I’ve only watched about an hour so far. The internet tells me Portal is 5′ 5″ tall, so I guess that means in real life he is 5′ 2″. That is 157 cm for all of you godless Europeans.

Also when I looked that up google served me as a side dish some reddit post where a body weight fitness fan claims that everything Portal promotes that is actually useful he took from this guy:

Mr Unz,

The article has a critical problem. It does not address the fact that the U.S. has an unelected coup leader, Not-The-President Biden. For example:

Western Europe will increasingly rue the day that it blindly followed the American Pied Piper to war against Russia.

As the U.S. is incapable of leading. It is impossible for Europe to follow something that does not exist. The article should have said:

Western Europe will increasingly rue the day that it blindly followed the European/WEF Pied Piper to war against Russia.

Another example:

Europe already perceives the US as a declining power with an erratic and hypocritical foreign policy “vision” premised upon the desperate need to preserve “American leadership” in the world.

The White House occupant is so far gone he cannot successfully ride a bicycle. A mental invalid cannot form a foreign policy “vision”. Thus, by process of elimination, the “vision” must be European in origin. The article should read:

Europe is a declining power with an erratic and hypocritical foreign policy “vision” premised upon the desperate need to preserve “EU leadership” in the world.

Bottom line:

— The Problem with Europe is *Europe* —

Remember, Ukraine was lured into this folly because European Elites (100% without America) offered the lure of EU membership.

Incorrectly attributing Europe’s mistakes to America is the European WEF’s #1 backup plan. They seek to avoid responsibility for the actions of their EU Elites.

PEACE 😇

Putin did not object to EU membership. He did not like NATO (America) threatening to base troops in Kharkov.

Kaliningrad situation is a significant development.

Putin did not object to EU membership. He did not like NATO (America) threatening to base troops in Kharkov.

Let me Fix That For You:

Putin did not object to EU membership. He did not like NATO (European Elites) threatening to base troops in Kharkov.

PEACE 😇

For anyone interested in a light online game, Tiny Islands is entertaining:

https://dr-d-king.itch.io/tiny-islands

PEACE 😇

Interesting thread:

Two months ago I said that the fight for the Donbas would have little bearing on the outcome of the war

Now as that fight moves into its attritional phase, Putin's evolving strategy is becoming quite clear. He believes time is on his side. And he may be right 🧵 https://t.co/nMCBzhYlUp

— Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) June 20, 2022

Maybe Lithuania is actually on the right track. Perhaps rail traffic to Kaliningrad should be stopped completely.

btw, it was initiative of a European Commision headed by von der Leyen, they sent explanatory letter to LT government where it was said that EU trade sanctions concerning specific goods transportation is also applicable to RF materials transportation into Kaliningrad through EU land.

RF side knows this very well, they themselves said about it publicly lately (eg. RT interview with Kaliningrad’s current governor) and called EU diplomatic representative in Moscow to arrive into RF foreign ministry in order to give official protest about that.

I’d guess it may be just some kind of EU answer to recent RF gas blackmail when the flows turned off to Germany, Italy, France and Austria nearly by half atm.

Ukraine has already become a de facto NATO client state, in case you haven’t noticed. I can only see this relationship growing as time goes on. Putler, on the other hand, instead of “protecting” Kharkiv from NATO involvement, has solely opened up the opportunity for Norway and Finland to become full fledged members de jure, by his stupid actions. He’s certainly not the wily chess player that some have opined about. He’s going to end up the big dummy in all of this, and as I predicted early on, China will end up being the big winner.

Fuller’s “secondary condemnation” category for the West is quite debatable for the very reason he gives about how Russia’s reasonable requests were treated. For accuracy sake, Kiev regime fault lines shouldn’t be glossed over.

Remember, Ukraine was lured into this folly because European Elites (100% without America) offered the lure of EU membership.

Wrong again. Ukraine was “lured” into this war, because it was attacked on several fronts by an aggressive and imperialistic Russia. The possibility of EU membership was a bi-product of this insane invasion, that wasn’t even offered until after the third month of hostilities.

Today the Verkhovna Rada adopted a total of three important bills aimed at freeing the Ukrainian cultural and information space from Russian influences and stimulating the development of national cultural industries.

All three received support from almost all factions and groups. More than 300 deputies voted in favor. Against – no vote.

Would be interesting to see troop movements within Kalinlingrad & Belarus and find if something similar to the buildup last winter happens again. If so it is either WWIII (China already is planning to retake Taiwan and will put their plans into action once Europe is ablaze) and/or NATO collapses. Russia and China are taking up what was left unfinished by Germany and Japan.

The Lithuanian blockade of Kaliningrad is a major step towards WW III. They have also confronted China over the status of Taiwan. o, we now have two major escalations by a US puppet regime against both Russia ans China. Welcome to WW III.

Kaliningrad is one of the real nuclear trip wires. The Balts are terrifying me.

NATO is the US. It’s the Delian League (Athens) reborn.

And the Russians are going to kill every American and Brit they can get hold of in the Ukraine. It’s a full blown war of extermination.

https://theduran.com/ukraine-further-restricts-russian-culture-eu-blocks-rail-transport-to-kaliningrad-as-russia-continues-donbass-offensive/

The Lithuanian blockade of Kaliningrad is a major step towards WW III. They have also confronted China over the status of Taiwan. o, we now have two major escalations by a US puppet regime against both Russia ans China. Welcome to WW III.

Some small dogs can bark louder than some larger ones.

It is only a partial blockade. What would Nato do if Russia blows up the Klaipeda LNG terminal? Would that be it?

This is shaping up as the war for all marbles – nobody will step back. Within a few months this could be a regional war with the Balts, Belarus, Poles, Romanians joining in. If Russia moves further west it is very likely that Poland will move into Western Ukraine. At that point, the question will be: if Russia attacks them with missiles will that be an attack on Nato, or would it be considered an adventure by Poland on its own? (e.g. like Turkey attacks on Syria or Iraq)

All 6 of them? Wow!

What would Nato do if Russia blows up the Klaipeda LNG terminal?

It should be mentioned that main floating FSRU type vessel stationed there, named “Independence”, is not even Lithuanian property atm, it belongs to another NATO country – Norwegian company “Hoegh” is the owner.

To confirm with the survey posted by German Reader above, it feels like there is some dark magic here.

Years ago I too had heard that, seemingly incongruously, there was quite a bit of occultism practiced in the USSR. However, it has to be said, as with a great many things which parallel between Capitalism and Communism, the United States also has historically had an abundance of occultism present.

And what kind of mysterious esoteric incantation is involved with this “Z”.

That’s an easy one.

The letter ‘Z’ is the ‘trigger’ for the global group mind (or, the public mind) to know that World War III has commenced. The ‘programming’ for this largely occurred with the 2013 release of Brad Pitt’s World War Z, which was about a global pandemic occurring simultaneously with a world war. The movie raked in over a half billion dollars, so there’s no question large numbers of people globally saw the film.

The 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate featured the red Queen of Diamonds card as a trigger for the central character. [See clip(s) below] Once the character had been so triggered he entered into a trance state where he could be ordered to do anything, including assassinating a presidential candidate, and afterwards forget everything.

While I seriously question if people can be that tightly controlled through brainwashing, even today, it does seem people can be psychologically conditioned via the corporate mass media to be triggered by the sight of certain objects, and respond in some uncomplicated manner. The red ‘MAGA’ baseball cap and the violent response it elicited from many would seem to be an example of this.

‘Z’ I would propose is another.

What two experts on the subject of propaganda had to say about the motion picture (ie ‘movies’):

‘The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture [ie motion picture] when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.’

— Elmer Davis, Chief of US Office of War Information (1942-45), as quoted in Hollywood Goes to War 

‘The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today.’

—Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, and author of the 1928 book Propaganda

The parties that would have voted “no” had already been banned.

He’s certainly not the wily chess player that some have opined about.

NATO expansion was just an excuse, the Russians have already said they don’t much care about Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

This is about Muscovian Imperialism, pure and simple. They have already annexed Belarus in all but name, now they want to actually annex Ukraine, the heartland of Ancient Rus.

True, but they wouldn’t have enough votes to stop it anyways. They had about 30% support at most even before the invasion, much less afterwards.

If the Balts somehow got rid of their Russians, their leaders would probably be talked into filling up all the empty space with migrants.

Better to keep the elderly Russians and give them antisenescents.

SpaceX launched three Falcon 9s in 36.5 hours, beating previous commercial records. Obviously, something of a stunt.

Makes me wonder how much of it was meant for the Russians. (And how much against internal company wokeness – some employees were trying to dislodge Musk because of twitter)

NATO expansion was just an excuse, the Russians have already said they don’t much care about Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

Their latest imperial grunt now is that they don’t care? Initially they were posturing with threats. Well, what can they say now once its a fait accompli? Threaten to destroy the whole world with nuclear weapons? I think that they’ve already done that and it hasn’t worked. All that this has done is given Pat Buchanan and Philip Giladi things to write about. Oh, and kremlnstoogeA123.

If the Balts somehow got rid of their Russians

Russians and migrants both would raise the crime and STD rates of the Baltics.

You mean that their elderly Russians are that virile? Wow, a race of true superbeings. Does Karlin realize this? I think that if he did, he wouldn’t be wasting his time fooling around with cryogenics. 🙂

The funniest video of 2017 is Richard Spencer getting sucker punched by the antifa faggot while showing the television reporter his pepe pin.

There is a fine occult scholar of Valentin Tornberg who reports that Lenin and Stalin had black magicians like Marina whats-her-name on staff. You may have heard of Rasputin. Charlotte something is the occult scholar’s name.

Nobody on unz dot com believes any of this superstitious nonsense. : )

How quickly would the arms shipments stop, if Ukraine banned that gay Disney movie? (Latest)

Years ago I too had heard that, seemingly incongruously, there was quite a bit of occultism practiced in the USSR

Witches had good business in the late Soviet era and in the 1990s. Astrology was popular and Soviet elites had the most skilled astrologists. Gorbachev allegedly traveled in a pattern that followed his astrological consultant’s advice. Of course, Nancy Reagan was also using astrologists and taking their advice seriously.

Should I have taken the job offers in New Zealand I regularly get? That’s probably the best place in the world in case of nuclear war (southern hemisphere, small population, agriculture and seafood, civilized population, competent and functional government).

Another month, no substantial Russian advance. No capturing of strategically useful territory. And no encirclement, or otherwise decisive defeat, of Ukrainian forces.

