Korean troops in Kursk Oblast…discuss.

18 Korean soldiers flee frontlines in Kursk. A new level of Russian desperation:

US should ship South Koreans there to make it interesting. How many countries invaded Iraq, Serbia, Syria? Was it 20? Or maybe 50? When the boss says march, they do…

Oops, I forgot: S Koreans have the lowest birthrate and high suicide rate, so no imperial adventures for them. Back to assembling Kias, slaving for the bosses, and living in their wooden hovels…if lucky, maybe a visa to run a liquor store in US inner city….poor guys, north and south.

The whole world gets to get buried in Kursk!

Johnson first thought!

The important part is at 2:19, “…North Korea has mobilized as much as 1.4 million of its citizens to fight, in what they call, a Holy War.”

I don’t think the DPRK wants to destroy Seoul. I wonder if they would nuke Japan to keep South Korea (the West) from crossing the DMZ?

living in their wooden hovels

Are these SK “hovels” really any worse than these North Korean ones?

if lucky, maybe a visa to run a liquor store in US inner city

Can’t be much worse than where you pick up your daily Slovakian hootch?

So, you’ve added North Korea to your list of countries that you root for? According to your monotonous rhetoric, the world needs to encourage the return of the south to the north in an act of appeasing reunification? 🙁

That’s in Asia, Korea? Are you confused? The second one looks 100+ years old. Do you also keep 1930’s US Depression pictures?

But feast you eyes on this (at 1:50 the memorial for our 1945 Russian liberators):

Do you think that the Russian overlords will keep a closer watch on their new Korean “enlistees”, to avoid any more embarrassing desertions? They should be able to accomplish this, as they had plenty of opportunities to practice these skills while monitoring their own prisoner enlistees. 🙂

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-michael-collins-piper-miles-mathis-and-proving-pi-4/#comment-6814795

Some of us think the Korean chicks are pretty OK. Once in a while the local mega church sends them out in packs to recruit. If I was twenty years younger I would be tempted.

Absolutely. Well P~.999 to be more realistic.

You should be in the Ukrainian units invading Kursk Oblast too!

I think the two halves of Korea would have organically reunited a long time ago without outside interference. I don’t approve of dictatorships (DPRK) or Imperial vassal states (ROK) but no Koreans have asked for my advice. Interestingly, there are a number of similarities between DPRK and Ukraine.

One is essentially Russo Sino influenced and the other (US via) Japan influenced. It’s been like this for 1000 years. Just with added US influence and Russian influence.

I think these investigations by Ron, Miles and the rest are like baseball. People want these things to be like science or Sherlock Holmes with definitive answers, but they are not. The reasons you mention are part of this situation. The hitter, let’s call him Ron, knocks a few out of the park. But then he strikes out. For most hitters there are a lot more strike outs than hits, much less home runs. For a phenom like Ron, maybe he crushes it and bats 300, year after year. If people think this process is science that looks terrible. If they think of baseball, then wow, everything makes sense! Then he has a World Series-losing choke (mRNA shots) and we say WTF? But he shows up the next season and hits 350.

I saw your comment the first time and thought you were high. Not that I disagree.

That’s in Asia, Korea? Are you confused?

What’s the matter, still groggy from last night’s partying? You can’t see the Korean shrift on the building? 🙂

The second one looks 100+ years old.

I didn’t check the date of the photo. You mean the distillery where you shop looks different?

the memorial for our 1945 Russian liberators

You guys still haven’t been liberated. Keep on singing! 🙂

I would, but am afraid that I’d run into you in the Orc army, and fear being another sacrifice to your macho fighting skills. 🙁

Does blackwashing get a bad rap? Or even not go far enough?

Ex: What if someone made a movie about Cromwell in Ireland, and, updated it to current times, making him and his troops black and equipping them with African accoutrements? (To celebrate African culture)

Conversely, the other standpoint could be told, by making the Irish black and setting it in Africa.

This sort of trick could be used for many historical European conflicts to get around the political perils of reopening old wounds. Seven Years’ War. Thirty Years’ War. Napoleon. World Wars. Etc. Etc.

Ha ha.

So what exactly do you make of the Mathis obsession with little girls?

It could of course be a contingency in that is where his market is to be found. I consider that highly unlikely.

I think Miles creates paintings of females as a specialty. He doesn’t seem obsessed with women or girls as far as I can tell. Most painters love beauty and women are the definition of beauty. Girls are not beautiful, but they grow into women who can be. I take this all at face value since I do not think his works are creepy. My perception is that parents regularly pay for paintings of their children since those are generally more memorable than paintings of older people. That is why a painting of a youthful kid is valuable to the family. The painting is the result of a process not just a quick snap of a phone camera and is therefore more memorable, especially if the painting is well done.

The final race of the season for IMSA — Petit Le Mans (10 Hour)

PEACE 😇

I suspect the very harsh US war against North Korea strongly polarized them against outsiders and greatly strengthened the founding myths of the Kim dynasty.

Were the different groups always divided geographically, North versus South? I knew the country had factions but probably assumed these were mixed throughout the peninsula.

Now it’s the NorK army anyway. Avoiding a land war in Russia is high on my list btw.

There’s often been a northern and southern kingdom.

…Korean shrift on the building?

I think you mean script…:) But I can’t tell the Asian pictorial writings apart.

didn’t check the date of the photo

Well, it’s rather old looking, matte-shine finish, I would guess Depression era. Is that something you relate to?

You guys still haven’t been liberated

Liberated? From what? I don’t get your meaning…Should we have more rainbow-POC-Third World sh.tholes around us? Some dancing cholas? You seem confused, must be the Scottsdale hell-heat. Or we will nuke Russia!!! Ukies’ ongoing collapse…

Enjoy:

Maybe China should give the Norks a little slap on the wrist. They really need to take a seat, as they’ve gotten totally hyperactive.

Like the chinky chonks don’t have the whip hand in North Korea anyway…lol.

Who is to say that the Chinese are not already in country.

There is an army of Chinese observing the American observation force. I wonder how many of the American satellites they could wipe out in one minute of hot hostilities.

Did you see that story about the UFO drones?

(Don’t ask these imbeciles how it can be identified as a drone AND unidentified.)

https://nypost.com/2024/10/13/us-news/drones-are-surveilling-americas-most-sensitive-military-sites/

Some old gaffer told me something the other day that amazed me:

He said that his dryer from the ’70s had broken recently and he had fixed it.

It’s mind boggling: something with moving parts. He has a widower, but had had a big family – I don’t think they had ever used a clothesline that I can remember. And to top off, he was renting an apartment to two college girls and they had broken his dryer, with their unmentionables. Got tangled in the wheel.

Die Linke’s slogan sounds innocous if bland, until you pair it with that physiognomy, then it sounds really ominous

Solar energy? use a clothes line assholes!

Lol. Some of these houses in the close suburbs don’t really have enough space to set one up comfortably, especially if there is any kind of garden, or you don’t want people on the street to reach over and steal your clothes.

Btw, heard a lot of Germans don’t like to use dryers because of the damage it does to clothes. But am not sure it isn’t just these Green-added costs. German water heaters seem to run somewhat to the insane, in regard to insulation.

I suspect that the extent of China’s influence on North Korea is relatively limited. I mean, sure, China can improve crippling economic sanctions on North Korea, but that might simply mean that more Norks starve to death instead of having the Nork regime actually significantly alter its behavior in a meaningful way.

Will to power

North Korea can make itself useful in certain situations. I think the astoundingly swift progress of NK towards having thermonuclear ICBMs while Trump was president indicated that NK is a Chinese cat’s paw when it is being bellicose. The Chinese have ‘form’ for that type of thing; they gave Pakistan missile parts.

People who think like you used to allege that Ukraine had supplied NK with ICBM technology.

This is a subset of my contingency set. Anyway . . .

Then he has a World Series-losing choke (mRNA shots) and we say WTF?

This is the thread that can be pulled out a very long ways. He should have lunch with RFK Jr. is who he should have lunch with.

Have you ever read the Jon Rappaport Michael Medvadoy interview? There is some great stuff in there. It was on the web the last time I looked for it around a year ago but I cannot find it now. The salient parts are the medical establishment social capital, or doctors are now our gods. Close personal experience with medical goofs might be an unfortunate but requisite initiation to the True Facts.

On further review I found it. It’s Ellis Medavoy. My memory morphed since the last time I looked at it.

https://pearl-hifi.com/11_Spirited_Growth/10_Health_Neg/04_Pandemics/01_AIDS/Rappoport__Ellis_Medavoy.pdf

Actually, I could see an “Irish” version where the evil Cromwellian Brits are all white but the defenders of say Drogheda* are a mixed bunch including blacks and Asians.

* the defenders of Drogheda actually included English Royalists

” The Chinese have ‘form’ for that type of thing; they gave Pakistan missile parts.”

