition…

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/fmst-2021-0005/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopY5XG0cOOaL6y45L-ubN_Jgom9H9BdhP1l8thdCk43NURLb0Ub

Any Balto-Slav who would believe these people being allies would deeply regret it. Their whole history is a history of genocidal domination. Starting with the conquest of Carantania and ending with their today’s shenanigans.

The Habsburgites were among the Serb bashers in the 1990s.

See my reply to Mikhail above.

Interesting that Strelkov (and therefore Malofeyev) are connected to these people. Strelkov was in charge in Donetsk when the Malaysian airliner was shot down. Without Strelkov’s foray into Slavyansk (a symbolic name, isn’t it?) the war in Eastern Ukraine would probably have been avoided. Ukrainians would have accepted the loss of Crimea and the Russian irredentist insurrection in the Donbas would have been put down as it was put down in Odessa and Kharkov. I have written before about Malofeyev connections to the Dark International, it would be interesting to see if Strelkov’s / Malofeyev connection to the Habsburgs could be proven and linked back to the CIA Gladio – type networks of the Cold War era.

https://blackintl.net/

Any Balto-Slav who would believe these people being allies would deeply regret it. Their whole history is a history of genocidal domination. Starting with the conquest of Carantania and ending with their today’s shenanigans.

Ukrainians definitely fared much better in Galicia, Bukovina and Zakarpattia than did their kin in Central, Eastern and Southern Ukraine both in cultural and economic terms under Habsburg rule. Also, don’t forget that Ukrainians have often perceived Bolshevism as a particular Russian accretion, having been imported from Moscow and never really very popular in Ukraine prior to their brazen initial arrival. Very analogous to what’s going on in Ukraine today.

Interesting conspiracy theory that doesn’t take into account AD having a very good year and Luka not being in good shape with periodic injuries. Do the Mavs want to pay him top dollar when his current contract ends? Short term, the Mavs are a better team with this trade. Last year was a fluke benefit for them

How could they have spent $32,000 on a comic book in Peru promoting trannies? (Isn’t that over 2x the top prize for manga in Japan?) And $47,000 on a tranny opera in Columbia?

I think it is pretty obvious gay bureaucrats were using tax money to buy gay hookers in Latin America and elsewhere.

That might explain Mav’s attitude towards Luka unsportsmanship behavior (e.g. drinking, obesity). Staff and coach could stop it or at least limit to more normal. But for some reason they did not addressed very issue at all. It seems they want to put some dirt on him to ease trading.

In LA they know how to tackle the problem and wil turn Luka to beast again!

There is money and there is Federal money. When our parents told us that money does not grow on trees they were lying to us.

Musk’s wunderkind need to give her better examples. These barely move the needle. The first one seems like a typo, probably is supposed to be $2.5 mil to DIE in Serbia.

Bolshevism as a particular Russian accretion, having been imported from Moscow

Ukies were very enthusiastic Bolshies. They were so numerous, especially the Jews among them, that one can argue the opposite. The only other group that was more Bolshie were Latvians.

Galicia was poorer than many parts of Ukraine, e.g. Odessa, Donetsk, Kharkiv, richer than others. Parts of it were so poor they had regular famines and Galicians used to migrate to do the rest of A-H to do field work to survive.

Zakarpattia was very poor, around 1/3 of people emigrated in 1890-1914, it had no Ukrainian culture – under Hungarians the Ukie schools were banned and all business was only in the Magyar language. What Ukie culture are you talking about? Galicians under Austrians fared better.

Your ability to believe in the upside-down past, myths and stereotypes, is amazing. You just parade your ignorance here.

You are nitpicking. Basically if USAID gave $47k for a “tranny opera”, it gave $47k to 2-3 Colombian trannies. That’s quite a bit of money in Colombia. I suspect that was repeated thousands of times all over the world. This has been going on for decades, they are only looking at 2023-24…

Trump voters would prefer a high quality auto race. I admit that some Harris voters, such as yourself, would prefer the dog show.

I would rather watch a dog take a shit at the park than be stuck watching cars go in circles. Most people find it incredibly boring and yet racing fans like yourself seem unaware that we are trying to be nice about it.

Well on the internet we can be honest about it. It’s the worst sport to watch and even tops golf.

FYI — Bathurst (a.k.a. Mount Panorama) is not a circle. It is a difficult multi turn track with significant elevation changes.

Wow I do see both left and right turns. An incredible 100% increase in variation over NASCAR.

I might be able to stay awake for maybe 2 or even 3 extra laps.

Ukies were very enthusiastic Bolshies. They were so numerous, especially the Jews among them, that one can argue the opposite.

I think you mean that were among them if you mean the large pre-WW2 Odessa population that many posters here believe went on some type of vacation around 1941 and never returned.

Russia since WW2 has had the largest Ashkenazi population in Europe. Curiously on Anglin’s blog I was called a Jew for posting verifiable demographic data. They like to pretend that Ukraine is the Jewish state and aren’t gonna let no dang geography lesson get in their way. Reading about countries and verifing facts is subversive Jew talk!

As a reminder the revolution happened in Russia and Ukraine was only forced into the grand economic plans of a Jewish German who never took an Econ class due to the Red Army. Russia today is still dotted with statues of Stalin and Marx even though the latter spoke of Russians as subservient peasants that would be easy to manipulate.

Putin is actually on record stating that the early Communist revolutionaries were heavily Jewish and he also made this fine quote:

“The collapse of the USSR was the greatest tragedy of the 21st century” – Putin

You are nitpicking. Basically if USAID gave $47k for a “tranny opera”, it gave $47k to 2-3 Colombian trannies. That’s quite a bit of money in Colombia. I suspect that was repeated thousands of times all over the world. This has been going on for decades, they are only looking at 2023-24…

It was just some diplomats that bought cocaine and had sex with tranny prostitutes.

Then they billed it as “tranny opera” as a joke and couldn’t believe that it worked.

So in that context it isn’t a lot of money if you include the gambling and first class airfare.

JJ agrees with Beckow! What’s next, dogs and cats living together?

Was just passing through some diverse suburb today and they had some metal box – wasn’t clear to me what it was from the street – painted with a mural of an Arab climbing some cliff and it said “wilderness (insert densely-populated suburban city name)” and presumably the same in Arabic script, or maybe “death to the infidels!”

And I was thinking that couldn’t be city money (or at least I don’t think it is) but it must be some kind of federal grant.

Musk’s wunderkind need to give her better examples.

The small stuff tells a story that the bigger outlays successfully hide.

I find myself wondering more and more now how much of government spending is set asides for gays. Like add up the propaganda, the payroll for the lesbo bosses and DIE gay employees, the medicaid, the HIV research, and foreign aid targeting what would be considered gay diseases over here.

IMO, easily more than NASA.

His dad Otto was an off the wall wack job as well.

I hadn’t realized just how Napoleon like the father of Otto, and the grandfather of Archduke Karl, this last Austro-Hungarian Emperor Charles I was who had reigned there from 1916-18.

To this very day they won’t allow his body to be buried in the former territory of Austro-Hungary.

Though exiled, Charles I (1887- 1922) never formally abdicated, and he made two attempts to regain the throne. Ultimately, under British military escort, he wound up exiled on the St Helena like ‘heavily guarded’ and remote Portuguese Island of Maidera in 1921.

After only a few months of living on the island Charles I would die there at the young age of 34 from what had started out as just a cold, but would ultimately conclude in multiple heart attacks and respiratory failure.

I don’t know if Charles I was still under the ‘protection’ of a ‘British military escort’ while in Maidera, or (if at least technically) he had the right to leave, but being that some of his bloodline, such as his immediate predecessor, had a way of seeming to live/reign nigh forever, ie towards the century mark, one can’t help but wonder if someone decided rather than going to the bother and trouble of taking any further chances with him, they simply decided to poison him instead.

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

After the second failed attempt at restoration in Hungary, Charles and his pregnant wife Zita were arrested by the Hungarian authorities and imprisoned in Tihany Abbey. On 1 November 1921 they were transported down the Danube aboard the gunboat HMS Glowworm, across the Black Sea on the cruiser HMS Cardiff.

Charles received a military escort into exile by order of King George V of the United Kingdom. They were provided escorts into exile because socialist regimes were taking over Vienna, Austria after WWI and there was fear of a potential assassination.

Charles never left Madeira. On 9 March 1922 he caught a cold in town, which developed into bronchitis and progressed to severe pneumonia. Having suffered two heart attacks, he died of respiratory failure on 1 April, in the presence of his wife (who was pregnant with their eighth child) and nine-year-old former Crown Prince Otto, remaining conscious almost until his last moments. His last words to his wife were “I love you so much.”

He was 34 years old. His remains except for his heart are still on the island, resting in state in a chapel devoted to the Emperor in the Portuguese Church of Our Lady of the Mount, in spite of several attempts to move them to the Habsburg Crypt in Vienna. His heart and the heart of his wife are entombed in Muri Abbey, Switzerland.

I know a person who is super sharp and max academically accomplished. She has a PhD in Sociology and she could school Ron Unz on his China United States hobby without even having to look anything up. Her career prospects are now entirely dedicated to the business of getting poor sick people their doctor bills paid from the U. S. Treasury. She doesn’t work for the government exactly. She works for a hospital. Managing a spreadsheet with patient name, doctor name, disease name, government policy name. On her home computer she maybe could use a spreadsheet with how many wit hit points she exchanged for her money today.

Do the Chinese have any of this?

They were provided escorts into exile because socialist regimes were taking over Vienna, Austria after WWI and there was fear of a potential assassination.

The usual story is it’s the security detail who does you in. In that case you not only croak but everybody knows your judgment sucks. Injury + Insult!

Girkin is a cautionary tale. One should never trust the Kremlinoid Noviops. …

Seeing that video about Girkin just reinforces my belief that both Putin and Trump are closely paralleling controlled opposition. And as ‘literal new Hitlers’, as both are proclaimed by some to be, they are both rather pathetic as far as it goes.

I suppose in that regard it’s a bit like the army, in that the would be world manipulators sometimes just got to ‘make do’ with the people they immediately got on hand. 😀

The Russian Empire banned Jews from the big cities like Moscow and St Petersburg.

The Jews were confined to the Pale. Which is/was Poland and Ukraine and the Baltics.

You are so full of shit.

It happens……albeit rarely.

Sounds we would both airdrop all libertarians and free market cultists onto Haiti.

I also don’t support the export of Hollywood culture. I would prefer the US to lose money if it meant other nations making their own cultural works.

The USAID findings are hilarious. I hope they get to the Dept of Education and the art endowments. Those are a goldmine for liberals in DC spending your money on complete garbage and hoping you never learn about it.

Why don’t you quote exactly where you think I was wrong.

Everything I spoke of was after the Pale.

The Communists didn’t keep the Jews in the Pale there professor. Maybe you didn’t get the memo on that one.

In fact they quickly filled the ranks of the NKVD and were sent all over the USSR.

Jews also dominated various advanced positions in Moscow.

Good lord did you actually think the Communists kept the Jews isolated?

What’s communism got to do with Russians per se? Most of the Bolsheviks were Jews or non Russian.

The main communists were a mix of fringe ethnics who basically tried to suppress any sense of Russian cohesion by emancipating Jews, lifting the ban on Jewish residency in the Russian metropol and imposing death sentences on those deemed to be antisemitic.

These were Anti Russian rulings. Communism was Jews emancipating themselves to predate on Russians.

There were exemptions, with a good number of them finding their way into Russia proper.

Do you have any attendance or viewership numbers for your pro-Harris dog show? If so, I will try to find figures for some comparable racing events.

Most people find it incredibly boring and yet racing fans like yourself seem unaware that we are trying to be nice about it.

LOL

You are not “being nice”. You are going out of your way to be malign and confrontational. Common characteristics of Harris voters, such as yourself. You apparently have no evidence to back up your assertion.

You unequivocally declared that the Westminster dog show was more popular than auto racing.

• Do you have any attendance or ticket sales to back up your assertion? Or, will you concede that you are wrong?

• Do you have any viewing numbers to back up your assertion? Or, will you concede that you are wrong?
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Let me help you.

Part 1 of the 24 Hours of Daytona has:
1.2MM views x 8 hours = 576,000,000 minutes watched

The best Westminster Dog Show video that appeared in search:
4MM views x 9.5 min = 38,000,000 minutes watched

Based on YOUR own standard — Auto racing is at least 1,500% more popular than your dog show.

Bottom line — Most people find dog shows incredibly boring. Fans, like yourself, seem unaware that we are trying to be nice about it. As you insisted on incivility and confrontation, you have been proven wrong. *Again*.

Why do you insist on being humiliated and defeated so frequently?
Is this some sort of desperate cry for help?

PEACE 😇

That’s the definition of exemption of courses.

Why don’t you re-read my post and actually quote where you think I am full of shit.

I think you read it with your Borat Jew hunting glasses on.

The Ukrainian Jewish population dropped around 1941. Did you want to contend that?

Odessa was once heavily Jewish but that is no longer the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Odesa

Russia now has the largest Ashkenazi population in Europe. They are heavily concentrated in Moscow and not the former pale.

Did you revert back to a fantasy of Ukraine being the more Jewish country?

You unequivocally declared that the Westminster dog show was more popular than auto racing.

No I did not. You are one of the worst people here when it comes to misquoting.

I said that most of us would rather watch the westminster dog show.

The point is that most people would rather watch something lame like the westerminster dog show than a bunch of cars going in circles.

Maybe try owning your hobby instead of looking so sensitive over it. I sometimes listen to podcasts that I know most people would find boring. So what? I don’t need their affirmation.

Did you agree with this recent Trump quote:

“Putin is destroying Russia”

Not sure if I got your answer on that one.

ROTFLMAO

You are one of the worst people around here when it comes to lying. Not only do you deceive frequently, you are quite bad at it.

Part 1 of the 24 Hours of Daytona has:
1.2MM views x 8 hours = 576,000,000 minutes watched

The best Westminster Dog Show video that appeared in search:
4MM views x 9.5 min = 38,000,000 minutes watched

Based on YOUR own standard — Auto racing is at least 1,500% more popular than your dog show.

I said that most of us would rather watch the westminster dog show.

The point is that most people would rather watch something lame like the westerminster dog show than a bunch of cars going in circles.

That is a lie.

I even provided objective evidence using viewing figures to debunk YOUR failed attempt at deception. Maybe you should try owning YOUR dog show hobby that YOU brought into the conversation.

No one is going to bite on your attempt at diversion. Why is it so hard for YOU to admit that YOU were wrong?

YOU did not have to bring YOUR hobby into it and pick a fight. Now YOU have to live with the consequences of YOUR failed deception.

PEACE 😇

Did Trump really push in Bibi’s chair, and is that more subservient than when Obama bowed to both the Jap Emperor and Saudi King?

I don’t actually watch the westminster dog show. Are you really that clueless?

If someone said:

I’d rather watch reruns of Full House than sit through another musical.

Would you take that as someone saying that Full House is unequivocally popular and that they watch the show all the time?

Normal person: I’d rather lick asphalt than go back to that restaurant

A123: I DID A GOOGLE SEARCH AND FOUND THAT NO ONE EATS ASPHALT

Were you going to comment on what Trump said about Putin? You seem to admire both of them.

Here is a video form of the quote:

Do the Chinese have any of this

healthcare is the biggest employer over a huge swath of the US.

I wonder if it is the biggest employer anywhere in China.

Any Balto-Slav who would believe these people [Hapsburgs] being allies would deeply regret it

They were far better for Slavs than were the German Romanovs. Who were better than the ones who replaced them. The Partition of Rzeczpospolita, the last Slavic-run state, was a historical tragedy but the Hapsburgs were the best (and reluctant) of the 3 partitioners.

Galicians were the luckiest of the Eastern Slavs. Right after annexing Galicia, they reduced serfs’ obligatory labor service to 2-3 days per week, and placed them under Austrian rather noble-run courts, providing them with real legal rights. In contrast, around the same time Catherine II expanded serfdom and made it worse. Serfdom ended in Galicia in 1840s, about 15 years before it did under the Romanovs. Full literacy among students was achieved by 1910, a generations sooner than in lands under Moscow. And Galicia despite its poverty compared to western Europe, was significantly wealthier per capita than the Russian Empire.

The people in Zakarpattya under the Magyars were a different story. Their existence was miserable, not much better than under the Romanovs. Magyars are historically enemies of the Slavs. It’s in part why Orban supports Putin, the greatest Slav-killer since Hitler.

But the Hapsburgs were good for the Slavs.

He was a Habsburg. Heir to a 1000 years old dynasty. That has an impact upstart arrivistes such as Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin have a hard time grasping. Same applies to the American political ignoramuses as well that would find it hard to explain whom the Habsburg truly are. One has to at least read some Fursov, then it becomes much more clear that “some aristocrats are more equal than others”. The British Royals for instance are nowhere close to the Habsburgs as the aristocratic self-awareness goes. And as I wrote above, the Lothringen branch of the Habsburg goes way back to the seventh century CE.

Interesting stuff.

It sure looks as though Trump pushed in Bibi’s chair.

But isn’t it obvious that the far more important question that needs to be answered here is who exactly is the blonde haired woman in the blue dress that is standing at the end of the table? 😉

The people in Zakarpattya under the Magyars were a different story. Their existence was miserable, not much better than under the Romanovs. Magyars are historically enemies of the Slavs. It’s in part why Orban supports Putin, the greatest Slav-killer since Hitler.

Seems like Russia made the wrong choice in supporting the Austrians over the Hungarians in 1848-1849 then–no? An independent, pro-Russian Hungary would have secured the Balkans for Russia as its own sphere of influence as the Ottomans would have been withdrawing from there over the next several decades.

Galicians were the luckiest of the Eastern Slavs. Right after annexing Galicia, they reduced serfs’ obligatory labor service to 2-3 days per week, and placed them under Austrian rather noble-run courts, providing them with real legal rights. In contrast, around the same time Catherine II expanded serfdom and made it worse. Serfdom ended in Galicia in 1840s, about 15 years before it did under the Romanovs. Full literacy among students was achieved by 1910, a generations sooner than in lands under Moscow. And Galicia despite its poverty compared to western Europe, was significantly wealthier per capita than the Russian Empire.

Seems like it would have been a huge benefit for Russia to annex Galicia in the post-WWI period, had Russia not gone Bolshevik–no? After all, this would have provided further Ukrainian national consciousness to the rest of Russia’s Ukrainian population due to the influence of the Galician Ukrainians on them, right? This would have been especially true in an SR-led Russia, but might have been true even in a White-led Russia, since I’m unsure that a victorious White-led Russian regime could have permanently stamped out Ukrainian nationalism. I’m kind of doubtful of this, in fact.

BTW, didn’t you previously say that the PLC was a hollow shell of its former self by the time of its partitions?

Well Unz is going to explode in the morning with Trump’s latest comments.

I guess putting your faith in a former Democrat and NYC real estate slumlord to act in the best interest of the US might not have been such a great idea.

Trump actually suggested that US troops could be used to help develop Gaza into some type of US commercial property.

This is where I will point that I was called a Neocon and a Jew for suggesting that we not give Trump another chance and just pick a boring but safer establishment Republican.

I’m going out for coffee in the morning and I’ll be back to see what you cocksucking MAGA whores have come up with for damage control in defense of this spoiled billionaire brat who clearly puts Israel first. Good luck.

Bro you can move to Gaza now!

I accept your surrender.

I don’t actually watch the westminster dog show.

If you do not watch the Westminster dig show, why did you explicitly bring that specific event into the discussion?

I said that most of us would rather watch the westminster dog show.

I proved your assertion wrong by comparing your NYC dog show to a race in Florida. Let !e repeat the math for you.

Part 1 of the 24 Hours of Daytona has:
1.2MM views x 8 hours = 576,000,000 minutes watched

The best Westminster Dog Show video that appeared in search:
4MM views x 9.5 min = 38,000,000 minutes watched

Based on YOUR own standard — Auto racing is at least 1,500% more popular than your dog show.

