Western sanctions have not failed; they are merely a spectacle, accompanied by a side serving of oligarchical infighting. In the 1970s, China was designated as the world’s workshop, with the U.S., Canada, and Europe set on a course of deindustrialisation and deintellectualisation. The U.S.-orchestrated sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline was part of this process, aiming to deindustrialise Europe and redirect Russian resources towards China.

Today, Chinese citizens face stringent controls, including Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital IDs, which dictate their travel and dietary choices. Dissent against the Communist Party of China (CCP) can result in loss of access to food and travel, with repeat offences potentially leading to organ harvesting and sale.

China’s industrial and technological prowess is remarkable. Fully automated factories produce trucks and trains, with no human intervention on assembly lines. In contrast, Europe and Canada are effectively defunct, merely unaware of their impending obituaries. The U.S., with one foot in the grave, is set to follow suit. The nation’s manufacturing and technological capabilities pale in comparison to China, with the U.S. military’s superiority likely to evaporate within five years.

The sorry state of modern America is exemplified by its citizens’ inability to halt the paedophilic grooming of their children in schools or the injection of aluminium, mercury, mRNAs, and other toxins into infants. The epitaph for the United States is already inscribed, awaiting the nation’s transformation into a grotesquely obese, drug-addled consumer of products and pharmaceuticals manufactured by Chinese robots.

Summary: Western Sanctions: A Spectacle of Oligarchical Infighting; China’s Ascendancy Threatens U.S. Dominance

A serious discussion of the Ukraine crisis must start with a recognition that the West pressured Russia in Eastern Europe for decades with the goals of regime change and dismantling of Russia and has even publicly acknowledged these goals at times. The West expanded NATO, dropped nuclear arms control treaties and placed missile bases in Eastern Europe while attempting and completing color revolutions (coups) in various former Soviet countries including Ukraine. Russia’s actions in Ukraine are entirely reactive and to stop the reaction the Western stimulus must be removed. Your article seems to downplay these essential facts.

There is much evidence that the Western sanctions are good for Russian industry and the economy. Rebuilding many of their industries went extremely slowly after 2000 leading to an economy with extensive foreign dependencies and missing supply chain links. Many projects which seemed to require a few years dragged on for decades. The sanctions seem to have broken this pattern, first in agriculture between 2015 and 2022 and now in many small niches across Russia. I suspect there is a substantial faction which hopes sanctions continue so that these industrial revitalization efforts can continue apace. If sanctions were simply dropped it is unclear if these industrial rebuilding projects would revert to the glacially slow status quo ante or would in fact speed up.

It seems that Russia will keep fighting in Ukraine as long as the AFU puts up resistance. They will continue to due this as long as the West supplies money and weapons or until some new leadership rises up in Kiev to stop the fighting.

The role of sanctions, the stolen assets and oligarchs play in the core structure of the Putin government seems hidden. Is there some point where links in the Russian economy will snap and open up the possibility of regime change as was hoped by the West? It seems this time has passed, but who knows? If something happens now the military is probably strong enough to retain stability and order and continue fighting the SMO.

Only problem is both ‘sides’ (NATOUkraine/BRICS) are governed/managed by the same supranational cabal of Jew-Commie bankers/oligarchs/rabbis.

The war in Ukraine isn’t meant to be ‘won’ by either Ukraine or Russia, but is simply staged by NATOUkraine/Russia to decimate & exterminate whites, in some prearranged coordinated war. If it was real Russia would have conquered Ukraine after the first few weeks of the invasion.

If you want to engineer a rigged choreographed war, you must make it appear real to the masses vis a vis ‘sanctions’ & other meaningless posturing.

The British Way of War. Old colleague here, expert naval historian, outlines the imperial strategy that kept Russia out of the Middle East and Med for 20 years. Blow up the docks at Sevastopol and keep Constantinople out of Moscow’s hands. The good Professor makes several jabs at Putin.

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The flaw in the analysis is the current role of China and Iran in alliance with Russia.

In the lecture the good Professor emphasizes the Royal Engineers planning, building and destroying the dry docks in Sevastopol. Each year the Royal Engineers demolished and rebuilt a dock at Chatham. They say the Royal Navy is the senior service in the British military system but it was always the Royal Engineers running the Empire. All the serious minds were thinking in terms of Death Star like harbors in key nodes on the planet. The sailors, cavalry, gunners and infantry are nothing without the construction and demolition of installations.

The only “oligarchical infighting” over sanctions is which Jew gets to run the workarounds. A wag might even say that “sanctions” are effectively trade licenses granted exclusively to the Jews by the US and Europe.

This article is highly misleading because it ignores the main point:

“sanctions” is a euphemism for ILLEGAL ECONOMIC WARFARE, a form of “non-kinetic” aggression that violates the fundamental principles of the United Nations;

According to Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, sanctions are to be imposed by the U.N. Security Council, following a determination that there is a threat to or a breach of international peace and security.
This means that a sole U.N. member state is not entitled to impose economic sanctions upon another member or any sovereign state. The application of said unilateral sanctions itself violates the U.N.’s Declaration on the Principles of International Law, concerned with friendly relations and cooperation among states.
The resolution, in accordance with its charter, was adopted by the General Assembly on October 1970, and it references “the duty of States to refrain in their international relations from military, political, economic or any other form of coercion aimed against the political independence or territorial integrity of any State.”
The fact that the U.S. “sanctions”countries whenever its president pleases to punish foreign governments who refuse to accept the diktat of Washington and insist on their own sovereignty, should cause enormous outrage but has now been accepted as “normal”.
The three real greatest threats to world peace are the US, the UK and Israel but they never get a taste of their own toxic medicine…

Of course the purpose of the illegal economic blockade against Russia was never to end the (NATO +perfide Albion provoked) war in Ukraine but to bring the Russian economy to its knees.

But even in wartime, these sorts of collective punishments are illegal under the Geneva Conventions.

Western sanctions against Iraq were one of the causes of the 2003 US-led invasion.

The sanctions were busted by the UN Oil-For-Food programme, making the US and its allies the only countries not trading in Iraqi oil. The US had the choice of cancelling the sanctions, or invading Iraq to achieve regime change. It chose the latter.

No one is slighting combat engineers, but HMS Victory, launched in 1765, was at the time the most sophisticated structure ever built by man, and it’s still on display in its drydock museum in Portsmouth. The shipwright’s ability to fabricate its components from some 6,000 trees is still not fully understood. I was able to get an unused Naval Institute Press copy of Longridge’s Anatomy of Nelson’s Ships on Amazon for $18, with its several large fold-out plans of the hull and rigging that are each worth more than the price I paid.

Overall, the best treatment of the heyday of sail, of everything from the hydro-aerodynamics of square-rigged sailing ships, to their handling, etc., is Harland’s massive Seamanship in the Age of Sail, which I also got secondhand and unused on Amazon for $18.

We’ve gained so much in comfort and convenience, but we traded manhood for it, as a comparison between men from the age of sail and those today makes clear. Things today in the UK are now so disgusting there’s even a BBC mini-series that takes place on board a square-rigged Navy ship of the line temporarily transporting passengers. It portrays the captain, officers, men, chaplain, and passengers as drunken, sexually perverted, human swine, which is a scurrilous libel on England’s great past, but an apt description of the aliens who’ve taken over the re-writing of English history and the disintegration of its culture.

Hopefully Russia and the Actually Free World will find some way to punish Perfidious Albion for its vicious Russophobia and support for Banderite fascism-without harming the UK peasantry. The Lancet recently published a study showing that Western sanctions have killed thirty-eight million ‘useless eaters’ in the last few decades. THAT is what Russia and China are fighting.

Under Judaic Law an entire city eg Gaza, may be destroyed for the crimes of a few (they’re all Hamas). International Humanitarian Law is, of course, mere ‘Christian morality’ and DETESTED.

Helen, you’re insane, don’t you realise. Your description of life in China is deranged, racist, clap-trap.

Yet, look at the legislation, specifically the Russia Sanctions Regulations of 2019, and the purpose is quiet clear:

Encourage Russia to cease actions destablising Ukraine or undermining or threatening the sovereignty or independence of Ukraine.

This was never the purpose of sanctions. The well-being of the Ukraine has never been a priority or even a consideration.

Not punish, just bring back into the fold of civilized humanity. Punish is what the left wants and always has wanted—a real sickness to punish anyone holding a candle to their sexual degeneracy—, as Nietzsche pointed out so many years ago. The world of Nietzsche’s Last Man, the world of human moral filth like Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom needs to end before restoration and human flourishing can resume.

We can at least show these leftists the same standard they show to us. Pray they bring it on, the sooner the better. I don’t know about you, but Republicans calling the Democrats who’d rape and kill those Republicans’ wives and children “Our dear friends and colleagues across the aisle,” is like throwing gasoline on a fire.

Good point. Chatham is quite an interesting place. Along with Rochester. Spawning ground of the future, naval docks, Roman road and bridge plus Norman castle. And a high street.

How in the hell could one expect such a disparate amalgamation to agree on such matters? It’s like herding cats. Only the most deluded, hubristic nimwits could think it a wise course of action. The main NATO actors will have to threaten and browbeat the lesser ones into acting against their best interests.

The excruciating stupidity of it boggles the mind–cripple your own economies built on cheap energy imports from a resource rich country that can do without a single thing from your amalgamation and which can redirect its exports and align itself with the world’s most populous manufacturing powerhouse. It was ever nothing but madness to the nth degree. And as the schemes fail and backfire–why, double-down, triple-down, cover the eyes and holler–I’ll try door number three! Wait, door number two! No, hold on–I’ll take what’s behind the curtain where Carol Merrill is standing!

