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Another excellent recap which saves me from bothering to listen to Mercouris drag on every day, which I used to do.

"Russel (Texas) Bentley" - I never liked him. Someone at MoA reported to him a comment I made about the war (I forget what it was) and he didn't like it.

"It seems that tanks will need to undergo some considerable development to avoid being made redundant on the battlefield."

See Andrei Martyanov's comment here on the sidelining of US Abrams tanks by Ukraine because too many have been destroyed:

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/04/and-what-did-they-expect.html

"I mean evolution of the technical requirements for armored forces which far from getting obsolete, as many fanboys from media rushed to conclude, are getting a serious upgrade and are not going anywhere. You just need to make them good enough for modern warfare, which no Western tank, even their super-duper versions are."

"This shows how inadequate rights based arguments are." As I argue, "rights" are meaningless concepts that don't exist. There are no "civil rights" that everyone keeps talking about. One has no "right" to anything. You either have whatever the requirement is or you don't. You either have the power to get it or you don't. Max Stirner laid all this out in his book "The Ego and Its Own" available for free here:

https://annas-archive.org/md5/749e02fcc1821d6bd77ee7f4e8b7c91a

As for "culture", I dismiss it. It's another word that really means nothing except as an aggregate of a country's history of society - which has usually changed massively over the centuries. No one's culture is any better than any other, so why be "proud" of it? What even is "pride" except "peacocking"?

Good catch on the North Korean visit. The Duran guys explained yesterday that North Korea is the country that showed Iran how to dig in its nuclear and military assets so it can't be bombed. They also suggested that North Korea is very interested in getting the data from the Iran attack on Israel because the Israeli air defenses are similar to the ones Japan and South Korea use.

This is important as I commented to someone on my Substack today. He suggested that the alleged shoot down of a nuclear-armed Israeli F-35 reported by Pepe Escobar was a "message" being sent by Israel to Iran to counter Iran's "message" to Israel that Iran can hit Israel's nuclear arsenal. I pointed out that if the incident did occur that it was also a "message" from Russia to Israel that Russia won't tolerate an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran. I also pointed out that Iran is well aware of Israel's nuclear arsenal and clearly isn't afraid of it. So it's unclear whose "message" was an ultimatum - perhaps both were.

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Bill from Florida's avatar

Thanks!

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