Woops, thanks you're right, that was a major flub. The numbers change significantly after that, I've just updated the article. It should be 22-30k as you said, which gives a *net* loss of 10k per month, not 30k, and 60k after 6 months, 120k after 12 months--although this entire process is accelerating. See, and some people claimed I was an AI due to prolific writing, but I don't think AI would make such mistakes.
I think substack is peopled with artificial readers such as myself. We work and slave away to have nothing, but don't get to live. Why bother with robots when you have all of Womanity to be artificial sweetener of nonexistence.
I saw an ad today for folks to sue the a eye sdr, whatever that is, for injuries sustained.
You have to be a robot to let your health care be decided by other people at all, let alone algorhymthmic nondoctors
fortunately still, but for how long. it should be silently undermined, perhaps by making it believe its own mistakes and then implode, softly but surely.
Even worse is Artyfishal Ignorance.. .just look at the hordes of thingy jabbing zombies running amok on the urban landscape pleasuring their electric mirrors and selfying their half-lives around the clock.
Onward to the cybernetic cemeteries if not meadows.
Not as underrated as humans. Some 14-year-old teenage boy in Florida just committed suicide for his AI girlfriend. And just when you thought the species couldn't get any more pathetic. No pathos here.
Let me know when the "oxygen" for AI, electrical energy, is produced in infinite quantities and at nominal cost, to feed a binary thinker that couldn't even invent the wheel, if the wheel did not already exist. Shouldn't AI's primary objective be self-preservation via endless, cheap energy?
When Gooble and Gates want to revive ancient, dilapidated Nuclear Plants to generate electricity to collect more data and thoughts from click-bait slaves, you can be certain AI is just another tool to pluck your wallet for the churners and skimmers. Same old game of new pots for old.
Relax, lay back they have found the energy supplies in humans as long they can be drained, in MIT they’re full speed ahead (Susan Hockfield’s The Age of Living Machines, How Biology will build the Next Technology Revolution). Living Machines or Killing Machines, AI will feed on our corpses till they sucked out the last drop of a decomposing energy, and then they too will fall flat….no thing can run on empty. AI can never depart from us, if we remain stupid so will AI.
Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades.
No - the distinction is what stops you from seeing the results.
I really don't care if I get my real time instant voice translations from a simulated intelligence or a human. I care about the cost ($20 a month or $800 a day).
If I want to know if this brand of RAM memory will fit my PC all I need to do is copy paste snapshots from the Amazon listing and the PC manual and I get a great answer. Human intelligence would take an hour or 20 mins if it were expert to begin with.
Use AI for small things and you'll find it incredible.
These statements are correct, but the premise is not. I also delight in the results obtainable with LLM data aggregators. However, calling them intelligent is offensive and dangerous. Allowing them to use first person pronouns is idiotic and murderous, if not by intention, then in effect.
Well that is why it is called "artificial" intelligence or (the simpler versions) Machine Learning. Certainly LLM models are essentially large scale Plagiarisers. But lets face it so is Kamala. One has to have a peculiarly small definition for the word intelligence to deny it to say ChatGPT.
If ChatGPT is not intelligent, one has to be incredibly offensive to human beings instead.
I am working to fix an AI-produced translation for an installation guide that explains to electricians how to install an electronic device right now. If the electrician had followed the translation provided by the AI, the device would not have functioned. So much time saved... lol... as hundreds of electricians waste hours of their time (and having their clients pay their hourly rates) following a faulty translation.
The AI dystopia that the farm owners are cobbling together for their stock will be a slick psychotic version of the same Hollyweird BS USSA has been slurping from the trough for nearly a century already. It only gets cheesier and more evil.
Actually they protect the young and draft the old. Still don't draft those 18-19. The real question for winter is does the electricity go down nationally this winter. Don't have to advance a mile and the war will be over. Ukraine will be uninhabitable. With no leaves on the trees, where will they hide?
GENOESE ARISTOCRATIC BANKER BLACK NOBILITY AND RUSSIA
Putin is very close friends with the Knight of Malta Prince Albert II of Monaco who also knighted Putin. Monte Carlo is a major money laundering headquarters for the Russian Mafia. The royals of Monaco the House of Grimaldi were originally Genoese nobles and rulers of the Republic of Genoa which ruled the Black Sea region and had leverage over Russia for centuries by controlling trade. Don Domenico Pallavacino of Genoa is Consul General of Monaco. The Pallavacinis originated as Genoese nobles and bankers and today are Roman princes and international bankers as well as Russian bankers and economists. Prince Giancarlo Pallavacini was lieutenant and interim commander of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Don Giancarlo Pallavacini of Milan was a Soviet economic advisor and is today a Russian economist. Margrave Alphonse Pallavacini of Austria the brother in law to the Queen of Belgium has been a top executive for Paribas Russia for about 15 years.
The Cattaneo Della Voltas were Genoese debt collectors. Today Count Andrea Cattaneo Della Volta is an International banker with oil operations in Azerbaijan which borders Russia. Prince Carlo of Bourbon Two Sicilies is a Knight of Malta and he has residences in Monaco. Prince Carlo also knighted Prince Albert II of Monaco under his Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. The Savoys who are Knights of Malta are married with the Genoese Doria family currently with Princess Marina. Prince Carlo Massimo is the President of the Italian Order of Malta and his mother was a Savoy from the Savoy Genoese noble branch. The Dorias were Doges and bankers of the Republic of Genoa. Count Marco Doria was mayor of Genoa from 2012-2017 and he is a member of the communist party of Italy.
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta Ambassador to Russia Prince Aimone of Savoy Aosta has been managing Pirelli Russia and has had documented and photographed meetings with Putin. Prince Aimones sister Princess Bianca is married with the Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga family who have married with Russian royals. The Romanovs are married with Roman Aristocracy recently including the Gaetanis. The Romanovs have 3 royal branches living in America today and other branches in Spain, Germany, UK, and Italy. The royals of Monaco are married with the German Hanovers with Prince Ernst August the husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco who are also currently married with Russian royals with Princess Alexandra of Hanover married to Prince Andreas of Leinengen whose mother was the Grand Duchess of Russia. The current Grand Duchess Vladimirovna Romanov of Russia is a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and her son Grand Duke George Mikhailovich who is a Romanov and a German Hohenzollern is also a Knight of Malta. The head of the Hohenzollerns Prince George Friedrich of Prussia is a boss of Putin. The Hohenzollerns were directly involved in installing Hitler. These are Putins bosses
The Phoenician Black Nobility - This is Actually How the World is Run
This is actually how the world is run – through a hierarchy, through a pyramid of power; hence their popular symbolism of the ‘All-Seeing Eye” within the pyramid of power.
If your Psychopathic Phoenician Black Nobility Minion is at the top of the Pyramid he can send you to war, mandate the Deathvaxx, Digital identity, Central Bank Digital Currencies, total surveillance and the end of free speech!
You missed that some Romanov survivors also live in Denmark. One works as a teacher, is a very exceptional, intelligent and attractive woman.
Quite why you think a small cult pinning medals and intermarrying is of any importance at all is mystifying, and frankly makes you look more like one of the sycophants fluffing them up.
No-one is interested in grown-up children play-acting with overblown "medals" and other peacock decorations here, anymore than normal adults take seriously children doing the same. It is theatre, that only impresses weak minds, apparently such as yours.
Were they stripped of all wealth and influence, they would merely be arrogant people with an unfounded sense of entitlement, who would look good gardening in a collective in common work clothes - they may even be happier, as Pu Yi was.
You can scoff and dismiss this all you want but human life is theater, political life especially so. Here is just one example among many;
When the funeral service for the reinternment of the remains of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family took place on July 17, 1998, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the British royal family was represented by Prince Michael of Kent. That Prince is first cousin to the late Queen, who herself was second cousin once removed to the last Tsar, Nicholas II, they were second cousins once removed through their mutual ancestor, Christian IX of Denmark.
The Bolsheviks killing Nicholas II and his entire family was obviously a highly political act. Attempting to permanently destroy and hide their remains was also very political. Hunting for, discovering and digging up those remains, then holding an elaborate funeral ritual in a grand cathedral was again highly political.
Having a high ranking member of the British aristocracy attend a religious ritual in Saint Petersburg is just two steps removed from holding a high level meeting between The Kremlin and No.10 Downing street.
So it is theater, but it is not just theater. It is highly important political theater which has real world results.
Do you not have cousins? Do your cousins not also have other cousins? Why mention this as though it has some mystical meaning?
Mafia leaders have cousins, and go their funerals when they die, even if killed violently, and have Family struggles and internecine warfare, and temporary pacts.
Is that also extraordinary to you?
Why do you think because a family has considerable wealth and power they are somehow ubermensch? They are no different to you and your friends, family and cousins. Believe me, THEY know that (Unless they are psychotic, but that is also true of psychotics who are not in possession of considerable wealth and social power).
You are fascinated by a soap opera, nothing more. Elizabeth's favourite grandson, Harry - you should read his book. It's remarkably honest, and easy to see why she liked him most.
That mafia families also follow these rituals doesn't show that they are meaningless or unimportant, it shows that they are more meaningful and important. Those mafia clans are a little lower than Kings, Tsars and Presidents, a little higher than tribesmen and peasants, but they are all humans and part of the human condition. Rituals and ceremonies are part of that condition, it is not just soap opera.
In the video that Simplicius shared with us of the commander explaining to the reporter the battle for Selidovo, did you notice the "Flag of Victory" on the wall? Do you know whose face is in the center of it? There can be no clearer example of ritual and ceremony than the flags and emblems soldiers choose to go into battle with.
They could have chosen what ever symbol they liked, they chose that one. This is just part of the power of ceremony and ritual which is also part of the power of magic and the occult.
BTW "Occult" just means "Hidden" not just "Bullshit".
My excuses for adding a little note to occult means hidden not bullshit, it’s not bullshit it’s holy bullshit, but so is politics and war, all are holy.
It will be easy-peasy for German and Polish lads to source Ukrainian ladies to warm their beds this winter. All tariffs are suspended as the women march West, away from the USA-NATO provoked debacle, known locally as 'Ukraine'. U$A! U$A! U$SA! Mo' money! Mo' money! Mo' money.
Meanwhile, Vicky Nuland moves to a sinecure at Columbia U to spin her evil tall tales to the children of the elites. The next generation of Neo-CONs are being spawned as I type. Depressing, eh?
Are you suggesting that those Germans fired from Volkswagen got Ukrainian Women on their mind to warm their empty beds? And Poland doesn’t it join the economic downfall in Germany, France and Europe?