Well, what’s done is done and what could have been peace and prosperity for Europe and the U.S. is now a massive death spiral. Fools.

The neo liberal economic policies – which British political elites have imposed without interruption or any sort of correction since at least year 1979 – have, basically, shorn the UK of the means of fighting any sort of protracted military conflict.
The industrial infrastructure necessary to arm and equip simply does not exist anymore. Back in the middle ages, English armies still had yew trees and local smithies – we simply do not have the 20th or even 21st century equivalent any longer.
Plus you have to question the fighting effectiveness of armed forces which in times of stress must conscript from a youth which is verging on majority ‘ethnic minority’ status in composition.

Despite the best efforts of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Russia managed to hang on to its industry.

The casual British arrogance, speaking of “excitable French”, making British success seem inevitable and almost casual despite acknowledging difficulties, brings back memories–bad memories. So glad those bastards are on the outs for good now.

Encourage Russia to cease actions destablising Ukraine or undermining or threatening the sovereignty or independence of Ukraine.

It was the US-NATO countries that destabilized Ukraine, resulting in the coup of 2014, then later urging the regime to repudiate a perfectly reasonable peace agreement in favor of war which has led to the current situation. US-NATO don’t care about dead Ukrainians or Russians or anyone else as long as it’s not them. After the dust settles they’ll move in like vultures and strip-mine whatever’s left in Ukraine. Lots of money to be made for the right people as the Western governments squeeze their populations for more money for armaments. Sanctions have ended up doing the Russians a favor as they have forced them to become self-sufficient and less vulnerable to the whims of others. The blowback for the West is an accelerated development of BRICS economic bypass of the dollar. For every action there’s a reaction, the inept Western leaders overestimating themselves, continuing to throw good money after bad, getting a lot of hapless people killed.

falls into the embrace of nationalism at an accelerating rate.

This is not alarming. It is heart-warming. I support nationalists the world over – in their own nations.

Probably too late for about half of Europe, though.

In character he’s talking to the Victorian Wars association. He’s channeling Flashman there. With a pinch of salt it is quite entertaining.

The Western ghouls are using Ukrainians as cannon fodder in THEIR war to destroy Russia. It’s one of the first campaigns of the great ‘Clash of Civilizations’ race and civilizational war to rid the planet of the ‘useless eaters’ and solidify Judeo-Western rule over the planet, FOREVER. Particularly in the rapidly decomposing UK, while Jew worship and deranged Russophobia are still all the rage, the hate-crazed supremacists have moved on to spewing racist venom at China, the real and greatest impediment to the ‘Judeo-christian’ ten thousand year Reich.

“Today, Chinese citizens face stringent controls, including Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital IDs, which dictate their travel and dietary choices. Dissent against the Communist Party of China (CCP) can result in loss of access to food and travel, with repeat offences potentially leading to organ harvesting and sale.”

Pfft… What a load of ________!

The Ukraine is an invention of the West. The Banderites come from Galicia, never really part of Russia, and Russia must drive them out and back to their tribal heartland. Anything less GUARANTEES further Banderite/Western aggression. I suggest that Russia nukes Rockall or the top of Mount Blanc, to remind the Eurotrash of their mortality.

Punish the ruling compradore elites and their Judeofascist owners. Life at hard labour repairing Gaza seems appropriate.

America is cursed with a curse, which its government always expresses in threats, sanctions, lies, bloodshed, and destruction because the country has moved away from its Christian roots to a Satanic/Jewish worldview.

http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/is-america-cursed/

If ONLY people would delve into the Jewish origin story of this Russophobia that dates back a hundred years, they would understand why the Zio-occupied USG allows this conflict to fester.

http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/

There is an old expression which originated during the American Gilded Age of Robber Barons 1870-1898: “someone things are done to”. Well, Vlad the Wimp is one of them.

=Russia is outstripping us in the production of munitions, tanks and naval warships. And it has 6000 nuclear warheads.=

As my Hispanic friends say – En el gran balance de las cosas no vale ni mierda, ¿si?

The (((Perfidious))) obsession with “keeping Russia out of the Mediterranean”
led to torpedoing the Treaty of San Stefano which resulted in the Balkan Wars
ever since; might it not be so much less hassle to get them out of the Med?

The (((Plan))) was from the beginning to exterminate the Hohols, bleed
Europe and Russia out and earn a golden Nose – and it is going swimmingly.

Re: Military Strength ?

Important to show active and ready reserve troop levels.

examples:
1,112,000 Germany
300,000 France
170,000 England

You are making allegations knowing that most of us can’t verify them, as most of us won’t travel to China to do a verification on the ground. As a matter of fact, we shouldn’t even care to verify them. How the Chinese organise their society is their business, not ours, as long as they don’t seek to impose their model on others. All their history shows that trade is their shtick, not world domination, so fearmongering with China assigned the role of the bogeyman just won’t work.
Conversely, our concern should be that our own “elites” here in Europe and in North America are insidiously imposing upon us the very model that you accuse China of imposing upon its citizens.

PS: I see that you came here only recently, the one natural question that springs to mind is on whose behalf have you come to peddle cheap diversionary propaganda that no one with functional synapses can buy?

“While the combined economies of NATO are 27 times bigger than Russia…”

ORLY?

Russia is big and with a bit of effort, they can be more or less self-sufficient. But people tend to take the path of least resistance, maybe being a bit lazy, and they just purchased things that they could have produced themselves. It is understandable that building out supply chains is not trivial. But Western sanctions have forced Russia to do the right thing and it seems that only people outside of Russia are unaware of this. These sanctions have become the biggest single boost to the country in Russian history: a real Godsend. Western sanctions have allowed Russia to become strong and independent. Thank the Western leaders for this great gift to Russia.

Good article by a realist diplomat. As usual in these essays, it would be useful to write a 1st par. that serves as summary.

So you see two main reasons why sanctions have failed.
(1) The Russian State considers them unjust and
(2) The West has to build their sanctions packages passing thru a large central committee of unpopular ambitious mediocrities while on the other side Putin leads a unified team on top of a supportive nation.

The first one is intriguing. Had the Russian State considered Western sanctions just then they may have worked because the Russians would not have prepared to counter them?

I’d also argue that sanctions packages have failed because the West is weaker than Western politicians think it is, even in the economic and financial realms, so their turning their back to anything Russian (well, what they can at the moment) is just not that much important anymore. Presently, the largest fraction of economic growth is happening outside of the West.

But as we continue to pursue ever diminishing packages of sanctions, Ukraine will remain stuck in the middle, devastated and depopulated, as Europe deindustrialises and falls into the embrace of nationalism at an accelerating rate.

First, nobody cares about Ukraine and Ukrainians, not even Ukrainian political, military and business elites.

Second, we need more nationalism in Europe, a lot more nationalism, so our EU apparatchiks and assorted globalists must be encouraged to continue on their path. If they do, in a few years, the ‘far right’ will rise to power in major European nations and then some very serious negative trends (like deindustrialization) will be reverted to some extent.

Eugyppius is also covering this topic of carrying on with failed policies in the context of German internal political lanscape.

https://www.eugyppius.com/

The firewall is making AfD the strongest party in Germany, artificially empowering the left and destroying the centre-right, who alone can tear it down
An exploration of the unprecedented political dumbassery afoot in the Federal Republic.

He coins the term “endification” to help understand why failed policies are not abandoned even after obvious failure.

“While the combined economies of NATO are 27 times bigger than Russia…”

A person who can write such a ridiculous statement deserves no attention or credence. That single sentence fragment contains so many foolish errors and fallacies that one could write a book about it.

I see two main points here. First, the author argues that the sanctions are not working, i.e., they have failed to achieve their stated goal (forcing Russia to end the war). Second, he argues that Western elites have come to rely so heavily on sanctions as a tool of statecraft that they completely forget about more appropriate tools (diplomacy or empathy with the other side’s position).

Correct me if I have misinterpreted this.

I agree with point 2), but 1) is partly correct, partly overlooking the truth. What do I mean by that? Yes, the sanctions did not completely collapse the ruble, as Trump did in 2018 when he caused the Turkish lira to collapse by 20% by decree when that American pastor was arrested. Yes, the Russian economy is still functioning. But that doesn’t mean sanctions don’t work.

I say this as someone who hates them, but it’s simply the truth. Sanctions destroy weak countries in an instant, but they slowly erode strong opponents. Why was the Assad government so easily overrun by a few rebels last year? Because the Caesar sanctions weakened the country. The government couldn’t pay the military (partly because of the occupied oil fields and stolen oil). No access to the dollar = no money. No one buys from you, no one sells to you. Without money, nothing works.

Russia is a much stronger country than Syria, but the sanctions are hurting them too. Very much so. Why are there increasing incidents of Russian planes crashing or having to make emergency landings? No more Western parts. Why did the Russian central bank have to raise interest rates to 21%, higher than ever before? Why was it able to lower it again slightly recently? Because peace seems within reach and the ruble has risen. That is, because sanctions are likely to be eased. If the sanctions are not working, why has the ruble fallen from 60 per USD in 2022 to 110 per USD and, as I said, only risen back to 80 per USD now thanks to the prospect of easing?

Why is it only the ruble that is reacting to these reports, and not the USD? Why is Iran still negotiating with the US, which bombed them and has been tormenting them for decades? What does the US have to offer? Quite simply: lifting sanctions. If these narratives that BRICS will soon replace the dollar and sanctions are ineffective were true, why don’t Iran and Russia simply sell their oil and gas to BRICS countries in local currencies and tell the US to fuck off?

