If You Want Peace, Arm Ukraine To The Max ASAP

There is such a thing as military science, comprising, in part, the study of past wars. There are patterns.

Humanity is good and, or evil, according to prospects and circumstances. According to the law of action equals reaction, any violence will bring at least the same equal and opposite violence. One does not stop a modern military force through negotiations, but by defeating it on the battlefield. Defeat does not imply necessarily direct confrontation: McArthur, through island hopping, defeated the Japanese imperial army by circumventing its strong points and cutting it off: no food, and no fuel or ammunition. Most Japanese imperial soldiers in WWII in the Pacific theater died from starvation.

In 1931, a rogue Japanese army attacked Manchuria, seizing it from China. Tokyo was aghast. But the offensive was lightning fast, and a success, so Tokyo did nothing. In retrospect, World War Two had started: for the next ten years, the Japanese army would invade China ever more, fostering a genocide. Japanese army brutality would encourage Stalin to kill 6 million Ukrainians in 1933 (Holodomor). Hitler followed suit, making the “Axis” with Japan and fascist Italy, and invading Spain in 1936. France nearly helped the Spanish Republic… But the UK and US were opposed to it.

And Japan was fueled… by US oil. 

When France and Britain declared war to Hitler, that dictator was allied to the Kremlin (providing oil to the Reich, among other things). The US reacted by accusing France and Britain of “belligerence” and applied sanctions.

When France fell to the Nazis, the US didn’t even bark (Canada sent troops, which were beaten). Instead, FDR, having forgotten his “guarantees” to France, and after seven years of effectively pro-Nazi policies (covered up by criticism of Hitler), sent his right hand man to the junta in Vichy. The very dark deep US state, its universities, etc. had interest to see the French empire collapse: it would become part of the US empire. World government, ladies and gentlemen! 

Two to three million died in the French empire during WWII, up to 15 times US loss of lives. It’s a general feature of WWII that, so great was the destruction, including of archives, that sometimes one has no idea how many people died. Early estimates of the number of Chinese killed were from six to ten million. Most recent estimates are more than 50 million (even Japanese media now admits very high numbers)! After the war, many governments had no interest in revealing the extent of their failure to protect their own population… Or that they unconditionally, yet stealthy, surrendered to the victorious US deep state and its greedy plutocratic corporations…

In other words, WWII happened greatly because of divisions among the leading democracies and their friends… Many pursued their personal agenda. As usual, US plutocrats were allowed to run rampant, creating not just profit, but havoc by empowering dictators. 

This time, contrarily to what happened in the 1930s and early 1940s, confronted with the blatantly genocidal invasion of Ukraine, democracies have been in one block. Democracies have apparently been instructed by what happened in WWII: then, in the 1930s and early 1940s, the initial languor and disunion of democracies, and even their crass interest (not just the USA, but also Switzerland, Sweden, etc.) made the tyrannies strong. The democracies did not react properly when fascist Japan (invading China), fascist Italy (invading Ethiopia, Spain), and fascist Germany (invading the Rhineland, Spain) engaged in world war activities. Had the democracies acted in one block, early on, World War Two and its holocausts would not have happened.

So the democracies acted correctly this time: a fascist acted up, Putin, and invaded a democracy, which cried for help. The democracies passed the ammunition. In 1936, when fascist Germany organized the invasion of the Spanish Republic by a rogue army, the Spanish Republic asked the democracies for ammunition. Socialist France said yes, and then no, because the Anglo-Saxon leaders seemed to have liked what they saw, war in Europe. 

So this time the democracies are passing the ammunition. Good. But they are running out of ammunition.

At the peak of the fighting in East Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russia was using more ammunition in two days than the entire stock of the British military, according to the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank. Europe has ideas, but no weapons. The Kremlin is the opposite: plenty of weapons, little mind. 

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It has helped this endeavor, helping Ukraine to survive, that the USA is, in the guise of reinforcing and arming Europe, has been able to extend juicy military contracts all over, turning all European powers, except France, so far, into military satellites. In particular, the US has sold F35 “stealth” fighter-bombers all over, and these are contracts meant to last 40 years… When a power agrees to buy 50 F35s, that’s 5 billion dollars, before maintenance and support, and there is no money for an equivalent European system. Now the increasing dependence of US manufacturing and military has been extended to anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems [1]. 

Negotiating with Putin is impossible: as a tyrant who has killed too many already, he has to win, or die, he and his kind. Right, the US is extending its empire, somewhat irreversibly… But, well, the Europeans made love, not war, and now that war is upon them, they are not ready physically or mentally to engage that way. Loving Putin is not an option anymore, love didn’t capture Putin and his clique, so Europeans have to let the US make war on Putin. As ancient Greeks used to say, the weak do what they must, the strong, what they can. By giving Ukraine the means to defend itself, the US incited all of Europe but France to become a US client state. This is a giant investment coup, which will profit the USA long term. The rest is creative destruction, nothing that high quality immigration can’t easily overcome.

