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Garland Nixon A predatory approach:
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Judge has on Colonel MacGregor
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Brilliant discussion on Matt Kibbe's program
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Rational fellow, David Sacks:
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Cheeky, but I coudn't resist.
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Morris + Col. McGregor(True patriots imo).
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Did anybody -actually - believe that Russia could 'lose'? (Pursuing its narrow, proclaimed aims, that is). So Ukraine took the brunt of an unwinnable conflict by the idiocy, insanity and wishful thinking of all the military experts, propagandists and pundits in the world who pretended to believe it would beat Russia, and kept up the encouragement and pretext of "in order to save Europe/democracy"/etc. As if western governments care a damn for Ukraine itself. When the role of the combined civilised West should from the start, have been in damage-control mode, as mediators and diplomats not brokers and participants to war. That's how we got to this stage where any who call for negotiated peace are reviled.
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Truss: "It's done" https://youtu.be/ZIr44mGMkfc
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http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/april/25/minsk-ii-two-words-you-ll-never-hear-on-mainstream-news/ Two words
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There's that universal, utmost human value in mankind procreating, and then there's the individual: How high in *my* esteem is my having a child (ren), how much will I give up and gain and how well can I (/we) apply myself to the responsibility? Because the biological process is "automatic"- up until birth - do so many simply 'take it as it comes', mostly doing a good to pretty poor or at times very bad job of subsequent child-raising. The choice then, which isn't automatic, but requires understanding and forethought, self-appraisal and value-assessment, so, a rational, selfish parent. Who can conceive of a mother bringing another being to life and all that later entails, but doing do so selflessly, without a "self"? How possibly can one ¬give¬ without something to give? (physically, materially, spiritually) But that is the case for many who rate social status, family and peer approval, etc., as tops, i.e., establishing their entry to motherhood in others' eyes - and/or "doing her duty" for community and human continuity.
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Ukraine war: South Africa row over Russian superyacht's arrival WWW.BBC.COM The government insists an oligarch's luxury yacht can dock, but Cape Town's mayor wants to block it. And later the same day... US warns about potential terrorist attack — RT World News WWW.RT.COM Terrorists are plotting an attack on a large gathering in Johannesburg’s Sandton neighborhood, according to Washington
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"You're stuck with the dictates of authority figures". I will borrow that, if I may Ellen. The untiring and admirable Dr. Campbell on *excess* death figures from Australia, GB, and Scotland of babies and adults : "many more people are dying...what is going on? His face reveals a lot. Not from Covid, then from what? The anecdotal input from his listeners are saddening. (to read them click on 'YouTube')
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US should not listen to Kiev, former ambassador to Moscow warns — RT World News WWW.RT.COM Jack Matlock, the last US ambassador to the USSR, has called for a change of Washington’s policy toward Ukraine The former ambassador noted that Kiev had multiple opportunities to avert war. He believes that Russia would not have sent troops into Ukraine in February if Kiev “had been willing to abide by the Minsk agreement, recognize the Donbas as an autonomous entity within Ukraine, avoid NATO military advisors, and pledge not to enter NATO.”
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This has been a puzzle. Leftists, usually antiwar, and neo-cons in unity The Neocons and the Woke Left Are Joining Hands and Leading to Woke War III WWW.NEWSWEEK.COM By smearing Elon Musk, the Twitter Mob maintains that escalation in Ukraine is the only acceptable view, even if it risks nuclear war.
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Michael, Somewhere about 16 it first dawned on me, what had been taken for granted by the adults it seemed, how like no other country the USA had funded, supported, rescued, been sending American soldiers (etc) to other places for as long as historical accounts and ongoing events I heard of in the world, and I thought how strange - why? And where does the money come from? Must be the taxpayers from their earnings. So, why on Earth do the people of the US automatically owe anything to "other places" and people? Like a birth-duty. Later, Rand explained and I began to understand, for not only the US, the universal doctrine, "self-immolation". One that's almost as bad for other places/people who receive and become addicted and resentfully entitled to the largesse with little gratitude. Foreign Affairs "We do need a policy based on long-range principles, i.e., an ideology. But a revision of our foreign policy, from its basic premises on up, is what today’s anti-ideologists dare not contemplate. The worse its results, the louder our public leaders proclaim that our foreign policy is *bipartisan*. "A proper solution would be to elect statesmen—if such appeared—with a radically different foreign policy, a policy explicitly and proudly dedicated to the defense of America’s rights and national self-interests, repudiating foreign aid and all forms of international self-immolation". “The Wreckage of the Consensus,”
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Al Qaeda and ISIS in Ukraine? Give peace talks a chance. And more
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Nonviolent Ways the United States Could Exploit Russian Vulnerabilities WWW.RAND.ORG Despite its vulnerabilities and anxieties, Russia remains a formidable opponent in a few key domains. What non-violent, cost-imposing... "Over-extending and Unbalancing Russia". The first thought, unbalancing - what the hell for? A second, this report was 2019, not something out the mid-60's Cold War! A third, right, that's predatory "statism". "Non-violent ways" = subterfuge and moral pre-justification for "We didn't do anything to start trouble!" Cold-blooded calculations and charts about how far to go to make Russia "anxious", by which tactics, for what costs, at what risks. How is the strategy working out for you think-tankers at Rand Corp?
