Now everyone mourns Ukraine for a week, before immediately forgetting her like Afghanistan. Spare me your crocodile tears, they’re disgusting.
More than five million people in Donbass have been under siege for eight years. Eight. Years. They were completely alone and no one in the West even pretended to care about them. Quite the opposite, the West smeared them, slandered them, and laughed at them. Western journalists claimed that Donbass people are actually Russian Spetznaz in disguise, which I guess is a compliment. Some farmers and coal miners couldn’t possibly be defeating NATO’s surrogates. No, it had to be secret elite soldiers sent by Vladimir “literally worse than Hitler” Putin himself.
Apparently, it is stupid and wrong for 5 million people to want independence. Meanwhile, Montenegro joined NATO with a population of 600 thousand. Montenegro is the size of a small town in Iowa, but their demands for independence must be respected. Donbass asked for independence and the West tried to genocide them out of existence with eight years of terrorism and hybrid warfare.
Western Democracy has only one rule. Obey or be destroyed.
Concerning the Russian invasion. There were new offensives today. I haven’t seen any concrete figures from them, but Ukrainian sources claim a total of 137 Ukrainian lives, both civilian and military. That’s an extraordinarily low number, and there can be no doubt anymore that the Russians have been showing extreme restraint. Like I said in my previous post, the 2003 invasion of Iraq killed 30,000 of their soldiers and 7,000 civilians. We won by flattening their cities, and that’s not what’s happening here.
Apparently, Bruno Kahl, head of Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service, was caught in Kyiv at the beginning of the invasion. German special forces evacuated him and he is reportedly back in the EU. Supposedly, he was in Ukraine to personally deliver a message. Do they not have encrypted email in Germany? Anyone want to venture some guesses about why a high-level NATO spymaster was in Kyiv?
Putin asked the Ukrainian army to overthrow Zelensky’s government. He said he would prefer to talk to the army than “a bunch of drug addicts and neo-nazis” in Kyiv. Well, makes sense. Like I said yesterday, that’s the “win without fighting” strategy.
The western media is spreading a claim that on Feb. 24, Russian ships slaughtered 13 defenseless Ukrainian soldiers on Serpent Island. That story is completely false. The soldiers are still alive, and promised the right to go home soon. I’ll save details of that incident (with substantiating sources) for another post and share it here. For now, here’s a link to a Russian article about the incident. If you want to dismiss it as propaganda, fine, believe whatever you like, but use some common sense. Claiming that the Russian navy would dump a massive amount of steel rain on an inconsequential squad of soldiers doesn’t even make sense. How could the Russians casually wipe out 13 soldiers in a single incident, but still somehow kill less than 50 in the whole country? And why would Russia try to make friends with the Ukrainian army while simultaneously wiping them out? Sorry, but that’s a western strategy, not a Russian one.
It’s actually worse than that. The soldiers are alive and away from the combat zone, but every propaganda outlet in Ukraine and the West is insisting that they’re dead. Russian reports to the contrary are dismissed as fake news. What are their families suffering right now because of this stupid, horrible lie? Maybe, hopefully, they were allowed to contact home.
Oh, and check this out from the “2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine” Wikipedia page. Seems legit, right?
Regarding the claims that the Ukrainians killed 2,800 Russians and destroyed more than 580 vehicles… come on. I don’t feel like I should even need to explain why that’s a stupid thing to believe. The 1943 Battle of Kursk was the single largest tank battle in human history, and lasted 46 days. Overall, the Germans destroyed 7,000 Soviet tanks and guns (and still failed, by the way). Of course those losses weren’t evenly distributed, but on average that’s a little over 152 vehicle kills a day. The Ukrainians destroyed 500?
“Journalists” actually say this shit with a straight face. They expect me to believe that the Ukrainian army, with their Soviet-era equipment and a handful of expired hand-me-down javelins, inflicted three times more damage than the Wehrmacht? Also, this is not World War II. The currently engaged Russian forces are much smaller and more spread out, and so are the Ukrainians. Not to mention the 1943 Germans had an air force. Most of Ukraine’s combat aircraft have been destroyed, and it’s questionable how many of them were serviceable to begin with. So in short, much smaller armies, a more dispersed and less target-rich environment, virtually no aircraft, very few tanks, against an enemy with total air superiority… and the Ukrainians still did better than the Wehrmacht? Bullshit.