Indeed, Ukrainian forces are now transitioning to NATO kit. This means that Ukraine has de facto entered NATO because of the Russian invasion. Sweden and Finland will join too, but formally.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Central Bank is now predicting a 15% collapse in Russia’s economy.

At this rate, it will take decades to even reach Kyiv. Nevermind Russia then having to deal with an insurgency, which will only end when they leave. And of course, these minute Russian advances can reverse at any time.

Like, seriously, what is the point?

Does anyone seriously doubt that, had Putin a time machine to go back to Feb 23rd, he would never have launched this murderous invasion? He would instead have sent troops to formally occupy the parts of the Donbas which Russia had already stolen, and called it quits. There would have been only minor repercussions. Ukraine had all but already accepted it. And tens of thousands of innocents would not have been slaughtered and their blood would not be staining Russian nationhood.

Why would Europe end up ablaze from Russia? Kyiv isn’t even ablaze. At Russia’s current and most optimistic 20km advance in 4 months speed, they will reach London in 50 years. Of course before then they would also actually have to fight countries that their domination didn’t stop from having a functioning military until about 2016.

The Moaoris would enjoy eating you and your family after the shit hits the fan. That will be the only viable group in New Zealand. They aren’t going to call it New Zealand.

I’m a board member of a non-profit in Costa Rica that was set-up in great measure to offer a sanctuary in case such an eventuality were to occur. New Zealand is high on my bucket list, as is the Philippines in that part of the world. At least go for an interview.

It is amazing how envy not only affects peoples actions, but actually completely distorts their view of the world, geopolitics and even gives them an instant opinion on something that they are truly completely ignorant of.

This is a reply for AP from the older page.

Hello apey.

For accuracy sake, Kiev regime fault lines shouldn’t be glossed over.

The Kiev regime ruthlessly suppresses fault lines: (1)

Zelenskyy Officially Bans Ukraine’s Largest Opposition Political Party

The definition of the modern “western democracy” in Ukraine is increasingly showcased as the goal for modern totalitarian government.
…
What we see taking place in Ukraine is an outcropping of this newly defined ‘western democracy.’ Using a declaration of emergency power, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has now banned all opposition voices, taken control of broadcast media and now today banned the second largest political party in Ukraine. [Radio Free Europe Link]

Ukraine’s Opposition Platform For Life (OPPL) was the second largest political force in the Ukraine Parliament. As of today, the party is officially banned by a Ukrainian court at the request of the Zelenskyy Ministry of Justice. All assets, funds and property belonging to OPPL have been seized and transferred to the state.

-1- The European WEF are the brains behind this mess. They offered EU and NATO membership.

-2- Ukraine acted on the European WEF’s plans. At this point, the end of Ukrainian democracy proves Zelensky is a Europe compliant co-conspirator.

-3- The European WEF puppetmasters Not-The-President Biden to obtain funds. Acting against America is the sole reason the election loser was placed in office. American citizens are victims of this European conspiracy, not participants.

After Ukraine is ground away, the European WEF will buy a new co-conspirator. And, the cycle will start all over again.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/20/zelenskyy-officially-bans-ukraines-largest-opposition-political-party/

How many mainstream Chinese movies have a half-Russian/half-Chinese character that is depicted unfavorably in some way?

“Hi, Mom” had a fat, ugly girl character that was unfeminine.

“The Eight Hundred” had a prostitute, who however was patriotic because her “father” was Chinese.

Kaliningrad is one of the real nuclear trip wires. The Balts are terrifying me.

The NS2 pipeline will never be started to feed Germany.

This creates a simple opportunity for Putin. Russia builds a NS2 leg that connects to Kaliningrad. With the energy problem resolved, the oblast no longer ‘needs’ rail supply. This downgrades the crisis to mere inconvenience.

PEACE 😇

There is a fine occult scholar of Valentin Tornberg who reports that Lenin and Stalin had black magicians like Marina whats-her-name on staff. You may have heard of Rasputin. Charlotte something is the occult scholar’s name.

Thanks. Yes, the almost unkillable Rasputin. I’d have to think there’s been at least one film representation of him that has been made. That might be interesting to see.

Nobody on unz dot com believes any of this superstitious nonsense. : )

Of course not. The Unz readership is far too sophisticated for that sort of thing. 🙂

I suppose I’m a bit more concerned about Mary Todd Lincoln having seances in the White House and Nancy Reagan having an astrologer to ‘adjust’ the White House schedule.

Not to pick on the women. I’m sure there was more than one male occupant of the White House whom had an interest in the occult.

Panzerhaubitzen 2000 from Germany and the Netherlands have been delivered to Ukraine:

Panzerhaubitze 2000 are finally part of 155 mm howitzer arsenal of the Ukrainian artillery.
I appreciate all efforts of my colleague 🇩🇪 #DefMin Christine Lambrecht in support of 🇺🇦.
Our artillerymen will bring the heat to the battlefield 🔥🔥🔥!
Photo by BMVg_Bundeswehr pic.twitter.com/mP5M0BApvO

— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) June 21, 2022

But yeah, Molotov-Ribbentropp 2.0.

This is another one for apey.

You are of course an idiot apey but the topic seems interesting to me.

A lot of misconceptions are peddled here by Fuller. Too many for me to refute in a comment. However, one stood out.

Europe will sooner or later return to the purchase of inexpensive Russian energy. Russia lies on the doorstep and a natural economic relationship with Russia will possess overwhelming logic in the end.

Firstly, before the Incursion in February, the USD stood at 81 Rubles, and the Euro 85.7 Rubles. Today the USD buys 54 Rubles and the Euro 58 Rubles, depreciations of 33% approximately. The Ruble will continue to strengthen as the American and European economies weaken. Before the Russo-Georgian War in 2008, the Ruble traded at 30-40 Rubles to the USD. I would not be surprised if it shortly went back to that level, or appreciated even more. So, in future, Russian energy will not be “inexpensive”. The era of cheap Russian energy is over.

Secondly, European customers may find it difficult to buy Russian oil, gas and coal at all. The Russians are re-routing their supplies to Asia and elsewhere. In April 2022, more oil went to Asia than to Europe – the first time ever. In any business relationship, the question of trust is very important. For years now, the Russians have made it clear that they no longer trust the West. As vendors, the Russians would rather sell to states with which they have stable, predictable relations.

In future, Russia will sell less and less oil. gas and coal to Europe. They will demand payment in Rubles or precious metals – as they are doing now for gas. They will give very few customers a long term contract. Sales to the European spot market will be strictly limited. The resultant squeeze on European economies, industries and living standards will be severe and prolonged.

-3- The European WEF puppetmasters Not-The-President Biden to obtain funds. Acting against America is the sole reason the election loser was placed in office. American citizens are victims of this European conspiracy, not participants.

kremlinstoogeA123 does not disappoint once again! His newest conspiracy theory is truly epic in its magnitude. He should take to the pen and write some sort of a spy novel from it and make some money out of it. On the other hand, conspiracy theories involving Russia’s neighbors and the West have been circulating for a very long time, as can be seen in this WWII political cartoon. But I do like kremlinstoogesA123’s slight twist of the original idea. In the past, it was America (or its proxy Great Britain) that was pulling the strings against Russia in Europe, but today according to kremlinstoogeA123, it’s the other way around. Bravo!
🙂

Won’t. You’re confusing the signaling with actual geopolitics (blundering or not).

And we know who won that one…

Slight correction, should read:

On the other hand, conspiracy theories involving Russia’s neighbors and the West have been circulating for a very long time, as can be seen in this pre-WWII political cartoon.

They’re like 10% of the population there. The local Europeans aren’t dependent on outside forces to keep them from taking control.

One wonders why the mentally ill Mr. Hack keeps trying to reply to my posts. He knows that he is on my blocked commenters list due to his psychological problems.

Instead of posting here, he should seek out professional psychiatric help before harming himself or others.

PEACE 😇

This is the hardest part of the war – defense lines.

Another month, no substantial Russian advance. No capturing of strategically useful territory. And no encirclement, or otherwise decisive defeat, of Ukrainian forces.

This is a large map. You can open it in a separate tab.

The fighting is going along the fortification lines. The Ukrainians are sitting there protected, there are bunkers. But the Russians are getting through, taking a small town here and there, one after one and losing the cauldron.

That cannot be done faster since there are four bigger towns in the middle that have to be encircled, so the Russians are working that corridor. The fat blue line on the right is the Ukrainian forces.

Apart from that there are air strikes in the south.

Ukraine is losing equipment the Russians let the deliver it and then demolish it – this happened to be cheaper than using cruise missiles and striking the hangars, but air strikes happen on a regular basis as well.

The amount of aid that Ukraine is getting is insufficient.

All that brave talk and you guys want to bail? Let’s have some cojones, Costa-rica or New Zealand can wait. I am a lot more exposed, and yet the food is great, hills are lush, apricots ripened, and the Ukie girls are everywhere.

Stick it out, this will rise to a 20-30% risk with some extreme drama. Then Russia will finish pacifying Ukraine, Europe will grudgingly make up, Nato will shoot some reindeer and Black See will become a Russian lake.

US will be just what it was always meant to be – a big fat guy talking a lot but with nobody listening, UK will blame it on mad BoJo and Sholz will go back to his accounting ledgers. The nation of Poland will explode with red fury, cry a lot, and move en masse to Iceland – the proper North-West where they yearn to be, away from the Asiatic Moskali.

Fun and games all around, too bad tens of thousands of Ukr men won’t be around to rediscover the pleasures of reading Tolstoy and get in early on the coming Black See coast real estate boom. But the girls will mostly stay so it will be all good.

What a stupid unnecessary provocation have the unhinged neo-con liberals concocted: woke up one morning and decided that another Iraq right on the Russian border would be great – arms, promises, threats, edging closer and closer – until the local power smithed it all down. China and Taiwan would go roughly the same way. How long are you guys going to humor these map-reading morons and dreamers? Or you would rather move to New Zealand?

Before the Russo-Georgian War in 2008, the Ruble traded at 30-40 Rubles to the USD.

Before Crimea the Ruble traded at 50 to the USD. How dumb is this – it’s getting back to the pre-Maidan course.

The Russians have made it clear that they no longer trust the West.

And they have never cheated like the Germans. People see that. The Russians are showing that Russia is a stable partner.

That’s good.

There is a lot of market in the South-East, a couple of new pipelines and things will get back to normal.

But there’s a lot that has to be done inside.

The nation of Poland will explode with red fury, cry a lot, and move en masse to Iceland.

