[Bengaluru, India on 12/16/22] By March of 1944, the Allies had conquered southern Italy, but Germans still held the central and north. To weaken their enemy, the Allies had a fresh idea. Twenty pretty Neapolitan prostitutes with untreated syphilis would be smuggled into Rome, where, it was hoped, they would quickly spread their legs and disease to Germans and others. So what if many babies would be born blind?
Naples ‘44 is an excellent book that cleared up something that happened to my father in WW2.
Towards the end of the war, he was a sergeant stationed in Italy. One night he and another soldier were ordered to guard a pharmacy. Pharmacies were routinely robbed.
My father and the other guy fought off a gang of Italians trying to rob it. In true Army gratitude he was called into his commanding officer's office the next day. The officer told him, "Sit down sergeant. Stand up corporal."
The demotion played a key role in my father's lifelong hatred of Italians. Pizza and spaghetti were banned in our house.
Naples ‘44 clarified his demotion for me. Mussolini had squashed the mafia. It is well known that the Allied military partnered with the Genovese crime family and Lucky Luciano to rebuild the mafia and use them to undermine the Italian government. Lewis wrote that one of the rackets they gave to the mafia was control of the illegal pharma trade. That seems to do a good job of explaining why my dad was punished for not letting the pharmacy be robbed.
ISIS wasn't available yet in WW2 so had to go with the locals.
A side note: Lewis also wrote in Naples 44 about how France brought over Moroccan troops to Italy. The Moroccans proceeded to go around raping Italian females and males (sort of like the "refugees" do now). Unlike modern Europeans, the Italians simply killed them.
Your story/anecdote reminds me of the novel "Catch 22" in which post-War II Italy is a giant black market cornered by American soldiers stationed there.
Your writings are (sometimes) like having a large bucket of ice-water dumped on my face while in a sound sleep at 3 a.m. Thank you.
Having said that I also will confess the "cocktail hour" is increasingly being moved up from 5 p.m. to the 8 a.m. hour. But I bear full responsibility and blame no one but myself.
I thought Naples '44 was an excellent read. Unfortunately, I loaned my copy to a friend who has since retired and moved back east without returning it. Now he tells me on the phone that he will send it back as soon as he finds it, saying "it's in a box somewhere, I have to look for it." That was two years ago.
I remember the story about the old guy caught by the Allies stealing power lines (or phone lines?) and selling them for scrap, who pointed out that before the Allies came ashore, they were German power lines, and the radio had been encouraging them to take them. I think that guy had a sick wife and was begging to be released because there was no one else but him to take care of her. The author described a trip to the guy's house, which was a truly heart-rending scene, with the wife huddled miserably in a dirty blanket in one corner, unmoving.
“With poisons in our air, water, food, drugs and vaccines, we’re all sick, though death is usually delayed, so Big Pharma and Big Food can wring us, over decades, for profit.” I believe biologists refer to relationships like these as "parasites"…
Besides Lewis's book, another good book that talks about Naples in 1944 is Curzio Malaparte's "The Skin". I thought it was a very impressive book. True, it's a more surreal read, not as journalistic or objective, but mixing real facts with apparent fantasies. But then again, it was a surreal time... It goes over lots of things that Lewis also mentions, such as prostitution of women and children for food, etc. The episodes of the dead Neapolitan girl being dressed up, as well as the one of the Vesuvio eruption, are amazing. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
In the late David McCullough's book "1776", he stated that George Washington had gotten info that British sailors (I believe it was in the autumn of '76) were off-loading blankets from victims of smallpox into Boston. Washington flatly did not believe that the British would do such a thing, regardless of the stakes. Washington obviously did not know to what lengths his enemies would go to win a war. Modern White Americans are much more credulous than Washington was.
