Believe me when I tell you that the climatists, the Ukrainists, the Covidians, the mass migrationists, and the antiracists are all expressions of the same malign force.
I live in Kyiv. Gimme a break! We are happy that the West is helping us fight Russia. But we are unhappy that the West (viz, neocons) got us into it in the first place. We wouldn't need NATO help now if the west had not shoved NATO down Putin's throat.
We are happy that we have freedom of speech. More than in the US - political correctness will get you fired - or Canada, where they will rob and jail you.
We are happy that men are men and women are women. We know which bathrooms to use and we don't need instruction from Biden and Rachel Levine,.
Ukraine is a place and a people. It is not part of the decadent west. What we desperately need is to be left alone.
Thank you. Ukraine is showing the grit that the US had seventy years ago. They are putting up a helluva fight. They are amused to have this older American among them even if all I can offer is encouragement. See my blog for how it is going https://grahamseibert/substack.com
I have family outside Mariupol. They don’t share your enthusiasm. They have suffered near constant shelling, since 2014, from Zelensky’s government and have known the terror of the Asmov Battalion and other neo Nazi elements. Ukraine has a huge neo Nazi problem, one that Zelensky & US ( CIA) elevates. NATO & US , have poked the bear ( Russia) for far too long. Zelensky hasn’t helped.
It’s a choice. You paint Ukraine in idealistic shades while turning a blind eye to the heinous acts of Zelensky & ultra nationalist groups. Perhaps you have not personally suffered under neoNazi thugs and so it hasn’t mattered to you. It’s wrong to pretend that Ukraine is a sterling Utopia. It isn’t. It’s corrupt
So is Russia and Putin. The problems in Ukraine is Ukraines to solve. Should the US take over Cuba because of the corruption there? Ok, I opened a can of worms with that!
There is only one side, principles of justice. Zelensky got Ukraine into this war in the first place so why would you be on his side? That is pretending the situation is black and white, right and wrong, which it is not. The fact that it is extremely grey and each side has right and wrong in their pocket is a factor which has been denied and which created this unnecessary war in the first place.
Ukrainians accepted the CIA-backed coup which threw out the democratically elected President who had a sensible view of Russia and allowed a new Government which was antaganostic toward Russia and a US/Nato stooge in essence, to take charge. To that end they have been instrumental in their own suffering.
The good guy/bad guy dichotomy is the sort of idiocy which led Ukraine down the garden path to its doom. John Mearsheimer said in 2015 that if Ukraine remained set on the path to join Nato that Russia would destroy it. His advice was not only ignored by the US and Nato, worse, it was ignored by the Ukrainians.
As the maxim goes, we get the Government we deserve.
I agree. Let’s not argue over which side is blameless. The answer is neither. As always. But Putin’s aggression at this forceful colonization is wrong. Colonization is a relic from the past. It does not belong in the modern world.
Putin is not colonising Ukraine. He is looking to protect Russia from US/Nato aggression and to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine from Ukrainian Government/Neo-Nazi aggression. Eastern Ukraine is more a part of Russia than it is of Western Ukraine so it can hardly be called colonisation.
And I agree, colonisation is a relic from the past which is why Israel's colonial military occupation of Palestine must end and the Indonesians must leave West Papua. The Chinese have at least made the Tibetans citizens which Israel has not and Indonesia pretends to do but does not.
Colonisation was a critical part of human evolution but it is no longer needed.
The real deal is that Zelensky is owned by the Ukraine mafia-like bosses who have funded various thug groups some of which purport to aspire to be non Nazi types. Not that Z is fully corrupt, he may not be. But as long as he leaves them alone to steal and the stealing isn't too outrageous, it's OK. The involvement of the Biden family in the entire mess just complicates matters. The fact that Trump started snooping in areas way off limits created a lot of bad conditions. Can't really know the behind the scenes as these crime groups are having a gang war involving "good people on both sides".
Or is your question, perhaps, not a question? Perhaps you think Jews are incapable of assisting Nazis, and therefore by extension, so is Zelensky. He is not the hero you believe him to be.
I completely agree with you. I have been reading politic and history, during 68 years, since 7 years old. Learned about Korean war when 4 year old. Among other, 14 days ago the Venezuelian precident in UN talked about how NATO and USA, since the fall af the wall, have rejected to make piece agreement with Rusland, and thereby forcing Rusland to attact Ukraune. Among other the USA chemical research centers in Ukraine. Besides Ukraine in 2014 stopping the river to Krim by saying, the Rusian there (farmers) are guilty us money.
I find the refutations of Ukrainian chemical weapons development aided by US more credible than the claim. In any case, let's assume it is true. Russia at one point in history declared 40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons stockpiled, the largest in the world by far. Do we really believe that they even declared the totality if them; do we really believe they have destroyed all of them? What is one or two laboratories in Ukraine to Russia, in light of this? Why should it be an issue for them?
We ave read that USA outside in 30 countries has 336 chemical laboratories, and writing about 26 or 30 in Ukraine, which also Russia has told to UN, and told the virus which they found, and UN before has adviced Ukraine to get rid of this danger.
We do not have much access here in Canada to this type of information. I have heard whispers like what you have written but this is the first real description. We in the west need the real story. I for one would like to know the true motivations and things going on. The media here presents a very one sided view. Thank you for a glimpse!
While I can't applaud Kiev's use of mercenaries to deal with the Russian meddling in the Danbas, that bit of civil war has been created and sponsored by many disputed claims in history of the region, Outsiders might have been able to meddle in that history part of the perpetual cold war to prolong the resolution. It's not fully apparent what those in the Donbas want but they are concerned over the green men fighting with the Azov militia. The lack of an effective Ukraine military that Zelensky tried to fix allowed the Donbas battle to persist for much too long. The Russian invasion of the entire place to resolve the Donbas is a bit extreme in response to Zelensky's fine lines. Russian use of medieval siege tactics is a reflection of frustration that benefits noone.
Among other we in Mathew Crawfrd have read that in January USA by airplane send firearm and cartrides for hundres of million $ to Ukraine. And in 2013 payed 5 billions for propaganda in Ukraine.
you're blog looks interesting, I'll probably subscribe and I would say thank you but my problem is I'm doing so much reading I'm getting mega eye strain. not to mention leaving other tasks waiting...
They (the global elite) have been working the west for almost 100 years, making each successive generation more degenerative than the previous until they get to a generation (the Millennials) that will either opt not to have kids to protect the earth or if they do then they will agree to allowing their kids' to be transgender test subjects. The generation 70 years ago in the US would have not tolerated any of the crap that goes on today in the US Public education system or our institutions. Back then the average citizen knew what was going on and got involved but today they've dumbed down people enough that they are easily distracted and unable to grasp complex concepts and thus believe whatever media tells them to believe.
In the Americas there is a divide happening because of this as about half of the populace are still not tainted by the corruptions of the Global Elites efforts
I read through a number of his posts & very quickly noticed the 3 things that lost me:
* Conflates Russia with USSR
* His "interpretations" of events match US administration propaganda*
* He left the US because of its rising complaints against "white supremacy" to move to a country that is 25% Nazi and has a (US trained) Nazi batallion in its army committing documented ISIS-level atrocities against civilians
* The belief that Putin expected to takeover Kiev in 3 days strikes me as delusional. The US made that totally unbacked claim as "evidence" of Putin "insanity"
By comparison, the US bombed Iraq to rubble before its "race" to Baghdad which took *3 weeks* to reach the outskirts.
Great reference from someone in a position to observe! Another reason to attend these SubStack blogs. His most recent post https://grahamseibert.substack.com/p/war-sputters-on-to-where-springtime?s=r gives me great hope. I can understand Zelensky's opposition to an easy roll-over. I too wonder about the apparent missing Russian Buk missile systems that are readily available for the right price. No fly vs effective air defense is an easy trade.
So who are Ukrainists, in your parlance? What kind of term is that? Do not all Ukrainians fall into that category? And anyone opposing the Russian aggression, are they automatically Ukrainists?
Ukraine is a multi ethnic society, which includes Scandinavian, German, and Russia. The majority of the Ukraine people belong to the first 2 groups. Interestingly enough, some of the leading figures from the Soviet Union era were from Ukraine (i.e. Brezhnev, Khrushchev, etc..)
"We wouldn't need NATO help now if the west had not shoved NATO down Putin's throat."
That's the whole thing in a nutshell. The west used Ukraine to poke the bear, knowing that at some point the bear would do as bears do when one pokes them. That makes Russia look like the aggressor NATO claims it is, thus justifying NATO's continued existence 30 years after the Soviet Union ceased to be.
Of course NATO are the good guys when they illegally invade Libya, overthrow its government, and murder Gaddafi. Likewise they are good guys when they illegally invade and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.
Exactly. Why westerners think anything done in the name of the west ids “fair” and “even handed” us a mystery to me. Our propaganda machine is working just as hard as any other country’s. I’m Canadian but USA has already taken us over corporately. They run us as only the USA can. The only difference is that we didn’t have to fight them off, we just literally invited them in. Most Canadians still think we are autonomous. We are not.
It is funny that Russia seems to have a "Western" problem. I guess it is so because all the West does or did is to "invade" Russia. The Russians do not forget about the Great Patriotic War, which killed 27 millions of the Soviet Union population
NATO didn't murder Gaddafi, but what happened in Libya was part of HRC's efforts to continue destabilizing the middle east. She imagined it was good politics for her side. Showing resolve and all that jazz.
I am a Dane, and actually yars ago I contacted Libya for working there as engineer, without work, and found that Gaddafi was told to be in the Danish new. But message back, USA don't allow you to come to Libya. When around 1976, when then harbor worker, by USA did not me allowed to come to, and work in Greenland when there for 3 months missing dock workers, because my mother during the was, as kommunist were fighting against Hitler - last 6 weeks in prison.