No Poland will get the land in the west, it belongs to them, and Russia will get the land in the east, it belongs to them, and the land in the south of course, because it belongs to them, and Ukraine will become what it’s meant to be – a small piece of steppe, sold out and owned, and it won’t even belong to them.

Slava Ukraini.

If I’m a “blocked” commenter on your list, how is it that you even know that I’m posting? Are you the serial liar that many here accuse you of being? What’s the matter, don’t you have the guts to defend your silly opinions here? 🙂

Who said anything about moving?…

That’s roughly how it will play out. It is a new world for all material resources: energy, minerals, food… This reality is still under-appreciated in the West – the inevitable, coming shift in the wealth creation.

The resultant squeeze on European economies, industries and living standards will be severe and prolonged.

Europe is smart, aggressive, with resourceful people and small material resources. Starting in the 16th century, Europe has corrected for this with an aggressive spread over the world. That has ended.

Russia and its hinterlands acted as a substitute for the last few decades. Nothing is black-and-white, but the coming material shortages in Europe cannot easily be fixed: wind mills and eating bugs won’t do it. Europe has also stupidly allowed in tens of millions of migrants – they will need to be fed, kept warm, more will come. It will be tough.

The biggest change will be the collapse in standing of the Western “house money”, the casino chips that they have used to pay for everything. It got out of hand and is barely backed by anything. Yeah, they will say the “trust” – but trust once lost cannot be regained. They need to defeat Russia or it will be a slow decline. But can they?

You and AP hinted at it…

I’m not AP and he’s not me. You wouldn’t want me to mistake you for kremlinstoogeA123 now would you? He seems even stranger and more obtuse than you. 🙂 I’ve never hinted about moving anywhere, and if I ever do, it may be back to cold and dreary Minnesota (but probably not). We had a bountiful apricot tree in Mpls, and my mother made the most delicious nalivka that you’ve ever tasted from it. I love to travel, and can find some of nature’s beauty most anywhere. Even the Latino girls can be quite beautiful!

I knew it. The subject material was just too rich for film makers to pass upon. Rasputin and his story is a case of the truth being stranger than fiction, no doubt. I was a little surprised to see Rickman playing the role, though he did a good job.

The guy wouldn’t go down. Taking into account his enemies, he must have had some really powerful guardian angels protecting him.

To be sure, of course, considering some of Rasputin’s personal behaviour, one couldn’t be entirely too sure which side of the dividing line his particular protecting angels may have hailed from. 🙁

I was somewhat facetious, I am too grounded now to move, it’s something I might have considered if I was younger, before having kids. But in case of global nuclear war it would probably be the best place (Australia has too many people to feed, Argentina might be okay but it is poorer and more corrupt, forget South Africa).

Me:
Before the Russo-Georgian War in 2008, the Ruble traded at 30-40 Rubles to the USD.
Untrue. Shame on me for not checking the facts.

You:
Before Crimea the Ruble traded at 50 to the USD. How dumb is this – it’s getting back to the pre-Maidan course.
Untrue. Shame on you for doing likewise.

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

After the partial default in 1998, the Ruble averaged c 25-30 Rubles against the USD for the period 1999 to 2013. The lowest average year was 1999 – 24.65 Rubles, the highest average year was 2013 – 31.91 Rubles. The sanctions imposed by Obama after 2008 had very little effect.

After the 2014 sanctions, the Ruble depreciated rapidly against the USD. The 2015 average was 61.34. For the period 2015-21, the lowest average year was 2017 – 58.3 Rubles. The highest average year was 2021 – 73.77 Rubles.

Correction
I expect the Russian Ruble to return shortly to its 1999-2013 levels of 25 to 30 Rubles against the USD. As the Russian economy is now much stronger, and the US economy weakens by the day, the Ruble may appreciate much more. All this assumes that the USD is still the world reserve currency.
This status is likely to end shortly. When it does, the USD’s value against other currencies – the Ruble included – will collapse.

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Democracy is serious business. that’s why we banned all other political parties permanently. and a comedian is the puppet ruler of This Particular Very Serious Democracy.

also, please don’t realize that “Our Democracy” is a euphemism for “Jews run everything, and you never get anything you want.” these two phrases are deployed in an indistinguishable manner, one always meaning the other, and even academic scholars would be unable to detect a functional difference, but don’t notice that.

West Point cadets being taught CRT, per NY Post report

that’s it then. army was the last big holdout. now only the marines are not under leftist control.

considering the situation on the ground in the US, expect official military policy to be strongly behind Ukraine for the duration. there will be no voices of reason in leadership. it’s globohomo, GAE all the way from now on.

hard to believe this was the same West Point i went to as a recruit in the early 90s, soon after the Cold War ended. it was only a matter of time i suppose.

For anyone interested in firearm statistics.

PEACE 😇

And what kind of mysterious esoteric incantation is involved with this “Z”.

The letter ‘Z’ is the last letter of the Latin alphabet, to signify that this is the last war, the proverbial WWIII, that is almost a meme now?

Below is an excerpt and YouTube video created well before the present war in the Ukraine. It explores (in part) the letter Z in regards to the Hebrew language. Z in Hebrew is Zayin, and means ‘sword’, or, ‘a weapon of the spirit’. Kaballa aspects of ‘Z’ are looked into as well.

It all starts with the Z

Z, to begin with, marks endings (from A to Z).

Yet what is an ending, but a new beginning?

As a student of the occult (as in hidden or sacred knowledge, and not whatever dark thoughts you might associate with the word), I also checked the Hebrew alphabet, the sacred letters. Z in Hebrew is Zayin and it means ‘sword’ or ‘a weapon of the spirit’.

https://therabbitisin.com/on-the-major-importance-of-letter-z-9af140714b4d

Yes, in case it’s going where it’s kind of going, but something tells me it’s not where it’s really going.

There will be some surprise.

They need to defeat Russia or it will be a slow decline.

Russia is winning. Anything else is fantasy. Europe has been in a slow decline for a very long time – since the end of WWI. The Ukraine debacle will end in a rapid decline, particularly for Germany.

Moral of story.
Do not fall out with your Commodity Supplier – he has all the pipelines.

Good point about many of us often merging responses. But you did go on about Costa-Rica…And Latinas – today i will upgrade them from cholitas – they can be lovely, but they don’t age well, not dissimilar to the previously mentioned apricots. How would you make nalinka from them?

You need to chill. There is no strangeness in the world and people can be insensitive – it is a biological imperative. The situation is too serious for monochrome explanations that you stick to – there is a lot more to it, explore it, think it through.

When people obsessively demand justice they end up with dead bodies all around – check out Shakespeare for details. Everybody has their own truth. Wars are fought to see which one prevails, there is not much justice in it.

Ukraine is about to lose this one, you should think through the consequences. Ask yourself how Kiev got into this no-win situation. If the decisions and ideals brought you to this point, how good are they?

There are many film Rasputins. My favorite is definitely Christopher Lee. Among the ones I have seen.

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

I thought Radzinski’s book very readable. Edvard Radzinsky The Rasputin File.

He has a photo of Rasputin holding a pencil really clumsy. The man was close to illiterate. The worst thing the secret police had on him was he patronized prostitutes and they were in possession of interviews with more than one of the prostitutes who testified that all Rasputin did in exchange for the money was make them listen to a repent and be saved pitch. He was the only one in the czar’s inside circle who adamantly counseled against the war. Obviously he had to go.

Radzinski also poo-poos on the death legend. There aren’t any government records except much later interviews by the commies of the czar’s secret police who they killed right after the interviews. There were different stories so the legend became they had to do this and then that and after this other thing to kill him.

It certainly is a great story though.

…Russia is winning. Anything else is fantasy.

Yeah, you are right, it is obvious. In any fight between a city and farmers, the farmers – commodity suppliers – always win if they can protect themselves. And Russia can protect itself.

Western towns and eastern girls… – who really has more power in that relationship when the chips are down and the girls stop acting like cheap courtesans? This will be an ugly experience for Europe.

Makes me wonder how of it was against internal company wokeness – some employees were trying to dislodge Musk because of twitter

Well, Musk has his own problems.

One of his eldest sons has apparently become a tranny and severed ties with his father. Maybe this explains Musk’s recent outbursts against wokeness. It stole one of his children, quite literally.

Incidentally, this is why conservatives bragging about higher fertility than liberals is meaningless as long as liberals control mainstream culture. Most people are normies, regardless of their parents’ political views, and normies conform to the dominant cultural mores. Even extremely rich and powerful people like Musk cannot shield themselves, so what hope for average folks?

Hilariously, or perhaps omniously, his current on-again-off-again gf scolded him for transphobia a few years ago.

Incidentally, this is why conservatives bragging about higher fertility than liberals is meaningless as long as liberals control mainstream culture.

It depends how strong the genetic component of political attitudes is. If it is sufficiently strong, perhaps the shitlib establishment won’t be able to peel away enough conservatively inclined children to prevent conservatives becoming a growing proportion of the populace. Or perhaps the children of “converts” to libtardism won’t be as strong in their libtard convictions, and perhaps experience a healthy rate of “reversion.” It’s too soon to say. I think it’s an idea worth placing some hope (and cope) in.

cholitas – they can be lovely, but they don’t age well, not dissimilar to the previously mentioned apricots. How would you make nalinka from them?

You seem lacking in knowledge about apricot nalivka too. First It’s nalivka not nalinka from the root Ukrainian word Nalivaty (to pour). It’s a delicious liqueur, not a palinka (which is good in its own right too). The best nalivka’s and probably palinkas too are ones that have been aged well. Once, I found a gallon jug hidden in a low corner in my mother’s basement pantry, where she kept all of the canned vegetables and fruits that she prepared every year. At first we didn’t know what it was, because the fruit within was very dark looking, and not really looking very appetizing. We poured the liquid anyway and gave it a try – the most delicious nectar this side of heaven that you’ve ever tasted, truly. It was made of once fully ripened apricots that had shriveled up over the years giving up their liquid to produce a heavenly product, probably about 15 years old. The same with women. If you treat them right and let them mature in a safe and nurturing atmosphere, they also can mature into a fantastic end product too.

Ukraine is about to lose this one, you should think through the consequences. Ask yourself how Kiev got into this no-win situation. If the decisions and ideals brought you to this point, how good are they?

I don’t agree with you about the outcome at all. I think that we’re about halfway through with this war and that as Ukraine continues to get the heavy artillery and other weapons that it needs from the West, its chances of success will greatly increase. We’ll have to wait and see. I pray that Ukraine finally gets this huge bully off of its back.

