rabbit hostility 😀

Posted by: just somebody | Mar 27 2023 17:56 utc | 3

Forgot the URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmu5sRIizdw

Posted by: angelo | Mar 27 2023 18:03 utc | 5

«The Poles are (again) allowing the Anglo-Saxons to push them into rabbit hostility against Russia and Germany. Not that there is much pushing needed but still.»
Most eastern europeans including most poles have no particular issue with Russia and the russians, or their COMECON past as vassals of the USSR, and their vassalage was not harsher than the vassalage of most NATO countries to the EU.
But there is a significant minority, with many ex-exiles in it, who have been told by their grandfathers just how powerful and important and rich their ancestors were and how much they ruled over the peasants, and that “the communists” ended all that, and that it is a sacred duty to avenge the loss of family power and bring back the lithuanian-ruthenian-polish empire in which they were the exalted “schlacta”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rzeczpospolita_voivodships.png
https://twitter.com/MatasMaldeikis/status/1537043521261211651
«Matas Maldeikis MP 🇱🇹 I’m just having a cup of coffee while I wait for western leaders to decide which eastern borders they want to redraw ☕️»

Posted by: Blissex | Mar 27 2023 18:07 utc | 7

Posted by: jpc | Mar 27 2023 18:06 utc | 6
Rabbit hostility. As Elmer Fudd said, “Be quiet, be vewy vewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits.”

Posted by: tom paine | Mar 27 2023 18:15 utc | 9

“This won’t end well.”
None of it will end well, Bernard, not unless you live east of the Dnieper.

Posted by: Hal Duell | Mar 27 2023 18:18 utc | 11

Posted by: par4 | Mar 27 2023 18:18 utc | 10
he was also smeared by the CIA, the democrats and the Reagan republicans. Ben Barnes recently admitted working with another republican to keep the hostages in Iran to sabotage the Carter campaign, and of course we all know about the sweet arms deals we awarded Iran for capturing and holding american hostages.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Mar 27 2023 18:23 utc | 13

But there is a significant minority, with many ex-exiles in it, who have been told by their grandfathers …
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Posted by: Blissex | Mar 27 2023 18:07 utc | 7

It is often exactly like that! I remember arguing (waste of time of course) with some people over their argument that “My Polish grandma told me, laying on the deathbed, that she survived Germans and Russians and the latter were much worse”. Any my comment was that she would have said different things if she was Jewish, except that if she was Jewish the person putting forth that argument would not exist at all! Survival bias.

Posted by: velizhan | Mar 27 2023 18:27 utc | 15

It’s such bad reasoning. What do they think is going to happen after Warsaw is nuked?
Washington A: “Yeah, let’s hit the suicide button!”
or
Washington B: “That sucks. We’ll be expediting visas of all Polish geniuses and plutocrats.”

Posted by: Aaron Lee | Mar 27 2023 18:36 utc | 17

The Russians REALLY DON’T LIKE the West sending depleted urainium (DU) ammo to the front lines in Ukraine.
Putin has provided strong indicators that such will not be tolerated. This is evident from his almost immediate response and announcment that Russian nukes will be placed into Belarus.
This is yet another of the West’s escalations on the rising escalator of escalations.
DU on the front line, nukes in Poland, nukes in Belarus, positioning of Russian nuclear subs around the USA, what’s next?
Someday this very dangerous escalator will rise to the next floor. That floor will be the floor of a nuclear launch. The escalator will arrive to this destination. This will become more and more obvious.
It is to Russia’s advantage to take and secure the Donbas before their launch date. Such will allow Russia to remove a signficant threat on its Western border before nuclear hostilities begin.
From here watch Russia move quickly to achieve the goal of taking the Donbas. Both Bakhmut and Avdeyevka will soon fall to the Russians. After that the mobilization momentum of the Russians will accelerate signficantly.
Perhaps the Russians will take out all the bridges on the Dnieper to slow the transfer of Western DU ammo to the front lines. If they do this, then the taking of the Donbas by Russia will become a milestone towards their launch date against the USA and key NATO allies.

Posted by: young | Mar 27 2023 18:43 utc | 19

The Poles should be left to “rotating the house to change a light bulb”.
From the bigoted joke, “How many Poles does it take to change a lightbulb?”, circa 1964.

Posted by: Mann Friedman | Mar 27 2023 18:55 utc | 21

This is a translation of an older Swedish joke about Fins. History repeats as a joke.

