The Jerusalem Post gives the Babylon Bee a run for its money.
[JPost] Russian President Vladimir Putin was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Sunday for his novel approach to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic, which had killed millions worldwide and brought the world to a standstill for over two years, was itself brought to a sudden halt on February 24, when Russia conducted a "special medical operation" in Ukraine.
Global medical and scientific experts expressed astonishment that the pandemic had been virtually eliminated from websites, twitter feeds and newspaper headlines.
"It’s amazing, we haven’t heard anything about the COVID-19 pandemic since Russia’s ’operation’ in Ukraine," said Dr. Fauxi of the US National Institutes of Health, who nominated the world leader. "All traces of the virus are gone from newspapers, television and Internet — which are all chief vectors of transmission. At least I think so. We’ll see what the science says next week."
In other new related to the war in Ukraine, the United States decided to ban White Russian cocktails from all bars throughout the country in what is being perceived as a crippling blow to the Russian war effort.
Following a prolonged debate in the Senate, in which Republican senators who opposed the move because they really like White Russians brought in expert Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski to testify on their behalf, the bill passed by a narrow majority.
In a surprise move, instead of supporting those that opposed the bill, Lebowski reversed his position.
"I guess I could get used to drinking Black Russian cocktails instead," he testified. However, when told that both drinks would be banned to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people, Lebowski responded, "In that case, I could get used to drinking rum and cokes or Screwdrivers. I’m in."
That move, together with the decision to bar Russia from participating in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, could prove to be the tipping point for Putin, said former IDF Chief of General Staff Gabi Eyes-on-Top, a senior researcher for cushy positions at the Institute for International Insecurity Studies and Paper Wasting.
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"The pandemic, which had killed millions worldwide and brought the world to a standstill for over two years, was itself brought to a sudden halt on February 24"
Yeah, that's funny. What happened to all the covid mask avatars on Twitter? Suddenly they all became Ukrainian flag avatars
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..all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed
[BabylonBee] In an emotional plea before Congress today, Ukrainian president Zalinsky made a common-sense request for America to institute a no-fly zone and start WWIII.
"Please," said Zelensky through a translator. "This shouldn't be that hard. All I'm asking for is for an all-out war between the nuclear powers of Russia, America, and China. It's that easy! What's there to even think about here?"
According to sources, most members of Congress weren't entirely convinced until Zelensky whipped out his guitar and sang a lovely Ukrainian ballad, causing the many of the politicians in the room to squeal and swoon with delight.
As the lovely song sung by the dreamy Ukrainian leader progressed, Nancy Pelosi began chanting "WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE!" The chant spread throughout the room as the rest of Congress began pumping their fists and shouting "WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE!"
Witnesses reported that a gaggle of lobbyists from Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics were later seen high-fiving in the back of the room.
This woman is an angry feminist -- but she's quickly changing her tune as World War 3 starts and she faces the possibility of getting drafted.
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Nancy Pelosi began chanting "WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE!"
They need to remake Strangelove with that old c*nt in the Slim Pickens role
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Actually it's not satire. Dude was interviewed on MBC News and actually said if we don't escalate and save his bacon, then we're just denying that World War III has "already started."
Yeah, he actually said that. He's out of control
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Washington's Military Industrial Complex has become something of an economic dialysis since the end of WWII. Stop going to treatments, and you will surely die.
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Jesus Christ... he really did tell Lester Holt that we're already in WWIII and we're supposed to intervene in Russia and Ukraine's war. Life imitates satire
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"Tony Blair understandably wants to help start World War III — a catastrophe so big, it’ll erase the memory of the blunder in Iraq. Maybe literally erase the whole world."
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You're losing the Tiktok Influencer crowd Lord Garth; WW11111.
[Diplomad] Just a quick one. I am writing a piece on "isolationism," but couldn't resist a comment on something quite incredible, well, quite credible coming as it does from Biden.
