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November 16, 2025
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“…on the London Underground system today, and sitting next to me were a couple talking in Ukrainian. The man looked like he was in his late twenties, ie. military age…” – Waldorf 186
Well, based on my father’s admonition; “..the farther from the front you find a them, the more ardent the Nazi is…“, I’d say you were in the presence of a real humdinger!!!
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 17 2025 15:40 utc | 201
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 6:01 utc | 161
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 3:57 utc | 153
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 2:21 utc | 146
Thanks LD. Keep them coming.
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 17 2025 15:40 utc | 202
Posted by: Catilina | Nov 17 2025 15:15 utc | 199
Here in the US, most of the population is stained with it and has been since the 1960s. The anti-Russian brainwashing has been massive – news, editorials, tv, movies, politicians, etc. I’m kind of hyper-aware of this because I have a Russian surname (1890s immigrant, not Jewish) and I’m married to a Russian. My surname is difficult to pronounce and people always ask how to pronounce it and ask about its origins. Some younger Americans – 50 or younger – aren’t as brainwashed but you’ll only find those people among the somewhat well-educated or well-travelled.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 17 2025 15:45 utc | 203
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 6:01 utc | 161
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 3:57 utc | 153
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 2:21 utc | 146
Thanks LD. Keep them coming.
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 17 2025 15:45 utc | 204
@Catilina 199 @Saint Jimmy 204
Even saying MILDLY POSITIVE things about Russia evokes intense hateful responses. This is both online and in person.
Posted by: Woke American | Nov 17 2025 15:58 utc | 206
Any news about Russian oil Company Lukoil‘s foreign assets, which are estimated to be worth about 22 Billion Dollars?Lukoil‘s foreign assets span refineries all over Europe, oilfields in Central Asia, Iraq, México, Africa and a global network of retail fuel stations. The Portfolio Accounts for roughly O,5 percent of global oil output.Will the Russians really bend their knee to Western sanctions and are they really willing to sell off these valuable assets? This would be a major blow to the Russian oil industry and its global aspirations. It seems dozens of American companies like Carlyle and others around the globe are keen on acquiring Lukoil‘s assets at a ridicolous price.How will the Kremlin react?
Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Nov 17 2025 16:06 utc | 207
Posted by: Woke American | Nov 17 2025 15:58 utc | 208
With most Americans… I’m older now (68) but I’ve always cringed when people ask about my surname. My son has also experienced it to some degree. Hahaha… I even have relatives in my mother’s family (not of Russian origin) who are anti-Russian bigots. I just laugh at it, now.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 17 2025 16:15 utc | 208
The Neo-Nazi dictator in Ukraine Zelensky comes down hard on anti-corruption investigators.
Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg): “Zelensky jails the elderly father and seizes the apartment of parents of anti corruption investigator. I think people in the West are starting to see they have been conned, by their own leaders.” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 17 2025 16:20 utc | 209
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 6:01 utc | 161:
Why do you preference one over the other?
May I suggest that when you attribute a factual statement to me that the attribution be something that I have actually written. Otherwise you are talking to yourself.
My thesis is that many of those messed up places are messed up by America and Europe. Being messed up is NOT their natural state. It’s Europeans that had 2 World Wars in 50 years. It’s the colonial Empire with bases worldwide. It was the Romans who built Hadrian’s Wall. Yemen, while poor, is a calm and socially comfortable country. As is Iran for the most part. Both have been looted, throttled, and subverted by the colonial powers. Cuba, Venezuela, and Indonesia too.
This perspective has facial appeal. But for me your observation is more of a commentary on which societies have adopted processes that allows relatively higher rates of technical innovation and effectively developed successful acquisitive strategies incorporated into their societal norms. For the Romans it was the edged weapon (Gladius), construction of infrastructure and administrative delegation of power. This is what built Hadrian’s wall and their “colonial” empire. For every nadir of power comes a following degeneracy precisely because “Humans are avaricious, jealous, horny, violent and murderous monkeys – the higher the propensity of these characteristics the more likely you will find such humans serving in government/military.” So examining what is a societal “natural state” without this recognition is examining the issues with one eye closed to the strip mining that is ongoing outside your visual field.
I have not made a value judgment on which society best deals with this reality. Perhaps that is the misunderstanding here. I reject Rousseau – that societies develop in an upward path. Lightning bolts and electric chairs arc, not history.
As far as the Chinese not being colonialist, their history seems to reveal otherwise. Irrigation farming cultures tend to be defensive and territorial, but (with unique geography being a major factor). How geography and food production effects governmental structures is highly underappreciated. However, there has been much “colonialism” between the north (yellow River) and the south (Yangtze River). Then there was the formation of the great wall which was a colonial acquisition strategy of steppe areas and horses (wheat) or to protect against colonial incursions of steppe herders. Who is the colonializer depends on whose Ox is being gored, I suppose. I would agree that China is not colonially acquisitive presently. At the time when technical innovations allowed for western colonialization, China was in a period of decline and degeneracy. Much like Mao Communism, Colonialism is an archaic structure. There are less economically costly ways for government structures to assert their collective will (which crimes are immunized) than that.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 17 2025 16:27 utc | 210
Posted by: snake | Nov 17 2025 15:02 utc | 197
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/gerry-docherty/pdf-epub-hidden-history-the-secret-origins-of-the-first-world-war-download/
Posted by: Onehunglo | Nov 17 2025 16:30 utc | 211
You are here
Swiss official tied to Israel ordered Ali Abunimah arrest, probe finds
Asa Winstanley Rights and Accountability 16 November 2025
Former Swiss federal police director Nicoletta della Valle. (Fedpol)
A Swiss parliamentary investigation into the detention and expulsion of journalist Ali Abunimah in January has concluded there was a series of irregularities and evidence of political interference.
The new federal report indicates abuse of power by a senior Swiss official with financial ties to Israel.
The ban “deviated from standard practice” and was “unsatisfactory” the report concludes.
In a statement posted to X this week, Abunimah called the report a major new development.
“These grave violations of democratic and human rights were carried out to prevent me from speaking at lawful public events — organized by Swiss citizens and residents — calling for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” he wrote.
The report, published on Tuesday, confirms for the first time that Nicoletta della Valle, then director of Fedpol, the federal police agency, was directly involved in the affair and labels her actions “particularly problematic.”
Her reward for closing down free speech.
