Posted by: Comandante | Jan 31 2023 23:53 utc | 152
Ha!

Posted by: Haassaan | Feb 1 2023 2:24 utc | 204

” The video is quite shocking, though you do not see what happened right before the shooting. He has 2 kids and after the lawsuits are done they should have a much better life than he did.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/police-shoot-dead-double-amputee-as-he-tries-to-escape/
Posted by: Opport Knocks | Feb 1 2023 2:21 utc | 199 ”
He stabbed someone. He stabbed someone. Strangely you dont seem to care about that person’s well being.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Feb 1 2023 2:36 utc | 206

I am amazed that NATO and the US have been stupid enough to deliver artillery and rocket systems to Ukraine only gradually and in small batches. As anyone who understands how attrition warfare works, the relative loss of systems during battle is proportional to the number of systems on the opposing sides. If Russia has ten times as many artillery tubes in the battlefield as Ukraine, then Russia can fire ten times as many rounds at opposing artillery as Ukraine. Assuming similar accuracy, then Russia will destroy ten times as many Ukrainian artillery systems as Ukraine destroys Russian systems DURING THE INITIAL SALVOS!. Given the differential in number of artillery systems and the resulting differential in loss rates, the number of Ukrainian artillery systems will be atritted far more rapidly than Russian systems. The end result is that almost all Ukrainian artillery gets destroyed while almost all Russian artillery survives.
A possible solution to this disadvantage would have been to deliver ALL available artillery to Ukraine but keep it off the battlefield until ALL Ukrainian artillery could be committed to battle simultaneously. By delivering artillery and other weapons to Ukraine gradually in small batches, the US and NATO are inviting defeat in detail.
This absolutely insane!!!!!!!

Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Feb 1 2023 2:40 utc | 208

Imagine valuing “winning on TV”. Childish.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2023 22:16 utc | 115
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No, L. Donbass, it is not “childish.” In fact, it is quite complicated and dangerous. It was something that George Orwell predicted in his novel 1984 (published June 1949). At that time when TV was still in its infancy. But Orwell, and many others, could see how such a device TV could be used by powerful forces should they take control of the content of media such as TV, Radio, newspapers, and Magazines.
Orwell may have been looking East toward socialist and communist states for his inspiration for 1984 and Animal Farm, but I think he may have also had an inkling about the West as well. However, Orwell died in 1950 and didn’t live long enough to see the emergence of State and Finance Capital; at least not in its latter stages as it exist today as a single entity.
It may have never occurred to Orwell that the US could turn fascist, but that is exactly what it did, and in large part because all forms of Media and Communication capital owned by private financial capital merged and developed into its logical conclusion, corporate fascism.
And it has proven to be a very powerful weapon to be used by the Ruling Class against the working class at home, and around the world. It (the merger of the State and the Media) also became the means for propagandizing people’s views about Nations that the US fascist hegemon does not like because they demand equality between nations.

Posted by: Ed | Feb 1 2023 2:49 utc | 210

young @108
Your thinking is clouded by your religiosity. Take the spirit path instead of the organized religion stuff.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 1 2023 2:56 utc | 212

Dan Farrand and Brother Ma
Incisive postings. Sensible and realistic. The both of you are on the path. Your souls and spirits speak from the heart.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 1 2023 3:04 utc | 214

Hoarsewhisperer | Feb 1 2023 2:23 utc | 201
We watch the changing of an era. Polite political discussions in the cafes of France…? We move into a new world. Wild times. Historical change.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2023 3:19 utc | 216

Posted by: Hermit | Jan 31 2023 23:36 utc | 148
~snip~”We were, at the time, likely quite happy.”
I’ll bet that they were playing King of the Hill even way back then too…
I’ve appreciated your posts. Especially the HMS Pinafore ditty! That was great, hoping more of those 🙂

Posted by: nathan in WA US | Feb 1 2023 3:21 utc | 218

ok so south korea has huge usa military bases and storage so its sorta fair they take 777 arty shells. but australia? lol what did they just agree to contribute ? enough gunpowder to start a BBQ and run one gun for a day. after that its firing hot beers. because for an australian thats as insulting as it can get

Posted by: hankster | Feb 1 2023 3:23 utc | 220

“Your assertion that the brains of Russia are departing for Europe sure could use some statistical backup. Like, exactly who are these people you reference? Are they actually highly intelligent people, or are they rather those who are driven by materialism and greed and walking around with Hollywood in their eyes?
Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 1 2023 3:19 utc | 215”
You know the West is FULL of highly intelligent people.
Just look at the line up of allstars they have for leaders. Past and present:
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Scholtz
The Frenchboy that married his teacher
Trudeau
And our brightest star and future leader of the West:
Kamala Harris
The West is FULL of super intelligence. All over.