So, the alleged president of the USA has called the president of Russia a war criminal. Them's fighting words, no?
But does Baffled Biden mean it? It seems not. It seems that while Putin is a "war criminal' he also leads the negotiations for the USA with the Persian polecats. Yes, Russia is negotiating a "nuclear deal" with Iran on "our" behalf.
Does this make any sense? My head spins.
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[Red State] On Wednesday, the Financial Times ran an exclusive story on the ongoing peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Those negotiations started only four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There was little progress until March 10, when Turkey announced it was hosting a "high level" meeting between the two parties. On Monday, I posted how the Russians and Ukrainian peace delegations were making pleasing noises about "progress," see Russians and Ukrainians Say Peace Talks Show Progress but ’Getting to Yes’ Seems Very Far Away.
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biding his time
For four weeks? While his people are getting slaughtered? So he can achieve a peace settlement that's much worse than what he rejected in February? Maybe he doesn't think of them as his people
#3
several points in the 15 pointer are either ambiguous or very problematic
a Russian withdrawal is one point - is it to the pre Feb 24 positions or to pre 2014 or something in between
another point is Ukraine is not allowed to field weapons from other countries - this would cripple them if Putin invaded again
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Maybe so; good sign though. Maybe get something started before Zelensky achieves New Fauci status and somebody does something which cannot just be let go.
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neutrality for Ukraine based on the status of Austria or Sweden was a possibility.
Obvious. That's what Kissinger and every other expert said was the essence of any lasting peace. Kissinger said it in 2014. Nobody in the Obama administration listened.
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Questions for the “We Stand With Ukraine” crowd:
1. What sort of results should we expect from becoming involved in Ukraine compared to the results of our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq?
2. How many decades should we expect to be involved in Ukraine?
3. How may trillion dollars will we spend on involvement in Ukraine?
4. What sort of results should we expect from our involvement in Ukraine compared to our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq?
5. What sort of cooperation should we expect from the rest of the free world regarding our involvement in Ukraine?
6. How many American deaths should we be willing to sustain in Ukraine?
7. What would constitute American victory in Ukraine?
8. What would constitute the conditions in which we throw in the towel as we did in Viet Nam and Afghanistan?
9. Assuming a precipitous departure of American involvement, as in Afghanistan, what sort of post involvement unfriendly regime would we be willing to leave behind in Ukraine?
10. How much neglect of American interests and needs at home should we be willing to subject ourselves to while involving ourselves in Ukraine?
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Sorry for points 1 and 4 being repeats.
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#7 Questions for the “We Stand With Ukraine” crowd:
1. What sort of results should we expect from becoming involved in Ukraine compared to the results of our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq? Worse results - maybe a nuclear attack by the Russians against our homeland
2. How many decades should we expect to be involved in Ukraine? Two at least but probably longer
3. How may trillion dollars will we spend on involvement in Ukraine? Depends on how much loot the MIC wants to make
4. What sort of results should we expect from our involvement in Ukraine compared to our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq? See #1. Short answer: much worse.
5. What sort of cooperation should we expect from the rest of the free world regarding our involvement in Ukraine?
6. How many American deaths should we be willing to sustain in Ukraine? Send the poor folk. They eee going hungry anyway
7. What would constitute American victory in Ukraine? Total control and dictatorship at home
8. What would constitute the conditions in which we throw in the towel as we did in Viet Nam and Afghanistan? No more gravy flowing to the Bidens
9. Assuming a precipitous departure of American involvement, as in Afghanistan, what sort of post involvement unfriendly regime would we be willing to leave behind in Ukraine? Any one so long as the money keeps flowing to DC
10. How much neglect of American interests and needs at home should we be willing to subject ourselves to while involving ourselves in Ukraine? "American interests and needs"? What's that?
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I don't really "Stand with Ukraine". While I am sympathetic to the average Ukrainian and Russian conscript, I look at it from a long term strategic view.
