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I was just thinking I need some Simplicius!

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We all need Simplicius friend.

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He is comforting isn't he!

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Great article Simply!

Regarding to Ukraine/Russia conflict I can use my own experience/history to judge or make my own opinions. But with Hamas/Israel mess I have no inside or any knowledge of the current situation. I bet I’m not only one but I’m relying on your detailed thorough updates. So far no disappointment at all. Keep us updated.

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wrt the Israel situation, if it walks like a duck, etc, it probably is a duck. Israel is creating both sides of this "conflict" to expedite the genocide of Gaza - the WB will be next.

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It is walks like a conspiracy theory and talks like a conspiracy theory, it is a conspiracy theory. It is plain bad analysis to even consider these events as a fancy Israeli plan as opposed to incompetence plus over-focus on Ukraine.

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It actually conforms with both the elements of Holmes' dictum to Watson.

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If your analysis is principally informed by 150 year old fiction, it is no wonder you fall back on conspiracy theory.

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My analysis was not principally informed by anything CD might have said.

But it was as good a synopsis as anything.

And we all know who promotes the term "conspiracy theory."

How's the weather in Langley today?

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Just because one agency uses the term doesn’t automatically give credence to those spouting conspiracy nonsense.

Your fundamental lack of analytical capability continues to not shine.

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1963 called and wants it’s pejorative back....

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@Tim Web

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

That quote? Not my first choice.

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Why does somebody delete what I say?

Is it so threatening?

That's three times now today.

All I said was "What's your choice then?"

Something from Marcus Aurelius perhaps?

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@Tim Web

Saw nothing re: Marcus Aurelias.

As far as things disappearing? If architecture was done the way software is written, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

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There is no genicide.

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Slow motion genocide has been shown to be more effective in the long run.

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Do you know anything about the history of Israel? Here are a couple of videos you may find of interest : Zionist War Crimes 2004 Documentary

https://www.bitchute.com/video/E13RvoGkXnrn/?list=subscriptions

Confessions of Israeli Zionists : https://www.bitchute.com/video/NEUsubpAquyT/

Hamas is was created by Israel, is run by Israel, was installed as a puppet government by Israel, is hated by nearly all Palestinians and is used by Israel as an excuse to murder Palestinians in its ongoing genocide of Palestinians and land theft.

Arial Sharon created Hamas because Yasser Arafat was getting to much attention on the world stage.

Hamas was created to bugger-up Arafat and the PLO. Hamas was installed by Israel as the government of Palestine with heavily armed IDF soldiers and military vehicles throughout Palestine during the 'elections' to make sure that Palestinians voted the correct way.

Hamas : https://www.bitchute.com/video/RgX7xl2CkCCI/

Bibi has serious legal and political problems and he probably thinks if he can complete the genocide of the Palestinians and steal the last of their rema9oimng land he will be a hero of Israel.

If he can entice the Yanks to come in and bomb the shit out of Syria and Iran as well even better.

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The Samson Option might well end up self-poisoning Israel's air and land as its enemies are so close.

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I find it truly hard to disagree.

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After this news about the Iron Dome, the failures of its intelligence community and those of the IDF, now I have to wonder if the stories about Israel's nuclear capability are lies as well. Israel has never admitted or denied that they have nuclear weapons. They probably do, but now I feel the need to ask for some kind of proof.

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Was the Beirut harbour bombing not proof??

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It isn't even the carriers; The planes themselves are horrifically expensive even as Iran has S400 plus their own AD systems. Whether Israel or US, air attacks on Iran today are a very different situation than it would have been even 10 years ago.

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Sorry but Iran does not have S400, what they have is S300. Indeed they asked for S400 and SU35 but we have not seen the deal has been reached or not.

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If I were Russia, i'd be cagey about giving them too much crap. Seems like the leadership there agrees.

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Officially, no.

Given Iran being in the BRICS plus Russia being much more open to ways to put a spoke in US wheels, do you really, really, really think an S400 battery or three might not magically appear (or already be) in Iran?

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Correct but then the tectonic shift must already occur, there has to be very big event taking place, I mean treacherous Erdo got his S400, so why not get the delivery to Iran arrived sooner than later...

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They have the S-300s but with all the upgrades making them a very worthy weapons system. Same situation in Syria from what I have read. And Iran also has something like a gazillion midrange missiles.

Back in the day when Trump tore up the agreement with the US it was because these missiles were exempt from the agreement. They didn't exist at the time the deal was made. Without them being included, the agreement was worthless. Which is why Iran refused to add them to the agreement despite Trump's insistence.

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It appears to me that Israel has two strategies in play to rid themselves of the Palestinians - the Gaza strategy and the West Bank strategy. The Gaza strategy involves using Hamas to justify obliteration of Gaza, killing or forcing out the civilian population into Egypt or any other place they can migrate - any place other than Israel of course. The West Bank strategy is designed to infiltrate the land with illegal settlements, gradually pushing out the Palestinians - bulldozing their homes, harassing their families, destroying their crops, etc. The West Bank strategy appears to have been extremely effective over time. The Gaza effort is more difficult because it involves making genocide appear to be defense of the country - which is what they are trying to do at present.

Then of course there are the Palestinian and other Arab 'citizens' of Israel itself. Highly restrictive laws, including the Law of Return, are passed in order to suppress any growth of the Palestinian population in Israel and gradually to take over their land and homes by not only the Law of Return but also arbitrarily using various forms of imminent domain in which the government decides it needs a particular patch of land and takes it either by offering compensation or simply moving in and bulldozing the homes involved - the residents being displaced are not offered new land in exchange.

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"Eminent domain."

But a good analysis anyway, Victor.

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I stand corrected. I should have known better!

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This is an incredible comment, best I have read so far.

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You are talking genocide while the gaza population is continuously growing.

And Israel has been providing energy snd water because Hamas is spending EU money for weapons and concrete tunnels. And fir their Warlords private wealth.