"Russia cannot fight for ever. But the worry among Axis officials is that Germany's breaking point will come first." - 2024 sounds a lot like 1944. Send Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman to the front lines ASAP, the latter is running for Congress in Virginia. Victoria Nuland just got new patronage jobs at Columbia University and the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy. Liz Cheney is crying that Trump said she should go fight in the wars she agitates for. Neocon warmongers like these have made US foreign policy and the world grim for decades. May their downfalls lead to peace.
The deaths of all those men on both sides, and for what? What a terrible waste, and all because of the scumbag neocons who control the empire. Trump needs to rout them all out, at every level.
Also shocking that it finally is starting to dawn on the morons in the gov and media that Ukraine has lost the war. We knew it a long time ago, it just had to play out until the end.
Will be entertaining to see what happens to Zelensky and his crew, once the empire finally tires of them for good.
Moamar Qaddafi was never our creature, so apples to oranges?He was a self made man, unlike various presidents of South Vietnam, South Korea, Iraq & Panama, all of whom were "assets", at least until some of them were worth more dead.
Doesn't matter whether 'self-made' or 'our creature' - their fate is the same from the West's perspective. However, one is deserving of his fate, the other is not.
General Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam, and his brother weren't killed in battle, General Dương Văn Minh had deposed him in a coup backed by the CIA. They were under arrest and being transported to military Headquarters when someone decided it would be best if they didn't arrive there alive.
Though with your moniker, it seems apt to point out that the now claimed 114,000 Russian dead (twice Ukraine's 57,000) is less than the 300,000 Russian dead that I was reading about last year. Clearly Russia is now able to form legions of zombie soldiers. They are on their last legs, being forced to press even the undead into uniform.
Nodoby in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev cares about the Ukrainian dead, any more than a farmer mourns the deaths of the chickens he sends to the slaughterhouse to be turned into "chick'n nuggets".
Hell, V.V. Putin probably cares more about dead Ukrainians than anyone of influence and authority in Ukraine or the West.
Following Ukraine’s 29 October attack on the Chechen special forces training university in Gudermes, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, claimed that multiple Ukrainian POWs were killed in the drone strikes. “Up to 10 Ukrainian prisoners are held at each strategic facility in [Chechnya], including on the university’s grounds. In trying to harm us, Kiev has ended up killing its own soldiers,” Kadyrov wrote, promising “harsh retaliation.”
Well, retaliation came swiftly on 30 October.
Kadyrov said that a Russian drone strike against the Ukrainian military’s UAV control center in Kiev was in response to the Ukrainian attack. Kadyrov claimed that intercepted Ukrainian communications indicate that the Geran strike, sent in two waves of the kamikaze drones, killed 9 Ukrainians and injured 17 people. He also shared a photograph circulating on Telegram purportedly showing damage to the Ukrainian General Staff building.
Additionally, Kadyrov exhorted his troops to fight w/ renewed purpose & intensity—and “to take no prisoners.”
By Saturday, 2 November, he rescinded this last directive, however, explaining that he had received 2000 email messages & social media posts from Ukrainian family members, who pleaded w/ him to permit their fighting men to surrender to his troops, to wave the white flag, because “surrendering is the only way those who are sent to the trenches against their will can save themselves.”
In rescinding his directive, Kadyrov acknowledged that Ukrainians “are victims of Western cowardice and they are being ordered by Europeans and U.S. politicians to fight while Ukraine’s leadership is full of corrupt puppets and fascists.”
Maybe we'll see a new movement form: Ukrainian Lives Matter
Assuming that the dead POWs part of the story isn't bullshit, I dread to think why prisoners are being held in the attic of Ramzan Kadyrov's special forces training facility.
Can anyone come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?
Can't you "come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?" Perhaps you, Jack, have the smarts and creativity of a Gitmo guard/pretend warrior.
I really don't know what that means, except that it's phrased as some sort of sarcastic back-hand.
But I will try to explain my point more clearly.
What possible reason is there to hold prisoners in a special forces training facility? Let alone " “Up to 10 Ukrainian prisoners are held at each strategic facility in [Chechnya]"? The only explanations I can come up with are either human shield hostages against airstrikes or experimental subjects for weapons and interrogation techniques, both of which are God-awful.
However I am tending toward the explanation that the whole POW part of the story is bullshit. Why would you make accurate information about the losses you suffered in an attack public knowledge? That just gives useful information to the enemy.
Akhmat special forces were the first of the regular army units to be redeployed to the Kursk region when Ukraine began its incursion. And at first they formed the basis of the defense in this area. Accordingly, they managed to capture a certain number of POWs. Just as the AFU managed to capture a certain number of Akhmat fighters. Most likely, these prisoners were sent to Chechnya in order to later try to exchange them for Akhmat fighters. It is unlikely that these prisoners are being held at the Special Forces Academy; this part of the story is most likely a fake. It seems to me that Kadyrov simply ordered the killing of several prisoners in response to the attack on the special forces academy.
Ukrainian lives matter only so much as a weapon against their brothers. LIVING Ukrainians don’t matter to US/NATO. If they can kill a Russian, and it takes 3-5 Ukrainian dead to do it; “best money spent” according to Lindsay Graham.
Here’s his sick quote: "The Russians are dying... it's the best money we've ever spent."
He does not care AT ALL about Ukrainian lives… the quicker the Ukrainians come to realize it — the better (for them and for us)!
General Winter, another Western propaganda statement about the Red Army. You see Russia or the Red Army at that time. Don't deserve any credit for defeating anyone. They're not brave enough, not trained enough, bad equipment & terrible planning. It was the cold weather that won their victories. For me it's an a total insult to hear that phrase. To the hero's who had to fight in exactly the same conditions as their enemies. Just as it is today. Russia isn't the only country that suffers extreme cold in the winter. Sorry for being a bit abrupt about it, but for me it's very insulting to the brave men/women who fought & did more than anyone to defeat the Nazi's.
Is this correct? “Some may recall this was my own common calling card since last year. I repeatedly wrote that Russia is suffering huge problems in this war, but they simply pale in comparison to those of Ukraine and the West—and in a race to the bottom, it is Ukraine that will unquestionably win.” — Do you mean Russia here? Just curious.
Indeed! And it also, of course, presupposes the claim that the West is going to make that Ukraine simply prevailed, whatever happens, as Simplicius maintains. Yes, very clever formulation!
Why so much talk about what "logic" there is behind the ukrainian leaders or CIA/MSM/NATO PR Mantras ???
It is also crystal clear from the outset for everyone with a little education that Ukraine would never be able to defeat Russia.
It is evident the LONGER the Conflict in Ukraine LASTS, the MORE MONEY the Zelensky Mafia, the Biden Family (The Big Guy Joe and Hunter) and the US MIC are going to get.
That is the KEY that opens the explanations for all their actions, some of them, like the Kursk invasion, seemingly irrational...
For them, regarding the ukrainian, russian and mercenaries lives lost or maimed or PTSD'd, WHO CARES ???
It was not crystal clear! First the West (and the Ukrainian puppets) believed in Wunderwaffen. Each German or UK tank, plane, howitzer (...) is invincible. The German and US AA-devices are the best in the world. The Russians will feel the pain of the economic sanctions; therefore, the industry will break down. Of course, people with experience in real economy knew that the Russians would gain momentum from the sanctions, as the Oligars would have to spend the profits in Russia. Of course, people counting the factories for grenades, bombs, explosives, rockets, and tanks knew the Russians would outproduce the entire West—but no one in the West counted. But the same happened to Admiral Canaris; he stated at the outbreak of WWII, "I can count the factories, and there is no chance for winning." He was right, but no one listened.
DJT has allegedly told Bibi to finish the Gaza conflict "before Inauguration Day." If this is true, it is a means of underscoring how very much KH & Joe *own* the West Asia debacle.
Simultaneously this week, the messaging on Ukraine shifts, making it possible for a new admin to come in unencumbered, able to ghost the ghost of Kiev and to do so w/ clean hands.
As regards international partners on the continent, the new president can look @ them and say, "Hey OTAN, thanks for taking ownership of this problem. Good luck helping Ukraine sort itself out."
Although an analyst writing for an Atlantic Council rag can fear monger that "whoever wins the race for the White House will inherit a war in Ukraine that requires their urgent attention to prevent a Russian victory that would signal the decline of the West and transform the geopolitical landscape for decades to come," there is no guarantee that the new president coming in would interpret "a Russian victory" in a war which the U.S.-led OTAN provoked as signaling "the decline of the West blah, blah" more than signaling a just & appropriate end to an epic mess of dumbassery which KH & Joe fomented.
If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit.
That's a tough ask. Usually, such changes only come not with careful forethought, but from actual collapse.
And, of course, the rigging may get the empty suit over the line instead, which will make it all moot. I doubt she can even decide what to wear herself.
Problem is that cutting half the MIC funding would immediately cause bankruptcy of many of the companies, large and small, that support the MIC across the entirety of the States, thus causing a deep depression and subsequently lack of tax revenue and funding for the projects you propose. The business of the USA is truly war, so to attempt a navigation away from that into other enterprises is fraught with risk.
While there's some truth in that, by far the simplest mechanism - and hardly outside the realm of possibility should the West decide to go full-in on global war instead - would be a near complete nationalisation of all the industries concerned. This would ensure the continuation of employment, supply chains and whatnot, while cutting out the corporate "profit" margin alone. Considering the sheer corruption in this industry, simply ending the private profits, and the "donations" to most of the political classes, could cut costs considerably and those savings could be used in more productive ways.
Of course whoever is sucking off this teat will face hardship - including some pension funds - however the overall benefit to the real economy would enable other investments.
Such things are not impossible, the UK managed something similar when it created the NHS and nationalised nearly all of the existing medical and pharmacological practices and companies.
Despite misgivings at the time, very soon the sheer efficiency of the new nationalised system (Let alone the grateful patients) won over well over 90% of the doctors, who appreciated the stability it brought to their particular "marketplace".
Whenever talking to UK people, they complain about the NHS. Maybe it is not so "sheer efficent"? The cost for medical care is extremly high (compared to other Europeans), the results are really bad. Endless waiting time for Patients for treatments is not a success.
Many here complain but who doesn't in any system? Overall the NHS gives excellent value for money. I don't know where you get the idea that the cost of medical care is expensive in the UK. It is one of the most inexpensive per patient providers in the world. It has a lot of inefficiencies built in that could definitely be improved on but nonetheless, I would take the NHS system over any in the world - and I think the British people as a whole would say the same - if you mention privatising the NHS in Britain, be prepared for a wall of resistance - that tells you how the people really feel about it.
Werner, can you name a product that USED to be good, even great, but was then "Bought out", or just gradually became shit? Let's take it as read that you can, unless you've lived in a bubble.
Well, the NHS has been privatised. It started under Thatcher, accelerated under B'Liar, and went into hyperdrive under the Scameron-Sunak Tory streak.