The choice now is between the not so benign US empire of plutocracy, or thoroughly genocidal Kremlin Nazism (fake National-Socialism of real oligarchy).  

To prevent Putin’s win, all and any classical weapons should be provided to Ukraine, As Soon As Possible. Ukraine can bomb all Russian cities, just as Russia has bombed all Ukrainian cities. WWII blossomed because maximal war measures were not taken by democracies early enough.

In war, momentum is important: Ukraine has it now. If Putin can get Russia in a state of total war and total mobilization, thus total tyranny, so much the better for him, because he is the tyrant. Now if that tyrant blossoms that way, many other tyrants, or would-be tyrants, will be so inspired. This basically happened after a rogue Japanese army invaded Manchuria: tyrants, would be tyrants and their fellow travelers got inspired all over.

And history doesn’t truly repeat itself: now there are nukes. The Chinese tyranny is set on acquiring enough to destroy the world (by more than quadrupling its strategic nuclear weapons). All this will make the world ever more unstable, by switching from a two body problem (Russian tyranny + USA) to a three body problem (Russia, US, China).

In 1939, it took barely more than a week to expel Russia from the Society of Nations (UN version 1), after the Kremlin attacked Finland to invade and eradicate it. What are we waiting to expel Russia from the UN? That would solve the problem of the Russian veto at the UNSC. 

Russia should stick to culture, and sort of disarm, like the rest of Europe: here below a cathedral in Saint Petersburg… Magnificent:

[1] France has the Rafale active stealth fighter-bomber. The F35 is actually an imitation of the Rafale, but more oriented to passive stealth from the frontal aspect in some radar frequencies. The F35 would be better in some SEADs (Suppression Electronic Air Defenses). The Rafale has proven imminently capable in SEADs during a real war in Libya (F35 has barely been engaged by Israel in combat in Syria). Moreover, the Rafale is much more competent in “beast mode” (fully loaded with ammunition.

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Europe, but for France (and Italy), have opted for US anti-ballistics with Patriot… While France produces the just as competent anti-ballistic Aster (and Italy and the UK are also Aster equipped). By ordering Patriot instead of Aster, countries such as Germany and Poland ingratiate themselves to, and become clients of, the US, not France. Ordering Patriot is an application to the status of a US subsidiary state

Putin A Tool? Double Machiavellianism Festering In Russia

Putin is a virus, and its vaccine is called Ukraine. To get rid of Putin, and foster democracy, one had to encourage him to attack Ukraine. What better to fight a tyrant than full war with a powerful democracy? Nothing else would do, the tyrant was too well installed, with towering popularity. So his internal enemies had to convince Putin that invading Ukraine would be a walk in the park, shooting off Nazis. 

How that popularity was won is itself a measure of how evil Russia became. In 2014, Putin wanted to invade Crimea. His two most powerful collaborators, Shoigu, minister of defense and a personal friend, a native of poor and isolated Tuva, in the mountains of Siberia, and Gerasimov, the commander in chief of the Russian army, apostle of hybrid warfare  

Who had an interest in getting rid of Putin? Putin’s kleptocracy has stolen Russia, to invest the stolen wealth in the West, overpaying while purchasing Western oligarchs’ properties, making all oligarchs happier. What was stolen by Russian oligarchs made Western oligarchs even wealthier..So Western oligarchs loved Putin and its wealth-transferring-to-the West oligarchy. Now, of course, the Western oligarchs are frustrated as Putin’s unraveling is threatening to dismantle the entire exploitation contraption.

Distinct lack of enthusiasm in some French and German circles of power has everything to do with the fact Franco-Germania organized much of its economy around Putin. It was not just getting gas from Putin; the French Total oil giant provided the Putin Reich with vast and ultra expensive installations similar to those provided to Qatar, to put on méthanier boats liquefied Siberian gas heading to Asia. These boats are some of the largest in the world, and pack several times the explosive power of Hiroshima.  

European ecologists and the likes of Merkel, were financed, or controlled, from the Kremlin. At least so say retired heads of French secret services. So the ecologists were anti-nuclear, and even anti-Western European gas (France has one century of gas reserves; so the ecologists, pushed by the Kremlin, had France pass a law outlawing the extraction of gas… in France. If the gas was provided by the Kremlin tyrant, that was fine).

So the only remaining hypothesis is that elements inside the FSB misled Putin about Ukraine, in the hope of having Putin destroy his regime there. Instead, it’s Russia which may end up destroyed. 

