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May 9, 2023Liked by Simplicius

And let me add the greatest writer of all time: Fyodor M Dostoevsky.

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The only “American” is, of course, a Southerner. It’s personal taste of course but I rate Dostoevsky above Tolstoy. And above everyone else, to be frank. Not only the greatest of novelists, but a accurate prophet of our modern age.

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Amazing that after all that, the Russians are now brutish creatures that are fighting a last-ditch defense in animal skins using only shovels as primitive axes. (Sarcasm for those that don't know me).

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Hello again Simplicius and another fantastic read!

A trend this article shows is a repeated pattern of Russophobia. A century if not more of the erasure of Russian accomplishment, a denigration of the Russian people, and an all-encompassing inferiority complex which drives so much of the west to compensate and claim Russian inventors were either not Russian or weren't first to invent something when they clearly did.

The Russian people have overcome many hardships and difficulties. Resilience and strength is something which is purely engrained at this point in the Russian genome. The people that have defeated Napoleon and Hitler, will do so again. When watching the parade yesterday, Channel 1 showed clips of soldiers in the Donbass talking about their relatives who fought in the war. One of whom described his great-grandfather 80 years prior also fought for Artyomovsk and he now does the same 'to finish what he started'.

I'd like to believe that the Lord above sees all and that in good time, the faithful will be delivered and good will win. Centuries of evil can hopefully be stopped this time.

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One thing my father said that will always stick with me.

"The largest export of USSR/Russia is brains"

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As regards television, I've always heard it was neither a USian or a Russian but a Scot:

From wiki:

"John Logie Baird FRSE (/ˈloʊɡi bɛərd/;[1] 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.[2][3][4] He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.[5][6]"

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I believe that Russia, a country with ~40% of the US population is graduating More engineers than the USA. That Russia supplies most of the fuel for the US reactor fleet and that the only US nuclear fuel production is by a foreign corporation. The US is importing technical Brain's and has for many years. The amerikans with Brain's Go to Wall Street and even in Germany the Brain's want to be financial engineering people, not real engineering people. The western world has a perverse incentive system where the greatest rewards go to the parasitic Rentier extraction classes rather than the productive classes. The US GDP is fraudulent. A thousand dollars in legal fees is not the same as a thousand dollars of wheat or steel or infrastructure. The current War in the Ukraine is about the same as WWI; a War between financial capitalism and industrial capitalism. The financial Rentier extraction classes of parasites living off the workers of the world has been going on for ~400 years, perhaps back to the Greek debt based oligarchies but it is going to end and good riddance to it.

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An outstanding post. Thank you. I will make the most of it in my own posts and publications, giving you, of course, full credit and promoting your site.

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I think that the aliens do NOT wish to make themselves known until we stop the wars on our planet, they think it too dangerous.

Ampex is said to be among the best of tape machines...

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All good stuff. What we need now is for a Russian to invent a speedy end to this conflict. Now that would be really great.

But it seems they cannot even get their internal politics nor military sorted out. There would seem to be a dire need in Russia today for some of their 'great minds' to come to the fore.

https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/strelkov-provides-reassuring-analysis?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=795903&post_id=118957958&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

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The Wright Brothers managed to muddle through without Zhukovsky's equations.

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Excellent article, especially modern times with Russians in Google/ CIA. You didn't get into more modern "plasma energy" theory which Russia also lead in based on their association with Iranian nuclear physicist and technology pioneer Mehran Keshe.

https://kfssi.org/learn-more/

He seems to be the source of Russian and Iranian Electronic Warfare systems and "Tesla Free Energy" which is apparently available now, but blocked by the rules based order. He also offers star ship capabilities, and by saying (and proving) matter is created through the interaction of fields, creates a new model for an ever expanding universe.

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Thank you, this is not, NOT, surprising. Nope. The brilliant bulbs, the light shines bright, over the pond. Neither, then, or NOW, the character, fortitude, intelligence, etc…of the peoples in Russia, feels, seems… beyond the measure. I grant you, my pal, as a neighbor, are one and the same. Little old lady, me❤️🐈‍⬛❤️

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I have to contest the helicopter part.

Already in the 1910s helicopters existed. The first helicopter to ever lift off was the Pescara Nº12.

The first helicopter tittle belongs to the Argentine inventor Raúl Pateras Pescara. Like in the US, many of inventions were done by immigrants. He was a Spanish immigrant, but grew in Argentina.

He left to Europe where he worked to patent his inventions in Spain and France. In Paris, 1924, he established a world record flying over 700 meters.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/19_janvier_1924_R._Pateras-Pescara_pilote_le_2F.JPG

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On the note of the American IMO team, here's how they actually beat China for the first time in 15 years: https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.JKGuXzEVDviy5FZLE-BjlQHaKD?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

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Don't forget though, that the USSA has an insurmountable lead for instigating the most turmoil worldwide.

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