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    Damien Hirst Spiritual Day Blossom 2018   • Zelensky A ‘Servant Of The People’ – But Not The Ukrainian People (Kornilov) • Putin Has Led Russia T
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 25 2023]

    #135744
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Boris Johnson Sent To Texas To Lobby Republicans To Keep Arming Ukraine”

    Who? What? Um, Boris isn’t PM, and Texas isn’t the Capital State. So a random guy went to a random place, and likes Ukraine. Well, don’t go out to any dive bars and say that!

    DeSantis Twitter Space”

    Finally figured this out. DeSantis isn’t enough of a plant to be theirs, and they wouldn’t sacrifice a whole state to normal, functional policies to win the nation because they have no awareness and no self control. However, they CAN take an existing DeSantis and get him to split the vote. Ross Perot style. I guess we’ll see how that goes for them, but I think they can go around, get a Kennedy, prove that the party system and government still work, and all their focus on Trump will become just a distraction.

    Central planning at work. You can’t be everywhere. You can’t pay attention to everything. They just make them pay attention to the one thing, put up a lot of chaff about stuff you’re not doing, then pay golf at MarLago and let your guys work in the background. Like installing Federal Judges for instance, or warning and hardening Russia.

    “one of the top side effects.” “Flu Vaccine”.

    That is, one of the most common and least useful medicines. Just hurts people. They get the flu anyway. Ask them.

    ““So if they had at the start of it 500 tanks – now they have 5,000. If there were 20,000 men who were able to fight – now there are 400,000. So how exactly did we demilitarise it?”

    Interesting. And I’m interested in him saying it. Let’s level up to saying “he said it, so the specific facts he states are 90% likely true.” And also: What are they up to? He may be bracing Russia for the possibility of a much bigger war and larger sacrifice, and no surprise since Biden is happy to give planes (that aren’t his) and to authorize actual invasions with all-American equipment to test the waters of Russia’s response. Classic narcissist control stuff: test the waters, see who they are, if they protest say, “What? You let me last time. C’mon baby.”

    As if…I have to now? That was yesterday, GFY. It’s a miracle I didn’t slap you then, consider yourself lucky. I saved your life for you out of the goodness of my heart.

    Zelensky changed his stance and denied that the settlement was“occupied by Russia.”

    Reality a la carte. It’s both true and not-true. A classic.

    “[destroyed a NATO force] almost 4 times its size” Actually +10x

    Because Russia is good at war and the Anglos suck. The U.S. was barely in WWII. We lost every war since then. And in WWII at least SOME of our equipment worked, unlike now. Does everyone love the Warthog, think they’re great and have lots of uses for them? Cancel them. Does everyone know the new camo is terrible, stupid, and doesn’t work? Shut up and take my money, I want those soldiers seen. Does everyone think the all-beret uniform is gay? Well we’re headed for an all-gay service shortly, so that’s perfect.

    What I’m saying is, we make stuff that DOES work pretty frequently. It is almost always rejected. Relentlessly in favor of gear that doesn’t. Gear that works at Sandia Labs we (i.e. the Clintons) sell to China.

    ““Mearsheimer expects that Russia, which already has incorporated four Ukrainian oblast plus Crimea, will take another four oblast from Ukraine.”

    That seems likely as a minimum. The more expensive the West makes this, the more Russia needs to get to offset the price. However, what do you do with the rest of it? All West?

    “Boris Johnson, hurried to Kyiv – presumably on Washington’s instructions”

    You think so? Why? If he’s being TOLD by the United States why is he also flying here to CONVINCE the United States? Is anyone in charge under your theory?

    “electronic eavesdropping of Zelensky’s eagerness for longer-range missiles”

    Real “Peace” candidate. See it was all a scam, right from the first day Kolomoisky funded his TV show “Servant of the People”. CAA Agency. Reality TV. Just like here.

    “supply Ukraine not only with US-made F-16s but similar fourth-generation fighter jets, including Britain’s Eurofighter Typhoon and France’s Mirage 2000.”

    Thus Wagner saying “Stop the party, this is not fun time. This is is serious and you’re about to get shot. All of you.”

    “undergirded the Hitlerian doctrine of ‘Drang nach Osten’..”

    Same Hitler, same people. Western bankers – a mafia, even – arm and fund Hitler’s Nazi force to invade and conquer Russia, while they sit safely at home drinking champers. If they lose, oh well, nothing bad happens. If they win as Pinky would say, “They Try to Take Over the World!!!” Nor was funding and arming Hitler the first time.

