‘Goida!’ Russia’s ‘Holy War’
Well, this sounds not at all Mordor-like:
And then there was Putin's speech there, which Kisin translates here. Basically, this is no longer about Ukraine for Putin; this is about war on the West.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine has applied for NATO membership, which makes sense from a Kyiv perspective, but would be completely insane from the point of view of Western interests (thank goodness the Biden White House nixed it). Elbridge Colby gets it right in this thread, saying that there is no strategic benefit to the West in increasing the likelihood of NUCLEAR WAR WITH RUSSIA.
We need to be pushing for peace now. Who can do that? Which nation's diplomats? Listen to that "holy war" speech, and imagine what the Russian state is preparing its people for. This is not a video game. Per Colby, this is political theater that could lead us into the abyss.
Heated rhethoric on our side won't help. It's important, however, to signal to Russia that the use of nuclear weapons is not going to be acceptable.
The Ukraininas are emerging as a remarkably warlike people. Will they be standard bearers of the Slavs, and not the Russians?
And of course, this 'warlike' people had nearly 200,000 casualities months ago and wasted thousands of lives on mostly symbolic advances recently. Western fools who don't know anything about war see this and attribute their self-proclaimed idiotic issues about the war from it.
You also minimize the warlike-ness of Ukrainians: but they have shown they aren't afraid to die in battle, and this, according to Spengler, is one of the key signs of a rising civilization.
Russia, China, Brazil, India, and Muslim majority countries view America, the Anglosphere, and Europe as Satanic parasitic shells of their formerly glorious incarnations that currently marinate in a bath of wokeness, self-loathing, and increasingly tranny grooming and outright pedophilia.
Eight-five percent of the world's population live in countries which do NOT recognize sanctions against Russia. Putin successfully annexed 20% of Ukraine (90% of the country's industrial base). There is no realistic scenario under which those regions ever return to Kiev.
What do the corrupt perverts in Washington and Davos have to offer which any conservative and moral person would find more appealing than Putin's request Russia be respected as a Great Power and his vision of a multipolar world order?
Russia, China, Brazil, India, and Muslim majority countries view America, the Anglosphere, and Europe as Satanic parasitic shells of their formerly glorious incarnations that currently marinate in a bath of wokeness, self-loathing, and increasingly tranny grooming and outright pedophilia." will get you banned on the AmCon Diaspora Discord.
The moderator finds that sentence offensive to her family and banned me for making that exact point.
Dear longtime reader currently missing from the TAC debate: you really can't spend $5 a month? Okay. I didn't know things were that bad.
Dude, let them have their mis-shapen "diaspora," absent the author of the blog posts, of course, and let them be ruled by an illiberal liberal progressive fundamentalist, or whatever she is.
Yeah, you know who you are!
TAC came into being to propagate a sane conservative perspective, versus an insane one that blindly marched to war.
Since liberals are mere people, there are flavors and degrees of (in)sanity and (un)reason within that diverse tribe.
Sometimes, we even turn in a more conservative direction. At times it has happened, collectively and individually.
I also get the feeling that Rod welcomes a respectful contribution to the debate by liberals striving for sanity.
On many current topics, you might not find much argument from me, except the one on behalf of open minds, open debates, and a pluralism of ideas, for steel sharpens steel.
As for comments about the folks there and the moderator, don't ever take a look at the Reddit forum r/brokehugs.
Jon, do you have any idea why Brandon Falusi was banned from the Diaspora? Or do you just reflexively approve of all banning?
With all due respect, banning and censure and censorship should be kept to a necessary minimum. I would think that should be self-evident, given the recent social trends regarding illiberals and their hair-trigger ostricism.
No nations in the southern hemisphere support the US except vassals Australia and New Zealand. Most of Asia is against the US.
Yeah, that's right, Attila the Hun is the spiritual grandfather of the EU, and this is considered an all around good thing by the descendants of Hunor and Magyar. It's a template for the peaceful coexistence of Europe's nations. Would a barbaric people teach such things?
Of course not. And of course it will be a stretch for Viktor Orbán to be the one who ultimately brings the belligerents to a mutually acceptable conclusion, but maybe not a completely implausible stretch. Even if he's only in the background, as one of the primary exponents of European Realism, the balance he has struck between unhealthy extremes should be instructive, and will attain its just due in the long run.
Hungary has not vetoed or interfered with the vast majority of sanctions, because as the prime minister recently explained to the opposition, a responsible brand of politics takes into full consideration both the national interests of Hungary as well as the importance of European unity.
However, no matter how successful Orbán may be in his endeavors, it's still a Realist fact of life that Hungarians are a small nation, no matter how great our past.
The glory of fulfilling the role of blessed peacemaker in this horrible war between brothers may end up falling to the French, who are slick enough and strong enough to steal Hungarian laurels, just like they stole/adopted the fleur de lis. Yes, we Scythians, the Huns, the Magyars, we gave them that gift.
Once they get a National Conservative government, the French will steal all the thunder from everybody else, like they usually do.
Reportedly, there were numerous agreements worked out in the first 3 months of the conflict, that the US torpedoed.
This all could have been avoided, but the idiots in Washington have wanted this war since 2014.