Posted by: Chris | Mar 27 2023 19:03 utc | 23

I might have already mentioned it earlier: an interesting albeit anti-Russian film narrative take on the idea of Polish nukes is worked into the Netflix streaming series “1983”, a dystopian scenario what 2013 would look like with Warsaw Pact still around, but also with Syrian/Iraq invaded by US forces, and Poles having secretly developed nukes which they intend to hand over to the CIA behind Moscow´s back.
Apart from all that escapism, this is a serious situation. And since our darling Baerbock has been mentioned – it is typical that modernizing 180 B61-12 in GER/NL/IT/TUR and stationing 20 (?) of these new models in Germany probably by January already was not worth any major report.
Whereas Belarus, naturally is “verboten”.

Posted by: AG | Mar 27 2023 19:09 utc | 25

Jimmy Carter was indeed attacked by a rabbit and the story was sensationalized and became a point of ridicule but the reality is that it was in fact a large rabbit and rabbits can actually be aggressive.
btw: I am pretty sure you meant that Poland is being pushed into rabid hostility.
Here is a link to information about swamp rabbits: https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Swamp-Rabbit

Posted by: Chip Poirot | Mar 27 2023 19:35 utc | 27

Rabid vs Rabbit
I am wondering if a talk-to text app may be the culprit for the recurring typos?
As an expat currently struggling daily with my tenuous grasp of my third and non-native language, i hope this does not come across as insulting or condescending, far from it actually.
MoA’s journalism and devotion to quality fact finding and analysis is too often let down by the lack of an editor. I wonder how many superficial, unfamiliar or first time readers are left skeptical about the professionalism and value of this blog, purely on account of the typos, which would be a real shame.
Even as a 1-man-show operation, surely there must be dozens of native English barflies willing to make themselves available to do some polishing and spell check for B?
What do we say, anyone willing to help out with draft-before-publish page on a login/password basis for approved spellcheckers/subeditors only? The thought of offering myself has often crossed my mind, and who knows, i could even talk my mother, (retired English teacher and fellow alt news aficionado with a healthy dislike for the indispensable warmongering types) into it ;

Posted by: Et Tu | Mar 27 2023 19:46 utc | 29

Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit. True Story according to him.
Posted by: par4 | Mar 27 2023 18:18 utc | 10
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It was a rabid Russian hating Polish rabbit, but it is government top secret about how it got to Georgia.

Posted by: Ed | Mar 27 2023 20:04 utc | 31

The Green gymnast talking about Western exceptionalism. She would have prospered well in the NSDAP.
Posted by: xor | Mar 27 2023 18:29 utc | 16
Ah Annalena of the 360 degree turnarounds.

Posted by: jpc | Mar 27 2023 20:08 utc | 33

re:xor | Mar 27 2023 18:29 utc | 16
Thanks to Annalena Baerbock, Russia has come around 360 degrees on their views of Germany and nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 27 2023 20:16 utc | 35

Putin and the Russian made a grave mistake by not to finish the special military operation quickly and decisively , now by being cautious and slow , they allowed the US and its allied to weaponise the Ukrainian, and so paying the price , otherwise if they finished the job quickly the Poles will be shivering in their pants .

Posted by: Bobby | Mar 27 2023 20:22 utc | 37

Looks like I’m first to point out the neologistic ‘rabbit hostility.’ Hare hostility was confusing. This works.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Mar 27 2023 20:27 utc | 39

A paradox ain’t it ?
Posted by: Exile | Mar 27 2023 19:00 utc | 22
You made a brilliant observation about the greens that’s completely and utterly ignored by everyone.
They’ve shut down the German nuclear power network because it’s dangerous.
But not a bleat about nuclear weapons in Germany or the proposed use of DU I the Ukraine. Its a bit more than a paradox.
It’s breathtaking hypocrisy by the greens and their voters.

Posted by: jpc | Mar 27 2023 20:33 utc | 41

We must all read “watership down”.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Mar 27 2023 20:54 utc | 43

Polish history = short story. Is there a state which ended twice because it annoyed all neighbours around? Copy and paste third time. Ukraine, German reparations, let’s grab a piece of Czech republic, piece of Belorussia. And let’s rely on countries with which we do not have a border (USA, UK). Sounds like a good suicide coctail.
Posted by: S.chneider | Mar 27 2023 20:50 utc | 41
Of course you can only rely on countries which you do not have a border with. If you intend to redraw those borders, your neighbours might object – or they might even plan to redraw the borders themselves.
From this point of view, only countries you don’t have a border with are safe.
(Even if they already threw you under the bus once or twice.)

