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I somehow never bought the image of Beckow being a real Slovak, always grandstanding so very vociferously for Putler's Russia. When I first encountered him, I thought for sure that he must have finished some sort of Russian troll factory school, maybe even developing his life and persona somewhere in a St. Petersburg basement. I queeried AP about this distinct possibility, who always seemed to be involved with him here, but he didn't seem to think so. I still wonder sometimes....but a Slovacized American? Would go a long way in explaining his above average English language skills and his ability to waste time looking for hookers along Scottsdale Rd in Scottsdale AZ. :-)

https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/cartoons-s3/styles/product_detail_image/s3/IMG_20230930_0002%20english.jpg?itok=YBHkw0rJ

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Even a nominal leader needs dignity…
 

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They probably acquired this trait from their former Hungarian masters, "Follow the Leader":

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7asH_-WYAABSQ0.jpg:large

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Sunak isn’t even European though.
 

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the sad switche-roos by Italy, Romania, Hungary…were pointless.
 

Besides, as US and UK agreed to keep Romania and Hungary in the Soviet zone, Soviet propaganda never mentioned the atrocities committed by Romanian and Hungarian troops. In fact, Romanians murdered most Jews in Odessa, whereas by the accounts of those who happened to be on temporarily occupied Soviet territories, Hungarians were worse for the civilians than Germans. By their brutality Hungarians far exceeded Germans, approaching banderites:
https://www.ilawjournals.com/why-vatutin-ordered-not-to-take-prisoners-hungarian-soldiers-of-hitler/
That’s why in the battle of Voronezh Soviet commander Vatutin issued an order that Hungarians should not be taken prisoners. The order was followed: virtually all Hungarian troops near Voronezh were killed.

US-UK finally joining the war in June 1944 with the Normandy landing was similar, a belated attempt to join in and mitigate the defeat of Germany.
 

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I would be careful about Romania, they were absolute swines and murderers. Read even in wikipedia:

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

"...Romania ranks first among Holocaust perpetrator countries other than Germany...Romania being the only ally of the Third Reich that carried out its genocidal campaign without German intervention...the slaughter of Jews in Romanian-occupied territories was "a genocide separate from the Nazi Final Solution"... "

Could Hungary have avoided invading the USSR in 1941?
 

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Slovaks are an odd case in Central Europe where many have pro-Russian opinions.

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The problem with any forum really is that familiarity breeds contempt. Over time you start to get into an antagonistic relationship with other users, maybe even into long-running "feuds", mutual grievances accumulate and in the end you don't have anything to say to each other anymore, because the fundamental differences are just too irreconcilable.
I suppose to some extent it might just be me, but I've encountered such dynamics in every forum I ever participated in (this one here was by no means the worst btw, and I suspect without the war in Ukraine things wouldn't have gotten as ugly as they did). As for Twitter, unlike Yevardian I don't see that as an alternative. I tried it for a few weeks, and found the experience stressful and rather toxic.
But yes, given the decline in active users, the mutual antagonisms, and the exhausting focus on Ukraine to the exclusion of everything else there doesn't seem to be much life left here anymore (also noteworthy how Hyperborean who popped up after several years of absence already seems to have left again).
Anyway, who knows, maybe 2024 will see some sort of resolution to the war in Ukraine (or at least freeze the fighting); here's another possible sign:
https://www.ft.com/content/e0c9a4bb-903a-48d9-b44c-f26b445499b0

Italy’s defence minister Guido Crosetto has called for greater diplomatic efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, despite Kyiv’s warnings that Moscow has no intention to do so.

Crosetto told a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday that Italy would seek “a dual-track strategy” with military support for Kyiv to be coupled with more engagements towards a “negotiated settlement”.

“We must be realistic and cannot ignore the military situation on the field,” Crosetto said as lawmakers approved more bilateral aid to Kyiv. “The time seems to have come for effective diplomatic action.”

 

Yet in a sober analysis of Ukraine’s military and political strengths, Crosetto, who was previously president of Italy’s defence industry association, expressed concern about “the real Ukrainian ability to counter Russian forces . . . in a condition of persistent numerical and air inferiority”.

“Unfortunately, Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive did not give the desired results,” he said, warning that 2024 would be a “critical year” for Ukraine’s future.

He insisted diplomatic efforts would run in tandem with continued military aid for Ukraine — of which Italy is now preparing an eighth package, just as it has assumed the presidency of the G7.

“We have two paths: that of aid without ‘ifs and buts’ — and that of attempting to build a diplomatic path that brings us to the end of the conflict,” he said. “The coming months will have to balance deterrence and diplomacy.”

But Crosetto also said talks could only begin if Russia ceased its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine. “We can start talking when the bombs stop falling,” he said. “We have to convince those who are attacking to stop.”

 

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The census takers would ask if a person understood the Magyar language and if they said yes, they were listed as Magyars. All Jews also declared Magyar nationality.
 

Trianon was a massive shrinkage of Hungary
 

The Hungarians refused to negotiate

 

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Lol, I’m not a diplomat so I described the reality openly. Don’t pretend that other Eastern Europeans (the ones who have a better future) don’t have similar thoughts.

