Tragic News Predawn

As published at SubStack, 1/13/24:

[Bar Baraban in Kiev on 2/18/16]

Luckier than many, I look forward to each day, so getting up is my favorite activity. Often leaving my dwelling before the sun rises, I soak in all activities with elation and gratitude. In Vietnam, this means hearing birds, roosters, street sweepers and other early risers. In the dark, they exercise or walk briskly.

During my six months in Tirana, I was daily astounded by the Skanderberg Mountain Range, as seen from my 8th floor window. In Cape Town, it was the Table Mountain as I walked out my door. In Phnom Penh, the sight of the Central Market’s dome never failed to cheer me. Seeing it each morning from my Zing Hotel room meant it was time to hit the still dark alleys. In Pakse, the earliest light would reveal Amor Fati Cafe across the street. Sometimes, an old, hobbling woman who rarely strayed from her block would look up to see me. On the ground floor, Sơn and Thảo, meaning Mountain and Grass, would be busy setting up their hotel’s restaurant while getting their kids ready for school.

This morning, my usual elation was punctured and poisoned by the horrible news Gonzalo Lira had been murdered. Abandoned by his government and mocked by gleeful cowards, Lira had been tortured to death by a regime fronted by a corrupt clown and sustained mostly with American money.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 2/24/22 was merely a belated reaction to the American orchestrated Maidan Revolution of February 2014. Like Jews, Uncle Sam routinely inverts reality, so the destruction and humiliation of Ukraine, now in its final chapter, would be rebranded “The Revolution of Dignity.” Visiting Ukraine just two years later, I witnessed a society already on its knees, with its young men farcically sacrificed in a self-destructive war against Russia. The main American architect behind this was the Jewish Victoria Nuland. Since her grandfather had been forced to flee his native Odessa, Victoria was exacting payback, plus outrageous compound interest, but there were other factors.

On 3/28/22, Gonzalo Lira encapsulated these expertly in a YouTube video. The next day, I added, “A large chunk of Ukraine and southern Russia was once Khazaria, a Turkic kingdom that converted to Judaism in the 8th century. The extent and depth of this conversion have been much debated. Though mostly forgotten, Khazaria was a rival to Christian Byzantium and the Islamic Caliphate for three centuries, with its final demise in the 10th century effected by, drum roll please, Russians! Jewish Khazaria’s annihilator was Sviatoslav I of Kiev.” Jews hate Slavs, in short, so a key objective of the Ukraine war is to murder as many Slavs a possible, a point I made on 3/9/22.

It’s easy enough for me to state all this from the safety of Namibia, but Lira was in Kharkiv. Though a “fish on the chopping block,” to borrow a Vietnamese phrase, he gave us invaluable insights and observations from the war zone without self censorship. It’s this bravery that gained Lira admirers worldwide. Scott Ritter, though, shamefully suggested he was colluding with Ukrainian intelligence. To do what, Scott?

On 3/6/22, Lira correctly predicted Western sanction will hurt the West much more than Russia. On 3/23/22, Lira concluded the US was committing suicide, but let me to tweak his assessment slightly. With Jewjabs, unchecked illegal immigration, woke education, cancel culture, cowed intellectuals, Jewjewed media, crumbling infrastructure and lying, pedophilic leaders, America is being murdered with a thousand cuts by Uncle Sam’s puppeteer. This is undeniable to anyone paying the least attention, but that’s asking a lot. Here’s a clue: Sam’s increasingly naked genocidal lust mirrors Israel’s, so locked in the sickest 69, they’ll sink together.

Lira was among the few who remembered the Jewjab murdered Tiffany Dover. Sometimes, Lira was wrong, as when he thought Zelensky would soon be assassinated by the US itself. So what? Bold and blunt, Lira literally risked his life to make statements about Zelensky, Putin, Biden and NATO, etc. Among the cowed, Lira stood tall, so that will be his legacy.

Another American in Ukraine is Graham Seibert, but unlike Lira, Seibert is only capable of recycling official bullshit, such as Putin is evil and will flee or be overthrown any time now, Zelensky is the new Churchill, Russians are thinly disguised Mongolians and Ukraine is kicking Russia’s ass, etc. Seibert even believed a Ukrainian babushka had knocked down a Russian drone with a jar of tomatoes ferociously pitched from her balcony!

For mouthing nonsense, 80-year-old Siebert is alive in Kiev with his young wife, while Lira is dead, but let me say this: any nation’s chance of survival is proportionate to its ratio of Graham Seiberts to Gonzalo Liras.

On 9/20/23, American born Ukrainian spokesman Sarah Ashton-Cirillo was fired for making cartoonish threats against journalists, “Next week, the teeth of the Russian devil will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in an uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Russia propagandist pay for their crimes […] This puppet of Putin will be the first[…] Russia’s war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down, and justice will be served.”

With Lira gone, Ashton-Cirillo wears a sad face as he/she offers condolences to his family, but his/her stance is clear when he/she hopes that Gonzalo will be “able to find redemption with the Lord,” for he’s “guilty of what he was accused of.” This sudden lawyer cum prosecutor cum judge cum jury even concludes that “Gonzalo Lira was a would-be agent of the Russian government”!

As for his death, it was a “natural demise and natural passing” caused by pneumonia brought on by the stress of “insert[ing] himself into a war on the side of the Russians.” No, Sarah, Lira had lived in Ukraine for years with his Ukrainian wife and children. It’s you who inserted yourself into this genocidal war caused by Satanic Jews and the American empire.

Unlike you and Graham Seibert, Lira risked his life to defend Ukraine. He couldn’t stomach seeing it destroyed. You say he deserved what happened for choosing to stay, but that wasn’t just his home, Sarah, but the native land of his wife and children. For the rest of us, Lira also provided unmatched reports from a country being methodically tortured and wrecked. The same folks are doing it in Gaza.

Hopefully, the truth will come out, even if it takes decades or centuries. As American clowns, assholes and psychos are celebrated, its bravest men are smeared with shit then flushed away, but some day, let’s hope, Lira, David McGowan and Gary Webb, among others, will be held up as models to children.

Those kids won’t be American, though, for that sad, sick country swarming with the most timid and self-regarding will have long disappeared.

As their society imploded, all they did was loot, rape, kill each other, “vote” and rap, and why not?

enjoy yourself and
like it like that
groove widda riddum
boppin down da block
move your hands & feet
as you go hip-hop
--mistah charlie, ph.d

[Rivne, 2/16/16]

[New York, 5/2/16]

[Bangkok, 10/15/22]

R.I.P., Gonzalo Lira. You’ll remain an inspiration to many. Thomas Jefferson, “Malo periculosam, libertatum quam quietam servitutem.”

Pussy Stroking Uncle Sam?

As published at SubStack, 12/30/22:

[Bangkok, 12/30/22]

 

Southeast Asians start their day very early. Walking down Phra Sumen around 5:40AM, I saw businesses setting up, with a handful already open. On Soi Kraisi, all the vegetable stalls were on full display. A monk was doing his round swapping blessings for food. A white man bought roasted bananas on sticks. A noodle vendor stirred her broth.

Back on Phra Sumen, I ducked into an alley to get my 86-cent cappuccino from a familiar stand. Pulling a plastic stool from a stack, I sat at a large ice cooler, my table. Though my coffee wasn’t quite hot enough this time, it was still strong and sweet, nearly the strength of Vietnamese coffee, but with more volume. I was happy.

There wasn’t a lot to look at, but alleys everywhere appeal to me because they are intimate spaces, yet still outdoor, thus exposed to much that’s unexpected. An alley business is not boxed in by walls and plate glass windows, with very specific rules, where only the chosen, if only by size of wallets, are admitted. The most exclusive non-alley businesses are entirely sealed, so you have no idea if they’re just eating gold encrusted steaks or raping children.

When I paid, the lady gave me a wai and the brightest smile. She remembered me. When I walked by Mitramit Tea House yesterday, the owner came out to shake my hand. During our one long talk a month ago, he said his two favorite countries to visit were India and China. This very cultured man is involved with a children’s theater troupe. At the back of his shop is a century-old banister.

To be civilized is to be immersed in history. Savages are ignorant or contemptuous of it.