Russia's population is collapsing. This is the largest army Russia will be able to field for the rest of its existence. 2 million men. That's it and they are out of draftable age replacements. Russians will not be a huge ethnic majority at this rate by 2060-2070 and the Russian federation is over.
The question for American planners is whether to let them die naturally or bleed them out somewhere. Ukraine is a great place for that. Every poor Russian killed is one less Russian humping and making babies to draw out the slow death of the population.
I am for giving as much man portable weapons to the Ukrainians to do just that. We don't need to beat Russia here, just bleed them. I think Ukraine will agree to Russia's terms eventually, but they won't be as harsh as the ones that Russia put forward at first due to the mauling they got.
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Are you going to keep the sanctions on Russia for years to come? How do the sanctions help promote "American interests" and address "American needs"?
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But, DV, you must understand that others will replace them. Consider that the others will likely be either Muslims or Chinese. As bad as you may think the Russians are, consider the alternatives.
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Russians are not the problem. Putin is.
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"Russians are not the problem"
Putin and Zelensky and Kolomoisky and all the other thieves are the problem. They're all making billions off of the sanctions, just Google "icij.org kolomoisky" and look at the tin of evidence as to why the US sanctioned Zelensky's sugar daddy Igor Kolomoisky. He and Zelensky are gonna make billions now in private deals, as will Putin and the Russian thieves
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Zelensky might not be alive in two weeks.
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Russia's population is collapsing
Ukraine’s is actually worse, and that was before over 2 million mostly women and children fled. A cynical view is that the rest of Europe is happy to get additional Europeans tough enough to face resident Moslem colonists, and hopes to get an even larger portion of Ukraine’s 41 million.
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China is in the same boat as Russia. By 2070-2100 the Chinese population will be half of what it is now depending how how badly they lied about their numbers (last population adjustment the Chinese went "oops, we over counted by 100 million).
The 2050s to the end of this century will be really interesting. Most of the modern nations will be facing or have faced a population collapse and there won't be enough young to support the older generation and there won't be enough workers, tax base or draftable people to support that nation state.
As to your statement Abu Uluque, the Russians are done no matter what we do and the Chinese aren't that far behind. Look at the populations now that are growing and those will be the ones that replace them. Ukraine and western Europe among them.
Right now the Muslim and African population that fled to France over the last 30 years is out populating the native French. France will be a good chunk of of new population in 50 years and the original French will start being displaced.
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"Zelensky might not be alive in two weeks."
He and his patron Igor Kolomoisky have friends in Israel and real estate holdings across London and the US. He'll pop up in one of those locations - with even more loot in his offshore bank account than he stole before he became president
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By 2070-2100 the Chinese population will be half of what it is now depending how how badly they lied about their numbers (last population adjustment the Chinese went "oops, we over counted by 100 million).
It will be interesting to see by how much the African and Middle Eastern countries exaggerated their numbers, too. And what happens to the hordes colonizing Europe when the native Europeans are no longer providing the lifestyle the hordes invaded in order to acquire. Will that portion of them that really do want a chance to work hard and live in peace be able to carry the jizya load the rest of their compatriots demand?
Remember, it was demonstrated over a decade ago that the Palestinian territories, in the few years since Israel allowed them self-rule, had managed to overcount their population by a full million imaginary people, and no doubt it’s only grown since then.
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I had forgotten that TW. Thanks for bringing that back up.
Either way, the majority of the world will have to deal with population aging and decline for the rest of the century. The Europe we knew from the late middle ages to now is rapidly fading away. Most of Asia will be declining as well.
The US will be stable as we replace our population with immigrants and I see a huge influx during the century from Europe as things fail. Mexico is also pretty stable population wise for the next 40 years as well.
The social order that has existed since the end of the Napoleonic wars is coming to an end as well as the last 60 years of Pax Americana. It will be interesting times.
