Fighting lies is a tiring business, but it must be done. My recent public debate with Andrij Dobriansky is a real oddity because there have been few opportunities like this during the past 18 months where critics of NATO’s policy towards Russia could challenge the lies of the Ukrainian and Western propagandists. I only scratched the surface with Mr. Dobriansky’s mendacity. The propaganda lies churned out by U.S. and British intelligence, which are plentiful and audacious, cover the gamut — e.g., Putin has a terminal illness; Putin is weak and hanging by a thread; Ukraine is advancing steadily in its counter offensive; Russia is isolated; Russia’s economy is collapsing; Russian conscripts are being dragooned against their will to join the army; Russian prisoners are being coerced to join paramilitary forces and fight on the front lines; the morale of the Russian Army is collapsing; Russia’s Generals are incompetent; Russia is suffering more casualties than Ukraine; and Russia is a colonial imperialist.
I want to touch on the ridiculous claim by Dobriansky that Russia is guilty of colonialism in Africa. For those of you who watched the video of my exchange with this gentleman you saw that he declined my challenge to name just one country in Africa that was colonized by Russia, controlled and exploited for years. He could not respond because Russia is not guilty of this defamatory accusation.
Here is a break out of the Empires and colonies in 1920 following WWI:
You will note that Russia stayed home. It was not romping across the globe snatching up territories and planting its flag.
The reality for Africa is the one region in the world that has suffered the most from the colonial exploitation by European nations for more than 200 years. France and Britain were the two big players, controlling almost two-thirds of Africa. But other European states also staked claims over the people and territory of countries across the African continent — Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain.
It is true that many African nations actively participated in enslaving and selling other Africans to the Europeans and Americans. And it is true that Britain tried to put a stop to the international slave selling business with passage of the Slave Act in 1807. But that one act of decency does not erase the injustice and pillaging of the African colonies by the Brits during the 19th and early 20th Century. The same holds true for the other European colonizers who used the African nations as their personal piggy banks.
There was a time that we Americans firmly believed in the ideal of self-determination and sternly rejected the idea that a foreign nation could impose its will on another. Thanks to World War I (sarcasm alert) America got over that and began to see the benefits of controlling and exploiting weaker nations. Since the end of World War II the most active imperial power in the world has been the United States. Just ask Panama, Cuba, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Libya and Yemen. Try to convince the folks from those nations that the American people once held firm to the belief of isolationism.
If you watch Judge Napolitano’s interviews with former CIA officer Jack Devine or free-lance mercenary Matt Van Dyke (it takes a strong stomach to listen to the tsunami of lies that spill from their lips), you hear them repeat the mantra that Russia is suffering huge casualties. This lie is easy to debunk. Just compare the social media posts from Ukraine with those from Russia that show graveyards and military funeral ceremonies. The thousands of graveyards with fresh mounds of dirt are ubiquitous on Ukrainian channels. Not so on the Russian side.
Yes, I know that the apologists for Ukraine will not be convinced and are likely to claim that Russia, as an authoritarian state, will not allow such posts. Nonsense. Just tune in to the latest podcasts from Alex Christoforou and AniaK. Both are in Moscow on separate business (they are not working together) and are posting daily videos as they each stroll around Moscow doing their political commentary and analysis. Where are those dastardly FSB officers tackling them and stomping on their cell phones? Just one more piece of circumstantial evidence that the Western propaganda describing Russia as a dictatorship and its citizens chafing under authoritarian diktats is a myth.
I will leave you with this rule of thumb for those who monitor Western media — whatever you read in establishment media always assume that there is a purpose — usually nefarious — behind the information you are being allowed to read. Here is a very recent example — Joe Biden, after years of silence, finally acknowledged the bastard grand daughter from Hunter’s one night stand with a stripper. Why now? Is there concern among Biden’s campaign staff that his prior refusal to embrace that little girl paints him as the angry, spiteful little man that he is? That is small potatoes compared to the manipulation of the Ukraine/Russia narrative. Remain alert. Question everything.
I posted this late on your last post. In case most readers missed it, I’m repeating, with an extra note/link at the end. This shows the attitude of your debate opposition, Andrij Dobriansky. On 15 Feb 2019 (BEFORE THE WAR) he said:
“I think even those in America who want lesser U.S. involvement in wars in the world still understand the importance of arms sale. Ukraine must first have its own factories, and Ukrainians must produce everything they can on their own. It will promote the development of technologies and innovation. The military who took an active part in the fighting know better the needs of the Ukrainian army.
In my opinion, training is even more important than arms sale. This not only raises the level of the Ukrainian army, the National Guard, but also helps to achieve the level of NATO. It is very valuable that ordinary Americans, say, from Tennessee, visit, for example, Yavoriv. Military from Syracuse and Oklahoma last visited Ukraine. Ordinary American guys. They go, see Ukraine, fall in love with the country, people, land, culture. Some of them will later become representatives of the authorities, mayors, congresspeople. It is extremely important that Americans get acquainted with Ukrainians, fall in love with Ukraine, become loyal friends of ordinary Ukrainians. We’ll see in 20, 30 or 50 years what comes out of it…
In general, now is the time of the greatest changes. For six years, from 2012 to 2018, there were not so many changes in the Congress as we see today. We still know who prepares bills in every committee. But apart from meetings with some congressmen, we have not yet had official visits. Or, for example, we did not meet with the foreign affairs committee, or with the armed services committee with which it is important for us to maintain good ties. They form a defense budget, which includes military assistance to Ukraine, which has been steadily increasing since 2014. America has already provided more than $1.5 billion to Ukraine, and we would not want the aid to be reduced now, as long as an open war is ongoing.
The work of the Congress has just begun. So far, issues of the defense budget or the financing of the State Department are not on the agenda.
There is a different approach to working with government agencies. As far as I know, some activists would like to have a revolution everyday, and they always call on people to take to the streets. But for those who represent their community day by day, it is sometimes better to have friends rather than significant changes in the composition of elected politicians.
Of course, we will appeal as much as possible to our old friends – Democrats or Republicans – for support, when the time comes, when the budget is adopted and we will see if money has disappeared there. Or certain words in support of Ukraine. Every bill passes many stages. From subcommittees to committees, then to the House of Representatives, and then to the Senate. Changes can be made at all levels.”
Of course, the attitudes of Crimean Ukrainians don’t figure into his propaganda – https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaec705.pdf
Who are you?
An opportunist, obviously. This guy uses Larry’s site as a bootstrap. He apparently cannot get enough viewers for his material.
His silly YouTube wink face , kinda sums it up….now I think of it.
Jack, you just taught an old dog a new trick.
My initial thoughts were a “ Modern Dance,” graduate from Harvard with a PhD in Russian ballet studies now running the CIA Moscow Desk.
Question ?
What is the huge bulge in the crutch of a Russian, male ballet dancer.( It’s not what you think!) It is in fact a handy ledge for the ballerina to step upon when the man lifts her up high into the air and twizzles around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMa0GMsevDQ
Hoo hoo are you? A bird from the order Strigiformes?
So Andrij Dobriansky turns out was a state department hack, assigned to Ukraine prior to 2014 coup and sent as part of initial 1.6 billion funding to run around Congress getting more funding & recommends transferring more Americans to aid the “transformation” of Ukraine.
No doubt the 2022 pushback ruined his plans.
Anyways, good info 👍
Larry, with his Irish Fever, took him to the woodshed. Such a delightful moment of seeing this LYING cuck get called out.
And keeping my blood pressure lower as I did not have to yell at the computer screen!
I hope that there aren’t a lot of people with your views – they’re ridiculous, risible, unhinged and totally imaginative/imaginary
But I guess that’s the American dream- you have to be asleep to live it
My two cents1.13 in American
I think you might have missed quotation marks.
“There was a time that we Americans firmly believed in the ideal of self-determination and sternly rejected the idea that a foreign nation could impose its will on another”
that is a myth about a myth. America is foundationally a settler colonial state–which is to say the logic at the heart of the American project was and forever will be native genocide. From Day 1.
Make no mistake: westward expansion of the United States was an imperialist advance on full fledged NATIONS. some reputable estimates put the number at between 50 and 100 million those natives who were exterminated in the ever unquenchable thirst for land and resources if you include the colonial period. in fact George Washington–just to name one example— was a vicious warlord if there ever was one and his Tennessee Land Company made him a greater fortune thru the violent expropriation of native lands. King George was something of a “progressive” monarch and his prohibition of colonial expansion west of the appalachians was anathema to the land speculator merchant class in the colonies and a major reason they revolted. The Lockean conflation of property ownership with liberty–which is an inherent contradiction in a settler colonial project that steals land (to say nothing of owning humans)– has been the bane of America since the founding. basically the USA is a project of deceit. it believes something about itself that just isnt and was never true. Psychopathy with a flag🤷
“There was a time that we Americans firmly believed in the ideal of self-determination”
Oh c’mon. What time was that….250 years ago? The rest were just window-dressing for regime changes to compliant players.
Yea, all of those slaves believed in self-determination. Slaveowners too, not to mention those savage Indians.
A relic of British colonial stewardship.
There is still a difference between war of conquest and colonialism.
You might kill someone, settle in his house, and live there from now one, doing the housechores personally, etc.
In the end it out some limits, unless you spawn many more children, it would not make sense for you to kill more neighbors (and suffer their pushbacks however limited) and take their houses, if you can not occupy them all at once.
Another thing is raiding and looting, killing or subdueing the owner to take all the movable belonging, then burn and raize the rest. This is what European vikings were doing for living, and many highlanders around the world. Destructive and painful for their victims, but “shallow”. Vikings would not run far from sea shores and big rivers, the settlements deeper into mainland were relatively secure from their raids.
And the third thing is colonialism, when you de facto enslave the whole nation, keeping them where they live but sucking blood of them, continuously and from all. Because you do not actually occupy their lands to cultivate and tender them – you are not restricted by your own labor and numbers. And because you set military bases – you are no more restricted by distances from sea shores (like the Africa map shows).
That said, the “good master” – or better said, “long term inve^W colonizer” would keep the life in the colony somewhat above survival margin, and chances are with some luck captive nation would in turn learn useful things from him. But often those are prolonged abusive relationship.
“A gentleman west of Suez is not responsible for the gentleman east of Suez” – this is not possible with wars of conquest, when the grabbed land is incorporated and assimilated, but is trivial with oversea colonies. Those are not the same.
There is also a concept of neo-colonialism. Just recently I read a figure stating the annual benefit France gains from its former colonies. It was something like 20-30 Billion dollars. It may surprise some but France is heavily involved in its former colonies and these places have resources that can be extracted from the ground, things such as oil and minerals. The fact that USSR disappeared presumably helped France in re-inserting itself in its former possessions. One does not need to have boots on the ground and explicitly rule the place, to be able to gain financially. Recently there have been cases of these former colonies revolting against their former masters and kicking out their ‘military advisers’ and bringing in Russians. This actually improved things with local security forces, previously mentored by French, now less likely to run away when Islamists attempt some raid.
Unsurprisingly, USA and French are somewhat annoyed and so now there are stories of Wagner committing atrocities or working with odd rebel groups against legal governments, such as with recent fighting in Sudan. It sounds much like the misinformation that was pushed against Cubans that were helping Angola a few decades back.
“One does not need to have boots on the ground and explicitly rule the place, to be able to gain financially.”
Yes it’s called an informal empire.
And it’s how the British Empire while no longer a formal one, is still an Empire and is able to manipulate and influence larger more powerful nations like the US through its sitting on powerful and influential global organizations like UN security council, G7, IMF, 5 eyes intelligence and NATO to name only a few. And the US leadership and people have little clue how they are being influenced which benefits the Brits.
It’s also why the Boris Johnson was able to convince Zelensky not to negotiate a settlement with Russia right after the start of the conflict.
Apex predator.
The colonies were not democracies they were
smaller kingdoms and chieftanships with different rulers, their own issues and smaller territories within their current borders. So easier to beat.
Britain never “fought” Indians other than in the Sink Empire (punjab and Kashmir plus Delhi and Lahore) which was only colonised for 90 years unlike the rest of the subcontinent colonised for 300 as they never really fought. Their kings were just bought off or subdued.
Once they got a few of these kingdoms the Brits then put their men in their army. So it became a large army made mainly of Indians. Ultimately areas like the Sikh Empire fell because Indians in the British army lead by Brits attacked it after their Apex King died and there was no clear successor as his son was small.
In countries where people are used to a ruler, good or bad, once you get a few of the big kings and chiefs the rest are not an issue.
The pyramid of human society makes conquest easy. Eg EU leadership controlled by US the rest of schmucks can’t do nothing.
The problem comes when you take on places like Russia, similar mindset to some of the South US, where resistance to foreign oppression is ingrained and you don’t control their Apex. To take out such places can only be done by massive killing and destruction as well as removal of the Apex.
The war has to continue as the Apex Putin age 70 needs to die then there needs to be no clear successor and there is already an army of conquered slavs (Ukraine etc) to head in. If Putin was 50 maybe there would be no war.
“It’s also why the Boris Johnson was able to convince Zelensky not to negotiate a settlement with Russia right after the start of the conflict.”
Bo Jo was just a messenger. Neither of them makes decisions. Their job is entertaining idiots with stupid clown show.
Destructive and painful for their victims, but “shallow”. Vikings would not run far from sea shores and big rivers, the settlements deeper into mainland were relatively secure from their raids.
You would do well to study the Vikings in England then who acted contrary to your thesis – England was to have four Viking kings between 1013 and 1042. The greatest of these was King Cnut, who was king of Denmark as well as of England………
You might reference “the Danelaw”……..
