Sounds like Western Oligarchical Empire made major inroads into Russia. Just like everywhere else in the West, the interests of elites have utterly diverged from from the interest of the people. All avenues toward even minimal systemic reform are being shut and the system increasingly relies on propaganda and coercive elements of the state (spying, police, military) to keep peasants in check. Mass immigration is being used to undermine the very fiber of societies. Traditional national sovereignty is being transferred to supra-national entities. It looks to me the same forces are at work in Russia as in all imperial vassal states. Empires advance through flipping the criminal oligarchy. Oligarchs have more in common with their criminal brothers than with the peasants in their particular countries. At some point oligarchies flip because they see greater future within the imperial vassal co-op.
" Mass immigration is being used to undermine the very fiber of societies. "
That.s just one obvious aspect. It is also being used to eradicate the remaining indigenous Europeans from the planet. The White portion of the world currently stands at 10% , or less, and at current depletion rates it doesnt have very much time left. Ukraine is just one aspect of a much bigger and older conflict.
thats why they are rushing out robots and AI at an super speedy rate. They know once the whites are gone the other races cannot maintain this civilisation so they want a tyrannical police force 1984 style with cameras and AI monitoring everyone and the robots will be gradually introduced to replace the useless eaters. Then they will be kings of zion over the whole world.
Slated for destruction, for sure, but where they are taking us it will make little difference. Most of humanity will be destroyed and the rest enslaved and modified that it will be hardly recognized as humans. They may leave a few small groups living on reservations, just for genetic stock.
Welll once you understand the whites are the isrealites and the devil and his children wanting to exterminate them ever since the fall of adam then it all makes sense why they hate us so much.
I for one do not believe such thing at all. What I think their goal is, is to weaken (and thread when possible) nations for easier control, and indiscriminate IMmigration (preferably from countries with different ethnicity, culture and religion) is a great tool for that. If as a consequence of this the whites becomes less, too bad for whites.
But why do only white countries have to be multicultural, why do they fear the whites so much? If this ethnic mixing results in better control for the rulers then why do countries like China,Japan or Africa dont have to be multicultural?
I can only guess the answer to that. In my opinion, Africa is out of the question because it is the *tool* for weakening other countries. It is not a target continent because it is weak enough by itself, easily controllable. China, on the other hand, is too tough a bone to chew, maybe (just maybe) the only sovereign country in the non-Western world, not abiding by the WEF's guidelines, not submissive to its orders. As to Japan, I would not know what to say, but its immigration policy (perhaps for its high population density and very nationalistic sentiment) has always been extremely restrictive, so it would be very hard to 'persuade' them, despite all the Big Rulers' power, to accept indiscriminate immigration.
Besides, after all, it is the 'whites' who own the biggest chunk of the world's wealth and industrial capacity. So, were I a globalist, that's what I would go for in the first place: the West.
thats why we can agree that this war is just an Oligarch street turf on which gang gets to control the rich resources and industry of the Donbas. Because what people are saying is that Russia isnt that much diffrent to the west except for their anti globohomo/tranny/lgbtq thing. The reason i dont think they are willing to promote that is all the millions of muslims in Moscow and Russias border region will basicly go full Jihad against Russia if they try to pull that crap off. Only in utter degenerate/ spiritiually drained so called nation do they dare to promote that.
“globohomo/tranny/lgbtq thing” is just an oligarchical manipulation mechanism. I agree, they can only push so much of it in Russia, but they will push it as much as they can. The war is much more than the turf war for “resources and industry of the Donbas”. There are reason which have more to do with Europe and others more related to Russia. The ultimate goal is to weaken Russian “independence” and to fully incorporate Russian oligarchy into the imperial fold without triggering patriotic rebellion. Globalism wants planetary level control.
Finally one person using the right word: "immigration"! Congratulations, Martin.
I never get tired of telling, to whomever wants to listen, that the word "migrants" is a torpedo hit in the Plimsoll line of all nations on the planet. It has been fully bought both by the pro-immigration (of course!, they invented it!) and the anti-immigration alike. Hardly ever can you read or hear any more the proper word, "immigrants", anywhere at all except from very rare and mostly irrelevant persons. One can say the whole of the world's population en masse have consciously or unconsciously bit the bait.
