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I'm sure Trump can stop the war in 24 hours after 20 January 2025, just like I can put a stop to a 300mph bullet train coming to a stop at a station - with just my outstretched hand. Easily done, if you know the timetable - and those trains do run on time.

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Short and sweet. And to the point. A great overview of the current situation.

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don't let your guard down. soon ill have you strapped down to a chair and forced to read some long rambling metaphysics posts about titans and seraphim and aristotle. you've been warned.

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Bring it on, budnik Stalker!

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Now for some comedic relieve: Basically, a British based security firm protects Russia ships in the waters around Yemen. Honk, honk !

" Sinbad Navigation, which owns weapons licensed in Britain, legally provides ships from a number of countries, including Russia, with services to protect the transportation of oil in the dangerous area between Yemen and Somalia, "

https://en.topcor.ru/53247-rossijskij-neftjanoj-jeksport-ohranjaetsja-britanskim-zakonom.html

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I have recently had a direct view on the depopulation caused by the war. We met new faces at neighbouring playgrounds : program developers and all sorts of engineers from Ukraine and Russia. Both were granted refugee status in the UK and received social housing in London ! Yes, the Russians simply claimed to flee Putin's hell and were speedily accepted. According to them many young Russians have chosen exile in Western Europe and are granted asylum. A whole network of helpers is in place. I bet that the MI6 and other services have a hand in the operation.

Such a loss of qualified people will have dire consequences in a decade. Hidden cost of the not-war.

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What's the difference between "social housing" and "housing".

Can't wait until the refugees achieve landed or citizen status and then see new immigrants in turn given priority over them in assigned housing. The loss is not only in the country losing the refugees. The refugees themselves give up their culture and neighborhoods in fleeing after an economic will-o'-the-wisp. If the spook state has any tool for dissolving nations and cultures, forced immigration is it.

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Russians and Ukrainians coming to London have no idea of the tax rates in the Western paradise. The first major shock is how little of their headline salary reached and remains in their bank accounts. The second, after a few years' here, is to whom the tax money goes i.e. big corruption and third world immigrants. The third is that if they trespass the boundaries of political correctness, they are in big trouble. 5 years down the road, Eastern Europeans start to think fondly of their country of origin. However returning is hard.

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Slav women get the citizenship then divorce the hubby and go home to dump the kid on granny while catching up with their old gfs and flaunting their higher social status.

Many such cases.

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Lauren Southern made a documentary named "Borderless" for which she was criticized because of its sympathetic portrayal of illegal immigrants. She wasn't supporting illegal immigration but showing how illegal immigrants were lied to and abused by the human traffickers. The immigrants were encouraged to destroy their documentation so they couldn't get back to their home countries. Illegal immigrants go through a horrific experience but once they embark, as you say, it's hard to go back.

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Oy Vey !! Never forget the occult "angles" which swirl about major world events.

“I have known for months that Donald Trump would win the elections,” Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News. “The gematria (numerology) of his name is Moshiach (Messiah). He is connected to the Messianic process which is happening right now. When he promised to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem, he attached himself to the power of Moshiach, which gave him the boost he needed. If you separate from Jerusalem, disaster will follow.”

" Rabbi Berger was clear on how this election fit into the process of Messiah. “As the spiritual descendant of the Biblical nation of Edom, America has a very important role to play in the Messiah. But in order to be suited for that role, America had to be humbled,” Rabbi Berger stated. "

https://israel365news.com/311594/trump-upset-victory-divinely-sent-begin-messianic-process-rabbis/

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"What Does Trump’s Appointment to the Presidency by the Anglo-Israeli Deep State Mean For Russia?"

I look forward to your answer!

And I appreciated the antifraud version of the Chinese character for 'three' (參).

The regular version looks like the three lines you drew for the stalkers-to-be: 三. One of the few self-explanatory Chinese characters.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Newly online North Korean troops deployed to Ukraine have been “gorging on pornography,” Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman posted on X, citing a “usually reliable source.”

FP cannot independently verify the claim, but the folks over at Task and Purpose did run it by a Pentagon spokesperson, who said, “As entertaining as that sounds, I can’t confirm any North Korean internet habits or virtual ‘extracurriculars’ in Russia.”

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Sad that even when in life and death war we are plagued by the vice of porn.

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The small hat tribe approves this kosher vice (for the dummkopf goyim, obviously)!