Why had Russia to close their newly built LNG terminal (I think its name is Arctic 2) and only after Putin met Trump in Alaska, China dared to start importing LNG from there but only to an insulated terminal in South China? Do you think Russia wanted to build a multi-billion LNG terminal, including transport and extracting gas and then liquifying it, just to let it sit idle for multiple years?

Well, we may not like the answer to all this, but it is clear: King Dollar rules, and that will remain the case for the foreseeable future. Anyone who has studied the global financial system a little will understand why. If the financial system is a human body, the USD is the blood.

Just always ask yourself these 2 simple questions: Whose currency is reacting to sanctions? Why are Iran and Russia even negotiating with the US if they do not care about sanctions?

You’re absolutely right, but the real lesson here is that laws the UN and constitutions are voodoo. In every country, every jurisdiction, laws do only one thing: protect the ruling class.

We grew up with this propaganda that words written on paper restrict those in power. That’s nonsense. The US government censors what it is not allowed to do. The US president starts wars, even though only Congress is allowed to do so. All supposedly sacred fundamental rights, such as freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, or physical self-determination, could be overturned at the push of a button because of the COVID hoax. And it’s the same with sanctions.

Look at what Israel is doing. Violates every law known to men.

Are we now supposed to whine forever that this is against the law?

No, we have to accept that laws only apply to ruled-over people, never to the rulers. Every single country in human history has elites who are not de jure but de facto above the law. Liberalism and the fables of the Enlightenment lie when they tell you otherwise.

We have no civil rights, we have no natural right, we have nothing. What counts is power. The constitution and UN Charter are no more valuable than the newspaper the homeless people in SF sleep on.

We must accept this bitter reality and develop our strategy accordingly. Those who live in a fairy-tale world will always lose.

This one paragraph is unquestionably the single most ridiculous piece of crap I have ever read. What is wrong with the person’s head to write something like this?

“Today, Chinese citizens face stringent controls, including Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital IDs, which dictate their travel and dietary choices. Dissent against the Communist Party of China (CCP) can result in loss of access to food and travel, with repeat offences potentially leading to organ harvesting and sale.”

On the basis of the bolded sentence alone, lying should be considered a capital offense and treated accordingly.

While the combined economies of NATO are 27 times bigger than Russia….

Are they really? If you look at “productive” GDP, i.e. that attributable to actual value creation and not merely vapourware, like legal, accounting, entertainment, and financial engineering, the multiple is likely in the low single digits, if even that.

“Why are there increasing incidents of Russian planes crashing or having to make emergency landings? No more Western parts.“

Have you not been paying attention to Boeing’s own problems in the West? Whole fleets of planes not meeting their life expectancy and the company has been caught “silencing” whistleblowers.

I’m sorry but your whole Reddit-like analysis reads like something out of a freshman college student’s geopolitical “take on things.”

It’s not that Iran and Russia don’t care about sanctions. It’s that sanctions pushed them to become resourceful. Much like the Ancient Romans, the whole world got fed up with the tyranny and skullduggery. Not only did the Romans push the warring germanic tribes to make coalitions —they also forced whole nations to join alliances in the name of resistance to tyranny.

I agree Helen the Truther and Mr Crowley are both disinfo agents and propagandists. It’s all meant to obfuscate the vast corruption of the US government. China is making the transition from “developing economy” to industrialized nation. Their infrastructure is putting the US to shame. Their middle class continues to grow. All while the US has been going in the opposite direction these past 25 years.

The middle class in the US has been decimated, dozens of trillions looted and squandered. If the US doesn’t address its corruption like China and Russia did — it will be the end of the US as a first world country, let alone its empire / hegemony which has already died.

“The ugly truth is that sanctions have become an end in themselves. They are not a strategy, but a fig leaf covering the embarrassing fact that the west does not have a strategy.”

I have a strategy. My strategy is to do nothing and hope you provoke Putin enough that he kills all you shitskin importing ruling class traitors with rockets. Die, nigger.

Today, Chinese citizens face stringent controls, including Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital IDs, which dictate their travel and dietary choices. Dissent against the Communist Party of China (CCP) can result in loss of access to food and travel, with repeat offences potentially leading to organ harvesting and sale.

Your attempt at being objective and balanced couldn’t help you escape your own coping mechanisms. The rest of the world really has it better than the (((West))), where both the elites and peasants are equally sub-humans.

Dissent against the Communist Party of China (CCP)

should be met with extreme retribution, considering that this ruling party has brought nothing but glory and honor to the country while lifting almost a billion people out of extreme poverty into a life of abundance, albeit boring. And the dissents are usually the liberal left, anti-gun, cowardly, fag loving freaks, as trained by the (((West))).

But Chinese and Asians in general don’t mind boredom. They are smart enough to realize that boring government is good government, unlike Western peons with fried synapses.

Jew-Commie bankers

Communist bankers?

That’s a new one.

You are correct, it appears. I can’t remember where I read it but years ago I came across a quote made by some Engish judge when a Welsh lord brought a case against an English lord. “A Welshman has no rights an Englishman need respect.” We’re all Welshmen now.

What Russians think about Britain. Well, for example.
“The GDP structure of the UK’s highly developed post-industrial economy is based on the dominance of the service sector, which accounts for about (75%) of GDP, with financial services being a key sector (about (27.7%) of GDP). The second place is occupied by industry (\(18.6\%\) GDP), followed by transport (\(7.8\%\) GDP) and construction (6.1% of GDP). Agriculture, although an important part, accounts for only (1%) of GDP. ”

– In other words, 3/4 of England’s GDP is money laundering criminal oligarchs, stock trading, rating agencies, etc.
Well, let’s delve into whether the subject of the study was highly moral (probably not),
let’s just assume how much population this sector can feed.

“In 2022, in the field of financial and related professional services in
More than 2.4 million people (out of 69 million British people) worked in the UK.”
——————————————————
In other words, 3% of the British population produces 75% of England’s GDP.,
and the remaining 97% is only 25%. Let’s calculate the average difference (gap)
In terms of income, it’s only 97 (!) times,

https://aftershock.news/?q=comment/19173908#comment-19173908

Does anyone take any of these policy makers in the West seriously anymore? What an absolute clown show.

Are Russian planes crashing at a higher rate or is that just Western propaganda? I haven’t checked the stats, but I seem to be reading about a lot more American plane crashes recently (blamed on DIE). Russia is a gigantic country consisting of several different nations. It has all the natural resources necessary to be self-sufficient. The only people who lose out with the restrictions on global trade are oligarchs and apparatchiks. It’s the same in the US. We have a gigantic country that needs nothing from outside its borders, but American oligarchs and apparatchiks get disgustingly rich off of international trade at the expense of the working class, so the open border, fake “free trade” crowd keeps winning.

King dollar is a dangerous illusion that’s going to come back to destroy us eventually. It’s the rope that’s going to hang us.

Oct 2, 2025 Putin: A Polycentric World is Replacing the Old Global Order – Valdai 2025 – English Subtitles

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 22nd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

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Oct 17, 2025 Putin’s Forces Inflict Crushing Blow To Zelensky Ahead Of Trump Meet, Russia Claims Key Villages

Russia’s Defence Ministry has announced fresh battlefield gains in eastern Ukraine, claiming its forces seized three more villages — Pryvilla in Dnipropetrovsk, and Pishchane and Tykhe in Kharkiv. Moscow said troops also captured Borovskaya Andreyevka and advanced into Donetsk’s Dimitrov district, calling it part of a “broader offensive” to secure the region.

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“…what we in the UK want the sanctions to achieve… Encourage Russia to cease actions destablising Ukraine or undermining or threatening the sovereignty or independence of Ukraine.More than eleven years since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and not far from four years since war broke out, the UK and its allies have manifestly failed to deliver upon that goal.”

The author is not some amateur analyst, he is a British diplomat supposedly knowledgeable because he was personally involved in ‘approving’ UK sanctions against Russia, and yet he makes statements that my high-school-educated Uruguayan cleaning lady would scoff at, as she does often when I tell what the Western media in English says about one current event or another. Sad indeed.

Doesn’t he realize that anybody with common sense knows by now the difference between the declared goals of hostile actions of the West (pretexts and shameless lies) and the real goals of such actions?

The real goal of those sanctions (which the UK, a pathetic, cowardly and toothless old corgi trotting behind Uncle Sam and barking upon his command) was not to “encourage” Russia to “to cease actions destablising Ukraine or undermining or threatening the sovereignty or independence of Ukraine.” Ukraine was neither sovereign nor independent and the Brits cared about it as much as for the snows of yesteryear. The real goal was to weaken and destabilize Russia.

He is right, however, that the snactons have failed to deliver on the goal he does not mention. Bummer… Disappointed, he resigned, a valiant act of which he is proud. Beyond pathetic.

That being said, the US was not in a position to wield the petrodollar as an economic instrument of war. The whole premise of the dollar reserve status is based on the neoliberal fiat system which gave it its backing not by gold — but by industrial and military might. It was based on the fact that up until now America was the world’s hegemonic superpower. It’s absolutely the worst possible timing to use the petrodollar as a weapon —when it’s very reserve status is highly dependent on the good will of nations to “trust” its value and to “protect” its status.

Well, we may not like the answer to all this, but it is clear: King Dollar rules, and that will remain the case for the foreseeable future. Anyone who has studied the global financial system a little will understand why. If the financial system is a human body, the USD is the blood.

I think you may have misjudged this when you state “that will remain the case for the foreseeable future;” yet parallel systems are already emerging and working to displace the dollar, which has not ever been less powerful than now. Even Trump is making US dollar-backed “stablecoins” to try to launder the dollar through them and create something people will mistakenly buy.

