I'm probably going to hell for this
and that would be different from my current situation, how, exactly?
The Irish Republican Army, sometimes called “provos” as in “provocateurs” OR “provisionals” or “provisional IRA” or “Real IRA”; well, terrorist groups often rebrand. Turns out most people hate random murder, shocker that.
At its the height of its power IRA was known, for this reason, to be rather expert at inflicting severe property damage, at little or usually no cost in human life; well, aside from “internal security” “nutting squads” whose more famous tactic was “kneecapping”: shooting the stooge behind the knee, to cripple him for life and drain the “occupiers” treasury of social security payouts.
As often happens in terrorist/insurgencies, the State also does bad things and sometimes does them to the wrong people. Love them or hate them, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was about as famous (or infamous, ah, perspective) as the IRA. RUC disbanded over a decade ago, and the EU more or less obviated the conflict, since both Irelands were in a free trade area with reduced or no border checks.
Of course, reviving the IRA was Putin’s real objective in stoking BRExit.
Instead, Putin drove Britain even closer to its Anglo Allies and Irish people finally figuring out they got played by the Russian Soviet.
Well, It takes a special kinda fella to make the RUC and IRA both hate you. And Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is exactly that asshole! Let’s play bridge, gang!
People concerned about a revival of the Irish “troubles” should be seen as naive ninnies or, likelier, Russians or their agents of influence. These knuckleheads might lock horns briefly and then notice: why bother a brother?
Negotiating and strengthening inner Irish ties are going to be increasingly on the political radar.
Nationalism and sectarian religious conflict are both out-dated ideas, obsolete. They simply cannot impel serious political conflict, at least not on the Irish island. They are illusory struggles, used to camouflage and excuse other conflicts. They remain important ideas, but only in a defensive sense. Even the most serious Islamists have great difficulty advancing Jihad in any form and have greatest difficulty in advancing armed Jihad. Even the most serious Marxists have serious difficulty advancing the idea of class conflict, of class struggle. Most people want to be well-liked, to fit in, to have friends and get along with others, which severely constrains violent extremism in any form.
And yet here we are. The reality is: burning Russia’s backfield is something that RUC veterans AND the Irish bomb makers are BOTH Actively working on! And if I could get some Corsicans in on the action: I totally would. It would make my Mother proud!
Free Avdiivka!
News analysis and word of the day below
Word of the Day: Genocide, le génocide, el genocidio, der Voelkermord, геноцид, 种族灭绝 (Zhǒngzú mièjué)
Work on your English listening comprehension and rest your eyes with The Economist’s Russian Exiles
智慧: when you are so stupid you tattoo half a word on yourself like a Dybbuk
but i guess it does not matter since you are illiterate
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Girkin agrees with me again! Russians in Ukraine are war criminals.
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https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/avoiding-the-secrecy-trap-in-open-source-intelligence
Basically IF you are coordinating an alliance structure secrecy is more hindrance than help. It’s only thuggish kleptocracies which have no alternative that resort to strictest secrecy. My objective is for my opponent to quickly comprehend they will inevitably lose, no matter what they do, so that they then surrender as quickly and at the lowest costs (in blood) possible. Economically dominant powers enjoy the capacity to trade cash for their own troops lives, paying greater sums into the war machine to have fewer of their own bodies on the dead pile when the fighting finally stops. Poor countries have no choice but to suffer horrific casualties and cannot use “cash armor”.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/03/25/70-year-old-t-55-tanks-are-expendable-in-ukraine/
Russian Officer Corps DECIMATED in Ukraine: 2000 Dead Russian Military Officers in Ukraine.
Russia now recruiting any age: Putin-removes-upper-age-limit-conscripts-national-guard-ukraine
Russian Leadership in Panic Faced with Failure at Bakhmut
https://eurasiantimes.com/nord-stream-attacks-german-report-says-russia-with-mini/
Lern Deutsch
Germany slowly and decisively taking to the field…
https://www.newsweek.com/china-russia-ukraine-belarus-xi-putin-nuclear-weapons-1790535
As predicted: the defeat of Russia in Ukraine will lead to much increased Chinese influence in Central Asia, but then also to greater Turkish-Chines rivalries in Turkic and even majority Moslem countries in Central Asia.
China Brokers Saudi-Iran Peace
I don’t have much to say beyond “congratulations” “I hope it holds” and “I would be unsurprised if it does not”. We should all hope and work for durable peace. We should be glad if China has succeeded at quelling violence in the Middle-East.
In comparison, China unfortunately was unable to broker even a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine. As I politely explained in private correspondence, a serious cease-fire would require … 100,000 peace keepers AND cooperation from Ukraine and Russia. Someone thought “the game was not worth the candle”.
This ends with Putin dead or in the docket for war crimes.
IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION AND REST YOUR EYES.
Like I predicted, PLAN for the collapse of the Russian Federation!
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(AUDIO IS FREE. ARTICLE IS PAYWALLED)
https://thediplomat.com/2023/03/hopes-for-renewal-disappointed-again-in-kazakhstan/
https://www.businessinsider.com/same-russian-brigade-destroyed-and-reformed-8-times-report-2023-3
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/03/09/america-and-china-are-preparing-for-a-war-over-taiwan
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/03/09/america-and-china-are-preparing-for-a-war-over-taiwan
^This is true, however States are always preparing for war, that’s just basic deterrence.
War is a man-made disaster and so can be prevented by man.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Just how bad do you want to read your enemy’s code, hm?
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Legio Patria Nostra.
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