This is not the sole mechanism at work there. In the 1990s, Western advisers (Harvard, etc.) persuaded Yeltsin that Russia needed to be led to prosperity by an oligarchy. As the oligarchy was bound to steal Russia and make it stupid, the very origin of the Putin regime may not lay just in Alexander Nevsky’s sick ideology of ruling inside with brutality by allying oneself with evil (the Mongol invaders). 

The war may look insane, and it is. But it developed because of deep manipulations from very dark minds… who may have hoped that this sort of madness would develop as the intricate mess it has become… precisely because it could be exploited. The FSB may have incited Putin to commit a terrible mistake, so that he could be brought down. And the West certainly long collaborated with Putin, inciting him subtly to become ever worse. 

Now the ongoing existence of the largest land empire, by far, is being called into question, and democracies themselves can’t let Putin win. Anything at all. 

If Putin is a tool, does that mean that there are even more evil forces out there? Indeed! The cause of an evil is, in a sense always a greater evil. And causes work best when unexplained, undetected, and unexpected. This is why it is important to understand Machiavellianism, the art of making people do something while believing that there are doing the opposite. 

Patrice Ayme

P/S 1: The first part of the essay above was censored by the Wall Street Journal, which delayed its publication by several days (the italic part was allowed in another comment; in the italic I carefully avoided the notion of Western oligarchy, which may be a banning offense according to the obsequious lemmings). So the WSJ’s readers were made blissfully unaware that:

1. Putin could have been manipulated into invading Ukraine
2. That the plutocratic universities (Harvard, etc.) and other influencers (US and European politicians) were instrumental and perhaps primordial in setting up the Russian mess which later brought up Putin. The same sort of enabling-disabling, bait and switch was used prior and during WWI and WWII. The US power circles are very good at it, their institutions, traditions and mentalities having trained with American natives for centuries. For example, claim that “black lives matter” while making sure that, under the pretext of freedom, blacks live in terrible conditions (bad education, bad housing, bad health care, bad food, sugar billionaires being subsidized, etc…) All this the very dark deep state organizes with mental terror….Don’t say this, don’t think that, etc. And that is enforced by the media, an example being the preceding comment which the WSJ banned. That was after a very interesting article on:

Putin, Isolated and Distrustful, Leans on Handful of Hard-Line Advisers

Russia’s president built a power structure designed to deliver him the information he wants to hear, feeding into his miscalculations on the Ukraine war

MOSCOW—Russian troops were losing the battle for Lyman, a small city in eastern Ukraine, in late September when a call came in for the commanding officer on the front line, over an encrypted line from Moscow.

It was Vladimir Putin, ordering them not to retreat.

The president seemed to have limited understanding of the reality of the situation, according to current and former U.S. and European officials and a former senior Russian intelligence officer briefed on the exchange. His poorly equipped front-line troops were being encircled by a Ukrainian advance backed by artillery provided by the West. Mr. Putin rebuffed his own generals’ commands and told the troops to hold firm, they said.

The Ukrainian ambushes continued, and on Oct. 1, Russian soldiers hastily withdrew, leaving behind dozens of dead bodies and supplies of artillery to restock Ukraine’s weapons caches. 

Mr. Putin expected the war in Ukraine to be swift, popular and triumphant. For months, he struggled to come to terms with what instead became a costly quagmire, and found himself isolated and distrustful at the pinnacle of a power structure designed to reinforce his belligerent worldview and shelter him from discouraging news…

And now for one of Putin’s war planes going down in flames: a SU 25…

PS 2: Tyrant Vladimir Putin also indirectly attacked Russian oligarchs on December 22, 2022, along lines similar to those I drew above (and in many of my essays prior). Putin stated that Russians who drain Russia’s money from abroad and do not have a connection with Russia “represent a danger” to Russia.Putin claimed that while the majority of Russian businessmen are patriots, there are some who are not. Putin had nationalized many non-compliant oligarchs from a similat logic 20 years ago.

Soccer WORLD Religion Is A Good One To Have; Qatar’s Excellent World Cup

Tyranosopher: Human beings have evolved to group up and do things collectively, and the main task was fighting. This means that there is great deep down inside pleasure to group up and go out, kill something. These instincts can’t be changed, but they can be harnessed to, say, colonize Mars, or play soccer.

Soccer diverts this tendency to collective mayhem into an innocuous game which creates psychological binds. Soccer binds people again, re-ligare, worldwide. As international matches happen, national teams get beaten, bringing respect for the other, and even appreciation. If X beats Y, partisans of Y may attach themselves to X, because it’s more pleasant to have been beaten by the strongest team.

