Excellent post, thanks. There's a general election here in Ireland today, hopefully the globalists won't be able to form a government after it's been tallied. I liked your bit on trying to destroy a language, Welsh and Gaelic. Unfortunately they're destroying our culture and traditions now. Hopefully the madness will end in the not too distant future, we mustn't lose hope.
Globalists are destroying the culture and traditions of Ireland with mass migration, gender shite, removing the word mother from our constitution, climate bolox etc etc
Yes, our government has been taken over by the ngo globalist mafia, as have most western governments.
In "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire", 2006 the author Morris Berman said that failing empires choose leaders that accelerate the collapse.
When I read the book I thought of the Iraq War with W Bush but now that observation fits US/NATO.
"Leaders" seem unable to realize that they have already lost.
Tarik Cyril Amar , a German historian with a Ph. D from Princeton, currently in Istanbul, observes that “To negotiate from a position of strength” is a favorite Western cliché that covers up the opposite of negotiation, a crude imposition of fait-accompli terms.
Tarik comments:
"Western elites obstinately kept on believing their own rhetoric, even while it was quickly losing whatever tenuous link to reality it had, for a short moment that was historically anomalous...non-”negotiating” by force and fait accompli remained a Western addiction."
What they probably mean is 'to negotiate from a position of dominance' - which is not a negotiating position really: it's a 'do as you are told' position. Interesting about Empires choosing leaders that contribute to their own downfall - why is that, I wonder. The 'tenuous link with reality' is getting more tenuous by the day.
Israel more and more looks like crusader state that has a finite lifespan and is now entering the end game. I think Ehud Barak stated that and I agree. Much like Ukraine. If the west doesn't change soon we will go the same way.
Funny, I was just rereading the history of the Outremer kingdoms (and their many Baldwins, including the Leper), and thinking they lasted longer. Right now NATO & Co. seeing a bunch of boomers brought up on James Bond and Checkpoint Charlie who weren't paying attention to how globalization has raped the western economies. De-industrialization has hollowed it out irreparably. Those same boomers are remembering how WWII sparked industrialization at the minor cost of 50 million dead. I am absolutely certain they are telling themselves this is the only way for the West to become competitive again. The ones that know we haven't got a hope in hell of defeating Russia are saying in their dark minds that this is necessary tough "medicine " to spark re-industrialization. One thing you can be 100.0% certain of is that NOBODY is going to admit they screwed up and miscalculated, and as usual, no getiatric decision makers will be asked to die on the front lines. I am also sure many young people in the West were overjoyed to hear that hazelnuts would (finally) start hitting decision making centres.
The Inheritance Tax attack on Farmers is a classic example of the contempt the British State has for its citizens. You will note that Corporations get to buy farms on the cheap, and that Corporations are "immortal", they never die and are never subject to the Tax. Another example of our corporatist (fascist) misgovernment.
The move to have Cyprus join NATO is interesting. It is very difficult to ascertain just how many Israelis have fled to Cyprus, but there has been a significant increase in the number of Israelis there. Could it be that the US sees Israel as a lost cause, so is wanting to make Cyprus its next cat among the pigeons in west Asia? The Israelis that are leaving comprise mainly its professional and educated people, hence Israel is currently experiencing a significant brain drain. Combined with a tanking economy the Zionist colony looks doomed.
The much touted 'Ceasefire' is a figment of Netanyahu's imagination, precipitated by the IDF's sound defeat in southern Lebanon, where there are traffic jams of Lebanese returning to their homes.
Hezbola has not agreed to Israel's ceasefire deal, stating baldly that they "will never abandon the Palestinians".
As for Ukraine, Russian patience has been exhausted. The Oreshnik is a game-changer. If NATO doesn't pull its head in it will be chopped off. The "amateurs" (McGregor's word) in Washington will also get a severe reality check if they continue to live in fairyland.
Thanks Joy. Yes , the ceasefire is just a break allowing Israel to rearm but so will Hezbollah. I am already seeing reports that Israel is not sticking to the agreement.
It does not look like the 'West' has understood that it no longer has the military power, technological lead, industrial productivity, and use of sanctions to force others to do the West's will. Russia Today had a good article [A position of strength for the West...]. Simplicius also has an interesting article on France's sabre rattling. How Ukraine must rue the day they allowed the 'Banderites' to run their country and turn down the entirely reasonable proposed peace deal in early 2022.