    Am I wrong? Is my history faulty? Half the NY banks were giving loans to Germany. IBM and the Bush family were neck-deep. We fed them all the oil they could dream of. Ford won an Iron Cross for equipping them. Time Magazine put them on the cover. NY Times wrote glowing reviews. Later, when Russia was our “ally” against “the bad guys” we gave them two trucks and two planes. Attaboy! Go get ‘em!

    Oh yeah! And the King of England, directing Hitler where and when to bomb his own country. Classy. That’s the kind of Fascist Nazi he was. Charles never fell far from the tree, and now Russia is once again fighting the combined British Empire worldwide, including their monster-puppet, the United States. Burns my biscuits.

    Malyar suggested that rumors of Zaluzhny’s possible injury or death were being spread by Russia”

    Once again, Russia says something: it’s true. Ukraine says something: it’s false. Anyone in the West says anything, ever: it’s false. No one cares. Truth is optional, flexible, fictional, there are no consequences anywhere.

    “sparing Ukraine its current devastation and the U.S. more than $100 billion in outlays to date.”

    Wha? Like Covid, we didn’t “HAVE” to do anything. And in fact, what we did do and spend backfired and were far worse than saving our money and doing nothing. That is, the $150B and Ukraine are totally separate issues.

    “[Colonialism] using ideology as a justifying force for aggression,”

    That is to say, lies and propaganda. De facto Religion. White Liberals Burden.

    “The FBI Has Crossed the Rubicon (Faddis)

    Sadly, this is why they have to keep going. Everyone committed treason, now they have to do more or be hung. They have to overturn the country forever whether they wanted to originally or not. So expect that 30,000 tons of fertilizer to reappear shortly, with 13 of 15 members being FBI.

    50 U.S. Senators just got emergency satellite phones so they will be in communication when it happens.

    “The FBI has refused to provide the documents.”

    Must be nice. However, at least we’re out in the open at last. It used to be they could control the narrative so no one suspected, or controlled the Congressmen so no one asked. Then they used to classify it so no one could, or control the media so no one reported it. That goes back 50-70 years, as the FBI has always existed for this purpose. But here we are: Congress DOES ask, it is NOT hidden, and the media DOES report it. That leaves the FBI with no cover except “No thanks, we’d rather break the law right in front of you.” Finally we can see who they always were.

    “the FBI has announced that it destroyed all of the evidence it gathered into the actions of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and the mountains of foreign money that flowed to the Clintons when Hillary was Secretary of State.”

    Hahahahaha! You so funny. The internet is forever. What do you think was in Comey’s safe when Trump fired him and opened it?

    “No global warming in almost 9 years”

    Yes, they knew this. Maybe as far back as 1979 when they paid to reverse the “Global Ice Age” science into “Global Warming.” Then they knew THAT was dead by 2010 and changed it to “Climate Change” which is agnostic word and means nothing. So we’re worried about the “Climate” but there’s no Warming? I thought it was the warming unto-Venus that was the only reason we WERE worried. Now none of that? Wut?

    And now, they had figured out the long cycle and the sun cycle by 1975 and knew it would have a blow-off top in heat as usual before flipping into cooling. …As per the 5,000 years we can see. That includes volcanoes for some reason, who are no doubt the CO2 cause, and also frequent ash-winters. Aaaaaaaaaand here we are. No additional warming, stalled for years, and it’s actively cooling now in Germany, US, and elsewhere, right in schedule. In fact, it’s startlingly cold today in summer.

    Problem: is this just normal, long-term flex, or are we going into a Maunder Minimum where crops fail, population collapses, and governments fall? I’d say no reason to predict that, but that is NOT what all government action is saying, in the STRONGEST POSSIBLE way. THEY are”
    1) Capturing all food, all farmland, vertically integrating it all under [fascist] control and setting up structures to distribute it.
    2) Erasing all voluntary government so the government will be singular, dictatorial, and military in nature to be strong enough to endure such an event
    3) Set up all hardship, all rationing right from the top with non-stop promotion of Socialism, tiny houses, Green New Deal, rationing social-credit scores, and CBDCs.
    4) Attacked ALL the food growing areas first, that would green in such conditions: Libya, Sudan, Ukraine, among others.
    5) Created a BTU-currency, where HEAT is the gold of the world. That is to say, “Carbon Credits”.
    6) Captured all the HEAT in the world, fighting over oil and gas, and turning off people’s stoves even now to hoard it for later.
    And don’t forget:
    7) Killed and culled the entire world population with a medical event that killed millions, perhaps billions, lightening the load and perhaps having few enough people that governments might survive. They also said they wanted to kill several billion, as per Deagle, and only got a fraction of the desired deaths.
    7a) Gave an injection that savages fertility worldwide. Causing millions of family lines to be extinguished. This is after every active measure to stop families and fertility for decades, as noted by plummeting sperm counts and constant miscarriages.