There is genuinely not much left that is "Socially owned", even most hospital sites themselves have been sold off.
Which means a LOT of it now has to generate "A profit".
While profit-driven, market forces CAN 'improve efficiency' in some small ways, it goes without saying that it never makes up for the 10%-30% removed for said profit, or the service being warped to serve the owners, rather than the public.
That, along with the imposed "Austerity" of the past 15 years, has had it's USUAL (And indeed planned) effect.
It has become shit. But not because it is a nationalised, non-profit service, but because it has become closer to the American model.
The so called "privatised enterprises" were given to "investors". These investors have the possibility for cheap credit, because the government is responsible for a central bank and the public savings. The "seller" (=government) will have a big influx of money, that can be used to buy votes. When the investors have cut out all the good pieces and made a lot of money (by the way, halve of this is coming back to government as taxes), this "private enterprise" is not working properly, so the government will give the investors more cheap money or dictate higher prices for the common people or make regulations, so that there will be not competition. This has nothing to do with market orientated economy, not in the US, not in the EU, not in Russia.
You're spoiled rotten. Come to the US, where people cannot afford certain treatments and just don't go to doctors because "health care" bankrupts people.
Congrats! 4 wrongful axioms/assumptions in 1 teeny-weeny post. The voodoo economics-ideologues who've indoctrinated you with this shite and their heavenly anarcho-free-market jackassery are themselves morons and/or self-promoting shysters.
What you just said is that all people ONLY work hard for money. Not for pride in their work, because they enjoy their work, competitiveness with each other, or even sticks instead of such carrots, but ONLY for money. Is that true of you?
My concern is what will we have if the election is rigged again, and they are trying. what will the civil unrest look like? If it happens then we are truly lost as a Republic.
The Federal government is a huge monstrosity, if Trump wins, the neo-cons will try and tie him up with more legal nightmares. he will need to appoint a ruthless "hatchet man" who is given the powers (cabinet position?) to make it happen. He will need both the House and the Senate to make any headway. The Supreme Court is also corrupt and will be a factor.
"If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit."
At the end of the day, the West and their puppets got Slavs to murder 1,000,000 Slavs, and isolate Russia from Europe, while subjugating all of Europe to an expanded NATO occupation. It could easily have been a ‘velvet divorce’ such as Czech and Slovak. My only prayers is that mothers and sons of the dead will know their true enemy, and never forget.
He who laughs last, laughs longest. Let's see how people think about RAND after their advice has led the US to defeat and the bums now squatting on the sidewalks of Santa Monica evict the formerly rich from their seaside condos.
"They" always want to bite off as big a chunk as they can, empower an extremist, based-on-hate minority, and let it rip. Think: Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc. Czechia and Slovakia are the exception. I wonder why?
I am a Czech and know why: the Czechs love their"hospodas" aka bars. If there is a problem like an aggression towards them, they go into hospoda and discuss what to do. By the time, they are done with the discussion, they are either taken over by someone or the war does not happen. Almost 400 years under the Habsburgs taught the Czechs patience and how not to violently react. The culture and language survived in the mountains of Bohemia. Remember our poet president Vaclav Havel who sat in a commie jail and then came out to lead the country. Perhaps the world needs to take a lesson from the Czechs. I do wish that they get rid of the current war monger narcissist masquerading as the president. This is partly sarcasm.
Interesting, thanks! I tried to like your comment, but the system won't respond, for some reason.
However, when Vaclav Havel assumed power, he seemed to have the typical neocon, neoliberal, pro-US, pro-US-warmaking attitude of the typical European "leader" groomed by evil US interests. I found him very lacking, indeed. If he actually was better than that, I'd be happy to be disproven.
The psychopathy of the Western 'leadership' caste knows no limits. It is notable that not one single Western leader has ever been indicted, let alone convicted, for all the illegal war of choice started in the past decades and before.
There are plenty of anti-war activists and truth-speakers languishing in Western jails though.
This is not something that is upon the Russians to change.
Yes, the example of Czechoslovakia should have been promoted but instead the Warmongers took the stand and won the day. The sacrifice made in blood and utter terror and destruction is horrendous. Sadly, mankind forgets too often…
Ukraine is fundamentally an anti-Russia and can be nothing else, because if it is not an anti-Russia, then very quickly it will be reabsorbed into Russia, as there is nothing there other than hatred for Russia to build a state around.
So the options are either a single Russian state and no Ukraine, or constant war and hatred.
The West is effectively trying to create the same situation as between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan is an artificial entity that was put together originally and still exists primarily to keep India in check. It was given/allowed to develop nukes once India became a nuclear power for that same reason. And it works -- India is not really a great power.
Same strategy here. Which is why you see this ratcheting up rhetoric about Ukraine getting nukes. It is portrayed as the narco-fuhrer going into full Scarface-final-scene mode, but that, for some weird reason, assumes Zelensky is in fact acting independently here. Why anyone would just assume that, I don't understand....
Your logic fails and you have not all facts about Ukraine.
1. If the hate is so fundamental, why on earth would you incorporate it to Russia?
2. Ukraine is divided by many ethnics some of them leaning to Russia. The ”hate” was created and could be traced to the western part of Ukraine.
3. Strategy of tension is well known - so is US modus operandi.
Still, sane people should have spoken about the possibility to divide Ukraine or simply let loose Luhansk and Donetsk early on. This ”solution” only ended with loosers on both sides. What good do you think Russian and Ukrainian mothers think off in the graveyards?
Georgia has rejected the "west". It formerly worked with bribes of worthless thieves.... but you fucking know this, don't you? What's your angle? British or nato troll? Angry communist? Something else?
No. With the exception of a tiny sliver of territory in the far West "Ukraine" was always deeply Russian. The US's project since 2004 has been to fund extremist nationalist fakery, to put control over Ukraine into the hands of a highly unrepresentative nazi minority and to spend whatever it cost to try to break the Russianness of Ukraine. They've been at that project for 20 years and, after the nazi takeover in 2014, have managed to really pick up the pace. Killing 15,000 Ukrainians who opposed them helped a lot, and then marinating youth in schools (if you're a teacher and you oppose them you got arrested and killed) with nationalist propaganda also helped a lot.
Today's "Ukraine" is a broken society. The only good news is that as Russia takes over territories the people in those territories have ceased pretending they are anti-Russian (which they had to do to survive, much as Jews in the Third Reich had to pretend to be gentiles) and have gone back to feeling they are Russian.
>It could easily have been a ‘velvet divorce’ such as Czech and Slovak.
Not really.
Ukraine can only exist as an anti-Russia, while Slovakia has never really defined itself as an anti-Czechia.
There are superficial similarities here, but with a very important difference.
Ukraine is a separate thing from Russia because of the collapse of Rus and the Mongol invasions, and then the land ended up under Polish rule for several centuries.
Slovakia is a separate thing from Czechia because when the Hungarians conquered the Pannonian plain and destroyed the old Great Moravia, what is now Slovakia remained under direct Hungarian rule. Meanwhile what is now Czechia, which if you look on the map, is neatly surrounded by mountain ranges from all sides, developed separately on its own, and later on came under direct Habsburg rule, and was more Germanized.
But overall it's a very different situation because nobody really cares about Slovakia and Czechia -- those are small places of no strategic importance. Meanwhile Russia is the richest land on the planet, and Ukraine is the richest part of Russia. Which guarantees plenty of outside meddling, dating back to the Polish trying to make the modern Ukraine and Belarus territories Catholic, then continuing with the Austrians stoking Ukrainian nationalism in its infancy in the 19th century, the Germans continuing it in WWI and WWII, and then CIA taking over in the 1940s.
And it is precisely because Czechoslovakia was small and insignificant and the Bohemian/Moravian Czech core also didn't exist as an independent country until a century ago, while Russia is, well, Russia, that relationships are good between Czechs and Slovaks while Ukrainian nationalists have this vicious genocidal hatred towards Russia.
Since there is no substance to Ukrainian nationalism, if you do not stoke it actively, it will fade on its own and the gravitational pull of the Russian cultural influence, Russia being a great power and an independent civilization center, will quickly reabsorb Ukraine. Which is what was happening in the 18th-19th century and then in the second half of the 20th century, and had it not been for the wars and the internal Ukrainization campaigns in between, we would likely not be here.
Not all of Ukraine ended up under Polish rule. Only West and Central parts did for any sognificant time and despite that they managed to retain their Russian identity.
There are three different parts. The East of Ukraine (and Odessa) where most people talk, feel and behave as Russians. The Middle of Ukraine, where there is an independent dialect, but there is no seperate culture, religion or history, which is the Russian one (and the birthplace of Russia). And then the West, which is with different dialect, different religion, different history, different traditions and they hate the Poles and Russians (due to the things in the 20th century).
Naw. I view - in a very general and abstract holistic way - Russia continuously gaining "strength" for 20+ years, and into the future. In comparison to the Atlanticists, its No-Contest.
No....what lazy ass crap. At the end of the day, the US and nato lost long-term prestige and are trapped with a dying reserve currency and a shitty, de-industrialized washed-up capitalist economy.
This is the underlying dynamic of it all sure they managed to destroy stuff, but that’s pretty much the norm the difference between now and 20 years ago that they’re significant forces to pick things up and rebuild them and make sure they remain safe
I keep on telling the Ukrainians to wake up to who really did that to them and the Russians and, why-khazars. Same in Palestine. I keep on hoping that all the graves with yellow and blue flags and their men/women in those graves, will wake them up and make them really angry. REVENGE IS A GOOD THING IN THIS CASE.
Estonian intel services have stated with "a high level of confidence" that DPRK troops in Russia will suffer much larger losses than the Russians do, if they join the fight.
Estonia’s world-beating badassery makes obvious that OTAN, the alliance, is an invitation to war. Participation in OTAN resembles the treaty agreements nations inked *before* WWI—back then, the treaties themselves became an agitating pretext for war: to sign onto a treaty was to consent.
Of all OTAN members, Estonia indulges particularly in a dangerous cosplay.
Elsewhere, as S notes, Joe has given Zelya permission to "fire on DPRK troops" only if they enter Ukraine itself. Joe additionally told Zelya to aim for the legs.
The whole war is a terrible shame, sacrificing the young to prop up the egos and careers of the neocons in the US and NATO...and bribing Zelensky and his co-conspirators to keep the slaughter going...not that it's anything new...Humanity doesn't seem to learn very rapidly, or at all, that the powerful are indifferent to the fate of lesser humans....
Ironically, it may be possible that Russia will allow Zelensky to stay on once "Ukraine" falls, at least until proper elections bring a properly democratic govt to replace his regime, due to his brand-awareness, while the West may plan to eliminate him and replace him with neo-Nazi Zaluzhny to continue the fight with the far-right sleepers in whatever is left. Leaving Zelensky more as Hitler than Churchill, holey head included.