Vikings also settled in Russia………..
The history of England was as a colony – of Rome, of Saxons, of Vikings, of Normans
Vikings (Varangians) not only settled in Russia. They named it.
Horse manure…..
Yea. Those Native Americans genocided themselves, and gave their land for free.
Let us not forget Brittain learned the slave trade in Ireland!
The Native Americans simply didn’t understand the rules-based international order dictating land usage.
Anyway, we were kind enough to retain their place names for many a place, as a gesture of gratitude for their kind gifts to the newcomers.
+1
“some reputable estimates put the number at between 50 and 100 million”
Other reputable estimates are as little as 400,000. I doubt that nomadic people without cities and meaningful agriculture could have ever fed 100 million people let alone deal with the filth and disease that such a large concentration of humans would create. Using hyperbia gleaned from Wikipedia does little to bolster your argument. Although I agree with your point that much of the United States was settled at the expense of Indians (who came from Asia) living here at the time, no one alive today was responsible for what happened. Your other assertion the the revolution was fought because the noble King George was opposed too western expansion flies in the face of logic given the continuing colonial adventures of the crown in other parts of the world. Read the declaration of independence and you will find the major cause of the war was that the settlers got sick and tired of having their proceeds of their labor confiscated by the king. As far as slavery goes, regardless of the morality of the practice, was accepted in most parts of the world. The American Indians made slaves of conquered tribes. It is fallacious to judge history using the standards of today. Using your logic no country on Earth today has the right to exist because they were all created by war.
People misunderstand the concept of slavery as practiced by most native people and that of racial degeneracy attached to slavery by Europeans.
Food and housing was not in abundance in old times. To keep prisoners and house and feed them was beyond the capacity of most societies. Much less feeding and paying a whole prison administration to guard those imprisoned.
In fact most societies survival without extended family and tribe was next to impossible.
Thus any war resulted in taking the defeated party prisoners and alloting them to people of the tribe. Any women or children without an earner would simply won’t be able to survive on their own thus they were given to some family to keep them alive and in return they worked to earn their keep.
@ Masr
“In fact most societies survival without extended family and tribe was next to impossible.
Thus any war resulted in taking the defeated party prisoners and alloting them to people of the tribe. Any women or children without an earner would simply won’t be able to survive on their own thus they were given to some family to keep them alive and in return they worked to earn their keep.”
Typical Islamic cope-ism, trying to justify sexual slavery. I can’t wait for the day when you place a thin stick in your behind and after 8 months….give birth to a baby with a face like a lizard.
I thought it better to call out your bullshit now, rather than later when you start describing the benefits of a 51 year old man marrying a 6 year old kid. And that pedophile is your moral compass. Go figure.
Let me know in case you need references and I’ll post them here.
“, no one alive today was responsible for what happened.”
For your information, the surviving Native Americans are CURRENTLY still struggling to get the rights agreed with them in treaties with the US government, and especially their rights over land use which are currently being over-ridden by the Government and ‘Big Oil’.
BS. The tribes in my area have far more rights than non tribal members. They can operate casinos, they can disobey traffic laws if they have an indian tag and they dont have to pay to drive on toll roads. Add in free medical care courtesy of the US tax payer and I would say they are doing well.
I would say that you should get off their land. You are illegal immigrant that acts like he owns the place.
It’s not all that dire. They have responsible individuals like Devon Archer to look after their interests.
Those alive today are guilty for approving horrible things, and propagating bullshit, like you do.
100% sir.
Yes. If on assumes that everything in the establishment media is a lie and look for the primary beneficiaries of the ‘narrative’ then you’re on the right track to discerment and discovery.
It’s all about the ‘narrative’, except reality goes on. Reality always prevails. That is the danger. Can’t find any holes in Schryver’s reasoning in “Staggering Towards the Abyss”
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/staggering-towards-the-abyss
Well, I could dispute his overly generous assessment of
‘silly’ milley, but that is a small point and not central to the arguement he makes.
That is what I find troubling. There is nothing there, except for nuclear weapons.
Bioweapons, ie. ‘Wu Flu’ have already been used, in reality ‘Fauci-Flu’ is the more accurate name.
404 is a wasteland. France and nazi-land are self-deconstructing. The next colonial levees are primed to be the hyena-pisudski regime in Poland and 1500 joke baltic chihauhau Waffen SS contingent.
The south of the Heartland has been able to resist the ‘colour revolutions’. Paksitan hasn’t fully fallen. Then what? Shift to east Asia?
Well there always are nuclear weapons..
Interesting timez…
There will never ever be a full on nuclear war. That would hurt the banksters therefore it will never happen.
I stopped watching any MSM about 10 years ago and am often reminded to not watch it because it’s sensationalism, hyperbole, and “untruths” can compound my already fractured mentality due to C-PTSD. I can’t imagine what it does to a healthy individual! I started watching independent journalist but would turn it off when they started reading MSM. I then realized they were pointing out the ludicrous stories of lies, deception and virtue-signaling so I find it comedy gold. Now I think I’m healthy and everyone else is mentally impaired who willing watches or listens that crap. I think of those individuals that still watch “The View” and think, we don’t need Aliens, we have our own home-grown 3-eyed people who couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag watching that show!
Their use of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” instead of torture showed me how bad it really was. That’s been 20 years now . . . .
Their use of ‘enhanced democracy’ techniques at Maidan to remove the standard osce-stamped approval democracy of Yanukovich was what spilled the beans for me.
The Hunter Biden story isn’t about Hunter Biden. It’s how the permanent government can have irrefutable evidence of criminal corruption involving the then-Vice President dropped right in their lap and they willfully ignore it, hide it and conspire to whitewash it.
About Africa, post two videos of the current President of Uganda, YOWERI MUSEVENI. That not exactly being the most popular African President, perhaps age has loosened his tongue. The first is a video that was censored for many years where it reports Gaddafi’s murder by NATO. Many of the reasons for his assassination by Hillary Clinton are in the comments of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUn11DZqJo
Gaddafi, who I know many Americans see as a terrorist and I ask how do you fight potential colonizing terrorists? Gaddafi built the country with the highest human index in Africa by irrigating the desert and making Libya self-sustainable in terms of food. Perhaps the African leader who worked most for the unity, independence and development of Africa. Which has everything to be one of the richest Continents on earth. It needs to be more populated.
A continent that has always been the treasure chest of Europe’s natural resources and where many countries owe their independence to Moscow. Unfortunately, with independence, a lot of corruption and internal struggles among African leaders were also born. That it seems to me that they are finally working together to lift Africa up. Because as happened in China, only Africans can develop Africa. Again with Russia and China. The second video is from the last Russia-Africa Summit that just took place in Russia. With half of the countries at the last Summit in 2019 due to US and EU pressure and blackmail! As usual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDtD5C3VHY4
Thanks for those links. I’ve watched the first and will do the other this weekend.
I took a photo of a BRICS banner yesterday. Unfortunately, my useless government made it of cheap materials, so it was torn and flapping hello to the delegates.
Welcome.
America’s got a problem. Rightly or wrongly, Russia is being embraced as a savior from western hegemonic exploitation among African nations. Russia has clearly struck a nerve in the African psyche. A populist about to strike ‘a new deal’ for Africa. Powerful stuff. Where the psyches of African nations go, so eventually will go the African -American psyche in significant numbers, the very same ones that Biden is and democrats in general are counting on for their vote and there’s nothing that Biden can do about it, even if he were able to recognize it. Something I’d not worry about too much.
I suspect that was the origin of this guy’s ‘colonialist Russia spiel’. He’s simply picked up on a new theme developing in western circles in attempts to neutralize this new ‘Africa’ phenomenon and simply mouthed it without realizing he was totally out of context and out of his depth.
This is at the end of Shaman’s video clip: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxYBRgbNU81olI6WGiirIP9HZLlcI6O-Ow
Lots of people are seeing through the west’s hypocrisy.
All but 6 African nations attended the summit but some were not presidential delegations. The Africa-Russia Summit in St Petersburg was well attended by the Africans, contrary to western reporting.
Exactly. Only by the insane propaganda in the Western media do you realize the level of pressure. I confess I have never seen anything like it. With fake Putin and Peskov speeches. And I also wanted to write presidents and I wrote countries. But no one can deny that pressure always gets results. The Kremlin itself on the official website does not name the participating countries. So I don’t know if there were 49. Nor can anyone deny the importance of the Presidents’ symbolism at this stage. Did you see the circus of the President of Kenya after the US visit? The Kenya that depends on Russian grain. And then envy the PM!
Another reality that must be taken into account is that a World Order does not fall overnight. I consider the hypersonic advances of the BRICS and the SCO in the last year. But Africa is also still very dependent on EU and US programs! Even if in terms of food and other fundamental commodities it depends more on Russia. What the western media totally omits.
“With half of the countries at the last Summit in 2019 due to US and EU pressure and blackmail!”
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/57102
Thanks Torrente. I already corrected the error. But Slaviangrad is not an official Russian site either. And I was very interested to know the real number of countries in St. Petersburg. Any official source?
I see corretion now, but can’t go back in time to change the post. I never said that Slavyangrad is an official site of any kind.
I have posted link to Slavyangrad because it was easy to find. They didn’t made the map. I can’t be bothered digging trough the site of the conference, or official press releases, or whatever. Muitiple sources have mentioned fourty-something countries in total. I forgot the exact number, ’cause it’s irrelevant.
It is not something one could easily lie about. Even MSM is not full-on lying. They say that only 17 countries sent their presidents (dark green on the map), and they omit that other countries sent other representatives (light green on the map). Audience just hears 17 out of fifty-whatever, and has anti-Russo-orgasm. Just the map is enough as an antidote to that.
Thank you both. I was wondering how many countries had attended but could not believe 17.
The last two sentences say it all!
To be fair to that little weasel you “debated”, he was claiming Russia’s actions in Georgia and Ukraine constituted the “colonialism” and he just mixed that into the Africa conversation like all of those types do.
And Georgia started that war too.
Did he explain then why Russia left Georgia when it had it in its hands, lock, stock and barrel?
I think he started talking about the colonialism associated with the riots in Niger, where allegedly Russia was involved. And even journalism asked him for proof. And associated with the presence of Wagner as a regular Russian colonizing force. Which is pure propaganda. Wagner is in many African countries solely providing security services to local Govts against Islamic terrorism. The area where Wagner is most famous in Africa. Especially in countries where other forces, France and coalitions have failed. What the journalist also tried to tell him. Regardless of also being in countries where Russia has exploration concessions and other collaborations.
I believe he started with the Africa narrative and when called on it, quickly switched to closer to home.
That’s the trouble with talking points by rote and being lulled into complacency by never being questioned or called on it, as per MSM practice. The non sequiturs begin piling up too fast for fancy footwork not to trip over them, even for dance majors from Vassal U.
I would say the USA spent most of the 19th Century carrying out Manifest Destiny and appropriating lands westward across North America. The Mexican American War before our Civil War was certainly about land grabbing. But our first foray into colonizing, though we might not call it such, was the Spanish American War. This was quickly followed up by our staking a claim on Hawaii.
We didn’t just ‘stake a claim’ on Hawaii. We injected a trojan horse of commercial dealings to facilitate a military removal of their king, in a total takeover of the islands.
What about stealing Hawaii to obtain Pearl Harbour………
What about invading Canada in 1812 while Britain was at war with Napoleon ?
What about invading Canada in 1812 while Britain was at war with Napoleon ?
A war that Britain never would have won had Napoleon not marched on Moscow.
And yet another war that Britain never would have won had Hitler not marched on Moscow.
Brits never learn, do they?
There’s a reason Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland was promoted: “At least 15 people sought medical aid after an explosion rocked the Russian city of Taganrog on July 28. The Russian Ministry of Defense described this incident as a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Kiev regime. Ukrainian forces carried out the attack using an S-200 surface-to-air missile converted into a surface-to-surface munition.”
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
Ukraine insisted the museum was a legitimate military target because it had paintings of the Battle of Borodino on display.
Russia played against the US in Africa with China playing geopolitical chess from the 1950’s the AK 47 was the freedom fighter weapon of choice. Try Angola, Mozambique for starters an dtere is no difference between regime change in you favour and colonialism – imperialism. So Russia is as guilty as anyone………..
For some reason, people in Africa disagree with you. You should go there and explain them. I’m sure they would love it, just like they loved Macron explaining them stuff.
I hear you and largely agree. In all fairness, though, Russia did ‘colonize’ Eastern/Central Europe following WWII. Even though, in retrospect, that might have been a good thing because it slowed down the slide toward decay and woke decadence in the Occident.
Russians gave statehood to many Eastern European countries. Those idiots are now giving it up to NATO/EU/USA. Most of Eastern Europe is now a colony in everyting but name.
That was the Soviet Union, Monsieur Jacques.
By the same logic, one can argue that France was a part of the Fascist Axis during WWII, as the Vichy government was in charge.
By the differen logic, British didn’t bother arguing, but instantly shelled French ships in port, just in case.
Speaking about WWII French, they did send “volunteers” to fight on the Eastern Front, just like most of Europe did, not unlike today.
Who benefits from colonialism? Is it the politician who now has another land he need administer or the corporation now able to rape the land and exploit the people for profit? Admittedly sometimes it can be political for geopolitical ends, however the corporations will still arrive to board the gravy train.
It’s like the MIC, nationalize all military production and procurement and the profit incentive for war largely disappears. The argument over the superior output of private enterprise I would suggest has now disappeared looking at the junk being made. Ban corporations from exploiting foreign lands and the desire for colonialism evaporates.