I have seen extensive video evidence in the form documentaries spanning multiple years. Kiev was stolen by a US-backed coup in 2014. Donbass region declared independence as they would not recognize the illegitimate globalist puppet government. Ukraine military forces proceeded to target civilians/suburbs in Donbass.
The videos I would link to are no longer available. Blocked/deleted by Jewtube.
I do not think there is any doubt that we have little or no idea what is actually going on. Everyone is lying. Everyone always lies in war and they generally start lying long before the war begins in order to start a war.
The American/Ukraine propaganda starts to look flimsy as we near some sort of negotiated end to hostilities.
The Russians may well be suffering more than they expected but, if Putin is as smart as most have long believed he is, then he will have thought carefully about this war and possible outcomes. Not that it means he might get it right - it may all fall into a total disaster for that is the way of war.
But, while we have come close to the old lines of: the Russians are bayoneting babies and drinking their blood, etc. etc. etc., the glimpses we have of the conflict indicate that the most likely course for Putin is likely to happen. And that is, take Eastern Ukraine, pretty much ethnic Russians, as a buffer against US/Nato aggression. Western Ukraine can do what it likes as long as there is some distance from the Russian border.
Also, holding, whether as semi-independent states or a part of Russia, Eastern Ukraine is possible in ways holding Western Ukraine would not be. Let us hope for the sake of Ukrainians and Russians that this war will end soon. However, Ukraine, like many places in the world, a land of fluid borders and a partially invented concept, will remain divided. But if that brings peace then most Ukrainians will accept it.
"ethnic Russian civilians" - as if the Donbas wasen't forced to accept Russian migration, then required to teach only Russian for a period in a multi-language society. Those grievances go back a long time before the current dispute. Selective bits of history deny reality.
And the difference between what Russia is now doing to prevent US/Nato missile launchers on its border, barely 100k from Moscow, and what the Americans did when the Russians looked like setting up a military base in Cuba, some 100k. from any American border, would be what????
How about the American coups and wars in South America, thousands of kilometres from the US border, to ensure US-friendly puppet Governments remained in place? Ask the Chileans about that. Perhaps run through why the Russian actions are so radically different and without precedent.
"Whataboutism" is a propaganda term. There's not one moral law for Russia and one for the USA. Moral laws apply across the board. Crime is crime. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy, wherever it looms. Rational people understand this.
"Whataboutism" so casually tossed around, as you did, dismisses out of hand the possibility of moral critique and comparison. Do you believe that the other nations's actions are so heinous that they make your nation's irrelevant? Moral comparison is necessary when we speak or write about power, lest me make undue excuses for our side's failings. Why are you so quick to dismiss moral comparisons between nations? We ordinary people suffer when nations are at war or are feuding.
Well, what they do now is beyond awful, but to be honest Russia wasn't busy invading other countries in the past 80 years or so. Not like the West/NATO/USA.
Let me refresh your memory: Finland 1940, Poland 1939, Bessarabia 1940, Baltics 1940, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Crimea 2014. Provoked every time and on short temper, no doubt.
About as soft and cuddly as the Americans dismembering Iraqis, Afghans, Syrians, Libyans, Vietnamese and helping Israel to dismember unarmed Palestinians. Absolutely, that kind of soft and cuddly deep down. Please, spare us the demon Russia bollocks. The optical illusion is the fantasy that Russia is doing something that US/Nato have not done in spades and with less valid cause.
Not so sure. Having spent a lot of time in Russia and in the United States, my sense is that Americans and Russians are very alike, it is just that the Russians have better food and a better sense of humour.
Russians and Americans are equally surprised and horrified if you say to them that many in the world see them as a threat. They see themselves as benign, acting in a greater good, and benevolent unto others.
Yep, it's irony in these columns. For the people on the ground its maiming and death. Stop the war. Accept Putin's terms and go on from there. What difference to the ordinary people?
What difference to me who rules me?
I used to live in a democracy.
Now I find I live in a despotic state. Once it was 'rule by the people for the people of the people' or somesuch.
Now it is 'rule by despots on the grounds of emergency powers (we're busy entrenching into the customary). '
The money flows go in different directions.
My freedoms are curtailed and I'm subject to arbitrary Kafkaesque nonsenses.
But I'm still alive. Unscathed. For the most part everything as before.
Has the bear advanced into NATO lands since the end of the Cold War? Or built biolabs along Western borders? Or fuelled civil wars and set up puppet governments in countries neighbouring the US?
If the Russians had been killing 'indiscriminately" there would be tens of thousands dying in multiple locations every day. That has not been happening so all statements to the contrary are 'fog of war' confusion or outright lies.
As a straight white conservative I took an awful lot of crap. Why I decamped to Ukraine 15 years ago to start a new life. And the neocons found me and screwed it up again!
His domestic policies was in a different package but he had the same deep state machinations, the same corporatists policies, similar foreign policy (fomenting war), and the same globalist bent as neocons.
Lol lol lol. The SAME because Obama is NONE of those things. He is a straight up, first class opportunist. He doesn't care how anything turns out as long as there is a huge paycheck in it for him. He just happened to be the complete package for fronting Globalist wet dreams.
Obama is partially responsible for this conflict. As Senator, In 2004, he helped fund the biolabs. Biden is an illegitimate president. A puppet for Obama’s 3rd term
I call him and Hillary and Pelosi "neolibs", but they might as well be neocons. They hoover money from everywhere. Maybe neocons perfer war profiteering and neolibs prefer social service profiteering, but they are as good (i.e. BAD!) as equals in my book. P.S. I called Biden "neovegetable".
If you look at the policies of Obama and Mr. Neocon himself, GW Bush, they're not all that different. The rhetoric is different, but the actions are the same. They both worked for the same people as president... the globalists, the Schwabs and Soroses.
I can well imagine what the neocons have done to Ukraine, but there are so many stories in the various media it's hard to know the exact details. Could you give a quick summary of their most grievous sins as you know them?
I would rethink the part about being happy with US help. It seems clear that the goal is to use you to bleed Russia, not to make any genuine effort to preserve Ukrainian sovereignty. Ukrainians themselves will have a big say in how well this works. The terms Russia has offered are not insane and it would probably be wise to accept.
I agree with you. We need to cut a deal and end the fighting. Even agree to terms we won't keep, letting Putin save some face and knowing that he will probably lose power. IMHO, give him the three statelets, agree with Russian language - people will speak what they want. But keep our guns!
From what information I could glean without limiting myself to the mainstream media, it seems as if Russia isn't doing all that well, so probably they'll be willing to concede some of their points to Ukraine, would you agree or am I getting it wrong?
According to the Russians, and to western military experts I trust, Russia is on track. Though they’re using more force than they hoped would be necessary. Given they want to keep some of the territories they’re occupying they’re trying to avoid civilian casualties and providing aid. Though that doesn’t fit the western narrative.
Recently a spokesman said one more month should do it.
It’s quite clear Zelenaky was promised military support if he triggered a war, and evidently the USA has been surprised by the response from Putin. However they want zelensky to carry on and while the war rages they’re imposing economic restructuring on the USA. This was never about Russia or Ukraine
I am a retired Marine, I have watched this "develop" over the last two decades, "retired" disgusted by the lies, the obfuscations, and most of all, the deliberate planned provocation. I do feel for Ukraine, and most especially, "for The People", however I've got no love for Nazi's, for Nazi sympathizers, meaning those who support such, from the West, knowing their power is entirely because of "external support".
I've watched my Government invade a dozen Nations, with lies, deceit, no truth what so ever, and I'm stoked to hear someone state this from inside "the war". This is a "US war", and like so many, being fought and died for, by "other peoples". I've questioned my "service" for almost 25 years, seeing it play out in invasions, depredations, our courts pretending they serve "justice" by covering the Government lies. America is no more, we have been subverted, overthrown, by left wing ideologues, and we are "occupied states", without any rule of law. Semper Fur, John McClain
Yep. I'll go along with that. Just because people can't see it don't mean it's not true. I claim Australia is a defeated country but I think something like 99% and perhaps more can't see it.
But when a 'democracy' is ruled by fiat on the grounds of an emergency that doesn't exist - and most people don't even know has been declared - and 'emergency powers' which are quite deliberately despotic powers are the order of the day: where's the democracy?
When free speech is denied and censorship all pervasive and paid for without asking by taxpayer's funds?
When scientific facts are denied and even forbidden to be published?
When doctors are not allowed to practice according to their own conscience?
When house arrest without trial or sentence is a norm?
When ludicrously unnecessary even if they worked but they don't work anyway masks are mandated on pain of even closing your business etc?
When interstate commerce is crippled?
When thousands cannot even return home?
The nation driven into one trillion dollars of debt when it was in front?
Yet certain sections make more and more and more money, profit enormously while everyone else suffers?
And authorities do all of this completely unchallenged?
The ordinary person apparently goes about their business feeling everything is alright, there's not problem, maybe a little minor discomfort from wearing the ludicrous shameful mask but otherwise 'all okay'.
They see nothing wrong at all. Hard to show them anything wrong. It all seems vague and conceptual. Not as tangible as a piece of cloth around the face.
They can't see it. They don't see it. The smothering hand of despotic government is wrapped around their faces yet they still can't see it.
But that doesn't mean it's not true. It is history. Australia once was. Maybe. At least we thought it was.
The Marines at Red Beach and the First Marine Air Wing were my clients in Danang 53 years ago. I thought at the time that they were better men than those who commanded them. We did some work at Camp Smedley D Butler, Okinawa. It is a credit to the Marines that they still name a camp after the General who wrote "War is a Racket."
You are happy you have a corrupt President in the pocket of oligarchs like Kolomoisky? You are happy C14 patrols the streets? You are happy that black weapons and private armies, funded by oligarchs, operate in your borders while Zelensky is paid millions to look the other way? You are happy that these oligarchs bought Zelensky a $32 million dollar mansion in Florida for looking the other way?