Needless to say, the new "Narrative" that Ukraine is losing (Like, duh), will soon be used to turbo the old narrative that "Europe is next!".
These people have no shame, no morality, no honesty, no humanity whatsoever. Western regimes are literally the most brutal, racist, autocratic countries on Earth.
January 20, 2025 is twelve weeks away. At 2500 casualties weekly, 30,000 will occur before POTUS change. Does the Blackrock Mafia know what's best? What will EU/NATO do? What will the Ukronazis do? Is it possible the West won't agree on what to do? Russia will continue to attack. One Russia gets past Chasov Yar and Toretsk, those fronts will begin to unravel like the one in the Ugledar sector. Once military forces start reeling backwards, that direction is hard to stop.
On drones, they'll become an even bigger problem going forward when Russia gets to the open fields. They provide a different type of close-air-support where they can act like locusts 5-8km ahead of the main advance line of troops. Oh, one reason for fewer Russian air force personnel is they are now drone pilots and support personnel.
Do you have any evidence of Blackrock involvement in Ukraine, except for the Investment Fund they proclaimed late last year I think, slated to raise $15B, but un successful according to Reuters early this year, in raising more than $500 million
I have never seen any evidence, merely claims - which allows people to fearmonger about their own side, as well as fearmongering about the other side
Nobody is questioning the ethics of Blackrock, merely asking for evidence of any involvement apart from the unsuccessful, evidently, investment fund BR launched
As to your previous question, they did not surface on S's previous post, so I could not then post a reply, which now I take adavntage of your above comment to do
The dominant tone of this substack is given by S – who does use frequent citations and cut outs of MSM press to illustrate his points
This has the advantage to counter point his own often contraraian point of view with what the general public is being fed, thus opening up perspective for his readers
Most of whom, nonetheless, & like you, are incapable of expressing any point of view, other than one infused by prejudice or ideology
You may also be curiosity shopping, for personality, for the rare and the ‘unique’ as you call it
The main lesson to be drawn from any study of current affairs, especially a war, and the main lesson taught by S, is to be able, via point and counterpoint, to learn to think for oneself
This it appears you have yet discovered how to do, or if you have you have not learned to express any original thoughts
My comments are very often limited to quoting a point or a counter point, either MSM or alternative news source – you can skip them only on pain of, as the english say, cutting off your nose to spite your face
As for my criticisms of people like you, well….why not tell people what one thinks of their remarks ? You find this distasteful, aggressive, un necessary ?
So what – that is merely a sign of your class and your notion of manners, the position you credit yourself within EU society, and an indicator of how little you understand the world, and especially this war
Which announces the coming collapse of your society, the consequent loss of your manifest sense of security and superiority, the practice of which has inflicted so much damage on the rest of the world
Thank you for all that invaluable wisdom! It’s truly impressive how you explain to us, the ignorant masses, how we should interpret this substack.
In my humble opinion, you add very little of your own voice. You just copy and paste, then send us a package to showcase your so-called readability and broad perspective. Nothing unique there.
Occasionally, I even get a little substitute shame when you drop your “white foot” or “brown tongue” comments toward S or other readers.
And those remarks about BlackRock? You’ve recycled them so many times in this substack, including to S, who recently echoed what Karl said.
It almost seems like you’re the self-appointed defender of the “truth about BlackRock,” all while citing your beloved FT as the ultimate source of truth. I can’t help but wonder if there’s a personal interest at play here—a way to clear your own conscience? Businessman, investor?
It is plain and simple to present evidence, to compare and to contrast facts and contexts
Generally this is what S does, as do the reasonable
Yet, S, being US resident, occasionally falls for conspiracy theories as is your EUUS wont, it is in your blood, your water
You adore fabulations about your big bad corporations, rather than looking at the truth of these which exploit and corrupt
It is makes life easier for you than to face the facts of your oppression
It is not the truth about BR which counts, rather to explode all conspiracy theories, even ones as obviously foolish and as comforting to you as this one
Of course any conrarian point of view is hard for you to understand and you take it personally – do not – you are the comfortable & conned victim of your ignorance, incapable of understanding the world
Just published reports of Blackrock buying this and that, along with Zelensky's meetings with its operatives to sell more Ukie assets. Actual docs, no. The place to look is in its most recent quarterly report.
With due respect....... these published reports, at least the ones I have seen, seem wild exaggerations, BR buying up all UA agri land etc
Both Ukraine investment reports and CSIS mention BR only with respect to the investment fund - it is unlikely that these very interested parties in promoting inward investment into Ukraine would fail to mention BR 'massive 'purchases if they had in fact taken place
Selling UA agri land to foreigners is illegal, although Z was trying to subvert this law
"The Ukraine Development Fund, created by BlackRock and JPMorgan, aims to attract private investment to sectors like energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture, and IT by leveraging “concessionary capital” from international financial institutions. Targeting $500 million to $1 billion in catalytic capital, the Ukraine Development Fund plans to draw $2 billion in private capital, starting project funding in 2025'
The fund was launched June 2023, and still has not raised any significant amount 'targeting $500m'
Every bone honest yank likes to have some fairy bogeyman to curse, preferably one just around the corner - it's a tradition
But BR may be a disastrous company - however they did not get rich and make their clients rich by buying illegal assets from a country losing a war against Russia, nobody did nor does
When they can buy Pittsburgh, or Venice or whatever
Their quaterly reports do not go into such detail as to list all their investments, they would be thousands of pages long if they did
Besides Cargill and Monsanto control mostly all Ukraine grain exports, without needing to go buying any land - that's a story for another day
I tend to discount wild reports, but the basis is there. And BR is an extractive Parasitic member of the FIRE sector that's responsible for deindustrializing the West while promoting the government financial polices that have given it so much wealth and power. Black Rock like its kin is an enemy of All Humanity.
It is curious that the Ukraine does not mention these investments, nor CSIS, an extracftive US Deep State organisation
Of course they do not mention Cargill or Monsanto either -
The problem with all times of war is that rumour and ideology come to the fore and people feel they are free to believe what they like in order to not have to face the hard facts
I do not believe that phrases such as the enemy of all humanity, are useful - after all this is as the USEU propaganda designates Russia, and VVP
To describe capitalist practice as such merely avoids understanding how capitalism works and how or what to do about it
Through subsidies and partner constructions, there are a number of Dutch companies that say they own land in Ukraine. Some since 2007.
I have shared some of this these links before when Mr. White put forth exactly the same arguments as now. Then against Simplicius.
Follow the money a Dutch newspaper has done research into, among other things, the subsidies given by the Dutch state.
In addition to these companies, there are other Dutch companies that have settled in Ukraine and own land.
I don’t know how the cash flows of investment companies are going But the fact that BlackRock together puts JP Morgan 15 billion in the Ukraine develop fund will not be development aid.
Puzzled by your numbers: "then 15k and 20k multiplied by 1.5 gets us between 37.5k and 50k monthly losses".
Wouldn't those products be 22.5k and 30k? Or do you mean those are the net losses? Please explain.
Woops, thanks you're right, that was a major flub. The numbers change significantly after that, I've just updated the article. It should be 22-30k as you said, which gives a *net* loss of 10k per month, not 30k, and 60k after 6 months, 120k after 12 months--although this entire process is accelerating. See, and some people claimed I was an AI due to prolific writing, but I don't think AI would make such mistakes.
I think substack is peopled with artificial readers such as myself. We work and slave away to have nothing, but don't get to live. Why bother with robots when you have all of Womanity to be artificial sweetener of nonexistence.
I saw an ad today for folks to sue the a eye sdr, whatever that is, for injuries sustained.
You have to be a robot to let your health care be decided by other people at all, let alone algorhymthmic nondoctors
Obviously I am tired and fooling around with the concepts, but sometimes I wonder
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Truly intelligent AI would make a mistake on purpose to deceive humans. AI is seriously over-rated.
fortunately still, but for how long. it should be silently undermined, perhaps by making it believe its own mistakes and then implode, softly but surely.
AI is seriously underrated. You'll find out soon/
Even worse is Artyfishal Ignorance.. .just look at the hordes of thingy jabbing zombies running amok on the urban landscape pleasuring their electric mirrors and selfying their half-lives around the clock.
Onward to the cybernetic cemeteries if not meadows.
Not as underrated as humans. Some 14-year-old teenage boy in Florida just committed suicide for his AI girlfriend. And just when you thought the species couldn't get any more pathetic. No pathos here.
"Arm your program. I am yourself."
~ Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Oh the good old days🤩
Yeah. Where did all of the old heroes go? Hiding in mansions? Dead?
Nice!
Let me know when the "oxygen" for AI, electrical energy, is produced in infinite quantities and at nominal cost, to feed a binary thinker that couldn't even invent the wheel, if the wheel did not already exist. Shouldn't AI's primary objective be self-preservation via endless, cheap energy?
Fast, yes. But Dumb, really Dumb.
I guess you haven't found anything to use it for. What is certainly true is that that primary requisite to profit from AI is advanced wet-ware.
When Gooble and Gates want to revive ancient, dilapidated Nuclear Plants to generate electricity to collect more data and thoughts from click-bait slaves, you can be certain AI is just another tool to pluck your wallet for the churners and skimmers. Same old game of new pots for old.
Relax, lay back they have found the energy supplies in humans as long they can be drained, in MIT they’re full speed ahead (Susan Hockfield’s The Age of Living Machines, How Biology will build the Next Technology Revolution). Living Machines or Killing Machines, AI will feed on our corpses till they sucked out the last drop of a decomposing energy, and then they too will fall flat….no thing can run on empty. AI can never depart from us, if we remain stupid so will AI.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/01/ai-data-centers-electricity-bills-google-amazon/
Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades.
To keep the correct perspective, always mentally substitute 'simulated' for 'artificial'.
Because it is a simulation of intelligence, not an artificial one. The distinction is the crux of the issue.
No - the distinction is what stops you from seeing the results.
I really don't care if I get my real time instant voice translations from a simulated intelligence or a human. I care about the cost ($20 a month or $800 a day).
If I want to know if this brand of RAM memory will fit my PC all I need to do is copy paste snapshots from the Amazon listing and the PC manual and I get a great answer. Human intelligence would take an hour or 20 mins if it were expert to begin with.
Use AI for small things and you'll find it incredible.
These statements are correct, but the premise is not. I also delight in the results obtainable with LLM data aggregators. However, calling them intelligent is offensive and dangerous. Allowing them to use first person pronouns is idiotic and murderous, if not by intention, then in effect.