Posted by: Comandante | Feb 1 2023 3:27 utc | 222

dh@166
Yes, those armed fishing boats have managed to catch their own armaments. To use them, they are building catapults and such. Main articles in those propellants will be jellyfish…nasty little critters with a painful sting. If close quarters are engaged, swordfish are currently being held in tanks. Devastating against boarders armed with shorter scimitars and such.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 1 2023 3:43 utc | 224

@206
If it seems insane you should check your assumptions about nato goals in Ukraine.
They’re looking to depopulate Ukraine for future resettlement, so they want a long war to kill as many as possible and invite as much destruction as possible to keep them away. That’s why its all in small packets.
They don’t want the slavs, their religion, language or even Cyrillic characters bothering them.
Hell they’re even erasing the history from the area.
No, winning the war quick isn’t their goal.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Feb 1 2023 3:48 utc | 226

Comandante #220
They all possess The Right Stuff. But with the wrong wiring harness.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 1 2023 3:51 utc | 228

Latest Scott Ritter “Ask The Inspector”…
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 41: Ask the Inspector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8KTQkV_t2c

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Feb 1 2023 4:00 utc | 230

Posted by: Ed | Feb 1 2023 3:10 utc | 213
No, I wasn’t aware of it. On the one hand, I’m flattered to have a vanity troll who considers my input here so important or my statements so unassailable that they must try to discredit me through dirty tricks. If they’re using a variation, then that’s also a positive because it means b has found a way to verify Name w/ Email and they were forced to do that rather than just use my actual name which they have done to me and PeterAU1 in the past.
On the other hand, I’m sure whatever they’re saying is either really stupid or in line with what I normally say slightly infected with anti-communist/pro-NATO narratives.
I’ll have to check this out and alert b. Then again, there’s no rule against choosing a name that is very close to another person’s so maybe not much I can do about it…
Thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 1 2023 4:07 utc | 232

osted by: Chevrus | Jan 31 2023 23:05 utc | 135
Re: https://www.thepostil.com/conflict-in-ukraine-genesis/
Thus, “settling scores” with the two culprits of the current situation—Russia and China—is a key element of … Ukraine against Russia and the impending war in the Asia-Pacific region against China <==are the result of having been set up by the global corporate powers .[Whittling to size]global dominance of any existing or rising hegemon. [While I agree these wars are] nothing short of the beginning of the end of the American economy ...and the beginning of the end of the United States as we know it today the united states is just one among many victims of the corporate take over. The facts of economic reality are stubborn. For decades, one of the foundations of European industrial companies’ competitiveness in the global market against their direct competitors was energy supplied by Russia at low prices and secured by long-term contracts. <=today MSM announced Exxon's consumer wealth extraction for the year amounted to 54.1 billion in profits. The actions of the United States in recent decades, and those inevitably to come, are an expression of [<=being manipulated by the global corporate powers] Yes, capitalism is a quest to get rid of the limitations of competition, to limit transparency and to establish monopolies, which can only be achieved with the direct complicity of the state, <===You stated the corporate need. The Global corporate powers [and their hidden owners] are attempting to break down, destroy and remove, all nations that have sufficient power to defend themselves against or to intervene in the affairs of the global corporate affairs. In Global corporate power parlance, any nation that is powerful is a problem that might interfere with the tyranny global corporation are trying to establish. <=== while I think the Postil article gives a very good analysis of the USA struggle for survival,.. it misses the point. IMO, the global Corporations are behind this, Their objective is to Bulkanize all member nations of the nation state system. The PTB intend to run the world and they do not want any government to be able to interfere with them. The corporate powers intend to destroy any nation state that becomes powerful (militarily, economically, financially, or politically). I think we are witnessing a one by one reduction in nation state power. The powerful members of the nations of the nation state system are being de-powered. The corporations [the same that did the covid project and many other projects] are choreographing world events with objective to reduce all nation state member nations to weak and indifferent states. These same corporate powers intend to switch the system they rely on to control the governed populations. The new will be media-induced mind-controlled leadership. This switch in control from government to corporation is setting the world up to be controlled by robots and media. Posted by: Cresty | Feb 1 2023 0:54 utc | 169 <=The intelligence services, are the armies of global corporate power, and they are integrated globally between the nations.