The bottom line is pretty simple.

Most people would prefer to watch auto racing than your lame Westminster dog show.

Your attempts to pretend you never brought your dog show into the discussion have failed.

Your attempts to drag Trump into this topic have also failed.

Everyone sees that you lost.

Almost everyone wonders why you went out of your way to START this fight.

You could have chosen not to comment at all. You could have expressed you personal stance in a non offensive way. Instead you chose this…. Why?

What have you personally gained from this fight that you started and lost?

Most of us believe that it would have been better for you to be more civil, instead of excessively negative and confrontational.

PEACE 😇

Did Trump really push in Bibi’s chair, and is that more subservient than when Obama bowed to both the Jap Emperor and Saudi King?

Do you find the carefully selected 4 second clip to be lacking context and thus somewhat suspicious? Was Trump incidentally standing there talking to someone else?

Netanyahu had surgery ~2 weeks ago. Even at face value, helping someone with a physical impairment sit is common courtesy, not subservience.

It does show how desperate the #NeverTrump fringe has become. Trump has been beating them senseless on policies, both foreign & domestic. This is the best they can come up with…

PEACE 😇

Do you find the carefully selected 4 second clip to be lacking context and thus somewhat suspicious?

Well, I thought his comments on Gaza were the context. Through the lens of US interests, they are very difficult to understand.

But isn’t it obvious that the far more important question that needs to be answered here is who exactly is the blonde haired woman in the blue dress that is standing at the end of the table? 😉

Lol. I didn’t look very closely, to do a good verification, but I assumed it was this woman, youngest-ever press secretary:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/g-s1-34514/trump-karoline-leavitt-press-secretary-white-house-spokesperson

Do you find the carefully selected 4 second clip to be lacking context and thus somewhat suspicious?

Well, I thought his comments on Gaza were the context. Through the lens of US interests, they are very difficult to understand.

You do know that Trump says things to create effects, rather than to be taken literally?

Is the U.S. going to “take” Gaza? Clearly not.

Gaza is not Greenland. Even Greenland will not be “taken”. The goal there is to reach a COFA.
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So, knowing that Trump is *not* being literal, what is gained by these statements?

People are talking about what an end state will look like some years down the road. Pushing this type of thinking is desirable because any “master plan” for development will have to explicitly tackle the fresh water issue and its implication on Gaza population.

Bottom line, Gaza is dysfunctional with the current ~2.5 Million population. How will it cope with 4+ Million by 2050? Fundamentally, any solution must embrace remigration of Muslims to Islamic lands.

PEACE 😇

What if a Holy Man convinces all 4 million to sincerely convert to Christianity?

Do they still have to leave?

In your opinion, is this why AP has disavowed support for any modern Habsburg king? Because he prefers the arrangement of this shadowy Habsburg cabal, and is a willing part of it?

What if a Holy Man convinces all 4 million to sincerely convert to Christianity?

Do they still have to leave?

Be realistic… What is the chance of that happening? So close to ZERO it is irrelevant. Unless you are positing the Second Coming…

Theoretically, sincere & eternal conversion would be a good reason to stay. However, that number is likely tens or maybe hundreds. It cannot possibly “move the needle” in the larger discussion about the millions of Muslim occupiers in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

PEACE 😇

To this very day they won’t allow his body to be buried in the former territory of Austro-Hungary.

In this day and age? Who are these powerful “they” that yield such draconian powers?

It was, and Austria was an acceptable alternative. But nevertheless it was tragic to see the last Slavic-run state go. And while Slavs lived well under Hapsburgs, the ones under Moscow and Berlin did not.

AH is gone now, the best possibility for the peoples of Eastern and Central Europe is resurrection of Rzeczpospolita in some new form. Poland, Baltics, Ukraine, Czechia, perhaps more.

To expand our in my previous comment:

The Slavs and their Baltic brothers have had two historical enemies: the Germans to their West, and the Eurasian hordes to their East. Muscovy/Russia is the heir of the latter. The greatest killers of Slavs were the ethnic German Hitler, followed by the Moscow-based despot Stalin. In third place, Lenin.

Two Slavic/Baltic peoples were genocided into non-existence or near-nonexistence: the Prussian Balts by the German Teutonic knights, and the Novgorod nation by the Muscovite tsar Ivan the Terrible.

Rzeczpospolita was the Slav/Balt homeland and power; Austria was a sanctuary for them. Hapsburgs transcended their German ethnic roots, it was no coincidence that Nazis sent them to concentration camps. Or that the only Slavic pope beatified the last Hapsburg emperor, who miracle was done on behalf of a Slavic woman.

When did AP disavow any support for a modern Habsburg king? Beside, just today AP has finally tipped his hat and revealed what branch of the the Habsburg dynasty he’s working for:

I have Austrian cousins in those circles (great-grandfather’s cousin married one of them, one rank below but socially in the same circles), whom I visited, they live on one of those lakes in the Salzkammergut west of Vienna. Very kind people and wonderful hosts, politically they are not even monarchists but well-meaning Socialists. Sweethearts. They don’t speak Ukrainian but are proud of their Slavic roots, have vyshyvanky and one of them has a Ukrainian rather than a German form of name.

AP, a socialist? Preposterous. I’m firmly convinced that he’s a direct relation and heir apparent of the very popular in Ukraine “Vayl Vishyvanyi” banch of the Habsburg-Lothringen clan. Real blue-blood stuff here. I bet that AP physically even resembles this “Ukrainian prince”. He was a handsome prince:

So soft-on-Russia Biden has left office, Trump’s administration has allowed Ukrainians to strike deep into Russia using Western weapons, and Russia has stopped making nuclear threats.

Which proves that there was no risk of nukes being used (particularly against the West), the threats were purely for the sake of getting what Russia wanted from cowards and morons. These do not dominate the relevant decision-making centers in the Trump administration at the moment, so naturally the threats have ceased.

It remains to be seen how Trump will treat Ukraine in the long run (he can be fickle, and betray), but so far it’s an improvement.

This is all fine and dandy, dog shows vs racing car events, but you conveniently forgot to answer JJ’s question:

Did you agree with this recent Trump quote:

“Putin is destroying Russia”

Sidestepping a question is often perceived as just another form of lying, so quit being such a hypocrite!

When did AP disavow any support for a modern Habsburg king

It was the best one available for our peoples in the 19th-early 20th centuries. But currently a resurrected Rzeczpospolita is more feasible and better. A union of the Slavic and Baltic peoples, perhaps under EU and NATO umbrellas as necessary. Time to eclipse the tired Franco-Germans in their increasingly Islamified homelands.

I’m firmly convinced that he’s a direct relation and heir apparent of the
very popular in Ukraine “Vayl Vishyvanyi

Lol, absolutely not.

….we would both airdrop all libertarians and free market cultists onto Haiti.

No, why waste fuel? Make the self-sufficient libertarians paddle there in rubber boats.

Libertarianism has been the norm all over the world most of our history: India, Africa, Haiti… are basically libertarian as is most of the Third World is. In the advanced societies we only got rid of the ‘libertarian‘ economics in the 20th century at a huge cost. There is absolutely nothing new in libertarianism, it is what our ancestors had forever and hated. That’s what the ‘market cult’ means.

If you could see the idiocy of trying to grab Ukraine to make it into a poor well-armed appendage of NATO dreamers to threaten Russia, we could agree more…:) But maybe you see it and like it.

If you do not watch the Westminster dig show, why did you explicitly bring that specific event into the discussion?

It’s called being facetious.

You aren’t supposed to take it literally.

It’s like saying I’d rather watch paint dry than watch NASCAR.

You’re not actually supposed to ask what type of paint and for how long will you be watching.

Are you even American? You seem clueless when it comes to basic conversation.

I was just teasing you a bit, not having been able to do so over the last 6 weeks or so. I hope that you’re finally through with your projects and will be able to take part in our “soirees” here more often.

BTW, I took a look at your family crest (at least the one that you can identify with). It shares a few elements included in my own one. Both have ostrich feathers showing, an arrow, and stars too. Your’s includes a half moon, very similar to the one on the Mazepa family crest. I’d share a depiction of mine with you, but it includes my surname and I don’t want to dox myself here (a lot of crazies out there, you know. Even songbird isn’t sure whether he’s part of an axe yielding clan or not?). 🙂

I had no idea the Russians were such tree huggers

…Habsburgs…best one available for our peoples in the 19th-early 20th centuries.

Maybe in the 19th. But the 20th? Zakarpatyia was being destroyed and de-Ukrainizied by Hungarians and Habsburgs didn’t say a word – in effect they supported it. In WW1 the Galician villages were often massacred by the Habsburg army, while Russians did no such thing – look up the horrible stories and pictures.

You are naively idealizing the very brutal Habsburg rule, their ultimate goal was to ‘de-Slavicise’ the Empire – Hungarians were just more open about it. Austrians did it in Carinthia. When it was obvious the Habsburgs lost in WW1 they started to play nice, looking for a ‘compromise’, why wasn’t there one between 1850 and 1918?

resurrected Rzeczpospolita is more feasible and better. A union of the Slavic and Baltic peoples

A stupid and unworkable dream. Few realities:
– 3.5 million Balts and 40 million Poles…how long would the Balts last?
– Ukies (and Belorussians if you want them) use cyrillic and are Orthodox – it has been tried in 1920-38 and failed
– Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians-Moldovans, Estonians would never agree

The West will never allow a large rival like Rzeczpospolita, they have over the history tried to shrink and destroy it (Germans, Swedes…). They even allied with the Ottomans to put the Poles down.

The only counter-force to the West is Russia that you hate and want to destroy. Your hatred is undermining your own dream. Thus you lose the simple power equation, do you even realize it?

This is like an Oprah episode where everybody gets a flag draped coffin.

If only you had been there you would know it was just like that television show Friends except it was set in Vienna.

It looks to me like there is press campaign to dis Luka Doncic.

I don’t think Davis has one full season of franchise player performance left in him. Luka Doncic just got out of the NBA finals. He just played two franchise player seasons back to back without a break. He has earned a blow off season. He is the second most valuable property in the NBA and the Dallas Mavericks have been taken.

The Dallas Mavericks fans all have got their bowels in an uproar if you look into that angle.

OH MAN CANADA CAME THROUGH

Remember that debate on whether the government should fund mainstream media to make up for the collapse of ad revenue and subscriptions? Seems like they have been doing it on the sly… Reminds me of that story a few years back or so about the BBC having all these subscriptions to the Guardian.

Slava Canada! LOL.

He isn’t going to twitter about how much they subsidize the Jew cocksuckers you can it to the bank.

I agree with Shaq that for the next two years, the Mavs are a better team with AD over Luka. They now have a better inside game. AD is 31 going on 32 and having a very good season. Luka at 25 is injury prone and not in the best of shape. I believe what happened with the Mavs last year was a fluke.

There’s also the Adelson angle which Whitlock mentioned.

Words to the wise, losers harp on past exaggerated glories which aren’t likely to happen again.

Pre-Soviet Russia had among the best and in some instances maybe the best higher schools of education, producing great minds. A point made in Bernadine Bailey’s Banderite book on the “Captive Nations”, including some Nazi created states. Imperial Russia had a larger population base which per capita wasn’t as well educated as some smaller entities. It was on the rise with the timing of WW I being its demise.

Russia clearly didn’t seek the Banderite/NATO proxy war against it. Russia will (put mildly) likely finish it off with a victory.

I hate to rain on your parade but…80k CRV-7 rockets are 40-year old and unusable as they are. They are scrap metal. The official story from Canada:

Canada has stated that the CRV-7 unguided rockets have exhausted their service life and their transport is dangerous. If the warheads are dismantled and only the engines are shipped, they can be rearmed with new warheads at facilities in Ukraine, but those warheads have to be manufactured and fit the CRV-7 design…

Tall order. Not happening in 2025-6. Are you so uninformed or desperate? It’s pure bs…

Trump and Swift will both be at the super bowl. Is she going to let him grab her by the pussy?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-11360659

Nobody in the media ever follows these things to the logical end point. Who eats the sins of the sin eater?

The annual ball season, I am there…grinning women, sharp lights, lalala music, buffets, it’s boring. Galicians have always been enchanted by it. They have the “better people” aching desire in their souls…AP just oozes it, Salzburgkamerung etc…

I’d thought it might be the press secretary at first, too, and it might be, but I’m thinking it may be someone else. Apparently, they have a large contingengent of ‘aides’ on call who can act as ‘hosts’ at political events.

That Blackhawk pilot trainee that recently crashed into the Potomac after colliding with the jetliner had been one of these.

I hate to rain on your parade but…80k CRV-7 rockets are 40-year old and unusable as they are. They are scrap metal. The official story from Canada:

They’re not unusable and you didn’t provide a source to the full story. Here is more context with a source:

The shipment will include 80,840 CRV-7 rocket motors and 1,300 warheads.

The CRV-7 is a Canadian-developed, 70-mm caliber unguided air-to-surface rocket designed for strikes against ground targets. Created in the 1980s, they are considered Cold War-era weapons.

The CRV-7 rocket motors can be used to arm Ukraine’s existing helicopters, and specialized media suggest they can be adapted for ground launch systems.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/god-of-chaos-asteroid-may-become-more-dangerous-1725625388.html

They can add their own warheads to the motors.

The rocket is the expensive part. Warheads are cheap.

Tall order. Not happening in 2025-6. Are you so uninformed or desperate?

Are you suggesting that Canada is lying? What is the tall order?

Another photo you will never see on the twitter of the two faced slob Elon Musk.

I assume Ukraine had vast numbers of the Soviet equivalent rocket at the beginning of this bloody mess, back when they also had quite a few functional helicopters and aircraft. These rockets did not make much difference even with their early advantage. Why are they significant now?

It’s a good thing (((they))) can call that a religious ceremony. Otherwise it would be some sort of loathsome and highly illegal kiddie porn, banned in all civilized countries.

Polymarket now has Kennedy and Gabbard P(confirmation) =.97.

Has anybody tried linking this past the Facebook and Twitter New Thought Police committee?

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/

…Why are they significant now?

Johnson latches on to any detail to make himself feel better. He must be really bitter about what is going on, Norkies, fires, ‘golf-carts’, now “Canada is coming to save Kiev!” Look at his original post and how he climbed down after the reality was pointed out.

It’s not significant, there are no “80k rockets heading to Ukraine from Canada” as he originally boastfully claimed – there are possibly up to 80k of scrapped 1980’s unguided mini-rockets that may have 1k ‘warheads’ – none of it used for decades. The weapons for the 79k rockets would have to be designed and manufactured by the Ukies. That’s a non-trivial task.

Kiev is f..ed. They let their bosses talk them into provoking a war against a much stronger enemy, then their friends wisely stayed out of the actual fight, now Kiev is losing the war with very bad consequences. It will be studied for strategic stupidity for years.

To this very day they won’t allow his body to be buried in the former territory of Austro-Hungary.

In this day and age? Who are these powerful “they” that yield such draconian powers?

It’s not formally stated, but implied that refusal has been made (ie ‘in spite of several attempts’) to place Charles I body in the Vienna Habsburg crypt. They don’t say who exactly has made the refusal, though presumably it’s been a longstanding corporate decision made by the Austrian government.

It’s understandable in the context of events, ie Charles I never formally abdicating, his two vigorous attempts to return to power, and his large family of eight children with many potential heirs, that they didn’t wish to create a shrine out of his grave for his followers in the capital city, Vienna.

I take it with this question then that you also are a royalist who would like to see the Habsburgs rightfully restored and the Austro-Hungarian Empire reconstituted? 😉

“I did not abdicate, and never will… I see my manifesto of 11 November as the equivalent to a cheque which a street thug has forced me to issue at gunpoint… I do not feel bound by it in any way whatsoever.”

I assume Ukraine had vast numbers of the Soviet equivalent rocket at the beginning of this bloody mess, back when they also had quite a few functional helicopters and aircraft.

No they actually ended up with a very small air force with limited capability.

That is in part why they requested F-16s.

They had a limited amount of Migs and surface to ground rockets.

Johnson latches on to any detail to make himself feel better. He must be really bitter about what is going on, Norkies, fires, ‘golf-carts’, now “Canada is coming to save Kiev!”

I never said anything of the sort.

I posted a video and did not add my own comments. It seems you added my comments again with your imagination.

Thousands of Canadians missiles will not go to waste. It’s easy to retrofit a 40 year old missile with a warhead. Both sides are using Soviet missiles from the 1970s.

They will easily kill or wound a thousand Russian soldiers for the great 2.5 week special operation.

A thousand soldiers that would rather be home with their families than trying to get paid by dying in this stupid war.

It’s not significant, there are no “80k rockets heading to Ukraine from Canada” as he originally boastfully claimed – there are possibly up to 80k of scrapped 1980’s unguided mini-rockets that may have 1k ‘warheads’ – none of it used for decades.

I am actually not the guy in the video. Do you get confused by someone in the video talking versus someone posting the video?

I provided a link detailing the number being given and you seem to think I made the original video.

Kiev is f..ed. They let their bosses talk them into provoking a war against a much stronger enemy, then their friends wisely stayed out of the actual fight, now Kiev is losing the war with very bad consequences.

When will Ukraine be out of Kursk? It seems that Larry C Johnson and Scott Ritter were a tad off in their estimate of less than a week.

But currently a resurrected Rzeczpospolita is more feasible and better. A union of the Slavic and Baltic peoples, perhaps under EU and NATO umbrellas as necessary. Time to eclipse the tired Franco-Germans in their increasingly Islamified homelands.

The Muslim problem really is screwing over Western Europe, but they’re still producing much more elite science than Eastern Europe is:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/science-production/

How do you propose to change this? Get Israeli Haredim to move en masse to Eastern Europe once Israel itself will become chronically overpopulated, and focus on aggressively teaching them secular subjects? But would Israeli Haredim actually prefer Eastern Europe to the Anglosphere, especially the Anglosphere settler colonies?

It’s a similar story with patents. Western Europe still performs astronomically better than Eastern Europe does in regards to this:

AP, I want to ask you something: Obviously the Hapsburgs were too far away to be a Balt sanctuary, but could a victorious Germany in WWI have fulfilled the same role? Had Imperial Germany outright annexed the Baltics or made them into vassal states, I mean? Perhaps even in a personal union with the German Reich, under the German Kaiser?

I distrust the oligarchs on all sides and “it ain’t over ’til it’s over.” I hope Ukraine capitulates sooner rather than later so they can start healing their country and rebuilding peaceful ties to Russia (before we have accidental nuclear war).

The US and Norway make guided warheads for this class of rocket and some have previously been supplied to the Ukrainians. Most likely NATO will supply more for the Canadian rockets. I doubt they make much difference in combat, but they might be used for drone strikes which makes air defense for Russian sites a bit tougher. The weaponeers will probably sell a lot of new rockets and guided warheads to the respective governments.

The Russians have advertised similar guidance kits years ago but I have not seen them mentioned in the SMO. This is another one of the many technical questions about the Russian situation: “If they are not using these, why not?”

The data for Finland looks spurious. Is the country an IP tax haven?

Maybe they are taking credit for Bell Labs patents.

To cover for the lack of evidence of North Koreans fighting for Russia in the thousands, the updated BS claims they’ve been withdrawn after incurring severe losses. On par with the claim of dead North Koreans having their faces burned in an effort to hide their identity.

What exactly did Bibi mean by giving Trump a pager?

BTW, AP, since Austria-Hungary was so good for Slavs, then why did some of the 20th century’s worst Slavic movements emerge from its territory? Specifically Banderism, Slovak Fascism, and Croatian Fascism, all of which were very murderous?

…Habsburgs…best one available for our peoples in the 19th-early 20th centuries.

Maybe in the 19th. But the 20th? Zakarpatyia was being destroyed and de-Ukrainizied by Hungarians and Habsburgs didn’t say a word – in effect they supported it.

Franz Ferdinand had planned to crush the Hungarian filth but he was murdered. Doing so during the war was impossible.