That said, my retention of personal history has always been seriously flawed. I forget way too much. My mind is the cheapest inbox with a limited capacity. To make room for fresh impressions, it automatically deletes a bunch. At the literary festival in Bengaluru, I was greeted by a smiling woman who gave me a hug. When it was clear I had no idea who she was, she said, “We walked around Macao together.” Still, this rang no bell, and though I truly felt like shit, what could I do?

To varying degrees, this must be the psychology of serial killers, American politicians and, frankly, all Americans, for how many Yankers give a shit about what has been done in their name, and with their tax dollars, in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and, now, Ukraine? Routinely stoking and funding genocides, most often for enemies of Jews, they’re now bankrolling national suicide.

I’ve been shown poems I had no idea were mine. Soon enough, I won’t remember a word of this article. No one will either, you’re saying. Fair enough. Still, we babble.

It’s 7:50AM, so a nearby barbershop is open. When my friend Giang told me I looked just like my dad (on his death bed), I knew it was time to get a haircut and a shave. Looking a month or two younger, I’ll be right back.

Since I gained two months just sitting on that chair for 15 minutes, I should visit Pralong Barber six times a day for the rest of my life. Hell, I should have asked the old man to scalp or even decapitate me to gain years.

When I left Namibia on 4/5/21, most people assumed the war in Ukraine would soon be over, with Russia losing, actually, and Putin deposed. In Kiev with his young wife and small children, American Graham Siebert suggested Vladimir should learn Chinese quickly, to prepare for his bitter exile.

“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees,” Siebert has said, but like all Americans except a handful of nutcases, Siebert is not doing the fighting and dying. He’s not getting trench foot from lying in some frozen ditch with his own feces. He’s not shitting in his pants when some poor soul next to him is shredded. Siebert is not being cynically sacrificed by Jewish Zelensky and Victoria Nudelman, with the entire Jewjewed press cheering this on.

Again, I’m not talking about anyone born Jewish, but those infected with Jewish thinking. There are millions of Arabs and Orientals more Jewish than my Jewish born friends.

Visiting Kiev in 2016, I saw a society already on its knees, for that’s what happens when you’re embraced by an eternally priapic Uncle Sam. He has to stick his missiles here, there and everywhere. Begging, young and old women knelt behind cardboard signs soggy from wet snow. Many of the more enterprising were already whoring in Holland, Germany and Spain.

[Kiev, 2/11/16]

Some stay behind to marry opportunistic sexpatriates. Near corpses still have to stick their members or just fingers somewhere. Since there’s commerce, or a tradeoff, if you will, in all human interactions, why not shop for the best bargain, they reason? Shoving it in, they should thank Uncle Sam for granting them these last bouts of relaxation. The exes back in Missoula or Walla Walla can eat shit.

Photos of young dead soldiers all over downtown turned Kiev’s historical center into a sick shrine to the needlessly butchered. Remembering her Odessa-born granddad, Victoria is getting her payback, plus endlessly compounding interest.

Hoarding forever injuries real or imagined, Jews hate all those they’ve had long associations with, so they seek revenge against Arabs, Persians, Slavs and, now, simply whites, but of course, Angry White Pussies are too emasculated and cowed to do anything about this.

To feel empowered, these soft-and-furries shriek, “Ragheads! Niggers! Gooks!’ Disgusted, everyone else laughs, with Jews laughing the hardest. Exhausted, they collapse onto a Holocaustic heap to wait for a Jewjab pushing casino conman to save them.

You can’t beat this joke, the overworked, unemployed and about to be laid off worshipping a billionaire whose most famous line is, “You’re fired!”

An aspiring Angry White Pussy writer is afraid to say “Jews” or even to publish under his own name, because, “I’m not going to dox myself.” When your “men” won’t sacrifice the least bit, your nation is finished.

If there’s a Malcolm X or Pat Tillman among you, stand up! When they realized Tillman had figured it out, they had to shoot him.

With 2023 just two days away, the Ukraine War still rages, for these obvious reasons. 1) Sparing Ukrainian civilians, Russia didn’t unleash any “Shock and Awe” tactic to cripple Ukraine’s infrastructure, until very recently. Even its missile attacks of the last two months fall far short of typical American brutality 2) Its stated goal of getting rid of Ukrainian neo-Nazis was no guarantee to Russians in liberated areas they would be protected, once Russia withdraws 3) Its hope for a negotiated settlement at some point, now finally dispelled.

With winter here, Ukrainian mud, already kneaded with blood, hardens, so soon enough, Russia will begin its final push.

Half of the US has just been blasted by an unprecedented storm, with some suspecting climate engineering to be the culprit, if only inadvertently. Without power, millions of Americans shiver in the dark. Gas pipelines leaked. Water mains burst. Millions of wild and farm animals went into shock, then coma. On countless sidewalks and already well-wrapped in whitened shrouds, the homeless stiffened. Saplings, too, died, worsening our food crisis.

Already without much of an industrial base, Uncle Sam is in no shape to fight a banana republic, much less Russia or China. Consider how many wars he has lost, but winning has most often not been a main purpose. American mercenaries lose nuts, limbs and lives to make tons for the American military banking complex, and to cripple nations Jews despise, which are many. True to Yahweh, Jewish thinking thrives on genocidal righteousness.

If your television is still on, though, you can pretend everything is still normal.

On January 3rd, the game between the 12-3 Buffalo Bills and 11-4 Cincinnati Bengals is one terrific matchup. Cushy on their brand new, just-looted couches, many Buffalonians can enjoy this spectacle on their 75-inch, state-of-the-art, just-looted televisions.

Here in Bangkok, everything is actually 99% normal. Since the last paragraph, I slept, so it is the next morning. Again on Phra Sumen before dawn, I saw two cats, one black, the other a calico. Sleeping outside on a metal shelf, their heads nearly touched.

As I stroked one after another, they seemed pleased, so I said to them in Vietnamese, “I’m also a cat.”

I was born in 1963, you see, a year of the cat.

When I brought my face closer to them, they both bolted, however, and nothing I could do or say afterwards could reassure them.

Staring at me from a safe distance, the calico seemed to say, “We know your kind. A bit of jivey stroking to soften us up, then you show your fangs, just like fuckin’ Uncle Sam!”

Not done, he articulated even more clearly, “That bit of Thai you spoke just now sounded worse than dogshit. Now scram, so we can go back to sleep!”

Leaving these disturbed pussies, I had my morning cappuccino, then stopped to admire, again, the charming eye on Saeng Swang Optical’s sign. Calligraphic black on a white oval, it’s gorgeous in its simplicity.

[Bangkok, 12/30/22]

Wandering around in the half dark, I kept hearing these Akhmatova lines, as translated by my old professor, Stephen Berg:

There seemed to be so many steps then
but I knew there were only three.
Autumn whispered through the maples
“Die, like me:

Weird, what lingers. So there, Steve, a tiny bit of you is haunting me in Bangkok!

It’s from “Song of the Final Meeting.”

Just now, the Saker wrote, “Looks like we will make it to Dec 31, 2022. Will we make it to December 31, 2023?”

So ominous, but many of the Jewjabbed already had their final meetings, as have at least a hundred thousand Slavs in Uncle Sam’s latest proxy adventure.

Tireless, that prick.

[Bangkok, 12/29/22]

[Bangkok, 12/30/22]

Density of Life, Divine Giotto and the Biggest Dick the World Has Ever Seen

As published at SubStack, 7/12/22:

[Mekong River in Can Tho on 3/4/19]

Density of life is not for everyone. Some people can’t stand sharing with anyone a wall, ceiling, bottle, kitchen, bedroom or toilet, etc. They’d prefer to feast, get drunk, argue or have sex alone. I understand.

Vietnam, though, is about density of humanity, and that’s true of this entire region. As has been pointed out, most people on this trashed and gasping planet live inside a circle encompassing Pakistan, Indian, most of China, Japan and most of Southeast Asia.

The reasons are obvious. Large rivers irrigate the land and facilitate trade. Long planting seasons ensure abundant crops. South and East Asia, then, have been most conducive to human survival, but when the living is easy, breeding is a breeze, until each lane and alley is choked with guys just like me!

Still, I’m betting on this region as best at surviving the globalist onslaught. With Sri Lanka imploding, this may sound foolish, but India, China, Japan and Vietnam, etc., can lose 9/10th of their populations yet remain essentially themselves, with all their flaws. Resources can come from Russia. Unless this entire world blows up, Eurasia is the future, however short.