But when did the immigrants become migrants? This is one of the most successful fruits of the globalist think-tanks: They came up with this word because of its innocence connotation: whereas an immigrant is a person who comes from abroad with the deliberate intention of settling down in your country and, in the best case, make a living by displacing domestic labourhand or, in the worst case, live off social benefits and by the by shag (or rape) some blue-eyed blonde, the migrants, on the other hand, are harmless, ethereal creatures of nature, innocent and pure like migrant birds. Who wouldn't buy into this new concept? And what a great opportunity for vitue-signaling! Immigration is susceptible to criticism; migration is not. I can't but take my hat off to those masters of semantics.
Tuaregs were migrants. Some North American Indians were migrants. The Mongols were migrants. But there are no human migrants any longer. And definitely the millions of people who literally flood the West PLUS Russia from southern latitudes every year are not migrants. They are immigrants.
"Why does one part of the government criticize migrants, while the other brings them in?... Is there a mechanism for accountability for decisions that lead to failures? Who will be accountable and to whom? And why does responsibility always give way to some other consideration?"
There's a reason it's called a "global agenda" and why all leaders of nation-states are acting as mere managers to a much larger dictum encompassing the entire planet. An example of this is the scamdemic and how every country followed similar protocols and established a repressive biosecurity surveillance state.
In the specific case of Russia, protracting the "Ukraine mess" serves the interests of the Global Empire. Especially, since the SMO was kind enough not to destroy key Ukrainian infrastructure. And let's not forget Russian energy companies were more than happy to send oil to Zelensky. And think of how gleeful Xi and Modi are about securing a ton of cheap oil from Russia, financial decisions which ultimately help to restructure the global economic system sustaining the Empire.
The international financier bankster gangsters say: thank you, but that doesn't mean Russia will get a bigger piece of the One World Governance/multipolar pie.
"Russian energy companies were more than happy to send oil to Zelensky"
eerie similarity to certain American oil companies supplying Germany with not only gasoline but also parts vital for production of an aviation fuel, before and during ww2. No aviation fuel = no Luftwaffe. No Luftwaffe = draw your own conclusion.
Americans could have stopped ww2 anytime they wanted, Russia is in the similar position today.
US industrialists initially preferred Hitler to win, as he was going to eliminate socialists., communists, and other undesirables. In any event, all ancillary businesses related to the military are always happy to secure a profit even if doing so results in genocide.
"turn on the TV and see for yourself. Russian media is, if not overtly hostile to Russians and the ideas of patriotism, nationalism, conservatism, etc. constantly promoting Western-style degeneracy. This is largely because the cousins of the people who run the entertainment industry in the West also run it in the Slavlands."
I was wondering how thoroughly the Jews controlled Russian media... apparently it's pretty extensive, which is very unfortunate.
Your description of the Russian "peasants," or just average Russian people, perfectly describes most Americans. Average people the world over appear to be very similar - they are easily influenced, have no backbone, and very little ability to think critically and independently for themselves. Big problem, especially when hostile ethnic groups who are hyper racially/ethnically conscious and who despise their hosts control the media and government. Equally problematic is the lack of authentic leadership willing to stand up to these hostile forces. Same problem in America.
None of this affects Russian Old Believers because they are trans-national. Even if Russia stopped all Asian immigration, Russians would still disappear due to birth rate. Except for Old Believers in Alaska and other places around the world. They along with other trans-national Christian religious groups like Mennonites are the only whites that are growing and have a future.
Great post. Re: Moon of Alabama, that's a blogger I havn't seen referenced in quite awhile! I used to follow him at the start of the SMO; he was full on 5-D chess, breathless that Russia was going to crush Ukraine at every moment. A good and entertaining writer, but one who was completely unwilling to update his worldview in light of evidence. Maybe he's evolved since then, I havn't been there to see...
