Friends, if you want to have a big, stonking laugh, do watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Huckabee. We all know I don’t like Tucker because he’s anti-Ukrainian and says the most moronic things about Russia but in this interview he cooked Huckabee. He made mince pies out of Huckabee. There’s a new special on the menu called Hucka-hash.
This isn’t because Tucker is some sort of a genius. He’s not. He blew the interview with Putin who is not known for high IQ, let’s put it that way. Tucker slayed Huckabee because Huckabee was advancing a narrative of Israel’s statehood that is a losing narrative. I’ve been saying this for years as somebody who is quite friendly towards Israel. Also, Huckabee lied a lot, in a very clumsy, bumbling way but whatever.
The narrative of statehood I’m referring to is “we’ve been here for 3,000 years, so we have a right to have a nation-state here.” To Americans who most definitely haven’t been in their land for 3,000 years, this does not sound cute and endearing. This sounds like their own nationhood is being denigrated. It’s always a good idea to consider how your argument comes across to the people hearing it.
And by the way, I say the exact same thing to Ukrainians when they start on who lived where in the BC and the Sarmatians and who’s the real Slav and who’s actually a Finn. It’s moronic, I tell them. Kharkiv shouldn’t be bombed today entirely outside of whether the inhabitants of the Kyivan Rus considered themselves Ukrainian. Which they didn’t because people didn’t think in terms of today’s nationhood a thousand years ago.
The nation-state is a historically new formation. Even the nation-states that don’t look new very much are. France, for example, was stitched from very different ethnicities and brutally destroyed the linguistic, ethnic and cultural communities that existed on the territory of what is France today. Are we going to start doing DNA tests and reordering the planet accordingly?
There’s much more but I don’t want to torture people with an excessively long post.
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You can believe the Ukrainians are in the wrong in the war and not be anti-Ukrainian. Im very sympathetic to their Bandera following but that does not excuse the 2014 CIA coup or the provocation of Russia in the years afterwards. If your are going to get into bed with NATO and the globalist jews you’re going to get fleas, see Sadaam Hussein who attacked Iran at the encouragement of Israel and the US.
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There was no CIA coup in 2014. And there was no provocation of Russia. This is as ludicrous as “men can be women.” It’s embarrassing to say such things.
It’s ok not to know about other regions. It’s perfectly fine not to care to find out. But it’s not ok to be an AOC and blab excitedly about stuff you simply don’t know.
Now go pout about “rights” and how “Trump doesn’t care.”
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Victoria Nudelmans phone call suggests otherwise. Russia is a superpower, their reaction to a NATO Ukraine on their doorstep is no different than Americas would be under similar circumstances.
I don’t know what your last line even means.
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I understand that your hormonal state prevents you from processing information but for people who are not similarly afflicted I will repeat for the billionth time that, on the eve of the Russian invasion, support for joining the NATO in Ukraine was at 7%. Now go take your meds and try not to hurt yourself in the process.
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And again, phone calls, gossip, typical feminization. An utter incapacity to understand anything beyond what some dumb irrelevant chick blabbed. It’s all about girlbossy chicks blabbing excitedly. Zero analytical capacity. Pure emotional slobbering.
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Decisions are made by the “Leaders” not the people. Witness the American entry into WW2, despite massive opposition. I’m not interested in upsetting you, your insults make me even laugh a little though they in no way apply to me. I’m pretty much the exact opposite of that kind of man. It’s obvious that this is all very personal to you but Im not familiar enough with your blog to know why. But like I said, believing that Ukraine has been led down the prim rose path by nefarious western shadow powers does not mean one is anti-Ukrainian, quite the opposite.
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More inane prattle with zero knowledge of the situation. What “leaders” were there in Ukraine in 2014? Can you gave a few names of these leaders, you absolute walnut? Are these leaders in the room with you right now?
If you’ve got no specific names of Ukrainian leaders from 2013-14, please abstain from prattling any further.
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I’m not a fan of the theory of feminization but here we see proof of it on full view. Instead of saying, I don’t know about this and I don’t care about this region because it’s far away and has nothing to do with me, which I would respect, there’s this HR lady compilation of ludicrous claims that have no grounding in reality delivered in a hyper emotional way as some sort of divine revelation that everybody should bow to.
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“Sadaam Hussein who attacked Iran at the encouragement of Israel and the US”
I’m curious if you’re from the Middle East or if this is just the version of events you read somewhere?
Before the Iranian revolution, Iraq was very much in the Russian sphere of influence (just as Iran had been in the American sphere). And Saddam Hussein wanted to succeed Egypt’s Nasser as the leader of all the Arabs.
After the revolution, Iran looked weak and Saddam thought he could annex Iran’s Arab province. Instead Iran got fired up and said they would overthrow Saddam on their way to Jerusalem. At the start of the war, Russia reduced arms shipments to Iraq, and Iraq reached out to France. Later Iraq also restored diplomatic relations with the US (they had been downgraded since the 1967 war with Israel), who also didn’t want Iran to win. But Iraq always remained closest to the USSR.
As for Israel, they were probably more worried about Iraq at that time (they bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981). Israel was confronting Syria in Lebanon and Iran supported Syria, but Hezbollah wasn’t yet the threat that it later became.
So to sum up my take, Saddam’s Iraq and Khomeini’s Iran were fighting each other to see who would become the major regional power, and for about twenty years it was Iraq that was the leading challenger. It was only after the US occupied Iraq that Iran really came into its own.
Along the way, intelligence services can engage in activities that run counter to the headlines, but those are conspiracies at the edge of the action. The story as I have just told it, is the core of how I think events unfolded.
But I’m just an Australian observer so I am happy to learn more.
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Thank you, Lord Jesus, finally there’s a thoughtful analysis of that situation.
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Subconsciously, part of why many Americans are sympathetic to Israel is that they are a young nation as well. Foolish for Huckabee to undermine that.
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I thought Huckabee was smarter. Now I don’t know why I thought that.
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“Smarter” meaning more capable of dissembling. He should’ve just kept on with his traitorous ways. Giving the game away by opening his mouth, now that’s the real problem!
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What I found particularly galling is that Huckabee repeated every Israeli talking point with the subservience of a service poodle. “IDF killed fewer civilians than any army of any nation throughout history.” Dude, come on. You are supposed to be an official of the US government. This is humiliating. If you are going to repeat such claims, you need to bring serious numbers. But he had nothing. He was reciting these lines with zero attempts to distance himself from them.
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Some people aren’t good at public relations and campaigning. Consider his performance when he ran for president.
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For some reason, I thought he was smarter. He’s supposed to be a preacher. These should be talky people with great rhetorical skills.
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Once again, I ask, what are the forces that have kept people like this in positions of power in the american government for decades?
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Or Kushner. Once again, Kushner is all over the place, destroying any hope of a resolution in Ukraine. That slimy bastard, I can’t even.
Between him and Witkoff, I’m massively losing what little patience I had for this administration’s foreign policy.
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~~It’s a mystery~~
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In other jewish news, the commerce secretary wrote an intentionally flawed tariff bill to enrich himself.
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