If so, what about Europe’s western end? Like the US, it’s thoroughly Jewscrewed, with the majority having a great time having their assholes torn apart. Else, they wouldn’t keep destroying themselves for Jewish wars, with Syria and Ukraine merely the latest.

Even many who know who’s buggering them are girlishly gigglish with their lingo, so it’s Zionist, Joo or merely J, if that. “Those who print the money” is a delicate allusion. Many “dissident” writers hide their names, and most commenters are even worse, for, anonymously, of course, they routinely attack those who expose their catastrophe and acquiescence. “I wouldn’t want to dox myself,” a young rebel with much invested in the system told me, so you’re well fucked, I thought.

The war in Ukraine will expand, because Jews have never minded seeing lots of whites massacred. Remember the Holocaust! Even without nukes, much of Europe is being steered towards destruction, just as with WWI and WWII, where Jews were also pivotal.

From this wrecked Europe, nations that are most proud of their native heritage, and not cross dressing and self-castration, will have the best chance at reconstituting themselves. If Serb, Albanian and Hungarian identities are intact, those nations are intact.

That said, I’m rooting for all of Europe. Having spent four of my best years there, in nearly 20 of its countries, I’ve never hidden my admiration and affection for Europe. Giotto, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Goya, Monet, Bonnard, Beckmann, Dix and Ensor. In Naples, I gasped at the Farnese Bull. I lived down the street from Boccaccio’s. Though the odds aren’t great, I still hope to down a few more pints at Norwich’s Adam and Eve. Newly arrived lad, it’s only been around since 1249. Continuity soothes.

In 2018, the Dalai Lama said, “I think Europe belongs to the Europeans.” Just as Cambodia, say, belongs to Cambodians. Though merely stating the obvious, the Dalai Lama raised eyebrows, but only white ones, in whitish countries.

Those who find the Dalai Lama’s statement obnoxious, if not racist, should be glad to know there are billions ready to prove him wrong.

Visiting Macau in 2019, I heard this hilarious joke from poet Ravi Shankar: As Brits were leaving India, an Indian said, “We’re glad you’re getting out of here, but do you think that’s that? No, we’re coming with you!”

They’ve been coming all right. As with Iraqis, Libyans and Syrians, many flee from countries ruined by whites, fighting for Jews. As a thank you, these clueless mercenaries will get their own homes destroyed. Without Israel, Lebanon would not be a darkened husk, a fate that awaits white countries, too, as their citizens are scattered across what remains of this earth.

On March 19, 2003, the United States began the invasion of Iraq by striking its capital with Tomahawk missiles. Twenty-two days later, Baghdad finally fell. By contrast, Russia has barely hit Kiev after 139 days, and it has not destroyed its infrastructure, so American Graham Siebert can still use Wi-Fi to comment from that most gorgeous of cities, “My hope is that we get rid of the Russians and that the EU and NATO drag their feet to the point that Ukraine never joins. But first things first—we have to win the war.”

Problem is, Ukraine cannot possibly win this war. Should Russia get into a bind, from increased NATO participation or whatever, it will simply use nukes, starting with tactical ones aimed at Ukrainian targets, then school bus sized Poseidon torpedoes launched from the 600-foot-long Belgorod submarine, if necessary, to turn London into Atlantis. The Belgorod is the biggest dick the world has ever seen. Its nasty name is merely named after a city.

While still in Namibia, I strongly suggested to Graham that he and his family take refuge there, but this was impossible, Graham said, for he had too many people to look after in Ukraine. He’s an honorable man.

In Cairo in February of 2021, I met a young Ukrainian tour guide on his vacation. Everything was fine back home, he said. When the American instigated revolution of 2014 changed Ukraine for the worse, he was just a child, however.

Visiting Kiev in January of 2016, I saw a kneeling young woman begging behind a cardboard sign as snow was falling, while another woman grabbed me on the street to ask for money. That has never happened to me in any other European city, and it is absolutely not happening in Vietnam now, but such was Ukraine as sucked into the American orbit.

At Bar Baraban, I was lucky enough to catch Anton Ryzhenko play beautiful piano. If still in Ukraine, Ryzhenko would have been conscripted to fight and die for his Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who once pretended to play the piano, most memorably, with his cock.

Hailed in the West as a new Churchill, Zelensky is a creation of the oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. We, too, are being kneaded and pounded by Jewish bosses, except we’re being played, so the solution is to get as far away from that sick circus as possible.

That’s why I’m in Vietnam. Tonight, I’ll finish my $3.51 bottle of Vietnamese red wine, VangĐàlạt. Tomorrow, I’ll get my $1.28 bowl of rice vermicelli with grilled pork, spring roll, crispy pork crackling and strips of pork skin.

Do enjoy your last bit of bacon.

[Anton Ryzhenko at Bar Baraban in Kiev on 2/11/16]

As Many Dead Slavs as Possible

As published at SubStack, 3/9/22:

[Kiev, 2/11/16]

 

 

Laying siege to a city, you’re not just cutting it off from reinforcement and supplies, but information. In Ukraine, the Russians aren’t quite doing that. Even more incredibly, they still allow trains to run. Two weeks into Russia’s invasion, you can still take a train from Kharkov to Lviv, then board a bus to Poland, all for free. Russia clearly wants civilians out of the warzone so it can engage what’s left of the Ukrainian military.

Still, why hasn’t Russia shut down Ukrainians’ access to propaganda from Kiev and the West? With electricity and Wi-Fi still on, Ukrainians can get all these stories of Zelensky humiliating an evil, delusional and bumbling Putin, with demoralized Russian troops just begging to be allowed to trek home, in the snow.

Earlier, the West celebrated the “Ghost of Kyiv,” a nameless Ukrainian pilot who supposedly shot down six Russian planes. The always reliable Wikipedia explains, “Although not confirmed to be real, the Ghost of Kyiv has been credited as a morale booster for Ukrainians.”

How delicate to define a total lie as “not confirmed to be real.” As a sure sign of desperation, absurd lies can’t boost morale for long, though.

Now, we’re told a Ukrainian woman has just downed a Russian drone with a jar of tomatoes, thrown from her balcony. With such force and accuracy, this broad must be signed to your favorite MLB team as a lights out closer!

Another one, two, three 9th inning from the Babushka of Kyiv! When you see Elena jog from the bullpen, game’s over!

I only found out about this awesome slinger from Graham Siebert, an American in Kiev:

Effective Use of Marinated Tomatoes—Yesterday, while having a cigarette on the balcony of her Kyiv apartment, a Ukrainian “Babushka” heard a buzzing sound nearby. Soon she realized that the buzz came from a Russian drone, likely used for artillery spotting. She reached under her chair, picked up a jar of marinated tomatoes, and she threw the jar, still containing the tomatoes, at the drone. As describe in this article, she scored a direct hit. She and her husband went downstairs, recovered the pieces of the downed drone, and threw them in separate garbage cans.

The article mentioned is in The Mirror, a London tabloid, and Siebert doesn’t just believe it without question, but adds, “There is no one else in the World who could pull this off, other than Ukrainians.”A day earlier, Seibert already said:

I’m feeling pretty prescient. I blogged at the very beginning of the war that the countryside would be too marshy for armor to operate, and the roads were inadequate. I recently gave credit to General Mud for stymieing the advance. That’s probably as good of a single sentence analysis as you will get.

We should be close to the point at which Ukrainians invite the demoralized soldiers to walk back home, leaving their equipment behind them. Ukraine will have the best army in Europe.

As a record of an articulate civilian under the stresses of war, Seibert’s accounts from a besieged Kiev are fascinating. Responsible for a wife, three children and parents-in-law, Seibert must stay strong and calm. In fact, he ends most blogs with an assertion of male strength, such as, “That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man slept in late, the good-looking woman was contentedly in his arms, and Grandma got the children breakfast. An above average breakfast, of course.”

On a practical level, Siebert has filled sandbags, stocked up on food and boiled all his eggs, just in case the electricity is cut.

For all his optimism, Seibert must know this war can get much worse, and it will, I believe, unless Ukraine surrenders. There’s no way Putin will withdraw his troops defeated. If Russia loses, she’s finished, so Putin will commit whatever is needed, manpower or weapon wise, to prevent that.

