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Diary Blog, 22 September 2023

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[Hampshire— the living fields]

Battles past

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“FORMER British MI6 agent Alastair Crook has said that Ukrainian soldiers will start refusing to carry out an order to launch a new offensive if President Volodymyr Zelensky issues it on his return from the United States.

Kruk put forward the assumption that it will look like this: Zelensky addresses his generals with the words: “We must continue […] and break through the Russian defenses.” So he turns to his generals and realizes that none of them will follow him in this. Kruk estimates that the Ukrainian army is exhausted and that there is no продавница where Zelensky can buy new troops…“

“MI6 agent A. Crook“? Buyer beware, I suppose…

“Thousands of Ukrainian men who are recognized as partially fit for military service will be drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The so-called “reserve” battalions will be formed from them. It was announced that there will be no combat training with them, nor will they be involved in combat tasks.”

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12548375/Is-world-running-patience-Zelenskys-blank-cheque-demands-Poland-stops-giving-arms-gives-fraction-Ukraines-leader-asked-visits-Canada-today-win-support.html.

“Is the world running out of patience with Zelensky’s ‘blank cheque’ demands? Poland stops giving arms and US gives a fraction of what Ukraine’s leader asked for as he visits Canada today to win support“

[Daily Mail]

Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.

Russia cannot “lose” this war, whatever happens (unless there is a palace revolution in the Kremlin).

The best solution is for Russia to retain Crimea, take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also retain or take all of the coastal regions of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to a depth of (arguende) 50 miles, including the city of Odessa. Kiev can either be taken by Russia or operated as a condominium, or maybe as a “free city” not fully controlled either by Russia or by a rump Ukrainian regime based (probably) in Lvov.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12547357/Hospital-discharges-elderly-patient-83-wrong-house-40-miles-lives-shocking-mix-up.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12545887/NHS-nurse-health-worker-swapped-messages-saying-Im-going-kill-bed-five-Ha-ha-yeah-sedation-love-trial-hears.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12549117/Police-Catholic-woman-praying-offence-arrested-abortion-clinic-apologise.html

Once again, the police make fools of themselves.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12547193/jan-moir-queen-royals-macron.html

“Since the Queen died, I’ve struggled to see what the point is of the Royal Family any more. Is that wrong?“

[Daily Mail]

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12547199/Brute-32-caught-camera-beating-puppy-named-Lazarus-sickening-five-minute-attack-banned-keeping-dogs-five-years.html

A mere £80 fine? What a pathetic sentence for being cruel to his own dog.

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The article: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/21/the-casual-authoritarianism-of-caroline-dinenage/.

I covered this on the blog yesterday, concentrating on the linkage between the Secretary of State (Caroline Dinenage) and her husband (Mark Lancaster, life peer, former Con MP, Major-General in the Reserves, and former second-in-command of the Army’s 77 Brigade, which operates around online disinformation etc): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/09/21/diary-blog-21-september-2023-with-material-about-freedom-of-expression-russell-brand-caroline-dineage-and-77th-brigade/.

More from the newspapers

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/far-right-attitudes-on-rise-in-germany/2997571.

“One in 12 people in Germany shares a right-wing extremist worldview, according to a new study published on Thursday.

The research by Friedrich Ebert Foundation has found that the number of people with far-right views has significantly increased in the past two years, and has exceeded 8%.

In the foundation’s 2020/2021 survey, less than 2% of the respondents had clearly expressed support for right-wing extremist views.

Researchers said the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war, skyrocketing energy prices, and high inflation are creating challenges for the democratic parties in the center, and strengthening the far-right.

“Insecurities and conflicts over who gets what and how much, are providing a gateway for right-wing extremist ideologies and anti-democratic attitudes,” the researchers said in a summary of their report.

According to the survey, trust in the institutions and in the functioning of democracy in Germany has fallen to below 60%.

The number of those who see themselves more to the right of the democratic center has significantly increased, from 9% to 15.5%.

More than 16% of those surveyed approved xenophobic statements, while 5.7% expressed antisemitic views. Some 4% played down crimes committed by Hitler and praised Nazi ideology or policies.”

[Turkish news agency Anadolu: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/p/history]

In 1928, the NSDAP was voted for by only 2.6% of German voters nationally. By 1932, that had grown to over 33%, and by 1933 to nearly 44%. With God, all things are possible.

At present, there is no suitable party or leader known to the people (the same is true in the UK), but “cometh the hour, cometh the man“…

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[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children“]

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Dried whole fish, leaves, live crayfish (or are they insects?), Red Bull…;Thai military rations?

Diary Blog, 7 March 2022

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[Nikolai II, with the Tsaritsa Alexandra and the whole immediate Russian Imperial Family, and with others, probably taken at Tsarskoe Selo near the then Petrograd, 1915]

On this day a year ago

Once again, amazing to see how many tweets have been censored and/or tweeters “cancelled” over the past year. Many blank spaces, like destroyed buildings in a city under siege (just a topical allusion…).

“Diverse” London

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/abdulnabi-alainani-jailed-knife-attacks-paddington-b991618.html

Why was the bastard even in the UK? Don’t tell me that he was another “refugee”…

The report caught my eye partly because it is an area I used to know well. As a former resident of Little Venice, I was quite often in Edgware Road, and occasionally in Praed Street (Paddington) as well. I knew a couple of people who worked around there, and my dentist in the early 1990s was in the next main street (corner of Edgware Road and Sussex Gardens). In other words, I myself could have been one of the unfortunate victims, were I still living in that part of London.

The UK needs what Russians call a chistka (“clean-up” or purge), and nowhere is that more necessary than in London.

More crime: Hanratty and the A6 Murder

I happened to see a report about Valerie Storie, the woman raped and shot (and paralyzed) in the 1960s by the murderer, Hanratty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanratty.

