Thanks to Unz for providing this space, as Karlin has becoming increasingly deranged in his censorship and personal attacks. Not to mention his endless “I quit” only to creep back to this blog.

I am frequently disagreeing with the pro-Ukraine side, I’ve called Zelensky a NATO puppet and I largely absolve Putin of the responsibility of this crisis. But I would never want to censor people who disagree with me. Unz.com is a free speech oasis and I am more than elated than Ron himself is fighting to keep it that way.

The space for open discourse is narrowing everywhere, so we must cherish the few places where actual free speech still exists. This is one of them.

Many thanks for this new thread and the opportunity for open debate (a rarity these days), it’s much appreciated!

Karlin really isn’t much more than a propagandist at this point, really weak of him to delete comments he disliked (unless I’m mistaken including one of mine, apparently referencing a news story that Russian soldiers have looted supermarkets for supplies in Cherson is already atrocity propaganda, lol).

My dissatisfaction with Karlin’s draconian new censorship policies, that I posted within a comment in reply to AaronB’s comment, was deleted (what else, taking into account Karlin’s paranoia) at his most recent thread #180. Looks like this stupid war has taken one more casualty, the former Libertarian known as Anatoly Karlin. RIP. Vichna Pamiat.

I saw your comment before Karlin deleted it, and posted a reply – which was not published but trashed 🙂

And none of it was pro-Ukraine propoganda – well, maybe in the “larger sense” because it was critical of Karlin 🙂

Anyways, the gist of my comment was basically that Karlin in my opinion hasn’t so much changed, as finally developed the full implications of his core world view.

In a sense, we are all living in apocalyptic times – apocalyptic means, I understand, “to reveal”.

Apocalyptic times come at the end, after you’ve been following a line of development for very long, and finally standing forth fully revealed before you, is what you were developing into.

That is when you can clearly see if you were on the right, or the wrong, path.

Not just Karlin, but the entire “modernized world”, our civilization itself, are facing apocalyptic times, where it is revealed what path we had been on.

As I said before, transgender and Woke, the epidemic of anxiety and depression sweeping the modernized world, the nihilistic boredom of Russia that leads it to launch pointless wars, the stories coming out of China of people dying of heart attacks and pregnant women losing babies, denied care over “Zero Covid” policies – all this was the inevitable result of trying to live against nature and God.

But it is only at the end of the line of development, that you can clearly see what you were becoming.

And these apocalyptic times are only beginning – more and more, we will “see ourselves” and be horrified.

We’ve debated this before but the invasion brings new perspective.

Is it too late for democratic reform in Russia? Are the 1.5m Silovki in the Orthodox Fascist cult simply too powerful. I think Putin is no more than their figure head. Changing Putin does nothing. Only a Communist government would mark real change.

To make my point about Orthodox Fascism, here again is their Temple of Mars.

I appreciate all the new open threads. Forgot to use the “more” tag on my last post, and now I don’t feel so bad.

I posed this earlier on a Patrick Armstrong thread but it probably fits here. There seems to be a different audience.

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48 hours to conquer Ukraine and be greeted as liberators. That didn’t work. FSB don’t understand opinion polls in democracies.

Regrouping and reinforcements don’t help that much. There are only so many men and vehicles Russia can push down those roads. It can go on forever of course. Also, I forgot high quality mercenaries when I wrote this first.

Specification versus reality

Michelin tires – Chinese knock offs
Thick wool socks – Acrylics
Fresh Compo rations (MRE in US) – keep the 7 year old ones
Contract soldiers drawing pay – They were ghosts, conscripts were doing the work.

On the socks. Socks stave off trenchfoot better than the WW1 foot wraps the Russians were using until 3 or 4 years ago (maybe that was the 71.6% new equipment of which Shoigu spoke?). But they need to be the right socks.

This kind of corruption can’t be cured by regrouping and launching a new attack. Russia can still win by sending in steam roller after steam roller. And it appears difficult for Ukraine to deal with artillery without air support. But then, the Ukrainian army has 20,000 snipers. Senior officers are keeling over. Bombardiers might toowith real time battle information from NATO. Victory (occupation) will happen but not in 72 hours and that will just be getting into poistion for the insurgency.
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Also, what happens to Russian troop morale when pictures emerge of well paid (\$300/month with expenses) African and Arab mercenaries killing Ukrainian civilians. Aren’t the Russian troops there to protect, in some roundabout way, their Ukrainian brothers?

Israel is giving sound advice to Zelensky. (1)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett surprised the international community last week when it was revealed that he had taken an clandestine trip to Moscow in order to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an apparent peacemaking effort.
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According to the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post and Ukrainian sources, the Israeli Prime Minister spoke with Zelensky again on Tuesday and advised the Ukrainian President to agree to the terms offered by Putin. The Prime Minister’s Office denied the claim.
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Israeli’s position certainly marks a watershed moment in which the Ukraine-allied axis is forced to adjust its calculus as it is confronted with a reality in which support for Russia is greater than previously expected.

I am not sure why anyone finds this surprising. Palestinian Jews are perpetually threatened by irrational, violent neighbors.

The incompetent White House occupant insists on giving money to Khamenei and Nasrallah, which will destabilise the entire region. Opposing the insanity emanating from Not-The-President Biden’s regime is the expected behaviour for civilized countries.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israeli-pm-bennett-advises-ukraines-zelensky-surrender-russia

Less than six months ago:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/russias-nationalist-turn/

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(colonelcassad.livejournal.com – Russian source – edited Yandex translation)

Briefly about Ukraine. 12.03.2022

1. Mariupol. Storming the city. Advances from all directions. The enemy stubbornly defends himself, but he is being squeezed. It is already formally possible to travel to Crimea from Donetsk. Although a full-fledged land corridor has not yet been opened. The relief of Mariupol, which Azov and Zelensky are asking for, is practically impossible in the current realities.

2. Volnovakha. Completely liberated and cleaned up. Troops are already freely passing through it in the direction of Ugledar, closing the front with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which are also advancing in the direction of Velikaya Novoselka – Ugledar with an emphasis on Ugledar.

3. Donetsk – Gorlovka. Shelling of DPR cities. The front in the area of Avdiivka, Maryinka, Pesok, etc. has noticeably revived, but there is no significant progress.

4. LNR. Fighting in Rubezhnoye and around Severodonetsk. Fighting continues in Popasnaya (which was prematurely declared liberated a couple of days ago) — the LPR troops control part of the city.

5. Izyum. Fighting in the area of the city and on the southern outskirts. The situation in the city itself is unclear, the locals confirm the presence of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the city and the fighting going on in the south. The AFU is trying to shackle the Russian troops in Izyum and Balakleya with attacks in order to prevent their advance to the south and in the direction of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.

6. Nikolaev. The city is blocked, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are methodically striking enemy positions on the outskirts, there is no assault yet. Part of the group left in the direction of Krivoy Rog and Nikopol.

7. Kherson – Zaporozhye. The power of civil-military administrations is being strengthened in the liberated territories. Communications of the grouping operating in the Zaporozhye direction are being established. Gulyai-Pole has fighting. The front line in the area of Kamensky and Orekhov without major changes.

8. Kiev. Fighting to the east and west of the city, with again an accentuated desire of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to move south in order to achieve a complete encirclement of the city.

9. Chernihiv — without major changes. The city is blocked, a hotel where foreign mercenaries were stationed was destroyed at night in the city itself.

10. Sumy — without major changes.

11. Odessa. They continue to wait for the landing, but there is still no one there. Nevertheless, the city continues to strengthen, transferring reinforcements from western Ukraine. There are no signs of the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the PMR.

12. Belarus. Despite the next wave of fakes that Belarus will attack Ukraine (yesterday at 21.00), the Belarusian Armed Forces do not demonstrate a noticeable increase in their presence on the border beyond the increase announced at the beginning of the month in the number of battalion tactical groups of the Belarusian army on the border with Ukraine from 5 to 10. The border of Ukraine with Belarus itself is not actually guarded.

In general, on the evening of 12.03. it is possible to note significant successes in the development of the offensive of the DPR army, as well as by the troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Zaporozhye region.

Is it too late for democratic reform in Russia? Are the 1.5m Silovki in the Orthodox Fascist cult simply too powerful. I think Putin is no more than their figure head. Changing Putin does nothing. Only a Communist government would mark real change.

“Democratic reform” would destroy Russia as a sovereign state and a distinctive ethnic and cultural sphere. It would be folded into the liberal American cultural sphere and security architecture. You’d have lots of emigration of Russians as cheap labor to the West along with increasing 3rd world immigration into Russia, and the increasing importation and domination of liberal American and woke culture in Russia. Real power would be wielded by economic oligarchs friendly to the West along with a permanent liberal political/media class cultivated by the US; democratically elected politicians would hold nominal power but would be beholden to oligarchs and the political/media class.

Instead, Russia should combine aspects from its past, the West, and even the Chinese model. A Leninist elite class combined with appreciation for Russian and Orthodox traditions to foster patriotism and cultural unity. Western liberal and free market capitalism to foster economic and techno growth. Chinese elite discipline to counter internal corruption and decadence within the elite class, as well as to counter oligarchical power arising from the unleashing of free market and liberal economic forces.

Also, the Chinese experience with economic experimentation. To unleash and control market forces, Deng experimented with Special Economic Zones. This could work well with Russia given its vast size as well as experience from the Soviet era with cities and geographic areas that were specialized in particular industries. Except instead of command economics directed from Moscow, the Zones would have more market oriented economics unleashed internally.

I think Putin is no more than their figure head. Changing Putin does nothing. Only a Communist government would mark real change.

Communism has too much baggage and most stratas of society are perfectly fine with a state run capitalist system run by the highest top tier, that all leads to an authoritarian Putin type of figure. He has helped shape this system from the very beginning and therefore we don’t really know how it will evolve after he’s gone.

I watched the fabulous film “The Irishman” last night, where it showed how rich mafia leaders were more than happy to accept a change at the very top of the Teamster union when Jimmy Hoffa had to spend a few years behind bars. The new leader was more pliant and amenable to schemes that favored mafia aspirations to aggrandize themselves. You can’t really believe that the average Russian oligarch is pleased by what’s transpired within Russia and the Western world within the last two weeks?

Here’s the latest from Patrick Lancaster from the just liberated Volnovakha

I enjoy reading all of your comments and am on board for almost all of your observations and ideas. You lend an air of spirituality to this community of thinkers and writers, that is all too often missing. There is nothing awe inspiring about killing civilians, children and even soldiers that are trying to defend their homeland. The biblical Apocalypse may really be just around the corner? Keep ’em coming!

Today:

Homosexual Pederast Mega Rock Star Pete Townshend and his enabler Mega Star Roger Daltrey made a statement today that The Who stands with Ukraine…..

Strangely….The Who never released a statement in solidarity with the English Teenage Girls of Rotherdam England as they were being gang-raped by young Pakistani Muslim Men in England….

At about 10:20 the guy in the fur hat and glasses uses the word “Amerikozy”. Slang pejorative for Americans.
Like me, Lancaster can speak Russian.

Is Russia really bringing mercenaries from the Central African Republic to Ukraine (that is actual black Africans), or are these Russian guys from the Wagner company who had been contracted by the CAR government?
Ultimately it’s only a minor issue, but would still be interesting to see this clarified.

His Russian is terrible. And he asks leading questions.

TBH, he looks like the kind of American who tries to get mail order brides.

My Russian is better than his but with the possible exception of speaking Spanish, I am surprised by any American who speaks a foreign language at all.
Leading questions or not (no worse than I have known the BBC to do) there did not seem to be much enthusiasm for the Ukrainians, to say the least. I was struck by the hostility to Americans one man showed, possibly old enough to remember the Cold War.

Homosexual Pederast Mega Rock Star Pete Townshend and his enabler Mega Star Roger Daltrey made a statement today that The Who stands with Ukraine…..

Hunter Biden, the druggie who knocked up a prostitute… On the side of Ukraine.

George IslamoSoros has history with Zelensky: (1)

The fact that George Soros can live freely in any democratic society including in the United States after purposefully working to undermine and destroy those democracies should tell you how much wealth and influence he really has.

With that said, it should also come as no surprise that among his many ‘accomplishments’ was playing a major role in financing the overthrow of Ukraine’s government in 2014 and the installment of its current leader, a former comedic actor named Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is now trying to lead his country through a Russian invasion.

Zelensky is a pawn, about to be sacrificed.