Well that is why it is called "artificial" intelligence or (the simpler versions) Machine Learning. Certainly LLM models are essentially large scale Plagiarisers. But lets face it so is Kamala. One has to have a peculiarly small definition for the word intelligence to deny it to say ChatGPT.
If ChatGPT is not intelligent, one has to be incredibly offensive to human beings instead.
Believe what you see, says the Magician.
If the task a hand would take you 80 minutes but Gooble can get you "the" answer in microseconds, how can you validate your beliefs?
I can hear the Pied Piper. Join in.
Translations? Language/linguistics has subtleties. AI is anything but subtle and nuanced.
The old saw about lawyers holds for AI worshipers. Sharpen thy mind by narrowing it.
So you haven't used it then. Time waster
Have you seen the movie "The Artifice Girl" ? It's actually about AI, will leave your head spinning! (Free on Tubi TV)
Also. AI (and its owners) are getting more out of you than you think you are getting out of AI.
I am working to fix an AI-produced translation for an installation guide that explains to electricians how to install an electronic device right now. If the electrician had followed the translation provided by the AI, the device would not have functioned. So much time saved... lol... as hundreds of electricians waste hours of their time (and having their clients pay their hourly rates) following a faulty translation.
whereas you could have done the whole job in just 10x the time it takes to proof read. I can see what you have against it.
Actually, AI is less accurate than you may think. This recent article accords with my observations:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-research-best-models-wrong-answers
Thanks for replying, and updating your numbers! It validates my belief in your credibility.
The AI dystopia that the farm owners are cobbling together for their stock will be a slick psychotic version of the same Hollyweird BS USSA has been slurping from the trough for nearly a century already. It only gets cheesier and more evil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK3GhGS7cak&ab_channel=ThroneOfCleopatra
Great take on Ukraine by Kit Klarenberg and Alexander McKay. It is worth every minute of it. https://youtu.be/ze52NurnGjQ
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Those in the know have now realized the truth:
Ukraine is toast and they've wasted their youth!
Long in the making and amply foretold;
The Russians gave warning before the tanks rolled.
So pity poor Ukraine; so callously used,
As a blunt NATO weapon - conned and abused.
And wish that Nuland burns in hell,
and that Zelenski moves to Israel.
Empty wishes and denial of what's happening
while Russia storms the west valiantly batoning
with the demand of deNazification,
a miracle will save us.
Thanks for nailing the iambic pentameter. So annoying when people get sloppy with it.
You know ‘the west’ ie the Anglo Saxon’s backed Japan and Germany up until the tide turned, they’d done there job, and they started on them.
Actually they protect the young and draft the old. Still don't draft those 18-19. The real question for winter is does the electricity go down nationally this winter. Don't have to advance a mile and the war will be over. Ukraine will be uninhabitable. With no leaves on the trees, where will they hide?
They have not wasted their youth. Why do dweebs think writing poems will get them likes? These men are weaker than that jewish comedian in ukraine.
Only Russia can save Ukraine now
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Putin is very close friends with the Knight of Malta Prince Albert II of Monaco who also knighted Putin. Monte Carlo is a major money laundering headquarters for the Russian Mafia. The royals of Monaco the House of Grimaldi were originally Genoese nobles and rulers of the Republic of Genoa which ruled the Black Sea region and had leverage over Russia for centuries by controlling trade. Don Domenico Pallavacino of Genoa is Consul General of Monaco. The Pallavacinis originated as Genoese nobles and bankers and today are Roman princes and international bankers as well as Russian bankers and economists. Prince Giancarlo Pallavacini was lieutenant and interim commander of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Don Giancarlo Pallavacini of Milan was a Soviet economic advisor and is today a Russian economist. Margrave Alphonse Pallavacini of Austria the brother in law to the Queen of Belgium has been a top executive for Paribas Russia for about 15 years.
The Cattaneo Della Voltas were Genoese debt collectors. Today Count Andrea Cattaneo Della Volta is an International banker with oil operations in Azerbaijan which borders Russia. Prince Carlo of Bourbon Two Sicilies is a Knight of Malta and he has residences in Monaco. Prince Carlo also knighted Prince Albert II of Monaco under his Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. The Savoys who are Knights of Malta are married with the Genoese Doria family currently with Princess Marina. Prince Carlo Massimo is the President of the Italian Order of Malta and his mother was a Savoy from the Savoy Genoese noble branch. The Dorias were Doges and bankers of the Republic of Genoa. Count Marco Doria was mayor of Genoa from 2012-2017 and he is a member of the communist party of Italy.
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This is actually how the world is run – through a hierarchy, through a pyramid of power; hence their popular symbolism of the ‘All-Seeing Eye” within the pyramid of power.
If your Psychopathic Phoenician Black Nobility Minion is at the top of the Pyramid he can send you to war, mandate the Deathvaxx, Digital identity, Central Bank Digital Currencies, total surveillance and the end of free speech!
https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/the-phoenician-black-nobility-this
You missed that some Romanov survivors also live in Denmark. One works as a teacher, is a very exceptional, intelligent and attractive woman.
Quite why you think a small cult pinning medals and intermarrying is of any importance at all is mystifying, and frankly makes you look more like one of the sycophants fluffing them up.
No-one is interested in grown-up children play-acting with overblown "medals" and other peacock decorations here, anymore than normal adults take seriously children doing the same. It is theatre, that only impresses weak minds, apparently such as yours.
Were they stripped of all wealth and influence, they would merely be arrogant people with an unfounded sense of entitlement, who would look good gardening in a collective in common work clothes - they may even be happier, as Pu Yi was.
You can scoff and dismiss this all you want but human life is theater, political life especially so. Here is just one example among many;
When the funeral service for the reinternment of the remains of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family took place on July 17, 1998, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the British royal family was represented by Prince Michael of Kent. That Prince is first cousin to the late Queen, who herself was second cousin once removed to the last Tsar, Nicholas II, they were second cousins once removed through their mutual ancestor, Christian IX of Denmark.
The Bolsheviks killing Nicholas II and his entire family was obviously a highly political act. Attempting to permanently destroy and hide their remains was also very political. Hunting for, discovering and digging up those remains, then holding an elaborate funeral ritual in a grand cathedral was again highly political.
Having a high ranking member of the British aristocracy attend a religious ritual in Saint Petersburg is just two steps removed from holding a high level meeting between The Kremlin and No.10 Downing street.
So it is theater, but it is not just theater. It is highly important political theater which has real world results.
Poor Jack Dee - wasted his life pursuing utterly irrelevant “facts” and patterns. Too late to get a life for him..
Do you not have cousins? Do your cousins not also have other cousins? Why mention this as though it has some mystical meaning?
Mafia leaders have cousins, and go their funerals when they die, even if killed violently, and have Family struggles and internecine warfare, and temporary pacts.
Is that also extraordinary to you?
Why do you think because a family has considerable wealth and power they are somehow ubermensch? They are no different to you and your friends, family and cousins. Believe me, THEY know that (Unless they are psychotic, but that is also true of psychotics who are not in possession of considerable wealth and social power).
You are fascinated by a soap opera, nothing more. Elizabeth's favourite grandson, Harry - you should read his book. It's remarkably honest, and easy to see why she liked him most.
That mafia families also follow these rituals doesn't show that they are meaningless or unimportant, it shows that they are more meaningful and important. Those mafia clans are a little lower than Kings, Tsars and Presidents, a little higher than tribesmen and peasants, but they are all humans and part of the human condition. Rituals and ceremonies are part of that condition, it is not just soap opera.
In the video that Simplicius shared with us of the commander explaining to the reporter the battle for Selidovo, did you notice the "Flag of Victory" on the wall? Do you know whose face is in the center of it? There can be no clearer example of ritual and ceremony than the flags and emblems soldiers choose to go into battle with.
They could have chosen what ever symbol they liked, they chose that one. This is just part of the power of ceremony and ritual which is also part of the power of magic and the occult.
BTW "Occult" just means "Hidden" not just "Bullshit".
My excuses for adding a little note to occult means hidden not bullshit, it’s not bullshit it’s holy bullshit, but so is politics and war, all are holy.
Maybe theater that you pay attention to. I do not, nor do many other humans or cats, certainly not those of influence and authority.
Oh boy - you need a doctor… !!!
You have “found” — bosses of Putin
;-))
It will be easy-peasy for German and Polish lads to source Ukrainian ladies to warm their beds this winter. All tariffs are suspended as the women march West, away from the USA-NATO provoked debacle, known locally as 'Ukraine'. U$A! U$A! U$SA! Mo' money! Mo' money! Mo' money.
Meanwhile, Vicky Nuland moves to a sinecure at Columbia U to spin her evil tall tales to the children of the elites. The next generation of Neo-CONs are being spawned as I type. Depressing, eh?
I hope that some brave soul will separate that ugly head from her fat body and publicly. Someone needs to start the punishment of these murderers.
Are you suggesting that those Germans fired from Volkswagen got Ukrainian Women on their mind to warm their empty beds? And Poland doesn’t it join the economic downfall in Germany, France and Europe?
Once the economy truly fails here, the rats will starve. It's coming.... as sure as sunrise.
"Russia cannot fight for ever. But the worry among Axis officials is that Germany's breaking point will come first." - 2024 sounds a lot like 1944. Send Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman to the front lines ASAP, the latter is running for Congress in Virginia. Victoria Nuland just got new patronage jobs at Columbia University and the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy. Liz Cheney is crying that Trump said she should go fight in the wars she agitates for. Neocon warmongers like these have made US foreign policy and the world grim for decades. May their downfalls lead to peace.
Neocons without power are just an idea. People vote for presidents, presidents hire these people.
May their downfalls lead to executions!
The deaths of all those men on both sides, and for what? What a terrible waste, and all because of the scumbag neocons who control the empire. Trump needs to rout them all out, at every level.
Also shocking that it finally is starting to dawn on the morons in the gov and media that Ukraine has lost the war. We knew it a long time ago, it just had to play out until the end.
Will be entertaining to see what happens to Zelensky and his crew, once the empire finally tires of them for good.
@Morgthorak the Undead
Zelensky, accidentally shot to death by a Ukrainian officer with a subgun inside an APC?
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-body-of-ngo-dinh-diem-former-president-of-south-vietnam-news-photo/529230995
Or accidentally sat on a bayonet in al-Qaddafi-fashion?
@Victor
Moamar Qaddafi was never our creature, so apples to oranges?He was a self made man, unlike various presidents of South Vietnam, South Korea, Iraq & Panama, all of whom were "assets", at least until some of them were worth more dead.
Doesn't matter whether 'self-made' or 'our creature' - their fate is the same from the West's perspective. However, one is deserving of his fate, the other is not.
What do s APC ?