Posted by: snake | Feb 1 2023 4:13 utc | 234

Neofeudalfuture | Feb 1 2023 3:48 utc | 224
Yes, resettlement is the EU/NATO goal for Ukraine. Not so much that they dislike slavs but they have a migrant problem. I think Ukraine is where the EU will have a forced resettlement of migrants now in their countries, and redirect all new migrants there.
Out of sight, out of mind, and put them on Russia’s border and make it their problem.

Posted by: Jerr | Feb 1 2023 4:18 utc | 236

1. Bloomberg Yesterday
“New York and much of the East Coast are at risk of a gasoline shortage this summer as the European Union’s ban of Russian fuel threatens to choke off the backup supplies the US relies on during peak driving season.”
2. Bloomberg Today
“New York is buying an unusually large amount of gasoline and diesel from India — a country that has become a top outlet for sanctioned Russian oil.
About 89,000 barrels per day of Indian gasoline and diesel will reach New York this month, the most in nearly four years. This accounts for more than 40% of the region’s total imports for January, according to Kpler data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s a jump from an average of 5% last year.”

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/42952

Posted by: Down South | Feb 1 2023 4:20 utc | 238

He stabbed someone. He stabbed someone. Strangely you dont seem to care about that person’s well being.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Feb 1 2023 2:36 utc | 204

Com’on man… disproportionate and unnecessary use of force… 2 cops, plus another 2 cruisers roll up as they pursue the gimp crawling at that point along the concrete.
As I alluded to before, the cops did the man’s kids a huge favor.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Feb 1 2023 4:23 utc | 240

Just listened to the Macgregor interview with Napolitano referenced earlier…
He said something I wasn’t aware of. He said the Abrams tanks for Ukraine have to be built from scratch because they have a very sophisticated reactive armor which the US doesn’t want to see fall into Russia’s hands.
He also said Poland could invade Germany tomorrow and conquer it in a week, that’s how weak Germany is. I’d like to see that, actually. 🙂
He seems to have given up on his “big arrow” offensive and speaks mostly about a three-axis “ground and pound” which is pretty much what I expect going forward. The Russians will just their enhanced forces to continue what they’ve been doing, and once the Donbass is cleared, they’ll continue doing that on whatever Ukrainian forces are left. No need to hurry and make a fast push to Kiev, despite all the people here claiming “Russia is running out of time” – no, they aren’t.
I tend to come down on the side of those who say Russia doesn’t need to hurry, because NATO is in no position to do anything about the war, no matter how long it takes. And if they try, they get clobbered. Whether that leads to WWIII or not is the only remaining question. But Russia clearly seems to think that slower is better, both to reduce their own casualties and the casualties of civilians and also to manage the reaction of the West, which might do something stupid if the Russians won quickly. If NATO does something stupid later, well, so be it.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Feb 1 2023 4:38 utc | 242

Orwell may have been looking East toward socialist and communist states for his inspiration for 1984 and Animal Farm,…
Posted by: Ed | Feb 1 2023 2:49 utc | 208
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Little known, but Orwell was a lifelong socialist himself, even volunteering in a Marxist brigade during the Spanish Civil War.

Posted by: Nobody | Feb 1 2023 4:47 utc | 244

Commandante @post 152
You are funnnnnyyyy, dude!

Posted by: Johnny Dollar | Feb 1 2023 4:56 utc | 246

REWARDS FOR CAPTURE/DESTRUCTION OF NATO TANKS OFFERED BY RUSSIA
– A Famous Russian actor, on behalf of “some representatives of a large Russian business”, announced a reward of 10 million rubles for each Abrams destroyed.
– Russian company FORES has offered a reward of 5 million rubles for the first destroyed or captured American M1 Abrams or German Leopard 2.
– The Governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory has offered 3 million roubles to fellow countrymen for the seizure and 1 million rubles for the destruction of the German Leopard tanks of any modification. US Abrams tanks are cheaper — 1.5 million for the capture and 500 thousand rubles for the destruction.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 1 2023 5:04 utc | 248

Yury Podolyaki reports that Artemovsk nearly fully isolated, not yet enclosed.