A soccer superstar who never won the world cup (like Ronaldo) may win sympathy, even while one may want Portugal to lose, and so on. 

So soccer lifts empathy towards foreign groups… and thus teaches how to extend sympathy to aliens.. Not just that: it brings strong emotions, but forces people to relativize these emotions. So soccer cultivates emotional gymnastics and the ability to master them through logic. 

Simplicia: Why do we need these battles on green grass? Why do we need battles? Let’s forget about the primitive past! Let’s celebrate new man! New Homo!

Tyranosopher: Human neurology is the product of hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Of battling evolution, one should say. To be an animal is to be at war. Actually some behaviors of bird species such as parrots and crows are broadly similar to human behavior and our common ancestors lived more than 350 million years ago.

Simplicia: As usual, a diversion into la la land… Stick to soccer, please.

Tyranosopher: Please don’t interrupt too much my complexity with your simplicity. The point is that we can’t change our brains from will alone. To be an animal is to be at war, so not being at war means one is not even an animal. Soccer is a good war: it’s innocuous, everybody can partake, and learn to respect the others.

Simplicia: Humans are not animals.

Tyranosopher: Of course humans are animals. Those who think that, through the sheer force of will, they can change the reality of the human condition radically are idiots. They reason like Hitler and his Nazis, who believed that will could change the world at will. 

Simplicia:… Or they reason like Nietzsche.

Tyranosopher (*sigh*): Or Nietzsche, indeed. I don’t like to attack Nietzsche too much, but he seems to have believed that will could be the end all be all, although he also believed the exact opposite, namely that the “Ubermensch”, the overman, should embrace “Amor Fati”, the love of fate… So I think Friedrich was so confused here, his views on will are self-contradictory. Unfortunately, the Germans embraced them. I do believe that will can change a lot of brain management, and brain organization, but will can’t change the fundamental nature of the brain willy-nilly. One has to be subtle. 

Simplicia: How so?

Tyranosopher: The brain was evolved for battle. One needs to provide the brain with battle to keep it fully provisioned. Conventional humanism basically says that there is a good side to humans… And, if there is a bad side, a dark side, it is to be avoided at all cost. But that’s quite a bit like saying a shadow is bad, so one should avoid one’s own shadow. Avoiding the dark side is not how the human brain works. One can’t avoid the human brain. One has to shepherd the brain.

Simplicia: Is it what soccer does?

Tyranosopher: Yes that’s what the soccer world cup does. It pits nations against nations, but so doing it forces new emotional alliances, as I already said… So it teaches how to use the bad side, the Dark Side… for the good, namely in this case watching great soccer.. 

The international mix is powerful. Many changed their minds about Arabia when Saudi Arabia beat Argentina 2-0. Also 138 players were playing with a country they were not born in. 

I had a heated argument with some guys who called the French team “African”… When in truth the French players were born French, and these guys, US guys, need I say, were judging origins based on the color of skin… Mbappe is a Parisian, born Parisian…. France is a mental state, not a skin condition. 

And there is nothing wrong with emigrating to another country and becoming a national there. It’s actually excellent, a factor of progress and advancement, because it fosters the competition of ideas and emotions, worldwide…

Simplicia:”Do you think soccer can replace middle age religions?“

Tyranosopher: Of course. Fundamental Islam has been a disaster for the Middle East, which, for millennia was arguably the world’s wealthiest and most innovative region (that’s where cities, cats, wheat, bi-cameral representative democracy and the alphabet are from). Saudi Arabia would do well and persists in trying to beat the likes of Argentina. Saudis proposed a 200 million dollar contract to attract Ronaldo. Not only did SA make it to Qatar, but so did 5 African nations, and Morocco finished 4th of the Qatar world cup.

Simplicia: I am surprised you love Qatar so much. Their Human Rights record… Europeans have been criticizing Qatar a lot.

Tyranosopher: Europeans couldn’t exist without Qatar: they would die of cold without Qatar gas, and all European ecologists would have to scrub the toilets of invading Russian mercenaries. What counts with Human Rights is the speed and intensity of progress. Absolute measurements are inappropriate, because the human brain and the culture which made it, can’t instantaneously change. Why should we care about LGBQRBDSMTXYZ rights? What about the rights of those who like to kill flies?

Simplicia: Stop being obnoxious. What’s BDSM for?

Tyranosopher: BonDage-Sado-Masochism. Sade and Maso called attention to the fact that cruelty was part of the human experience. And even death. Curious nobody noticed that anymore at some point. Talk about denial!