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The Palestine election was the most scrutinised in the world. If Hamas was a zionist creature, it doesn't follow that Hamas will always b a hostage.

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"Zionist War Crimes." Yeah. OK.

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Apparently something changed few years ago. Iran says it supports Hamas, so may be they are not under Israel anymore, though the terrorist tag works wonders. Hamas is the political entity as well in Gaza.

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they could simply wanted to "get in" to know Hamas, to establish communication channel, to know your enemy, to know your ally.

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You will wage war by deceit

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Not so. 78% of Gazans support Hamas. Support is also growing in the West Bank.

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Avdeevka has been a festering problem for Ru for quite a while now. I was wondering when they would get around to making a move on it, and it seems they are trying now. A full surround and siege seems the best approach, not sure how feasible it is operationally. I would even go so far to say as it is the most important operational objective in the war, at the moment.

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I just ask myself how many more "Avdeevkas" are out there in Ukraine. Looking at the videos Ukraine seems to be doing just fine with drones and mines, so a lack of artillery ammunition isn't that important in order to keep the Russians at bay. On the other hand the AFU is still able to shell the Donetsk region.

So will it take another year and tens of thousands of casualties on both sides to take this place and again, how many more are there?

Time to reconsider the tactics or even the strategy. That "they are running out of everything and are about to collapse" that we hear from both sides seems to be a hoax. What does it matter if the quantity of this or that weapon is low if you still have the quality and the quantity to do the job, and if you have other weapons that are probably more effective anyhow?

If Avdeevka is heavily fortified it won't do to carry out a couple of more botched ground attacks, losing a lot of personnel and armoured vehicles to gain basically nothing. That's exactly the same failed tactic that we criticised when used by Ukraine, while they didn't have much choice to do anything else, apart from not attacking.

I'm not saying, flatten Ukraine, nuke Kiev or something like that, but in order to decide this war before our grandchildren are old and grey the fortified parts of Avdeevka and similar localities have to be leveled by heavy bombing. And please anybody don't reply with Russia having to save face. Russia is the ultimate villain in the eyes of the brainwashed western audience anyhow, and in pro Russian regions people aren't stupid at all, for instance in Africa. That's at least what I take from internet platforms.

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The Ukrainians have been running out ammo for 6 months, be it 155mm shells, Himars, air defense, whatever. I dont take it seriously. Western support is more robust than people think.

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Ammo isn't going to be the deciding factor. Human bodies will be. Attrition takes time. Pay attention to how the Ukes are recruiting.

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You mean their "anything with a pulse" recruitment techniques?

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And the threats.

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Notice how the Pentagon constantly seem to be finding money and weapons ''it missed in an accounting error''?. Seems the accounting at the Pentagon is worse than a senile gambler. Almost as bad as Hollywood's accounting practices. :D

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Artemovsk and Avdiivka were the 2 principal Ukrainian fortifications both to shell the LDPR and to base a reconquest from.

Artemovsk was taken with massive casualties (compared to all other Russian losses in the entire SMO).

Avdiivka is using a different paradigm - closer to that of Mariupol. We will see how that works out, but I would not discount the impact of the gigantic glide bombs.

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I doubt RU will reconsider tactics or strategy - losses are the lowest since the start of SMO/SVO, progress is visible, production continues to ramp up, spirits are very high. economy grows too fast :) . So fast that it has to be cooled down by interest rate hikes. Exact opposite of all of the above on UA side, anyone with a brain those that 'Ukraine' is f%cked, AFU is desperate and know their cause is lost (yeah they can continue to do war crimes by firing at random at purely civilian targets in Donetsk and that helps them how exactly?). We will see, month after month after month RU is improving while UA is deteriorating. I watch this primarily from TG channels and they are NOTHING like BS of the 'western MSM'.

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Low losses means that you aren't fighting.

This was the mistake of, to give one example, the Portuguese during certain phases of the Ultramarine War. Keeping your troops holed up on bases means that your losses will be low, but you lose the countryside.

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or you are fighting smartly about it. if you have forward deployed scouting, filled the air the drones for monitoring, pre-positioned artillery and other things like helicopter gunships, have ready fighter-bombers that can fire 1000/1500 kg munitions on demand , why waste all of the above when tiktok army is busy geopositioning themselves on ruins of this or that field just to prove their "offensive is progressing but slower than expected". ?? why waste every advantage you have? rotate troops, extinguish fire with crack team in specific area and let your enemy smash their head into prepared defenses, then move forward to next fortified area. very different from 'sitting in bases' and being afraid of countryside. remember this is Russian territory the fighting is on ,populated by Russians on both sides, it is civil war. is anyone is sitting in fortified bases (previously forterezza Bakhmut, fortrezza Kharkiv ,etc) , it is the UA.

and I am not familiar with Ultramarine War at all , thank you for mentioning, will look it up.

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If your enemy is in fact on the ropes, then go for the kill.

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Well so far the losses are expected for a modern war where your opponent has modern weapons and the complete Western Recon (planes, satellites, cyber) apparatus at their fingertips, but the rate or losses would be higher if they were to assault the defensives in the City directly, instead of going around them to cut off supply routes. The highest losses are around the defensive fortifications where the RF got close or had to take, like that airfield and the high ground near the north.

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Well, I am definitely a fan of "going around fortifications whenever possible".

Maybe I should have put it better - low losses are not in and of themselves a metric of success.

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Russia has a lot of frontier and the frontier with Byelorus to use.

