Know Your Enemy
Russia is a nation of alcoholic abusive wife beating criminals — who need and want an even stronger criminal to keep them all in line. Many Russians are depressed, some of them are suicidal. Truth hurts.
Liberal internationalists failure to recognize the fundamental fact that people are tribal leads them to ignore impolitic, inconvenient facts like the above, which they then ignore, lie about, or paper over, to mislead others or simply to hold true to their unrealistic views. This is why they just got done fighting 20 years of failed wars in the Islamic world at a cost of at least three trillion dollars, plus all those dead people they want you to forget about.
On to more ugly truths. Russians don't want to build or invent. Russians just fight wars, hunt, and farm: wild and free country life, at a safe distance from other Russians, is their preference. This is why their horrible tyrannical leaders always have to shove industrialization down their throat, and can really only do so with militarism.
Know Your Enemy.
Russians have just about nothing in common with urban and urbane China culturally speaking. Russia is much more like the USA than China. The USA and Russia are both genuinely patriotic and really love guns and liberal internationalists don’t like either, which is one more reason I hate them. Liberal internationalists suck at war fighting.
Although Murrica and Rus both love guns and both are genuinely patriotic (excepting the liberal internationalist wealthy liberally educated minority in the USA) the USA is much much more like China than it is like horrible corrupt drunk violent suicidal Russia. China and the USA are both into money, jobs, building, inventing, optimistic, hard-working, bright.
None of that is Russia.
Seriously, quit equating Russia with China. It betrays your ignorance of both. They are frenemies, at best, and more often than not are outright enemies.
I lived and worked in Moscow for a year, and in Estonia too for another year or two. I speak and read Russian and Chinese fluently. I also speak Estonian, not so fluently but better than most Russians living in Estonia. Even the Russian and Chinese interpretations of Marxism and Communism are very different. I know both in detail and have published, perhaps notoriously, about Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism.
Russia is not China. Thankfully. China is wonderful. Russia is horrible.
Unless of course you were an abused child — in which case Russia would bear a certain sickening familiarity to you — or you love winter, and I do. Russia is like a child abused violently that grew up to be a bully. But if you love the outdoors, winter, hard drinking, guns, cigarettes, and sex it’s great! Unless you love gay sex. Then it’s just horrible.
Russia. China. Totally different cultures. One's orthodox Christian. The other isn't. One’s Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian. The other isn’t. Don’t mix them up or equate them. I draw the distinctions clearly and directly to get it through liberal internationalists thick stupid lazy monolingual rich skulls. Who wants the bullet point presentation?
That totally different language and completely unrelated writing systems ought to have been a clue that China and Russia are not at all alike.
Kotkin? You're wrong. Think more. If you try to equate Russia and China again I will correct you, publicly, and even excoriate you. Otherwise you would drag us all into yet another stupid avoidable war masterminded by you know who.
You see, I know war, much better than liberal internationalists. So I revile war even more than liberal internationalists do. That’s is why I wage it so viciously and effectively. Do as I advise, and fewer people die. Ignore my advice, and don’t be surprised when you get your ass handed to you.
Here’s just one more reason I hate liberal internationalists, aka greedy lazy opportunists.
Hey, is that a silver platter?
China isn’t Russia.
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News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-hits-40-hezbollah-sites-gallant-says-groups-south-lebanon-command-decimated/
I did, reluctantly, publicly predict this and in much greater detail privately.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/key-nato-ally-shocks-single-largest-pledge-ukraine-need-support
Kadyrov has necrosis of the pancreas thanks to alcholism. Friendly reminder, Islam prohibits alcohol. Fatal.
https://www.lindependant.fr/2024/04/25/guerre-en-ukraine-ramzan-kadyrov-gravement-malade-le-leader-tchetchene-naurait-aucun-espoir-de-retablissement-son-successeur-deja-trouve-11912512.php
https://www.lindependant.fr/2024/04/23/guerre-en-ukraine-il-souffrirait-dune-necrose-pancreatique-le-leader-tchetchene-ramzan-kadyrov-se-montre-en-train-de-soulever-des-halteres-pour-faire-taire-les-rumeurs-11908350.php
Car Bomb in Nikolaev.
https://24tv.ua/ru/ne-prilet-nikolaeve-progremeli-po-menshej-mere-2-vzryva_n2542263
Double tap. First bomb killed the target. Second bomb killed the would be rescuers.
https://www.unian.net/incidents/v-nikolaeve-proizoshel-vzryv-neizvestnogo-ustroystva-postradali-5-spasateley-12615945.html
Omsk Oil Depot Burns.
https://omskinform.ru/news/191138
https://omskgazzeta.ru/all-news/v-gorodke-neftjanikov-sereznyj-pozhar/
https://www.om1.ru/news/incident/345344-v_omskikh_neftjanikakh_krupnyjj_pozhar/
https://ngs55.ru/text/incidents/2024/04/25/73503176/
New Lipetsk Metal Works hit with drone.
https://newslipetsk.ru/fn_1482807.html
Rostov Hit
https://rostovgazeta.ru/news/2024-04-25/bylo-ochen-gromko-rostovchane-zayavili-o-moschnom-zvuke-vzyva-5066345
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How many sides does a spy ring have? Two sides: An inside and an outside.
Or, an infinite number of sides, because any circle has an infinite number of points.