George’s Open [Muslim] Society Foundation has been encountering resistance to the import of Rape-ugees. It is not surprising that his Jihad is being rerouted. Causing infidel Ukraine to fight infidel Russia opens up a huge new Open [Muslim] Border.

How many Muslim terrorists and Islamic rape-ugees will infiltrate Europe via this warzone?

Judeo-Christians lose, Muslims win.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://noqreport.com/2022/03/03/george-soros-helped-zelensky-become-president-of-ukraine-through-massive-propaganda-campaign-now-he-backs-puppet-regime-he-installed/

So Karlin left a remarkable comment to AP on the other open thread in which he says hundreds of thousands of deaths are worthwhile to secure Russian independence to pursue it’s “Cosmist” dream.

So I looked up Russian Cosmism, and apparently it is this religious philosophy of using technology to evolve, reach the stars, resurrect the dead, etc, that is apparently gaining influence among the Russian elite. I didn’t read up fully on this religion-ideology so don’t really understand it, but it seems pretty standard science-into-religion stuff of the kind that periodically appears in our sciency age.

So that’s interesting and totally caught me by surprise.

Russia seems once again to have embraced a revolutionary ideology that is religious in nature and salvific in aim, and for which it’s willing to kill people and start wars.

100 years after last time. (Just waiting for the alt-right to blame this on Jews too, like the last one).

To be honest, this makes me kind of sad for the Russians and Karlin but also, in a way, grateful.

Russians are once again reminding the world that man needs religion, and if he doesn’t have a true one he will fill that ache with a false, absurd one, and wars and destruction will be the result.

It’s not nihilistic boredom that Russia suffers from. It’s the ache for a true religion, the attempt to escape nihilism and find telos and meaning where it cannot be found.

I suppose, the West also invents a religion based on science transcending nature, etc, but in a different way.

Of course, “Cosmism” will no more be able to bring peace and happiness to people than any other false spirituality, and after a brief, and destructive, flash, will fade away.

In the meantime, those who can must do the work of manifesting genuine spiritually in the world.

Hunter Biden, the druggie who knocked up a prostitute

Hunter Biden is a crackhead. These are the class people who give druggies a bad name. Lance Armstrong is a druggie.

Also: she was a stripper, sex worker if you like, but calling her a prostitute may be exaggerating.

I am surprised by any American who speaks a foreign language at all.

He lived in Donetsk for 8 years, one would expect him to learn the language a little. It sounds awful though.

Leading questions or not (no worse than I have known the BBC to do) there did not seem to be much enthusiasm for the Ukrainians, to say the least.

They are being interviewed in the presence of the conquerors. And yet they still provide hedging answers, and with the possible exception of the old woman at the beginning offer no real enthusiasm for the “liberation.”

overthrow of Ukraine’s government in 2014 and the installment of its current leader, a former comedic actor named Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Instead of reading and citing such tripe, it would be better just google the year when Zelensky was elected as a president of Ukraine, lol

The hint – it was not in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 or 2018.

To make my point about Orthodox Fascism, here again is their Temple of Mars.

‘Orthodox Fascism’ seems to be a contradictory concept, i.e. in Orthodox Christianity God is the highest good and the source of moral law (and ultimately all political authority) and God is transcendent, separate from the world.

In Fascism the state is the highest realisation of the moral good, the closest you can get to the absolute, political authority derives from the people and their rational capabilities as they evolve in time. Totalitarianism is central to Fascism, every part of human life should be integrated into the state community.

I don’t know if the current Russian state has the capacity to attempt to establish totalitarianism, if there is even any inclination, given the way Orthodoxy is favoured, looks like not. But, it also seems like the advent of some modernised form of Fascism would be more plausible than the re-introduction of Communism.

I suspect any genuine enthusiasts for the Ukrainians would have left with same. The old lady referred to the Ukrainians as grabiteli (looters). The others seemed more preoccupied with the problems of daily life. The older guy who did not like Americans was probably aware that America loves Zelensky.
Over on the other side of the hill, I doubt whether people are going to directly contradict Zelensky or Yarosh either, whatever their true feelings. Hell, even one negotiator of theirs did not live to tell the tale…
As to mail order brides, my experience of BBC workers in Britain is that the most typical vice is alcoholism but I am sure there are others…

and God is transcendent, separate from the world

It is my understanding that in Orthodoxy, God is also “imannent” in creation, which actually makes the world in a sense sacred.

Indeed, the central Orthodox goal – theosis, reuniting with God – would be impossible if he was completely transcendent to his creation.

I may be wrong about this, and would be glad if anyone more knowledgeable could correct me, but from what I’ve read and listened to, this is the case.

Probably the concepts of transhumanism can be found somewhere within the broader context of Russian cosmism, which of course Karlin was so attracted to. How one could get excited about having one’s memories encapsulated within a computer chip inside of a robot, or even within a cryogenic “revived” human body was always beyond my understanding. I remember vividly Anon4 taking some of his precious time to explain some of these things to me, as he was once an adept of this ideology, but had steadfastly moved away from this thinking to embrace a spirituality very similar to your own.

I must have missed it. Where was it confirmed that Putin thought it would take 48 hours to subdue Ukraine?

48 hours to conquer Ukraine and be greeted as liberators. That didn’t work. FSB don’t understand opinion polls in democracies.

I have heard the claim but have not seen good confirmation. Even the Canadian and US Freedom Convoys took much more than 48 hours but I guess some people think the military can move faster.

ENOUGH.

This is wartime, this means wartime blogging moderation…….. which means there must be a wartime alliance between you, the New York Times – listed writer, Anatoly Karlin….. and myself.

I have been too busy, or engaged on ru.net to participate on your blog/SM – but very impressed with your Operation Z performance.

Now, of course you know my opinions and facts about you, but this is all irrelevant now. Think of this as alliance between Putin and Akhmad Kadyrov ( I am designated as Putin in this dynamic)

I will refer to you as Master from now onwards.

Alliance?

# ISTANDWITHTOLYA (New-York/Jew-york Times listed bestselling author)

, it would be better just google the year when Zelensky was elected as a president of Ukraine, lol

The hint – it was not in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 or 2018

The primary author of the EU Open [Muslim] Border policy, Angela Merkel, served from 2005-2021. This phase of undermining European borders occurred during her term. Two key reasons why this event is near the tail end:

-1- ​Ukraine was not needed as an original route for Jihadist invaders. The requirement for a new rape-ugee corridor is directly tied to recent Christian Populist resistance within the EU block.

-2- It took time to cultivate a patsy, like Zelensky, that could be manipulated into folly by SJW Elites.
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”, George Santayana

The consequences of NATO encroachment previously played out ~2008 (Georgia — Abkhazia — Ossetia). A realistic Ukrainian leader would have kept pre-NATO [PfP] entirely West of the Dnieper. This could have easily been sold on the basis of better infrastructure.

PEACE 😇

Mr. Unz,

Since Karlin’s community is now gathered under a new blog spot, why not confer authorship to one of the commenters here to continue hosting this spot, moderate the comments, and perhaps add more value to the empty OP of open threads?

Some additions to the OP might be:

*Roundup of noteworthy Twitter threads
*Round-up of noteworthy articles or blog posts
*Noteworthy YouTube video/lecture
*Comment of the Week/Day
*Additional commentary by the host

Might I suggest Dmitry take up the task of hosting this new blog. He is probably the most level-headed commenter here, is adept at gathering noteworthy articles and Twitter posts, and seems to have plenty of free time judging by the copious amount of comments he writes here.

We don’t need moderation (would you have liked it if you had been banned for your comments against songbird?). And if there should be something exceptional that calls for it, like doxxing, one can just notify Ron Unz in one of his open threads.
Dmitry should rather attend to his Polish girlfriend instead of spending yet more time on this comments section.

Well the Putin Liberation Victory video came out at 72 hours so it might really have been expected at that point. The FSB heads who planned this are now in jail because it didn’t go as planned. The budget for inserting subversives ready for the grand entrance (including paid crowds of at least 5000 in each major city) seems to have disappeared.

Exactly my point. The Orthodoxy is fake. There is no Christian virtue in them.

I agree, I never understood the appeal of loading my memories onto a computer as a form of personal survival. It’s an obvious fantasy – whatever it would be, it wouldn’t be me.

I see it though as a form of clutching at straws. The deep religious yearning cannot be denied, but if you have pre-trapped yourself in a materialist framework, you have no choice but to come up with these kinds of grotesqueries.

Many people today are trapped in a materialist framework, in the sense that for them it is a primary assumption they literally cannot question.

I’ve had people tell me they’d like to believe in God, but they simply cannot. They can’t even explain why they can’t, but there is some block there.

So if that’s your predicament, you’re gonna come up with nonsense like transhumanism, non binary gender, etc, etc.

Or so it seems to me.

1. I have not seen any transhumanist so whacko they want to dig up human remains and bring dead people back to life. It says something about them that they are even more whacko than the transhumanists.

2. The cosmist movement was obliterated totally by the commies. Except one guy whose name escapes me. One of the biggest Russian rocket scientists before they got German technology after 1945 began his career as a prominent cosmist. He turned over a new leaf when he got the big job in rockets.

3. Cosmism is arcane. Think Hegel, Heidegger. If K knows more about it than they had a great name I would be surprised.

Ron Unz,

You should be totally ashamed of yourself. Karlin (NYT-listed writer) should not have his methods infringed on like this.

Ukraine or Ukrainianism is solely a Deathcult. Nothing else .
By definition there is nothing “pro-ukrainan” to be censored, because “supporting” something by willing it to deathcult itself out of existence, and be “proud” of its history – as a constant, loser deathcult – is oxymoronic. So Karlin is not doing any censorship.

Ukraine is a fake, failed state created by Lenin and Stalin – its 2 historic “enemies” who they blame for everything

It has a fake moronic National Orthodox church……..created by Americans and Catholics

As a retard, it views itself as a “victim” of Russian “imperialism” – an idiotic nonsensical statement because 404 is a gift receiver FROM Russia of about EIGHT different sections of land fron SIX different countries that they did not ask, fight or even lobby for. Its as artificial as a botched Michael Jackson facelift

Its freakshow “ideology” is taken from the west of the fake country – even though Galicia has absolutely ZERO connection to “Ukrainian” architecture, cuisine, folksongs, dances, clothing, Dnieper, Black sea coast, Zaporozhian Cossacks or anything

In light of this and much more, plus the idioticly high amount of fakes by ukrops/CIA /MI6 of military “peremoga” these last 2 weeks, and that there is basically no English-language pro-ukraine, or galician-reject blogger on the Internet, exactly because they know they would have to do mass censorship because of the ease it is to disintegrate their BS…….. should give special allowance to (NYT-listed) Karlin.

Ukraine does not have actual elections you despicable retard. Didn’t shithole Lithuania have effectively an unconstitutional coup, with the (sane) President replaced by some USAID Nazi excrement?

Anyway, you do realise, idiot, that Operation Z, as beautiful as it is, would never have happened without Lukashenko’s assistance……and he only allowed assistance via Belarus border, because Belarus flights and airlines were banned by Gayropa a year before.

Why? Because dying, alcoholic, suicide retard Litva staged a false flag provocation making a flight carrying a Belarus dissident liberast cretin on a plane from Athens to Vilnius, get diverted to land in Minsk where he was immediately arrested.
Absolutely zero logical explanation for Vilnius ATC actions, transcripts for them or Pilot or ANY statement by the pilot in public after.

Lol thanks I think Ron Unz is moderating us well by himself, to an extent we need any moderation.

I cannot be a moderator or host, even if it would not be the most unpopular choice. But if we had ever needed a local moderator, maybe German Reader would be a good option for us 🙂 Seriously though, German Reader seems like he has a liberal attitude to the internet and wouldn’t censor people of our community, as well as the fact he is actually reading interesting books.

Lol thanks I think Ron Unz is moderating us well by himself, to an extent we need any moderation. I cannot be a moderator or host,

The “moderate” suggestion was just a minor addition (Unz mentioned in the OP he’d like the place to be “lightly moderated”, so I thought I’d add that in there. But it’s not important.)

The main benefit of a new host would be adding some substance to a now-empty OP. It would also lift the burden for Mr. Unz, who has to regularly check the no. of comments and come back here to start new threads every time comments reach a certain limit.

Seriously though, German Reader seems like he has a liberal attitude to the internet and wouldn’t censor people of our community, as well as the fact he is actually reading interesting books.