    What do all those actions say to you? What do they point at?

    Here’s the problem: you can know all this, but what good does it do you? Or any of us? Suppose you knew you were dropping into a minimum so solid that England would become Norway and the Thames would freeze solid enough for a troop of elephants to walk on with an entire City carnival. (1600AD) And? If you knew this in 1400 and were the Borgias or the Medicis, nothing you could do would help. It’s too far away. There’s not enough gold in the world and the gold will be worthless compared to wheat. Your family line will have to make those decisions generations from now and may be idiots. It’s not like you can get a field that keeps wheat, ALL fields will have no wheat. And everyone will be looking at YOU, the rich guy when this happens. Yet if you’re poor, you die first. What can you do?

    Yeah, look at the list above. If you’re the deMedicis and run the joint, THAT is EXACTLY what you’d do. And exactly what they’ve done. — I — may have no evidence, but I can tell you THEY think so and are in a position to know, and that doesn’t inspire confidence. We’re all too old, but tell your children to face it with good heart, good cheer, and an adherence to the goodness of God. “it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

    #135745
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Oroboros
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    #135747
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    “we are all just stars”

    We are all just procrastinated corpses, discombobulated by the pungent smell of immortality.

    #135748
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #135749
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #135750
    zerosum
    Participant

    Depopulation tool: Vladimir Zelensky

    From a different source:” meat-grinder”
    a Private Military Contractor consisting of 60,000 men totally destroyed a #NATO trained, (since 2014), supplied and led force almost 4 times its size in #Bakhmut

    This is what’s secretly worrying #NATO commanders, this is why “fortress #Bakhmut” is suddenly irrelevant.
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    Believe the lies instead of the real history presented by a blogger

    The War in Ukraine Was Provoked


    The War in Ukraine Was Provoked
    By Jeffrey D. Sachs
    May 24, 2023

    George Orwell wrote in 1984 that “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
    Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past.
    The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.

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    Try again Chose – Believe a blogger or MSM and the FBI
    https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-fbi-has-crossed-the-rubicon

    That fact has now been publicly exposed. The whole nation can see that the FBI acted in violation of law and every tradition we have had since the inception of the republic.
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    A blogger, Dr. D, said,

    Problem: is this just normal, long-term flex, or are we going into a Maunder Minimum where crops fail, population collapses, and governments fall?

    Here’s the problem: you can know all this, but what good does it do you? Or any of us?

    We’re all too old, but tell your children to face it with good heart, good cheer, and an adherence to the goodness of God. “it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”
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    Complex Life can only lives/exist on the accumulation of 4 billion years of compost.
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    #135751
    John Day
    Participant

    Vanishing Demand Shows Why Dollar’s Star Has Peaked
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/vanishing-demand-shows-why-dollars-star-has-peaked

    #135753
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Yevgeny Prigozhin is imo a very dark and unsavory individual. It would not much surprise me to see him and Zelensky making nice-nice.

    But… but… without money, we’d have to trust each other. We’d have to verify. We’d have to be engaged in the process outside pettily toiling for $$/spending $$ on what’s offered. McDollars for McBurgers, etc. Without money, we’d have to take each other seriously… stop laughing. This is serious.

    Gold Standard Mold Standard

    If in money we trust
    And you bite the dust
    And it’s not enough
    If in money you trust
    But it’s not enough
    And you bite the dust
    If in money you trust
    Where’s god?

    If in money we trust
    If in money we trust
    No substitute
    When god is dead
    And it’s not enough
    Then in money you trust
    Then they call the bluff
    When god is dead
    And money’s not enough
    In what do you trust
    When it’s not enough?
    Where’s god?
    When god is dead
    And it’s not enough
    What substitute
    What substitute
    When god is dead
    And it’s not enough
    When god is dead
    And it’s not enough
    If in money you trust
    If in money you trust
    But it’s not enough
    Then you call the bluff
    Where’s god?
    No substitute
    No substitute
    You’ve got to think it through again

    ***

    “We are all just procrastinated corpses, discombobulated by the pungent smell of immortality.”