Eat whole foods, preferably organic, and nothing processed! Drink only non fluoridated water. How are you feeling, Linh? Btw, I really like it when you include your beautiful pictures in the post instead of having a link to them! Many blessings, p
two men looked out from the prison bars, one saw mud, the other stars. by which i mean to say that in this posting linh is focusing on negative aspects of history and the current situation. maybe his next piece will be about things that are good that he finds in his current travels. there is a phrase in the fantasy film 'babe' about the sheep pig that the three blind mice repeat - "the way things are" - there are lots of things, and they are a lot of ways - taoism says 'the ten thousand things'
Ralph Baric, Francis Collins, Paul Offit, and Peter Dasak -- none are Jewish. So is "Jewjabs" a reflection of the negative behavior of Sephardi and Ashkenazi in Asia? Or is that worldview-Weltanschauung-a reflection of some other experience? A Viet kieu experience from seeing the burned down blocks in Gary, Indiana and generalizing to the state, country, and ultimately whole continents?
Yes. Life expectancy is up but quality of life, it can be argued, is down; obesity epidemic anyone? Child mortality is down but autism is up, way up over the last forty years. Cancer survival rates are up but why are so many getting cancer in the first place?
Steven Pinker and Dr. Pangloss have made their argument. I'm not convinced.
Obesity was once seen as an indicator of wealth and prosperity and a high quality of life. Now it's not. Perceptions of life quality are subjective and change.
Perhaps we are much better at diagnosing both autism and cancer than ever before.., as autism wasn't really a diagnosis before 1980, it shouldn't be a shocker that it's up since then.
Cancer screenings and early interventions, along with generally more attention and focus on health, have become much more common in recent years, which could explain more cases of cancer being detected.
I think you'd be hard pressed to prove in any convincing way that "quality of life", at least in the western world, was better 100 years ago.
Cancer is a disease of modernity. Obesity is unhealthy, it has nothing to do with prosperity. Also, fat people in the past were not as fat as they are today. Child mortality is down, yes, but people have much less children too. Life expectancy is up, true. Long, but not necessarily very healthy lives. Head case Sinéad O'Connor is dead at 56. Probably suicide. RIP.
I'm not sure how you determine cancer is a modern disease. It seems fairly obvious that as we have learned more about cancer and how to detect it, rates would go up, compared to a time when there was no understanding of what cancer was.
But it doesn't matter. Linh's basic premise that "they" (Da Joooozzzz) are trying to kill us all doesn't really hold up. If true, "they" (Da Joooozzz) are doing a shitty job.
What can I say? Enjoy eating processed food and taking eternal jabs then. Other people will prefer other choices. Cancer is likely related to industrialization and having more pollutants, pesticides etc. It was not as common before. Although some types are probably genetic and always existed. But Biden says we've ended it, so, there's hope.
I'm not advocating eating shit, and I'm not denying industrial causes of cancer. I'm saying the idea that Da Joooozzzz are trying to kill us all is stupid.
Yes. "Quality of life" is too ambiguous a term. What one person thinks of as "quality of life" might mean little to another person.
Certainly hygienic facilities and indoor plumbing are an improvement. I was thinking more along the lines of automobile injuries and fatalities. Regimented work environments and mindless consumption and diversion such as television and cell phones. Perhaps that's because I am poor and this is the arguably low quality of life that is my milieu.
Quality of life is unprecedentedly great for the top 1% of the American hierarchy; but what about for the other eight billion people on the planet who are not among the Western capitalist elite?
Somehow, your boy Putin believes Russia can endure the jabs, CBDCs and sending those doomed to a slow death to a quicker one attempting to overcome very unwilling Ukrainians. Ukraine, at least for the moment, is unafflicted by such WEF nonsense. I fear that after we beat the Russians we will have to fend off this agenda, plus gender uncertainty and slews of immigrants, pushed on us by our erstwhile friends.