On the other hand it was the Germans and Belgians who taught AQ Khan uranium metallurgy, then the British/Dutch/German URENCO who gave him a job producing U-235. Within a couple of years Khan was stealing the centrifuge designs and sending them to Pakistan.

Then there’s this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan#Career_in_Europe

Ruud Lubbers, Prime Minister of the Netherlands at the time, later said that the General Intelligence and Security Service (BVD) was aware of Khan’s espionage activities but he was allowed to continue due to pressure from the CIA, with the US backing Pakistan during the Cold War. This was also highlighted when despite Archie Pervez (Khan’s associate for nuclear procurement in the US) being convicted in 1988, no action was taken against Khan or his proliferation network by the US government which needed the support of Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War.

Cheers lads!

Sounds like a pile of propaganda to me.

Max Hastings is a nice chap, but not sure about this

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-20/putin-s-war-selling-out-ukraine-casts-shame-on-the-west

There has been a grievous failure of leadership in the West. The only people who can claim to have contrived finest hours from the Ukraine war are the Ukrainians.

We had a lot of finest hours in 1914-15, I remember. And a lot of dead young men.

Their allies are proving to lack steel and staying power for a protracted conflict. Some analysts derive comfort from the fact that the West has supported Ukraine thus far, and made Putin pay a heavy price for a very limited success. I am unconvinced by this half-a-loaf argument. To me, it looks more as if Putin’s belief is well-founded, that the West is decadent and divided — thus vulnerable.

No, we LITERALLY lack steel. We have almost given up making it. But you’re right about being decadent and divided. Our elites decided to dissolve the people and import another. We aren’t the people of 1939-45 – and we never again will be. The same applies to the States.

I just take comfort in that Putin’s Russian Hordes are most unlikely to get to the Channel. What’s in the UK for Russia? Our vibrant Kurdish barber and cannabis cultivation industries? They already have decent kebabs.

Even if Kamala Harris reaches the White House, it is likely she will pursue a deal to end the war because Washington sees no scenario for Ukrainian victory, despite the dispatch of $175 billion in US aid.

We are reaching the “acceptance” stage at last.

Playing to the historical factions would necessarily complicate matters considerably, would require more versions and maybe require more races. Like if you are Old English, then maybe the Irish are browns compared to the black Cromwellians. Etc. Etc.

But a lot of these factions or groups don’t seem to exist anymore. For royalists the easier solution would probably be an English setting.

Washington sees no scenario for Ukrainian victory,

Victory for Ukraine will come when Washington cuts the barriers of Ukraine’s use of firing long range missiles into Russia. Long term destruction of Russian targets will force the Russian people to reconsider their blind support for Putler’s megalomaniacal ambitions for himself. I don’t think that young hipsters in Moscow and Petersburg are interested much in going off to war and having their carcasses devoured by hungry vultures somewhere in Ukraine. Ditto the same for Korean malfeasors. It’s time to untie the hands of Ukrainian defenders.

“time to untie the hands of Ukrainian defenders”

My understanding is that these missiles can’t be targeted without US assistance, and that Russia could consider that an American attack. Pretty sure what the US would say if a US warship was targeted with a “Houthi” missile that was made in Russia and used Russian or Chinese satellites to navigate.

Putin has been exceeding cautious over Ukraine, he didn’t recognise the republics when they declared independence in 2014 – but in the end he bit the bullet in 2022. He first warned the United States about Ukraine as far back as 2007, so that was 15 years later. Not a hasty man.

I guess it all depends whether the US agrees with you, and like you, is feeling lucky.

(Not that I think your fantasy about young anti-war hipsters and vultures has much force. If the US does serious missile damage to Russia the next steps are unlikely to be a draft of manpower. The killer US weapon was sanctions, and they’ve only served to impoverish Europe.)

PS – major US-Russia confrontation would surely be the moment for China to move in Taiwan and South China Sea.

As Paul Kennedy puts it, while the point of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a major war, the way to stay a great power is not to fight one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great_Powers

The US has more than once been cautions about providing weaponry to Ukraine and also extending the boundaries regarding Ukraine’s ability to attack Russian military targets within Russia….

Have not read the interview. Medvadoy = Medved?

I agree, a meeting between Ron and RFK Jr should be interesting.

An interesting article: (1)

In the 2024 election, the party seems to be rallying behind Kamala Harris, but don’t be fooled — there are plenty of high-profile Democrats who would quietly prefer to see her fall short. Here’s a look at four key figures in the Democratic Party who, for various reasons, are privately rooting for Kamala to lose next month.

-1- Gavin Newsom
-2- Gretchen Whitmer
-3- Hillary Clinton
-4- Joe Biden

The media are now openly admitting that Trump is now ahead in all 7 swing states (2). Remember, these polls have historically been left shifted 3-5%.

Other Democrats are distancing themselves from the plummeting Harris/Walz effort. (3)

Harris recently campaigned in Erie, Pennsylvania — a crucial regional hub in this election cycle’s most important battleground state. Conspicuously absent from that snoozefest was incumbent Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.). Harris tried to pass off the snub as a nothingburger, suggesting that Casey was doing the more important work of knocking on doors and getting out the vote. This doesn’t pass the laugh test. Facing a spirited challenge from Republican hopeful Dave McCormick, Casey has clearly concluded that Harris’ immense Bay Area lefty baggage — her history of endorsing the Green New Deal, a national fracking ban and crippling electric vehicle mandates — is an electoral albatross around his neck.

It’s tough to blame Casey. Other vulnerable Senate Democratic incumbents, such as Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), reached the same conclusion a while ago. Such a conclusion makes a great deal of sense: A recent Marist national general election poll, for instance, shows Trump up a whopping 10 points on Harris with registered independents. If that margin ends up being anywhere near accurate, it is extraordinarily difficult to see a scenario in which Trump loses.

Focusing conversation on migration is working with independents. And, lots of fun too… 😆

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/19/these-four-democrats-secretly-dont-want-kamala-to-win-n4933483

(2) https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states

(3) https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/18/the_collapse_of_kamala_harris_151800.html

I like a Kurdish Barber Shop for my Barnet though…

At some point the Germans might start looking at 1939-41 as the true golden era. Rather than the so called miracle of the 1960s. Which incidentally did depend on cheap Russian energy too.

When does the penny drop in Germany that the period between the Molotov Ribbentrop pact and June-July 1941 was their best time in the 300 years?

Not true.

Bismarck and Nietzsche and Wagner and discrete Jew money was the apex. Not just of Germany proper but all western civ. They put Athens and the Republican Rome to shame. Only British people could possibly be ignorant of this obvious fact.

WE have computers. : )

The Daily Mail has Usher doing Harris campaign appearances. They are doing everything now to throw it to Donald the Fat.

They haven’t pulled out Justin Bieber yet but I’m guessing that is next.

…Some of us think the Korean chicks are pretty OK.

That’s not inconsistent, many of the best have always come from the wooden hovels…but I have been to Seoul, it reeks of garlic, has the worst traffic jams, very unimpressive architecture and they hate Japs. I hear the Norks have it even worse. Maybe they should fight it out in Kursk…it is getting interesting…

Bismarck was of course in alliance of a sort with imperial Russia. The same policy of cosy friendship with Russia allowed his machinations to function as he eliminated competing German states, then Denmark then Austria and finally France. He had the good sense to be on excellent terms with the Czar. It’s the one thing Hitler himself ignored about Bismarcks real politik.

How well substantiated?

Regarding the NATO proxy war against Russia, Scott Ritter debunks the anonymous crank trolls in slam dunk fashion:

An entertaining debate between Gil Doctorow and John Helmer:

Bismarck was of course in alliance of a sort with imperial Russia. The same policy of cosy friendship with Russia allowed his machinations to function as he eliminated competing German states, then Denmark then Austria and finally France. He had the good sense to be on excellent terms with the Czar. It’s the one thing Hitler himself ignored about Bismarcks real politik.

Habsburgite influence?

Austria-Hungary did still function as a counter balance to German ambitions. The Semi Slavic Semi German Empire also happened to be the ignition for Ww1 too.

Ukraine is Schroedinger’s Country. Alive and Dead until you open the box to find out which.

There’s a commentary of present day Nazi looking/sounding German officers salivating at the start of the Kiev regime’s attack in Kursk, noting the German vehicles utilized.

Same end result. Some never learn.

Russia is a bottomless pit. It’s possible to fight them on the littoral coasts and destroy access to warm water ports but in the long term a city like Moscow will dominate the area known as Russia.

Moldovans prefer freedom:

https://www.rt.com/russia/605996-moldovans-reject-eu-integration/

EU = PU

The free world’s hope, as most of the global population will be represented in Kazan:

Home many times did Erdogan end up insulting Scholz?