Agree. German Reader is very knowledgeable and would be an excellent host imo (though he’s developed a curios habit of contradicting my every post).

The rumor is these guys are the new mod team:

The main benefit of a new host would be adding some substance to a now-empty OP.

No idea how it could be implemented, but maybe there could be a scheme where regular commenters (who are therefore known to the community and have been “vetted” in a way) could submit some longer piece (e.g. book reviews or the like) as content for discussion. Maybe a regular spot for that every one or two weeks?
I doubt any commenter will be willing to take on full duties of a host though…quality blogging (and moderation) is hard work after all.

though he’s developed a curios habit of contradicting my every post

Don’t take it personally, I’ve contradicted lots of commenters recently.
And thanks, but I don’t have time for being a host, and I don’t think I’d be psychologically suited either.

Not sure that the US would try a hard bifurcation, if China invaded Taiwan.

One really big rub is that the Chinese are propping up the US college system with foreign students. If they were ever pulled, then many colleges might fail. And the college system is basically part of the blank-slatist ideology that the US is committed to. It is the darling of the regime ideologues, who have the idea that we all just need a little more education.

But, maybe, we are already past peak in the trend, due to Covid and BLM and the number of Chinese students is decreasing where they might be relatively rare in another ten years. Probably Xi is not thinking about it. BTW, his daughter went to Harvard.

Really, the Russian military doesn’t even have good wool socks? That would be shocking to me.

Personally I don’t wear any socks other than wool and I buy Russian wool goods on eBay from time to time. Valenkis with leather lowers make great slip on winter boots, for example. One would think that the folks who came up with Valenkis could at least pull off good winter socks for their troops.

You’ve obviously never served in the military, Phil, nothing takes 48 hours, ever. The defeat of Poland in 1939, attacked on the West by the Germans and in the East by the Soviets took 35 days. How in Heaven’s name would the invasion of Ukraine take less? Desert Storm took 6 months. I’d expect the Ukrainians to fight better than 3rd world Iraqis.

Shock and disbelief.

Can’t verify anything, but phrase I heard was “train-and-equip program” which strongly suggests Africans. I’ve heard they get about \$6/day to fight in Africa. Perhaps, they have white noncoms in charge of the units? Would be an interesting addition to Thomas Friedman’s “the world is flat” idea, if everyone started using African mercs, due to the population explosion in Africa.

I was surprised to learn recently that the Brits still seem to employ Gurkhas. (originally, they were mercenaries, as they had no economic prospects in the hilly area that they came from, so I think all these calls for justice are a little weird – they probably would have starved to death, without being able to join up). But even that tradition has become woke, as many seem to be given settlement rights in the UK, and they are recruiting Gurkha women. LOL. (Are the women of a martial race fiercer?) I wonder what the going rate for a Gurkha is on the global market, now.

Been surprised by the Russians using Chechens, despite their higher TFR, as their IQ is estimated to be about the same as American blacks. (But perhaps it is higher?) History of American black units that they had no discipline and tended to cut and run. But, maybe, the Chechens are different, as a “martial race.”

Shifting gears a bit, out of curiosity do you believe this doctor to be one sick bastard?

.@nyuniversity you might need a new Professor of Medical Ethics. pic.twitter.com/xTQNjWIgtH

— Bad Russia Takes (@USSRTakes) March 13, 2022

I’m not into censorship which has increased in the US, as it has in Russia and within Kiev regime confines.

Media/political advocacy require a think skin. Not as much action at these threads – but note the shots dished out and returned:

https://www.eurasiareview.com/23022022-motivating-factors-behind-russias-recent-independence-recognition-oped/#comments

https://www.eurasiareview.com/28022022-russia-ukraine-coverage-update-what-western-mass-media-downplays-oped/#comments

For others not having heard, these are pretty good segments:

https://wabcradio.com/episode/michael-averko-independent-foreign-policy-analyst-and-media-critic-3-3-22/

https://wabcradio.com/episode/michael-averko-2-9-22/

https://wabcradio.com/episode/mark-averko-1-11-22/

I’m really pissed of that in recent years, it’s not as easy to get socks in the US which are at least 75% cotton.

haha, nothing better to see in the morning than neverending lamentations about impeached RF puppet who also happens to be wife beater alcholic, lol

Been surprised by the Russians using Chechens, despite their higher TFR, as their IQ is estimated to be about the same as American blacks

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I severely doubt it. A non-negligible number of Chechens reached very high positions (many of whom later went on to play major roles within the Chechen independence movement) within the USSR, and as far as I know, affirmative action was not practiced outside of the ethnic republics themselves.

There is something to ethnic average average IQ scores, and of course the blank slatists represent a reverse idiocy, but only a drooling rightoid would take them all at face value. The ancients everywhere generally understood the importance of heredity aptitudes without basing their entire worldview around it.

The main benefit of a new host would be adding some substance to a now-empty OP

imho, all this hassle is not needed at all, the main value here is freewheeling banter in a very convenient format and options created and sponsored by Mr. Unz. If anybody feelz needz for more “content” he can apply to the master of this site and become a valuable writer and sorter himself in his own new corner.

What do you even know about Orthodox Christianity?

Hint: it’s not about being a gay nigger as you probably imagine.

Free speech is good and I commend Ron Unz, but on the other hand I also understand Anatoly – it’s really tiresome reading Ukrainians on the internet. Or pro-EU/NATO Nazis – the most pathetic existence I can imagine.

If they refuse to self-moderate, they should be compelled to curb their retardation via military-technical means.

The moderation of Ukraine will be completed soon.

But as unfortunately most of the Ukrainian commenters here post from the US all day instead of doing anything productive, I think surgical nuclear strikes on known locations of Ukrainian posters in the continental United States are in order.

Using your own logic, it seems that moderation of various miloseviches was not done thoroughly enough though and NATO moderators were too lenient so far 😉

Great news:

On Thursday, South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to take a firmer stance on North Korea and rebuild Seoul’s military alliance with Washington.

South Koreans went to the polls and elected Yoon on Wednesday, and he will take office in May. During his campaign, Yoon accused outgoing President Moon Jae-in, a strong proponent of peaceful reunification with North Korea, of being “submissive” to Pyongyang and Beijing.

As the US has become more focused on countering China, Washington is looking to Seoul to help. Yoon is expected to take a harder line on China and signaled that he was ready to be involved in the US’s efforts to strengthen alliances in the region as part of its strategy against Beijing.

“I’ll rebuild the South Korea-US alliance. I’ll [make] it a strategic comprehensive alliance while sharing key values like liberal democracy, a market economy, and human rights,” Yoon said at a press conference.

“I’ll establish a strong military capacity to completely deter any provocation,” Yoon said. “I’ll firmly deal with illicit, unreasonable behavior by North Korea in a principled manner, though I’ll always leave open the door for South-North talks.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/south-korea-elects-conservative-anti-north-hawk-president

Weren’t they gypsies in that building? Didn’t someone tell him about Roma there or something?

The younger man around the fire wasn’t too enthusiastic about LDNR, saying “We’ll see”. I suppose when they’ve been through so much and seen so much corruption and so many betrayals from all the people there they can’t really work up too much enthusiasm. The potential is there for things to get better with the Russians, with the UkroNazis not so much.

Patrick seems to have a Russian translator with him who sometimes corrects his pronunciation. I wonder if it would be better to let the translator ask the questions and then just comment in English himself.

e.g. book reviews or the like

Speaking of book reviews, have you read Geboren in Moskau: Erinnerungen eines baltendeutschen Diplomaten 1912-1955 by Erich Franz Sommer?

https://books.google.pt/books/about/Geboren_in_Moskau.html?id=BvPiAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

If you haven’t I strongly recommend it — the number of interesting (and famous) people he encountered is absolutely amazing. And his life as well — first memories being of disturbances in Moscow during the Russian Revolution, to being the German diplomat who phoned up the Russian Embassy in Berlin on 22 June 1941 to invite them to receive to receive Ribbentrop’s Memorandum), to being sentenced to 25 years hard labor in a Soviet camp north of the Arctic Circle.

His evident bias is the least relevant fact. What matters is that he is in the war zone, a brave journalist, giving us the views from people there. Your comment on the other hand weigh less than a bag of popcorn, TBH.

It looks like most of the Ukrainian cities will be reduced to ruins. The UkroNazis from the Galicia region have been pumping troops and weapons into the south and east, and still are, presumably thinking that it’s better to fight the Russians in Mariupol, Odessa, Kharkov, Kiev, etc. than in Lvov. Well I hope this evil policy to reduce the Russian dominated cities to rubble will come back to them and that their beloved Lvov will also be ruined. Reap as you sow and all that.

You are either misinformed or most likely just paid or even working for free RF troll, as the most fiercely fighting regiments right now are nothing but Russian speaking Ukrainians from those cities in south, east and center who are defending their own homeland from invaders.

There is something to ethnic average average IQ scores, and of course the blank slatists represent a reverse idiocy, but only a drooling rightoid would take them all at face value.

Outside of the developed world, IQ scores are a void of uncertainty. Not only because of the various environmental depressors (malnutrition, poor schooling, disease load, severe poverty etc), which Western HBD nerds seem to be blissfully unaware of, but also because of unreliable testing (Lynn “calculated” Armenia’s score by taking the midpoint of Turkey and Russia’s score. lol). Does anyone seriously believe Persians, the people who gave us Rumi, Khayyam, Khwarazm, Avicenna, Hafiz etc. have a lower IQ than American blacks?

I agree only a drooling rightoid like songbird would think so (maybe his IQ is lower than blacks).

I severely doubt it. A non-negligible number of Chechens

Karlin wrote a post on IQ scores in Russia (https://www.unz.com/akarlin/map-russia-iq-2/).

Can’t speak Russian, but if i’m reading the map right, Chechnya scored 93.2 (or is it 89.7?). No region scored less than American blacks.

According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times, Europe is
purchasing about \$850 million worth of oil and gas A DAY from
Russia. No wonder that Russians think they cannot lose this war.
Moscow and SPB have not been reduced to rubble in the last
300 years, the Russians won WW II, so I’m sure many Russians feel they
are being personally protected by God, and hence as a nation they
are invulnerable. Students interviewed in Moscow in answer
to the question, “What are you going to do if you lose access
to the Internet?” say, “Well, I guess we’ll go back ro reading books.”
The problem is that due to their obscenely large territory and
and a huge amount of natural resources, Russians have become
lazy. They basically say, “What can they do to us?” but that’s
a separate issue.

As I posted here a couple of years ago, old souls like to be born
in Slavic nations, esp. in Poland and Czechia, but old souls have
collected so much experience on earth that they are essentially
invulnerable. An outside observer is likely to say that they seem
to function under divine protection. Hence, both the Russians
and the Ukrainians should realize that they have nothing to fear
from each other, and act accordingly. This war is completely
unnecessary.

By the way, that’s why Poland has always attracted so many
refugees. Poland was unaffected by the Black Death ca.1350.
It was at peace during the Religious Wars in the 16th-17 centuries,
and attracted thousands of Jewish, Italian, and Scottish refugees. Even
during the Swedish Deluge in the 1650s it was protected
from the ultimate defeat by the intervention of Our Lady of the
Bright Mount in Czestochowa, many Poles believe. In the days
leading to the French Revolution, hundreds of noble French
families escaped from France, and sought refuge in Poland.
Today it’s the same story, Poland has offered refuge to at least
1.5 million Ukrainian refugees (in addition to the 1.5 million
Ukrainians already in Poland). People seem to sense that,
despite its lack of natural borders, Poland appears to be
surrounded by a divine wall of White Light.

I haven’t read it, but thanks for the recommendation, sounds very interesting.

93,2 is Stavropol region, 89,7 is Dagestan, and if I’m not mistaken Chechnya is not calculated at all as it is just a grey zone next from left to Dagestan.

Let me add that President Duda of Poland and President Zelensky of
Ukraine converse on a daily basis, so at least this channel of communication
is still open.

Since Dan C. is MIA (Russian foreign legion?), I wish to offer a defense of AK. This is not a defense of the invasion of Ukraine. Over the years, mostly from reading this blog, and following the trail from those comments to somewhat reliable information, I have formed the opinion that Ukrainians are “entitled” to their own country. But then so are hundreds of other “peoples”. (Perhaps like the people in Donbass.) More to the point, it is not my job (nor should it be my country’s) to help each and every one of them attain their nationalist goals. It is also not my job, nor my country’s job, to defend countries, nascent or otherwise, that foolishly provoke a powerful neighboring nation.

