It should also be pointed out that Franz Ferdinands decision to have a military parade on St. Vitus day in Sarajevo was considered a deliberate provocation by the conspirators. Rebecca West's 'black lamb, grey falcon' is obligatory reading for anyone interested in this region prior to world war II.

Considering that Bosnian muslims had their own SS division during world war II i doubt they fear 'the right'. They vote democrat for the same reason all other muslims do. The democrats are the pro palestinian, pro islam, pro muslim immigration, anti christian party.

Kris Kobach for President!

The Dinaric alps are indeed full ov tall people. They are also the most tribal area in Europe. Albanians and Serbs in the region still identify primarily with the tribe, and most of the nationalist leaders of the 90's wars trace their not too distant ancestry to this region. I have been down there a couple of times and that is easily the most warm, hospitable, and dangerous place in Europe.

Just a heads up for you Steve: Gavin Mcinnes gave you a shoutout on Red Eye(Fox News)……. It made some woman very uncomfortable…..They absolutely do know who you are 🙂

7:42 and Green Mamba,

Search for hdcontentdump03 on youtube. It's the april 9th episode. The woman is KT Mcfarland….i'd never heard of her but she's apparently a former Kissinger aide and knows all the important people. By the way, Mcinnes is turning into a bona fide reactionary on tv and he keeps getting invited back. Probably won't make too much of a difference but it goes to show what you can get away with if you're funny about it.

Apis ended up in front of a Serbian firing squad in 1917 for treason. A show trial if ever there was one. Could someone (steve) explain to me why he is so completely ignored by historians?

@TGGP
Actually DD acted without government approval, which is why they eventually killed him. He was a bit of a loose cannon by all accounts, but apparently his motives were pure: The resurrection of the medieval Serbian empire as a religious obligation.

Your vague impressions are almost all correct. The one exception: The pre-eminent college at Oxford is Christ Church, not Balliol. Christ Church's school chapel is the cathedral seat of the anglican bishop of oxford. Doesn't get much swankier than that. It should be noted that the traditional feeder prep school for Trinity is Eton. That's pretty swank too!

I used to think 'the princess and the pea' was a story. Evidently, it's social commentary. Nice to see that some things never change.

This is hilarious. Surely they must know that nature matters at least as much as nurture. They see it every day. I refuse to believe that they never mention this fact to anyone. Somewhere they must have someone to talk to about this, or they would go crazy……wait….ahhhh, now leftist insanities and perversions finally make sense…..thank you Steve!

8:13….Please do provide details about Rhodie pubs….would love to see it for myself. Also, where could i get more info on families like the Davy's and Wittstocks? Where do you get your info? Have always been curious about that, but there seems to be a media blackout with them…..Thanks in advance.

Good news: White, Temple Mormons(the devout kind of Mormons) are averaging about 4+ kids per woman. Republicans don't have to end immigration, they just have to stall/reduce it enough to let Mormon demography do it's thing.
Bad news: The Republicans will never think of this.

To answer your question steve, yes the Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests can marry. Their Bishops can't and they are always chosen from among the ranks of monks or hieromonks(unmarried priests). Basically it's an Orthodox church that recognises the pope but is eastern in every other way. Ther is also a Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church in the Carpathian region of western Ukraine. This is also a source of tension as Ukrainian nationalists claim that Ruthenians are a mere subset of the Ukrainian ethnic group while the Ruthenians disagree. There are Ruthenians in Croatia and Serbia as well known as Pannonian Ruthenians who have their own Greek Catholic Church (the Eparchy of Krizevci). These churches are referred to as uniate churches and are especially loathed by Orthodox christians as they are essentially groups of former Orthodox believers who joined Rome and were allowed to keep their form of worship. The word 'traitor' gets used alot in regards to them.

I liked the way you dropped the knowledge about the Paleologos, Steve. Most of Serbia's national symbols are old Paleologos family crests too. They also got it from a princess. The Serbian flag on the other hand is literally the Russian flag turned upside down. Prince Milos ordered his delegation to a European conference to present that as the flag of newly independent Serbia, Saying 'the westerners won't care, but the Russians will be flattered'. He was right.

I thought better of you Steve. Is it always wrong for Orthodox Slavs to defend their own interests, or only when they oppose fascists and jihadists? See Jasenovac for why the Krajina Serbs might not have been too enthusiastic about living in an independent Croatia. And see Bratunac if you want a reason for Srebrenica.

‘What examples can you point to of countries that over a long period of time became very, very good at soccer?’

Holland. Before the late 60’s they were a complete non-entity.
Spain. Before this last generation of players they were the great under achievers.

