People are mocking this old headline without understanding that it was absolutely correct:
Zelensky won 74% of the vote in 2019 because he was extremely pro-Russian. He’s not ethnically Ukrainian and not a Ukrainian nationalist. He was a Russian lackey who made his money by mocking Ukrainians for the entertainment of Russian audiences. This is why he was elected. Voters wanted him to make nice with Russia. And he did. He all but crawled on his stomach to please Putin. Which is why I hated him back then.
But it didn’t work. Russia’s war is 100% internally motivated. You can’t do anything from the outside to stop it. That there are literally zero people in the US capable of explaining this to the public is very disturbing. Imagine how many other issues there are where we are being misled by morons.
Most people’s brains can’t tolerate complexity and they seek jingles and stock phrases to believe the pressure of complexity against their untrained, weak neural connection.
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OT (a bit):
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2037898578979332376
I wonder how this fits in with rumors of Netanyahu being very ill (or… worse).
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Either both Netanyahu and Trump are clinical morons, or the purpose of this war is not to vanquish Iran. Because they studiously ignore every opportunity to vanquish Iran and instead ensure that the war is protracted and very painful to the US.
Neither possibility should be discounted.
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“Netanyahu and Trump are clinical morons, or”
I think it might just be flop sweat… Trump is flailing and nothing he nor anyone else in the administration says makes any sense….
“ensure that the war is protracted and very painful to the US”
I think that’s a by-product… maybe the goal is to hurt China though that’s not working either, so… morons it is.
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Smuts was an early believer in Rhodes’ theory that Anglos and Afrikaners in SA are one people. It was the betrayal of his special military operation against he Boers which caused Smuts to take up arms.
https://www.nongqai.org/bovenplaas-and-the-boyhood-of-jan-smuts/
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Well, let us hope that there actually was an approaching risk of nuclear weapons controlled by messianic theocratic despots intent upon destroying the world to bring the 12th and final Imam, the promised Mahdi, who will return to fill the world with justice. A possibility, differing in one form or another, in all the Abrahamic religions.
Or alternately, that this is actually is a complex clever 4D chess game to control energy and thus maintain the dollar as the world’s primary currency — because otherwise…
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You have the best memes, my friend. The absolute best.
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Well Kid, a dry? wry? sense of humour is better than no humour ;-D
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