Also, not sure if it's been referenced here but someone linked me to a (deranged pro-Ukrainian) twitter account who posted a short clip of Strelkov's criticism of Prigozhin, where he pointed out that Prigozhin does have a krisha protecting him: https://twitter.com/gerashchenko_en/status/1658013890419064834
Very nice juxtapositions, unfortunately. I especially appreciated your point that actions, decision and timing, must be coordinated to be effective. That's just competent management, which this government ought to be able to do given its denizens. But this is obviously not happening. Destroying the Dnieper bridges, as you and Russell discussed in your excellent interview, has to be done BEFORE the supplies get across and used against the Russians, not after.
But to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you go to war with the regime you have, not the one you wish you had.
Great post ..... but missing the one thing that people need to start saying. Just saw Putin's latest approval ratings - OK they are probably massaged - but they are still at just over 80%. Why is this? Simply because no one is prepared to point finger where it should be - at Putin and his cronies. So it's all very well for Rolo to keep crapping on the stupidity of the peasants - its not their fault when no one is prepared to tell them where the real problem lies, and all they get is the pap served up by Putin & cronies via TV. I know patriotic people in Russia may face assassination, but until they start speaking up and acting nothing will change - and if they all or most start speaking up, it won't be possible to murder them all. It was the same with the USSR - everyone, despite seeing what Gorbachev was doing, was too scared to speak up or do anything until it was too late and too half hearted to change anything.
you actually believe polls reflect what people (or the "average person") thinks, and aren't there to manipulate people into groupthinking what they believe everyone else is already thinking?
Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy may have something to say about this.
Good piece Kid, sorry about your friends guinea pig, shit happens, they taste like chicken by the way. Guinea pigs that is, I don't know what ethernet cables taste like, you'd have to ask the pig. Keep hammering at them with the truth, one thing I've noticed with one aspect of the truth, as soon as you speak it someone shows up with a big ol club that has "racist" written on it and will try to beat you with it, seems the truth and racist come in pairs, maybe at times the truth is racist. The problems you expose with Russia appears to me to be a global phenomenon, indicative to every country's government.
lol, I don't think many people know that's what they were raised for, a meat source, just like little rabbits, that's what I raise, meat rabbits, got over a 100 of them and like guinea pigs, they taste like chicken. Did you mention to your friend "let's get the hide off Spotty and get em on the grill"?
hmmm. well that's a bit of a shock. mostly pretty unintelligible. what I did get out of it I wasn't at all convinced by. what gets me is just how chaotic, garbled, unintelligible it was. It was only a short while ago that I discovered Rolo and it wasn't long before I was posting to him saying I was impressed by his ability to put his point of view. I was saying that he writes well.
But I don't see the above as good writing at all.
Are there two Rolo's maybe? Or he has good days and bad days? Or he's conflicted or something?
This Rolo's writing is very precise and full of clarity. I am sure even a person with poor knowledge of English would find this Rolo's text very intelligible.
I perused arthur's substack. It appears to me that he doesn't understand Rolo's piece because he doesn't agree with it. His views are more in line with the official Russian state narrative and their western alternative media supporters.
Yep. I might need to take a break from all this ultra depressing Ukraine war stuff and come back later and re read Rolo for instance. My mini-shock? is that Rolo was so clear to me originally, as I mentioned.
As they say, it takes two to tango, and the blame may lie with either side (or both to varying degrees) 🙂 When it comes to understanding the written word, my safe default is to put in an extra effort... or give it a pass without announcing to the whole world 😉
Shooting off onto abstract plane, as in advertising so on interwebz: if text doesn't click, consider it's not for you. Not the target audience, in ad biz argot. Imperfect analogy sure, as they all go.
Centuries before our own were swarming with learned men giving out wisdom left and right; ↓↓ from XVIII c.
🗨 A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
You're not the only one to say something like that. Doubtless the error is mine. I'll come back to it again. There must be some reason why I find that so difficult when I found his others so crystal clear. Perhaps the areas he's moving in and the references he makes are all foreign to me. I'll take some time out and come back later.