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For the recent Russian offensive, this one seems to me a tactical issue pertaining to that particular theatre, with the Ukrainians stretched out and bleeding heavily from all sides, Russia probing attacks and recon probably saw a good opportunity in that area to finally create the Avdevka cauldron which seems a natural place to do so. Local Generals probably asked, and Moscow probably gave the plan a go and gave them some reserves or perhaps they had them ready in the rear anyway, so why not use them? From the frontline reports many are DPR forces that were integrated into the State forces proper, so they know the area well and they have drive to finally stop the shelling of their homes that's been going on for years. I've seen NAFO psyops working overtime to discredit the offensive to paint their own failed one in a better light, but this misses the point completely as this operation isn't really strategic one, its a tactical operation to frame a better strategic picture moving forward. Regardless of what happens in Avdevka, the situation hasn't changed for Ukraine, this is still a war of attrition and memes can only sustain you for so long.

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At the moment....

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Sorry Ukraine America's old girlfriend is back and she needs the stuff the USA had gotten you now. Byeeee

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since Israel is bastard son of US-UK, I'm surprised that they didn't beg Sunak for help, and him not helping Israel will cost him an election.

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What is the UK gonna give them? The UK already went balls deep into the Yoo-crane, there's not much to ask for. Maybe some JDAMs.

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Our entire military force would only fill Wembley Stadium 70%. How much can we offer? Of course there is always our MI6 support whom we can always count on for the most devious plots in the world.

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Suella Braverman. She's toxic and hugely destructive. Liz Truss could be kept in reserve in case Suella doesn't pan out.

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Well, they can offer Megan Merkel and Harry for hostages exchange, the Brits and the King would welcome this decision I believe.

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The UK government are unable to help itself, never mind anyone else. Sunak will soon be unseated by an even more incompetent Starmer but Israel will win. Sunak's hatred of Muslims because of his religious prejudice is outdone by Starmer's Zionist in-laws.

Israel have managed to turn this country into a clone of the US. But control of the UK isn't strategic, it's designed to contain the realisation by many that Zionist Israel is the problem, not the Palestinians.

Of course, Jeremy Corbyn could not continue as leader of the Labour Party and was removed by the successful weaponisation of a bogus antisemitism smear.

And this is when the job will be complete - anti Zionism will be described as antisemitism and criticism of Israel will be silenced, by law if necessary. Supporting Hezbollah is already banned (we can be arrested for wearing a Hezbollah t-shirt) and Suella Braverman (Home Secretary, married to a Zionist and equally hateful of Muslims as Sunak) has implied that waving a Palestinian flag could be banned. It's amazing how it only takes a small number of infiltrators to complete a long held desire to silence pro Palestinian human rights activists.

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A local mrowka asked me how Israel loyalty laws (on the books in several US states) could possibly be constitutional. The short answer is - they aren't. But, there's a catch.

To vindicate one's rights requires a lawsuit, which requires money. And the state will fight it, tooth and nail, including appeals. Even if you win, you won't get your legal fees back, and you will have a target on your back, anti-retaliation laws be damned.

And the state will just pass another similar law, so the process can begin again. This is what it is like, dealing with someone who is bound and determined to act in bad faith.

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I had no idea it was so bad there.

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America's elite aren't a girlfriend to Israel, America is Israel's wet nurse.

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Of course getting reserve forces up to speed will take some time. Like many others here no doubt I was inactive reserve for six years after serving in the US Army and we all know after just a few years you would benefit from refresher training, and probably time to lose a few pounds; particularly for high intensity urban warfare. Also good to get to know your new teammates before real world ops. Smart for the Israelis to take their time preparing and then acting methodically once combat ops start. Hamas isn't going to be slaughtering defenseless civilians in the meantime, now that the Israelis are paying attention. Sounds like Israel is going to be rearming the civilian population as well.

A recent experience demonstrated how well past training may stick with you long after separation. I recently started carrying a modern polymer framed, striker fired sidearm with no external safety after having been trained using a military pistol with external safety (MOS 95B) and I found myself sweeping the nonexistent safety with my thumb reflexively before firing the new pistol after all those years. I had to put some time into training myself not to waste the time and effort (draw and press...that's all). Military induced "muscle memory" can be surprisingly durable.

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From what I've seen, much of the "slaughter" is derived from jewish film teams setting up the hoaxes.

Israel is obviously behind both of the principal actors in this conflict; and all with a view to destroying those whom it considers to be subhuman.

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Better to substantiate your point, rather than engage in a pointless one word response.

Go to Gab to see the evidence for what I said.

The team I witnessed set up a young boy on the ground, and twisted his arms and legs until he looked suitably contorted before they started filming.

As to "those it considers to be subhuman" all you need to do is to read the talmud to know this is true.

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One word since trying to make sense of nonsense is pointless.

Hamas just demonstrated to everyone in the world, who is paying attention, that they are a pack of deranged barbarians and there isn't any doubt about that reality. Israel will be doing every innocent soul on our planet a service by ending those savages and any other vicious, hateful, self serving radicals who target and slaughter innocent, defenseless human beings.

BTW, innocent souls includes peaceful Palestinians which Hamas is attempting to use as human shields in Gaza (again), which won't work because Israel now has no choice but to end Hamas' terrorism. Hamas and their ilk are mentally twisted monsters and profoundly evil. You can't make peace with them because they lust for blood. They bring nothing but death and misery.

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Hamas is was created by Israel, is run by Israel, was installed as a puppet government by Israel, is hated by nearly all Palestinians and is used by Israel as an excuse to murder Palestinians in its ongoing genocide of Palestinians and land theft.

Arial Sharon created Hamas because Yasser Arafat was getting to much attention on the world stage.

Hamas was created to fuck-up Arafat and the PLO. Hamas was installed by Israel as the government of Palestine with heavily armed IDF soldiers and military vehicles throughout Palestine during the 'elections' to make sure that Palestinians voted the correct way.

Hamas : https://www.bitchute.com/video/RgX7xl2CkCCI/

Israel started shelling Lebanon On the 10th Oct and now Western media is reporting that Hezbollah has joined Hamas,(the two groups hate each other), and is shelling and invading Northern Israel.

I suggest you look long and hard at where you get your information.

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You talk of others verifying their news sources yet you make fundamental mistakes. Hamas have never been the govt of Palestine, only in Gaza. IDF would not have ventured into Gaza in this context.