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It must freak Russians out to think about what would happen in nuclear exchange. Moscow would be taken out, no question, and thats it, game over, Russia as we know it is gone and hello greater China. Take out Washington DC and the US would probably be better off in the long run.
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So all of us: Russians, Ukrainians, French, Germans, Brits and Americans need to start thinking (should have started thinking a long time ago) about how to survive in a world full of people who are not particularly sympathetic toward our way of life.
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Thanks to hypersonic missiles Russians have the nuclear advantage now in any exchange with the US. They'd easily wipe out the heartland while our corrupt swine in Washington make sure DC, NY and the left coast remain unscathed
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Looking back at the media that we were made to digest during the 70s and all the talk of the "population bomb" I recall more than a few folk suggesting that "blood sports" would become a way to cull the herd. Flash forward to today, and as we look back to that time, what passes for the "blood sports" becomes apparent. Ukraine can be looked as just the latest coliseum.
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Dead Wrong. if Putin was murdered tonight, whoever the new Russian leader is would NOT immediately withdraw.
By making this statement, you show you know nothing about what's going on in Russia.
They see Ukraine as an existential threat to their existence. It's ridiculous, but, that's what Russians believe to a large extent.
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Col. Doug Macgregor, who was Asst. Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, on our cynical refusal to push Zelensky to engage seriously in peace talks -- its all about trying to overthrow Putin:
"Ukrainians are almost incidental to the operation in the sense that they are there to impale themselves on the Russian army. And die in great numbers, because the real goal of this entire thing is the destruction of the Russian state and Vladimir Putin."
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Pfizer will kill off and make infertile enough Israelis to allow the Palestinian population to catch up
I look forward to seeing how that experiment plays out in about a year. The Palestinians have been vaccinating as quickly as they could get the stuff donated, since the idea of actually paying for it out of the money donated over the decades that slid quietly into private pockets is unthinkable.
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Helmuth, Speaking for Whise3065, I suspect the hypersonic missiles are about as effective as the rest of the Russian war equipment we've seen the last month.
[American Thinker] Writing in Commentary, neoconservative Joshua Muravchick labels those who believe that the roots of the current Russia-Ukraine War lie at least in part in the post—Cold War expansion of NATO as "Putin apologists." He groups into that category the Democratic Socialists of America (including several members of Congress); some writers at the far-left Nation magazine; members of the Quincy Institute, including its president, Andrew Bacevich and senior fellow Anatol Lieven; The American Conservative's Patrick Buchanan, Rod Dreher, and Scott McConnell; Frontpage Magazine contributor Robert Spencer; frequent Tablet contributor Lee Smith; conservative commentator Candace Owens; Fox News's Tucker Carlson; former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard; and, last but not least, former president Donald Trump.
The "Putin apologists" on the left, Muravchik writes, are motivated by "an anti-war reflex" and a belief that "the American system, as an avatar of capitalism and systemic racism, is inherently malign." Some of the "Putin apologists" on the right, he explains, are "ideological isolationists" who "share the left's contempt for America." Others on what he calls the "Trumpist right" call themselves "patriots," but "their passions focus powerfully on disputes with other Americans" rather than our country's foreign adversaries. Muravchik doesn't appear to realize that the passionate focus of his article is his "disputes with other Americans."
Muravchik calls the NATO expansion argument of the "Putin apologists" flimsy because Putin's view that NATO expansion threatens Russia's security is "nonsensical." "NATO," he writes, "does not threaten Russia and never has threatened it." NATO, he continues, is a defensive alliance, and adding Ukraine to NATO "would not change this a whit." It apparently doesn't matter to Muravchik that Putin's and Russia's perception of NATO differs from his own or even from the reality that NATO is a defensive alliance.
