karlof1 and @ Northern Eve | Nov 14 2022 18:07 utc | 101
yes, and yes…

Posted by: james | Nov 14 2022 18:32 utc | 104

Those of us who are historians and those who are inclined to read such works will want to read Lavrov’s introduction to ” Volume XV of the Publishing Project ‘History Told by the People'”:

Dear readers,
It is a great honor for me to present a new book from the series “History Told by the People”, which is published as part of a large-scale research project “Military History of the Russian State”. The authors set themselves a very noble goal – to show the Great Patriotic War through the prism of human destinies, relying on materials from personal, family archives – thousands of photographs, documents, stories and memories. Such an idea and its implementation amaze with scientific depth and a powerful emotional charge.
The volume you are holding in your hands is timed to coincide with the 220th anniversary of the Russian Foreign Ministry. His heroes are Soviet diplomats of the period of war fever. In the first months after the German attack, more than 160 NKID officers enlisted in the militia. They went to the front, took part in the Battle for Moscow. Many of them fell to the death of the brave. Today, their names are carved on a memorial plaque in the Foreign Ministry building.
Others, sparing no effort, did everything possible to create and strengthen the anti-Hitler coalition, approach the date of the opening of the second front, as well as the formation of the post-war architecture of global security, including the establishment ofthe UN. All of them honorably and to the end fulfilled their professional and human duty to the Motherland.
The book is based on unique documents that were found and collected literally bit by bit. A significant contribution to the joint efforts was made by the Council of Veterans and the Historical and Documentary Department of our Ministry.
The work done is all the more in demand because today in a number of European countries, especially inUkraineand the Baltic States, the policy of rewriting history, justifying the bloody crimes of the Nazis and their henchmen is intensifying. The decisive role of our country in the defeat of Nazism is denied. The purpose of such actions is not only to denigrate modern Russia as the successor of the USSR, but also to revise the universally recognized international legal results of World War II, including the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal.
In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry will continue to uncompromisingly counteract these dangerous trends, actively contribute to the preservation of historical truth and its transmission to future generations in an undistorted form. We will not allow anyone to defame the honor and good name of the victorious soldiers.
The series “A Story Told by the People”, including its XV volume, is also intended to contribute to the solution of these important tasks. I am convinced that the publication will arouse genuine interest both among historians and a wide range of readers.

I tried to find some additional info and/or links to this project but came up empty. I did however find and share this, Russian Archives Portal, which has a great amount of material. Aha! searching in Russian allowed me to find what I was after, “Military History of the Russian State”, and clicking around will lead you to discover more. Yes, an auto-translator will be needed by those illiterate in Russian.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 14 2022 19:19 utc | 106

Am I the only one who thinks Alastair Crooke did not write this week’s piece or the one before?
The style and content/vocabulary are both totally unlike him. Perhaps a young intern.
Posted by: Opport Knocks | Nov 14 2022 4:44 utc | 58
As you will have seen, Opport K, a number of us have been taken aback. I labored a bit with my previous answer just before yours, and can only say I found the Crooke article most strange. To Scorpion who thinks I am putting words in his mouth, I will just say that SeanAU @ 69 says it best for me – and that it is the concept of ‘literal pulse’ as opposed to symbolic in church matters that had me struggling for words, but Sean’s comment says it best – I will simply endorse that, with goodwill towards all. And I stick by my own appraisal – Putin was not saying what Crooke has said.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 14 2022 19:34 utc | 108

Should any barflies take an interest in long-term weather forecasts, Andrej Flis of Severe Weather Europe is the most industrious, informative teacher I’ve found on the web. The interplay of oceanic and stratospheric events with Earth’s troposphere (where the weather lives) is what I’m looking for. This fellow really delivers…
A significant cooling event continues in the Stratosphere due to the large Water Vapor cloud, but can it impact the upcoming Winter Season?
By Andrej Flis

The January eruption of Hunga Tonga in the South Pacific has injected a large amount of water vapor into the stratosphere. That water vapor is now causing significant cooling of the southern stratosphere, continuing into late Fall and early Winter.
We looked at the historical data and found that there is a weak indication of the south stratospheric cooling, coinciding with later stratospheric warming events over the northern hemisphere. But much more research is needed, as other background signals can be at play.
Stratospheric warming during the northern hemisphere winter can mean a heavy disruption of circulation. This causes pressure changes and can unleash cold air from the Arctic into the United States and Europe.
[more]