There is evidence that Israel didn't oppose the rise of Hamas, purely as a policy to increase division. It's another thing to say that they were actually created, run and installed as a puppet govt for Israel.

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank are much more compliant to Israel, yet you don't mention them?

In 2005, elections overwhelmingly installed the Hamas govt. Israel and the US immediately armed Fatah militia's to overturn that result but Hamas won convincingly.

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Given its history and recent statements similar to yours, I would suggest that it is the israeli government that is evil and bloodthirsty and whose path is littered in death and misery for the surrounding countries and much of the world.

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Read the comment below by Barry to gauge the full extent of your delusionality.

As for "lusting for blood" you should read the Talmud sometime.

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The Book of Hate.

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Following your logic and looking at a number of wars of the last decades, your characterisation of Hamas fits the US military apparatus very well, with evidence upon evidence. You can't wiggle your way out of that reality without adopting a racist, chauvinist mindset.

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How squalid of you, put up or shut up.

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Where are all of these jew cockroach trolls coming from?

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I think you should address your anger issues

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Perhaps carpet bombing an area 25 miles by 5 miles filled with 2 million captives is the humane response to 'deranged barbarians'?

Only a psychopath would think this way.

The simple fact is that Israel know where every person in Gaza lives.

They know when they hit a tower block how many children they will kill.

Human shields? Hamas have never tied a young lad to the front of their military vehicles, unlike the IDF.

Yes, it would appear Hamas did seize civilians to try to stop the carpet bombing of Gaza. I expect they falsely believed that the regime would value Jewish lives more than Palestinian. They were wrong.

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Unit 8500 much? GTFO nobody here even considers your shit valid. Tosser.

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Yep, have seen that. Also brave IOF army scum executing captured and unarmed palestinians. Whio may or may not have been Hamas fighters.

But, but, the mighty jews have the most moral military in the world.

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Can I see any videos or proof of this? I need to see it.

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I watched it on the below tg channel .Was a couple of days ago so you'll need to scroll up a quite a bit.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

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Human animals, you mean?

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Not quite sure what you're referring to, but the talmud repeatedly makes plain that white people are the "beasts of the field" or "living creatures" spoken about as being created earlier in the day when man was created. Thus they have no reason - so they imagine - to treat such people according to the precepts laid out in the Ten Commandments.

The word "human" of course, is legally defined as "a kind of monster, with some of the features of a man," so never fall for the much-promulgated idea that somehow "human rights" are worth anything, any more than "animal rights" are.

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I was referring to Israel referring to Hamas as such - human animals.

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I think Israel was teaching Ukraine all propaganda tactics, do expect the same and more from Israel.

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Israel has experienced a huge mass emigration from European Sefarades. Up to a point where ashkénazes in the army were triggering the alarm. Sefarades are much more loudmouth and much less effective in combat (mostly chubby trade goods dudes). To expect any kind of military endeavors from those is lunacy

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Sephardim.

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You mean Mizrachis. Those are Arab Jews.

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You will not get much support, as responders will spew back every internet ‘fact’ that they have learned, with no substantiation. Not ONE of them has ever read the Hamas Charter, apparently.

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What does that charter say?

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Here, this article has a link to the original Hamas Charter from 1988 as well as the revised one from 2017. https://forward.com/opinion/564190/hamas-charter-truth/

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The new one gets rid of all that stupid antisemitic crap they put in there.

Hamas accepted a 2 state solution in 2012.

Hamas has moderated since the new charter. They recently emphasized that they could care less about Jews per se. They just don't like depraved Jewish land thieves over in Palestine because they say those Jews stole their land, which they did, of course. Well most of it. In 1948, 6% of Palestine was bought by Jews fair and square.

Recently Sinwar even addressed Diaspora Jews in his speech. And after the bad publicity of the massacres, Deif himself issued a directive forbidding the killing of women, children, or old people and ordered that hostages and old people be taken care of.

And a couple of recent statements from Hamas leadership about their goals are some of the most moderate I've ever seen. Believe it or not, they're moderating all the time.

In fact, this is the most humane war the Palestinians have ever fought against those Jews. Their whole project has been sheer terrorism from Day One dating back to the Hebron Massacre. This is the only time they've even bothered to take POW's or captives instead of just mowing both of them down.

I know a LOT about Hamas and the Palestinians in general. More than you do, (((Mr. Israeli Inisfad)))

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It won't be very long until Congress critters will have amnesia about ever sending money to some place called "Ukraine." As JFK said, success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan....

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LOL! I think the brain fade has already started.

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FFS, FJ Biden.

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Couldn't agree more.

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Agree with FJB but who's FS?

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Who's FS?

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For Fuck Sake

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Thank you.

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Scalise, FFS!

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FFS bruh...

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No kidding, he is definitely an Oh FFS.

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hhhh, good for him.

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Given that the Israeli Army has fared poorly against teenage militia in both Lebanon and the West Bank, maybe it should consider sticking to bombing women and children, which has been its forte in the past....

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Great article!

Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-10-11

https://askeptic.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-reports-2023-10-11

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hamas was not working for Israel - maybe years ago they were ' created ' by Israel - but they are a

Palestinian militia group now. Why does everyone - on the one hand think ( finally ) that Israel might be stupid and then give them credit for controlling a bunch of Palestinian guys for years and years...who actually live in Palestine - how dum.

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It's because we don't think that Israel is stupid that we don't buy this ridiculous narrative of them being taken completely by surprise.

Given what Bibi is saying - or said - about funding Hamas it is the most obvious conclusion to draw that Israel is behind the operations of both sides in this conflict, with a view to exterminating the goyim in Gaza, as is always their primary religious objective.

So called Iron Dome simply adds to this smoke and mirrors situation.

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Never confuse incompetence and complacency with conspiracy.

Oh too late for you.

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I don't - that's why I made my comment.