Europe has been in a slow decline for a very long time – since the end of WWI. The Ukraine debacle will end in a rapid decline, particularly for Germany.

More information on how Europe is directly responsible for Europe’s decline.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the European Union responded the following day with a package of unprecedented economic sanctions aimed at isolating Russia.

The EU, which was praised for displaying “determination, unity and speed” in its response to Putin, was said to be facing a “transformative moment” that would allow the bloc to become a “geostrategic actor” on the global stage. An observer claimed that the EU had become “a top geopolitical protagonist” and that Europe “discovered that it’s a superpower.”

On March 21, less than a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, European officials announced an ambitious plan for the EU to achieve “strategic autonomy” aimed at placing the 27-member bloc on equal footing with China and the United States. The implicit objective was to enable a “sovereign” EU to act independently of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in matters of defense and security. That plan is now in shambles.

As the war has dragged on, European unity has collapsed and efforts to transform the European Union into a European superstate — a United States of Europe — have been exposed for what they are: delusions of grandeur.

And, it is not just Ukraine. Brussels over reach has offended both Poland and Hungary over other issues such as culture an economy. Germany’s ‘leadership’ towards Open [Muslim] Borders has done much to shatter comity. Lack of Trust is now the definitive, core EU value.

Ultimately, the EU/EZ myth needs to end and be replaced by something less ambitious, limited to the small subset of things where commonality exists.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18610/eu-superpower-delusion

Would be pretty interesting if there were stats on transgenderism, normal conception vs. artificial insemination (Musk’s kids).

Though Musk shares custody, I wonder how much time he is able to spend with his kids. Thought I recall hearing he slept on the factory floor at Tesla for like a month.

Seeing how crazy Grimes is, and thinking of other celebrity couplings, I can’t help but think that wealthy men (Bezos, Harry) would often be better off, if they had used some old-fashioned matchmaker.

Romans required that all their troops have at least one testicle. Seems sensible enough.
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Been wondering if any of the plagues of antiquity could have been caused by gays.

Thucydides recorded that the Athenian plague came from Ethiopia. The Cyprian plague is also said to have come from Ethiopia and hit Alexandria first.

….as Ukraine continues to get the heavy artillery and other weapons that it needs from the West, its chances of success will greatly increase.

Chances increase from 10% to 20%? How do you define success? Nato weapons are too few, too hard to deliver, and would still leave Ukraine outgunned by a large margin.

Actually the best hope Kiev has would be a collapse in the Russian morale. Inflicting more casualties helps, but it can back-fire. A lot of the front line troops on the Russian side are Donbas militias – 60-100k. For them this is existential, they have no place to retreat, many are angry about the Donbas civilians killed by Kiev in the last 8 years. Their morale is unlikely to collapse, and that will pull along the Russian morale. Russians also historically don’t stop fighting – and neither do the Ukrainians: very native stubbornness that Westerners are not familiar with.

It will be ugly. Kiev is losing 100-200 soldiers per day, or more. Plus the wounded and tens of thousands POWs. New troops are of lower quality and have to be trained (AP’s cousin who probably skis better than he shoots.)

Have you considered the most likely outcome: Russia in a few months prevails, Kiev’s army ceases to be viable, south and east are occupied, guerilla fighters are in Warsaw cafes. Russian economy hums along on exports to Asia, Europe is in a recession with endless complicated and expensive ways to secure energy and other materials. People get tired of it and start asking: “what was the fight all about?” And slogans about freedom and orcs will not suffice. Then what? Zelko and the gang will be fine, but how about ordinary Ukrainians? It will become obvious that they fought a losing war for some very questionable reasons – “no Russian language in schools” and “we want Nato bases!!!!”.

Future is contained in our present, it is not as big a mystery as many pretend. Miracles by definition don’t happen (look that up: miracle definition is…).

Scythians were known to drink their wine unmixed from the skulls of their enemies, afterwards wiping their mouths with napkins make from the skin of their enemies.

In some Greek cities, it was supposedly a capital crime to drink unmixed wine. (Alexander once killed one of his best officers in a drunken rage.)

Therefore, I think AP’s idea that Ukrainians were more civilized when they occupied areas in WW2 is not wholly implausible, if we link it to alcohol tolerance. Of course, it is only suggestive.

The same researchers who came up with 103.2 also came up with 96.5 and stated that the latter was the actual average Russian IQ.

And as you have been told and shown as well that there are better and more recent references

They are more recent references but they are not better, because they are merely estimates of IQ based on PISA scores and not measures of IQ itself.

When Russian IQ was measured the actual scores were 96.5 on average (personally, I think it might be a little low, but that’s what it is).

Ten years old data without any specifics given is not an acceptable reference to me

Sharikjv can’t read. The map you posted with the data you prefer states that it is based on ISA scores from 2009 .

As we have seen and will see again, you are intellectually dishonest and only consider acceptable that which corresponds to your wrong claims.

The authors made a study in which the Russian IQ was about 103. The same authors explained that this was the overall average Russian IQ but higher because the sample were kids of professionals in an urban area. The actual average Russian IQ, according to the authors, was 96.5.

You chose to believe the author’s 103 but not their 96.5.

No need to argue here about anything, because in any case there is not enough data at hand to make a reasonable conclusion. There is a note in the bottom of the page – “Racial categories exclude Hispanic origin”. That is, Multiracial doesn’t include Hispanics.

In the TIMMS study, you wanted the number of White-performing Americans to be the same percentage of the population as the number of ethnic Russians in Russia. However, they are not. Russians are about 80% of Russia’s population.

Since blacks are about 13% and Hispanics about 18% of America’s population, Americans that do not belong to those two groups are only about 70% of America’s population.

Rather than accept that one cannot therefore assume that the general populations are equally comparable, you made a dishonest and convoluted argument in which you mixed up multiracials and Hispanics.

making ridiculous statements that white Americans are more intelligent than ethnic Russians, based on the same fragmentary data.

White Americans certainly score higher on TIMMS than do the people of Russia. And even though ethnic Russians likely score slightly above the Russian average (as you proved in your other post), this would not be enough to close the gap with the white Americans.

TIMMS, science, grade 4: US Whites: 570; Russians: 567
TIMMS, science, grade 8: US Whites: 557; Russians: 544

Good that finally you agree with something I have written. And they are of about 80%-90% Slavic plus Finnic descent and only about 20% of Asian descent.

As a matter of fact it’s wrong either. Various groups of the Tatar people have different genetics, and the fact that twenty percent of them share the R1a haplogroup with the Russians doesn’t mean that they are twenty percent Slavic.

In that part of the world (the Volga) R1A is linked to Slavs, not Afghans. Volga Tatars and Chuvash are only 10% to 20% Asian in origin. And I never claimed Finns, but Finnic.

Wiki, about Chuvash:

These tests suggest that the Chuvash are not directly related to the Turkic and Mongolic people along their maternal line but supports the hypothesis that their language was imposed by a conquering group—leaving Chuvash mtDNA largely of European origin with a small amount of Central Asian gene flow. Their maternal markers appear to most closely resemble Slavic and Finno-Ugric speakers rather than fellow Turkic speakers.

The MtDNA gene pool was found to be 89.1% Caucasoid, 9.1% Mongoloid and 1.8% unidentifie

Here are Chuvash people, for example:

Kind of what one would expect of a people who are 10% or so Asian.

Volga Tatars are about twice as Asian as Chuvash – 20% or so.

I can’t agree more.
Sensible, rational and cogent.
One of your finest posts.
Keep it up.

I do know that Lithuanians are retardation though. Blockading Konigsberg? A million or so cumts in the baltic seething the stage for a widening war.

Revelation of the method. White Boy bleed a lot, Jew Boy fills his pockets.

Map:

https://postlmg.cc/bZs0hfF4

Chuvashia scores above the Russian average on tests. Chuvash people are smarter than Russians.

No it doesn’t and they are not, which is obvious from the map.

Chuvashia scores 100.2, compared to the regions with larger share of ethnic Russian population, it’s lower than the average, that’s not hard to demonstrate.

Let’s take a look at 20 different regions with high percentage of ethnic Russians – the lowest being Moscow, with 91.6% and the highest Vologda, with 97.3% and the rest somewhere in between, with the average of 95.0 percent, counting the entire group….

The regions are: Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Altai Krai, Voronezh, Primorsky Krai, Belgorod, Tula, Vladimir, Vologda, Lipetsk, Ryazan, Kursk, Arkhangelsk, Tambov, Kaluga, Ivanovo.

You conveniently excluded ethnic Russian regions with low estimated IQ scores. Novgorod (95% Russian) with estimated IQ of 96.5, Kaluzhskaya Oblast (93% Russian) with an average IQ of 94, etc. These two have a combined population of about 1.6 million which is more than some of the ones that you did include. You ignored Irkutskaya Oblast (Russian population 91.41%, almost the same as Moscow’s 91.65%) – which has an average estimated IQ of only 92.9.

You excluded high IQ Kostroma, but most of your exclusions of Russians involved lower-IQ Russians.

As a result of this and of ignoring ethnic Russians in provinces with less than 91.65% Russians, your total sample includes Moscow, a high IQ outlier but only about 50% of the Russian population. This doubles the effect of Moscow’s high IQ on your estimates of ethnic Russians as a whole.

Therefore, your figure of 101.2, achieved through intellectual dishonesty, is higher than the actual ethnic Russian IQ from this study, which is would probably be around 100.5 or so. Still slightly higher than Chuvashes (I admit I was wrong on that point) but practically the same as them.*

Moreover, this IQ estimate is based on PISA scores. We can compare the PISA scores of these Russian regions with those of white Americans directly.

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/geography-of-russias-iq/

https://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/overall-pisa-rankings-include-america.html

Average White Americans scored 518. This is lower than Muscovites (546) but only slightly lower than Russians in St. Petersburg (519) and higher than all other Russians.

So according to PISA, the average white American would have an IQ of around 104.

But we know that in reality it is 101.

Therefore, this PISA to IQ conversion used to estimate Russian IQ, overestimates IQs by around 3 points.

So the 100.5 ethnic Russian IQ based on the map you posted, is actually probably around 97.5.

Which number is higher Sharikov, 101 or 97.5?

So yes, white Americans on average are smarter than ethnic Russians, on average. Just not smarter than Muscovites.

You have failed again and as usual.

As I said, failing is what you do best.

Nice work, though.