Many of the ills of capitalism lie with monopolistic corporations crushing competition and innovation to gagging free speech, how any could confuse a free society & market with capitalism is a mystery to me. The alternative to capitalism is not communism, they are both systems to benefit the few, it is a truly free society probably closer to libertarianism with minimal government but with laws against monopoly and exploitation.
I think that no Senator/Congressman should be serving more than 2 years to prevent rooting, nesting and stealing. One Democrat senator from my state is going on 30 years. It’s not a dynasty – hold for life and bequest to your children position. They are like an old Soviet joke about an Army provision sergeants – they serve as long as they can carry ( steal). Look at Mitch McConnell – went into a stupor, 200+ years old and want to stay in Congress till death do them part. It’s surreal. They should be forced to retire at 70 the latest. Nobody needs half brained playing WWIII.
@ Lika
Shouldn’t you worry more about the fools that vote such people in? I have seen the video you mention, guy is a vegetable. I think we need to start believing in the conspiracy theories and only then we can hope to unravel the truth. One could start at the Bilderberg group. I have a really good book (pdf) by L. Fletcher Prouty. For those who don’t know, he was the man the character named Mr. X in the movie JFK was based on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSnolpYkCA
Anyone wants the book, please ask for it and I’ll post it here.
I have read that the probability of the incumbent being returned in a US senatorial election, is greater than the probability of re-appointment of a member of the Politburo in the USSR.
There are a lot of facts about the USSR about which the vast majority of Americans are ignorant: as one example, the USSR had a faster rate of growth of per-capita output between 1921 and 1989, than the US or the UK – despite the fact that the USSR lost 38% of its male working age population in WWII, and that during the Civil War in the 1920s Russian per capita output halved.
By 1980, per capita output in the USSR was almost on a par with the UK – despite being excluded from technological transfers.
I’m a voluntaryist, so I hold no brief for central planning generally: however another core principle is to call a fig a fig, and a tub a tub.
The US has been devolving into a gerontocracy – but it’s been a kakistocracy since the Hamiltonian clique’s coup d’état in 1789.
And what the US has done to its Native population is the same thing that the FrAnglo-Eurotrash have done to every indigenous population in every land-mass they infest: theft and dispossession.
A previous commenter pointed out that France continues to steal from the Maghreb due to “sweetheart” deals struck with corrupt local shitbags as the French were being forced to extract their blood-funnel. The same is true with Côte d’Ivoire – where ~85% of the profits from the cacao industry, accrues to a set of Parisian oligarchs.
The odd thing about Andrij Dobriansky and rest of of his ilk, is that somehow either nobody is outright calling them out perhaps, not able too, or maybe they believe if they repeat all their lies often enough they will change reality?
Nobody calls these guys out because we no longer have a functioning media. But this does have awful prospects for this country, so it looks to me like Andrij Dobriansky is a mobster, that the US is utterly controlled by a very large organized criminal cabal.
Nice that Larry was able to call out Andrij Dobriansky, when this cabal has gone way out of it’s way to silence the truth. Every America should be screaming. Thank you Larry Johnson.
Hate to be a nitpick, but Austria is another country thst never got involved in the colonialism game in 19th century. They had too much going on in Europe to think of colonies.
Agreed, Austria only had 1 (one) acre of “colony” ín Beijing, not one square centimeter of land ín Africa. The late Austro-Hungarian Monarchy expanded towards the Balkans.
And the Austro-Hungarian Empire had European colonies.
Their Intermarium project to link the Baltic to Black Sea was resurrected by that Great Colonizer, Britain, last year. To be called the Commonwealth of Europe, no less.
When Britain deep-sixed all other empires, Primes inter Pares rulez!
The Austrian Empress Maria Theresia founded the East India Trading Company in Trieste (now Italy). Ships of this company under the imperial flag of Habsburg-Lothringen reached Maputo bay in Mosambique in March 1777. A small fortification was errected with a garrison of 10 men before the ships set sail to India. In 1781 this bay was lost to the Portuguese.
In 1783, the adventurer Moritz Benjowski proposed to the Viennese Emperor Joseph II that Madagascar be conquered under the under the Austrian flag, but received no financial or military support for his enterprise.
The Ostender Company (Austrian Netherlands) had first established trade factories in Bengal as early as 1719, but the company had been dissolved in 1731 in response to Dutch and British pressure.
Although Denmark had laid claim to the Nicobar Islands, the ships of the Trieste Trading Company acquired some Nicobar Islands (Nancowry, Camorta, Trinket, Katchal, and Teressa, named after Maria Theresa) from the locals in 1778 and declared them Austrian crown colonies as well. New factories were established on the
Malabar coast of India. Six Austrians were initially left on the Nicobar Islands as posts.
In 1783, Maria Theresia’s successor, Emperor Joseph II, under pressure from the naval powers and in the absence of a comparable navy of his own to protect the colonies, dissolved the Trieste Trading Company. The trade, which had recently faltered and was hampered by strong foreign competition, was discontinued. In 1784 and 1785, Austria formally ceded its claims to the Nicobar Islands to Denmark and Great Britain, respectively.
Dear Mr. Johnson with all due respect but your view of Russian history is a bit to rosy coloured. Certainly Russia had no colonies in Africa. But her colonialisation of Siberia and the treatment of the natives is really no different than what the Spaniards did in South-America or the Anglos in North America. Whole scale slaughter of recalcritant tribes, yes slavery, rape, forced conversions a.s.o.
As to the treatment of Nomadic people like the Kazakhs: the same denigration of another way of life and the same cultural superior complex as you can find among any other European people. The forced settlement of the Kazakhs in 31/32 was not due to economic necessity. It was due to cultural prejudice. As Mongolia was to prove in the 50´s you can have collectivisation without forced settlement. Anyhow about a quarter of Kazakhs perished.
Finally the disappearance of the Aral sea. It is arguably the greatest ecological catastrophy of the 20th century and it was just as much caused by Soviet megalomania as by – again – cultural prejudice of mainly Russian scientists.
Finally I strongly suspect that you neither know Russian nor have travelled much in Russia. Otherwise you would know that there is as much or more chauvinism in Russia as there is in any other region of the world.
I absolutely welcome your antidote to antirussian propaganda and your principled stance against the hate mongering of US elites. But you shouldn´t throw out the baby with the bath water and somehow make the Russian state better than it is. It is just another form of moralising and I believe this kind of thinking has let us into the situation we are in. I am a firm believer of Nietsche: “States are the coldest of cold monsters. Coldly they ly”
Better understand that and don´t try to find some non existing historical paradise.
I’m not sure what you are saying here Tom. Russia has problems, and bad things happened in previous times – just like every other country?
We are talking about a war in Ukraine today, caused by NATO. Are you aware of the history connected to Galicia and the Ukrainian nationalistists?
Perhaps you should read the biography of Stepan Bandera, pay a visit to Baba Yar, Kiev, or Volyn, Poland. When Putin talks about de-Nazification, he is not discussing events even that far in the past. Try reading up on ‘The Tornado Battalion’ and get back to us. For Russians, it is a matter of the 40 million dead in WWII. I’m from Poland, and my family has personal issues with Ukrainians too. Moral relativism and ‘but what about…’ don’t mean much when we are looking at WWIII fought to support Nazis.
Stepan Bandera is the hero and founding father of a broken country in its desperate attempt to incorporate his broken ideology.
History sometimes displays an amazing ability to correct its foolish excesses and heal itself before its excesses become fatal. Witness it at work in Ukraine.
You’re conflating “colonialism” with “conquering”. All Nations have invaded, subdued, conquered & occupied territory.
That’s not the same at colonialism and certainly not the same as modern day neocolonialism that’s going on. Nor is there necessarily an “Imperialist” intent or mindset.
If you’re suggesting that Russia was among many Nations that discovered a land mass filled with natives and warred with them and took their land and killed them, Of course they did. And Russia is still to date responsible for that land mass & its indigenous population.
“Colonialism” isn’t in the same realm at all. “Colonialism” is “subjugation” not “conquering”.
You might wish to revisit your assumptions…….
The logic you use is precisely that used by Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kampf” when he saw Americans expansion westwards as analogous to German expansion eastwards to remove the Slavs……….he stated “was among many Nations that discovered a land mass filled with natives and warred with them and took their land and killed them, Of course they did”
in similar words in his two volume work this as his justification……..in fact so much came from USA into Nazi doctrine such as Eugenics; Forced Sterilisation; Segregation based on inherent racial superiority………in fact the work of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute where Josef Mengele worked initially was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
“The logic you use is precisely that used by Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kampf” when he saw Americans expansion westwards as analogous to German expansion eastwards to remove the Slavs”
I haven’t read that book, but one does not need to, in order to see that he was trying to create United States of Europe. He declared himself exceptional, and tried to exterminate savages, and take their land. All of his “stuff” was taken from someone. He did not succeed because these “savages” were not armed with spears, but tanks. If he did, than history books of his USE would be similar to those of USA.
Speaking of colonies – Russia won Finland in a battle from Sweden in 1809 ( I guess Sweden was “liberating Finland lol) and Lenin set Finland free in 1917. The Finnish army helped Hitler to starve to death nearly 1 million Russians in the blockade of Leningrad. Isn’t Putin from there? Didn’t his family lost someone in the blockade? Finland made a huge mistake joining NATO. Russia got a long memory.
“But her colonialisation of Siberia and the treatment of the natives is really no different than what the Spaniards did in South-America or the Anglos in North America.”
American natives are dead for the most part, and so is their cultural heritage. Siberian natives are still alive and well, and so is their cultural heritage. I’m sure you have a Native American friend that can confirm that it’s really no different at all. Slava Cocaini!
I am not a historian.
Which empire came first, Russian or Mongol ?
Dear Mr. Johnson with all due respect but your view of Russian history is a bit to rosy coloured.
And yours is unnecessarily critical:
The Spaniards did a reasonable job of annihilated the natives of the Americas, the Russians did far less of that in Siberia. The Americans annihilated far more natives of the lands they coveted than even the Spaniards, for example in Mexico. The Spaniards coveted gold, the Americans coveted land, as did the Russians. So, this convenient finger-pointing and weaponization of ‘colonialism’ is pure sophistry.
Of the three, Russia was the kindest to its native populations. Prove me wrong.
That is a good synopsis! More of the details can be found here:
Decolonize Russia
“The West must complete the project that began in 1991. It must seek to fully decolonize Russia.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/russia-putin-colonization-ukraine-chechnya/639428/
Once this occurs the newly liberated republics would then be integrated into the European Union, ensuring that they would never fall under foreign colonial influence again.
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I have to find the link, but China has a plan to decolonize the United States, which could be of interest. The Western most lands would be ceded to China with the rest of the regions ceded to the original native American residents (they have Chinese/Asiatic ancestry BTW). Any non-claimed States would be given their independence, as the South wanted before 1861, before it was colonized by the North.
“The West must complete the project that began in 1991. It must seek to fully decolonize Russia.”
Run the neocons out on a rail and tar and feather them first, before it’s too late. These people are as mad as hatters.
Everything’s relative in this world of ours, Tom 67, Baron has lived in four countries, big countries with notable history, long enough to have a go judge the level of chauvinism in them (even if he says so himself). He speaks Russian, wasn’t born in Russia, has no dog in the fight.
In the list of excessive patriotism, the key manifestation of which is the desire of the ruling elite to impose upon other tribes not political values, these change, but the values of culture that last, they are institutionalised, have inertia backing them, on that list China would be near the bottom, Russia (sans the years of the Bolshevik nightmare) would be just above it, it’s either the American Republic or Britain that would top the list.
By that argument then the US was the worst colonizer by taking land that belonged to native tribes, and slowly killing millions of Native American lives along with wiping out their culture and history from the books.
Russia didnt colonize Africa, it just colonized Europe, Asia and North America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia#/media/File:Territorial_Expansion_of_Russia.svg
By Wiki? Where today all those who denounce US hegemony are conspiracy theorists!
Another great article Larry. The 1920’s map shows quite clearly Crimea part of Russia as it has been since 1873 as I’m sure you and all who visit here already know
You’ve jumbled 1783 into 1873.
But other European states also staked claims over the people and territory of countries across the African continent — Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain.
Norway became an independent country in 1905. Norway lost its sovereignty in 1536/37. For almost three hundred years it was a de facto colony of Denmark and was plundered of its natural resources by the Danish king, its aristocracy, clergy and appointed henchmen in Norway. There were Norwegian sailors taking part in the slave trade. But listing Norway among these other European states is simply wrong. If there were any capital accumulated in Norway through the slave trade it was minuscule. Denmark did take part in what “primitive accumulation” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_accumulation_of_capital) but the plundering of Norway of its gold, silver, copper, woods, fish.. during those three centuries of Danish rule probably contributed significantly more to the capital base of the industrialization of Denmark than the African slave trade. The mentality of most Norwegians still suffer from the repercussions of those centuries. Because of the Danish kings alliance with Napoleon Norway did achieve some limited self-rule in 1814 in a union with, or rather under Sweden. It was nowhere near an equal partnership and continued to hamper the economic development of Norway until 1905. When sovereignty finally was regained in 1905 it was exactly the maritime trade that played a major role. Neither as a Danish colony nor in the “union” with Sweden did Norway even have consulates of her own. The “Consulate case” is the name given to the dispute over the introduction of a separate Norwegian consulate under the union with Sweden. This case became the formal reason for the dissolution of the union in 1905. (https://snl.no/Konsulatsaken )
Thank you Mr. Johnson you said everything that was needed to debunk the lie that Russia was and or is a colonial player in Africa. In fact lest we forget the only time Russia really did play imperial was before the 1917 Revolution. After the Revolution however most of the territories including the Caucasus, Central Asia … were fully incorporated into a whole equally beneficial structure called the Soviet Union. Very backward, disease ridden mostly Muslim Central Asians, Azerbaijan, Armenia and other regions developed into first class states with highest indices of human achievements in education, industrial development, health care, nutrition etc. Even Ukraine owed its own progress as a first class country to the USSR. But thanks to America and EU supporting the regime in Kiev it has managed to move back in history and gain the title of a failed state. Also compare that to the many centuries of English, French, Dutch…interfering in Africa. Not much to say except stealing African natural resources or systematic slavery via military force, bribing the illiterate/corrupt local leaders, spread of aids and other incurable illnesses. Today their strategy is changed into a more green format like the promotion of gay-lesbian-transsexual western bullshits. That’s how the Africans are kept busy in their heads while western corporations rub them off their diamonds, gold and other minerals. By the way, author William Schryver at imetatrinink has recently posted a very interesting short essay that’s a must read.