Northern direction. As my evening review, dear colleagues, clarify, PMC “Wagner” today in the direction of Seversk advanced to the settlement. Vasyukovka – Sacco and Vanzetti, while occupying the enemy’s company stronghold and thereby expanding the bridgehead on the left bank of Bakhmutovka by 1 km in depth and by about 4 km along the front.
Artemovsk direction. To the south, fierce battles are going on for Paraskovievka, which is engulfed from three sides and whose fate was thus a foregone conclusion with a breakthrough in Blagodatnoe. And this is already a physical cutting of the route to Slavyansk and a good line for further advance.
And also today, a video appeared on the network with soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who claim that the route from Konstantinovka to Artemovsk is under the tight fire control of our artillery. Thus, today, in fact, there is only one road left through the settlement. Khromovo and the garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are quickly approaching their encirclement or fleeing.
Analyst Yury Podolyaki

From: https://t.me/geromanat/4875

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 1 2023 5:19 utc | 250

Joe’s reply to bevin | Jan 31 2023 22:00 utc | 111
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[Joe] I’m anti Communist? Hahaha freaking right I am. [A.] I said the communist party of the Soviet Union held Marxist based political views which ultimately made it a totalitarian State… [B.] the Central government controls all aspects of the population’s life…. [C.] there are no other political parties…. [D.] there are no private property rights, [E.] and the State has total monopoly on violence.
Posted by: Joe | Feb 1 2023 1:50 utc | 188
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[A.] The Soviet Union held Marxist based political views which ultimately made it a totalitarian State..
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[Ed] You wouldn’t know this because you know less about Marxist Theory than my dog does.
Nevertheless, there are important factors that apply to ALL STATES, regardless of their content (Slave, Feudal, Capitalist, or Socialist/Communist). It is this:
The form of the state (autocratic, oligarchic, or democratic) is determined by its internal conditions (is the State at peace internally or is the State struggling with internal enemies?), and its external conditions (is it at peace with its neighbors or is it at war with some or all of it neighbors?). There is no escaping this iron clad law concerning the form of the State.
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[B.] the Central government controls all aspects of the population’s life….
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[Ed] Really Joe, all aspects? Do you watch television?
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[C.] there are no other political parties….
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[Ed] Do you mean NO political parties, or NO non-Working-Class political parties? Consider the US political system Joe; the Democratic (D), Republican(R), and the Libertarian (L) parties are three distinctive political parties in the US, and they all represent the interest of the same minority Ruling Class. They have differences on certain issues, but their differences are primarily inter-class struggles that reflects the many divisions between the members of the capitalist class.
But do they (the D’s and the R’s) allow the working-class political parties equal access to their political system?
Some will say yes, because the CPUSA can, and does, register its members to run as candidates for some office as the CPUSA. But that doesn’t say anything positive about the US political system: it is just a recognition by the ruling class that the CPUSA is a weak party after it was destroyed by US ruling class after WW2 and the start of the Cold War.
There was a time when the CPUSA and other Socialist Parties were considered a threat to the US Ruling Class because its ideas started to appeal to many elements of the US Working Class. So, the US ruling class passed laws to oppose and delegitimize the communist and socialist parties. Remember Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare. Remember the HUAC, which was organized to investigate claims that hundreds of communists were inside the Truman Administration.
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[D.] There [were] no private property rights…..
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[Ed] There were private property rights in the Soviet Union; stealing was a violation of the law just as it is in capitalist countries. However, the instruments of production (for better or worse) were under the control of the State to serve the interest of the working-class. Remember the three factors that apply to all State which determine its form. Well, there is also a factor that determines the class CONTENT of the State as well. The class content is determined by the class that is most economically served by the State, and the State apparatus. This is also true for all states throughout history.
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[E] …..and the State has a total monopoly on violence.
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So, Joe, where in the fucking world does the STATE not have a monopoly on violence?