At the start of Russia’s invasion, Chris Hedges wrote that although “Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry,” it’s still in the wrong, because “preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime.”

The Russian invasion, though, is only an escalation of a war that began in 2014, with the US-orchestrated Maidan Revolution. Ukraine’s steady attacks on the breakaway Donbas have killed thousands of Russian civilians, and made refugees of 1.4 million. If Ukraine was admitted into NATO, hostile nuclear missiles would be just six minutes from Moscow, and unfriendly troops 180 miles from Volgograd, a chokepoint for Russian oil and natural gas from the Caspian Sea. Putin had to act.

Let’s not kid ourselves, NATO is not a defensive pact but Uncle Sam's mercenary army, to be sent wherever. Most of the “coalition” soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan were from NATO.

Every war is filled with war crimes, and not only that, each war is, by definition, a crime against humanity, for no one, soldier or civilian, deserves to die in the most grotesque manner, with maximum pain and minimal dignity, as is routine in war. That said, peace at any cost is even worse, else nation after nation wouldn’t fight wars.

Though Hedges titles his article, “The Greatest Evil Is War,” it’s obviously not true to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Babushka of Kyiv or the heroic Ukrainian soldiers celebrated by Graham Seibert, for they can end this war by simply surrendering, and they should, actually, to save lives.

Blustering, the West is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, with Zelensky as their chickenshit thespian. In Tablet Magazine, the Paris-based Vladislav Davidzon gushes, “Glory to Ukraine! And glory to Zelensky, the bravest Jew on earth!”

If you’re unfamiliar with “chickenshit,” it means the mindless, counterproductive or even deadly commands that often come from military leaders.

In his classic Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, Paul Fussell devotes an entire chapter to chickenshit. An excerpt:

Some of the Second World War masters of chickenshit became famous for it, like General Patton. He insisted that members of his Third Army dress genteelly in the combat zone, and many men died with their neckties tucked in between the second and third shirt buttons. The war’s champion practitioner was probably Hitler, with his insistence on appearing to win the war instead of winning it, and his devotion to the heroic facade regardless. General Paulus at Stalingrad begged to relieve the suffering by surrendering while some troops were left alive. He addressed the Fuhrer in these terms:

ARMY REQUESTS IMMEDIATE PERMISSION TO SURRENDER IN ORDER TO SAVE LIVES OF REMAINING TROOPS

and added a heartrending recital of disaster, including the destruction of five whole divisions, with 18,000 of the wounded unattended in their agony. Paulus concluded: "COLLAPSE INEVITABLE." To this Hitler sent this monumentally chickenshit reply:

SURRENDER IS FORBIDDEN. SIXTH ARMY WILL HOLD THEIR POSITIONS TO THE LAST MAN AND THE LAST ROUND AND BY THEIR HEROIC ENDURANCE WILL MAKE AN UNFORGETTABLE CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DEFENSIVE FRONT AND THE SALVATION OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

What Zelensky is doing with Ukrainian soldiers and civilians is actually worse than chickenshit. As with Ihor Kolomoyskyi, his Jewish pygmalion, to see as many dead Slavs as possible is an end in itself.

Ever more nakedly, they’re trying to wreck the entire West. With embargo caused food shortage widely forecast, another holodomor looms.

[Kiev, 2/9/16]

Rolling Along, Russia Loses Every Battle

As published at SubStack, 3/5/22:

[Prague, 1/31/16]

 

In Philadelphia, there’s a joke, “Why is a South Philly guy like Jesus?”

“They both hang out with the same 12 guys and their mothers think they’re God.”

South Philly was mostly Italian, you see, so the God bit explains his doting mother, with her pasta and “gravy,” South Philly lingo for sauce. As for his narrow social circle, that’s true of not just all Philly guys, but us, too, no matter how many FaceBook “friends” we have.

In fact, most of us have fewer true friends than the South Philly guy who’s been sitting on the same stool at the same bar for half a century, and here, I’m only exaggerating slightly, for my buddy Felix Giordano did spend a few years in San Francisco and on a docked houseboat in Jersey.

Earlier, I’ve mentioned another South Philly guy, M, who married five women of near identical weight and shape, and had to have a Pat’s cheesesteak for dinner each night, when he wasn’t locked up for possessing child pornography, that is.

We know damn well what we want to see and hear. Even with the internet, which is supposed to bring us the entire world, we limit ourselves to a tightly tailored menu of, frankly, just a few items. For politics, a man might frequent half a dozen websites daily, with none contradicting each other or his well-entrenched beliefs and prejudices. Ticsized men and women, we can’t see beyond a foot or two.

Ever since the war started in Ukraine, I’ve been checking in, almost compulsively, on Graham Seibert’s SubStack page. With his Ukrainian wife and three children, Seibert lives in Kiev. Through his thoughts and feelings, I want to get a better sense of what’s happening there, on the ground.

On 2/24, I also emailed Graham, “If it gets a little too crazy up there, perhaps you can take the wife and kids down to Namibia for a vacation! It’s warm here, and perfectly calm.” This advice is applicable to you, too. Come to Namibia to escape the madness in Australia, Canada, the USA or Europe, etc. There are no nuclear war threats or Big Brother’s Covid enforcement here, the supermarkets are well stocked and the people are calm and civil. Two months ago, Seibert tried to send me a Trezor bitcoin wallet, and though it made it to Windhoek, it couldn’t clear customs. I remember this generous act.

Initially resigned to a lightning-fast Russian victory, Seibert immediately switched to an ever-stronger conviction, punctuated by only a few notes of doubts, the Russians were being routed, and Putin’s career was over. Seibert on 2/27/22, “In my view Putin is a dead man walking. He cannot survive this. He must be forced from power, and is unlikely to enjoy a comfortable retirement. If that’s his objective, he had better learn Chinese.”

Since Russians and Chinese do share a love for dumplings, Vladimir won’t feel too displaced. Slumped in some Liuzhou teahouse in 2040, a toothless and tearful Putin can nibble pork dim sum while mumbling, in perfect, accentless Chinese, “I should have… Why didn’t I?”

“Shut up, Vlad!” comes a friendly rib from the next table. “You got your wrinkled ass kicked! You’re lucky they didn’t hang you!”

Let’s hear more from Seibert. From his post on 3/4/22, we have these passages:

Russia, which has now committed 95% of the forces amassed, no longer tries to fight the Ukrainian army and self-defense forces. After losing every confrontation, now the Russians upon encountering Ukrainian forces immediately retreat. 

Russia still has no aerial advantage. According to an article that I read Russia failed to take out Ukraine’s air defense in the first day and doesn’t wish to risk its planes. This is not the case with the ground forces which are being cut into pieces on a daily basis.

One last thought. Zelensky more and more reminds me of Churchill.  A brilliant leader in war a mediocre populist at peace.

In sum, the Russians are “losing every confrontation,” so “immediately retreat” from each encounter with Ukrainian forces. They’re “being cut to pieces on a daily basis.” For being such a “brilliant leader in war,” Zelensky reminds Seibert more and more of Churchill.

Quite a transformation for a man who, on television, danced in high heels and leather with three partners, a la Village People, or mimicked playing the piano with his penis, with his pants around his ankles.

Now, Seibert is an extremely well-read, well-traveled man who, at 79-years-old, has had plenty of life experience. He was in Vietnam for four years during the war. He’s worked in several countries. No South Philly paisano, Seibert has more than 12 friends, for sure. Thrice married, Seibert’s millennial kids had playdates with the Huffingtons.

As you can deduce, it’s clear I find Seibert’s take on the war baffling, to say the least, for how could Russia have lost every confrontation yet captured Kherson (pop. 284,000) after a mere week, with Kiev, Kharkov and Mariupol all besieged? Deftly, it seized the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, not just the largest in Ukraine but Europe.

Following a link by Seibert, I discovered European Pravda, a site run by the Ukrainian government. On 3/3/22, it revealed that Russia had already lost 9,000 troops, 217 tanks, 900 armored fighting vehicles and 30 aircrafts, with this as its source, “General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces on Facebook.”

Another 3/3/22 article quotes Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, as saying Russian “military tourists” must be sent home immediately to escape extermination. How could he say anything else?