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 14 2022 20:05 utc | 110

Clearly you have never visited China. Lived, worked or spent any significant time in China. Your fantasist claptrap drivel regurgitating imaginary western propaganda tropes is, with all due respect, dross beneath contempt.
Unlikely to make that mistake again.
Posted by: Outraged | Nov 14 2022 13:18 utc | 79
Your imagination is running away with you. Wrong about me visiting China.
Your later objections are pure ad hominem dreck without the slightest intelligent point or rebuttal. So that’s your level of discourse, perfectly laid out for all to see. I will reciprocate ignoring your contributions and thanks for giving me the heads up, Outraged. Neither need darken each others doors again and all will be well.
Enjoy your projections!

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 14 2022 20:40 utc | 112

Your imagination is running away with you. Wrong about me visiting China.
@Scorpion
Mmmm well a stopover in Hong Kong in the 90’s doesn ‘t really count.
And actually Outraged is not projecting, you do parrot racist western tropes on China in a strange way too, always in the midst of other topics you find a way to work it in. This is the sort of behaviour that gets you labelled as a troll.
Just sayin in case you are interested in honest feedback.
If you persist in bigotry and ignorance about China, plenty of people here including myself will continue to push back and call it out. That is not ad hominem.
Curious how your “one mind” theory seems to exclude a fair portion of the planet
On another note: fFor anyone wanting excellent translations of Putin’s speeches I recommend this channel again. Michael Rossi has just completed the Valdai sessions in several videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRossiPoliSci/videos

Posted by: K | Nov 14 2022 20:56 utc | 114

@115 john
Please pinpoint to me exactly where I am being racist and then get back to me.
From my vantage point, I am just pointing out the truth of the matter.
I realize that the truth is never palatable and so you may not wish to chew it.
But don’t throw accusations out when you can’t even use examples from a forum post on the prior page. I am being generous by even engaging with such a stupid smear.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 14 2022 21:17 utc | 116

One more time, who are your friends and who are your enemies?
Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 14 2022 16:33 utc | 97
I’d like to politely ask you that same question, steven. I’d also like to know what your personal, articulable thoughts are on the modern US Democratic Party (say post-Carter) and where it stands in the overall firmament of socially/economically populist policy.
I’m not understanding this fixation with bevin either, but I am also not well versed in the various splinter groups that emerged from the USSR or the internecine battles. For instance, all I know about Leon Trotsky and the Trotskyites are that they were against a large unified state/imperial communism, that he fled to Mexico (don’t really even know why) and was murdered.
Perhaps a better question on that last part, then, is could you outline your views and contrast them to what you allege bevin is doing in layman’s terms – but contrasting specific philosophies/policies is also welcome.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 14 2022 22:19 utc | 118

PS on hereticism etc scorpion @ Grieved | Nov 14 2022 1:45 utc | 38
There’s another aspect to this and what is now known from cognitive science and other disciplines tests. When remembering or imagining things, feelings and events the exact same brain sectors and synapses fire “as if” those events are actually happening in the present. so mocking up confidence (as just one example) can over time strengthen the brain connections that build and enhance confidence (more or less) – to a 4th century intellectual religious person steeped in all kinds of beliefs of those times this may well look and feel like a god-force .. some super natural intervention.
this is not to deny things like intuition, inner awareness, or spirit or life force or a ‘god’ beyond physicality etc. Each to their own… everyone thinks and believes differently at the end of the day.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 14 2022 22:30 utc | 120

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 14 2022 21:17 utc | 117
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me when writing my comment to you, but you really would benefit from reading this book. It was recommended to me by a politically/socially conservative Black friend in Central Texas.
Here’s the full book: https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/1017476/mod_resource/content/1/barbara-j-fields-and-karen-fields-racecraft-the-soul-of-inequality-in-american-life.pdf
This is MIT’s review of the book. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/oppressive-enduring-legacy-racecraft/
From that review, this blurb (among others) caught my eye.