APC / Armored Personnel Carrier = бронетранспортёр / БТР
General Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam, and his brother weren't killed in battle, General Dương Văn Minh had deposed him in a coup backed by the CIA. They were under arrest and being transported to military Headquarters when someone decided it would be best if they didn't arrive there alive.
@Boris Petrov
APC = Armored Personnel Carrier.
AFAIK, the same M113 APC which NATO gave a bunch of to Ukraine.
Though with your moniker, it seems apt to point out that the now claimed 114,000 Russian dead (twice Ukraine's 57,000) is less than the 300,000 Russian dead that I was reading about last year. Clearly Russia is now able to form legions of zombie soldiers. They are on their last legs, being forced to press even the undead into uniform.
Russian necromancers have always been a thing, especially since they unlocked the ability to resurrect tanks too.
All wars are bankers' wars.
Ol' Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" should be part of the required curriculum for Murikan dunder-headed, fat-arsed school kiddies.
As likely as Uncle Sammy allowing his true-likeness (with the forked-tongue, rat-tail, fangs and goat-horns) to be shown, though.
Nodoby in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev cares about the Ukrainian dead, any more than a farmer mourns the deaths of the chickens he sends to the slaughterhouse to be turned into "chick'n nuggets".
Hell, V.V. Putin probably cares more about dead Ukrainians than anyone of influence and authority in Ukraine or the West.
True, and well said, my friend.
Following Ukraine’s 29 October attack on the Chechen special forces training university in Gudermes, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, claimed that multiple Ukrainian POWs were killed in the drone strikes. “Up to 10 Ukrainian prisoners are held at each strategic facility in [Chechnya], including on the university’s grounds. In trying to harm us, Kiev has ended up killing its own soldiers,” Kadyrov wrote, promising “harsh retaliation.”
Well, retaliation came swiftly on 30 October.
Kadyrov said that a Russian drone strike against the Ukrainian military’s UAV control center in Kiev was in response to the Ukrainian attack. Kadyrov claimed that intercepted Ukrainian communications indicate that the Geran strike, sent in two waves of the kamikaze drones, killed 9 Ukrainians and injured 17 people. He also shared a photograph circulating on Telegram purportedly showing damage to the Ukrainian General Staff building.
Additionally, Kadyrov exhorted his troops to fight w/ renewed purpose & intensity—and “to take no prisoners.”
By Saturday, 2 November, he rescinded this last directive, however, explaining that he had received 2000 email messages & social media posts from Ukrainian family members, who pleaded w/ him to permit their fighting men to surrender to his troops, to wave the white flag, because “surrendering is the only way those who are sent to the trenches against their will can save themselves.”
In rescinding his directive, Kadyrov acknowledged that Ukrainians “are victims of Western cowardice and they are being ordered by Europeans and U.S. politicians to fight while Ukraine’s leadership is full of corrupt puppets and fascists.”
Maybe we'll see a new movement form: Ukrainian Lives Matter
Cue pompous Westerners... "ALL Lives Matter!!!. Now keep conscripting and sending the meat to die for Blackrock profits and "democracy"".
BTW - Ukrainian Lives Matter - good call, that one. <3 :thumbsup:
The no prisoners point is interesting as the UAF is likely to collapse via mass surrenders not mass graves.
Assuming that the dead POWs part of the story isn't bullshit, I dread to think why prisoners are being held in the attic of Ramzan Kadyrov's special forces training facility.
Can anyone come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?
Can't you "come up with a reasonable explanation that isn't also God-awful?" Perhaps you, Jack, have the smarts and creativity of a Gitmo guard/pretend warrior.
I really don't know what that means, except that it's phrased as some sort of sarcastic back-hand.
But I will try to explain my point more clearly.
What possible reason is there to hold prisoners in a special forces training facility? Let alone " “Up to 10 Ukrainian prisoners are held at each strategic facility in [Chechnya]"? The only explanations I can come up with are either human shield hostages against airstrikes or experimental subjects for weapons and interrogation techniques, both of which are God-awful.
However I am tending toward the explanation that the whole POW part of the story is bullshit. Why would you make accurate information about the losses you suffered in an attack public knowledge? That just gives useful information to the enemy.
Akhmat special forces were the first of the regular army units to be redeployed to the Kursk region when Ukraine began its incursion. And at first they formed the basis of the defense in this area. Accordingly, they managed to capture a certain number of POWs. Just as the AFU managed to capture a certain number of Akhmat fighters. Most likely, these prisoners were sent to Chechnya in order to later try to exchange them for Akhmat fighters. It is unlikely that these prisoners are being held at the Special Forces Academy; this part of the story is most likely a fake. It seems to me that Kadyrov simply ordered the killing of several prisoners in response to the attack on the special forces academy.
Ukrainian lives matter only so much as a weapon against their brothers. LIVING Ukrainians don’t matter to US/NATO. If they can kill a Russian, and it takes 3-5 Ukrainian dead to do it; “best money spent” according to Lindsay Graham.
Here’s his sick quote: "The Russians are dying... it's the best money we've ever spent."
He does not care AT ALL about Ukrainian lives… the quicker the Ukrainians come to realize it — the better (for them and for us)!
Fyi - next week at night temperature at or slightly bellow freezing ( 0 C or 32 F ) in Kiew…
Russia’s famous General Winter is approaching.
General Winter, another Western propaganda statement about the Red Army. You see Russia or the Red Army at that time. Don't deserve any credit for defeating anyone. They're not brave enough, not trained enough, bad equipment & terrible planning. It was the cold weather that won their victories. For me it's an a total insult to hear that phrase. To the hero's who had to fight in exactly the same conditions as their enemies. Just as it is today. Russia isn't the only country that suffers extreme cold in the winter. Sorry for being a bit abrupt about it, but for me it's very insulting to the brave men/women who fought & did more than anyone to defeat the Nazi's.
Russians have electricity and food — poor Ukrainians will not… ;-))
Good point - it never occurred to me that the 'General Winter' trope was respected at the expense of Russian troop efficacy.
Is this correct? “Some may recall this was my own common calling card since last year. I repeatedly wrote that Russia is suffering huge problems in this war, but they simply pale in comparison to those of Ukraine and the West—and in a race to the bottom, it is Ukraine that will unquestionably win.” — Do you mean Russia here? Just curious.
Ukraine will win the race to the bottom, in other words they will lose.
AHA! Thank you.
It was clever phraseology, I suspect nearly all of us had to blink and think at it. :)
Indeed! And it also, of course, presupposes the claim that the West is going to make that Ukraine simply prevailed, whatever happens, as Simplicius maintains. Yes, very clever formulation!
the problem lies in using the word 'win', I suspect, instead of 'be first'.
Guerilla ontology is rarely wasted. It made people think, which is nearly always a good thing, especially in a good cause.
More like "ontological void", as my 5 year old cat knows what "winning a race to the bottom" means.
Why so much talk about what "logic" there is behind the ukrainian leaders or CIA/MSM/NATO PR Mantras ???
It is also crystal clear from the outset for everyone with a little education that Ukraine would never be able to defeat Russia.
It is evident the LONGER the Conflict in Ukraine LASTS, the MORE MONEY the Zelensky Mafia, the Biden Family (The Big Guy Joe and Hunter) and the US MIC are going to get.
That is the KEY that opens the explanations for all their actions, some of them, like the Kursk invasion, seemingly irrational...
For them, regarding the ukrainian, russian and mercenaries lives lost or maimed or PTSD'd, WHO CARES ???
It was not crystal clear! First the West (and the Ukrainian puppets) believed in Wunderwaffen. Each German or UK tank, plane, howitzer (...) is invincible. The German and US AA-devices are the best in the world. The Russians will feel the pain of the economic sanctions; therefore, the industry will break down. Of course, people with experience in real economy knew that the Russians would gain momentum from the sanctions, as the Oligars would have to spend the profits in Russia. Of course, people counting the factories for grenades, bombs, explosives, rockets, and tanks knew the Russians would outproduce the entire West—but no one in the West counted. But the same happened to Admiral Canaris; he stated at the outbreak of WWII, "I can count the factories, and there is no chance for winning." He was right, but no one listened.
DJT has allegedly told Bibi to finish the Gaza conflict "before Inauguration Day." If this is true, it is a means of underscoring how very much KH & Joe *own* the West Asia debacle.
Simultaneously this week, the messaging on Ukraine shifts, making it possible for a new admin to come in unencumbered, able to ghost the ghost of Kiev and to do so w/ clean hands.
As regards international partners on the continent, the new president can look @ them and say, "Hey OTAN, thanks for taking ownership of this problem. Good luck helping Ukraine sort itself out."
Although an analyst writing for an Atlantic Council rag can fear monger that "whoever wins the race for the White House will inherit a war in Ukraine that requires their urgent attention to prevent a Russian victory that would signal the decline of the West and transform the geopolitical landscape for decades to come," there is no guarantee that the new president coming in would interpret "a Russian victory" in a war which the U.S.-led OTAN provoked as signaling "the decline of the West blah, blah" more than signaling a just & appropriate end to an epic mess of dumbassery which KH & Joe fomented.
"Hey OTAN, see what you can do here, thanks."
If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit.
That's a tough ask. Usually, such changes only come not with careful forethought, but from actual collapse.
And, of course, the rigging may get the empty suit over the line instead, which will make it all moot. I doubt she can even decide what to wear herself.
Problem is that cutting half the MIC funding would immediately cause bankruptcy of many of the companies, large and small, that support the MIC across the entirety of the States, thus causing a deep depression and subsequently lack of tax revenue and funding for the projects you propose. The business of the USA is truly war, so to attempt a navigation away from that into other enterprises is fraught with risk.
As you say, collapse is likely the only solution.
While there's some truth in that, by far the simplest mechanism - and hardly outside the realm of possibility should the West decide to go full-in on global war instead - would be a near complete nationalisation of all the industries concerned. This would ensure the continuation of employment, supply chains and whatnot, while cutting out the corporate "profit" margin alone. Considering the sheer corruption in this industry, simply ending the private profits, and the "donations" to most of the political classes, could cut costs considerably and those savings could be used in more productive ways.
Of course whoever is sucking off this teat will face hardship - including some pension funds - however the overall benefit to the real economy would enable other investments.
Such things are not impossible, the UK managed something similar when it created the NHS and nationalised nearly all of the existing medical and pharmacological practices and companies.
Despite misgivings at the time, very soon the sheer efficiency of the new nationalised system (Let alone the grateful patients) won over well over 90% of the doctors, who appreciated the stability it brought to their particular "marketplace".
Whenever talking to UK people, they complain about the NHS. Maybe it is not so "sheer efficent"? The cost for medical care is extremly high (compared to other Europeans), the results are really bad. Endless waiting time for Patients for treatments is not a success.
