Luttwak, the author of the well-known yet overrated book, Coup d’Etat (I read it in or about 1978) is himself, of course, not Ukrainian but Jew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Luttwak.
“In the 1999 book Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy Luttwak predicted that dynamic economic growth would increase ugly social phenomena such as crime rates and job insecurity, as anticipated in his London Review of Books article “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”.[15]“
“In 2009 Richard Posner analyzed intellectuals with a public profile in the U.S. Posner claimed that Luttwak sees many affinities between the United States and the declining Roman empire, leading Luttwak to predict a dark age in which the U.S. population will experience decline into third world status.”
[Wikipedia]
Court decision states that 5 years in prison is minimal sentence for her 3 likes: "When choosing the measure of punishment for PERSON_4, the court takes into account the fact that she has fully admitted her guilt, has sincerely repented of what she did, has no previous…
The so-called “free” and “democratic” “state” of Ukraine…
"In an interview with renowned reporter Seymour Hersh, a US intelligence official scolded the media for misleading the American public about Ukraine’s battlefield failures during the Spring counteroffensive. The official told Hersh no matter how committed Kyiv is to the war…
“In an interview with renowned reporter Seymour Hersh, a US intelligence official scolded the media for misleading the American public about Ukraine’s battlefield failures during the Spring counteroffensive. The official told Hersh no matter how committed Kyiv is to the war effort, President Zelensky’s goals are unattainable. “Zelensky will never get his land back,” he said. “The American press is doing anything but honest reporting on the failure thus far of the [offensive]”” https://news.antiwar.com/2023/09/07/us-intel-official-media-misleading-americans-about-ukraines-battlefield-success/.”
"The Ukrainian counter-offensive has reached a dead end. The West must prepare for humiliation» – The Sunday Telegraph pic.twitter.com/od9JooeQnC
I wonder how long it will be before BBC News and Sky News stop reporting the war entirely from the “Ukrainian” (Jew-Zionist Kiev regime) propaganda point of view. Their “reportage” is a total disgrace.
NBC News journalist Keir Simmons recently visited Crimea and reported that Crimeans are pro-Russian .
Every Crimean he asked answered that Crimea was Russian and that they would fight against Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/MYy63GugBf
THE UKRAINIAN ARMY HAS 30 DAYS LEFT TO IMPLEMENT THE COUNTER OFFENSIVE
Then the weather conditions will start to change – Mark Milley.
▪️The general stressed that the weather conditions will make the advance of Ukrainian troops very difficult. ▪️"At the very beginning of this… pic.twitter.com/3v8TraCAm9
RT @swilkinsonbc "Israeli children start attacking a Christian tourist in Jerusalem: it’s like the whole of israeli society is terminally sick right to the very inner core pic.twitter.com/0wVDqFoaaV"
Britain 2023. Police uninterested in most real crimes. They would rather play at being “anti-terror” police, and/or spend their time snooping on people expressing socio-political views on Twitter, or on blogs such as this.
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“A counterattack is mass murder,” former French Navy Colonel Pere de Jong.
We would clarify that this is a mass suicide, because… It was only recently that people who were forcibly mobilized were destroyed there, and before that it was mainly volunteers who were disposed of… pic.twitter.com/hkoX9AhQRZ
In Russia there is also a monument to the "Toliatti Hachiko" – Konstantin, who also waited for the owners who died in a car accident, he was taken by relatives, but he ran away and returned to the scene of the accident. pic.twitter.com/xA4ywnsSxC
⚡️🇺🇦🇩🇪 Ukrainian Foreign Minister SCOLDS his German counterpart to her face for “wasting time” instead of handing over Taurus missiles, which according to him Germany “will do anyway” pic.twitter.com/CGArSWrZ8f
The Kiev-regime rabble take their lead from Zelensky, with his ghetto style of “negotiation”. You would imagine that “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) were a powerful state, if not more, rather than a failed “state” completely dependent upon the charity of the USA, UK, EU states etc.
Jaw-dropping CBS story shows command post from which the US military wages what they’re now calling an American “proxy war” against Russia.