In WW1 the Galician villages were often massacred by the Habsburg army,

Specifically, Hungarian units. Austrians didn’t do that.

Magyars continue their anti-Slavic tradition. It’s why Orban supports Putin. Doing so is part of the same instinct.

You are naively idealizing the very brutal Habsburg rule, their ultimate goal was to ‘de-Slavicise’ the Empire

Nonsense, Slavic culture flourished under their rule. Prague became a Czech-speaking city while they were in charge. Krakow and Lviv became centers of Polish and Ukrainian culture. Ukrainians achieved full literacy in their native Slavic language by 1910. The first Eastern Slavs to have done so.

In 1910 Czechs were the most literate and wealthiest of all the Slavic peoples in the world.

Slovaks and Carpatho-Rusyns were the exception, because they were under Budapest’s rule (and did not enjoy the autonomy that Croats did). But their Magyar masters weren’t much better or worse than Muscovite masters.

resurrected Rzeczpospolita is more feasible and better. A union of the Slavic and Baltic peoples

A stupid and unworkable dream. Few realities:
– 3.5 million Balts and 40 million Poles…how long would the Balts last?
– Ukies (and Belorussians if you want them) use cyrillic and are Orthodox – it has been tried in 1920-38 and failed

Ukrainian Orthodoxy was heavily Polonized for centuries – their schools were taught in Latin and Polish, and based on Jesuit model. It’s a natural fit. Millions of Ukrainians live in Poland, there is some friction but it is fairly smooth, unlike with what is happening in Western Europe. The problem in 1920 was that Polish nationalists claimed Galicia, with its Ukrainian majority and tried to forcibly Polonize the population. It backfired horribly. This is no longer an issue. Russians push the Banderist crimes as a wedge but it is not that effective. Both Polish and Ukrainian elites and peoples like the idea.

So it is 36 million Poles, 5 million Balts, 35 million Ukrainians (a couple of million of whom live in Poland) from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

Romania, Finland, Sweden can be natural allies of Rzeczpospolita (it would have some other, suitably modern and bland name or acronym). Also Italy. Perhaps Azerbaijan and Turkey. Or even a post-Mullah Persia.

Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians-Moldovans, Estonians would never agree

Estonians would. Czechs maybe, if the project is successful they will join the bandwagon. Hungarians are enemies of the Slavs, they would not. I suspect Slovaks are not all like you.

The West will never allow a large rival like Rzeczpospolita

The West is not a monolith. Rzeczpospolita could be a rival for the Germans, but the Anglos are not their direct competitors.

The only counter-force to the West is Russia

Historically, Russia is almost as deadly for the peoples of eastern and central Europe as the Germans. The Russian despots are the heirs of the former Mongol overlords. Moscow’s rulers brutalize the Russian population and that of anyone else unfortunate enough to come under their rule. Stalin murdered millions of Russians and Ukrainians, and 100.000s of Poles. His predecessor Lenin also murdered millions of Slavs. While Habsburgs were gradually ending serfdom, Romanovs were expanding it and making it heavier. Etc.

In this century, Putin unleashed a brutal war of conquest with 100,000s dead. The best thing for the peoples of central and eastern Europe would be for Russia to be defanged.

You are just naive and ignorant because the Russians barely got to your lands, and only briefly.

Ukraine had over 100 fighters and attack aircraft in 2021, mostly MiG-29 and Su-27. Some of these were flown out of the country when they became at risk. I think the Ukies picked up about the same number of aircraft vacuumed up from ex-CIS NATO countries after 2022. Many aircraft from even before the conflict had Western upgrades and were NATO “interoperable.” Most were probably as good or better compared to the F-16 and Mirage aircraft being used as replacements.

The aircraft donations allow countries to justify buying new replacement fighters.

Finland is culturally very similar to Sweden and Denmark, no? Different language family but still a lot of Swedish influence, no?

Imperial Germany wasn’t nearly as bad as Nazi Germany but it was still heavily infected with German nationalism and was not as benign as the Habsburg state. Annexed Baltics would have been forcibly Germanized with the help of local Baltic German elites.

This month is called Debuary for a reason. It’s not boring at all. Maybe only in Slovakia.

I hear American Southerners have something similar.

Russians try to do something like that now but it seems fake and cheap.

You are running away from your post like a scared puppy. Let me quote you precisely:

OH MAN CANADA CAME THROUGH

80k Cold War rockets sent to Ukraine.

OH MAN CANADA CAME THROUGH…What could that possibly mean? Hockey game? Maybe you can provide an alternate explanation…:)

Thousands of Canadians missiles will not go to waste. It’s easy to retrofit a 40 year old missile with a warhead.

They will go to waste. Since they are already scrapped it won’t be a big change. Other than the transportation cost – Canucks say they “dangerous to transport”. Whoops…

You are salivating for more dead Russians as always with you (pretty sick) but it’s unlikely to happen. The “Canadian rockets” won’t be ready in time and they are about as useful as tossing randomly a bag of grenades in a field (they are unguided). Have you ever retrofitted an old piece of 80’s equipment worrying it could explode? Good luck.

When will Ukraine be out of Kursk?

Why does that matter? Ukies lost 10’s of thousands trying to take Kursk and currently occupy only a tiny sh..thole called Suja w 5k people. Kiev failed at a high cost. It allows Kremlin to stir up national feeling: ‘Russia is invaded’. It was a stupid move by Kiev.

Don’t avoid the key point: Kiev is losing the war with very bad consequences. Do you agree or disagree? Is Kiev winning or losing?

Have your dream of Rzeczpospolita, but it’s an unworkable nonsense. One more time: Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians-Moldovans, Estonians would never agree.

What you as an outsider don’t understand is that the Czechs are totally western oriented, anything east of them, like Rzeczpospolita, gives them hives, they (unfortunately) see Ukies, etc… as beneath them. That is also true to lesser degree about Hungarians, Estonians and Romanians. Slovaks less so but in general in things like this follow the Czech example.

The West is not a monolith. Rzeczpospolita could be a rival for the Germans, but the Anglos are not their direct competitors.

The West – currently run by the Anglos – has one goal: not to allow a strong, large state as a competitor in the east. Look how hysterical they have always been about Russia. Rzeczpospolita would be the same except closer. Don’t be naive.

Russia is almost as deadly for the peoples of eastern and central Europe as the Germans

That’s not true. And without Russia none of the Slav peoples of eastern-central Europe would exist today. None of them. Poles were being exterminated by Germans in WW2 and Anglos-French just shrugged and did nothing. We exist today because Russia has always provided the counter-force, maybe for selfish reasons, if you are smart you use it. But you are not very strategically smart.

Some small points: 35 million Ukies? From where? Are they winning the war? Even then more like 25-28 million are left. Estonia and possibly “Turkey”…now that’s pure madness, are you trying step-by-step repeat the same errors Germany did?

Adolph himself as well. On the other hand, Prussians had historically better relations with Russia.

“Don’t call me, I’ll call you!”

I thought the Finns were actually Russians.

What about if the Baltics would have remained under Tsarist or White Russian rule? Would forced Russification have then been in their future?

Seems like the best bet for the Baltics would have been independence, followed by autonomy within a liberal, democratic, and federal Greater Russia, such as one led by the (Right?) SRs.

Maybe they were trolling all the deranged antisemites out on the internet?

Franz Ferdinand had planned to crush the Hungarian filth but he was murdered. Doing so during the war was impossible.

How do you know that an attempt by a surviving Franz Ferdinand “to crush the Hungarian filth” wouldn’t have simply resulted in an alternate World War I at that point in time, especially if FF’s attempt to do this (Plan U–short for Plan Ungarn) would have failed? What if Russia would have decided to militarily intervene on the Hungarians’ behalf, for instance? It would be cynical geopolitics, but maybe they would conclude that an independent, Russian-aligned Hungary would be a better bet for Russian domination of the Balkans than a continued unified Austria-Hungary, allied with Germany, would be. Tsarist Russia had no problem with unconventional alliances: It did ally with republican France against its fellow autocrats in Germany and Austria-Hungary, after all. Such a deal (a Russo-Hungarian alliance) could be sweetened by giving Serbia control of Bosnia and perhaps Dalmatia as well. It wouldn’t fully satisfy Serbian nationalist desires but it would at least be something. And Romania can get Bukovina, while Italy gets Trentino and perhaps Trieste and Istria as well.

As a side note, don’t you think that if Russia would have still eventually experienced a successful revolution without WWI (akin to February, not October/November), then the newly autonomous or independent Poland and Ukraine could exhibit a strong pull on their co-ethnics across the Austrian border?

Historically, Russia is almost as deadly for the peoples of eastern and central Europe as the Germans. The Russian despots are the heirs of the former Mongol overlords. Moscow’s rulers brutalize the Russian population and that of anyone else unfortunate enough to come under their rule. Stalin murdered millions of Russians and Ukrainians, and 100.000s of Poles. His predecessor Lenin also murdered millions of Slavs. While Habsburgs were gradually ending serfdom, Romanovs were expanding it and making it heavier. Etc.

Seems like the best kind of government that Russia could realistically get after Tsarism was overthrown would have been the SRs. Or, alternatively, some kind of authoritarian right-wing White regime, perhaps after some period of prior SR rule.

The Bolsheviks were true scum of the Earth and it’s a huge shame that no one has ever managed to assassinate Lenin or even tried to do so before 1917. If anyone actually deserved a bullet in his head prior to 1917, it was obviously Lenin. For all of the talk about how US-led regime change wars are bad, Russia in 1918-1921 was a golden missed opportunity for a US-led regime change war that could have actually done a huge amount of good:

https://randommusingsandhistory.substack.com/p/a-partial-defense-of-regime-change

Apparently, they have a large contingengent of ‘aides’ on call who can act as ‘hosts’ at political events.

I imagine that there are a lot of young blondes in DC kind of like Hollywood. Though the rumor I heard was the helicopter pilot was a lesbo.

GETTING CLOSER

OH MAN CANADA CAME THROUGH…What could that possibly mean? Hockey game? Maybe you can provide an alternate explanation…:)

They came through and provided a decent aid package. It was actually in debate for a period.

Are you not familiar with the term? It doesn’t mean to save someone in war or change the outcome of something like a game.

You can say “Mike came through with the beers” and can mean that you are simply glad that he added them to a party.

The aid package contains rockets and their ACSVs that have proven to be useful.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2025/01/defence-minister-bill-blair-commits-440-million-in-military-assistance-to-ukraine.html

I don’t know why anyone would think a 440 million dollar package would change the outcome of the war and I never made that claim.

You seem a little unhinged lately. Maybe give the internet a break for a while. Just be glad that you won’t be dying in a trench by Canunk rockets.

Ukies lost 10’s of thousands trying to take Kursk and currently occupy only a tiny sh..thole called Suja w 5k people. Kiev failed at a high cost.

No one knows the losses or the intent of Kursk. It’s all speculation.

I think it is most likely a bullet trap where they try to bring in Russians where they can’t use their glide bombs. Or maybe they are trying to hold it for negotiations. They aren’t saying and neither side is providing casualty statistics.

Don’t avoid the key point: Kiev is losing the war with very bad consequences. Do you agree or disagree? Is Kiev winning or losing?

I think it is a stalemate that could still go either direction. Russia continues to take incremental land but they are having economic problems and they still haven’t taken Kharkiv which is only 30 min from their border. Ukraine is in a tough spot but the world’s second largest army is having major problems. Putin said that the main goal is to stop the Eastward expansion of NATO and that has failed. I don’t see how he can complete that goal unless he somehow gets Finland out of NATO.

But I would describe the MIC as definitely winning. Raytheon stocks are up over 50%.

What you as an outsider don’t understand is that the Czechs are totally western oriented, anything east of them, like Rzeczpospolita, gives them hives

They once voted for Communists. They go with who happens to be strong.

Estonia would like Rzeczpospolita from the perspective of safety from Russia, and it is in solidarity with Ukraine and the Baltics.

Sweden and Finland would be natural allies.

The West is not a monolith. Rzeczpospolita could be a rival for the Germans, but the Anglos are not their direct competitors.

The West – currently run by the Anglos – has one goal: not to allow a strong, large state as a competitor in the east. Look how hysterical they have always been about Russia. Rzeczpospolita would be the same except closer

Rzeczpospolita would never be a threat to the Anglos (Americans) that Russia or China would be – not enough people or land for that. But it can eclipse the Franco-Germans within the EU, be a strong-enough safe homeland for its peoples, so Germany might have reason to try to prevent its formation. It may not be able to, though – it has economically and demographically hobbled itself severely.

But there is no real competition with the Anglo world. So, no problem. America can have trouble with China, perhaps India one day, Franco-Germany if it has worked out (it hasn’t), a new Russian Empire (thwarted by Ukrainians who refused). But not Rzeczpospolita. It’s 75 million is enough to keep it safe and for others to have to take it into account (unlike some small entity with 35 million or 10 million) but is not a global threat to the Anglos.

Russia is almost as deadly for the peoples of eastern and central Europe as the Germans

That’s not true. And without Russia none of the Slav peoples of eastern-central Europe would exist today. None of them

Galicians were okay, Czechs and Slovaks also. Stalin killed ~10 million Slavs and Lenin killed a few million also (including Russians, such is the nature of Muscovite despots), Hitler killed more. Stalin killed more Ukrainians than Hitler did, Hitler killed more Poles.

Germany has been harmless for the Slavs since 1945. In the last 3 years Moscow’s current despot has started a war that has killed 100,000s of Slavs. Like Stalin, he is deadly for the Slavs he rules.

The point is that Russia also has been extremely deadly for Slavs.

Some small points: 35 million Ukies? From where? Are they winning the war? Even then more like 25-28 million are left

I wrote – including Ukrainians in Poland. Rzeczpospolita would include Ukrainians in Ukraine, Poland, Baltics, perhaps Czechia. There are probably around 35 million of them total. Maybe a couple million less. Maybe 32 million. But many would also return from places like Germany once there is peace.

Estonia and possibly “Turkey”…now that’s pure madness

Turkey is a natural rival of Russia in Central Asia and is allied to Azerbaijan, itself a friend of Ukraine. So it would be a likely friend of Rzeczpospolita. Ottoman Empire never recognized the partition of the original Rzeczpospolita.

Netrebko in US

Re: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/arts/music/anna-netrebko-us-opera-putin.html

Excerpt –

Ilona Chernobai, an Instagram influencer from Ukraine who lives in Florida, dressed up as Ms. Netrebko, standing in front of a microphone and a sign that said “Your stage is in the Kremlin.” Ms. Netrebko’s singing, mixed with the sounds of air-raid sirens and bombs, played in the background.

“Russian people and Russian culture should be in Russia — not here, not in the world,” Ms. Chernobai said.

Dmytro Bozhko, president of the Ukrainian Association of Florida, said he hoped the protest would remind the public about Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine. He said that he wanted to attract the attention of President Trump, a resident of Palm Beach, and his administration, and that Ms. Netrebko should clarify her position on the war.

Chernobai’s bigotry is duly noted. It’s that attitude within Kiev regime circles which explains why there’s conflict within Ukraine’s dubiously drawn Communist boundary.

Kudos to Trump for making it a point of shaking the hand of Florida Panthers goalie Sergey Bobrovsky. Among other things, Bozhko overlooks the Kiev regime’s aggressive action against Donbass before and after the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) on 2/24/22.

“She tries to be somewhere in the middle,” Mr. Bozhko said. “But you cannot be in the middle. You have to be on one side or the other.”

Many, if not most conflicts aren’t simple matters of good versus evil. In the NATO proxy war against Russia (recalling Lindsey Graham’s approval of fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian), the Kiev regime pawn and its backers aren’t the more virtuous side.

After the invasion, Ms. Netrebko said in a statement that she condemned the war in Ukraine. But she has refrained from explicitly criticizing Mr. Putin and has not spoken in depth about her previous support for him. Her name appeared on a list endorsing his election in 2012, and she has spoken glowingly of him over the years.

Putin didn’t seek armed conflict. For seven years, the Kiev regime failed to honor the UN Security Council approved Minsk Accords it signed, calling for Donbass autonomy within Ukraine’s dubiously drawn Communist boundary. Instead, the Kiev regime built up its forces for the purpose of forcefully taking Donbass. The Kiev regime later admitted (along with France and Germany, guarantors to that agreement) of never intending to honor the Minsk Accords. Between 2015 and the start of Russia’s SMO, at least hundreds (quite possibly thousands) of Donbass residents were killed by Kiev regime attacks, along with thousands of others which include armed combatants and those said by some to be in that category. In the week leading up to the SMO, OSCE observers noted a sharp increase of Kiev regime shelling of rebel Donbass territory.

When compared to the Israeli action in Gaza, Russia’s SMO has resulted in far fewer civilian deaths despite lasting longer and encompassing a greater population base.

Debruary or February?

Rzeczpospolita would never be a threat to the Anglos (Americans) that Russia or China would be – not enough people or land for that. But it can eclipse the Franco-Germans within the EU, be a strong-enough safe homeland for its peoples, so Germany might have reason to try to prevent its formation. It may not be able to, though – it has economically and demographically hobbled itself severely.

But there is no real competition with the Anglo world. So, no problem. America can have trouble with China, perhaps India one day, Franco-Germany if it has worked out (it hasn’t), a new Russian Empire (thwarted by Ukrainians who refused). But not Rzeczpospolita. It’s 75 million is enough to keep it safe and for others to have to take it into account (unlike some small entity with 35 million or 10 million) but is not a global threat to the Anglos.

So, in terms of global impact, a revived PLC would be akin to a Slavic version of Turkey or Iran or, say, 2100 Japan (once its population will likely shrink significantly)? Though its population decline is likely to severely hurt it in the future unless we will discover and develop a successful cure to aging in the near-term or at least medium-term, which isn’t guaranteed, unfortunately.

Contrary to the svidomite BS being spewed, Poland and Lithuania have historical differences. Their shared anti-Russian slant has limits. The neocon Polish nationalist nationalist Radek Sikorski had open differences with Lithuanians a few years back.

There’s a reason why Polska wasn’t able to maintain a multi-ethnic state something which comparatively speaking Russia has been better at.

Finland and Sweden haven’t always been so lovey, which in turn helped Russia in acquiring and successfully incorporating Finland. At one point under Russian rule, Finland had more freedom than any other future independent European state.

Malofeyev’s

I didn’t follow about politics recently, but I remember the old mainstream view of the political nerds in the Russian internet used to be saying he is not a real oligarch or businessman, but someone more like an actor or maybe government agent.

He doesn’t have real business. But there could be hired by a group of politicians, government or oligarchs, who he distributes their money.

This is a way the government or businessmen can fund controversial projects, with clean hands.

They hire an actor, who is an actor hired to work in the role of “eccentric patron”. This actor distributes their money to controversial projects.

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In Western politics, the NGO seems more common. But in Russian politics a lot of the people are actors or agents. In the multidecade perspective, the public see the same people are hired for different roles, famous examples like KGB workers Zhirinovsky or Dugin.

Maybe in the KGB, Zhirinovsky is hired as a leader of the Jewish community in the 1980s, but he is hired as a leader of the antisemitic community in the 1990s.

Dugin is similar, he was part of even one of the most KGB groups Pamyat in the 1980s.

@Bashibuzuk
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-266/#comment-6978506

About gypsies, or “secret signs the gypsies are the real owners of the world” and why they allow us to live on their land.

The police are their friends, they don’t have to follow the law, Trump and Putin copy their interior decoration.

Maybe if you follow the rules this life, you can be re-incarnated as a gypsy in the next life.

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In the 1990s, some of the mafia groups tried to create order in a gypsy village. Today, the powerful mafia organization dissolved*, but the gypsies still have their mansions.

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*”Dissolved”, their children became local politicians and part of government.

Maybe in the KGB, Zhirinovsky is hired as a leader of the Jewish community in the 1980s, but he is hired as a leader of the antisemitic community in the 1990s

Maybe not.

Dugin is similar, he was part of even one of the most KGB groups Pamyat in the 1980s.