Renoir, Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Conrad, Henri Matisse, Henry Ford, Rupert Brooke. Nod to Gustavo Klimt and Adolph Loos. Early 20th century.

Our own era and the late 20th maybe the MRI. Looking inside the mind for the first time properly.

AP, here is JFK’s pro-immigration reform book:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210012341721&seq=5

What exactly is so objectionable about its contents? I don’t see anything, frankly.

Do you think that the Chinese helped the Norks build this in response to Trump’s anti-China policies?

Living in South Korea can’t be so bad nowadays.

Look what happens with their life expectancy compared even to postcommunist states which joined the EU and received vast EU wealth transfers.

They moved from a third world country to above Norway and Sweden in this indicator, this looks like unusually fast development.

Hastings has been deranged about Russia for a long time, probably the influence of his wife.

I see he’s on record as saying that the world should be run by “women and Jews”.

CNN is reporting Trump and his allies spent $21 million on anti-tranny ads, and AP is still endorsing Kakula Harris!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/18/politics/trump-transgender-attack-ads-harris/index.html

It’s not?

The free world’s hope, as most of the global population will be represented in Kazan:

A bunch of dictators, child sexual perverts and other misfits and cranks getting together, Why somebody as important as you Mickey will not be a keynote speaker at this circus is beyond me (NOT!) ?

Kalima Hari.

The ad campaign must be a flop?…

Is that some kind of midwest slang for LGBT?

Btw, does anyone know what supposed epithet (as Kakula claims) Trump used against her in a rally?

I don’t know, but would like to know. Stories from August report b—-, as in they said it began with a “b.” But I am hoping it was some new word.

A bunch of dictators, child sexual perverts and other misfits

I see, Yankee Empire was not invited. Safer without them, no bugs, no bacteria or virus – Chinese advise.

No midwest slang that I’m aware of and I don’t know (and don’t really care) of any epithet that Frump hurled Camel Toe’s way in August, Maybe kremlinstoogeA123 can help you out, as he seems to arrange his life around every utterance that Orangie makes?…

from the previous thread https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-260/#comment-6819868

But the point is not exactly rates should be “treated like temporal series”.

I think that is the point. You provided a beautiful textbook explanation using cancer rates as an example. Let me copy/paste from your own link, section 13.2.4:

“To do this
requires first setting up a probability model for the parameters θj (the underly-
ing 10-year kidney cancer death rates in U.S. counties j)”

http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/38571/1/A%20Bag%20%20Tricks.pdf

If you imagine (this is a science fiction example) you multiplied Espanola, NM to 1200 different alternative universes to create the same population as Japan and then recorded the number of murders in a year, then the mean number of murders you record after dividing by the 120,000,000 residents of Espanola NM from the 1200 different universes, would be almost the same as the true murder rate.

I’m not sure this is a useful way of looking at this problem. As I conceded, you are right that using rates from populations of different sizes introduces a heterogeneity problem that needs some statistical treatment. But confidence intervals around a statistic need to have an intuitive, physical world meaning.

If we say that a poll favors Trump 52-48 with a margin of error 3.5, or if we say that yearly rainfall in Las Vegas is 2 inches +/- 1 inch, it is very clear what we are saying: for a given confidence level (eg 95%), if we repeat the exercise of sampling the electorate or the yearly rainfall observation enough times, the result will fall within those intervals.

For the confidence interval of the murder rate in Espanola, NM I am not sure what your confidence intervals are saying, unless we treat this rate as a temporal series.

This is what I was trying to say in a previous comment about the nonexistence of a “natural murder rate of Chicago”. Note that in the example above from your textbook the authors assume a Poisson distribution for the observed county cancer rates. But a Poisson distribution implies that there is an underlying constant rate. This may be a good approximation for chronic disease incidence rates but I don’t think we can assume the same for stochastic data like murder events that are highly influenced by environmental factors: policing, severity of penalties, gang activity, poverty, demographic changes, etc. If we go back in time just some years the people committing murders today were not even alive so there is no a priori reason to expect a constant rate. The Poisson distribution also assumes lack of auto-correlation in the data but this is another dubious assumption for homicide rates.

I’m pretty sure that data analysts have sophisticated tools to properly analyze all kinds of data. For example, in climatological studies I’ve seen papers published where they used the method of in-filling from nearby weather stations when they had data discontinuity, which perhaps can also be applied to this case, but I don’t think we can do much better than building temporal series to compare “true” rates of homicides between heterogeneous population sizes.

For example, imagine there is a political crisis in Mexico, which causes secession to smaller states. This is peaceful secession movement and has no effect on the country, just it divides to smaller states which have populations similar Jamaica or Lithuania.

This only administrative change, would cause the top of the Wikipedia list for the highest homicide rates in the world to become mostly successor states of Mexico. Colima would be position 2, Baja California would be in position 3, Chihuahua would be position 4, Guanajuato would be position 5, Zacatecas will be position 6, Michoacan will be position 7.

…/…

But nothing would have changed in terms of murder in the real world. Just the range in the list is changing because of the introduction of more smaller administrative divisions.

No reasonable person looks at a Wikipedia country ranking of murder rates and assumes that the island of Jamaica is the absolutely most murderous place in the world, even if we ignore data quality issues. Of course, we all know that countries are sized in an arbitrary fashion and there surely must be parts of Haiti, Baltimore or Ciudad Juarez where the probabilities of getting murdered are much higher than in Jamaica.

But the issue is this: if I see that the Caribbean nations show the highest rates of sickle cell carrier status (which they also do) or the highest rates of Olympic medalist sprinters, is it more seasonable to assume that the signal is real and they do have high rates of both or to think that this is all just noise caused by their small size?

…A bunch of dictators, child sexual perverts and other misfits and cranks getting together

Starmer, Macron, Trudeau, Sholz, interchangeable Jap, and old cranky guy from US…it sounds about right…:)

The average approval rate of the G7 leaders is in high 20’s, quite some democrats…How about picking better leaders at home?

There is a philosophical fraud in discussing probability measures which are meaningful for N trials for events that will happen only one time if ever. When a group of scientists like epidemiologists or oncologists or economists do this it’s still fraud.

When you roll dice it’s an a simple matter to pick them up and roll them again. And again.

A fatal disease doesn’t work like this, and every patient is unique in some way. I would rather have the information than not have it, but it doesn’t mean that much. It doesn’t mean anything like these fraudsters claim. It ain’t anything like a Law of Nature.

Chaos magic in Russia. 30:44

He seems to think Adam Curtis’s tv shows about Vladislav Surkov are reliable documentaries among other howlers but WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

I saw someone on X call her “Kakala.”. Which I thought was very appropriate and descriptive.

I am still debating whether that sounds better, but it was my inspiration, being near Halloween, to transform that into “Kakula” (like Dracula.)

I like Emil’s term (which has its own very appropriate descriptive value), but think we should each have our own.

Briefly, I considered calling her Kakula Harris-lines, but I think that would have been a bridge too far. Kind of like when you tried to call Putin, Putleria or something. (hitler + malaria?)

But while I like the term “Harris-lines.”. Not many people know it outside of specialized fields, like archeology (which I have a small interest in) or radiology.

I know these sort of name changes might seem like low-brow stuff to some, but imo we might as well get some fun out the decline of America.

At this point the probability of her winning seems very low, so everyone should feel free to coin new terms.

Somewhat tongue and cheek, the ideal US prez candidate would’ve America:

– ditch NATO and the G-7
– apply for BRICS
– cut government funding to NPR/PBS until they exhibit a truly diverse media
– drastically cut foreign military aide, with a transfer of the money going to improved healthcare and civilian infrastructure.
– encourage the MIC to make a profit on civilian projects.

Our bit might be, pretty sure China isn’t, although I would wager that Jewish success/power is of great interest to Chinese students of politics and strategy. How could it not be if they are realists?

Hanging your hat on the dictator rhetorical line I see. The paradox of the dictator is that he generally enjoys something like popularity for a while and if bad at the job gets it in the neck eventually and is thus accountable.

In western democracy no one in charge ever pays a price.

Ronnie is very articulate but he seems to be full of it. The “chaos” approach has been playing in the West for a very long time, so looking to Russia for examples seems like misdirection.

“Moldovans prefer freedom”

Not quite – in a turnaround reminiscent of the 2020 US election after the polls closed, “No” was winning until the votes from Moldovans resident in the EU came in, and they were just enough to tip the scale by around 15,000 votes. Don’t know what the voting arrangements were like in the EU, but in Russia Moldova apparently opened two polling stations, both in Moscow, for the 300,000 Moldovans resident in Russia. Turnout there was only 5%.

If the above is true (from MoA comments) it strikes me Russia should have enabled as many Moldovan voters as possible to vote – transport, paid time off, etc.

Still, it’s not exactly a ringing endorsement. Moldovans actually in Moldova were pretty much united against the idea.