But before I go perhaps I could ask anyone, everyone, who finds it so easy to understand to give me, maybe, if they'd be so kind, a little precis of it, then?
I got the ironic insinuation in your previous comment, Artur, but just pretended I didn't. There was no need to clarify you think I have not understood the article. But if such thought makes you happy, so be it.
You're overthinking it my friend. I made no insinuations. Perhaps my literary style is not too good; is too clumsy. I've been accused of that in the past. My apologies.
I simply meant to indicate that I was not looking for anything especially scholarly - just give me what you'd give a six year old perhaps we could say.
I hate ad hominem and always vow never to talk to them again. (but sometimes forget they're supposedly on my 'list' of 'banned') So I'd be to my own mind the last person to be mounting personal attacks on people. Not my style at all.
Sounds like Western Oligarchical Empire made major inroads into Russia. Just like everywhere else in the West, the interests of elites have utterly diverged from from the interest of the people. All avenues toward even minimal systemic reform are being shut and the system increasingly relies on propaganda and coercive elements of the state (spying, police, military) to keep peasants in check. Mass immigration is being used to undermine the very fiber of societies. Traditional national sovereignty is being transferred to supra-national entities. It looks to me the same forces are at work in Russia as in all imperial vassal states. Empires advance through flipping the criminal oligarchy. Oligarchs have more in common with their criminal brothers than with the peasants in their particular countries. At some point oligarchies flip because they see greater future within the imperial vassal co-op.
" Mass immigration is being used to undermine the very fiber of societies. "
That.s just one obvious aspect. It is also being used to eradicate the remaining indigenous Europeans from the planet. The White portion of the world currently stands at 10% , or less, and at current depletion rates it doesnt have very much time left. Ukraine is just one aspect of a much bigger and older conflict.
thats why they are rushing out robots and AI at an super speedy rate. They know once the whites are gone the other races cannot maintain this civilisation so they want a tyrannical police force 1984 style with cameras and AI monitoring everyone and the robots will be gradually introduced to replace the useless eaters. Then they will be kings of zion over the whole world.
Slated for destruction, for sure, but where they are taking us it will make little difference. Most of humanity will be destroyed and the rest enslaved and modified that it will be hardly recognized as humans. They may leave a few small groups living on reservations, just for genetic stock.
However, people need to start asking themselves why its so imperative that White race be eliminated first. What makes it special or different ?
Welll once you understand the whites are the isrealites and the devil and his children wanting to exterminate them ever since the fall of adam then it all makes sense why they hate us so much.
Imagine believing this
I am reading Laurent Guyénot’s book From Yahweh To Zion, which I highly recommend. Very relevant for this matter.
I for one do not believe such thing at all. What I think their goal is, is to weaken (and thread when possible) nations for easier control, and indiscriminate IMmigration (preferably from countries with different ethnicity, culture and religion) is a great tool for that. If as a consequence of this the whites becomes less, too bad for whites.
But why do only white countries have to be multicultural, why do they fear the whites so much? If this ethnic mixing results in better control for the rulers then why do countries like China,Japan or Africa dont have to be multicultural?
I can only guess the answer to that. In my opinion, Africa is out of the question because it is the *tool* for weakening other countries. It is not a target continent because it is weak enough by itself, easily controllable. China, on the other hand, is too tough a bone to chew, maybe (just maybe) the only sovereign country in the non-Western world, not abiding by the WEF's guidelines, not submissive to its orders. As to Japan, I would not know what to say, but its immigration policy (perhaps for its high population density and very nationalistic sentiment) has always been extremely restrictive, so it would be very hard to 'persuade' them, despite all the Big Rulers' power, to accept indiscriminate immigration.
Besides, after all, it is the 'whites' who own the biggest chunk of the world's wealth and industrial capacity. So, were I a globalist, that's what I would go for in the first place: the West.
thats why we can agree that this war is just an Oligarch street turf on which gang gets to control the rich resources and industry of the Donbas. Because what people are saying is that Russia isnt that much diffrent to the west except for their anti globohomo/tranny/lgbtq thing. The reason i dont think they are willing to promote that is all the millions of muslims in Moscow and Russias border region will basicly go full Jihad against Russia if they try to pull that crap off. Only in utter degenerate/ spiritiually drained so called nation do they dare to promote that.