Muravchik ignores what is one of the most important qualities of a statesman — what Halford Mackinder described as "an insight into the minds of other nations than his own." That insight was lacking, for example, during the Vietnam War, when the Johnson administration thought offering Ho Chi Minh massive government aid projects (like the Tennessee Valley Authority) would convince the communist leader to make peace and give up his quest to conquer South Vietnam. It was similarly lacking when that same administration (persuaded by defense secretary Robert McNamara, who knew next to nothing about communism or Russian history and culture) thought slowing or stopping the U.S. deployment of nuclear missiles would convince Soviet leaders to do likewise. More recently, the inability to gain insight into the minds of other nations on the part of the George W. Bush administration led to the delusional and costly policies of trying to spread democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan — policies, it is worth noting, championed by many neoconservatives.
In his famous "Long Telegram" in 1946, George F. Kennan explained that Soviet/Russian foreign policy was motivated by "a neurotic view of world affairs" and an "instinctive Russian sense of insecurity." That traditional Russian insecurity, Kennan noted, grew "as Russia came into contact with [the] economically advanced west," which triggered "fear of more competent, more powerful, more highly organized societies." Russia's rulers, he wrote, "have invariably sensed that their rule was relatively archaic in form, fragile and artificial in its psychological foundation, unable to stand comparison or contact with political systems of western countries." That is why Russian leaders, according to Kennan, "have always feared foreign penetration, feared direct contact between the western world and their own, feared what would happen if Russians learned truth about world without or if foreigners learned truth about world within."
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^ Yeah, pretty much. Either you're in favor of a full-on war with Russia or you're a Putinbot. Just try posting anything that points out the Nazis in Ukraine and watch it get censored.
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^ "Further, the Wilson administration determined that any written materials violating the act or otherwise “urging treason” were “nonmailable matter,” and Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson ordered local postmasters to report any suspicious materials. Along with Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory, Burleson led the way in aggressively enforcing the Espionage Act of 1917 to limit dissent.
"By 1918, in actions that seriously threatened First Amendment freedoms and that likely would not be upheld today, 74 newspapers had been denied mailing privileges."
[Politico] The war in Ukraine will end in some form. The longer it persists, the higher the costs to both Ukraine and Russia. Clearly a diplomatic solution is preferable, but it is difficult to identify a diplomatic construct that could provide a sufficient and face-saving off-ramp for Russia as well as the kind of security that Ukraine needs.
The center of gravity of any negotiated settlement to this war will be the question of Ukraine’s status between the Western alliance and Russia. Russia will insist on a neutral Ukraine, not part of any military alliance that could conceivably threaten Russia. Ukraine, on the other hand, cannot possibly agree simply to declare itself neutral, at the mercy of its neighbor, as Russia demands.
If there is an acceptable diplomatic formula to end this war, it would need to involve some secure form of Ukrainian neutrality and an open path for Ukraine toward its democratic and economic aspirations in the European Union.
Most proposals involve commitments for Ukraine to never join NATO or to commit not to do so for some specified time. That may be acceptable to Russia, but would leave a de facto neutral Ukraine without any reassurance in the aftermath of a devastating invasion and no obvious way to pursue an economic and political alignment with the West.
But there’s a present-day model for this kind of balancing: Austria. As part of a deal to end Allied occupation in 1955, the Soviet Union recognized Austria’s sovereignty and Austria pledged permanent military neutrality — it would not join NATO, and it would not allow foreign troops to be stationed on its territory. But at the same time, Austria was free to chart its own economic and political course. That deal has held to this day: Neutral Austria joined the European Union in 1995, including, subsequently, the Union’s Schengen free travel area and the eurozone.
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The war in Ukraine will end in some form.
Maybe not. Been going on for 8 years already in Donbass. About 10,000 dead between the coup in 2014 and end of 2021
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there’s a present-day model for this kind of balancing: Austria. As part of a deal to end Allied occupation in 1955, the Soviet Union recognized Austria’s sovereignty and Austria pledged permanent military neutrality — it would not join NATO, and it would not allow foreign troops to be stationed on its territory.