    Nihilism should not be confused with mortality any more than ancestor worship should be confused with necrophilia; and death should not be confused with cessation of awareness itself.

    Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
    A man walks into a bar and leaves before his ashes hit the floor
    Stop me if I ever get that far
    The sun’s a desperate star that burns like every single one before

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    P.S. I wouldn’t trust Steve Milloy to put proper PSI in my tires.

    #135754
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Progress is Our Most Important Product

    San FranShitsco’s High Tech community has pooled their above average intelligence and insight to curb the poo-problem on the ever so woke streets

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    #135755
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Despite his obvious love of and gift for music, I’ve always seen Bowie as an essentially visual artist:

    Lazarus

    We speak of libido and thanatos as if they were seperate things rather than mutually reflecting poles of the same. Sooner or later, I’m liable to take sick and die. People will try to deny me a simple honest death. I am prepared to laugh them into submission by explaining how I’ll kill the first person who tries to save me. ‘I am prepared to commit murder if that’s what it takes to commit suicide. Nonetheless, I’ll live longer than you.’ Nervous laughter, I suppose. Humor is so powerful. The ultimate taser. Ha. Imagine a weak old man nonetheless managing to rip out your wrist veins with what’s left of his snaggle-teeth.

    Either way, Bowie’s burlap mask is awesome. I want one.

    #135756
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    P.S. Dumb youtube vid title:

    “When Jesus’ Tomb Was Opened For The First Time, Scientists Made A Groundbreaking Discovery”

    Almost as good as USMarines Beat Off Viet Cong in Hand to Hand Combat.

    #135757
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    The reality proved a tad different:

    Flying Toilet

    #135758
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Mouth breathing, knuckle dragging family can’t buy a clue

    This.

    Is this even a ‘first world country’?

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    Thank God the Super Sentient Overlords® that are about to take over the Late Great Planet Earth will put a swift stop to inbreeding.

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    #135759
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    It’s official:

    “LONDON, May 25, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Palantir Technologies Inc and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine have today announced a partnership that will help enable the company’s technology to support the defense and reconstruction of the country in the wake of the Russian invasion.”

    link

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    Why yes, Oroboros, we had noticed (bosco, madamski, even citizen x), that stupid people do stupid things. After all, stupid is as stupid does. But what, pray tell, is so wonderfully non-stupid about pointing out the glaringly obvious? Doofuses are as old as humanity, and yes, we have created an environment that encourages stupidity as a fundamental economic driver and agent of social cohesion. Whatevs. We’re amateurs at it. The Egyptians did this shit for millennia. People moved monster rocks many miles only to stack them into royal rubix cubes. For millennia. Talk about mass formation hypnosis.

    We do what we’re told, but this habit is based on something even more fundamental: we are creatures of habit, period.

    Your primary, your fundamental habit here at TAE, Oroboros, is incessant bitching and mocking of those unfortunate enough to be less brave and informed as you (and I feel like bitching about that, so there). You’re like a pharaonic empire of one, stacking a seemingly endless pile of stupid evil rocks in monument to the Stupidity of Others. It’s almost like a temple. That’s impressive in a way but, like the Egyptian thing, kinda repetitious after awhile: oh, look! Another pyramid.

    Maybe add some diversity to your profile? Not just because repetition is, well, boring, but because insulting sheeple does not sway them but, if anything, enrages them, cuz 50,000,000 Covid Fans Can’t Be Wrong.

    So it’s not only kinda boring despite often very clever memes, and wearisome, and relentlessly, needlessly bitter (like a Bible-beaten Baptist), but it’s also — dare I say it? kinda stupid.

    Lighten up a bit? You make 1920s die-hard Lenin-Marxists sound downright jolly.

    But that’s just me. Ya gotta do what floats your boat.

    Our dog, Junebug, whom I let free-range as much as possible, is steadily domesticating the neighborhood, bringing people out of their shells and together. I learn a lot from animals these days. Humans? Stupid or genius, they all say more or less the same thing. But animals, animals are really smart bastards. Still alive here in the late Holocene!

    They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves

    #135761
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    Prigozhin’s outburst does not seem to be based on reality.

    Merkel and Hollande have both admitted that they agreed to Minsk to give time to recruit, train and arm Ukrainian troops. In Feb 2022 I read that the Ukrainian army had 600,000 troops. You don’t do that unless they are ACTUALLY going to be used against Russia. The US had planned on that.

