The West suffers from a crippling mental abberation which is fed, I believe, by religion.
One often hears a person say, "I respect that person for his beliefs". Let's consider that statement in terms of what it really means:
BELIEF can be defined as adopting a position or attitude DESPITE THE EVIDENCE.
Think carefully. This comes perilously close to a definition of insanity. I say it is.
Now, why on earth would you respect a person for their manifestation of insane behaviour?
In the West, thanks to this indelible imprimatur on 'belief', we are fed mountains of bullshit and believe it all. Consider these utter fabrications... America is a democracy. The US has invaded 60 sovereign nations since WWII in order to preserve "freedom and democracy". The US constitution protects American citizen's rights. America won WWII. God is an American. Russia invaded Ukraine and Crimea. Putin is an evil tyrant. The mRNA vaccine saved millions of lives and is safe and effective. Vaccines caused the diminishment of many diseases. CO2, plant food, which precipitates the planet's supply of oxygen, must be eliminated to save the planet.
Not one element of the above is true.
My own position is that the greatest threat to human survival is BELIEF. One cannot mix 'belief' with evidence and logic and expect a constructive outcome. Madness and death, yes.
It is however quite simple my friend. In 2014, Russia couldn't stand the sanctions. It would have unavoidably led to an uprising. The anti-west sentiment was not a common thing, and Russia just organised the Sochi games and Russians were eager to be better integrated into the "global community". Moreover, it would have been perceived as an act of direct agression.
After 8 years, many things changed : Russia demonstrated that it was able to cope with "small" sanctions, and prepared to cope with bigger sanctions. China developed institutions that are alternatives to the World Bank and the IMF, offering the possibility to escape from American geopolitical dictates. The ukrainian regime demonstrated that it doesn't want peace, instead shelling the Donbass and asking for joining NATO. All of that buffed up the боевой дух, (willing to fight?) of the Russian people, and the ability to do so. Not to mention that hypersonic missiles have been developed too and it is worth to mention, because we cannot exclude that NATO would have intervened directly in Ukraine if it wasn't for those speedy boiz.
Edit : oh, and I forgot to mention the most important part : in 2022, after Covid, a lot of European states are on the verge of bankruptcy and oil was at an all-time high. It was the best moment for Moscow to start an economic war with the West
Finding out the truth about the 2014 Russian spring was what made up my mind that Western fanboys of your Azovs and Right Secktors and so on and so fourth were the most ridiculous people on earth. Of course those who lap up Saker, Martyanov, and Orlovs prole feed are delusional but imagine being so delusional that you actually think the Ukraine fought off a determined Russian invasion in 2014. Imagine thinking Azov saved Mariupol in 2014 as opposed to the FSB. If you want to celebrate the successful outbreak of people waving around swastikas and wolfs angels in Ukraine today as a step forward in saving the White race than you actually need to thank the FSB, Russias globalist oligarchy and yes even Putin himself as much as I hate to admit that.
As dumb as trying to explain Russias current failures in the Ukraine as 5D chess is its even worse when you see the pro Ukrainian crowd on the right straight up claiming that no actually the Ukraine is totally fighting off a real invasion where Moscow is doing everything it can to win.
And yeah promoting people strictly based on loyalty apparently has some serious draw backs. You end up not knowing whats what and whose who in the Ukraine in 2014 and 8 years later when you need to go in again you still dont know. Maybe the reason Russias work in Syria went fairly smooth for so long is because most spook work was done by the Syrians and Iranians so there just wasn't as much for FSB to screw up. Unfortunately Russias present system looks disturbingly like the Imperial system in 1914. The spooks are out suppressing the Patriots and defending the criminals, the elite have all the privileges of a feudal aristocracy and none of the responsibilities, and the military is wondering WTF is going on and how is defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory over and over. Than at the top you have an apparently well meaning and patriotic leader who is totally unable to correct the course but as time goes on more and more people start doubting the well meaning and patriotic part.
Of course the jews back in the day really did want the Tsar gone and today they really do want Putin gone. But its seriously creepy how Russia is more and more today looking like the last years of Imperial Russia.
Your schizo screeds are the most interesting things I read on Substack.com. We live in very complicated times where alliances (US/Turkey, US/India) are no longer assured and the riots and repression in China could very well change everything.
At this time, it appears like Russia is working hand-in-hand with the American New Green Deal to freeze the citizens of Ukraine and the EU.
What's the end game, Rolo? Will the remaining dregs of humanity Build Back Better after everything has been ruined?