Well said. It's your country. If more people like you, living in Ukraine, could repeat exactly word for word what you just said in an interview on any platform, then non-brainwashed Westerners like those on this blog could help it go viral. There are many Americans who would see the light (be "red-pilled") if they could be exposed to first hand experiences of people like you. You'd have to be careful about saying you need help fighting Russia because that's exactly what the psychopathic neocons want. They want a prolonged guerilla style war. They want to sneak in weapons. They would be happen to see all Ukranians dead as long as they stick it to Putin.
"They would be happen to see all Ukranians dead as long as they stick it to Putin." Yup. Warmongers gonna warmong. They don't actually give a shirt about Ukraine, except as a convenient place to launder American tax dollars.
I have friends and coworkers in Ukraine. Ukraine is one the most corrupt countries in the world. It is just a few places from the rock bottom in any rankings you look at. Ukraine is not decadent in the sense of West because it is quite poor.
The fact that you live in Kiev may bias your views. As others pointed out, it has been a hell for people living in other parts of the country. The invocation of "leave us alone" does not work when Ukraine has been the country it has been. Actions have consequences.
I would like to know how you define 'corrupt'. Not taking sides or quarreling with you, just trying to get a line on what we're talking about here.
I'm merely a layman.
My basic thought is that some 'corruption' is relatively harmless.
And other 'corruption' is in fact vile bondage.
They might always coexist. I don't know.
I mean like this: we see total corruption in the USA.
Everything can be bought. No political or administrative office is without its price apparently. The whole covid thing beautifully illustrates.
But you can't usually buy the policeman who arrests you.
And despite this total corruption if you fall to the bottom you're in a relatively comfortable position with a chance of helping yourself.
But in certain countries you can be taken off the street by the police and bashed to death and they'll never be called to account.
In certain countries when you fall to the bottom its difficult to extricate yourself from those who prey on such fallen and entwine them in economic bondage - working 7 days a week for never enough to escape their supposed 'debts' to their 'benefactors'.
In such countries a rich man or politician or virtually any authority figure can come to your home and take whatever they want - including your women and children if they wish.
You know?
What kind of corruption are we talking about here?
And: bottom line: is it likely to be worse under Russian rule than without it?
Sure, there is corruption everywhere. I was referring to published metrics and yes they have caveats.
The pandemic showed the true colors of the so called liberal democrats. They turned out to be as vile as the fascists they despise. In some countries they were objectively worse.
What I have trouble accepting is that Ukraine is an innocent victim and that the Russian invasion is entirely unprovoked and occurring in a vacuum. Sorry to sound harsh: those who are informed disagree.
The first step to resolution is acknowledgement of history i.e. accurate definition of the problem. Otherwise one solves a wrong non-existent problem.
This war has been triggering by the USA for it’s own purposes. But it plays on the complex history of the region. And is only possible because of the deep corruption of Ukrainian and USA elites.
It does not matter whether Russian invasion is entirely unprovoked by forces outside Russia or whether it is provoked by some degree. Putin would have invaded in any ways, he wants destroy Ukrainian nation. If Ukraine voluntarily met all Putins demands some time ago, it could have avoided bloody war, but would have come under Russian rule, and would had experienced slow torture (as things in Belarus are now). But his aggression had opposite effect.
"We"? You're a confused foreign interloper who wants NATO to get in the way of a swamp draining operation.
Maybe you need to stop soaking up so much Western sludge like Superman movies, Anglo-American pop music, etc. Good grief, man, pull your head out of your rectum. Then pick up a weapon, maybe just a knife, and find a Ukrainian Westophile with an exposed neck. Better still if you can find the neck of an arrogant Western do-gooder (combatant or not) who has come to fight for the decadence which you are still just pretending to hate. Get off the fence. Make a commitment. Get some blood on your hands. I promise that it'll clear the fog out of your head. Tristan the Belgian Twit has it coming.
What is “western” about Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, Albert Bourla, etc. Do they wear cowboy boots? I guess they do do rope tricks and “break” broncos in the sense of maneuvering to crush resistance to their financial controls and genocidal schemes. But “the West” seems like just another created shell term to hang blame on while the real shot-callers that control the money stay out of sight and arrange wars. “Why don’t you and him fight?” Have you ever heard of the Kalergi Plan? He was a real cowboy, that Count Kalergi!
Because there is such a thing as the Jewish mafia, and he is part of it.
A rough analogy would be the Italian mafia. Not all Italians are bad guys, but all Mafia are Italian.
The important differences are that:
1. The Jewish mafia is orders of magnitude more evil and powerful than the other mafias combined
2. The Jews do not recognize or acknowledge the existence of their mafia, or at least most of them are genuinely clueless about it. Hence when someone refers to ((Evil Jews)), they are referring to that mafia, not the average Jewish person. The "Big Jews" would happily slaughter the "Little Jews" if they get in their way.
Then the real problem would be membership in this Jewish mafia, if indeed that is the case, not being a Jew. So why not just state that he's a member of that organization, whatever it is called, and not just throw it out there that he's Jewish?
There is no such organization. I said it was only a rough analogy. The Jews are much more evil and more dangerous than any mafia.
Jews as a group are supremacists. They view Goyim (non-Jews) as cattle. We exist only to serve the Jews who are our masters by birthright. That is how Jews perceive you and me. We are subhuman cattle. GOYIM.
And there it is. So it's not that a small minority are members of a dangerous group, as with a mafia, but that "the Jews" are evil and dangerous, with no qualifier about it being a minority of them. That was the real answer I was looking for when I asked what difference it made if a given person was a Jew.
"The Jews" don't exist, so to speak. Jews exist, but "The Jews," meaning a monolithic group of individuals who act as with one mind and with one purpose, do not. You can say that Jews tend to be Democrats if they are American (which is true), but that's quite a way from saying "The Jews are evil and dangerous." Surely, some are, but just as surely, some are not, so even if you don't think the latter group encompasses nearly all of them as I do, you still can't say that being a Jew has any bearing on whether they are evil, any more than being white means one is an oppressor (oppressors being evil, of course) as the "anti-racist" bigots suggest.
Jews are individuals, like everyone else, and I don't see any of them here demonizing entire groups of people and calling them evil. I see you doing that. I look at people as individuals, not as nameless, faceless, interchangeable members of a group. I leave the identity politics to my opponents politically (they're the same ones that form the Covidians). If someone is acting like a dictator, that's reason enough to despise them... I don't need to find out what groups that person appears to be a member of (by my own estimation) and generalize my contempt to those groups as a whole. That would be insane.
The way you describe Jews reminds me of how some black people have been tricked into believing about white people, and especially Republican white people. "They hate you, they want to keep you down, they wish slavery never ended." I know a great many white Republicans, and not a one of them thinks any of these things, just as none of the Jews I count among my friends thinks of me as a bovine or subhuman (and I don't think that about them either).
The real threat is not "Jews" as a whole, and never has been. Some Jews are threats, just as some Christians are threats, some Muslims are threats, and some atheists are threats, by virtue of their own actions (not demographic statistics).
Globalists are threats. Communists and fascists are threats. Covidians are threats. Collectivists are threats. Those people are threats because the things that define them as being a part of any of the groups listed (their philosophies and beliefs) are the things that are dangerous. The Jews within each of those groups are dangerous, as are the non-Jews who stand side by side with them and work to enact the same agenda.
The point about the Jewish mafia is simply disgusting nonsense. Zelensky might by owned by big money, as are many politicians, but if citizens are willing to die to protect their nation that affirms they prefer him over Putin who is really big money.
You are incredibly naive. Child like understanding of the world. Completely ignorant of who rules over you. Jews control all of the western mainstream media, academia, big tech, central banking, finance, Democrats, Republicans, etc. The CDC and FDA are run by Jews. The head of Pfizer is a Jew. Etc.
Its easy for someone like Thomas to put you on an alter and urge the fight against Russia down to the last Ukrainian. I wonder if he sees how inhuman his stance is. Be well, and hope for a swift end to the war.
God bless Tucker and Tulsi for getting the truth widespread. And dailyexpose and others for finding it in the first place. Get rid of the labs worldwide.
You are a fool. The US is helping you commit suicide. This war would never have happened in Ukraine had a rational govt., they would have ceded the Donbas and Crimea, that horse left the stable 8 years ago, and they would have agreed to no NATO. The war is 100% caused by the US and Ukraine.
It's misleading to conflate the pandora papers Zelensky regime for the Ukraine. And the disconnect between the WEF members and the people they rule across the western world keeps growing.
So many of us have taken our God given natural rights & freedom for granted for far too long. We've been too willing to give up the hard work that comes with self-reliance and responsibility, content to let the nanny state grow into a sociopathic beast that is consuming us. The deep state combined the sinister immediacy of social media is allowing the sociopaths to prey on an increasingly dumbed down & numbed population in ways that Goebbels could only dream about. At the same time, one can sense that the next Great Awakening is occurring. Eyes are being opened and we see the globalists for who they really are: demonic. When they start killing children, it's far past the time for compromise.
I don't think the next Great Awakening is happening yet, but I do think it is getting ready to happen and no one knows yet what form it will take. When no one believes anything and when everyone's life is floundering, that's when a theological vision sweeps up the lost. As a Catholic, I'm waiting for today's St. Francis or St. Dominic. I haven't seen him (or her) yet, at least that I know of. But then, people thought St. Francis was nuts at the time.
I think like a lot of things it will likely play out as Enrico Fermi said "one funeral at a time". The children of the woke will be highly unlikely to reproduce and the third generation of woke will be miniscule. Those who revel in family life and have a tradition at their back will probably propagate and continue on. Of course a lot of harm will be done in the meantime.
Where’s Billy Graham when we need him? He’s gone now with our Savior, and was retired for a long time before he passed, but it would be helpful to see God lift up more evangelists from all flavors of Christianity. I remember reading something about St. Francis being a bit nutty, but then read Ezekiel sometime or many others God used along the way. Very counterintuitive, this God of ours.