With that note out of the way, it is obvious that AK is now a fully committed Russian partisan. Now, unless you can come up with some categorical denunciation of nationalism, one that applies to me, you and AK, then your attacks on AK are mere partisanship on your part.

I would need to watch it again. Artyom, the youngish rather dark guy, looked to me like he might be an Armenian.

LOL, you’re a Nazi, Nazi scum! I hope the deNazification programme catches up with you too, like those in UkroNazistan.

With the Iranian retaliation against that CIA/Mossad base in Erbil, sorry I mean consulate, and the other missile attack on the, definitely not NATO, training base in Western Ukraine this must be the bloodiest day for the empire for a long time, perhaps since Vietnam.

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/
This site has a series of pictures in an article headed “Aryans of the 81st Brigade of the AFU” according to the site, taken in Izyum, most of which is under Russian control though Ukrainian troops are still present in the south of the town. The photos show Nazi regalia as well as a sort of comic book in Ukrainian promoting NATO. One picture seems to say “More security with NATO”. (I have never studied Ukrainian but can often understand it at least in written form by drawing on Russian and Polish.)

I haven’t read it, but thanks for the recommendation, sounds very interesting.

I look forward to your forthcoming book review!

Now, unless you can come up with some categorical denunciation of nationalism, one that applies to me, you and AK, then your attacks on AK are mere partisanship on your part.

imo a lot of Karlin’s recent statements are verging on caricature, like a recycling of the dumbest talking points of early 20th century nationalists. Sure, it’s possible Russia will succeed in her current enterprise, maybe everything will work out to Karlin’s satisfaction and lead to a glorious rebirth of the Russian empire. But still…”national rejuvenation through war”, lol, what could possibly go wrong with such an approach, not like it’s ever been tried before. I don’t think one has to categorically reject nationalism in its entirety to be irritated by this kind of all-or-nothing risk-taking (and its implication that Russia is worthless if the present war doesn’t lead to a glorious future).
Also comes across as really in poor taste that Karlin writes these things while apparently still living his comfortable bourgeois hipster life (in another thread he just mused how 100 000 deaths in the Ukraine war might not be too high a price, which caused the entirely legitimate question by an East Asian commenter “Why don’t you volunteer and go fight yourself?”).
And finally, his writing has also gotten really boring (apart from his grandiose pronouncements, which are oscillating somewhere between creepy and unintentionally hilarious). If you’ve reached the pedestrian level of “Russia is fighting Nazi terrorists in Ukraine”, you’re not really saying anything original or worth listening to anymore.

Unpleasant awakening at the Yavorovsky training ground

March 13, (2022) 12:06

colonelcassad.livejournal.com – Russian source in Yandex translation, edited

As a result of the arrival of the “Calibres” by flight at the Yavorovsky training ground (where the United States and its satellites trained the Ukrainian military for war with Russia), according to official Ukrainian statements (which of course are not particularly trustworthy), 9 soldiers were killed and 57 wounded, including foreign instructors.
In total, according to the statement of the Lviv Regional State Administration, 8 missiles arrived at the test site.
The consequences of such arrivals can be viewed for example here https://t.me/boris_rozhin/31838
After the arrivals, the standard hysteria began with the demand to introduce a no-fly zone and de facto start a nuclear war with Russia.

In addition, in the morning there were reports that the troops advancing from the south had already come close to Ugledar, and the group operating in the Izyum area seemed to have already advanced in the direction of Barvenkovo. There should be details on this direction during the day.

Broadcast as usual in Telegram – https://t.me/boris_rozhin

Such hysteria may indicate that quite right spot was targeted in my previous post, so it is not even worth bothering to look at your other poastings in order to confirm it.

It may be well as truth, but those post factum photos can be also arranged just for RF propaganda purposes, it is too early too know it for sure. Way more reliable evidence would be the pictures/video taken by UA soldiers themselves before leaving the place, instead of puting some Right sector card or Nazi flag in empty quarters.

Ironic when the poster himself is advocating sending weapons to the Ukraine, the end result of which will be to only prolong the suffering, the only solution is for the Ukrainians to accept the generous peace offer.

How touching, Karlin passing the baton to his erstwhile protege Geraldina. “Birds of a feather flock together”.

[MORE]

Geraldina, now not only the intellectual heir of the Karlin legacy, but the spiritual one as well! 🙂

I was just trolling the troll – you.

And we’re to believe your fairy tales that the Russians never bombed anything within Donbas?

Not out of the question, as there have been many Ukrainian propaganda fakes and truth is the first casualty etc. Commemorating the Galician Waffen-SS is a matter of open state policy, though, so why wouldn’t Ukrainian soldiers take Nazi flirtation a bit further? I found the NATO propaganda comic in Ukrainian most interesting of all, and least likely to be faked. Indeed Ukraine seems to be a NATO country in all but name although not having quite signed on the dotted line the West has some wriggle room not to support it to the utmost, so it probably won’t.
I was amused by the word BEZPEKA in the NATO comic. In Poland Bezpieka was the slang term for the security service there, 1945-1990.

in another thread he just mused how 100 000 deaths in the Ukraine war might not be too high a price

I wonder what he would consider too high a price. 200,000? 500,000? A million? Five million? All of these are plausible. Not just because they seem a trifle when measured against “eternal glory”, but because the very inertia of justifying one death toll increment leads to justifying the next one. Once you’re investing in justifying why X number of dead so far has been “worth it,” it’s very hard to then quit and argue that no more deaths are worth it.

The few Chechens that have come to America don’t seem like an impressive lot. Of course, I’m talking about the Tsarnaevs (more than just the brothers), but undoubtedly there’s selection bias in picking from the same family.

If we look at Chechnya, they have a lot of stone towers, which seem to have no equivalent in large parts of Africa. Perhaps, except around Ethiopia. And personally I have always doubted the native genesis of Great Zimbabwe (IMO, probably the Portuguese helped create it, and then forgot about it. Maybe, there was a record of it, lost in the Lisbon earthquake), and there is something really weird and pathetic, IMO, in the fact that they named their country after it.

Not to mention, Chechnya is a very remote place, with bad roads, so I think that their IQ would be lowballed due to lack of development.

But it is interesting to consider whether there is some factor other than IQ that affects fighting ability. For example, perhaps, American blacks are descended from people who surrendered or broke and fled in Africa.

The #US objective is to drag this war as long as possible to exhaust the #Russian army, weaken its military capability and the economy of Russia. #Moscow is aware of the US goal & has decided to hit "outside the box" showing its determination to take this war further if necessary

— Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 (@ejmalrai) March 13, 2022

I don’t know? Perhaps, he’s right. I’m giving up on all imported Russian products. I hope that we curtail Russian oil and gas too. Why feed Putin’s war efforts? Do you still feel that these war efforts are productive and needed, or would Russia be better off by curtailing its war actions within Ukraine?

BTW, when are you going to finally wake up and smell the coffee. Your whole life has been devoted towards improving the Russian/American relationship. Don’t you realize that old man Putler has always made you job prohibitively more difficult? And yet you still seem to covet the Putin samovar polishing trophy year after year? Be careful, you’re going to have some stiff competition this year, as Karlin is going way out of his way to keep the halo effect above Putin’s head. 🙁

It seems to me having a huge IQ might disincline individuals to combat bravery, as they might be better able to calculate risk and imagine being killed or maimed. “You’re not paid to think” is a bit of a mantra in the British Army even though it can lead to situations like a cavalry charge in the wrong direction and into Russian cannon on three sides in Crimea in 1854.

The same guy also writes about “150 #US officers of the Florida Army National Guard and dozens of #NATO officers were gearing the Ukrainian military to fight this war against #Russia, creating an underground control and command base” so according to his “info” it would be logical to think that hardly any substantial damage was made by RF strike if the base is really underground.

Putin or come to that Shoigu and Gerasimov never served in the military either. An actual soldier, popular with the army that close to the top just might be dangerous.

As we now see, Putin expected the population to rise up in support within 48 hours.

Bad decisions like this are why sensible governments, even dictatorships like China have term limits. Xi then removed the term limits. China is going to drop the same way as Russia.

Russia morale seems good:
https://t.me/voenacher/11987

Just aweful example of Russian proaganda:

https://rumble.com/vxa1oq-russian-lmrs.html

(mod delete previous)

Let me put that right “When the Ukrainians were counter bombarding the occupying mercenaries using civilian shields. A necessary tactic to maintain Russian control of the population.”

Shoigu was a lieutenant in the Army reserves. Gerasimov attended military school and is a career military man. Putin, a career intelligence officer, also served as a lieutenant in an artillery unit. Military service was compulsory in Soviet Union.

Biden was a college athlete who managed to dodge the draft by claiming he had asthma. Not sure how he was able to play college football with asthma. Harris obviously never served in the military. Blinken, the sec of state, is probably afraid of guns. Austin, sec of defense, is an affirmative action nitwit.

You’re gay.

I don’t want to steal Anatoly’s phrase but there really is nothing else for it.

Shock and disbelief.

— Anatoly Karlin (🅉,🅉) (@akarlin0) March 11, 2022

As we now see, Putin expected the population to rise up in support within 48 hours.

The official “Desert Storm” component of the Iraq War lasted 43 days. That offensive had total air superiority, optimum terrain, and a truly inferior enemy. Many Iraqi units took money to surrender or simply deserted.

People keep placing ridiculously short time frames on Russia’s current offensive. The terrain is worse, the opposition is stronger, and Putin is trying to avoid destroying infrastructure so that he can Win the Peace over the long term.
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The best option is for Zelensky to cut a deal.

At some point, Putin will decide Winning the War takes precedence over preserving infrastructure for the subsequent peace. The Russian military has the artillery to level cities without coming within range of partisan resistance fighters. The process will be much longer than “Desert Storm”, probably 6 months or more. However, the outcome is not in doubt.

Bad decisions like this are why sensible governments, even dictatorships like China have term limits. Xi then removed the term limits. China is going to drop the same way as Russia.

How does power transition to the next leader when one person pulls all the strings? Term limits for the head of state can help, because it removes one of the key incentives for over centralizing power.

The U.S. may have the same problem. The election loser was placed in office via a “color revolution”, the Blue Coup. Of course, the Fake Stream Media will never call it that. After trashing the Constitution to elevate Not-The-President Biden, there may no longer be elections or term limits.
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State Owned Enterprises [SOE] pose another risk, especially military owned SOE’s. Iran and China are doomed as the IRGC and PLA fund themselves via cash extraction from inefficient and corrupt business. They are effectively outside the Rule of Law as they wield the Law of the Gun.

Russia is much better off than Iran and China. Military and SOE’s are separate. However, there is substantial risk of a failed succession after Putin, especially if something happens suddenly.

PEACE 😇

I believe they stopped Manstein in Grozny. The Georgians generally had good mountain and ski infantry. The Chechens would have been split on the Germans when they came to the Caucasus. I think the Chechens who opposed Moscow were working with Fallshirmjager advisors and units.

The command bunker might be reinforced but most of the US and British logistics and signals guys will be pretty vulnerable on the first strike. Now? They will be dispersed and in bunkers.

The terrain is worse, the opposition is stronger, and Putin is trying to avoid destroying infrastructure so that he can Win the Peace over the long term.

According to military historian Martin Van Creveld, on his blog, Russia is attacking with almost no restraints. We are seeing the full force of the conventional Russian military, for what it’s worth, according to him.

I don’t know? Perhaps, he’s right. I’m giving up on all imported Russian products. I hope that we curtail Russian oil and gas too. Why feed Putin’s war efforts? Do you still feel that these war efforts are productive and needed, or would Russia be better off by curtailing its war actions within Ukraine?

Ethically fucked up as he’s a sick bastard.

https://t.co/HiKlSVHc9L

Pharma Should Stop Doing Business in Russia, Says Ethicist
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD

The Russian people need to be pinched not only by the loss of cheeseburgers and boutique coffee but by products they use to maintain their well-being. War is cruel that way,

— Arthur Caplan (@ArthurCaplan) March 12, 2022

Circa several decades ago, when Arab-Israeli differences were at a higher point, imagine the outcry if a medical ethics doctor/professor said that Israelis shouldn’t enjoy the benefits of advanced medical care on account of disproportionate Israeli government acts. One could hypothetically throw that at Americans, given the many citizens killed c/o US military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As has been documented (c/o of UN/OSCE inspectors), the Kiev regime has killed at least 10,000, while having displaced at least 1 million from the rebel held Donbass area over the past eight years. Western mass media is mute on this because that area isn’t as close to central and western Europe, in conjunction with most of these victims going to Russia as opposed to the Kiev regime or EU countries.