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The Rusyn ethnonym and name is an old one that at one time was shared by all Ukrainians. Linguists (even Paul Magocsi) have no trouble in clearly identifying the Rusyn dialect(s) being clearly old Ukrainian ones. Why you bring this up here and now when discussing the Hungarian question is strange and proves exactly what? There are over one million people living within Zakarpttya today that are perfectly comfortable living with their Ukrainian identiry. The other 10,000 sheep hearders, KGB implants and grant eaters will just have to learn to get along with their Ukrainian neighbors.

https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/comic2.jpg

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I do not know where you got this logic of slavs and other eastern europeans intensely disliking Hungary when the opposite is true.

 

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Would you say that before the break-up of the Soviet Union and the fall of the iron curtain there were no "Soviet implants" in these east European countries? When were these laws passed that recognized an independent rusyn ethnos? What countries had the most to gain from such an interpretation? Why is Rusyn independence least popular in the Rusyn homeland of Zakarpattya? Why do the Rusyns in Zakarpattya honor their most prolific and popular writer of the 20th century, an undeniable Ukrainophile from these regions, Vasyl Grendzha-Donsky?

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Have you ever heard Peter Levenda's spiel about the Ukraine Orthodox in the Bronx in the 1960's? It is pretty entertaining if you have not. CIA + JFK assassination characters. I can not testify to if it's factual.

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Does Transylvania perform better academically (such as on the PISA exam) than the rest of Romania does?

Ex-Austrian Poles perform better academically than Poles in the rest of Poland do:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147596718305006

Not sure why since Prussia also had a top-notch educational system which made almost all of their Poles literate. Ex-Prussian Poles, even in areas that did not involve mass migration, do not appear to perform better academically than Poles in the rest of Poland do.

Prussia was actually more successful at promoting literacy among Poles than Austria was, who in turn was more successful at promoting literacy among Poles than Russia was:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0147596718305006-gr2.jpg

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Married clergy actually makes sense if one supports eugenic fertility since it allows clergy, who typically come from a society's more intelligent population, to breed (or at least breed more). Religion should embrace such a eugenic policy instead of shunning away from it. At least religious people could claim that preventing abortions of Down's syndrome fetuses saves lives; here, there's no similar reason/justification for them to support a public policy with dysgenic effects.

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Flippity fish even has a small built in pouch that can be filled with catnip:

https://youtu.be/JpBEkmVnCVM

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Yep, this is accurate:

xxxhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Maps/comments/a73tjz/map_of_development_in_romania_2017/

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

In Romania, other than Bucharest (the Romanian capital), there's a clear pattern that the areas that were under Hapsburg rule for a longer time period are more developed than the ones that weren't. Transylvania is ahead of Oltenia, which in turn is ahead of the rest of Romania other than Bucharest. (Bukovina was also under Austro-Hungarian rule but apparently isn't large/populous enough to affect the HDI score for Moldavia too much.)

For GDP, it's a slightly more complex picture:

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-184336671f4edede1f12ff7bc1c8c68f-pjlq

The wealthiest parts appear to be Bucharest, Transylvania, the coast, and Iasi, in that order. But eastern Transylvania seems like it's roughly as poor as Moldavia is.

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Hungarians are not hated by most slavic eastern europeans
Poles,Russians, Czechs, Croats etc like the Hungarians and Poles even consider them their brothers
 

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/03/27/poles-dislike-of-russians-belarusians-hungarians-and-germans-has-grown-amid-war-finds-study/

“Apart from Russians, the largest decline in positive sentiment was recorded towards Hungarians, who fell 21 percentage points from 57% to 36%”

And as for Ukraine, as you said, the Hungarian minority’s rights to speak and learn Hungarian are being infringed upon
 

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BTW, this is off-topic, but it's worth pointing out that out of all of Ukrainian Jewry, Galician, Volhynian, and Subcarpathian Ruthenia was by far the most demographically devastated in the Holocaust since moving and escaping to the east was not a realistic option for most of them. In contrast, many more Ukrainian Jews from further to the east, even from Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr, were able to escape the Holocaust by moving to the Soviet interior in the 1920s or 1930s or by fleeing to the Soviet interior in 1941, when Operation Barbarossa occurred but before the Nazis actually reached their own cities in Ukraine. This is why far western Ukraine* had few Jews in 1959 while the Ukrainian territories further to the east still had considerably more Jews back then:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7n4jn3/jews_as_a_percentage_of_the_total_population_in/

*Lviv's Jews were likely migrants from further to the east. It's a similar story with post-WWII Riga's Jews. Subcarpathian Ruthenia was around (or almost) 15% Jewish in early 1944 and if 10% of them survived the Holocaust and subsequently returned back home, then a Jewish percentage of 1.3% for it in 1959 would make sense.

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The remaining 1 million or so that died, died due to famine and disease, not magical gassing/masturbation chambers.
 

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Since the article was published in October, the less pro-Ukrainian confederation party did horribly in the Polish election.