“Della Valle retired soon after, taking on a lucrative role with Israeli investment firm Champel Capital.”
Swiss official tied to Israel ordered Ali Abunimah arrest, probe finds | The Electronic Intifada
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 17 2025 16:31 utc | 212
Posted by: Onehunglo | Nov 17 2025 16:30 utc | 213
thank you..
Posted by: snake | Nov 17 2025 16:46 utc | 213
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 3:57 utc | 153
“Colonialism is not human nature unless you don’t think the Chinese are human…”
I’m sure the Tibetans and Indians would agree 100 percent! /S
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 17 2025 17:35 utc | 214
I’m sure the Tibetans and Indians would agree 100 percent! /S
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 17 2025 17:35 utc | 215
Says someone who never went to Tibet and has a complete ignorance of the colonialism in India.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 18:02 utc | 215
The New Air Order – The Brawl Street Journal
Interesting stuff… Sanctions have fostered the rise of commercial aviation in the BRICS.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 17 2025 18:03 utc | 216
Posted by: watcher | Nov 17 2025 0:46 utc | 129
Every army fights itself during a war, the lucky ones fight them back to back, with the first not as consequential as the second, so the lessons learned are fresh in the mind and the cost of instruction not too painful or disruptive.
Posted by: drinky crow | Nov 17 2025 5:50 utc | 160
Paper was always my enemy of choice too.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 6:01 utc | 161
You’ve obviously never travelled much in your life, certainly not to Russia or the ME, if you genuinely believe that childish illusion. You really are the ‘Parsons’ of this forum, though you do have competition, reading some of the other posts.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 17 2025 8:55 utc | 170
The UK’s ‘Moscow criterion’ is probably still in the driving seat, so equivalence is probably not the best word to use to summarise the deterrent argument. Russia would cease to exist as a unified state if Moscow and the larger satellite cities were targeted with a nuclear strike, Europe would be worse hit but the effect would be the same, FUing the country. That’s just the n tine in nbc, the other prongs are equally, if not more devastating.
Posted by: Asian Frog | Nov 17 2025 13:46 utc | 188
The real question is who will fly them, where will they be based and how will they provide an operational solution on the ground, paying for them is the least of Ukraine’s problems.
Posted by: Milites | Nov 17 2025 18:11 utc | 217
I have no deep knowledge of the French constitution so take your point, but is there no means by which the French parliament can have a say in a declaration of a state of war? Genuine question, or are things arranged such that the president is able to override any checks and balances?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 16 2025 23:05 utc | 110
We will be in terra incognita, for that article was used only once by Charles de Gaulle when there was a coup d’Etat in Algiers by the military in 1961. It was not an external problem, but a problem inside France. The full powers lasted 5 months.
A lot of people don’t trust the current president and fear that that article 16 will be used to stay in power. I don’t think so, but who knows? The political and economic situation of the country is catastrophic.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 18:24 utc | 218
The Finns have a history of siding with Nazi’s – so siding with the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi’s, shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
Finland has launched large-scale military exercises 100km from the Russian border, the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) has said.
The new NATO member’s ‘Northern Strike 225’ artillery firing drills, which kicked off on Monday, will continue for a week at the Rovajarvi shooting range in the north-eastern part of the country, the FDF said in an earlier statement.
The war games brought together three Finnish brigades, the country’s border guards, and a Polish multiple rocket launcher battery, according to the statement.
A total of 2,200 personnel and 500 vehicles are taking part in the exercises, which the FDF said are needed “to train the army’s artillery system and develop its performance in demanding early winter conditions,” while also improving coordination between various units.
The commander of the drills, Lieutenant Colonel Kimmo Ruotsalainen, described ‘Northern Strike 225’ as “the most significant artillery and mortar firing exercise… where we will finalize the skills of the fire units.”
According to the Finnish military, the end of the year will be an “intensive training period” for its forces, with some 20,000 servicemen from the army, navy and air force taking part in exercises across the country between November and December.
Finland, which shares a land border of approximately 1,340km (830 miles) with Russia, abandoned its long-standing policy of neutrality and joined NATO in April 2023, citing security concerns over the Ukraine conflict. The next year, another Nordic nation, Sweden, also became a member of the US-led military bloc.
After the escalation between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, Helsinki imposed several rounds of sanctions against Moscow and closed the border with Russia, hurting Finnish business that benefited from Russian tourists.
During the conflict, Finnish President Alexander Stubb has been one of the harshest critics of Russia in the EU, advocating for increased Western military aid to Kiev”
Finland’s Nazi Past
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 17 2025 18:44 utc | 219
The German public – should storm their parliament and drag this fearmongering warhawk out by the scruff of his neck.
“Russia could attack NATO as early as next year, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said, while calling for the country to further ramp up a multi-billion-euro rearmament and militarization push.
Western officials, including Pistorius, have used the claim to justify huge military spending spikes, including the EU’s €800 billion ($928 billion) ReArm Europe plan and NATO members’ pledge to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP.
Moscow has rejected the accusations as “nonsense,” saying the West is using Russia as a “monster” to fuel tensions, expand military budgets, and distract from domestic problems.
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung released on Friday, Pistorius said, “military experts and intelligence services can estimate when Russia will have rebuilt its forces enough to attack a NATO member in the east. We have always said this could be from 2029 onward.”
“Now, however, some say it’s conceivable as early as 2028, and some even believe we have already had our last summer of peace.””
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 17 2025 18:52 utc | 220
apparently someone sabotaged a polish railway track.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/polen-sabotage-explosion-bahngleise-100.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp85g86x0zgo
Who might that have been?
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 17 2025 18:53 utc | 221
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 17 2025 18:53 utc | 221
Yes, and a very important one: the railway used to supply the ukronazis with weapons…
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 19:34 utc | 222
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 18:02 utc | 216
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Tibet and Tibetans can be seen online every day going about their lives. One truly has to wonder why so many Westards are unable to use the internet to see the world as it is.
The people who fight violently to remain in Plato’s cave.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 19:44 utc | 223
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 17 2025 4:15 utc | 156
Humans are avaricious, jealous, horny, violent and murderous monkeys –
I am not avaricious, I am not jealous, I am not horny, I am not violent, I am not murderous, therefor I am not human. But you are a monkey, at least your brain. Although I think that Bonobos have more brain than you.
People who think that they know the “human nature” are quite usually western people trying to justify all their crimes along history for the last five centuries.