    In Feb 2022 the Ukraine had amassed an army of 150,000 troops on the border of the Donbas. There seemed a strong possibility they would invade and ethnically cleanse the Donbas as Georgia tried in South Ossettia. If Russia had not intervened they would have seemed weak and impotent.

    Not least, just before the invasion Zelensky promised that Ukraine would create nuclear weapons, AND Ukraine had the facilities to do this. A critical threat which could not be ignored.

    While all the aggression was from the West they always wanted Russia to make the first move so they could be blamed, and so they created the situation where Russia was forced to act. After that the plan was that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy and cause an uprising destroying Russia as a whole so it could be split into multiple countries. That plan did not work!

    In India monkeys are sacred but gangs of them in cities can cause havoc. They found that if they shaved the leader the gang would disband. Perhaps the leader of the West is ‘being shaved’!

    One accusation which should be of concern to Russia is that the senior military are incompetents more interested in lining their own pockets. This is not tolerable in this situation and would need to be remedied if true.

    #135762
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “In India monkeys are sacred but gangs of them in cities can cause havoc. They found that if they shaved the leader the gang would disband. Perhaps the leader of the West is ‘being shaved’!”

    Oh, thank you. Indeed. The internet has earned its keep again. I can leave it alone for awhile. Info I can actually use!

    #135763
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “One accusation which should be of concern to Russia is that the senior military are incompetents more interested in lining their own pockets. This is not tolerable in this situation and would need to be remedied if true.”

    However, that is the situation most of the time. In USA, it was true of the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, etc. etc.

    #135764

    AFKTT- The swarm of big earthquakes are pretty close to NZ- did you feel them? Are you feeling them? (They seem to just keep going…)

    #135765
    John Day
    Participant

    Weather Alert https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/weather-alert

    John Helmer at Dances With Bears has a good analysis of the Gamma radiation spike noted after the Russian missile attack that blew up a Ukrainian ammo-dump in Khmelnitsky, western Ukraine, in the early hours of May 13. The preponderance of the data (Ukraine denies) suggest that a large amount of Uranium munitions likely exploded there, vaporizing and becoming airborne after burning. Evidence is also presented that measured uranium in Ukrainian air has been much increased since March 2022 (already using DU munitions, maybe in machine guns?). Polish rainfall on May 15, 17 and 18 had increased radiation, consistent with DU fallout, but the Polish government said that it was from natural radon gas. That weather pattern has since crossed Denmark, the Netherlands and has likely reached London. Thanks Christine.

    THE BRITISH GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING – URANIUM IRRADIATED WIND AND RAIN FOR POLAND, GERMANY, DENMARK, NETHERLANDS, AND LONDON TOO

    Aleks @ Black Mountain Analysis has a detailed and point by point analysis of the Ukraine war, including the head-fakes from Wagner Chief, Prigozhin badmouthing his superiors in the media.
    Artyomovsk/Bakhmut fell on May 20th, the one year anniversary of the fall of Mariupol, because the Russian command picked that day to finish their “meat grinder” operation.
    Aleks thinks the Ukrainian spring-offensive has been underway since early May, but they don’t want to say so until they accomplish something impressive. He sees the 70,000 western-trained Ukrainian troops, recently available for duty, as being a trained and motivated group of men who the Russians will annihilate before proceeding with their own offensive.
    He sees western equipment like the F-16s being used in the same way that Soviet era equipment has been used to date. Some range-extension is the main difference in some cases
    This war is existential for Russia and for Ukraine, and Russia needs to complete its objectives, eliminating future threats. He predicts the 4 remaining ethnically Russian and Russian-voting oblasts will also be taken into Russia.
    https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/war-analysis-1f3

