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Diary Blog, 6 March 2023, with more on aspects of the conflict in Ukraine

Morning music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1(Langgaard); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rued_Langgaard%5D

Arguably rather overblown, but still a remarkable achievement for a composer only 17-y-o at the time.

[impression of Rivendell]

On this day a year ago

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11823969/Classics-like-Cinderella-Sleeping-Beauty-examined-branded-outdated-harmful.html

Ladybird Books has used sensitivity readers to re-examine some of its children’s fairytales to check their inclusivity, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

The Penguin-owned publisher’s catalogue includes classic tales such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty – but the characters and plots have been identified as ‘outdated or harmful’.

Industry insiders claim problematic tropes include a lack of diversity among blonde-haired and blue-eyed protagonists.

[Daily Mail]

There you have it. “Blonde and blue-eyed” (i.e. white European) people not wanted. In other words, “White Genocide”, albeit at this stage “only” on the printed page. How long before the inferior peoples want to go a stage further, and kill us “in real life”?

Apart from that, how sad. The enemies of Europe want to destroy everything beautiful and worthwhile, or pervert it.

Eventually there must be real resistance from European people. There will eventually be a civil war which will be partly racial, partly cultural (but of course “race is the rootstock, culture is the flower“), and partly ideological.

It goes beyond even government. Entrenched cultural and economic power cabals.

Tweets seen

Hancock and the rest should be put up against a wall.

Looks like the more venomous sort of blacks and browns (and half-castes, looking at the photo) have already declared (civil) war on us…

At a guess, about £100,000 p.a,

“Brexit” was not a mistake, as such, but it was completely incompetently done (possibly deliberately, as well, in part). The UK should have cut itself adrift from EU rules and laws and policies, kept or “nationalized” those that made sense, jettisoned the rest, then joined with Russia in a special trading relationship— the UK stands aside from active participation in NATO and, in return, gets free or cheap oil and gas from Russia.

Incidentally, Julia Grace Patterson, though qualified in medicine, only practised for a short time (in hospital A&E) before dropping out. She also studied psychiatry for a year, but has never practised in the field, as far as I know.

The “campaigning” of “Every Doctor” seems to be largely based around “Covid” fanaticism (especially the facemask nonsense— Ms. Patterson just happens to sell facemasks…), and demands for NHS doctors to be paid (even) more.

Russian forces are not working as a co-ordinated whole. The responsibility for that may reside in various places but, at the end of the day, resides with Putin himself. In the American phrase, “the buck stops there“…

The Bakhmut/Artyomovsk battle has become a trial of strength extremely important for the morale of both sides.

All the same, if Russian forces lose out, Russia can still step up its war operations generally in Ukraine with more destructive methods yet, in theory right the way up to nuclear ICBMs. Ukraine or Kiev-regime commanders cannot; they have no such weapons. The most for which they can hope is relatively few high-grade Western weapons such as fighter aircraft and Abrams tanks, the capabilities of which latter are phenomenal— what would Rommel or Guderian not have given for such tanks in the early/mid 1940s?

More music

More tweets seen

Unlike the UK, where oil and gas profits benefit only oil companies and their shareholders, in Norway a very significant amount goes into a national wealth fund.

No comment…

More tweets seen

Interesting, especially if the ratio is accurate. Yesterday, it was all “one Ukrainian [Kiev-regime] fighter killed for every seven Russians“, but today it seems that the losses are equal on both sides,

I wonder whether that 1:7 ratio claim was part of the propaganda pumped out saying that the Kiev-regime soldiers are some kind of elite (not very plausible from what I see on Twitter and in the UK msm), whereas the Russian soldiers are “orcs” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc].

The aim of the Kiev regime here (as also with much of the UK/US “reportage”, if it can be called that), is to dehumanize the Russian soldiers. We see little or nothing from the Russian side of the conflict in the msm; even on Twitter etc, the Kiev-regime has “played a blinder” in propaganda terms compared to the stolid offerings of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the unsophisticated social media output of individual Russian tweeters.

One notes that (up to ministerial level, i.e. tweets by government ministers) the Kiev regime notes not only the damage done to civilians (by Russians, never by pro-Kiev Ukrainians), and also tweets about abandoned or rescued cats and dogs. The aim is obviously to capture the hearts of Western readers (the tweets have English subtitles).

I am 100% in favour of the cats and dogs, and indeed those helping them, as far as that goes, but there are probably as many doing that on the Russian side (in Donetsk etc); we never hear or see anything about that.

As I say, the Kiev-regime side is far more sophisticated in terms of propaganda aimed at the West (even/especially when appearing to be artless) than the Russian side.

Compare the cultural history of Russia and Ukraine. For whatever reason, Russia has a far more complex and rich cultural background than Ukraine: music, literature, philosophy etc. Yet the Russians are, supposedly, the “orcs“…

A CNN report from 6 weeks ago.

If Russian forces can complete the encirclement of Bakhmut/Artyomovsk, they may capture thousands of Kiev-regime troops; even if the latter escape encirclement, they would be all but spent, and would have to slowly straggle northward. Whether the Russian forces could then make a big advance is, however, an open question.