Simplicia: You are the weirdest of them all, and should have more respect for your peers. You are basically a Goblin.
Tyranosopher: Latin Gobelinus, Norman-French gobelin (12th Century), is an old French word a spirit haunting the region of Evreux, in the chronicle of Ordericus Vitalis; a word and concept derived from the Greek kobalos “impudent rogue…” kobaloi “wicked spirits invoked by rogues”.

Seriously, we have all the rights already. The law is there to prevent injury, everything else is permitted. Promoting this, that or the other minority of this, that, or the other thing is not out to do it best, because it rises the question of being unfair to those who are left out. So Europeans should appreciate the progress of their Arab protectors, and encourage them further. 

Simplicia: Arab protectors?

Tyranosopher: Yes, Arab protect Europeans from the cold, and also starvation, because without oil, no food. Many countries are in crisis from not enough fertilizers from Ukraine…

Simplicia: Do you then view the campaign against Qatar as a form of racism?

Tyranosopher:  Absolutely. The propaganda against Qatar was pure and simple racism. It was an excellent world cup. And the first one I watched thoroughly. 

Simplicia: What triggered your interest? Old age? Infirmity?

Tyranosopher: The certainty that Qatar was treated in a racist manner by European self-declared ecologists, who look like hypocritical deviants paid by Putin. Also my 13 year old daughter loves soccer and the world cup. The (generally but not always) excellent French philosopher Onfray professed his contempt of sport in general, and the world cup, understanding nothing. He claims he has no time for anything but writing books. Top notch thinkers, though prefer thinking obsessively in a creative manner to writing like a deranged AI program. Onfray’s wife took 14 years to die of breast cancer, and he himself had strokes, before a terrible bout with COVID. I am not saying soccer would prevent all this, but physical activity and proper living reduces health problems in the average. So by preaching the couch potato, Onfray preaches death. The Roman poet Juvenal mentions this: “Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano”, he wrote, “A man should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.”The best way to corpore sano is a modicum of exercise. 

Simplicia: Do you play soccer? 

Tyranosopher: No, but I shall preach from now on. Today I ran in the wilderness and took pictures of the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean. Put one on Instagram to share the love.

Simpliscia: Amen. 

Patrice Ayme

And now for the flying Parisian Kylian Mbappé, best player of the Qatar world cup (8 goals); much of the team got a contagious disease in the days leading to the final:

P/S: Religion is the noun for the concept of Re-Ligare: What ties up again. So fascism (in the original meaning: fasces tied by law around the axe of justice) and soccer fan(aticism) are religions. So can be fly fishing or solo climbing (at the limit). Cicero tied re-ligio to relegere, read again, but that’s an obvious mistake, not the most outrageous one he made. Now true, re-reading the same thing perpetually will bind people together again. But it’s a restrictive meaning.

Outlaw Lobbyists

Abstract: Access to those with power in so-called “democracies” should be made completely transparent, thus completely recorded, and should be severely limited, both quantitatively and qualitatively. In particular professional lobbying should be assimilated to corruption and outlawed. 

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Tyranosopher: Dozens of thousands of professional corrupters fester in Washington and Brussels. More of these professional corrupters are found in various capitals, including those of US states. They are called lobbyists. Considering the power of modern civilization, they have arguably more potential for nefariousness than the worst tyrants of preceding centuries. 

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Simplicia: “But lobbyists are needed! This is how representative government works!”

Tyranosopher: You mean representative government is corrupt?

Simplicia: Let me educate you. Representative government consists in having a few individuals who are elected decide everything. To do that, they need to know what is going on. They can’t be omniscient like you. This education is provided by lobbyists.

Tyranosopher: You seem to say that advocacy is necessary for representative democracy to work.

Simplicia: Yes, advocacy, call it that way if you like, we need advocacy. Can’t have representativity without advocacy.

Tyranosopher: So a lobbyist comes and offers a 500 dollar lunch to a representative, and then advocates for a special cause, company or country… With the perspective of a juicy consultantship for the nephew of said representative, and you call that democracy?

Simplicia: Well that’s what happens when one delegates power to elected representatives. People decided to delegate the thinking to the selected few.

Tyranosopher: This practice, of getting steered by professional lobbyists violates pillars of democracy such as isegoria and parrhesia.

Simplicia: Please keep on using big Greek words nobody knows.

Tyranosopher: It’s worse than that: nobody knows the concepts these words represent. Isegoria says that everybody has an equal right to address the assembly in an equal way. Lobbyism violates that, because lobbying provides privileged access.

Simplicia: And what’s parrhesia?

Tyranosopher: Being able to speak frankly… not only freedom of speech, but the obligation to speak the truth for the common good, even at personal risk. One can’t do it in the censorship atmosphere that the present representative government and their social networks lackeys have fostered.   

Simplicia: So what do you suggest, oh great know-it-all?