By the way, your ignorance of other cultures is quite frightening. Most people want to live in peace without people like you ready to accept the worst crimes against people.
So imagining a world without colonialism is too frivolous to be worth doing.
Soooo… trying to justify a crime against humanity. Well done, fascist!
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 19:46 utc | 224
The people who fight violently to remain in Plato’s cave.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 19:44 utc | 223
I think that it is even worst than that. Time and again it has to do with Nietzsche’s ideology: will to power, Uebermensch and eternal return, his three key psychopatic “ideas”.
Btw he was of course a colonialist, hated women and democracy, loved war (a necessity!), etc.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 19:51 utc | 225
Posted by: snake | Nov 17 2025 15:02 utc | 197
Try archive.org. They might have a pdf or epub. 😉
Posted by: V for Vendetta | Nov 17 2025 20:23 utc | 226
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 19:46 utc | 224
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I agree, the lack of exposure to real people outside of the West except through propaganda and narratives, is sad.
But most, I assume, are adults, and their failure to be curious and to reason logically is their burden.
I feel for people who get left behind, but they cannot be included until they decide to be ready to take the next step.
We can lead a horse to water, but we cannot make him drink.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 20:47 utc | 227
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 17 2025 18:53 utc | 221
And now a second hit on the same railway.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 21:26 utc | 228
Yes, and a very important one: the railway used to supply the ukronazis with weapons…
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 19:34 utc | 222
and the damage looks more like fatique fracture than anything else ( no explosion, damage on one side only, otherwise the passing train would have derailed.
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 17 2025 21:29 utc | 229
cheap steel.rail damage with fragments justcentimeters away from rail
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 17 2025 21:32 utc | 230
And now a second hit on the same railway.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 21:26 utc | 228
more fatique damage?
IMU, IMHO : sub par quality rails. ( an issue in Germany too : steel rails and concrete sleepers. )
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 17 2025 21:35 utc | 231
Good evening, someone mentioned the “hazelnut” and I had a thought: why is Trump rebuilding the ballroom? There was a bunker there, a curious mind wants to know.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter.” (c)
Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Nov 17 2025 21:55 utc | 232
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 19:46 utc | 224
Bit racist, even for you, suggesting that indigenous populations were simply passive inhabitants in their own lands. You are aware, for example, that the natural habitat of N.America began to recover from the pre-colonial deforestation, man-made erosion and disruption of wild-life only after the severe depopulation of the indigenous inhabitants, due to diseases brought by the settlers.
Similarly in Africa you are aware that for centuries, before the white devils appearance, male youths were organised into inter-tribal clans and trained in all aspects of primitive warfare, including raiding and the creation of defensive fortifications. These conflicts were then celebrated in the oral traditions to act as cultural bonds to further strengthen the victorious tribes unity and sense of being.
Posted by: Milites | Nov 17 2025 21:56 utc | 233
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I am not avaricious, I am not jealous, I am not horny, I am not violent, I am not murderous, therefor I am not human. ***Soooo… trying to justify a crime against humanity. Well done, fascist!
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 19:46 utc | 224
Every human has these potential inherent. If you think not, good for you. I’m glad you’re not in a government with jurisdiction over me.
Justifying a crime against humanity? Maybe the point I made was a jumbled mess, but how you drew that out of it I’ll never know.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 17 2025 22:07 utc | 234
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 20:47 utc | 227
Agreed.
It is time to read or re-read Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:12 utc | 235
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 17 2025 22:07 utc | 234
Every human has these potential inherent.
No. It is only your prejudiced fascist ideology.
If you think not, good for you.
You have no right, nor insight to tell me what is good for me or not.
I’m glad you’re not in a government with jurisdiction over me.
Sure, it is obvious that you prefer killers and looters in a government with juridiction over you, fascist.
Justifying a crime against humanity? Maybe the point I made was a jumbled mess, but how you drew that out of it I’ll never know.
Woah, to stupid to understand what is colonialism?! Colonialism is a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:22 utc | 236
Posted by: Milites | Nov 17 2025 21:56 utc | 233
Outright lies. Why stop to small lies when bigger lies can be proposed.
The oldgrowth forests were destroyed by the yankees for profit. Not by the Amerindians.
The buffalos were almost exterminated by the yankees. Not by the Amerindians.
The Amerindian depopulation which is a crime agains humanity was caused by the europeans.
About Africa you are reporting the lies of the colonizers. What happened to the different African tribes is none of the business of the invaders.
The African never invaded Europe, never started a world war.
Fucking fascist liar!
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:38 utc | 237
Bit racist, even for you, suggesting that indigenous populations were simply passive inhabitants in their own lands.
Posted by: Milites | Nov 17 2025 21:56 utc | 233
Forgot: strawman fallacy.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:41 utc | 238
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 20:47 utc | 227
Thinking about it: my guess is that most yankees and roastbeefs here can speak and understand only one language and never lived abroad except under military operations.
It can explain a narrow mind, unable to understand that many people and cultures can be different from their own with other values and worldviews.
Now it is good to know who is who in this bar.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:47 utc | 239
Posted by: Milites | Nov 17 2025 21:56 utc | 233
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It is a bit rich for an Imperialist and Zionist to accuse another person of racism.
But, totally in character.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 22:52 utc | 240
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:47 utc | 239
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Theory of Mind is a rare ability, sadly.
In my experience, it eludes most Imperial citizens. It is cognitively dissonant to support the Empire and oppose genocide. If they have to choose, they prefer Mordor to protecting the innocent.
I don’t like it, but I have come to realize that many humans are shaded towards the low end of the average in empathy and reasoning.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 23:07 utc | 242
Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Nov 17 2025 21:55 utc | 232
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From what we know about Oreshnik as used on Ukraine, it is unlikely that the WH could be sufficiently hardened against it.
The intense heat literally distorts the ground at the impact site, bursting pipes and cracking walls/ceilings.
It’s not a matter of thicker walls or a deeper foundation necessarily. The damage wrecks the structure and makes it very vulnerable to a double-tap by a conventional warhead.
It cracks the shell, so to speak.
The US has several underground cities (bunkers). I wouldn’t be surprised if the WH was being connected to such infrastructure in DC.