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World War Now:

🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan George Deek says Israeli business are operating in Nagorno-Karabakh.

🇷🇺⚡- "There is no point in putting pressure on us, but we are always ready to negotiate," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺 - Putin says Westphalian system is over, now sovereignty resides not in being a country but rather "being a people" and that democracy is the "rule of the minority".

Basically justifying further meddling in other countries' affairs to favor democratic backsliding and possibly even irredentism or separatism.

A major country explicitly rejecting the Westphalian system is a first since a while imo.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Donald Trump - who has promised to end the war in Ukraine before he enters office on January 20th, 2025 - has formulated a draft proposal to end the war in Ukraine, which involves Ukraine abandoning all of its aspirations to join NATO.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "I want to congratulate Trump on his victory in the US presidential election," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "We are ready to establish contacts with Trump," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺📞🇺🇸 — Putin on Trump: His behavior at the time of the assassination attempt made an impression

https://t.me/rian_ru/268062

=)))))))))))

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Yeah, GloboVlad hard at work!

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Fantastic news.

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Mirror, Mrror on the Wall, Who is the biggest Ankle-Grabber of them all?

Kamala Harris?

Keir Starmer?

Justin Trudeau?

Ursula Hairdo?

V Zelensky?

Olaf Schulz?

E Maccaroni?

Andrzej Duda?

Gitanas Nausėda?

Kaja Kallas?

Ulf Kristersson?

Petteri Orpo?

It's a toughie! - But I seriously doubt Zelensky chooses his own wardrobe. The faux military hardman projection is beneath contempt.

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Thanks for the reference. Putin appears to not be able to, or motivated to, engage in a serious war mobilization. He is thus extremely susceptible to Western pressure. Trump is going to be more skillful in coercing Putin into a bad deal he can't refuse.

I'm reminded of a line in the video game Bioshock. The female protagonist was a former concentration camp inmate who got into trouble for being a bit too helpful as an assistant to researchers carrying out atrocity experiments. "I said to them 'If you're going to be doing these terrible things, at least do them right'".

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A thousand days of Special Needs Operation! Just five thousand more and we are at the gates of Odessa! Trust the plan, Z patriots!

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Another great Russian victory

Moscow Hopes Bishkek Can Help Control Kyrgyz Migrant Workers in Russia

Paul Goble

Executive Summary:

Moscow is relying more heavily on local ethnic militias made up of immigrants to ensure order in Russian cities as the war in Ukraine continues and more Russians are sent to the front.

Moscow is allowing Bishkek to play a role in supervising Kyrgyz militias in Russian cities, raising the specter that Kyrgyzstan rather than Russia will control them, which could threaten Russian police control over these areas.

Moscow’s intention to improve Russian control may have exactly the opposite effect and spark more conflict between ethnic militias and the increasingly active Russian nationalist militias and police.

Popular militias made up of immigrants have been forming across the Russian Federation in cities with significant diaspora populations. These militias are composed of both citizen and non-citizen migrants. Ostensibly, these militias are meant to work with police to enforce laws and keep the peace between these communities and the Russian majority. These groups, however, also defend these immigrant communities against Russian police and Russian nationalist groups such as the Russian Community (see EDM, October 15). These immigrant militias are becoming models for indigenous and Roma populations, groups that the Russian police have not always been able to control (Window on Eurasia, October 31). As a result, over the last several weeks, Moscow has quietly entered into agreements with Kyrgyzstan and possibly other countries to have officers come to the Russian Federation to work with these immigrant groups, an action Bishkek has acknowledged openly but Moscow has sought to downplay (T.me/mvd_official_kg, November 5; T.me/mediamvd, November 7). Amid the escalating tensions regarding immigrants, the Russian media’s approach to downplay the issue is understandable but no longer sustainable. After an article by Russian journalist Vladislav Maltsev appeared in Zavtra on November 10 entitled “’Kyrgyz Policemen’ and ‘National Militias’ are Already in Our Cities,” the Russian journalist pointedly asked whether the state was losing control of order (Zavtra, November 10). Maltsev’s article is sure to trigger a flood of commentaries in the coming days and may even put pressure on Moscow to change course, and thus making the issue worthy of close attention.