Dracula, O dark one, you most of all should understand that even if this currency is the blood flowing through the current system, what we are witnessing is its exsanguination. It is not providing life naturally to the current system, but only in the manner it provides life to a parasitic blood-sucking undead creature dependent on draining others to survive.

“Sanctions will not stop the war. And the longer they go on, more Ukrainians will die.” – and that is – and has been – the exact plan of DaSynagogue of Satan…..always has been.
While the author has written an extraordinarily well written summary using reason and logic – there’s a dimension to this scenario that most folks not only miss, they will outright dismiss it as religiosity and not applicable to real life – which of course is another deception of DSOS.
And if anyone wants more – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/12/satans-wars-christians-killing.html?m=0 – history shows DaSynagogue of Satan deceiving churchianity to do its dirty work as servants of Satan – absolutely pathetic and shamelessly self-righteous while doing so.
What historically was Western Civilization is now a full-fledged servant of DSOS – while Russia has become the last outpost of Christianity – and unless WC regains its traditional roots, it will go the same route as ancient Israel in 70 AD.

Sanctions will not stop the war.

Sanctions are an act of war.

And speaking of sanctions and war…

Iran, Russia, and China sent a letter Saturday to the UN secretary-general and the Security Council, declaring that the nuclear deal with Tehran has been terminated, effectively ending the Council’s consideration of the Iranian nuclear issue.

The three countries criticized the UK, France, and Germany, known as the E3, for what they described as a “legally and procedurally flawed” attempt to trigger the snapback mechanism to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran under UN Security Council Resolution 2231.

“The attempt by the E3 to trigger the so-called ‘snapback’ is by default legally and procedurally flawed,” said the letter, adding that the European parties, “having themselves ceased to perform their commitments under both the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ) and Resolution 2231, lack the standing to invoke its provisions.”

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/iran-russia-china-send-letter-to-un-declaring-nuclear-deal-with-tehran-terminated/3720768

Russia and China seem to be firming up their relations with Iran against the West and Israel.

I believe that any actions taken by Trump or Mileikowski against Iran will result in a larger war than they bargained for…

Which is why I also believe that is the reason Trump is turning his attention to Venezuela, an Iranian ally, which regime change would temporarily satisfy his Israeli handlers.

Venezuela also has ties with Russia, which could be another reason why Trump wants to speak with Putin face to face.

Larry has come a long way (“the state of Israel, a cancer on the region, must cease to exist”).
He also explains what is the real reason of Trump’s bellicosity toward Venezuela and its not the oil…

https://youtu.be/siZtuf8OkUI?si=tc2aYtMnwqR3F-Rj

All commie revolutions seem to have been funded by oligarch bankers. Oligarchs figured that if the gov’t owned everything and they owned the gov’t they owned everything. The problem is that the communist leaders eventually edge the oligarchs out. Now they want democratic corporatism where corporations own everything and the oligarchs own the corporations.

Not really because (((communism is a euphemism for kikeism )))
(((communism))) is where kikes rule over equally mistreated goyim

Russia had too many dependencies in 2022 to become self-sufficient. That is the Fortress Roosha myth often promoted here that ignores economic realities.

Bloggers like the author idealize Russia out of resentment for Western powers. But that isn’t actual analysis of their economy.

As for planes it isn’t a matter of airlines crashing due to engineering failures. Russia never developed their own fleet of jumbo jets and was dependent on the West for parts.

Russia has grounded planes due to a lack of parts. Half of their Airbus fleet is grounded:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/21/half-of-russias-airbus-a320neo-fleet-grounded-amid-engine-problems-sanctions-kommersant-a87087

Thus the previous poster is not repeating propaganda as you want to believe.

Russia increased their dependencies on the West after the cold war. But even during the 1980s they were importing Western grain. Which means they weren’t even self-sufficient in food.

I understand being dissatisfied with the status quo but that shouldn’t translate into idealizing Russia. We have too many posters that try to re-imagine Russia as they would like it to be rather than what it is. Russia has a GDP about the size of Texas. They are not bringing in a new world order by invading Ukraine. Russia is currently using T-55 tanks in battle which shows they are short even on T-72s. That shows they do not have limitless production capability as the Ritter/Larry J/Martyanov Western Russo fans like to tell us.

Russia has survived the sanctions but it is intellectually dishonest to imply that they have thrived from them. Their basic foodstuff has record inflation and they aren’t able to stop Ukraine from blowing up oil refineries. That puts them in a precarious position if those attacks continue. Gas prices are connected to all parts of the economy. If gas goes too high then people stop buying and products become more expensive.

All commie revolutions seem to have been funded by oligarch bankers.

Funding a thing doesn’t make one that thing.

Bankers are interested in profits. They’re only concerned about politics to the extent that they make money.

Capitalism, Communism…they don’t give a shit. As long as they make $$$

In reality, the most sanctioned country on the planet is Iran (for over 40 years), and before that, it was Iraq (for over a decade) and the DPRK (increasing since the 1950s) . Russia is still selling oil and gas, among other natural resources, to the US and Europe. Additionally, Russia still imports goods from the US and Europe.

…awaiting the nation’s transformation into a grotesquely obese, drug-addled consumer of products and pharmaceuticals manufactured by Chinese robots.

Awaiting? Awaiting? Have been on the street in America in this century? Do you live in a cave? It’s here already. Has been for a long time.

“Racism” your favor goddamn word. You are talking exactly like them.

Dear roonaldo, these cats were herded, some willingly, like Britain, Germany, Poland, France and also Ukraine itself. Others were coerced.
My reckoning for what’s it worth, is that the willing cohort i.e. Britain, Germany, Poland, France and Ukraine has its top political echelon captured by the zionists, while the mewling, growling, teeth gnashing countries in the EU sack are not yet totally controlled by the zionists.
The sack is supposedly owned by the US, but in reality belongs to the zionists.

The sanctions on Russia, which are, in effect, mostly boycotts of cheap Russian energy, have succeeded because their purpose was never to impoverish or harm Russia, their purpose has always been to harm the West and the EU.

If “Russia has a GDP about the size of Texas”, how is Russia producing 7-10 times more munitions than the entire collective West?

Looks like your whole comment is misleading at best.

Well the UN voted on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and by a 143-5 majority decreed that Russia was an unjust invader and held fraudulent elections in occupied territories. Here is a summary of that resolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-11/4

Feel free to argue why you think the UN would be opposed to sanctions on Russia.

I don’t think he really resigned.

He sounds like he’s just one lighter shade of the foreign office.

lol you’re a real stupid misinformed troll. There are fags and trans people even in Asia. How dumb are you, seriously? Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, they all have gays and trans people. But you talk like China represents all Asians worldwide, when clearly they don’t. There are even Chinese trans people living in China as well. And China has feminist groups too. All they need is for a woman to take charge and all that XI stuff dies. Just ask the Japanese who are prepping to elect their first female Prime Minister after all this time. Even they didn’t remain dominated by men in power for too long. And eventually China is going to do the same someday. Just like if Kim of North Korea dies, his wife will take over.

If you love the Chinese way of doing things, why don’t you move over there and live among them? I’m not so afraid of gays and trans people that I want to live under a boring as fuck government controlling what I’m allowed to watch, what I’m allowed to drink, eat, or do with my own free time because they get to decide what’s morally wrong or righteous, fuck that shit. China may have uplifted their own people out of poverty and that’s fine they took them out of poverty. But that doesn’t mean China is paradise either. I’ve met some pretty damn depressed people living in Russia and Asia in my 20s. One of them moved to the U.S. because he couldn’t take life in China anymore. He was an artists that did a lot of gory artwork which China is a pussy about and forbid him from creating such content. Once he did something that was anti-feminist and included violence against Chinese women he nearly got into trouble for that. So he was fed up and left China.
I know a guy from Russia who still lives in Mexico no matter how dangerous it is because he got sick of living under Putin and wasn’t interested in “Christian values” or being forced to live under these values. China is a successful nation because they abuse their kids to be that way. Starting an early age they force and demand children to practically be adults. That’s why Asians especially the Chinese can’t handle failure very well and are likely to commit suicide if they do.

But as we continue to pursue ever diminishing packages of sanctions, Ukraine will remain stuck in the middle, devastated and depopulated, as Europe deindustrialises and falls into the embrace of nationalism at an accelerating rate.

The sanctions are perfectly accomplishing their goal of deindustrializing europe and breaking it apart. The Russian vision of Europe from Lisbon to Wladiwostok has been preempted once and for all, because Europe will have been transformed into a dystopian shithole by the end of the fighting.
All due respect to this former British diplomat for his resignation, but most likely he has never understood what his job really was about: Destabilize and keep the Unwashed busy while they are being ripped of.

Besides, if China was paradise like you’re desperately trying to make it seem. Why do Chinese people STILL come to the U.S. in large numbers to study or create their Chinatowns? Why are they attending schools in America instead of going to school in their perfect Heaven where everybody obeys the rules and do what they are told like some little owned bitch that isn’t even allowed to do what they choose to do unless Xi approves of it? Even the small hats don’t have that power over the U.S. citizens, not yet anyways.

I still rather stay here than to move to China. You’re sitting up here praising Digital Currency and IDs and all that subservience crap just because “China uplifted it’s people out of poverty!” Add on top of the fact they have far less women than men living over there. They may not fly pride flags but a country with far less women is likely to have issues. Japan can tell you something about that with it’s aging population. Tons of virgin men and herbivore males among that lot, and no porn in Japan isn’t to blame either for their herbivore male crises.

Even if they are “agents” why are you guys praising and kissing China’s ass? If I recalled during Covoid, they forced people to stay inside. If they left, they would have been severely punished for it. And what did that dumbass actor Jackie Chan say? Oh yeah, “I think we aren’t controlled enough! We need to be more controlled!” Go ahead and worship China.