Really!? Do tell with specifics.

I take it with this question then that you also are a royalist who would like to see the Habsburgs rightfully restored and the Austro-Hungarian Empire reconstituted? 😉

No, my question should only be taken at face level, and was just a reflection of my simple curiosity about the matters that you brought up, as I am not, nor have ever been any sort of a royalist. As there are no guarantees that a monarchy could produce a more just and perfect society, I prefer a more democratic form of governance, where the current crop of scoundrels can be removed rather than left to evolve into a more entrenched parasitic class of ne’er do wellers. Having said this, I still think that Ukrainians in the western part of their country fared remarkably well under Habsburg rule. Monarchy, is an outdated form of government, and one need not go any further than observe the problems associated with it within Great Britain.

Debuary

I heard the Russian economy is unable to make tack and will be getting saddles and bridles from China. Washington is considering putting sanctions on oats, carrots and sugar cubes. In other news, Russia and China will be banned from the Kentucky Derby.

PS: To fit in with JJ’s selective reporting, the above comments are entirely made up. 🙂

Was interested to read AK’s review because I couldn’t get past the five-minute mark myself:

https://karlin.blog/p/review-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs

Have only seen a few Coen Brothers films, but haven’t enjoyed any of them. To me, the film felt very conceited, and too self-aware like it was trying to deconstruct the genre. And dark and violent. Maybe, that is the wrong take, but I don’t think I have the personality factors for enjoying the Coen-style, anyway.

I did watch Tarantino’s The Hateful 8 and really regret it. Sometimes it is a mistake to hatewatch.

It still looks like Russia is working a very gradual long-term plan for the SMO. They seem to be committed to annihilating the Western project in Ukraine but are in absolutely no rush to finish this effort. It may be the country is getting gradually stronger in every respect as this drags on, so what is the rush from a Kremlin perspective?

The Ukie drone attacks on Russian infrastructure basically make Russia’s case for having a neutral zone of buffer countries. Massed drone and saturation missile attacks cannot be defended against without either preemptively destroying the launching country or wrapping their own country in a thick cocoon of air defenses. Presumably they are working on both avenues while the SMO simmers.

If this goes on another two years, where will the Russians be? I will make some guesses. Technological production 60% reshored. Economy practically decoupled from the West, maybe 75%. Banking partially insulated against the west, 50%. Military tactical forces rejuvenated, 50%. Tactical military production restored, 50%.

Ivashka’s explanations of Noviops suggest an important feature of this process: most of these improvements are somewhat pro-Russia more than pro-RusFed, so they may weaken the Noviop power in the system, This suggests intense behind the scenes maneuvering. For the moment the Noviops seem to be trapped into supporting the pro-Russia course.

Tarantino’s goal is to spread his disease to others.

I’ve seen a few of the Coen’s output and thoroughly enjoyed “Fargo” and thought that “A Serious Man” was funny and had some merit too. It probably helped that both films had themes related to the Mpls area. I grew up watching “The Mel Jass Matinee Movies” show on Mpls TV, just like the Coen Bros., and got a real kick out of reading this quote:

So how do a couple kids from St. Louis Park, MN fall in love with the movies?
Joel Coen: Well, they had this show on TV called Mel Jazz’s Matinee Movie. Mel Jazz was the guy who introduced the movie and he also sold Munce TV’s and, what was the other thing, Eth’?
(Ethan Coen is pacing the room now).
Ethan Coen: His other sponsor was Downtown Chevytown.
Joel: Yeah, he was really, in a way, a very eclectic programmer…
Ethan: He was a visionary…
Joel: A visionary, yeah. And sort of a precursor to a lot of the sort of, great film programmers that turned up on cable networks later on. One day he’d show, like,
8 1/2, and the next day he’d show Son of Hercules. (laughs). Ethan’s theory was that he’d bought the whole Joe Levine catalogue…
Ethan: Right…
(Ethan stops pacing and sits).
Joel:…and would just indiscriminately show whatever was…
Ethan: He’d just kind of interrupt the middle of 8 1/2 and go “Wow! This movie is really wild, isn’t it?”
(Both Coens laugh)(So does the interviewer).
Joel: He had other really insightful things to say during the break. So we’d watch The Matinee Movie as kids…Steve Reeves, Fellini, Doris Day movies…

Aw, nostalgia! Karlin did included this latest film that he’s reviewing within his top 10, so it can’t be that bad?

In homage to Mel Jass, a very eclectic programmer, a visionary, schmoozer and hard boiled TV salesman! 🙂

The only thing more tiresome than balls are committee meetings. The way to dance is naked, alone or with one other, in your own living room. Only savages have a good time dancing in a big group.

There is a hilarious video compilation I cannot find right now with various divas doing a meltdown onstage in front of an audience because their microphone or their monitor or their spotlight goes out in the middle of a big number.

Somebody needs to do a good expose’ of Levi-Strauss. Maybe he can also explain dancing wearing neckties and high heel shoes.

I liked Miller’s Crossing but that was mostly plagiarized Dashiell Hammett. The one that is most puzzling (that I watched–has anybody watched them all?) was Fargo. No clue what that was supposed to be. Were they aliens?

Were who aliens? What was puzzling? It was just a raucous comedy. The last time that I watched it, I almost peed in my pants from laughter. So many improbable scenes in the film. I especially thought that it was funny when the poseur shakedown artist gets shot in the face, bleeding all over the place and makes his exit from the parking lot building. Unbelievable scene!!!

You are silly man. After I pointed out the indisputable reasons your artificial invention of Rzeczpospolita is a fantasy you answered with a collection of cliche details.

Czechs once voted for commies, Ottomans and Poles were friends in the past (ask why), Poland will eclipse Germany (riiight, any day now), Estonians have solidarity. And your compulsory brown-nosing that Poles will always obey the Anglos!….It doesn’t amount to anything, those are not rational thought-through arguments but a collection of emotional out-of-context minutia.

Rump-Ukraine will not have 25-35 million after the war. The pro-Polish Galician part will have maybe 7 million. If you think Russia will allow Poland (NATO) to occupy Kiev or Poltava you are border-line mad. The war is about Ukraine-in-NATO and Russia is winning.Or is Rzeczpospolita planning to leave NATO?

Your dream of Rzeczpospolita is a dream of Greater Poland. Adding 3.5 million Balts, 7 million Galicians…and that’s it. No Czechia, Romania, Estonia, Hungary…zero chance of that. Are Lithuanians-Latvians itching to be submerged among 40 million Poles? But the Galicians are desperate so I can see them joining. Galicia would be a small, landlocked, poor region that would eventually backfire on Poland.

It’s not going to happen. Rzeczpospolita is a palliative for you after you lost the dream of Ukraine-in-NATO>. I am still laughing about how the Czechs will report to Warsaw, or possibly Vinnitsa…riiight, have you ever been to those countries? Do you at all understand their mentality? Obviously not since you think people want to bring the “Habsburgs” back. Yeah, just like the Irish really want the British back…

I concede it was unbelievable.

Everyone knows what you meant by “OH MAN CANADA CAME THROUGH“. If you are now embarrassed and try sophistry to deny what you said – in CAPITAL letters no less…:) – be my guest.

Now you claim all you meant was the hard negotiations in Canada to ship scrap metal to Kiev ended. Riiiight, because Canada is reluctant to help. Do you remember the Galician-SS-Nazi guy they cheered in the Parliament?

No one knows the losses or the intent of Kursk.

We know it didn’t work. Kursk stayed in Russian hands and the Ukies are hiding in a small border town called Suja (5k people). Losses? I agree, we don’t know precisely. But there are a lot of Ukies and mercs who will not come back. For Suja and a few miles of forest. It actually hurts Kiev, it makes them into open aggressors who failed.

it is a stalemate that could still go either direction.

Is that what you see? That Ukies can still march on Moscow or Crimea? You are the last one. Or did you mean Kiev will push Russians (the local ones) out Donbas and retake the Azov sea? Fantasy. The main question now is whether Russia will win big or small and how large the neutral (not in NATO) rump-Ukraine will be.

Economically it is wobbly all over the world, Germany and so most of EU has been in a recession for 2 years, UK is close to bankruptcy, Canada on its back…US is fine and pulling all the wealth in, and MIC is doing well. But Trump doesn’t want to fight a big war with Russia, so it does nothing for Kiev.

Raytheon is a bit of a laggard, Tesla has tripled in 5 years, Google, Apple, etc…do some research, Exxon is also up 50%. Plus the dollar appreciation. It’s the end-of-the-cycle pulling all available ‘money’ to the safest harbor – and that is US. But Europe is going nowhere and Japan is already there. Russia is growing 3-4%…

It’s a perfect media propaganda world: you announce that something happens and when it obviously doesn’t you say you prevented it. Circle of lies. It’s internally directed and makes zero difference to reality. But what else can they do?

Great example is US-Kiev desperate for negotiations and ceasefire and so they constantly say: Russia is desperate and wants to talk. Russia says it is not true and the propaganda counters with: see, Russia is afraid to talk! Wow, both desperate and afraid at the same time. But they are not bothered by the incoherence – most people are too stupid and distracted, they feed them bull…

Things I have read on Unz:

Russia can’t be using African mercenaries.

Russia can’t be using Chinese 4×4 buggies.

Russia can’t be using tanks from 1954.

Russia can’t be using tampons for medkits.

Russia can’t be using North Korean soldiers.

You’d think that Putin’s defenders would pick up on a pattern here.

Apparently, they have a large contingengent of ‘aides’ on call who can act as ‘hosts’ at political events.

I imagine that there are a lot of young blondes in DC kind of like Hollywood. Though the rumor I heard was the helicopter pilot was a lesbo.

Yeah, I heard the rumors, too, and that her ‘social media history’ had been ‘scrubbed’, which could very well be true. It could also be true that she had a limited online presence, as some do, just as the media presented.

And while her death should certainly be grieved by all, and I do, I also question the idea that (much unlike with her male fellow crew members) they held back her identity so the family could mourn in peace.

Woke progressivism is an all consuming cult/religion with it’s true believers. If withholding that identifying information was felt necessary by the ideology’s adherents to advance their cause by in the meantime scrubbing her online presence, and planting false rumors in it’s place, so be it. [For myself it’s neither here nor there. As the modern progressives have become lawless and dangerous, believing the ends justify the means, I’m for disengaging and separating from these desperate, grifting, violent, crazy people, amicably if at all possible.]

Everyone knows what you meant by “OH MAN CANADA CAME THROUGH“. If you are now embarrassed and try sophistry to deny what you said – in CAPITAL letters no less…:) – be my guest.

I’m sorry if you don’t understand our language. Read the following sentence:

We had a late project to finish but Mike at least came through with some pizza.

Does this sentence mean:

1. Mike changed the outcome of the project by bringing pizza.
2. It was an unexpected but pleasant surprise that Mike brought pizza.

By all means contact your local ESL professor to verify the answer.

We know it didn’t work. Kursk stayed in Russian hands

No one expects Kursk to become part of Ukraine.

But Ukrainian forces are still there despite the usual self-described Russian experts telling us that it was a fluke and wouldn’t last a week. Martyanov actually went on a rant about how the Ukrainians were being hunted down like dogs in the woods and that they would all be killed within a day. Quite an amusing imagination.

Is that what you see? That Ukies can still march on Moscow or Crimea? You are the last one.

No has suggested that they march on Moscow and I said that Crimea is probably too lofty of a goal.

Ukraine remaining as a country is a success in itself. Russia planned to eliminate them as a state.

Both sides have goals and Putin was clear that stopping NATO was the primary reason for the war. Well that goal has failed. Wars are not merely about kilometers. If the US declared war on Iran with the stated goal of removing the government would you consider it to be a win if they took a chunk of the country and then raised a “mission accomplished” flag?

Raytheon is a bit of a laggard, Tesla has tripled in 5 years, Google, Apple, etc…do some research, Exxon is also up 50%.

The rise or fall of other stocks is irrelevant to the point which is that the US MIC has massively profited. Raytheon beat the market index so anyone who invested in the blood industry has made money from Putin’s war while rural poor Russians lose family members. What a dictator you choose to defend. The US profits from this war and Putin’s defenders shake their fist at the country across the ocean as rural Russians and Ukrainians kill each other. TAKE THAT YANKEES! YOUR LNG PROFITS ARE EVEN HIGHER!! BWAHAHAHA! OUR TRICKY DWARF SURE GOT YOU GOOD!

But I’ll give you credit for at least not trying to argue that Western Jews somehow lose by having Orthodox men kill each in trenches That is probably the dumbest position and yet quite common at Unz. With that kind of outstanding logic Anglin should really just declare that the Jews are about to lose and then blow his brains out.

No, my question should only be taken at face level, and was just a reflection of my simple curiosity about the matters that you brought up, as I am not, nor have ever been any sort of a royalist.

Well, okay, if you say so. [I trust you didn’t take my assertion too seriously. It’s why I had the ‘wink of an eye’ emoji. 🙂 ]

As there are no guarantees that a monarchy could produce a more just and perfect society, I prefer a more democratic form of governance, where the current crop of scoundrels can be removed rather than left to evolve into a more entrenched parasitic class of ne’er do wellers.

Entirely understandable, and why I’m quite content with a republic, provided it is carefully guarded and maintained.

Having said this, I still think that Ukrainians in the western part of their country fared remarkably well under Habsburg rule.

Also understandable, and I relate, as I have made the observation that Anglo-Saxons were in many ways doing better under pre 1776 Hanoverian (ie King George I, II, III, etc) rule, which doesn’t make me ‘pro-monarchy’ per se, and which also doesn’t preclude there potentially being even better third, fourth, and fifth alternative systems of government to live under available.

Perhaps the funniest part was when the shake down artist drives to the very bottom of the parking building to pay his parking ticket, bleeding all over the place. The shock on the face of the parking lot attendant when he sees the driver is priceless! Unfortunately, that last part was not included within the clip that I included, and I didn’t have the time to find one that perhaps showed this funny expression on the attendant’s face. Pure gold! 🙂

After I pointed out the indisputable reasons your artificial invention of Rzeczpospolita is a fantasy you answered with a collection of cliche details

Those were refutations of each of your points. For example, you claimed that the Czechs would never side with non-Westerners (such as Poles). I pointed out that they had voted for commies. If they can vote for Commies in the late 1940s they can ally with Rzeczpospolita in the 2020s.

Poland will eclipse Germany

Poland alone will not, too few people. I never claimed it would. Central and Eastern Europe collectively can. That’s the point. Germany and Russia wouldn’t like it, but the Anglo world wouldn’t mind.

Rump-Ukraine will not have 25-35 million after the war

This is like your predictions that Ukraine’s economy would never grow (made right before several years of growth) or that Ukraine would surrender to the Russians right away (made right before Ukraine expelled Russia a from Kiev and have fight its much-larger neighbor to a standstill).

War is at stalemate, Russia is losing 2-3 soldiers for every Ukrainian and is losing much of its oil and gas industry, for very little territorial gain. Small chance of Ukraine regaining some lands but the likely result will be around where it is now. 25-32 million people, with another few million living next door in Poland.

In what strange world would Russia capture Kiev and keep it from a Polish alliance? Russia cannot even capture Kharkiv.

Soft-on-Russia Biden is gone. You should have appreciated him but weren’t clever enough to, his administration kept holding Ukraine back, kept delaying aid, etc. Now that he is gone, Ukraine has finally begun to really dismantle Russia’s industries. Which refinery will be next? There are still a few on the menu.

I was worried theat Trump might be even worse than Biden, but so far Trump wants peace on normal terms. NATO delayed (nothing new, it has been for many years anyways, empty promises had been made since 2007 IIRC), but security for Ukraine. Having Americans involved in Ukrainian mining will be good security, Russia won’t dare attack in that case while Ukraine continues to improve its already formidable military.

Your dream of Rzeczpospolita is a dream of Greater Poland

No, because Poland would not annex any territories. It would be an alliance, of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, from the Baltic to the Black seas. A strong ally of the USA.

you think people want to bring the “Habsburgs” back

When did I claim that?

When you get desperate you retreat to some really strange fantasies. Relax.

Have you ever attended a dance ball?

They still had them covered on the front page of the New Orleans newspaper when I escaped from that godforsaken city. Debutante balls. Carnival balls.

Google claims the last American duel was in 1859. This is an hallucination.

Dueling Oak

https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/109

If withholding that identifying information was felt necessary by the ideology’s adherents to advance their cause by in the meantime scrubbing her online presence, and planting false rumors in it’s place, so be it.

The Daily Mail had a story with photo that a suddenly infamous tranny helicopter pilot was being falsely slandered on the internet as the erroneous pilot by right wing apes. There is only a tiny doubt in my mind that it loved the attention. Perhaps man was not created to fly but for sure he was not created to fly helicopters. The American promoter Arthur Young (co-inventor? I’m sure the Russians had people doing the exact same thing) is a pretty funny interview.

More gross distortions from you.

Here’s the entire unabridged scene with the attendant shown in disbelief at 3:10 and his final demise starting at 3:47. RIP. Adults only:

And I thought Big Lebowski was the funniest movie.

Yes, many times, it’s a popular tradition amongst diaspora Ukrainians. Our parents did that too, and our grandparents when they arrived after the war. My kids and their friends go much more often than I do nowadays.

When looking for a video to post, I even saw myself in one (I did not post that one).

99% of the population finds that incredibly boring.

Race fans seem oblivious to the fact that most of us would rather watch the westminster dog show than practically any circle race.

This race fan has a solution: you, and other less evolved human lifeforms unable to appreciate the glory of the automobile, should be confined to a concentration camp.

Or at the very least prohibited from operating or riding in any motorized conveyance, a technology you do not deserve to benefit from.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/mercedes-benz-e63-amg-cannonball-speed-record-car/photos/

Bronze Age Pervert has a substack. There is only one article there so far but it’s a doozie. Like most of us, he is more impressive with multiple and edited drafts before final copy than he is thinking on his feet.

https://substack.com/@bronzeagepervert/p-150810515

I don’t think I ever argued against the possibility of any of these points and I am not surprised if horses are involved. These things all make sense if Russia sees this as the first punishing round in an existential conflict started by the West. The combat is very strange on many levels on both sides. Your tidbits are interesting but not pivotal.

I think they do lend support to this idea:

Russia was not fully prepared for a full-scale war at the beginning of the SMO. This suggests they reacted to preempt a major attack by the West and the Ukies.

It is a nice steampunk war. Russia has horses, 1950’s tanks and Mosin-Nagants while also using state-of-the art hypersonic weapons, ubiquitous lethal drones and 3000 pound bombs with long-range precision guidance kits. Fortunately the laser weapons, nuclear weapons and bioweapons have all stayed on the shelf for the time being.

The world’s most famous tranny helicopter pilot, punch line around 2:00. I wonder what the echo chamber people are saying today?

As the modern progressives have become lawless and dangerous, believing the ends justify the means, I’m for disengaging and separating from these desperate, grifting, violent, crazy people, amicably if at all possible.]

that very cringey Will Stancil guy (twitter/x foil for Sailer) was recently calling for Musk to be put against a wall. I didn’t expect that from an ultra-soy type, but I guess it really is a common sentiment for people who throw the word “Nazi” around a lot.

@Thorfinn
I have long argued for the creation of a bug-eating, bicycle caste.

I want BAP to promote that Drieu La Rochelle book I translated a while ago. In a couple of his last broadcasts he has mentioned Drieu but hardly anyone in the Anglosphere seems to know who he is.

IOMTT

I agree. He is a sicko. A lot of his movies seem like murder fantasies of non-Euros – killing women kind of stuff. And anyone who has depicted sodomy on film should be locked away, as far as I am concerned.

What I think is amusing is the director of Funny Games* found Pulp Fiction revolting (I did too.)

*Extremely bizarre and wildly violent Austrian movie I rented once blindly. A big red flag, which gave me pause for thought, was when the butch-lesbo at the checkout strongly endorsed the film.