    Alastair Crooke, The EU is Over-invested in the Ukraine War-Project
    ​ ​The European Union, by any standards, is over-invested in the Ukrainian war-project – and in its romance with Zelensky too. Just earlier this year, the western (and EU) narrative was that the coming post-Winter offensive by Ukraine would ‘break’ Russia and render a ‘coup de grace’ to the war. MSM headlines spun a regular tale of Russia on its last legs. Now, however, the Establishment messaging has done a 180°. Russia is not ‘on its last legs’ …​
    ..​Put simply, European leaders have dug themselves into a deep hole. European states, by emptying what remained in their armouries of old weapons for Kiev, had grimly hoped that the coming Spring/Summer offensive would settle everything, and they would not have to deal with the problem – the Ukraine war – anymore. Wrong again: They are being invited to ‘dig-in deeper’.
    ​Yet, European leaders do not appear to see that the next few months in Ukraine are a key inflection point; Should the EU not firmly refuse ‘mission creep’ now, a slew of adverse economic consequences will ensue. Ukraine is not a stand-alone foreign policy issue, but rather the pivot around which Europe’s economic prospects will rotate.
    ​ ​Zelensky’s F-16 blitz through Europe last week is indicative that, whilst some European leaders want Zelensky to end the war,he – conversely – wants (literally) to take the war to Russia (and likely all of Europe).​//
    ​..These latter EU States now are becoming desperate for a way out of the hole they dug into. What if the U.S. were to cut Ukraine’s funding? What if Team Biden pivots rapidly to China? Politico is running a headline: The End of Ukraine Aid is rapidly Approaching. Reupping it Won’t be Easy. The EU could be stuck with financing a ‘forever conflict’ and the nightmare of a further refugee flood – draining EU resources and exacerbating the immigration crisis already roiling EU electorates.
    ​ ​Member States seem still to be wishfully thinking again, half-believing the tales of divisions in Moscow; believing the Prigozhin ‘mind-omelettes’; believing the Russian slow-cooking of Bakhmut to be a sign of force exhaustion…
    ​..​The EU does not discuss these crucial decisions affecting Europe’s role in the war in public. All sensitive matters are debated behind closed-doors in the EU. The problem with this democracy deficit is that the sequelae to these Russia-related issues touch almost every aspect of European economic and social life.​..

    ​..​Is there a way out from the ‘hole’ the EU has dug for itself?
    ​ ​Yes – it is called ‘honesty’. If the EU wants a quick end to the war, it should understand that there are two options available: Ukrainian capitulation and an agreement on Moscow’s terms; or the continuation of full-spectrum attrition of Ukraine’s capacity to wage war, until its forces are ​​overtaken by entropy.
    ​ ​Honesty would require the EU to ditch the delusional stance that Moscow will negotiate a settlement on Zelensky’s terms.​..
    ​..​And honesty would require the EU to admit that joining the financial war on Russia was a mistake. One that should be corrected.
    ​https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/05/22/the-eu-is-over-invested-in-the-ukrainian-war-project/

    ​Moon of Alabama (Germany): ​Mearsheimers Latest Talk On The War In Ukraine
    ​ ​Mearsheimer made two major points:
    ​ ​Ukraine can not win this war because the kill ratio in this war is in its disfavor. Mearheimer estimates that two Ukrainians die for one Russian soldier but says that many of his friends think that the ratio is more like 3:1 or 4:1. The reason for this is the WWI-style static war in which artillery is the most deadly weapon. Russia has an immense artillery advantage. During an offensive the attacker will often have more casualties than the defender. But in this war the Ukraine side has been (counter-)attacked most of the time while the Russians defended.
    ​ ​The Ukraine also has a much smaller population than Russia. The current ratio is about 5 Russians for 1 Ukrainian. With a much smaller population and much higher casualties the Ukraine will run out of able bodies way before Russia does.
    ​ ​Mearsheimer expects that Russia, which already has incorporated four Ukrainian oblast plus Crimea, will take another four oblast from Ukraine. (I predicted this on February 24 2022, the day the war began. Those eight oblast plus Crimea are historically Russian land inhabited by Russian people. During the last thirty years they have consistently voted for pro-Russian candidates while the people in west Ukraine consistently opted for anti-Russian candidates.) Ukraine will end up as a dysfunctional (and poor) rump state.
    ​ ​Mearsheimer says that there will be no peace agreement in Ukraine. The war is seen by both sides as existential.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/mearsheimers-latest-talk-on-the-war-in-ukraine.html

    #135766
    John Day
    Participant

    ​A neo-Nazi militia launched a cross-border raid from Ukraine into Russia’s Belgorod region on Monday using US armored vehicles, Financial Times reported Tuesday.
    ​ ​Denis Nikitin, leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps, said his fighters who attacked Belgorod were in possession of US armored vehicles, including at least two M1224 MaxxPro armored vehicles, known as MRAPs, and several Humvees. Videos and pictures posted by Russia’s military corroborated Nikitin’s claims.
    ​ ​Nikitin is a well-known extremist who has ties to neo-Nazis across the world and has his own white nationalist clothing line. According to Financial Times, the Russian Volunteer Corps “includes self-avowed neo-Nazis.”
    ​ ​The group was formed in 2022 and is said to be comprised of Russian citizens who have volunteered to fight for Kyiv. Some of its members signed up to fight in the Donbas war back in 2014 and are Azov Battalion veterans.
    ​ ​Nikitin would not say how his fighters acquired the US-made armored vehicles. Ukrainian intelligence officials have acknowledged that they cooperate with the Russian Volunteer Corps and another group that launched the assault, the Freedom of Russia Legion.