BTW, if I were a doctor and knew your views in advance, I’d nonetheless not hesitate to save your life.

It’s also very curious (and telling) how all these newly sprouted pacifists only seem to be piping up now and now in any of the previous 8 years when the Ukrainians were bombarding Donbass.

I’m not a pacifist, but imo this is mostly propaganda. Number of civilian deaths in Donbass has declined strongly in recent years, and even if one thinks Russia needed to act against possible Ukrainian designs for reconquest and incorporate Donbass, the current operation seems over the top. The maximalist aims you’re advocating (annexing most of Ukraine) certainly are.

The 0.2% that are fighting are people who want to be there, who are paid well above average Russian salaries to be there (funded by taxes collected from the 69.8%), and who have specifically trained for years for scenarios like this.

That kind of sentiment is absurdly at odds with the militant stuff you’ve been posting about how the war will lead to national rejuvenation and joy. If it’s such a great enterprise where people can transcend their bugman lives, the number of participants should be maximized.

It’s not just about him.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/11032022-what-russia-desires-oped/

– Kiev regime carnage in Donbass (killing thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands)
– Kiev regime interacting with Neo-Nazis
– seven-year Kiev regime stonewalling of the UN approved Minsk Protocol, calling for a negotiated Donbass autonomy
– the specter of NATO expansion in Ukraine compromising the security of Russia
– leading up to the Russian military action in Ukraine, Western governments didn’t sanction or threaten to sanction the Kiev regime, much unlike the hypocritical stance towards Russia.

The Western establishment’s moral hypocrisy on what happened thereafter notes the generally accepted rationale used for the atomic option on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WW II. In more recent times, there’s the disproportionate use of military force that has been utilized by the US and some non-Russian others.

The human suffering in these instances haven’t received anywhere near the same level of on the ground coverage when compared to the current situation in Ukraine. Some of this reporting might very well include misrepresentation, influenced by the possible distortion of pro-Kiev regime proponents.

“Vzglyad” Russian website – Yandex translation, edited

The Russian military shot down an Su-24 aircraft and 11 Ukrainian drones
March 13, 2022, 19:00
Russian troops shot down one plane and 11 drones of the Ukrainian military on Sunday, including two Bayraktars, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing.

“On the afternoon of March 13, aviation and air defence of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down in the air: one Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian air Force near the settlement of Novy Bykov, as well as 11 unmanned aerial vehicles, including two Bayraktar TB-2s,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

He added that 46 objects of the Ukrainian armed forces were hit by Russian tactical, army and unmanned aircraft, including three control points, one anti-aircraft missile system, two ammunition depots and 33 areas of accumulation of military equipment.

Konashenkov also added that the Armed Forces of Russia and the grouping of the LPR troops continue the offensive, full control has been established over six more settlements.

“The armed forces of the Russian Federation during offensive actions established full control over the settlements of Pavlovka, Nikolskoye, Blagodatnoye, Vodianovka and Vladimirovka. The advance for the day was up to 9 kilometers. The grouping of troops of the Luhansk People’s Republic, continuing offensive actions, liberated the city of Popasnaya from the nationalists,” he said.

According to the representative of the Ministry of Defence, the Russian army destroyed 3,736 infrastructure facilities of the Ukrainian military in 18 days of a military special operation in Ukraine.

“In total, 3736 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine were put out of operation during the operation. Destroyed: 100 aircraft, 139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,234 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 122 multiple rocket launchers, 452 field artillery and mortar guns, 1,013 units of special military vehicles,” he said.

Earlier, Konashenkov said that the Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 180 foreign mercenaries in Ukraine with a precision strike.

Recall that Russia launched a military special operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian Leader Vladimir Putin noted that Moscow’s plans do not include the occupation of the territories of Ukraine, the goal is the denazification and demilitarisation of the country. Also, a number of political conditions have been put forward to the Kiev authorities: the legislative consolidation of the non-aligned status of Ukraine with a complete ban on the deployment of NATO military bases and strike weapons systems on its territory, the trial of Nazi criminals who have committed crimes against citizens of Ukraine and Donbass in recent years, the recognition of Crimea as Russian, and the DPR and LPR as independent states.

Gerasimov never served in the military either

You’re a retard but, I guess, this is to be expected of British inbreeds.

lol, just looked at van Creveld’s blog (thanks for mentioning it!), and apparently he’s written a book from the perspective of Stalin, I suppose as a companion piece to his book about Hitler in hell. Might be a fun read.

It’s an all in attack, but, the casualties could be higher. Russia didn’t mobilize. Its using an expeditionary force.

According to military historian Martin Van Creveld, on his blog, Russia is attacking with almost no restraints. We are seeing the full force of the conventional Russian military

We have not seen wide scale use of artillery rendering cities uninhabitable. To me that seems like significant Russian military restraint trying to minimize civilian casualties. How is “almost no” defined?

The Russians have avoided over commitment, which is either slow or methodical depending on world view. Perhaps they are using the “full force” of what they have today. However, they can gradually pour more into the conflict as supply lines are optimized.

Ukraine has no hope to obtain military vehicles and larger systems, with the possible exception of replacement Bayraktar drones. What would a Ukrainian counter offensive look like? It is hard to see viable options to regain large swaths of ground after it is lost.

PEACE 😇

colonelcassad.livejournal.com
Details on Izyum.
March 13, 2022 20:06

Information on Izyum from a person who has been there in recent days.

The main territory of the city is controlled by Russian troops, the AFU was knocked out of the city centre, but retreating, the Ukrainians blew up two automobile bridges and ended up on a kind of peninsula. The Seversky Donets River creates a bend in the city and the southern part of the city, where the TV tower is located, is under the control of the AFU.

Up to a battalion of enemy infantry, reinforced with mortars and MLRS, is concentrated in this part of the city. Another pedestrian bridge leads to the southern part of the city. During the attack on Izyum, up to a company of Russian infantry was able to break through to the southern part of the city. Motorised infantry have taken a bridgehead and despite all the attempts of the AFU soldiers to knock out the Russian soldiers, our soldiers are not only holding on, but are gradually expanding the controlled territory.

In order to encircle the AFU in the city and further move towards Slavyansk, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation brought a pontoon crossing below Izyum. It was for this that the battles went on for 2 days. The deep reconnaissance company crossed the river, secured itself and fought to protect the crossing, while the bulk of armoured vehicles and infantry tried to cross it.

The AFU is conducting accurate mortar and artillery fire along the crossing, our armoured personnel carrier was literally rocking from near explosions. In the dead of night, near the village of Kamenka, an air strike was carried out on a cluster of enemy equipment and infantry that was hiding in the forest. I think I will soon be able to show you the footage of objective control.
Unfortunately, yesterday, while holding the bridgehead, a scout died the death of the brave. A shell scored a direct hit on him.

With regard to the AFU near Izyum, I want to say the following. They fight competently, mortar and artillery fire are very accurate. In the forests to the east and west of Izyum, as well as to the south on the road to Slavyansk, fortified areas have been created, from which mobile groups are constantly leaving, with roaming mortars and MLRS, taking off literally after the first salvo.

The enemy uses drones, has Buks and MANPADS in service, so the army aviation in this area works very carefully. On the territory cleared from the enemy, Russian troops are distributing humanitarian aid, trying to establish basic living conditions for local residents. At first, the locals treated us with caution, but now the majority are very friendly.

Now the Izyum direction is becoming a priority. If the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation goes well, it will allow surrounding the entire Donetsk grouping of the enemy and unite with the LDPR troops, creating a cauldron for several tens of thousands of AFU soldiers. Kiev understands this perfectly well, therefore they are making every effort to prevent the advance of Russian troops.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin/31983 – zinc

American prostitute dickhead from Stalingrad ( “Vilnius” is not the name now for that average city. I have renamed it after the man who, generously, gave it to Lithuanian prostitutes)…….. will you answer my point?

Because your worthless POS country, with the capital city of Stalingrad, staged a false flag that lead to closing of EU flights to Belarus, restrictions on Belavia and other sanctions…….. Lukashenko was motivated to be able to give Russia an extra point of attack through their own border, one which if it didnt exist then Operation Z certainly wouldn’t have happened.

I realise you have no free media in Lithuania and too many dumb, suicidal and alcoholic imbeciles to question the unexplained actions of Stalingrad ATC, transcripts or ANY interest in what the pilots had to say……. but this is quite an important issue for a population like yours to be willfully retarded on.

Here’s something scoffers are trying to sort out: Why did Putin play along with the COVID scam? IF he’s such a rebel and enemy of the WEF total control scheme, why did he never question it until now and only in the context of what really amounts to an intra-Russo-Slavic civil war?

Many people see a shadow play to cover the tracks and stymie civil disobedience against Vax Mandates. It sounds as though Russia’s covid policy was every bit as obnoxious as Canada and Germany other than Putin apparantly saying vaccine consumption is a private matter.

There’s so much smoke it’s difficult to find the fire.

Interesting how Putin is alleged to have been the KGB handler for Rainer Sonntag.

How developed was Soviet strategy In West Germany? Was it just a cynical move to fund any potentially destabilizing group, just as they gave weapons to Red Army Faction. All equal opportunity.

Or did they promote neo-Nazis as hobgoblins in order to strengthen the anti-Nazi ideology, as they understood how destructive it could be?

It takes a long time to read enough of an Infectious Disease textbook and a Virology textbook and a Vaccine textbook to confidently look through the b.s.

Gorbach is 2700 pp and weighs 11 pounds. That’s a month of your life gone right there. So he relies on experts. He depends on others he believes that he trusts.

Or did they promote neo-Nazis as hobgoblins in order to strengthen the anti-Nazi ideology, as they understood how destructive it could be?

It could have been an attempt to show how fascist the federal republic was, that such groups were allowed to proliferate. Real or alleged continuity with Nazi Germany was a prominent theme of Eastern Bloc propaganda against West Germany after all.
But I don’t know if there’s any evidence Eastern Bloc intelligence services ever actually did support neonazi groups. Had never heard about the allegations of Putin’s links to this Rainer Sonntag (whom I didn’t know about tbh). Sounds far-fetched to me.

Prepared for war now they are.

Here’s my humble take on the Ukraine situation. The West hates Russia. Or more specifically, our cultural elites hate Russia. Why? Because Russia poses a persistent ideological threat against “Western values.” It’s a complex historical issue, but perhaps it boils down to something very, very simple.

https://readingjunkie.com/2022/03/13/i-finally-understand-why-we-hate-russia/

Master,

Much appreciated and many, many thanks!

If Vitaly Milonov is not available, then I would choose Dmitry as a perfect candidate to take over the blog, ahead of myself. Individual comments he makes way down the page here are easily worthy of being a blog post, he’s even more mild-mannered and polite on here than I am to all the commentators, more prolific and with good knowledge. Unclear his patriot-level, but even “neutral” level is a huge improvement on the deluge of cretinism that anglo/western audiences are being brainwashed with.

Thanks for the offer though

Heard their support of the Red Army Faction was partly to get Western cars, which the group regularly stole and crossed the border with, using phony plates. It’s been alleged Putin was their handler and helped supply them with weapons, and was given a car in return, which he later returned to Russia in.

Never tried to read much late-stage Soviet or Warsaw Pact propaganda about Western Europe and America. I imagine it would be disappointing stuff about racism, which is basically the same tune that the USSR has been playing since the ’30s or before. Might as well read a Western paper of that time…

Off the top of my head, the only thing I remember is this – I suppose Putin could have been in on it. (OTOH, maybe, he was just reading pozzed German media and summarizing negative stories about Germans.)

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

A shame so many of the Stazi records were destroyed or else we may have had better guesses as to what Putin was doing, though I imagine they were circumspect about their Soviet contacts. Wouldn’t it be funny if he knew Merkel?

Got a bit carried away. Covid fever.

I had assumed ‘suddendeath’ was American.
Anyway, ditto Ukraine, but Lithuania has a long history and very distinct identity (with closest existing language to Proto Indo-European in grammar/phonology), after Balts were annexed in the Great Northern War they kept (or rather, their German overlords) far-ranging autonomy and local institutions. Not fair to compare them with something as manufactured as the modern Ukrainian state.