Nov 30, 2022·edited Nov 30, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker
The welcome address to fresh paid-subs arrivals is priceless 😂 Smth good def turned up out of reported obstacle span 😉
While not much of note is happening on the war grounds, let’s check out on the state of 3D strategic games in idea-realm. Never losing his cool, the reigning champion of academic Realpolitik (much hated & derided by all the right ppl) doesn’t sound overly optimistic ↓↓
🗨 There are no realistic options. We’re screwed. ~~John Mearsheimer
Putin's comments were the subject of an RT article, and I posted the link here along with a query on your opinion. But, I guess you have been out of commission. His statement was not ignored at all. The title of the article was: 'Putin expresses regret over Donbas'.
Let's not forget that the 2014 Maidan Coup took place concurrent with the Sochi Olympics. Putin may have taken his eye off the ball during that period, but he was understandably pre-occupied with keeping the Games safe from terrorism. Thousands of Russian security had been deployed to Sochi to ensure that nothing like what happened at the 1972 Munich Olympics occurred. Staging the Coup at the time of the Olympics was a cowardly act.
If I understand you correctly, you seem to be ascribing most American political irrationality to religion, and I firmly dispute this. In fact, even many 'right-wing Christians' are more thoughtful about their political views than left-wing ideologues on the liberal side.
However, while the former are propagandistically denigrated, admittedly justly in some cases, nutty features of the latter are passed over, even praised as virtuous, by mainstream media and their gatekeepers. This provides the widespread misapprehension that it's the religious who are responsible for political irrationality.
It's a successful public relations campaign, to portray religion as 'deplorable' while praising secularist-liberal foibles as sophisticated. But I disagree that Rolo's religious metaphysics, for example, is politically imbalanced. Nor do I see how the culturally destructive policies espoused by secularists are particularly sensible.
To the liberals who castigate the religious, I say that people in glass houses ought not to throw stones.
TLDR is that our boy Sasha here cant feed his family, cant pay his bills, this broke Nword cant even buy a bicycle. But Sashas boy lets him know that he can solve all these problems by volunteering to fight in the Ukraine! This is just how fu(king useless and out of touch Russias buracrats are. Confirm every last stupid stereotype about Russia than since those morons can only relate to working for money they assume thats what motivates better people than them as well. This stupid add might as well have been written by the US state department.
The lull in military operations has inspired Mike Whitney to write a series of fantasy articles, concerning the supposedly mighty incoming Russian winter offensive.
We've got the absolute certainty Ukraine will be a rump state by April, its Eastern half either annexed by Russia or transformed into a demilitarized zone. He doesn't go much into details into how all this will be achieved with current Russian military resources though. A fact accompli:
"As the more powerful country, it has always been within Russia’s ability to impose a settlement that achieves its basic national security objectives, and that is precisely what Putin will do. The settlement will not be ideal nor will it completely end the hostilities, but it will provide a layer of protection from Russia’s enemies which is the best that can be hoped for given the circumstances. Regrettably, the settlement will also terminate Ukraine’s existence as a viable, contiguous state. The sources agree there will be a new military demarcation line before the thaw next spring; they differ on how it is being drawn now, and how it will look next April. “For now the line will be on the Dnieper with the zone extending from the west bank into the rump Ukraine – my guess is at a depth of not less than 100km. This will put Russian territory out of the range of most Ukrainian artillery. A 100km-deep zone will also give the Russian forces time to detect and intercept anything in flight…
Putin has showed admirable restraint to this point, but after 9 months of pointless drudgery and carnage, it’s time to wrap this thing up. Moscow has always had a sledgehammer in its toolkit and now it’s going to use it. We would have preferred that it didn’t end this way, but there’s no sense in crying over spilt milk. Washington wanted to stretch this war out for as long as possible to bleed Russia dry so it couldn’t project power beyond its borders or obstruct US plans to “pivot to Asia”. But Putin foiled that plan. He didn’t step into Washington’s trap and he’s not going to pump blood and money down a black hole.
IMO, the decision has already been made. Ukraine is going to be split in two whether Washington likes it or not. That’s just the way it is."
Since people were saying the coup was going to be during the Olympics, the prediction was Yanukovych would be prepared to split the Ukraine and set up an alternative capital in Crimea or Donetsk. Instead he went to the East and toured factories to show he was still president.
Splitting the country would of been a lot easier than taking Crimea, Yanukovych controlled the UN seat. Since the local eastern governments were controlled by Yanukovych's party, the southeast was not even controlled by the NATO puppets for a long time.
The West suffers from a crippling mental abberation which is fed, I believe, by religion.
One often hears a person say, "I respect that person for his beliefs". Let's consider that statement in terms of what it really means:
BELIEF can be defined as adopting a position or attitude DESPITE THE EVIDENCE.
Think carefully. This comes perilously close to a definition of insanity. I say it is.
Now, why on earth would you respect a person for their manifestation of insane behaviour?