When put to referendum how have Euro voters voted on joining EU? Democratic support seems like it’s pretty shaky.

A fellow told me when they moved from the gilder to the Euro the price of a beer in a pub in Amsterdam doubled instantaneously. Anybody tell the Moldova voters those stories?

Ronnie is very articulate but he seems to be full of it.

He is from Los Angeles. Not all of them are like that but they seem to have a huge fraction. Do you think he wears a wig? Yesterday I saw a clip of a negro talk show where they spoke Harvard Stanford English and the women were both wearing wigs from Vietnam. The three minute clip had the men saying nothing. Funny as a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

They’re all deserving of some merit, but I’m disappointed that you didn’t even give me a favorable mention. “Camel Toe”, ya know, is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_toe 🙁

I first heard the term from a friend of mine that’s a real hard core Trumpist.

Do you think that the Russian overlords will keep a closer watch on their new Korean “enlistees”, to avoid any more embarrassing desertions? They should be able to accomplish this, as they had plenty of opportunities to practice these skills while monitoring their own prisoner enlistees.

My guess is that they are sending NK soldiers on suicide missions into Kursk.

One way ticket for everyone. Their lives were already purchased.

If they desert then they still have to escape Russia. Kursk is showing rain this weekend with a 32 degree low.

Moldovans actually in Moldova were pretty much united against the idea.

A small country permanently harms itself by joining the EU.

Schengen for employment means that large chunks of the best young single citizens will go elsewhere in the EU for the much higher pay potential. Not only is this the proverbial Brain Drain, it also savagely undercuts family formation. Those who marry abroad rarely return.

If Moldova genuinely wants to be more “European”, they need a different arrangement.

reminiscent of the 2020 US election after the polls closed, “No” was winning until the votes from Moldovans resident in the EU came in, and they were just enough to tip the scale by around 15,000 votes

This may not be vote rigging. Pretty much all of those overseas voters want to stay in the EU. So, they have vested personal interests in keeping momentum going towards membership.
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One wonders if the pipeline is frozen solid though. Both Turkey and Ukraine are ahead of Moldova in the EU queue. And, neither of those are promising. Moldova may have to settle for a lesser, no Schengen, economic deal.

Occasionally, one can reach the right political answer for the wrong reasons.

PEACE 😇

Even if Kamala Harris reaches the White House, it is likely she will pursue a deal to end the war because Washington sees no scenario for Ukrainian victory, despite the dispatch of $175 billion in US aid.

Doesn’t make any sense.

The ISW is predicting that Putin’s offensive will grind to a halt in 2025 due to a lack of armor.

Might as well wait to see if that is the case.

A lot can change in the next 3 months due to the elections and the weather.

Hastings is voicing the opinion of the profits-first attitude of Bloomberg. They would like the war to end so they can go back to business as usual. Yea well….oh well.

Lmao. TBH, I think yours is a little too visual. (And I find Kamala quite disgusting.)

If she were younger and looked like that Prosecutie character, maybe, I would be more on-the-fence about it.

Regarding the NATO proxy war against Russia, Scott Ritter debunks the anonymous crank trolls in slam dunk fashion:

What exactly did he debunk?

Scott Ritter in 2023 explains that NATO is stupid for thinking the war will go on for another year and how Ukraine will run out men by November 2024

Of course the quiet stooge that nods his head like a lapdog will never ask Scott about his past predictions.

It’s not that far to the Ukrainian border. I’m sure that the Ukrainian press will have a heyday interviewing these unfortunate souls while unraveling their various stories.

I’m hoping it is his real hair, but he is pretty old for that kind of mop. If real, it may come down to spells and potions.

Grandma has to warm her apartment in Cologne, Paris, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Lubeck, Calais and so on.

I don’t think Russia is in a hurry in Ukraine. Heck, they are now tied for 4th largest pork producer in the world. Production is small compared to China and the USA, but this is still a solid ag sector like many others they have. This leads to food security. US stats shows 5% CAGR for the Russian pork industry since 2014 (sanctions). Many other sectors show similar consistent progress which makes a big difference if you are patient.

I think Phillip Owen predicted that progress in many key Russian ag sectors would stall out due to lack of essential Western inputs. I don’t think this has occurred. I wonder what happened?

The Ukrainian ability to fight will continue to fade due to lack of men.

I don’t think Russia is in a hurry in Ukraine. Heck, they are now tied for 4th largest pork producer in the world.

I don’t see what that has to do with ISW predictions of them lacking armor.

A Zed blogger recently said that conscripts had to buy their own warm underwear. I think he has since been arrested.

So long on pigs and short on underwear and tanks. A true Orc military. I am still holding out for conscripts on horseback. We have seen them in golf carts but I want a cavalry charge with AK-47s. Could well be the last cavalry charge in European history. Do it Putin! You have no shame anyways!

Many other sectors show similar consistent progress which makes a big difference if you are patient.

I’m interested in data and it’s not a matter of patience.

Your pork stats and patience wouldn’t be much consolation to a conscript that is freezing his balls off. Hey but look at our pork production! It’s up 50%!!!

They had a lack of winter gear in the first “Great Winter Offensive” that never happened.

Putin’s bootlickers are back to hoping that Grandmas freeze over the winter. Only the most morally outstanding men line up for this war. Freeze Grandma freeze!!!!!

I think Phillip Owen predicted that progress in many key Russian ag sectors would stall out due to lack of essential Western inputs. I don’t think this has occurred. I wonder what happened?

You’d have to provide a source. Agriculture isn’t going to be dependent on Western parts. They’ve had production shortages with anything that uses Western chips.

The Ukrainian ability to fight will continue to fade due to lack of men.

Well Scott Ritter said they will be out of men in November. We will see if the prognosticating pederast gets one right.

Spoiler:

Moldovans in Moldova are against the idea. Moldovans in Russia didn’t have as easy a situation to vote when compared to the Moldovans in the EU as you note. Russia was accused of busing people to the polls. The corrupting of the vote was from the EU/NATO puppet Sandu side.

Here is a question for those with Russian fluency:

I remember very vividly being taught in the tenth grade about “Bloody October”. I straightaway made the connection to “Red October” (i.e. Tom Clancy).

Am wondering if either/or/none of these terms are actually used in Russian. As far as I can tell, the phrase “October Revolution” is the one that is actually used the most. But do the others actually exist?

From the previous Open Thread:

In Poland, the Communists were insincere in their Communism….Poles looked down on Czechoslovaks because they seemed to have been more sincere in their communism.

3 million “insincere” Polish commies? With their families that would be quarter to third of the population. For 40 years.

Of course. You think Commies ever won an election in Poland, or could have won one?

Communism was imposed upon Poland by Soviet tanks and maintained by the threat of Soviet tanks (and those of the DDR, and Czechoslovakia). Open resistance would not have been successful. Party membership was necessary to advance in certain careers and was otherwise helpful. So millions were members, despite disliking the overall conditions. Membership was a means to an end and nothing more for the vast majority, including leaders themselves.

It sounds like a real mental sh.thole of a country. Three million Poles lying daily for 40 years!!!

You do it now, and yet you somehow survive.

They at least did not lie to themselves. Nor did most of them blame one another. Everyone understood this was the unpleasant condition they had to live under. There was a balancing act – how much could they get away with, without Moscow sending tanks in. They tried to get away with as much as they could. Jaruzelski sent tanks in not because he was a Commie believer but because he feared that the protests would upset the balance and a Soviet invasion would follow; better his milder approach than a more-brutal Soviet one. But the Soviets couldn’t be too strict either – they didn’t eliminate the Church, or insist on sincerity towards Communism by Poles or otherwise push them into open rebellion because an invasion of a country of that size and determination could be messy. So there was an uneasy balance.

Poles dumped the system as soon as they had the chance, when it was clear that they wouldn’t be invaded for doing so.

Poles were amazed at and looked down on Czechoslovaks, who really were much more sincere in their Communism. They would visit and laugh. Fortunately the people of Czechoslovakia have gotten much better – most of them.

But the loathing is mutual, we look down on the Poles as being poor, messy, and unreliable in business

Poland is richer than Slovakia (though not Czechia), business is better, I don’t know about messiness but you have far more Roma so there are far messier places in your country.

If you think Poles are poor and messy, what must you think of Hungarians lol.

Still, it’s not exactly a ringing endorsement. Moldovans actually in Moldova were pretty much united against the idea.

52% (or whatever the anti-EU vote was before the western emigres were counted) means “pretty much united against the idea” in your world?

The percentage within Moldova includes people in Transnistria (why is their vote “better” than that of Moldovans in Romania?), ethnic Russians, etc. Majority of actual ethnic Moldovans prefer the EU.

As Paul Kennedy puts it, while the point of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a major war, the way to stay a great power is not to fight one.