“The war will continue until one side or the other has achieved” their “political objectives through military means,” suggests top US… pic.twitter.com/cCPtZYoAj3
Well, this week I again managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 6/10 as against his self-awarded five and a half. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 6, 7, and 10. I just missed the last one, thinking that it might be the cassowary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary] (which can reach well over 6 feet in height). Apparently, though, that is only the third or fourth tallest bird.
— Ramesh Patel – They Would Rather You Ignore This (@Imalright_Jack) May 19, 2023
Very true. So many people are misled by that kind of “Mrs Thatcher housewife’s shopping basket” economics. One would have thought that John Rentoul would know better, or is he just (as in days of Blair) parrotting the “centrist” Labour Party line?
As a former barrister (wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 and not in actual Bar practice since 2008), I have applied a little thought to such questions.
My view is that sentencing has become absurd in the UK. While many defendants are certainly not given sufficient —or any— time in incarceration, despite having been convicted of very unpleasant offences, including crimes of very considerable violence, there is at the same time routine over-sentencing.
Many defendants are sentenced to, say, 5 years (for whatever), when 4 or 3 would be more than adequate (and, in terms of actual punishment, about the same).
At the same time, there are quite a few people incarcerated for no good reason at all, as in the recent free speech case of “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch), sentenced to 2.5 years for supposedly “inciting racial hatred” (he was convicted on 10 out of 15 charges). He will be in prison, probably, until 2024. Political “crime” in our “free country” (as was).
I am not going to do an entire study of this one, but take a look at the Wikipedia entry: mixed Indian heritage; failed, at an early stage, to continue with a law degree, despite having been, in part, privately educated; seems to be a lesbian or something similar; “elected” (selected) as MP at age 23; took “several months” off from her MP duties in 2021; “celebrated” the attacks on statues of English historical figures.
Another deadhead MP.
An example of her views:
Troubling to hear Esther McVey at #PMQs refer to Travellers as a “blight on the local community” just a day after #RomaniResistanceDay.
GRT people face a huge amount of discrimination. Such hateful language, and Tory laws criminalising their way of life, only contribute to it.
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) May 17, 2023
Mirabile dictu! Seems that Esther McVey has actually said something with which I can agree.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will take into account, among its plans, the West's intention to supply Ukraine with F-16 aircraft
If it turns out that the Russian air force or ground forces cannot deal with the increasing influx of sophisticated weapons systems being supplied to the Kiev regime, the end result may be that the Russian leadership will decide to destroy both the bases of those aircraft and also any nearby urban areas.
As previously blogged, it should never have come to this. The invasion should have and could have been essentially over within a week, with Kiev taken, and Zelensky’s cabal eliminated or driven into exile.
While the G7 countries in Hiroshima are introducing anti-Russian sanctions and discussing support for Ukraine, China is deepening its cooperation with Moscow, writes the German newspaper "Spiegel".
In Bakhmut, one of the last fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed The so-called "Nest" is located on the outskirts – now completely destroyed, military correspondents report. pic.twitter.com/u7vVvqW12H
The small area still defended by Kiev-regime forces in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk is now 100 acres or so, about the same acreage as Kensington Gardens in London.
What always strikes me about the Israeli police response to any incident is how swift it is. Not one, but several, and often many, police, security agents, soldiers etc are on the scene quickly, usually in seconds, at least in the Old City of Jerusalem or in the central parts of Tel Aviv. Reminiscent of the quick reaction of the militia in Moscow in Soviet times, if there were any sort of public disorder. The Israelis must have huge numbers of police personnel.
A Syrian migrant receives his UK passport courtesy of our soft, liberal Tory government. According to the Left, he is now fully British 😤😡 pic.twitter.com/0TxtvZaYCB
In a well-known and probably (?) apocryphal saying, Lenin is supposed to have opined that “in order to destroy a nation, first destroy its currency“. I suppose that he could not have foreseen the possibility that a nation’s integrity, credibility, and soul could be destroyed by migration-invasion, an invasion not through feat of arms, but through the moral weakness and/or self-hate of the people of the invaded country itself (whipped up, as usual, by “them”, the “you know who” element). He would not have believed it possible.