I am not in any way attacking Ukrainians or claiming they’re not competent. I simply ask that people try to stick to the truth, fact check with a sense of realism, and don’t drape disinformation with vapid sentimentality and attack anyone who questions it.
Of course it’s perfectly obvious why journalists are so eagerly spreading this nonsense. They want to invoke the “Asiatic horde” stereotype, and know that after a hundred years of persistent propaganda, we’re gullible enough to believe it. I think there’s a second fairly obvious reason.
The 2014 war in Donbass inflicted thousands upon thousands of military and civilian casualties. Anyone with half a brain should be able to look at a “137 dead” figure and deduce that this means the actual combat is very limited. The Russians rolled in with a friendly posture, and the large majority of Ukrainian soldiers declined to fight them. That’s the only remotely plausible explanation. If you’re still not convinced, Russian tanks arrive outside Kyiv in under 24 hours. How did Russians wade 200 kilometers through thousands of Ukrainian border guards so fast, and without killing them? Magic?
If the Ukrainian army is mostly not fighting, what’s the problem? Why are there so many cities and settlements behind Russia’s lines that are still not under control yet? That’s because they’re not normal defensive positions by a conventional army. This is guerrilla warfare. Set up heavy weapons in crowded urban areas where the Russians can’t shoot back without inflicting massive civilian casualties. Russians are calling that terrorism. Well, is there a better word for it? Also remember that both Ukraine and Russia are Orthodox. In WWII, the Nazis would set up firing positions in churches, knowing that Red Army soldiers would be reluctant to shoot back. Oh and by the way, British soldiers did this to the Greeks in 1944 (see my story here). It would not surprise me if Ukronazis are willing to do it too.
Would most Ukrainian soldiers be willing to use their own families and neighbors as human shields? Probably not. But that does sound like a tactic drug addicts and neo-nazis would be willing to use. Human shield tactics aren’t new, naturally. Islamic extremists have been doing it for years, like they did during the unrest in Kazakhstan last month (see my story here), or in Syria, Iraq, Libya… What do Banderite neo-nazis, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the other usual suspects all have in common? Well, for one, they were trained by NATO. They got their tactics from an honest source. That’s the same reason these terrorist groups have total control of the western media narrative. They have been trained how to deal with western journalists. If a western journalist shows up to your street corner, you can proclaim yourself a freedom fighter, and he’ll believe you. You can tell him you destroyed 500 Russian tanks by punching them really hard and he’ll believe you. You can tell him literally anything, no matter how profoundly stupid it is, and he’ll believe it all without question.
As if this war wasn’t terrible enough, the Biden regime is inventing new ways to make it worse. From CNN: a Biden “official” claimed, with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, that Russia is planning to kill the families of Ukrainian soldiers who fight back. Apparently, they didn’t even have the balls to associate that malicious lie with a name, so it’s just an anonymous official. The war could end right now. Zelensky could fuck off to a luxury villa in London or Miami while Ukrainians set up a more sensible government, and no one else would have to die. But the Biden regime can’t allow that. They want Ukraine to be the next Afghanistan, a broken, ruined mess. So they deliberately spread fear and panic in every way humanly possible.
That’s exactly the reason why I was so skeptical of a Russian invasion. The Biden regime clearly wanted a Russian invasion, so did everything they could to provoke one. They shell civilians in Donbass, western armies hold simulated invasions of Russia and loudly talk about NATO expansion, and Zelensky runs his mouth about acquiring nuclear weapons. Ukraine is supposed to be Russia’s Afghanistan, and I’ve said that repeatedly. Of course it was a trap all along, but I guess the Russians decided they just didn’t have any other choice.