Posted by: Ed | Feb 1 2023 5:33 utc | 252

There’s all this talk of US arms manufacturers making a killing, but is it really so? It’s not so simple, I think. Surely it is only the prospect of future sales – mostly equipment that has not yet been manufactured and could only be manufactured years hence because of the low industrial capability in the west. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I assume that most of the payment will be due after final delivery, not multiple years before manufacturing even starts. Even if an advance (presumably partial) payment has to be made before manufacturing starts – or more likely in installments as manufacturing proceeds, the manufacturer still has the manufacturing costs to bear.
Furthermore, my understanding is that most of the weapons already supplied have come from government inventories not suppliers’ stocks, so that is not direct profits for the manufacturers. In theory all that equipment has to be replaced by new purchases, but how will governments be able to pay for such purchases? If they are not bankrupt already they soon will be, and the dollar, pound, euro and yen will all soon be worthless.
As for those weapons supposedly already ordered, how many will ever be paid for? Who will have the capability to pay, and with what – IOU’s?
Then there is another major issue – what if Russia destroys the manufacturing capability of all the major NATO arms producers – that will entirely eliminate all such profits!

Posted by: BM | Feb 1 2023 5:55 utc | 254

Little known, but Orwell was a lifelong socialist himself, even volunteering in a Marxist brigade during the Spanish Civil War.
Posted by: Nobody | Feb 1 2023 4:47 utc | 240
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Thank you Nobody for your response. Yes, I knew Orwell was a Socialist, but I did not know he was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Thanks for the information.

Posted by: Ed | Feb 1 2023 6:01 utc | 256

Posted by: averros | Feb 1 2023 5:57 utc | 253
The Nazis were NOT “leftists” or “socialists” by any definition of the term at any point in history. They were hypernationalist hypercapitalist fascists.
https://jacobin.com/2022/08/nazi-germany-national-socialism-hypercaptialism-social-darwinism-liberalism
It’s Dinesh D’Souza and his ilk pushing this BS line.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-socialism-and-the-falsification-of-history/10214302

The minority anti-capitalist strand of Nazism (Strasserism) on which van Onselen fastens was eliminated well before 1934, when Gregor Strasser and the Storm Trooper (SA) leader Ernst Roehm were murdered with over eighty others in the “Night of the Long Knives.” In fact, Strasserism had already been defeated at the Bamberg Conference of 1926 when the Nazis were polling under 3% of the vote. Here, Hitler brought the dissidents back into line, denouncing them as “communists” and ruling out land expropriations and grassroots decision-making. He heightened the party’s alliance with businesses small and large, and insisted on the absolute centralisation of decision-making – the “Fuehrer (leader) Principle.”
When the already isolated Strasser brothers tried to reinvigorate their project one last time in 1930, Hitler and Goebbels banded together to force Otto Strasser to leave the party and Gregor Strasser to publicly recant. When the first electoral breakthrough to a popular vote of 18% came in 1930, the Nazi party’s anti-capitalist minority were well and truly defeated. The “Night of the Long Knives” purged the old SA, not because they were a hidden vestige of socialism, but because Roehm’s army of street thugs were a potential threat to Hitler’s personal consolidation of power. A struggle over socialism in the Nazi party played absolutely no role in the purge of 1934.
For their part, businesses welcomed the Nazis’ promises to suppress the left. On 20 February 1933, Hitler and Goering met with a large group of industrialists when Hitler declared that democracy and business were incompatible and that the workers needed to be dragged away from socialism. He promised bold action to protect their businesses and property from communism. The industrialists – including leading figures from I.G. Farben, Hoesch, Krupp, Siemens, Allianz and other senior mining and manufacturing groups – then contributed more than two million Reichsmarks to the Nazi election fund, with Goering tellingly suggesting that this would probably be the last election for a hundred years. Business leadership happily jettisoned democracy to rid Germany of socialism and to smash organised labour.
After fighting four elections between 1930 and 1933 on an anti-left and anti-Jewish platform that pledged to slay the mythical beast of “Judeo-Bolshevism,” Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 and made good on his promises to business and his voters to destroy socialism in Germany. Most of 1933 was spent persecuting socialists and communists, liquidating their parties, incarcerating and in numerous cases killing their leadership and rank-and-file members.
Trade unions had been in Hitler’s sights since a general strike paralysed a right-wing-coup (Kapp Putsch) in 1920. He had witnessed the striking workers and vowed that never again would organised labour prevent the right coming to power. It was the left (trade unions and Jews), after all, that he and others on the right thought had “stabbed” the nation in the back on the home-front to cause the loss of the First World War. By early May 1933, the trade unions had been destroyed. German socialism was in tatters. Not for nothing did Nazis say that the “ideas of 1933” (their national-racial “revolution”) had vanquished those of “1789” – namely, the French Revolution and its ideals of equality, fraternity and liberty that have animated the left ever since.
For all the Nazi talk of “four-year plans” and the “guidance of the state,” the sanctity of private property and freedom of contract was always preserved under the Nazis, even during the war years. Socialism – in particular, Bolshevism – on the other hand, were pernicious, “Jewish” imports that threatened the vitality of the German Volk.
Liberal fascism?
So if the Nazis were so obviously anti-socialist, and believed so ardently in the virtues of private property and entrepreneurship, and if socialists were among the earliest and hardest hit victims of the Nazi party prior to the Second World War, why is Hitler being proclaimed by some as a socialist?
Peter van Onselen may not equate democratic socialism with national socialism, but his argument makes precisely this association: they are both different “branches” of the same family – “socialism” – thereby making the Jewish Democrat Bernie Sanders an ideological cousin of Adolf Hitler.
If the absurdity of this style of reasoning is all too apparent, it is nonetheless widely believed. Already in 2007 in his book Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg ran the line that “the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s Fascism.” Ever since, conservatives charge “liberal fascism” when their views and behaviour are challenged.
The current revisionist bible is Dinesh D’Souza’s The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left published in the United States last year to predictable applause from the right-wing parallel universe. It inverts the left-wing case that Trumpism is an incipient form of fascism (a view with which neither of us agrees, and that Dirk Moses has explicitly criticised) to argue that the Democrats and left in general are the true heirs of fascism. Not Trump but Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are Mussolini or Hitler’s ideological offspring.