What does "beating the Russians" even mean? Take back the Donbass? Crimea? Ukrainians would be wise to stop this madness and agree to some kind of peace. They lost a third of their population already. Do you think those Ukrainian women will return? They already hooked up with Germans, Poles or perhaps even Arab immigrants (you take what you can get), while their men are dying in senseless ways and now even 16 year olds and 60 year olds are being drafted. Why?? Why does the "Ukraine" get to win by it? It's retarded, I am sorry. I don't really know what you expect. The idea that "Ukrainians" are completely different from "Russians" is also kind of bizarre. I get Finns and Estonians and Poles. But Ukrainians are pretty much cousins of Russians. Most Ukrainians I know living abroad speak ONLY Russian and frequent the same places that Russian immigrants do. If Russia is corrupt and authoritarian, then the Ukraine is much more so. Anyway, I guess you're Jewish, and therefore immune to common sense.
Azov Orcs and their Ukrop bum buddies failed at destroying the Donbass just for shits and giggles.
I suggest you write a movie script as to how Ukraine "is winning" and how "just" and "caring" the Ukraine govmnt is towards all its citizens, especially dissenters.
It would turn out like Schindler's List in Ukrainian!
After "we" beat the Russians. Who is "we"? The 'Rules based international order'? The same rbio that cruise missiled the water treatment plants in Bagdad and Tripoli on, what was it..day2? of each illegal criminal campaign of genocidal evil? In Belgrade hey they just carpet bombed the place for 70 days straight to be sure people had no choice but to defecate in a plastic bag or a hastily dug hole in the ground. Russia has demonstrated ad nauseam that they can strike at will with air and sea based cruise missiles, yet the shit still circles the drain when citizens of Kiev press the lever, even after 500+ days of the special military operation. The side you are siding with are assholes. The whole world sees them for what they are. Every reader here, sees you for what you are.
Graham, I was speaking yesterday to a well-spoken man originally from Venezuela. He comes from a well-to-do family that maintained a home in Miami, the family would stay there from time to time for shopping/vacation etc.. They had Cuban friends there in Miami who told them that things would be getting real bad for them and to get out sooner rather than later. They chose "later" and now regret it as they lost a lot of their wealth.
The propaganda in the USA over the past weekend indicates a shift, Ukraine has gone from "winning" to "stalemate". In reality, Ukraine is losing badly, very badly. The Russians are closing in on Karkhov and Odessa. The Wagner Group has reformed in Belarus. Barring some sort of NATO intervention, Ukraine is most likely going to lose. I'm sorry but you need to know the truth.
Sources, "Bill from Florida," sources. Many people write about this war and opinions are all over the lot.
The Russians were closing in on Kyiv and Kharkiv in March 2022. They never arrived.
What on earth are you attempting with this unsupported scare propaganda? I can find it much better done, still not credible, on unz and any number of other platforms. By people I have heard of, such as Anglin, Whitney, PCR Who are you???
Trouble with both these sources is our friend Graham here will be as likely to believe what they say as I am to believe what they are saying in the Kiev Independent. Two world views so incompatible they cannot possibly both be true. You have to pick a side, and with all of official Washington telling us that Putin has lost, ima stick with what I read in RT.
I only know of a few credible sources. You could look at Judge Napolitano's youtube channel and watch the interviews he's done with Colonel Douglas MacGregor (official with former President Trump) or Larry Johnson, retired CIA analyst's blog, https://sonar21.com/browse/.
I apologize if you think I was trying to scare you, I really didn't mean to, just felt like you would appreciate the truth. You're in good company though, the vast majority of Americans think that Ukraine is kicking ass - hey - maybe maybe, lol.
I've been reading MacGregor since the beginning. His predictions simply don't come true.
Things are stalemated at the moment. Putin is going to draft everybody he can. I don't think he has the resources to train or arm them, but perhaps he can. I think that the fear of the draft, and the loss of civilian manpower, will create financial problems in internal dissent. But maybe not.
The US and NATO keep promising weapons, especially airplanes, that don't come. Maybe they will.
Ongoing war has its upside. No jabs, no CBDCs, no immigrants and fewer frivolities. I'm confident we'll have ample warning to vamoose if need be. I'll post things as I see them on my blog
There are lots of writers with broader audiences such as Doug Casey who are also asking themselves how long the artificial props will stave off the coming depression.
