Three years ago, when Ukraine was invaded by Russia, I thought to myself: “They do not stand a chance.” Russia has more than three times the population and a much bigger army. And in Crimea a few years earlier, there seemed to be no genuine opposition to Russian annexation.
But I was wrong. The Russians showed up in Kyiv but they were pushed out again, regular civilians began to make Molotov cocktails. Most Russian military might was obliterated during those first few crucial months, when Russia’s elite still believed they could simply invade the capital and set up a new government.
So they were humiliated. And as time went by, the atrocities committed by the Russian army became increasingly obvious and brutal, just as the heroism of the Ukrainians became increasingly apparent. They absolutely do not wish to live under Russian subjugation anymore.
You might argue the Ukrainians, Belorussians and the Russians are family of each other. But the thing about family is, that when your family abuses you, when it becomes apparent that a natural relationship is lacking in mutual respect, you have to seek your distance from them. When the Dutch king mistreated the Catholic Southern Netherlands almost 200 years ago, they sought independence through war too.
Our king was reluctant to accept this, but the French intervened after a few days and effectively forced him to put up with it. Was this humiliating for the king? Of course. Was it humiliating for the Dutch? Probably. But unlike Putin, after ten days the Dutch king realized this was a struggle that was in vain, so the war did not last long.
The Dutch withdrew, like Putin should have done when it became apparent that Ukrainians did not greet the invading troops as liberators and NATO countries were starting to arm Ukraine. I understand that Russia’s elite is very eager to maintain Russia’s status as an independent great power, but this sort of stubborn campaign of aggression is how a great power tends to implode.
Low IQ right wing Americans seem to interpret Russia’s fight as revolving around NATO membership, but when Putin was interviewed by Carlson, he was pretty clear about it: The war is about a historical unity between Slavic people centuries ago to him. But the thing with history, is that the world is not static. The kind of brutal conflict sparked by Russia is the sort of thing that naturally led to a rift between people throughout history.
This brings me to another phenomenon we observe among the low IQ right, which is anti-Europeanism. American anti-Europeanism seems a natural product of their desire to keep us weak. But among Europeans, it seems to be a product of a kind of reactionary gut sentiment, a kind of desire to return to the way things once were.
I think we all long back for the nineties, but we’re not going to return to the nineties by leaving the European Union. You’ve seen the experiment carried out by the British now, it has solved nothing. The main concern among the low IQ right is that Europe has too many immigrants, the EU is held responsible for that. But in Britain, immigration skyrocketed after they left Europe, but now they began receiving mostly non-European immigrants.
The EU has agreed to a new migration pact that will come into force next year, which is far stricter than what we have today, promising increased deportations. To me, anti-Europeanism is a very irrational position. To start with, European borders are anything but static throughout history. For anyone to long to preserve them, is not necessarily right-wing.
Consider this. After 1945, millions of German were forced to leave Prussia and the Sudetenland in modern day Czechia. They had lived there for many centuries, some had family living there dating back to the medieval era. This sort of forced expulsion was ultimately a human rights violation. But today, we live in an integrated Europe, where Germans can choose to live in Czechia, if they were so inclined. To me this is a good thing.
Similarly, Dutch borders are not magically set in stone. It wasn’t uncommon when I was young, for elderly people in Zeeuws Vlaanderen, to fly the Belgian flag. Their part of the Netherlands was part of the area that was forcibly reconquered from the Belgians again, during the independence war. Similarly, in Limburg you will find politicians throughout the 19th century, who yearned to become part of Belgium or part of Germany, anything as long as they did not have to be Dutch.
The Netherlands itself is a political arrangement that is about 400 years old. Go back a little further and we were a part of the Holy Roman Empire. It’s also a delusion, to think that the Netherlands and Flanders are “Dutch”, whereas further down south people are not Dutch. People used to speak Dutch, all the way up to Calais. And the Frisian language, of the Frisian people, is spoken in Frisia in the Netherlands, but also in parts of Germany and Denmark.
The world changes, things come and go and as humans we have to adjust to the circumstances we live in. We now live in a world of airports, Internet and nuclear power plants. These are the sort of technologies that demand cooperation beyond a humble principality of a few hundred thousand people like Luxembourg. As Europeans, we will have to cooperate more closely with each other in this era of history, especially now that the United States are abandoning us.