If Zelensky had accepted this (or the US had forced him to accept this on pain of another US instigated coup in Ukraine), Putin would not have invaded. This was his core demand. Instead Zelensky said he wanted to go on the offensive and conquer Crimea
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Like COVID, the current crisis must end well enough before the midterms for the dems to claim that they had a win and need to be re-elected. If there isn't an actual diplomatic solution in the next few weeks, watch for the media to sbruptly lose interest around the 4th of July and all the bandwagon pols in DC to immediately follow suit.
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If there isn't an actual diplomatic solution in the next few weeks,
They're already talking about war with Russia. Hal Brands in Bloomberg today, Harris's loose talk, Zelensky saying WWIII's "already started"
#5
Get the old Warsaw pact to drop out of NATO and become swiss-style neutral alliance with that can be a buffer between the Germans and the Russian bear (who seems easily terrified).
Then get this new Pseudo Warsaw Pact to send troops to Africa to end Boka Haram and other troublemakers. This will make the world a better place and provide necessary experience.
The AFU, developing its defensive strategy, relied heavily on Soviet plans to organize a system of “fortress cities”, which were supposed to deplete the offensive potential of NATO and give the Soviet Army time to mobilize and redeploy reserves.
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We kept hearing about the casualties resulting from this strike. Given what the base was being used for, silence regarding who those casualties actually were is disconcerting.
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Colombian soldier of fortune's had enough: "he is no longer going to fight that war because his group only had one cartridge per magazine and did not have helmets or protection to defend themselves against the Russians."
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Ukrainians have asked the French to stop sending mercenaries to fight in Ukraine after Yavorivsky Training Camp strike
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Anything sent to the Ukraine that has a footprint, aka infrastructure that it needs (training camps, airbases, etc.) WILL be hit by the Russians. If there are any NATO personnel there, that is a great way to escalate the war.
I'm surprised someone put up a camp instead of just breaking them off into training battalions spread all over the place. Juicy target and Russia won't pass it up.
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What was this guy expecting? He's shocked that the Ukrainians would simply hand him a gun plus a box of cartridges and tell him "The Russians are that way. See if you can kill some before they kill you." They're just treating you they same way they're treating themselves!
#10
Looks like a GoPro video taken by an American legionnaire engaged by the enemy ("indirect fire"?) near a farmhouse. No idea who trained these guys but they're definitely amateurs. The Ukrainians deserve better than this
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Henry Hoeft's fiancé says he told her "The area he was in was under attack, and they were losing way too many people, and it wasn't looking good... [at the Polish border] they had to pose as civilians and use the name of a humanitarian organization to [get across the border and escape fighting] ... the Ukrainians lied. They're not letting any Americans or foreign fighters leave..."
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The Ukrainians deserve better than this
We're not sending our best
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Henry Hoeft is a LARPer, also a member of the Boogaloo Bois (maybe that's redundant).
Operating under the alias “Henry Locke,” the man was among a team of Ohio Boogaloo members who were at a Black Lives Matter protest carrying AK-47s, AR-15s and extra magazines last year. He said he distanced himself from the far-right group after it "got all crazy." However, among the seven people with whom he is traveling to Ukraine, Hoeft said, is Mike Dunn, the former leader of the Last Sons of Liberty, a faction of the Boogaloo Bois. Dunn could not be reached for comment.
Commentary by Russian Journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. Stubborn battles continue in the city, but signs of an imminent collapse of the defense appear more and more often. The fighting has already approached "Azovstal", from the west the troops have advanced deep into the city blocks. There is a desire to cut the boiler into 2 parts, which will facilitate its further liquidation. The enemy understands this and seeks to slow down our advance and inflict as many losses as possible. Along the way, more and more hysterical calls for salvation are being aired. The deblockade of Mariupol is no longer possible.
2. Ugledar. The enemy continues to try to cling to the south of the Maryinka-Kurakhovo highway and puts up stubborn resistance. Progress in this direction has slowed down.