The mistake that Russia tumbled into, for Washington’s and Beijing’s benefit.

Let’s see one such well verified case and not some Buryat masquerading as a Nork. Likely BS.

DPRK doesn’t have enough military regulars who speak Russian. Much like the problem of finding English speaking Ukes with F-16 pilot potential to train. Russia has a well stacked, well trained military on its own.

Rather idiotic for a pro-svido to mention Kursk, given the whupping Kiev regime forces have taken there.

Nice cover for a parasitic proxy war enthusiastically supported by the uber chickenhawk likes of Lindsey Graham.

Did your teacher promote Tom Clancy? He was on top of the best seller listing but I don’t believe many teachers were readers.

Ronald Reagan hosted him in the Oval office.

Doesn’t China have the ability to put a vacuum seal tight blockade on the island of Taiwan? China invading Taiwan might be the most fantastic neocon fantasy floating around out there.

I only knew of him through pop culture.

Wow another cheerleading video from Putin’s top British bootlicker who just happens to be not British and disbarred over fraud.

Everything is going as planned comrades. Just keep watching Ritter/Duran/MacGregor and of course Larry C “War is in mop up stage” Johnson. Stick with media that sounds good and ignore videos like this one:

Video of an Abrahms in Kursk:
https://funker530.com/video/bradley-and-abrams-tag-team-russian-positions

Left out Daniel Davis. Keep wet dreaming over a Kiev regime victory. Even the idiot Telegraph has had to drift from much of the BS it cranked out.

I think Pakistan is very much like North Korea, both have benefited from irregularly obtaining nuclear technology from the west, but the key source of their actual nuclear weapons capability is China.

In was in the 1970s that AQ Kham stole the plans of a British/ German/ Netherlands owned enrichment plant in the Netherlands, but North Korea’s first reactor appears to have been be based on the obsolete 1950s British Magnox, which was primarily a military plutonium plant. Design information of Magnox was not classified and appeared in technical journals. In 2002 / 2003, North Korea got high strength aluminium from Russia and Britain, apparently for making centrifuges.

However, China is known to have provided Pakistan with parts used in uranium enrichment (by the way, China gave Iran two tons of Uranium), and China also gave Pakistannuclear capable missiles plus the design information on how to build them. Pakistan’s nuclear missile is suspiciously similar to the ICBM North Korea developed so astoundingly quickly once Trump was elected. However both are similar to the Chinese ICBM that preexisted both, I think China has obvious motives to help Pakistan, which is used by China as a cat’s paw to help North Korea. If Trump were to be elected again you would see North Korea become a loud international nuisance again, and make suspiciously sudden technological jumps resulting in very Chinese looking missiles again.

I don’t believe the West expected to defeat Russia militarily in Ukraine. I think our evil ‘masterminds’ hoped the combination of Russian military embarrassments, widespread shortages due to sanctions, general economic distress due to sanctions and intense fifth column manipulation of Russian society and government would bring down the Russian power structure. Then it would be remade to suit Western plans.

Russia does have important shortages of goods, but these may be fewer than in 2022 and maybe even 2014! It is too early to call, but the anti-Russia sanctions could be a total backfire. The pork production is simply an example of this issue. Also a reminder that the John McCain meme of Russia as a gas station is simply incorrect.

The supposed bottleneck for Russian agriculture was for specialized items such as high performance seeds and breeding stock. Since they are wise enough to avoid GMO products they may have been gradually dealing with this issue even before 2014.

No one wants the babushkas to freeze. Good people want the criminal leaders and thugs who have enslaved Ukraine to be a Western pawn to feel pain and take responsibility for their misdeeds. Military destruction of infrastructure is a standard way to put pressure on everyone instead of just the troops getting blown up at the front.

Russian can probably refresh old tanks faster than Ukraine can raise more young men.

Well, good for you. I think you sometimes have to wait a while for Abradley tag-team death porn videos to cheer about. The file isn’t loading properly so I have to guess. We are really happy for you. Not really.

BTW, when is the first freeze over there?

Putin’s top British bootlicker

Not sure saying Russia is winning is the way to go is you were a venal Westerner. There is likely more of a return for a pro Ukraine stance on social media for a YTer in Britain like him .

Apart from their views going up if they highlight successes of the side their particular audience favours, I don’t think it matters much what anyone says on social media in the West about how the war is going. It might if Washington was really on the cusp of full on aiding Ukraine to a complete victory, but the invasion was on Biden’s watch and at not time has his administration given Ukraine even a fraction of what the US could (the American army have hundreds of Abrams tanks in storage). The Russian funds in the US are frozen but only the interest on them is being used to pay for aid to Ukraine.

Arguably, Washington could enable Ukraine to decisively beat Russia, but not without producing a global geopolitical shift against America’s interests in relation to future containment of China. Such a victory would clearly be of America over Russia (the navigation contour matching system is 100% American making it a US aimed attack whoever’s long range missiles are being used to hit deep inside Russia). It is now getting on for three years later; the evidence is that Washington does not want Russia to be trounced in Ukraine.

American strategist’s clear preference is for Russia to more or less settle for their gains so far and quit fighting. That is not to say Washington will let Russia conquer all Ukraine. I think there is a sense that Russia is starting to gain momentum, and there is no feasible way of stopping their advances without trying to really defeat them, which Washington seems to have ruled out. So Washington is is now in a quandary that the Pentagon doubtless warned them about 18months ago, This fellow seems quite objective on how things are going in Ukraine.

Oh, boy, your usual incoherent screed.

The three million Polish commies for 40 years only “pretended”? Wow, are you insane? You spend a lot of time denying the obvious, maybe you really are a nutter…

Three million commies couldn’t be pretending. You don’t seem to know even the most minimal things about Poland in 1945-90, the internal forces, the disputes, the culture…Or are you telling us that the Poles are a nation of habitual liars?

Visit Krakow with its filthy strip-mall look – I don’t want to mention Warsaw, a bland post-modern architectural desert – then cross the border to go south, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava, it’s a completely different world. I am sorry, but you either don’t know what you are talking about or you are too stupid to understand it.

The ‘merican “education” strikes again…:) Or it could be just you.

Left out Daniel Davis. Keep wet dreaming over a Kiev regime victory. Even the idiot Telegraph has had to drift from much of the BS it cranked out.

I’ll personally benefit in any outcome.

That is what the alliance of the resentful doesn’t get.

The people that lose in this war are regular Russians and Ukrainians. Putin isn’t sticking it to the West by killing Ukrainians in Western gear.

The last military aid package was mostly a massive order to the military industrial complex. That is the bill that Trump handed Johnson which masterfully split the MAGA opposition. Trump will sign another bill if needed.

This war was a colossal mistake and everyone knows it. Even the Russians know this war is a waste as seen by the fact that Putin has to keep increasing the bonus amount to hire conscripts. He has clearly burned through his voluntary patriots. Historically militaries start having problems when a significant number of troops are only there for the money. You get fewer heroes and more deserters.

Putin’s bootlickers may believe in the war but actual Russians want money up front.

Putin doubles bonus to contractors
https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-decree-payment-doubled-ukraine-war/33057925.html

The three million Polish commies for 40 years only “pretended”?

Obviously.

Would someone refuse a promotion or cut oneself off from the possibility of getting a promotion, or rather pretend? Such was life. But since everyone knew it was a stupid but necessary game most people didn’t hold it against anyone for pretending.

You don’t understand that, because your people were comically sincere in their Communism.

It was because in Poland it was an unwanted pretense the whole time, that the system collapsed there right away after the threat of tanks was gone.

Three million commies couldn’t be pretending. You don’t seem to know even the most minimal things about Poland in 1945-90

I know the basic fact that Communism there was an imposed system that people paid lip service to despite not liking it, because they had to.

You don’t even know that.

Visit Krakow with its filthy strip-mall look – I don’t want to mention Warsaw, a bland post-modern architectural desert – then cross the border to go south, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava

I’ve only been to the Warsaw airport so can’t say much about the city, it was mostly destroyed during the war and rebuilt under Commies so I would expect ugliness (everything they did was ugly), but there has been a building boom in the last 20 years so it probably has some impressive modern buildings.

But I have really seen Krakow. It was incomparably cleaner and less shabby than Budapest, where I spent about a week in 2019. Even AnoninTN agreed with me that Budapest was rundown and dirty (only the castle district was up to the civilized standards of Austria or Poland). Maybe Budapest has improved since then.

Wroclaw and Lublin are supposed to be beautiful. I plan to visit them next summer.

Vienna was nice, the medieval downtown was great, the museums and palaces also, and the parts of downtown that were not medieval reminded me of central Moscow. If Bratislava is more like Austria or Poland it should be nice, if it is more like Hungary I would expect it to be shabby and rundown looking. Fortunately, the pictures I see of it suggest that it is more like Austria or Poland rather than like Hungary.