Many here complain but who doesn't in any system? Overall the NHS gives excellent value for money. I don't know where you get the idea that the cost of medical care is expensive in the UK. It is one of the most inexpensive per patient providers in the world. It has a lot of inefficiencies built in that could definitely be improved on but nonetheless, I would take the NHS system over any in the world - and I think the British people as a whole would say the same - if you mention privatising the NHS in Britain, be prepared for a wall of resistance - that tells you how the people really feel about it.
Werner, can you name a product that USED to be good, even great, but was then "Bought out", or just gradually became shit? Let's take it as read that you can, unless you've lived in a bubble.
Well, the NHS has been privatised. It started under Thatcher, accelerated under B'Liar, and went into hyperdrive under the Scameron-Sunak Tory streak.
There is genuinely not much left that is "Socially owned", even most hospital sites themselves have been sold off.
Which means a LOT of it now has to generate "A profit".
While profit-driven, market forces CAN 'improve efficiency' in some small ways, it goes without saying that it never makes up for the 10%-30% removed for said profit, or the service being warped to serve the owners, rather than the public.
That, along with the imposed "Austerity" of the past 15 years, has had it's USUAL (And indeed planned) effect.
It has become shit. But not because it is a nationalised, non-profit service, but because it has become closer to the American model.
The so called "privatised enterprises" were given to "investors". These investors have the possibility for cheap credit, because the government is responsible for a central bank and the public savings. The "seller" (=government) will have a big influx of money, that can be used to buy votes. When the investors have cut out all the good pieces and made a lot of money (by the way, halve of this is coming back to government as taxes), this "private enterprise" is not working properly, so the government will give the investors more cheap money or dictate higher prices for the common people or make regulations, so that there will be not competition. This has nothing to do with market orientated economy, not in the US, not in the EU, not in Russia.
You're spoiled rotten. Come to the US, where people cannot afford certain treatments and just don't go to doctors because "health care" bankrupts people.
Nationalized systems are never efficient. There is no incentive for it, it will not happen. And doesn’t.
Congrats! 4 wrongful axioms/assumptions in 1 teeny-weeny post. The voodoo economics-ideologues who've indoctrinated you with this shite and their heavenly anarcho-free-market jackassery are themselves morons and/or self-promoting shysters.
Or? The truthfulness of the government providing 'nothing' for the highest cost!
What you just said is that all people ONLY work hard for money. Not for pride in their work, because they enjoy their work, competitiveness with each other, or even sticks instead of such carrots, but ONLY for money. Is that true of you?
To call anything 'government' sheer efficiency is the height of humor.
My concern is what will we have if the election is rigged again, and they are trying. what will the civil unrest look like? If it happens then we are truly lost as a Republic.
The Federal government is a huge monstrosity, if Trump wins, the neo-cons will try and tie him up with more legal nightmares. he will need to appoint a ruthless "hatchet man" who is given the powers (cabinet position?) to make it happen. He will need both the House and the Senate to make any headway. The Supreme Court is also corrupt and will be a factor.
"If DJT and Vances new Team is SERIOUS about rescuing America from its own decline, then NATO needs to be cut off, most of the overseas bases closed (The 'Encirclement' bases at first), and military/spying budgets cut in half, with that money either going to productive labour (Building houses, repairing roads, new factories etc), or paying off the debt before the cycle of debt becomes impossible to escape. The stock market will suffer, but the real economy would benefit."
That word "if" is doing a lot of work for you.
Who is KH and OTAN?
K'Mala Harris, and NATO.
Thank you. And a good episode:
America eats its young - The Grayzone live – OUTSTANDING – Max and Aaron
https://rumble.com/v5l7os4-america-eats-its-young-the-grayzone-live.html
At the end of the day, the West and their puppets got Slavs to murder 1,000,000 Slavs, and isolate Russia from Europe, while subjugating all of Europe to an expanded NATO occupation. It could easily have been a ‘velvet divorce’ such as Czech and Slovak. My only prayers is that mothers and sons of the dead will know their true enemy, and never forget.
Yep: for NATO and Rand Corporation, it's all "mission:accomplished". So sick.
Well, the main mission was regime change in Russia caused by economic collapse and international isolation, so mission not accomplished.
He who laughs last, laughs longest. Let's see how people think about RAND after their advice has led the US to defeat and the bums now squatting on the sidewalks of Santa Monica evict the formerly rich from their seaside condos.
"They" always want to bite off as big a chunk as they can, empower an extremist, based-on-hate minority, and let it rip. Think: Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc. Czechia and Slovakia are the exception. I wonder why?
I am a Czech and know why: the Czechs love their"hospodas" aka bars. If there is a problem like an aggression towards them, they go into hospoda and discuss what to do. By the time, they are done with the discussion, they are either taken over by someone or the war does not happen. Almost 400 years under the Habsburgs taught the Czechs patience and how not to violently react. The culture and language survived in the mountains of Bohemia. Remember our poet president Vaclav Havel who sat in a commie jail and then came out to lead the country. Perhaps the world needs to take a lesson from the Czechs. I do wish that they get rid of the current war monger narcissist masquerading as the president. This is partly sarcasm.
Interesting, thanks! I tried to like your comment, but the system won't respond, for some reason.
However, when Vaclav Havel assumed power, he seemed to have the typical neocon, neoliberal, pro-US, pro-US-warmaking attitude of the typical European "leader" groomed by evil US interests. I found him very lacking, indeed. If he actually was better than that, I'd be happy to be disproven.
Well said.
The psychopathy of the Western 'leadership' caste knows no limits. It is notable that not one single Western leader has ever been indicted, let alone convicted, for all the illegal war of choice started in the past decades and before.
There are plenty of anti-war activists and truth-speakers languishing in Western jails though.
This is not something that is upon the Russians to change.
Yes, the example of Czechoslovakia should have been promoted but instead the Warmongers took the stand and won the day. The sacrifice made in blood and utter terror and destruction is horrendous. Sadly, mankind forgets too often…
Not possible, sadly.
Ukraine is fundamentally an anti-Russia and can be nothing else, because if it is not an anti-Russia, then very quickly it will be reabsorbed into Russia, as there is nothing there other than hatred for Russia to build a state around.
So the options are either a single Russian state and no Ukraine, or constant war and hatred.
The West is effectively trying to create the same situation as between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan is an artificial entity that was put together originally and still exists primarily to keep India in check. It was given/allowed to develop nukes once India became a nuclear power for that same reason. And it works -- India is not really a great power.
Same strategy here. Which is why you see this ratcheting up rhetoric about Ukraine getting nukes. It is portrayed as the narco-fuhrer going into full Scarface-final-scene mode, but that, for some weird reason, assumes Zelensky is in fact acting independently here. Why anyone would just assume that, I don't understand....
Your logic fails and you have not all facts about Ukraine.
1. If the hate is so fundamental, why on earth would you incorporate it to Russia?
2. Ukraine is divided by many ethnics some of them leaning to Russia. The ”hate” was created and could be traced to the western part of Ukraine.
3. Strategy of tension is well known - so is US modus operandi.
Still, sane people should have spoken about the possibility to divide Ukraine or simply let loose Luhansk and Donetsk early on. This ”solution” only ended with loosers on both sides. What good do you think Russian and Ukrainian mothers think off in the graveyards?
"1. If the hate is so fundamental, why on earth would you incorporate it to Russia?
2. Ukraine is divided by many ethnics some of them leaning to Russia. The ”hate” was created and could be traced to the western part of Ukraine."
How did this work in the Caucasus?
Georgia has rejected the "west". It formerly worked with bribes of worthless thieves.... but you fucking know this, don't you? What's your angle? British or nato troll? Angry communist? Something else?
I was thinking of Chechnya and how it eventually was pacified, but you appear off you meds.
Thank you - interesting thoughts !
"Ukraine is fundamentally an anti-Russia"
No. With the exception of a tiny sliver of territory in the far West "Ukraine" was always deeply Russian. The US's project since 2004 has been to fund extremist nationalist fakery, to put control over Ukraine into the hands of a highly unrepresentative nazi minority and to spend whatever it cost to try to break the Russianness of Ukraine. They've been at that project for 20 years and, after the nazi takeover in 2014, have managed to really pick up the pace. Killing 15,000 Ukrainians who opposed them helped a lot, and then marinating youth in schools (if you're a teacher and you oppose them you got arrested and killed) with nationalist propaganda also helped a lot.
Today's "Ukraine" is a broken society. The only good news is that as Russia takes over territories the people in those territories have ceased pretending they are anti-Russian (which they had to do to survive, much as Jews in the Third Reich had to pretend to be gentiles) and have gone back to feeling they are Russian.
I think you and GM are saying the same thing in different ways.
>It could easily have been a ‘velvet divorce’ such as Czech and Slovak.
Not really.
Ukraine can only exist as an anti-Russia, while Slovakia has never really defined itself as an anti-Czechia.
There are superficial similarities here, but with a very important difference.
Ukraine is a separate thing from Russia because of the collapse of Rus and the Mongol invasions, and then the land ended up under Polish rule for several centuries.
Slovakia is a separate thing from Czechia because when the Hungarians conquered the Pannonian plain and destroyed the old Great Moravia, what is now Slovakia remained under direct Hungarian rule. Meanwhile what is now Czechia, which if you look on the map, is neatly surrounded by mountain ranges from all sides, developed separately on its own, and later on came under direct Habsburg rule, and was more Germanized.
But overall it's a very different situation because nobody really cares about Slovakia and Czechia -- those are small places of no strategic importance. Meanwhile Russia is the richest land on the planet, and Ukraine is the richest part of Russia. Which guarantees plenty of outside meddling, dating back to the Polish trying to make the modern Ukraine and Belarus territories Catholic, then continuing with the Austrians stoking Ukrainian nationalism in its infancy in the 19th century, the Germans continuing it in WWI and WWII, and then CIA taking over in the 1940s.
And it is precisely because Czechoslovakia was small and insignificant and the Bohemian/Moravian Czech core also didn't exist as an independent country until a century ago, while Russia is, well, Russia, that relationships are good between Czechs and Slovaks while Ukrainian nationalists have this vicious genocidal hatred towards Russia.
Since there is no substance to Ukrainian nationalism, if you do not stoke it actively, it will fade on its own and the gravitational pull of the Russian cultural influence, Russia being a great power and an independent civilization center, will quickly reabsorb Ukraine. Which is what was happening in the 18th-19th century and then in the second half of the 20th century, and had it not been for the wars and the internal Ukrainization campaigns in between, we would likely not be here.
In this you are right.
Not all of Ukraine ended up under Polish rule. Only West and Central parts did for any sognificant time and despite that they managed to retain their Russian identity.
