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Forgotten History

Primus Inter Pares

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by Claudiu Secara

It rarely happens to be able to witness the mating rituals of the elephants, but this is one such time. The elephants in this case are the Anglo-Saxons, the Russians and the Chinese. They are triangulating the rest of the world, playing their hierarchical positions within their international intercourse.

Is it about the Donbas, or is it about Taiwan? Or maybe about de-dollarization?

I think that ultimately it is about the WEF Agenda. That is, it is about the demographics, and it is indeed about the limits of growth, but with a twist.

The Barbarians are at the Gate! That is the concern of the Western elites. The jungle is encroaching on civilization’s garden. That is real, and it is a major concern. Hence the mysterious events of the last 30-40 years. We do need a new world order!

Now, as I have written in other essays, there are a number of red flags about many of the major events in the last 30-40 years. The war in Ukraine is only one such example. See The Fake War. Since September 2022, more bizarre things have happened in this war. Suffice it to remember the Prigozhin saga, the missing shells game, all the talk about the tanks, and the F-16s, which don’t make it to the front – and when a few do show up, they are all in a state of functioning incapacitation, etc.

Sure, there are centers of resistance against Russia taking over the whole of Europe. Witness the die-hards in Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics. They know what they know. But they will get their lesson and will fall into line.

Then we have other strange situations. The frozen $300 billion of Russian funds that are about to be confiscated – if only the Western banks can locate them! and even if they do, Western principles and legal scruples prevent the West from actual confiscation. But no legal scruples prevent them from issuing an inapplicable arrest warrant for Putin, the President of Russia, on the basis that Ukrainian children are being sheltered in Russia from the ravages of the war. Oh, yeah, and that’s when in the West, the child welfare gestapo snatch children from their parents’ arms for as little as yelling at the child.

And how about 9/11, obviously a fake, controlled demolition, as any child can see.

But the question is: why do the Russians and the Chinese go along with such a glaring embarrassment of a fake event? Seeing and listening to all the higher-ups of these countries toeing the Anglo-Saxon line is a humiliating spectacle, evincing their servitude and their impotence.

The Corona virus ruse is another glaring example. Against all medical knowledge and all practice over hundreds of years, why did these colossal superpowers, armed to the teeth and ready to spill blood in order to defend their sovereignty and national dignity, why were they all subservient to a piece of paper issued by the WHO, in unison locking down their populations for a pandemic that was not? And furthermore, why did they all poison the blood and the DNA of their national constituencies, the bedrock of their national sovereignty, when they all could have just voted a different resolution at one of the 5-star hotel WHO conferences, and do away with the madness?

Even more bizarre is the phenomenon of Selling Off the West’s Patrimony for One Ruble But Why?

At the very time of an existential war by the West against the up-and-coming challengers, Russia and China, we have the strange phenomenon of the large scale transfer of technology and know-how to China that occurred over the last 40 years. Now the same is happening with the transfer of technology, for a token fee, to Russia.

Company after company, major and not so major, after having invested heavily – transferring their technology, training the Russian workforce in Western methods of management, production and marketing, etc., – they are told to sell it all to the Russians for a ruble, thus legitimizing the ownership of this massive transfer of know-how and modernizing of the Russian economy overnight as a competitive alternative to the West.

Isn’t it the most glaring conspiracy under the full view of the confused populations? – But Why?

Are we actually going to see the demolition of Western hegemony as a result of all these developments? Are we going to see the dollar going out of existence? Is digital currency going to replace the financial overlording by the Western banks? (Could that be one positive outcome?)

Well, we just read that Russia has halted those much-heralded transactions with India on the basis of Rubles and Rupees. Why? Because of a “surplus of rupees, which stands to reach the equivalent of over $40 billion this year, in Russia’s coffers, caused by the growing trade imbalance between the two countries”.

It turns out getting rid of the dollar overnight is more complicated than that.

Yes, on the face of it, the pendulum has swung away from the West. It is the time to reassess the situation.

What is the alternative for the Western Garden in the absence of a controlled management of the growing disparities between the West and the rest of the world? Poverty? But hopeless poverty triggers hopeless actions. We see what is happening in the Mediterranean. At the risk of their lives, more and more people are finding ways to invade Europe. More and more people are taking to the highway and crossing the Rio Grande, etc.