A great many Irish came to America in the 19th century in response to the Irish famine at mid-century. They were grouped initially with blacks as despised manual workers. The new Irish immigrants joined with abolitionists to oppose slavery out of sympathy with their attempts to free Ireland from English rule. Only when many Irish Americans had abandoned this stance were they considered whites, who then joined other whites and adopted their racecraft.
Jews followed a similar immigrant path when they began to arrive at the end of the 19th century in response to pogroms in Eastern Europe. They were discriminated against, and restricted in where they could live, work, and sometimes simply stay during the first half of the 20th century — from the age of mass immigration from Eastern Europe to the end of the Second World War. There were a few rich Jews — the heirs of earlier court Jews — but they were the exception to the general rule. Most Jews were lumped in with blacks even though they were not black. After the tragic effects of the Second World War and in postwar prosperity, Jews began to be accepted everywhere; they had become white. But while they had made the transition, their movement did not affect the structure of race relations in America. Being white in America meant being superior to blacks, and many Jews adopted racecraft with their newly white status, according to anthropologist Karen Brodkin. Those who did shared its conventions of exclusion, while others remembered past discrimination and tried to help people who had not made it into the American mainstream.
As the dual economy developed in the late 20th century, large numbers of Latinos began immigrating to the United States in response to chaos in their homelands. There has been what might be called a second Great Migration of Latinos from Mexico and other Central American countries that followed the Great Migration of African Americans before 1970. The number of Latinos in the United States has grown from around 5 percent in 1970 to 17 percent today. The Latino population now exceeds the black population in the United States.
As with the Great Migration, Latinos moved north to escape repressive political regimes that denied them a path to economic advancement and security. American interventions in Central America to dislodge governments we did not approve of were followed by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. NAFTA exposed Mexico to the effects of globalization that had affected United States workers by then. But Mexican workers had an option that American workers lacked: they could move north to better their position.

and

The enduring reach of racecraft can be seen in the treatment of immigrants, even though biologists have not been able to provide a satisfactory definition of race that includes all members of a given race and excludes all others. In the 19th century, new immigrants typically were poor, and they were grouped with African Americans in the binary world of racecraft. Some immigrants fared so well in America that they graduated from being “black” to being “white.” Other immigrants did not fare so well, whether because of cultural attributes or the American context when they came. But the enduring influence of racecraft meant that the record of their American success was calibrated by racecraft.

I suppose you might point to the perceived differences in behavior, economic status, criminal law, etc. but the book (and the review) provide plenty of reasons for what you think is cut and dried common sense.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 14 2022 23:17 utc | 122

Some great replies to my comment earlier. Thank you. I will get back to each one after I am through with my work shift.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 15 2022 1:38 utc | 124

President Xi profoundly pointed out the three layers of common interests between China and the US. It is in our mutual and fundamental interest to prevent conflict and confrontation and achieve peaceful coexistence. It is in our mutual interest to benefit from each other’s development. It is also in our mutual interest to promote post-COVID global recovery, tackle climate change and resolve regional issues through China-US coordination and cooperation. “Under the current circumstances, China and the US share more, not less, common interests.”

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202211/1279524.shtml
+++++++++++++++++++++++
“tackle climate change.’ So they agree on business, no I mean BS, as usual….
Globalist talking points. Meaningless platitudes.
Now wait a minute: China and Russia are symbiotic allies.
Now US and China see eye to eye.
But US and Russia are in a proxy war.
What’s next? World peace?
Wouldn’t it be nice to know what they discussed for over 3 hours. Because it sure wasn’t the pap summarized above.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 15 2022 4:22 utc | 126

SeanAU | Nov 15 2022 4:38 utc | 128
Good riddence, aussie trash

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 15 2022 4:44 utc | 128

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 15 2022 4:44 utc | 129
I think we all know that this comment wasn’t left by the real Grieved. Just as I’m pretty sure “Tom_Q_Collins” will be adding “his” own comment after mine (I’m the real one) with some outlandish statement within hours of me leaving this one.
I definitely empathize with PeterAU1, however, because his handle has been co-opted more than anyone else’s and consistently with nothing to be done. I would recommend to him if he’s still reading to think back to any long-standing grudge comments or commentators he’s engaged with here – perhaps they’re fucking around with sockpuppets as revenge.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 15 2022 5:09 utc | 130