Lukashenko was motivated to be able to give Russia an extra point of attack through their own border, one which if it didnt exist then Operation Z certainly wouldn’t have happened.

All the same Luka has been very cautious (or rather, Putin has be careful not to embarrass him), although as Dmitri pointed out, the Belarusian army has zero combat experience.

Unclear his patriot-level, but even “neutral” level is a huge improvement on the deluge of cretinism that anglo/western audiences are being brainwashed with.

Well, he’s lived outside of Russia for a very long time, and apparently has absolutely zero desire to return (as you don’t either?), for understandable reasons. It’s clear enough he was horrified and blindsided by the outbreak of kinetic war, as any sensible person would be, but doesn’t care much for the Ukrainian kakistocracy either. I also don’t really see any winners in this.

Here’s something scoffers are trying to sort out: Why did Putin play along with the COVID scam? IF he’s such a rebel and enemy of the WEF total control scheme, why did he never question it until now and only in the context of what really amounts to an intra-Russo-Slavic civil war?

Based retard.

My friend, a cross-dresser & an alcoholic is much better stationed to represent the west than a shoe-box aficionado.

This article by Paul Starobin provides a good resume of the genesis of Western Russophobia:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-eternal-collapse-russia-11126

What just happened? Well, the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, the de-jure highest power of the land, made by 205 members, has proposed a series of changes to China’s constitution. Amongst them are the abolition of term limits for the 主席 President and 副主席 Vicepresident.

Previously, since 1982, there was a limit of two consecutive terms for both offices.
What do the president and vice president of China do? The offices have no power. The constitutions, and any other law, give them no power. None at all. They are completely ceremonial.

So what’s the point? That’s a good question. China has a weird double structure, where the party and state are distinct entities, but have completely mirror structures. For every province, city and county, there is a government, with its governors and mayors and vice governors and vice-mayors.

And then there’s a Communist Party committee for the same province city or county, with a secretary general. The secretary general calls the shots. The mayor isn’t an entirely ceremonial office, but it is completely subservient to the secretary general of the local committee. There has been lots of calls for abolishing this nonsense and just unify the administration, but the system remains in place.

The central government, the 国务院, has a “prime minister”, today Li Keqiang. That guy’s not ceremonial either, he wields substantial power. But for some reason, Deng Xiaoping in 1982 decided to put a President on top of the prime minister. I guess for diplomatic reasons. Foreigners don’t understand how Chinese politics work, not then and not now, so he wanted to make it easier to understand.

The party has its party statutes. And no, no term limits. Same for the military commission. No term limits. So the only term limits are those for the Presidency, which is the fake office. Of course it’s prestigious and all; but it has no real power.

Mao was not a dictator until 1966. And in order to become one he had to unleash the Cultural Revolution, where he physically killed every single enemy he had, and physically tortured about 90% of the party leadership. Mao did that precisely because he was not secure in his power.

After 1959 he was removed from power due to, well, causing the starvation of tens of millions of people with the Great Leap Forward. He thought he would be purged and disgraced; and so he threw everything he had against the party. And he won. That’s what Mao did. Xi Jinping is in a completely different situation. He has comfortable complete power over all the country, and in an orderly and formal way. He has nothing to fear.

As many of us now, it is not from secure power that bad government happens. It is due to insecure power, which leads the powerful to mess with society in order to secure it. That is what the Chinese historical tradition calls 乱, “disorder”. Mao’s time was a disorderly time. Xi Jinping’s time, you may like, or not like, but it is most certainly orderly.

Now, a lot of people in China are kinda freaking out. Mostly liberal-ish college grads. If only because having a president for life does cut off some potential avenues for upward status mobility. And people hate that, of course, people want more status, more every day. If Xi is smart, he’ll open up the economy a bit, so that status-maximizers can put their energies in making money and not in selling their country to USG’s bioleninist outreach department. We’ll see.

https://bioleninism.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/china-doesnt-care-about-your-opinion/
Spandrell.

You’re de facto right I guess, Idk I don’t care about China or Communism.

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You’re a Gay Armenian.

Your Greek Master says Sanskrit is closest to any PIE

http://indiafacts.org/fallacies-proto-indo-european/

There was a Proto Indo-European language 10.000 years ago. Its reconstruction is impossible now despite enormous efforts by fanciful scholars. The closest extant language is (old) Sanskrit.

Dr Nicholas Kazanas is a Greek-born (1939) scholar, Director of Omilos Meleton, Cultural Institute in Athens

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It’s been alleged Putin was their handler and helped supply them with weapons

I don’t think there’s anything to that at all tbh. When Putin came to East Germany in 1985, the 2nd generation of the RAF had already been mostly out of action for several years anyway (either imprisoned in West Germany, or in some cases living under new identity in East Germany…but the latter don’t seem to have had any active involvement in terrorism anymore). And the 3rd generation (which committed some high-profile assassinations until the early 1990s) is a very shadowy affair, not much is known about them and few of their members have ever been caught. There are theories that they were supported by the Stasi, but as far as I can tell that’s all speculation, there is no hard evidence.
I suspect Putin had some boring desk job during his time in East Germany, but would still be interesting to know.

Your Greek Master says Sanskrit is closest to any PIE

The context clearly implied living languages.
Of course Kazanas is revered by coping Pajeet nationalists, as I think he’s the only major linguistics scholar left arguing against the ‘invasion theory’ of India by the Indo-Aryans.

The man is a relic, he still rejects the Satem-Centum distinction on the basis of a few anomalies that were accounted for and decisively settled decades ago. Even more damningly, he comes close to rejecting Sausurre’s laryngeal theory, the foundational framework for all PIE studies since the decipherment of Hittite proved it beyond all reasonable doubt.
If it wasn’t for his great synchronic Analysis work on the Prakrits and Sanskrit itself, his views on broader PIE issues would be dismissed as mere crankery.

I doubt you read the article (probably just googled a phrase), but Kazanas even states Avestan (still used as Zoroastrian sacred tongue) is of equal antiquity to Sanskrit. Hittite is much older than both, although it’s identity was long obscured by unique developments within Anatolian IE languages, so much so that the group is sometimes considered a sister-branch to PIE as a whole.

But by all means, continue to worship the successive waves of Iranian tribes that crushed and enslaved your mixed-dravidian ancestors, in an essentially continuous cycle until the British arrived. Otherwise, Punjab would be being ruled by Pashtuns now.

FACTS and LOGIC, sir.

I didn’t say anything about him being an outstanding example of a virtuous nationalist. I just mean that he has the right, just as you have the right to take the side of Ukraine.

And I have already posted that we Americans will owe an eternal debt to Ukrainians if this war does in fact force rich European countries to start investing in their own military and defense.

but the latter don’t seem to have had any active involvement in terrorism anymore

Wasn’t there a sharp decline in leftist violence in Europe after the ’70s? My impression was that there was some generational change, that struck across different countries. Like for example, U.S. General James Lee Dozier was kidnapped in 1981 in Verona, Italy by the Red Brigades. They kept him for 42 days without killing him, and he was eventually rescued without a shot being fired.

So, maybe, Putin was working with the RAF, but the members who were operant weren’t the killers of the previous generation. I’m sure they would have considered it worthwhile, just to have them lift cars.

I thought the first gen got their weapons from the PLO, but, maybe, in Putin’s time, they might have been supplied with weapons to sell on the blackmarket? In return for services. (What else would they trade? Not hard currency, surely.) Of course, that is speculating a lot, but it is fun to speculate.

Supposedly, he sometimes crossed into West Germany, using an alias identity of a man working for TASS. According to one story, he was expelled from West Germany, after being suspected of spying in Bonn.

Alert: the paranoid ex-Libertarian Anatoly Karlin is still wielding his censorship scalpel!

If you value your own input to this blogsite, do not continue posting comments to any thread prior to Open Thread #181. It appears that Karlin still yields this privilege in prior threads, before Ron Unz severely reprimanded him for these anti-democratic practices. I was reading an interesting exchange between AP and Karlin yesterday, and posted my own reply to AP’s comment #449 within Open Thread #179. Interestingly enough, it isn’t there anymore. Apparently, Karlin didn’t appreciate my query as to his own sanity, that he sounded as if he were still using the powerful hallucinatory drug LSD – he’s admitted that he’s experimented with this drug in the past. It was nice, however, to see that AP scored many points within their exchange. 🙂

Wasn’t there a sharp decline in leftist violence in Europe after the ’70s? My impression was that there was some generational change, that struck across different countries.

3rd generation of RAF could actually be pretty vicious, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Pimental

As for any Putin connection, I think that’s just fantasy. But the issue is that not that much is known about the 3rd generation of RAF, investigators literally don’t know the identities of many of their members, and even some of those known have never been captured (iirc a few of them are known to have committed robberies in the 2010s, so these people are still alive, just have managed to evade capture for more than 30 years). So there’s room for a lot of speculation.

It’s also very curious (and telling) how all these newly sprouted pacifists only seem to be piping up now and now in any of the previous 8 years when the Ukrainians were bombarding Donbass.

Hey, Anatoly! Best point on the ‘thread’, or whatever this thing is now. No one was paying attention the past eight years in the Donbass. Those lives had no value? Indeed, where were the pacifists? There ARE no pacifists. Those are crocodile tears and shills picking at Russia’s hide. Since they didn’t give voice to the Donbass, I accord them no voice now.

Lots of new voices around here picking at YOUR hide lately, Anatoly. Consider them fleas. I for one miss your insights and information and photography. Your voice counts especially because you’ve been over there. Be well, young man.

I was just..

If you ever feel like posting to again, remember — a golden nightingale is hovering at the tip of my spear.

Wasn’t there a sharp decline in leftist violence in Europe after the ’70s? My impression was that there was some generational change, that struck across different countries.

I suspect behaviour was the same.

The difference was driven by perception. The leftward media shift was beginning. Progressive groups were no longer criticized for uncivilized activity. Coverage of crimes focused through the lens of race. Violence became acceptable as long as it was For The Greater Good of leftist causes.

PEACE 😇

Punjab was free’d from Pashtuns by the Khalsa though.
There were even dozens of Hindu cities in Armenia, now all u do is produce porn for Blacks.

There’s no genetic continuity between the Indus Valley & the Gangetics or Dravidas.
:shrug: https://araingang.medium.com/the-indus-valley-is-genetically-distinct-from-north-india-f2fe98e3e099

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Thanks, that is interesting. Curious how there were all these attacks on American and British bases in mainland Europe, but now it almost seems like the Left has come around to supporting American imperialism.

Guess the IRA and ETA were still pretty active in the ’80s. But maybe those count as paramilitaries? Or maybe, it just took longer for the same trends to manifest there because of remoteness or higher TFR.

Think they had something like 50 KGB officers in East Germany, so I wouldn’t necessarily call that high odds, even if the Soviets were connected. Then, again, by the fall of the Wall, Putin was a Lt. Colonel, and I believe in charge of the KGB HQ in Dresden. If anyone was dealing with them, guess it would be in the KGB files, which were successfully removed from Germany, by Putin and his subordinates. Unless he scrubbed them.

Karlin,

is this for real ? The timing seems a bit convenient and there is no snow, but perhaps they efficiently remove snow as well as dissidents.

"Two Words", Moscov, 2022. from Unexpected

The thing that I admired most about AK’s blog was his ability to foster such a diverse and (usually) collegial collection of viewpoints. I felt that this was a very positive reflection of AK and something he had a right to be very proud of. While the commentariat was not a direct offshoot of his ideological work, it was still something rather special that coalesced around him and his writing. The fact that so many open threads have continued without him is an oblique tribute to him.

It seems clear that AK does not feel the same and has moved on to other priorities, though it’s too bad that he has taken a hostile attitude. It seems that he could have moved on to his other future works and priorities without burning bridges from his past.

Regardless, I still deeply appreciate the writing and generosity of spirit the AK has exhibited on the blog in the past, and wish him the best in whatever he lays his hand to.

guess i’ll be posting here for the duration, as Steve Sailer has completely lost it, and gone full boomer.

Here’s an interesting blurb about the Weather Underground:

However, by 1976 the organization was disintegrating. The Weather Underground held a conference in Chicago called Hard Times. The idea was to create an umbrella organization for all radical groups. However, the event turned sour when Hispanic and Black groups accused the Weather Underground and the Prairie Fire Committee of limiting their roles in racial issues.