There are certain voices who argue for tall fences, for patrol boats, for tough legislation providing for the returning of illegal immigrants to their countries of origin.

Is that the answer? Yes, as long as we are dealing with hundreds of people. Yes, when we are dealing with thousands of people. But what happens when millions show up at the gate? They are hungry, desperate, and cornered.

I see the answer to these prospects in the events that are taking place these decades. It is about a controlled transfer of economic development on the basis of three world power centers. The Russian sphere from Vladivostok to Lisbon. The Chinese sphere in Asia. And the Anglo-Saxon for the G5. Africa remains to be sliced between each one of the three. The Middle East is shared more or less at the center of the pie.

The plan is for a controlled distribution of . . . control, among the three. With the rest of the world subordinated to the three. And the Anglo-Saxons as the Primus inter pares. First among equals.

That assures the illusion of democracy in the Anglo-Saxon world while the rest are managed by authoritarian governments.

The dollar is diminished but remains more equal than its equals. The world is now manageable, and population growth can be controlled through the agency of the other two superpowers.

And the West, now, with the probable loss of Europe, can go on playing its arbitrage game for another generation or two.

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Putin’s Troika: Three Russian Agents Who Infiltrated the Trump Campaign

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Saving Europeans from Themselves

Reading the Russian Tea Leaves

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Ed. Note: Very rare discussion of the real internal configuration of the interests within Russia. We only disagree on one aspect with the author. And that is that in order to survive as an independent geopolitical civilizational entity, it was essential for Russia to integrate Western Europe into its own space. The last 100 years of European of wars were in fact the fight over Western Europe between the two major White European superpowers: the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians.
In light of such an objective, Russia had to be able to open its borders to integration with the “West”. At the peak of its military power in the late 1970s, it was possible to start the integration process. This is presented in The New CommonWealth published in 1997.

Posted by: shadowbanned

I know I’m like a broken record on this, but people in the West still don’t understand why and how exactly the Cold War ended.

And that includes even the anti-imperialists. Those consist mostly of two groups — a libertarian right and a Trotskyist left, and both of them have their reasons to swallow line hook and sinker the official narrative that is presented to everyone else, namely that the USSR collapsed because it was an unworkable system that history has now firmly rejected.

The libertarians like that idea because they dream of a small state, completely unregulated markets, etc. And obviously the USSR is a mortal enemy of that ideology.

The Trotskyists (and I use this term loosely — most of them don’t identify themselves as such because they have no knowledge of that history) hate the USSR because it was built by Stalin, and Trotskyists and Stalinists hate each other. Also, in later decades communist countries went in a conservative nationalist direction on cultural issues, which is unacceptable for Trotskyists too.

So we have the mainstream narrative converging with the disparate motivations of the “alternative” fringe in creating a huge blind spot, and everyone is thinking the USSR collapsed because it just had to collapse as it was a fundamentally broken system.

Nothing of the sort — if there had been a will, there would still be a USSR. It’s a long topic, but it could not only have been saved, but it would have thrived and been light years ahead of the West if the correct decisions had been taken, especially in the 1960s. You see what China looks like now.

In reality what happened was that the grandest act of treason and betrayal in human history was committed — a certain layer of the late Soviet elites made a deal with the West to surrender without a fight and hand over the USSR’s resources in exchange for a percentage on the rent extraction flow that would allow them to then live in unimaginable under communism luxury. That’s the essence of the whole story.

But again, that isn’t understood in the West, including in the anti-imperialist circles.

It is well understood in Russia though, and this is why there is so much pessimism — because that scum has been in power ever since, it has not been cleansed and purged at all, and everything about the last 14 months smells very strongly of another such betrayal.

do you have a link for this? and why would he resist at all if he were merely an agent of the west. my understanding is he had a great deal to do with transforming Russia from the wild west of the 90’s–why would he do that if he were a western agent? why would China trust him, to the extent that it does, if he were merely an agent of the west which has China next in the crosshairs?Posted by: pretzelattack

Here:

https://youtu.be/i8kkeztq70c?t=12

Putin is one person, and he is simply balancing between competing interest. He is not a dictator (even Stalin wasn’t really one and was always in danger of falling victim to a coup). Roughly it splits like this:

1) Extractive industries — pro-Western
2) Bankers — pro-Western
3) the MIC and the siloviki — patriotic, but with some western intelligence penetration in some of the agencies
4) local civilians industries — patriotic

On some issues one side prevails, on others the other.