>One day he’d show, like, 8 1/2, and the next day he’d show Son of Hercules

Wait a minute! You saw those Fellini films you mentioned on broadcast TV!? LOL.

I vaguely remember some movie shows from deep in my youth, but it almost seems like they got rid of nearly all of them even years before the advent of streaming and Saturday night was infomercials. And only the ones on cable had hosts. Actually, I sometimes used to watch one of the Spanish language channels, as they had better movies on.

@emil

No clue what that was supposed to be. Were they aliens?

Mr. Hack is highly open to experience, based on my movie analysis of him. Anything he likes is highly suspect 😉

(And btw Mr. Hack, have you ever seen those sons of Hercules movies they seem to mention a lot?)

The race is regarded as the most dangerous motorsport event in the world; The New York Times said in 2017 that the number of deaths had risen “to 146 since it was first run in 1907; if one includes fatal accidents occurring during the Manx Grand Prix … the figure rises above 250”.[14][15] An account of the 2003 race by Sports Illustrated writer Franz Lidz called the TT “a test of nerves and speed that may be sports’ most dangerous event.”[16]

Did Luigi know you can get max kicks without pissing off the cops?

France has sent Ukraine some Mirage fighter jets, and the Netherlands have sent some additional F-16’s. They don’t say how many, though it’s likely (as always, and by design?) not enough to make much difference.

[Along with this I’ve posted some real time 1939 Movietone newsreels about the German minority in Poland, the September German and Russian invasions of Poland, and the siege of Warsaw (the film ‘Siege’ below ‘more’ released in 1940), due to the obvious parallels with the present situation in Ukraine and Kiev. This is said with the caveat that while the Anglosphere and the West is comparing Putin and Russia with ‘Hitler’ and the ‘Nazis!’TM, so too are Russia and Putin comparing Zelensky, Ukraine, and the Anglosphere/West with the same, reinforcing my belief that most everyone in this deadly farce are being ‘played’.

Be sure and note the newsreel quotes ‘The British and French could give no aid’ and the ‘Defenders of Warsaw hoped to get aid from Great Britain and France, but the Allies on the Western Front were powerless to save them.’]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-says-long-range-drones-113901050.html

‘France said it had delivered the first fighter jets promised to Ukraine by President Emmanuel Macron last June.’

Ukraine says its long-range drones hit a Russian airfield as France delivers Mirage fighter jets

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck an airfield in southern Russia that was being used to launch Iran-designed Shahed drones, Ukraine’s General Staff claimed Thursday. France meanwhile said it had delivered the first batch of Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine and the Netherlands sent more F-16s…

..France said it had delivered the first fighter jets promised to Ukraine by President Emmanuel Macron last June.

“The first of them arrived in Ukraine today,” Sebastien Lecornu, the minister of the armed forces, said on X. “With Ukrainian pilots on board, trained for several months in France, they will now help to defend the skies over Ukraine.”

Lecornu did not say how many planes were delivered.

Ukraine also received more F-16s from the Netherlands, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said, though it didn’t specify how many.

European countries have previously supplied F-16s, though Ukrainian officials have rarely mentioned them in official comments about the fighting.

How can you make one of these and not include Udmurts?

Did you get to the bit about self-induced jew schizophrenia from:

1. cheering the black man terrorizing whitey;
2. getting terrorized himself from fear of the black man poking his woman?

I liked that part the best but I am a whacko who thinks 99% of the human race has post trauma stress disorder.

I find his podcast unlistenable. Maybe I just heard the wrong ones.

When it came out I read that Hateful Eight was one of the last big movies shot on film, edited on film (I think) and in a few cases projected on film. I wanted to watch it but couldn’t make myself go to the theater. Part of the problem is that Tarantino knows how to make movies and can get into a person’s head.

Ukraine had more and better planes and pilots at the beginning of the SMO. It is difficult to see how any number of these old aircraft will make a difference.

that very cringey Will Stancil guy (twitter/x foil for Sailer) was recently calling for Musk to be put against a wall. I didn’t expect that from an ultra-soy type, but I guess it really is a common sentiment for people who throw the word “Nazi” around a lot.

They should have told them many decades ago to either cut it out with the ‘Nazi!’TM name calling business, or they (the modern progs) are going to have to go it alone from here on out, which even if by default would result in them for once in their miserable lives being held accountable for their own actions, the ultimate nightmare for these so called ‘woke’ (but really fast asleep) people.

Come to think about it, irregardless of what the corrupt modern progs might do about that, everyone else whatever their philosophy or political persuasion (ie probably the vast majority of people) should separate themselves from them.

For whether it’s the world’s very first woke autonomous zone created in the late 1970’s at Jonestown, Guyana, or the later more modern autonomous zones created during the so called ‘Summer of Floyd’, which were characterized by being led by little tin pot dictators, murder, thuggery, rapine, and the general trashing of the place, where they couldn’t even succesfully grow and harvest the few simple crops that they had planted, it’s the same story of self destruction everywhere these people go.

They lost their way a long time ago and are no longer life and freedom affirming, and they don’t seem to have the slightest interest in changing their ways.

Everyone else, for their part, needs to stop enabling them in their dangerous delusions.

…tidbits are interesting but not pivotal

Johnson hides in irrelevant tidbits. Possibly he can’t handle reality and needs silly minutia to escape to.

Russia was not fully prepared for a full-scale war at the beginning of the SMO. This suggests they reacted to preempt a major attack by the West and the Ukies.

Most rational people thought it would be settled quickly since there was no point in massive bloodshed. But NATO-ids and their servants in Kiev had a different plan. They played their stupid games and it became existential for Russia.

I don’t think Kiev was about to attack in February 2022, their game was to gradually make the situation unbearable for Russia, maybe a local attack killing more Donbas civilians – their goal was to provoke Russia. And they did. Now they are sorry.

USAID Funded Ukrainians Who Doxxed, Harassed and Framed American Journalists w/ Sarah Bils

Bloomberg seems to have peddled BS:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/us-set-to-present-trump-s-plan-for-peace-in-ukraine-next-week

https://kyivindependent.com/us-wont-present-ukraine-russia-plan-at-munich-conference-trumps-special-envoy-says/

Perhaps man was not created to fly but for sure he was not created to fly helicopters. The American promoter Arthur Young (co-inventor? I’m sure the Russians had people doing the exact same thing) is a pretty funny interview.

Thanks. I had a vague awareness about Young and the Bell helicopter, but hadn’t been aware of the other stuff he was into.

The Daily Mail had a story with photo that a suddenly infamous tranny helicopter pilot was being falsely slandered on the internet as the erroneous pilot by right wing apes. There is only a tiny doubt in my mind that it loved the attention.

As for the tranny, I imagine it’s true this person liked the attention.

As for the timing of the misleading and distracting rumor about who was actually piloting the helicopter, I’m sure it was just ‘a coincidence’, just like the misleading and distracting rumors which appeared in the UK after the Southport murders were also ‘coincidental’.

In each instance these ‘coincidental’ and distracting rumors tend to make me think the worst is true.

Thanks. I had a vague awareness about Young and the Bell helicopter, but hadn’t been aware of the other stuff he was into.

I don’t think it is in that interview but Young was Jack Sarfatti and Co’s angelic patron when they were unemployed theoretical physicists. A real Renaissance guy. I still have a couple of his books. This is the one more people have read:

Ukraine, the Anglosphere, and the West accuses Putin and Russia of being ‘Nazis’. Putin and Russia meanwhile accuses Zelenski, Ukraine, and the Anglosphere/West of being true blue Nazis.

Will the real Nazis do everyone else a favor and please stand up? 😀

A bit more seriously, about the present WWII parallels, and the recent aircraft delivered to Ukraine by France and the Netherlands, in the Spring of 1939 the British did sell the Polish 100 ‘Fairey Battle’ bomber planes.

The Poles however never took delivery of them, which is just as well as the planes were obsolete by the start of the war and were veritable death traps for their unfortunate crews, though a Battle did happen to be responsible for the first RAF shoot down of an enemy plane (a Messerschmitt BF 109 on Sept 20, 1939) during the war.

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

The Battle was obsolete by the start of the Second World War…the Battle was hopelessly outclassed by Luftwaffe fighters, being almost 100 mph (160 km/h) slower than the contemporary Bf 109 at 14,000 ft (4,300 m).

Upon the commencement of the Battle of France in May 1940, Battles were called upon to perform unescorted, low-level tactical attacks against the advancing German army; this use of the type placed the aircraft at risk of attack from Luftwaffe fighters and within easy range of light anti-aircraft guns.

In the first of two sorties carried out by Battles on 10 May 1940, three out of eight aircraft were lost, while a further 10 out of 24 were shot down in the second sortie, giving a total of 13 lost in that day’s attacks, with the remainder suffering damage. Despite bombing from as low as 250 ft (76 m), their attacks were recorded as having had little impact on the German columns.

During the following day, nine Belgian Air Force Battles attacked bridges over the Albert Canal that connects to the Meuse River, losing six aircraft and in another RAF sortie that day against a German column, only one Battle out of eight survived.

On 12 May, a formation of five Battles of 12 Squadron attacked two road bridges over the Albert Canal; four of these aircraft were destroyed while the final aircraft crash-landing upon its return to its base.

On 14 May 1940, in a desperate attempt to stop German forces crossing the Meuse, the Advanced Air Striking Force launched an “all-out” attack by all available bombers against the German bridgehead and pontoon bridges at Sedan. The light bombers were attacked by swarms of opposing fighters and were devastated. Out of a strike force of 63 Battles and eight Bristol Blenheims, 40 (including 35 Battles) were lost. After these abortive raids, the Battle was switched to mainly night attacks, resulting in much lower losses.

The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.

Canada isn’t a real country and its continued independence is offensive.

When Thorfinnsson was more actively involved with this website, he was a big proponent of the US anschlussing Canada. He must be salivating at the prospect right now and has probably already sent Trump his impressive resume to fill the new “Anschluss Canada Project Director” spot within Trump’s new cabinet. I’m sure that he’s also tickled pink over the prospects of anschlussing Greenland and Panama too. His time has finally come, and he needs to quickly assemble his wardrobe, including his impresive exotic leather shoe collection, for his new trip to Washington DC. First up on his agenda: ban the sale of fish and chips in Canada and substitute hamburgers and fries instead (Trump’s favorites). 🙂

Anything he likes is highly suspect 😉

So why do you continually try to enlist me in your movie review projects here?…

A union with Canada would guarantee that America would be Democratic for a generation, at least. Its Conservatives are of the Romney type but to the left of Romney (maybe like his Massachusetts voters, when he was governor of that state), it’s Liberals are like more leftist American Democrats, and it has a strong NDP party who are further to the left then any mainstream American parties. Canada is as far left as California, probably a bit more so even.

Making Canada a territory like Puerto Rico wouldn’t prevent a Democratic takeover, either. Millions of Canadians would still move south due to higher pay. Swing states like Michigan would turn solid Blue (it would only take a few 10,000s to do it). Canadians enjoy Nevada, Arizona and Florida. The former two would become solidly Blue, Florida would revert to being a swing state.

I suppose it would solve the problem of all those people who came to Canada from India, illegally entering the USA. They’d be legal now.

Wait a minute! You saw those Fellini films you mentioned on broadcast TV!? LOL.

To be honese, Id on’t ever recall seeing any Fellinifi films on the “Mel Jass Matinee Movies” show. I must have been taking a nap on those very few times this happened.

And btw Mr. Hack, have you ever seen those sons of Hercules movies they seem to mention a lot?

Yes, I do recall seeing some of these. In fact I was a big fan of these types of movies, anything to do with Hercules was cool in my book. I’d even put up with the poor English language dub-ins of these strictly Italian films. What I learned to appreciate and watched on this show was the old American “Henry Aldrich” films. Definitely kind of corny and depicted an idealized American lifestyle of the 1920’s. Ever see any of these yourself?

Given what we have seen in Ukraine: obsolete is as obsolete does. Slow moving RC copters are a menace. Who could have predicted that 20 years ago?

The Germans alone among the industrial nations created significant organic regimental anti aircraft defences with 20mm automatic cannons. Every German ground unit had the ability to shoot down planes doing dive bombing. They’d rehearsed the possibility of attack by dive bombers. Calmly shooting back and downing the attackers.

The allies on the other hand had never prepared their men to face the onslaught of Stukas (no better than the ungainly looking Fairey Battle) which were also death traps for their crews. When Stukas arrived unprepared French conscripts abandoned their position around Dinant and Sedan. Even though the bombs dropped were not doing much real damage, French troops gave up good positions instead of fighting to the death.

After years of bombing Arabs in Syria with impunity the French troops had not been equipped to receive such a bombing. Either with 20mm of their own or with the negative effect on morale.

If US troops today had to sustain a real aerial attack their morale would also falter given their lack of ever facing such a disadvantage.

There is a good comment in the Twitter thread below the Irish map repeating that the Irish and British generally are identical to Basques, based on some work from 2007. I was wondering who looked at Razib’s map and went on to post that without any comment or explanation.

It is a shame Udmurts are not included though. Are they generally closer to Finns?

Why not just leave things between Canada and the US alone, and let them evolve as they have up until now? To be honest, I never really thought about any real benefits from such an anschluss? I think that a lot of sleepy Canadians would get all riled up about this sort of a development and thus cause a lot of ill will between the two countries. Canada is already showing that two can play the tariff game! 🙂

The end of USAID is long overdue. Samantha Power personally visiting Hungary was an act of hubris. (1)

USAID Target Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Responds to USAID Revelations

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was designated as a target by CIA/USAID revolution efforts for his nationalist mindset and opposition to the global agenda of the European Commission. Orban is also a very strong ally of President Trump and a close personal friend.

Today, Prime Minister Orban reacts to the sunlight now unstoppable upon the agenda of USAID and the architect of the targeting effort, USAID Administrator Samantha Power.

 

Every “journalistic” venture that took money from USAID is now tainted. This should produce huge dividends around the world, especially in Ukraine. How many pro-war outlets supporting Führer Zelensky have been cutoff? Reduction of propaganda will greatly increase the chances of serious negotiations.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/06/usaid-target-hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-responds-to-usaid-revelations/

Will the real Nazis do everyone else a favor and please stand up? 😀

What more proof do you need? 🙂

When Thorfinnsson was more actively involved with this website, he was a big proponent of the US anschlussing Canada.

This is what in effect exists at the moment you dimwit Hack. Trump is just formalising it.
Not necessarily a 51st state, but a Union state near identical to what practically exists with Russia and Belarus is just cementing what is current reality.
Canada is even more economically integrated with the US, then Russia and Belarus are with each other. Certainly pre-SMO.

Militarily they are effectively the same state, or Canada is at least the whore to America. All the human excrement Banderite scum who escaped to Canada in the 1940s/50s continued to work with the American CIA after.

Presumably extradition of suspected criminals between US and Canada is not harder than extradition between different individual US states.

I dont know if the product safety and food safety standards between US and Canada are identical or they allow/waiver each others product if they have their own countries agency certification anyway?

Clearly Canada to US is not like Mexico to US, so formalising a Union state is not insanity

What I learned to appreciate and watched on this show was the old American “Henry Aldrich” films.

Am vaguely aware of the old radio show (the Aldrich Family), but wasn’t aware there were any movies.

…tidbits are interesting but not pivotal

Johnson hides in irrelevant tidbits. Possibly he can’t handle reality and needs silly minutia to escape to.

JJ refuses to admit when he is 100% proven wrong on key points. It makes it very hard for anyone to take him seriously.

Using minutiae is only one of his transgressions. He has also tried to change the subject by bringing in wholly unrelated matters. And, he periodically claims he “did not mean” the exact words that he posted. This last one is particularly foolish.

Russia was not fully prepared for a full-scale war at the beginning of the SMO. This suggests they reacted to preempt a major attack by the West and the Ukies.

Most rational people thought it would be settled quickly since there was no point in massive bloodshed. But NATO-ids and their servants in Kiev had a different plan. They played their stupid games and it became existential for Russia.

I concur.

The big push at Kiev would never have generated enough troop strength to take the city. The huge logistical FUBAR in Belarus further limited force strength.

As it is clear that capturing the city was NOT the military objective — What was the purpose?

-1- Pressuring the regime into a deal. This is by far the *most* likely explanation. There was some hope from the Istanbul agreement. Sadly, this was later sabotaged. The most visible bad actor was BoJo.

-2- Capturing and/or killing key enemy leadership. There is no concrete evidence that this took place as no key figures became unaccounted for. Had this been a major goal, they should have been able to find and grab some people.

-3- A feint intended to pull enemy forces from actions elsewhere. The push seems too large for this explanation. If the intent was distraction, part of the plan would have been minimizing casualties. Instead, high value airborne troops were expended.

The Ukrainian people would have been better off under Minsk or Istanbul. Now Russia has achieved more than the initial “two oblasts” stated objective.

• Parts of 4 oblasts
• The “land bridge” fully covering Crimea
• ZNPP which will to provide electricity for development & industry
• Access to the Dnieper to supply fresh water to Crimea

Ending the conflict on something similar to current lines could be sold in Moscow. Tweaks would include Ukraine fully leaving the area near Kursk and comparable Russian movements away from the city of Zaporizhzhia.

The big stumbling block is preventing Kiev from arming up heavily to start “Round 2” some years down the line. Führer Zelensky’s demands for NATO peacekeepers or nuclear arms are ludicrous non-starters. Hopefully, he is just posturing. If not, things could be frozen until the Ukrainian people replace him.

PEACE 😇

Motor races are f**king amazing to watch at the track. God knows what this thick POS JohnsonJohnson is thinking. Literally one of the most exciting live events to watch in person.

Ive watched at the track – formula One, Formula – E, various motorbike races, stock cars ( not in America, though it would be great to watch there)…….even seeing my kids racing go-karts on some sh*t track brings some excitement. Presumably its only focused policing, tracking of vehicles and more built up areas that is making drag racing less of a thing across the world than it was a few decades before – not any lessening of appetite for young adults to watch them.

Nearly all main American sports are braindead and boring to watch this Johnson shithead should realise- in person, or on the television. That’s why they have advertisement breaks every 2 seconds and music concerts every 15 or 30 minutes – to stop the viewers on television and spectators in the stadium from shooting themselves in the head.
One thing I have wondered is how does the american wrestling work if you are at the stadium/arena? True it can be entertaining but surely 90% of spectators from all the viewing angles can see that the punches and kicks are missing and sounds faked?

A union with Canada would guarantee that America would be Democratic for a generation, at least.

It was never a serious proposal. Trump said it to pressure Trudeau. I do not understand why people think this was ever actually under consideration.

Buying Alberta would make a certain amount of sense. The population is small and politically much closer to MAGA populist. However, dividing Canada into two separate pieces does not have any great traction.

PEACE 😇

Yes, formally annexing Canada would be bad for the USA, and the (facetious, likely) calls to do so by Trump have caused needless trouble.

This is potentially true and is supported by opinion polling, but it’s not guaranteed.

First, there’s the phenomenon that within most GAE countries when populations are polled about foreign countries they tend to prefer more left-leaning candidates and parties than they do within their own countries. The reason behind this phenomenon is that while they distrust regime media within their own countries, this skepticism does not extend to regime reporting about foreign countries. It’s a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia effect for politics. Canadians integrated into the US system would rapidly adjust once part of the US political and media systems.

Second, even if we grant that Canadians within Canada proper do not adjust, this doesn’t mean that Canadians who relocate south of the 49th would be the same as those remaining in Canada and would also not adjust their priors. In recent years we’ve had something of a partial falsification of the Sailer Strategy and a vindication of Ron Unz’s views about immigrants.

Third, we might not be in the same America anymore. One shouldn’t draw overly broad conclusions from a few weeks of activity, but the second Trump administration has the feeling of an actual regime change. Will the Democrats even be allowed to return to power? Is America now entering its Principate phase? Obviously prior probability suggests that the US constitution and its system of allowing parties to trade time in power will continue, but present activity provides the feeling (and yes, hope) that the endgame is the actual eradication of the left.

