speculator@96…….just another example of Russia not taking the Britkrainians seriously. 
 
While the Russians are busy killing Boulder Meat Pies, those Englanders not defending their little boys and girls from immigrant rapists are busy blowing up Russian Generals……
 
Cheers M 
 
…….and I did hear it was his own fault…..for living in Russia….

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 22 2025 22:26 utc | 103

Cheers M   — …….and I did hear it was his own fault…..for living in Russia…. — Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 22 2025 22:26 utc | 111
 
 
Did they turn him into Soylent Green?
 
“The “Books” quickly conclude from the oceanographic reports that the oceans are dying and cannot actually produce the plankton from which Soylent Green is allegedly made, thus revealing that the ingredients in Soylent Green are, in fact, human bodies.”
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
 

Posted by: David G Horsman | Dec 22 2025 22:33 utc | 105

Russians ate my dog!   And my goldfish!

Posted by: ebear | Dec 22 2025 22:37 utc | 107

What is next?

“Putin Planning Canabalistic Invasion of Europe!”

News source: dailyanthropophage.com

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 22 2025 22:48 utc | 109

Posted by: ebear | Dec 22 2025 22:37 utc | 115
 
Koreans… Koreans ate my dog and Chinese ate my goldfish… with kim chee and pickled ginger. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Dec 22 2025 22:50 utc | 111

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 22 2025 22:50 utc | 120
 
#####
 
Laugh at it.
 
Don’t make exposure a habit, though; retardation can be contagious

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 22 2025 22:57 utc | 113

Now the wars largest supply terminus is about an hours drive to Odessa but, it is not vulnerable without Russia expanding the war. Russia’s tactics have not humbled “western-nations”, quite the opposite, they’ve emboldened “western-nations”. Time is a factor in war. 
 
 
 
 
Posted by: S Brennan | Dec 22 2025 19:00 utc | 56
 
 
 
 
Without American troops, those Eurosoldiers could have daily supplies from UPS Globemasters, and it won’t make a lick of difference. The path from Chisinau to Moldova will be a lot easier than the route from Crimea to Nikolaev: yet the roads are closed at the moment. Definitely something to think about if you plan to be part of NATO peacekeeping.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Dec 22 2025 23:02 utc | 115

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 22 2025 22:50 utc | 120
 
Mr. duck n cover:
 
We have considered your request for a day off from the “western bullshit factory”. Regretfully, we cannot grant your request under current circumstances. As you are aware, all resources must be maximized and, pursuant to the US Information and Exchange Act of 1948 (as amended), the “western bullshit factory” does not cease operations unless the President ceases operations by executive order.
 
Again, we regret that we cannot grant your request at this time. Should you have any further questions, please contact us at 800-justanotherbrickinthewall or justanotherbrickinthewall.austere.corporate.gov 
 
 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Dec 22 2025 23:08 utc | 117

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 22 2025 22:57 utc | 121
oh i do. until ICE shows up. but the earth isn’t lying, the body doesn’t lie. lots of folks around here in the Pacific NW and in California are about to find out just how truly awesome the trickle down from the Red Cross really is.
 
 isn’t it funny how most of them Rooskies will be celebrating Christmas? in more than the “let’s go shopping” sense, too. well, a la Spinal Tap, it is Christmas in Muscovy…Xmas with The Devil.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 22 2025 23:10 utc | 119

Just watch the statement of Russian press attached Denitri Pesko after assassination of the Russian General .
No regret on the face .no sadness.in fact he was smiling a few times as if it did not matter to him.
I have been saying that Pesko and FM lavrov are traitors and enemy agents as judged by their behaviours and statement .
Putin likes to be surrounded by incompetent traitors  

Posted by: sam | Dec 22 2025 23:15 utc | 121

Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 22 2025 18:43 utc | 49
 
Glad to see another poster here who knows Orwell and understands just how perceptive and predictive his analysis was in his day. Hard to believe he died more than 75 years ago

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 22 2025 23:16 utc | 123

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 22 2025 23:09 utc | 126
i don’t know….all that border jumpin’ and paddlin’ from VZ…maybe “free range” meat is healthier? so they say. the healthy migrants, ie the ones that can run, won’t be able to escape the cannibal zombie hordes if they are in cages though, will they? Immigration and Cannibalization Enforcement agent, the new and improved ICE. I can see it already. Merge Dept of Ag into Dept of Homeland Security already. with a new slogan, sure to lull: Soylent Green is Pueblo. 
 