You don’t hear this about Russia from foreign leaders:
THIS IS HOW EVERY WORLD LEADER WENT TO BED AT NIGHT BEFORE THE SMO
“If I survive the CIA I have five years to go…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We1rJCJ53SY&t=659s
And that includes Western leaders like Angela Merkel who Obama was spying on through telephone taps.
When the history of this period is written it will be the CIAs adoption of the “color revolution”, as a means of regime change, through NGOs like the NED and Soros’ Open Society, that turned the world against the United States and the West. IMHO
I was educated by Corelli Barnett’s ‘The Collapse of British Power’ in discovering that the Brits, in the main, did not exploit their ‘colonies’, in particular India. Nine out of every 10 people were poor and lived off the land. Not much to exploit there. It was only after WW1 that England began to explore the possibility of exploiting the natural resources of the colonies but that was as far as it went. Ghandi and the liberals were by then created by the British liberals. India was a burden to England and from the late 1800’s India was considered not just a burden but… a responsibility. The Brits gave the Indians law and order, women’s rights, and you can’t deny that the railways unified the nation. Africa and African nations have as much gained from Western industry as been exploited by it. Medicine, sanitation, cars, land management, communication etc. Progress. As the Russian commentator above says we cannot wear rose tinting when looking at the big picture. Not all good/bad. And there is a big distinction between French, Belgium, German and British colonialists. The good news is that all that imperial mindset is fast becoming the past. Vive la difference. Welcome multi-polarity.
What??? The kindly benevolent British nobly lifted their brown “younger brothers” out of ignorance and poverty, for their own good? Complete bullshit. Josep Borell’s garden and jungle, right? Maybe think about the 5000 years plus of Indian civilization, do you honestly think the British rule accomplished by force of arms was an improvement, and represents “law and order”? A graveyard is very well ordered, then. What are you going to say next, the kindly Americans brought civilization to the savage Red Man by murdering %99 percent and culturally enslaving the rest?
Sorry have to double-dip here. “Africa and Africans have as much gained from Western industry as been exploited by it”. Just curious if you’ve ever looked into the history of Nigeria and the British conquest, not too difficult using machine guns against flint and percussion lock weapons. How about the Belgian rape of the Congo in which perhaps 10 million Africans perished through rape, torture, murder and mutilation? What gifts from the West! You have a very curious view of history and one that I thought disappeared back around the year 1502.
Great Britain took $45 Trillion USD from India between 1765 and 1938. Stripping those assets caused 100 million excess Indian deaths between 1881 and 1920.
Railways were built for the benefit of the British East India company not the Indians and ‘law and order’ kept the British safe … not the indians.
One of the most coveted and profitable crops the British took from India was opium which the British shipped to China and fought wars over their right to sell narcotics to the Chinese … that’s right … the British East India company was the biggest drug cartel of the 19th century and the British military was their enforcers.
“Great Britain took $45 Trillion USD from India between 1765 and 1938. Stripping those assets caused 100 million excess Indian deaths between 1881 and 1920.”
Since GLOBAL GDP is around $86 Trillion TODAY that would make Britain the RICHEST nation on the planet instead of having a GDP of $3 Trillion
You really must have more respect for numbers that to inflate ad infinitum
As for Opium to China you should look at Sassoon Family and Kadoorie and Judah and see how many of them were Baghdad Jews……..it was a Jewish business operated through their bases in Shanghai and their Go-Downs in Hong Kong…………
You might see how John Kerry’s family got rich …….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family
“The Sassoon family, known as “Rothschilds of the East” due to the immense wealth they accumulated in finance and opium trade,[1] are a Baghdadi Jewish family.
Originally based in Baghdad, Iraq, they later moved to Mumbai, India, and then emigrated to China, England, and other nations.
The family’s businesses in China, India and Hong Kong especially, were built to capitalise on the opium business.”
https://www.amazon.de/Sassoons-Global-Merchants-Making-Empire/dp/0593316592
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-opium-fueled-sassoon-dynasty-the-rothschilds-of-the-east/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadoorie_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLP_Group
https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-kadoorie/
https://www.tatlerasia.com/people/michael-kadoorie
Today’s HSBC, dope bank extraordinaire, from HK, is Sassoon and many others. In other words British East Indie Company. The Company Army , a PMC , makes Wagner or Academi-Blackwater look pink.
> Since GLOBAL GDP is around $86 Trillion TODAY that would make Britain the RICHEST nation on the planet instead of having a GDP of $3 Trillion
Aren’t they? They produce almost nothing but finance capital (i.e., hot air) and somehow are able to maintain an extremely lavish lifestyle
@ Randolorian
Some people are too prejudiced to ever see the truth. Even when they recognize it, they have trouble acknowledging it. Before the British arrival, India’s portion of the world GDP was around 22%. This was after the constant attacks from Islamic bandits. And the GDP when the British left after around 300 years? One point something.
You hit the nail on the head with your comment but ingrained biases are hard to get rid of.
http://ckraju.net/books-full/Is-Science-Western-in-Origin-final.pdf
This guy was the project head for India’s first super computer Param. He’s a very well respected mathematician.
Here’s proof that reading a good book can’t do any good. And Corelli himself is better at explaining the fall of the Empire than the Empire! And the worst thing that happened to the UK was not the fall of the Empire but how they became slaves to the US dollar because Westminster didn’t have the courage to face Washington!
But back to the Empire where the sun never set, worse than India was how they balanced the trade balance with China with the introduction of opium. A powerful and dangerous commodity. As the CIA also knows only too well. In the US, there are even those who think that fentanyl is a dish that served cold!
But my point here is that the dominance of the West has a lot less time than many people think. Anyway, all that was missing was comparing the colonization of Africa and Asia with the USSR! Where they also made a plane in 10 Republics like the US today. Precisely to distribute income across the states and not to suck the states. The USSR even built some of the great metallurgical plants of the USSR’s aeronautical industry in Armenia. A country that never had ore.
The USSR was always a question of the soft power needed to face the environment of the end of WWII. Whether we agree or not. I’m just explaining why? And economically, precisely the opposite of colonization. The biggest problem that resulted from the end of the USSR for Moscow were the millions of Russians who came to live in a foreign country overnight. No rights or reduced rights. Like in Ukraine. Which also caused this war past 30 years. A problem that the EU could have solved very easily many years ago.
Ukraine went from the second richest socialist republic to the poorest former socialist republic after independence. Poorer than Albania. And more corrupt! It must not have been because of Putin. But you never know what Washington or kiev propaganda is coming up with.
Ah, the saga of the White Man’s Burden and the Hunchback of Westminster Abbey.
Haven’t heard that one for a while.
Ireland.
Far and away England’s most abused, exploited and oppressed colony.
From the completion of the conquest with the final defeat of Irish forces and Spanish allies at Kinsale in 1601, hundreds of years of cultural, linguistic and religious oppression and economic exploitation, suppression of the ancient Brehon Law system, genocide at times, especially under Cromwell.
Plantation of English and Scottish colonial settlers and displacement of Irish and theft of their land to provide land for the colonists which is the root cause of the countries’ partition into the Republic and Northern Ireland.
At independence 100 years ago, the Irish Free State was the poorest, least developed country in Western Europe because 300 years of profit and capital had been extracted and sent to England.
Answer me this:
What did the English colonial occupation give to the Irish that could be considered fair exchange and consideration for destruction of our legal, cultural and linguistic traditions, religious oppression, economic transfers to England’s aristocracy, occasional genocide, frequent famines (that of the 1840’s was only the worst), etc.
I don’t really need your answer, because this is the truth:
Absolutely fucking nothing we would not have done ourselves if left alone, and likely far less than we would have without English interference.
What did the English colonial occupation give to the Irish that could be considered fair exchange and consideration for destruction of our legal, cultural and linguistic traditions, religious oppression, economic transfers to England’s aristocracy, occasional genocide, frequent famines (that of the 1840’s was only the worst), etc.”
Potatoes. And Hunter Biden.
LOL.
Except, neither.
The Spanish discovered potatoes in S America and gave them to all of Europe.
And Hunter was inflicted on the US. If his grandmother’s family had never had to emigrate to the US, Hunter wouldn’t exist!
“, no one alive today was responsible for what happened.”
For your information, the surviving Native Americans are CURRENTLY still struggling to get the rights agreed with them in treaties with the US government, and especially their rights over land use which are currently being over-ridden by the Government and ‘Big Oil’.
Before British rule, the Indians had a thriving cotton industry. After Britain industrialised, and set up fully mechanised cotton mills in Lancashire, Indian cotton manufacturing collapsed. That’s just one example.
Wikipedia is no longer a reliable source, it’s even the opposite, it’s a propaganda tool like any other.
Just look at the lies on the global warming chart.
Moreover Larry Sanger who worked at the beginning of the project says it without ambiguity.
Good point. I exclusively use it for minor details of very basic knowledge. Anywhere there is room for bent bias towards its owners (CIA or the likes), its slant is blatant.
For anything political, especially foreign policy related, it’s heavily managed. Useful in the extreme to those who control it and useless and downright dangerous for the rest.
Wikipedia is no longer a reliable source, it’s even the opposite, it’s a propaganda tool like any other.
Some of you may recognize the name.
Has anyone ever identified Phillip Cross, the wiki editor who’s busy 24/365 shaping the current events entries to wiki to his liking?
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=phillip+cross+wikipedia&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=phillip+cross+wikipedia&t=opera&ia=web
Larry, I don’t know about other african colonialism, but you’re wrong about the nature of the french and belgian ones : it was not in practice about bringing riches, but about bringing “civilization” to these lands, i.e. building a lot of infrastructure at the taxpayer’s expense : schools, hospitals, roads, railroads, ports, airports, while their own countryside lacked those.
The end of colonization was a great news for the public budget. You can read French historians Daniel Lefeuvre about the Algerian case of study and Jacques Marseille about all of Africa : they were marxists before studying these marxists arguments of french exploitation, and stopped being it when they discovered it was a big lie.
The british colonization was the opposite : just trying to gain resources while minimizing expenditures.
Regards
It’s all about bringing civilization to those savages, by cutting off their hands. SImilar to that, USA was all about bringing democracy trough Agent Orange and napalm. Thats why all those on the recieving end love France, and Belgium and USA so much. They just can’t wait to give back the favor in the same way.
Untold Story Of King Leopold Who Killed Over 10 Million Africans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Udo9Bei7Y
Where do these people study history?
Did they confirm that the natives wanted these things? Maybe they liked not having your stinking trains.
French are still raping Africa with African frank, removal of entire forests in Gabon, ofcourse the Chinese are competing there now.
The French were less openly colourist than the Brits but they were there to exploit the Africans and limit Btitish control if the continent.
They are linked with the murder or over throw of every African leader trying to get rid of African Franc and the french.
Colonialism is at the heart of the EU’s demise and that of Canada and the US.
What’s happening now is reverse imperialism. Instead of sending out thousands of bureaucrats and their wives overseas to their colonies to oversee the transfer of wealth from the colony to the motherland, today these colonies are invading the motherlands with vast armies of refugees who are now stripping the wealth of these countries and causing massive social problems.
Russia is immune to this reverse imperialism simply because it didn’t colonise distant lands although to be fair the Russian empire did colonise most of its neighbours.
My point is that the truth hurts and karma’s a bitch.
Living in Ireland though, you would think we were once a great colonial power with the 100s of thousands of refugees in the country, but having sold our soul for a few euros we have no one else to blame.
“My point is that the truth hurts and karma’s a bitch.”
Yep, and too many people in this comment section are still living in denial, Jack Devine style. Theye just can not accept that they were the bad guys all along.
@ torrente
“They just can not accept that they were the bad guys all along.”
Bullseye.
Just in case anyone haven’t seen:
Are we the baddies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY
Also, it is a matter of where to reset to year zero and ignore breaks or pauses in conflicts that may indicate a change in a beligerent’s point of view and direction.
The above comment is not factually correct. The British made trillions out of their colonies. China and India were the most productive economies for hundreds of years, until the British looted them. Try reading Shashi Tharoor’s book: Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India.
That poor Navy kid would be better off not being associated with the Bidet mafia organisation even by name.
All this bombardment comment centred on colonialism.
Lots of shouty comments, lots of smoke, little advancement unless you have a time machine.
Resolution: I shall give up colonialism for lent.
@ Palamedes,
Love reading your comments and know and am sympathetic to your sentiments. It’s only that some people’s concept of colonization is akin to someone having a bad day. They cannot fathom the level of misery and exploitation that was wrecked on the people on the receiving end. It’s not your Cross to carry.