But yes, Mr. Hack is correct that I have always supported the Canschluss, and the possibility that this will now actually happen is indeed exciting to me.

You are correct that the proposal to annex Canada was probably not serious. It needlessly pissed off many Canadians, and provided an electoral boost to the more anti-Trump Liberal Party.

Buying Alberta would make a certain amount of sense. The population is small and politically much closer to MAGA populist

Alberta is more like Colorado than like Montana or Wyoming. If you get a Republican senator from there, it will be a Curtis, Collins or Murkowsky. But likely it would be a Colorado-style Democrat, who would be friendly with the oil and gas industries. I don’t mind that too much. You would.

About 44% of Albertans voted for the far left NDP party in the last provincial election. This party is more leftist than Trudeau’s Liberals and more leftist than any major American Democrat. The conservative majority in Alberta are not MAGA. They are like Western Blue State Romney Republicans.

Canada’s MAGA party is the PPC, led by Bernier. It is polling at around 2.5% nationally. It is at just under 3% in Alberta.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

Currently, Alberta is polling 61% Conservative, 19% NDP, 14% Liberal, 3% “MAGA” (PPC), 2% Green.

There is a good comment in the Twitter thread below the Irish map repeating that the Irish and British generally are identical to Basques, based on some work from 2007.

I have to say I am quite puzzled and surprised by the Basque results. It doesn’t make intuitive sense to me that Greeks and Sicilians would be closer to Irish than Basques are.

IIRC, there were some very old theories that Basques and Irish were both older inhabitants of their countries, part of the dark race of old Europeans who got invaded and replaced in most areas. In some measure based on blood types, like high rate of O. And the initial results on y haplogroups would have supported that. I am surprised to see the Rh- rates for Ireland, I assumed they were similar to Basques. A lot of people I know have Rh- blood.

It is a shame Udmurts are not included though. Are they generally closer to Finns?

of the people on the map, would guess Karelians and then Finns. As a crazy, rough estimate maybe add the difference between them to the Karelians?

First, there’s the phenomenon that within most GAE countries when populations are polled about foreign countries they tend to prefer more left-leaning candidates and parties than they do within their own countries

Canadians preferred Harris over Trump ~60% to ~30% but within Canada, the Conservatives are winning 43% versus 23% for the Liberals and 17% for the far left NDP.

Canadians integrated into the US system would rapidly adjust once part of the US political and media systems

Many of Canada’s conservatives would join up with moderate non-MAGA Republicans, others would join the Democratic Party and keep it more in the center, though they might be cancelled out by Liberal and NDP voters also joining the Democratic Party.

Canadians moving South would be comparable to Californians moving to Arizona, Nevada or Colorado.

MAGA would gain few followers.

I am more aligned with moderate Republicans so this would be fine by me. But the MAGAs pushing for Canadian annexation would be bitterly disappointed.

Third, we might not be in the same America anymore. One shouldn’t draw overly broad conclusions from a few weeks of activity, but the second Trump administration has the feeling of an actual regime change

It does, but not necessarily in a healthy way. For that, Trump would have to have gained a lot of popularity. Instead, the country remains as divided as before. He won because Biden was senile and uninspiring, and Kamala was dumb and also uninspiring. He got slightly less than 50% of the vote.

Radically accumulating power speaks well for the competence, youthfulness, and boldness of his team, but there is a danger of instability if this power isn’t accompanied by actual popularity. Fortunately, the likely result will be that the Republicans will just lose the next election if the Democrats pick someone normal, or win if the Democrats pick someone even more unpopular than whatever MAGA replaces Trump. In either case it would be a peaceful result because it would reflect the electorate’s will.

The danger would be if MAGA creates and uses the tools to legally maintain power despite losing popular support to someone else. A Yanukovich scenario.

Democrats were moving in that direction themselves, enough to unfairly win the election in 2020 thanks to media dominance/censorship and collusion with the corporations. In that case though, their candidate at least actually won the popular vote. There was January 6, but it was not so serious. It would be much worse if someone won unfairly, while also losing the popular vote. It might lead to the type of crisis that is unpleasant to live through.

The solution for MAGA would be to work hard to gain real widespread popularity. It’s much too early to see if there is a cultural shift that matches the consolidation of political power. Dropping DEI everywhere is a start, but this may actually help Democrats if they are smart enough to let the issue drop and focus on other things; it will no longer be tied to their necks.

Yes, formally annexing Canada would be bad for the USA, and the (facetious, likely) calls to do so by Trump have caused needless trouble.

Trump’s action were Needful. And Not Troubling. You have the situation 180° backwards. You seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Trump’s statements helped accelerate Trudeau’s departure which is a win-win on both sides of the border. The current regime also promised to do more to combat both illegal trade in drugs and human trafficking. Also, wins for Trump and everyone else.

The next major election in Canada is locked to October 2025. The particulars of a long past comment from Trump will have near zero long term electoral impact. And, it may generate some gratitude from the incoming administration that will replace Trudeau and his party.
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I saw your post about Alberta. However, as there is ~0% chance of a territorial buyout, chasing that minutiae does not seem like a fruitful path of investigation.

PEACE 😇

The Germans alone among the industrial nations created significant organic regimental anti aircraft defences with 20mm automatic cannons. Every German ground unit had the ability to shoot down planes doing dive bombing. They’d rehearsed the possibility of attack by dive bombers. Calmly shooting back and downing the attackers.

By 20mm I suppose you mean like the below, which appears to be a fairly accurate recreation. I’ve always found myself a little surprised at just how much firepower these things had, and that they used them on opposing infantry ‘in emergencies’.

The allies on the other hand had never prepared their men to face the onslaught of Stukas (no better than the ungainly looking Fairey Battle) which were also death traps for their crews.

That’s true, the British had their Fairey Battles, and the Germans their Stukas, both of which experienced unsustainable losses when up against high speed modern fighter planes.

If US troops today had to sustain a real aerial attack their morale would also falter given their lack of ever facing such a disadvantage.

I’ve read some of the accounts of the US military veteran volunteers in Ukraine, saying that without the full spectrum dominance (which they’ve been accustomed to in the Middle East) the war in Ukraine is on a whole different level of intensity.

So why do you continually try to enlist me in your movie review projects here?…

Why, Mr. Hack, I am just teasing you! You often seem my only kindred spirit here when it comes to enjoying old movies.

I shall post another review:

Ashes of Time Redux. (HK, original came out in ’94, but this one is a recut of it that came out later.)

The” real Nazis” (Banderite neo-Nazis) are honored in Kiev regime controlled Ukraine, much unlike post-Soviet Russia.

Wagner’s Business Model in Syria and Africa: Profit and Patronage

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/occasional-papers/wagners-business-model-syria-and-africa-profit-and-patronage

You can appreciate cars without watching them go in circles. I in fact work on my own cars and rarely hire a mechanic.

But I’m so sorry if I offended what is clearly a sophisticated hobby for only the highest life forms.

Am vaguely aware of the old radio show (the Aldrich Family), but wasn’t aware there were any movies.

I did a little research and discovered that there was even a TV series “The Aldrich Family” that ran from 1939 – 1944. I never watched any of these, but limited my Aldrich experience to the 11 full length films that I think Mel Jass had acquired the rights to show. All quite charming films that depicted a more idyllic time, that fortunately mirrored some the good feelings that I experienced in my childhood too. I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I grew up into a person that derives some measure of cheer watching “criminal-comedy” type fare put out by the Coen Bros. 🙁 I located at least three full length of these films, and many clips too through YouTube. You can even gain access to some of the old radio shows too.

Only Italian dubs I have seen are one or two sword and sandal pictures from the ’80s but nothing memorable.

You seemed to be quite interested in whether I viewed any of the Italian “Son of Hercules” movies.They were definitely watchable and were ample material to fuel my childlike mind at the time. I’d probably enjoy them even more today! 🙂

I can attest to the fun and excitement of playing video games like “Need for Speed” and “Grand Turismo”. It can be an addictive and time consuming hobby. I’ve fortunately given it up and have moved on to “blogging activities.” 🙂

Your description is somewhat true in practice. However, many still see Canada as the most essential non-British part of the British Commonwealth (outside the British Isles). Therefore the main audience for Trump’s game playing may be London, not Ottawa.

Welcome to Doge-Stan.

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-related-to-trump-admin-executive-orders

Yea but you are controlling a car in those cases.

You wouldn’t watch someone else play Grand Turismo for hours.

…the main audience for Trump’s game playing may be London, not Ottawa.

It has the strategic value of distracting Trump’s inside-DC enemies. But Greenland-Canada-tarriffs show is aimed at Russia-China. Trump is saying: work with me to end the Ukie-NATO disaster and we can move on. If not, Plan B will be to consolidate – by force if necessary – all US-leaning dependent vassals. Nobody wants it, it’s too vulgar.

It is mostly bluff and Russia-China know. It amounts to shaking the self-imposed cage the West has managed to get into. They may not be able to get out without staging a circus. The next few years (or months) will be fun…:)

Motor races are f**king amazing to watch at the track. God knows what this thick POS JohnsonJohnson is thinking. Literally one of the most exciting live events to watch in person.

I’ve been to live races.

With Le Mans you are just waiting there for the cars to whoosh by.

For most of the seats you can’t see the whole track and will miss most of the battles.

So it’s like paying to stand next to a highway.

Nearly all main American sports are braindead and boring to watch this Johnson shithead should realise- in person, or on the television. That’s why they have advertisement breaks every 2 seconds and music concerts every 15 or 30 minutes – to stop the viewers on television and spectators in the stadium from shooting themselves in the head.

European descriptions of American sports are the best. It’s one of the few times that they will consistently make Americans laugh.

“Vell you guyz just watch da baseball with da halftime show and da singing and da dancing until someone hits a touchdown. Ve know all about ze American sports.”

The NFL goes to commentary at halftime for regular season games. It’s the superbowl that has the big show.

I wish the MLB did a halftime show. Maybe 6 innings with a halftime. That would be nice. 9 innings is too long but the boomers like Sailer flip out when anyone suggests changing it because of the stats.

One thing I have wondered is how does the american wrestling work if you are at the stadium/arena? True it can be entertaining but surely 90% of spectators from all the viewing angles can see that the punches and kicks are missing and sounds faked?

Anyone over 10 knows it is fake. The adults watching at home are aware that a 6’6 man that weighs 300 would break your back if he actually jumped on you from a post.

As with racing I really don’t see the appeal.

The fake wrestling has low ratings that puts it next to a bottom tier drama show. UFC is much more popular but they don’t have fights as often because it is real.

…If they can vote for Commies in the late 1940s they can ally with Rzeczpospolita in the 2020s.

How would that follow? It’s nonsense based on partial, selective tidbits – you don’t understand CE. Czechs voted for commies – something your kind denies to pretend commies came to power as dictators. At the same time Italy, France, Greece…voted for commies at almost the same rate. They only didn’t take power because of better-organized Anglo manipulation. (Yes, it’s not new, they have been doing it at least since WW2.)

alliance, of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, from the Baltic to the Black seas. A strong ally of the USA.

So in NATO? How are they going to get it by Russia? Seriously, have you been paying attention? Or do you still think Kiev will defeat Russia? If not your Rzeczpospolita dream is an infantile hallucination.

In what strange world would Russia capture Kiev and keep it from a Polish alliance? Russia cannot even capture Kharkiv.

It all depends who will run the rump-Ukraine. I don’t think any sane Russian wants to occupy Kiev or even Kharkiv. But they can decide what happens there and whether NATO (=Poland) would be allowed in. In what strange world could Poland challenge Russia and effectively grab Orthodox regions with partially Russian population where majorities still speak Russian? Poland has tried for hundreds of years and failed miserably, almost destroying itself in the process. They won’t try again. If they do it will be the end of them. Pity.

you think people want to bring the “Habsburgs” back

When did I claim that?

Your Habsburg-philia is well known. You stated some really doozies about how they were great and how people prospered and liked them. A day ago you had a fantasy about Franz Ferdinand putting a stop to the Hungarians and creating a “federal A-H”, but he got shot and A-H went away. It’s total nonsense pushed by A-H nostalgists who can’t otherwise justify the Habsburgs and what they did. So they invented the Franz Ferdinand was going to be different myth. There is absolutely no evidence for it, FF was just like the rest of them, but slightly more modern. Your Habs sympthies are very well known.

It has the strategic value of distracting Trump’s inside-DC enemies. But Greenland-Canada-tarriffs show is aimed at Russia-China. Trump is saying: work with me to end the Ukie-NATO disaster and we can move on. If not, Plan B will be to consolidate – by force if necessary – all US-leaning dependent vassals.

And how would taking Greenland and Canada by force change the Russian war?

That doesn’t make any sense as a threat.

Greenland’s trade with the US barely amounts to a small city and they mostly export frozen food to us:
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/grl/partner/usa

They are not dependent on the US and could sell their 36 million dollars worth of frozen seafood elsewhere.

Trump wants Greenland for its land mass. He wants to expand America as he has small hands issues just like Putin.

This is like that Jeffrey Mishlove Jason Jorjani interview where the latter said,

The problem with Heidegger is that he didn’t know what he was saying

Far more informative regarding Jorjani’s deranged views than those of our greatest National Socialist philosopher. You don’t know what Donald the Fat thinks. Donald the Fat doesn’t know what Donald the Fat thinks. He is the first wrestling star I have ever known about (I am not an aficionado) who is both a Face AND a Heel. Also he hasn’t done a pull up in over forty years so he is pretty fake and gay for a wrestling star.

He will say anything that makes his rating go up in that drug addled mind of his.

That doesn’t make any sense as a threat.

I said so: It is mostly bluff and Russia-China know. It amounts to shaking the self-imposed cage the West has managed to get into.

Did you miss that while obsessing about “hand size”? Are we now at the level of analyzing Macron’s bizarre life, Zelko playing piano with his …, or the fact that Meloni is kind of a dwarf? Don’t be so shallow.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnk41nnl125o

Journalist told to pay damages for mocking Italian PM’s height

Some day you might want to explain where you Euros get off looking down on Dogestan.

Save your sorry ‘language’ idiocy. How many languages do you speak? Everyone understands what you meant by “OH MAN CANADA CAME THROUGH”. The context was clear. You denying it is embarrassing. But I will let it go.

Ukraine remaining as a country is a success in itself. Russia planned to eliminate them as a state.

That’s a low bar…:) So no matter how small the rump-Ukraine, how few people left, how poor and deprived of key resources?

Russia didn’t and still doesn’t plan to “eliminate Ukraine”. They asked for no-NATO and normal rights for the large Russian minority in Ukraine. You make up the bugaboo because you got caught fighting an unnecessary war that was provoked by Kiev-NATO. Nobody believes it.

The rise or fall of other stocks is irrelevant to the point which is that the US MIC has massively profited.

Who cares? If you obsessed with MIC and its profits move to some sh..thole in Florida and count your money. You will still be living in a sh..thole with manufactured garage as food, weird and worsening demographics. But you will have that Walmart close by. Come to think of it, you probably already live like that, don’t you? Go MIC!

Dun dun dun dun dun…

You’re gonna need a bigger list.

You wouldn’t watch someone else play Grand Turismo for hours.

Gaming streams can be quite popular, though they are something I rarely watch.

Here is an example:

Part 1 of the 24 Hours of Daytona has:
1.2MM views x 8 hours = 576,000,000 minutes watched

TRACKMANIA has:
1.2MM views x 62 minutes = 74,400,000 minutes watched

The best Westminster Dog Show video that appeared in search:
4MM views x 9.5 min = 38,000,000 minutes watched

You keep coming up with the declarative statements that are objectively untrue. If you were a bit wiser, you would admit that you are wrong and move on.

What are you getting out of continuing?

PEACE 😇

You wouldn’t watch someone else play Grand Turismo for hours.

No, I probably wouldn’t. But if guys like kremlinstoogeA123 choose to spend endless hours immersed in auto racing activities, and this helps keep them away from much more destructive activities like sniffing glue, what’s really the harm?

That doesn’t make any sense as a threat.

I said so: It is mostly bluff and Russia-China know. It amounts to shaking the self-imposed cage the West has managed to get into.

You are saying the threat amounts to: we will remove this self-imposed cage of ethics and take our neighbors. Is that right? No I don’t see how that would pressure Russia to end the war. You’re basically saying that you will engage in the same thing. That isn’t a deterrent and in fact an affirmation that such invasions are acceptable.

Did you miss that while obsessing about “hand size”? Are we now at the level of analyzing Macron’s bizarre life, Zelko playing piano with his …, or the fact that Meloni is kind of a dwarf?

I don’t obsess over hand size. Trump has ego issues and everyone can see that. He wants to expand America through a big sheet of ice. The presidential equivalent of the jacked up truck.

Don’t be so shallow.

That’s hilarious. Trump could have ignored what was probably a dumb late night joke and instead held up his hands on camera. That is why people make a joke of it.

It’s very similar to Putin wearing his height booster inserts.

Both don’t seem to get that confident men don’t do such things. A confident politician does the damn job and doesn’t hold up his hands as proof that they aren’t small. So ridiculous.

No, I probably wouldn’t. But if guys like kremlinstoogeA123 choose to spend endless hours immersed in auto racing activities, and this helps keep them away from much more destructive activities like sniffing glue, what’s really the harm?

I’m pretty sure A123 is the youtube guy that goes to Israel and asks Jews if they have heard of Jesus.

But yes a fair point.

…That isn’t a deterrent and in fact an affirmation that such invasions are acceptable.

The world is not a frozen place. Nations look out for their interests. I don’t like some of it but it makes no difference. Remember that since the 1999 brutal NATO attack on Serbia to separate Kosovo it’s now officially allowed. You mumble something about human rights, mention”Hitler” a few times, have a compliant media – an invasion becomes acceptable, even celebrated. So stop bellyaching, what the small-hands people are doing is ok. They can do it and the big-hands people can do it too.

A confident politician does the damn job and doesn’t hold up his hands

Would you be so kind and give a few of these “confident politicians”? Names. (One can find anything about all of them, BoJo the clown, Macron the weirdo, Clinton w his teen-whore, Zelko – let’s not even touch that one, we would need a psychiatric team.)

It’s not only a good point but a very accurate one too

kremnstoogenstoogeA123 co ntinues to try and besmirch Zelensky’s name by referring to him as “fuehrer”, sa he again did very recently. Here are photos of some of the head honcho rabbis from Jerusalem meeting ith Zelensky in Kyiv recently right befoe the celebraion of Rash Hashanah:

Only a real idiot (or in his case a glue sniffer) would try and paint Zelensky as Hitler’s clone:

I can attest to the fun and excitement of playing video games like “Need for Speed” and “Grand Turismo”.

Sometime, you should give us more of your gaming history.

I did a little research and discovered that there was even a TV series “The Aldrich Family” that ran from 1939 – 1944. I

You must mean ten years later. There were a number of radio shows that transitioned to TV. At least one I can think of with the same cast, the family sitcom Ozzie and Harriet, starring a real life family, which added altogether had an astonishing >500 episodes. But it is sad and disturbing to know that despite the wholesome tone, and the parents not spoiling them, the sons developed drug and marriage problems. I wonder if that would have happened if it had stayed a radio show. But probably that is just showbiz and the personality types involved.

You seemed to be quite interested in whether I viewed any of the Italian “Son of Hercules” movies

Probably they were just recycling the same source, but I saw them mentioned in the Coen brothers wiki and was curious why they considered them so memorable.

I don’t explain. Georgina is short, period. She is also from an Italian fascist family and since the age 15 (probably even shorter then) have been screaming about the bitter fate of the 300k fascists who froze near Stalingrad. Then she went to George Soros training.

Winning continues:

BREAKING: Trump revokes Biden security clearance

“The Hur report reveals that Biden has poor memory”.

As the Veggie-In-Chief did not pardon himself, the deep state is in poor position to fight back. Do they really want to argue that PLO Joe is mentally competent?