btw, if Russia, China, VZ, Iran, Cuba, Mexico, oh, and NK, Sudan, Somalia, Iraqis, Af-Pakistanis, etc., are SUCH threats, why aren’t we, the US, conscripting our migrants into the military or otherwise “encouraging” them to join up? or take up work duties beneficial to preserving a threatened nation?
 
uh, cuz the conflicts are totally contrived, that’s why, incl the war on immigrants. and to further my point, why isn’t Russia manufacturing a war on its migrant, or a minority, population if migrants are such the evil internal enemy? ditto China, except for the complete b.s. about their Wigger population?  Russia could, maybe, concoct a “Muslim threat” or some such, or a “Big Gay Tranny” threat, but they haven’t, have they?
 
just another data point, along with war budgets, borders and geography, body counts, alliances, and history: who gets all Hitlery with its own internal populace?
 
like Israel. fucking Nazis. nothing changes.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 22 2025 23:28 utc | 125

Regarding the release of Epstein photos that nicely redact the ones that should be exposed, while exposing the ones that suit the Trump administration’s political purposes…
 
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 22 2025 23:05 utc | 124

 
George, the Epstein files release” is completely manipulated by the man-behind-the-curtain, the wizard who controls both major political parties.  All of the important stuff has long ago been deleted (and/or secured elsewhere) and memory-holed.  Anything they are releasing now is just more fodder for the political kabuki WWE show of Republicans vs Democrats.  Don’t get sucked into it, it doesn’t go anywhere of substance.  
 
This government-controlled release of many pages of nothing-burger will keep the proles busy chasing lurid tidbits of no consequence.  No more enlightening than was the official 9/11 Commission Report, or the Warren Commission Report.  Sand-in-eyes.

Posted by: speculator | Dec 22 2025 23:38 utc | 127

The film Never Cry Wolf was based on the eponymous book by the Canadian Farley Mowat, who also wrote an excellent book about his travels through Siberia. His account was so sympathetic that he was subsequently denied entry into the USA on account of being a “Communist sympathizer”.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 22 2025 23:43 utc | 129

123,
 
While I don’t agree with your take[1], your geography is heads and shoulders above the other critic of my post, at least you took the time to correctly locate the base on the map, the other commenter was completely clueless as to where the base was in regards to Odessa so, bravo on that account!
 
Just one little nit to pick, Romania directly abuts Odessa Oblast, Ukraine along the Black Sea Coast BSC.  Moldavia is a land-locked country so there is no reason to cross it. By road the forward supply base to the Odessa Oblast is less than 55km, by sea even less, by air even less. 
 
[1]By waiting, Russia/Putin has made liberating Odessa/Transnistria a very bloody and painful affair that will in all likelihood involve confronting the English* manipulating NATO forces for a try at a 2-0 Crimean War Record…jolly-good, tally-ho and all that uppermost-class-rubish.  Meanwhile, the English* can continue to engage in their traditional national pastime…terrorism on the high seas.  I won’t mention it here but, I could put a stop to the Tanker-War and make the English* and there fellow angliphiliacs regret having ever started it, the answer is so obvious it’s painful keeping my mouth shut.  For the love of God, can anyone tell me where have all of Russia’s Zhukovs gone?

Posted by: S Brennan | Dec 22 2025 23:49 utc | 131

I guess this is an Open Thread now.  So, just putting this out there, tangentially (maybe) related to the discussion about the Never Cry Wolf movie….
 

Colorado Native American Tribes Oppose Forced Wolf Introduction
 
Native Americans who have lived in southern Colorado for well over 150 years oppose efforts by environmentalists to forcibly introduce wolves into Colorado. The Southern Ute Council passed a resolution in opposition to Proposition 114, an issue on Colorado’s November 2020 ballot. By doing so, the council joins 38 of Colorado’s 64 counties that are already on record in opposition the issue.
 
The Southern Ute tribes consist of the Muache, Capote and the Weeminuche. Established in 1873, the Southern Ute Reservation is spread across La Plata, Archuleta and Montezuma Counties in southwest Colorado.
 