Posted by: Martina | Mar 27 2023 21:17 utc | 45

“This won’t end well.”
None of it will end well, Bernard, not unless you live east of the Dnieper.
Posted by: Hal Duell | Mar 27 2023 18:18 utc | 11
… and south of Ecuador.

Posted by: xDiablo | Mar 27 2023 21:24 utc | 47

This is Poles living up to their reputation.

Posted by: Longtrail | Mar 27 2023 21:33 utc | 49

“Rabbit hostility”
You probably wrote “Rabbid Hostility” but your spell checker corrected you.
The idea of deploying nukes in Poland is precisely the abject stupidity that provoked the war in Ukraine. Aside from the prospect of the US deploying nukes in Ukraine as a prospective member of NATO, Zelenski was threatening at the 2021 NATO summit that unless NATO admitted Ukraine as a member, Ukraine would acquire nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Mar 27 2023 21:37 utc | 51

Nov 19- 2021
Well let go back a bit in time-
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/-nato-calls-on-new-german-government-to-back-nuclear-deterrence/2425541
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_188772.htm?selectedLocale=en
“And I count on Germany to remain committed to NATO’s nuclear sharing. It is our ultimate security guarantee.
Our aim is a world free of nuclear weapons.
But as long as others have them, NATO must have them too. The nuclear weapons we share in NATO provide European Allies with an effective nuclear umbrella.This, of course, also includes our eastern Allies.
And they are an important signal of Allied unity against any nuclear-armed adversary.
So NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements are of particular importance for Europe.
Paul (scared citizen of Norway)

Posted by: Paul | Mar 27 2023 22:20 utc | 53

The Green gymnast talking about Western exceptionalism. She would have prospered well in the NSDAP.
Posted by: xor | Mar 27 2023 18:29 utc | 16
Her reasoning is pretty weak….I’m not sure she gave it 360 percent effort…

Posted by: Scuppers | Mar 27 2023 22:38 utc | 55

NATO has criticized Vladimir Putin for what it called his “dangerous and irresponsible” nuclear rhetoric after the Russian president announced his country would station tactical nuclear arms in Belarus.
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

The United States and its NATO allies do not disclose exact figures for its European-deployed stockpiles. In 2021, it is estimated that there are 100 U.S.-owned nuclear weapons stored in five NATO member states across six bases: Kleine Brogel in Belgium, Büchel Air Base in Germany, Aviano and Ghedi Air Bases in Italy, Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands, and Incirlik in Turkey.

Fact Sheet: U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe Agosto 18, 2021

Posted by: António Ferrão | Mar 27 2023 23:13 utc | 57

Q. How does a Polish mine detector work?
A. Shut your eyes, put your fingers in your ears, and stamp real hard.

Posted by: pasha | Mar 27 2023 23:21 utc | 59

Poland is, for now, the european hegemon “bulldog”…
How mad will he be pushed?
What does Poland dreams? Of an humiliating destruction of Germany and management of Europe under the US boots?
I wonder…
What a nightmare! Ahahah!

Posted by: Meriem Kheira Peille | Mar 27 2023 23:22 utc | 61

“The Poles should stop and think” . Aahh, the root of the problem.

Posted by: JustTruth | Mar 27 2023 23:44 utc | 63

Polandistan is the world champion at whining.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Mar 28 2023 0:01 utc | 65

Let me address something I noticed on this site. When a White country goes against China or Russia, the people here condemn the whole population of that nation, as shown here by the derogatory talk about all things Polish. However, if the nation is non White then the only party that gets blamed is its government.
So very obvious, disingenuous, hypocritical, and racist.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Mar 28 2023 0:14 utc | 67

Maybe it’s time for the Russians to start training the English with DU?

