I really appreciate you and Edward Slavsquat. You don't make things happier but make them make more sense. Edward hit it out of the ballpark with his latest piece on BRICS. I'm on the cusp of a paid membership with Edward, and I'll leave a note that I heard of him through your blog.
Concerning Putin, I don't think its counter to any of your information to say Putin didn't want or expect a long, drawn-out costly war. He's not a great 3-D chess player or even 2-D chess player, as he didn't anticipate all his opponent's moves. He was checked (not checkmated) easily by the simple tactic of refusing his gambit to overrun Kiev in exchange for a reasonable, not to say extremely generous, offer for peace terms.
What you're saying is that the war is as much a mechanism for the spook agencies of both sides to win power as it is a strategic quest for a national goal. The countries and their peoples are simply milch cows for the benefit of the spook farmers.
"You have to support the good things and denounce the bad things. That is how their God elects his saints after all. Just consult the church literature."
Again your ignorance of Christianity surfaces. Salvation from the eternal just wrath of God the Father, i.e., election, precedes any good works. The good works that God has prepared for his elect are completely unknown to the elect before regeneration by the Holy Ghost which is the mechanism of election. Salvation from the eternal just wrath of God the Father is not for sale.
"I suppose it was inevitable that as I got bigger, I’d have to lay down the ground rules for commenting on the blog."
What is this about laying down the ground rules for commenting? You can't stand the heat, so you have to follow the children of the devil and eliminate freedom of expression? You don't believe that we the people reading these comments cannot figure out who are the vacuous flamers? Isn't it enough to limit comments to paid subscribers?
Back in the ’70’s James Bond and Russian agent XXX (The Spy Who Loved Me) were cooperating in the spirit of detente, the mutual fleecing of peasants and Yom Kippur, or something like that. Same old story.
How did staunch Russian patriots 'Goodwin' and 'Ernest' acquire such English names? How can there be no Russians in a Russian army unit? How did the spooks manage to control appointments in a military unit? Why did higher command fail to investigate the poor performance of this unit? How could a low level soldier on the front line leave his unit and reappear in the enemy capital? Is this a holdover from the time when Donbass militia were run by local warlords and fat Soviet yid crooks, and have these units not yet been properly integrated into the official Russian army?
So many questions! There'll be time for several more wars and not-quite-wars before, if ever, we find the answers.
The primary motivation for this Slav on Slav cage match has been haunting me lately. An anti 'not-war' movement needs to spring up. It's getting ridiculous.
It's been such a bewildering focal point in domestic electoral political discourse. The democrats
have this cartoonishly, unhinged & bloodthristy commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty juxtaposed to the Trump camp pointing at the democrats psychotic behavior and saying - "See, look at them, they are the real Nazi war party!".
I really appreciate you and Edward Slavsquat. You don't make things happier but make them make more sense. Edward hit it out of the ballpark with his latest piece on BRICS. I'm on the cusp of a paid membership with Edward, and I'll leave a note that I heard of him through your blog.
Concerning Putin, I don't think its counter to any of your information to say Putin didn't want or expect a long, drawn-out costly war. He's not a great 3-D chess player or even 2-D chess player, as he didn't anticipate all his opponent's moves. He was checked (not checkmated) easily by the simple tactic of refusing his gambit to overrun Kiev in exchange for a reasonable, not to say extremely generous, offer for peace terms.
What you're saying is that the war is as much a mechanism for the spook agencies of both sides to win power as it is a strategic quest for a national goal. The countries and their peoples are simply milch cows for the benefit of the spook farmers.
"You have to support the good things and denounce the bad things. That is how their God elects his saints after all. Just consult the church literature."
Again your ignorance of Christianity surfaces. Salvation from the eternal just wrath of God the Father, i.e., election, precedes any good works. The good works that God has prepared for his elect are completely unknown to the elect before regeneration by the Holy Ghost which is the mechanism of election. Salvation from the eternal just wrath of God the Father is not for sale.
"I suppose it was inevitable that as I got bigger, I’d have to lay down the ground rules for commenting on the blog."
What is this about laying down the ground rules for commenting? You can't stand the heat, so you have to follow the children of the devil and eliminate freedom of expression? You don't believe that we the people reading these comments cannot figure out who are the vacuous flamers? Isn't it enough to limit comments to paid subscribers?
Back in the ’70’s James Bond and Russian agent XXX (The Spy Who Loved Me) were cooperating in the spirit of detente, the mutual fleecing of peasants and Yom Kippur, or something like that. Same old story.
Good. As ever.
https://anti-empire.org/p/putin-russia-has-invoked-article
How did staunch Russian patriots 'Goodwin' and 'Ernest' acquire such English names? How can there be no Russians in a Russian army unit? How did the spooks manage to control appointments in a military unit? Why did higher command fail to investigate the poor performance of this unit? How could a low level soldier on the front line leave his unit and reappear in the enemy capital? Is this a holdover from the time when Donbass militia were run by local warlords and fat Soviet yid crooks, and have these units not yet been properly integrated into the official Russian army?
So many questions! There'll be time for several more wars and not-quite-wars before, if ever, we find the answers.
With my shashka
Right next to you on the rampart Rolo
The primary motivation for this Slav on Slav cage match has been haunting me lately. An anti 'not-war' movement needs to spring up. It's getting ridiculous.
It's been such a bewildering focal point in domestic electoral political discourse. The democrats
have this cartoonishly, unhinged & bloodthristy commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty juxtaposed to the Trump camp pointing at the democrats psychotic behavior and saying - "See, look at them, they are the real Nazi war party!".