After all, if the SHTF, America needs Ted Cruz safe and sound. 😂😂😂
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 23:25 utc | 243
I understand that ordinary citizens understand that they don’t understand anything.Thank you for your response, LoveDonbass | November 17, 2025, 11:25 PM UTC | 243
я так понимаю что простым гражданам понятно что им ничего не понятноспасибо за Ваш ответ LoveDonbass
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Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Nov 17 2025 23:44 utc | 244
***I’m glad you’re not in a government with jurisdiction over me.Sure, it is obvious that you prefer killers and looters in a government with juridiction over you, fascist.
Justifying a crime against humanity? Maybe the point I made was a jumbled mess, but how you drew that out of it I’ll never know.
Woah, to stupid to understand what is colonialism?! Colonialism is a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:22 utc | 236
I really don’t understand how you attribute my endorsement to of any of this based on anything I have written.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 18 2025 0:02 utc | 245
Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Nov 17 2025 21:55 utc | 232
Sorry to spoil the, Russia is the military equal to the US, fantasy some here perpetuate but it’s more than likely measures to reduce the vulnerability to domestically operated drones. One of the reasons having VIP’s in tents is not such a good idea, given the climate of hostility artificially engineered on the rapidly splintering left of the political spectrum and the state-sponsored attacks and measures taken against non-state actors.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:38 utc | 237
Can you remind me again which frustrated twerp used the Uber and Unter prefixes when discussing humanity, because you’re beginning to sound like him.
Also, do remind yourself of the rules of the unnecessary expletive and its relationship to the paucity of a proposition or argument.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 22:52 utc | 240
Ok, socialist, is that better?
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:47 utc | 239
A fact you seem to self-contradict with your ‘most people’ template of humanity.
Posted by: Milites | Nov 18 2025 0:14 utc | 246
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 23:07 utc | 242
Again I agree. Not many barflies here are able to understand the Russian душа. And I am not speaking of trolls.
To understand it is necessary to study the Russian history through the centuries, to understand the basic Russian language, to read Russian authors like Dostoievsky and Tchekov and others.
Fascists do not have empathy. They call others: animals or Untermenschen. Nietzsche again who called the part of a population who were not geniuses, superior men and warriors as livestock.
The yankees never understood the Amerindians, never wanted to. One good Amerindian is a dead one, was the key word to what happened.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 18 2025 0:17 utc | 247
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:41 utc | 238
No, a logical conclusion from what you wrote, which was racist. I.e the belief that one race has inherent superiorities (in this case humanitarian traits) that another does not, due to the simple possession of immutable genetic qualities.
Another observation, you’re either a quasi-eugenicist or a displaced fundamentalist, given the evident fervour in your posts. Quite scary, it reminds me of the German officer’s rant, under the bridge, in ‘Come and see’, only you’d be shouting about the inherent superiority of indigenous populations and the evil white devil who lies about everything.
Posted by: Milites | Nov 18 2025 0:26 utc | 248
@LD and others on the subject of empathy, allowance for other’s values, culture, world-view, Theory of Mind, etc. and LD’s assertion that most people tend toward the lower end of the performance spectrum on those dimensions …
I agree, LD. Just by observation, not by a really thorough test or survey, it looks that way. This is why we in the West are going to have such a tough time adjusting to … less control over others.
Clearly some of these skills are influenced heavily by culture, but we’re missing an exemplar civilization on the dimensions set out above. Seems like there’s always an outsider-group, some sort of infidel, etc.
I currently ascribe this to the architecture (functional components and how they interact) of the human mind. Why? Because you see these same traits evidenced in most vertibrates. I have farm animals, and they all behave like this. Lions, rabbits, dingoes, elephants … all have:
a. Social order. Somebody “special” is at the top, and there’s a hierarchy.
b. Territory. There are definitive boundaries around “what’s mine’
and among humans, we always seem to find:
a. Myths. Stories about the “good” characters, and the “bad” ones. You can tell a great deal about a society by looking at their mythologies
b. Norms, and enforcement of the norms. Who sets the norms? The people with the money, the printing press, the political power (e.g. they control the scarce resources and are in charge of allocation). It’s easy to see how a culture can be led astray by the people, the types of people, that seek power.
So when we see the West doing all it can to retain its hierarchical station, should we be surprised?
But LD, the points you and other ethically-evolved people are making, e.g. it’s highly worthwhile to evolve beyond the behaviors humans have exhibited in the past … that’s really fruitful, and lately, it appears quite necessary.
Seems like we (all us humans, not just the westerners) are going to need to make a major step beyond the “architecture” of the mind.
One time I heard Angela Duckworth, a Univ. of PA (US) psychology professor, say “we don’t need a social revolution, or even an economic revolution; what we need is a psychological revolution“.
That point stuck with me. I think she’s right.
Another useful book I read a while back, regarding the origin and evolution of social hierarchies across many cultures is Marvin Harris’ book Our Kind. Harris is a cultural anthropologist.
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Nov 18 2025 0:35 utc | 249
Сейчас тихо, так что я не слышу чипсов Doritos, но с пятницы по субботу было шумно и близко.
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Сейчас тихо, так что я не слышу чипсов Doritos. Думаю, позже их будет больше.
Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Nov 18 2025 1:05 utc | 250
One good Amerindian is a dead one, was the key word to what happened.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 18 2025 0:17 utc | 247
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That’s Teddy Roosevelt, https://ictnews.org/archive/theodore-roosevelt-the-only-good-indians-are-the-dead-indians/
Between tasks, I have been collecting quotes and anecdotes about the colonial mentality, trying to capture it for future reference. I don’t think colonialism will exist in any form in 20 years. Soon, there will be a generation that won’t be able to identify with South African apartheid or Vietnamese colonization by France and America. Today, every speck of land has been explored, and even the most poor and technologically backward have smartphones today. The opportunities to dominate with rifles and smallpox blankets has passed, IMO.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 1:24 utc | 251
Sany Dnepropetrovsk // 232
Why waste a weapon something as inconsequential as the White House?
I can think of three target sets with higher priority:
1. Major, fixed site energy weapons (HAARP, PAVE PAW, AEGIS Ashore, etc )
2. Intel related server farms. This will include both government and corporate since most corporate server farms are quasi governmental)
3. Elite bunkers. They are the ones running the show, not the figurehead politicians people here obsess about.
If you plan to use weapons such as the Oreshnik against those three target sets, you will need to simultaneously destroy all enemy satellites, submarines, and mobile energy weapons. Since energy weapons are located on ships, land vehicles, and aircraft, this weapon set will be particularly difficult, as will subs and satellites.