America can uplift it’s people out of poverty to, it doesn’t have to become oppressive. But it chooses to keep people in poverty while also being oppressive because the people at the top prefer it that we stay poor and miserable. They have a GOD complex, this is also why they want to keep people in other nations down as well. Not just their own citizens. If the dickheads in DC can’t force the world to submit and suffer, they wage war. So I can agree that America is a dog shit nation only because it’s govern by dogshit people who hate humanity.

If “Russia has a GDP about the size of Texas”, how is Russia producing 7-10 times more munitions than the entire collective West?

I’d like to see a source on that along with an explanation of why they are using tanks from 1955 if their military production is somehow able to outproduce the entire West. 155 shell production has massively ramped up in the US which is part of the Ukraine aid that was passed by Congress.

In any case GDP is not measured by one specific type of production.

It’s the Gross Domestic Product as in the gross value of all goods and services.

Looks like your whole comment is misleading at best.

Looks like you need to brush up on basic economics.

King Dollar is still circulating but the system has become sclerotic. The system includes the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, the U.S. Treasury, the military, the military industrial complex, the Court, Congress, and etc., etc., — all of them are organs, enlarged, swollen, diseased, and compromised by an uncoordinated arrhythmia in the heart of the beast.

Your comment is the sort one reads in MSM print. It is intended to be reassuring and encourage complacency. But the U.S. is tired. Exactly as the aging baby (boomer) Trump is exhausted and was baby (boomer) Biden exhausted before him.

Much of the world is indeed hostage to the maniacal promulgations of the exhausted Empire but the Empire, as all empires inevitably do, is living on borrowed time and money.

Pumping money, time and energy into supporting Netanyahu and Zelensky — both of them agents of the Zionist International Deep State Oligarchy — has exhausted the treasury. King Dollar no longer circulates in the U.S. Well the currency does, true. But unpaid and un-payable debts have destroyed King Dollars purchasing power. There is not enough productivity in the U.S. A nations people must be able to afford to buy its own output. A nation cannot rely on only the revenue from exports. Especially since U.S. manufacturing is in a free fall. The U.S. can hardly pay for its imports.

ZIDSO has bled the U.S. to such an extent the purchasing power of the dollar is in free fall.

Are Jews to blame? It is one thing to be persistent. But Jews are obsessive. A major problem for people with any sort of personality disorder — including obsession, is that seldom are they able to acknowledge their disorder or curb it. The disorder runs them! Disorders are congenital defects. They only die when the host dies.

The U.S. has been run into the ground. The U.S. is disordered. The men and women running the U.S. are disordered, as are the hired help, which includes Donald Trump. In effect, the U.S. is slowly dying.

Yes exactly — productive GDP. All else is what lawyers often do, called — churning. The same customers charged over and over again to do nothing but have useless meetings of reassurance and encouragement that settlement is forthcoming. Billable hours are the objective. What do lawyers add to GDP?

The political class — most of them former lawyers — are well versed in churning!

I’d like to see a source on that along with an explanation of why they are using tanks from 1955….

FIFO accounting?

It makes sense to use the older armour as self-propelled artillery and, in some cases as suicide-drones. They’re probably saving the Armata for the day NATO decides to roll into Western Ukraine.

The sanctions on Russia, and also China, have been akin to kicking out a basement-dwelling son and making him earn his own living. Despite feeling like punishment, the sanctions have strengthened those countries by forcing them to become independent from the West. In the case of a father who loves his son despite kicking him out, that result can be considered a success. But the West hoped Russia would face the equivalent of dying of hunger on the street. In sum, sanctions on Russia have been one of the greatest foreign policy failures in history, and yet they retain nearly universal support in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels since in the West ideology trumps reality until reality becomes too real to ignore.

…their purpose was never to impoverish or harm Russia, their purpose has always been to harm the West and the EU.

Germany specifically, the industrial engine of the EU.

Western Sanctions Have Failed and Become Self-Defeating

This is ridiculous. I don’t know whether it’s been the sanctions, or the NATO equipment, or the Ukrainian military, or Russia’s epic incompetence and corruption, but whatever the West is doing has been hugely successful in Ukraine. Consider what Russia has failed so spectacularly to accomplish that they no longer even talk about as feasible goals anymore:

Demilitarization of Ukraine.
Denazification of Ukraine.
Regime change in Kiev.
Russian troops reaching the Dniepr River.
Establishing a DMZ as a buffer zone between NATO weapons and Russian territory.
Taking Kharkov.
Taking Odessa.
Conquering all of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson (They’ve only fully conquered 1 of the 4 regions that they formally annexed.)
Creating a land bridge to Crimea. (Putin is now talking about giving back Zaporizhzhia and Kherson if Ukraine will let Russia keep Donetsk and Lugansk.)
Creating a land bridge to the Russian rebels in Transnistria, Moldova.
Reestablishing Novorossiya.
Reducing the dangerous border with NATO. (The border was lengthened by 1000 miles when Finland joined NATO.)
Breaking up NATO. (Sweden also joined NATO.)

Oh, and Trump is now talking about forcing Russia out of all of the oblasts, including Crimea. This may or may not be realistic, but the fact that it can even be imagined today shows the total military failure of Russia.

I certainly wouldn’t attribute all of Russia’s failures to Western sanctions (I think it’s mostly Russia losing, not NATO winning), but it’s ridiculous to say that sanctions have failed when everything the West wanted them to achieve has in fact been achieved.

[The CCP] has brought nothing but glory and honor to the country while lifting almost a billion people out of extreme poverty into a life of abundance

The CCP didn’t lift a billion people out of poverty, the CCP prevented a billion Chinese from lifting themselves out of poverty for decades while all the other Chinese people in the world – in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the US, everywhere outside of China – lifted themselves out of poverty 50 years earlier.

Chinese people are just so unbelievably conformist that they think the CCP has been their best friend when in fact it has been their worst enemy.

Hmmmm . . . nothing like stating the obvious. Unless you employ sanctions sufficient to impact a nation’s ability to deprive them of the intended purpose of the sanctions themselves —

they don’t work.

What a shocking revelation. Because the EU continues buy and sell from Russia, because The sanctions do not include blockades that prevent circumventions by other countries —- of course sanctions won’t work.

The west needs to get their act together and serious employ economic pressure that matters and that includes a a full embargo.

As for the comment regarding Russia not wanting war either — snark, Russia started the war and continues to prosecute the same. Sure Russia would like to get what she wants without war — but they are more than willing to go to war to get it. And until, writers like you cease whining about “nuclear war” and recognize reality, Russia will prosecute as many wars as she can get away with to get her way.

Only very intelligent people have trouble apprehending Reality when it stands in front of them flashing lights and with a marquee stating the fact. Hence the debate that on whether shit stinks or not.

Only very intelligent people could have destroyed 5 American cities while fervently believing they were enhancing it.

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I’ve personally witnessed most of the above.

What no pundit talking about the Ukrainian slaughter has ever mentioned is that even if NATO were to apply its perceived might and enter the fray, deploy everything that it has, Russia would still not be defeated because a defeat of Russia would mean a full encirclement of China by the American controlled vassalage, something the Middle Kingdom could never ever allow to happen, it would be the end of their sovereignty, the American Governing would be crowned as the only power that there is, China would again be carved up as she was after the opium wars.

The Ukrainian conflict will continue not because Putin wants to carry on with it, it will continue because it suits the American military industrial complex (MIC) that Ike warned about in 1961, the US foreign policy has been formulated by the Council on Foreign Relations that totally reflects the needs of the MIC companies such as Lockheed Martin and thousands of others.

Whist most of the US manufacturing might has been offshored to the East, mostly China, only the design, manufacture and maintenance of the tools of killing remained onshore, not fully but mostly, the MIC plants are in all 50 States of the Republic, the sector is the second largest contributor to the GDP after services, it employees some 15% of the workforce and the equity and debt of the MIC companies are in all pension plans of the working Americans, some 60 millions currently.

To top it all, many retired senior politicians and top bureaucrats sit on advisory boards and other agencies affiliated to the MIC corporates, sinecures not to be given up easily if at all.

For the MIC golden goose to lay well in the future all that’s needed is as many regional conflicts and as long lasting as possible. Ukraine is but one, more will open up in the years ahead, Trump can do FA to stop them.

Pumping money, time and energy into supporting Netanyahu and Zelensky — both of them agents of the Zionist International Deep State Oligarchy — has exhausted the treasury.

Aid to Ukraine and Israel amount to less than 5% of the military budget and most of the Ukraine aid has been delivered.

Trump and his “fiscal conservatives” in the House further increased the military budget in their recent bill.

Aid to Ukraine doesn’t change anything and while I don’t support military aid to Israel it is a drop in the bucket.

U.S. Military Spending vs Other Top Countries
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-military-spending-vs-other-top-countries/

You’re not looking at the facts and want to blame aid to Ukraine.

If you support the mass murdering midget of Russia and his invasion then be honest about it.

Stop pretending your opposition is in relation US spending. The US in fact makes a profit from the war through increased LNG sales.

If this is all news to you then turn off Fox/Newsmax and take a hard look at our actual budget.

Thanks.

I forgot to add that GDP is a measure of spending, not of wealth. The US and Russia are perhaps the most resource-wealthy developed countries on Earth.

Other than perhaps the US, NATO and the Europeans might have banked a lot of money of over the years, but they pissed away most of it over the past century, and are well on their way to a cold, dark, and hungry subsistence in the foreseeable future. Looking at the bright side, at that point their African and MENA army of occupation might finally self-deport back to sunnier climes.