In response to David Wildgoose ( sorry my reply isnt working) I think that might be the point. The small farmers will end up having to sell their land to meet their IHT obligations and the big corporations will buy up the land. I think Starmer recently said he wants to do business with the likes of Blackrock. It's a bit like Zelensky tweaking the land ownership law in Ukraine to allow the big corporations ie Blackrock to lease the land from large Ukrainian companies who were prohibited from buying up the land prior to his land reforms. I suspect the loophole will be that Blackrock etc will be able buy the Ukrainian companies or set them up and will indirectly own the land. I'm sure Ukrainian law still prohibits the sale to foreign nationals/corporations but Zelensky is circumventing this with his reforms. Follow the money as they say..
Looks like US is trying again to get the Qatari pipeline through Syria to Turkey to stick it to Russia moving forwards. Must be realising Ukraine has failed and back to the original plan.
Thanks. Sorry i always call it Queen Margaret by mistake. It was known as that historically. She set up the ferry to allow pilgrims to cross the Forth. Her husband Malcom Canmore- was the one who killed MacBeth. The Russians are about to celebrate St Andrews day also. I think Putin is about to test again the new missile they have developed.
Yes, we do have St. Andrew in common with the Russians. I was born the day before St. Andrews and my parents (one Welsh, the other Scottish) wanted me to be born on the 30th November. But my mother fell in the snow and her waters broke. The rest is history.
Shakespeare was a little harsh on Macbeth from what I have read. We are all waiting for Russia's next Oreshnik.
I need to correct the suggestion that "Welsh Not" was a deliberate policy by the English. It was primarily a campaign by native Welsh people who recognised English was necessary to succeed and prosper in the rapidly advancing world. They wanted their fellow Welsh people to be part of that; which required fluency in English. You only have to look at the dismissive comments by Marx and Engels about "unhistorical" people to understand why they wanted to avoid that fate.
Many thanks for that David. I have only my Mum's testimony of it - she's 97. I'll edit the Update with a footnote based on what you have said, if that's OK.
Thanks Rob. I think article 5 is a busted flush, good for wheeling in the suckers but little else. If the crazy Baltics think NATO is going to sacrifice anything for them, they are seriously deluded, but we all know that anyway. Riga or Berlin? mmm, that's a hard one. I don't think Russia wants any of them as they aren't worth the bother. Perhaps if they stopped trying to ethnically cleanse Russian speakers, their problems might disappear.
Here in Scotland you can't watch the national football team playing an international match on tv most times or pick up a newspaper that gives a Scottish perspective on international events. We tend to have parochial issues exemplified in the press or on tv to demonstrate the indigenous population's inability to run its own affairs. A great case in point was the Queen Margaret bridge over the river Forth. Trumpeted throughout the international civil engineering world as an innovative masterpiece here in Scotland it was castigated by the press as a waste of money. Gaelic spoken by the few is protected here but Scots spoken by many isn't. Meantime in Northern Ireland, Scots is protected but Gaelic isn't. The reason is clear: to create and prolong a separate identity in Northern Ireland whilst destroying a separate identity in Scotland. That's why many here relate to Eastern Ukrainians and Baltic Russians.
"It should be noted, however, that according to Professor Marandi, talking with Nima, Hezbollah has neither accepted nor rejected the ceasefire even though Lebanon has accepted it."
I've been saying that since the moment the ceasefire was announced. Glad to see Professor Marandi has also noted that. This ceasefire was nothing but a PR stunt to allow Biden to come out from his Depends to claim he's "ending the war", the Abraham Accords are back on track, and everything's gonna be just fine. Complete nonsense for public consumption and to cover Israel's dismal failure in Southern Lebanon.
As for whether the Aegis Ashore base in Poland (and Romania, do not forget) will be targeted for an Oreshnik, well, I am on record (as Andrei Martyanov likes to say) from April, 2022, that those bases are the major reason for the SMO. Similar bases would be in Ukraine if Ukraine joined NATO and Russia knows it and Putin has spoken about it several times in recent years.