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I think Israel's stupid and incompetent and complacent. Scott Ritter said all of the surveillance is AI now - completely and they boasted about it and Hamas - who is not stupid and not a double agent - fully Arab - took advantage of the bully

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They may be these things to a degree, but not to the degree that they have fooled you into believing.

Hamas was clearly stated by Netanyahu as being eligible for Israeli funding as a counter to the PLO.

They groomed them, supplied them with fireworks powder, opened the gates for them; and now the Israeli army chief states that he's going to destroy both them and the poor Palestinians, as "dead men tell no tales."

Who's behind all this is even more obvious than 9 - 11 was.

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oh holy one who knows all - what am I compared to you ? You know everything and not so kindly administer your cleverness to me - unasked. Please know that I acknowledge your stated superiority to me - and find all others to bestow it on - I no longer need your focused attention

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Don't get your knickers in a twist.

Life's too short.

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Because all the leaders of Hamas and their family members travel freely to and from Israel and any time they get sick or need medical treatment they are rushed into Israel's best hospital and given VIP treatment for a start.

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Absolute BS. By the way, the leaders of Hamas do not even live in Gaza. They live in Doha, Qatar. I’m truly appalled at the internet BS that people believe, with absolutely no research.

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That's why we have people like yourself - to keep us on the straight and narrow.

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Hamas doesn't "work" for Israel. they were originally, and perhaps still, funded indirectly by Israel. They were created to do exactly the things that they do - support Gaza and provide trouble for the PLO (and now the Fatah, I guess). Israel never "controlled" them - only uses them.

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Agreed. I called out this nonsense in the last Simplicius publication: equating "creation" of Hamas with "control" today is ludicrous because it would be exactly like attributing Bolshevism and the USSR with Imperial German control because the Kaiser sent Lenin back to Russia.

It is very clear who supports Hamas: it is Qatar with some training/gear assist from Iran. But the purse strings are Qatari and Hamas leadership lives in Qatar, not Iran.

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I agree with most - but Hamas is Palestinian - I'm no expert but this to me is a Palestinian revolt. and Hamas Lived in Syria before Qatar....anyway - like I said I'm no expert -

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Hamas is certainly Palestinian but they get financing and arms from many entities that are not Palestinian. Like Qatar.

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yes - and Iran - and many of these comments are saying this was organized against Palestine

to cause genocide. I don't think so

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Too much nonsense encouraged by Simplicius’ lost plot in this and the previous articles.

I can see how Hamas might want to force a Stalingrad type situation as a spark for a more general uprising against Israel; there is also no question whatsoever that the Israeli far right is executing American tactics against the Natives.

All this other noise is completely pointless: neither actionable nor sensible.

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yes - its very hard to know at this point how much Israel was part of the planning - now they've bombed Syria too - seems like all they want to do is get enough fighting going to nuke Iran - but the Palestinian people cheered that incursion and they performed it and it was the right thing in alot of ways - its just that now the international community is humming and hawing about what to do - and to just go back to what it has been in not a solution. Just another 3000 dead Arabs....NO - Israel must pay now....says me - from my comfortable couch in the west.

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Frankensteins monster. Cue the torches and pitchforks

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Israel has a real problem. Most of the middle east is siding with Russia. When the Ukraine conflict ends Russia's military industry will have immediate high volume customers in Iran, Syria, and possibly the Saudis. If Russia floods the region with exportable AD systems that could neuter Israel and US air assets in the region. That's not even to mention Hezbollah getting their hands on Russian drones. Dirt cheap, Mass produced, hand launched, tiny, highly effective drones could absolutely cripple IDF ground forces.

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Yankeeland sent extra troops to Air Base 201 in Niger a month ago after it was told to piss-off and there are 5 countries in West Africa ready to back Niger if push comes to shove and if Yankeeland has gone in with the intent of Lindsey Grahaming Iran there is a good chance those troops will only be leaving in body bags.

Syria is fed up with Yankeeland stealing all its oil as well.

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Hezbollah can get everything from Iran, including drones.

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What if Russia offers the leftover parts of former Ukraine to Is rael, that can be called....Is rael Lite...

They can have their Jewish state, vacate the middle yeast, and stop speaking of destroying al aqsa and rebuilding the Temple where it stands, for the sake of God.

Everyone can declare Fictory and elenskies the stupid slut can get his freaking Is rael Lite Litte Russia.

Harashoew

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Why Ukroland when USA itself is massive, if US government truly care about Israel, then Biden should let the jew live with the Texan... I am sure they won't mind...

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Great idea, even better than mine.

Former Ukraine is about the size of Texas I am told, which is why I thought their is plenty of room their for small minded ziona

But why not, give some of Texas, or Nebraska, or hell, Wyoming, idahoe, tis a small price to pay for peace in the middle yeast

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yep, and remember to put big fancy steel like the one they install at the border of Mexico and build many luxurious gas houses there... with huge entrance gate that welcoming the population "Arbeit Macht Frei" means "welcome dear friends of Israel".

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Well, there is always the Aleutians, or parts of the North Slope....

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Put them all on the edge of Washington D.C. and in Jew York where all their relatives are.

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They can't, as for the Armageddon prophecy to occur Israel needs to be controlled by Jewish people. Being in Texas does not meet the requirements of the Rapture. It's silly but there you go.

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There is no rapture - at least not the kind you apparently believe in.

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Telling people the truth about the nonexistent Jesus doesn't work all that well either. Everyone has their illusions.

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That subject is beyond the scope of this discussion, but I will say only that you are wrong.

BTW, I think the word you meant was "delusion", not "illusion".

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https://www.amazon.com/Historicity-Jesus-Might-Reason-Doubt/dp/1909697494

Bayesian analysis of the extant documents. Very convincing.

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I think the Rapture is a heap of dangerous shit. Only nutters believe in it. Unfortunately this includes British Prime Minister Balfour who set the ball rolling and countless foolish Americans who keep that ball moving. Fuckwits all of them.