Just sayin in case you are interested in honest feedback.
If you persist in bigotry and ignorance about China, plenty of people here including myself will continue to push back and call it out. That is not ad hominem.
Curious how your “one mind” theory seems to exclude a fair portion of the planet
Posted by: K | Nov 14 2022 20:56 utc | 114
So according to you being concerned that China might be turning into a huge totalitarian behemoth – from someone who has studied arcane Chinese spiritual traditions for fifty years – is racist?
You are the ones with racism on the brains and project it onto anyone thinking for themselves.
Pathetic. Shallow. Deluded. Wrong. Impolite.
I reflect your insults back at you.
Or in the immortal words of Buckaroo Bonzai in Lord Worphin’s dungeon:
“B-B-B-uzz off!”
You aren’t calling out anything except attention to your own narrow-mindedness and ability to parrot mainstream tropes, none of which I follow I care a hoot about.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 15 2022 5:45 utc | 132

The neoliberalism, aka raging capitalism, is ramping up as if on steroids. First they use the Ukraine war as an excuse (to try to undermine Russia and China in another way) that won’t be complained about now … down the track the same manipulations distortions and outright FRAUD basically will be applied to their allies and on the home front as well.
anything resembling “social welfare” or “govt involvement in any market” will be deemed by the neoliberals as an attack against the free market rules-based order ….. they are insane.
1)
November 11, 2022
U.S. Ends Russia’s Market Economy Status In Anti-Dumping Proceedings
“gives the United States the ability to apply the full force of the [anti-dumping] law to address the market distortions caused by increasing interference from the Russian government in their economy.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/us-ends-russia-market-economy-status-anti-dumping/32125356.html
2) Biden’s chat with Pres. Xi on Monday 14th Nov in Bali
“and (Biden) brought up China’s “non-market economic practices.”
I think this might be a new updated approach being rolled out recently …. intended to eat away at the power of legitimate Governments to determine their own sovereignty over their economic activities and social welfare programs and accepted social environmental practices/norms.
Not only in Russia or China, oh no, everywhere eventually would be the goal.
Think about this – any form of public housing or residential rental subsidy by Govt can be, will be(?) construed as a Governments interference in the economy – and as such it creates a “market distortion” and because the Market is – well like God almighty and cannot be questioned even by the High Priests of Neoliberalism – it is an unjustified act by Government that must be stopped immediately.
The same goes for health care, food subsidies, fuel subsidies, child care assistance, parental leave, free govt education, public broadcasting, and on and on and on without end.
It will be decreed that Only The Market Can Decide how all Economic Activity shall Operate and what is produced at what price and for whom. Not Governments.
Of course it’s “nuts” but this is what these people are like, they too are “nuts.” And yet every year they advance that little bit further than before.
background refs:
Tales of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2011.09.25/1294.html
with Jason Hickel
https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry-and-development-shaming-the-global-south-cf399e88510e
Inequality is a necessary side-effect of Capitalism – Prof. Philip Mirowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ewn29w-9I&t=2373s
( Historical & long ) The Political and Moral Economies of Neoliberalism: Mises and Hayek

Therefore, the state can be kept in its place only if certain ideas become pervasive through the ultimately benevolent efforts of a minority of bureaucrats and intellectuals that forge them.
Thus, there is a neat division between the sphere where economic calculation is pos-
sible and the sphere where it is impossible, coupled with the conviction that the state
initiatives—‘measures that are taken for the purpose of preserving the private property
order are not interventions’ (Mises, 1929, p. 17)—can be easily defined, circumscribed
and distinguished from ‘interventionism’, which is considered to be unavoidably coun-
ter-productive.

https://www.ces.uc.pt/myces/UserFiles/livros/1097_2013_The%20Political%20and%20Moral%20Economies%20of%20Neoliberalism.pdf

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 15 2022 9:07 utc | 134

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 15 2022 9:07 utc | 136
Interfering in the economy is one of any modern government’s basic responsibilities. If a modern economy is to work well, be reliable, etc, it must be managed. (The US economy is the poster boy for that fact. It crashes about every ten years.) The US Congress doesn’t want to do that because then they would not get all that free corporate money for campaigns. And for some reason they like all that free cash. Not to mention the soft-landing cushy office jobs that come after. This is all illegal too, but nobody wants to enforce the law either.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 15 2022 12:48 utc | 136

Just for the record, I am a new person every time I post here, and so I am never responsible for anything I said.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 15 2022 13:00 utc | 138

@ Debsisdead | Nov 15 2022 12:45 utc | 137
Australia’s Defence Policy Explained YouTube
Brilliant incisive comedy sketch was alerted to. Runtime: 1:32s
As far as can tell China is simply maintaining open comms, re slim possibility flipping/turning AU at some stage.
In any case, in ~12 months China new Resource win-win projects in Africa come online, re digging stuff out of the ground, thence they can sever trade relations in an instant & AU national GDP crashes minimum 14% overnight.