According to Maltsev, “migrant ghettos that have formed in many Russian cities and are already acquiring their own official security forces either in the form of militias created by the immigrants themselves or by foreign interior ministry offices who [with Moscow’s permission] have come to Russia in uniform.” (See Zavtra, April 14, 2021; EDM, October 22 for more on migrant ghettos in Russian cities.) Maltsev suggests that many Russians will be concerned about how these foreign officers are not being subordinated to Russian police, but have diplomatic immunity and can thus interact with migrants with little regard for Moscow. Specifically, he notes that Bishkek officials intend these representatives to work in an “independent” and “extraterritorial” fashion, much like European officials did in China in the 19th century, which will alarm a large swath of Russians. Such terms are alarmist and are intended to be.

Maltsev says what is occurring in Siberian and Russian Far Eastern cities such as Bratsk and Tyumen are far more disturbing and concrete. There, he reports, citing statements by local branches of the Russian interior ministry, ever more migrants, confronted by anti-immigrant moves from the Russian authorities and population, have sought to form ethnic militias. Adding that, to a lesser extent, similar trends are taking place in European Russia. The Russian authorities have told them that only citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to form militias, but that is less of an obstacle than many may think, Maltsev continues. Many migrants have now taken Russian citizenship, and Moscow has encouraged them to do so. Over the last two months, these migrants with Russian citizenship have been forming ethnic militias in cities east of the Urals. They now are going to be assisted by officers from Kyrgyzstan, raising the likelihood of new and larger clashes between these migrant groups and Russian nationalists, such as the Russian Community (Window on Eurasia, October 23; see EDM, October 15, 29).

The danger of such clashes was highlighted last month in a suburb of Chelyabinsk, where Russian nationalist groups fought with Roma, who had taken control of local administrative bodies. This tension is increasingly found across Russia, where non-ethnic Russians, immigrant or indigenous communities, have assumed sufficient control over local institutions and feel free to ignore Russian laws and practices. This problem is only going to get worse, Russian journalist Kirill Shulika says. “It is not surprising that already various groups such as ‘the Russian Community’ have emerged to assume the role of militias” and that these will grow as veterans of the war in Ukraine return home. (On that prospect more generally, see Window on Eurasia, September 15, 2023.) Moscow has been searching for some solution but has remained uncertain, although the agreement with the Kyrgyzstan interior ministry suggests it may now act on that more generally. Those who assume that the local police can handle this spreading problem are profoundly wrong. Instead, the fighting is likely to be not between the police and the closed diasporas but between the closed diasporas and militias that neither Moscow nor the regional governments will be able to control. If Moscow cannot come up with a more effective strategy, Shulika suggests, these trends will open the way to a war that will shake the Russian Federation to its foundations (Rosbalt, October 29).

Moscow’s decision to allow interior ministry officers from foreign countries, such as Kyrgyzstan, to try to take control of this situation is an effort in that direction. Both that the Kremlin is feeding demands among immigrants for the formation of their own militias and that Russian officials are playing all this down suggest that such Russian invitations to foreign police forces are an act of desperation. Moscow will either have to reverse course or face even more problems ahead. Despite all the Putin regime’s coercive resources, it is unavoidable that Moscow is losing control of the streets and districts of Russian cities to militias, both Russian and non-Russian.

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Not The Onion apparently:

https://dnyuz.com/2024/11/08/classes-canceled-at-harvard-penn-columbia-over-trump-win-as-a-queer-immigrant-woman-of-color-i-cannot-go-about-my-day/

Classes cancelled at Harvard, Penn, Columbia over Trump win

Doesn't sound like the US is going to make it.

I suspect tunnelling nanotubes are playing a part.

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https://unusualwhales.com/news/biden-to-allow-american-military-contractors-to-deploy-to-ukraine-for-first-time-since-russias-invasion

Biden to allow American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine for first time since Russia’s invasion

“These contractors will be stationed far from the front lines and will not be engaging Russian forces. They are there to help Ukraine quickly repair and maintain U.S.-provided systems to ensure rapid redeployment to combat zones.”

RIIIIGHT!!!

This is just a formal acknowledgement of existing poilicy so a further escalation can be expected. To admit this much tells you that there is more, likely much more.

Presumably those in control on both sides don't really want to be vaporised, so how will they keep it from all going wild weasel? It makes me suspect other influences are involved that really do prefer a nuclear winter.

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