So why is Russia even fighting? Why not just break it into saleable parts and get their $$$ and be done with it? Certainly their cohorts in the West would have made it very much worth their while. But that didn’t happen.
I’d like to hear your reasoning why they are betraying Russia and fighting for Russia all at the same time when they could have just competed the process 20 years ago with Yeltsin.I do get the pessimism though, anyone who has suffered trauma would feel the same.
Posted by: K | May 6 2023 12:31 utc | 321

See above. There is a strong patriotic faction, but it has not won the internal war.

Also, and that is very important, the reason why Russia started resisting after Putin became president is that even the extractive industries, while pro-Western, weren’t satisfied with their cut of the loot. And not just that — the original deal from the 1970s and 1980s was made with the understanding on the Russian side that they would be accepted as equal members of the world’s elite. But in fact they weren’t accepted — their money was welcome, but they themselves were always seen as second-class elites. And again, both sides got greedier than what the loot could support in terms of demands on it.

It’s nothing new — vassals have rebelled against their feudal lords because they weren’t satisfied with the terms of their mutual arrangements for many centuries. But vassals and their lords have always been in full agreement that the peasants should be totally suppressed, and that the system should be preserved.

Same thing here — the way things were 15-20 years ago was ideal for them, and that is what those sabotaging the SMO are dreaming about returning to. That ship has sailed though…

Not really. You might say that GDR collapsed in 1990 around the time Deng was changing policy in China – compare and contrast China with former GDR under West German management !China has a sea coast and had Hong Kong and New Territories where UK had let a business culture thrive – it had export ports. ALL Chinese wealth is concentrated in its coastal regions
USSR had no real coastal ports for exports.
USSR offered Akio Morita cheap labour to produce SONY products in Soviet factories – he declined. Outside Mil-Spec USSR quality was pitiful especially in consumer goods.
The areas of USSR best suited to technically advanced optics and electronics were Ukraine and Baltic States which is why USSR produced there and in GDR at Carl Zeiss Jena.
Dreamers like you are big on drama but weak on detail
Posted by: Paul Greenwood

Not at all. We are not talking about business — the whole point of the USSR was to move away from the “business” mentality — and definitely not about exports.

An entirely separate autarkic system had to be created.

If humanity is to survive in the long run, everyone who talks about business must as quickly as possible have their head and body separated from each other and buried in shallow unmarked graves, and everyone who ever talks about “business” again needs to be immediately lined up and shot. There is no viable future that is not based on careful material balancing of physical resources that ensures there is no growth in their use, and in which the ideas of “profit” and “interest” do not become heresies punishable by death. The alternative is extinction for the species and much of life on the planet.

The point is that the USSR refused to pursue the tech that would have allowed independent development along a different trajectory. Computer tech is key indeed, but not so much as a consumer item. And a lot of opportunities were missed.

Disastrous decisions were taken in the late 1950s and the 1960s.

First, not to pursue OGAS, which would have developed an internal Soviet internet before the Western version, and, critically, would have solved the real-time material balance problem (early on central planners had to plan for a few hundred items, but that eventually grew to complexity two orders of magnitude higher, which they couldn’t handle; a problem that was foreseen — there were people there who were not dummies and knew what had to be done — and OGAS would have been the solution). OGAS, in simplest terms, would have been much like what Amazon uses today to manage its logistics, but coming half a century earlier. The problem is that would have taken away the power of the bureaucrats so they blocked it.

Second, the decision was made to not pursue indigenous chip designs but to copy the Western ones. That ensured that they would always be half a decade behind. They were not as far behind initially, especially in theoretical work, and it’s not as if they didn’t have the brains to work on their own tech. Look up the early literature on machine learning, a lot of it is Soviet, and the first examples of what we now call deep learning were also Soviet.