The other complaint I see a lot about the EU is that it is “bureaucratic”. I like having bureaucrats in charge of things I don’t comprehend and don’t want to spend my time thinking about. In America, the bureaucrats make sure you don’t have to spend high fees when your credit card loan is overdue. But the Americans don’t seem to appreciate having people around, who take care of these sort of problems.
The opposite of bureaucracy is not democracy. It is oligarchy. The European Union is not a purely democratic system. I did not get to vote on the president of the European Commission. But that’s a good thing. I don’t want to live under a purely democratic system. Such a system is unsustainable and tends to result in a figure like Trump seizing power by telling low IQ low status white males what they want to hear, similar to how Caesar ultimately managed to destroy the Roman republic.
I prefer to live under a system that has checks and balances, to prevent any particular demographic in society from gaining too much power. The Greek historian Polybius sought to understand how the Greeks could suffer conquest by the Romans. He argued that government normally goes through cycles, from democracy, to aristocracy, and monarchy, with their degenerate forms in between.
He believed the Roman republic had been so successful, because they managed to mix elements of all three systems. The Republic was not purely democratic, not purely aristocratic and not a pure monarchy. Similarly, the fact that the EU is not a purely democratic system, is part of its strength. In Romania’s recent presidential election, a guy won who thinks there are nanochips in people’s soft drinks, doesn’t think humans landed on the moon and thinks climate change is a hoax. In other words, a Trump-like guy elected by Romanian low IQ low status white males.
I prefer not having low IQ low status white males seize power in Europe. Rather, I enjoy having boring bureaucrats with glasses who spent the first thirty years of their lives acquiring a PhD, making decisions on stuff regular people like me know very little about. As long as my own bodily autonomy is legally respected, I prefer having smart people make decisions over a mob of low IQ low status white males.
In America, it’s pretty clear that people first have to figure out first-hand that the experts understand things they don’t understand. The average American first has to try out a low carb diet, before trying the Keto diet, before trying the carnivore diet, before suffering a heart attack and realizing that nutritionists actually do know what they’re talking about, that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol are genuinely bad for your blood vessels and you genuinely do need to get enough dietary fiber.
I’m fine with American low IQ low status white males (the sort of people who call themselves “anti-woke” or “patriots”) trying to reinvent the wheel and eventually figuring out why everyone drives around with woke round wheels rather than based square wheels on their own. What I’m not fine with, is for us in Europe to try to reinvent the wheel on a national level. Americans are now in the process of finding out why imposing tariffs is an idea that economists are universally unhappy about.
I wish the Americans good luck with their low IQ revolution, their attempt at running society by ignoring what woke people with PhD’s think is a good idea and instead doing what based low IQ low status white males on X/Twitter think is a good idea. It’s an interesting social experiment, I hope however that this phenomenon does not spread to Europe.
In Europe, I hope we learn to cooperate more with each other. I also hope that we come to accept that we don’t just manage to find out on our own that ALL THE EXPERTS WERE WRONG about something, because we happened to see a viral post on X. Twenty years ago, when I was young, low IQ low status white males were universally convinced that ALL THE EXPERTS WERE WRONG about climate change. Well, today we are at 1.6 degree Celsius above pre-industrial, closely tracking the worst case scenario.
Among low IQ low status white males, it’s a popular idea to believe that government policy should simply be based on what a mob of low IQ low status white males think works. Well, this is what Polybius warned about. When you have a purely democratic system, it rapidly degenerates into mob rule. You get a bunch of morons in charge who start destroying government departments and think there are microchips in our soft drinks.
The American founding fathers were terrified of the prospect of a mob of American low IQ low status white males getting to decide what happens. They composed their constitution in secret, behind closed doors, far away from the influence of low IQ low status white males who are easily manipulated by charismatic charlatans to do their bidding. They also refused to offer low IQ low status white males the right to vote, you had to own land.
What you want is a system that has traits of a monarchy, a democracy and an aristocracy. You want to have a monarch, someone who makes a final decision and prevents inertia and disunity. You also want an aristocracy, a group of smart people who manage day to day affairs and offer good advice to the monarch.