*Moreover, the Russian advantage over Tatars (about 2 IQ points) is much smaller than the white American advantage over Blacks (~15 points) or Hispanics (~10 points), so it is incorrect to treat Tatars as a low-performing group akin to Blacks and Hispanics vis a vis Whites.

Fake map. The total homicide rate in Finland hasn’t exceeded 1.9 since 2010:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/529659/victims-of-homicide-rate-finland/

So from guns alone it can’t be 3.3.

Here is a nice interactive map:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/21/how-america-compares-to-the-world-when-split-by-race

Overall, white Americans are in a similar boat with eastern Europeans. Homicide rate (2.2) equal to Montenegro, lower than in Belarus (2.4) or Hungary (2.5) or Lithuania (4.6)*. Although White Americans are swimming in guns, they aren’t killing one another all that much. But don’t pretend they are less dangerous than Finns or Austrians.

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Of course, America is diverse even within race. American Whites overall may be like Visegrad, but whites in New England probably have a profile similar to that of western Europeans, whereas white Southerners are probably down at post-Soviet levels.

* Hispanic Americans (3.6) are actually safer than Lithuanians.

The Slavs can fuck off out of the EU. Only in it because of American and British interference.

The Slavs can fuck off out of the EU. Only in it because of American and British interference.

Merkel specifically, and Germany generally, have been the #1 disruptive force in the EU. If the EU is to be saved, the essential first step is expelling Germany.

The more realistic view is accepting that the EU is doomed. Winding up the flawed experiment in a graceful manner is the best available option. The other choice is waiting for it to blow out in an unpredictable catastrophe.

PEACE 😇

Cato the Elder had his first son when he was 80.

It is an accurate chart, but not well labelled, so you misinterpreted. It is not per 100,000 people.

The graphic appears to be homicides per 100,000 private, legally owned, firearms.

I will attempt to back track for an underlying article with more context.

PEACE 😇

Ok, that is realistic.

Radzinski also poo-poos on the death legend.

Yeah, checking just now, the autopsy performed upon Rasputin found no sign of poison, or water in the lungs, but found three bullet wounds, with some apparent post mortem trauma.

The account generally repeated of Rasputin’s murder is that of the prince primarily responsible for it.

It would have been behooving to him and his accomplices to make Rasputin out to be some kind of almost unkillable monster, who could only just barely be stopped, rather than appear to be the victim of a planned cold blooded execution.

There are many film Rasputins. My favorite is definitely Christopher Lee. Among the ones I have seen.

The Hammer films of the 1950’s and 60’s are primo.

Michael Collins father was 74 when he had him. The father had married a 23 year old at 60, and the marriage was said to be happy.

If the EU is anything it’s an agreement between France and Germany to trade instead of have wars between them. All else is ornamental.

You are off your rocker.

Yo ape it would be nice if you could spend a few minutes reading my comment first, and then reply. Because you would not have said a bunch of not so relevant stupidities if you had read it.

The references were the chart that is showing the score of that test in Russia has been growing and has risen on 3.5 percent in 5 years, and that was seven years ago. Therefore the result can be even better now, so it’s not fare to compare the latest American score to the outdated Russian.

Likewise the test that you keep bringing up is not the IQ test either – it’s the Standard Progressive Matrices test, not the Wechsler test, so the result doesn’t correlate and a comparison is reasonable as long as we compare the scores of one particular test.

That graphic showing the score growth is showing as well that the latest result was 98.8, but then again it wasn’t the Wehsler test, nor was it the the Standard Progressive Matrices, so the resulting scores are not comparable.

And the same researchers who came up with 103.2 and also came up with 96.5, and stated that the latter was the actual average Russian IQ didn’t explain, or at least in that quote didn’t show how and where the samples were taken.

You understand that it could have been a test in a bunch of other schools in ten cities or something like that, and that it doesn’t in this case show the real average result.

The map you posted with the data you prefer states that it is based on ISA scores from 2009.

Yes but it’s used to demonstrate that the intelligence of ethnic Russians is higher than of other national groups and not to compare it with other tests.

You are intellectually dishonest and only consider acceptable that which corresponds to your wrong claims. You chose to believe the author’s 103 but not their 96.5.

Yes because that doesn’t make sense. The “sample were kids of professionals in an urban area” is not a good argument. About 75 percent of the Russian population live in urban areas and Kazakhstan is not some kind of megalopolis.

The result should not have been that low.

Rather than accept that one cannot therefore assume that the general populations are comparable, you made a dishonest and convoluted argument in which you mixed up multiracials and Hispanics.

Not really, no. There is a quote below, take a look. These are different categories and there’s a confusion, one person can be featured both as a Hispanic and as Multiracial at the same time.

My argument was correct, logically, but the problem was that at the time the test was taken the percentage of people who registered as Multiracial was lower than 10.2, so the numbers didn’t fit in the end.

White Americans certainly score higher on TIMMS than do the people of Russia. And even though ethnic Russians likely score slightly above the Russian average, this would not be enough to close the gap.

White Americans should be compared to White Russians.

The map of the regional results in Russia is showing the general average 98.8, which is lower than the average of the regions with high percentage of ethnic Russians. Taking that score, 101.2 as 100 percent we get that 98.8 makes 97.6% of it.

Considering that we can compare the US scores.

US Whites: 570; Russians: 567 – 99.4%
US Whites: 557; Russians: 544 – 97.6%

So it looks like we have enough here to close the gap.

In that part of the world R1A is linked to Slavs, not Afghans. Volga Tatars and Chuvash are only 10% to 20% Asian in origin.

Yes, and their haplogroup N to which 28 percent of them belong is linked to the Siberian Eskimos and Nenets people. The dominant haplogroup matters the most.

N is their dominant haplogroup.

When one lives in a place it is customary to refer to it as “my place” or “our place,” whether it be a house or apartment.

Yes sure, and it must have become so customary in the end, that one said – maybe we will get our old flat in Moscow back, i.e. – back, i.e. meaning it used to belong to him.

You keep mentioning that flat in Tverskaya over and over again.

And you keep insulting me and getting irritated. You got caught, apey. You got caught.

You are a liar.

Yeah totally.
If I ever see arrows on a military map again I am going to puke.

Retard alert. Total BS you idiot. Its no dispute that white Americans are MUCH more violent and have much higher homicide rate than Europeans you POS. When accounting for blacks being only 10% of US population and Hispanics – then its obvious White US homicide rate is 10x higher than Western Europe, and 2-3 times higher than Belarus you fuckwit.

Is the fact that in addition to Belarus being far more prosperous and annihilating 404 /Ukraine on every business and social metric…
it also is far safer to avoid murder in Belarus, than the richer US – making a jealous retard as yourself write such garbage?

Beautiful Soviet Union always much safer than US.
The vast majority of American gun owners are responsible – but that doesn’t detract from the much higher violence level, way above European countries with similar pro-gun laws .

Degenerate, lazy immoral White American parenting could be partially to blame – It’s no surprise that the last mass-shooting by a non-adult in Russia, was a kid with a Jehovah’s Witness mother – a pindosi bitch.

And its ALWAYS been like this – long before the migration of blacks from the South to the North East of the USA, the big cities like New York, Chicago and Boston had a big reputation around the world for lots and lots of violent crimes you imbecile – from shootings and stabbings. European cities during WW2 and even during the desperate POST-WW2 immediate aftermath, NEVER had violence at level of Americans in peacetime!

Why do you think the legal age for alcohol in the US is a laughably high 21 you idiot? All this while in Mediterranean Europe 12 year olds are drinking wine at the dinner table with their parents knowing their children are responsible. It’s because of the extra threat of violence and crime happening, compared to to the miniscule amount in Western and Eastern Europe . White American parents are thanking God the laws aren’t as lenient in the US – because then now many extra acts of their kids general violence, drink driving and stealing their guns for some prank that goes badly wrong would occur.

Why do you think anti-alcohol laws tougher than anything that ever has or ever will exist in western or soviet Europe were implemented in the US in the 1920s`? Because of violence in American society (and some anti-catholicism)
To any non-retard there is no comparison of the low-level violence of Western Europeans and Southern slavs…… to the very high volume violence and murder by White Americans now and historically. Its probably only because millions of fat Americans are busy sitting on their asses on the Internet, that the gap between Europe and US isn’t even larger

Likewise the test that you keep bringing up is not the IQ test either – it’s the Standard Progressive Matrices test, not the Wechsler test

The Standard Progressive Matrices test is an IQ test. There are more IQ tests than only the Wechsler test.

And the same researchers who came up with 103.2 and also came up with 96.5, and stated that the latter was the actual average Russian IQ didn’t explain, or at least in that quote didn’t show how and where the samples were taken.

So? If you trust the 103.2 you cannot disregard the 96.5.

You will do so, of course, because you are fundamentally dishonest.

The “sample were kids of professionals in an urban area” is not a good argument

The children of professionals in an urban environment are bond to be smarter than the average.

White Americans should be compared to White Russians.

The map of the regional results in Russia is showing the general average 98.8, which is lower than the average of the regions with high percentage of ethnic Russians. Taking that score, 101.2 as 100 percent we get that 98.8 makes 97.6% of it.

Your 101.2 figure was itself the product of your intellectual dishonesty, Sharikov.

As I showed in my other post, you derived that number by excluding poorer-performing Russian regions (for example, Irkutsk oblast has almost the same % of Russians as Moscow, but it’s average estimated IQ was 92.9 so you conveniently did not include it). You included the Moscow outlier but didn’t include half of ethnic Russians. This inflated your result. Actual result would be lower, I’d guess around 100.5 or so.

This means that ethnic Russians score would be an estimated 1.0172x the overall Russian result.

So the adjusted scores would be:

4th grade US Whites: 570; Russians: 576
8th grade US Whites: 557; Russians: 553

In that part of the world R1A is linked to Slavs, not Afghans. Volga Tatars and Chuvash are only 10% to 20% Asian in origin.

Yes, and their haplogroup N to which 28 percent of them belong is linked to the Siberian Eskimos and Nenets people.

And also Mari and Udmurts. Mari and Udmurts are much closer to the Volga than are Nenets.

Mari:

Here are Udmurts:

From the root Ukrainian word Nalivatu (to pour)

You seriously write this garbage with a straight face you demented retard?

Nalivat (to pour) is a RUSSIAN word you dumb prick, with common Slavic root. Nalivka, and ever more so the apricot one is a RUSSIAN drink not ukrop you imbecile. There is no “Ukrainian” language either. They even only call it that in 404 because that drink the Russians specifically named it that! Exact same thing as with Borscht – a completely Russian word (which the dish has f**k-all connection with Galician/Bukovina sub-roma morons)

Stop parasiting off Russian World you POS.