This also applies to the issue of whether the US will supply 1) nukes, or 2) Tomahawks to Ukraine. I've been posting this around the Net:
Here's the new problem: It's not just ATACMS any more.
I believe the US is considering using the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania to hit inside Russia using Tomahawk cruise missiles.
This ties together Zelensky's request for Tomahawks, as well as Ukraine's request for more "advanced air defenses" - specifically the THAAD and the Aegis Ashore systems - as well as US discussions about "giving Ukraine nuclear weapons", as reported in the New York Times earlier.
All three requests can be satisfied by arranging for the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania to be used in support of Ukraine.
Think about it: What difference is it from using US supplied and US operated ATACMS to using US supplied and US operated Aegis Ashore?
This is how the idiots in Washington think. They don't comprehend that Russia already views the Aegis Ashore as a major strategic threat to Russia, both for its ability to intercept Russian ICBMs in the context of a Russian retaliatory strike in a nuclear war, and its ability to participate in a decapitation strike by the US against Russia as part of the initiation of such a war.
Never mind that Tomahawks are old and slow, easily intercepted by Russia's advanced AD systems, and subject to Russian ECM as they were in Syria during Trump's ill-advised attacks on Syria facilities.
This is not Syria. Russia will have to treat any Tomahawk launched from Poland or Romania as a nuclear strike.
This is why Russia recently designated those installations as priority targets. They always were priority targets.
This is also why Russia demonstrated its new Oreshnik ("Hazel") missile. It is precisely that missile which can destroy those installations.
And it is likely Russia issued that warning precisely because they know that Washington is considering using those installations in support of Ukraine.
This would be a direct initiation of WWIII - not just over a few ATACMS.
Excellent post, thanks. There's a general election here in Ireland today, hopefully the globalists won't be able to form a government after it's been tallied. I liked your bit on trying to destroy a language, Welsh and Gaelic. Unfortunately they're destroying our culture and traditions now. Hopefully the madness will end in the not too distant future, we mustn't lose hope.
I didn't realise there was an election in Ireland - thanks for that.
So...in the Diversity is our Strength (Stench?) what, precisely are the Anglo-Saxons replacing Welsh and Scots culture with?
And just an observation, but isn't Scotland (and Ireland) racing faster over the cliff of Globalism/WEFism with or without help from the Anglos?
Globalists are destroying the culture and traditions of Ireland with mass migration, gender shite, removing the word mother from our constitution, climate bolox etc etc
Yes, our government has been taken over by the ngo globalist mafia, as have most western governments.
I never mentioned Anglo-Saxons.
In "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire", 2006 the author Morris Berman said that failing empires choose leaders that accelerate the collapse.
When I read the book I thought of the Iraq War with W Bush but now that observation fits US/NATO.
"Leaders" seem unable to realize that they have already lost.
Just up on twitter/x
Alfred de Zayas @Alfreddezayas
Tarik Cyril Amar , a German historian with a Ph. D from Princeton, currently in Istanbul, observes that “To negotiate from a position of strength” is a favorite Western cliché that covers up the opposite of negotiation, a crude imposition of fait-accompli terms.
Tarik comments:
"Western elites obstinately kept on believing their own rhetoric, even while it was quickly losing whatever tenuous link to reality it had, for a short moment that was historically anomalous...non-”negotiating” by force and fait accompli remained a Western addiction."
What they probably mean is 'to negotiate from a position of dominance' - which is not a negotiating position really: it's a 'do as you are told' position. Interesting about Empires choosing leaders that contribute to their own downfall - why is that, I wonder. The 'tenuous link with reality' is getting more tenuous by the day.
Israel more and more looks like crusader state that has a finite lifespan and is now entering the end game. I think Ehud Barak stated that and I agree. Much like Ukraine. If the west doesn't change soon we will go the same way.