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I don't know where Lord Balfour stood religiously, but I do know that he went into that agreement because the UK was desperate to get America into the war. The Zionists convinced him that they could wield their influence in America to get that job done, so he agreed to give them Palestine (which btw at that time the UK had no power to do so). The Zionists were subsequently able to do just that via their political influence (their folks surrounded Wilson at the time as senior advisors) and their media power - and probably a few bribes as well...;-)

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Food for thought. Perhaps kills two birds with the one stone. I have no references but I do recall that Balfour was part of a weird group that believed in the Rapture. Britain still imagines that they rule the world via US proxies. I have also read that the US funds MI6 to spy in the US something that is illegal for the CIA. It sounds like a circle jerk . I don't really think that legality enters the heads of CIA operatives.

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see, you got the point, the Zionist never never never after peace, they have always after their messianic agenda, and it revolves around murder and slavery of what they called as gentile or subhuman aka goyim.

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The fact that these ancient fantasies still hold sway is incredibly scary as these fuckers think they will survive whatever catastrophe they unleash on us lesser mortals. In fact it is better for them than that, they imagine that they will be rocketed up into heaven while the rest of us will die slow deaths amongst the fallout. FUCK!!

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Not like that Chris, the Prophecy in Judaism is on the line with Christianity and Islam. Now please allow me to tell you this, both in Christian and Islam believe in the Armageddon, the appearance of Anti-Christ and Jesus himself after the Armageddon. Jew is trying to accelerate this process because they are eager to see their false-Messiah lead them into false Holy Israel, while both Christian and Muslim is waiting for the advent of Jesus the true savior after the false-Messiah appear in Jerusalem. the Anti-Christ possesses water on his left hand (which actually fire/hell) and fire on his right hand (which actually water/heaven) the sinner will not able to see through that veil of water and goes into hell, while the saint who chose fire will go to heaven. And this is exactly what is happening today, so we know that the Anti-Christ is literally around the corner. Sorry does not mean to lecture you about religion, just information I want people to know.

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Thanks for your detailed reply. I am non-religious myself and find the blind faith involved totally beyond me. I am also at a loss as to why anyone believes this stuff as for centuries none of the prophesies have ever come to pass. Besides all that I think it's a bit weird to destroy the real for an imagined possibility.

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Thanks for a neat summary of something everyone seems to be talking about but I could never understand.

I wish people believed in living in reality and in present moment instead.

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But I thought most Jews are atheists and most of the few that have any spiritual beliefs at all are Talmudists. There's one small sect that believes in the old testament but they are few and persecuted by the majority.

Talmudists don't believe in God or in the authority of scripture. They believe in Israel and the authority of rabbis. So even Talmudists are atheist. The first part of the Talmud is the Pentateuch but my understanding is they believe that's just some historical cultural artifact from more primitive times.

Then again, if this were true why would they bother with the third temple and everything to do with it? It's too bad that's it's a taboo subject and that most Jews are atheists, otherwise I might be able to figure out what the hell was going on with all of this.

The Talmud is over 2.5 times longer than the bible and supposedly, we never had any honest translations until recently. Previous translations supposedly had mistranslated the knotty bits to conceal their true nature from the gentiles.

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What do you think Southern Ukraine was being cleansed for? '''Big Israel'' aka New Khazaria.

The plan was laid out in 1999 when it became obvious the The Greater Israel Project was a failure.

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Do you even have any knowledge of Khazars? They were Turks who allegedly converted to Judaism….and basically disappeared in 1079. Every one of your responses here appears to indicate that you have personally researched nothing, but just regurgitate what you read on internet sites.

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The Khazarin Empire didn't just "disappear". Actually, it lay between Russia and Iran - technically, their empire included what is southern modern Russia today, Crimea, southern Ukraine and Kazakhstan. But Russia and Persia (modern Iran) became fed up with them interfering in important trade routes (they would often ambush caravans), so they teamed up against them and Russia drove them out of the areas they occupied. Most ended up in Northern Europe where they became the Ashkenazi Jews of today (not a drop of Semitic blood in them). Thus the eternal hatred these Jews have for Russia and Iran, and also why the predominately Jewish component of the Bolsheviks and their creation, the Cheka (who operated the Soviet Gulags), went straight after the Russians and the Russian Orthodox Church, killing millions of ethnic Russians.

That hatred remains today among the Jewish elite who run the international banking and media industries and are responsible for most of the russophobia you see as well as the wars meant to cripple Russia over the years.

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The idea that Khazars converted to Judaism is obscure, at best. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khazar

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They did. I was acquainted with Kevin Brook, a guy who wrote the consummate book on Khazaria. And he's Jewish. But he's honest unlike most of them who are too tribal to do the honesty thing. He would completely disagree with you.

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The entire ‘history’ of Khazaria is speculation, so Kevin Brook’s consummate book is basically theory, conjecture, opinion, etc. As Khazars supposedly disappeared in 1079, what kind of definitive proof would he have, other than taking and adapting the theories of others…????

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A Nation without borders. A Nation within Nations.

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Now you're not making sense.

"Most ended up in Northern Europe where they became the Ashkenazi Jews of today (not a drop of Semitic blood in them)."

Nope, Ashk Jews are 50% Middle Eastern. The other half is European and it varies. A lot went in early and is heavily Italian. Also a lot of German, Polish, and Lithuanian blood. It goes back to Turks, Kurds and Northern Iraq, which was probably the genesis of the Jewish people. Something like Babylonian. I guess at one point they moved down to Palestine.

"Thus the eternal hatred these Jews have for Russia and Iran,"

No, Iran dates from the Book of Esther and Purim.

"also why the predominately Jewish component of the Bolsheviks and their creation, the Cheka (who operated the Soviet Gulags), went straight after the Russians and the Russian Orthodox Church, killing millions of ethnic Russians."