Geraldina in the kitchen with his mother cooking Russian borscht. Must be Russian because Ukrainians cook only borshch, with no t needed at the end. Two different soups spelled differently for two different peoples. 🙂

Fuller is a senile 84 year old. When he still had some wits, he let his daughter marry a Chechen lunatic, the uncle of the Boston Marathon bombers, and helped them all get US green cards.

Russia has been revealed as utterly impotent. Its Black Sea flagship lies on the sea floor, its military ruined and humiliated, its equipment mostly non-functional.

After the humiliating defeat and complete retreat from Kiev and Sumy, it is now being chased out of metro Kharkiv back all the way to its borders, and losing ground every single week around Kherson.

All it can do now is very slowly flatten random cities with weeks of shelling, then take their abandoned and worthless ruins. Even that it does slowly and with high casualties.

Contra Fuller, Europe is now very anti-Russian. They will continue to buy Russian energy as needed, but less every year as they ramp up alternatives, like US, Canadian and Qatari LNG. Netherlands is reversing its decision to close its largest gas field. Pajeet and Poobear will buy its oil at a steep discount, woopie!

Imagine if the US invaded Canada (very stupid idea) and failed to capture Vancouver near its border after months of fighting (humiliation).

Deny and cope Russobots, but in your heart you know you’re third class, and USA #1.

The pretty Mari woman could easily pass for a Ukrainian one. I knew a gorgeous blonde one from Kherson that looked very similar to her.

“China will end up being the big winner.”

If it convinces China invading Taiwan would be really stupid, yes.

But the direct and immediate winners are non-Russian oil exporters, who are making ungodly profits even while they increase production. Venezuela and Iran especially are winners as the US quietly eases off on our economic warfare against them so they can export more oil.

US profits from very high LNG export prices might end up more than covering the cost of the weapons Ukraine is getting.

I would think that American, Canadian and Mexican oil companies are doing quite well too right now.

Russia’s ruble hit a seven-year high, cementing its status as the world’s best-performing currency.

It has gained about 35% so far this year, and has more than doubled from a low after the invasion of Ukraine.https://t.co/fPA689PnyY

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 21, 2022

Here’s one for you:

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Nalivat (to pour) is a RUSSIAN word, with common Slavic root.

It’s a Balto-Slav root. So it is neither strictly Russian nor Ukrainian, but an original root for all Balto-Slav languages. Lieti (in Latvian and Lithuanian), leītun, enleītun in Old Prussian, лить in Russian & Ukrainian, etc. Meaning “to pour” or “rain”.

Wrong again. Ukraine was “lured” into this war, because it was attacked on several fronts by an aggressive and imperialistic Russia.

This is an illiterate understanding of the events. EU offered membership and US offered NATO (Crimea was selected for American military base), but pro-Russian president of Ukraine refused and therefore he was removed by US meddling (McCain, Nuland, Biden, CIA). “Fcuk the EU” explains the US opposition to EU membership. After 8 years of Ukies/Nazi killing ethnic Russians in Donbas, finally Russia decided to protect the Donbas by military presence.

Your; “EU membership was a bi-product of this insane invasion” is a high caliber lunacy. Your hate of everything Russian has retarded your rational thinking.

Endless cope from you.

Western propaganda when the war started:

Ukraine will lose the conventional war in days, but Russia will eventually withdraw from the insurgency.

Russian propaganda when the war started:

Ukraine will welcome Russia and it will all be done in days with a quick peace.

Reality:

Russia defeated on most axes of advance. Now progressed like 20/30km in 4 months on one axis. No sign of any “welcome.” Ukrainians 95% hate Russia. Russian economy due to contract 15% according to Russian figures. NATO expanding. Ukraine guaranteed supply of arms and financing for 2 years, at least.

Yet somehow you are still gleefully boasting. You’re mental. The situation is unimaginably worse for Russia than even the most hubristic Western propaganda “predicted.” And it is unimaginably better for Ukraine, no matter how awful it is for them too. You’ve been lied to again and again and now you can’t even remember what your reality was a few months ago. You somehow think this is winning. You’re totally mindf*cked.

Fuller is a senile 84 year old. When he still had some wits, he let his daughter marry a Chechen lunatic, the uncle of the Boston Marathon bombers, and helped them all get US green cards.

It is that “Fuller!” The man who literally secured the import of 2 Chechen terrorists and married his daughter off to their uncle! Sounds like a solid guy.

Russia has been revealed as utterly impotent. Its Black Sea flagship lies on the sea floor, its military ruined and humiliated, its equipment mostly non-functional.

China will now be the alternative source for military kit, to the US, not Russia. There’s no prestige left with the Russian military.

Contra Fuller, Europe is now very anti-Russian. They will continue to buy Russian energy as needed, but less every year as they ramp up alternatives, like US, Canadian and Qatari LNG. Netherlands is reversing its decision to close its largest gas field. Pajeet and Poobear will buy its oil at a steep discount, woopie!

Yes, it is a joke. The only people who like Russia any more are those who are permanently set against “the current thing.”
And unsurprisingly, people who define themselves as solely anti-everything that is successful, tend to be extremely marginal.

Imagine if the US invaded Canada (very stupid idea) and failed to capture Vancouver near its border after months of fighting (humiliation)

Perfect analogy. What’s most hilarious is that the Russia bots are still gloating about Russian military supremacy. I can’t imagine Americans watch the US military fail to capture Vancouver in 4 months and yet somehow claiming that this is an incredible American performance. Or that America is winning. I suppose, unconsciously, losing, to people who deeply want to lose, because they are losers, feels like winning.

???…one for me???

I’ve wondered recently if the different art styles of manga and anime are somehow related to sex differences, especially to do with visual perception.

Does the target market for males have some stylistic convergence with male vision? With that of hunters? While the female market has a visual style related to gathering?

Well worth to listen in full:

Re: https://dpyne.substack.com/p/a-proposed-peace-plan-to-end-the

Given the overall UN reply of kicking Russia out of the UNHRC, prompted by the dubious Kiev regime Bucha allegation, Russia negatively views that org on par with how US neocons very skeptically viewed the UN in the 1970s and 80s. In addition, the West did nothing to coerce the Kiev regime into implementing the UN approved Minsk Protocol.

Russia is winning, with some pro-Russian leaning advocates seeking more territory. The Kiev regime recently hit a Russian oil rig that’s closer to Odessa than Crimea. While opposing Russia’s military operation, the Odessa mayor is against the anti-Russian cancel culture antics of the Kiev regime, bringing to mind what I said on April 4 about how Zelensky’s popularity could take a dip, relative to Putin’s among those on the territory of Kiev regime controlled Ukraine.

There’s nothing especially unreasonable about Ukraine being in a militarily neutral status with a regionalized autonomous structure. Doing the opposite prompted Crimea’s reunification with Russia and rebellion in Donbass.

Ukraine’s Communist drawn boundary put together people with differing perspectives. The coup that overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected president in 2014, included an arrogant dynamic that has sought to centralize that former Soviet republic’s Communist drawn boundary in a set geopolitical and cultural direction than many there oppose.

If the EU is anything it’s an agreement between France and Germany to trade instead of have wars between them. All else is ornamental.

Then they should be honest about that. Dissolve the EU and replace it were with a bilateral agreement between France And Germany.

PEACE 😇

Great idea! They’re bound to take this matter up and vote on it next week. If they don’t, it will spell greater doom for their puppet state in the US.

According to kremlinstoogeA123, it’s the other way around?

Loose end from above:

Charlotte Cowell is the Tomberg scholar whose last name I was blanking on. She has a riveting tale of the Bolshevik black magicians harassing him into migrating away from Lithuania but the source documentation is not in English.

More if you are interested although it is hard for me to imagine that many people are:

There are enormous libraries filled with Russian esoterica to get lost in.

Anything displaying the Ukrainian flag is likely to be #NeverTrump.

It’s is well known that MAGA is not going to start a war with Russia. And, instead of propping up a failing Kiev regime, that money will be directed to securing the U.S. border.

What will the European WEF do when their puppet Not-The-President Biden loses the ability to fund Europe’s war?

PEACE 😇

Anything displaying the Ukrainian flag is likely to be #NeverTrump.

More of your unsubstantiated nonsense. I voted for Trump as I’m sure that others here who are proud of the Ukrainian flag also voted for Trump. It wont be an issue though next time around, for Trump will not be running again. Even Vice President Pence is rumored to have become a “NeverTrumper”. 🙂

One way to facilitate remigration might be to build floating banlieues like they are doing in Busan and a few other places, and then to tow them away at night and remoor them at Lagos.

I appreciate your counter-summary. It is wrong, but has coherence and doesn’t argue with cousins who fight or tries the tear-jerk ‘but, they are killing us!!!!, stop!!!!’. War is an organized killing to take territory, why are they surprised?

Russia defeated on most axes of advance. Now progressed like 20/30km in 4 months on one axis.

Wrong. Russia now controls 20% of Ukraine, Black See coast with a hinterland all the way to Kherson. They also pushed Kiev out of Mariupol and all of Lugansk – both well protected with fortifications and the best of the Kiev’s army. You are not looking at a map, or you are deceiving yourself. The territory Russia took is about the size of England.

No sign of any “welcome.” Ukrainians 95% hate Russia.

That’s like claiming that “95% of ancient Egyptians couldn’t swim” – totally unverifiable and made-up based on what you already believe. You cannot establish stable opinions in the middle of a war: too risky, too volatile, too much fear. One can claim that “75% of Ukrainians also hate the Kiev government and the oligarchs running it“. Who knows? Both may be partially true. Or one is true in Galicia and Kiev and the other in the east and south. Those are unstable and largely fake metrics in a war.

There were genuine signs of welcome in the east and south: I saw videos from Mariupol, other cities, Kherson. You can claim those are “Russians” – so what? aren’t Russians people? That’s why there is a war because the likes of you decided that millions of people who happen to be Russian and live in Ukraine are not really people. Claiming that many Russians fight for Ukraine is both true and irrelevant: many are professional soldiers or conscripted. Given that up to 50% of the population of Ukraine had some sense of Russian identity, why would that be surprising?

We will have to wait until the end of the war.

Russian economy due to contract 15% according to Russian figures.

That has been now adjusted to 8% down, inflation is dow and they are cutting interest rates. Ruble is the best performing currency of 2022 up 35% against dollar. Russia is flushed with huge revenue increases – oil, gas, grain, fertilizer, aluminum are all dramatically up. Customers are obediently paying for gas in rubles, so what was all that “never” in April-May?