Pro-Ukrainian feelings in Poland have faded somewhat in part due to the fact that many of the Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians have returned to Ukraine (their regions are not in so much danger) and the ones in Poland tend to be more Russian-speaking. Male draft-dodgers have also been showing up. But Poland still overwhelmingly supports Ukraine.

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No, it is not so easy.
However, in CE Europe you must distinguish between the local Jewish communities and the Jewish organizations who are often run by transplants (chief rabbi of Poland is still American, after 30 years!) or by some rather narrow class of "political Jews" who are often unknown to normal Jews. In other words, there are Jewish organizations and there are Jews. I would bet that the former are ultimately run under the direction of false Jews. In Russia, Chabad build Jewish structures parallel to official ones, which certainly weren't anti-Putin. And Chabad is crypto-Sephardism (they follow Maimonides as Sephardim do and are obsessed with Moshiach) in Askhenazi world, thus I consider it false Judaism par excellence.

But the most known American Jew living here in Poland, Anne Applebaum, who I see as 1-person Jewish organization, is staunchly pro-Ukrainian.

It is conceivable that false Jews would support both sides of conflict in order to destroy ancient Jewish lands and force emigration to Israel. Well, USA, run partly by Jewish bankers, supported once build-up of both the Nazis and Bolsheviks (Sutton thesis etc.) in order to bring about the war of Gog (Germans) and Magog (Russsians)

Hard to say for me how situation looks in USA. Israeli policy tried to be neutral, AFAIK.

Historically speaking, neither Russia nor Ukraine were Jewish-friendly.

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The interesting thing is that Poland been an actual Nazi ally like Hungary and not tried backstabbing Hitler later on like Hungary did, Poland's Jews could have fared considerably better than they did in real life. Nazi Germany made the Holocaust optional for its allies in regards to their own Jews for so long as they remained loyal to Hitler. This is why Greater Hungary's Jews were spared until 1944, why Bulgaria's Jews were spared, why the Jews of the Romanian Old Kingdom territories were overwhelmingly spared (with an exception in Iasi), why Italian Jews were spared until 1943, why French citizen Jews (especially if they were naturalized a long time ago or were born French citizens) were mostly spared, et cetera.

Poland put all of its eggs in the Anglo-French basket in 1939-1940 and then got let down when France fell in 1940 because it didn't properly defend the Ardennes sector.

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Yeah, very long time, like 500 years.
 

and the Russians who have lived in Crimea and Donbas for over 200 years are in your mind only “Russian colonists”…no rights and ready for the Ukie angst, rage and revenge.
 

Your spiel is getting old and warn out here, I actually skip over your comments quite often,they're so boring and repetitive. I really don't know where AP has developed his patience in dealing with you.

When the mestizos come to show their rage in Phoenix, remember you are only a “colonist” and they have lived with this terrible angst of having you there – it has brewed for a long time.
 

https://ktar.com/wp-content/uploads/cms/34/3498/349817.jpg

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Galicia once stretched to the Black Sea.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/4d/03/a54d032b93a7b6c9a4a9189763baf9ba.jpg

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The context of that sentence makes it clear that I forgot to insert one word in there. I will fix it right now:

"The interesting thing is that *had* Poland been an actual Nazi ally like Hungary and not tried backstabbing Hitler later on like Hungary did, Poland’s Jews could have fared considerably better than they did in real life."

This correction (of a typo on my own part) makes it clear that I was speaking purely hypothetically here. And Yes, Poland would have been better off had it been a Nazi ally. The Nazis would have respected Polish sovereignty and Polish Jews at least a little bit more in such a scenario for as long as Poland would have remained loyal to the Nazi cause. Nuremberg-like laws for Polish Jews would have been expected, but mass murder of Polish Jews might have very well been optional for Poland (thus causing Poland to reject it) in such a scenario.

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there seems to be a worldwide network of elite criminals with similarly irrelevant Jewish heritage
 

Every nationality has its scum. In my book, this scum should be punished as individuals, not the whole nations they come from. After all, you wouldn’t want to imprison the whole nation because some of its representatives are murderers.

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And Mexico had really well developed cities, roads and government apparatus in AZ? :-)

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Those areas were under Galicia's sphere of influence, not direct control, lots of Vlach tribes inhabited the region
Also note how even this still excludes most of the lands below Cherkassy save for Podolia.

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The change in demographics is not about the fact that Hispanics and other migrants tend to be culturally conservative – it is about the irreversible change in the culture. Brazil 2.0 will still be Brazil
 

The quality of people matters, the genetics: surrounded by shorter, fatter, less healthy, less smart, less mentally disciplined masses is not a good thing. They will eventually absorb you

 

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The interwar anti-Semitic Polish far right also considered Nazism to be a subtype or a sect of Judaism.