You might want to check on those "God given natural rights & freedom" because laws have been quietly passed in the last 20 years (911 anyone?) Patriot Act ongoing metastasizing) that have severely restricted US Freedom. It won't be obvious until you step out of your lane. They are already killing children....https://fox8.com/news/parents-outraged-after-newborn-son-vaccinated-against-their-wishes/ .
Take your Rights ""...for granted for far too long....". Indeed. Thank you for your observations. This is primarily a Western Alliance paradigm shift on the lowest level. Hope the seed has been sowed. Social Media is both a giver and taker. Basically an amplifier of a hall of mirrors.
Although those rights are God-given, they must be *individually defended*. The education necessary to raise children with that knowledge has been destroyed and must be replaced if any meaningful change is to be instituted.
There has never been any time in history where more children were killed every single day than now. Pagan societies would be shocked by our morals -- those who killed children at least thought a terrible god demanded it. We kill because we can't be bothered.
They have been dismantling representative government under the guise of emergencies of their own design. Now they are dismantling the concept of property rights, like Trudeau and Freeland did against the truckers, and now promoted against Russians as a collective. Another step in an awful direction.
The Party of Davos is making huge moves under the cover of covid and now Ukraine.
Certainly the past 2+ years have brought western debauchery to the fore. Out of all the evil perpetrated & yet to come, the awakening (or reaffirmation) of those of us who can see, it is a silver lining
On the plus side, I am encountering more and more people who are entirely fed up and "awake". This sentiment is unfortunately disorganized and fragmented - it needs form and a leader of some sort.
Mr Bourla obliged us with demanding a 4th vaccine dose. See how well that goes over - my guess is like a lead balloon.
Pretty arrogant and shocking. But that's what you get when you have megalomaniacs like him, Fauci and Collins in charge. They won't read the room and even if they did they'd spit in it. Fauci made a rare appearance to piss all over people who dared go against his 'science' and worried about freedom. A truly evil little elf.
Sigh. Here's a hint to anyone who hasn't picked up on it yet: "Values" is a word from sociology. It implies that what any culture "values" is not, in a real sense, superior or inferior to what any other culture "values." It has its place in scholarship, I suppose. It should never be bandied around in this way, and you should distrust anyone who does so. When someone says, "We are a school based on Christian values!" he is either using a word he thinks sounds official, or hiding that he doesn't care anything about whether Christian teachings are true and will keep them when he likes them or disregard them when he doesnt. When someone says, "We've taken care to respect the values of the LGBTQ+ Community," he either means, "we're trying hard to be nice and this is what you say when you're being nice," or "We do everything powerful advocacy groups tell us to." It's VERY IMPORTANT to know what people mean when they say "values."
Seems to me that Christian values have more claim to objective validity than any of these other propositions. If you don’t believe Christian values exist, you are essentially rejecting all norms, mores, morals, and even the concept of any ideas being superior to any other ideas. Lookout below…!
Not all other propositions concern themselves with objective truth. Postmodernism (which most people now more or less believe, whether they know it or not), claims that truth can't be determined by logic. The more true something is, the more "authentic" it is, and "authenticity" can only be FELT. The stronger something feels, the more authentic and true it is. So the highest virtue has to be tolerance -- because everyone can feel a different truth. As long as everyone agrees that everyone else's authentic truth is "true for them," peace and harmony is supposed to ensue. Once someone asserts that other people's strongly-felt truths are FALSE, there has to be a battle because the only way to prove such things is to silence and eliminate every other view.
Exactly. Stephen Hick's book "Postmodernism Explained" is the best one I've seen on this -- it's short but comprehensive, and shows how this idea developed and what it means in practice. Although it's not "dumbed down" it is not too technical or jargon-y for someone who hasn't studied philosophy to understand. Here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Postmodernism-Skepticism-Socialism-Rousseau-ebook/dp/B005D53DG0
The blurb there explains it very well: Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century. Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world? Why do they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences? Why has a significant portion of the political Left - the same Left that traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all, and optimism - now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism? Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy.
This Expanded Edition includes two additional essays by Stephen Hicks: *Free Speech and Postmodernism* and *From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly*.
Values are to virtues what a Covid vaccine is to natural immunity. One is rather ineffective at best, and harmful at worst, but everybody has to display it. The other is born from experience (and sometimes pain), does not advertise, but silently works.
Christian values are quite simple. You must love your god and you must love your neighbour as yourself. However you are to “hate WHAT is bad “ according to scripture. Not those who do bad things because they are also your neighbours.
Of course as with any set of values they are manipulated to further the objectives of the holder.
This is absolutely true. We're not supposed to say it, but more than anything else, this war is about pushback against the attempted expansion of Western domination. That's why Ukrainian Lives Matter, but Afghan and Uyghur Lives don't:
You mean like Canada under Justin Trudeau? Canada is the ONLY nation in the world - let alone one with Western values - that is unethically and illegally preventing unvaccinated people from leaving the country (even if other countries are open to all travellers) as well as use Federal transportation. It is also giving foreign sojourners a period of time to basically GTFO before...well no one is sure. Not a stick of evidence be it from IATA, airlines or studies support the government's completely unreasonable over reach but here we are in Chinada. Punitive and totalitarian under one Justin Trudeau. The meanest meme generator I've ever seen. Now, behold Justin in all his gaslighting glory as he speakers of Western freedom and democracy in Ukraine as he squashes dissent here. Just like the good, inept, remedial, shallow, deceptive, little Castro-WEF lap dog protege that he is. Hey Justin. Guess which finger I'm raising to you and Chrystia?
Why avoid the elephant in the room that THE prevailing sentiment/push is de-Chritianization? That is what is driving all this and what makes modern elites the most frightening. They do not believe their subjects have inviolable dignity and elites do not feel morally accountable to anyone.
"Unlike some of you, I prefer to see the actions of the borg as essentially undirected, and the result of internal dynamics."
Agreed. Once the "borg" administrative state reaches "critical mass," it is self-sustaining. Leaders like to pretend they're driving, but the wheel is no longer connected to anything.
Eugypius, love your work. In an age in which the Academy has lost it’s way by falling into narrow intellectual restraints such as Wokism, you employ the tools of critical thinking and analysis to tease out the facts. I so agree that there are destructive forces within western society that have evolved within the sheer complexity of global forces - economic, social and political. These forces are undermining the very attributes that made our once free and open societies.
It seems you can apply EVEN IF you already got "vaccination assistance", whatever that is. So presumably you don't have to be vaccinated to get it? Could anybody with a knowledge of Ukrainian explain?
I live in Kyiv. Gimme a break! We are happy that the West is helping us fight Russia. But we are unhappy that the West (viz, neocons) got us into it in the first place. We wouldn't need NATO help now if the west had not shoved NATO down Putin's throat.
We are happy that we have freedom of speech. More than in the US - political correctness will get you fired - or Canada, where they will rob and jail you.
We are happy that men are men and women are women. We know which bathrooms to use and we don't need instruction from Biden and Rachel Levine,.
Ukraine is a place and a people. It is not part of the decadent west. What we desperately need is to be left alone.
i entirely agree, i have nothing against Ukraine.
Thank you. Ukraine is showing the grit that the US had seventy years ago. They are putting up a helluva fight. They are amused to have this older American among them even if all I can offer is encouragement. See my blog for how it is going https://grahamseibert/substack.com
I have family outside Mariupol. They don’t share your enthusiasm. They have suffered near constant shelling, since 2014, from Zelensky’s government and have known the terror of the Asmov Battalion and other neo Nazi elements. Ukraine has a huge neo Nazi problem, one that Zelensky & US ( CIA) elevates. NATO & US , have poked the bear ( Russia) for far too long. Zelensky hasn’t helped.
Russia's invasion forces me to be on Zelensky's side. It isn't blind enthusiasm.
It’s a choice. You paint Ukraine in idealistic shades while turning a blind eye to the heinous acts of Zelensky & ultra nationalist groups. Perhaps you have not personally suffered under neoNazi thugs and so it hasn’t mattered to you. It’s wrong to pretend that Ukraine is a sterling Utopia. It isn’t. It’s corrupt
So is Russia and Putin. The problems in Ukraine is Ukraines to solve. Should the US take over Cuba because of the corruption there? Ok, I opened a can of worms with that!
You are tottally right!!!!!
There is only one side, principles of justice. Zelensky got Ukraine into this war in the first place so why would you be on his side? That is pretending the situation is black and white, right and wrong, which it is not. The fact that it is extremely grey and each side has right and wrong in their pocket is a factor which has been denied and which created this unnecessary war in the first place.
Ukrainians accepted the CIA-backed coup which threw out the democratically elected President who had a sensible view of Russia and allowed a new Government which was antaganostic toward Russia and a US/Nato stooge in essence, to take charge. To that end they have been instrumental in their own suffering.
The good guy/bad guy dichotomy is the sort of idiocy which led Ukraine down the garden path to its doom. John Mearsheimer said in 2015 that if Ukraine remained set on the path to join Nato that Russia would destroy it. His advice was not only ignored by the US and Nato, worse, it was ignored by the Ukrainians.
As the maxim goes, we get the Government we deserve.
I agree. Let’s not argue over which side is blameless. The answer is neither. As always. But Putin’s aggression at this forceful colonization is wrong. Colonization is a relic from the past. It does not belong in the modern world.
Putin is not colonising Ukraine. He is looking to protect Russia from US/Nato aggression and to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine from Ukrainian Government/Neo-Nazi aggression. Eastern Ukraine is more a part of Russia than it is of Western Ukraine so it can hardly be called colonisation.
And I agree, colonisation is a relic from the past which is why Israel's colonial military occupation of Palestine must end and the Indonesians must leave West Papua. The Chinese have at least made the Tibetans citizens which Israel has not and Indonesia pretends to do but does not.
Colonisation was a critical part of human evolution but it is no longer needed.
Where can I find information that explains how Zelensky, a Jew is committing or encouraging Neo Nazis? please.