“Fighting lies is a tiring business, but it must be done.”
Some who deem themselves “evangelists/teachers” imagine that pedagogy is a form of fighting and in such activity they always know best; being of that view as a function Zubatovism, practiced by Father Georgi Apollonovich Gapon under the illusion that if only the papa czar knew things would be rectified, as an asset acting for and on behalf of Gospodin Sergei Vasilyvich Zubatov and the Okhrana on Admiralty Square in St. Petersburg on 22nd January (old calendar) 1905.
Some others who deem themselves “evangelists/teachers” who imagine that pedagogy is a form of fighting and in such activity they know best, arrived in Moscow in 1992 to educate the nomenklatura on how they had wasted their lives to date, but fortunately teachers from “The United States of America” had come to save them from the paths of error and co-operate to facilitate economic ressurection.
In February 2014, armed with plastic bags from which they welcomed “Ukrainians” into their own homes by way of hard plain bulka (no cookies, not even bulkas with soft cheese and raisins on top) forgetting the salt and running out of warm drinks, came all the way from “The United States of America” and congregated in Independence Square in Kiev.
A member of that congregation has now been elevated to the heady heights of assistant secretary of state of “The United States of America”.
“Fighting lies is a tiring business, but it must be done.”
What is to be done – since alledgedly the people are only capable of trade union conciousness according to Mr. Ulyanov/Lenin ?
How is it to be done?
By whom is it to be done ?
Why does it appear that “the power of American propaganda” has lessened throughout the world?
Why does it appear that “the power of American propaganda” has lessened throughout the world?
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/07/when-i-talk-about.html
@ Mirrorgazers
“Why does it appear that “the power of American propaganda” has lessened throughout the world?”
One can only wish! For it’s total eradication.
Putin’s statement about the latest western wonder weapons to be less effective than their “Soviet era” counterparts might hold a cue.
“One can only wish! For it’s total eradication.”
As previously advised there are many ways of communicating whilst MirrorGazers says 29 July 2023 at 06:26 is based/framed upon words being catalysts of lateral processes of interactive connotations with wide scopes of implementation upon which some will continue to speculate, and some will continue to ignore, thereby being rendered “force multipliers”.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/07/when-i-talk-about.html is restricted in scope although Mr. Martyanov correctly uses the term systemic, whilst “total eradication” is neither an achievable purpose nor a purpose of necessity/utility in facilitating purpose.
“Why does it appear that “the power of American propaganda” has lessened throughout the world?” is likely interpreted by some to be a rhetorical question, by some others as a question requiring posing to some as a one-off, whilst some others have already transcended the question to a large degree through parallel iterative implementations through various vectors with the complicity of the stupidities of opponents.
Hence some in significant measure might not require a cue since billiards was a popular game in The Russian Empire during the 19th Century but less so now, whilst some don’t play games since games are linear constructs.
If you meant clue through omitting the letter (l) in cue, there is little need for that, since the opponents hopes interpreted by them as “strategies” are built on ineptitude and contingent wishes, whilst by default their efforts in dumbing down will likely continue to reduce the blowback endured by others, whilst increasing the blowback endured by the opponents, validating the hypothesis that war is not restricted to things that go bang.
Russian RT published an insight article on the Western ‘trophies’ captured by the RF
https://russian.rt.com/russia/article/1180759-rossiya-nato-tehnika-izuchenie
“Increase the percentage of destruction”: Russian experts examined captured NATO military equipment
Kurganmashzavod specialists examined six types of Western vehicles obtained as trophies during a special operation. The High-Precision Complexes holding, which includes the plant, specified that equipment from France, Germany and the United States was studied. Earlier it was reported about the capture by the Russian military of Leopard tanks and Bradley armored vehicles, Mastiff PPV armored cars, as well as the AMX-10RC wheeled tank. Military experts, in turn, note that NATO protection systems are of particular interest, the study of which will allow the Russian military to more effectively deal with it on the battlefield.
Kurganmashzavod specialists examined six types of Western military equipment seized during a special operation in Ukraine. This was reported in the press service of the holding “High Precision Complexes”, of which the plant is a part.
“Vysokotochka specialists managed to get acquainted with Western-style armored vehicles. Thus, employees of Kurganmashzavod study Western technology, find weaknesses and strengths. To date, six types of Western vehicles have been investigated, including those from France, Germany and the United States. Not to say that they have found something life-affirming, but it will not be superfluous, ”the holding noted.
War trophies
Recall that before the start of the JMD and during its first phase, NATO countries, the EU and their allies mainly supplied Ukraine with ATGMs and MANPADS, artillery mounts and multiple rocket launchers. However, as the hostilities continued, the range of imported weapons expanded, replenished with tanks, combat vehicles and other equipment.
One of the first captured samples of Western weapons were two French 155-mm self-propelled guns CAESAR. In the summer of 2022, they fell into the hands of the LNR fighters in good condition and without any damage.
This self-propelled gun was put into service in France in 2008 and is a 155 mm TR F1 self-propelled gun on a Renault Sherpa 10 wheeled chassis according to the 6 × 6 scheme.
Later, Uralvagonzavod reported that both self-propelled guns were delivered to the enterprise.
New samples of Western equipment, which are equipped with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian military managed to get at the beginning of the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian forces.
“All the captured equipment is Western-made, German Leopard tanks and US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Some combat vehicles are with running engines, which indicates the transience of the battle and the flight of the crews of combat vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from combat-ready equipment, ”the defense department said.
In mid-July, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Russian military sent one more trophy to the specialists of the military-industrial complex – the British Mastiff PPV armored car. These armored vehicles were actively operated by NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“We got this copy in almost perfect condition, on the go. The crew left him in a state of panic. Of the technical malfunctions, he has two punctured wheels, ”the Izvestia newspaper quotes Ruslan Kurbanov, commander of a tank company of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet.
In addition, the military told the publication that they also received technical documentation for the operation of communications and navigation systems Mastiff PPV, which will simplify its study by Russian military-industrial complex specialists.
On July 28, the chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia”, Vladimir Rogov, announced the capture by the Russian military of a French wheeled tank AMX-10RC.
“In the Zaporozhye direction, our guys captured an AMX-10 RC wheeled tank in very good condition, it is on the move,” TASS quoted Rogov as saying.
In turn, photos of this tank circulated on social networks, as well as information that it was captured in the Zaporozhye region by soldiers of the 37th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade.
The AMX-10RC was developed in France in the 1970s and was supposed to serve as a reconnaissance vehicle that would also be capable of fighting armored vehicles. Military experts point out that despite being classified as a wheeled tank, the AMX-10 is more of an armored personnel carrier, as it is equipped with smaller caliber weapons (105mm) and is less armored than main battle tanks.
Note that NATO countries intend to continue supplying Kyiv with weapons, including armored and other heavy equipment. Thus, the Politico newspaper, citing sources in the Pentagon and Congress, reported that in September the United States could send several Abrams tanks to Ukraine: the first batch will include from six to eight units.
At the same time, Washington will supply Kyiv with an older M1A1 model instead of the modern version of the M1A2.
Earlier, the Financial Times reported that the West and Kiev admit that Ukraine has lost almost a fifth of the equipment provided by NATO in the course of its “touted counter-offensive”.
In an interview with RT, Sergei Chennyk, editor-in-chief of the military-historical magazine Military Crimea, noted that Ukrainian intelligence errors led to such losses, as well as to the fact that the Russian Armed Forces were able to seize NATO equipment and equipment.
“Apparently, European “friends” told them: “Everything will be fine, you will get enough equipment, do not be afraid that Russia has aviation. You will reach your tasks in a maximum of a week (reach – RT ). Military experts have long said that European technology is good for Europe, but not for our territory, ”Chennyk says.
“Identify weaknesses”
Captured Western equipment must first of all be studied for vulnerabilities so that the Russian military can more effectively deal with it, military observer Alexander Khrolenko said in an interview with RT.
“The parameters of electromagnetic radiation are interesting, the protection characteristics are everything that allows you to more confidently hit these machines,” the expert said.
Oleksandr Khrolenko recalled that, according to various estimates, since June 4 (when the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began), Ukrainian forces could have lost about 500 units of NATO equipment.
“The equipment that the North Atlantic Alliance supplies to the Kyiv regime can be easily destroyed. The task of the specialists of the Russian military-industrial complex is to increase the percentage of its destruction. However, fundamentally new technical solutions obtained as a result of her research should not be expected, since the bulk of the same tanks transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are very old Leopard 1s, from which Russia has nothing to borrow, ”Khrolenko is sure.
At the same time, military expert Yuri Knutov believes that Russian specialists should study all Western equipment that has come to them.
“It is of great interest in terms of design solutions and features. We can look at and use some options in the development of our combat vehicles, but the study allows us to determine the weakest points of the enemy’s equipment and thus give recommendations to our artillerymen and anti-tank warfare units for more effective destruction of both enemy armored vehicles and tanks, ”emphasized He.
Knutov believes that the equipment produced by the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, in terms of its level, has long surpassed Western models provided to Kyiv. Nevertheless, it is useful to study absolutely everything that the Russian military produces, the expert added.
“There is, for example, the Leopard 2А6 — this is one of the newest variants of this tank, which the RF Armed Forces managed to capture. It is interesting to see the composition of his armor, especially on the bottom, mine protection. The equipment of this and other tanks should also be studied in terms of ensuring the survivability of the crew or personnel. However, in general, it can already be concluded that the latest Russian infantry fighting vehicles and tanks, in terms of their security and characteristics, are superior to similar equipment of NATO countries that they met in battles in Ukraine, ”concluded Knutov.
Ukraine is a sinking ship. The conscripts they’re fielding now are beginning to surrender in greater numbers every day with no incentive other than fear of their own to fight. The committed ones, the true fascist ideologues (let’s not mince words) are retreating to the rear lines to husband their western resources, hoping some new western military advantage will emerge to save their cause.
Sir,
You should read Dr. Thomas Sowell on the harms and benefits of colonialism. Of course the pro communist left attacks it, as the Soviets worked to put in hard left black rulers to replace white minority rulers, and Putin, even though he rejects communism, still embraces that type of ruler for political purposes. The destructive force of hard left black rule in Zimbabwe and South Africa is hard to overstate, and lied about as much as the SMO. Those black leaders keep approaching Putin as if he were Brezhnev. Africa is poor because of poor harbors and interior river navigation. Its principal exports were gold, ivory and slaves because these had high value to weight ratios and were relatively easy to transport. The colonialist built the railroads. Read Kipling’s ‘the White Man’s Burden’ for an insight to colonialism from the colonials perspective.
Communists are guilty for colonialism! Also, Africans. Putin too.
There is no such thing as hard left black rule, and never was, in Zimbabwe or South Africa. Africans are neither communist nor capitalist, despite their claims. The truth is, they still live a tribal culture, where the chief gets everything, and he protects it with his crony followers, who get the crumbs. Thats why corruption goes unchecked, because it is just the chief taking what he is entitled to.
I see your adversary is attached to this organisation which includes
https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/about/advisory-council/
Kateryna Yushchenko, Former First Lady of Ukraine on its “Advisory Council” and whose CV reads as CIA………it was she who got Yushchenko to divorce his wife and marry the CIA to get elected in 2004 and sidelining Yanukovych until he got elected in 2010 and had to be Maidan’ed out in a coup by 2014…….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateryna_Yushchenko#Ukrainian_politics
https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/even-as-private-citizen-kateryna-yushchenko-finds-66004.html
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/3/11/22972056/kateryna-yushchenko-viktor-ukraine-war-russia-humboldt-park-vladimir-putin-kyiv-army-orthodox-church
No doubt this is all Viktor Pinchuk financed or even Khordokovsky…………..
Indeed. By hook or by crook, we shall worm our way into your democracy.
“The reality for Africa is the one region in the world that has suffered the most from the colonial exploitation of European nations for more than 200 years.”
Maybe you need to read about the history of british east india company which pillaged India for over 100 years. India suffered for another 100+ years after that, making the british blood suckers fat and happy.
Chinese also had their “Century of humiliation”. Maybe it’s time for “The West” to have a taste of it’s own medicine, for a century or two. Those French protesters talked about revenge for colonization, by taking over France.
It’s good to confront lies but Africa is far from most exploited continent by Europeans…That’s simply ahistorical. At least Africa still has Africans and Africans in control even if nominal control in some cases… However in USA Canada Oz etc Europeans wiped out the natives on those continents and replaced them. Some native inhabitants survive on a reservations like zoos but they have no power. Guess there is truth to the saying dead men cant talk so its not talked about.
True. Dead people can not take their lands back, or revive their culture, or correct wrongly written history.
Oh give us a break Larry, EVERYONE knows Prigozin is cooking human brains for Putin and he cracked those heads open himself with a small sledge. I suppose you are going to try and tell us that this is propaganda too !! https://www.bitchute.com/video/wcdEBL8nSfqH/
Liars unfortunately have a huge advantage from the get-go, due to Brandolinis Law : Brandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states the following:
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
With Americans, I doubt there’d be any difference. They’re thoroughly complacent in their manipulation.
Mark Twain wrote about this.
Yep. That exact sentence is a quote attributed to him.
As Albert Einstein said: “A good quote works better without some famous name attached to it.”
Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Dimitry Steshin reports from the Vremievsky ledge frontline
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27535.5/4800680/
Special report from the Vremievsky ledge: How Russian soldiers live and fight in one of the hottest areas of defense
Voenkor “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Dmitry Steshin spent two days on the edge of the Vremievsky ledge
Military correspondent “KP” visited our fighters in one of the hottest areas of defense, on which waves of the “counterattack” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are breaking right now.