Third, the Sino-Soviet split put them in permanent disadvantage. Circa 1965 it could have been 1.1-1.2 billion Chinese + Soviets + the rest of the communist countries in a single consolidated area of exchange of technology and ideas versus ~800 million in the West. After the Sino-Soviet split, the Eastern bloc was left with less than 400M people, vastly outnumbered by the West, while now having to spend double on the military to guard the eastern borders too.

What happened instead was that in the 1960s resource exports to the West started, which set the process of deep corruption of the system in motion. Why invest in local computer tech if you can just sell oil and buy them ready made?

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WP: Wagner vs. MOD

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The Washington Post releases new documents from US intelligence leaks. They concern the conflict between Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense, which escalated again.

The leaks date back to February when Wagner’s handler had already started blaming the military for a shortage of ammunition for his PMC. Data was obtained through wiretapping and message interception.

The documents show that “the Russian military leadership was frustrated by Prigozhin’s harsh public attacks and discussed how to suppress his criticism.”

Also, officials of the Russian Defense Ministry “were not sure that it was possible to successfully wage an information war against Prigozhin if the government did not prohibit him from making public statements.”

CIA military sources in Russia “couldn’t say unequivocally” whether Wagner received ammunition because it was not distributed directly from the ministry but through a task force in Bakhmut. At the same time, the sources admitted that “Prigozhin’s statements may be true.”

One of the documents for February 12 stated that the head of the General Staff Gerasimov “ordered to stop the supply of ammunition, as well as military transport flights intended for the transport of ammunition” to the Rostov headquarters of the PMC (we note that on February 23, Prigozhin announced that the problem had been resolved and the shipment of shells for Wagner resumed).

After Prigozhin’s public claims, he was summoned to a meeting with Putin and Shoigu on February 22. The day before, the curator of the PMC asked the President of Russia to allow him to continue recruiting from prisons, to train the mobilized and recruit foreigners, in particular, Afghans, into Wagner.

But Putin essentially refused. “The document, citing FSB interceptions, says that Putin ordered Prigozhin to resolve these issues with the Ministry of Defense taking the side of his generals and not Chief Wagner,” the publication reports.

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Meanwhile, after Prigozhin’s threat to withdraw Wagner units from Bakhmut, additional Wagner units were transferred to Bakhmut and even more fierce fighting began.
The UAF, in desperation, trying to stop Wagner, transfers reinforcements to Bakhmut, but most of them are destroyed by artillery on the way, because the ways of the APU approach to Bakhmut are under fire.
Bakhmut is now turning into the grave of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fights are non-stop. The telegram audience is fascinated by the fire-bombed quarters of the tiny patch of Bakhmut, where the remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still hiding, who are dying en masse at the whim of the war criminal Zelensky, who does not allow them to leave Bakhmut and throws thousands more lives of unfortunate Ukrainians into the furnace of Bakhmut.

Economics/Statistics

SCO Countries vs. Collective West

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian political, economic, and security bloc founded in 2001, has great potential to become a United Nations for the non-Western world, according to Robinder Sachdev, geopolitical and economic diplomacy analyst and founder president of the Imagindia Institute.

The two-day summit of the SCO foreign ministers kicked off on May 4 in the Indian state of Goa. The SCO foreign ministers are due to focus on the expansion of the organization.

Currently, the organization consists of eight permanent members, namely, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; and nine dialogue partners – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkiye, Egypt, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Our infographic shows the comparison of the total population of the SCO and the collective West.

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Russian Army: Are Shoigu and Gherasimov Being Discharged?

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There are some very significant developments within the Russian Army taking place these days. And that is: a mutiny within the volunteer army, which is Wagner, against the incompetent, corrupt 5th column represented by the big wigs Defense Minister Shoigu and Army Chief of Staff Gherasimov.

On the public channels, the complaint is about ammunition or, rather the lack of it, that was/is allocated to the Wagner group. But it might be rather about the direction of the overall strategy of Russia and a possible change of guard at the top.

Here is Prigozhin giving the ultimatum, not to  the Ukrainian army but to the Russian army. “We will leave the theater of operation in Bakhmut on May 10.” : https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/60473.