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 15 2022 16:52 utc | 140

I genuinely hope c1ue is doing well and OK because I haven’t seen him post anything for quite some time, and I wanted to share a link with him.
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-the-texas-power-market-failed
Perhaps he’ll have some insights based on recent conversations and work with Texas utilities and grid operators, assuming that project is still moving forward. No comment from me at this time; I haven’t had a chance to do more than skim it.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 15 2022 23:28 utc | 142

More excellent work from Kit Klarenberg at the Cradle. He writes about British corruption of young Iraqis.
https://thecradle.co/Article/Investigations/18378

Posted by: bevin | Nov 15 2022 23:55 utc | 144

“…Maybe one day Albo and his opposite number in charge of Oz’s other major political grouping, the Australian Liberal Party, will agree that there is nothing to be gained but much to be lost by slavishly adhering to amerikan imperial nonsense…” Debsisdead@137
For Aussies there can be no doubt- one could probably calculate, in hundreds of dollars, the annual per capita cost of not seizing the opportunities of trade with China and the rest of the world.
But for the politicians/ intellectuals/media and other members of the political caste not to aspire to be american and to bask in america’s approval and to start reporting not to Washington but to the countrymen and women whom they so despise (for being like them) is more than they can conceive of. If it is at all like Canada it was bad enough breaking the Mother Country habit- it almost killed them- to ask them to wean themselves entirely is unrealistic.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 16 2022 0:08 utc | 146

For those interested, here’s my 2021 G20 article that links to both speeches by Xi and Putin, while providing short commentary and excerpts.
Also of importance is Putin’s meeting today with the Pobeda Organizing Committee, the transcript is in English and is introduced thusly:
“The meeting focused on supporting and developing memorials eternalising the memory of Soviet victims of the genocide by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Great Patriotic War.
“The agenda also includes applications from cities for the City of Military Glory and the City of Labour Glory honorary titles, and an event programme to mark the 80th anniversary of lifting the siege of Leningrad.”
Given its content, I’m also going to comment on the meeting on the current Ukraine thread, where most eyes are focused.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 16 2022 0:31 utc | 148

Contrary to previous comments this article by Escobar is pretty good.
Russia, India, China, Iran: the Quad that really matters
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/11/15/692770/Russia,-India,-China,-Iran–the-Quad-that-really-matters-
It runs through a whole series of interconnected real events and happenstances then stitches it all together without unnecessary hyperbole or extreme unsubstantiated claims. A good article for anyone who might have missed some steps connections along the way, this article can fill those in and offers what to look up if you missed them.
Using the Quad analogy was a clever way to tie the content together and offers a comparison pov; a useful comparative framing, without going completely off the reservation.
I think if it actually included embedded linked references or a list at the end would make it more user friendly.
(reposting to the proper thread)

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 16 2022 8:12 utc | 150

WTF moment
Episode 2000
LIke I say the TW caper is so WTF ,really dunno where to start…
Aussies wanna fight nuclear superpower China
over TW, really ?
Wow TW are so miserable they cant even attend any international function as a nation !
Tell that to the Chagosians, who’r exiled wholesale to some foreign getto to make way for a USAss military base !\
When was the last time Aussies clamouring to
fight USAsshole to R2P the Chagosians ?
[due Respect to Pilger !]
PS
This is one of many questions the scorpion troll has yet to answer,.
Posted by: denk | Nov 16 2022 3:28 utc | 151
Have read it twice. Took a while to guess that TW = Taiwan. Even so, have no idea what you are saying, what your question is or why you think the troll denk thinks the troll scorpion should answer it!
Could you try asking your question in a more simple way without all the hysterics and ad hominems?
(Have no idea what R2P means, btw.)