He hunted enemy drones and raised his drones, checked the telephone cable, listened to poems written by a sniper, and listened to the sky, coming out of the ground. But, first, these positions had to be taken…
“ENTRY – RUBLE”
I was immediately warned: “Rotations in these positions only after dark, departure back – according to the situation, lay at least a day, or even more. They will feed you and find a place to sleep.”
I did not even doubt the latter, but my conscience did not allow me to go without gifts. I grabbed fruit and protein bars, three very high-quality rechargeable flashlights, a bag of lemongrass – it includes night vision and vigilance.
Then everything follows the usual pattern. The rear village is twenty kilometers to the front end. They show me a tunnel in greenery, this is my “garage” for the next few days. I additionally throw a camouflage net on the car, which I always carry with me.
In the village – a gentle cool evening after a fierce, white steppe heat. Soldiers stripped to the waist are wandering from the well, talking quietly. In pitch darkness, the lights of cigarettes glow. In a few minutes, this whole pastoral will end in one second, I didn’t know for sure, but I felt it. I am introduced to the position commander with the call sign “Elephant”. He “will feed me and protect me.” And unravel everything. A good commander is half a teacher, and the “Elephant” is a good commander. He has experience since July 2014. We are loaded into the car and at this moment the “Elephant” freezes, listens and turns on the radio:
– I see movement in the sky, a green luminous dot.
An unknown caller says:
– Height? Height? Direction of movement? Copter or wing?
– Up to two hundred. Right above us. I can’t hear the generator is running. We are on the route.
We drove about a hundred meters along the route and to the left of us there was a characteristic and short whistle, then it cracked and the earth shook.
The first team “Elephant”:
– Leave the car!
The driver looked like a wolf, made sure that there was no one in the car and drove into the alleys, slamming the opened door. I lay down under the white wall of the barn and turned off the camera on the third arrival. The drone hovered above us, and the infrared illumination in the nightlight was visible from a kilometer away. Judging by the fourth arrival, to the gardens, we were taken to the so-called “artillery fork”. Doors slammed in a house. I realized that her guests ran into the basement and rushed after. Some fighters kindly sheltered me, took a backpack and even guided my leg through a broken step with their hand. We sat in this cellar for a short time. Our konrbattery began to work, “knocking down the sight” of enemy artillery, and the quiet southern night with the stars returned.
Again loaded into the car. The fighters somehow had fun, feeling that in this period of time we had chosen the limit of trouble. The driver lowered a night-light-monocular over his eye, and we drove in pitch darkness.
MYTHICAL LIGHT
The basement was comfortable and spacious. Despite the heat, the humidity is 80% – the bunker floods terribly during the rains, so even in summer you have to melt the stove and dry everything. I threw things into a corner, took off my bulletproof vest. “Elephant” gave the first good advice:
– Do not remove the helmet far, let it be in plain sight, they will start firing, put it on right away. But, the basement is good, they even tried to dig us out with a tank, he fired 15 shells under the foundation:
– And then his “flighters” burned him …
The “Elephant” looked eloquently towards the entrance – there was a whole pile of empty containers from anti-tank guided missiles. And nearby, at the ready, were containers charged.
I asked a question that bugged me all the way and I tried to combine in my head the “contour maps” from the Telegram channels and our route.
– It turns out that we are on the Vremievsky ledge?
“Elephant” was surprised:
– What kind of “Vremievsky ledge”?
– Well, the village here should be like this – Vremyevka and the configuration at the front line with such a ledge. With their “counter-offensive”, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to cut it off and go to Volnovakha or the Mariupol-Donetsk highway.
“Elephant” laughs:
– Go! But who will give them!
Other fighters joined the conversation. Someone heard about this “military toponym” invented by staff and sofa analysts, but it turns out here, on the ground and underground, no one uses it. In everyday life there are quite different names. But, if anyone wants, then yes – we are now sitting in the basement on the very edge of this notorious “ledge”.
AS AT THE HOUSE OF PIONEERS
From a room where I have not yet looked, a voice comes:
– Drones are coming! From the Northeast and from the Northwest! Speed… altitude…
“Elephant”, seeing misunderstanding in my eyes, says:
– We have a spectrum analyzer, we can see everything, let’s go for me!
The room is full of equipment and batteries. Walkie-talkies hang in rows on the wall. An elderly signalman perched on the corner of the table and soldered something, dipping parts into jars of flux. Noticeably pulls childhood and favorite radio circle at the House of Pioneers.
“Elephant” begins to wind the handle of the field phone and transmits information about the drones by position. Switched from line to line on the field switch. The scene is familiar from films about the Great Patriotic War. Catches my eye:
– Yes, half of our communications are on taps (TA-57, an army field telephone, its design has not changed much even since the First World War – author). Because it works even in space, just change the batteries. And speak calmly on it, unlike a walkie-talkie. For the walkie-talkie, we have come up with codes …
– Send urgently five boxes of cucumbers?
“Elephant” sighs:
– One comrade listened to our talks on the radios and remarked: “I have a feeling that I am in a madhouse!”.
TOADS AND MINES
Drones dangled over our positions all night and all night the duty signalman transmitted information to the posts. The signalman handed me his sleeping bag with the words: “It will be softer, but I don’t care to sit until the morning.” In the morning, something soft and green jumped past my face. Said: “Qua!” And stared at me with unblinking yellow eyes. They explained to me:
– This is our toad, she goes to sleep for firewood during the day, it’s damp and cool there. And how gently she sings if in the mood!
Before going to the toilet, I am instructed:
– You listen, listen again, do not confuse the sound with flies and gadflies, and then quickly: back and forth.
I find a corner for myself so as not to disturb anyone. This is a warehouse of food and ammunition. Six anti-tank mines make a comfortable stool. “Elephant” looks in to me, proudly shows his farm:
– We don’t have a limit. Get out, mineral water, as much as you want. If you want to eat – pate, stew, soup. Take and eat.
I, in the tone of the commander, notice:
– You need a mine, take a mine!
– Certainly! And you can take two if you need! So let’s get down to business, shall we?
We wait a little while the enemy shoots back at some distant position. Then we go to refuel the generators and change the oil in them. After drinking coffee, we go to the “noble weeds” to change the problematic fragment of the telephone wire. Weeds are perennial, the trunks no longer break by hand. Again we return to the basement. “Elephant” suddenly says: “I want to fly!”. Proudly shows the certificate received at the Donetsk courses of drone pilots. For a second, I am struck by the fact that applicants passed tests right on the front line and lost their first Elephant apparatus due to enemy electronic warfare.
We are again sitting in the weeds – inspecting enemy positions from the air. The operator explains that he is interested in any new details. A branch across the path, a new car track, scattered land, and finally, a sudden appearance of debris on the edge of a forest plantation – the most visible sign of positions. The coordinates are fixed, then the artillery works. But, on this day, we did not see anything new. The “Elephant” made a dashing circle to show me the local sights and returned the drone to the base. Of course, the base, according to safety requirements, was far from the launch site.
DRONOBIKE IN BURYAN
By evening, the spectrum analyzer records an unprecedented activity of enemy drones above us. A little later, the reason for this manifestation will become clear. The “Elephant” calls up the neighbors and pulls out of the case a drone-gun “Harpy”, which looks absolutely fantastic. Posing beautifully with him. I exhale:
– Space infantry!
I strain my brain, suddenly I remember clearly and sing in the manner of a ditty: “The Klingan starship is a deflector shield, it left the warp in a vector course!”.
Everyone is laughing:
– Crap! How did you remember it?
I am embarrassed, I say that I didn’t memorize it on purpose, I remembered on a nervous basis. Sniper “Egor” invites me, after an air hunt, to look at his position, he wrote a poem about the “counterattack” of the enemy and will read it.
“Harpy” is heated like an iron. You can’t work more than 30 minutes, you need to cool and ventilate. But, with this particular gun, the guys have already grounded 5 enemy drones. “Elephant” drives a gun across the sky, checking on the radio with other “drone-piercing” posts. He notes that “dropping a drone is good, but rare”:
– My task is to prevent them from working here and doing aerial photography. Moreover – to adjust the fire on us.
He sadly notices that there are drones that guns simply do not take. Bye. Everything is constantly being improved, any military conflict is the engine of progress.
Drones leave our sector, shifting towards Staromayorsky. “Elephant”, burning himself, turns off the gun, and we break through the bushes to our basement.
ENEMY WIND
Near dusk, I sit with the sniper “Yegor” at his position in the ruins. We have parallel biographies. I was in Slavyansk throughout the siege, he came to Slavyansk from his native Svyatogorsk, the spiritual center of Donbass. He came up with a legend and made his way through the posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and has been fighting ever since. They remembered the dugout near the village of Semyonovka, covered with concrete balcony slabs – during the shelling, everyone ran out of it into the trench – so as not to crush. We didn’t know how to fight back then…
And yet, as I learn with surprise, “Egor” is the same guy who in March 2022 lay all daylight hours in a snow-covered funnel in front of the Vostochny quarter of Mariupol. They squeezed, did not allow to raise their heads, they had to dig in with knives. These shots were seen by the whole world. “Egor” waved his hand to our copter when he realized that his own had arrived, and the mobilized fighter continued to chop his native land with a knife …
“Egor” says that sniper duels are a myth. Haven’t done this in ten years. He says that it is better not to touch an enemy sniper who misses two meters up or to the side. If you kill, they will send a normal one, so let him have fun. But stray single bullets should be treated with respect, perhaps this is zeroing the distance before work. And unexpectedly concludes:
– Here the main enemy is the wind. At one distance, say, 700 meters, there can be three winds: the initial wind, the average wind, and 200 meters before the target.
– Patience is the main thing in your work? Well, after math?
– Feet froze, lay down, six hours it was impossible to move. It was in 2015 and only a year ago the feet returned to normal. In the summer I slept in woolen socks, my feet were cold. Once I made a position on the anthill, at seven in the morning the movement began, and then the ants woke up. I studied literature, read the memoirs of the Zenith and Alpha fighters, it turns out that everything is simple – the essential oils of eucalyptus or wormwood. You can mix, no living creature can stand them.
– You, one of the few who enter into some kind of communication with the enemy, even through optics. Has his habits changed in some way?
– Before the SVO, the enemy looked like a search for entertainment. Here he is sitting in the dugout, it became boring – he began to shoot from a machine gun, got a bullet between the eyes. The next one behaves exactly the same!
– And now?
Now he wants to survive. Thinks. Cunning.
It is getting dark and “Egor”, as promised, reads his offensive, abusive verse “Counterattack” in parting. It starts like this:
Dill according to the plan “Counterattack”
preparing a tank breakthrough.
Here “Leopards” do not fit,
there will be a mud swim …
A BRUTAL WORLD OF CRITICAL SITUATIONS
Just under darkness, the ground in the basement began to tremble from artillery explosions. Then the Grad started working. Not ours. He began to put 5 missiles intermittently, correcting himself. Again, enemy drones began to work in the sky. The radio started shouting something in a broken voice. The “Elephant” turned into a combat “Elephant”, gathered himself, turned to stone, very harshly said to an unknown breaking voice:
– Get together, report in the form of what is happening!
In Staromayorsk, a tough artillery preparation began on our positions – a sign of a new wave of “counter-offensive”. A little later, another message – one three hundredth (wounded. – Author), heavy, two shell-shocked. Evacuation is possible only in the dark, but only a few minutes remained until dark. It quickly became clear that the tallest fighter of the Vostok battalion was wounded, with the call sign “Kid” – a height of 2 meters 6 centimeters. He came to fight back in 2014, as a boy, slipped through because of his height. And of course I know him. Knew. Because “Baby”, the warrior Eugene, could not be saved.
“Elephant” twisted the handle of the phone and said into the receiver:
– Fantomas, if you have a movie show today, I have a free pass for you.
turned to me:
– Countermark – it’s you.
Another time I would have laughed, of course, but not now. Then a car came, it smelled of blood. The driver carefully crossed himself, and so did I. The night monocular suddenly said loudly in a rough female voice: “Ready to go.” We crept along the night road, scratching the sides of the branches of forest plantations. In order not to think about the bad, I took up internal censure – it delays and distracts well. He called what I saw in the last 24 hours “an excursion of a rotozee into the world of critical situations.” Ten kilometers later, I found an excuse for myself. These guys need to be written about, right now, in real time, and not when it’s too late. They are all alive and well. Not numbers in the statements: “Dry rations and clothing allowances are written off at the time of issue.” And I will now return to Donetsk and write everything I saw and felt. Ahead, in pitch darkness, the rubies of brake lights suddenly flashed – we drove into the zone, where you can already ride with side light. Theoretically, with some luck.
That would make an interesting piece, were it in comprehensible English.
Larry astutely points out you should believe nothing. But what you need to remember? This has always been the case. What is organized religion? The original control mechanism. They only brought up CNN when the church lost power. Every government, every religion, every organization, every PERSON – has one goal. To lie to you for the purpose of controlling you.
The original founders of America? They were a fringe terrorist organization of probably about 20% of the population. And when they won? They wrote the history books. It was a lot better than Britain at the time. But that is the actual truth.
Learn to live alone, and to be self-sufficient where you do not NEED them. That is freedom. And learn to trust no one. And watch the sheep mill in circles.