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It wasn't only Polish nationalists who advocated encouraging Polish Jews to emigrate. Some Zionists likely did as well in part because they wanted to boost the Jews' numbers in Palestine and in part because they feared what eventually might happen to the remaining Jews in Europe in the future. Some external observers, such as Bernard Newman (a British author) in this book of his also wrote that Poland, unlike pre-Hitler Germany, actually does (in his opinion) have a Jewish problem because it has so many Jews who provide a lot of commercial and business competition to Poles that thus makes it harder for Poles to advance economically and to enter the Polish middle-class:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136797/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22jewish+problem%22

Probably the best long-term solution to Poland's Jewish problem in the absence of the Holocaust would have been mass intermarriage between Jews and Poles, similar to what happened in the USSR in its last decades, but with Eastern Slavs rather than Poles. Then there would be plenty of Polish-Jewish hybrids, similar to how there are many East Slavic-Jewish hybrids like myself in real life right now.

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I think that he tends to view Slavs and Hispanics rather similarly. Especially if they're both Catholic.

I wonder what future AP will see for Russia if Russian liberals will ever come to power there. Would they embrace mass immigration like Western liberals have? If so, would it primarily be from the Muslim world or from some other places, such as India, Southeast Asia, and/or Sub-Saharan Africa as well? I have previously flirted with an idea of giving Third Worlders Russian--or Ukrainian, for that matter--immigration rights to Russia--or Ukraine--if they will actually sincerely agree to convert to Russian--or Ukrainian--Orthodoxy.

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I honestly think Syrian immigrants would improve Russia.

Rural Russians are some of the worst dregs I have seen in street interviews.

Half of them appear drunk in the middle of the day.

Rural Russian POWs seem suicidal. Few can explain the war but they seem indifferent to death. They have a strange combination of national arrogance and nihilistic fatalism.

I'm no fan of Islam but I really do believe that Syrians would benefit Russia.

Russians would at least have something new to complain about.

Russia is the perfect place for Syrian immigrants. A post-Putin Russia could bring in Europe's Syrians as part of a grand deal.

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I honestly think Syrian immigrants would improve Russia.

Rural Russians are some of the worst dregs I have seen in street interviews.

Half of them appear drunk in the middle of the day.

Rural Russian POWs seem suicidal. Few can explain the war but they seem indifferent to death. They have a strange combination of national arrogance and nihilistic fatalism.

I'm no fan of Islam but I really do believe that Syrians would benefit Russia.

Russians would at least have something new to complain about.

Russia is the perfect place for Syrian immigrants. A post-Putin Russia could bring in Europe's Syrians as part of a grand deal.

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You try to deceive by silly inaccurate numbers. Here are the latest life expectancies:

USA 77
USA white 77.4
US Hispanic 77.9
Slovakia 78.14
Czechia 80

You are clearly lagging. And Hispanics outlive the whites because they have much younger average age - life expectancy goes up with time, so if you have a younger population the projected expectancy will be higher. Are you too stupid to know that?

LA is a basically a dysfunctional sh..hole and the white libs love Hispanics (maybe even "Lusitanians"). Period. Our kids are healthier, smarter, better looking, taller, much higher achieving. You can hide in your Anglo "Pissa" tests (who cares?), but they reflect nothing about the real life.

Go to LA and then go to Prague or Bratislava and tell us which society has higher overall IQ, better people, more pleasant life. It only reflects on your own poor reasoning skills that you defend the taco bottom-feeding culture. Sure, one can learn how to live with them - they are certainly better than the libtards - but it is a step down.

By the way, Ukraine has a 72 year average life expectancy. What is that all about?

Regarding the pictures, there are nice ladies in every group, you can go to a Papua tribe and find one or two jungle beauties. That's the way it works, the missionaries were not all idiots...:)

(But, seriously, I am still getting over you sticking some elderly Latin dude's picture with a mustache in there...ok, I know even the pope now, sure, but could you not?)

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Here are the latest life expectancies:

 

And Hispanics outlive the whites because they have much younger average age
 

Go to LA and then go to Prague or Bratislava

 

Our kids are healthier, smarter, better looking, taller, much higher achieving
 

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I really do think that had Russia avoided going Bolshevik in 1917 and subsequently developed like a normal country, including eventually adopting Great Replacement ideology, then it could have developed a fusion Slavic-Muslim culture, with some East Asians and South Asians thrown into the mix as well.

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Russia is a multi-racial and multi-religious country. It is not a White country. They have 193 ethnic groups and you can be prosecuted for "hate speech" if you talk openly about racial differences. They have the largest Muslim population in Europe and also the largest number of Buddhists.

They should take Europe's Syrians in principle.

It was Putin that decided to back Assad who is despised by the majority of Syrians.

Russia could easily absorb a million Syrians.

They in fact have abandoned cities in Siberia.

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Not just Syrians. They could welcome Muslims from all around the world, possibly after first screening them for radicalism for security reasons. There are many Muslims who or whose ancestors were historically under Russian rule, and even the ones who aren't might be interested in moving to Russia if they won't be able to move to the West or to the oil-rich Gulf states.

Russia was already described as being a positive influence on its Muslims as early as 1918:

https://books.google.com/books?id=0O4-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA361&dq=afghanistan+macedonia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2j8-9496DAxX5OUQIHXgBBcoQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=afghanistan%20macedonia&f=false

Groups such as South Asian Muslims should, at least, be fairly close in culture to Central Asian Muslims, or at least Central Asian Muslims before they were exposed to decades of Communist rule, no?