Finally, you also want democracy, you want people to recognize themselves in their elite and you want to make sure the system does not alienate the general population. And importantly, you want to have it legally enshrined that every individual has certain inalienable rights, like the right to refuse medical treatments you don’t agree to. Well, that’s the European Union.
The American system used to be a good mixture of all three elements, the founding fathers took great effort to ensure such a mixture, as they were well familiar with Polybius theories. What happened over time however, is that the system evolved, it drifted away from its roots. Democracy was increasingly expanded and simultaneously the role of the presidency grew, with Bush increasingly relying on executive orders and today Trump is making decisions that would normally be the responsibility of congress.
I think in Europe, we have to avoid being brainwashed by the propaganda of our enemies. What do our enemies want? They want to drive a rift between our elites and the general population. Low IQ low status white males are taught to be angry at elites over immigration. All these brown people in their country stabbing people and driving over them with their cars are the fault of EU bureaucrats!
In reality however, most immigration is a result of labor immigration that was decided upon by democratically elected national governments. The diversity problem in Western Europe, is not the fault of the European Union. Similarly, German and Dutch low IQ low status white males are taught to be angry at the Greeks for receiving loans, as well as at the Ukrainians for receiving weapons.
Russia is eager, to weaponize the low IQ of most European and American low status white males against their own society. In America, their low IQ revolution, the Russian answer to the Western-supported color revolutions, led to the election of Donald Trump. In Romania, low IQ individuals were encouraged through Russian propaganda to elect Călin Georgescu.
I hope Europeans stop falling for these attempts to divide us. The borders between our countries are arbitrary and we need each other more than ever before. European low IQ low status white males imagine that if they vote for some Russian stooge or leave the EU, all the brown people in their country will be forced to go home. But that’s not what happens. Look to Britain, to see what actually happens.
I live in the Netherlands. There’s nothing I enjoy more, than to have the European Union decide immigration and asylum policies for us. Do you think I want to have Muslims living in the Netherlands decide whether we should have more immigrants from the Middle East? Of course not. I would rather have the Polish, Hungarians and the Lithuanians make decisions on such matters.
Most importantly, I hope that one day the Ukrainians will get a seat at the table too. They want to be part of Europe and we would be blessed to have such brave people become part of our family.
>What you want is a system that has traits of a monarchy, a democracy and an aristocracy
Good point.
Your city is 2/3 alien brown people, you Euros have ruined your energy system, ruined the social structure, and you don’t even have basic freedom of speech, so obviously something is not working.
Your beloved bespectacled bureaucrats are traitorous fascists who need to be thrown out!
Did you not listen to JD Vance?
What is wrong with you??
What do you mean ‘ruined the energy system’. Don’t tell me you’re a fossil fuel fanatic. Mind you, getting the ‘wet hot-house’ mass extinction over with more quickly, and removing creatures like you from the cosmos,is not such a bad idea.
I agree with your respect of Ukraine and its people, but not of money-grubbing coward Jewlensky. It is likewise a tragedy that Russia remains under the thumb of the ex-commie generation, that still holds on to a lot of the cringe they were taught as kids. Eastern Europe will take a long time to recover.
What is wrong about being Jewish?
They’re not a people fit to lead. You saw that with Bernie. Zelensky himself exemplifies a lot of their other bad tendencies, that come with being a rootless people. He’s like a white-collar gypsy.
“ I live in the Netherlands. There’s nothing I enjoy more, than to have the European Union decide immigration and asylum policies for us. Do you think I want to have Muslims living in the Netherlands decide whether we should have more immigrants from the Middle East? Of course not. I would rather have the Polish, Hungarians and the Lithuanians make decisions on such matters.”
WTF does this even mean? Holy shit show, man.
Curtis Yarvin is the person running the USA shit-show. The rest (Trump, Elon, Vance etc) are simply the hired help. Eurofags should start paying attention to Curtis. Techno-feudalism, with Orange Jesus characteristics. Enjoy!
I never heard of Yarvin, I googled, a picture was thrown in my face an I just thought “uargh, a jew”. Trump is also a licker of jewish saliva. So what do you really expect from those people. All things they touch turns into crap and destruction for other people. Look at the Middle East. That’s a real shithole region. That’s their pattern. Turn things into shit for others.