That is merely an excerpt. I encourage any visitor to the bar to read both articles in full. It’s time to put this nonsense to bed.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 1 2023 6:24 utc | 258

For the real truth about Nazis in America and which political party and business tycoons supported them I recommend…
https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Hydra-America-Suppressed-History/dp/0930852435
But do not buy from Amazon; there are other sources.

From the Back Cover
HISTORY WILL NEVER AGAIN BE THE SAME….Monumental, mammoth book – thoroughly exposes the almost unknown history of Nazi and fascist infiltration of America – details the subversion sinking the American ship into the waters of tyranny. A must read for everyone! Demonoid.com Be aware that you may have multiple epiphanies while reading this information… it will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about the Bush family from Great Grandpa Samuel Bush and George Walker, to Grandpa Prescott Bush, to George Sr. and even Junior. – Uberkewl.com A deep look at the connections between the fascist groups of the 1930s and the politicians of then and now – Muslim Discussion Forum Glen Yeadon and John Hawkins, in a series of breath-taking revealing essays titled, The Nazi Hydra in America, brutally jog our memories. – Jerome S. Kaufman – Israel Commentary Very useful history. – clublet.com Among the best sources of information – Coat Magazine These connections are living today. Terrific. – epinions.com Great source of background information on the current gang that run today’s world. – free-thinkers.org Google ‘Nazi Hydra’ and wake the hell up!! – Huffingtonpost.com Your references are original and very comprehensive… such things as Mussolini and Hitler’s privatisation agendas and tax cuts…You have no idea how often I have cited it … like finding manna from heaven. – An activist Glen Yeadon delves into America’s darkest taboo — the elite’s enduring support for fascism, overturning the cherished tableau of America defending the globe from totalitarian hordes. In relentless detail, he traces how US financiers created Hitler and his war machine, attempted a putsch against FDR, and recouped Nazi assets to lay the foundation of today’s NSA and CIA. The conclusion: fascists won the war — they were on both sides! The Nazi Hydra in America: A Suppressed History – A piercing study of the tenacious roots of American fascism in our plutocracy, from robber baron days to Reichstag fire to “Homeland Security.”

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 1 2023 6:30 utc | 260

Posted by: Ed | Feb 1 2023 5:51 utc | 250
No worries, Ed. It wasn’t really even a defense. More of a different take. I like to see all sides of a given issue presented if it is done so in good faith and I don’t think Blissex is a troll by any means.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 1 2023 6:32 utc | 262

Young @ 108
I think your views are spot on.