The real deal is that Zelensky is owned by the Ukraine mafia-like bosses who have funded various thug groups some of which purport to aspire to be non Nazi types. Not that Z is fully corrupt, he may not be. But as long as he leaves them alone to steal and the stealing isn't too outrageous, it's OK. The involvement of the Biden family in the entire mess just complicates matters. The fact that Trump started snooping in areas way off limits created a lot of bad conditions. Can't really know the behind the scenes as these crime groups are having a gang war involving "good people on both sides".
Or is your question, perhaps, not a question? Perhaps you think Jews are incapable of assisting Nazis, and therefore by extension, so is Zelensky. He is not the hero you believe him to be.
https://twitter.com/paradigmslip/status/1500691422680338438?s=21
Amplifies the point just made.
I recommend you research the topic instead of relying on MSM. Zelensky is a secular non observant Jew. Research Ukraine 2014 and the installation of Zelensky as President. Look up Azov Battalion. https://www.mintpressnews.com/under-fire-from-ukraine-everyday-life-in-the-donetsk-peoples-republic/262363/
I completely agree with you. I have been reading politic and history, during 68 years, since 7 years old. Learned about Korean war when 4 year old. Among other, 14 days ago the Venezuelian precident in UN talked about how NATO and USA, since the fall af the wall, have rejected to make piece agreement with Rusland, and thereby forcing Rusland to attact Ukraune. Among other the USA chemical research centers in Ukraine. Besides Ukraine in 2014 stopping the river to Krim by saying, the Rusian there (farmers) are guilty us money.
I find the refutations of Ukrainian chemical weapons development aided by US more credible than the claim. In any case, let's assume it is true. Russia at one point in history declared 40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons stockpiled, the largest in the world by far. Do we really believe that they even declared the totality if them; do we really believe they have destroyed all of them? What is one or two laboratories in Ukraine to Russia, in light of this? Why should it be an issue for them?
We ave read that USA outside in 30 countries has 336 chemical laboratories, and writing about 26 or 30 in Ukraine, which also Russia has told to UN, and told the virus which they found, and UN before has adviced Ukraine to get rid of this danger.
We do not have much access here in Canada to this type of information. I have heard whispers like what you have written but this is the first real description. We in the west need the real story. I for one would like to know the true motivations and things going on. The media here presents a very one sided view. Thank you for a glimpse!
Good background here. By Archbishop Vigiano: https://www.scribd.com/document/563147077/Statement-on-Russian-Ukrainian-Crisis-Vigano-Mar-7-2022#from_embed
While I can't applaud Kiev's use of mercenaries to deal with the Russian meddling in the Danbas, that bit of civil war has been created and sponsored by many disputed claims in history of the region, Outsiders might have been able to meddle in that history part of the perpetual cold war to prolong the resolution. It's not fully apparent what those in the Donbas want but they are concerned over the green men fighting with the Azov militia. The lack of an effective Ukraine military that Zelensky tried to fix allowed the Donbas battle to persist for much too long. The Russian invasion of the entire place to resolve the Donbas is a bit extreme in response to Zelensky's fine lines. Russian use of medieval siege tactics is a reflection of frustration that benefits noone.
Among other we in Mathew Crawfrd have read that in January USA by airplane send firearm and cartrides for hundres of million $ to Ukraine. And in 2013 payed 5 billions for propaganda in Ukraine.
you're blog looks interesting, I'll probably subscribe and I would say thank you but my problem is I'm doing so much reading I'm getting mega eye strain. not to mention leaving other tasks waiting...
They (the global elite) have been working the west for almost 100 years, making each successive generation more degenerative than the previous until they get to a generation (the Millennials) that will either opt not to have kids to protect the earth or if they do then they will agree to allowing their kids' to be transgender test subjects. The generation 70 years ago in the US would have not tolerated any of the crap that goes on today in the US Public education system or our institutions. Back then the average citizen knew what was going on and got involved but today they've dumbed down people enough that they are easily distracted and unable to grasp complex concepts and thus believe whatever media tells them to believe.
In the Americas there is a divide happening because of this as about half of the populace are still not tainted by the corruptions of the Global Elites efforts
Some Ukrainians wanted to provoke war with Russia, it seems. I wouldn’t want to. support them, and I’m sure they’ll never be on the frontlines.
https://t.me/robinmg/17266
Your link isn't working
try this:
https://grahamseibert.substack.com/
I read through a number of his posts & very quickly noticed the 3 things that lost me:
* Conflates Russia with USSR
* His "interpretations" of events match US administration propaganda*
* He left the US because of its rising complaints against "white supremacy" to move to a country that is 25% Nazi and has a (US trained) Nazi batallion in its army committing documented ISIS-level atrocities against civilians
* The belief that Putin expected to takeover Kiev in 3 days strikes me as delusional. The US made that totally unbacked claim as "evidence" of Putin "insanity"
By comparison, the US bombed Iraq to rubble before its "race" to Baghdad which took *3 weeks* to reach the outskirts.
Great reference from someone in a position to observe! Another reason to attend these SubStack blogs. His most recent post https://grahamseibert.substack.com/p/war-sputters-on-to-where-springtime?s=r gives me great hope. I can understand Zelensky's opposition to an easy roll-over. I too wonder about the apparent missing Russian Buk missile systems that are readily available for the right price. No fly vs effective air defense is an easy trade.
Thanks!
So who are Ukrainists, in your parlance? What kind of term is that? Do not all Ukrainians fall into that category? And anyone opposing the Russian aggression, are they automatically Ukrainists?
*ukrainian/NATO agression.
Upside down?
Ukraine is a multi ethnic society, which includes Scandinavian, German, and Russia. The majority of the Ukraine people belong to the first 2 groups. Interestingly enough, some of the leading figures from the Soviet Union era were from Ukraine (i.e. Brezhnev, Khrushchev, etc..)
Surprisingly few were actually from Russia.
It is always about the government, not the people. That said, the government is the "representation" of its people.
"We wouldn't need NATO help now if the west had not shoved NATO down Putin's throat."
That's the whole thing in a nutshell. The west used Ukraine to poke the bear, knowing that at some point the bear would do as bears do when one pokes them. That makes Russia look like the aggressor NATO claims it is, thus justifying NATO's continued existence 30 years after the Soviet Union ceased to be.
And Russia is soft and cuddly, deep down? Russia just looks as it is killing indiscriminately, an optical illusion... Ha!
What's your source for that? CNN?
Ukraine military has been murdering ethnic Russian civilians indiscriminately for 8 years. Russia is putting an end to that.
Any numbers attached to that? Or "Putin said"?
Of course NATO are the good guys when they illegally invade Libya, overthrow its government, and murder Gaddafi. Likewise they are good guys when they illegally invade and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.
Whataboutism == a favourite Russian argument. Didn't take long.
Exactly. Why westerners think anything done in the name of the west ids “fair” and “even handed” us a mystery to me. Our propaganda machine is working just as hard as any other country’s. I’m Canadian but USA has already taken us over corporately. They run us as only the USA can. The only difference is that we didn’t have to fight them off, we just literally invited them in. Most Canadians still think we are autonomous. We are not.
It is funny that Russia seems to have a "Western" problem. I guess it is so because all the West does or did is to "invade" Russia. The Russians do not forget about the Great Patriotic War, which killed 27 millions of the Soviet Union population
100%
NATO didn't murder Gaddafi, but what happened in Libya was part of HRC's efforts to continue destabilizing the middle east. She imagined it was good politics for her side. Showing resolve and all that jazz.
I am a Dane, and actually yars ago I contacted Libya for working there as engineer, without work, and found that Gaddafi was told to be in the Danish new. But message back, USA don't allow you to come to Libya. When around 1976, when then harbor worker, by USA did not me allowed to come to, and work in Greenland when there for 3 months missing dock workers, because my mother during the was, as kommunist were fighting against Hitler - last 6 weeks in prison.
I have seen extensive video evidence in the form documentaries spanning multiple years. Kiev was stolen by a US-backed coup in 2014. Donbass region declared independence as they would not recognize the illegitimate globalist puppet government. Ukraine military forces proceeded to target civilians/suburbs in Donbass.
The videos I would link to are no longer available. Blocked/deleted by Jewtube.
I do not think there is any doubt that we have little or no idea what is actually going on. Everyone is lying. Everyone always lies in war and they generally start lying long before the war begins in order to start a war.
The American/Ukraine propaganda starts to look flimsy as we near some sort of negotiated end to hostilities.
The Russians may well be suffering more than they expected but, if Putin is as smart as most have long believed he is, then he will have thought carefully about this war and possible outcomes. Not that it means he might get it right - it may all fall into a total disaster for that is the way of war.
But, while we have come close to the old lines of: the Russians are bayoneting babies and drinking their blood, etc. etc. etc., the glimpses we have of the conflict indicate that the most likely course for Putin is likely to happen. And that is, take Eastern Ukraine, pretty much ethnic Russians, as a buffer against US/Nato aggression. Western Ukraine can do what it likes as long as there is some distance from the Russian border.
Also, holding, whether as semi-independent states or a part of Russia, Eastern Ukraine is possible in ways holding Western Ukraine would not be. Let us hope for the sake of Ukrainians and Russians that this war will end soon. However, Ukraine, like many places in the world, a land of fluid borders and a partially invented concept, will remain divided. But if that brings peace then most Ukrainians will accept it.
BTW, I am just trolling trolls out of boredom.
No numbers, hearsay then. Artist's impression?
As high as 10,000 over 8 years Amnesty international
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/10/ukraine-forces-must-stop-firing-civilians-after-nine-killed-donetsk/
14K according to Zelensky, 20K according to Putin. Take your pick. Btw, the Nazi battalion was planning to do another "job" on March 8, 2022
Here's something you may wish to consider. Graphic photos, so please be warned.
"Yes, It's True. Evidence of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity Towards Russians in Ukraine"
https://sarahwestall.com/yes-its-true-evidence-of-genocide-crimes-against-humanity-towards-russians-in-ukraine/
"ethnic Russian civilians" - as if the Donbas wasen't forced to accept Russian migration, then required to teach only Russian for a period in a multi-language society. Those grievances go back a long time before the current dispute. Selective bits of history deny reality.