With regard to the war, as should be totally obvious, Ukraine does not want to be part of Russia again. No way. Fuggetaboutit. Partisans are making life miserable in the occupied areas. Even the long-occupied areas like Crimea and the People's Republics. Russia did not have and does not have enough soldiers to apply the degree of repression necessary. They could during the Cold War, when they had a much bigger population and their atrocities were less visible.
They simply cannot do it now. I point you to Russian Dissent
Graham, I'm not going to able to pay to subscribe to your first link, the 2nd link was interesting - sounds like a far right Russian unhappy with Putin.
I understand Kiev is being hit tonight with the Russian kinzhal missiles but it is unverified. Odessa and Karkhov also being hit hard in an unusual daylight attack.
Did you know that Russia closed the Black Sea to all non-Russian ships the other day? They also hit the port near the Romanian border disabling it. Ukraine is essentially a land-locked country now. I ask only because I want to know if the average Kiev resident knows these things?
Sure Boomer. Put your money where your mouth is and join Jewle nsky's furrin legion. U 2 can be the man of your dreams providing cannon fodder and fertilizer for future generations of rats and maggots. Be All U Can Be! Until then you are just a wannabe and homosexual
Naples ‘44 is an excellent book that cleared up something that happened to my father in WW2.
Towards the end of the war, he was a sergeant stationed in Italy. One night he and another soldier were ordered to guard a pharmacy. Pharmacies were routinely robbed.
My father and the other guy fought off a gang of Italians trying to rob it. In true Army gratitude he was called into his commanding officer's office the next day. The officer told him, "Sit down sergeant. Stand up corporal."
The demotion played a key role in my father's lifelong hatred of Italians. Pizza and spaghetti were banned in our house.
Naples ‘44 clarified his demotion for me. Mussolini had squashed the mafia. It is well known that the Allied military partnered with the Genovese crime family and Lucky Luciano to rebuild the mafia and use them to undermine the Italian government. Lewis wrote that one of the rackets they gave to the mafia was control of the illegal pharma trade. That seems to do a good job of explaining why my dad was punished for not letting the pharmacy be robbed.
"the Allied military partnered with the Genovese crime family and Lucky Luciano to rebuild the mafia"
LOL. From ISIS to Ukrainian oligarchs to the mafia, you can always count on America to find the best and most honest "allies".
ISIS wasn't available yet in WW2 so had to go with the locals.
A side note: Lewis also wrote in Naples 44 about how France brought over Moroccan troops to Italy. The Moroccans proceeded to go around raping Italian females and males (sort of like the "refugees" do now). Unlike modern Europeans, the Italians simply killed them.
Your story/anecdote reminds me of the novel "Catch 22" in which post-War II Italy is a giant black market cornered by American soldiers stationed there.
By drug trade I mean stolen and fake pharmaceutical drugs
Hi everyone,
Go here for the video and transcript of David Martin's presentation at the EU covid conference on 5/28/23:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2023/06/52823.html
Linh
Thank you for the David Martin transcript, Mr. Dinh. A real eye opener.
Mr. Dinh,
Your writings are (sometimes) like having a large bucket of ice-water dumped on my face while in a sound sleep at 3 a.m. Thank you.
Having said that I also will confess the "cocktail hour" is increasingly being moved up from 5 p.m. to the 8 a.m. hour. But I bear full responsibility and blame no one but myself.
I thought Naples '44 was an excellent read. Unfortunately, I loaned my copy to a friend who has since retired and moved back east without returning it. Now he tells me on the phone that he will send it back as soon as he finds it, saying "it's in a box somewhere, I have to look for it." That was two years ago.
I remember the story about the old guy caught by the Allies stealing power lines (or phone lines?) and selling them for scrap, who pointed out that before the Allies came ashore, they were German power lines, and the radio had been encouraging them to take them. I think that guy had a sick wife and was begging to be released because there was no one else but him to take care of her. The author described a trip to the guy's house, which was a truly heart-rending scene, with the wife huddled miserably in a dirty blanket in one corner, unmoving.