The “A6 Murder” was one of the most notorious crimes in an era of such. After Hanratty was executed, many of the famous joined in a noisy campaign to prove Hanratty innocent. Among those were the ludicrous John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the well-meaning but often just silly Ludovic Kennedy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic_Kennedy].

I recall reading a couple of books about the A6 Murder, including Who Killed Hanratty?, written by (again, rather silly) journalist, Paul Foot [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Foot_(journalist)].

I have also seen some of the documentaries made about the crime, such as that in the interesting TV series (a favourite of mine), Great Crimes and Trials [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Crimes_and_Trials]. I never saw the series when it was on BBC TV (I had no television set in the 1993-1996 period) but later bought all the videos I could find.

Interestingly enough, one book I once read, maybe by Ludovic Kennedy (not sure now) had an incident whereby, before Hanratty had been named as wanted for questioning, a lady met Hanratty casually (I think in a shop in London) and had an immediate instinct that here was the A6 murderer. Absurd from a logical point of view, yet she was right. What are the odds?

This is the local newspaper report I have just now been reading: https://www.bedfordshirelive.co.uk/news/bedfordshire-news/a6-murderer-victims-silence-finally-5856877.

Valerie Storie herself died in 2016, still paralyzed, in the house in which she had been born.

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Do I have unjustified anger, or totally justified rage against the deliberate trashing of everything decent in this country? Answers on a postcard…

Australia was once 99% a European-race “lucky country”, but now is a dystopian, mixed-race, politically-correct, and half-crazed, geographic area, not really a nation at all, and which will probably eventually become a kind of massive Philippines-type mess, or a Chinese semi-colony..

Listen to what the woman in that clip has to say.

Society is very sick in the USA, Canada, UK and elsewhere.

Cretins in the middle of England aping the simians of the South Bronx.

“Horrifying video shows Ukrainian soldiers shooting captured Russian troops with their hands tied behind their backs amid accusations of similar Russian atrocities” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10694119/Horrifying-video-shows-Ukrainian-soldiers-shooting-captured-Russian-troops-hands-tied.html

Verified by the New York Times, no less.

What are the British and American virtue-signallers and “me too” idiots going to say now, now that the soldiers of their beloved Zelensky Jew-Zionist regime are proven to have committed atrocities as bad as those alleged to have been committed by Russian troops?

[general state of play as of 6 April 2022]

Russia can defeat the forces of the Kiev regime, but it depends on how much death, damage and hurt Putin is willing to inflict.

Ukraine conflict: today’s thoughts

Ukraine is not a functioning state, really. It always (since “independence” in 1991) had elements of a “failed state”— corruption, shambolic maladministration, foreign/Jewish exploitation, but now the only element of a normal state that still exists is its armed force. Almost everything else is gone.

The Russian blockade means that Ukraine ports, even the unoccupied ones such as Odessa, are not working. The war and the situation in general means that industry is not functioning, that trade is almost at a standstill in much of the country. Airports are closed down and/or damaged.

So far, railways are still functioning, but for how long?

As to the war itself, I saw a report today to the effect that the Ukrainian forces are using each day about the same amount of ammunition (of all sorts, but particularly of the items supplied by NATO and others) that they are importing each week. A shortfall in the ratio 1:6. Unsustainable. It can only be a matter of time, and not much time, before the Ukrainian forces run out of everything except small arms/ammunition.

It can be seen that the Ukrainian (Kiev-regime) authorities are advising civilians in the south-east to evacuate before an expected renewed Russian onslaught. In all the besieged cities of the east, civilians are running out of food or have run out of food. It can only be a matter of time there too, before most of those cities are taken or flattened. Once that happens, the Russians will slowly occupy all of the Ukraine east of the Dnieper. That will eventually threaten Kiev again, this time from the southeast.

The Black Sea and Sea of Azov coasts are now almost entirely Russian-occupied as far west as Mykolaiv (former Nikolayev).

Russia may well move soon in some unexpected way to regain the tactical initiative. How, exactly, is hard to predict. Possibly by calling up Russia’s vast reserves, which number in the millions. True, they would all have to be fed and equipped and transported but, given that, they could be used to garrison areas taken, while the regular forces strike at areas east of the Dnieper still resisting, or not yet assaulted.

It seems that the mayor of Dnipro (former Dnepropetrovsk) has recommended that the elderly, women, and children should evacuate from the city, which at a million inhabitants (pre-invasion) is by far the largest population concentration on the Dnieper between the southern coastal areas and Kiev, 500 miles to the northwest. It has or had the 4th-largest population of the Ukrainian cities, slightly bigger than Donetsk.

Dnipro is on both banks of the Dnieper.

[Dnipro, formerly Dnepropetrovsk]

So far, the Russian forces have not yet secured Donetsk completely, let alone Zaporozhye and Dnipro. As noted, even if Dnipro can be taken or surrounded/sidelined, it is still 500 miles from there to Kiev. In my view, Russia has not won anything akin to a victory unless Kiev is taken.

The only way Russia can defeat the forces of the Kiev regime (without tactical nuclear weapons) is to call up its ground reserves, then push remorselessly forward, using hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of troops, until all Ukraine east of the Dnieper is occupied.

Meanwhile, we see msm reports of mutiny in the Russian forces. If true, reminiscent of 1917…

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“Goldman“.

Every. Single. Time.

The Nuland Jewess cannot even express herself in proper English (it should be “fewer“, not “less“, of course). Still, I know which tribe I would rather see much reduced in numbers, if not extinguished from the flame of existence altogether. Three guesses…

If a rich Englishman tried to become a Cabinet minister, or Prime Minister, in India, would that be possible? No; au contraire; it would be unthinkable.

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