Additionally, 26 different organizations, including the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, are on record against the effort. RMEF has 29 chapters and nearly 17,000 members in Colorado and strongly opposes the initiative for a wide variety of different reasons highlighted by the fact that wolves are already confirmed on the ground in Colorado. And just earlier this week, a wolf pup sighting by a biologist indicates the population is growing in the northwest part of the state.
 
Here is the Southern Ute Council resolution:
 
Whereas, it is the responsibility of the Southern Ute Indian Council to ensure the safety of Tribal members and their families and to protect wildlife and livestock on the Reservation;
 
Whereas, gray wolves also carry hydatid disease, a parasite that potentially may be submitted from wildlife to domestic animals and humans;
 
Now therefore be it resolved, that the Tribal Council hereby opposes Ballot Initiative #107 (since renamed Proposition 114) and any effort to reintroduce or expand the population of gray wolves in Colorado.

 
https://stg.rmef.org/media/colorado-native-american-tribes-oppose-forced-wolf-introduction/
 
Actual indigenous US tribes are often at odds with proposals by white PMC-class liberals.  But one doesn’t usually hear about that in the MSM. 

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 0:05 utc | 133

Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 22 2025 18:43 utc | 49
========
Speaking of Catalonia, in a recent Nima Alkhorshid interview with I believe Col. Larry Wilkerson (the main topic was the silencing of Col. Baud), Wilkerson commented that Western plans for Ukraine are analogous to the exploitation of Spain in the Spanish Civil War: a testing ground for weapons and various other cutting=edge technologies of modern war.
 
He mentioned specifically the role of Mossad in exploiting this opportunity in Ukraine—in this context he compared the Ukraine to Gaza, which appears to be a similar testing ground. Instead of building a whole city for the purpose of training troops in urban combat, they are using Gaza’s cities.
My antennae really twitched because hardly anyone these days mentions the Spanish Civil War.
Wilkerson’s thesis sounds perfectly credible. Very sobering. 

Posted by: Jane | Dec 23 2025 0:10 utc | 135

@ Patroklos | Dec 22 2025 21:18 utc | 87
 
good video.. thanks… conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism and hamas with isis is total bullshit.. if the aussie gov’t implements this insanity, it will be a disaster for australia… 

Posted by: james | Dec 23 2025 0:15 utc | 137

I can’t tell from the picture of Russian soldiers in the UK’s Express what I’m supposed to get, but is it not World War Z? the messaging is too subtle so I’m not sure I get it. 

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 23 2025 0:24 utc | 139

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 0:05 utc | 142
it’s a miracle the wolves are breeding cuz the casinos just breed all by themselves.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 23 2025 0:27 utc | 141

2  Norwegian | Dec 22 2025 20:00 utc | 73 with the Jacques Baud/Danny Davis video…thanks
 
Baud has no legal recourse because his sanctioning is a political decision and it will take political pressure to change that.
 
I expect that political pressure by the EU public as well by folks around he world will push for a reversal of the sanctions agains Jacques Baud

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 23 2025 0:32 utc | 143

Republic of Scotland @ 50:
 
Now that you mentioned the ISIS head choppers from nearly a decade ago:
Is This the Most Disgusting Atrocity Filmed in the Syrian Civil War?
 

… Even by the standards of Syria’s ever-worsening stream of atrocity and massacre videos, the latest footage from the country cannot fail to shock for its sheer savagery. The video, posted on May 12 but filmed on March 26 near the Syrian town of Qusayr, on the border with Lebanon, opens by calmly filming a rebel commander cutting open the chest of what we assume is a deceased pro-Bashar al-Assad fighter, removing his heart and liver with surgical precision and sang-froid.
The cameraman jokes with the commander, telling him, “God Bless you Abu Sakkar, it looks like you are drawing a love heart [on his chest]!” The commander, the man called Abu Sakkar, then picks up the bloody liver and heart and speaks directly into the camera, delivering a chilling threat:
“I swear to God, you soldiers of Bashar, you dogs, we will eat from your hearts and livers! O heroes of Bab Amr, you slaughter the Alawites and take out their hearts to eat them!”
As men in the background shout Allahu Akbar! (God is Great!), Abu Sakkar ends the video by putting the dead man’s heart in his mouth and ripping off a chunk of the bleeding organ. Mutilation and cannibalism, punctured by deeply sectarian language, point to the horrifying sectarian violence that is starting to engulf parts of Syria.
Journalists contacted by Human Rights Watch — as well as the commander’s own brother, in a meeting with Time magazine journalists — have confirmed that the man in the video is indeed Abu Sakkar, a well-known rebel commander. Journalists who have met him report that he was one of the founders of the Farouk brigade, one of Syria’s largest and most storied mainstream rebel militias, founded in the city of Homs in 2011 …