Maybe that did happen long ago, but I don't see that as justification for bombing civilian homes.
There never is justification for "bombing civilian homes". Green men in unmarked uniforms aren't typical either as a show of force.
Not at all. NATO and the rest of the globalists counted on Russia not being soft and cuddly. It would have ruined their plans to start a war.
And naive and unsophisticated Russia fell for it? Who's the victim here? Right...
It was left with no other reasonable choice.
How about throwing around some nukes? Even more reasonable?
This is what Russia has always done. As noted above, don't prod the bear.
And the difference between what Russia is now doing to prevent US/Nato missile launchers on its border, barely 100k from Moscow, and what the Americans did when the Russians looked like setting up a military base in Cuba, some 100k. from any American border, would be what????
How about the American coups and wars in South America, thousands of kilometres from the US border, to ensure US-friendly puppet Governments remained in place? Ask the Chileans about that. Perhaps run through why the Russian actions are so radically different and without precedent.
Ever heard the term “whataboutism”? Because you’ve mastered it.
"Whataboutism" is a propaganda term. There's not one moral law for Russia and one for the USA. Moral laws apply across the board. Crime is crime. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy, wherever it looms. Rational people understand this.
"Whataboutism" so casually tossed around, as you did, dismisses out of hand the possibility of moral critique and comparison. Do you believe that the other nations's actions are so heinous that they make your nation's irrelevant? Moral comparison is necessary when we speak or write about power, lest me make undue excuses for our side's failings. Why are you so quick to dismiss moral comparisons between nations? We ordinary people suffer when nations are at war or are feuding.
They always seem to feel prodded with a stick up theirs, the way they act...
Well, what they do now is beyond awful, but to be honest Russia wasn't busy invading other countries in the past 80 years or so. Not like the West/NATO/USA.
On the other hand, has anyone noticed the uncanny resemblance between Putin and Julius Ceasar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
Considering that the Ides of March are upon us, I wonder what to expect today-tomorrow?
Let me refresh your memory: Finland 1940, Poland 1939, Bessarabia 1940, Baltics 1940, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Crimea 2014. Provoked every time and on short temper, no doubt.
Whataboutism is an honorable snd time-tested argument in some quarters.
About as soft and cuddly as the Americans dismembering Iraqis, Afghans, Syrians, Libyans, Vietnamese and helping Israel to dismember unarmed Palestinians. Absolutely, that kind of soft and cuddly deep down. Please, spare us the demon Russia bollocks. The optical illusion is the fantasy that Russia is doing something that US/Nato have not done in spades and with less valid cause.
Don't forget the killing of over a 100K Yemenis by supplying and supporting the Saudis
>And Russia is soft and cuddly, deep down?
No. It's large. Dangerous. And has a mentality that is in important ways different from the Western mentality. Hence the bear analogy.
Not so sure. Having spent a lot of time in Russia and in the United States, my sense is that Americans and Russians are very alike, it is just that the Russians have better food and a better sense of humour.
Russians and Americans are equally surprised and horrified if you say to them that many in the world see them as a threat. They see themselves as benign, acting in a greater good, and benevolent unto others.
The irony of it all.
Yep, it's irony in these columns. For the people on the ground its maiming and death. Stop the war. Accept Putin's terms and go on from there. What difference to the ordinary people?
What difference to me who rules me?
I used to live in a democracy.
Now I find I live in a despotic state. Once it was 'rule by the people for the people of the people' or somesuch.
Now it is 'rule by despots on the grounds of emergency powers (we're busy entrenching into the customary). '
The money flows go in different directions.
My freedoms are curtailed and I'm subject to arbitrary Kafkaesque nonsenses.
But I'm still alive. Unscathed. For the most part everything as before.
Rather this than dead or maimed.
And I have hope.
Slim hope. But hope.
Has the bear advanced into NATO lands since the end of the Cold War? Or built biolabs along Western borders? Or fuelled civil wars and set up puppet governments in countries neighbouring the US?
Exactly my point, thank you!
He is disgusting and a complete liar.
The bear?
If the Russians had been killing 'indiscriminately" there would be tens of thousands dying in multiple locations every day. That has not been happening so all statements to the contrary are 'fog of war' confusion or outright lies.
Well I wouldn't take it so personally, Western elites don't leave anybody alone.
As a straight white conservative I took an awful lot of crap. Why I decamped to Ukraine 15 years ago to start a new life. And the neocons found me and screwed it up again!
Obama has never been a neocon.
His domestic policies was in a different package but he had the same deep state machinations, the same corporatists policies, similar foreign policy (fomenting war), and the same globalist bent as neocons.
Lol lol lol. The SAME because Obama is NONE of those things. He is a straight up, first class opportunist. He doesn't care how anything turns out as long as there is a huge paycheck in it for him. He just happened to be the complete package for fronting Globalist wet dreams.
Obama is partially responsible for this conflict. As Senator, In 2004, he helped fund the biolabs. Biden is an illegitimate president. A puppet for Obama’s 3rd term
He also was in charge of getting the current "President" of Ukraine installed in 2014.
I call him and Hillary and Pelosi "neolibs", but they might as well be neocons. They hoover money from everywhere. Maybe neocons perfer war profiteering and neolibs prefer social service profiteering, but they are as good (i.e. BAD!) as equals in my book. P.S. I called Biden "neovegetable".
They’re all neo-aristocrats.
I'd disagree with that.
If you look at the policies of Obama and Mr. Neocon himself, GW Bush, they're not all that different. The rhetoric is different, but the actions are the same. They both worked for the same people as president... the globalists, the Schwabs and Soroses.
YUP
That's your prerogative.
Me too.
I can well imagine what the neocons have done to Ukraine, but there are so many stories in the various media it's hard to know the exact details. Could you give a quick summary of their most grievous sins as you know them?
I would rethink the part about being happy with US help. It seems clear that the goal is to use you to bleed Russia, not to make any genuine effort to preserve Ukrainian sovereignty. Ukrainians themselves will have a big say in how well this works. The terms Russia has offered are not insane and it would probably be wise to accept.
I agree with you. We need to cut a deal and end the fighting. Even agree to terms we won't keep, letting Putin save some face and knowing that he will probably lose power. IMHO, give him the three statelets, agree with Russian language - people will speak what they want. But keep our guns!
From what information I could glean without limiting myself to the mainstream media, it seems as if Russia isn't doing all that well, so probably they'll be willing to concede some of their points to Ukraine, would you agree or am I getting it wrong?
According to the Russians, and to western military experts I trust, Russia is on track. Though they’re using more force than they hoped would be necessary. Given they want to keep some of the territories they’re occupying they’re trying to avoid civilian casualties and providing aid. Though that doesn’t fit the western narrative.
Recently a spokesman said one more month should do it.
It’s quite clear Zelenaky was promised military support if he triggered a war, and evidently the USA has been surprised by the response from Putin. However they want zelensky to carry on and while the war rages they’re imposing economic restructuring on the USA. This was never about Russia or Ukraine
You're getting it wrong. Russia is achieving its aims.
Rachel Levine. Lol. Yeh, Canada and the USA have lost the plot on liberty.
I am a retired Marine, I have watched this "develop" over the last two decades, "retired" disgusted by the lies, the obfuscations, and most of all, the deliberate planned provocation. I do feel for Ukraine, and most especially, "for The People", however I've got no love for Nazi's, for Nazi sympathizers, meaning those who support such, from the West, knowing their power is entirely because of "external support".
I've watched my Government invade a dozen Nations, with lies, deceit, no truth what so ever, and I'm stoked to hear someone state this from inside "the war". This is a "US war", and like so many, being fought and died for, by "other peoples". I've questioned my "service" for almost 25 years, seeing it play out in invasions, depredations, our courts pretending they serve "justice" by covering the Government lies. America is no more, we have been subverted, overthrown, by left wing ideologues, and we are "occupied states", without any rule of law. Semper Fur, John McClain
Yep. I'll go along with that. Just because people can't see it don't mean it's not true. I claim Australia is a defeated country but I think something like 99% and perhaps more can't see it.
But when a 'democracy' is ruled by fiat on the grounds of an emergency that doesn't exist - and most people don't even know has been declared - and 'emergency powers' which are quite deliberately despotic powers are the order of the day: where's the democracy?
When free speech is denied and censorship all pervasive and paid for without asking by taxpayer's funds?
When scientific facts are denied and even forbidden to be published?
When doctors are not allowed to practice according to their own conscience?
When house arrest without trial or sentence is a norm?
When ludicrously unnecessary even if they worked but they don't work anyway masks are mandated on pain of even closing your business etc?
When interstate commerce is crippled?
When thousands cannot even return home?
The nation driven into one trillion dollars of debt when it was in front?
Yet certain sections make more and more and more money, profit enormously while everyone else suffers?
And authorities do all of this completely unchallenged?
The ordinary person apparently goes about their business feeling everything is alright, there's not problem, maybe a little minor discomfort from wearing the ludicrous shameful mask but otherwise 'all okay'.
They see nothing wrong at all. Hard to show them anything wrong. It all seems vague and conceptual. Not as tangible as a piece of cloth around the face.
They can't see it. They don't see it. The smothering hand of despotic government is wrapped around their faces yet they still can't see it.
But that doesn't mean it's not true. It is history. Australia once was. Maybe. At least we thought it was.
But it certainly isn't now.
The Marines at Red Beach and the First Marine Air Wing were my clients in Danang 53 years ago. I thought at the time that they were better men than those who commanded them. We did some work at Camp Smedley D Butler, Okinawa. It is a credit to the Marines that they still name a camp after the General who wrote "War is a Racket."
You should write a book called "Was is Still a Racket". The original book is long forgotten.