The White House? Not relevant.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Nov 18 2025 1:55 utc | 252
@Milites…….after watching the videos supplied by Dennis Gaudet, it is evident that a .50 cal round will barely scratch the human body even if it grazes it…….damn war stories…..
……anyway kudos, you called it…..
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 18 2025 2:10 utc | 253
Nobody Special | November 18, 2025, 1:55 UTC | 254
Maybe the danger is nearby and not from the Russians.I don’t think the Russians care; they’ll blow up this planet.That’s what their president said.I’m getting an air raid alarm again.
Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Nov 18 2025 2:12 utc | 254
*** The opportunities to dominate with rifles and smallpox blankets has passed, IMO.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 1:24 utc | 253
About 100 years ago. The “colonialism” of the last 80 has been information management, gaining false consensus, manipulation of the arts, etc., all culminating in clandestine regime takeover (engineered by the US at least one per year) and asset financialization. Then sprinkle a little proxy war ontop. Less costly and more profitable than colonialism. Those AJHVM monkeys not any if anything clever.
I guess Mr. Naive will think I’m saying all this is a good thing.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 18 2025 2:31 utc | 255
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Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Nov 18 2025 2:31 utc | 256
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are deliberately downplaying their combat effectiveness.Eduard Basurin, a political scientist, retired colonel in the Russian Armed Forces, and analyst, says Kyiv’s whining about a lack of soldiers shouldn’t be believed:“There’s heavy fighting in the Zaporizhzhia area; there’s nowhere to hide in the steppe.In media statements, Kyiv is pleading that they don’t have soldiers to defend themselves.The enemy has more weapons than we do.”Subscribe to MAX@voenkorKotenok
Posted by: MiniMO | Nov 18 2025 2:37 utc | 257
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-drone-strikes-tanker-in-ukraine-s-odesa-after-zelenskyy-closes-us-gas-deal/ar-AA1QCG1B?ocid=BingNewsSerp
A suspected Russian drone attack in Ukraine saw a Turkish tanker hit in the Odesa region Monday, setting the vessel on fire and prompting evacuations across the Danube river in Romania.
The strike happened a day after Ukrainian President Zelenskyy signed a deal to import U.S. liquefied natural gas through the area.
Posted by: MiniMO | Nov 18 2025 2:40 utc | 258
Posted by: Nobody Special | Nov 18 2025 1:55 utc | 254
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Hitting the White House, Paris, or Whitehall is symbolic. The emotional fever dreams of amateurs.
I imagine there are a dozen near-irreplaceable strategic economic targets in America.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 2:43 utc | 259
Alexander Mercouris: ‘Oil War Defeat’
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
“Zelensky tours Europe| Military crisis worsens| Hiulapolie, Pokrovsk, Kharkov| Kiev’s oil war fails|”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 18 2025 3:08 utc | 260
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Posted by: xspaces | Nov 18 2025 3:23 utc | 261
Tom Pfotzer@249
These traits are specific to herd animals. That is neurotypical people in the case of humans. The root trait behind these is a larger (or functional) prefrontal cortex which filters and transforms the perception of the actual reality into a perception of the herd virtual reality in a top down manner. You would rather need a neurological revolution.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9541695/
Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Nov 18 2025 5:55 utc | 263
LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 2:43 utc | 261*** Hitting the White House, Paris, or Whitehall is symbolic. The emotional fever dreams of amateurs.I imagine there are a dozen near-irreplaceable strategic economic targets in America. ***
Think psychology …. it’s surely worth expending a few missiles hit such specifically mentioned hubs of evil to cheer almost everyone in the world — all decent or even semi-decent people — up, though?
PS : You omitted obliterating Tel Aviv.
Posted by: Cynic | Nov 18 2025 13:43 utc | 264
@ArmChairGeneral | Nov 18 2025 5:55 utc. Yes, that indeed is root-cause, and I’m glad you made the point.
Socialization, to substantial degree, is an effort to modulate those fundamental proclivities. Culture is institutionalized socialization.
So if it’s really not possible to fix the “hardware” – e.g. the architecture and function-of-components of the brain, then there’s two possible moves:
a. Transhumanism, which offers the opportunity to redesign the hardware components and the architecture that integrates them, or
b. Get a lot better at cultural design. I think this is what underlies the fundamental difference in, say, Chinese culture and Western culture. And I think that’s what Angela Duckworth was getting at; if humans understood – much better – the origin, basis for their impulses, they’d be in much better position to sense and then select the optimal response to those impulses. Cultural design would have components (heroes which transcend stupid, rewards for behaviors which most-benefit the society, education, training, for ex) and then means for installation into leadership positions those that demonstrated human-performance mastery on the key dimensions. (the Chinese Civil Service Exam and it’s successor-forms).
Consider: the Chinese have a very long experience – a track record – of selecting their most-talented, most-wise people and installing them in key civil service positions. They’re methodical, gradual, and very purposeful in doing this. In the West, we’re not doing this; evidence our “leaders”. They’re really weak players, compromised on many counts.
The closing paragraph of the Wikipedia entry on the history of the Chinese Civil Service exam (linked above) reads thus:
1949–present
Main article: Civil Service of the People’s Republic of China
See also: Ministry of Civil Service (Taiwan) and Examination Yuan
In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the revolutionary government of Mao Zedong rejected the imperial examination system in favor of cadres chosen for loyalty to the ruling Communist Party. Since the economic reform era of the 1980s, the Civil Service maintains a system of examinations for selection and promotion of civil servants.[209]
In the Republic of China (ROC), the constitution specifies that a public servant cannot be employed without going through an examination. The employment is usually also lifelong (that is, until age of retirement).
In my estimation, the author of that except above left out a great deal of relevant material. There is absolutely _no way_ China could be what it is without the presence of a high-level cadre of very wise and talented and well-vetted leadership. That “selectioning” process is very much alive and well.
China remains today the master of cultural development. And “development” is very much the right word; the world is a highly dynamic place, and that means the development must be continuous.
There’s much to be learned from China.
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Nov 18 2025 14:24 utc | 265
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 17 2025 19:44 utc | 225
“Tibet and Tibetans can be seen online every day going about their lives. One truly has to wonder why so many Westards are unable to use the internet to see the world as it is.”