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A can of worms. Atrocities, civilian targeting - you don't want to go there, I think. Might be disturbing to know the reality. Ten to one, they are fanatical ultra-nationalist, Ukrainian committed and/or constructed. Seeking sympathy from their true believers overseas, its been called "projection" and "inversion" (- of "our" atrocities, onto "them"). So Russia, not UAF, shells the nuke power station it controls and operates, blows up its own pipeline, mines and bombs their people in the streets of 'liberated' cities, and Kyiv looks pristine. While they can round up "collaborators", such as Donbas school teachers and civil servants who kept working during the Russian occupation without protest. Impressive is the power they wield when the psy-ops/propaganda Kyiv puts out isn't logically refuted nor ever investigated impartially by western news outlets, literally the power to murder.
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Poke Putin into a self-defensive, pre-emptive invasion, and there you go: the rationale and justification for Nato's continued existence and expansion! But join the Club, you'll be protected. We told you the Russians would be a threat again one day. Only took about 30 years to wangle it.
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Straight-talking Col. Douglas MacGregor joins the Morrises. https://youtu.be/vav_pvzaEaY
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Then statism is the antithesis to "individual morality in a social context"; statism "causes" wars (AR) and "needs" them. Individuals don't go to war, left alone they will happily trade with productive individuals abroad. The statism of all parties concerned, nation on/against/with nation, caused this one.
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It's by way of the put-about media narrative. In effect - There was *nothing* of importance going on, in and with Ukraine until that day, 24 February, when Putin made his move. Nothing to see here. Therefore, Putin evil; Ukraine Gvt innocent. A fairly concretist, 'feelings' reaction. Like any who wanted to know more, and avoid the media's warlike-indoctrination and moral sanctimony, I had to get a lot of factual education from a mix of sources to come even slightly up to speed. From O'ists recently, especially the ARI lot, there's an un-Oist-like dependency on (leftist) msm authority, and distrust of any 'alternate' sources.
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That's about my position, and why I've been 'the dove' who argued for early, urgent diplomatic engagement. Primarily, for the Ukrainian people's best results. Diplomatic efforts which have been suspiciously unforthcoming since PM Johnson sabotaged one attempt. But it seemed clear to me that the Russian invasion could not be defeated in its expressed, limited goals. A reality to deal with, practically and morally. The emerged picture is of one side alone that's pushed *escalation* (conflict plus sanctions), and has done so, using Putin's ill-advised - not unprovoked - invasion as excuse. One side only, would not touch a cease-fire and talks (disregarding the cost to Ukraine's lives). It is the western powers which gladly anticipated a win-lose zero-sum outcome: We/Ukraine win gloriously, Russia loses humiliatingly. I observed Putin at first clearly wanted to avoid that. i.e. Agree to xyz concessions (already promised by Kyiv) and there can be a peaceful solution, no one has to lose, no distinct victor nor a Ukraine surrender. But the irrational need for personal 'satisfaction', and national hubris (esp. the UK) and the opportunity to "weaken Russia" (for later benefit to the West), dictated that evil Putin is beneath negotiating with, as an equal with national security concerns like any other leader - Who does he think he is, this upstart?! "Anyway, Russia will be beaten militarily and economically and he will be overthrown in a regime change". A gross wishful miscalculation and misidentification by 'experts', about Russian military strength, economic resilience and resolve. The costs of their evasions will be enormous. On Ukraine, but not only. Now it may be sinking in that 'zero-sum' works both ways: The unthinkable, "they" might win... That would mean an ignominious and expensive defeat for "us". So the West hasn't been able to stop 'doubling down' its lethal aid and propaganda campaign to the bitter end. For an ounce of common sense, not facing the reality and the avoidance of diplomacy. Today: "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Tuesday that a military victory for Russia in Ukraine would spell defeat for the entire Western alliance".