Seems that I become a racist in my old days. And I really enjoy it.
These takes are so far removed from reality. What is happening? Some pretty good takes on COVID, but on geo politics, wow.
Humiliated? The reality is that Russia overestimated the possibility of a quick resolution and adjusted its strategy accordingly. The initial Kiev operation was a diversionary attack aimed at forcing a surrender (which nearly worked as peace was on the table in Istanbul) while securing other strategic objectives. When that failed, Russia pulled back and shifted to a war of attrition—one that Ukraine is losing badly.
Did Putin say Ukraine’s NATO ambitions were a key reason for war? Yes.
Did Russian officials say it was a red line for decades? Yes.
Did Western analysts and even US diplomats (like George Kennan and John Mearsheimer) warn that NATO expansion would lead to war? Yes. Niet means niet as Brennan wrote in 2008.
So, who exactly is the “low IQ”? The people who took Russia’s concerns seriously or those who ignored them and caused a war?!
It’s not up to Russia to dictate Ukraine’s defensive arrangements and to do so, undermines its sovereignty. They can address their concerns by making their western border regions a buffer state.
I prefer making Banderastan, up to Galicia, a ‘buffer zone’.
“Did Putin say Ukraine’s NATO ambitions were a key reason for war? Yes.”
No. Putin wanted to join NATO. NATO refused for good reasons. To say it clear: He wasn’t allowed to play with the cool kids and then he raged out like a 4yr old kid.
Putin is a liar, a storyteller, and all the dumb people can pick from his stories whatever the want to hear. So are you, it seems.
Russia fails everywhere and I laugh about that. They are dumb communists, mentally retarded, mostly ill people, sick people, drunk people. Their birthrate drops brutally, the young mens are dying like the flies. That’s an unstoppable breakdown of russian society.
The european countries should produce weapons as hell now and form an army to invade Russia asap for getting the ressources we need in the future. Away with the russian system. The world doesn’t need them. They are sand in the gear of this world.
Great! Send your own troops and spend your own money, though.
Richard wants other men to fight, but is not fighting himself. Beware of cowardly men who want other men to die in war.
Hey Karen, how did your father-in-law celebrate his 100th birthday? Did you all do something nice together?
We contacted his old neighbors from long ago, and any remaining relatives, and our new neighbors whom he now knows, and we had them all send him birthday emails; he still uses the internet. So he got loads of birthday greetings!! And a friend of mine who is a great cook made him a lunch which she dropped off by the door. His “Happy 100” decorations are still mostly still hanging up around his room. We bought him countless small gifts.
Right now he is outside taking his daily walk (with his walker). He’s been pestering me about a tax form for several days now. He is doing really well.
Yesterday he told me about when he was in grad school, and one of his fellow grad students who was about his age was Jewish and not long out of Auchwitz; he had a tattoo on his arm and was shell shocked and frail. They did lab work together and were good friends. Some news came on the radio about the Middle East; it was promising sounding. My father in law said “Maybe there will be peace there now.” The guy shook his head and said that no, there would never be peace. That must have been 70+ years ago. My father in law has a perfect memory and is like a time capsule; I wish I could put him on YouTube.
That’s great to hear. And what do you think is the secret to his longevity? You mentioned THC gummies for brain health. Anything else? Any particular foods that he’s consistently eaten or avoided?
Caloric restriction. He has been doing caloric restriction for 50+ years. He doesn’t have longevity genes; his relatives have died at normal ages. He stops eating before he is full. He only eats between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.. From what I have read, you can get much of the benefit of caloric restriction even if you start later in life. The downside to this is that he is very skinny and frail; I worry he might fall.
He grew up poor, but as an adult he has always eaten whatever the accepted health food of the time was. So not much meat, and very little beef, and no pork, but yes to salmon. He takes a vitamin a day (split in three, one third with each meal). He has oatmeal and nut milk and blueberries for breakfast every day. He is a faithful Roman Catholic.
He has had four of the covid shots, but I think they may not have harmed him much since old people have no immune systems to speak of. We have made sure to keep him from catching covid itself.