You are happy you have a corrupt President in the pocket of oligarchs like Kolomoisky? You are happy C14 patrols the streets? You are happy that black weapons and private armies, funded by oligarchs, operate in your borders while Zelensky is paid millions to look the other way? You are happy that these oligarchs bought Zelensky a $32 million dollar mansion in Florida for looking the other way?
Well said. It's your country. If more people like you, living in Ukraine, could repeat exactly word for word what you just said in an interview on any platform, then non-brainwashed Westerners like those on this blog could help it go viral. There are many Americans who would see the light (be "red-pilled") if they could be exposed to first hand experiences of people like you. You'd have to be careful about saying you need help fighting Russia because that's exactly what the psychopathic neocons want. They want a prolonged guerilla style war. They want to sneak in weapons. They would be happen to see all Ukranians dead as long as they stick it to Putin.
"They would be happen to see all Ukranians dead as long as they stick it to Putin." Yup. Warmongers gonna warmong. They don't actually give a shirt about Ukraine, except as a convenient place to launder American tax dollars.
I have friends and coworkers in Ukraine. Ukraine is one the most corrupt countries in the world. It is just a few places from the rock bottom in any rankings you look at. Ukraine is not decadent in the sense of West because it is quite poor.
The fact that you live in Kiev may bias your views. As others pointed out, it has been a hell for people living in other parts of the country. The invocation of "leave us alone" does not work when Ukraine has been the country it has been. Actions have consequences.
I would like to know how you define 'corrupt'. Not taking sides or quarreling with you, just trying to get a line on what we're talking about here.
I'm merely a layman.
My basic thought is that some 'corruption' is relatively harmless.
And other 'corruption' is in fact vile bondage.
They might always coexist. I don't know.
I mean like this: we see total corruption in the USA.
Everything can be bought. No political or administrative office is without its price apparently. The whole covid thing beautifully illustrates.
But you can't usually buy the policeman who arrests you.
And despite this total corruption if you fall to the bottom you're in a relatively comfortable position with a chance of helping yourself.
But in certain countries you can be taken off the street by the police and bashed to death and they'll never be called to account.
In certain countries when you fall to the bottom its difficult to extricate yourself from those who prey on such fallen and entwine them in economic bondage - working 7 days a week for never enough to escape their supposed 'debts' to their 'benefactors'.
In such countries a rich man or politician or virtually any authority figure can come to your home and take whatever they want - including your women and children if they wish.
You know?
What kind of corruption are we talking about here?
And: bottom line: is it likely to be worse under Russian rule than without it?
Sure, there is corruption everywhere. I was referring to published metrics and yes they have caveats.
The pandemic showed the true colors of the so called liberal democrats. They turned out to be as vile as the fascists they despise. In some countries they were objectively worse.
What I have trouble accepting is that Ukraine is an innocent victim and that the Russian invasion is entirely unprovoked and occurring in a vacuum. Sorry to sound harsh: those who are informed disagree.
The first step to resolution is acknowledgement of history i.e. accurate definition of the problem. Otherwise one solves a wrong non-existent problem.
This war has been triggering by the USA for it’s own purposes. But it plays on the complex history of the region. And is only possible because of the deep corruption of Ukrainian and USA elites.
It does not matter whether Russian invasion is entirely unprovoked by forces outside Russia or whether it is provoked by some degree. Putin would have invaded in any ways, he wants destroy Ukrainian nation. If Ukraine voluntarily met all Putins demands some time ago, it could have avoided bloody war, but would have come under Russian rule, and would had experienced slow torture (as things in Belarus are now). But his aggression had opposite effect.
https://nitter.net/kamilkazani/status/1504103672019513345#m
Ukraine used cluster munitions on civilians in 2014. Russian intervention is 8 years too late, actually.
https://archive.ph/eg0bU
"We"? You're a confused foreign interloper who wants NATO to get in the way of a swamp draining operation.
Maybe you need to stop soaking up so much Western sludge like Superman movies, Anglo-American pop music, etc. Good grief, man, pull your head out of your rectum. Then pick up a weapon, maybe just a knife, and find a Ukrainian Westophile with an exposed neck. Better still if you can find the neck of an arrogant Western do-gooder (combatant or not) who has come to fight for the decadence which you are still just pretending to hate. Get off the fence. Make a commitment. Get some blood on your hands. I promise that it'll clear the fog out of your head. Tristan the Belgian Twit has it coming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/comments/te3hx2/tristan_from_belgium_i_came_to_join_the/
Who is “we?” You and Victoria Nuland?
What is “western” about Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, Albert Bourla, etc. Do they wear cowboy boots? I guess they do do rope tricks and “break” broncos in the sense of maneuvering to crush resistance to their financial controls and genocidal schemes. But “the West” seems like just another created shell term to hang blame on while the real shot-callers that control the money stay out of sight and arrange wars. “Why don’t you and him fight?” Have you ever heard of the Kalergi Plan? He was a real cowboy, that Count Kalergi!
"Ukraine is a place and a people. It is not part of the decadent west."
You have a Jewish globalist puppet as president. He dances in stilettos. Degenerate illegitimate rotten globalist filth is leading your country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPT4oGTOHRo
Your psychopath Ukrainian military have been murdering ethnic Russians in Donbass for 8 years.
Ukraine is Satanic and rotten to the core.
Who cares if he is Jewish or not?
Because there is such a thing as the Jewish mafia, and he is part of it.
A rough analogy would be the Italian mafia. Not all Italians are bad guys, but all Mafia are Italian.
The important differences are that:
1. The Jewish mafia is orders of magnitude more evil and powerful than the other mafias combined
2. The Jews do not recognize or acknowledge the existence of their mafia, or at least most of them are genuinely clueless about it. Hence when someone refers to ((Evil Jews)), they are referring to that mafia, not the average Jewish person. The "Big Jews" would happily slaughter the "Little Jews" if they get in their way.
Then the real problem would be membership in this Jewish mafia, if indeed that is the case, not being a Jew. So why not just state that he's a member of that organization, whatever it is called, and not just throw it out there that he's Jewish?
There is no such organization. I said it was only a rough analogy. The Jews are much more evil and more dangerous than any mafia.
Jews as a group are supremacists. They view Goyim (non-Jews) as cattle. We exist only to serve the Jews who are our masters by birthright. That is how Jews perceive you and me. We are subhuman cattle. GOYIM.
And there it is. So it's not that a small minority are members of a dangerous group, as with a mafia, but that "the Jews" are evil and dangerous, with no qualifier about it being a minority of them. That was the real answer I was looking for when I asked what difference it made if a given person was a Jew.
"The Jews" don't exist, so to speak. Jews exist, but "The Jews," meaning a monolithic group of individuals who act as with one mind and with one purpose, do not. You can say that Jews tend to be Democrats if they are American (which is true), but that's quite a way from saying "The Jews are evil and dangerous." Surely, some are, but just as surely, some are not, so even if you don't think the latter group encompasses nearly all of them as I do, you still can't say that being a Jew has any bearing on whether they are evil, any more than being white means one is an oppressor (oppressors being evil, of course) as the "anti-racist" bigots suggest.
Jews are individuals, like everyone else, and I don't see any of them here demonizing entire groups of people and calling them evil. I see you doing that. I look at people as individuals, not as nameless, faceless, interchangeable members of a group. I leave the identity politics to my opponents politically (they're the same ones that form the Covidians). If someone is acting like a dictator, that's reason enough to despise them... I don't need to find out what groups that person appears to be a member of (by my own estimation) and generalize my contempt to those groups as a whole. That would be insane.
The way you describe Jews reminds me of how some black people have been tricked into believing about white people, and especially Republican white people. "They hate you, they want to keep you down, they wish slavery never ended." I know a great many white Republicans, and not a one of them thinks any of these things, just as none of the Jews I count among my friends thinks of me as a bovine or subhuman (and I don't think that about them either).
The real threat is not "Jews" as a whole, and never has been. Some Jews are threats, just as some Christians are threats, some Muslims are threats, and some atheists are threats, by virtue of their own actions (not demographic statistics).
Globalists are threats. Communists and fascists are threats. Covidians are threats. Collectivists are threats. Those people are threats because the things that define them as being a part of any of the groups listed (their philosophies and beliefs) are the things that are dangerous. The Jews within each of those groups are dangerous, as are the non-Jews who stand side by side with them and work to enact the same agenda.
The point about the Jewish mafia is simply disgusting nonsense. Zelensky might by owned by big money, as are many politicians, but if citizens are willing to die to protect their nation that affirms they prefer him over Putin who is really big money.
You are incredibly naive. Child like understanding of the world. Completely ignorant of who rules over you. Jews control all of the western mainstream media, academia, big tech, central banking, finance, Democrats, Republicans, etc. The CDC and FDA are run by Jews. The head of Pfizer is a Jew. Etc.
Its easy for someone like Thomas to put you on an alter and urge the fight against Russia down to the last Ukrainian. I wonder if he sees how inhuman his stance is. Be well, and hope for a swift end to the war.
Russia is doing its best to liberate the Ukrainian people from globohomo tyranny and neo nazis.
Somehow Russian liberation always results in even more poverty. Good system.
How do you feel about all of the biolabs the west keeps helping you with?
God bless Tucker and Tulsi for getting the truth widespread. And dailyexpose and others for finding it in the first place. Get rid of the labs worldwide.
You mean it wasn't treasonous lies as Mittens said? I'm shocked!
/sarc of course, directed at Mittens himself.
You are a fool. The US is helping you commit suicide. This war would never have happened in Ukraine had a rational govt., they would have ceded the Donbas and Crimea, that horse left the stable 8 years ago, and they would have agreed to no NATO. The war is 100% caused by the US and Ukraine.
It's misleading to conflate the pandora papers Zelensky regime for the Ukraine. And the disconnect between the WEF members and the people they rule across the western world keeps growing.
That's right. I have as much sympathy for Ukraine as I have for someone who pokes a wild angry bear in the woods.
And no sympathy for someone who pokes a wild angry bear because someone who faces zero risk tells them to do it.