Twitter

As I write, I see that there seems to be a problem with Twitter, and so with the tweets that I have embedded today. Hopefully, the problem will be resolved.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11823241/Greggs-axed-hot-cross-buns-Easter-menu.html.

More music

[Eden Project by night]

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See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/09/30/diary-blog-30-september-2022-including-an-assessment-of-jack-monroe-aka-the-bootstrap-cook/.

Since I blogged as above, I have several times written (and far more critically) about “Jack Monroe”, the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”. She is somewhere between a fake and a fraud, yet (as of today) 479 utter mugs are still sending her a total of between (about) £1,700 and (about) £21,000 each and every month, via Patreon.

I knew that there had to be something wrong with anyone apparently friendly with Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis [see, eg, https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/].

They can join the rest. Actually, forget the trees. Walls are OK.

Most journalists (scribblers) and TV talking heads can go to the wall as well.

Late music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rued_Langgaard]
[Psyche, by William Sergeant Kendall; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sergeant_Kendall]

Diary Blog, 13 February 2023, with a few thoughts about Russian and Ukrainian culture

Afternoon music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin]
[painting by Volegov]

On this day a year ago

Ukraine and Russia— popular perceptions

I was just thinking about the “level”, culturally, of Russia and Ukraine.

When you think of Russia in terms of historical culture, a host of names come to mind at once. In the world of literature, you could cite —to name but a few of the most famous— Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Lermontov, Sholokhov, Leskov, Yevtushenko, Solzhenitsyn etc.

Some of those writers, eg Gogol and Bulgakov, were in fact born in Ukraine; Gogol was ethnically and culturally Russian as well as Ukrainian. After all, Ukraine and Russia were together for a thousand years.

In music, one thinks of, inter alia, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Borodin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Shostakovitch, Myaskovsky, Khrennikov, Popov, Shchedrin, Sviridov and many others.

The same can be said of painters.

As to Ukrainian writers, composers etc, there are quite a number (e.g. Lyatoshinsky), but few who would be known to people in the UK, USA etc.

It is true that, until about 30 years ago, there was a broadly Russifying policy in the Ukraine and, in both the 19thC and under Stalin, a general repression of Ukrainian language, but that is not the whole picture.

Ukraine is a country the same size as France, and which has today a population of over 40 million (minus 5-10 million now living beyond its borders).

There can surely be no doubt that, historically, Russia has produced a great deal more, culturally, than Ukraine, whatever reasons can be adduced, yet when we look at Western propaganda, whether in the msm or on Twitter etc, all we see is that Russians are “savages“, or “orcs” (a reference to the brutal and stupid evil soldier-creatures of The Lord of the Rings) and so on.

By contrast, the Ukrainian (Kiev regime) people and soldiers are represented as being far far better than Russians.

Well, of course, “in war, truth is the first casualty” but, even so, it is “disappointing” to see how easily bamboozled many people are in, say, the UK, and how enthusiastically the basically Jewish-pervaded msm has embraced its faux-war propaganda role.

Other tweets seen

In the absence of credible intelligence (available to me), I cannot comment on the “UFO” reports.

I am hardly a fan of Trump, that squawking parrot in a cage guarded by Zionist Jews, but it is probably true to say that the Ukraine war would be over now without US leaders stoking the conflict by supplying weapons and money to Zelensky and the Kiev regime.

As blogged previously, China is now, broadly, in a similar position to that of the USA in the 1930s— an economic superpower but not yet a world military superpower. The USA, by contrast, is now in the position that the Western and Central European powers and empires were in at that same time, prior to the Second World War that toppled Europe from its rightful place.

Other tweets seen

Apparently, by someone called Hollis, not by “Jack Monroe”. She will not sue Lee Anderson. She would lose heavily.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11745119/Russias-feared-new-offensive-begun-says-NATO-chief.html.

Russia’s feared new offensive has already begun says NATO chief, as he warns Ukraine is using more munitions than military alliance is producing.

The former Prime Minister of Norway called on NATO to ‘ramp up production’ of ammunition, as he said Ukraine’s rate of usage is far outstripping current capacities and draining stockpiles.

‘The current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. This puts our defence industries under strain,’ he said.

Stoltenberg admitted that NATO was facing a ‘problem’ as current waiting times for large-calibre ammunition have grown from 12 to 28 months.

[Daily Mail]

[Ukraine: state of play as of 12-13 February 2023]

Looks as though, before too long, the troops of the Kiev regime will run out of ammunition. If that were to happen, those forces would have to fall back, perhaps hundreds of miles back.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11744445/Inside-far-right-group-Patriotic-Alternative-linked-Tate-Britain-drag-queen-protest.html.

The sort of hit piece one would expect from the “British” newspapers…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11743327/Defence-Secretary-Ben-Wallace-asks-Jeremy-Hunt-10bn.html.

The Defence Secretary has demanded up to £10billion extra for the Armed Forces, it has been claimed, amid concerns the military is severely overstretched.”

[Daily Mail].

Ben Wallace never made it beyond the rank of captain in the real army, but in the Westminster monkeyhouse he plays the armchair field-marshal.

Those idiots will not be satisfied until we have actual war with Russia, and until London is a smoking radioactive ruin.

Late tweets seen

I wonder which nostril she used (to dispose of the proceeds)…

Late music