An American tourist in Russia
Ian Kummer 
alifornia Army National Guard UH-72 Lakota helicopter from Company A, 3-140th Service and Support Aviation Battalion, lifts off a helipad at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) annual joint fire training at the Cal Fire Academy in Ione, Calif., April 5, 2014. The California Guard trained with Cal Fire and other civilian agencies at Ione in preparation for the highly anticipated upcoming fire season.
A California Army National Guard CH-47 helicopter from Company A, 3-140th Service and Support Aviation Battalion, lifts off a helipad at the California Department Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) annual joint fire training at the Cal Fire Academy in Ione, Calif., April 5, 2014. The California Guard trained with Cal Fire and other civilian agencies at Ione in preparation for the highly anticipated upcoming fire season.
In a previous article, I commented on the racism of Western elites, and how they view non-white immigrants as a weapon. That assessment seems to have been further confirmed by the rising border tensions between Poland and Belarus. European leaders accuse Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko of “weaponizing” Middle Eastern refugees. Unfortunately, accusing one’s enemy of … Read more
I just watched the 1984 BBC docudrama Threads. In many ways, it is typical of a Cold War film at the height of the Red Scare. However, Threads created a new pinnacle of propaganda. The film’s creators deliberately terrorized an entire generation of children and skillfully blurred the lines between truth and fiction. Threads mimics real news reports, presenting a chain of events that are difficult to distinguish from real-life media, especially for a child. Despite all the praise it received in the years since then, Threads is a horrible film that teaches all the wrong lessons, and didn’t even make a nuclear war less likely. If anything, this wave of propaganda has made self-inflicted armageddon more inevitable than ever before.
The 1983 Soviet stop-motion animation, Conflict ( Конфликт), presents a simple and pure message. A modern war between two world powers is insanity that would inevitably end in nuclear armageddon. No matter how restrained or polite the conflict, sooner or later one side would be defeated and use their nuclear arsenal in a last-ditch attempt at self-preservation.