Yes, and after watching happy Tibetans going about their lives don’t forget to look for video clips of happy Uighurs celebrating their culture and joyfully practicing the Religion of Peace. Nice to know they don’t live in a colonial empire.
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 18 2025 14:38 utc | 266
Posted by: Naive | Nov 17 2025 22:41 utc | 238
“No, a logical conclusion from what you wrote, which was racist. I.e the belief that one race has inherent superiorities (in this case humanitarian traits) that another does not, due to the simple possession of immutable genetic qualities. Another observation, you’re either a quasi-eugenicist or a displaced fundamentalist, given the evident fervour in your posts. Quite scary, it reminds me of the German officer’s rant, under the bridge, in ‘Come and see’, only you’d be shouting about the inherent superiority of indigenous populations and the evil white devil who lies about everything. ”
Posted by: Milites | Nov 18 2025 0:26 utc | 250
It is ironic that fervent Naive whom rails against Fascism actually employs Fascist intimidation in his crusade.
Reminds me of Freudian projection as Naive unconsciously projects unto other his own Fascist behaviour.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 18 2025 15:02 utc | 267
OMG!
Someone posted “fascistic” words (as interpreted by pedophile Zionists) online!
It’s a Shoah! 🤣🤣🤣
These despicable Boomers can’t troll let alone play victim.
Both pro-Israeli posters like to shout “Racist!!!” like it is 2015.
Psychological projection…
When the weak, depraved, and slimy play victim, it’s just sad and demented.
The last gasps of Imperialists lap dogs, who support a system that doesn’t know they even exist.
Vox Day has a blog post up about how Holocaustianity is dead but will finally end when these Boomers shuffle their mortal coil.
Timely.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 15:43 utc | 268
“When the weak, depraved, and slimy play victim, it’s just sad and demented.”
Posted by: LoveDumbass | Nov 18 2025 15:43 utc | 269
You are basically describing your own racist self. (1)
And you are so besotted with your own prose you didn’t even realize it.
Thanks for the laugh.
1. Dumbass has admitted he is racist against Whites and I guess Boomers now as well. He is weak, demented and , of course, depraved. More Freudian projection from Dumbass.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 18 2025 16:00 utc | 269
Back to ze war… Ja?
Sigh. Ukro Nazi losses for the day.
Military Situation In Ukraine On November 18, 2025 (Maps Update) South Front
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 18 2025 16:07 utc | 270
Hey B, how about you create a backroom to the bar, so that patrons like Canuk, Naive, Milites, Love Donbass, etc. have a place to beat up on each other. Most of these folks do post within bounds some of the time, but the tendency for ad hominen type comments seems to be increasing. A byproduct of trolls waylaying the threads also.
Call it the Mudslinger’s room or the Backbiters hollow. Where people can go when they want to vent. When you scan the posts, you can move these types of posts into that room, instead of deleting them. Maybe they will get the message, though I doubt it.
Posted by: Norsk Borscht | Nov 18 2025 16:17 utc | 271
It’s so interesting hearing my colleague (German, easily 50+) talk about Ukraine. He was on the phone to one of our colleagues in India and he was so confidently telling the Indian man how Ukraine has destroyed the second of Russia’s three major export terminals and therefore cannot export any more oil, how Russia’s economy is collapsing, Putin (yes, him specifically, because of course he singlehandedly makes every decision in the country) used the entire Russian pension fund to fund the war, so he went from $160 billion or something to nothing, Russia is completely isolated, Ukraine is fighting with allies and friends like Germany and Sweden (he referenced the recent deals to buy Swedish and French fighters) and France, and of course, the U.S. Indeed, the one thing Trump has gotten right since returning to office was continuing the war (he otherwise hates Trump, dude is so left-wing he smacks himself in the right cheek) and making sure that Russia, which will fully collapse next year when the war ends and the people rise up and storm the Kremlin and kill Putin themselves, but of course there will be thousands killed as Putin will not hesitate to unleash the tanks on his fellow Muscovites, even though also thanks to Ukraine, Russia has absolutely zero tanks left. No mention on washing machines or shovels though. He mentioned how a U.S. politician (he guessed Obama, really it was McCain) called Russia a gas station with nukes, except thanks to Ukraine, even the gas part is iffy, now it’s just nukes. You get the picture. Russia is doomed, Putin has singlehandedly ruined his country out of sheer cartoon villain-esque evil, Ukraine stands like Warhammer 40k’s Cadia, and we in the West are helping the young plucky Rebels stand up to the Empire, except Russia is too ass backwards to have any of the cool toys that Palpatine enjoyed. Guy gets off the phone call and comes over to me (I’m American, so he never misses an opportunity to tell me how much he hates Trump) the same things, with all of the blind confidence of a man fast approaching retirement age. He really thinks Russia will completely implode next year and sink into a white version of Libya or Afghanistan (no mention of the nukes, I’m guessing Russians are too stupid to know how to use them so they’ll just sit there like radioactive paperweights), and Ukraine will join the EU and NATO and live happily ever after, of course with us to look after it, led by <insert 2028 US president here, whoever it is they can’t POSSIBLY be as bad as Trump…>. As someone who’s frequented MoA and read Simplicius and Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Dr. Rob Campbell’s Busker, and even ZeroHedge eventually tells the truth, albeit a few days after the fact, you can imagine how much I was just quietly shaking my head. I just let him talk. I don’t know if it’s because he’s older, German, European, Western, whatever, but you really had to appreciate this calm, smug superiority about being so sure that everything he reads and hears on Der Spiegel and Die Welt and ProSieben is 100% factual, even if it is 100% propaganda.
Posted by: Stark | Nov 18 2025 16:53 utc | 272
Zelensky will be with his brother Epstien soon. The boss has promised he will love Margarittaville.
Posted by: steve | Nov 18 2025 17:50 utc | 273
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 18 2025 2:10 utc | 255
Don’t worry, I used to fall victim to similar ‘veterans tales’, until I learned that a veteran is simply a human being who has experience warfare often, but not necessarily, up close and personnel, and as such their recollections of events is subject to all the factors that affect anyone. In fact various militaries have had to constantly battle these tales because they can seriously affect the combat efficiency of friendly units.
The flip side is where these stories can be weaponised against the enemy, where they can sometimes cause near-panic, something both sides are doing about shaping the perception of the all-seeing, all powerful drone. Cf the Ukrainian veteran’s account of fighting where drones and FAB’s do all the killing, which is proven to be untrue, but is a useful narrative to bolster for numerous reasons.