    Neo-Nazi Militia Used US Armored Vehicles in Attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region

    ​ Moon of Alabama on F-16s to Ukraine: [They have one jet engine, which gets ruined if it sucks up rocks on the runway. They need vacuum-cleaned runways.]
    A few days ago U.S. President Joe Biden announced the training of Ukrainian pilots for the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft:
    ​ ​President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that the US would join in efforts to train Ukraine’s pilots on fourth generation fighter jets including the F-16s, a senior administration official told CNN on Friday.
    ​ ​This has obviously been in the planning for some time. The timing of the announcement at the G7 summit was simply chosen to maximize the propaganda value for Biden.​..
    ​..​I had assumed that F-16 training had in fact already started several weeks back. The EU blabber mouth Josep Borrell now all but confirmed it​…​

    ​..​The process will be much faster than many assume.
    ​ ​The jets the Ukraine will get have already been selected and will go through ready maintenance. The Ukrainian pilots, who already have some experience on other fighter jets, will get just a short introduction course – six to eight weeks or even less. They do not need to train air to air fights because the F-16 would lose any such fight against the newer and better armed Russian jets. They just need to learn the basics, starting, landing, going up to a certain height and launch point, release whatever long range weapon will be on board. Anything else would be suicide.
    ​ ​The big question is where to start and land from. The F-16 has a relative short combat range of some 500 kilometer and there will be no air to air tankers. There ain’t that many airfield that are suitable for the fighter jet’s missions.​..
    ​..Even if a MiG-29 happens to shell out an engine because of the careless placement of a bolt or tool by a mechanic or the ingestion of a bird during flight or take off, the MiG HAS TWO ENGINES which are isolated in separate bays, preventing the destruction of one engine from FOD-ing out the second.
    ​ ​The F-16, by contrast, is definitely not suited for this style of airfield. The bottom of the intake lip sits approximately 30” from the ground with no provision of alternate intake. In addition, all the suction flow of that air comes from the sides, fore, and ground since no air can be ingested from above the engine (that’s where the fuselage is). With no provision for FOD protection or alternate, high-mounted intakes during the entire time spent on the ground, this calls for rigid and inflexible FOD control measures from the location of engine start, to taxiing routes to the runway.
    ​ ​In the USAF, this meant hundreds of maintainers walking at arms-length intervals two to three times a day with eyes on the ground looking for any and every piece of debris that could be ingested by the multi-million dollar vacuum cleaner with only ONE engine we were charged with maintaining. In addition, an almost constant procession of street-cleaners rumbled up and down the flightline, taxiways and runway. Everything had to be spotless lest we risk the aircraft, or worse, the pilots.​..
    ..The MiG-29 averages about 11 hrs of maintenance for every ONE hr of flight. The F-16? A whopping increase to 18.5 maintenance hrs for every one hr of flight time. These are per aircraft with experienced crews…

    ​..​Well, good luck doing maintenance on the F-16s that will soon sit on those few available and thereby quite vulnerable Ukrainian airfields.
    ​ ​Russian air defenses, from the ground and from the air, can certainly suppress any F-16 flights coming near to them.
    ​ ​The only sensible purpose of those planes is thereby their one or two time use as a launching vehicles for long range missiles like the British Storm Shadow cruise missiles that were given to Ukraine.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/f-16s-to-ukraine.html#more

    #135767
    John Day
    Participant

    ​There is No Safe Place in Gaza:
    ​ In 2021, Riyad Iskhuntana’s residence was the target of a direct Israeli bombing. “My four kids and my wife were killed in the apartment that I lived in, and they were killed in a brutal way. In one moment, I lost my four kids and my wife,” he testified. “And I remained under the rubble for 12 hours with my youngest daughter, not knowing if my kids had died or not. But eventually they were all dead except me and my youngest daughter.”
    Iskhuntana spoke about the traumatic IOF bombing of Gaza on May 12. “Yesterday,” he said, “my neighbor also was bombed, and this even deteriorated the psychological condition of myself and my daughter beyond what we had lived through in 2021. One of the psychological issues that we’re experiencing is that we began to forget things, and now with the restarting of the bombings again, the trauma is back. And we’re scared and trembling all the time.”