Authorised half of the sanctions against Russia, not particularly proud about it but that was my job said this moron with an astounding lack of irony . Where did we hear this argument before that I was just doing my job or I was following orders ,eh ? 🤔 Ahhh….the good old German Nazis

Only very intelligent people could have destroyed 5 American cities while fervently believing they were enhancing it.

That’s a stupid video.

SF was garbage before millennials.

Maybe you missed it has been the fag capital of American and cost this country billions in AIDS related spending. American politicians (including conservatives) still won’t talk about how gays normally take part in unprotected promiscuous sex. Wouldn’t be polite to point out that reality and ask them to maybe not have butt secs with dozens of random people.

I have been to Austin a few times and it is much nicer than Houston or Dallas.

It isn’t ruined and I would much rather live there than the Republican managed Oklahoma City. Austin is in fact much safer than Oklahoma City.

Whoever made that video watches too much Fox and doesn’t actually travel.

Of course the sanctions failed, because this was never a “real war” for The West.

It’s a non stop PR blitz, predicated on grabbing headlines, selling it to the masses, and using the “aid” to pilfer billions!

Hence, the sanctions, were equally performative.

One of the reasons that the Ukraine has been steadily losing, is because they kept doing stupid shit, just to generate headlines, instead of having a smarter strategic plan. And when your primary (almost singular) focus is garnering good press, you make stupid mistakes, instead of smart tactical and strategic choices.

#1- If you’re on the defensive, don’t attack! In virtually every battle in history, being on the defense, is less costly than the offense. “No”, not always, but most of the time. The Ukrainians could have set up one defensive line after another, and made the Russians pay for every inch in men and materials, but where’s the sexy headlines in that strategy? Nope! Gotta “counter-attack”, and get that press, while thousands die to re-capture a few hundred meters here or there. Counter-offensives, and invading Kursk!? So stupid… but they got those headlines! (and more funding because of it)

#2- As a rule, if you’re starting a war with a country 10 times your size, you’re gonna lose. So don’t do that. Being a meaningless pawn to NATO and the US, the stupid Ukrainians kept shelling the Donbass, until the Russians invaded… well, who’s laughing now? Sure, the Russians have taken some serious losses (and talking to some Russian soldiers, they don’t really enjoy killing people that are basically just like them, it’s soul crushing and heart breaking), but the Ukraine is going to lose this war, and then what happens? no more Ukraine! “I started a war with Russian, and now my country doesn’t exist!”

#3- All of this could have been easily solved, all anyone needed to do was actually listen to Putin. He’s remarkably good at telling the world exactly what he thinks, and exactly what he is going to do. And rather than make him an enemy, he’s probably one of the best allies in the world today. In fact, I probably trust him more than any other national leader on the entire world stage. (I wouldn’t move to Russia and start talking shit about him, lest I fall out of a window, or end up poisoned to death, but “hey!”, I’m not stupid!)
But seriously, name a leader you trust more? Maybe Orban? It’s nobody in Europe, Asia, Africa, or South America. And US Presidents? They lie as practice.

#4- “Sanctions” are past their sell by date! “We” just don’t have that much power anymore, because China can replace anything we refuse to sell them, or buy from them, or whatever. The EU and the US are not the powers they were 20, 30, 50 years ago.
And with BRICS and the SCO? Who is sanctioning whom? If Russia, China, and India tell you to kick rocks, there isn’t shit we can do about it.

Modern leaders need to re-cage their understanding of the modern world. It’s not 10 years ago, or 20, or 50; It’s now, and the better leaders know what that means. They don’t ignore it, they embrace it.

Keep it up, and you’re libel to find an Oreshnik in your bed fucking your wife!

Today, Chinese citizens face stringent controls, including Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital IDs, which dictate their travel and dietary choices. Dissent against the Communist Party of China (CCP) can result in loss of access to food and travel, with repeat offences potentially leading to organ harvesting and sale.

Source please.

Typical bilge from an Ukrainian Jew.

Nearly 40% of dirty money is laundered in London and UK crown dependencies
Deputy foreign secretary urges Cayman and British Virgin Islands to implement UK law requiring public registers of funds
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Nearly 40% of the dirty money in the world is going through the City of London and other crown dependencies, the UK’s deputy foreign secretary has said.

Andrew Mitchell added the crown dependencies and overseas territories will face fresh demands from the Foreign Office to comply with UK laws setting up public registers of beneficial share ownership.

Since legislation was passed in the House of Commons in 2016 the UK has faced prevarication from overseas territories which are reluctant to set up public registers that disclose the ultimate owners of funds in tax havens.

Britain is a notorious haven for dirty money – MPs now have the chance to crack down

Speaking to the Bright Blue thinktank, Mitchell said: “On the issue of dirty money, it is important to recognise that Britain has a dog in the fight. According to some estimates, 40% of money laundering around the world – this is money often stolen from Africa and Africans by corrupt businessmen, bent politicians and war lords and so on – 40% of that money comes through London and overseas territories and crown dependencies.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/nearly-40-of-dirty-money-is-laundered-in-london-and-uk-crown-dependenies

The premise that Russia was “destablising Ukraine or undermining or threatening the sovereignty or independence of Ukraine” before the SMO began is childish nonsense. The west waged a violent coup in 2014 and pumped billions in $ and arms into a nazi-infested puppet regime/rathole.

Stop the flow of bombs, money and logistical support to the Zelensky/Nazi regime in Kiev, or insist on immediate elections, and the thing is over in a couple weeks. No more dead people.

Not even one mention in the entire article that economic sanctions are an act of war in violation of the UN Charter beclowns everything the author has to say about destabilization, sovereignty and independence. But he’s British, so that’s par for the course. 🤡🇬🇧🤡

The UK does what the US says. But why does the US do this stupid shit?

Ace open source intelligence analyst xymphora cites a segment of an Aaron Good interview as uniquely definitive, Good’s answer to the question: What is the deep state benefit of genocide?

Good’s good on the capacity demolition caused by retrograde development; on Jew grandiosity; and on overt repression as weakness. He coins a phrase, “oligarchic pluralism” and notes that Jews are powerful and pushy.

Good mirrors xymph’s notion that Jew supremacism is counterproductive for the state. Good defines the relevant interest as rational imperialism and rightly states that the [empire] is a less effective hegemon for its support of Jew genocide and aggression.

Here’s where Good goes off the rails with xymph. At the highest levels the objective is impunity, not hegemony. Good identifies the state apex as, essentially, the kosher nostra. But CIA impunity is written into American State papers. Impunity makes CIA symbiotic with organized crime: organized crime provides deniable cutouts for state crime, while CIA impunity protects the cutouts, reducing their risk. Now criminal enterprise is self-perpetuating with the arbitrary power of impunity and slush funds from rackets including gun-running, child trafficking, looting and asset-stripping, fraud and theft, insider trading, &c. &c. Crime with impunity is independent of state capacity, all you need is a safe harbor. Any old shithole with some nukes is good enough.

Good addresses the question, Izzies, attack dog or master? He reasons from GHW Bush’s electoral defeat after questioning “unrealistic notion of greater Israel.” Bush’s war, incomprehensible to oilmen, destabilized energy markets with an investment depression that pushed the price of a gallon of gas below one dollar. If Bush pissed Jew supremacists off, he pissed oilmen off even more. BCCI as Jew vendetta is not the parsimonious explanation: CIA criminality was under international pressure just as CIA looting of HUD and S&Ls pissed bankers off. Economic fuckups are more than sufficient to account for Bush’s defeat. Evil Izzies are the least embarrassing explanation for Bush’s ouster, but it aint’t necessarily so.

Duckman explains Sino-US trade war.

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I think this is the reason why we don’t have many immigrants.
Well, you should form a group against China and promote your anti-China theories to the outside world.
I’m serious.
This is beneficial to us. This way, a large number of idiots will be prevented from attempting to infiltrate our country.

I suggest that you promote your theory to more people. In this way, the mentally challenged will not consider choosing our country as a destination for immigration. In the end, you make me very happy.
Thank you. Please forget my previous insults towards you, because I have realized that attacking idiots is meaningless.
Only when idiots become the rulers and everyone sees this, will they be able to exert their influence, and more people will become idiots.
谢谢你，狗娘养的杂种东西

Russia has been the world HQ for International Jewry since the 1920s. Ukraine should be the sledgehammer used to smash Russia into a million pieces and then Russia could be carved up into dozens of smaller countries along religious and ethnic boundaries and then they could kill one another instead of their European neighbors. For some reason the Far Right in the US who are always the first ones to yell about defending their own blood and soil turn into swooning fangirls when it comes to Putin and his landgrab in Ukraine.

While I can agree up to a point with the author that the sanctions against Russia are not working, I am confused about this part:

In my mind, there are two clear reasons why sanctions policy has failed.

Firstly, because even if people in the west consider them to be justified, the Russian State considers them to be unjust.
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But on my second point, that denies the political reality of how sanctions are imposed.

While the combined economies of NATO are 27 times bigger than Russia, 32 states cannot coordinate policy quickly enough to take decisive action.

This results in waging war by committee.

So the sanctions would have worked better if the Russian state would have considered them just? How does that work – the Russians seeing the error of their ways and swiftly deciding to shift gears accordingly by withdrawing the army from Ukraine? Do we have any historical examples of this happening? Sanctions as moral directions, doing good job? I guess I am not understanding his language, likely my fault.

But why not mention the real reason the sanctions mostly failed to cripple the Russians? It was because large part of the world didn’t participate including the two very large economies of India and China. The latter the main producer of materials and industrial goods on the planet, uniquely capable of supplying the Russians with whatever industrial and tech products they need. And the Indians more than happy to buy lots of oil from Russia and redirect it all over the globe.