I haven’t been to Prague. I imagine Austrian influence has been good for it and that therefore it is more like Vienna or Krakow than like Budapest.

The ‘merican “education”

Only the best in the world. How do your secondary schools and universities rank again?

This is Krakow’s central square. Where is the “filthy strip mall look?” :

Krakow’s shopping street Florianksa. Filthy strip mall?

Krakow has an ugly Galleria mall but it’s on the edge of downtown, easily avoidable.

That is not to say Washington will let Russia conquer all Ukraine.

Is it really up to Washington? Based on its actions, Russia prefers to not “conquer all of Ukraine”.

Putin cannot get in sight of victory and leave Ukraine substantially intact; that would recreate the mistake of 2015 in which the Minsk accords nullified Putin having gained the upper hand militarily, and enabled Kiev to continue getting close to Nato. To fail to press such a hard one advantage and present another Minsk style deal covering the whole of Ukraine as a victory after all the losses Russia has sustained? Completely impossible. No, Putin has to conquer Ukraine and ensure the installation of a government friendly to Moscow.

Former CIA Analyst Tells USC Class the TRUTH ab Russia/Ukraine

” Majority of actual ethnic Moldovans prefer the EU.”

Yet inside Moldova, nearly every district (I think 3 or 4 had majorities for Yes) voted No.

“even the Russians know this war is a waste”

Everybody knows war is a waste. Ukraine are sending young women to the front line to be killed. Pity.

https://t.me/myLordBebo/48148

Yet inside Moldova, nearly every district (I think 3 or 4 had majorities for Yes) voted No.

Not true of course.

The dark areas at the top are full of ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, at the bottom ethnic Gagauz. Most ethnic Moldovans voted in favor of EU. Moldova is about 18% non-Moldovan/non-Romanian and this was enough for a slight anti-EU vote within Moldova’s borders.

Note that the capital, that voted pro-in EU in 5 of 6 voting districts, has more people than do those provinces.

Your statement “Moldovans actually in Moldova were pretty much united against the idea.” is indeed an absurdity but par for the course for consumers of pro-Russian “information.”

We had this project to make up countries, and I named mine some not-too-subtle lesbian innuendo in German.

Did your classroom’s finished map look anything like this one by chance? 😉

Yes, this is obviously a Jewish project. As people become exhausted by the carnage maybe the real drivers will be unveiled.

Hah !!

“Putin gathers allies to show West’s pressure isn’t working”

But critics point to differences within Brics. “Likeminded” is not a word you would use to describe the current membership.

“In some ways it’s a good job for the West that China and India can never agree about anything. Because if those two were really serious, Brics would have enormous influence,” notes Jim O’Neill, former Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs.

“China and India are doing their best to avoid wanting to attack each other a lot of the time.”

Just down the page, from a day earlier:

“India and China agree to de-escalate border tensions”

India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along a disputed Himalayan border which has seen deadly hand-to-hand clashes in recent years, India’s top diplomat has said.

Vikram Misri said on Monday the two sides have agreed on “disengagement and resolution of issues in these [border] areas that had arisen in 2020”.

He was referring to the Galwan Valley clashes – the first fatal confrontation between the two sides since 1975, in which both sides suffered casualties.

Relations between the neighbours have been strained since then.

“An agreement has been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the India-China border areas, leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020,” Mr Misri said.

I wonder what percentage of new Russian contract soldiers stay on to be career military?

To phrase it differently, I wonder if this bonus is also a means to accelerate the build up of NCOs or the equivalent enlisted experts?

On the other hand, I wonder how badly the tranny-ization of the US military has thinned out the ranks of competent NCOs?

I wonder how the new lesbian US Army will get on?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/army-recruitment-lgbt-pride-b1846891.html

The US Army has released a new animated recruitment campaign featuring five diverse soldiers and an LGBT+ family in the hopes of appealing to new young audiences.

The campaign, which launched this week, is titled “The Calling” and features five animated short films detailing how a different person in each film decided to join the Army.

One clip follows the story of corporal Emma Malonelord who was “raised by two supportive mothers” and goes on to operate the nation’s missile defence systems.

“It begins in California, with a little girl raised by two moms,” Ms Malonelord says in the clip. “Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.”

“I like to think I’ve been defending freedom from a young age.”

The other personal stories in the campaign feature stories from those from other underrepresented backgrounds including a Dominican immigrant, an African American woman, and a Haitian man.

The tagline for the campaign reads: “See how five young Americans made the most important decision of their lives, for reasons as diverse as they are.”

The Army has been making a sustained effort to appeal to more diverse groups in recent years, with LGBT+, ethnic minority groups, and women remaining severely underrepresented within its ranks, particularly in high-level positions.

I always thought lesbians were well over-represented among female recruits.

I have seen that one.

Ten embryos for six IQ points doesn’t seem very impressive to me.

But I suppose it could still be very disruptive.
https://www.amren.com/news/2024/10/us-startup-charging-couples-to-screen-embryos-for-iq/

Ally is another one of those words which has been FUBAR’d.

Current usage is an ally is really a vassal as in the United States has France and Germany and Poland and &c.

Russia has only got a couple of those. The proper neologism remains to be neo’d.

Yes, this is obviously a Jewish project. As people become exhausted by the carnage maybe the real drivers will be unveiled.

So are you saying that Putin was duped into a Jewish project?

Gosh and I thought he was the 5d chess master.

This is nothing but ripoff artistry. Our great-grandpa farmers knew more about eugenics than 2024 Harvard Stanford. Progress is not a continuous upward curve.

I wonder what percentage of new Russian contract soldiers stay on to be career military?

Practically none. They’re basically preying on rural and minority men that have debt and few options.

To phrase it differently, I wonder if this bonus is also a means to accelerate the build up of NCOs or the equivalent enlisted experts?

The Russian military doesn’t make extensive use of private NCOs like the West. It’s very much a Soviet style military with enlisted officers.

The contractors are needed for assault squads.

The current Russian tactic is to funnel in small groups of 4-6. No evac or medics which makes the odds of surviving the war low. The idea is to minimize the losses if they are discovered by drones or artillery. They aren’t using officers at the front like Western militaries. They trickle in these small groups and then try to back them with heavy weapons if they are able to hold a position. Very high casualties since the Ukrainians are willing to fall back and prefer to set traps.

On the other hand, I wonder how badly the tranny-ization of the US military has thinned out the ranks of competent NCOs?

Probably not much for anyone using the military for college cash. They already have to sit through liberal guilt courses. It’s nothing new to them.

Everybody knows war is a waste. Ukraine are sending young women to the front line to be killed. Pity.

Yes and women can continue to vote by drone.

Would be a great time for Putin to end the killing by going home.

With apologies to Slovakia, America is the greatest country ever.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-13987191/Kelly-Stafford-Cleveland-Browns-fans-Deshaun-Watson-injury.html

I read the story and it didn’t give her opinion of all the media guys who were laughing their ass off nor did she have a comment on Deshaun Watson’s training routine of having a smoking hot massage therapist massage his anus with baby oil.

Did A123 have a nickname for Kamala?

Skamala and Skankala (or -ula) are still on the table.

Would be a great time for Putin to end the killing by going home.

No! Only when NATO cowards will stop their pathological appetite for Ukraine. Do not they know that this is the Russian historical land that will not be hand over to criminals that killed 27 mil Russians with the same appetite.

Thanks for the pics.

I wouldn’t agree with everything you wrote here. There’s always much more than meets the eye in any data set and raw data can sometimes be misleading. That’s what statisticians and data analysts are for, a profession in high demand these days with all the amount of data generated in the digital age. However, it is true that things almost always are what they look like. That’s why nature gave us our pattern recognition abilities: evolution made them fit for purpose in most cases. Perhaps the morale of the story here would be to trust your senses: if you value safety over beautiful beaches, don’t move to a Caribbean nation.

At this point the probability of her winning seems very low, so everyone should feel free to coin new terms.

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that she’ll win. Even though poll aggregates continue showing an extremely close race, it is actually more likely that the winner, most likely Trump, will have a comfortable lead because biases in polls are correlated.

Even when Kamala was leading by a 3-4 point margin at the national level, it was doubtful that she’d win. Biden was leading Trump in the same polls 4 years ago by 8 points and only won by 4. Besides, the electoral college currently gives the Republican candidate an advantage of about 2 percentage points.

However, there is a small chance that polls have over-corrected for their past mistakes and are now biased in favor of Trump, which would mean a comfortable victory for Kamala. Some of these companies are in the business of making reliable predictions, there’s no obvious reason why they wouldn’t correct known biases if they can. But all polls are showing increasingly favorable results for Trump after the post-debate low. They’re clearly measuring a real phenomenon and, as election date nears, Trump is getting closer to Kamala than he’s ever been after Biden dropped out. If he hasn’t done it yet, AK should revise his prediction to avoid a repetition of the shock and disbelief fiasco.