And here is the same Prigozhin explaining why: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/60594 

To speak out against Wagner today is political suicide. Because of the popularity of Wagner and because of the irritation of society against the military and political bureaucracy, because of the mistakes and inactivity of the NWO. Because, as it seems to society, the bureaucracy is afraid to defeat the West in Ukraine, afraid to fight for real.
For example, the very popular TG channel “Ridovka explains” today called Prigozhin’s actions blackmail, so after that he was told such a thing that after half an hour “Ridovka explains” apologized.
Many are afraid to criticize the Ministry of Defense. But no one has yet dared to seriously criticize Wagner. The Ministry of Defense is also silent.It thinks. (Markov)

On the Road to Serfdom ?

Is Russia Still Occupied Land?

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Posted by: shadowbanned

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I know I am getting irritating with constantly pointing it out, but that makes it no less true — if you get your info from The Duran, Ritter, McGregor, Lira, Martyanov, etc., you are completely misinformed about the actual situation in Russia, where the patriotic portions of the population are in complete despair for more than a year now watching how the Kremlin is conducting this strange “not war”. Because they remember the late 1980s, when the biggest act of treason in human history was committed, they remember the three decades that followed, during which it was never reversed, and they can clearly see that the same kind of shady dealings are going on behind the scenes now too. Meanwhile, not only is the war not fought seriously, but now Russia is humiliated daily, and there is no reaction. So there is deep, existential fear that the country will be sold out by its elites once again, and there will be no recovery.

If you take out Zelensky and co., that will send a very strong message that see, we are going to be fighting the war seriously from now on, nobody will take a dump on the honor of the country again, let’s all mobilize and finish this thing off. Right now you have soldiers out there who have no idea what it is they are fighting for, and a substantial reason for why all these sabotage acts are so successful is that locally people are resigned to their fate and not on their guard.

Fourth, that will burn the bridges with the West for good too, because from here on the Russian elite will be a target too. That is precisely why they are afraid of taking out Zelensky, but if they finally do it, then it is an existential fight for them too, one they will have to win.

For all these reasons, it should have been done a long time ago, and the second best time to do it is now.

There should also have been a denunciation of the Belovezh accords and a derecognition of Ukraine. To hell with whether it makes e.g. Kazakhstan angry, Kazakhstan will have to be dealt with separately anyway sooner or later.

As long as these things are not done, the leading hypothesis for what is happening remains that Russia is still governed by traitors and nothing has really changed since the late 1980s.

P.S. This illustrates the situation perfectly:

May 3. There can be no negotiations with the Zelenskyy regime – Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian Parliament.
May 4. Delegations of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey are scheduled to meet on Friday in Istanbul to discuss the issue of transporting Russian ammonia through Ukrainian ports.

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It needs to be always remembered that ultimately it was Hollywood that won the cold war.

Soviet citizens didn’t have it substantially worse than the typical working class grunt in the US when you account for all the things they took for granted (guaranteed housing, guaranteed employment, early retirement and generous pensions relative to salaries, free healthcare, free education, etc.) that poor and working class people in the US didn’t have. What difference there remained even after that was due to the fact that the US was sucking in resources from much of the globe, while the USSR was not, and due to the very low starting point of the USSR in the 1920s and the destruction of WWII.

But nobody actually explained that to the Soviet people, and there was always a trickle of Western movies that painted an extremely unrealistic picture of life in the West, as most such movies have always primarily portrayed the lives of the rich and privileged (in no small part because very few of the people making them came from the working class). So the average Soviet citizen got it in their head that the West was some kind of paradise of unlimited consumption and everyone was a millionaire, which of course had nothing to do with reality.

Worse, the elite became compromised too, and even earlier than the general population. Khrushchev’s trip the US in the 1950s is the starting point.

In retrospect, if the USSR really wanted to survive, it should have walled itself off the West the way North Korea has. Which is why North Korea is still around and the USSR is not…

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It’s not out of date, that mentality still persists regardless of actual reality (how many people in Russia do you think are aware of what San Francisco of Philadelphia actually look like?), and it is only the top 10% in Russia that are really prosperous. Inequality is extreme, and all those things that I listed as guaranteed/free in the USSR are no longer either guaranteed, free or affordable. Western cultural influence is still pervasive and deeply corrosive, especially on the young.