Cheka were Lenin's secret police. The gulags were run by Stalin and were policed by the NKVD and maybe the KGB. Cheka etc. went after people who opposed the regime. Since 80% of Russians are ethnic Russians, of course most of their victims were Russians Duh. And the Bolsheviks themselves were mostly Russians too.

ldiot Jews nowadays due to the Cold War. Period. Up until then many sided with the USSR.

Israel went to the West after 1948, and Russia turned on it. So a lot of Jews in the USSR and out of it started to oppose the USSR and consequently Russia. Stain's Doctor's Plot executions didn't help matters. A lot of USSR Jews went over to pro-Israel and pro-West, so Stalin said they were traitors. And he started killing some of them.

Ridiculous USSR Jews started demanding "let my people go" so they could emigrate to Israel. Israel was regarded as an enemy state of the USSR. No one got to emigrate from the USSR, and that included Jews. But Jews are special and above other humans. So the logic was, "We get to emigrate because we're special, never mind that no one else can."

This got turned into a club to beat the USSR over the head with, and US Jews got in on this propaganda campaign. Supposedly the USSR was antisemitic (except it never was) because it wouldn't let Jews go to Israel, except no one got to leave. I suppose the USSR had racial hatred for all those other people they wouldn't let immigrate, huh Jews?

This made Western Jews hate Russia even more as Russia got conflated with the USSR. There developed a rhetoric that said that "Russians" had pogromed Jews and massacred them for ever.

However almost all of these pogroms occurred in Ukraine, the Nazi state the Jews love and in Poland and Moldova (don't expect the Jews to offer a word against these folks), and almost none of them occurred in Russia, an antifascist country the Jews hate. Please don't ask us to make sense!

The Jews in Russia had developed a lot of hatred for Russia over the years, as they were convinced the Russians were antisemites. Well, they are but they were not during the USSR.

After the USSR collapsed, the Russian Jews became oligarchs through massive mafioso tactics and got together with banksters in New York, Frankfurt , and Tel Aviv to strip mine Russia of its assets and resources. They stole everything that wasn't tied down in the country.

It was the Yeltsin decade when Russia was a colony of the US that the US uses as its model for regime change after they smash the Russian state, balkanize and disarm it, and recolonize it. Pogroms, fake antisemitism, and Cold War mindset combine to create an extreme hatred of Russia in Russian and US Jews.

All right now you are into insane anti-Communism. For one, the Bolsheviks were not mostly Jewish. Some of the leadership was, but just as much was Latvian!

In the last election of 1917, 70% of Russian Jews voted for the Zionist Party. That's who they preferred. A lot of them like the Mensheviks too. They probably preferred them over the Bolsheviks. The Red Army rescued many Jews from murderous White Army antisemites, so the Jews started to like them. The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were against the Czar, who was seen as an antisemite.

There were no "millions of Russian Christians killed." It's an anticommunist/antisemitic lie. There were 2.5 million killed under Stalin and far less killed under Lenin. Most Russians were nominal Orthodox Christians, but many became atheists over ti me. They're all included in this "Russian Christians" lie. PS the Bolsheviks destroyed synagogues at the same rate they destroyed churches. They hated all religion.

Well you were making sense until you got into the reactionary anticommunism and obsessive and conspiratorial antisemitism. So you're a Rightist, ok.

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No. 13% of Jews have considerable Khazarian DNA. More than Turks, a better description would be something like Crimean Tatars.

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It really does pay to take a few minutes to research what you’ve read elsewhere. There is no evidence of any Khazars living today, so where exactly does that DNA come from for comparison? It comes from speculation and theory. Here, this will explain it better: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079123/

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It looks like "Uzbek" DNA. Studied this issue forever back in the day.

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Don't waste too much time engaging. I've worked with conspiracy theorists for decades. They commit the exact same errors in thinking as everyone else except they are far more fanatical about defending their most spectacularly improbable theories. The only people that even come close in this fanaticism are scientists.

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I kept looking for the /sarc

You do know that there was a mass influx of Ukrainian Jews to Israel after the SMO started, right?

You are saying that there will be an even greater mass influx back.

No, I don't think so.

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Why would Russia want troublemakers near them? Israel has been working against Russia for a long time. Putin said Odessa is Russian city, just a tiny bit Jewish. I think he was indirectly sending them the message to not dream about controlling Odessa. According to some New Jerusalem, Big Israel project theory going online, US planned to depopulate Ukraine and create Jewish state there. Who knows?

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It's all nonsense.

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There's been a lot of mention that "ukraine needs artillery while israel needs bombs, and later israel might need artillery". But israel is asking for interceptors - what's the overlap between the missiles iron dome and other israeli systems use, and the various systems ukraine is trying to get ammo for?

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The US military has purchased some Iron Dome systems.

Given that Israel's capability to build Iron Dome interceptors is no better than US capability to build Patriot Pac 3s, it should be no surprise that Israel is asking for some of the Iron Dome ammo back.

Israel is bombarding Gaza right now but hasn't started a ground assault. If/when that happens, then artillery will come into the fore. However, Gaza/Hamas isn't Russia - it is not the least bit clear that Israel needs 155mm shells because of counterbattery considerations (155mm enable the max range Western artillery systems, hence least vulnerable to traditional artillery based counterbattery). Equally, Gaza/Hamas doesn't have Russian AD systems so Israel can use dumb bombs. Not clear if Israel has enough, but time will tell again if/when.

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Part of the issue of a ground assault in Gaza, is that it is basically a totally urbanized environment….more like a city. If you recall the info we were getting about, for example, the difficulty of an urban assault in Bahkmut, the issue is somewhat the same.

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Agreed.

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I love the end and can't stand Scalise.

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I was hoping for sanity from the Repukelicans and Jordan would be nominated with a large majority. Neocons, F@CK!

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Obviously friend, sanity is a word not synonymous with these pukes.