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Article 282 was retracted wasn’t it?

 

Also I’m not talking about Russia, Mr XYZ here usually talks about western countries and their ”replacement” as well.
 

As for Muslims in Russia, the Circassian solution is perfect for them.

 

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Russians settle, create, survive, build and make great civilisation everywhere we go you . As we have sizeable cities, towns, military, industries, trade in the Arctic – then it’s perfectly normal for us to have penal colonies
 

Keep demonstrating to the whole world what despicable creatures you are that have to constantly self-congratulate and boast. I have been to several Arctic cities - including in Norway, that were in excellent shape.

You put political prisoners in a penal colony in the Arctic together with the worst types of animals - mass murderers, etc. The biggest question is why so many of you are incarcerated and for such crimes.

Nobody wants you. Losers like MAGA will talk a big talk and praise you, but will never live there with you. You will remain alone. You will die alone.

And don't even open your mouth about human rights when your animals are killing off the wounded in Avdiivka. Human rights do not exist for you because you are not human.

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BTW, I forgot to mention something: Had Russia not gone Bolshevik in 1917, it's entirely possible that there would have been a Central Asian "Great Migration" from their traditional homeland in Central Asia to the cities in Russia's Slavic heartland during the 20th century, similar to what occurred for African-Americans in the United States at the same time period in real life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Percentage_of_African_American_population_living_in_the_American_South.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/GreatMigration1910to1970-UrbanPopulation.png

The cause of this mass Central Asian migration would have been similar to that of the historical African-American Great Migration: As in, the search of better job opportunities (though in the case of the African-Americans, they were also fleeing Jim Crow oppression in the Southern US).

Later on, South Asians could have possibly become Russia's equivalent of what Latin Americans are to the US, in the late 20th and 21st centuries. And of course the Russian Far East could have acquired a huge East Asian population, similar to the US West coast in real life.

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Most of your rant is laughable, but this bears special examination:

It’s extraordinarily naive to think that Letitia James is making New York less corrupt with this prosecution
 

So you think if she sent, for example, one robber to prison rather than no robbers to prison the streets wouldn’t be at least a little safer, even if her prosecution was based on political reasons? Maybe Trump’s ordeals will cause other corrupt businessmen to think twice before using their money to run for office. This probably makes politics a little less corrupt.
 

MAGAtards
 

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AP uses MAGAtards because he is primarily a Ukrainian nationalist, and not an American one.
 

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I’m perfectly aware of this, as I’ve been to several places in the High North. That was not what I said. I simply asked “Why do you mix politicals with violent criminals?”.

Maybe because your system is insecure?

None of what he was charged with demands that he’d be sent there (or driven into death). Cruel and unusual punishment, to put it mildly. And I’m not even his fan.
 

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what alternatives does Kiev/Kyiv/Kjiow/Kjievas have apart from America?
 

There is a critical question that must be asked. -- Does the European Empire need a military victory to win?

The answer to the question appears to be "No". European elites receive a great deal from helping Ukrainians die senselessly:

• Over 1/3 of "Ukrainian Refugees" are actually MENA and sub-Saharan Muslims. This fits with the SJW Globalist objective of diluting Judeo-Christians in Europe.
• It creates rifts between EU skeptic nations such as Hungary and Poland. This strengthens the hand of imperialists like Scholz.

The real question is -- Will Germany and France will provide an additional €3-5 Billion per month, above and beyond last year's EU level? Both Macron and Scholz have serious problems at home. Such increases seem highly unlikely.

Some commenters here insist that Kiev violence against Russian ethnics will continue with less funding, or even no international assistance. This is the exact Sheeple obedience to European Empire goals that elites desire. One has to wonder how much of the Ukrainian population shares that mind set. The people of Ukraine have to see that they could not achieve a breakthrough at 100% of support, and things look bleak at 50%.

It is obvious that the best solution is a negotiated deal that locks in more-or-less the current line. And, it needs to limit Ukrainian armament, including No NATO Ever, so they cannot start Round 2 years down the line. All the pieces are there. Sadly, European Empire puppet Zelensky refuses to negotiate.

PEACE 😇

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Absolutely ridiculous take, its the American Empire who is funding most of this, you got it the other way around.

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These exposes usually hold that reports of affairs of a gay man are faked to “butch him up.” This is apparently a tactic used in some cases, so why not for Bill Clinton?

I've unfortunately had to be around gay men and Bill Clinton is not a gay man.

Bill Clinton does not need to cheat as some cover. No one would think he is gay.

Gay men do not go out of their way to have sex with a woman. They in fact make endless excuses to have sex with their wives. Churches can easily identify a closed gay if the couple is in counseling. The woman is always distraught over the husband have zero interest in sex. It's not simply a proclivity or strong tendency as many assume (with minor attraction to women). Gay men are horrified by vaginas. In fact one way to out a closeted gay is to talk openly about pussy or make jokes. They will frown or try to change the subject.