Tyranosopher: To pass legislation outlawing lobbying as it exists today, to wit:

1. All and any interaction between the public and a representative or significant other of a representative must be recorded. Representatives could be equipped with body cams, like the police and for similar but even more important reasons.
2.  All these interactions, once recorded, should be publicly available through Internet searches. 
3. Representatives and their significant others should not get any compensation from any cause, nation, region or industry that was addressed in legislation the representative worked on… for a period of twenty years. 
4. Advocates’ gifts to representatives should be recorded in the greatest detail and limited to market rates; no 500 dollar lunch, but a 15 dollar hamburger, max.
5. Advocates’ causes should be topologically located and a given cause should be limited in access, and, within a cause the individuals or legal persons advocating said cause ought also to be limited in number and lengths of contacts.

[Cartoon from 1905…]

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Simplicia: Great. And what got you so excited?

Tyranosopher: There is an ongoing spectacular scandal in the European Parliament. A Vice President of the European Parliament found herself arrested and imprisoned. 600,000 Euros in banknotes were found in her apartment, she couldn’t explain where they came from. Some insisted that the cash had to do with her advocacy of Qatar’s Human Rights progress. 

Simplicia: On 31 January 2019, the EU Parliament adopted binding rules on lobby transparency. The Parliament stipulated that ‘rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs or committee chairs shall, for each report, publish online all scheduled meetings with interest representatives falling under the scope of the Transparency Register’-database of the EU.

Tyranosopher: Notice the “scheduled meeting” stipulation: parties, lunch and golf are not included. I propose to include them.

Simplicia: In the USA, the corruption is even greater, but lawful.

Tyranosopher: Indeed, Clinton and Obama cashed in big time on their presidencies. Many US politicians made fortunes of the order of dozens of millions of dollars, or more, during their political tenure. But this is not the worst.

Simplicia: What’s worse?

Tyranospher: Whatever the shortcomings of US politicians, the US became more powerful. However in Europe lobbying has made Europe weaker. And ravaged ecology and the climate.

Simplicia: Examples?

Tyranospher: Brexit was influenced by the enemies of Europe. Putin in particular. Russian oligarchs established in Europe are a powerful lobby. Another powerful lobby was the fossil fuels/Kremlin lobby which empowered the pseudo ecologists in Europe. They campaigned against nuclear power, and against Western European gas… Thus making Putin stronger, as planned. 

In France in 1999, a secret alliance between the ecologists (as I said, influenced by Moscow) and the French socialists, agreed to destroy French nuclear power and even French research in new, safer, better nuclear power (this is not nothing: nuclear research started in France in 1938; France inaugurated new forms of nuclear power in the following 84 years). Ultimately, the long lobbying arm of the Kremlin made the West addicted to him and stalled research in new technology which the planet needs (but Russia is OK with global heating).

Simplicia: Speaking of lobbyists, what about Tik Tok?

Tyranosopher: Tik Tok is an operation of cretinization of youth operated in the West by the Chinese dictatorship, In China Tik Tok is limited to 40 minutes a day, and below the age of 14, it shows only educative and scientific videos. Polls have shown young Chinese want to become astronauts and young western poultry wants to become Tik Tok influencers… Not knowing they would be controlled by algorythms from a foreign, anti-democratic power.

Simplicia: So Tik Tok is a form of lobbying?

Tyranosopher: Tik Tok is efficient lobbying for the Chinese dictatorship. It should be unlawful.Tik Tok promotes Beijing supremacy by stupidifying the rest. The algorithms are controlled by the dictatorship. Those algorithms promote cats and other small brained creatures, and, in general, extreme stupidification.

Democracy under foreign dictatorial influence is not democracy, but addiction and submission.

Patrice Ayme

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Note: Europeans have long assumed that excessive lobbying is only an American problem. But over the past 15 years Brussels has become apparently the world’s first capital of the corrupt arts even ahead of Washington, DC! In Brussels 25,000 lobbyists have come forward voluntarily and registered themselves. Some say there are 40,000 lobbyists in Brussels. The official 25,000 have a combined annual budget conservatively estimated at more than €3bn ($3.6bn) seek to influence EU policy. Approximately 7,500 of them are accredited with the European Parliament, which means they are regularly able to meet with parliamentarians. Berlin is now reckoned to host up to 7,000 lobbyists with over €1bn to throw around every year.

Both cities have become infested with new arrivals who are pushier and use more sophisticated techniques than old-fashioned guilds such as the Federation of German Industry or BusinessEurope. Weak rules in both places are not designed to cope with the explosion of activity….

Washington has only around 12,000 official lobbyists, but that’s a wild underestimate… In the US, much of higher social life is all about lobbying…

Kremlin Nazis To Flee To South America?