“globohomo/tranny/lgbtq thing” is just an oligarchical manipulation mechanism. I agree, they can only push so much of it in Russia, but they will push it as much as they can. The war is much more than the turf war for “resources and industry of the Donbas”. There are reason which have more to do with Europe and others more related to Russia. The ultimate goal is to weaken Russian “independence” and to fully incorporate Russian oligarchy into the imperial fold without triggering patriotic rebellion. Globalism wants planetary level control.
Finally one person using the right word: "immigration"! Congratulations, Martin.
I never get tired of telling, to whomever wants to listen, that the word "migrants" is a torpedo hit in the Plimsoll line of all nations on the planet. It has been fully bought both by the pro-immigration (of course!, they invented it!) and the anti-immigration alike. Hardly ever can you read or hear any more the proper word, "immigrants", anywhere at all except from very rare and mostly irrelevant persons. One can say the whole of the world's population en masse have consciously or unconsciously bit the bait.
But when did the immigrants become migrants? This is one of the most successful fruits of the globalist think-tanks: They came up with this word because of its innocence connotation: whereas an immigrant is a person who comes from abroad with the deliberate intention of settling down in your country and, in the best case, make a living by displacing domestic labourhand or, in the worst case, live off social benefits and by the by shag (or rape) some blue-eyed blonde, the migrants, on the other hand, are harmless, ethereal creatures of nature, innocent and pure like migrant birds. Who wouldn't buy into this new concept? And what a great opportunity for vitue-signaling! Immigration is susceptible to criticism; migration is not. I can't but take my hat off to those masters of semantics.
Tuaregs were migrants. Some North American Indians were migrants. The Mongols were migrants. But there are no human migrants any longer. And definitely the millions of people who literally flood the West PLUS Russia from southern latitudes every year are not migrants. They are immigrants.
If self-promoting is allowed here, here's a link to a very short post I wrote some years ago on this topic: http://en.freelander.es/opinion/immigrants/
"Why does one part of the government criticize migrants, while the other brings them in?... Is there a mechanism for accountability for decisions that lead to failures? Who will be accountable and to whom? And why does responsibility always give way to some other consideration?"
There's a reason it's called a "global agenda" and why all leaders of nation-states are acting as mere managers to a much larger dictum encompassing the entire planet. An example of this is the scamdemic and how every country followed similar protocols and established a repressive biosecurity surveillance state.
In the specific case of Russia, protracting the "Ukraine mess" serves the interests of the Global Empire. Especially, since the SMO was kind enough not to destroy key Ukrainian infrastructure. And let's not forget Russian energy companies were more than happy to send oil to Zelensky. And think of how gleeful Xi and Modi are about securing a ton of cheap oil from Russia, financial decisions which ultimately help to restructure the global economic system sustaining the Empire.
The international financier bankster gangsters say: thank you, but that doesn't mean Russia will get a bigger piece of the One World Governance/multipolar pie.
"Russian energy companies were more than happy to send oil to Zelensky"
eerie similarity to certain American oil companies supplying Germany with not only gasoline but also parts vital for production of an aviation fuel, before and during ww2. No aviation fuel = no Luftwaffe. No Luftwaffe = draw your own conclusion.
Americans could have stopped ww2 anytime they wanted, Russia is in the similar position today.
US industrialists initially preferred Hitler to win, as he was going to eliminate socialists., communists, and other undesirables. In any event, all ancillary businesses related to the military are always happy to secure a profit even if doing so results in genocide.
Remember Putin talk "we are denazifyng Ukraine" and Putin walk "send them oil"...
How can anyone at this point take Putin seriously?
Are those folks competing for the "blindness guiness prize"?
Even Rolo who never badmouths directly the Emperor, is feeling like a fool for doing that...
I'm not a fan of any of the "isms" resulting in tyranny, and being hidden under the guise of public health, equity, and sustainability.