Funny, I was just rereading the history of the Outremer kingdoms (and their many Baldwins, including the Leper), and thinking they lasted longer. Right now NATO & Co. seeing a bunch of boomers brought up on James Bond and Checkpoint Charlie who weren't paying attention to how globalization has raped the western economies. De-industrialization has hollowed it out irreparably. Those same boomers are remembering how WWII sparked industrialization at the minor cost of 50 million dead. I am absolutely certain they are telling themselves this is the only way for the West to become competitive again. The ones that know we haven't got a hope in hell of defeating Russia are saying in their dark minds that this is necessary tough "medicine " to spark re-industrialization. One thing you can be 100.0% certain of is that NOBODY is going to admit they screwed up and miscalculated, and as usual, no getiatric decision makers will be asked to die on the front lines. I am also sure many young people in the West were overjoyed to hear that hazelnuts would (finally) start hitting decision making centres.
The Inheritance Tax attack on Farmers is a classic example of the contempt the British State has for its citizens. You will note that Corporations get to buy farms on the cheap, and that Corporations are "immortal", they never die and are never subject to the Tax. Another example of our corporatist (fascist) misgovernment.
Thanks for that David.
The move to have Cyprus join NATO is interesting. It is very difficult to ascertain just how many Israelis have fled to Cyprus, but there has been a significant increase in the number of Israelis there. Could it be that the US sees Israel as a lost cause, so is wanting to make Cyprus its next cat among the pigeons in west Asia? The Israelis that are leaving comprise mainly its professional and educated people, hence Israel is currently experiencing a significant brain drain. Combined with a tanking economy the Zionist colony looks doomed.
The much touted 'Ceasefire' is a figment of Netanyahu's imagination, precipitated by the IDF's sound defeat in southern Lebanon, where there are traffic jams of Lebanese returning to their homes.
Hezbola has not agreed to Israel's ceasefire deal, stating baldly that they "will never abandon the Palestinians".
As for Ukraine, Russian patience has been exhausted. The Oreshnik is a game-changer. If NATO doesn't pull its head in it will be chopped off. The "amateurs" (McGregor's word) in Washington will also get a severe reality check if they continue to live in fairyland.
Thanks Joy. Yes , the ceasefire is just a break allowing Israel to rearm but so will Hezbollah. I am already seeing reports that Israel is not sticking to the agreement.
Thank you
It does not look like the 'West' has understood that it no longer has the military power, technological lead, industrial productivity, and use of sanctions to force others to do the West's will. Russia Today had a good article [A position of strength for the West...]. Simplicius also has an interesting article on France's sabre rattling. How Ukraine must rue the day they allowed the 'Banderites' to run their country and turn down the entirely reasonable proposed peace deal in early 2022.
Cheers Bill
In response to David Wildgoose ( sorry my reply isnt working) I think that might be the point. The small farmers will end up having to sell their land to meet their IHT obligations and the big corporations will buy up the land. I think Starmer recently said he wants to do business with the likes of Blackrock. It's a bit like Zelensky tweaking the land ownership law in Ukraine to allow the big corporations ie Blackrock to lease the land from large Ukrainian companies who were prohibited from buying up the land prior to his land reforms. I suspect the loophole will be that Blackrock etc will be able buy the Ukrainian companies or set them up and will indirectly own the land. I'm sure Ukrainian law still prohibits the sale to foreign nationals/corporations but Zelensky is circumventing this with his reforms. Follow the money as they say..
Looks like US is trying again to get the Qatari pipeline through Syria to Turkey to stick it to Russia moving forwards. Must be realising Ukraine has failed and back to the original plan.
I don't know a lot about Syria since its kicking off there big time, I'll have to learn more.
Thanks. Sorry i always call it Queen Margaret by mistake. It was known as that historically. She set up the ferry to allow pilgrims to cross the Forth. Her husband Malcom Canmore- was the one who killed MacBeth. The Russians are about to celebrate St Andrews day also. I think Putin is about to test again the new missile they have developed.
Yes, we do have St. Andrew in common with the Russians. I was born the day before St. Andrews and my parents (one Welsh, the other Scottish) wanted me to be born on the 30th November. But my mother fell in the snow and her waters broke. The rest is history.
Shakespeare was a little harsh on Macbeth from what I have read. We are all waiting for Russia's next Oreshnik.
I need to correct the suggestion that "Welsh Not" was a deliberate policy by the English. It was primarily a campaign by native Welsh people who recognised English was necessary to succeed and prosper in the rapidly advancing world. They wanted their fellow Welsh people to be part of that; which required fluency in English. You only have to look at the dismissive comments by Marx and Engels about "unhistorical" people to understand why they wanted to avoid that fate.