A 3/2/22 article reminds us that Russia has a very long history of losing wars, “According to statistics compiled by Vladimir Solovyov, a great Russian historian of the late nineteenth century, Russia lost more than 70% of the 50 wars in the north and west from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.”

[Leipzig, 10/12/15]

Russia started to expand to its enormous size in the 16th century, so they must have won quite a few wars since then, no? Plus, it’s not how many wars you’ve won, but your current status, and Russia is unequivocally a superpower, along with only China and a rapidly sinking USA, with two consecutive clowns as president.

Spitting out drinks, kicking over coffee tables or violently falling backwards, the entire world heard Biden on 3/1/22, “Putin may circle Kiev with tanks but will never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.” Sitting behind hazy Joe, Kamala Harris only knitted her brows slightly, while Nany Pelosi maintained an impressively unperturbed, indulgent or perhaps just alcoholic composure. After five shots of Jameson, I usually have the same expression.

Seibert mentioned a Zoom call organized by Tablet, so I went there to find a 3/4/22 article, “Jewish Ukraine Fights Nazi Russia,” which lauds Zelensky’s emergence as “the most valorous, poised, and fearless wartime president of recent Western history.” Jews aren’t shy about praising themselves, but why should they be? Chosen, they’re a breed apart.

Another Seibert source is Ukrainska Pravda. On 3/3/22, it stated that “most members of the Russian elite were taking their relatives and friends out of Moscow to Georgia, Israel, and the UAE.

“Russia’s top political leadership continue to panic, and their distrust of Vladimir Putin is increasing, so they are evacuating families and looking for places to hide in case of escalating war.”

So in or out of battle, Russians are fleeing, while Ukrainians remain valiant and steadfast under the superb guidance of the most “fearless wartime president of recent Western history,” if not a new Churchill. According to Russian sources, however, Zelensky is not even in Kiev, but escaped to Lviv or even Poland.

In any war, both sides must lie, so one should be super leery of any official mouthpiece. Born into a war, I was raised inside its relentlessly upbeat propaganda.

In this paradigm, your side is righteous and invincible, while the enemy is evil, confused, demoralized and suffering terrible losses, battle after battle, until, inexplicably, their tanks roll down your very street as you sob or vomit blood. That is, if you’re still alive to witness such a terrifying defeat.

There’s another American in Ukraine I’ve been following, Coach Red Pill, whose real name is Gonzalo Lira. Born in California to Chilean parents, Lira is a novelist and filmmaker who, like Seibert, is married to a Ukrainian.

Stuck in Kiev as war broke out, Lira made four YouTube videos which quickly gained him an international audience. Insightful and bold, they’re delivered quite fearlessly, if not recklessly, with plenty of humor.

On 2/26/22, Lira said, “I’m not going to be, you know, spending several hundred Euros per night on a nice room, and sleep in the fuckin’ garage, man. No, no! I’m going to get my money’s worth, and if my room gets blown up by a missile, so be it. At least I got my money’s worth, you know, before I became pink mist.”

Of Lira’s second video from Kiev, “What Russia Wants from Its Invasion of Ukraine—and Why Zelensky Is Evil” of 2/27/22, I transcribed 1,880 words, not just because I wanted to make it the backbone of an article, but because I suspected it would be deleted.

Lira, “What really bothers me. And perhaps this isn’t a wise thing for me to say, while I'm still in Ukraine, under the Zelensky regime, what really bothers me is that the Zelensky regime has no trouble causing a humanitarian crisis. In fact, they welcome a humanitarian crisis. They would love to see dead Ukrainians.”

While all of Lira’s YouTube videos are still there, the man hasn’t been heard from in four days. His Instagram account is also dormant.

Though the Zelensky regime can’t be happy with Lira’s contrarian accounts getting heavy play all over, including in Russia, let’s hope it has done no more than warned the man. Perhaps Lira has simply decided he has spoken enough, for now. I’m sure his wife and in-laws have given him an earful.

With assault rifles passed out to even criminals, as Lira pointed out, so many people in Ukraine have already been murdered, away from battle.

[Durham, 2/26/17]

Uncle Sam’s Latest Snuff Film

As published at SubStack and Veterans Today (with a hilarious intro by Kevin Barrett), 3/3/22:

[Kiev, 2/13/16]

For about two years, my blog had a reader who commented often, but nearly always with slogans, cliches or cartoony logic. When I pointed out that Europe’s problem with Muslim refugees would be solved if the Jewjerked West would stop destroying Muslim countries, she indignantly replied, “In any war, the men must stay and fight, and the women must stay to help them!”

Europe’s Muslim refugee problem, then, can’t be blamed on Israel, Uncle Sam or NATO, but on their terrified victims, for fleeing the Jewjerked West’s bombs and bullets!

Before Syria was attacked, it was a haven for Iraqi refugees. Though regularly sabotaged or attacked by Israel, Lebanon still houses 1.5 million refugees from Syria, Palestine and Iraq. Before Libya was destroyed, it attracted thousands of Africans from other countries. The Jewjerked West leads the world, by far, in generating refugees.

More than corpses or maimed bodies, war creates refugees, and we’re seeing it, again, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A week into this war, a million Ukrainians have already fled to other countries, and this number would be much higher without the Kiev government’s policy of turning back, and conscripting, all Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 60.

In Kiev, many of those who remain have sought shelter in its unusually deep subway system. A glance at such scenes shows many men hiding with their women, for they’re not bare-chested Rambos, each brandishing an AKM rifle with an extra phallic M203 grenade launcher, ready to mow down hundreds of Russians. If Sylvester Stallone was in Kiev, he’d undoubtedly be curled up inside Arsenalna Station, at 347 feet underground the deepest in the world. That’s 32 stories down! Why take chances?

Now, let’s just use common sense to examine why a man might not rush to war. If he has, say, three children, their survival is his top priority. Thinking likewise, his wife begs him to take them all somewhere safe, so even if he doesn’t mind dying in battle, he must decisively remove his family from danger as soon as possible, and survive to take care of them.

If he loses his sight, mind, limbs or loin as a soldier, he won’t just be useless to them, but a tremendous liability for decades. In his wife’s mind, this daunting fact tempers her patriotism.

Since fleeing involves risks and complications, many will hesitate or simply balk, with sometimes disastrous results. Not wanting to lose their home, they may end up bloodless and open eyed under its beams and bricks. A child, though, may survive as an orphaned vegetable.

There’s a reason why most armies depend on barely adult men, with fewer familial responsibilities and lots to prove. Though seemingly well drilled, most can’t dependably ejaculate under fire, however, for they can’t overcome their instinctive horror of killing a fellow man.

A French colonel, Ardant du Picq (1821-1870), was the first to point out that most soldiers would not kill, so consult his Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle, first published in full in 1902. S. L. A. Marshall’s Men Against Fire (1947) is also seminal, but above all, read Dave Grossman’s On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, from 1996.

Muscular yet often poetic, On Killing reveals there are actually very few cool killers among us, because “killing is a private, intimate occurrence of tremendous intensity,” and more irreversible than any act, so most men just won’t do it, no matter how spiteful, angry or mean they may be. Drawing out and rationing their hatred, they’ll stop short of spilling entrails. Check out these passages from On Killing:

A threatened baboon or rooster who elects to stand its ground does not respond to aggression from one of his own kind by leaping instantly to the enemy’s throat. Instead, both creatures instinctively go through a series of posturing actions that, while intimidating, are almost always harmless.

When the fight option is utilized [among animals of the same species], it is almost never to the death. Konrad Lorenz pointed out that piranhas and rattlesnakes will bite anything and everything, but among themselves piranhas fight with raps of their tails, and rattlesnakes wrestle.

When a man is frightened, he literally stops thinking with his forebrain (that is, with the mind of a human being) and begins to think with the midbrain (that is, with the portion of his brain that is essentially indistinguishable from that of an animal), and in the mind of an animal it is the one who makes the loudest noise or puffs himself up the largest who will win.

Prior to World War II it had always been assumed that the average soldier would kill in combat simply because his country and his leaders had told him to do so and because it was essential to defend his own life and the lives of his friends. When the point came that he didn’t kill, it was assumed that he panicked and ran.