Bosnia is itself a good comparison as it is divided into 3 different ethnic enclaves. The Catholic and Orthodox are way ahead of the Muslims. Of the other ex-Yugoslav states Slovenia (historically Catholic) is the richest, Kosovo(muslim) is poorest.
Tentative ranking:
Slovenia
Croatia
Serbia
Bosnia
Montenegro
Macedonia
Kosovo

Re your last paragraph: Holland has a Calvinist bible belt. How do they compare to the secular majority?

‘It’s very burgher-ish, quite restrained, even a bit Hobbiton-esque, if you know what I mean. The goal is tidy, unostentatious prosperity.’

That’s a wonderful way to describe it. I’ve always thought this without being able to describe it this well! Nice job.

From what i’ve seen and read this is a pretty spot-on description of the Dutch Bible Belt. High savings rate, high birth rate, children saving money by living at home until their mid twenties. Children all living in the same are as their parents. Pretty idyllic, other than their phobia of vaccines. Do you know if any of these things are practised in the Dutch enclaves you were describing?

Could you expand on your point about differences between Anglos and Celts, both Catholic and Protestant. Really curious about this.

‘One clarification, Kosovo is not an ex-Yugoslav state. Is is piece of Serbia-proper taken away by NATO.’

I know, but it allows for a more detailed and accurate analysis if we separate them.

Steve, during the balkan wars most of the fighters were villagers and working class men. Hooligans and wastrels joined in but were a small presence. The operation Storm killed and drove out a peasant population not an urban hooligan one.

Duke of Qin! It’s been ages since i’ve seen you anywhere! Are you restarting your blog?

‘The Britannica Encyclopedia’

Lol

His Grace the Duke of Qin is a wise man. I always enjoy your comments. It is a bit weird that it takes a Chinese man to tell the truth about ‘operation storm’ but what are you gonna do.

The girl with the nice hip/waist ratio is Tamila Eldarkhanova. Her family is wealthy and connected, and she’s become a bit of a sensation for her dances at weddings and feast .

I think the comments here are missing the point. It’s got nothing to do with legal niceties or treaties. America tried to make a power play on Russia’s doorstep. Russia responded, which is completely natural. The Ukraine is a hodgepodge of ethnic factions so wasn’t difficult to destabilise. Most of Europe, including the former east bloc countries understand this, but it seems a tough thing for the Anglosphere to swallow. Even the Germans are slowly, politely, backing out of this mess. Read the comments Vaclav Klaus made about the situation recently.
As someone mentioned above, the real long-term damage here is the fact that China and Russia have now decided that the US isn’t going to let them into the club on equal terms, so they will start their own club.

Just wanted to compliment you on this post. Well done.

Unfair comparison in my opinion. Also, all this talk about Putin not taking Russia to the economic heights of China doesn’t take into account that Putin started off with a failed state that he has had to rebuild from scratch. I think he wants a system similar to China’s, with KGB guys replacing each other every 12 years or so. I’m betting he’ll pull it off. The man has worked miracles if you take into account Russia’s situation when he took over.

Based on what i saw living in London, Sikh and Hindu Indians had no problem with their kids falling in love with whites. Provided, of course, that those whites were respectable, middle-class people with educations. Dating Blacks and Muslims wasn’t even theoretically possible.

How powerful are the Enarques these days? Do they only work in Paris, or are they spread out in the provinces too? The ENA is a graduate school, correct? How long does it take to graduate from there? Sorry for all the questions, but i’m really fascinated with the French system and it’s hard to find anything in English that goes into detail.

This might help explain the pro-Russian stance at least partially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaL5wCY99l8

Video Link

I would recommend everyone watched this video. It’s not long but explains a lot.

There was a 14 year gap between the two. During that time, the elder Lee was ‘Senior Minister’, a newly created title. In other words, he never went anywhere. The daughter in law heads up Temasek Holdings, a government run investment company. Other family members also hold prominent positions. It’s essentialy an uncrowned monarchy

The show is different enough that it won’t ruin it for me, but the length of time between books is ridiculous.

One of my all time favourite quotes. Should be spread far and wide.

The Netherlands also has appointed governors in their provinces. No idea how much power they actually have. I don’t think this is a good measure of how democratic a country is. Not that democracy is the be all end all for me anyway.

I feel i should point out that here in Europe, economic interventionism and a welfare state aren’t considered ‘left wing’. Plenty of nationalist parties are committed to the idea of a welfare state as a form of ethnic or national solidarity. The UK is an exception in this regard. The FN the Sweden democrats, and others are among the most ‘leftist’ parties in Europe, economically.