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 28 2023 0:30 utc | 69

This thread made me think of how Russia is probably using Belarus the same way. Belarus will be ‘Ukraine’ and the Baltics/Poland will be ‘Russia.’ If NATO escalates, that’s just an admission that it already started a war. But it’s Belarus, so it will confuse geography addled Americans. Karen won’t know who to shoot at. I wrote about it here: https://aaronlee.substack.com/p/belarus-as-proxy-war-weapon-against

Posted by: Aaron Lee | Mar 28 2023 0:38 utc | 71

Ex-pats lie.
My sister-in-law told me that her mother was born in Ukraine, one of 17 children. Her father was abusive, so when she was 16 she ran away to Poland to join her older sister, who owned a restaurant there.
OK, fine. But when I met her mother, she marched up to me and told me “I escaped Stalin! I love America!”
OK, lady. I already know the truth. You were 16, ffs, Stalin wasn’t persecuting you. But I guess immigrants give Americans the story they think they want.
I worked with a Syrian who did the same thing. Told me a long story about oppression by the Assads, and then many years later, I read a book and realized that the story was bogus, so I confronted him. He sheepishly admitted it.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Mar 28 2023 0:46 utc | 73

At least its refreshing to know for certain that if these English lunatics keep escalating, London will be one of the first cities to be vaporized in the nuclear exchange.
Ill probably go watch the movie Threads again and enjoy it with popcorn and soda.

Posted by: Comandante | Mar 28 2023 0:58 utc | 75

With a massive population, a surging economy and Saber rattling Poland is definitely a threat to regional peace.
However in 2022 Poland spent more on Ukrainian refugees than in national defence. If things continue this way Poland can be tamed.

Posted by: Jason | Mar 28 2023 1:01 utc | 77

If everyone had nuclear weapons, we would all be safer! I think President Putin reminded Kazakhstan’s President Tokayev of how nukes might prevent certain colorful occurrences a while back. I couldn’t find the thing on YouTube. But I’m glad Budapest went through and Kiev ( kEEEEEEEE-vhhhh ) (should I add a few paragraph signs?) doesn’t have any declared nuclear weapons.
But who knows, some things probably slipped through the cracks in the crazy times of the early ’90s, though.
Thingie help us all!

Posted by: lex talionis | Mar 28 2023 1:16 utc | 79

On Rabbit obsession,
b wrote: The Poles are (again) allowing the Anglo-Saxons to push them into rabbit hostility against Russia and Germany. Not that there is much pushing needed but still.
My mind read: to push them into rabbit [hole of] hostility against Russia and Germany. Just a couple of missing words, in my minds eye.
I won’t even bother with joke of how many Polaks does it take screw a light bulb.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Mar 28 2023 1:35 utc | 81

nukes nukes everywhere nukes
M. K. Bhadrakumar has his say, and needless to say as usual, it’s a good one
fyi
https://www.indianpunchline.com/moscow-calls-out-us-rules-based-order-in-europe/
“….Worse still, the US practices a controversial arrangement known as “nuclear sharing”, under which it installs nuclear equipment on fighter jets of select non-nuclear NATO countries and train their pilots to carry out nuclear strike with US nuclear bombs. This is happening when the US, being a party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has promised not to hand over nuclear weapons to other countries, and the non-nuclear countries in the NATO’s sharing arrangement have themselves promised not to receive nuclear weapons from the nuclear weapon states!
The NATO declared last year that seven NATO countries contributed dual-capable aircraft to the nuclear sharing mission. These countries are believed to be the US, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey and Greece. And all are signatories to the NPT!
Welcome to the “rules based order”! What is perfectly permissible to the West is forbidden for Russia!….”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 28 2023 1:38 utc | 83

Hey here’s a thought. Maybe a reason Poland and other Slavic lands aren’t really keen on Russia is that Russia has been fundamentally antagonistic to Pan-Slavism. Russia has always seemed to want to be more European that a pan slav; and more Czar or Commis-czar than federalist.
Russia had control of the majority of Slavic lands in both the 19th and 20th century, and couldn’t unite them. In fact just the opposite, they tended to alienate the other Slavic lands. Hence today, because of this failure we have the SMO; where Russia (the largest Slavic land),is fighting against the next two largest Slavic lands (Ukraine and Poland).