It’s as if the author has forgotten we are now in the 2020’s, not the 1920’s. Europe is no longer the center of the economic universe.

And by the way, why the emphasis on removing sanctions? That’s only part of the picture, what about weapon shipments and covert operations against Russia? Why not just suggest serious peace talks with Russia including permanent security architecture that might last more than a year or two? It’s just strange, but if the author wants removal of sanctions to be the horse pulling the cart on the road to peace, perhaps that’s just fine.

Don’t you realize that China has been under sanctions from the west, and attacked by propaganda, since day 1, and continued till today. There is no other nations that have succeeded despite these.

Both paternal grandparents were born on farms near Odessa, Russia.

Germans from Russia. They emigrated to the US ca. 1909, homesteaded in the Midwest.

Had they remained until 1917, it probably would have been a different story.

By 1948, all correspondence from Germans living in Ukraine ended, Holodomor was a success. The Bolsheviks knew how to kill until the cows came home.

With all of the survivors still living, it is 250 years of family history in three generations.

5000 years of humanity making a go of it no matter what, during that time, there have been 14,000 wars, in spite of them, life does go on.

Ponerologists are doing their best to observe practicing ponerists doing their evil thing, evil ones are happy to do some human sacrifice.

Sanctions have worked only once that I know of during my lifetime. That was in the case of South Africa and I think what happened there is not correctly understood. In South Africa there were not only reactionary whites but also radical black factions that needed to brought to heel before a new (and supposedly multiracial) system could be created.

There were sanctions, for example, that kept South African athletes out of international competition, with the exception of professional boxing. These and other sanctions fell on blacks as well as white. I know little about what the situation there was but I like being analytical. That means, figuring out that if one thing exists, then there is some other thing that has to exist along with it even if you can’t see it.

I don’t know what other sanctions affecting individuals existed. Maybe South Africans were barred from studying internationally. Maybe they were barred from working internationally. It’s just my conclusion that since these fell on blacks as well as whites, and also on the other groups that lived there, there was more to it that just reforming the sentiments of Boers.

The Roosevelt era was before my lifetime, but there was another case back then where sanctions worked to their intended purpose. Franklin “I hate war” Roosevelt put sanctions on Imperial Japan hoping to goad them into attacking American territory and forces so that he could bring America into the war. That worked for him, I guess. Other than that, all sanctions seem to ever do is raise the misery index for the ordinary people. The elites who run the country go on and sometimes the country and economy get steered in new and even promising directions because of sanctions. They don’t work. John Major, later a British P.M., said of the South African sanction that they “feed white consciences outside South Africa, not black bellies within it.”

That’s what they do. Feed the consciences (or just the fat egos) of the elites and disress the people of the affected countries to no clear effect otherwise.

“Money, time, and energy” — I wrote. Perhaps it is you who are obsessed with money. What did Putin move on Eastern Ukraine?

You know why. But you will persist in promulgating a lie won’t you. Again perhaps it is you who watches Fox/Newsmax. I do not have a TV. I am not interested in being propagandized.

Reading is my obsession. ZIDSO is desperate. The Zionist International Deep State Oligarchy has been outed. Russia just has to be patient. Putin has refused to be goaded. He cares not a whit for your tedious prognostications. Time is on Russia’s side.

In fact it is obvious to me that Putin understands the art of simple patience. There appears to be no rioting or public demonstrations in the streets of Moscow. One cannot say the same thing about cities in the United States.

I’d bet Trump is long forgotten while Putin is still practising patient resistance. Russia has its problems, true enough. But debt is not one of them. The United States is bankrupt.

ZIDSO meanwhile is morally bankrupt. Not so the Russians. They have first-hand knowledge of the evils promulgated by ZIDSO. If I recall isn’t that what Putin elucidated when he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson.

Geo-strategically Russia is most exposed to NATO aggression from the west. Recall, both Napoleon and Hitler foundered on the vast steps of the Ukrainian hinterlands. It would be monumentally expensive to bring western arms to bear against Russia while Putin continues to be patient.

Russia recall, has nuclear weapons. Putin’s posture however is defensive. A full scale attack against the Russian bear would be a monumental blunder. The U.S. is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.

Attracting foreign deposits depends on the perceived risk of getting one’s money back never mind the interest. ZIDSO confiscating Russia’s deposits was a monumental blunder. Netanyahu’s depravations is another monumental blunder.

What next? […] Attacking Taiwan? China and Russia have a combined population of 2 billion people.

Unfortunately ZIDSO overplayed their hand! The U.S. has what? […] 340 million people. How many of those people are willing to fight? How many Americans want to bleed out on the plains of Ukraine so that the likes of BlackRock get the spoils?

Days after the Ukraine war started and I started to hear about Zelensky, I characterized him as “Jussie Smollett with an army and a country.” What has happened since to change that assessment?

Then there’s the witlessness of the American elite, of whom the epically miserable Victoria Nuland is a leading exemplar though older than almost all of them now. Who are they? They’re the Ivy League brats who weren’t smart enough to major in real chemistry, real physics, real mathematics or real economics, and not smart enough either to become real scholars of history, literature or the social sciences. Or to become real consiglieri.

You or I are easily smarter than almost all of them. Being smart doesn’t always mean a better opinion, but it does in fact help. As best as I can discern, these people think in bumper stickers and their operative principle is last in fact, first in law. Another name for that is playing gotcha. My operative principle is, discern what is most foundational and go back to that. Some little agreement made a few years ago at the drop of a hat by some people who no one remembers anymore doesn’t supersede the arc of world history. Try to make it do so and you might end up with a bomb down your stovepipe some day, or even a free trip to the stratosphere if you are so daft as to insist on living at Ground Zero for the sake of the cool hipster amenities you find there.

..Mr.Proud, how much is the Russian embassy and the KGB troll farms paying you to spew Putin’s propaganda?

There was a saying in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union: “Communism was the long road from Capitalism to Capitalism.” It worked the same in China. Communism postponed prosperity in China for 50 years.

One issue raised is that the GDP of the United States and many other countries is inflated discretionary spending in non-essentials and the economic activity that goes to feed that spending.

In that case, maybe some of the supposed weaker economies, such as Russia’s, are closer to the West in per capita hard economic activity like resource production, manufacturing, food production and so on. That’s maybe. I have only seen the claim, but I suspect adjusting for superfluous activity would only somewhat close the gap even so. Still, it would make it less than it appears to be.

Europe has now been debating for over a year whether to expropriate 200 billion in Russian assets housed in Belgium.

Yet that has not been agreed precisely because the Belgian government has blocked it consistently out of a not illegitimate fear that it will shred that’s country’s reputation among international investors …

It was not very smart of the Russians to have banked their assets in an EU country and certainly everyone will think hard before making such a move in future.

“For some reason the Far Right in the US who are always the first ones to yell about defending their own blood and soil turn into swooning fangirls when it comes to Putin and his landgrab in Ukraine.”

Yeah, strange isn’t it. Makes one wonder what this Far Right actually is. But this web site quite well shows what it is. It is them.

The problem with America is that while our elites (corporate, government, intellectual) have been pursuing their hegemonic and geopolitical dreams, they have neglected their own countries to the point where it has been reduced to a collection atagonistic racial, ethnic and cultural tribes. Meanwhile, the youth and young adult demographics are debilitated and unfit at high rates not only for military service but unfit at high rates for productive work of any kind.

Econiomic dependence on the MIC (military industrial complex) sector? It’s another level in the big ponzi scheme that keeps America afloat. I might be exaggerating some, but have long liked to say, every human being in America lives off of the federal budget in some way. I once lived in the East Bay (Oakland, CA) at the time represented in Congress by Rep. Ron Dellums. It was a shocking place. It was a whole society visibly living off of the federal budget, not that I could get a dime of it. Dellums, likely communist that he was, was the chair of the House Armed Services Committee. I’m sure it was all pretty simple. I give you an aircraft carrier or a new missile system, you go along with more affirmative action and so many millions for arts and community development grants all going to communist front organizations, collectives and NGOs.

It was only more obvious and more offensive in Oakland and Berkeley. I have lived in rural counties and regional cities too. They also live off of the federal, state and local budgets and public employment in their own way. If you live there and you can’t get on that train too, you might end up living a very hard life.

“Communism was the long road from Capitalism to Capitalism.”

The problem is that Westerners try to define China solely with Western concepts.

It is like a fish trying to define what a bird is with terms like “wet, water, liquid, scales and fins”. It can never grasp what the bird is beyond the mere superficial.

China has been Confucian and Taoist for 2500 years, and Communist/Socialist for only 70. Which is/are more ingrained in the Chinese soul?

Why are there increasing incidents of Russian planes crashing or having to make emergency landings? No more Western parts.

Just as likely to be because of Western parts. Ie, the ‘West’ is run by terrorists who are trying to bring Russia to its knees through terrorist attacks, nominally by ‘Ukraine’ and ‘ISIS’ but really by USA/UK/Israel. And one of their favorite terrorist attacks is: bringing down passenger planes. That’s been the CIA’s go-to since the Cuban revolution, possibly earlier.

Likewise, sanctioning British-based Russian billionaires who took their assets out of Russia might play well in the Financial Times but is a meaningless gesture; these figures have no real power in Russia.

Oh, ode to the downtrodden, huddled masses of Jewish Oligarchs from Russia!

Now there’s a rousing, rallying cry for the crowds, if I’ve ever herd one.

While the combined economies of NATO are 27 times bigger than Russia, 32 states cannot coordinate policy quickly enough to take decisive action.