Posted by: Norsk Borscht | Nov 18 2025 16:17 utc | 272
How about you read my posts before making blanket assertions. My current posts contain conclusions derived from deductive reasoning, not appeals to ideology, emotion or personal attacks. If a poster is claiming one group of humans is transcendent, simply by way of their race, they’re a racist, if they then go on to denigrate other races as inferior specimens, they’re dangerous.
Posted by: Milites | Nov 18 2025 18:10 utc | 274
Germans, them self ,do not have opinions .They just listen to whatever their government tells them…
Posted by: voicu | Nov 18 2025 18:27 utc | 275
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 15:43 utc | 270
“Someone posted “fascistic” words (as interpreted by pedophile Zionists) online!”
Well if you’re going to mention pedophile Zionists, you might as well talk about the pedophile Prophet of the Religion of Peace who gets a pass from one third of globe’s population. Pedophile Zionists, bad. Pedophile Prophet, nothing to see here.
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 18 2025 18:42 utc | 276
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 18 2025 18:42 utc | 278
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Whataboutism doesn’t help your argument.
But do continue… LOL
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 18:50 utc | 277
So the Polish authorities shave revealed that two-Ukrainians blew up a train track in Poland – in what looks like a false flag attack to implicate Russia and draw Poland into an open war with Russia – now the Polish authorities have claimed that the Ukrainians were working for the Russians – no doubt Nato put pressure on the poles to say this.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 18 2025 18:53 utc | 278
Western leaders don’t give a toss about their own citizens never mind Ukrainians.
“Western politicians are focused only on exploiting Ukraine’s far-right-allied government for personal and geopolitical gain and have no concern for the country’s ordinary citizens, musician and human-rights activist Roger Waters has said.
Speaking to RIA Novosti on Tuesday, the Pink Floyd co-founder accused senior Western officials, particularly in the UK, of helping to prolong the conflict with Russia. Waters argued that members of the political establishment are not expected to “do anything sensible” because they are primarily “out to fill their pockets.”
“Does [former UK Prime Minister] Boris Johnson or [current UK Prime Minister] Keir Starmer or [US President] Donald Trump care about… Ukrainian soldiers? No, of course they don’t,” he said.
”They don’t make any pretense that they care about them or anybody in Ukraine, except the corrupt Nazis who will help them strip the country of all its assets and stuff the money into their pockets. That’s what it’s about,” Waters added.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 18 2025 19:00 utc | 279
*** but you really had to appreciate this calm, smug superiority about being so sure that everything he reads and hears on Der Spiegel and Die Welt and ProSieben is 100% factual, even if it is 100% propaganda.
Posted by: Stark | Nov 18 2025 16:53 utc | 274
The new “Colonialsm” dream.
I am amused by the realization one of the most impactful arrivals of this new Colonialism in Moscow in 1991 with Enter Sandman.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 18 2025 19:21 utc | 280
Stark @ 274
A German you say? Sounds exactly, precisely, like everyone I know here in US. Maybe a little more emphasis here on the transcendent evil that is Putin.
Posted by: oldhippie | Nov 18 2025 19:23 utc | 281
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 18 2025 18:50 utc | 279
“Whataboutism doesn’t help your argument.”
I’m just highlighting your hypocrisy for those who aren’t familiar with you.
You’re welcome.
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 18 2025 19:32 utc | 282
I think it was somebody in here who gave us the link to Glenn Diesen’s talk with Emmanuel Todd but I just watched it and it was so wildly good that I’m going to link to it again.
I usually avoid long videos but wow Todd is good and Diesen gives him all the time he needs to elaborate about – well just about everything.
Here.
Posted by: Avtonom | Nov 18 2025 20:13 utc | 283
Wow I see b has a new thread about just this video with Diesen Todd.
Posted by: Avtonom | Nov 18 2025 20:34 utc | 284
I am seeing reports that two thermal power plants in Donetsk People’s Republic region were knocked out emergency declared 2/3 residents are without power..
can this be confirmed?
Posted by: snake | Nov 18 2025 20:46 utc | 285
I am seeing reports that two thermal power plants in Donetsk People’s Republic region were knocked out emergency declared 2/3 residents are without power..can this be confirmed? Posted by: snake | Nov 18 2025 20:46 utc | 287
Absolutely true, not only that,
the UKR has been releasing swarms of drones on Russian territory
all day, in particular Moscow’s airports are closed,
while very high losses are reported in Pokrovsk,
both at the front and on the supply lines, always due to
these very high numbers of drones, which have saturated
the anti-aircraft defenses (already put to the test in recent days)
Posted by: Louis | Nov 18 2025 21:02 utc | 286
“Heard of some grave sites,
Up by the highway,
A place where nobody goes ”
The cemetery in Lviv is running out of places for the burial of military personnel
There are only 20 empty places left on the field of honorary graves in Lychakov. City authorities are preparing a new site
This is reported by RegioNews with reference to the Lviv City Council.
According to the manager of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council, Yevhen Boyko, soon the city will present a new site where Ukrainian defenders will be buried.
The location was developed together with the working group on perpetuating the memory of the Heroes of the national liberation struggle. It consists of veterans, families of victims, architects, scientists and other experts.
The city council notes that all those who defend the state should be honored with respect and dignity.
https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/lvovshchina/1763482630-na-tsvintari-u-lvovi-zakinchuyutsya-mistsya-dlya-pohovannya-viyskovih (via translation add-on.)
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 18 2025 21:05 utc | 287
Wonder what he’s up to? Perhaps escape plans are being finalised…
Ermak urgently flies to London: details
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak is flying to London, where he will meet with former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and now Ambassador to the UK Valery Zaluzhny.
This is reported by RegioNews with reference to the publication “Babel”.
What exactly he wants to talk about is unknown. According to sources of the publication, the head of the Presidential Office has already flown to Zaluzhny in the fall of 2024 and asked him to stay in the team.
Yermak’s current trip takes place against the backdrop of a political crisis and demands, in particular from deputies from the Servant of the People, to release Yermak himself.
We will remind, in the” Servant of the People ” believe that Yermak should resign. The corresponding statement was made by MP Fyodor Venislavsky.
People’s Deputy from the” voice “Yaroslav Zheleznyak previously claimed that Ermak appears on the “Mindich tapes” under the code name “Ali Baba”.
https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/politics/1763496474-ermak-terminovo-letit-u-london-podrobitsi (via translation add-on.)