"turn on the TV and see for yourself. Russian media is, if not overtly hostile to Russians and the ideas of patriotism, nationalism, conservatism, etc. constantly promoting Western-style degeneracy. This is largely because the cousins of the people who run the entertainment industry in the West also run it in the Slavlands."
I was wondering how thoroughly the Jews controlled Russian media... apparently it's pretty extensive, which is very unfortunate.
Your description of the Russian "peasants," or just average Russian people, perfectly describes most Americans. Average people the world over appear to be very similar - they are easily influenced, have no backbone, and very little ability to think critically and independently for themselves. Big problem, especially when hostile ethnic groups who are hyper racially/ethnically conscious and who despise their hosts control the media and government. Equally problematic is the lack of authentic leadership willing to stand up to these hostile forces. Same problem in America.
None of this affects Russian Old Believers because they are trans-national. Even if Russia stopped all Asian immigration, Russians would still disappear due to birth rate. Except for Old Believers in Alaska and other places around the world. They along with other trans-national Christian religious groups like Mennonites are the only whites that are growing and have a future.
Great post. Re: Moon of Alabama, that's a blogger I havn't seen referenced in quite awhile! I used to follow him at the start of the SMO; he was full on 5-D chess, breathless that Russia was going to crush Ukraine at every moment. A good and entertaining writer, but one who was completely unwilling to update his worldview in light of evidence. Maybe he's evolved since then, I havn't been there to see...
Also, not sure if it's been referenced here but someone linked me to a (deranged pro-Ukrainian) twitter account who posted a short clip of Strelkov's criticism of Prigozhin, where he pointed out that Prigozhin does have a krisha protecting him: https://twitter.com/gerashchenko_en/status/1658013890419064834
I gave up on him immediately after he became a Covid Nazi.
Love this format of two answers. Thanks.
Summary: Putin is the most competent traitor or the most incompetent leader in history, I see no third way.
Excellent analysis.
Very nice juxtapositions, unfortunately. I especially appreciated your point that actions, decision and timing, must be coordinated to be effective. That's just competent management, which this government ought to be able to do given its denizens. But this is obviously not happening. Destroying the Dnieper bridges, as you and Russell discussed in your excellent interview, has to be done BEFORE the supplies get across and used against the Russians, not after.
But to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you go to war with the regime you have, not the one you wish you had.
Great post ..... but missing the one thing that people need to start saying. Just saw Putin's latest approval ratings - OK they are probably massaged - but they are still at just over 80%. Why is this? Simply because no one is prepared to point finger where it should be - at Putin and his cronies. So it's all very well for Rolo to keep crapping on the stupidity of the peasants - its not their fault when no one is prepared to tell them where the real problem lies, and all they get is the pap served up by Putin & cronies via TV. I know patriotic people in Russia may face assassination, but until they start speaking up and acting nothing will change - and if they all or most start speaking up, it won't be possible to murder them all. It was the same with the USSR - everyone, despite seeing what Gorbachev was doing, was too scared to speak up or do anything until it was too late and too half hearted to change anything.
you actually believe polls reflect what people (or the "average person") thinks, and aren't there to manipulate people into groupthinking what they believe everyone else is already thinking?
Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy may have something to say about this.
signed, a concerned social scientist
You've completely missed the point!
you think those in charge of the polls want to continue letting Putin pretend he's in charge?
have you considered it's just to be the fall guy?
And the reason why Rolo is right - because there is no "ukraine".
We are killing each other again for no good reason...
for vicky nuland and her bund...
https://miguel-kud.livejournal.com/335580.html Rolo, what do you think of this article? It is so dark it could have been written by Nikola Mikovic. Please read.
Good piece Kid, sorry about your friends guinea pig, shit happens, they taste like chicken by the way. Guinea pigs that is, I don't know what ethernet cables taste like, you'd have to ask the pig. Keep hammering at them with the truth, one thing I've noticed with one aspect of the truth, as soon as you speak it someone shows up with a big ol club that has "racist" written on it and will try to beat you with it, seems the truth and racist come in pairs, maybe at times the truth is racist. The problems you expose with Russia appears to me to be a global phenomenon, indicative to every country's government.