I have blogged briefly about that silly “ho”, Clare Moseley, in the past. Like so many English people, perhaps especially women, who attach themselves to “anti-racist”-type causes (“refugees welcome”, anti-apartheid etc), intellect is limited, emotionalism uncontrolled, hypocrisy common, and both knowledge and experience of the subject-matter usually absent.
They usually have mental health “issues” as well. See also:
We compiled all of the evidence showing who funds @Bellingcat, what the stated agenda of their government and private-sector funders are, and what those funders get in return.
Find out what the National Endowment for Democracy is. Decide for yourself.https://t.co/8WIxP90E5d
There is nothing wrong with being “antisemitic” anyway, and in the UK it is not a crime, despite what many ignorant Twitter types often tweet.
Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that there is a special symbolism in the fact that today we are talking about the complete liberation of Artemovsk, a year ago on this day the last Ukrainian militants surrendered in Mariupol.
Since the beginning of February, 80,000 refugees have returned from Turkey to Syria, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.
"We are engaged in the normalization of life in the areas of Syria under our control. People are returning to Syria on a voluntary basis," Akar said. pic.twitter.com/8t6T0hqPIk
The bases of the Bakhmut Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk were struck The explosions went off near the Kramatorsk airport, which has been turned into a supply hub and headquarters of the UAF pic.twitter.com/SFvAb16vD8
Looks as if “the musicians” are about to complete their performance in that area. музыканты хорошо играют…
Reportedly, Flight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. The desire to protect the "aircraft" is over. pic.twitter.com/pyPIqW4BMK
Lavrov: “Hopes for integration with the West did not come true. The Western track that has developed in our foreign policy has completely exhausted itself. We have entered into a full-scale confrontation with the West.”
What Russia lacks is a real ideology that goes beyond mere Great-Russian nationalism.
the release of Bakhmut means that two larger cities in the Donetsk region – Kramatorsk and Slavyansk – will be within the range of Russian artillery. With their release, the People's Republic of Donetsk will also be released. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in…
As a result of the offensive actions of Wagner's assault detachments, with the support of the artillery and aviation of the troop group "South", the liberation of the city of Artyomovsk/Bakhmut was completed
“Britain could go it alone in responding directly to a chemical agent attack by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, the armed forces minister has suggested.
James Heappey said the Russian president is wrong if he thinks a response to him using banned weapons would require a Nato vote.”
[Daily Mail].
This is the aforesaid idiot, a passed-over ex-officer (left Army after 10 years with the courtesy rank of major), now posing as great military expert and strategist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heappey.
[James Heappey MP, junior minister for the Armed Forces, who seems to want Britain to launch a unilateral attack, using chemical weapons at that, on Russia. A prize idiot, even in the Westminster monkeyhouse]
I am beginning to think that it is only a matter of time before deadheads of the James Heappey type get the UK into a war —by any other name— with Russia, a state which has, we are told, 6,200 nuclear weapons, mostly missiles (the UK, apparently, has about 25).
All that potential misery, pain, and death for the people of the UK (not to mention the end of the UK as a functioning state), and why? Because idiots of the Heappey type want to virtue-signal about Ukraine, a corrupt and shambolic “failed state” that, as a state, has only existed for 30 years, and with which the UK is not, and never has been, allied.
Behind all the “stand with Ukraine” stuff is a collection of familiar evils: Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel, the New World Order cabals etc.
Justice?
Yesterday, persecuted satirist Alison Chabloz was sentenced to a very harsh 22 weeks in prison (11 weeks actually incarcerated), not far from the maximum 26 weeks. All because some peculiar Jewish woman made a complaint about Alison’s reworking of a Lionel Bart song from the musical, Oliver!