There are three different parts. The East of Ukraine (and Odessa) where most people talk, feel and behave as Russians. The Middle of Ukraine, where there is an independent dialect, but there is no seperate culture, religion or history, which is the Russian one (and the birthplace of Russia). And then the West, which is with different dialect, different religion, different history, different traditions and they hate the Poles and Russians (due to the things in the 20th century).
Yes. The west has won this war.
It’s not over
Naw. I view - in a very general and abstract holistic way - Russia continuously gaining "strength" for 20+ years, and into the future. In comparison to the Atlanticists, its No-Contest.
Man.... You are seriously depressed over nato's loss and the decline of America, aren't you? Must have shrunk your dick.
No....what lazy ass crap. At the end of the day, the US and nato lost long-term prestige and are trapped with a dying reserve currency and a shitty, de-industrialized washed-up capitalist economy.
This is the underlying dynamic of it all sure they managed to destroy stuff, but that’s pretty much the norm the difference between now and 20 years ago that they’re significant forces to pick things up and rebuild them and make sure they remain safe
Like French and Germans know ?
I keep on telling the Ukrainians to wake up to who really did that to them and the Russians and, why-khazars. Same in Palestine. I keep on hoping that all the graves with yellow and blue flags and their men/women in those graves, will wake them up and make them really angry. REVENGE IS A GOOD THING IN THIS CASE.
Humans are herd animals, as easily led as any sheep.
Estonian intel services have stated with "a high level of confidence" that DPRK troops in Russia will suffer much larger losses than the Russians do, if they join the fight.
Estonia’s world-beating badassery makes obvious that OTAN, the alliance, is an invitation to war. Participation in OTAN resembles the treaty agreements nations inked *before* WWI—back then, the treaties themselves became an agitating pretext for war: to sign onto a treaty was to consent.
Of all OTAN members, Estonia indulges particularly in a dangerous cosplay.
Elsewhere, as S notes, Joe has given Zelya permission to "fire on DPRK troops" only if they enter Ukraine itself. Joe additionally told Zelya to aim for the legs.
The whole war is a terrible shame, sacrificing the young to prop up the egos and careers of the neocons in the US and NATO...and bribing Zelensky and his co-conspirators to keep the slaughter going...not that it's anything new...Humanity doesn't seem to learn very rapidly, or at all, that the powerful are indifferent to the fate of lesser humans....
Ironically, it may be possible that Russia will allow Zelensky to stay on once "Ukraine" falls, at least until proper elections bring a properly democratic govt to replace his regime, due to his brand-awareness, while the West may plan to eliminate him and replace him with neo-Nazi Zaluzhny to continue the fight with the far-right sleepers in whatever is left. Leaving Zelensky more as Hitler than Churchill, holey head included.
Needless to say, the new "Narrative" that Ukraine is losing (Like, duh), will soon be used to turbo the old narrative that "Europe is next!".
These people have no shame, no morality, no honesty, no humanity whatsoever. Western regimes are literally the most brutal, racist, autocratic countries on Earth.
Kammic retribution dictates that international beggar shall be put to the sword
Excellent!
There is no such thing as karma. The Hindus has to invent reincarnaion, because there is no justice in this world.
January 20, 2025 is twelve weeks away. At 2500 casualties weekly, 30,000 will occur before POTUS change. Does the Blackrock Mafia know what's best? What will EU/NATO do? What will the Ukronazis do? Is it possible the West won't agree on what to do? Russia will continue to attack. One Russia gets past Chasov Yar and Toretsk, those fronts will begin to unravel like the one in the Ugledar sector. Once military forces start reeling backwards, that direction is hard to stop.
On drones, they'll become an even bigger problem going forward when Russia gets to the open fields. They provide a different type of close-air-support where they can act like locusts 5-8km ahead of the main advance line of troops. Oh, one reason for fewer Russian air force personnel is they are now drone pilots and support personnel.
Dear Karl
Do you have any evidence of Blackrock involvement in Ukraine, except for the Investment Fund they proclaimed late last year I think, slated to raise $15B, but un successful according to Reuters early this year, in raising more than $500 million
I have never seen any evidence, merely claims - which allows people to fearmonger about their own side, as well as fearmongering about the other side
Which is indeed the western way of war
A good question on evidence !!! Thank you
Yes Karl, how dare you question the ethics of Blackrock?
Precisely this exponent of our beloved capitalist society invests for prosperity and peace and well-being for all people. Would never invest in wars!
I’m glad Sheriff White is guarding us from this misunderstanding.
Nobody is questioning the ethics of Blackrock, merely asking for evidence of any involvement apart from the unsuccessful, evidently, investment fund BR launched
As to your previous question, they did not surface on S's previous post, so I could not then post a reply, which now I take adavntage of your above comment to do
The dominant tone of this substack is given by S – who does use frequent citations and cut outs of MSM press to illustrate his points
This has the advantage to counter point his own often contraraian point of view with what the general public is being fed, thus opening up perspective for his readers
Most of whom, nonetheless, & like you, are incapable of expressing any point of view, other than one infused by prejudice or ideology
You may also be curiosity shopping, for personality, for the rare and the ‘unique’ as you call it
The main lesson to be drawn from any study of current affairs, especially a war, and the main lesson taught by S, is to be able, via point and counterpoint, to learn to think for oneself
This it appears you have yet discovered how to do, or if you have you have not learned to express any original thoughts
My comments are very often limited to quoting a point or a counter point, either MSM or alternative news source – you can skip them only on pain of, as the english say, cutting off your nose to spite your face
As for my criticisms of people like you, well….why not tell people what one thinks of their remarks ? You find this distasteful, aggressive, un necessary ?
So what – that is merely a sign of your class and your notion of manners, the position you credit yourself within EU society, and an indicator of how little you understand the world, and especially this war
Which announces the coming collapse of your society, the consequent loss of your manifest sense of security and superiority, the practice of which has inflicted so much damage on the rest of the world
This may sober you, but probably not
Thank you for all that invaluable wisdom! It’s truly impressive how you explain to us, the ignorant masses, how we should interpret this substack.
In my humble opinion, you add very little of your own voice. You just copy and paste, then send us a package to showcase your so-called readability and broad perspective. Nothing unique there.
Occasionally, I even get a little substitute shame when you drop your “white foot” or “brown tongue” comments toward S or other readers.
And those remarks about BlackRock? You’ve recycled them so many times in this substack, including to S, who recently echoed what Karl said.
It almost seems like you’re the self-appointed defender of the “truth about BlackRock,” all while citing your beloved FT as the ultimate source of truth. I can’t help but wonder if there’s a personal interest at play here—a way to clear your own conscience? Businessman, investor?
It is plain and simple to present evidence, to compare and to contrast facts and contexts
Generally this is what S does, as do the reasonable
Yet, S, being US resident, occasionally falls for conspiracy theories as is your EUUS wont, it is in your blood, your water
You adore fabulations about your big bad corporations, rather than looking at the truth of these which exploit and corrupt
It is makes life easier for you than to face the facts of your oppression
It is not the truth about BR which counts, rather to explode all conspiracy theories, even ones as obviously foolish and as comforting to you as this one
Of course any conrarian point of view is hard for you to understand and you take it personally – do not – you are the comfortable & conned victim of your ignorance, incapable of understanding the world
Just published reports of Blackrock buying this and that, along with Zelensky's meetings with its operatives to sell more Ukie assets. Actual docs, no. The place to look is in its most recent quarterly report.
Dear Karl
With due respect....... these published reports, at least the ones I have seen, seem wild exaggerations, BR buying up all UA agri land etc
Both Ukraine investment reports and CSIS mention BR only with respect to the investment fund - it is unlikely that these very interested parties in promoting inward investment into Ukraine would fail to mention BR 'massive 'purchases if they had in fact taken place
Selling UA agri land to foreigners is illegal, although Z was trying to subvert this law
Here's the CSIS report, Sept 2024 -https://www.csis.org/analysis/untapped-market-impact-investing-ukraine
"The Ukraine Development Fund, created by BlackRock and JPMorgan, aims to attract private investment to sectors like energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture, and IT by leveraging “concessionary capital” from international financial institutions. Targeting $500 million to $1 billion in catalytic capital, the Ukraine Development Fund plans to draw $2 billion in private capital, starting project funding in 2025'
The fund was launched June 2023, and still has not raised any significant amount 'targeting $500m'
Every bone honest yank likes to have some fairy bogeyman to curse, preferably one just around the corner - it's a tradition
But BR may be a disastrous company - however they did not get rich and make their clients rich by buying illegal assets from a country losing a war against Russia, nobody did nor does
When they can buy Pittsburgh, or Venice or whatever
Their quaterly reports do not go into such detail as to list all their investments, they would be thousands of pages long if they did
Besides Cargill and Monsanto control mostly all Ukraine grain exports, without needing to go buying any land - that's a story for another day
I tend to discount wild reports, but the basis is there. And BR is an extractive Parasitic member of the FIRE sector that's responsible for deindustrializing the West while promoting the government financial polices that have given it so much wealth and power. Black Rock like its kin is an enemy of All Humanity.
It is curious that the Ukraine does not mention these investments, nor CSIS, an extracftive US Deep State organisation
Of course they do not mention Cargill or Monsanto either -
The problem with all times of war is that rumour and ideology come to the fore and people feel they are free to believe what they like in order to not have to face the hard facts
I do not believe that phrases such as the enemy of all humanity, are useful - after all this is as the USEU propaganda designates Russia, and VVP
To describe capitalist practice as such merely avoids understanding how capitalism works and how or what to do about it
Through subsidies and partner constructions, there are a number of Dutch companies that say they own land in Ukraine. Some since 2007.
I have shared some of this these links before when Mr. White put forth exactly the same arguments as now. Then against Simplicius.
Follow the money a Dutch newspaper has done research into, among other things, the subsidies given by the Dutch state.
In addition to these companies, there are other Dutch companies that have settled in Ukraine and own land.
I don’t know how the cash flows of investment companies are going But the fact that BlackRock together puts JP Morgan 15 billion in the Ukraine develop fund will not be development aid.
) https://qz.com/blackrock-jpmorgan-private-investors-ukraine-fund-1851334929
https://www.agricopotatoes.com/rebuilding-potato-ukraine
https://www.agrico.com.ua/en
https://www.aphgroup.com/en/en
https://www.aphgroup.com/en/en/partners
https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/05/25/kees-huizinga
https://www.boerderij.nl/nederlandse-agrarier-in-oekraine-verschrikkelijk-wat-hier-gebeurt
I agree, with this one proviso - it's 2500 casualties for Ukr PER DAY.
Now look at the math again. (Stalin's comments on statistics comes to mind).
Yes, the curse of writing too late in the evening. Those should be daily losses, not weekly for a total of 210K.