‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • political elites in Europe are afraid and fear upheavals are coming in the coming years and months because of the cost of living crisis and the war. They try to clamp down beforehand to preserve their own power. This always happens when things go bad. The leash is kept looser when people behave and it’s tightened again when the opposite happens. There is no real freedoms that is given to the people by the elites, because what concessions they give willingly they can just as easily take away when they no longer feel like it. Provided that they think they can get away with it.






  • While wikipedia is decent at giving overviews on some scientific and technical topics, but when there is a topic about something that is historical and/or any way politically or monetarily relevant there will be an edit war to change it to suit one interest groups wishes or anothers. It really is a cesspool of psyops, misinformation and articles to be basically corporate PR at certain topics, and that is just because google usually gives wikipedia articles as first or second result on any given subject and it’s a really cost effective way to propagandize people and doing it is really low cost. Now Russia just monopolizes the propaganda inside their own borders.


  • International law in this context just means that a single global hegemon can no longer push everybody else around and call it’s will and interests “law”, and therefore claim that it’s interest somehow benevolent and part of how just things are. That is exactly what “rules based international order” means.

    Not that we have ever had any law that equally applies to everybody equally. All laws and even international law needs a hobbesian Behemoth that is more powerful than any other to enforce “international law” and is in the end above it since it is at the best position to enforce and set the “law”. The UN and it’s institutions are basically basically a discussion club by design and it can’t do shit so post 1990 world the Behemoth has been the world hegemonic United states. Now that US has declined relatively as Russia, China, India, Iran, etc have risen it finds itself unable to enforce anything through hard or soft power and therefore the idea of law, stability and peace under US dissipates. Not that it was ever lawfully, peaceful or stable, that illusion only applied to the western core nations of this now dead American world.



  • All of the sanctions and European energy security were banked on the idea that Russian frontlines would collapse under the super Nato equipped Ukrainian counterattack and then there would be a regime change in Moscow and gas would flow again. Now Ukraine is on the backfoot, there is no change in Moscow and Russia oil still flows to Europe, but only through intermediaries and loopholes, because there really never was an short to medium term alternative for it in the way the global oil market is structured. The sanctions were actual serious sanctions and their architects thought that they would actually work, but the decisions were made on faulty assumptions of effectiveness of sanctions and the structure of Russia economy.









  • Uskon että koko artikkeli on liioittelua. Tähänkin olisi kuitenkin helppo lääke. Nimittäin tuomita Israel ja saada aikaan tulitauko ja sitten joku kestävä ratkaisu Gazan ja länsirannan suhteen. Tää on tietysti mahdotonta Euroopan hallituksille, koska jenkit ja britit seisoo kuitenkin israeli takana ja Eurooppa ei ikinä seiso yhdysvaltoja vastaan. Hamas taas on lähempänä Vietkong kuin ISISiä ja kaikki mahdollinen terrori tulee, random lone wolf toimijoiden käsistä, jos siis tulee, eikä Hamasin tai hezbollahin. Ei kuitenkaan ole Euroopan hallituksilla muuta ajatusta päässään kuin tuomita palestiinalaisten taistelu oikeudesta kotiinsa ja siten luoda ISSI:kselle ja vastaaville se tekosyy. Veikkaampa vaan että jos jotain lännessä tapahtuu niin se tullaan myös spinnaamaan siltä kantilta, ollaan nyt sodassa Israelin rinnalla “ääriliikkeitä” vastaan ja tätä sotaa voidaan käydä tukemalla Israelia entistä enemmän tavoitteeissaan luoda etnovaltionsa puskutraktorein ja pommein.