During World War II U.S. Army Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall asked these average soldiers what it was that they did in battle. His singularly unexpected discovery was that, of every hundred men along the line of fire during the period of an encounter, an average of only 15 to 20 “would take any part with their weapons.” This was consistently true “whether the action was spread over a day, or two days or three.”

[…] General Crook’s men fired 25,000 rounds at Rosebud Creek on June 16, 1876, causing 99 casualties among the Indians, or 252 rounds per hit. And in the French defense from fortified positions during the Battle of Wissembourg, in 1870, the French, shooting at German soldiers advancing across open fields, fired 48,000 rounds to hit 404 Germans, for a hit ratio of 1 hit per 119 rounds fired. (And some, or possibly even the majority, of the casualties had to have been from artillery fire, which makes the French killing rate even more remarkable.)

Lieutenant George Roupell encountered this same phenomenon while commanding a British platoon in World War I. He stated that the only way he could stop his men from firing into the air was to draw his sword and walk down the trench, “beating the men on the backside and, as I got their attention, telling them to fire low.” And the trend can be found in the firefights of Vietnam, when more than fifty thousand bullets were fired for every enemy soldier killed. “One of the things that amazed me,” stated Douglas Graham, a medic with the First Marine Division in Vietnam, who had to crawl out under enemy and friendly fire to aid wounded soldiers, “is how many bullets can be fired during a firefight without anyone getting hurt.”

The weak link between the killing potential and the killing capability of these units was the soldier. The simple fact is that when faced with a living, breathing opponent instead of a target, a significant majority of the soldiers revert to a posturing mode in which they fire over their enemy’s heads.

Indeed, the history of warfare can be seen as a history of increasingly more effective mechanisms for enabling and conditioning men to overcome their innate resistance to killing their fellow human beings.

With the current situation in Ukraine, there’s the additional, and decisive, factor of futility, because no matter how selfless or valiant Ukrainian soldiers may resist, they will lose to Russia. Plus, there’s the doubt they’re fighting for Ukraine at all.

Nakedly exposed, young Ukrainians are goaded by cynical old men, most of them foreign. Sick, they salivate over upcoming shots of smoldering corpses in this, Uncle Sam’s latest snuff film.

[Windhoek, 3/1/22]

"A war within a war" on CBS News, 3/1/22:

Coach Red Pill's "My Trip From Kiev to Kharkov Last Night":

Moon of Alabama on day 5 of the war in Ukraine:

 

 

[...]

The U.S. and its proxies in the EU and elsewhere have put up very harsh sanctions on Russia to damage its economy.

The final intent of this economic war is regime change in Russia.

The likely consequence will be regime change in many other countries.

This war is waged at a financial size that is unprecedented. The consequences in all markets will be very significant to extreme. But experience from Iran shows that such financial wars have their limits as the targeted country learns to survive. Moreover Russia is in a much stronger position than Iran ever was and is better prepared for the consequences.

The rubel fell some 30% today but Russia's central bank immediately more than doubled its interest rate to 20%. It is willing to fight inflation before it is really sets in. How much of Russia's investment and consumption depends on imports from the 'west'? Can't most of it not be replaced by imports from China?

All energy consumption in the U.S. and EU will now come at a premium price. This will push the EU and the U.S. into a recession. As Russia will increase the prices for exports of goods in which it has market power - gas, oil, wheat, potassium, titanium, aluminum, palladium, neon etc - the rise in inflation all around the world will become significant.

'Western' central banks are still at practical 0% interest rates and will be reluctant to increase those as that will cause a deeper recession. This makes it likely that inflation in the 'western' world will increase at a higher rate than Russia's.

Germany's crazy move to add $120 billion to defense spending (up from some $40 billion p.a.) will within a few years create a strong military imbalance in Europe as Germany will then dominate all its neighbors. This is unnecessary and historically very dangerous. The shunning of economic relations with Russia and China means that Germany and its newbie chancellor Olaf Scholz have fallen for the U.S. scheme of creating a new Cold War. Germany's economy will now become one of its victims.

On February 4 Russia and China declared a multipolar world in which they are two partnering poles that will counter the American one. Russia's move into the Ukraine is a demonstration of that.

It also shows that the U.S. is unwilling to give up its supremacist urges without a large fight. But while the U.S. over the last 20 years has spent its money to mess up the Middle East, Russia and China have used the time to prepare for the larger conflict. They have spent more brain time on the issue than the U.S. has.

The Europeans should have acknowledged that instead of helping the U.S. to keep up its self-image of a unipolar power.

[...]

 

 

Putin the Formidable

As published at SubStack, 2/28/22:

[Tarragona, 9/26/17]

I was half dead on the beach in sunny Swakopmund, soaking up some vitamin D for my diseased carcass, when war broke out in the Ukraine, a suffering country with the most beautiful people, one I regret spending so little time in.

Clearing up my tombo grogginess, I checked in on the news, like everybody else, to access if the world would end in mere days, thus canceling Spring Training for 2022, at least. In The Guardian, don’t laugh yet, I found this lurid assertion, as penned by the much-celebrated Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin:

Putin’s end goal isn’t Ukraine but western civilization—the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat.

So Putin is attacking Ukraine because he hates western civilization! This echoes George W. Bush’s inane claim that Muslims hate the US for its freedom. No, Muslims hate the US, though hardly enough, for massacring them, destroying their societies and always backing the Synagogue of Satan.

As for Putin’s supposed jihad against the West, I can’t be the only one to consider Russia, with its Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekov and Solzhenitsyn, etc., to be one of the brightest stars of western civilization, with writers so magnificent and brave, they make most of the rest look like, well, I better not say. The self-anointed true West, though, has often portrayed Russia as belonging to a barbaric East.

[Nha Trang, 12/21/19]

Yes, Russia has also produced, and endured, Ivan the Terrible and Stalin. The second was a Georgian, I know, but he ruled Russia, a multicultural society as founded by Ivan the Terrible.

Many have pointed out that Terrible is misleading, for грозный (grozny, as in the Chechen city) can also be translated as “fearsome” or “formidable.” The root of грозный is merely гроза, whose primary meaning is “thunderstorm.”

All monarchs in the 16th century, from the Far East to Africa and the Americas, had to be fearsome and formidable to deal with external and internal enemies, which isn’t to claim Ivan was a nice guy. He did beat his daughter-in-law into having a miscarriage and clubbed his exceptional and battle-tested son to death, which left him with a retard as an heir, but listen, Alexander the Great tortured and massacred many more people, and razed many more cities, but Alex is great, and Ivan is terrible.

Since Putin is also terrible, according to Sorokin, Ivan is dug up to frighten ahistorical and thought adverse Westerners:

In Russia, power is a pyramid. This pyramid was built by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century—an ambitious, brutal tsar overrun by paranoia and a great many other vices. With the help of his personal army—the oprichnina—he cruelly and bloodily divided the Russian state into power and people, friend and foe, and the gap between them became the deepest of moats.

State power, by nature, is a pyramid, and every tsar (Russian for caesar) has to be ambitious to achieve or hold onto power. Even a chef, writer or waiter must be ambitious to survive. Speaking of which, Sorokin’s ambitions have resulted in him being translated into most NATO languages, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian, plus American-allied Japanese and Korean, with Serbian the only pro Russian one.

[Cairo, 1/6/21]

With NATO so hospitable to Sorokin, he dismisses Putin’s concerns about America and NATO’s threat to Russia as a sign of Putin’s insanity:

This war was unleashed by a man corrupted by absolute power, who, in his madness, has decided to redraw the map of our world. If you listen to Putin’s speech announcing a “special operation”, America and Nato are mentioned more than Ukraine.

Instead of having Putin depicted by an unhinged and compromised Sorokin, let’s hear from the new Ivan the Terrible himself, from a TV statement on 2/25/22, as translated by Gilbert Doctorow:

“The main fighting is not with the Ukrainian regular army but with the nationalist formations [Azov and other special battalions] who, as is well known, bear direct responsibility for the genocide in Donbas and for spilled blood of innocent civilians of the People’s Republics. In addition, nationalist elements integrated into the regular Army units, incite them to resist… Moreover according to the information we possess, the Banderovtsy [WWII Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, hero of the present-day radical nationalists] are placing heavy artillery, including volley fire systems, in downtown areas of major cities including Kharkov and Kiev. They are planning to attract return fire from Russian attack units straight into residential blocks.  Essentially they are operating just like terrorists around the world. They take cover among civilians in order to then level accusations against Russia for killings of innocent people. It is well known that all of this is happening on the advice of foreign consultants, above all American advisers.