Europe and US are heading into a recession. Germany declared an ‘energy emergency’. many plants have shut down because they cannot make money with energy this expensive. The debts are too high in the West to have a recession – the defaults could be catastrophic. There are risks everywhere: Europe, US, Africa…and also Russia. This is a collective jump off a cliff.

NATO expanding. Ukraine guaranteed supply of arms and financing for 2 years

Nato has been expanding for 20 years. In Ukraine it was stopped – no more talk, no more plans for bases – Berdiansk and Ochakov were British ministers were opening new bases last year were destroyed in the first 48 hours. It was the main reason for the war and it has been accomplished.

If you think that two Scandie countries that have been effectively in Nato for decades now officially joining makes much difference, well, have that small victory. It is a mixed blessing to be a target and to lose the cocoon of neutrality, no matter how fake it was.

The arms coming to Ukraine are being destroyed almost as quickly – even the official Kiev admits 35%. The war may not last for 2 years, so the long-term promises are not worth much.

Kiev officially admits to losing around 10k killed and 3 times that many wounded. The number of POWs is in tens of thousands. The weapons ratio is 10 to 1 to Russia’s advantage (of course official admission by Kiev). These were the best trained professional troops. And don’t do “what-aboutism” about the Russian losses – that’s their issue, they have a much larger country and have had smaller losses so far. In a war of attrition, Kiev will inevitably lose.

Stick around so we can compare whose prognosis is closer to reality. If Kiev ends up winning I will admit it, but you should be willing to see the other side. History gets really ugly when people refuse to think and live in pleasing narratives. French, Germans, Swedes, Poles marched on Moscow with some of the same ideas you have. Maybe this time it is different, but probably not.

Wrong. Russia now controls 20% of Ukraine, Black See coast with a hinterland all the way to Kherson. They also pushed Kiev out of Mariupol and all of Lugansk – both well protected with fortifications and the best of the Kiev’s army. You are not looking at a map, or you are deceiving yourself. The territory Russia took is about the size of England.

No, that’s the territory taken by Russia in 2014, when Ukraine didn’t really have a military, because Russian-bribed governments had stopped them from building one. Russia is actually a long way backwards from where it was after a week of the war. This is a fact.

That’s like claiming that “95% of ancient Egyptians couldn’t swim”

No, Ukraine has fought Russia to an essential standstill for months, using plumbers and email jobbers. You can’t do that with a population that is sympathetic to Russia, and it is Eastern Ukrainians who fighting the hardest.

You also mention the economy. Avoiding every fact but that Western economies won’t shrink this year, while the Russian one will by 15%, and that percentage keeps rising, a depression much worse than any years after the collapse of the USSR, but one.

As for the rest of your post, you continue to avoid the point. Please answer, how you consider Russia to be winning anything when it is performing many times worse than even Western propaganda before the war said it would?

Russia is doing just fine. Historically speaking what they have done is in line with past campaigns in the area. Ukraine has surpassed expectations but is now getting the shit kicked out of it by the superior force.

Sergiy Misyura from the Main Department for Development and Support of Logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (his facebook bio explains that he's a commanding officer in the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU) explains to us how the rashists like symbolism. pic.twitter.com/3LFNgeJozp

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) June 22, 2022

Or not…

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2020/06/23/no-heterosexuals-were-kicked-out-due-to-sexuality-marine-corps-defends-and-celebrates-lgbt-marines/

https://tribunetimes.co.uk/news/world/marines-spark-controversy-on-all-sides-with-rainbow-bullets-to-mark-pride-month/

In unannounced trip, Attorney General Merrick Garland Visits Ukraine, Reaffirms U.S. Commitment to Help Identify, Apprehend, and Prosecute Individuals Involved in War Crimes and Atrocities pic.twitter.com/GzHPGqOUYV

— Anthony Coley (@AnthonyColeyDOJ) June 21, 2022

what could possibly be the point of this, other than the obvious jewish campaign to take over the entire world of european peoples? if this isn’t about a direct coordinated jewish attack on Russia, then what does commissar (Garfinkle) think he’s doing here exactly?

You are a fantasist who seems to know nothing other than the Western propaganda headlines. Try to pay attention:

No, that’s the territory taken by Russia in 2014…

Nonsense, in 2014 Russia took only around 1/3 of Donbas. Now they control the Black See coast, Kherson, most of Zaporzhie, all of Lugansk, Mariupol, and parts of north-east around Kharkov. It amounts to territory the size of England. In 4 months that’s a lot. Look on the map and stop spouting nonsense. And don’t declare a “fact” something that is untrue.

Ukraine has fought Russia to an essential standstill for months

See above, if that is a standstill you have a strange definition of it. Ukrainians fight well with huge losses, but results matter. You say that at some point Russia controlled more territory (March?): in a war there is a lot of tactical movement and fronts move. They didn’t control Mariupol or Lugansk province in March – now they do.

Western economies won’t shrink this year, while the Russian one will by 15%

Western economies are already shrinking and the inflation has exploded – if you adjust for the inflation factor, the Western economies are smaller than last year. When prices go up by 8-10% they artificially boost GNP numbers. Inflation adjustment is always delayed and today also intentionally underestimated.

Russia’s latest projection is a drop in GNP of 8% – not 15% they thought it would be in February. They suffer, everyone suffers – this is a collective jump of a cliff. Nothing to boast about.

how you consider Russia to be winning when it is performing many times worse than even Western propaganda before the war said it would?

Western propaganda is aimed at the Western population – maybe people like you – and is not a benchmark for success. It is a common propaganda technique to claim that the enemy’s goals are much more ambitious than they are and so they are failing. Nazis did that in WWII, it is what propaganda does. In reverse, Russian propaganda downplays the goals to claim success easier. That is a basic dynamic of propaganda that you should understand.

They point to the biggest rock and say the enemy wants to lift it – if he lifts a smaller rock they say, “Oh, he failed!” Transparent, almost childish. It is done to manage the Western population but has no real meaning.

Western propaganda in February claimed that the Russian economy will collapse, “ruble will be rubble (Biden)”, nobody will buy Russian oil and gas, nobody will pay in rubles – all that has turned out false.

Russia is winning the war on points and surviving economically. Deal with that reality and stop fooling yourself.

The black-clad hottie has a costly haircut and disengaged eyes, she is mentally out of there. And who wears a badly-fitting vest on official visits?

if this isn’t about a direct coordinated jewish attack on Russia,

Presumably you mean the non-Jewish attack not supported by Israel? (1)

“I want the Israeli government to move away from its comfort zone and get back to reality,” Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said.

Kyiv wants to purchase Israel’s Iron Dome air defenses system and for Jerusalem to sign off on the transfer of its Spike SR anti-tank guided missile system from Germany to Ukraine, the country’s ambassador, Yevgen Korniychuk, told reporters on Tuesday.

Ukie Maximalist propaganda is absurd. Jews are neutral or Russian leaning in this conflict.

then what does commissar (Garfinkle) think he’s doing here exactly?

Presumably, he represents post-Judaic apostates. Those who have turned their back on the authentic Palestine Judaism of Israel.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-708766

Another excellent insightful comment. You’re not off your rocker: Wokechoke is

Germany is at the heart of the EU scam. Before the Euro ( 2002), the EU was something of a captive market for German manufactures and finance, especially the former. The Euro was devised, largely by German financiers, to ensure that the EU would be a completely captive market. The result has been disastrous for industry, especially in Mediterranean countries and Eastern Europe. It has also caused serious hardship for much of the population in many of these countries. This is best exemplified by the case of Greece.

Greece went into economic crisis after 2008. There are 5 main options in dealing with a financial crisis.

1) DEVALUE THE CURRENCY
This results in home-grown goods and services being much more competitive in price. Imports increase in price, but this encourages import substitution. But Greece no longer had its own currency. It has the Euro, controlled by the European Central Bank, based in Berlin and run by and for German interests. They would not devalue the Euro for Greece. The only way for Greece would be to resurrect the Drachma and to leave the EU. This would take years, as we have seen with the UK, with the EU puting obstacle after obstacle in Greece’s path. Nothing could be done at all quickly.

2) DEFAULT ON THE NATIONAL DEBT OR WRITE IT DOWN
This was opposed by the ECB. The vast bulk of the debt is owed to German and French banks, in whose interests the ECB acts. In order to default or write down, the Drachma would have to be revived To follow this course, Greece would also have to leave the EU. As previously outlined, this would take years. Greece hasn’t left and, as a result, now has a National Debt equivalent to 200% of GDP.

3) IMPOSE TARIFFS ON IMPORTED GOODS AND SERVICES
As Greece is in the Eurozone – a free trade zone – this would mean Greece having to leave the EU

Ukie Maximalist propaganda is absurd. Jews are neutral or Russian leaning in this conflict.

More of your nonsense (lies?). You’re projecting your kremlinstooge sympathies to everyone in the world now.

When asked how they view Israel’s position on the war, 47% said Israel has taken a balanced stance, while 25% said that Israel should support Ukraine more. Five percent said Israel should support Russia more, and the remaining 23% said they do not know.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324633

Also a careful reading of this statement indicates that 47% said that Israel has taken a balanced stance not that Israel should take a balanced stance. One thing for sure though, is that of those Israelis that hold stronger positions about the war, their sympathies lay by five times more in support of Ukraine than they do Russia (25% vs 5%). Check your facts more carefully before blurting out absurdities.

You are 100% correct about by the problem.

I previously discussed a highly viable solution. This is from 2020:

Due to single € currency EuroZone [EZ] it is impossible for Italy to exit the EU/EZ. The € denominated debts owed by Italian entities prevents a return to the Lira without a legal framework to redenominate all contracts. Given that the EU is incapable of good faith negotiations with the UK, one has to believe they would be equally intransigent in any Italian negotiations.

That leaves two possibilities for the next Italian government:

— Default — Which would destroy German financial institutions, such as Deutsche Bank
— Monetization/Devaluation — Unilateral printing to reduce debt while paying in full

Given the amount of Italian Government debt held by Italian citizens and banks, Default becomes complex as an option. Selectively defaulting on only foreign held debt is difficult to execute.

Monetization is much more practical. Italian Euro € Printer Go *Brrrr*…. The powerless ECB screams, but there is little that they can actually do. Once the first devaluation occurs others will follow such as Greece and Spain.

