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Apr 4Liked by Rurik Skywalker

Spot on Rurik! The amount of online spats I've got in recently with people saying Odessa is going to be taken is almost comical but mostly sad. I was laughing my arse off at a recent Duran video I caught that someone else was watching saying how high tech the Russian Army is compared to Ukraine. They just spoon feed what ZAnon want to hear with no merrit or consequences - please take these guys down like you did Ritter. How are they expert!s Talk about people having short memory. I look forward to the new metaphysics article. My bedtime listening at the moment is your powerful talks with Tom Montalk. You need to try some sound meditation with Tibeten bowls man!

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So sick...but, Stoltenberg and NATOanons are the same story tellers, on this side of spectrum. But, I will allow to myself to ask one very stupid question. What do you think - is there little possibility to make peace between Russia and Europe? Of course, few presumptions are: to remove all this cio-kriptocracy from our states, and to destroy - here on west side - this toxic EU organisation, NATO also. Of course, all ZAnon and NATOanons must be censored. And, of course, Zelenski and his cio-friends must go. Because, as we all can see - we here, not in RF, not in EU, I mean ordinary people - we are not enemies to each other, enemies are people who are in our govrnments and this people send so many strange ilegal imigrants - and they are living here better then us. Yes, I think, especially Slav people, we are so similar, we even understand each other when we talk....ok, that's enough. I was always a little bit stupid, because I'm optimist at the end. And yes, there are so many clouds and weather is so toxic here last days - and this all together formating my crazy thoughts and sily question. Be good and stay straight as you are. I barely waiting your new methaphisic article, although I read your book now - from time to time. Bye

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Apr 4Liked by Rurik Skywalker

The Putin situation reminds me a bit of Lyndon Johnson when the Vietnam War was just heating up. Johnson didn't want to be known as a President who lost a war. But, he had other plans for his Presidency, like a big social justice push. So, his tendency was to spoon feed the fighting, just enough to keep from losing, but not enough to make waves in the US or, heaven forbid, actually win the war. (Not that the US has a right to determine the government of another country). Eventually, spoon feeding a war machine blew up and he had the worst of both worlds: a thoroughly disrupted domestic social and economic situation, and a full-blown war with no chance of winning.

I'm getting the impression Putin had a plan to threaten Ukraine into a neutrality with an easy growl. The West and NATO (perhaps not as stupid as The Duran and Martyanov make them out to be) torpedoed his plan and he had no real alternate. The Russian economy is doing pretty well, so Putin would rather not rock the boat, but the hot potato is still in his hands.

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When is a Red Line a Red Line?

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1775944945704018278

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

@RepMTG

Making Ukraine a member of NATO means that the U.S. will be going to war against Russia as mandated by Article 5.

70% of Americans are AGAINST this!!

All we want is our own border secured, but Ukraine is more important to them.

The start of WWIII..

Looks like Nuclear Winter is The Plan

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So pesjov follows what in the US we call the "Bolton Rule of mustache density"

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very incisive as always - appreciate the good work you do to try and reflect reality as it is, rather than the fairy tales we are subjected to elsewhere.

really interested in the patrick geary book you cited. found it fascinating from your chat with laurent as well. do you have a link for a PDF version tho? amazon wants me to pay £200 for it, which seems a bit... much.

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What could possibly go wrong?

https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1777053277261082630

First Squawk

@FirstSquawk

IAEA CHIEF GROSSI ON X: IAEA STAFF AT ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONFIRMED AT LEAST THREE DIRECT HITS AGAINST MAIN REACTOR CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES, THIS CANNOT HAPPEN

7:18 AM · Apr 8, 2024

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Which book by Geary is this?

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more white genocide requires more mobilization.... those chosen to rule the earth then few to no white people in order to claim their kigndom

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“Weakness encourages NATO to escalate and keep investing into the fight.”~ibid

The sentence that states succinctly what Putin’s Folly has wrought.

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Can I nominate that we refer to Globohomo as "trans-democracy"

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They should have done the mobilisation before Xmas and been ready for this summer to push as they have a little momentum at the moment. Thanx for the update.

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