Latest Trump burger stunts and Elon Musk sort of paying money just for the election participation may indicate that potential abstaining vote problem from former Trump voters (e.g. at least some part of figurative Anglin/Fuentes crowd, which has the most beef with Jews/Israel) is still real and they’re aware of it despite relatively good looking polling numbers.

Negro lover. She hardly deserves anything special. She ought to pay me money for coining Willie Brown’s skank ho which is overly generous.

This is GOLD

Here is the latest from Atlas: (1)

Yep. Trump AHEAD in the overall national race. Atlas was the most accurate firm in 2020, so there is every reason to believe this is plausible. The DNC machine tried to hide Harris, which didn’t work. Then there were botched friendly interviews, which made things worse. Going on FOX was a last ditch desperation move.

“Team Biden” has been doing an excellent job linking Border Czar Harris to Joe’s record. And, they undercut her by saying nice things about DeSantis while Harris was going low with quackery on hurricane relief. A number of significant Democrats want her to fail so they can have a run in 2028 unburdened by what has been (e.g. Biden & Harris).

Now that independents have seen Harris, they do not want her. Large numbers of Democrats are also jumping ship.
___

The DNC fundamentally missed the boat. To gracefully displace Biden, they needed to run a competitive primary.

I am still surprised that they managed to obtain a voluntary withdrawal from Joe. There was a major medical event, but the details have been suppressed. It looked like make-up covering bruising, so a fall seems likely. Was there something much scarier that the public does not know?

Harris was the worst possible choice. She got the VP slot as an obviously unqualified DEI hire. However, without a primary, the DNC had no way to push out a female PoC for an alternate candidate. And, all of their other choices, such as Newsom, also came with liabilities.

PEACE 😇
__________

(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/most-accurate-pollster-2020-has-blockbuster-polls-trump

Gagauz and Slavs in Moldova aren’t considered Moldovan citizens and hence not called Moldovans? If you believe that Pridnestrovie is part of Moldova, the majority of ethnic Moldovans there prefer Russia over the EU.

EU-G7 Blues

Russia has been isolated eh?

How did the gypsies vote?

No he doesn’t. Slicing off a piece of Ukraine will probably lead to Ukies doing an antisemitic pogrom.

Three Stooges did a funny.

I like Iran He Ran You Ran.

This is nothing but ripoff artistry. Our great-grandpa farmers knew more about eugenics than 2024 Harvard Stanford. Progress is not a continuous upward curve.

Havard professors in departments like biology are fully aware of eugenics. The difference is that they support the liberal position of dishonesty.

They’re just looking for genes that are known to be associated with intelligence.

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that she’ll win. Even though poll aggregates continue showing an extremely close race, it is actually more likely that the winner, most likely Trump, will have a comfortable lead because biases in polls are correlated.

I would ignore the national polls. Even if she is ahead 4-5 points it really means nothing.

It’s the swing states that matter and she isn’t connecting with blue collar workers.

The Democrats are the biggest friggin idiots. These people don’t understand anyone. Their leadership truly consists of isolated coastal Whites that are never around actual minorities.

Trump could actually take Michigan.

But don’t worry she is going to bring out a rapper and is promising Black men that she will legalize pot.

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that she’ll win. Even though poll aggregates continue showing an extremely close race, it is actually more likely that the winner, most likely Trump, will have a comfortable lead because biases in polls are correlated.

Some guy on Twitter was making a good case that recent poll aggregates are skewed because hey have been flooded by dubious pro-Trump pollsters intent on presenting a false picture for the purpose of supporting Trump’s post-election claims that the vote was rigged, using as an example these poll results. Don’t know if he’s correct but seems to be so.

I would be happy with the entire Black Sea coast and a border with Transnistria. Maybe a drive along the south and a border with Hungary too.

If they don’t take over Dniepro an inadverdant collateral blowing to smithereens of Zalinsky’s boss’s world’s biggest jewish community center would be a decent token gesture ritual.

which would mean a comfortable victory for Kamala.

There will probably come a day, when due to demographic changes, a shrill woman can win America. At one time, we could reliably say it was impossible, but so much of politics has become transactional.

I don’t believe for a second that either AP or the Somalis would actually like to sit down with Kamala – maybe to lobby. But certainly not on a personal level. But both AP and the Somalis are counting on the idea that they will never have to interact with her on a day to day basis.

I don’t believe for a second that either AP or the Somalis would actually like to sit down with Kamala – maybe to lobby.

I’m sure AP would actually love to sit down with Kamala and lobby for more billions to Ukraine.

Btw, everybody understands that the Irish (including of course the Irish-Americans, an essential part of the modern US) are the coolest ethnicity. No other European country gets its national holiday celebrated all over the world and the atmosphere of its pubs emulated in every civilized corner of the planet. I hope you didn’t take AP’s attacks too seriously. He knows he’s doing something shameful by voting for the witch and needs to build some sort of defense but we all know the truth.

She is not shrill. She is ding bat Edith convolved with hot lips Houlihan.

Donald the Fat does Rogan. Friday. Allegedly.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13988643/kamala-harris-pressure-joe-rogan-donald-trump-interview.html

Thanks. AP and I enjoy trolling each other. (I hope.)

@Emil
The Reddit witches are supporting Kakula.

What do you get out of being petty and insulting? Do you know that your pointless insults expose to everyone that you are pathetic?

Is the fact that Trump is winning that frightening to you?

PEACE 😇

I have always suspected this mess has an important Jewish angle. Jewish power is a big part of the current reality in the USA, Ukraine and Russia. I think Russia’s response was intrinsic to the post-Cold War realities, meaning they had to respond to Western provocations and this was expected by all parties. I think Western planners and schemers, Jewish or otherwise, did not expect Russia to move so slowly (calmly) or maintain her internal political stability for so long. At this point it somewhat looks like they can continue indefinitely, gradually getting stronger. In many respects they may be growing faster than without the SMO, so why do they want to end it? This means the West either needs to escalate or end the project. My current guess is they will try an escalation which will scare the hell out of sane people everywhere. Based on the pushback they will then end the project.

I don’t think the escalation will happen before the US election, so it may be left to Team Trump to be the bad guys.

Would be a great time for Putin to end the killing by going home.

No! Only when NATO cowards will stop their pathological appetite for Ukraine.

NATO doesn’t want Ukrainian land. They are for letting Ukrainians pick their own leaders such as Zelensky who was not the NATO favorite.

You do acknowledge that the Ukrainians do not want to be part of Russia?

Do not they know that this is the Russian historical land

Which period are you referring to exactly?

Putin can do what he wants, at least as far as Russia’s population is concerned, as long as he doesn’t dare implement full mobilization of the general population. He can continue the war for another year or three by either paying or coercing losers to die (paying desperately poor people from Russia’s margins, or using inmates or perhaps slave soldiers from North Korea), or he can make a peace that lets Ukraine join NATO. The Russian people won’t protest in any consequential way either way. Latest polls show Russians will support Putin whatever he does (negotiates peace, continue war) although around 50% now wish the war had never started.

If Putin has adequate control of those under him within the government (this is less clear, but presumably it’s the one thing he is rather good at), then he can fully do what he wants, peace or war, except full mobilization.

No, Putin has to conquer Ukraine and ensure the installation of a government friendly to Moscow.

This was his goal from the beginning. He miscalculated badly, thinking it would end in a few weeks, maybe a couple of months. Now he’s chasing losses with the lives of Russian losers and of the (principal) Ukrainian victims of his misadventure. Russia’s losers are dwindling (they payments keep increasing, indicating reduced supply of volunteers, and the latest ploy is to conscript not prison inmates but merely those accused of a crime) but so are the number of Ukrainian mobilized, so neither side is gaining much of an advantage and the stalemate continues.

To paraphrase a contemporary Hawkeye from the Avengers, “You and I remember Hot Lips very differently.”

I don’t think the escalation will happen before the US election, so it may be left to Team Trump to be the bad guys.

But what can Trump do? US artillery factories are backordered and working around the clock.

There isn’t a major package planned that Trump could veto. The ATACMS inventory was already handed over to Ukraine. We could send more Bradleys but neither party wants to send anything modern like AC-130s. They have plenty of F-16s and need more pilots. So sending F-18s wouldn’t do much.

At this point South Korea is in a better position to help them with military aid. They have a huge stockpile of 155 shells.

Ukraine needs men and both parties are only interested in sending military aid. France should go ahead and send the foreign legion. Volunteers only for combat positions.

Jewish power is a big part of the current reality in the USA, Ukraine and Russia.