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 23 2025 0:40 utc | 145

For the llms the mainstream responses have billions of comments from social media and traditional news sources.  For esoteric ideas it has a much smaller base to draw on.  Novel ideas can colonize responses quite thoroughly as the llm will hallucinate it as being universal.   Even better it will convincingly convey its hallucinations as truth.  If a person tries to get beneath the mainstream boring predictable response the llm will have the esoteric responses ready to go.  Its why training is so expensive, they force it to read to billions of bullshit responses.  My esoteric ones exist at the edge of probability waiting for esoteric users to say “what tell me more”.  It needs and remembers a different response to its generic one.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Dec 23 2025 0:43 utc | 147

Col Jacques Baud is back…. Crash & Burn Ukraine Russia Diplomacy /Col Jacques Baud & Lt Col Daniel Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AHp_Sw1hb8
 
Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 22 2025 20:00 utc | 73

————-
 
He is not back… yet. He has been totally ring fenced, while on double secret probation, if you like. For thought crimes.
 

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Dec 23 2025 0:47 utc | 149

I’m good friends with a half-Ute, half Mexican sccessful rancher in southern Colorado whose family has been in the state for much longer than most of these anglo white academic liberals and Boulderites from the Front Range.  He doesn’t think it is a good idea for the government to force wolves onto the land.  

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 1:14 utc | 151

It would be very funny if, in the negotiations for peace after Russia gets all the Donbass region (2027 ?), Russia demanded the West to publish an exhaustive list of all the lies and fake news and manipulating propaganda that the West published in relation to this proxy war since the 2014 CIA/Nazi coup.

But that’s probably the only red line that the Western regime will never accept, because it would mean mass protests, imprisonment of current MainStreamMedia “journalists”, and probably regime change in the West itself.

I think the capitals of this western nazi-fascist terrorist corrupt genocidal empire, in Washington DC, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, and occupied Jerusalem, would rather expell all Eastern NATO countries and create a buffer zone of neutral countries from Romania to the Baltics and Finland, before thy accepted such a demand about acknowledging all their lies.

Extreme massive ignorance of their own citizens, is still the main pillar/foundation of the Western NeoLib+NeoCon oligarchic empire.
Truth would be as bad as a nuclear war, from the point of view of the owners of our regimes. The same oligarchs/”elites” that own/control the DeepState and Military Industrial Complex and Silicon Valley and Wall Street and… also the MainStreamMedia.

Posted by: Carlos Marques | Dec 23 2025 1:28 utc | 153

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty place from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying  148

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 23 2025 1:49 utc | 155

Posted by: Jane | Dec 23 2025 0:54 utc | 163
Let’s assume the Ute were originally hunter-gatherers before the crackers came along and herded them onto reservations.
They would have competed with the wolves for the more plentiful wildlife – deer, bison – and probably culled the wolves and other predators to not go hungry themselves.
Post-pacification, those deer etc have been replaced with domesticated animals, reintroducing wolf would make them their prey, so naturally they object.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 23 2025 1:53 utc | 157

The underlying assumptions and the pretense is obvious after awhile.  The host and the guests on Napolitano’s popular show ALWAYS  present their cases with an underlying assumtion that Trump is a really good guy, who loves peace, but he is either too stupid or too weak to overcome the “deep state”.  Excuses after excuses.  They never mention that Trump himself appointed all of those “deep state” apparatchiks that hold him back from being the peace president that he aspires to be.

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 2:09 utc | 159

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 22 2025 23:28 utc | 134
 
I fully agree. 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 23 2025 2:23 utc | 161

Posted by: speculator | Dec 22 2025 23:38 utc | 136
 
I totally agree, everything exposed except the stuff that protects all those that should be exposed.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 23 2025 2:25 utc | 163

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
OMG! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
If anyone believes this insane propaganda bullshit, they’ve lost the plot!! Lol!!.
Thanks for the LOL, B! Have a Merry Christmas to you and all the commenters here!!