What’s wrong with proporttional representation? It’s a far more accurate gauge of voter sentiment than any other system.

Probably an off-hand comment. It’s not a policy they’ve ever espoused as a party as far as i’m aware. My broader point, that right-wing parties advocating welfare states are common in Europe, still stands.

Well put.

Halland, Blekinge, and Bohuslan as well. Also a large swathe of northern Sweden. King Charles X changed all that by marching over the frozen water to take Copenhagen. His son, Charles XI, brutally put down a Danish uprising in Scania. It was so brutal that putting his face on the 500kr bill led to some protests in Scania, apparently.

Excellent point

The Serbian PM is even worse.

Russia has a FSB controlled official Islam (and Judaism and Christianity), rival religious entities are persecuted. Salafis are a foreign strain, and therefore he can criticise it and still have the backing of the Russian Imamate.

Exactly right!

Interesting, i had no idea.

I’m Swedish from an immigrant background. The only immigrants who don’t know how to integrate into Swedish society are muslims, no-one else seems to have a problem, so it’s not something sweden is doing wrong. They are the problem. SD are the largest party in Sweden according to the latest polls at 26%. Worrying about the economy is overblown. Japan seems to be doing fine with a declining population. Better to shrink a bit than import a permanent, violent, underclass.

Gladwell’s reputation has taken a big hit from what i understand. I have a feeling it originated from MSM hacks reading a lot of iSteve.

Great book!

Assuming Trump is the next president, what could he do to change this? Would it be fairly straightforward? Asking, because econ is not my forte, so curious as to how fixable this is.

Stalin was an atheist. Hitler was born catholic. Neither of them are relevant to Mr. Cathey’s point.

Excellent points. The voters expect their favourite candidate to act like a dictator, and fulfil his election pledges. Why not give him the power to do so? The perpetual Dogate of Genoa would be a good historical analogy.

There were plenty of Orthodox in the Soviet Union notwithstanding the official atheism. I’ve read Hitler’s wikipedia page too, he still wasn’t protestant as you claimed. My point was, that neither of them has anything to do with mr. Cathey’s point about Putin not being a threat to the States, which is true.

So you admit that bringing up Stalin and Hitler in relation to Putin was completely pointless? Good.

Jim Webb for VP is a great choice, but AG should go to Kris Kobach, an actual nationalist.

Right on! He needs to hammer this point home incessantly. Talking about the wall is fine, but he needs to repeat why the wall is good so often, that even undecided voters will be able to recite his arguments.

I had that argument with a Canadian communist the other day. He said that my argument was faulty because even restrictionist countries like Japan have poverty, hence immigrants aren’t the problem. Some people actively refuse to learn.

This is the one i’ve been waiting for! KK for VP!

The Mountain isn’t dead. Also you’re being too harsh on Ned, why would he think a deserter was telling the truth about mythical monsters? Would you have believed him?

I suppose, but that sounds more like a side effect of living in a harsh world, more than poetic justice. U make a fair point tho.

Yeah, some of the other examples were great. Hadn’t thought of them before.

The world he created makes it difficult for good guys to stay clean, but i guess the point is that they come through in the end despite that. Also High Sparrow is probably a very good and saintly man from the perspective of his faith. I’m with Razib on the upcoming book. It better be very good. Anything else would ruin the whole series. Im not an optimist on this point.

I check in almost every day. Apparently i'm the only person in Norway who does 🙂 I'm not Norwegian, so maybe that explains it. Also, congrats, and thanks for proving English Gentlemen still exist.

If there was a war it would depend on who’s side heavily armed rural whites were on. That side would win imo. By the way, the cadets in grey are army or navy?

De Tocqueville made the point that Americans were more conformist in general. This might take different forms in different parts of the country but the fear of being excluded from the mainstream seems fairly universal.

You need to work on your reading comprehension.

Watching GenZ grow up is going to be fun. Thanks for a needed whitepill.

The Holy Royal Martyrs were neither weak, nor ignorant of their fate. They accepted it as God’s will. St. John of Kronstadt prophesied the slaughter and the apostasy of the 20th century. Nicholas II was aware of it, and lived his life accordingly.
Anyone who has anything bad to say about him, or anything good to say about his enemies, should be shot.

http://www.orthodox.net/articles/vision-of-st-john-of-kronstadt.html

Come to Europe, we would love to have you. Especially in Serbia, there we could really use your gifts as a people.

Maltese is spoken on Malta. A mixture of Italian and Arabic.

The Maltese don’t speak Arabic, but a mixture of Italian and Arabic. Very unique language, and surprisingly pleasant to listen to.