In the West, thanks to this indelible imprimatur on 'belief', we are fed mountains of bullshit and believe it all. Consider these utter fabrications... America is a democracy. The US has invaded 60 sovereign nations since WWII in order to preserve "freedom and democracy". The US constitution protects American citizen's rights. America won WWII. God is an American. Russia invaded Ukraine and Crimea. Putin is an evil tyrant. The mRNA vaccine saved millions of lives and is safe and effective. Vaccines caused the diminishment of many diseases. CO2, plant food, which precipitates the planet's supply of oxygen, must be eliminated to save the planet.
Not one element of the above is true.
My own position is that the greatest threat to human survival is BELIEF. One cannot mix 'belief' with evidence and logic and expect a constructive outcome. Madness and death, yes.
It is however quite simple my friend. In 2014, Russia couldn't stand the sanctions. It would have unavoidably led to an uprising. The anti-west sentiment was not a common thing, and Russia just organised the Sochi games and Russians were eager to be better integrated into the "global community". Moreover, it would have been perceived as an act of direct agression.
After 8 years, many things changed : Russia demonstrated that it was able to cope with "small" sanctions, and prepared to cope with bigger sanctions. China developed institutions that are alternatives to the World Bank and the IMF, offering the possibility to escape from American geopolitical dictates. The ukrainian regime demonstrated that it doesn't want peace, instead shelling the Donbass and asking for joining NATO. All of that buffed up the боевой дух, (willing to fight?) of the Russian people, and the ability to do so. Not to mention that hypersonic missiles have been developed too and it is worth to mention, because we cannot exclude that NATO would have intervened directly in Ukraine if it wasn't for those speedy boiz.
Edit : oh, and I forgot to mention the most important part : in 2022, after Covid, a lot of European states are on the verge of bankruptcy and oil was at an all-time high. It was the best moment for Moscow to start an economic war with the West
Putin's admission is frankly shocking to me, as I cannot recall one other instance in all history of a national leader publicly admitting a mistake.
Finding out the truth about the 2014 Russian spring was what made up my mind that Western fanboys of your Azovs and Right Secktors and so on and so fourth were the most ridiculous people on earth. Of course those who lap up Saker, Martyanov, and Orlovs prole feed are delusional but imagine being so delusional that you actually think the Ukraine fought off a determined Russian invasion in 2014. Imagine thinking Azov saved Mariupol in 2014 as opposed to the FSB. If you want to celebrate the successful outbreak of people waving around swastikas and wolfs angels in Ukraine today as a step forward in saving the White race than you actually need to thank the FSB, Russias globalist oligarchy and yes even Putin himself as much as I hate to admit that.
As dumb as trying to explain Russias current failures in the Ukraine as 5D chess is its even worse when you see the pro Ukrainian crowd on the right straight up claiming that no actually the Ukraine is totally fighting off a real invasion where Moscow is doing everything it can to win.
And yeah promoting people strictly based on loyalty apparently has some serious draw backs. You end up not knowing whats what and whose who in the Ukraine in 2014 and 8 years later when you need to go in again you still dont know. Maybe the reason Russias work in Syria went fairly smooth for so long is because most spook work was done by the Syrians and Iranians so there just wasn't as much for FSB to screw up. Unfortunately Russias present system looks disturbingly like the Imperial system in 1914. The spooks are out suppressing the Patriots and defending the criminals, the elite have all the privileges of a feudal aristocracy and none of the responsibilities, and the military is wondering WTF is going on and how is defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory over and over. Than at the top you have an apparently well meaning and patriotic leader who is totally unable to correct the course but as time goes on more and more people start doubting the well meaning and patriotic part.
Of course the jews back in the day really did want the Tsar gone and today they really do want Putin gone. But its seriously creepy how Russia is more and more today looking like the last years of Imperial Russia.
Your schizo screeds are the most interesting things I read on Substack.com. We live in very complicated times where alliances (US/Turkey, US/India) are no longer assured and the riots and repression in China could very well change everything.
At this time, it appears like Russia is working hand-in-hand with the American New Green Deal to freeze the citizens of Ukraine and the EU.
What's the end game, Rolo? Will the remaining dregs of humanity Build Back Better after everything has been ruined?
The welcome address to fresh paid-subs arrivals is priceless 😂 Smth good def turned up out of reported obstacle span 😉
While not much of note is happening on the war grounds, let’s check out on the state of 3D strategic games in idea-realm. Never losing his cool, the reigning champion of academic Realpolitik (much hated & derided by all the right ppl) doesn’t sound overly optimistic ↓↓
🗨 There are no realistic options. We’re screwed. ~~John Mearsheimer
Worthy pithy read overall --> https://unherd.com/2022/11/john-mearsheimer-were-playing-russian-roulette.