Yes, agree. Anyone who knows the history agrees.
So many of us have taken our God given natural rights & freedom for granted for far too long. We've been too willing to give up the hard work that comes with self-reliance and responsibility, content to let the nanny state grow into a sociopathic beast that is consuming us. The deep state combined the sinister immediacy of social media is allowing the sociopaths to prey on an increasingly dumbed down & numbed population in ways that Goebbels could only dream about. At the same time, one can sense that the next Great Awakening is occurring. Eyes are being opened and we see the globalists for who they really are: demonic. When they start killing children, it's far past the time for compromise.
I don't think the next Great Awakening is happening yet, but I do think it is getting ready to happen and no one knows yet what form it will take. When no one believes anything and when everyone's life is floundering, that's when a theological vision sweeps up the lost. As a Catholic, I'm waiting for today's St. Francis or St. Dominic. I haven't seen him (or her) yet, at least that I know of. But then, people thought St. Francis was nuts at the time.
I think like a lot of things it will likely play out as Enrico Fermi said "one funeral at a time". The children of the woke will be highly unlikely to reproduce and the third generation of woke will be miniscule. Those who revel in family life and have a tradition at their back will probably propagate and continue on. Of course a lot of harm will be done in the meantime.
LOL that's putting it mildly.
Yeah "one funeral at a time" reads very differently in the era of experimentally injecting billions of people with a novel gene therapy
Where’s Billy Graham when we need him? He’s gone now with our Savior, and was retired for a long time before he passed, but it would be helpful to see God lift up more evangelists from all flavors of Christianity. I remember reading something about St. Francis being a bit nutty, but then read Ezekiel sometime or many others God used along the way. Very counterintuitive, this God of ours.
You might want to check on those "God given natural rights & freedom" because laws have been quietly passed in the last 20 years (911 anyone?) Patriot Act ongoing metastasizing) that have severely restricted US Freedom. It won't be obvious until you step out of your lane. They are already killing children....https://fox8.com/news/parents-outraged-after-newborn-son-vaccinated-against-their-wishes/ .
Take your Rights ""...for granted for far too long....". Indeed. Thank you for your observations. This is primarily a Western Alliance paradigm shift on the lowest level. Hope the seed has been sowed. Social Media is both a giver and taker. Basically an amplifier of a hall of mirrors.
Although those rights are God-given, they must be *individually defended*. The education necessary to raise children with that knowledge has been destroyed and must be replaced if any meaningful change is to be instituted.
There has never been any time in history where more children were killed every single day than now. Pagan societies would be shocked by our morals -- those who killed children at least thought a terrible god demanded it. We kill because we can't be bothered.
These are true and excellent observations.
They have been dismantling representative government under the guise of emergencies of their own design. Now they are dismantling the concept of property rights, like Trudeau and Freeland did against the truckers, and now promoted against Russians as a collective. Another step in an awful direction.
The Party of Davos is making huge moves under the cover of covid and now Ukraine.
Certainly the past 2+ years have brought western debauchery to the fore. Out of all the evil perpetrated & yet to come, the awakening (or reaffirmation) of those of us who can see, it is a silver lining
Sooner or later, Eugyppius, you’ll see that the actions of the borg ARE being directed ... by the Prince of This World.
very, very true. the lies and deception are the big tip off.
The devil is a liar.
On the plus side, I am encountering more and more people who are entirely fed up and "awake". This sentiment is unfortunately disorganized and fragmented - it needs form and a leader of some sort.
Mr Bourla obliged us with demanding a 4th vaccine dose. See how well that goes over - my guess is like a lead balloon.
Pretty arrogant and shocking. But that's what you get when you have megalomaniacs like him, Fauci and Collins in charge. They won't read the room and even if they did they'd spit in it. Fauci made a rare appearance to piss all over people who dared go against his 'science' and worried about freedom. A truly evil little elf.
Sigh. Here's a hint to anyone who hasn't picked up on it yet: "Values" is a word from sociology. It implies that what any culture "values" is not, in a real sense, superior or inferior to what any other culture "values." It has its place in scholarship, I suppose. It should never be bandied around in this way, and you should distrust anyone who does so. When someone says, "We are a school based on Christian values!" he is either using a word he thinks sounds official, or hiding that he doesn't care anything about whether Christian teachings are true and will keep them when he likes them or disregard them when he doesnt. When someone says, "We've taken care to respect the values of the LGBTQ+ Community," he either means, "we're trying hard to be nice and this is what you say when you're being nice," or "We do everything powerful advocacy groups tell us to." It's VERY IMPORTANT to know what people mean when they say "values."
Seems to me that Christian values have more claim to objective validity than any of these other propositions. If you don’t believe Christian values exist, you are essentially rejecting all norms, mores, morals, and even the concept of any ideas being superior to any other ideas. Lookout below…!
Not all other propositions concern themselves with objective truth. Postmodernism (which most people now more or less believe, whether they know it or not), claims that truth can't be determined by logic. The more true something is, the more "authentic" it is, and "authenticity" can only be FELT. The stronger something feels, the more authentic and true it is. So the highest virtue has to be tolerance -- because everyone can feel a different truth. As long as everyone agrees that everyone else's authentic truth is "true for them," peace and harmony is supposed to ensue. Once someone asserts that other people's strongly-felt truths are FALSE, there has to be a battle because the only way to prove such things is to silence and eliminate every other view.
This explains the elites love of narrative. They create their own truth and we must all accept that truth or post on comments like this one.
Exactly. Stephen Hick's book "Postmodernism Explained" is the best one I've seen on this -- it's short but comprehensive, and shows how this idea developed and what it means in practice. Although it's not "dumbed down" it is not too technical or jargon-y for someone who hasn't studied philosophy to understand. Here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Postmodernism-Skepticism-Socialism-Rousseau-ebook/dp/B005D53DG0
The blurb there explains it very well: Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century. Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world? Why do they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences? Why has a significant portion of the political Left - the same Left that traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all, and optimism - now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism? Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy.
This Expanded Edition includes two additional essays by Stephen Hicks: *Free Speech and Postmodernism* and *From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly*.
Values are to virtues what a Covid vaccine is to natural immunity. One is rather ineffective at best, and harmful at worst, but everybody has to display it. The other is born from experience (and sometimes pain), does not advertise, but silently works.
Christian values are quite simple. You must love your god and you must love your neighbour as yourself. However you are to “hate WHAT is bad “ according to scripture. Not those who do bad things because they are also your neighbours.
Of course as with any set of values they are manipulated to further the objectives of the holder.
Those aren't values.
These are not values, but commandments. When being practiced, they manifest as virtues.
What a world it is that this Turd Pueyo feels like he can make pronouncements on what we must think and how we are to live our lives.
This is absolutely true. We're not supposed to say it, but more than anything else, this war is about pushback against the attempted expansion of Western domination. That's why Ukrainian Lives Matter, but Afghan and Uyghur Lives don't:
https://jeffcuttler.substack.com/p/ukrainian-lives-matter?s=w
Except I would also throw in something the Uyghers don't have : The account numbers of a lot of corrupt leaders and rich people.
"Thinkfluencer?"
From what I can tell, he's not doing much thinking, and I certainly hope he's not influencing anyone with his pseudointellectual posts.
yes, the key to succeeding as a pueyo is worrying less about the thinking and concentrating mostly on the fluencing.
You mean like Canada under Justin Trudeau? Canada is the ONLY nation in the world - let alone one with Western values - that is unethically and illegally preventing unvaccinated people from leaving the country (even if other countries are open to all travellers) as well as use Federal transportation. It is also giving foreign sojourners a period of time to basically GTFO before...well no one is sure. Not a stick of evidence be it from IATA, airlines or studies support the government's completely unreasonable over reach but here we are in Chinada. Punitive and totalitarian under one Justin Trudeau. The meanest meme generator I've ever seen. Now, behold Justin in all his gaslighting glory as he speakers of Western freedom and democracy in Ukraine as he squashes dissent here. Just like the good, inept, remedial, shallow, deceptive, little Castro-WEF lap dog protege that he is. Hey Justin. Guess which finger I'm raising to you and Chrystia?
Why avoid the elephant in the room that THE prevailing sentiment/push is de-Chritianization? That is what is driving all this and what makes modern elites the most frightening. They do not believe their subjects have inviolable dignity and elites do not feel morally accountable to anyone.
"Unlike some of you, I prefer to see the actions of the borg as essentially undirected, and the result of internal dynamics."
Agreed. Once the "borg" administrative state reaches "critical mass," it is self-sustaining. Leaders like to pretend they're driving, but the wheel is no longer connected to anything.
Eugypius, love your work. In an age in which the Academy has lost it’s way by falling into narrow intellectual restraints such as Wokism, you employ the tools of critical thinking and analysis to tease out the facts. I so agree that there are destructive forces within western society that have evolved within the sheer complexity of global forces - economic, social and political. These forces are undermining the very attributes that made our once free and open societies.
I would guess that you, like me, think it's taking a break.
The Ukraine government announced emergency payments to those impacted by war?
But only if you are vaccinated… and only through the digital system.
This is how the other shoe of “covid” could drop. You’ll get food stamps (free money) only if you have a vaccine pass.
It is given to everybody regardless of vaccination status.
The only source I could find is this: https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/news/mihajlo-fedorov-6500-grn-mozhut-otrimati-ukrayinci-v-mezhah-yepidtrimki-uzhe-vidsogodni
It seems you can apply EVEN IF you already got "vaccination assistance", whatever that is. So presumably you don't have to be vaccinated to get it? Could anybody with a knowledge of Ukrainian explain?
Thanks for the link.
This assistance of 6500 UAH is given to everybody and is issued on the 8th of March 2022.
The other assistance of 1000 UAH is given for completely vaccinated. It is a different one and is issued on 9th of December 2021. https://www.kmu.gov.ua/npas/deyaki-pitannya-nadannya-dopomogi-a1272