“With poisons in our air, water, food, drugs and vaccines, we’re all sick, though death is usually delayed, so Big Pharma and Big Food can wring us, over decades, for profit.” I believe biologists refer to relationships like these as "parasites"…
Besides Lewis's book, another good book that talks about Naples in 1944 is Curzio Malaparte's "The Skin". I thought it was a very impressive book. True, it's a more surreal read, not as journalistic or objective, but mixing real facts with apparent fantasies. But then again, it was a surreal time... It goes over lots of things that Lewis also mentions, such as prostitution of women and children for food, etc. The episodes of the dead Neapolitan girl being dressed up, as well as the one of the Vesuvio eruption, are amazing. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
In the late David McCullough's book "1776", he stated that George Washington had gotten info that British sailors (I believe it was in the autumn of '76) were off-loading blankets from victims of smallpox into Boston. Washington flatly did not believe that the British would do such a thing, regardless of the stakes. Washington obviously did not know to what lengths his enemies would go to win a war. Modern White Americans are much more credulous than Washington was.
Martha Washington was a Tranny.
Eat whole foods, preferably organic, and nothing processed! Drink only non fluoridated water. How are you feeling, Linh? Btw, I really like it when you include your beautiful pictures in the post instead of having a link to them! Many blessings, p
Hi Peggy,
Thanks to eating less and eating saner, I'm 85% recovered. A month ago, my body was a horror.
The menu at Cafe Vanille, my regular spot, is so amazing, but I have to ignore most of the items. No pasta for a while...
Linh
Hi Linh, Beautifully written and very informative essay, thank you!
Something is not right at your blogspot. All the links are dead.
Hi VTN, thanks for the alert. It's a formatting issue that's fixed.--Linh
two men looked out from the prison bars, one saw mud, the other stars. by which i mean to say that in this posting linh is focusing on negative aspects of history and the current situation. maybe his next piece will be about things that are good that he finds in his current travels. there is a phrase in the fantasy film 'babe' about the sheep pig that the three blind mice repeat - "the way things are" - there are lots of things, and they are a lot of ways - taoism says 'the ten thousand things'
Ralph Baric, Francis Collins, Paul Offit, and Peter Dasak -- none are Jewish. So is "Jewjabs" a reflection of the negative behavior of Sephardi and Ashkenazi in Asia? Or is that worldview-Weltanschauung-a reflection of some other experience? A Viet kieu experience from seeing the burned down blocks in Gary, Indiana and generalizing to the state, country, and ultimately whole continents?
Yet worldwide life expectancy is higher then ever, child mortality rates are down significantly and cancer survival rates steadily increase ....
Yes. Life expectancy is up but quality of life, it can be argued, is down; obesity epidemic anyone? Child mortality is down but autism is up, way up over the last forty years. Cancer survival rates are up but why are so many getting cancer in the first place?
Steven Pinker and Dr. Pangloss have made their argument. I'm not convinced.
Obesity was once seen as an indicator of wealth and prosperity and a high quality of life. Now it's not. Perceptions of life quality are subjective and change.
Perhaps we are much better at diagnosing both autism and cancer than ever before.., as autism wasn't really a diagnosis before 1980, it shouldn't be a shocker that it's up since then.
Cancer screenings and early interventions, along with generally more attention and focus on health, have become much more common in recent years, which could explain more cases of cancer being detected.
I think you'd be hard pressed to prove in any convincing way that "quality of life", at least in the western world, was better 100 years ago.
Cancer is a disease of modernity. Obesity is unhealthy, it has nothing to do with prosperity. Also, fat people in the past were not as fat as they are today. Child mortality is down, yes, but people have much less children too. Life expectancy is up, true. Long, but not necessarily very healthy lives. Head case Sinéad O'Connor is dead at 56. Probably suicide. RIP.
What's Simead O'Connor have do with it?