I just have one comment that says it all about COLONIALISM:
And this is it:
Official languages in:
60 countries: speak English
29: speak French
22: Arabic
20: Spanish
9: Portuguese
6: German
5: Serbo-Croatian
4: Malay-Indonesian
4: Italian
4: Russian
3: Albanian
3: Dutch
3: Chinese
South Africa & Botswana speak Tswana
Your use of “official language” is opaque.
For instance German is in Luxembourg an “administrative language” not an “official language” and even in Germany it is not in the Constitution as an “official language”but in the Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz……….
Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz (VwVfG)
§ 23 Amtssprache
(1) Die Amtssprache ist deutsch.
“5: Serbo-Croatian”
I don’t think that anyone has that as an official language. Colonial powers created new languages as a part of divide & conquer thing.
“3: Chinese”
This is reverse example, where different languages are refered to as one.
Which approach is better, is in the eye of the beholder. /s
Take, Congo, and the leader Patrice
Lumumba,he was murdered 1961 of the Belgian colonial power, and the CIA, and the UN’s gen. sec.
Hammarskjöld didn’t defend Lum-umba, but the Katanga separatist leader, but Hammarskjöld’s plane was then shot down, at Ndola, maybe of Belgian mercs. Those years the Algerian-French war, 1957-1962, as the British in Mala-ysia. So, EU was not that “peace-project” it was called, and sold, but in bloody colonial wars, as the Suez invasion 1956.
But France and Germany congratu-lated each other, after their two main wars, and both Britain and France used big armies from India and Africa, during WW1.
Yes the Indian Army was invaluable in fighting for Britain – and it was VOLUNTEER unlike the British Army
Until you passionately intervened and stopped Briansky lying further I was beginning to think he was a robot pre-programmed to trot out the script he had been given. I concluded that he was a Reptile not a human given the ice cold way he lied, lied and lied again. Did not suggest a warm-blooded human being at all. Therefore your passion in relation to challenging those lies was very welcome. I did laugh though that, when you did fitfully challenge the lies he stuck to the script carrying on talking as a loyal Party apparatchik in order to stick to message.
Being a product of Vassal College, Larry’s mistake was not asking him what his pronouns were. That’s when it all turned ugly.
I can’t stomach Devine. He is in your face with lies and his delusions. He dismisses the facts and proceeds to pull BS out of his ass to make his case. Bottom line is Ukraine has lost 20% of its territory, there is ongoing depopulation of the country, the west is out of ammo; and now the west is turning on Ukr claiming the problem of the Ukrainians is that they do not follow the west’s training and tactics, so it’d their fault. We have given them everything but the dumb fckers don’t listen to hs.
“Western propaganda describing Russia as a dictatorship and its citizens chafing under authoritarian diktats is a myth.”
Not a myth. A lie.
England and France have been lying about the parts of Europe, east of the Rhein, since before 1900. And the U.S. media has been spreading their lies among the American people, since 1914, if not sooner.
Most of the lies that they told about Germany and Austria-Hungary, they also told about Imperial Russia, before they had joined the Entente. Except for pogroms and using poison gas shells against whole ethnic villages, they’re telling essentially the same lies about Putin, that they told about Austria-Hungary in the Great War, and about the Tsars, circa the 1880’s and before. And with some modifications, about every country that they’ve sought to destroy, since 1945. With nearly the same vague ramblings about “democracy.” Whatever that is.
Modern so-called “democracy” means little other than; “vote the way we say, or else.” Thus Federal Russia is not a “democracy,” because a plurality of the Russian people elected Vladimir Putin to be their president, without the approval and permission of the Anglosphere, or Rachel Maddcow.
Is it impolite to point out the industrial revolution began in Great Britain in the late 1700s? With iron production and steam power coming online in the early 1800s. The slave act of 1807 could be seen as coming about from a place of competitive advantage… Great Britain didn’t need slavery anymore becausethey were industrializing…maybe I’m just being cynical. Lol
Not impolite, rather a British lie (there we go again).
Britain delayed the industrial revolution for 100 years and then claimed it as theirs!
The first steam engine by France’s Papin, discussed with Germany’s Leibniz, agreed that for efficiency a better boiler was needed. Papin went to London, vanished, and 6 months later the Royal Society granted Scotsman Savery all rights to fire machines. He simply wanted to pump mine water. When much later Watt applied for a license it was refused by that very same Society. It was Ben Franklin who advocated for Watt.
It’s not that it didn’t need slavery anymore, but that it wanted slavery to be modernized in order to fit modern business needs.
” Just tune in to the latest podcasts from Alex Christoforou and AniaK. Both are in Moscow on separate business (they are not working together) and are posting daily videos as they each stroll around Moscow doing their political commentary and analysis. Where are those dastardly FSB officers tackling them and stomping on their cell phones? ”
Everyone has “bias” – it is just part of human nature. If you acknowledge this reality, you are able to vastly increase your own critical thinking skills.
Like many here I have been listening/watching these commentators – partly because I really like the walking/touring format of their commentaries.
I have been waiting for Alex to go to Istanbul and walk/talk us thru the Hagia Sofia ……..but alas he travels all around Turkey, but for some reason(?) is not able/willing to touch down there (this is very odd).
The biggest thing I notice about Alex’s recent walks thru Moscow it the complete absence of street GRAFFITI and garbage/dirt- zilch, zero, none…………the cleanest place Alex has visited over the last several years!!!
If GRAFFITI and garbage/dirt is a visual sign of social breakdown, Russia shows no signs of it……..but Greece (the West) and everywhere else Alex has travelled (save Russia and Armenia) are prime exhibits of street unrest after dark.
About your media “debate” with Andrij Dobriansky, Andrij is a practiced straight-faced liar……………and he is good at it. Nothing fazes him……he keeps on track, just like Kirby. You, Larry, are a poor liar…….you have no tolerance for a smooth-talking snake-oil salesman.
Once again, it is obvious why you left the security state.
All good sources information for my “mind filter”……..keep up the good work, Larry!!
“The biggest thing I notice about Alex’s recent walks thru Moscow it the complete absence of street GRAFFITI and garbage/dirt- zilch, zero, none…………the cleanest place Alex has visited over the last several years!!!”
Clearly the Russian Ministry of Graffiti has fallen down on the job.
It was that way 30 years ago too, at the apex of its Depression.
Larry is our very own Billy Budd.
If Melville were alive today……..There’d be a sequel dedicated to Larry, sans Billy’s original fate and a happier ending, of course.
Many Youtube channels out there about life in Russia. Was watching before the war. Get off the war porn and see how people live. Try it. Different Russia. Eli from Russia. Svetlana from Russia. Sheekoz Family. Normal people. Good grief. Get a helmet and get in the game people.
Wow such projection from the Ukrainian propagandist. Russia helped Africa to become independent countries
Not sure if Dobriansky is a Straussian Ignoble Liar like his bosses at State.
Their trick is not just lying, but telling DIFFERENT lies to others so they can even appear to disagree at talk shows etc.
A book – Shadia Drury’s 1988 The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss – is the best tool to see this method.
“… whatever you read in establishment media always assume that there is a purpose .”
Bingo! That is exactly right. It is not news, but either misdirection, or a shaping of the narrative. In the end it is propaganda.
So tuning into the Western media occasionally as opposed to entirely shunning it can be very informative. Listening carefully to a known liar can often tell one a lot.
Time to check the GDP’s in Europe,
the costs of the Ukrainian war:
Sweden down 2.4 % on a year, that’s much, it use to be the other
way around. Maybe the NS sabo-tage behind this dip.
The interest rates goes up, the inflation about 10%, as unemploy-ment, soon people are back from
vacations, it will be a tough fall.
It is Ukraine to blame for this, soon
Europe is as failed state, EU’s worst mistake, to support Kiev,
but EU is a creation of the US.
Good take Larry
Although France and England were the largest colonialists/imperialists in Africa, we should not overlook the appalling hideousness of the colonization and exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium, particularly between the years 1885 and 1908, during which time rubber started to become an international commodity and the Congo was found to be inundated with rubber trees. To profit immensely, the Belgians more of less gang-pressed the entire population into slaving away in rubber plantations, relocating vast numbers of villagers and destroying the social fabric of tribes and villages.
Disease, epidemics, cruelty, starvation and organized attacks and murders cost the lives of millions of Congolese, with the upper estimates as high as 13 million. Belgians and their native hirelings routinely chopped off the hands of Congolese as punishment for failures to meet work quotas and whatever other alleged offenses. You couldn’t imagine a worse nightmare than this depraved reality if you tried. Ironically, Belgium’s capital, Brussels, is also now the de facto capital of the entire European Union, as well as the seat of various EU institutions. If this isn’t an ominous historical legacy for the center of gravity of European politics, what is?
The Slavyangrad Telegram channel published an interesting letter that was apparently inadvertantly posted on a West Point forum.
Ostensibly written by an American officer on his return from a 6 mo. stint with the General Staff in Kiev, it throws some light on the developing rancour and divisions within the upper strata of Ukrainian and American command structures.
There are two parts:
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/57166
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/57167
Spoiler: Nothing really revelatory, but it confirms what we all suspected to be giving the West’s politicians the cold sweats.
Thieves together. The West Point theory warriors and the corrupt Ukrainian military. Thanks for posting that. I had missed that particular debacle.
Mercouris expounded on this today.
In short, this is Washington’s recipe for the suicide of a nation.
Considering the vile nature of the nation post Maidan, I would guess this will prove to be a good thing in the long run.
Western European colonization and plunder of Africa is a historical fact that their liberal media and academia can hardly deny. But that hasn’t stopped Western Europe (and their American successors) from trying to associate and conflate Russia with their depredation of Africa. We of Afro-Caribbean heritage are well aware how the colonial subjugation of Africa led to 20 million of our forbears being captured and transplanted to the West as part of the lucrative slave trade and the plantation economy which was the foundation of Europe’s transition to and dominance of 19th/20th century capitalism. Since we became nominally independent, Europe and America have adapted and developed many tools of neo-colonial domination of not only Africa but virtually all of us in the Global South. We are exploited via debt peonage and other forms of financial outflows perfected by western multi-national corporations. It was only in the 60s and 70s that we could spend on the Soviet Union as a counterweight to the Western economic dominance. It is this anti-colonial alliance between Africa and Russia which is being revived and which the West fears and doing its best to confuse even us former colonial subjects.
Hi Larry,
I watched your appearance with that Dobriansky person, and for sure, I don’t know how you can stand it! The lies that he casually throws out have no basis in reality, for those who think for themselves and follow the real news from around the world.
I’m very impressed with your self-control, your ability to respond with true facts across a wide spectrum, and your presentation with absolutely no specific preparation.
Thanks for carrying the flag!
Larry, it’s getting personal for all of us who are living in the light. I found out recently that there’s a large cemetery commemorating Banderites in my home town in Canada ( Scotland Today online – Hidden in Plain Sight – The Ukrainian SS Nazis living in Great Britain & Canada). Ukrainian views and interests are deeply embedded here – reflected in Chrystia Freedland’s appointment as deputy prime minister.
Bandera’s widow and kids settled in Toronto after his death.
Their values are totally antithetical to what the West likes to parade as its ‘values’.
Back pre-Maidan years ago, I spent time on a forum where an active female member of the UCC: UA-CA Congress would go on and on, muchn to the forum’s derision. She was quite hate-filled in fact. Then one day, just after Breivik’s 2012 murder spree, this Ukrainian lady declares she has fallen in love with ‘the handsome Breivik’ and wishes only that she could have born his children.
THIS is the true nature of banderism. Don’t doubt it for a minute.
Matt Van Dyke said to Judge Napolitano that Russians have no toilets. 🙂
It must be really embarrassing to lose a high tech conflict to people that have to take a dump behind the shed.
Oddly enough, people with no indoor plumbing have a need to steal Ukrainian toilets according to western propaganda lol. I’m sure those barbarian Ruskies just don’t understand you hook the toilets up to a sewer system. The propaganda is just SO incredibly stupid.
Everything in Banderistan is shitty copy of stuff from Nazi Germany. Back in the day, ze German propaganda was saying that primitive Russians did not know what plumbing is, and that they were stealing water faucets thinking that water would magically sprout from them.
The joke response was that, it must have been really embarrassing for Germans to lose a war to those dumb people.
I have recycled the same joke for the same recycled propaganda. One could say that indeed there is nothing new under the sun, but this video proves othervise:
https://t.me/zoka200/12928
Torrente
I always smile when the “educated West” claims that Eastern people are dirty and impure. It turns out that the Russians have saunas, and they use them regularly, as you hear, and they can’t bear to bathe in the water cut from the frozen lake, even in freezing cold. To counter this, I would like to mention a small story taken from my own life: my daughter’s class at her school contacted the class of a similar French school, and as part of a so-called exchange student agreement, my daughter went to France for a week where a family hosted her, and a few weeks later we we hosted her. The French girl spent more than 24 hours traveling on a bus by the time she came to us in the evening, my wife naturally waited for her with a prepared bed in the guestroom and prepared the bathroom for her so that she could bathe after the long journey. The surprise was that the French girl quite firmly rejected the suggestion to take a bath, much to our astonishment, and then, seeing that we weren’t expanding, she declared that she wasn’t going to take a bath now, since “she has already taken a bath once this week”!
Maybe twenty years ago I was travelling overland between Kiev and Donetsk and we stopped at someone’s roadside home along the way for some reason or other. His toilet was an outhouse but he did have an impressive mammoth tusk to show us.
The problem with debates is that the outcome depends more on who has the best debating skills rather than who’s telling the truth
You are absolutely right.
It would only be necessary to clarify what all counts under debating skills.
White teeth, makeup, styled hair, makeup, clothing hype?
The German foreign minister is willing to pay for that.