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Next thing you tell me is that Nukes are a hoax too! ;)

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Yeah it is a tough one. When I came upon this theory the first time, I too thought wow that is even crazier than the flat earth theories... However after some research I found out that one is not so easy... Finally today I believe with a probability of 80% that Nukes are a Hoax. That is mainly due to Akio Nakatani's book: Death Object: Exploding The Nuclear Weapons Hoax

Interestingly it is notavailable anymore on Amazon, last year it still was. But you can find it for free on the internet to read as well.

Thanks for the hint to Myles Mathis. I will look into him.

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I suppose these theories about Israel's nukes being a hoax have resulted in some people claiming all nukes are a hoax.

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@Robert Lindsay

Well, these "nuclear weapons deniers" here were A: willing to question the socially approved world view about international relations.

And B: Rather apparently do not have the math and physical sciences background to understand the subject.

So, here we are. The potential pool of "nuclear weapons deniers" is rather larger than "flat earthers", given the math skills involved in understanding the two subjects (and the availability of physical evidence re: spherical planet merely by walking out your front door with rudimentary navigation tools...).

I imagine promulgating "nuclear weapons skepticism" among the great unwashed fits in with the obvious desire to break the nuclear first use taboo among certain ownership factions.

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FE is a fact, not a theory.

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@Tim Web

Thanks, you have told me everything I need to know.

Heinlein's remark about humanity and levels of mathematics they can learn is now invoked.

I don't hate you, you probably can do some useful and interesting things... Celestial navigation just isn't going to be one of them. I bet you use the GPS enabled navigation features on your phone and don't perceive any disconnect?

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I never for a moment assumed that you did hate me, so I'm not quite sure why you say that.

You should though, understand that celestial navigation has no bearing on the shape of the earth.

You could be standing on the back of a turtle, and the stars would look the same.

But as GPS fades and dies out of sight of land - hence the 2 years it took to locate the French AF447 flight in mid Atlantic, then I think any sane person would question whether it is better described as land-based rather than satellite based.

But unfortunately, there are many who imagine they are sane, but are rather, quite deluded as to various matters.

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If you don't think celestial navigation is relevant, do you perhaps believe the stars and planets are angels shining flashlights at us from their places on a series of nested and rotating crystal domes?

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

GPS works out of sight of land. I've been off shore and used it.

Many location apps use various other locations technique shortcuts such as triangulation off of cell towers and assessing proximity to more or less known data transmitting device locations. If your app asks to use Wifi to get "greater accuracy" your answer ain't pure GPS. THOSE apps don't work well (or at all for some) away from cell towers & etc..

Kind of a waste of our time here due to 🙈🙉 and/or 🕳️🧠. Perhaps distraction/wasting other's time is a goal of those disseminating flat earth and similar belief systems?

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Right, all the things I found before were either my own research or stuff that is not well put together. So that is the only material I am willing to pass to other people. I hope your article will be similar. But I will check it out later. ;)

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I've seen holes in the ground in NM and an atol with several dozen circular craters full of crushed corral where islands are partially missing, plus a number of WWII war ships on the bottom of lagoon.

Also, father had a PhD in physics and I quite believe him. Mother has a PhD in psychology so I can understand denial of scary things.

Nuclear weapons are quite real, IMO. Also IMO? You, Ernesto Che, seem to be a work of fiction.

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It's more a case of what you are than who.

What was the highest level of math you received a passing grade in? Algebra?

Solid geometry? Statistics? Calculus?

Similarly in physical sciences:

HS introduction to Newtonian physics?

College level?

???

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So you can count money and have heard about dropping a lead or a wooden ball off a tower achieving similar terminal velocities. Nothing further.

S'alright, most of the oligarchs and politicians who could decide to fire nukes don't have any real technical understanding of these tools either. All they understand is how to manipulate people and financial systems, their descendants who took over nominal control from the original robber barrons often don't really even understand how to use those skills- and so their structures have to employ intelligent sociopaths with the founders skills sets.

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This starts to look like an increasingly likely scenario.

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I've always believed they were, to Israel's credit. They're very resourceful. Too smart to spend all that money. Better to just get the benefits of everyone thinking they have them.

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I did read somewhere recently maybe at the Moon of Alabama that the Israeli's quietly handed back their nukes quite a few years ago as they needed newer ones, as the old ones were getting too expensive to maintain. Might be true, might not be. Who knows, but looking at the Iron Dome "success" perhaps it is true.

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@Chris Keating

I don't believe for one second that the Israeli ownership class would ever "hand back" their nuclear weapons once attained. (And it wouldn't be "handing back" so much as "handing over", they built their more recent Pu239 and boosted/fission weapons all by themselves, only thing to "hand back" might be those first generation bombs fabricated using the enriched U235 they spirited out of a Zionist owned USA contractor facility back in the early 1960s. And I would bet THOSE pits/assemblies were long ago recycled).

https://thebulletin.org/2014/04/did-israel-steal-bomb-grade-uranium-from-the-united-states/

Very few governments have voluntarily divested themselves of functional nuclear weapons once obtained, the South Africans and Ukrainians are the only ones on record.

Both are very special cases: The SA government knew their most hated ethnic/political for would soon get control of their nukes if these were not disposed of before they stoped down and had no realistic use for their half dozen or so "gun" type U235 bombs anyhow. They might only have been used in some Hitlerian Gotterdamerung act which still wouldn't have left them in power- Fortunately for the world, they were not big into Wagnerian opera.

The Ukrainians only had the physical presence of Soviet weapons on their newly defined territory, they never had operational control, arming & launch codes were not decentralized. Plus, they were new to power, inexperienced politically, were offered what seemed like a lot of money at the time- and were told pretty lies by some people in the West they foolishly trusted.

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If what you mean is Nuke explosion videos from US experiment back to 50 / 60 then your assumption is correct. But remember, Uni Soviet also did a lot of experiments with Nukes back then.

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