Posted by: Trimbly | Feb 1 2023 6:43 utc | 264

Heh, I dunno if others have posted this link I found on telegram an interview of an Australian mercenary who has been/is working in Ukraine. It’s quite amusing cos the mercenary who is interviewed from some Oz blog obviously has some sort of Oz special forces background and he’s attempting to tell it like it is. The thing is what he says contradicts a few of the talking points popular in the western media so when asked about that he will affirm the talking point then as he ‘clarifies’ goes right back to explaining that Wagner who he admits have very low casualty rates use prison conscripts as ‘meat’ although this meat is highly trained in integrated combined arms warfare and the men are equipped with drone positioning & viewing tech along with IR gear googles shoulder markers etc for night operations whereas the ukies have none of that – equipment or training. Thereby contradicting the lies once again. Like I said Heh!

Posted by: Debsisdead | Feb 1 2023 7:09 utc | 266

Posted by: Ed | Feb 1 2023 5:33 utc | 249
If a population of citizens has the ability to carry a firearm for defense of body or property then the State in which that citizen resides does not have the monopoly on violence… firearms ownership is a right and sometimes a privilege in many countries..here again the armed citizenry counterbalance the State monopoly on violence…and some countries it is a responsibility to drill and maintain proficiency with firearms.
..power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolute and any totalitarian State is a parasite regardless of it’s benevolent mutterings or political leanings. The Bankers Great Reset and Socialist Workers paradise are in practice the same thing

Posted by: Joe | Feb 1 2023 7:17 utc | 268

All indicators are that Poland ferments its vodka with oil of wormwood.

Duda invited Zelensky to accept the surrender of Russia in Pereyaslav
“I beg you – when you defeat Russia, when the Russians come here on their knees to sign peace, then take them to Pereyaslav, let them sign peace with you there, let them cross out all those years of Soviet and Russian influence,” the Polish president said

From: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/31613

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 1 2023 7:20 utc | 270

Debsisdead | Feb 1 2023 7:09 utc | 264
Debs, its been posted. A bit of a tear jerker for the oz military.Pack of clowns that fully believe official propaganda. The last quarter or third of the interview put both out of their comfort zone. Very different to sand nigger safari. Both dumb as dog turds.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2023 7:28 utc | 272

Listening to Scott Ritter on The Duran…
At 1:14:20, he explains in detail what will happen if NATO assembles an armored division in Poland, with two armor brigades and a mechanized brigade, along with some Bradley, some Strykers, etc.
By 1:15:50, he explains IN DETAIL how the Russians will annihilate that force, starting with supporting artillery and aircraft, then taking out the tanks.
Then he says, “The US can not – CAN NOT! – survive more than three days in a war against Russian forces in Europe.” He then goes on to explain how the logistics aren’t there, and even if it was, it wouldn’t survive against Russian counter-logistics attacks: “Let me introduce you to the Iskander. Let me introduce you to the Kalibre. Let me introduce you to the Kinzhal. Missile that you can’t shoot down that will take out every piece of your infrastructure…the tank runs out of gas, it is a coffin.”
He also discusses what we discussed here before – how do you move NATO forces around in Europe, especially if Europe is under attack by Russia? Certain people here need to listen to that.
This was a very good live The Duran, everyone should watch, length (02:52:46) notwithstanding.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Feb 1 2023 7:35 utc | 274

The clown running the show that debs linked again is I believe ex oz special forces. What comes to mind is the video of the Russian soldier giving a couple of Ukrainians a chance for life at risk of his own life. How many western SAS wannabe Rambo’s would do that? Killing civilians and prisoners is more their style though I guess not considered good form to post that footage to social media. Perhaps that puts them a little above ISIS and the Ukraine Nazi’s…. nah.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2023 7:41 utc | 276

Greece has also stupidly cut its ties to Russia , so will likely get no help from Russia now.
Posted by: Brother Ma | Jan 31 2023 18:31 utc | 15

To be fair, Greece has been “playing the middle” since the war broke out, but they just announced that they are not gonna send (or sell) a single one of their 300+ Leopard tanks to Ukraine, which is huge.