3. Maryinka-Avdeevka. The DPR army was able, after serious artillery preparation, to advance 2 km in the area of the village. Apparently, a direct assault on Maryinka will begin in the near future. Positional battles near Avdiivka.
4. Gorlovka. There was no breakthrough in the Verkhnetoretsky area, the enemy is trying to prevent further advance to the ring road and to Dzerzhinsk.
5. Severodonetsk-Lysichansk. Fights are going on in Severodonetsk and Rubizhne. The enemy is slowly pressed, but he defends himself in a fairly organized manner. There are no direct attacks on Lisichansk yet. Fighting continues in the Popasna area.
6. Kharkov. No major changes. Arrivals in the city, fighting to the north and east of Kharkov.
7. RIzyum-Balakleya. Fighting on the southern bank of the Donets and the southern regions of Izyum. The city was seriously damaged. The enemy, having blown up part of the bridges, is preparing to withdraw to the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration, where he is planning a more or less long-term resistance. There is an accumulation of forces in the Pavlograd region for a possible counterattack, like an unsuccessful attempt to attack the RF Armed Forces near Balakleya.
8. Zaporozhye. The front is at Kamensky. Gulyaipole is still holding out, and it has not yet been possible to push through the barrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine here. Fighting continues east of Gulyaipole.
9. Kyiv. The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Gostamel and Bucha turned out to be virtual. Already this afternoon, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to admit that Gostomel is being held by the RF Armed Forces. Due to ongoing fighting and shelling, Gostomel, Bucha and Irpin continue to collapse.
10. Nikolaev. Fighting north of the city. An attempt to attack in the direction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was repulsed. In Nikolaev itself, the enemy has serious losses - mainly due to the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces and MLRS. As a result of a recent shelling of an airfield in the Kherson region, 3 Russian helicopters and several trucks were destroyed/damaged.
PS. in the evening there were reports that the enemy was withdrawing from Ugledar, and Novotoretskoye had been cleared of the enemy.
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Zelensky uses:
-Ukrainian people as human shields
-Executes people trying to leave the war zone
-Shells his own cities
-Puts his military equipment around hospitals, schools, apartments etc
and he gets a Standing Ovation from Congress...and accolades from the media ….like this blog.
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Zelenskyy just did an interview with one of the major networks in which he said the US needs to join his war because "World War 3 has already started"
The guy is insane
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-Ukrainian people as human shields
-Executes people trying to leave the war zone
-Shells his own cities
-Puts his military equipment around hospitals, schools, apartments etc
The Taliban did that for 20 years and everyone was generally silent. Wonder why people might copy that behavior?
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A very long history of western industrialists and bankers trading with the enemy, making billions off of the Soviet Union especially. Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan Bank, Henry Ford, Kuhn Loeb investment bank, Armand Hammer's many industries incl what's today called Occidental Petroleum (16% owned by Buffett)...Now it's the Bidens' turn. No better way to turn a small fortune into a large one. PrivatBank's very busy these days
[Zero] The market up-move since March 2020 was caused by massive credit and liquidity creation by the Fed, not traditional fundamentals. In fact, it was the biggest money and credit creation of any central bank in history.
It is amazing what 5-10 TRILLION artificial dollars can do for stocks. The crash of March 2020 turned into a giant stock rally in April 2020. But all good things come to an end. In 2021, the rally faltered, sector by sector. The small cap index of 2000 stocks, the Russell 2000, topped in March 2021, traded sideways until November, and then had a quick breakout to a new high that didn’t last.
At that time we said in our Wellington Letter that if it turned out to be a false upside breakout, as we suspected, it would be an important market top and lead to a painful decline for the bulls.
When the IWM, the ETF for the Russell 2000 Index, turned down in November 2021 and broke strong support (top horizontal blue line), we wrote that the false breakout was now confirmed as it became clear to us that a bear market was ahead. See the 2-day chart of the IWM below, which shows the false upside breakout last November.