The imitation Nazis in the Kremlin are ironically considering fleeing to the same places as the original Nazis of 1945, in South America. Talk about a funny development! The end of The Times article quoted in an essay by Putin propagandists (!) “Pentagon gives Ukraine green light for drone strikes inside Russia” is the following… and it is most revealing (it’s also revealing that Putin propagandists would use articles highly critical of them by cherry picking a few quotes. Putin propagandists are smart!): 

“In public, Putin and other Kremlin officials continue to insist that their “special military operation” will be a success. Yet in private, the president and his henchmen are thought to have begun to make plans for an escape.

“Putin’s entourage has not ruled out that he will lose the war, be stripped of power, and have to urgently evacuate somewhere,” Abbas Gallyamov, a former Kremlin speechwriter who is now a political analyst, wrote on Telegram. Citing an unnamed insider, Gallyamov said the Kremlin was considering Argentina or Venezuela as safe havens. Igor Sechin, a senior Putin ally, is thought to be overseeing the project, which is codenamed Noah’s Ark.”

There you have it: reality in full: not even the “eternal friendship with China” will save the Nazis in the Kremlin from the same fate as the 1945 Nazis in Berlin. The entire planet, including India and China, have told Putin to stop with his nuclear blackmail. So Putin and his henchmen had to back down on their nuclear threats. Various political leaders who talked directly to Putin, have asserted this, including the French president and the German Chancellor (just yesterday). Absent the nuclear blackmail, the probability that Putin and his henchmen lose is more than 50%. Actually the Putin propagandists in Moscow, including the head of RT, have started to consider this, that they will be dragged at La Hague in front of the International Criminal Court. 

With characteristic ingeniosity, one of Putin’s master propagandists suggested to nuclear bomb La Hague, to avoid having to go there, but his colleagues were not that sanguine and expressed real fear that, like the Nazis of 1945, they and the “higher ups” would be tried for their genocide (Putin’s criminal organization has already stolen more than 40,000 Ukrainian children, which is a clearly defined act of genocide).

At Nuremberg, the Nazi propagandists, Rosenberg and Von Ribbentrop, were condemned to death and executed (there were 2 of them out of 21 of the initial trial of Nazi leaders).  

Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini were enabled by the grossest propaganda. Stalin killed 6 million Ukrainians in 1933 in the Holodomor (launched in December 1932). That genocide, in turn, encouraged Hitler to do the same in Poland, and then with the Jews and others (Gypsies, Soviet Prisoners, Ukrainians, etc.). Europe has learned that these dictators had been enabled by propaganda which played a crucial role in the rout of 1940. Accordingly Putin propagandists have been outlawed in Europe, and shut down. There is still some work to be done. The world’s largest land empire, 17 million square kilometers, is Russia, and Putin has used the war as a crafty way to draft minorities in priority, with the obvious goal of exterminating them. One more genocidal charge. 

It’s increasingly unlikely that Putin’s minion propagandists in the West will NOT be enough to save the Kremlin tyrant and his henchmen… Venezuela, here we come! Oh, I know, to believe Maduro would not surrender Putin to La Hague is another demonstration of the abysmal stupidity and lack of general knowledge of Kremlin’s strategists…

The criminal oligarchy in the Kremlin became arrogant for the exact same reason as the Nazis: they felt overconfident from the complicity they profited in the West (and helped instal them).

Patrice Ayme 

Nazi ratlines that spirited thousands of war criminals to freedom are revealed in a new book chronicling the murderous reign of a top foreign office official during the Third Reich.

9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after WWII. Argentina welcomed up to 5,000 Nazis.

After 1945 the scale of the horror of the Holocaust came to light. Faced with unprecedented cruelty, much of the world responded with unprecedented vigor. The new term “crimes against humanity” was coined in the subsequent Nuremberg trials, as Allied lawyers called senior Nazis to account.

Yet fewer than 300 Nazis faced judgment in the Nuremberg trials in Germany while up to 9,000 Nazis by some counts were spirited away from Europe after World War II, helped by sympathetic agents and friends. [A less sympathetic France may have executed up to 40,000 Nazis and collaborators, many of them in expedited tribunals, though…]

The life of Horst Wagner, a man with the blood of at least 350,000 Jews on his hands, is detailed in Beloved Criminal: A Diplomat In The Service Of The Final Solution.

Wagner was the link-man between the foreign office and the SS In this role, he aided in the round-ups, deportation and extermination of both German and foreign Jews.

This first major work on him by Gisela Heidenreich is also an intensely personal one for the author – her own mother Edith met and fell in love with him during the war.