Posted by: Sam | Feb 1 2023 8:00 utc | 278

Nazi psychopaths are parasitic in nature they will (and have done) infiltrate any political party left, right or centre. Harnessing the power that party has. Think Zelensky feeding off bidens power.
The same can be said for Israeli.
Parasitic you see. Infiltrating any media, NGO. banks. Down to your local govenment and school.
Like parasitic wasps.

Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 1 2023 8:08 utc | 280

Posted by: rk | Feb 1 2023 7:54 utc | 275
Imo they should have straight out hit US / UK bases in Syria and Iraq. The thing about Nato is, the way it works US manipulates euro-vassals doing provocative stuff against Russia and then uses as excuse to ramp up and utilize cannon fodders.
But if US gets somehow hit, especially extra-territorial base in the Middle-East, no one in Eurovassal zone really cares. Because you know, it’s just “somewhere far out there in nowhere”. They should have a plan to bypass all the vassals and hit somewhere where it really hurts, or in areas which are legally grey areas. If the oil base is blown up in Syria, they can complain, but they can also be asked what are they doing there in the first place, since ISIS is invented by the US anyway, they are only stealing resources and causing terrorist attacks.

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 1 2023 8:17 utc | 282

Mark2 #278
Nazis – “Like parasitic wasps.”
Exactly that.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 1 2023 8:20 utc | 284

I do love how considerate NATO are, telling the Russians months in advance what weapon systems are being supplied. They obviously lie about the numbers, but knowing what is coming and roughly when must be appreciated by Moscow, as it allows a timely series of counter-measures to be distributed to all those impacted.
I also think that with these announcements of new wunderwaffe the US is trying to push Russia to end their misery and allow the polished, we did everything we could, excuses to be deployed. The US administration are thinking less about Ukraine and more about classified documents and the odious Hunter’s activities, a replay of Clinton’s fixation on a stained dress, during the Kosovo operation.

Posted by: Milites | Feb 1 2023 8:31 utc | 286

Western ‘defense policy’ is run by and for US arms dealers (that’s what neocons were originally and still are in their side gigs). US weapons are designed by US arms dealers with maximizing profits as basically the only goal. Both of the above have been ‘how it is’ for several decades.
Now you know why Russia and China will win decisively any military confrontation with the US (and its poodles) and sooner than conventional wisdom thinks.

Posted by: fairleft | Feb 1 2023 8:38 utc | 288

@RSH
Re Macgregor.
“…> said the Abrams tanks for Ukraine have to be built from scratch because they have a very sophisticated reactive armor which the US doesn’t want to see fall into Russia’s hands.”
Yes. I picked up on that. He said it right at the end as an aside….
A huge piece of information for us armchair corporals/corpulents.
I thought it was the US hoping not to have to put the Abrams in theatre where it’ll end up as scrap.
Wonder what else the Ukrainian special Abrams will be missing.
And, they might still miss out on making it to deployment beforehand the sloSMO ends…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 1 2023 8:55 utc | 290

Milites #289
OT please take this to the non-Ukraine thread – Week in Review. Others might debate it there.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 1 2023 9:16 utc | 292

PS
Giyane | Feb 1 2023 2:58 utc | 211
Ehem. as an old atheist Norse (‘viking’) i take exception to the use of such a generalised metaphor. We are no more violent than anyone else. Ok we traded from Dublin to Samarkand, but it were the Arabs who bought most of the slaves. We did a good line in poetry and fine jewellery too.
Don’t forget to eat the mushrooms

Posted by: olaf22 | Feb 1 2023 9:27 utc | 294

Weeb Union full frontal update in a 4 minute flash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It0gui_zcSQ
2 hours old.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 1 2023 9:39 utc | 296

Mark2 #293
Thank you all good here. The bother with these parasites is that they are never sated. They have their own people zapped and then after rushing about they zap their own again for good measure. No wonder aliens never land here.
Discussion on anarchy and white pills at Jimmy Dore.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 1 2023 9:44 utc | 298

uncle tungsten @ 297

I still wish to see the day soon when surrender and capitulation is the headline.

It’ll be “Peace with Honor”. Everyone go home now, nothing to see here. I theorize a new memory hole, a memory black hole, a singularity so big as to swallow the USA whole.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Feb 1 2023 10:02 utc | 300