Many thanks for that David. I have only my Mum's testimony of it - she's 97. I'll edit the Update with a footnote based on what you have said, if that's OK.
Thanks Rob. I think article 5 is a busted flush, good for wheeling in the suckers but little else. If the crazy Baltics think NATO is going to sacrifice anything for them, they are seriously deluded, but we all know that anyway. Riga or Berlin? mmm, that's a hard one. I don't think Russia wants any of them as they aren't worth the bother. Perhaps if they stopped trying to ethnically cleanse Russian speakers, their problems might disappear.
Thanks for that Chris. Agree on article 5 - besides NATO hasn't the muscle to enforce it against Russia/Belarus/North Korea and maybe Iran.
Here in Scotland you can't watch the national football team playing an international match on tv most times or pick up a newspaper that gives a Scottish perspective on international events. We tend to have parochial issues exemplified in the press or on tv to demonstrate the indigenous population's inability to run its own affairs. A great case in point was the Queen Margaret bridge over the river Forth. Trumpeted throughout the international civil engineering world as an innovative masterpiece here in Scotland it was castigated by the press as a waste of money. Gaelic spoken by the few is protected here but Scots spoken by many isn't. Meantime in Northern Ireland, Scots is protected but Gaelic isn't. The reason is clear: to create and prolong a separate identity in Northern Ireland whilst destroying a separate identity in Scotland. That's why many here relate to Eastern Ukrainians and Baltic Russians.
I should have said 'Happy St. Andrew's Day'.
Thanks for that Michael - I hoped you may something about language. Is that the new Queen's Ferry Crossing bridge?
"It should be noted, however, that according to Professor Marandi, talking with Nima, Hezbollah has neither accepted nor rejected the ceasefire even though Lebanon has accepted it."
I've been saying that since the moment the ceasefire was announced. Glad to see Professor Marandi has also noted that. This ceasefire was nothing but a PR stunt to allow Biden to come out from his Depends to claim he's "ending the war", the Abraham Accords are back on track, and everything's gonna be just fine. Complete nonsense for public consumption and to cover Israel's dismal failure in Southern Lebanon.
As for whether the Aegis Ashore base in Poland (and Romania, do not forget) will be targeted for an Oreshnik, well, I am on record (as Andrei Martyanov likes to say) from April, 2022, that those bases are the major reason for the SMO. Similar bases would be in Ukraine if Ukraine joined NATO and Russia knows it and Putin has spoken about it several times in recent years.
This also applies to the issue of whether the US will supply 1) nukes, or 2) Tomahawks to Ukraine. I've been posting this around the Net:
Here's the new problem: It's not just ATACMS any more.
I believe the US is considering using the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania to hit inside Russia using Tomahawk cruise missiles.
This ties together Zelensky's request for Tomahawks, as well as Ukraine's request for more "advanced air defenses" - specifically the THAAD and the Aegis Ashore systems - as well as US discussions about "giving Ukraine nuclear weapons", as reported in the New York Times earlier.
All three requests can be satisfied by arranging for the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania to be used in support of Ukraine.
Think about it: What difference is it from using US supplied and US operated ATACMS to using US supplied and US operated Aegis Ashore?
This is how the idiots in Washington think. They don't comprehend that Russia already views the Aegis Ashore as a major strategic threat to Russia, both for its ability to intercept Russian ICBMs in the context of a Russian retaliatory strike in a nuclear war, and its ability to participate in a decapitation strike by the US against Russia as part of the initiation of such a war.
Never mind that Tomahawks are old and slow, easily intercepted by Russia's advanced AD systems, and subject to Russian ECM as they were in Syria during Trump's ill-advised attacks on Syria facilities.
This is not Syria. Russia will have to treat any Tomahawk launched from Poland or Romania as a nuclear strike.
This is why Russia recently designated those installations as priority targets. They always were priority targets.
This is also why Russia demonstrated its new Oreshnik ("Hazel") missile. It is precisely that missile which can destroy those installations.
And it is likely Russia issued that warning precisely because they know that Washington is considering using those installations in support of Ukraine.
This would be a direct initiation of WWIII - not just over a few ATACMS.