Thanks for your thoughts. For people who might not have tons of time to put towards learning what's going on in the world, could you narrow down the list to three sources? Thanks.
(I guess that saying that I read these folks regularly makes it clear that I do not have kids, that I do not have a mortgage, and that I am self-employed.)
Farmer I’m not sure what you mean by “defending ethnic Russians“. I definitely agree that the west has escalated and is feeding this war, but I also see Russian government laying rampant waste to its neighbor country’s cities and infrastructure and people. I don’t see how that’s an excusable thing.
Ukraine is a patchwork country. Lvov in the NW is a majority Polish city. The Donbas in the SE is a majority Russian area.
Russia believes they are defending their people.
We can believe what we want.
But what they believe impacts how they fight. This belief of theirs is part of why I believe they are very unlikely to lose their fight. This was the context for my statement.
Russians were "Russifying" many of these same lands, nations, and peoples across the 18th and 19th centuries that today stand at least nominally as sovereign nations after many years of subjugation by either Russians, Bolsheviks, or others (Ottomans & Hapsburgs, e.g.). Poland was partitioned back in the 1790s into oblivion. The Baltic states suffered similar fates. Ukraine? The "resources" alone harvested and harvestable with proper farming and mining in that region are immense, making that land attractive to even larger "powers" - not to mention the ethnic mish-mash, historic ties to Russia (Rus), and very debatable boundaries created post-1992. (As an aside, I'm part Polish-Ukrainian.) Toss toady Zelenskyy and today's financial terrorists into the mix and, yeah...
The Podcast Revolutions is proving most influential on my thoughts and actions these days. The series is convincing me that the Russian loss of sovereignty (it's really may not properly be considered a revolution IMHO) in 1917 is more horrifying x 100 than the French revolution of 1792. For 85 years, most Russians and other ethnic groupings lived and died under the thumb of the terrorist Bolsheviks; these gangsters rebranded themselves "Communists" in 1918, after infiltrating worker soviets and leveraging them to destroy forces working awkwardly to bridge the gap between czar and "constituent assembly" the previous year. In the United States of America, the banking revolution of 1913 wrecked havoc with any remains of national, state, and municipal sovereignty; of course, the direct thread from 1861 to 1913 is apparent to keen observers of USA sovereignty issues.
The game of Whack a Banker is a lost art. Tolerance of their global-scale black magic continues today, and I seek bands of grounded generative brothers and sisters with whom to probe and celebrate the terrible truths and to forge a foundation and structure in which we protect and seed sovereign soils through strength, skill, order, and beauty. We separate from the lands of the nihilists, leaving them to their own devices for the time being.
Hey Farmer,
Thanks for your thoughts. For people who might not have tons of time to put towards learning what's going on in the world, could you narrow down the list to three sources? Thanks.
Thanks for the list. I would add Chris Hedges.
(I guess that saying that I read these folks regularly makes it clear that I do not have kids, that I do not have a mortgage, and that I am self-employed.)
Dito! I also read most of those.
Farmer I’m not sure what you mean by “defending ethnic Russians“. I definitely agree that the west has escalated and is feeding this war, but I also see Russian government laying rampant waste to its neighbor country’s cities and infrastructure and people. I don’t see how that’s an excusable thing.
Ukraine is a patchwork country. Lvov in the NW is a majority Polish city. The Donbas in the SE is a majority Russian area.
Russia believes they are defending their people.
We can believe what we want.
But what they believe impacts how they fight. This belief of theirs is part of why I believe they are very unlikely to lose their fight. This was the context for my statement.
Russians were "Russifying" many of these same lands, nations, and peoples across the 18th and 19th centuries that today stand at least nominally as sovereign nations after many years of subjugation by either Russians, Bolsheviks, or others (Ottomans & Hapsburgs, e.g.). Poland was partitioned back in the 1790s into oblivion. The Baltic states suffered similar fates. Ukraine? The "resources" alone harvested and harvestable with proper farming and mining in that region are immense, making that land attractive to even larger "powers" - not to mention the ethnic mish-mash, historic ties to Russia (Rus), and very debatable boundaries created post-1992. (As an aside, I'm part Polish-Ukrainian.) Toss toady Zelenskyy and today's financial terrorists into the mix and, yeah...
The Podcast Revolutions is proving most influential on my thoughts and actions these days. The series is convincing me that the Russian loss of sovereignty (it's really may not properly be considered a revolution IMHO) in 1917 is more horrifying x 100 than the French revolution of 1792. For 85 years, most Russians and other ethnic groupings lived and died under the thumb of the terrorist Bolsheviks; these gangsters rebranded themselves "Communists" in 1918, after infiltrating worker soviets and leveraging them to destroy forces working awkwardly to bridge the gap between czar and "constituent assembly" the previous year. In the United States of America, the banking revolution of 1913 wrecked havoc with any remains of national, state, and municipal sovereignty; of course, the direct thread from 1861 to 1913 is apparent to keen observers of USA sovereignty issues.
The game of Whack a Banker is a lost art. Tolerance of their global-scale black magic continues today, and I seek bands of grounded generative brothers and sisters with whom to probe and celebrate the terrible truths and to forge a foundation and structure in which we protect and seed sovereign soils through strength, skill, order, and beauty. We separate from the lands of the nihilists, leaving them to their own devices for the time being.