“Once again I appeal to the servicemen in the armed forces of Ukraine. Don’t allow the neo-Nazis and Banderovtsy to use your wives, children and old folks as human shields. Take power into your own hands. It will be easier for us to come to terms with you than with the band of neo-Nazis and drug addicts [reference to Zelensky, a cocaine user] who settled in Kiev and have taken the whole Ukrainian people hostage.

“I also want to give the highest ratings to Russian soldiers and officers. They are acting bravely, professionally, heroically carrying out their warrior’s duties and successfully ensuring the security of our people and our Fatherland.”

Here, Putin is making a distinction between ordinary Ukrainian soldiers and neo-Nazis, who “have taken the whole Ukrainian people hostage.” Acting like terrorists, these neo-Nazis have placed heavy artillery into residential blocks to attract Russian fire and get ordinary Ukrainians killed, for propaganda purposes. Uncle Sam is advising them to do this. For the US and its Jew media, the more Ukrainians massacred, the better, so they can prove to the world that Putin is really Ivan the Terrible.

The Jewish mind also harbors a special hatred for Russians, or just Slavs, as well as all populations it has had a long history with, such as Egyptians, Iranians, Germans, Arabs and, yes, Americans. Without fail, the Jewish mind always claims to be blameless while racking up a litany of accusations, often exaggerated or even entirely fabricated, against its hosts and neighbors. The Jewish mind needs this outraged indignation to not just feel morally superior, but to cover up its real crimes.

Now, let’s check in with an American who’s lived in Kiev for 15 years. In June of 2021, I interviewed 78-year-old Graham Seibert. Though in Vietnam during the war, Seibert was not a combatant but technician for IBM. A “refugee from the United States,” he’s married to a Ukrainian, with whom he has three children. On 2/25/22, Seibert wrote on his SubStack blog:

People from around the country reported [seeing Russian tanks] in front of their houses, across the street and so on. Russia possesses a great many. They weren’t shooting at anything, just making sure that everybody knew they were there.

[…] Zelensky was offering to give a weapon to any man of any age willing to step up and defend the country. That sounds like desperation—like the Germans giving guns to sub teen boys in the last days of World War II […]

My opinion has been that Russia could conquer Ukraine easily. How easily, I was off by an order of magnitude. Judging from the quiet, it is all over after 24 hours.

[…]

The big question is what kind of government we will have. The answer is, whatever kind Russia wants.

Twenty-six hours into the invasion, Seibert sounded resigned to a total Russian victory. He also said his Kiev neighborhood was “very quiet,” with “no aircraft, no cars on the street I can hear, I don’t hear the trains running […] We still have light, telephones and Internet.”

Just a day later, Seibert painted an entirely different picture, with substantial input from an American friend in London. Also married to a Ukrainian, this man was also following the situation very closely:

Gary understands war. He was a forward artillery spotter in the jungles of Laos and Cambodia during Vietnam […]

Gary confirmed my observation that the Russians do not have air superiority. That is why there are no fighter aircraft or helicopters in the skies here over Kyiv. Useful as they would be to support Russian armor, they would be too exposed. Ukraine retains a certain amount of air power to defend itself.

The Ukrainian Army has put up much stiffer than expected opposition. Although troops from Crimea entered a number of Southern Ukrainian cities on day one, they have been pushed out of many of the larger ones. Gary names Mariupol, Odessa and Kherson. He said that they have not been able to enter Kharkiv. They are bogged down, way behind the timetable they had set for themselves. Gary says that he and I are not the only prognosticators to have seriously underestimated the Ukrainian resistance. Or, conversely, overestimated Russian invincibility.

It appeared the objective was to capture Kyiv within three days. It has not happened […]

[…] The Russians are probably constrained by supplies, given the unexpected resistance they encountered in the South, and by a lack of air support. They are also constrained by the imperative of not inflicting unnecessary civilian casualties.

This leads to the question of public relations. This whole invasion is a PR disaster for Putin. The Russian citizens are rising up in 60 or 80 cities across the country. They did not want a war against their fellow Slavs, and they did not want their sons coming home in body bags. That is the reason that quick execution was of the essence to Putin. The fact that that is not happening might easily collapse the entire campaign.

Notice two unsupported assumptions here, Gary’s conclusion that the Russians were “way behind the timetable they had set for themselves,” and Seibert’s “it appeared the objective was to capture Kyiv within three days.” Just 2 ½ days had passed! Even Israel’s humiliation of a bumbling and vainglorious Nasser took six days!

[Kiev, 2/9/16. "DADDY, WILL YOU PROTECT ME?"]

For a different take on what’s going on, here’s a report from another American in Kiev, Coach Red Pill, as transcribed from a YouTube video:

It’s the third day of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Now, people in the United States do not seem to understand what is going on insofar as Russia’s invasion is concerned, because they keep saying that Russia is failing, which is the weirdest comment. Russia is failing because Russia hasn’t taken out the infrastructure of Ukraine, hasn’t hit the electrical grid, hasn’t destroyed the cell phone towers, or the water supply or anything like that […]

It’s just a failure of imagination on the part of so many American commentators that they do not seem to understand what Russia is really doing with this invasion, because you see, the American mode of war is to go to a country and destroy everything, destroy the electrical grid, cell towers, the water supply system, everything, just destroy the whole thing, and then… roll in! That’s not fighting a war. That’s just mopping up the total annihilation of a country. And the United States has done this repeatedly, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya, in Syria, or they semi tried to do it in Syria.

I mean, it’s really kind of like a despicable way of making war, right? What are the Russians doing? Well, see, the Russians, they don’t wanna destroy Ukraine. No, they don’t want to destroy it at all! What they wanna do is they want to capture it intact, see, and they don’t wanna hurt the civilians. Why would they?

From their point of view, if they harm civilians, they just create enemies. And so they want to capture Ukraine, change the political leadership of Ukraine and install a political leadership that is sympathetic to Russia’s security needs and is going to be a long-term ally, but they don’t want to alienate the Ukrainian population, because if they alienate the Ukrainian population, well, the Ukrainian population will eventually overthrow this puppet regime.

The Russians want to install a puppet regime, let’s not pretend otherwise, but they want to install a puppet regime whereby the Ukrainian citizens are more or less indifferent to it. They don’t want to install a puppet regime after having made the lives of Ukrainians so miserable.

So that’s why they don’t wanna destroy Ukraine or harm the Ukrainian populace. They want to capture Ukraine, intact, change the political leadership, and then let it go! Of course, because they don’t want to manage Ukraine. They don’t want it to be a burden on them!

They are rapidly invading the whole country, and everybody can see that they’re moving very, very quickly, but they’re not hitting any civilian infrastructure. They’re only hitting military targets and they are relentless in hitting the military targets, but always with a certain degree of caution, and I’ll explain why in just a moment […] When they go to a city or a destination, when they encounter any resistance from the Ukrainian Army, any serious resistance, they stop and pull back, because what are they doing? They are encircling.

That’s their whole strategy, it’s very simple, and if you look at a map, you’ll realize what the Russians are doing is that whenever they go to a major city, like Kiev, like Kharkov, and soon enough they’re gonna be in Dnipro. When they get to those cities, they go up to those cities and they meet some resistance and then they pull back […] They are encircling these cities, and once they’ve completely encircled them, what will they do? They’ll wait! That’s what they’ll do.

See, if you surround a city, all you have to do is just wait around. Eventually it’ll fall. Of course! So the Russians are systematically surrounding all of the major cities […] Whenever they meet any kind of serious resistance, they stop, pull back and then encircle. One of the things that they want to capture intact, and people don’t seem to realize this, but it’s very obvious if you think about it. They are trying to capture the Ukrainian army.