It's actually quite easy to identify a closeted gay if you read one of the guides online. I suspected a closeted gay who had fooled everyone. He slipped up and then I started doing online research and within an hour I was 100% certain he was gay. There is even a Rorschach type image where straight guys will see boobs but gays see flowers.

The widely accepted notion that Ms. Clinton is a lesbian seems to fit with the other anecdotes.

That's entirely possible. Their marriage could be a political alliance with them both knowing that Hillary is a lesbian. I don't buy for second that they ever had any natural chemistry. They are more like a power couple that views the other as a political ally. I would bet that Hillary even gave him a pass but he obviously wasn't discreet about it. She is either lesbian or straight/asexual and unattracted to him. Even in older pictures she stands next to him like he is a relative and not a husband.

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Neither the Chinese nor the Russians are interesting in helping Europeans or European-Americans. On the contrary.

 

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I don't see these excuses very often in a specific form. I encounter the more extreme and sweeping excuses along the line that Russians are fundamentally aggressive and barbaric, have been and always will be. This one is cute when it comes from Ukies who probably had some Russian ancestors!

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Solovyov (maiden name Shapiro) is a distant relative of Ben Shapiro, they actually even look a little similar, imagine Ben a couple of decades older and you’ll see it. Khazarian genes have a lasting impact on the bloodline.

And yeah, Solovyov lived and worked for some time in US after the Soviet collapse. I would not be surprised in the slightest if he had the US citizenship and of course the Israeli one. The more passports, the merrier!

https://russian.palinfo.com/Uploads/Models/Media/old/oldimages/05/solovev.jpg

Every time Solovyov talks about Russian patriotism, I cannot stop chuckling. Same about Simonyan. The Noviop are a funny bunch.

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We should make a list.

I'll pitch in:

1. Does he have his cryonics subscription yet? Full-body or head-only?
2. Does he have a membership in the Peter Thiel vampire club?
3. Has he been fucked in the ass yet?

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To that end he suggested uniting Britain with Muscovy through the marriage of the tsar Ivan the Terrible and Queen Elisabeth.
 

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Люди работают…

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I would suggest reading/watching Fursov instead. Although Galkovsky is more entertaining.

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The coward places yet one more commenter (a good one too) on his banned list. Par for the course for this perennial whinner and practitioner of censorship. No wonder he's such a pliable kremlin stooge.

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/internet-censorship-concept-man-smartphone-pop-art-retro-vector-illustration-vintage-kitsch-141807731.jpg
kremlinstooge A123 viewing the internet. :-)

His reading list must be getting pretty small by now. In the interest of brevity, why doesn't kremlinstoogeA123 just quit participting at UNZ, where he's clearly not able to handle diverse opinions? :-)

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As part of your “Fox Boomer” scam are you trying to dupe people into thinking differences are 100% genetic? Thus, environment plays no part at all? That is quite a bizarre bit of radical disinformation you are trying to push.

I've never made a 100% claim nor have I seen anyone on Unz make that argument.

You're going to the opposite extreme in a defense of what you know is a fictional narrative that is not based on facts nor does it want a discussion on them. It's twisted mishmash of conservative and Christian idealism without any care of what exists in reality.

The discussion on what is genetic vs environment does not happen. Fox News has decided that it is the environment.

Con Inc blames unions/socialism/secularism/etc. It's a set of pretty lies for conservatives that are congruent with liberals establishment rules and taboos.

I've seen the results and it isn't pretty. The Con Inc Hannity types are like liberals and assume that these pretty lies don't hurt the kids. What happens in multi-racial classrooms is that the White kids are held back while Black kids get frustrated when they aren't meeting egalitarian expectations. My friend showed me first hand what happens and that is cheating. The schools are cheating to hide the full results. But it doesn't end there. Care to guess if the Black kids are thrilled with the White kids after a day of seeing where everyone is in the classroom? White kids will pretend to not know the answer or avoid AP classes so as not to attract attention. I roll my eyes at all racial stats related to education. They're demoralizing and holding back the White kids and they don't even have to do it through policy. The White kids know that they have to keep their heads down. The school isn't there to walk them home. Liberal teachers are fully aware that this happens and view it as racial justice out of desperation. They know damn well that they have to support unprincipled means. There is even a published rant online where a liberal teacher complains about the White kids learning too much at home. No exaggeration.

Rational people, understand that both nature & nurture are important.

Fox News supports the argument that most people are not rational and support what their leaders tell them.

I'm not making that argument but Fox could certainly be used for it.

Do you really believe that black boys have equal outcomes when there is a father at home versus a single mother? If you accept “Fox Boomer” 100% genetic determinism, you must believe the answer is yes.

Fox does not talk genetics to any degree and not even for sports. They will blame the teacher's unions or socialism. They do not have a discussion of nature vs nurture. It's an environmental based ideology and is very popular with boomers. They will never have Sailer on their programs and they are absolutely terrified of their viewers learning about what is already known. They will however interview a charter schools advocate and not ask any real questions like why so many charter schools failed in Chicago. MUST BE DA SOCIALISM!!!