Serbs and Croats are often colloquially divided into 2 types, Dinaric and Pannonian. Pannonians are shorter, more peaceful farmers. The Dinaric types are tall, warlike mountain men. The theory is that the Dinaric types are descended from a pre migration population that was assimilated. Over the centuries they have often repopulated areas that were affected by wars. That’s why you now get a lot of basketball players there. Supposedly this folk wisdom has been confirmed by genetics, though i haven’t really looked into it.

Chances that the papers Trump found there led directly to some of his own work? Over 50%?

Have any of the Tesla papers been released? Do we really know what was in them? I tend to be suspicious of govt. agencies saying ‘nothing to see here’. That isn’t proof that there was something to see but still.

My uneducated opinion is that intelligence asset + money launderer is likely to be the most accurate job description for Epstein. This ties in well with Maxwell whose father was certainly involved in that sort of thing. Maybe she was his handler as well as his friend/lover.

Any links where i can read about said theory? I’ve had similar thoughts myself, though i don’t think it’s all that probable.

If God doesn’t exist, everything is allowed.

Do you know if there is a significant Old Believer or Soviet Catacomb Church presence in these regions? I seem to recall that both groups were centred there in order to avoid government interference. If not, are these regions more traditional/conservative in general?

Nothing unthinkable about any of that. Europeans have done that plenty of times before.

The fact that the NYT is making excuses for them means that the HK protests are just another US sponsored color revolution. I hope the PLA flattens the whole city.

Wasn’t really up to King George. You are right though, the British should have taken that fight more seriously.

Thanks for the good wishes Steve. Btw if you ever get the chance to visit, the museums here are very underrated. I have a feeling you would enjoy them.

The Dalrymple quote is perhaps the most informative and important one of the last 20 years. Needs to be spread as widely as possible.

As Anatoly has pointed out before, the current government of Armenia is Soros sponsored and anti Russian. They were lucky Russia stepped in at all.

The Armenians were better off as a part of Russia. Their existence was assured.

The remaining Armenians will leave during the next 5 years, knowing that Azerbaijan will veto the peacekeeping troops. Azerbaijan gets everything. That is the essence of the deal. The only thing Putin did for Armenia here is help them avoid a giant massacre. They belong to Russia now.

Yes if we take Lybia and Syria into account. The US would rather support them and never mention it rather than look like it’s helping Russia.

Yes definitely seems that way. Armenia is in an especially precarious position. They’d better get over their dalliance with Sorosism permanently, otherwise they could lose even what they have left.

Maradona was the best ever in my opinion. Carried 2 mediocre Argentina teams to the World cup final, winning one. Took Napoli to 2 Italian championships which might be an even greater accomplishment. Pele isn’t even close.

The first song is by a band called Kino. I first heard of them while taking a Russian language course. Their lyrics are poetry to a beginner’s ear. I wonder if that’s true for native speakers. Anatoly, any thoughts on this band?

It is, but it’s running into problems. Most of the population growth is among the most barbaric. A major Swedish company, might have been Volvo, said something about having to relocate to another country completely due to a lack of skilled workers. The gangs will also own politicians soon, if they don’t already. The Social Democrats are practically a neoliberal islamist party at this point.

Inbreeding clearly was never a huge problem, considering how good looking they are on average.

I was born and raised in Sweden, and you’re 100% right. Very few non Swedes know anything about it. The lefty liberalism there is pervasive, but gets as much pushback as anywhere in the west. The dissident right has it’s own media these days and is being mainstreamed pretty rapidly.

In the former Yugo countries ‘the Dinaric type’ was a phrase used for tall people from the more mountainous regions. As Montenegro is almost entirely covered in mountains, they are usually figured as a typical example. Though in my experience, the muslims there seem to be shorter than the Christians for whatever reason. Maybe more intrbreeding with surrounding muslom populations.

So they will accept anybody from anywhere as long as they are Mormon, but not accept local townies who aren’t? Surprises me a little bit honestly. I would expect them to be more of a factor in society/politics with that kind of clannishness, but they mostly seem like weak willed establishment R’s. Any idea how they justify sacrificing working class Mormons on the altar of diversity/business?

I can’t believe UR stooped low enough to give this guy a platform.

“Many Jews push nation-wrecking mass immigration even though mass immigration is highly destructive to European Christian nations.”

They do it because it is destructive, not in spite of it being destructive. Stop being slow.

Fred!
I thought you were dead! Glad to see you aren’t!
Please write more often, and God bless you!

Tarantino is nothing like Lynch at all.