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There is a lot. Starting with people outside then cabinet, but funded by the President, and largely responsible for getting him elected. Laura Loomer, one of the founding members of the Veritas Foundation, which was funded by the Donald J Trump Foundation, and which played a big role in his election both times.. She describes her self as a White Nationalist, and is unapologetic for that. Some people might say White Nationalists are not racists. That's not the view I take. I don't know if you agree with that position. While she is outside of government, she has claimed credit for key decisions, such as sacking national security advisors. Now racists are allowed a sense of humour. Her sense of humour (we hope it was a joke) meant that when the Florida Immigration Centre (camp) was opened she joked: If you found yourself chuckling at that, give your head a wobble. 65 million. 65 million is either the number of hispanics (including US born) in the US. 65 million is also about the number of foreign born American citizens combined with the estimated number of illegal immigrants. You decide which group she was referring to. Most think she was referring to anyone of Hispanic ancestry. She is referring to the threat of alligators finishing off anyone escaping from the camp, but then she said "if we get started now". What, feeding people to alligators. And this is a joke? Essentially a Final Solution for Hispanics. And she's a Jewess. But maybe you will discount her, because although she is a racist influencing decision makers in government, she's not in government. Stephen Miller; examine his speeches and support for the Great Replacement Theory (the idea that reproduction by brown people will cause white people to go extinct. Racist fruitloop stuff. But fully expecting someone on this forum to explain its not racist, and thaht they believe in it). He writes polcy. One of the policy pieces he has developed is the National Security Strategy. This is a document dripping with racism. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf It equates civilisation with race. I am British. I have always identified as British. Like most British people , I am about 60% Anglo Saxon and 40% Irish Celtic. But the Pritani people are reduced to a rump, mostly in Wales, after successive invasions. First the Romans, who changed the British into Romano-British. The Romans didn't mix much, because there is no Roman DNA left in the population. The Immigrants changed the British, but the British changed the immigrants, because many of these Romans started worshiping British gods. Later on, one of them would push very hard for everyone to worship the god of a bloke from the modern day Palestine. Then the Romans <deleted> off, as a result of continued sackings of Rome by Huns and Vandals. A period of disintegration followed, the dark ages, with raids by Vikings, who plundered a bit, raped a bit, let their mark on the culture. Then the Anglo-Saxons; genetically indistinguishable from the Vikings, disappointing anyone who thinks they are descendants of Erik the Red, the rapey Viking. Town names changes. Anything with a "ton" is an Anglo Saxon immigrant town. We had the West Saxon of Wessex, the East Saxons of Essex, the North Folk (Volk) of Norfolk, and the South Folk of Suffolk. A foreign immigrant culture, not Western (Western being Greco-Romano), was predominating. Then the Normans came; Frenchmen of Norse origin. So French names appeared. Over the following centuries, Empire followed. Europeans started eating potatoes from South America, smoking tobacco from Mexico. Trade with China lead a nation of coffee drinkers to become tea drinkers, leading to a new country, the United States, arising as a result of Chinese influence of so called Western Civilisation (Boston tea Party would have been the Boston Coffee Party if not for heroin-addled Chinese). When Robert Clive went to India, the British became curry eaters. When Portugeuse Jews fled the Inquisition, we started eating and loving their fish and chips. When Russian Jews arrived in the 19th century, we found their pickled cucumbers went rather well with the fish (leading to a jar of Wallies on the counter of any proper fish and chip shop). When African slaves were sent to work the plantations of Jamaica, they were told the Mother Country was Britain. Little wonder their descendants considered themselves British. And you can repeat the story in every European country. Its a complete fiction, dreamt of by thickos, to suggest there is a single "European civilisation" . There is no such thing as Western Identity. I have <deleted> all to do with a Greek, and vice versa. There is a British identity, a Greek identity, a French identity and so forth. the British identity is expressed through descendants of rapey invading immigrants calling theselves British. Identity constantly evolves and changes. Its a racist selfish document. If you think its not racist, then, ergo, you are a racist. Racists very rarely call themselves as racist, They come up with some mealymouthed term instead, like White Nationalist. There are plenty of racists on this forum. Not sure why. Perhaps because its full of pathetic individuals running away from failed marriages and broken families into the arms of a pox-ridden prostitute. Charlie Chaplin's utopian and ab libbed view of the world. Still relevant after 85 years. Look out for the Double Cross Party. https://youtu.be/w8HdOHrc3OQ?si=wJPc5GI5PGVXONWT

Cartman will have much to say about this striking image.