Posted by: Jerr | Mar 28 2023 1:48 utc | 85

Your anti-White hatred blinds you because you dont even seem to comprehend what you wrote Mr, Ed. You too are from a NATO nation, as most of the posters here. Therefore, you’re all “guilty” also since your nation have ” voting ” and ” democracy”. See how that works ?
So, in the spirit, of fairness lets condemn all the NATO, and allied, populations as they are all collectively guilty. In fact, let everyone start by condemning themselves since you ” elect your leaders “.
Heres a sugar cube for your effort Mr. Ed.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Mar 28 2023 1:01 utc | 74
___________________________
Thank you for the sugar cube, Mr. Deplorable. And as I said in my comment, ” Of course, Mr. Deplorable, you are correct….” Yes, it is wrong to judge ALL people by their leaders. But the leaders are just that, and if you oppose them, you must be vocal about it. I haven’t really noticed that from you, in fact you seem to support NATO and the US aggression against Russia, though you do it with much finesse. You attacked the commentators on MoA for being “anti-white racist,” so I will tell you something about real racism and about myself.
I have authored articles in many News Papers and supported the struggles of oppressed people all over the globe since the 1980’s. I am old now, but I still do what I can because I live, and grew up, in the heart of the most anti-democratic “Democracy” in the world: The USA with its phony two party system.
I remember when white and black people were separated by either a major highway or a railroad track in almost every town in the Southern United States. I remember that I could, and did, walk to school in just a few minutes while Black children my own age road a bus to go to a “separate but equal” school more than twenty miles away. I also know that this kind of racism did not just happen, it required state and government laws to implement and enforce this system. When you talk about “racism” you MUST include the role of the STATE and local government’s role in such things.
Unlike you, I don’t cry about “anti-white racism” because I have never seen it (I do not say that it doesn’t exist, just that I have not seen it or experienced it), but I do know racism when I see it because as I said I grew up in the deep South of the United States and I also lived and worked for a time in South Africa. I know what racism is, and I know the difference between racism, prejudice, and the justified hatred by people who have been treated like dogs due to their skin color, religion or non-religion, and for white colonial profits via neo-colonial rule of underdeveloped nations.
I also know that when white people start crying about “anti-white racism,” they are probably racist themselves: They are generally concerned about losing privileges that they used to enjoy in the “good ole days.”
So, in the spirit of fairness, I am not saying that you are a racist Mr. Deplorable, because I know nothing about you except that you live in a non-NATO country, and you are offended by people who attack white fascist leaders in countries like Ukraine and Poland. I also know what you write here at MoA and you seem to be on the wrong side of a number of issues from my POV. But thanks for the sugar anyway.

Posted by: Ed | Mar 28 2023 2:40 utc | 87

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 28 2023 0:30 utc | 67
Maybe it’s time for the Russians to start training the English with DU?
<==Rothschild's Wall Street would be offended? Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 28 2023 1:03 utc | 76 Nukes everywhere .. Get them in range of all the elites. <= Sum(Elites + Elite owned corporations)= 6*(No of Nukes). Posted by: lex talionis | Mar 28 2023 1:16 utc | 77 If everyone had nuclear weapons, we would all be safer! <=best security agreement yet..

Posted by: snake | Mar 28 2023 3:00 utc | 89

IMO, one of the possible secret motive behind pushing Poland further into direct conflict with Russia by provoking a retaliation would be to confirm the Western narrative according to which Poutine’s war in Ukraine if of imperialistic nature and that he’s indeed a new Hitler.

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Mar 28 2023 3:48 utc | 91

@Exile | Mar 27 2023 19:00 utc | 22
>>A paradox ain’t it ?
Once I thought that Die Grünen, also with their pie-in-the-sky wokery, are useful idiots for the Empire. But while that may apply to the voters, the leadership knows exactly what they’re doing–and have been doing since Joschka Fischer. Read a bit more and you see that they’ve systematically cultivated ties with the German arms industry, to jointly push for war under the rainbow banner. So, and with apologies to our host, it’s only right and proper that all of German industry is now taking a hit as a result of those policies.
No useful idiots for the Empire, Die Grünen are simply a German branch of that Empire. One branch; the Empire has others as well.

Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Mar 28 2023 4:01 utc | 93

over this entity of the “When ‘we’ do it” versus “When ‘they’ do it”
Posted by b on March 27, 2023 at 17:47 UTC | Permalink

Yep.
https://twitter.com/KeaweWong/status/1631791569580728322

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 28 2023 4:58 utc | 95

“Rabbit hostilily”….Please tell me you’re using voice to text…

Posted by: fubsy | Mar 28 2023 5:59 utc | 97

So is it poutine or putine? I’m really confused here. I just want some gravy on my fries. You guys are cracking me up tonight

Posted by: Diego | Mar 28 2023 6:04 utc | 99