That’s why her debates are absolutely purposeful and convincing.
https://reitschuster-de.translate.goog/post/baerbock-beschaeftigt-stylistin-fuer-7-500-euro-im-monat/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Tony Blair’s debates were silky smooth but the policies underneath were as crude and flawed as the worst of them. Slick Willy loved Blair’s flair and the Bushtard was left simply in awe and could offer no comprehensible rebuttal, so just let him have his way with him.
And how educated, unbiased, intuitive and informed the listeners are. Informed listeners would already have the counterarguments running in head.
Look, I’m from former communist East Germany, GDR. The whole east Europe was somehow “colonized” after WWII by the Russians with Marxist Ideology and Communist Partys holding it together.
You can’t seriously challenge this narrative.
And in that sense, he meant Russia colonized Africa after the collapse of their Colonization.
He was smart and cunning, a crook although.
It’s difficult to challenge such guys.
Maybe, but the Communists in
the Red Army train, 1945,had to reconstruct the whole of Eastern Europe, as in Poland,
and their GDP was rather good, compared to 1990. So all things bad before, and marvellous good today, isn’t
correct either. Good educ-ation, health and security, caring for children and workers, housing, most
of Eastern Europe fell back
in many fields,living standard,
post 1990.Now living on the EU-budget.
When the bourgeoise priva-tizing what was owned of the society, in west, they give no value to such, – “OK the furniture then, maybe 2 millions, not more, “but activities in health, fex, has a goodwill worth of patients worth 50 millions, they forget that. As a good car workshop, the tools, not that much, but
all the customers, in the quarter, represents the worth.
So it was looting, as in Russia
during the 1990s, a terrible event, of course many wan-ted the old system back.
The most important as we know today, there was peace in the valley, those years,1945 – 1990 and most people really
enjoyed that, the new wars in
Europe came with Nato, a “defense alliance” , without a cause, attacked Yugoslavia
1999, the same day Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade, April 6, 1941, 78 days, 35.000 air raids, that’s fascism, as Maidan, worst burned fear, of course Russia must react, and here we are…
Adding, don’t forget, the womens emancipation, they
got education and new professions, in the Eastern bloc, as in the GDR, most women in the BRD didn’t work, they had no children welfare, a pre-school where the children could develope
their talents, early on.
Then they claimed that the commie system suppressed the “female personality” no make-ups, but today, ‘Look what you have done!,’ old commies, when in the west, most women will have her own career and a good salary, some caring for her children, so the GDR goes west, sorry for us even the Stasi surveill-ance system, soon followed, mission accomplished, Comrade Honecker. But they
blame the new enemy for that, Al-Qaida, terrorist for
that game-changer. They fooling us, every day.Then
they finnish off the islamists,
time for Ukraine…
Worst case, was Poland, both
the anti-communist catholic
church, and then Walesa’s Solidarnosc, didn’t like women on a tractor, or in a mine, one of their driving forces, that’s what ended the
Polish females abortion rights, now we know, but the
women protesting daily, but silence in the west, think Poland banking on a new huge Natoarmy,for the Suwalki gap… so hush…. like Stalin during the 1930s…
I think Martin Armstrong still holds the US record jailing for contempt of court.
The govt wanted his cycle analysis methods. Mr. Armstrong offers this:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/times-are-a-changin/
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide, the chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon, for the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times, they are a-changin’
Matt Van Dyke’s name came up in some things I read about Syria a few years back. He was there “supporting” the “moderate rebels”. If I could remember the sources, I’d post them, but its been too long. This dude is either intelligence linked, or more likely just a war whore/grifter. IIRC, he was all over the Middle East in various conflicts in some type of “volunteer” capacity. I’ve wondered how the Judge got hooked up with this dude and if he knows anything about his background. As soon as I saw his name on Judge Nap’s channel, I remembered him. Hence, I’ve never listened to one of his interviews, just strikes me as a general POS.
The historical distortion we witnessed with Dobriansky reminded me of the movie “Rollerball” where genuine history is deliberately lost, a clear example of a totalitarian tactic.
A tactical disaster for the Ukrainian infantry.
8 armored vehicles, including two tanks destroyed within minutes.
This tactical behavior is suicide.
Who is training these soldiers?
https://t.me/russlandsdeutsche/19530
https://t.me/russlandsdeutsche/19531
Trophies from the battlefield: Leopard – not a “mass grave”, but clumsy, and as a convenient target
Specialists are studying NATO equipment that fell into the hands of our fighters
https://svpressa-ru.translate.goog/war21/article/381686/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The Abrams are now expected to arrive soon.
Would be an interesting addition.
In combat, everything has to be reliable, simple, easy to maintain, and tactically versatile and effective.
Is ‘double-down’ Sullivan upset yet? It’s only Ukrainians, after all.
What is of utmost importance to understand is how all of these politicians and spokespeople like Austin, Milley, Nuland, Kirby, Mr. Potato Head, Schiff, Clapper, Comey, Pelosi, Schumer, Psaki, Yellen, etc., AS WELL AS the MSM “legally” get away with all of their lies. They get away with them because of legislation that was passed a relatively few years ago that allowed the US government to legally propagandize (lie to) American citizens within the US and, not only that, literally pay the MSM to also do it. It was called the “Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012”. Do yourself a very big favor and read it.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112hr5736ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr5736ih.pdf
Just exactly WHY was that Act passed?
Lying is now a multi-billion dollar business and it isn’t just used car salespeople in that business. In “the West”, at least, telling the truth often times leads to imprisonment and a life of poverty.
And speaking of lies, watch what “Howard Beale” had to say about television and lies (starting at about 35 seconds in) back in the 1970s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPNBm4xv000
The people I know will not give me the satisfaction of admitting any mistake in their opinion of Ukraine. I expect to hear: blame any problems on Trump, Republicans.
Any beat down of US military would be blamed on not sending in air power fast enough, etc…One thing for certain Russia will always be the evil doer, backward, stupid people.
The truth may not be known and if it is and is repeated-that is treason.
My gut tells me US will continue to lose influence and the fact is not to be repeated.
I don’t thing it can be reversed norm can other countries gaining in stature as the world changes.
Your simple rebuttal should be: “Have you been to Ukraine?”
As a small child in Hong Kong I witnessed the fall out of Mao’s Great Leap Forward. I was born there and my family left when I was 9 years old to return to Scotland – they took me with them……
Whilst not understanding then what was going on, I do remember the corrugated iron shanty towns of refugees from mainland China. When a typhoon blew in they simply disappeared.
This is within living memory of many Chinese and, whilst the current Chinese government is ‘communist’, in reality it’s CINO, Communist In Name Only. Successive leaders have worked to improve the country by adopting capitalist methods. There are now, allegedly, more Rolls Royce’s sold in China than in any other country in the world.
In many ways Russia is much the same. As a democracy it’s not perfect by any means, but it’s only been such for 30 years or so. I have children older than that and I’m only 66 years old.
Meanwhile, with hundreds of years of democratic history behind them, most western nations are doing their best to dismantle their democracies and head toward a Globalist nightmare controlled by people you wouldn’t trust the welfare of a goldfish to.
The nirvana of a harmonious, conflict free, one nation world is irresistible to the ideologists. And yet their generations long attempts to create that idyllic utopia hasn’t come close to materialising.
Since the end of WW2 the world has seen almost one major conflict every year, despite NATO and the UN being devoted to international peace. Both have failed miserably as organisations and in the commercial world would, long ago, have been broken up and consigned to the dustbin of useless and expensive experiments.
The UN’s latest attempt at remaining relevant is to mercilessly promote the climate change hoax, inventing the largely fraudulent IPCC to terrify and misinform people, with the UN’s current head honcho António Guterres announcing to the world that we have moved on from a climate crisis to a Boiling World!
Predictably, Mr. Guterres is a socialist politician from Portugal.
Returning to China and Russia; why does anyone imagine either country is interested in militarily dominating the world and enslaving it to their ‘communist’ empires?
The west, and in particular America, are their best customers. Why would they want to fight their way back into poverty when they have discovered the route out?
Last year Xi announced that the world will see more change over the coming short term than it has in the last 100 years. I imagined him referring to the next 25 – 35 years but, with the establishment of a BRICS international trading currency possibly only a year or two hence, that change will likely be over the next 5 to 10 years.
We are looking at a New World Order, it’s just not the one Klaus Schwab imagines.
America/NATO/Europe will be forced to retreat back to their homelands and rather than dominating the world by military might, they will be forced to compete with the ‘global south’ – on the factory floor.
The west will no longer have the luxury of printing money. We are going to be forced to work to earn it. The $30Tn debt America has run up will have to be paid off, as will the debt the rest of the west has run up.
When Russia has completed it’s rout of Ukraine, NATO will be emasculated. The UN will be a global laughing stock. Neither will exist tomorrow as they do today, if at all. They will have been exposed as failed entities and the concept of Globalism will perish on the battlefields of Ukraine.
Buckle up folks, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Nationalism will be the flavour of global existence for generations to come, and we’ll be all the better for it.
I hope you are right. Globalism/Corporations are the unelected tyrants. The shortness of this reply indicates my complete agreement with you.
Globalists are a strange breed, using ultranationalists in Eastern Europe to achieve their goals.
I think Henry Ford wrote something about the technique, with a Soros addendum to his writings. I’ll have to check on that.
US citizens used to understand this :
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Exodus 22:18, ordains capital punishment for a specific class of sorcerors called “mekashshefim.” mekashshefim means farmaka, drug pushers.
So we are dealing not just with liars, bad enough for blood pressure, but with real satanists, not even anymore human, mekashshefim .
Russia in its way sees this, but the liberal US establishment that unleashed this will die by it – or recoil from the abyss.
The feds dropped part of the charges against FTX…against the Ukraine crypto mafia supporting New World Order.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/feds-drop-campaign-finance-charge-against-sbf
It goes like this in Oregon… 1/2 a million to the democratic party…. Slalinas… Kotek..direct line… Senator Wyden….
…well… he was the “fixer”…the “handler”. Just amazing the courts dropped this.
I have to say that that these lawsuit by Missouri vs Biden and the also the State of Louisiana have the right of it.
We need to get to our state governments to disband Washington since it clearly isn’t serving US citizens interest and has now become a self service mafia.
Our Declarations of Independence say thus:
“The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
We The American people are there folks, so we need to be proactive and make each state disband the US congress, since witnessing Washington total lack of truth regarding the war in Ukraine and utter failure to prosecuting the Biden Admin for anything in connection with money laundering in China and Ukraine. The unfairness of prosecution of Washington whistleblowers at present.
It was a joy to watch a liar being called a liar to his face, to see him squirm and have no come back. I’d bet the bloke’s never been in a bar fight, and is clearly unused to confrontation.
What I witnessed may not be due so much to Irish ancestry as to gonads in action, standing their ground and asserting their position.
Ten attaboys for having a go. We so rarely see opposing views being aired on TV these days.
“Remain alert. Question everything.” With four words, Larry nails it.
Russia colonized north-eastern asia…slowly during the 19th, just like the USA colonized the west.
as simple as that.
Besides, how to colonize Africa when everything is under others’ control ?
thinking before telling
Geoffrey, communist from Belgium – pro-russia
“… just like the USA colonized the west.”
Just like the USA, they killed all of the natives, and their cultural heritage too. As simple as that. Belgians, on the other hand would intergrate those people as 1st class citizens, and protect their cultural heritage and way of life, making Belgium their motherland too.
Russia’s quest to sabotage Ukrainian forces’ internet access by targeting the Starlink satellite operations that billionaire Elon Musk has provided to Kyiv since the war’s earliest days appears to be more advanced than previously known, according to a classified U.S. intelligence report.
Satellite interference can happen in two places: (1) in space, by targeting the satellites directly, and (2) on the ground, where weapons can target receivers, according to the Secure World Foundation. Russia has been working on both. They use the Tobol to go after Satellites.
The interference that happens in space, what’s known as uplink jamming, blends a signal with the original broadcast, which distorts the information all users of that satellite receive. Tobol almost certainly works in this way, according to Bart Hendrickx, a researcher .
Moscow has experimented for months with its Tobol electronic warfare systems in a bid to disrupt Starlink’s transmissions in Ukraine, the top-secret assessment contends.
The document, among a cache of sensitive materials leaked online by Texeira, dates to March and does not indicate whether any of Russia’s tests have been successful. But the intelligence finding is striking nonetheless as it appears to affirm what observers had only hypothesized previously: that a program ostensibly designed to protect the Kremlin’s satellites can be employed instead to attack those used by its adversaries.
“These systems constitute an important layer in Ukraine’s communications network,” said Maj. Charlie Dietz, a Defense Department spokesman.
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Starlink has proved vital to Ukraine’s military, which relies on the small portable terminals to communicate across the battlefield and relay intelligence. Russian forces have had success disabling the Ukrainians’ ability to use other communications equipment, including radios and cellphones, but the satellite signals are harder to disrupt.
It is unclear whether Starlink outages that have been reported in Ukraine were the result of Russia’s Tobol experiments or other jamming capabilities used by Russian forces such as truck mounted Tirada-2 systems. Ukrainian troops reported having experienced disruptions October, as they moved toward Russian positions during successful counteroffensives in the south and east.
Analysts have identified at least seven Tobol complexes in Russia, all of which are located next to facilities used to track satellites (two are in Western Russian near the conflict zone. Shcholkova, Armavir) , according to a report, a privately funded group focused on space security and sustainability. Some of the sites are headquarters for mobile jammers, analysts said
Now who was supporting apartheid in South Africa to the bitter end hmmm?