Ukrainian drone damage to the Russian Security Office in Grozny. https://tass.com/emergencies/2054633

Ukfraine FA fined by UEFA for banners erected by fans at World Cup qualifiers. Probably worth it. https://unn.ua/en/news/uefa-fined-the-ukrainian-football-association-for-an-anti-russian-banner-displayed-by-fans

https://gwaramedia.com/en/ukraine-destroys-russian-su-24-tactical-bomber-in-occupied-crimea-intelligence-agency-says/ Ukrainian special forces operating in Russian occupied Ukraine took out a SU-24, an ld but effective aircraft.

Russian budget cut to the bone to fund Putin;s Rusiich (mis)adventure https://theins.press/en/economics/287443 Tax up, Education/ Healthcare down.

Another flock of fresh Flamingos https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukrainian-forces-receive-batch-of-flamingo-1764969826.html

Are we sure they are selling their gold, and not someone elses. Russia stole Romanian gold over 100 years ago, and still have 90 tons of it. Romania wants it back. https://tvpworld.com/89480785/romanias-quest-to-get-back-90-tons-of-gold-held-by-russia-since-1917 The fact Russia stole the gold makes them look a bit hypocritical about reparations to Ukraine.

Oops. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m76mv7rql52j

https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-eliminates-entire-russian-sabotage-team-plotting-fake-victory-video-near-dobropillia-14018 Russia attempting operations to change the perception of the facts on the ground; claiming territorial advances when there are none. This is clearly designed to influence negotiators, but also the many UIs out thhere acting as cheer leaders, intentionally or not, for the Russian cause.

Russia scrapes the barrel for low behaviour. Sending kidnapped Ukrainian kids to North Korea now. https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-putin-tells-europe-hes-ready-for-war-after-rejecting-ukraine-peace-deal-as-nato-meets-12541713?postid=10642746#liveblog-body https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukrainian-children-abducted-by-russia-reportedly-sent-to-north-korea-us-senators-examine-evidence-13995

Good appraisal of Russia's November economic numbers.

You didn't actually read the post when you trotted out that copy/pasted ChatGPT/Claud/Gemini/etc listing, attempting a Trotskyist deflection. You have continually hijacked a thread, which is about Ukraine winning war, rebutting, Soviet-like, every point with a pro-Russian line, smothered in a "but I don't really support Putin" line. Start a new thread perhaps, instead of deflection. I'm sure there will be plenty flocking in there to agree with you. I'm sure you will attempt a 30 minute flounce again. At the time of the Ludendorff Offensive, there were no American troops in Europe, which is why there was a Ludendorff offensive; he needed to break the Western Allies (the bulk of the troops facing him were British and French) before the facts on the ground changed (the arrival of fresh US troops). World War One was a global war. They weren't all in France. Nor was Germany alone in that war. There was, for instance, Austro-Hungarians and Turks on various fronts. The Germans/Austro-Hungarians/Turks also had their own colonial troops, used for much the same purpose. There is such thing as a fog of war, which Pete Hegseth thinks is smoke from a burning fiberglass boat. The war is in a stalemate, that much is clear. When using Chat GPT, note the impact of malign actors to alter your perceptions, especially if you don't check for hallucinations, a common occurence with AI (presumably you know what that is, without asking AI what is an AI hallucination). A suitably left wing NGO reported on this months ago; https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/russian-networks-flood-the-internet-with-propaganda-aiming-to-corrupt-ai-chatbots/

Germany was winning in WW1 until suddenly it wasn't. The Ludendorff Offensive gained Germany some land, inflicted more casualties on the Allies than on Germany. But Germany had nothing left in the tank when the Americans arrived. It was the same in '44; German Wunderwaffen caused disarray among the Allied ranks, Bastogne, a key junction, looked destined to fall. It never did. The German plan was to seize Antwerp, which if they did, might have changed events (the offensive in the West would have ground to a halt because of logistics). Russian reserves; there aren't any. Heavy armour has all but disappeared from the battlefield. Amazingly, 3 years in, the Ukrainian Air Force, with fresh aircraft and crews, is able to mount attacks to support ground units. The IDF achieved complete air superiority over Iran in 4 days. The Russian VSK failed in 3 years. Allied Shock and Awe over Iraq virtually eliminated the Iraqi Air Force before a single tank had crossed the frontier. The inability of the Russian AF to achieve Air Superiority is a big mystery, up there with Goering's failure to press home his attacks on the RAF. Instead, the Russian AF has expended vast amounts of expensive munitions on relatively unimportant tagets (a block of flats or taking out IKEA is sad for the civvies, but thats one less $10m missile launched at an actual military target). Ukrainian armaments production hasn't moved to vast underground facilities like WW2. Its dispersed, and output has ratcheted up. Its also a mystery that this hasn't lead to wholesale sackings in the Russian AF leadership. What is going on. Is this one branch of the Russian military that isn't entirely on board with the whole (mis)adventure of Putin's? The Russian economy is largely propped up by state money; the contracts to support the military, everything from missiles to tins of soup. There is likely gargantuan grifting going on. So its a facade. If the government is forced to print money, the jig is up. Everything depends on the Russian access to its reserves.