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 16 2022 14:24 utc | 152

I have to share the laugh I got out of two finance stories stacked one above the other.
The top on says Target earnings miss by a mile, stock tanks
The 2nd one says Goldman Sachs: 3 reasons Walmart stock is a Buy
Just saying that if Target is seeing a significant drop in earnings because of the reported drop in sales, isn’t that drop in sales going to be felt at Walmart as well?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 16 2022 20:21 utc | 154

An idealistic call for decentralization as pushback against the WTO, WHO, single-system multipolar globalist thrusts.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/enabling-a-decentralized-world
He may not be able to start a movement as this article calls for, but it’s a worthy topic.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 17 2022 0:06 utc | 156

He’s become a prolific writer, and an important thinker, in this space.
Posted by: Grieved | Nov 17 2022 0:57 utc | 159
I haven’t subscribed to many but I find the substacks keep stacking up too. Good name, I guess, but it means am not reading ’em!
One of Malone’s huge challenges is that because dissident messaging is subject to ostracization from ‘respectable’ publications and broadcasts, he ends up mainly being heard by one side and is becoming a voice from that side speaking to a virtual echo chamber. Doubtless this is not his intent but it is his predicament.
Indeed this is true for most important discourse these days. Somehow people have learned how to establish what is politically correct and what not. If it’s politics, elections, evolutionary theory, war, geopolitics – whatever, nearly always we find a correct establishment view and then anything differing being subject to scorn, abuse, dismissal, ridicule but mainly banishment from public discourse.
On the level of speech we have teetered far closer to totalitarianism than most of us like to acknowledge, let alone condone. Control of speech is very close to control of thought, and since mind trump body the new totalitarianism if/when it becomes officially established may well involve far more constraints on speech than body, and thanks to modern technology this is far more feasible than at any time in prior history. Making the risk of totalitarianism far higher than at any point in history thus far.
Malone’s vision is clearly in the opposite direction. He is articulating a political vision of The Many versus a totalitarian One (ring to rule them all) paradigm. But I think you need both because reality has both and if you try to have only one then it won’t be in accord with reality for one thing and for another it won’t last.
The trick I believe is to make the One as formless as possible, principles which bind, values which are shared, awareness fields mutually experienced. Meanwhile the Many is also where diverse Earth practicalities come in with different locations, customs, issues, projects, disputes, progress, obstacles, peoples, systems, conditions and so forth. Here is where different jurisdictions make different rules and decisions based on their own criteria. But you cannot create a world that is only diversified as per his vision unless there is some common accord on the over-arching ‘One’ level which he is identifying as a Totalitarian negative principle but must be included as a more benevolent, if formless, Heaven principle in order for his type of vision to have legs in the manifest realm.
In fact, I think there must be three levels of One, Many and in-between. The One could be manifest in a one page charter of principles which every member people feels bound to uphold. Or there could be nothing at all, completely formless. The Many is the different languages, cultures, peoples, jurisdictions organized in no end of ways as per their own inclination. The in-between could be regions which, usually because of combination of geography and traditions, like to do things a similar way. For example India would remain as a region, plus most of the Moslem-following nations; Europe, Africa, South Asia maritime nations (Indonesia, Malaysia et alia), Latin America and so forth. Within those zones ideally many independent jurisdictions as per Malone’s suggestion but part of a larger identity and polity with probably more rules and norms, but ideally little or no central government which seems to be what messes everything up.
Or something…

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 17 2022 1:38 utc | 158

“…(Have no idea what R2P means, btw.)… ” Scorpion@154
Look up Samantha Power.
Here is one point of view on R2P :
Samantha Power and the Cosmopolitan Crusaders
By Christopher Mott – December 21, 2021
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/12/21/samantha-power-and-the-cosmopolitan-crusaders/