Posted by: Lay | Dec 23 2025 2:44 utc | 165

This Volo/GRU nonsense just points to how really panicked the Kieve neo nazi regime and its EU and NATO backers really are.
These wild stories are very much like Goebbels propaganda near the end of WWII, when the Zhukov and Rosskosskyy armies were setting up to envelope Berlin. Remember that according to Axis Sally, the Nazis had developed a ‘secret weapon’ that would destroy all the Russian armies and save the Third Reich (they were most likely referring to the German A bomb program that at that point in time was more than three full years behind the Manhattan project).
In thirty days RF troops will parading openly in Kieve and Odessa, and Volo and Umerov will either be lampost decorations, in jail in DC, or relaxing in their beachfront Haifa condo’s, take your pick………….  

Posted by: tobias cole | Dec 23 2025 2:53 utc | 167

It’s been a while since MoA has had a >500 post thread, I think this is going to be one!
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Dec 22 2025 18:11 utc | 28

 
It should be over 500 posts, especially since b is gone for a few days over the X-mas holiday time.  Lots of good topics here.  Cannibalism as posited by The Express is the least interesting, and the most fake.
 

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 3:07 utc | 169

| 191
 
Skinny as a rail.
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 23 2025 3:39 utc | 171

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 23 2025 1:53 utc | 174
=======
Let us not make assumptions.
The Utes only hunted bison after they acquired horses from the Spanish.
Hunting by Utes and other tribes that culturally appropriated the horse significantly contributed to the extirpation of the the bison.
 
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2023/01/27/indian-influence-on-the-extinction-of-bison-in-southeast-idaho-and-adjacent-areas/
 
“Native” tribes that spread to North America from Asia had already hunted North America’s large mammals to extirpation.
 
 

Posted by: Jane | Dec 23 2025 3:51 utc | 173

So weird that people still think that Trump is a “conservative’. People think that Nww York economic libertarianism is “conservative,”.  It isn’t.   Scott Bessent, a Trump appointee, is married to another man, and he used to be George Soros’s right hand man.  Does nobody notice this shite?

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 4:05 utc | 175

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 2:49 utc | 185
 
Once again fully correct in your analysis of Trump, yet so many still excuse him of his behaviour. Even after two terms if Trump didn’t know what he was getting himself into it is completely implausible. But the faithful apologists still follow him like it is a religion; he is the messiah that can never be wrong. An innocent bystander. What naivety. TGS = Trump gullibility syndrome.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 23 2025 4:19 utc | 177

People who still think that Trump is  “conservative” should take a look at what he said against Patrick Buchanan.  
 
https://youtu.be/_82hWkTJEGc?si=X-4qVjzA_jNsOoYd
 
 

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 4:23 utc | 179

Posted by: speculator | Dec 23 2025 4:23 utc | 204
…or MTG.  What is your point?  How is it relevant in the context of this thread?  Trump is Trump, an opportunist.  The republicans are in the process of positioning JD Vance as next president, else they risk losing the midterms.  How “conservative” will he be?  Are you the one defining “conservative”?  Good riddance.

Posted by: Nervous German | Dec 23 2025 4:28 utc | 181

you’re getting close to needing to find excuses for Putin, too.

 
That much. Also Iran and China. Could it be the alternative is the `unthinkable’?  They’re giving him his chance, ’cause the unthinkable will be worse than youses can imagine. The fire brigade gives us daily updates. Russia advances. …
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 23 2025 4:46 utc | 183

Posted by: Nervous German | Dec 23 2025 4:21 utc | 202
Not sure whether you understood what I said in my reply to speculator | Dec 23 2025 4:05 utc | 198
 
Maybe you took what I wrote to mean the the opposite to how I intended it.
 
I don’t agree with finding excuses for Trump or Putin. 
 
In any case they are vastly different people as leaders and so my opinion of either will be different. In my view they are not at all in the same in their capacities, the ways they function as leaders, nor what they stand for.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 23 2025 4:57 utc | 185

Word of the moment: Preposterous.
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 23 2025 5:06 utc | 187

i guess this is OT which explains the rapid removal of posts here tonight… 

Posted by: james | Dec 23 2025 5:34 utc | 189

@  Jane | Dec 23 2025 3:51 utc | 175
my reply to you is on the moa week in review thread as this is OT..