P.S. The main reason there are tent cities in the US now is that the USSR is no longer there to indirectly prevent it.

Let’s remember how the US entered WWII — with tent cities and abject poverty for much of the population. Same in the UK. Then the main enemy became the USSR while internally there were millions of men well trained to fight. Dangerous combination (the much less numerous and less well trained WWI veterans had marched on DC only a decade earlier), so concessions had to be made, and the tent cities disappeared. Plus that coincided with the period before the US ran out of oil, so the redistribution problem was solved through uncontrolled expansion. In the 1970s US oil production peaked, outsourcing began, neoliberalism entered the scene, and around that time Soviet elites agreed to commit treason. The result was devastation for the East, massive transfer of real wealth from East to West, which created another redistribution cushion, but eventually western elites got what they were dreaming of for so many decades – a return to the conditions of the 19th century in terms of social inequality and oppression of the masses.

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Have you ever even seen what’s available in Russia, even without VPN’s ? Do you know what the youth there listen to and emulate ? Have you seen the talk and game shows ? Its all modeled after Western filth. Additionally, the main target of this mind control slop is the youth and future generations, just like in most other nations.

If you think this doesn’t affect anything you’re extremely naive.

EuroSlavia, Remember?

Selling Off the West’s Patrimony for One Ruble – But Why?

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Ed. Note: Besides the whiff of surreality that envelops the war in Ukraine itself, this is another example of something that looks like something else. For the last 30 years Europe was investing in Russia, transferring their technology, training the Russian workforce in Western methods of management, production and marketing, etc., and then? They are told to sell it all to the Russians for one ruble, thus legitimizing a massive transfer of know-how and modernizing the Russian economy overnight as a competitive alternative to the West.

This is not unlike the transfer of technology and know-how to China that occurred in the last 40 years. Isn’t it the most glaring conspiracy under the full view of the confused populations? – But Why?

The Russian government allows Western companies to withdraw money from Russia when they sell their Russian subsidiaries. This causes indignation on the part of the Russian public. But, how is it actually done?
1. Westerners are forced to sell their Russian resources at depressed prices.
2. And pay regular taxes.
3. After that, the Westerners still have to pay a voluntary mandatory contribution to the Russian budget of about 10% of the transaction.
4. And after that, the Westerners still have to pay a tax on excess profits.
In general, not very much can be withdrawn from Russia as a result.
The reason Western companies get into this situation is the threat of political repression in the West. Europe is no longer making decisions for itself.

 

Is it because the alternative is this? Scenes from the Southern border of the US:

La Resistance - One by One

Tucker Carlson – A Man Standing Up

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Both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shortly before firing Fox News‘ anti-war host Tucker Carlson, who has repeatedly asked why the United States is sending vast resources to one of the most historically corrupt nations on the planet while neglecting its own citizens.

Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

“Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch held a previously unreported call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this spring in which the two discussed the war and the anniversary of the deaths of Fox News journalists last March,” according to Semafor, adding “The Ukrainian president had a similar conversation with Lachlan Murdoch on March 15, which Zelenskyy noted in a little-noticed aside during a national broadcast last month.”

As Semafor further notes; “The conversations came weeks before the Murdochs fired their biggest star and most outspoken critic of American support for Ukraine, Tucker Carlson. Senior Ukrainian officials had made their objections to Carlson’s coverage known to Fox executives, but Zelenskyy did not raise it on the calls with the Murdochs, according to one person familiar with the details of the calls.”
Weeks later, Lachlan Murdoch was credited with the decision to let Carlson go, according to the NY Times.

The decision to let Mr. Carlson go was made on Friday night by Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corporation, and Suzanne Scott, chief executive of Fox News Media, according to a person briefed on the move. Mr. Carlson was informed on Monday morning by Ms. Scott, another person briefed on the move said.