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

However, I don’t think that would explain the changes in Europe.

Thanks for sharing this. I hadn’t seen any of his reports, and am surprised that YouTube hasn’t removed them. Brave guy.

Bro, the Ukranians have been hijacking every single discussion for the last 3 years if not 4 or 5.
Go to his Discord & ask you’ll see almost everyone agree.

This forum has no mandate to cater to the needs of Mr. Hack, AP & a few others (no personal offence)
While pain & suffering should be alleviated, Fuck Ukraine for that reason alone & Fk Khokhols.

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https://discordapp.com/channels/@me/640459736919048202/952795439751634944

Sikh man attacked in Sacramento but he came Strapped. from Sikh

This. https://t.co/wUtoRgV8HW pic.twitter.com/nmY8h9wc6f

— ਮੁਰੀਦ (@sang_Sadhu_ka) December 30, 2021

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How stupid. Karlin mentioned nothing about a preponderance of Ukrainian sympathizer comments that caused him to leave this blogsite. In fact, he really hasn’t left this site, as he continually reappears, that other non-Ukrainian sympathizers have found to be bizarre. The truth of the matter, up until this stupid war commenced, he and I got along rather well. He even invited me to personally visit him if ever in Moscow. We shared cooking tips and he even shared with me a way to pirate current films. Hi friendship with AP was legendary. It’s since this war started that he’s donned his Darth Vader costume and seems to get his jollies from watching bombed out civilian enclaves in Ukraine. For this, I will not cut him any slack, why should I?

Gerard writes subtle posts with multi-levels of meaning, for a small circle of cognoscenti, which may not actually exist here to interpret them.

Sometimes he loses the discipline to hide his sophistication, shows his real personality, starts writing about Oscar Peterson’s fingering innovations of the left hand, or a progression of catenaccio tactics in 1980s Italian football.

If Gerard is not careful, you know he would start to explain about his interest in the early theological writings of Hegel, or the effect of Bösendorfer’s engineers in the Yamaha CFX range.

When Gerard is writing “Master” above, he is satirizing the neurological situation shown recently by the old moderator of this forum.

This “Master Master”, is reference to a character “Renfield”, in the story of “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.

Renfield is usually calmly eating insects, in his room in London insane asylum. In peaceful times, Renfield is able to have almost normal discussions about his master (Dracula) with the psychologists, and happy to sit alone, eat rats and dream about his master’s plans.

But when the evil approaches to civilized London, then Renfield’s brain is flooded with neurotransmitters and excitement. Suddenly, can not anymore speak normally to people, but just shouts in short, not coherent sentences “Master Master”.

The analogy is perfect for the recent experiences caused to our forum discussions, before Ron Unz has returned freedom of speech. But I’m not surprised that Gerard is thinking the same, and he was the first martyr of a lighter censorship here.

I agree.
Ask on the discord lot of people are pissed the board going Ukro-centric few yrs back.

I complained & got on fine afterwards, but anyone pretending this place hasn’t changed since 2018 or thereabouts is lying. A lot of old commentators either left or have thankfully reached discord. I sympathize with both the Bravery of the Ukrainians & the Geo-political ambitions of the Rus which are well out-lined here: https://akarlin.com/struggle-europe-mankind/

This went from an international place to a mostly Slavic one, and that’s fine. Mirrors Tolya’s move East. 😉

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Looks like you share the same psycho drugs dealer with Karlin now, lol

Anyways even if living in fantasy land it shows your lowly ungrateful inner nature – instead being respectfuly thankful to us for being the cause to implement oh so succesful impressive victorious superbly planned and executed Operation Z, you’re angrily hallucinating instead when seeing this great RF march 😉

Such lack of joyous enthusiasm at the cusp of crushing victory is very typical to Western recruited double spies so all seeing eyes and hands of RF motherland agencies should very deservedly bring you under trial soon.

Ask on the discord

A haven for unwashed NEETs, teenage gamers, trannies, glowies and schizos. I’ll pass.
With it, feels like Akarlin’s return to his ideological roots with the likes of Oliver D Smith, Mark Steyn readers and that ‘PUA’ women-respecter with a head like Red Dwarf’s Kryten.

It is odd though. Karlin abandons his blog, and a short while later, echoes the same uncritical triumphalism he mocked in writers like ‘The Saker’ for years. I mean a lot of people who wish the best for an independent Russia immediately saw the commencement of this invasion as an unavoidable castastrophe.

There is usually an attempt to distinguish between businessmen and oligarchs.

Oligarchs are wealthy because of political/security connections, “state capture” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capture) .

Whereas businessman is wealthy, somehow because of their own entrepreneurship.

There is retail banker Tinkov trying to claim he and Galitsky (founder of supermarket chain now owned by Lavrov’s Israeli son-in-law), are the only not oligarchs in Russia, due to lack of political connection. This is my paraphrase of his new post.

It’s an example where he has the hand in the biscuit jar for too long, and the now a jar has closed, before he could safely the remove the biscuit and hand to London.

Most of his money is in America and London, and his children live in London, as British citizens. But he didn’t exit his business before the jar closes, and now much of his wealth will be in rubles.

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For more apparently “prepping” people, here Boris Yeltsin’s granddaughter, who has likely inherited some unknown vast wealth as a product of state capture of the Yeltsin family.

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There is a hand and biscuits (or hundreds of millions of dollars) safely removed from political problems jar of the postsoviet space. Don’t even have to make the account private.

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As Dmitri hinted at, I really don’t think you should take all Gerard’s posts at face value, he is a Zhirik-like figure, and one of the most knowledgeable commenters here, under his clown persona.

I didn’t read Anatoly Karlin regularly, but checked in once in a while. I bemoaned his leaving on record, especially coming right after Audacious Epigone shutting down his blog.

But I am surprised by the change in his online demeanor since he moved on to Substack. My impression was that he had his strong and unusual opinions, but they were often backed by data and evidence, and he usually seemed congenial enough to debate those who differed with him.

His last several comments on Unz seem extremely ungracious, especially to his previous audience who helped to grow whatever prominence he has now. It smacks of burning bridges with a past employer now that he has a new employer (so to speak), i.e. “All the readers who pay to read me moved with me to Substack, so screw the rest of you on Unz who criticize my writings – you are all just a bunch of Ukrainian Fascist shills!”

He also seems to have gone “full Putin,” writing Baghdad Bob-like propaganda such as attributing Russian failures or difficulties to naivete or “Christ-like” gentleness of the Russian politico-military leaders rather than tactical/operational failures or strategic miscalculations.

Although I was not sympatico with many of his views, I previously held him in relatively high regard as a truth-seeker, so I am disappointed in his latest online iteration. Nonetheless, I wish him well and hope he comes out well of the end of whatever is going on in Russia today.

Believe it or not, you might recall that I would often rally to Gerard’s defense whenever Karlin would ban him from making comments, although I enjoyed poking fun at some of his ideas. What was most disgusting about the man, was his acidic style, that could never offer him any congeniality points. We both thought highly of the music of Chick Corea (I remember you being a fan too), so he couldn’t be all bad. 🙂

Considering that both Putin and Biden reads this blog, no much surprise that Zhirik does it too and even goes further with occasional postings, especially when waking up from coma now 🙂

Thanx, Putler! 😉

As recently as a year ago, many Americans did not know what to make of Ukraine — if they knew anything about it at all. One-third of voters couldn’t say whether it was friendly or unfriendly to the U.S.

Not anymore.

In a striking — if perhaps not surprising — shift over the last year and since Russia’s invasion, an overwhelming majority of Americans now say Ukraine is a friendly country. In a new YouGov survey, 81 percent of Americans say Ukraine is either friendly or an ally, a figure that rivals or even exceeds that of many longtime U.S. allies like France or Japan. Only Britain, Canada and Australia earned more favorable ratings from voters.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/12/upshot/ukraine-russia-ally-enemy.html

If American colleges continue their debasement Chinese institutions might gain prestige for maintaining their intellectual rigor, at least in STEM. Russian ones too, if you don’t mind being locked out of the Western Noosphere. Accelerationism is good!

Another motorcade by Serbians in support of the Russian anti-Nazi intervention in the Ukraine

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/second-pro-russia-rally-held-in-belgrade/

I actually linked Putin’s appearance in the WEF – if you believe the WEF is omnipotent, the war in Ukraine “could be” the 2nd stage of the Great Reset by imploding the energy and food markets. But they can’t even stop BoJo from getting rid of NHS COVID Pass and Austria suspending the vaccine mandate. They’re a cruel joke.

Has Vučić said anything on the invasion? Would he welcome Russian troops and his country being absorbed into the Great Slavic Empire, if they rolled across NATO member Romania?

A reply to a previous comment of yours:

Anyways, why do the Russians seem to be doing literally everything so terribly from an optics point of view, down to their propoganda – as I said before, showing respect for Ukrainian bravery would actually look so much better than calling it things like “fanatical resistance” that must be punished etc, as Karlin does.

It’s a war, of course they’ll fight back. This is bad? And the whole manipulation thing, the whole we’ll force you to be our brothers thing…

This language can only occur in a weird post-modern setting like ours, and moreover is the language of psychopathic manipulation that is so characteristic of our times.

There is nothing post-modern nor psychopathic about this way of talking and thinking. The way the Russians talk about Ukrainians now (it’s just a fake state, no right to exist, resistance is either illegitimate or ‘fanatical’) is almost identical to how Europeans talked about nationalist revolutionaries in the decolonization wars. We also called resistance there ‘lawless’ or ‘fanatical’ and tried to delegimitize the nationalist project by focusing on a few worst elements (like the Russians are now doing with Azov, we did with communists fighting in the ranks).

The Russians categorically deny that Ukrainians can either think for themselves or deserve any sort of self-legitimation. To do so, they must mentally frame the Ukrainians as infantile, fanatical, or traitorous and degenerate. That’s all quite normal human psychology. Anatoly’s first insistence that Ukrainian resistance would quickly evaporate, and then a switch to calling it ‘fanatical’ or whatever, mirrors decolonization war rhetoric almost 100%. It will, of course, never be acknowledged that Ukrainians have little good experience under the Russian umbrella. ‘They just don’t know what’s good them’.

Your idea that our time is one of ‘psychopathic manipulation’ is ungrounded in the sense that manipulation by a ruling power has always been around and has always been intense. That is of course the Marxist critique of religion in the modern state. I guess our propaganda may just be more intense, more aimed at doubt than conviction, and more disorienting.

Also, a general comment: I believe Anatolys recent change of heart is mostly just a symptom of ‘your brain on nationalism’. The more nationalist you get, the more unreasonable. It’s a shame.

Ukraine is a fake, failed state created by Lenin and Stalin – its 2 historic “enemies” who they blame for everything

Algeria is a creation of the French, Indonesia was created by the Dutch. Didn’t help us win the war. When Indonesia rose up we called nationalism there fake as countless languages are spoken there and Indonesia had had no national existence before us. Yet the uprising against us was massive and Indonesia still exists.

colonelcassad.livejournal.com – Russian source – Yandex translation edited (warning – dead and injured in photographs)
Strike at Donetsk. 14.03.2022

March 14, 12:44

As a result of the “Tochka-U” strike on the centre of Donetsk, 20 people were killed (most likely more), including children. There are also a large number of wounded. The missile was heading for the centre of Donetsk, the air defence most likely operated too late and the missile was shot down actually over the city centre. As a result, the cluster munition mowed down people on the streets. In the event of a rocket falling in the centre of the city, there would be even more victims.
Obviously, there were no serious military facilities here, just a terrorist attack with the aim of killing civilians. Which Ukraine has systematically committed for 8 years in the Donbass. Sensing approaching defeat, the Ukrainian Nazis simply seek to leave behind even more victims and destruction.

Materials from the centre of Donetsk are also posted in the TC – https://t.me/boris_rozhin (be careful, there is an 18+ video)

“Vzglyad” Russian website – Yandex translation edited

A mercenary from the United States ended up at the Yavorovsky training ground during a missile strike

March 14, 2022, 04:07

Text: Anton Antonov
During the Russian missile strike on the territory of the Yavorovsky training ground in Ukraine, there were also American militants there, according to American media.

The New York Times reports that the American asked not to be named for security reasons. He told the publication that he had previously worked with explosives in Iraq. According to him, the sound of the Russian strike was similar to the fall of a jet plane, the roofs of buildings caught fire, people started screaming.