I'm not sure how you determine cancer is a modern disease. It seems fairly obvious that as we have learned more about cancer and how to detect it, rates would go up, compared to a time when there was no understanding of what cancer was.
But it doesn't matter. Linh's basic premise that "they" (Da Joooozzzz) are trying to kill us all doesn't really hold up. If true, "they" (Da Joooozzz) are doing a shitty job.
What can I say? Enjoy eating processed food and taking eternal jabs then. Other people will prefer other choices. Cancer is likely related to industrialization and having more pollutants, pesticides etc. It was not as common before. Although some types are probably genetic and always existed. But Biden says we've ended it, so, there's hope.
I'm not advocating eating shit, and I'm not denying industrial causes of cancer. I'm saying the idea that Da Joooozzzz are trying to kill us all is stupid.
Yes. "Quality of life" is too ambiguous a term. What one person thinks of as "quality of life" might mean little to another person.
Certainly hygienic facilities and indoor plumbing are an improvement. I was thinking more along the lines of automobile injuries and fatalities. Regimented work environments and mindless consumption and diversion such as television and cell phones. Perhaps that's because I am poor and this is the arguably low quality of life that is my milieu.
Quality of life is unprecedentedly great for the top 1% of the American hierarchy; but what about for the other eight billion people on the planet who are not among the Western capitalist elite?
Somehow, your boy Putin believes Russia can endure the jabs, CBDCs and sending those doomed to a slow death to a quicker one attempting to overcome very unwilling Ukrainians. Ukraine, at least for the moment, is unafflicted by such WEF nonsense. I fear that after we beat the Russians we will have to fend off this agenda, plus gender uncertainty and slews of immigrants, pushed on us by our erstwhile friends.
What does "beating the Russians" even mean? Take back the Donbass? Crimea? Ukrainians would be wise to stop this madness and agree to some kind of peace. They lost a third of their population already. Do you think those Ukrainian women will return? They already hooked up with Germans, Poles or perhaps even Arab immigrants (you take what you can get), while their men are dying in senseless ways and now even 16 year olds and 60 year olds are being drafted. Why?? Why does the "Ukraine" get to win by it? It's retarded, I am sorry. I don't really know what you expect. The idea that "Ukrainians" are completely different from "Russians" is also kind of bizarre. I get Finns and Estonians and Poles. But Ukrainians are pretty much cousins of Russians. Most Ukrainians I know living abroad speak ONLY Russian and frequent the same places that Russian immigrants do. If Russia is corrupt and authoritarian, then the Ukraine is much more so. Anyway, I guess you're Jewish, and therefore immune to common sense.
"Immune to common sense" is a nice turn of phrase. With you I'll not try.
Stop trolling Linh Dinh, then no one has to try.
Azov Orcs and their Ukrop bum buddies failed at destroying the Donbass just for shits and giggles.
I suggest you write a movie script as to how Ukraine "is winning" and how "just" and "caring" the Ukraine govmnt is towards all its citizens, especially dissenters.
It would turn out like Schindler's List in Ukrainian!
After "we" beat the Russians. Who is "we"? The 'Rules based international order'? The same rbio that cruise missiled the water treatment plants in Bagdad and Tripoli on, what was it..day2? of each illegal criminal campaign of genocidal evil? In Belgrade hey they just carpet bombed the place for 70 days straight to be sure people had no choice but to defecate in a plastic bag or a hastily dug hole in the ground. Russia has demonstrated ad nauseam that they can strike at will with air and sea based cruise missiles, yet the shit still circles the drain when citizens of Kiev press the lever, even after 500+ days of the special military operation. The side you are siding with are assholes. The whole world sees them for what they are. Every reader here, sees you for what you are.
He advocates for dead Ukrainians; drugs, human (women and children first) and weapons trafficking.
Graham, I was speaking yesterday to a well-spoken man originally from Venezuela. He comes from a well-to-do family that maintained a home in Miami, the family would stay there from time to time for shopping/vacation etc.. They had Cuban friends there in Miami who told them that things would be getting real bad for them and to get out sooner rather than later. They chose "later" and now regret it as they lost a lot of their wealth.