Yes, I've tried them! The local castizos took me out to a restaurant in S. America, but didn't eat it themselves lol. The crazy gringo ate it.
lol, I don't think many people know that's what they were raised for, a meat source, just like little rabbits, that's what I raise, meat rabbits, got over a 100 of them and like guinea pigs, they taste like chicken. Did you mention to your friend "let's get the hide off Spotty and get em on the grill"?
Rolo's welcoming racism in this article disarms beforehand the foreseeable criticism. That's very brave of him.
That's not racism, it's race realism.
hmmm. well that's a bit of a shock. mostly pretty unintelligible. what I did get out of it I wasn't at all convinced by. what gets me is just how chaotic, garbled, unintelligible it was. It was only a short while ago that I discovered Rolo and it wasn't long before I was posting to him saying I was impressed by his ability to put his point of view. I was saying that he writes well.
But I don't see the above as good writing at all.
Are there two Rolo's maybe? Or he has good days and bad days? Or he's conflicted or something?
This Rolo's writing is very precise and full of clarity. I am sure even a person with poor knowledge of English would find this Rolo's text very intelligible.
I perused arthur's substack. It appears to me that he doesn't understand Rolo's piece because he doesn't agree with it. His views are more in line with the official Russian state narrative and their western alternative media supporters.
Thanks Andy, now I get it.
A tough day for @arthur the independent researcher, huh? A modicum of rest might do wonders 🙂
Yep. I might need to take a break from all this ultra depressing Ukraine war stuff and come back later and re read Rolo for instance. My mini-shock? is that Rolo was so clear to me originally, as I mentioned.
As they say, it takes two to tango, and the blame may lie with either side (or both to varying degrees) 🙂 When it comes to understanding the written word, my safe default is to put in an extra effort... or give it a pass without announcing to the whole world 😉
Shooting off onto abstract plane, as in advertising so on interwebz: if text doesn't click, consider it's not for you. Not the target audience, in ad biz argot. Imperfect analogy sure, as they all go.
Centuries before our own were swarming with learned men giving out wisdom left and right; ↓↓ from XVIII c.
🗨 A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
I beg to disagree, Arthur. I for one found this piece quite intelligible and spot on.
You're not the only one to say something like that. Doubtless the error is mine. I'll come back to it again. There must be some reason why I find that so difficult when I found his others so crystal clear. Perhaps the areas he's moving in and the references he makes are all foreign to me. I'll take some time out and come back later.
But before I go perhaps I could ask anyone, everyone, who finds it so easy to understand to give me, maybe, if they'd be so kind, a little precis of it, then?
Ha, ha! Man, I haven't been doing any precises since high-school. I wouldn't know how to. :-)
well you don't have to do high school bullcrap style. you just say what it said, is all.
You know the phrase 'I got the message' ?
Well like you got the message. I didn't. What was the message?
I like to remember what Einstein supposedly said: "If you can't explain it to a six year old you don't understand it yourself."
:)
I got the ironic insinuation in your previous comment, Artur, but just pretended I didn't. There was no need to clarify you think I have not understood the article. But if such thought makes you happy, so be it.
You're overthinking it my friend. I made no insinuations. Perhaps my literary style is not too good; is too clumsy. I've been accused of that in the past. My apologies.
I simply meant to indicate that I was not looking for anything especially scholarly - just give me what you'd give a six year old perhaps we could say.
I hate ad hominem and always vow never to talk to them again. (but sometimes forget they're supposedly on my 'list' of 'banned') So I'd be to my own mind the last person to be mounting personal attacks on people. Not my style at all.
Sorry you saw it that way.
:)
Thank you Rose. :)
dayum! if i had any money to give you, i would immediately.
based beyond belief. saying what no one is willing to say out loud.
best of luck. the hounds will be braying at your heels from now on.
So how do i change to a monthly sub ? substack for me is close to unusable !