PEACE 😇

Impressive head size on Nick Patterson:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/landmark-studies-track-source-of-indo-european-languages-spoken-by-40-of-world/

All the Putin defenders seem a little rattled. If A123 needs to pop a few extra Xanax while watching cars go in circles then let him. We all have our hobbies.

I think they were hoping that Trump would end the war at the current lines. That way they can stop hearing stories about Russians on horses and scooters while telling themselves that Russia won because it gained territory.

The 2.5 week special operation continues and Trump seems more interested in building hotels in Gaza.

Looks like Ukraine’s new homemade drones are in effect:

Fire really came through for Russia this year.

The only person I can think of offhand who everybody commented on the size of his head was O. J. Simpson. I am mystified that his kids decided to leave us all in the dark on the chronic traumatic encephalopathy status of the corpse. I gather they just wanted to finish and move on with the least possible fuss and the NFL players association punted on making a fuss for sophisticated legal reason that is over my head.

I wonder if this is a con game, where these strikes are executed entirely by NATO with little or no participation by Ukrainians? In this notion, Russia is aware of the facts and does not retaliate decisively against Ukrainian command targets since this will be pointless and cause lots of civilian Ukrainian casualties. In other words NATO would not end the strikes even if Kiev demands they stop. If Russia finds parts of a NATO drone at the target (or after a shoot down) this doesn’t motivate them to directly engage NATO outside of Ukraine. They probably continue striking NATO targets in rear areas in Ukraine but these assets may move around a lot. The West pretends the strikes are made by Ukraine to give NATO plausible deniability in the international media.

Democrats were moving in that direction themselves, enough to unfairly win the election in 2020 thanks to media dominance/censorship and collusion with the corporations.

Wasn’t that similar to the media being pro-Bush in 2000 (constantly making inaccurate statements about Gore but not about Bush), with the exception of the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story?

There was January 6, but it was not so serious.

It wasn’t so serious because Mike Pence and the US Supreme Court refused to play along with Trump. Had they did so, Trump could have quite literally ended up like Yanukovych, being chased out of Washington, DC by an angry mob.

Dropping DEI everywhere is a start, but this may actually help Democrats if they are smart enough to let the issue drop and focus on other things; it will no longer be tied to their necks.

Democrats can seek to replace race-based affirmative action with affirmative action based on income, net worth, or living in areas with high amounts of crime and/or concentrated poverty. California doesn’t have race-based affirmative action at its universities, for instance, but AFAIK, it’s still free to practice other forms of affirmative action at its universities, so it’s not a pure meritocracy.

One more month of bombing Russian oil storage objectives with Ukrainian drones and I think that it will be lights out for Putler and his war. All of the souped up motorcycles and cars wont be able to put Putler “back together again”.

Zelensky is a modern day Kapo. He’s kosher to some on account of the Banderites having de-emphasized their prior anti-Jewish and anti-Polish manner while pumping out anti-Russian bigotry.

Related:

https://dixonb.substack.com/p/people-in-glass-houses-shouldnt-throw?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The Truth Behind the Uniate University of Lviv’s Attack On My Family

The Kiev regime is sending a religious propaganda blitz to DC to try to convince Protestants like Mike Johnson that the Russian liberated areas are suppressing religions. See –

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/world/europe/ukraine-national-prayer-breakfast.html

Towards the end of this article, there’s a passing reference of the longtime church which the Kiev regime has suppressed. This includes the feeble Kiev regime’s excuse for doing so. Onufriy, The head of that church condemned Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in its initial stage. Yet, his comment isn’t considered enough of an allegiance.

Onufriy’s stated view on the matter doesn’t necessarily reflect everyone in his congregation. In a freer situation, he might be inclined to offer a revised follow-up, given the greater understanding on what led to the SMO – a suppressed narrative in Kiev regime-controlled mass media and body politic, as well as in Western mass media at large.

Meantime, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (referenced in the beginning of the article) gets carte blanche as some of their venues honor Stepan Bandera.

Upon further fact checking, it wouldn’t be a surprise to find further inaccuracies in the above linked article. I’m reminded of when the then Kiev regime leader Poroshenko falsely said Jews were being suppressed in Crimea, following the area’s reunification with Russia.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Poroshenko+Jews+Crimea&sca_esv=aed234037716436e&source=hp&ei=CaWmZ4zzBtetptQP04DP2As&iflsig=ACkRmUkAAAAAZ6azGZHY-aO2aI_Ts8vUiuRcVVN4cYiG&ved=0ahUKEwjMm_nd6LKLAxXXlokEHVPAE7sQ4dUDCBM&oq=Poroshenko+Jews+Crimea&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhZQb3Jvc2hlbmtvIEpld3MgQ3JpbWVhSOQ7UABYii1wAHgAkAEAmAFpoAG-DKoBBDE5LjO4AQzIAQD4AQGYAgugAtMHwgILEC4YgAQYkQIYigXCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIFEAAYgATCAg4QLhiABBixAxjRAxjHAcICCxAuGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIXEC4YgAQYkQIYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwEYigXCAgoQABiABBhDGIoFwgILEC4YgAQY0QMYxwHCAhMQLhiABBixAxjRAxhDGMcBGIoFwgILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwHCAggQLhiABBixA8ICCxAuGIAEGLEDGOUEwgIREC4YgAQYkQIYsQMYgwEYigXCAggQABiABBixA8ICBxAuGIAEGArCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBcICDRAuGIAEGNEDGMcBGAqYAwCSBwM3LjSgB812&sclient=gws-wiz

Earlier into the SMO, there was the false Kiev regime claim (parroted by others in Western mass media) that Russian forces bombed a Mariupol mosque.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/12/ukraine-says-russia-shelled-mosque-in-besieged-city-of-mariupol

A Turkish organization involved with that building notes otherwise.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/turkish-mosque-in-ukraine-s-mariupol-city-remains-intact-/2533218

Regarding Christianity in Kiev regime controlled Ukraine:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ukraines-two-wars/

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/zelensky-vs-the-ukrainian-orthodox-church/

In all likelihood, many more months will pass as you maintain a svidomite fantasy.

That’s the gun!

So the Irish are just Scandies.

I was familiar with those old ideas in relation to the Scots and Welsh as well, but I didn’t know about the blood types aspect. When those theories about the Basque origin of the British populations started to appear in the 2000s I wasn’t that surprised by them, that might have been due to the influence of those older ideas.

On reflection the strange thing about them is that none of these peoples are really that dark, and the Irish may be fairer than average for Northern Europeans.

I came across an interesting paper quite recently that was looking at Corded Ware, Bell Beaker and Unetice genetics centred on finds in Bohemia, which had some details about the origin of the Bell Beaker people who migrated into the British Isles.

The Basque genetic distance might be due to some rare Neolithic Iberian ancestry?

National monarchy should be interesting from a nationalist point of view, in that it is a vehicle for a number of important concepts; unity of political power, hereditary right (e.g. to possession of territory), recognition of natural inequality, recognition of natural or hereditary community (against ‘state of nature’ idealisations), and continuity across the generations.

Those things can be manifest to various extents in the political system of a monarchy, but imo they still have a certain relevance when weighed against more modern ideas, like universal rights, universal equality, political power invested in multitudes and so on.

One of the problems of the British monarchy is that it seems to be mainly interested in protecting those traditional principles among ethnic minority communities, while for the old majority it promotes the opposite of the usual values of monarchy. This will be self-undermining in the end.

Corded Ware, Bell Beaker and Unetice genetics centred on finds in Bohemia, which had some details about the origin of the Bell Beaker people who migrated into the British Isles.

The Bell Beaker folks moved to British Isles prior to the arising of the Unetice Culture in Central Europe. I think that the Central European and Eastern BB might have already intermixed with the Corded Ware females before the BB invading British Islands and culling the local native male population. However, UC doesn’t seem relevant for the understanding of what happened in the British Islands unless we are looking at the way BB have been acculturated and replaced by their derivative cultures and societies.

UC is really replacing BB in Central Europe and giving rise to a new ethnic identity that derives from BB paternal and CW maternal ancestry. It’s a fusion that is no longer purely BB. However, it is still a highly militarized society under patriarchal control by BB derived male lineages. This is simply because no other male lineages are numerically fit to rule any longer. The same thing is eventually happening everywhere in BB controlled territory, the pure BB get admixed with local women and their offspring end up no longer being pure BB and giving rise to new cultures such as UC, Nordic Bronze Age, Atlantic Bronze Age etc. All of them initially under BB derived male lineages control. Eventually, there is a resurgence in the nearly extinct male lineages of Y haplogroup I (entirely enslaved and nearly exterminated by the BB) and R1a who got enslaved and culled by the BB but managed also to flee to the North East, evolve CW traditions into Battle Axe culture and eventually Fatyanovo, and make a comeback at the end of the UC leading to Lusatian culture.

I agree that the BB folks modus operandi was the same across all the wide territory that they managed to conquer and control but UC, NBA, ABA or even Bronze Age Britain after the initial couple of centuries of BB domination, have nothing to do with BB folks per se. BB derived male lineages are not pure BB ethnically and culturally speaking.

The purest BB stay in control for way longer in Iberic peninsula where it all started after the earliest BB migration from North Africa. This is especially true in the El Argar culture. They probably simply got more of female BB stock there, hence a higher status accorded to the females in the power structure of that society. That population was more BB on both paternal and maternal sides. It influenced the whole Iberic peninsula, but its influence was modulated by the later Punic and Celtic presence in Iberic peninsula outside of the Basque regions. Hence the Basque specificity and difference when compared with other European ethnic groups, the Basque people are way more BB derived on both their parental sides than other Western Europeans.

Monarchical lineages exist into networks of transnational aristocracy. The British and Russian monarchies were dominated by German bloodlines. There is no such thing as a “national monarchy”. At least not into the empires. Same about “national capitalism”. It is inherently expansionist and therefore apatride. There can be a national aristocracy, but only as long as a society is built along clannish and tribal lines and structures. Scottish aristocracy is Scottish, Irish was Irish before it got erased by the British. British aristocracy is not British since the times of Guillaume le batard. It became transnational back then at it stayed that way ever since.

The Basque genetic distance might be due to some rare Neolithic Iberian ancestry?

I think the main answer geneticists would probably give is drift. But I find this very hard to envision or understand in the specific case. I could imagine it for a very small population, and I am trying to think what might have been the historic population of Ireland and the Basque country.

I am afraid I don’t really have a good grasp on the geography, but to try to get to that smaller number to explain the theory of drift, I am trying to imagine a smaller region of Basque people that was maybe somewhat isolated from a larger Basque-speaking region historically. Still, I have trouble doing it or believing drift could explain it.

By instinct, I am more inclined to think it is some kind of ancient signal. Some people seem to think there was some local mixing with hunter gatherers, and I wonder if that could explain it.

On reflection the strange thing about them is that none of these peoples are really that dark, and the Irish may be fairer than average for Northern Europeans.

Heard someone say once that the label was supposed to be metaphorical. Perhaps, something akin to “mysterious.”

Of course, whatever the case, multiracialism seems to have significantly shifted our ideas about some of these labels.

I am thinking of the old nickname “Blackie” (for someone with dark hair) and I wonder if it would even be extent today in the US, just considering the influx of Italians, if blacks had been resettled in Liberia. Though, the Chinese have a similar nickname for swarthy Chinese.

Heard someone say once that the label was supposed to be metaphorical. Perhaps, something akin to “mysterious.”

😉

Zelensky is a modern day Kapo.

“Kapo” Zelensky supervising his Jewish rabbi prisoners on a recent trip to Kyiv:

You must mean ten years later.

No, I meant 1939 – 1945 as stated within IMDb and Wikipedia too. I never watched this show, but if it was presented to me on the old Tube, I’d certainly give it a try.

and was curious why they considered them so memorable.

Didn’t you enjoy watching adventure/fantasy fare growing up? Ex-bodybuilders filling the roles of Olympian gods? I still get a kick out of watching the modern day parallel flix about Thor 🙂

WOW!! 🙂

I wonder if this is a con game, where these strikes are executed entirely by NATO with little or no participation by Ukrainians?

It’s probably just their home made cruise missile

Standard cruise missile shape but powered by jet engine on the back.

Duran says that Russia has no motivation to negotiate.

I’d say that Ukraine attacking an oil depot or refinery a week would be a good reason to negotiate.

Russia is clearly unable to stop them and they are much easier to break than build.

They also have 70-100% inflation on common foodstuff.

…If they can vote for Commies in the late 1940s they can ally with Rzeczpospolita in the 2020s.

How would that follow? It’s nonsense based on partial, selective tidbits – you don’t understand CE. Czechs voted for commies – something your kind denies to pretend commies came to power as dictators

You don’t think that dictators can be elected into office, and then refuse to leave?

In the Czech case, they were elected into office. Which contradicts your claim that Czechs would never ever ally with someone to their East.

At the same time Italy, France, Greece…voted for commies at almost the same rate

“Almost” is doing a lot of work here. Those weren’t Commie states.

If Czechs once volunteered to be allies with the Muscovites, they can easily choose to be allies with the Poles.

alliance, of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, from the Baltic to the Black seas. A strong ally of the USA.

So in NATO?

Did you know some NATO countries have alliances outside NATO?

Seriously, have you been paying attention? Or do you still think Kiev will defeat Russia?

Unlike you, I am not naive and gullible enough to believe some of the pro-Russian nonsense that Russians themselves have abandoned. Such as Russia is “winning.”

Russia may get a face-saving formal repudiation of NATO-in-Ukraine and instead Ukraine could get EU + peacekeeping troops from allied countries in Ukraine as Ukraine deepens security arrangements with the USA, Poland and the Baltics. Ukraine has much to teach bout modern drone warfare.

In what strange world could Poland challenge Russia and effectively grab Orthodox regions with partially Russian population where majorities still speak Russian

What grab? An alliance or even a confederation are not annexation.

Orthodox Ukrainians once burned parts of Moscow to the ground when allied with Poles. Russian-speaking Ukrainians hate Russia, as English-speaking Irishmen once hated England. Although there are fewer Russian-speaking Ukrainians now. Russia killed a lot of them, drove a lot of the others into exile, and those still in Ukraine are switching to Ukrainian.

Poland has tried for hundreds of years and failed miserably, almost destroying itself in the process

Annexation failed, and nobody wants that. An alliance with Central Ukrainians in 1920 led to the defeat of the Soviets by Poland.

you think people want to bring the “Habsburgs” back

When did I claim that?

Your Habsburg-philia is well known

Making the correct observation that the Habsburgs provided a good refuge for the peoples of CEE in the 19th and early 20th century, such that it was the best place for them and a tragedy that this refuge was destroyed, is not the same as claiming that today “people want to bring the Habsburgs back.”

That is so nonsensical it’s hard to tell whether you were lying, or really delusional.

A day ago you had a fantasy about Franz Ferdinand putting a stop to the Hungarians

That was not a fantasy. Do you think it is also a fantasy that he married a Slavic woman and loved her very much? AH was turning into a more-Slavic state before it was destroyed. But the part ruled by the Habsburgs more directly had already been treating its Slavs much better than either the Prussian Hohenzollerns or the German Romanovs had treated their Slavs.

Well, now I know where that meme came from.

No, I meant 1939 – 1945 as stated within IMDb and Wikipedia too

Mr. Hack, I am telling you that in 1939, TV was still considered very experimental. Yes, it had been technically proven, but not economically, and ww2 halted investment in it and adoption. And it wasn’t until about 1947, that the very first TV sitcom aired. 1939, is the year the the radio show, The Aldrich Family first aired. Not the TV show.

Didn’t you enjoy watching adventure/fantasy fare growing up? Ex-bodybuilders filling the roles of Olympian gods?

As far as the sword and sandal stuff, only remember seeing a few movies. Conan the Barbarian was the most notable, but nothing else really stood up to it. Though some would mention the Beastmaster.

For some reason, I never really got into Clash of the Titans, but I think I might enjoy it more now. (It might be interesting to watch with AI interpolation to fill out the jittery stop motion.) I didn’t see some of the earlier movies like Sinbad until adulthood.

I thought Ukrainians were Orthodox Christians. Hmmm.

Not only is the gila monster venom a hundred thousand dollars a year, you have to keep taking it permanent or you will just become a fat ass all over again.

You’ve Lost Weight Taking New Obesity Drugs. What Happens if You Stop?
byu/greyenlightenment inslatestarcodex

Progress!

Also a clue to how come your medical insurance keeps getting jacked up even faster than inflation.

Monarchical lineages exist into networks of transnational aristocracy. The British and Russian monarchies were dominated by German bloodlines. There is no such thing as a “national monarchy”

Japanese emperors after Meiji? (Imperial/military pretensions aside)

Have said before: Colin Farrell is the better example of a swarthy Irishman. I myself used to assume dark had something to do with skin or hair, but I think it might be Survive the Jive who said otherwise.

Not all his ideas are mainstream or consensus (like he says R1b isn’t Yamnaya, but some papers use the label on graves with R1b). But he does have a significant depth of knowledge

@Wokechoke

So the Irish are just Scandies.

I once took a DNA test and had a match with a woman from Norway. Just a small segment, but bigger than anything that would be expected on a Viking timeline.

Outside of Ireland and Britain, the only few matches I had with individuals were with Norse.

Guess it could have been some statistical mistake. But she didn’t know of any Irish ancestry and attributed it to Vikings. (Though there was probably as much or more geneflow in the other direction.)

I remember reading some very old account in the annals, of a viking defeat where the local Irish tribe or clan took their women. (And I substantially descend from this group) And of course, there were the gallowglasses. Though I would attribute the low genetic distance more to like 4500-5000 years ago.

Yes, “Ukrainian made missile” is the approved story. The Ukies definitely made some of these missiles at the beginning of the conflict. They may have even laid in large stocks for planned attacks on Russia. At that time Ukraine still had the dying remnants of once great aerospace enterprises such as Antonov, Yuzhmash, Motor-Sich, Khartron and others. The cruise missile with an exposed engine is a standard Soviet configuration and Motor-Sich made some of those particular engines. By 2021 the capabilities of these organizations were probably less than 10% of their 1991 peak. That would still be fine for building some cruise missiles, but three more years of fleeing engineers and incessant targeted missile strikes on military production facilities may have left very little missile production capability in Ukraine. It is possible they are still building these things, but other alternative explanations for these strikes on Russian infrastructure are worth consideration. We know NATO wants to bomb Russian sites and we know Western arms manufacturers are eager to sell weapons for this task. If they can simply say “made in Ukraine” as a fig leaf to obscure direct NATO execution of the strikes, I think they will do so.

You don’t think that dictators can be elected into office, and then refuse to leave?

A slippery slope. Commies had majority til 1960’s. Even in Western surveys – people were much happier than during 1,000 years of the previous capitalism-feudalism. 10% of population lost badly and were bitter, but large majorities benefitted. It was a heavy administrative state with limited political options, similar to most of the world at that time: Spain, Greece, Ireland, W Germany, Turkey, Japan… Reason commies won was domestic: bad system with very skewed distribution of wealth, crisis in the 1930’s followed by German attempt at genocide in WW2. Commies got 30+% in Italy, the ‘almost’ counts. Were Italians also pro-east?

Did you know some NATO countries have alliances outside NATO?

In NATO and out of NATO? If out then Russia wins and will not allow any NATO alliances. Or the war will go on until Ukraine is destroyed. Kiev will lose.

Russia may get a face-saving formal repudiation of NATO-in-Ukraine and instead Ukraine could get EU + peacekeeping troops from allied countries

It’s NATO looking for a face-saving way out: NATO tried to expand to Ukraine, it led to a war that Ukraine is losing. Russia simply wins if there is no NATO in Ukraine, all else is bulls..t talk by the losing side. Get real, don’t lie to yourself. It looks like you are looking for a face-saving way out…:)

Ukrainians once burned parts of Moscow to the ground when allied with Poles.

Galicians, or Western Ukies. And you would like to do it again. But what do you think would happen to Warsaw or Lvov if the Poles-Ukies try it again?