During his years in exile Wagner remained in contact with Edith by post, letters which her daughter uses in her work chronicling the escape routes and mini-Reich that the fugitives built for themselves in Argentina.

Heidenreich, who works as a family therapist, has the blood of the Nazi regime in her. She was born into a Lebensborn home – set up by the S.S. for unmarried mothers to give birth and donate their children to the Nazi state.

Her father was the commander of the SS officer school at Bad Toelz in Bavaria.

Wagner, she said, dreamed of becoming her stepfather after he began his affair with her mother.

After escaping from a Nuremberg jail in 1948, he later explained to Heidenreich’s mother how he was aided on his way to South America on the so-called Kloster Line, being given sanctuary in a number of convents and holy orders in Austria before heading to Rome. There the German bishop Alois Hudal, priest-confessor to the German Catholic community in the city, arranged for him to get a Red Cross passport in 1951. Hudal also arranged the paperwork for Franz Stangl, the commandant of the extermination camps of Sobibor and Treblinka, to flee to Brazil on a Red Cross passport using Vatican funds.

Carl Jacob Burckhardt, President of the International Red Cross in the years after World War II. In his 2011 book Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice, historian Gerald Steinacher chronicles Burckhardt’s anti-Semitism, as well as his penchant for helping Germans, including former Nazis…

And so on: worldwide criminal oligarchies are nothing new. The criminal Putin Reich was established with a lot of complicity in the West. Just look at (probable) KGB agent Merkel… But Putin and his KGB had agents all over the place… And the West profited from Russian oligarchs bleeding Russia dry…

Racism Is Often A Two Way Street. Elevating Some Symbols Above Others Can Be Racist.

Ancient and rather simple symbols (triangles, crosses) were changed in meaning, and charged with hate. But truth should never ignore history, because it can’t exist without it. And that’s true even in physics: symbols are charged with history. So why such hysteria sometimes?

Intertwinning triangles is not, historically, one’s religion prerogative. Should it shouldn’t be in reality. Otherwise that’s assuming the superiority and sacrosanct nature of that particular religion… unfair to one thousand others. Similarly the cross used by the Christians can be viewed as an abbreviation of other, more ancient crosses… Now banned… on purely ethnic ground. Something respected in India or ancient Greece is ferociously banned. After the (hoped for) defeat of Putinism, should we bann the beautiful bulbs of the Russian Orthodox churches? Of course not.

Disrespect for humanity starts with disrespect for history.

Elon Musk banned a famous raper : was he aware of this, the fact the brandished symbol is arguably very old, and what it means which is not at all what it is depicted to be? In truth, he probably doesn’t care, his antennas are out for where the power comes from…. It’s like a mass out there: if one says the what are supposed to be the right things, one is just, and the others are atrocious racists…

The article in Le Figaro points out that all the symbols concerned are older, by millennia than the one brandishing them… And so is their modern mix, which comes from the Rael Cult…

When one can be banned for old symbols, clearly it’s Big Brother out there!

Trying to claim that the old Western European religions have nothing to do with genocide, among other crimes against humanity, flies in the face of evidence. Millions were killed in the name of the Bible used as a recipe book on holocaust. So basically, anything smacking of Bible cult smacks of holocausts, and that can be examplified in detail. For example Catholicism, Orthodox or not, exterminated all Cathars, five millions of them, and all their writings, ideas and even emotions…

Banning this and that old symbol is an attempt to ban entire worlds of history, and thus to impose a biased cult of something else. Right, it could work. But those who promote such cults need to be reminded that trying to impose mentalities can backfire.

For example Kanye West, represented above made a fashion collection with “White Lives Matter”! Which created outrage… But what should cause outrage is the claim that such and such skin color matter, and implicitly that either it didn’t use to matter, or it should matter more, etc.

Racism consists in elevating some symbols over others for no good reason. If I use a spiral galaxy as a symbol, as I do, I symbolize the supremacy of some values: space, galaxies, a mind open to all possibilities, etc. Some may sneer that I would not chose the Svastika, Hitler’s way, a spider georged on blood (Mauriac)… Especially considering that my family was a direct victim, and combatant of, Nazism. Right. (The only time I censored someone on this site was a Nazi who would keep on sending insane comments by the multitude…)

But take for example Putinism and its various symbols. I abhor Putinism, but the usage of its symbols would falicitate my personal contradiction of those who hold this sort of opinion… By identifying who they are… So I can go contradict them. For example Twitter Musk (who banned Mr. West for the picture above), identifies some accounts as “Russian Associated”… That’s good… Maybe they should say:”Putin Associated”… that would be less… racist… Many Russians disagreeing with Putin to the point they risk dying for it…

Patrice Ayme