    “There Is No Safe Place in Gaza”: Palestinians Speak Out During Israeli Assault

    Vanishing Demand Shows Why Dollar’s Star Has Peaked
    The dollar is going through a transition, but it is one that will be gradual. It is not about to be, or likely to be any time soon, supplanted by another currency. But there are mounting signs its luminescence has peaked, and we are moving toward a more multi-polar world.
    When we say the dollar’s hegemony has peaked, we should be clear about what we mean. Hegemony is not about price, it is about the dollar’s place in the global financial and economic system. With the currency accounting for 40% of export invoicing, 45% of cross-border bank claims, 60% of FX reserves and 90% of FX transactions, it will take years before its dominance is seriously challenged.
    Nonetheless, that process looks to have started, as following four charts demonstrate. In short, demand for the dollar is not rising as it normally would in response to the currency’s near-10% decline since October.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/vanishing-demand-shows-why-dollars-star-has-peaked

    John Rubino, Next Generation Money, Part 1: Texas Re-Imagines The Dollar
    This brings us to Texas Senate Bill 2334, which calls for the introduction of a state-run digital currency, backed by gold and/or silver, accepted as legal tender within the state and available to people living anywhere in the world….
    ..If the Texas digital currency proposal becomes law, money could be spent with a debit card by people anywhere in the world, not just within Texas.
    ​ ​Under the proposed law, the Texas comptroller would create a digital currency based on gold or silver and would be given the authority to mint pure gold or silver coins based on weight.
    ​ ​The coins and the digital currency would be considered legal tender to pay debts and would be “readily transferable … to another person,” according to the bill.

    https://rubino.substack.com/p/next-generation-money-part-1-texas

    ​ Ellen Brown, ​Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
    ​ ​Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers “borrow” stock they don’t own and immediately sell it, driving the price down. Then they buy it back at the lower price, return the stock, and pocket the difference. Bankers say the practice is threatening the stability of the banking system and are calling for a ban on short sales of bank stock. The SEC is expected to decline but is investigating whether the practice constitutes illegal market manipulation intended to deceive investors.
    ​ ​It is argued here that short selling is fraudulent by its very nature – it is a fraud on the legitimate stock owners – and should be banned across the board. But first a closer look at the issues and some recent developments.

    Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?

    ​I picked this section from an Artificial Intelligence update. “Hallucinations” could be called “confabulations”, or “lies”, but “lies” would imply conscious intent.​
    GPT-5 Features and Capabilities (Expected)
    Reduced Hallucination
    ​ ​The hot talk in the industry is that GPT-5 will achieve AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), but we will come to that later on in detail. Besides that, GPT-5 is supposed to reduce the inference time, enhance efficiency, bring down further hallucinations, and a lot more. Let’s start with hallucination, which is one of the key reasons why most users don’t readily believe in AI models.

    OpenAI GPT-5: Release Date, Features, AGI Rumors, Speculations, and More

    #135768
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    OK…I’m a paranoid phuq…

    Get everybody stirred up in a lynch mob of boycotts (Bud, Target are early tests, or the beginning?), then release a fake ad and take out something structurally important, like, say, Tyson Chicken? Whirlpool Appliances? Kaiser Permanente? Charmin ass wipe? I’m having a hard time picking the real target (ahem) since I’m not evil. The ‘suicide by customer’ story is kinda weird, though. The TNF thing, another in a slow roll, you’d think they would at least pause for consideration.

    #135769
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #135770
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Bully logic > Political Correctmess > We make s—t up! = We The People are too dumbed-down-to-succumb to unify in opposition against dissembling “official” constructs.

    Lather, Rinse, Repeat 🙄

    #135771
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #135772
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Why are our government, corporations, and popular culture colluding in mass suicide…

    The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America (You answered your own question dood). And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

    Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice.

    The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

    In New York, a threatening subway career criminal with 42 prior arrests was subdued by a bystander and died during the confrontation. The criminal is now deified. The would-be Samaritan is charged with felony manslaughter.

    The deceased’s uncle is vocal about his late nephew’s confrontation. But he himself was just arrested with stolen property and armed with a knife. He was mysteriously still roaming the streets despite 70 prior arrests and current active arrest warrants.

    All these implosions are not just shocking but surreal. Why are our government, corporations, and popular culture colluding in mass suicide—to the delight of our enemies like Communist China?

    The Left Has Pushed the Envelope

    EOT.

    #135773
    Oroboros
    Participant

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