The above article suggests the problems have just begun, as the climate change already underway to COOL the planet for the next century of so will make a lot more trouble for everybody at dinner.
We should be positioned for it better than most nations given energy and food independence, but trust the Demokrats to waste all of that if we let them. If they do, I suspect the simple recipe my grandfather learned might help: " hunger, politician, lamppost, rope, stir as needed..."
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WTI's up 8% today. Looks like Russian oil traders have figured out an easy workaround to evade some of the sanctions
"Russian oil market participants have switched their trading tactics, favouring private deals over public offerings due to new Western sanctions"
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It's really easy to bust sanctions if you have the right connections. Like Israel's mining billionaire Dan Gertler
"Gertler may have been able to evade US sanctions and continue to operate freely in DRC’s mining sector. His close connections to those with power and influence in DRC could have helped allow him to continue doing business, as has his apparent use of an international money laundering network."
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Forget WW3, it’s WWW or World War Woke now.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," Einstein famously observed.
Much as with quantum theory, the famous physicist was wrong.
Whatever world war we're currently on is going to be fought by disinviting Russian cats from the International Cat Federation and removing digital images of Russian soccer players from video games, even as Putin’s tanks and infantry keep advancing across Ukraine.
Putin might threaten to go nuclear, but the Lego company already pushed the red button by halting shipments of bricks to Russia. If that doesn’t stop Putin, I don’t know what will.
When virtue signaling goes up against tanks, especially by people thousands of miles away who, unlike a nameless Chinese protester, would never have the guts to actually get in their way, then the tanks win. Virtue signaling, like most of wokeness, is all about feelings, while tanks are mechanical beasts that project force in the real world. Twitter is not the real world.
Wars are a serious business and woke societies are profoundly unserious. Wokeness, like Putin’s regime or Xi’s China, punishes political dissent, but it is convinced that social shaming is the ultimate power in the universe because of how powerful it makes the shamers feel.
Megalomaniacs are obsessed with wielding power over others and in our democratically crowdsourced megalomania anyone can live the dream by canceling someone else. Entire internet subcultures are based around collecting damaging information about targets and then unleashing it in one strategic reputational assault that leaves the victim broken and jobless.
This sadistic social justice fetish makes the perpetrators feel righteous and powerful.
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"Putin might threaten to go nuclear, but the Lego company already pushed the red button by halting shipments of bricks to Russia. If that doesn’t stop Putin, I don’t know what will."
nice
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Wokeness is not a war it's a weapon. And it has been used successfully by the parties that regularly infuse money into chaos breeding think tanks and popular culture. For the purpose of hollowing out strong societies so they can be virtually enslaved. Cancel culture is the new power of coercion and Twitter and litigation over petty things is the law enforcement. The law is 'you shall not be yourself anymore, you shall be what the current thing tells you to be'. And the current thing is set by the new rulers almost every year. This makes the citizen an unwilling footsoldier in whatever campaign the rulers take up. A man or woman without his or her own voice, just the script given everybody.
It was actually better if it was a religion, with some opium for the mind. Promises like salvation and enjoyment in the afterlife. Because this way all it produces are desperate, scared, chronic depressive zombies trying to play intelligent and assertive men and women.
Only the countries that did not allow this to be introduced in their mainstream. Where the religion or the state or ideology is greater than entertainment, freedoms, culture or even progress will survive. The rest will self destruct.
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Wokeness is behind all the Russophobia. There's no other explanation for why our policy makers bend over for China which is even more corrupt and nastier than Putin's Russia.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[JPost] Russian President Vladimir Putin was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Sunday for his novel approach to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
[RealClearPolitics] Tucker Carlson: Defending The U.S. From Unwise Decisions Is Treason?
[Zero] The market up-move since March 2020 was caused by massive credit and liquidity creation by the Fed, not traditional fundamentals. In fact, it was the biggest money and credit creation of any central bank in history. 