Putin's comments were the subject of an RT article, and I posted the link here along with a query on your opinion. But, I guess you have been out of commission. His statement was not ignored at all. The title of the article was: 'Putin expresses regret over Donbas'.
https://www.rt.com/russia/567195-putin-regret-donbass-ukraine/
What about the Mother's Day meeting with fake mothers of soldiers, who are not mothers of soldiers bit members of the party?
Let's not forget that the 2014 Maidan Coup took place concurrent with the Sochi Olympics. Putin may have taken his eye off the ball during that period, but he was understandably pre-occupied with keeping the Games safe from terrorism. Thousands of Russian security had been deployed to Sochi to ensure that nothing like what happened at the 1972 Munich Olympics occurred. Staging the Coup at the time of the Olympics was a cowardly act.
If I understand you correctly, you seem to be ascribing most American political irrationality to religion, and I firmly dispute this. In fact, even many 'right-wing Christians' are more thoughtful about their political views than left-wing ideologues on the liberal side.
However, while the former are propagandistically denigrated, admittedly justly in some cases, nutty features of the latter are passed over, even praised as virtuous, by mainstream media and their gatekeepers. This provides the widespread misapprehension that it's the religious who are responsible for political irrationality.
It's a successful public relations campaign, to portray religion as 'deplorable' while praising secularist-liberal foibles as sophisticated. But I disagree that Rolo's religious metaphysics, for example, is politically imbalanced. Nor do I see how the culturally destructive policies espoused by secularists are particularly sensible.
To the liberals who castigate the religious, I say that people in glass houses ought not to throw stones.
I imagine we see things differently.
Good
OMG just put me out of my misery. Just WTF is this BS?
https://t.me/dshrg2/417
TLDR is that our boy Sasha here cant feed his family, cant pay his bills, this broke Nword cant even buy a bicycle. But Sashas boy lets him know that he can solve all these problems by volunteering to fight in the Ukraine! This is just how fu(king useless and out of touch Russias buracrats are. Confirm every last stupid stereotype about Russia than since those morons can only relate to working for money they assume thats what motivates better people than them as well. This stupid add might as well have been written by the US state department.
Ditto. Perhaps Putin can start obliterating (Z)elenksky and his stillettos wearing crews? I agree with Col. Macgregor. https://youtu.be/dfgF4x7TCmM. Ukraine is toasts. Just put Zelensky and his crew back to their stillettos doing gay pole dancing in hell. https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/30/putting-an-end-to-zelenskys-follies/
If you have not seen Elensky's dance performance, here is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWvsZngCBsE. Enjoy!
The lull in military operations has inspired Mike Whitney to write a series of fantasy articles, concerning the supposedly mighty incoming Russian winter offensive.
We've got the absolute certainty Ukraine will be a rump state by April, its Eastern half either annexed by Russia or transformed into a demilitarized zone. He doesn't go much into details into how all this will be achieved with current Russian military resources though. A fact accompli:
"As the more powerful country, it has always been within Russia’s ability to impose a settlement that achieves its basic national security objectives, and that is precisely what Putin will do. The settlement will not be ideal nor will it completely end the hostilities, but it will provide a layer of protection from Russia’s enemies which is the best that can be hoped for given the circumstances. Regrettably, the settlement will also terminate Ukraine’s existence as a viable, contiguous state. The sources agree there will be a new military demarcation line before the thaw next spring; they differ on how it is being drawn now, and how it will look next April. “For now the line will be on the Dnieper with the zone extending from the west bank into the rump Ukraine – my guess is at a depth of not less than 100km. This will put Russian territory out of the range of most Ukrainian artillery. A 100km-deep zone will also give the Russian forces time to detect and intercept anything in flight…
Putin has showed admirable restraint to this point, but after 9 months of pointless drudgery and carnage, it’s time to wrap this thing up. Moscow has always had a sledgehammer in its toolkit and now it’s going to use it. We would have preferred that it didn’t end this way, but there’s no sense in crying over spilt milk. Washington wanted to stretch this war out for as long as possible to bleed Russia dry so it couldn’t project power beyond its borders or obstruct US plans to “pivot to Asia”. But Putin foiled that plan. He didn’t step into Washington’s trap and he’s not going to pump blood and money down a black hole.
IMO, the decision has already been made. Ukraine is going to be split in two whether Washington likes it or not. That’s just the way it is."
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/putins-remedy-a-fragmented-toothless-ukraine-separated-by-a-100-kilometer-wide-no-mans-land/
Since people were saying the coup was going to be during the Olympics, the prediction was Yanukovych would be prepared to split the Ukraine and set up an alternative capital in Crimea or Donetsk. Instead he went to the East and toured factories to show he was still president.
Splitting the country would of been a lot easier than taking Crimea, Yanukovych controlled the UN seat. Since the local eastern governments were controlled by Yanukovych's party, the southeast was not even controlled by the NATO puppets for a long time.