Equalizing the environments would cause even more problems for Con Inc. The more you equalize the environments the more you highly natural inequalities. This is a problem for both Con Inc and liberalism. The only equality that (somewhat) works is through religion. But that comes with a huge bucket of worms if the opposition is secular and is driven towards reducing inequality. We basically can't just put all the kids in Christian schools and tell them to ignore the results if we have a secular left that is telling society that race doesn't exist.

As for single moms the Fox swindlers like Hannity no longer talk of this massive problem and how it affects all races. They don't even have the balls to breach the subject as they are afraid of offending Blacks. The current swindlers just like to drone on about "big socialist government" with their bullshit interviews where no one is challenged. It's all fictional programming for boomer conservatives that don't want to face harsh realities.

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I first noticed it about Scandies – for them is a genetic condition caused by an extreme introvert-conformism. But it has spread and it’s almost impossible to talk to most Westies about any real issues – they look over their shoulder, shush-and-hush.

That's amusing since I can tell you that it is much worse in a Scandinavian city like Portland.

I doubt it is "by chance" that Portland and the twin cities are Scandinavian cities and also have the kookiest libs. I've been to bars in a heavily Scandinavian city and I was unnerved by how many of the guys were completely reserved and uncomfortable with talking to someone they didn't know. These were not Swedes off the boat. Go to an Italian area and they won't shut up.


In US they often look physically intimidated, some are hiding it behind bravado with guns, but their attitude is that of a beaten people.

America is filled with beaten down people that have guns. I had someone flip out when I told him that I don't care about carrying a gun because I'm no longer in the city. He was visibly upset and told me that I don't care about my life or my family. I pointed out the extremely low odds of being murdered in my area and he went on some crazy tangent about gunfights and how I needed to be ready at all times.

You can’t mix two kinds of people any more than you can mix milk and wine – the result can be superficially amusing, even titillating, but it doesn’t work on the essential level of detail life.

Oh dear I agree with Beckow.

It's amusing and titillating when it is on television and curated by egalitarian idealists. My conservative relatives love all the "turned out he was a super awesome minority" plot lines in movies. The Black guy that saves the squad or the teacher that never gives up. I can also enjoy those movies.

But I've also seen the other side. I completely lost my taste for liberalism and Con Inc after seeing the real results. Everyone here assumes crime, stats or dirty streets. As if I turned up the wrong street and ended up in Baltimore.

They have no idea as what it does to good Christian men of all races. They have no idea as to how even conservative Whites can turn nihilistic and bitter from having to live a daily lie. It has a coarsening effect and they don't even realize the source. I'm not even saying it makes them racist. It can make them resentful of all people while making them forget their own principles because the lie is the norm. It's a lie at work and an even bigger lie when they come home and turn on the television. It crushes good people that want to help. I've seen it and it is awful. A lot of our crazy liberal cat moms are scorned by reality. Women have an even harder time with it. It's just worse than they realize and no amount of nurturing will fix it. A model would have been found by now. But even thinking on that level shows a lack of experience. It's more like gazing into a forest fire and then listening to theorists argue about how it may or may not be hot. That is the closest that I can describe it. I am open to all theories but for people that have seen it first hand it's a bit of a facepalm. I was warned that it manifests itself in areas that you don't expect and that is exactly what happened. It sort of mocks you and your desire to keep it contained to areas that you expected. The truth is suppressed along with its strange and unpredictable results.

It is hard to understand why countries on such thin ice domestically want to export it or have an ’empire’.

US empire is more the result of other countries wanting American stuff than some type of policy. Yea the CIA was unprincipled for a long period during the cold war but now it's a case of everyone watching TV and wanting the same lifestyle. I just wish we had a better alternative between copying the worst aspects of America (Britain) or trying to follow Marxism out of spite (Venezuela). There needs to be a model where people realize they can have a better life but without trying to copy everything they see on American television. I know you imagine me as a having a 50' flag on my house but I would prefer it if no one watched that garbage and spent more time on their traditional cultures.

I in fact know someone in the movie industry and he said they really want to move towards movies that are not for Americans and easily translate to other countries. Hollywood views the rest of the world as the main pie.

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Winning the coming struggle for supremacy that
will pit America against China will require Russia but also Europe, and so the US is in a quandary with the war because it does not want Russia to be outright defeated yet to tell Zelensky ‘free ride is over so get the best deal you can’ would make Europe think its alliance with America is seriously weakening.
 

drive the Russians out of Ukraine, which would be an shattering blow to the Russians’ self image.
 

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I graduated from high school in 2023 and I’ve seen exactly what you describe, White kids intentionally dumbing themselves down or keeping quiet when they don’t have any reason to otherwise.
Negro-worship needs to end in this country

You probably saw that it is even worse for kids in athletics.

There are a lot of White athletes that play it stupid for the culture. They don't want to attract negative attention from other teammates.

In some areas it is simply the norm and the kids don't even realize they are doing it.

It continues on in college. White athletes go to junior college with their adopted IDGAF attitude and then realize they are at 9th grade level math. They don't get any breaks on account of being White and a lot of them drop out. I caught a prof cheating for a non-White athlete and she told me they have to do it.