That’s why there hasn’t been any major battle with, you know, hundreds or thousands of casualties. It’s been light skirmishes. For all intents and purposes, the Russian army is tiptoeing into Ukraine. Insofar as air power is concerned, the Russians in the first three hours wiped the Ukrainian skies of everything. The Russians own the Ukrainian skies. Any plane flying is Russian,

But insofar as their army is concerned, this isn’t World War II. This isn’t a World War II where the Russian armies were, you know, I mean, you know, just kissing cousins of the Mongol hordes, you know what I’m saying? No, this is the modern Russian army that has the goal of capturing intact Ukraine and the Ukrainian Army. Because the Russians realize that once they have captured Ukraine and changed the political leadership, they will need an army to protect and look after the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian land. They don’t wanna destroy the Ukrainian Army. They could do that if they wanted to […]

In the West, this is interpreted as the Russians are weak, which is so weird […] The Russians are so weak because they’re not, obliterating the Ukrainian army, because that’s what the Americans do. They obliterate anything that crosses their path, friend or foe, they don’t really care, but the Russians do care […]

Once the Russians owned the skies over Ukraine, they could have done whatever they wanted with the Ukrainian Army. They could have annihilated it, just blown it to smithereens, and blown away the entire population of Ukraine, if they wanted to. They could cause a major, major humanitarian crisis if they wanted to, and they obviously don’t. How do I know this? Because they haven’t done it! They have had the opportunity for three days to do it and they haven’t done it.

I’m doing this stupid video from a hotel room in downtown Kiev, and I’m gonna upload it to the internet. Do you think I’d be able to do it if the Russians were really serious about conquering Ukraine?

They want to capture it, understand that, and understand that you in the West, you are being goaded into thinking that Putin and the Russians are like evil Antichrists. You don’t understand why the Russians are invading, and your political leadership, Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, all these people, they don’t want you to understand, of course not! They want you to just demonize, just to take the easy way out. They want you to imagine that this is a Marvel comic book movie, and that, you know, there are white hats and black hats, good guys and bad guys. Eeeeeh, we gotta kill the bad guys because we’re the good guys, yeah! It’s so naïve […]

What really bothers me, and perhaps this isn’t a wise thing for me to say while I’m still in Ukraine, under the Zelensky regime. What really bothers me is that the Zelensky regime has no trouble causing a humanitarian crisis. In fact, they welcome a humanitarian crisis. They would love to see dead Ukrainians […] Do you know how I know this for a fact? Because the Zelensky government has been handing out AK 47’s willy-nilly to the civilian population.

As I understand it, they’ve already handed out 10,000 AK 47’s, and munitions to match. Now, you see, if you’ve never had any kind of military experience, you with a weapon like that, you can become extremely dangerous to all the people around you, and to yourself. It takes training to operate a firearm. You have to know what you’re doing. It’s not a casual thing, OK? It’s not like in the movies. It’s very, very dangerous, and you can harm yourself before you harm anybody else. And the harm you can cause to others is, you know, it’s incalculable, and you can’t take it back. Now, the Zelensky regime is handing out these weapons, teaching people how to use Molotov cocktails, how to make Molotov cocktails and use them themselves. They want to foment the people to fight the war against the Russians.

The thing is, the Russians have professional soldiers […] If they see somebody armed, be it a man in a uniform or just a civilian with an AK 47, well, they’re gonna shoot him, okay? And so that civilian will be dead, and that will present a great photo op, now won’t it? So that Zelensky can wrangle some European country or the Americans or whomever to come in and get involved in this war, and potentially escalate the situation to levels that are unimaginable.

The Zelensky regime is doing something frankly evil, because it is evil to put civilians, to encourage civilians, to do something that incredibly dangerous and irresponsible. The Zelensky regime has also put heavy weaponry in civilian population centers. Now, these heavy weapons, Howitzers and whatnot, they’re dangerous. And so, the Russian army has every right and obligation to destroy such heavy weapons. But of course, when trying to destroy such weapons, it’s inevitable that you’re not gonna quite hit the weapons when you try to aim for them. You’re gonna hit around the weapons. Therefore, if these weapons are in the middle of apartment complexes, you’re gonna have Russians shelling apartment complexes, killing innocent civilians.

The Zelensky regime is putting these weapons in the middle of populated areas, precisely because they want to have this happen. And I’ll tell you something else that the Zelensky regime is doing. They are forcibly conscripting men between the ages of 18 and 60. They are not allowing them to leave the country, and if they try to leave the country, they are arrested and forcibly conscripted, that is, forcibly put into the Ukrainian Army.

Now, what has happened because of this? Well, just about every man between the ages of 18 and 60 is running away from the cities. That’s why there are so many refugees. It’s not that they are seriously thinking that the Russians are going to shell and destroy their apartments or their homes or whatnot. They’re afraid of getting arrested and forcibly conscripted. The women and the young children and old men are having to hide these men who are between the ages of 18 and 60.

By the way, this isn’t something that I heard. People that I know personally, people that I do business with, I know them, I know them! I’ve gone drinking with them, eating with them, doing deals with them. They’ve had to leave Kiev for fear of being forcibly pressed into the Ukrainian Army, middle aged men, farts like me, who are out of shape, you know. We’re real good at some business deal, but crappy at, uh, carrying a backpack and a weapon, with no experience whatsoever in such activity […] Why do you think they’re doing it? First of all, you don’t forcibly conscript men into your army if you think you’re winning, now do you? Of course, not.

Number two, by having this forcible conscription, you scare all the men, and you create, all on your own, a whole class of refugees of people fleeing the cities. They’re not afraid of the Russians [… ] No, they’re afraid of the Zelensky regime […]

Though I had never heard of Coach Red Pill before this video, I’m very impressed by his analysis. Not so Graham Seibert, who emailed me:

Putin doubled down. Fatal mistake.

War is always full of surprises. The ferocity and success of Ukraine’s defense amazes me. Zelensky’s cool under fire likewise.

My prognosis is that Putin is gone in a couple of months, after which Russia can again start to trade its natural resources for things it needs from Europe. I am concerned that Europe is going to try to impose all of the cultural garbage that Putin so adamantly resisted on both Ukraine and Russia.

Even in his prediction of Putin’s demise, Seibert betrays an admiration for the Russian President’s fierce resistance to the West’s mental pollution, which leads us to the question of who, right now, is the staunchest defender of the West’s cultural and religious heritage, if not the man the Jewjacked “West” constantly denounces as Hitler, the Antichrist or Ivan the Terrible?

[Kiev, 2/8/16]

To know what the Jewish agenda is, all you have to do is look at any media consensus in this Jewjacked “West.” What the Jew press says, the goyim politicians parrot almost unanimously, with, at times, a few muffled voices half allowed in impotent dissent, to show that “democracy” isn’t entirely masked, under lockdown or jabbed to death.   

Of the three voices I quoted above, the one that made the least sense also has, exponentially, the largest audience, thus influence, so congratulations, Vladimir Sorokin!

In his attack on Putin, Sorokin also mentions that “Putin’s favorite philosopher is Ivan Ilyin—a monarchist, Russian nationalist, anti-Semite, and ideologist of the White movement.”

Since most people have never heard of Ilyin and won’t read him, they’ll just take it from Sorokin that Ilyin must have been terrible, for 1) He’s loved by Putin the Nazi (even as he’s fighting neo-Nazis) 2) He’s a monarchist, nationalist, anti-Semite and ideologist of the White (anti-Communist) movement. To be sanctioned by Jews, you see, one must be a progressive globalist and Jew-worshipping Marxist.

At this point in my article, it’s 6:10PM, Namibian time, on 2/28/22, and I just checked to make sure no nuke has gone off in the northern hemisphere, although there’s a movement among GOP governors to boycott Russian vodka!

These posturing morons don’t realize Russia can put a serious hurt on many of America’s most slavish lackeys, and the USA itself, by turning off its natural gas spigot, diverting its wheat export to China and disrupting the transport of wheat from Ukraine, as may have happened already, with three merchant ships hit by missiles in the Black Sea. Those were no accidents. Russia is also the world’s largest exporter of fertilizer.  

I’ll close with a prediction of my own. Far from disappearing, Putin will emerge from this a hero, both at home and abroad, for staring down Uncle Sam and NATO as he firmly takes care of some urgent business, but without, like Uncle Sam, leaving ruins in his wake. Of course, if Sammy is insane enough to escalate this into a nuclear war, then we will simply curse everything, and perhaps life itself.

[Windhoek, 11/12/21]