Carlson, according to the report, has previously described Zelenskyy as a “dictator.”
Interestingly, on March 11 – right around the time of the Lachlan Murdoch call, Carlson suggested to Redactedhost Clayton Morris that he could be fired over his anti-war stance.
“I’m saying what I really think and I think it really really matters and if I get fired for it, I don’t know what to say, I’m not going to change,” he said, adding that one of the top people he worked for at the network texted him to say “For the record, I really disagree with you on Ukraine!”
To which Carlson said: “And I wrote back and said, ‘I know you do and I’m so grateful that you let me disagree with you in public,” adding “This is someone I work for — a well known person.”
“Whatever you think of Fox … they are allowing me to say things that they disagree with and I think that’s wonderful.”
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Eastern Europe Awakening

Unraveling the Balkanization of South-Eastern Europe

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Ed. Note:

Ukraine decides who belongs to the civilized world and who does not, – Foreign Minister Kuleba told about a telephone conversation with a colleague:

“The Foreign Minister of one country called me and said: ‘Dmitry, I spoke with one problematic country and told them that today Ukraine decides who belongs to the civilized countries and who does not. If Ukraine does not give a signal that you are a normal country and with whom they can have business, then you will have problems’.”

From a recent comment:

All of Ulraine east of the Zhytomyr-Vinnytsia line is core historic Russian territory.
It ended up separated through a very unfortunate series of historic accidents.
But worse, it was being turned into a militantly anti-Russian platform for attacks against Russia.
Forget about Russian national interests, it is in your best interest as a US (or whatever other Western country you reside in) citizen for Ukraine to disappear from the map.
Because what is the alternative? The alternative is nuclear missiles situated there and Russian doomsday dead hand systems going on hair-trigger alert permanently, because now there are low single-digit minutes separating the launch from Moscow being vaporized.
With “long-term guarantees” we are all dead — we have miraculously survived so far through a disturbingly large list of situation in which the ICBMs were not launched only through sheer blind luck and because there was time to stop, think and assess the situation. That time will no longer be available with nukes in Ukraine.
On top of it all, there can be no such thing as a non-Nazi Ukrainian nationalism. That ship has long sailed. Just accept it as the fact of life that it is.
In the last 14 months the US has basically made official the alliance it entered into with the Nazis in March 1945, and from here on you can expect Ukrainization of the West, and by extension, open (re-)Nazification. Including of the US. The process is already very advanced in the Baltics, but it will spread further.
So on moral grounds alone you should be rooting for the complete erasure of Ukraine from the map and from future human history.

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All the Banderites had to do was to keep things quiet for another 30 years so that nobody pro-Soviet and pro-Russian is left and three generations are raised in an environment completely saturated with Ukrainian nationalist brainwashing.That would have closed the case and Russia would never get those lands back again.
There are two other examples of how that works (or fails to work) further to the southeast. We have three such pairs of countries:
1. Ukraine and Russia
2. Macedonia and Bulgaria
3. Moldova and Romania.
In which a smaller part of the whole is torn off the rest due to various historical circumstances, then it launches on a path towards becoming a real separate nation, often through the application of brutal brainwashing.
With Macedonia that process is finished — it started a century ago, and the brainwashing is so complete that they really hate Bulgarians quite thoroughly there, and Bulgaria is never getting it back.
With Moldova there was never that much effort put into it by the Soviets, plus they only got it under their control in 1944, so it looks like it will eventually reunite with Romania.
Ukraine was somewhere in the middle.
But there is a substantial difference here — Bulgaria and Romania were always too weak to get their lands back militarily. Russia, on the other hand, is a nuclear superpower. So it always had the capability to use force and resolve the issue that way.
Fortunately for the Ukrainians, Russia has for three decades (and really, more like six) been ruled by traitors who had absolutely no interest in such silly ideals such as defending the long-term security of the country, reuniting the Russian world, etc. They were perfectly content to let the Banderites run wild in Ukraine as long as there was no direct threat to them.
So all the Banderites had to do was to not cause too much trouble for another 20-30 years, and Ukraine would have been irreversibly lost to Russia.
And if handing Crimea over would have bought them that time, that would have been a win.
But they just can’t help themselves. And now they might lose it all.
Provided that Russia is no longer run by traitors, of course…

Also, you will do well to find a Ukrainian textbook and learn what they teach children there. A lot of it concerns not just Russia, and when you see it, maybe there is a chance that it will be so ridiculous even to you, that you may ask yourself the question “Wait, if they are lying in such absurd way about all these other things, how are we supposed to believe them about Russo-Ukrainian relationships?”…

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