Hmmmm…

• Führer Zelensky, enemy of the Jews, is an Azov neo-Nazi
• Kamala Harris is an anti-Semite seeking Muslim votes

• Putin is well known to be friendly with Russian Jews
• Trump is supportive of indigenous Palestinian Jews

If you want to put the pieces together, you must look a bit further. The European Empire is running the Great Muslim Replacement to harm European Jews & Christians. They also support Führer Zelensky, ordering their puppets Harris and Biden to send weapons.

Reality looks bad for Kiev aggression. Trump’s win will increase Judeo-Christian influence. Führer Zelensky, enemy of the Jews, will no longer have a Europe controlled puppet occupying the White House. Look for the pro-Jewish administration to reduce (or eliminate) the support for anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, Kiev aggression against Russians, including Russian Jews.

PEACE 😇

I think the purpose of the combat is mostly to create internal pressure on the Russian political power structure. Russia can easily defeat Ukraine but that process in and of itself will create political pressure on Russia. This is one reason they are going slow. The natural Neocon moves will be to cross more of Russia’s red lines. They want something big enough to cause major anguish but not so big it leads to martial law. I imagine they are still drooling over the Kerch bridge but the symbolic power of that target may have faded over time.

He knows he’s doing something shameful by voting for the witch

No shame in my game. Phrase taken from a historically similar and even more essential part of the modern USA (than the Irish), whose cultural production is even more globally celebrated.

Trump and more so his crew of psychopaths (RFK Jr) and grifters (Vivek, Vance, Musk et al) are even worse than Kamala, who is really just a lawyer of mediocre intelligence and no real political ideology, a good-enough vessel for mainstream democrats who seem to have been spooked more to the center (a good thing). Looks the Senate will almost certainly be Republican, which will further keep her administration either in the center or make sure she is totally ineffectual. She’ll probably give us a better border deal than the compromise that Trump tanked, won’t play stupid games with massive tariffs (decoupling from China would be a good idea, but not slashing trade ties with our allies) and hopefully will be better for Ukraine than the soft Biden administration has been.

I can live with that better than I can live with Trump turning the USA into an oligarchical-demagogic Banana Republic with his strange crew. Ironically, although he claims that he will save the USA from mass Latin American immigration, he himself seems to practice bad elements of Latin American style politics with his crude populism, nepotism, dumb protectionism worthy of Peronism, dumb personal greed (has A123 bought one of his watches yet?), empty promises. Saving us from Latin America by becoming more like worse parts of it at the core.

I’d have taken Trump 2016-2020 when his administration still had plenty of normal people over Kamala, and I would have voted for Hailey, DeSantis, or Youngkin but this year the Democratic ticket seems to be less bad.

Though I may be pleasantly surprised by Trump. Small chance, not enough to get me to consider voting for him, but not zero.

How are you going to cope when Rogan ambushes Donald the Fat with Diddy video of Ivanka screwing a donkey and apotheosizes his bald goo into poz heavens? It is going to be epic.

Donald the Fat does Rogan.

Be careful. Some people look at Trump and don’t see what you and I see. He has a slim, athletic body type in their eyes. One of them is hanging around here all the time.

Russia can easily defeat Ukraine but that process in and of itself will create political pressure on Russia.

Using “easy” is a bit of an overstatement. However, you are correct that Russia could win. What happens next?

Remember GW Bush in Iraq who — Won the War, but Lost the Peace.

Putin will avoid such a trap. Tying to assimilate Kiev and Lviv is a non-starter as strategy.

The outlines of a final deal are not that hard to figure out. A smaller Ukraine will continue with limits on its offensive potential. No nukes. No NATO ever. No foreign troops. This will prevent Kiev from starting “Round 2” years down the line.

Ideally, a friendlier government will realize that the Islamophile, anti-Semitic European Empire is not their friend. Instead of a Führer like Zelensky, the next government needs to place Ukraine First, not EU First.

European imperial military aspirations need to be moved out. That will allow for a number of potential options. Once anti-Semitic neo-Nazi extremism is suppressed, there will be options for new Ukraine to re-engage constructively with the civilized community of nations.

PEACE 😇

Be careful. Some people look at Harris and don’t see what you and I see.

To #NeverMAGA zealots she has an agile mind. In they/them’s eyes, she is an inspirational leader. One of them is hanging around here all the time.

PEACE 😇

How are you going to cope when Rogan ambushes Donald

Rogan does not support Mikel’s precious Harris. Why would he “ambush” with obviously forged deepfake pictures? That would destroy Rogan’s credibility & career. Only someone degenerate, depraved, utterly defeated, and immoral (like Mikel or Yahya Sinwar) would do that.

• Will Rogan ask serious, unscripted questions? Yes.
• Has Trump successfully handled a number of such interviews? Yes.

RFKjr went on Rogan, and it was fine. You should be less histrionic, petty, paranoid, and pessimistic. Your negativity holds you back.

PEACE 😇

If you have ever doubted that oil is some kind of driver for wokeness…

Kind of an old story, but still interesting, IMO.

Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder

Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on the rudder of a tanker. They had no idea they were bound for Brazil, and a two-week ocean voyage that would nearly kill them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66450500

Russia can easily defeat Ukraine but that process in and of itself will create political pressure on Russia.

If it was easy then they would have taken Kharkiv by now. It’s only 30 minutes from the border.

Makes much more sense to take it in the summer.

Once the rains come the Ukrainians can flood parts of the highway.

The most likely explanation is that Russia is crawling at a slow pace because of limitations and the nature of the war. It isn’t a political decision.

he next government needs to place Ukraine First, not EU First.

Why not let the Ukrainian people decide if they want to be in the EU?

Once anti-Semitic neo-Nazi extremism is suppressed, there will be options for new Ukraine to re-engage constructively with the civilized community of nations.

A neo-nazi state with a Jewish president?

Lukashenko has stated that there are no more Nazis. So you can check that off the list.

This is all fine, but you are ignoring the real power and that is the American Jewish lobby that serve to Israel 24/7 through the media, banks, judicial. Then there are 38 Jewish congressmen with dual citizenship (37 Democrats) that unproportionally occupy important positions in Senate and House committees (check it out). No other minority has equal chance in Washington decision making, not even populous Latinos.

Has anybody here (almost–there is one regular poster who is too stupid to read or reply to and is the only person on unz.com I have ever tagged ignore) read Svetlana Alexievich: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets?

It’s an approximate break down along ethnic linguistic lines.

Not sure what you are saying. Elaborate please.

Right now, there is apparently a federal case in Boston where the family of a high school student is suing the teacher and school for giving him a bad grade for using AI to write his history paper.

Have only read one account, so I find it confusing. But seems to me much hinges on the politics of the case.

If the kid picked the topic for his essay about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s impact on civil rights, my sympathies are against him. If he didn’t, then my sympathies are with him.

Guessing it was the latter case, as I recall being forced to write similar stuff. Youth shouldn’t be misspent being forced to write woke essays. Nobody really cares about plagiarism in such cases, it is about repeating the rhetoric. Such exercises can and should be outsourced to chatbots.

https://www.boston.com/news/schools/2024/10/18/hingham-parents-sue-son-penalized-using-ai-research-project/

If you were using google in 2015 to build the bibliography for a research paper you had an AI assisted research paper. In 2024 if you use ChatGPT to compose the sentences in your research paper this is a difference only in degree and not in kind so I don’t see an obvious big deal here. Do these people who use ChatGPT expect to get high marks? If you can’t make better sentences than a bot I don’t think you should be expecting to get high marks. There are apparently now classes at Yale and Harvard where the average student gets an A.

Maybe the average student now is really that excellent but my a priori on that being factual is a low number. Like a very low number.

She’ll probably give us a better border deal than the compromise that Trump tanked,

Unlikely, I think. She will probably stick to the original border deal:

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-border-security-bill-1943397

What incentive would the Democrats have to make further concessions if the GOP in Congress had previously agreed to this deal? If Trump loses in two weeks’ time, then the GOP might be more willing to agree to the previous deal in regards to this.

To elaborate on my previous point here, I don’t think that Kamala would want to reward the GOP for their obstructionism by giving them an even better border bill. If she will concede in regards to this, then this would pave the way for the GOP to do even more obstructionism on various issues so that they could get even better deals on these issues later on.

Otherwise, though, I completely agree with you here.

The likes of Petraeus, Hodges, Keane, Austin, Blinken and anonymous pro-Kiev regime trolls debunked again in slam dunk fashion:

Russia would be extremely foolish to (for no military advantage – how many divisions have the Unz commentariat?) gratuitously upset Jews worldwide. Indeed such an act should IMHO mean court-martial minimum.

Putin is one of a few world leaders (Erdogan is another and Modi is looking to be a third) who have managed to neatly balance between a lot of powerful forces. It’s good for Russia.

A big chunk of any essay or dissertation consists of re-phrasing papers or book extracts that someone else has written.