Posted by: suzan | Nov 17 2022 2:44 utc | 160

The troll claims to be lurking here for ages,
I’ve been using TW all these years and calling out its obsession with TW.
nOW he feign ignorance about r2p and tw,
such innocence…my ass !
Posted by: denk | Nov 17 2022 3:37 utc | 163
Never bothered to read the comments just b’s articles…
In my experience those accusing others of lying are usually liars themselves, or worse.
Not at all obsessed with Taiwan; it was just a topic with Pelosi visit. What happened to those other island peoples sounds wrong but seemingly you believe that if they were allowed to determine their own fate by plebiscite that would be more wrong.
You confuse being concerned about potential totalitarianism in huge population states with being pro AngloZionist Empire and hysterically project that confusion onto others.
Denk, please stop obsessing about policing b’s comment section by appealing to others in immature teenage peer group fashion and just contribute your own views. I might have learned something about the intricacies of the Taiwan issue from you but never did because you are more into trolling for negativity than exchanging views or imparting facts.
Thanks suzan for suggestion though the name Samantha Power is off putting!
Meanwhile just skimmed through an article critical of Putins Russia from a purportedly Russian Europhile site publishing in English.
They are, predictably, predicting Russia’s imminent collapse.
https://www.forumfreerussia.org/en/articles-en/opinion/2022-10-03/the-final-countdown-of-the-putin-era

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 17 2022 11:24 utc | 162

Orlov’s latest, title: “2022 the year the US lost all respect.”
Behind modest paywall but…
Basically, Turkey just poked a diplomatic thumb in US diplomatic eye.

A couple of days ago there was a terrorist attack in the center of İstanbul, Turkey. The details are not important and I wouldn’t tell you about them in any case because I am not a media whore who empowers terrorists by giving them free advertising. What’s important is Turkey’s official reaction to American official condolences that were offered after the fact: Turkey refused to accept them. Head of Turkey’s foreign ministry Süleyman Soylu expressed this plainly enough: “We do not accept condolences of the American embassy.
He said some other interesting things too. Turkey knows where the attack was coordinated: in the US. Who carried it out doesn’t matter; those were just “pawns.” And he characterized the US behavior in this matter as “the return of the murderer to the scene of the crime.”

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 17 2022 15:03 utc | 164

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 17 2022 11:24 utc | 162
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this is a very well centralized state with an unprecedentedly huge population. Such a thing has never happened on this scale in human history. …..
So really all I’m concerned about is that in our zeal to see the wicked West fall that we aren’t enabling another, albeit different, type of monster.

IOW
The Yellow peril
A myth perpetrated by the entire west 24×7 to scare the shit outta the mushrooms,.
Look at the ring leaders FUKUS [fuck UK, US]

US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798
Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain

Their assault on China have never stopped
since the days of Opium wars.
When the perfidious albion and their gringo cousins whine about the yellow peril, its classic bandits crying robbery.
You barged into MOA to push this western
trope and demand immunity from challenge ,some cheek !
How’s your fear of the proliferating chinaman different from the likes of Borell, Russell, Churchill or this NObel lauriet…

As revealed by The Age, Nobel Prize-winning Australian microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet secretly urged the Australian government in 1947 to develop bio-weapons for use against the ‘overpopulated countries of South-East Asia.’ In a 1947 meeting with the New Weapons and Equipment Development Committee, the group recommended that ‘the possibilities of an attack on the food supplies of S-E Asia and Indonesia using B.W. agents should be considered by a small study group.’

scorpion

‘IM not racist’

Yellow peril is the very epitome of racism. [1]
Why no mention of India for example ?

India’s population is expected to overtake China in 2023
Indian population has been rising at increasing rate while China is contracting

In case you havent noticed, sinophobes are gloating on a disappearing China !
You dont see a rising ‘monster‘ in India, scorpion ?

Posted by: denk | Nov 18 2022 2:47 utc | 166

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 18 2022 2:56 utc | 167
As opposed to the fixation on homoerotic cowboy imagery, complete with a bareback rawhide reference and the climax at the end, from the troll too stupid to take the wikileaks link out of the url form

Posted by: denk | Nov 18 2022 3:09 utc | 168

dO YOU NOTICE the numerous new accounts backing
scorpion up , ?

Posted by: denk | Nov 18 2022 3:27 utc | 170

These nic impostors are getting so tedious. Abandoned & raised by distant foster parents? Nasty attitude. Yawn.

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 18 2022 3:33 utc | 172

Got to at least give it credit for consistent persistent relentless fixation re fantasist propaganda tropes …
It be twolling, twolling, twolling, Rawhide ! Yee-hah!
Posted by: Outraged | Nov 18 2022 2:56 utc | 167
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Besides, the scorpion is very good at insinuating itself with the veteran barflies here. !
signing off.

Posted by: denk | Nov 18 2022 3:42 utc | 174