This is where parents should step in but too many of them think it is cute or have the "boys will be boys" attitude.

Yes it is negro worship that stems from a societal guilt complex and an unwillingness to face reality.

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No, there were whole decades recently when they lived peacefully with their neighbors.
 

You need to take your share of blame for the current hostility.
 

Not mine. It was the Poles and they did it because of Catholicism – Prussians were pagan
 

If Estonians start killing and expelling Russians in Narva would Russia be within its rights to intervene to protect them?
 

Besides, nobody was planning to expel them (although if they start acting aggressive towards the core population, then, yes, they should be repatriated). But they are not like what you make them out to be, they are normal mostly.

We are not talking about this fake scenario which you try to concoct, same as Russia always does. No. We're talking about the scenario of a potential physical invasion from the Russian side, with troop and weapons concentrations.

What you call a ‘pretext’ is real – Ukies did kill 2.5k Russian civilians in Donbas and Odessa. Are you ok with Estonians doing it in Narva?
 

Why do you not acknowledge the Surkov plan? Why do you ignore that the annexation of Crimea was deeply hostile and provocative from the pov of Ukrainians? Don't single out specific events, without the context.

How is Intermarium or NATO not imperialist.
 

You can’t declare yourself good and proceed to push others out and blame them for it.
 

But, yes, I agree that nobody should've been pushed, as you say, however, Russia and the rebels shouldn't have pushed either. They were armed and they were rounding up and sometimes killing pro-Ukrainians. There's footage about this.

Merkel publicly stated that she used Minsk as a trick to buy time do Ukraine can be armed. She said herself – how can you just make up things?
 

Like you made up the ‘border control in Donbas by Russia’ in Minsk – you can’t rewrite recent history. It really amounts to lying.
 

but my guess would be that larger, more remote areas (US, most of Russia) will suffer less.
 

But duh - how is it surprising that "more remote" areas would suffer less? That's the whole purpose of these large predator states - to grab as much territory and create buffers - at our expense.

The Ukies, Balts and Poles are right in the center of it. They haven’t thought this through.
 

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New Mexico is also poorer than California, et cetera are. Maybe that also has something to do with the much higher homicide rate over there?

New Mexico also has one of the largest Native American percentages in the entire US:

https://sourcenm.com/2021/11/04/indigenous-population-grows-in-the-census/

Maybe that also contributes to its high homicide rate due to the general hopelessness (other than gambling) that is often found in Native American areas?

Seems like Latinos do relatively well when they live in economically vibrant areas and not so well when they don't.

Of course, maybe the situation with Latinos would be even better if we adopted an approach more similar to Bukele's, but here, there are constitutional safeguards as to just how far we can go. We could theoretically return to our 1990s crime-fighting approaches if we wanted to do so, though. I think that Michael Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk was a great policy if it didn't get blocked by the courts.

Are Latin Americans in Europe particularly--let alone notoriously--homicidal?

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The Kazakhs are also transitioning to the Latin alphabet
 

It’s quite interesting that Russophilia was higher in Kazakhstan than in Ukraine in the post-Cold War era in spite of Kazakhs also being severely starved to death by the USSR (early 1930s) and in spite of Kazakhs being much more culturally distant to Russians than Ukrainians are. I suspect that a large part of it is that Ukrainians had a viable alternative to Russia in the form of the EU and also the central and western half of their country was more committed to democracy than Kazakhstan was.
 

I really like Astana.
 

But Kiev is also very nice, at least in peacetime.
 

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You are right not to vape, son, vaping is almost as bad as smoking cigarettes. Don't start now so you don't have to force yourself to quit later.

The Russian empire (aka the Russian Federation) oppresses the indigenous peoples such as the Udmurts, but they cater to the newcomers from Central Asia (although those ones are going there less now after the Krokus thing plus they can go elsewhere now) and, of course, Putin puts Chechens on the pedestal.

As to savage, my point was that Beckow ignores the transgressions of one side, but then screams about those of the other.

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I don’t think the udmurts are being oppressed in any way possible
Yeah sure their language is dying, but not because of oppression, its because their own people are more interested in using Russian (the dominant language).
 

Losing one's language is really bad, an Udmurt recently self-immolated because of all this.

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Definite winners in the Ukraine war:
Death
US Military industrial complex
US LNG producers (now #1 thanks to the war)
Islam (Muslims being imported into Russia to replace dead Slavic men)
Recipients of NATO spending

Definite losers in the Ukraine war:
Families of Slavic soldiers on both sides
Putin's global image
Russian military prestige
German economy
Andrew Anglin

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Western Ukraine if it will exist in some form will be a headache for everyone – most of all for EU and Poland.
 

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>Russian “courtesans” will undoubtedly still be waiting to amuse you, along with their incumbent venereal and sexually transmitted diseases.

Ukrainian women are the biggest whores to ever exist LMFAO, there was a Ukrainian refugee girl in my high school last year, she sucked everyone's cock for free
And it's not exactly an open secret that this is commonplace across Central/Western Europe and parts of Northern America (Ukrainian women engaging in whorish activities).

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