I am seeing tons of people with dementia now. I took his hearing aid in to be fixed recently and the nice older lady who had always fixed it so well before couldn’t remember the word for tubing (which is a basic word if you are dealing with hearing aids). Plus our vet’s mother in law just developed dementia, and a family friend, and one of my husband’s colleagues. All of these people are vaxxed, but I think covid is bad too
The boring European bureaucrats with glasses who spent the first thirty years of their lives acquiring a PhD, making decisions on stuff regular people like us know very little about, have just approved KOSTAIVE (ARCT-154), a self-amplifying mRNA covid-19 vaccine (“vaccine”).
If you look up the Istanbul Peace it’s tragic what the Ukrainians would have gotten compared to now. That was April 2022. This guy written numerous articles from a Russian perspective of who Putin was giving the store away.
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/putin-we-want-an-istanbul-ii-peace
I’m not a doctor but think maybe the pope has got either Aids or covid?
” Also, blood tests showed that Pope Francis has thrombocytopenia, a low blood platelet condition associated with anemia, which required that the pontiff receive blood transfusions. ”
“After a week of treatment, Alfieri said, the pope’s condition is much better, but he still has spots of pneumonia in both lungs and a polymicrobial infection in his airways, meaning it is caused by a combination of bacteria, viruses and mycetes or fungi.”
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-francis-receives-oxygen-blood-transfusion-vatican-says
Also I know why Ivanka wears a wig because being married to Kushner, but why Melania?
Yes, it looks to me like he has immune suppression in his lungs as a result of a SARS2 breakthrough infection.
AND being 88 years old.
How many doses would he have. Probably has a personal Dr. who sees him once a month if not more. It was perfectly safe.
Melania would wear a wig because these women in the public eye have regular hair just like anyone else but they are all expected to have great hair. 80 percent of American women dye their hair; who knows what percentage wear hair extensions and wigs; probably a lot. Who can even imagine what Melania looks like without an inch of makeup. No doubt fine, but not at all like she looks on TV.
This post is remarkable in that I have never heard warmongering sound so much like cowardly mewling.
Some HISTORY:
“First off, the USA never had any antipathy towards Russia. American industrialists and Wall Street helped Lenin, and after 1945, they discussed the USSR joining Bretton-Woods. The utopian industrialists viewed the Soviet experiment sympathetically, and the USA was also a state founded as classless (with the help of slavery, of course, but that’s another story). It was Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” versus Russia’s “people’s democracy.” The “iron curtain” was Churchill’s invention. That is, Great Britain, while humiliatingly surrendering the sterling zone to the dollar, left behind the morbid Russophobia of the 19th century as if it held the keys to the hegemony it surrendered. Thus, communist phobia also passed to the USA, the irrelevance of which is evident in how they attach the word “Marxism” to everything without any connection (e.g., the term “cultural Marxism” would give Marx himself a good laugh). To be the country with the strongest unions in the world and the greatest populist and anarcho-syndicalist tradition and to fear Marxism is a joke in itself.
In Europe, Russophobia was limited to anti-monarchists because Russia was part of the Holy Alliance and had intervened in favor of Austria in the Hungarian uprising during the so-called “spring of nations” of 1848-9. Napoleon had already written while imprisoned on Saint Helena that Europe would become républicaine or cosaque. Although “On the Spirit of Conquest” was written by Constant against Napoleon’s attack on Russia (and after the defeat, of course), later French libéraux like Michelet considered it a threat to Europe, or even friends of Louis Napoleon like Merimée. Here, of course, we again have British foreign policy in the background, which supported the Polish uprising of 1830 while seeing India threatened by Russia’s expansion towards Afghanistan (“the Great Game”). And let’s not forget that The Economist openly supported Louis Napoleon’s coup, and that the Crimean War began with Louis Napoleon’s initiative. After the fall of Sevastopol and the subsequent treaty, he, on the other hand, became an ally of the new Tsar.
Bismarck, for his part, tried to have good relations with Russia, culminating in the Triple Alliance of 1882, and as was evident in 1914, the war would have leaned from the start in favor of Germany if it were not for Russia with the Entente. The artist Hitler, on the contrary, moved in a British-like manner against Russia to be considered Western, despite German national interests. That is why the British signed the Munich Agreement and not for “appeasement,” as they sold it. Let us note that the German and Austrian social democrats of the 1920s feared Lenin and therefore underestimated the rise of the National Socialists. Molotov (one of the greatest diplomats of the 20th century) managed to buy time. Ultimately, Hitler lost to Russia.