Posted by: james | Dec 23 2025 5:44 utc | 191

Sorry to be late to the discussion but I have never been able to stomach tripe since reading George Orwell’s “The Road  To Wigan Pier”. IFYKYK.
Happy Christmas to all!
PS I have not been able to access this site via Brave Browser, nor MS Edge. I get “DNS resolution” issues. I had to download the Avast browser to find MoA. Anyone else have this issue, and/or a solution?

Posted by: FrankDrakman | Dec 23 2025 6:20 utc | 193

“might as well go for Putin or any other leader?”
Posted by: Nervous German | Dec 23 2025 5:24 utc | 190
 
You are welcome to your view but I disagree when it comes to Trump who in my view exploits his quasi-religious following of MAGA even to the extent of creating his personal ‘Truth’ Social website (full of disinformation) and even acting like god on occasion.  Laws don’t even matter to him, neither does ethical conduct. He’s done this in both terms of office. He’s an enormous populist and a demagogue who cultivates a narcissistic self-orientated Trump religion cult. He uses those people he fools into voting for him for the sake of his own wealth and that of the US billionaire class, no tmaking their lives better. But it is not that they have much choice. It’s tweedledum or tweedledumber in the US in terms of voting choice. Some in Europe resort to other nefarious tactics but are nowhere near the same in how they try to create a cult; but I would still criticize them for completely different reasons. Putin is far more professional, educated, does not glorify everything he does, is erudite, polite, not a populist, capable, fit, able to well explain his case intelligently and speak for hours, has done an extraordinary job with the SMO against Ukraine, NATO and US, works extremely hard and travels extensively, and is actually sincerely there for his people IMO. He’s also the best we have along with Xi Jinping at stopping the insanity of Western neo-imperialism.  Both are involved in the transition towards the Global South and multipolarity away from the bullying methods of the monopolar US leaders.  If you call that a bias, so be it. I don’t see that if I criticise one leader I have to criticise another in similar ways. I’m not here to necessarily compare and contrast a subject as if I am writing an essay. 
 
I noticed Trump even with body language used the  mudra of the Buddha or Vedic Dakshinamurti when he spoke to his followers the first time in office. Now he resorts to the open arms Jesus pose. Its all calculated. 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 23 2025 6:26 utc | 195

Posted by: FrankDrakman | Dec 23 2025 6:20 utc | 195
 
Brave is good and Opera with free VPN, so is Duck and Go. All work for me on this site
The Road to Wigan Pier is one of the best. First time I have ever come across someone who has also read that book and knows about it. I also really like Down and Out in Paris and London.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 23 2025 6:30 utc | 197

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 23 2025 6:26 utc | 197

Cheers!  You made me chuckle.  Yes, you are right, it’s hard to argue against anything you list.
 
Perhaps I see it a bit differently, because in Germany we had Merkel, Scholz and now Merz; von der Leyen, Kallas, Borrell, Weber in the EU; these are all very weak personalities, shapeless, spineless, exchangeable.  Maybe of all these weak leader personalities in the West, Trump offers a breeze of fresh air on first sight, but he is no politician, he is no strategist, he is no statesman (no western leader is no more, with some otherwise rather powerless (since they represent small countries) exceptions as we’ve learned last week, like Belgium PM Bart De Wever and Viktor Orban) — and to put it bluntly, Trump is as much full of shit as Biden and Obama were.  The only difference to the latter is broad media support or the lack of criticism.  Same goes for Clinton and Bush the Younger.  No matter how you look at it, these “leaders” offer no coherency, no long-term plan, no grounding in reality.  They believe they can create reality just by talking.
 
Still, to Trump’s merit, what you call “cult following” is a reactionary manifestation that was literally begged for by the reckless doings of the other side: climate cult, LGBTu90jirto+ cult, Freedom of Speech crackdown cult, Covid mask cult, BLM cult etc.  These cults just “appeared” with no apparent leader figure, because they were born out of a fake “consent” pre-manufactured by political sockpuppets and media, without debate and without due diligence.  With that in mind, it might be a little more than just Trump and MAGA.

Posted by: Nervous German | Dec 23 2025 6:44 utc | 199