Don’t mistake me: speaking generally, I do not want the “blacks and browns” to be in the UK, but that sort of rowdiness and bullying cannot be tolerated, yet is, effectively. Also, how is it that the sentencing judge seems to have taken the defendant’s drunkenness at the material time as a mitigating factor?! Surely wrong, even if the trial was in Newcastle…
Actually, that Newcastle sentencing does show what nonsense the whole “aggravation” based on “racial hostility” is. The defendant should have been given a stiff sentence for his behaviour regardless of any racial hostility. The UK must start to stamp down on bad behaviour committed in public.
My main purpose in putting the report on the blog, however, was to show, by contrast, how harsh was the Alison Chabloz sentence yesterday.
Of course, in the Newcastle case, the victim was Indian or something similar, whereas the (alleged) victim in the Alison Chabloz case was Jewish.
One reason, perhaps several reasons, why there is no “Parliamentary road” for social nationalism in the UK, though if there were a suitable —or any— movement, a political party would have to be part of that, and might stand candidates.
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Ukraine
A few days ago on this blog, I predicted that, were Russian ships hit and sunk in the Black Sea, it would trigger a massive escalation from the Russian side. So it has transpired.
What puzzles me is that Russia has now attacked a missile factory in the Kiev area, a factory which apparently produces such missiles. My puzzlement is “why only now?” I should have thought that such a place would be a priority target.
I think that Putin basically does not want to hit Kiev, and especially the central and historic central parts, too badly. Not only for public relations reasons, but also because he sees Moscow and Kiev as the two founding cities of the Russian people, of which the Ukrainians are a sort-of detached part.
Historically, that is correct, in that Kiev was the foundation city of Kievan Rus, after the Vikings (Varangians) moved their capital to the (thought to have been already long-existent) city from Novgorod, in the 9th Century. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27. Moscow was only founded in the 12th Century, as far as is known.
Whatever the exact truth of the early history, the fact remains that Kiev was tied to Moscow from mediaeval times, economically and, from the 17th Century, politically.
In the Soviet period, meaning effectively from the mid-1920s to the early 1990s, Kiev was the third-largest city, after Moscow and Leningrad, and ahead of both Tashkent and Novosibirsk.
What that all means is, I think, that Putin would much prefer not to flatten Kiev (as he could).
I see the attack on the Kiev factory as, to put it in naval terms, “a shot across the bow” of the Kiev regime. If it is true that the UK and/or USA are now supplying anti-ship missiles to the Kiev regime, then an attack on an existing factory in Ukraine will not affect that.
Russian forces have now taken Mariopol/Mariupol, and are apparently succeeding in the ghastly attritional battles of the south and southeast.
As I have blogged recently, the strategy seems to be to advance from Kharkov area to the south, and from the southern coastal areas towards the general area of Kharkov, through or past Zaporozhye and Dnipro/Dnepropetrovsk; so drawing a line broadly North/South.
Anywhere east of that line will, before too long, be taken and occupied by Russian forces. Any Ukrainian forces within that sector, short on fuel, ammunition, and even food, will be forced to surrender.
I cannot see Putin negotiating at all (seriously), certainly not until he controls most of Ukraine east of the Dnieper below Kiev, as well as along the southern coasts.
I am convinced that Putin does not want to destroy Kiev and Odessa, but am equally convinced that he will, if forced into a corner.
[Daily Mail map showing state of play as of 14 April 2022]
On a more general level of speculation, how safe are the huge naval ships in the orders of battle of the UK, USA, China etc? Are they also just vulnerable floating targets, when faced with the anti-ship missiles now being produced?
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Every single Ramadan. Brutal and enraging. I long for the day we don’t see #AlAqsaUnderAttack by the occupation as a Ramadan routine. I long for the day the occupation ends and we can spend Ramadan in peace in the sacred Masjid. May we see it soon. Ameen https://t.co/3EfxA3FYoL
Jew-Zionists, who recoil in horror if someone in the UK dares to sing a funny song about them, and then uploads it to YouTube or wherever…
I am Laila Khan, From Pakistan. I stand with Innocent Palestinians. They are being attacked while praying, forced out of their homes, dragged out of Masjid Al Aqsa. Please don’t stay silent and turn a blind eye to this💔 Raise your voice!#AlAqsaUnderAttack
Ian Robert Millard 