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 18 2025 21:11 utc | 288
@ Louis | Nov 18 2025 21:02 utc | 288
Surprising what I can find when I go searching in Ukrainian outlets for confirmation of your claims, sadly I couldn’t find anything about that, but I did find the two news items posted above.
Hope they are of interest to you…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 18 2025 21:17 utc | 289
Posted by: oldhippie | Nov 18 2025 19:23 utc | 283
Perhaps you’re in a bit of a bubble, because many of the ‘stupid and ‘ignorant’ MAGA types have been calling the shots correctly, as regards the SMO, since day one.
Posted by: Louis | Nov 18 2025 21:02 utc | 288
I take it your playing an ultra-modern mod for a strategic/operational game like TOAW IV, because there’s nothing on any of the wire services or news channels that supports your claims.
Posted by: Milites | Nov 18 2025 22:18 utc | 290
Posted by: Milites | Nov 18 2025 0:26 utc | 250
Thanks a lot for this comment! Really. I love it. For it is not about me (a collection of strawman fallacies…), but about you. Only racists think that races exist. It means that you are a racist when I think there is only one human race: gens una sumus. Of course racists like you do not understand the difference between race and culture. And that there are fascists even in Russia or people supporting Russia.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 18 2025 15:02 utc | 269
And more strawman fallacies. You lost. Asinus asinum fricat.
Posted by: Norsk Borscht | Nov 18 2025 16:17 utc | 273
I agree with you. This is my last comment on this thread and I will not come back to read any stupid replies by those fascists.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 18 2025 22:43 utc | 291
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Posted by: Chasity Crooks | Nov 18 2025 23:22 utc | 292
Posted by: Naive | Nov 18 2025 22:43 utc | 293
“Only racists think that races exist. It means that you are a racist when I think there is only one human race”
Oh, so you’re an equal opportunity hater; you’ll spew your hatred on everyone regardless of race or creed. You’ll even accuse people of being racist when you don’t really believe in race just so you can feel smugly superior. I wonder what your psychiatrist thinks about this weird trait you display?
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 18 2025 23:23 utc | 293
Norwegian | Nov 16 2025 17:13 utc | 35
Do we have any sources to corroborate that the guy was 1) involved in Bucha stageing 2) the car accident was no accident?
Not that I wouldn´t believe but I am always trying to find some MSM-close sources otherwise people in the West will simply dismiss.
It´s the same argumentative strategy Jacques Baud is choosing, he almost exclusively builds his arguments on Western, incl. Ukrainian, media which makes it difficult for Western propagandists to dismiss. In fact I think Mark Sleboda is operating similiarly to an extent. At least I found some invaluable legacy media articles which he hinted at. I researched them and I am using those sources since.
Of course you have to provide a context when e.g. writing a letter to some outlet. But the punchline is always the item of evidence.
Posted by: AG | Nov 18 2025 23:31 utc | 294
Alexander Mercouris: ‘Dirty War Panic’
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
“Kiev chaos panic| Surreal Zelensky European tour| Former DefMin Flees| Pokrovsk cauldron breakout fail
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 18 2025 23:39 utc | 295
oldhippie @ 283
Indeed, what he said was nothing new whatsoever, he basically parroted the exact same MSM talking points we’ve been hearing for the last three years, so faithfully that he missed that exact point: Russia has been “on the brink of collapse” ever since…what, May 2022? You’d think it’d have happened by now, but still the dastardly Putin Regime is bound to fall Soon(tm). My whole thing is hearing him matter-of-factly tell our Indian colleague all of these things, get off his phone, then immediately around and march over to the resident American in the room and tell me with all the unflappable hubris that the ROW expects from the West, particularly Europe. There really was no doubt in his mind, none whatsoever, that Russia is falling apart and that Ukraine, with American muscle and European precision, is sticking it to those foolish Russkies, even if we have to tolerate Trump to do so. I really cannot put it into words, but I think you know what I mean…
Posted by: Stark | Nov 18 2025 23:39 utc | 296
…for whatever reason it chopped my comment in half. But you know what I mean: he’s standing there witih a little smirk on his face and a gleam in his eye as he repeats the same Russia doom porn. Apparently now Trump has scared the world into buying Russian oil so bad that millions of barrels of it are stranded on the high seas. Life for your average Russian is hell, they’re just too scared/dumb to rise up. And he’s here chortling at a real life war that is happening today, right now, in which hundreds of thousands on both sides have been killed. But of course it’s Putin’s fault, and Trump’s too, because everything else is. It was a good reminder that many Europeans really don’t value Russian/Slavic/etc. lives the same as their own. I’ve already encountered more than a few Russians and Ukrainians in Germany that are fully aware that they are “white, but not the right kind of white”.
Posted by: Stark | Nov 18 2025 23:44 utc | 297
@261
One of the things I learned working in the US is how incredibly decentralized their industry is. In Canada, all the HQ’s of import are in Toronto or Montreal (with the exception of the oil companies in Calgary). But in America, they are distributed all over the country, from Seattle in the NW corner down to Florida in the SE, and similarly from southern California to Massachusetts, and all points in between. That alone makes the US more resilient to attack than most other countries.
Posted by: FrankDrakman | Nov 19 2025 0:24 utc | 298
now the Polish authorities have claimed that the Ukrainians were working for the Russians – no doubt Nato put pressure on the poles to say this.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 18 2025 18:53 utc | 280
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I’m sure no pressure was required.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 19 2025 0:57 utc | 299
Russia’s push to encircle Pokrovsk hinges on a pincer near Myrnohrad, but NATO completely thwarted their plansBy striking Russian positions in Rodynske with precision JDAMs and drone swarms, as well as staging a brilliant fake assault, Ukraine tricked Russia into diverting forces, creating a window to rotate troops, evacuate wounded, and reinforce Myrnohrad. This deception has already delayed Russia’s advance into the winter, City is rapidly turning in into a fortified strongpoint.This will worsen already very high losses of troops and equipment Russia is facing in their futile campaiign to conquer Pokrovsk, and may even turn the city in their ‘Stalingrad’ (with russians in the position of germans, remember at one time Wehrmacht controlled 99% of Stalingrad, where have I already heard speaking about 99% control in recent times?)
Posted by: Louis | Nov 19 2025 11:07 utc | 300