What grab? An alliance or even a confederation are not annexation.

Nonsense. “Alliance”? You mean a dependency run from Warsaw? It would be Polish-run Greater Poland and you know it. Russia may welcome Galicia-Volyn joining Poland since it was a huge mistake to create Greater Ukraine in 1945. It would weaken Poland in the long-run. But Poland is not getting Kiev-Poltava-Odessa no matter what you call it.

Habsburgs provided a good refuge for the peoples of CEE in the 19th and early 20th century, such that it was the best place for them and a tragedy that this refuge was destroyed

Habsburgs presided over half of A-H that was dictatorial with an open ‘cultural’ genocide of Slavs (Russia didn’t do it.). Austrian part was slightly better w occasional brutal oppression, thousands were executed and put in prisons in 1850-90’s, then during WW1. They were bastards and your Habsburg-philia is out of place.

FF had a Germanized “noble Czech” wife who had no consciousness of being a “Slav”. FF had no sympathy for Slavs, to his credit he also didn’t care for the Magyars. He was an Austrian-German nationalist who wanted a “centralized, modern” state. He would had made life even worse for Slavs and probably triggered a collapse of A-H without WW1.

(I appreciate your answer addressed the points, we can have reasonable discussion.)

Most of the reports state that storage tanks are on fire. I have not seen any follow up on how much damage occurred to actual refinery production equipment. Maybe this information is out there along with estimates on time to repair. Russia was still exporting a lot of diesel in the second half of 2024; some was even going to the USA. If they have excess refining capacity beyond what they use, then some strikes have a financial impact on Russian refinery owners but maybe not a direct impact on daily life or the war effort.

This is a game, though. The West is daring Russia to make heavy retaliatory strikes on military command facilities in Kiev as well as more infrastructure strikes. I think there are two possible explanations for ‘Kiev’s strikes’ including the silly one which is promoted in the Western media.

The mostly likely explanation is the West is entirely responsible for the strikes. So far they are avoiding major civilian casualties. They want to prod and confuse the bear, but not cause a rampage. Russia’s retaliatory strikes are limited so far for two reasons. First, they don’t want to kill Ukrainian citizens and destroy the major cities. Second, they don’t want to cause a new level of more shocking damage which might be used to justify direct open NATO involvement and de facto start World War Three. The other explanation, the silly one, is the plucky Ukrainians are courageously striking the bear, nipping at its heels with a long-term strategy to drive it back into its cave. If it were as simple as this, Russia would have already bombed Kiev until these strike stop. They have shown with two years of heavy missile strikes that they have the ability and resources to do this. On the other hand, if NATO is doing the strikes, perhaps even against the wishes of some Ukrainians, then Russian strikes on Kiev will not stop the strikes. This is a precarious situation, since it forces Russia to either wait for Ukraine to drive out NATO or directly engage NATO outside of Ukraine.

The world would be a better place if we had domesticated Gila Monsters trained to bite the human when it goes for the soda and chips. Not a deadly bite, just a little nip to properly condition the mammal.

You hype one or two instances while ignoring the much greater decimation of Kiev regime fighting capability. Once again brings to mind the US monthly WW II European theater losses being its greatest in April of 1945.

You don’t think that dictators can be elected into office, and then refuse to leave?

Zelensky.

Doesn’t contradict what I said on the matter at all.

I double checked and you’re right. The TV show ran from 1949 -1953. Still, before my time.

As far as the sword and sandal stuff, only remember seeing a few movies. Conan the Barbarian was the most notable,

Over the years, there have been a lot of these “sword and sandal” numbers produced. “Conan the Barbarian” came to mind too while discussing this genre with you. This was a great inaugural film for Schwarzenegger to make over a long and storied film career. He proved to be a pretty good overall actor that could quickly adapt to making different films in different genres.

Mr Hack mentioned the British monarchy, this is a case in which the monarch is the head of state of a nation state. There are, and have been other cases of this in Europe. The nation state form came out of the kingdom of England and a number of other Western European monarchies were the first examples of the type afterwards. Some of the early nation states acquired empires and eventually exported the form throughout them.

You mentioned the Scottish aristocracy, which was the aristocracy of the kingdom of Scotland, and the Irish, which was the aristocracy of the various gaelic Irish kingdoms. The kingdoms were part of the production of the later nations.

Nation states are transnational in one way, in that they tend to recognise other nation states as similar to themselves and in some way peers or at least formal equals. I was mentioning some of the benefits monarchy could bring to this form of state, in theory, if the ideas behind it revived.

From what I remember your critique is more radical and you tend to reject the nation state as such, whether it is a monarchy or not?

…First, they don’t want to kill Ukrainian citizens and destroy the major cities. Second, they don’t want to cause a new level of more shocking damage which might be used to justify direct open NATO involvement and de facto start WW3.

I agree, but it also show Russia’s patience and more rational long-term thinking. They have the upper hand.

One overlooked factor is the “3-year rule“. This rule applies in fashion, emotions, also in ideologcy. It takes about 3 years to burn out. (All manias for an actor, music, clothes last about 3 years.) We are coming to a 3-year mark 2022-25 and it was Ukies and NATO bosses who caught the ideological mania, not Russia. Compare the behavior, language, the open Russophobia all over the West. Russia is sober and rational in comparison.

Ideology is an addiction and catches people’s mind. Ideologues stop understanding the reality and act based on historical inevitability, in other words on “what-they-want”. NATO wanted a Ukie-NATO base to threaten (and dismantle) Russia, Ukies mostly just wanted out of where they were living. It failed.

A number of early nation states acquired empires and eventually exported the form throughout them.

It’s a vey old idea, predating European nation monarchies. For example ancient Egypt had a strong national (us-and-them) consciousness, so did many other ancient states.

Having a king was a fluid concept, who, succession, what power, how many of them, military vs. administration vs. religion. The word used reflected it, e.g. pharaoh meant “the royal court”, the place of rule. Only later was a specific “king” referred to as a pharaoh.

The best that can be said about UK’s monarchy is that it’s harmless and not too expensive. But it will be a constant struggle to maintain it generation after generation. It is already wobbly w Charles’s escapades. Charles going to Auschwitz when Poland banned any Russians who actually liberated Auschwitz was a horrible faux pas…you don’s last long when lacking good judgement and class like that.

I didn’t want to mislead you and have you think that the meme started with the Son of Hercules. I think that it first started within the Old Testament and in Revelations too:

He proved to be a pretty good overall actor that could quickly adapt to making different films in different genres.

have always enjoyed Arnold’s on screen presence.

As far as his acting skills specifically, in my judgement, I wouldn’t say he is a “good actor” so much as men don’t need to be good actors. I mean like John Wayne doesn’t need to be Betty Grable (and honestly I find her high acting ability quite off-putting).

In my mind, Arnold’s crossover ability into comedy is explained by all his action roles being comedic. I remember once seeing True Lies on TV late at night and I was busy doing homework and had to get up very early besides, but I still stayed up half-watching it, as I was laughing so much, even though I had already seen it.

Of course, some say that the steroid image of a hero is wrong, but I never had any strong feelings about it.

The majority are. There are, however, a sizable amount of Ukrainian Catholics (Greek or Byzantine Catholics), Roman Catholics, Protestants and even Jewish Ukrainians too. Unlike Russia, Ukraine has a pluralistic society, where one size doesn’t fir all.

Like the long standing church he suppresses.

“True Lies” sounds interesting and is one that I’ve never seen. I’ll need to track it down and watch it.

I enjoyed watching his Terminator series, especially the first one. The fight scenes were quite good and riveting, as well as the truck and motorcycle chase scene sequel. if you haven’t seen “Total Recall” I’d recommend it as good science fiction fare. It reminded me of a later film starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, “The Game”.

Highly recommended, and a real roller coaster of suspense. This is a good review of this film::

“Think of it as a vacation.” 🙂

Most of the reports state that storage tanks are on fire. I have not seen any follow up on how much damage occurred to actual refinery production equipment.

Well I would guess that a fire that goes on for days does some serious damage. Oil fires reach a very high temperature and can melt steel.

This is a game, though. The Western is daring Russia to make heavy retaliatory strikes on military command facilities in Kiev as well as more infrastructure strikes.

It’s Ukraine choosing to strike back against an invading force.

Ukraine has built their own Cessna drones and now they are using their own cruise missiles.

Not every action has some lurking West shadow behind it.

Biden in fact asked Zelensky to stop attacking oil refineries before the election and he ignored him.

So there goes the theory that the West is making the calls.

The mostly likely explanation is the West is entirely responsible for the strikes.

In two of the videos you can actually see the Cessna drones.

So no that would not be the most likely explanation.

Do you really have that hard of a time with Ukraine acting on their own accord? The Ukrainians were responsible for 25% of Soviet military research.

Ideology is an addiction and catches people’s mind. Ideologues stop understanding the reality and act based on historical inevitability, in other words on “what-they-want”. NATO wanted a Ukie-NATO base to threaten (and dismantle) Russia, Ukies mostly just wanted out of where they were living. It failed.

Ukraine doesn’t want to be part of Russia. That is why they are fighting. Without the existence of NATO they would still not want to be under the rule of the tiny tsar just as they did not want to join the USSR.

NATO can build all the bases they want in Finland which shares more border with Russia than Ukraine.

If that was the goal then NATO will get what they want, right?

Ukraine doesn’t want to be part of Russia. That is why they are fighting.

Nobody wanted them to be a part of Russia, you make it up. Russia wants normal rights for the Russian minority in Ukraine and for Ukraine to be neutral. Kiev committed to that when they separated from SU. You make up nonsense like Bush-Blair did about “Iraq will nuke us!!!”, or Israel about everyone wants to “destroy us!!!’.

US would never allow Canada (or Quebec) or Mexico to join a Russian-Chinese military alliance. Or UK Ireland. It is so obvious that you have to lie like mad to deny it. In the long run everyone will know it and the Ukie-NATO project will look like a huge failure. Your lying is an attempt to delay it. It’s not working.

Finland is irrelevant – you know it. You have to find a palliative for the catastrophic loss by NATO in Ukraine.

There is a good comment in the Twitter thread below the Irish map repeating that the Irish and British generally are identical to Basques, based on some work from 2007.

It’s interesting how things change in a short space of time. The transition in genetic studies from haplogroups to autosomal DNA has meant that Basques have gone from being almost identical to Welsh and Irish to one of the most distant groups in Europe.

Razib Khan has this explanation for one commenter who wonders how Basques can be more distant to the Irish than to the Russians:

basques have less ‘exotic’ stuff, including more neolithic farmer and less steppe. but basque are inflated against everything include their spanish neighbors

No idea what exactly he is saying, to be honest, but my interpretation would be that it’s explained by genetic isolation, something similar to Songbird’s drift theory, I guess. According to Wikipedia, the Fst statistics that Razib is using measures the degree of interbreeding and it probably makes sense that a very isolated group would drift away from all its neighbors, even if originally they had a similar genetic composition.

I am not sure that facial features are strongly correlated with genetic proximity but, FWIW, some time ago I found an image with Basque faces that looked surprisingly legit to me (under More). The Basque Country was long ago conquered and colonized so its current population is about as representative of ethnic Basques as London’s population is representative of ethnic Britons. But whoever posted that image (that I found though one of Yayah’s posts) seems to know the territory. Not a particularly attractive bunch, tbh, but some of the people I see there could perfectly be classmates of mine at primary school. There are a few that I would recognize as Basques wherever in the world I met them, eg the older guy and woman in the middle of the second row or the one before last at the bottom, with earrings.

Given my sympathy for the Irish, I would like to think that we are somehow related, even if only though ancient links, and that these faces are closer to the Irish prototype than those of a random group of Spaniards, for example, as implied by Razib’s post, but obviously autosomal DNA must be far superior to haplogroups for genetic comparisons. It’s comparing the full genome versus a tiny part of it.

The plot with genetic distances to the Russians is equally astonishing, btw. The Poles appear closer to the Russians than the Ukrainians and the next closest group to the Russians is the Germans, much closer than the Balts, the Finns or the Southern Slavs. This is possibly more surprising than the Basque-Irish distance and makes you wonder if Razib is being totally serious with these posts.

While Ukraine and Russia have their border skirmish the Silicon Valley brainquarters has been starting up Terminator scenarios.

Anduril mission statement June 2022.

Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy: Anduril Mission Document

https://blog.anduril.com/rebooting-the-arsenal-of-democracy-anduril-mission-document-67fdbf442799

None of these people has ever worn combat boots in combat.

Looks like a javelin really came through for this Sig-25

Ukraine doesn’t want to be part of Russia. That is why they are fighting.

Nobody wanted them to be a part of Russia, you make it up.

Then what was Russia doing in Kiev with tanks?

US would never allow Canada (or Quebec) or Mexico to join a Russian-Chinese military alliance.

Ukraine didn’t join NATO and they still don’t have the votes. Or would you like to explain why Finland is in NATO but not Ukraine when the latter had far more years to do it.

Finland is irrelevant – you know it. You have to find a palliative for the catastrophic loss by NATO in Ukraine.

I’m asking you to elaborate on your own explanation:
NATO wanted a Ukie-NATO base to threaten (and dismantle) Russia, Ukies mostly just wanted out of where they were living.

Why can’t NATO do that from Finland?

I thought Cessnas were made in Kansas, plus a few in China. Still, I know what you mean. There is some chance that all of the Ukrainians competent enough to build a long range drone or cruise missile have left the country or have been killed. That leaves AP’s Ukie programmers drinking coffee out in Lvov.

Since Zelensky and Biden are actors I don’t take anything attributed to them at face value. Biden may have once been a conniving politician, but for the past five years was simply the shell of a man. I believe Zelensky is still a conniving Jewish actor playing a conniving Jewish President.

From what I remember your critique is more radical and you tend to reject the nation state as such, whether it is a monarchy or not?

I think nation is a post-Enlightenment abstract concept. A bloodline is real, interconnected bloodlines have been a major aspect of pre-national identity. Nationalism has diluted the sense of belonging to a bloodline, a clan or a tribe, opening the way to cosmopolitanism. Once people understand that they can be passport holders of multiple nations, they cannot take national identities seriously any longer. Tribes and clans on the other hand are one’s blood relatives (at least in theory) even if they carry different passports. Killing people because they carry a different flag and a different passport is stupidity, killing peoples who want to harm your bloodline is perfectly natural.

Poles are just Catholic Russians.

For example ancient Egypt had a strong national (us-and-them) consciousness

A strong ethnic consciousness, which is very different from a national consciousness. A nation (supposedly) can encompass different ethnic groups (tribes, clans etc.) and make them become a harmonious whole. This is of course totally fake and gay.

As fake and gay as the россияне shtick vs the ethnic русские. Not so long ago, in the old Russian towns such as Suzdal’ and Vladimir, up to 75% of the male population was of Y haplogroup R1a, thereby descending from the same (very distant) ancestor. In contrast, in Moscow in the capital of RusFed, even a recently arrived Uzbek might become a “россиянин» in a matter of a few years.

Will the real Nazis do everyone else a favor and please stand up?

To answer my own question I actually came across some real Nazis recently in the YouTube video below.

I post it not for it’s politics, but as this represented the formal introduction of the KDF Wagen, also known in the vernacular today as the ‘Volkswagen Beetle’, to the German public and to the world at a February/March, 1939 automobile show in Berlin, which makes it kind of interesting.

At 4:00 they begin to concentrate on the Beetle, and at 6:02 an entire fleet of Volkswagens is shown hitting the Autobahn.

Perhaps Russians are just orthodox Poles who speak a nicer dialect of a common Slavic parlance. Anyway , I am not surprised by the genetic proximity of these Slavic populations. Ukrainians on the other hand are more admixed with Turkic, Caucasian (Circassian), Balkanic and Vlakh people. Hence the difference. It would be interesting to see how different regions in Ukraine compare. I would bet that Ruthenians would be smack in the middle between Russians and Poles, while people of the South East that some see as closest to the Russians would be further apart. 🙂

Why can’t NATO do that from Finland?

Because Finns are normal and Ukies are not. If Finns go nuts and start threatening Russia and killing Russian civilians – as the Ukies did in Odessa and Donbas – they will face the same fate.

Your other stuff is the usual semi-retarded nonsense. Are you playing stupid or you really are?

I thought Cessnas were made in Kansas, plus a few in China. Still, I know what you mean.

Cessna describes a size of plane. There are all kinds of brands.

It is the Ukrainians that turned them into drones.

There is some chance that all of the Ukrainians competent enough to build a long range drone or cruise missile have left the country or have been killed.

LOL some chance? Do you imagine them as a nation of retards?

They made their own ski-doo drone that took out a Russian helicopter when a machine gun.

I think they have proven capable of developing their own weapons.

Their cruise missile uses an off the shelf jet engine. I think I have seen it in youtube videos.

I believe Zelensky is still a conniving Jewish actor playing a conniving Jewish President.

And what would a pro-Ukraine but non-Jewish president do differently?

You don’t think that dictators can be elected into office, and then refuse to leave?

A slippery slope. Commies had majority til 1960’s.

They did not even have a majority when they won the election. They had a plurality. They were the most popular party.

Commies got 30+% in Italy, the ‘almost’ counts. Were Italians also pro-east?

That was in the 1970s, so wanting to be like “Western” Italy would not explain Czech voting in 1946. In the 1940s the Italian Communists were around 20% and election losers.

Communism in 1946 meant the East, Moscow, and most Czechs went for it. So aversion for an alliance with those to their East would not prevent Czechs from joining some sort of Rzeczpospolita.

Did you know some NATO countries have alliances outside NATO?

In NATO and out of NATO?

USA is in NATO and also has deals with Israel, Japan, South Korea, etc.

Ukraine can be excluded from NATO and still work closely with UK, USA, and especially Poland and the Baltics.

It’s NATO looking for a face-saving way out: NATO tried to expand to Ukraine,

We have gone over this many times. For many years (since 2004?) NATO announced that Ukraine would join, but every year Ukraine was denied admission by NATO. So NATO did not try to expand into Ukraine.

Ukrainians once burned parts of Moscow to the ground when allied with Poles.

Galicians, or Western Ukies.

1. Galicians were Orthodox at the time, disproving your claim that Orthodoxy would prevent a Polish alliance.

2. It was not only Galicians, it was all Ukrainians. Including Zaporozhian Cossacks (their leader during the campaign was a Galician).

The Orthodox of Ukraine were so brutal towards the Muscovites in that war (it wasn’t new, there had been a centuries-long history of warfare between the two peoples of post-Rus) when joining their Polish allies on their eastern campaign, that the Patriarch of Constantinople admonished them for that.

During 1920, the Catholic Galicians were anti-Polish but the Orthodox of Kiev were allied to the Poles. Because Poles claimed Galicia as part of Poland, but did not claim Kiev. They only barrier for Ukrainian alliance with Poland is Polish claims upon Ukrainian territory. Such claims no longer exist.

In general, Russia has always had a hard time defeating Poles and Ukrainians when the two are allied to one another. Conversely, Russia is hard to stop when it includes Ukraine.

What grab? An alliance or even a confederation are not annexation.

Nonsense. “Alliance”? You mean a dependency run from Warsaw? It would be Polish-run Greater Poland and you know it.

Ukraine has 75% or so of Poland’s population. This is not like Ukraine and Russia, or England and Scotland, or even Czechia and Slovakia. Poland will not annex Ukraine. A close partnership or alliance, or (preferably IMO, but less realistic) formal confederation would be beneficial for both countries and as a basis for a wider regional alliance would be helpful for all the peoples between the Germans and the Eurasians.

But Poland is not getting Kiev-Poltava-Odessa no matter what you call it.

Russia will not be capturing Kiev, Poltava or Odessa so in the end these cities will go where they want.

Habsburgs provided a good refuge for the peoples of CEE in the 19th and early 20th century, such that it was the best place for them and a tragedy that this refuge was destroyed

Habsburgs presided over half of A-H that was dictatorial with an open ‘cultural’ genocide of Slavs (Russia didn’t do it.).