German Elites, the backbone of SJW Globalism, will lose control and no longer be able to brutalize other EU/EZ nations with their perverse Austerity Economics. Individual German savers will see the value of their savings radically diminshed. This will likely lead to a German exit from the single € currency. The remaining EZ nations can then end the € in an orderly manner.

I suggested something similar for Greece even earlier.
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The EU founding documents are badly written, as Brexit showed. The EuroZone [EZ] common currency documents are even worse. If several countries start printing their sovereign € currency, there is nothing the ECB can do to prevent it. The German people would force Germany out of the EZ, and thus the EU.

Despite Wokechoke’s outrage…. It is very easy to envision a EU/EZ without German participation.

PEACE 😇

One way that we Americans could make good use of the growing sense of superstition and of the evil eye would be to paint the old Roman warning cacator cave malum on our urban, streetside walls.

Contrary to Washington’s triumphalist pronouncements, Russia is winning the war, Ukraine has lost the war.

That’s the crux of the matter. I am really surprised that so many ostensibly intelligent people keep chewing the cud here. Ukrainian Nazis willing to fight are being killed at the rate of a few hundred per day. Cowardly Ukrainian Nazis have already run away to Europe (serves Europe right: if you allow shit in, don’t be surprised that it stinks). Ukrainian regime resorted to forcibly conscripting anyone they can, rounding men up in the streets and even on the beaches and sending them to the frontlines within days, w/o even minimal training. This intended cannon fodder does not want to fight: they docilely wait to be taken prisoners by the Russian/DPR/LPR forces, happy to remain alive.

The war might last some time yet, largely because in contrast to the US “shock and awe” (meaning let any number of aborigines die, who cares), Russia is still trying to kill as few as possible and destroy as little as possible. For a good reason: Russia will be the one rebuilding deceased Ukraine, no matter how these territories are formatted.

The only question remaining now is whether RF will leave a token “Ukraine” (like the pathetic piece Khmelnitsky “united” with Russia in 1654) under strict Russian control (that would include military bases) or take it all as separate regions, w/o recreating anything called “Ukraine”. Every Ukrainian attack on Russian territory makes the latter scenario more likely, regardless what Russian leadership thinks (in sharp contrast to “democracies”, Russian leadership does not go much against the will of the people).

Europe will sooner or later return to the purchase of inexpensive Russian energy.

Not so fast. Russia will be in a position to decide who to sell what. Europeans work hard to be at the end of the line, possibly end up empty-handed. The great majority of countries (with about ¾ of Earth population) refused to introduce any sanctions against Russia, despite imperial wrath. Even some states the US always saw as obedient vassals (Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Bahrein, Kuwait, to name just a few) did not sanction Russia. Russian trade will focus on those normal countries, at the expense of obedient US vassals. Europeans, as well as US-occupied Japan and South Korea, stand to lose big.

Finally, Russia’s geopolitical character has very likely now decisively tilted towards Eurasia.

This is exactly what I said above. Except it would be also tilted towards Latin America and Africa, regions where not a single country toed the imperial line.

Let me end on a lighter (maybe) note. New Russian joke: “The situation with the approval of the military operation in Ukraine by the Black Sea Fleet is not as simple as Russian officials make it sound. Some officers and sailors approve of it, whereas others believe that it’s high time to strike Washington directly.”

Barnes whole attack on Gab was disappointing.

These ‘conservatives’ still on twitter are there because the Zionists want them there.

What a cuck.

conservatives bragging about higher fertility than liberals is meaningless as long as liberals control mainstream culture. Most people are normies, regardless of their parents’ political views, and normies conform to the dominant cultural mores. Even extremely rich and powerful people like Musk cannot shield themselves, so what hope for average folks?

Elon Musk might have lots of money but I’ll bet his time investment in his kids is near nil.

But, your points are critical, and something I have given quite a bit of thought to myself. Fecundity is meaningless if one isn’t imparting a viable alternative worldview strong enough to withstand the mainstream.

My parents were successful enough with my brother and I, in that regard, but things have accelerated significantly since then. I would distill the success of my own parents in finding a fairly correct balance between raising us outside the mainstream, yet not sheltered from it. This went a long way as it allowed us to develop our own critiques as we got older and were capable of making our own estimations. As someone that was home-schooled, but not stiflingly over protected, I could see many of the absurdities of the mainstream.

I’ve tried to re-create this environment with my own kids, but it’s really far more treacherous waters than it was when I was a kid and we’ve had to get much more into the thick of it at an earlier age than I would have imagined.

My oldest daughter has some cousins about her age that, while not entirely unexpectedly, quite precipitously have gone the hardcore lesbian/ now leaning trans route. They had done more groundwork in proselytizing than we realized and we had to get in front of things in a hurry. It was also more than just the LGBT thing with these girls, and we later discovered it was wrapped up with a ton of baggage regarding self-loathing, eating disorders, self harm, sexually explicit fan fic, and depression and anxiety. The LGBT is, I think, really just a coping mechanism for some of these other issues.

My own daughter was initially somewhat drawn to this “cool” world and we had some real issues as she began to take on some of their pathological self perception issues. Once we realized what was happening, we, and especially my wife, had to really struggle to keep communication open and help her to keep things into perspective.

One of the notable aspects is how there is significant peer pressure by LGBT to also be LGBT. Otherwise you are vanilla and not one of the cool edgy kids.

We were able to come out the other side with my daughter, and she is in a very good place now. It’s become a maturing experience for her now though not the type that I would have wished on her yet. As her cousin’s have deteriorated quickly into obviously depressed, withdrawn, angry, and militant people it’s been easy to show that they are on a very self-destructive path. They are largely making our arguments for us at this point.

We had to be very gentle and somewhat cautious, but implacably persistent with our daughter. We were also very clear that we did not hate her cousins in any way, but were also clear in communicating why certain attitudes and actions were pathological.

For a while there we felt on a knife’s edge and we were afraid that we could lose the girl we knew. It can happen quickly, even when you think you are surrounding yourself with good people. We came to regard it quite literally as a form of spiritual warfare; a battle for our daughter’s soul. This went way beyond purely the gay thing, since I’ve known gays and lesbians that seemed like reasonably balanced people. The current LGBT “movement” however is wrapped up with a ton of pathological baggage which goes far beyond sexual orientation.

Needless to say, I suspect that Musk has little time or patience to actually parent his kids, so his fecundity or opinions are completely meaningless in regards to outcomes.

Well everyone, I’m really excited to get to the part of AP/ Here Be Dragon’s argument where one of them says,

“Golly Gee, that last point really made me think! I guess you’ve been right all along, and thanks so much for taking the time to pass along all that wisdom and demonstrating the errors in my logic!”

I’m sure it’s coming any comment now…

This one is even more funny, don’t you think?

Still bellyaching about the West while you live and make money in the US? What a loser! Why not move back to the old country Professor? Beckow tells me that there’s a great building spree going on in the “garden city by the sea” in Mariupol. Beautiful luxury condos, and because the project is brand new, you can get in on the ground floor and buy one at rock bottom prices. All in your very own backyard of Donabas too…

How many gays and trannies are left in Ukraine?

Jainism makes perfect sense if one considers the dog-sized ants living in the highlands of India that Herodotus mentioned.

Notice he uses the SJW term “safe space” in a couple of different tweets. Conservatives/libertarians who use Leftist language always end up accepting their morality too.

Meanwhile in the UK Putin is now causing railway strikes. This man must be stopped.

😁 Open Thread Humor 😂

To preserve thread stability, most of the items are below the [MORE] tag.

PEACE 😇

I never had heard of this guy but I can to the same conclusions that he did. And one of my major influences was indeed Christopher Sommer, who I had heard of over 15 years ago but whose methods I never made a serious effort to apply.

There were two things that really influenced me more than anything else: YouTube videos of a guy who practiced walking on his hands for a month and and made massive forearm and triceps gains while being able to achieve a PR in handstand pushups, a movement that he had not trained in the previous 2 months. The other thing that caught my interest was a video of a guy who walked 10 miles a day for a week and gained 1/4 of an inch on his calf (a body part notorious for refusing to grow) while losing 4lbs, which was a greater gain than he had made during a previous experiment where he did 10k calf raises a day for a month.

It seems that the human body doesn’t respond well to rote exercises. Since then I have switched over to a program based on static holds and I would like to eventually add sled pushing and pulling for my lower body.

The European economy has collapsed the second government in a week. First Estonia and now Bulgaria.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bulgarian-government-faces-no-confidence-vote-political-turmoil-2022-06-22/

Boris Johnson is looking shaky.

Ido Portal’s interview was all over the place. His English seems perfectly fine but the tone I got was a cult leader guru who hasn’t had much conversation with any humans other than disciples in many years.

One memorable idiocy: he said he learned the most from his worst teachers.

WTF does that mean?

There were a few valuable points but very low S/N ratio. To Huberman’s credit he edited the transcript so the odd names were all rendered with correct spelling. The transcripts of his shows are the best part for sure.

It seems that the human body doesn’t respond well to rote exercises.

Every body is different. I also am keen on variety. Adam Sinicki’s book is very very good.

Ido Portal’s interview was all over the place. His English seems perfectly fine but the tone I got was a cult leader guru who hasn’t had much conversation with any humans other than disciples in many years.

He’s definitely a cult guru and there is way too much fluff in his philosophy. Literally anything good he has too offer you can get from cross training in gymnastics and/or break dancing. Also he makes training too complicated, because you can’t sell simple.

The current LGBT “movement” however is wrapped up with a ton of pathological baggage which goes far beyond sexual orientation.

If homosexuality was banned tomorrow, I’d be against it. There is a small percentage of the human population that will always be homosexual. These people cannot change and shouldn’t be stigmatised.

That having been said, what we’re seeing now is outright grooming. When some advocates are pushing for genital mutilation of young children, which have dramatic and life-changing effects, there cannot be any space for neutrality or passive tolerance.

I don’t even think this is a left/right issue – or at least it shouldn’t be. JK Rowling can hardly be described as a right-wing firebrand and TERFs exist.

Needless to say, I suspect that Musk has little time or patience to actually parent his kids, so his fecundity or opinions are completely meaningless in regards to outcomes.

He regularly brags about pulling 100 hour work-weeks. This is the price he paid.

We were able to come out the other side with my daughter, and she is in a very good place now.

Congratulations! I’m happy it all worked out. Nevertheless, I suspect most parents aren’t as deft in navigating these treacherous waters as you and your wife, which is why changing the mainstream culture is the only sustainable solution for most families.

“Jews are neutral or Russian leaning in this conflict.”

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