Therefore, the one who truly had an issue with Russia is not even the traditional opponent, Turkey, but Great Britain, and especially its hegemonic (Whig, liberal) part (we have spoken elsewhere about the Muscovy Company, Urquhart, etc.). And now, who are those foaming at the mouth without having any interest anymore? The mountebanks of Westernism, Niall Ferguson and Douglas Murray, who are British (even worse, of Scottish origin). They do not see that the fall of their empire is consuming their country to this day (something that the French, the “socialists” according to them, did not experience), but they play the role of self-appointed imperial advisors.
Finally, for the rest of Europe: Its leaders are so non-European (more Atlantic mercenaries) that they have forgotten that Europe’s geo-economic space is Russia and the Middle East, which connects them to Asia, and that cutting them off benefits only the Atlantic hegemony, which seems to want to disengage from hegemony to avoid Britain’s fate. They act as if they want to keep the obstacle that the hegemon placed in their way to feel that they have a hegemon.”
(sorry about the uppercase.. I’m not very good in Modern History either..)
Dear Radagast,
May I present a different perspective to some things you’d mentioned in regards to the War in Ukraine. While understandable, that one may feel impressed by the Ukrainians resilience, it is nevertheless important to look at the bigger picture- and remember, that in War the first victim of it is Truth.
It is true, that many people, me included, thought in the beginning that this may be a rather short war – but a closer look at things might have helped to explain the situation back then: The Russian invasion force was rather small – about 150.000 men altogether – and faced an Ukrainian Army of about 250.000 men in the field with another 350.-400.000 men in reserve.
So it was no wonder, that in the beginning, the Russians had severe losses, while being ambushed from Ukrainians, for their lines were way overstretched. However, it is likely, that Russia never intended to annex Ukraine or enter Kiew with such a small force – very probably they just wanted to reach a quick cease fire and an agreement for Donbas. Which – as we know- failed due to Western influence (the famous flight of Boris Johnson to Kiew).
The Russians were also not pushed out of Kiew, they simply left there, probably because a peace agreement had already been verbally agreed upon between the Russian and Ukrainian side – but in any case, they were not pushed out, they simply left. Also, while there was a speech of Zelensky asking for Ukrainians to prepare Molotov Cocktails and start Partizan activities, they were never really to be seen – there was no Partizan movement in Donbas at any time and there is none today.
Most inhabitants of Donbas seem to be either glad or at least complacent with the fact, that they now belong to Russia. Who didn’t want that for himself has long ago left this region. The mentioned “atrocities” are for the most part probably just fake news – surely some Russian units will have committed war crimes, but so have surely also the Ukrainians. Who will have committed more will be for historians one day to look into.
All in all one could say that in the whole story of the War in Ukraine, hardly anything is mentioned in western media about western influence before and after Maidan, about the openly neofascist movements of Azov, Swoboda, Aidar and the likes, about the false narrative Ukrainians have begun telling themselves in regards to their history, about their hero Bandera, the hatred they had cultivated for Russians years before the war through strong indoctrination campaigns in Schools and universities (I would advise to watch street interviews with ordinary Ukrainians and see, how they describe Russians), their painting of Russia as an evil empire, the Russians as Orcs, Devils, Animals etc. – all in all, Ukraine is sadly a corrupt narco- and human-trafficking state with Oligarchs calling the shots in the background and a population deep in fear, anger, hatred and denial which has fallen from 1991 and 50 Mill people to – at the start of the war – probably around 37 Mill people – now with the refugees and Donbas lost there are probably around 25 – 28 Mill still there.
Not to mention the growing rate of desertions, the millions of young men who have already fled the country or have gone into hiding or have bribed their way out of the frontlines etc. pp.
In short: History is not black and white Radagast and what may seem like a laudable fight for independence may be something quite different. Therefore I would advise – just like you so wonderfully did in the case of the Covid Vax Scam – to take a deeper look into things – especially, when presented by our western media, because they can’t be trusted with reporting things truthfully.
Keep up the great work