This results in waging war by committee.

Is this guy serious about having quit his job on some kind of principle?

His principle seems to be to urge the EU to get more efficient.

No, he doesn’t really seem to have actually quit his job at all. He sounds like he’s volunteered to rub elbows with the masses and try to urge them on from the street because the official megaphones don’t seem to work anymore.

The west waged a violent coup in 2014 and pumped billions in $ and arms into a nazi-infested puppet regime/rathole.

Yanukovychw was removed by a vote
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26304842

How is that a coup?

Not even one mention in the entire article that economic sanctions are an act of war in violation of the UN Charter

The UN voted 143-5 that Russia’s invasion is unjust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-11/4

Did you agree with the UN on that vote?

– If you’re on the defensive, don’t attack! In virtually every battle in history, being on the defense, is less costly than the offense. “No”, not always, but most of the time. The Ukrainians could have set up one defensive line after another, and made the Russians pay for every inch in men and materials, but where’s the sexy headlines in that strategy?

The Ukrainians are on the defensive well over 95% of the time.

Russian bloggers complain about the mindless use of meat offensives to take small villages.

The Russians are in fact currently stuck against Ukrainian defenses that were build up in Donbas.

As a rule, if you’re starting a war with a country 10 times your size, you’re gonna lose. So don’t do that. Being a meaningless pawn to NATO and the US, the stupid Ukrainians kept shelling the Donbass, until the Russians invaded… well, who’s laughing now?

Oh ok why don’t you cite that shelling date for us. Give us a date where the Ukrainian military went in with artillery and started shelling.

Ukraine wasn’t in NATO and was not in the process of joining. Zelensky in fact defeated the pro-NATO candidate Poroshenko. You’re repeating a pro-Russian narrative that doesn’t work in an open forum.

As for laughing I don’t think the Russians find it funny that they are on day 1333 of the war and have not taken Donbas while the Nazis took all of Ukraine in a few months.

The rumor is that Putin is going to offer significant concessions in the next meeting.

Better prepare yourself for a “Mission Accomplished” type ending where Putin changes the goals of the war and declares victory.

Putin in his invasion speech said the war was about stopping the Eastward expansion of NATO. Well that goal has failed with the admittance of Finland. He said it “doesn’t matter” which contradicts his previous speech where he said that NATO was putting missiles on his doorstep.

What is funny is that so many of you still provide excuses for the angry dwarf Tsar and his glorious 2.5 week special operation. No explanation for how his invasion changes anything for those of us that oppose the Western status quo.

You’re right. Please go on preaching your theory to the whites.
傻逼东西给你妈脸了

你的言论太愚蠢了，让我感觉中国人都是白痴，你用明显很低的智商来羞辱你的人民，真是太丢脸了

Thanks for showing me how fun it is to curse in Chinese:

你肯定是个丑陋愚蠢的亚人类动物。你的家人看到你那张令人作呕的畸形脸，该有多羞愧啊！我知道，如果你的家人能回到过去，他们肯定恨不得在你还在他们肚子里的时候就把你打掉。你的父母生下这么一个恶毒的怪物，注定要永远被诅咒。

But how many aspects of ‘socialism’ are inherent in traditional Chinese philosophies?

China grew at the same rate, more or less, from 1949 to 1978, as it did thereafter. Moreover in that period they repaired the devastation of two hundred years of Western Imperialism, Japanese invasion and genocide and civil wars. Furthermore they practically ended illiteracy, emancipated women for the first time in Chinese history and laid the industrial foundations for the later explosion in production. NOTHING was ‘postponed’.

South Africa was a sham. There was political change but NO economic change, and ANC merely took a wedge from the looting, and waited for the people to grow tired of the betrayal and make a real revolution.

But how many aspects of ‘socialism’ are inherent in traditional Chinese philosophies?

I wouldn’t say “inherent”, perhaps “compatible” is a better word.

Well said, Anymike, it makes one weep what has happened to the Land of the Free.

Ohhhh no not this nonsense. Still . . . oy

OK, OK, OK. Please keep spreading your ideas.
This way, I can see how the clown puts on the crown.
I’m a multimillionaire. What about you?
I own several properties in Shanghai. What about you?
Living in a garbage bin with stinky rats?

niceland:

So the sanctions would have worked better if the Russian state would have considered them just? How does that work – the Russians seeing the error of their ways and swiftly deciding to shift gears accordingly by withdrawing the army from Ukraine?

Ian Proud:

Firstly, because even if people in the west consider them to be justified, the Russian State considers them to be unjust.

He probably meant the Russian *People*. The idea being that sanctions incite the masses and oligarchs to rise up and oust Putin. If these groups consider the sanctions unjust they are less likely to do so.

See his further comment:

Firstly, because even if people in the west consider them to be justified, the Russian State considers them to be unjust.

niceland:

Do we have any historical examples of this happening?

Although they cause great suffering to the masses (e.g. pre-Iraq war), they never result in a mass uprising.

Who says sanctions have failed? They are calculated to have caused thirty eight million excess deaths, mostly among the young and vulnerable, over recent decades. THAT is a major victory for really existing ‘Western Moral Values’ ad the ‘Rules Based International Order’.
Moreover, Ursula fond of Lyin’, and her minions’ stealing of hundreds of billions will simply undermine the Western banking Mafias, and hasten the end of the EU. I see Ursula hanging upside down in some public square in Germany, but wake up and reprove myself for my typically Western blood-thirst.

Your confabulations, dear, grow more and more ludicrous. There is a Kafkaesque, or perhaps Gogolesque quality to them now. Perhaps Ah Q could come to mind, but he was Chinese, not a poor imitation.

I must agree. And ‘socialism’ could be replaced by other such concepts, like social ‘harmony’. I imagine. The West prefers the ‘bellum omnium contra omnes’ of course, euphemising it as ‘competition’ or, more hideously, ‘freedom’.

Unfortunately, please translate the other person’s Chinese first, and then you will understand why I need to attack them.
And I definitely did not lie.
I grew up in old Jing’an District of Shanghai. My home is located near Jing’an Temple. I suggest you check and search for the house prices in this area – approximately 100,000 RMB per square meter. And my family has 3 houses or apartment nearby, with a total area of over 200 square meters.
The current Jing’an District only appears to have a lower overall population density because the Zhabei District（闸北区） was later incorporated into it.
In addition, my family owns some other properties, such as a villa in the countryside.
So when it comes to calculating family assets, I can definitely say that I am a multimillionaire.
The total value of my family’s assets must be over 10 million US dollars.
I’m serious and I’m not lying to you.
In our Chinese textbooks, we studied “The Story of Ah Q” and “Kong Yiji”. Clearly, I won’t make the same mistakes.

You already discredited yourself in the first paragraph. The truth is, as proclaimed by the Orange Kike itself, that you do NOT receive the best immigrants.

This is the same low-IQ gymnastics that I’m too tired of engaging with.
“Look at how awesome our country is, all these shitty shitskins waiting at our borders for free welfare.”
The Chinese students you receive are obviously those who are not eligible for state universities. They likely come from merchant families with money. What kind of politics do these demographics support?

You are literally sub-human and of low IQ.

Well, using the terrorist tactics of the Fascist Eukies, the West keeps creeping closer to exactly what it says it does’nt want: Enough extensive and severe damage to the Russian population, economy and infrastructure to make it fear for its long-term existence which, in turn, prompts the use of nuclear weapons, which inevitably cascades into complete nuclear Armageddon. Meanwhile, Russia doggedly fights the war meant to prevent this very war. The fight to protect against mass extinction will ultimately cause that extinction… for both sides, plus a whole lot more! When will the world not label you a wimp if you pull the plug on nuclear annihilation to prevent that very annihilation? Are grown up Homo sapiens really too dense to figure out the essential priorities?

A lot of my information comes from The Duran, along with others like Judge Napolitano and Patrick Lancaster. If you’re not listening to channels like that, or reading honest websites, and I presume you’re not, then you know less than nothing about what’s going on.

Your claim about US shell production increasing seems to be wrong, I was just reading yesterday that US shell production hasn’t actually increased since last year, despite repeated promises that it would.

The old tanks are used as mobile firing platforms. The Russian tactics are to push forward until they meet opposition, then they pull back and pulverise the opposing position using a variety of weapons, including those mobile, tank gun-platforms.

Large areas of the front are inexorably moving to the West and North. The immense Russian advantage in shells and all other military equipment and supplies, as well as in men, has resulted in about a million dead Ukrainian soldiers (and about 100k Russian dead).

Every day, as the Russian army continues to grind the Ukrainians down, and the West fails to keep up with Russian military production by a wide margin, the Russian military advantage gets bigger. It’s a bad war for Europe, just as WW2 was (and both were started by the same jewish oligarch class), but there’s no question that Russia was always going to win.

Yes, I broadly agree with most of what you said there.

But, that argument about American spending being “inflated discretionary spending in non-essentials” has never really made much sense to me. I mean, you’ve got your basics like food, shelter, clothing, etc. A large majority of countries have those covered with the help of the high levels of Western-invented tech available to everyone these days.

So let’s say you are a very rich country like America and you’ve covered your bases very well, but you still have massive resources of labour and time left over? So then, mostly, you’re going to put effort and money into more and more of that inflated, dicretionary spending which makes life better for you. I mean, that seems to me to be a good thing, and getting those last finishing touches of luxury / good living (e.g., an enormous SUV instead of a Fiat Panda to go to work in), takes a lot of extra resources/input for relatively small improvements/output.

So yeah, a lot of American effort and spending is on non-essential things – and the ability to do that is what makes life in America better than pretty much everywhere else for the average man in the street.