The Russian army on Sunday morning, with high-precision long-range weapons, struck the training centres of the armed forces of Ukraine in the village of Starichi and at the Yavorovsky military training ground, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2rfim4XEtA&ab_channel=%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8

Russian Su-25 survives Ukrainian missile hit. Pilot describes incident. I used to think solid hits from missiles on aircraft were almost invariably fatal in the jet age, but obviously they are not.

According to ColonelCassad, the Banderites targeted the city center of Donetsk with a SRBM. That’s an indicative of their desperation. Russian spearheads started to block escape routes to the west and the big aggrupation of Ukr forces west of Donetsk seems doomed.

As a result of the Tochka-U attack on the center of Donetsk, 20 people were killed (probably more), including children. Also a large number of wounded. The missile went to the center of Donetsk, the air defense probably worked late and the missile was shot down over the center of the city. As a result, cluster munitions wiped out people in the streets. If a rocket fell in the center of the city, there would be even more victims.
Obviously, there were no serious military installations here, just terrorists aiming to kill civilians. That Ukraine systematically committed 8 years in the Donbass. Sensing impending defeat, the Ukrainian Nazis are simply eager to leave more casualties and destruction in their wake.

The missile went to the center of Donetsk, the air defense probably worked late and the missile was shot down over the center of the city. As a result, cluster munitions wiped out people in the streets. If a rocket fell in the center of the city, there would be even more victims.

Is there anybody with a slight military knowledge at all? Tocka rocket in airflight was shot down, but yet somehow was able to do a cluster munition attack? If I’m not mistaken, these type of rockets are meant only to blow up effectively when reaching the target on the ground, but not when shot in midflight.

More evidence that the EU is doomed: (1)

At a time when war rages in Ukraine, the European Parliament is busy voting on gender-neutral toilets, Annika Bruna, MEP for the French National Rally, complained in a tweet.

“Dear friends, while there is a war raging in Eastern Europe, the healthcare crisis has consequences that could destroy the country and inflation threatens us, the European Parliament is busy discussing the issue of its own toilets,” Bruna said. “In fact, yesterday the majority of deputies voted on an analysis of the composition of the toilets in (the European) Parliament, on how to account for all person’s needs and the necessity of gender-neutral toilets

Even if Zelensky manages to get Ukraine into the EU, how does that help? Carbon Taxes? Emissions trading? Bathroom design?

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://rmx.news/egyeb/while-war-rages-in-ukraine-european-parliament-votes-on-gender-neutral-toilets/

I’m unqualified to judge the change in the board pre-2018 since I wasn’t around that much prior. I gravitated more toward AE anyhow prior to his leaving and landed here since it was the only worthwhile commenting section left at UNZ.

Regardless of how the board has shifted over 3 or 4 years, the change in AK’s attitude seems quite recent and precipitous, as Mr. Hack points out.

Personally, I find it somewhat interesting to see the partisans on both sides spar, even if it is a somewhat futile exercise. It’s really not like AP or Mr. Hack are content-free trolls, even if they are staunch Ukrainian boosters. Mr. Hack may give too much credence to stuff he sees on Twitter, but they are usually both well rounded commenters.

Besides, what would be the point of a “Rah Rah Russia” echo chamber? That just sounds boring, like some pro-Russian version of the Breitbart comment section. I like seeing the true believers on both sides along with the agnostics trapped in the same room.

Airbursts just over the ground can be as lethal as those that actually strike the ground. The late interception was in mid-flight but probably close enough to the ground for casualties to occur. The Ukrainians in the east, now more or less trapped, probably can’t target anything more sophisticated than the centre of a city and don’t mind killing civilians anyway.

Mr. Hack may give too much credence to stuff he sees on Twitter,

I never use Twitter, and only view its contents here at this blog when somebody occasionally copy/pastes it over to here. I find that its layout and commenting features are way too stiff and inflexible. I don’t use facebook either for similar reasons and am also weary of the way its manipulated for marketing purposes. I used to be involved in a project that would mine LinkedIn for similar marketing purposes, so I know how it’s done.

You focus too much on the optics. There is very little about Ukraine-Russia situation that resembles colonialism. Would we use colonial analogies with England-Scotland or Canada-Quebec? This is a different beast.

There is also no single Ukrainian view: there are Ukie nationalists, some going all the way to the Nazi-like Azov (minority). There are pro-Russian Ukrainians, thinking of themselves as Russians in Ukraine, or sometimes just Russians – they were a majority in the east and south, half of the country. People who claim that Maidan (based in Kiev and the Galicia) or the war have changed it don’t understand how identity works – it takes a longer to change, we are who we are. There is a quiet majority of non-committed who mostly want peace, and always eventually go with the winning side.

It is not a colonial situation and Russia doesn’t say that there is no Ukrainian nation – the Western propaganda exaggerates to score cheap points. It is much simpler: Russia refuses to allow a militant, NATO-run anti-Russia on its strategic borders. Those who pretended for 14 years that Kiev will join NATO and allowed it for 8 years to bomb Donbas killing 10k civilians are now scrambling for a new narrative. What actually happened is not a good story for the West, so it has been forgotten.

Wars clarify things. First they create massive polarization, people yell at each other. We would prefer for this not to take place. But how could this be resolved? Russia had a very clear red line – no anti-Russia run by NATO from Kiev on its borders, NATO’s insisted on ignoring it. Today that insistence is not something that anyone in the West wants to remember – they either try to deny it outright, or say that it was all empty talk, or that it was in the far away future. Or they say that nothing matters now and we must just focus on the war and the suffering. That is dishonest, narratives by omission are lying narratives.

probably can’t target anything more sophisticated than the centre of a city and don’t mind killing civilians anyway.

For whatever reasons RF forces seem to be doing exactly the same anyway:

Moment of missile impact in Kurenivka district, Kyiv, Ukraine on 14.03.22 from CombatFootage

You are desperately trying to whitewash the war crime of the Banderites. Anyway, they are doomed. Better for them to surrender to the Russians. Donbass militia will not have mercy.

So you concede that the Ukrainians were deliberately trying to kill civilians. Their shooting at Donbass over years has rarely been an exercise in precise targeting. But if they regard the people there as treacherous Moskals and katsap, this explains it.

Somebody can concede or not only when having strike target coordinates and nobody has them atm, so any firesure claims are all meant just for propaganda purposes and to stir the rage and fury and nothing else.

Those trying to support the Ukrainian side have been engaged rather obvious Pallywood charades. For example (1)

The propaganda out of the Ukraine/Hollywood association is continuing unabated. In a Twitter video today, pushed by Buzzfeed Journalist Christopher Miller {SEE HERE}, the claim is, “President Zelensky walked to a hospital today to visit wounded Ukrainian soldiers and award them with state honors for their sacrifices.”

However, alert researchers noted {SEE HERE} the woman to Zelenskyy’s left, in the video, is a physician named Inna Derusova. She was reported to have died on February 26th.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Ukraine-Hoax-2.jpg

As we said from the outset, do not take anything at face value. Question everything that is being presented. The level of western propaganda to support the intents of the U.S./NATO and multinational community are extreme.
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TechnoFog took a look at the Mariupol maternity hospital story. That too looks faked and manufactured for western media consumption intended to influence the mind of U.S. and allied citizens
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The other story of the U.S. journalist shot and killed today?… Also, very sketchy.

Follow the link below for more detail on the other two fabrications.

The Fake Stream Media (CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT) have been losing credibility and viewers for some time. Uncritically accepting fictional war stories accelerates the process.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” — Abraham Lincoln

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/13/another-round-of-ukraine-hoaxes-discovered/

The way the Russians talk about Ukrainians now (it’s just a fake state, no right to exist, resistance is either illegitimate or ‘fanatical’) is almost identical to how Europeans talked about nationalist revolutionaries in the decolonization wars.

In a very real sense the decoupling of Ukraine from Russia is a decolonization war, that’s been going on at least from the beginning of the 20th century.

I believe Anatolys recent change of heart is mostly just a symptom of ‘your brain on nationalism’. The more nationalist you get, the more unreasonable. It’s a shame.

Karlin has never presented himself to the world as anything other than a Russian nationalist. This new aggression of Russia’s in Ukraine has provided him an opportunity to give full vent to all of his pent up Russian aspirations. I agree, that it’s a shame, for it seems to be taking him down a very unsavory road. For him, it’s a vindication of his Triune theories that I was never able to get him to fully explain in very much detail over the years. Funny thing is, that his Triune theory, if it had been used correctly, could have been used to greater aplomb if it had been presented as something other than a dictat. But now?…..

The Serbian government has condemned the Russian invasion by voting against Russia in the UN like most countries.

There is also no single Ukrainian view

The same in decolonization wars, where there was a large mass of uncommitted ‘natives’, especially in rural areas. Nationalists were roughly divided in a nationalist, communist, and islamist camp (I think both in Indonesia and Algeria).

There are pro-Russian Ukrainians, thinking of themselves as Russians in Ukraine, or sometimes just Russians – they were a majority in the east and south, half of the country.

Algeria had French and harkis, Indonesia had Ambonese, Chinese, Dutch minorities…

There is a quiet majority of non-committed who mostly want peace, and always eventually go with the winning side.

Like I said, it was the same in Indonesia. However the majority doesn’t decide anything, since the apathethic mass just has no decisive influence. Nationalist grip on the villages was more tight (they routinely executed or removed collaborating mayors). This once again reminds me of Ukraine although Ukies don’t seem as hardcore.

Russia doesn’t say that there is no Ukrainian nation, not a colonial situation

In Indonesia, we accepted the possibility of an Indonesian state. But officers would have to be Dutch, with our Dutch queen as head of state, a federal, not unitary model… We accepted a state but it would have to be dependent. The indonesians could not stomach a dependent state and so they fought for unconditional independence. It’s still very similar to Ukraine now imo.

‘Russia doesn’t say there’s no Ukrainian nation’, the problem is Russia is treating Ukraine as an errant extension of the Russian state/people. The nationalist side (of which Karlin and guys in tg channels or Twitter are representative) routinely and casually deny the Ukrainian right to statehood and think of them as delusional, larping ‘small Russians’ that have to be dragged back into the fold, kicking and screaming. Putin in his latest speeches has echoed this sentiment. If you say ‘Russians and Ukrainians are one people’ you more or less deny Ukraine is meaningfully a separate nation. We also thought of the Indonesians as to be dragged back into the fold, kicking and screaming, by the way.

Russia refuses to allow a militant, NATO-run anti-Russia on its strategic borders

Dumb propaganda peddled by Russia to make its invasion of an independent state seem defensive and therefore more legitimate. That’s when it’s not saying out of the side of its mouth ‘also Ukraine is a NATO regime that we can replace when we want, and Ukrainians are not a separate people’. The Russia ‘club’ (Chechnya, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and maybe soon Ukraine) has all been dragged in by its hair. What a great defensive alliance! I wonder how much we had to coerce the entirety of Europe to come and join NATO? They sure joined quickly! I wonder which old (imperial) overlord they were afraid of

A colonial empire or a Tsarist/Soviet empire- what does it matter. It’s still an empire, with all the disregard for small nations that entails.

Btw there was no Scottisch independence war…

So, even if the photo was misused, didn’t Zelensky actually visit the hospital? All of this fuss, just to try and discredit Zelensky? It’s too bad that Putler doesn’t have the guts to visit his own injured soldiers or even help to obtain the corpses of his dying soldiers so that they can be properly buried.

From the more recent open thread that now appears to be closed:

It’s noteworthy that the foreign fighters Ukraine is getting are not mercenaries but volunteers, and not from a foreign civilizational sphere.

That’s funny – I just read a western mass media piece about how Ukrainians are demanding foreign fighters sign indefinite contracts (for \$230 a month, lol), and a good number are refusing and leaving the country.

https://archive.ph/2022.03.11-135510/https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/03/11/fighters-with-ukraines-foreign-legion-are-being-asked-to-sign-indefinite-contracts-some-have-refused

Yeah but it seems to me that the RusNat side overruled his autistic HBD research side (rationalism) more and more as time went by. For gods sake, how much of a nationalist can you really be, blogging in English all the time for your cosmopolitan audience?

The triune theory makes sense to me, personally. But remember, Americans and British were also more or less one people (in a cultural sense) when the Americans tore themselves free in a very convincing manner. Culture simply isn’t everything.