The propaganda in the USA over the past weekend indicates a shift, Ukraine has gone from "winning" to "stalemate". In reality, Ukraine is losing badly, very badly. The Russians are closing in on Karkhov and Odessa. The Wagner Group has reformed in Belarus. Barring some sort of NATO intervention, Ukraine is most likely going to lose. I'm sorry but you need to know the truth.
Sources, "Bill from Florida," sources. Many people write about this war and opinions are all over the lot.
The Russians were closing in on Kyiv and Kharkiv in March 2022. They never arrived.
What on earth are you attempting with this unsupported scare propaganda? I can find it much better done, still not credible, on unz and any number of other platforms. By people I have heard of, such as Anglin, Whitney, PCR Who are you???
Sources: Simplicius gives the Russian perspective on this war in excruciating detail.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
Gilbert Doctorow writes on Russian politics and culture.
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/
Trouble with both these sources is our friend Graham here will be as likely to believe what they say as I am to believe what they are saying in the Kiev Independent. Two world views so incompatible they cannot possibly both be true. You have to pick a side, and with all of official Washington telling us that Putin has lost, ima stick with what I read in RT.
I only know of a few credible sources. You could look at Judge Napolitano's youtube channel and watch the interviews he's done with Colonel Douglas MacGregor (official with former President Trump) or Larry Johnson, retired CIA analyst's blog, https://sonar21.com/browse/.
I apologize if you think I was trying to scare you, I really didn't mean to, just felt like you would appreciate the truth. You're in good company though, the vast majority of Americans think that Ukraine is kicking ass - hey - maybe maybe, lol.
I've been reading MacGregor since the beginning. His predictions simply don't come true.
Things are stalemated at the moment. Putin is going to draft everybody he can. I don't think he has the resources to train or arm them, but perhaps he can. I think that the fear of the draft, and the loss of civilian manpower, will create financial problems in internal dissent. But maybe not.
The US and NATO keep promising weapons, especially airplanes, that don't come. Maybe they will.
Ongoing war has its upside. No jabs, no CBDCs, no immigrants and fewer frivolities. I'm confident we'll have ample warning to vamoose if need be. I'll post things as I see them on my blog
Anglin's a funny guy, here's another funny guy, damn smart too:
https://thedreizinreport.com/2023/07/25/the-racism-is-not-fixable/
With him that it is not fixable.
There are lots of writers with broader audiences such as Doug Casey who are also asking themselves how long the artificial props will stave off the coming depression.
With regard to the war, as should be totally obvious, Ukraine does not want to be part of Russia again. No way. Fuggetaboutit. Partisans are making life miserable in the occupied areas. Even the long-occupied areas like Crimea and the People's Republics. Russia did not have and does not have enough soldiers to apply the degree of repression necessary. They could during the Cold War, when they had a much bigger population and their atrocities were less visible.
They simply cannot do it now. I point you to Russian Dissent
https://russiandissent.substack.com/p/idiots-no-longer-useful?publication_id=844709&post_id=135456127&isFreemail=true
and Edward Slavsquat
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/
for clear-eyed, and different, reporting on the situation.
Graham, I'm not going to able to pay to subscribe to your first link, the 2nd link was interesting - sounds like a far right Russian unhappy with Putin.
I understand Kiev is being hit tonight with the Russian kinzhal missiles but it is unverified. Odessa and Karkhov also being hit hard in an unusual daylight attack.
Did you know that Russia closed the Black Sea to all non-Russian ships the other day? They also hit the port near the Romanian border disabling it. Ukraine is essentially a land-locked country now. I ask only because I want to know if the average Kiev resident knows these things?
Sure Boomer. Put your money where your mouth is and join Jewle nsky's furrin legion. U 2 can be the man of your dreams providing cannon fodder and fertilizer for future generations of rats and maggots. Be All U Can Be! Until then you are just a wannabe and homosexual