3 years in, Ukraine is still very much in the fight, facing an enemy, that on paper, out numbers it in every respect. Ukrainian resistance, bolstered by choice Western defence acquisitions (donated, or now, mostly purchased) has resulted in undeniable changes and tensions in Russian society that Putin had not anticipated. Its doubtful before 2022, he had planned for continued high double digit inflation, elevated interest rates, and enforced cut in the healthcare budget, having to deal with mutinies in his armed forces and attempted coups, having to empty the prisons to make up for losses in the military, having to modify nuclear delivery systems to deliver non-nuclear munitions, having to suffer territorial losses himself, catastrophic falls in exports of anything, loss of one third of the Black Sea fleet and more. If in January 2022, he had stood up, ashen faced, to tell the Russian Duma that Russia had to prepare itself for a state of total war, resulting in the loss of many of the societal gains Russia had made since the fall of the USSR, I doubt he would be President now. So yeah, all of those systems had made a difference. In 2008, Russia simply rolled over Georgia, smashed up Tblisi then <deleted> off. I imagine he thought this was how it was going to go this time around.

What a strange post from the resident Trot. Does he make a habit of asking the nationalities of women pushing prams? Is he assuming that the strange language he heard being spoken was Russian? Or a frankly racist (russcist) assumption that everyone speaking Russian must be Russian? Or more likely, it a made up or embellished story. ie woman with pram didn't exist, or, for the purposes of the story, he decided she was a Russian.

Ironically, the current American President's mother, from Scotland, had gaelic as her first language. Barron Trump speaks in Slovenian with his mother, to the annoyance of his father.

Now, Stellantis, do your thing. And Tesla, while they are at it.

Opinions https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wouldnt-have-wanted-second-strike-on-venezuela-boat-11132682 I suppose the Admiral is now asking Ollie North what he needs to pack in the going away bag.

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-word-secretary-is-misspelled-on-the-nameplate-of-us-news-photo/2249005693 Done like a kipper.

Historically, its those in uniform who suffer the consequences; plausible deniability was essentially invented by King Henry II ("Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Oh, I didn't mean kill him). In the aftermath, the 4 knights had to flee to Scotland, were excommunicated, then ordered to penitentiary pilgrimages to the Holy Land for 14 years. What that meant was to visit the holy places barefoot and in hair shirts and then to live alone for the rest of their lives on the Black Mountain near Antioch, spending their time in vigil, prayer, and lamentation. Sir Reginald and Hugh de Morville didn't last long; barely 3 years after the Archbishop's murder, they were dead, somewhere in the Holylands/a desert. William de Tracey spent the next 19 years in squalor, as a hermit in a cave (he only needed to do 14 years), before passing, but he might have gotten leprosy along the way. He might have tried to fake his death in Italy. Richard le Breton though managed to do 14 years of pilgramages, but somehow ended up retiring to the family pile in Jersey. I'm going to bet Ricky didn't feel any remorse, but Bill spent his last days in abject misery and sorrow.

Hmm

Remember, Intelligence said so.

The lessons of General Karpinski, Colonel Ollie North and Lt. Calley indicate 1. Illegal orders are often issued. 2. Keep your mouth shut, don't get caught. Illegal orders were refused on at least 3 occasions during 45; the assassination of President Assad, attacks on the Iranian Navy, and latterly, the order to shoot on protestors in Washington. Most of the time, the names of the officers refusing to execute such orders never surfaces. General Milley's did. And what was his reward for a distinguished career serving his country; to be threated with investigation, prison, execution, and he was literally made a non-person (the White House has a gallery of portraits of former Chiefs of Staff; his was removed as if it never happened. Thats the sort of stuff Mao did). I suspect the lessons of Nuremburg are largely worthless, insomuch as providing a morality guide for the common soldier. In practice soldiers will follow orders, legal or illegal, because the Nuremburg Defence will never happen, as it won't get that far. However, in contrast, compare Wesley Clark and General Mike Jackson and the Pristina Airport incident. Clark bypassed the chain of command to order Mike Jackson to seize the airport by force from the Russians who had arrived. Jackson met up with his Russian opposite number, and they drank whiskey together, to lubricate relations, ignoring Clark's orders to block the runway. Clark then radioed a young Captain James Blunt (future self deprecating pop singer), who's light tank was sitting on the runway, and ordered him to "destroy" the Russians. Blunt pretended not to understand, and went to Jackson, for confirmation, who contacted Clark, soldier to soldier to state "I'm not going to start the Third World War for you". I suspect most soldiers will, when it comes to it, follow illegal orders. Some might follow orders enthusiastically, like North, others will take the view "Ours not toreason, but to do and die".