Maybe it’s a way to “kill two birds with one stone.” Our government is absolutely corrupt, so big surprise, they’re using Ukraine as a money-laundering operation. Of course it’s all corruption and nepotism, what else would it be? Did you think a Ukrainian gas company was paying Hunter Biden $50,000 a month for his razor-sharp intellect? If Kyiv gets burned to the ground, that also erases the paper trail from years of shady business dealings by our ruling elites. Then just to add insult to injury, Biden can steal Ukraine’s money, just like he did to Afghanistan. The Afghan Central Bank trusted America with $7 billion, and Biden stole every last penny of it. It’s probably going to cause a financial meltdown and thousands of people will die unnecessary and easily preventable deaths, but oh well. Just business, right?
Not only is Donbass a warzone, the rest of Ukraine is too. The mother city of Kievan Russ burns. Years from now, people in Eastern Europe are going to look back, and wonder how they could have ever trusted a single word that came out of our mouths.
We love to talk about diversity and democracy, but on the inside, we actually hate diversity and democracy and think they’re weaknesses. If we truly thought these were good values, why do we repeatedly use them as weapons to divide and conquer?
And yes, I probably sound angry about all this because I am. It’s disgusting and any right-thinking person should be angry about it. Biden is digusting, but that’s not even the reason I’m angry. He’s a dictator, of course he’s disgusting. He was a greedy, nasty, dimwitted moron when he was young, so it would hardly be fair for me to expect him to be any different now as a feeble old man. That’s not why I’m angry. I’m angry because Russians and Ukrainians are killing each other, and a large segment of the American public could not be more excited about it. There’s a growing bloodlust in our society, and it’s completely intentional. Our elites have been feeding this bloodlust for a hundred years. The bloodlust of 1918 affected both Russia and America. Allied forces invaded the Soviet Union to teach them a lesson. Meanwhile, African American doughboys came home from the war and were lynched, also to teach them a lesson. Those two atrocities happened for the same reason. Russians and African Americans thought they could defy the natural order of the world, and needed to be punished.
The West’s greatest strength is that we have absolutely no sense of morality. We’re also utterly nihilistic and think human life is worthless, including our own. Our regimes in the West are willing to slaughter millions of people if we think it might give us even a trivial economic advantage later. Trying to negotiate with the West is like wrestling with a man covered in gasoline and holding a lit match. We’re willing to risk the extermination of the entire human race over the price of bananas. Our adversaries are afraid of angering us and often make concessions. That’s because they’re not insane and don’t want to constantly risk death over random short-term disagreements.
But our nihilism and lack of morality is also our greatest weakness. We’ll pursue pointless sadism for its own sake, and are oblivious to the idea that our actions might have unforeseen consequences. We’re snakes who crawl on our bellies and can’t imagine life upright. We think everybody is as cruel, greedy, and stupid as we are, and are always planning to attack us unless we attack them first. We think the concept of friendship is stupid, and that’s because we don’t actually have any friends. The “Global South” obeys us only out of fear. The rest of the world is terrified of us, and there’s nothing that unites people faster than fear of a common enemy.
Not only is there fear, there’s a sense of urgency to it. The West is becoming increasingly deranged and violent. We love to declare other nations undemocratic, authoritarian, dictatorships, or outright enemies, and we’ll do it for increasingly bizarre reasons, like having the wrong number of genders, being insufficiently committed to climate change, or refusing to have drag queen storytime for toddlers. And these aren’t just empty words. After a country is labeled a “dictatorship,” she has to be destroyed. We cripple her economy with sanctions. We seek out her marginalized minorities and radicalize them, arm them, and encourage them to kill their neighbors. We flood her streets with machine guns and explosives. We kill her leaders and torture their families. From that moment onward, we spend every second of the day thinking up ways to hurt her, and in the cruelest, and most brutal ways possible.
When people are trapped in a locked room with a crazy gunman, no matter how scared they are of him, eventually they’re going to start thinking “it’s him or us.”
Ian Kummer
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I have not even touched on the consequences of handing out 18,000 rifles in the middle of a city. How many crime scenes are these guns going to be connected to? Is there even a way to find out with no receipts?