⚡️New York city, 2015.
Publisher: Do me a novel on the mystical Russian soul, would you?
Author: Sure. I'll go sup reindeer pee with the locals in Siberia. And fall in love with a herder.
Publisher: Sounds amazing. Here's a million dollars.
NYC, 2022.
Author: Here's the book... There is a nuance though...
Publisher: Loving it. Here's another million $.
Author: The reindeer herder explained how European Muscovite imperialist Nazis have been genociding his people for decades...
Publisher: Can you, maybe, do a post-Russian Imperialism novel, set in in post-war Ukraine?
Author: Definitely. I'll fall in love with a Ukrainian defender, this time. "Love In A Time Of Cholera In Khakovka"?
Publisher: Perfect! Here's $2 million.
⚡️President Zelenskyy's Toughness.
Heard a school friend and business partner of President Zelenskyy respond to a question about whether he was surprised at President Z's courage.
"No" the friend responded. He recounted an anecdote about President Zelenskyy going to busk in a new subway under a roundabout as teenagers in their home town (Kryvy Rih- I've been there a lot. Tough steel-making town. Actually I helped arrange police protection from Ruschist Nazi agents provocateurs for the first ever Pride parade there. I digress).
They laid bets as to how many tunes President Zelenskyy would get through before being beaten up.
Soon afterwards President Zelenskyy arrived back at the block of flats where he also grew up (which I've also visited many times) with bruises and a broken six string guitar.
President Zelenskyy said proudly: "Got through one-and-a-half songs." He continued busking.
Meanwhile not one verifiable act of courage by bunker grandfather has EVER been confirmed.
Bunker grandfather was so scared of the Russian electorate, he murdered 300 Russians to spark a war in Chechnya that killed maybe a million people. Yet, Putin still cheated in the election: here's Putin's election HQ as the "votes" came in in 2000 (twitter.com/DecodingTrolls…).
By contrast, President Zelenskyy announced he was entering a crowded field of candidates in late December 2018. In March 2019 President Zelenskyy was elected by 73% of the electorate in every district in Ukraine (except for one). A feat unmatched in a democracy anywhere in a free and fair election (I monitored it for the OSCE.
⚡️Joycean Escatology and Scatology: Filth, Nazism, Ruschism, and Toilet Humour.
James Joyce was one of the first writers to include a conversation between a cat and a human (Léopold Bloom) in English literature. Mkgnao! Mrkgnao! Mn!
Joyce's Finnegans Wake excoriates with great subtlety, humour, and opaqueness German Nazism.
Joyce reverts again and again to filthy metaphors and tropes about German Nazis to contrast German Nazis' promotion of fertility, female subjugation, and family values, with Nazis' obsession with sex, and ultraviolence.
Here I draw Joycean attention to the scales of Lavrov's toilet as he participates in the worst crimes committed in Europe since the German Nazis.
We're Joyce alive today he'd love this #NAFO penetration of Putin's toilet. #NAFO was hunting for the suitcase that Putin dumps in.
Filth, Ruschism, Hygiene, and Fascism always go hand-in-hand.
Nazi's referred to "hygiene" constantly in their disinfolklore.net. Everything was in need of purification, according to their filthy propaganda.
In England, due to the far right unelected government's privatisation fetish, foreign owned water companies have evacuated £60b from the system, while pumping raw sewage into almost every river in England: thus the Turd Reich nomenklatura.
Trump's second indictment referred to boxes containing Iran invasion plans being held next to Trump's loo - presumably for reading while dealing with other business. Unfortunately there was no photograph of the loo in question. Thankfully, it has now leaked.
We all know the penchant Trump had for ripping up official government record and flushing them (as well as our democracy) down the loo - h/t @maggieNYT.
The lesson here is that like Duchamp's urinal far right rhetoric when wrapped up into a package and delivered by elected politicians sometimes can be mistaken for magical art.
We must be wary and alert to Magi like Johnson and Trump, and keep them from office.
From the scatological to the eschatological, like Nazism, Ruschism aroused by Filth, Fascism, Purity & "Hygiene."
Ruschist invaders even steal loo seats in 🇺🇦.
Lavrov's preening in Savile Row suits the scales of the filth he conceals with his toilet🚽.
⚡️Ukraine has earned its spurs.
Ukraine needs to be in @NATO and the European Union post haste.
Hold outs among "allies" expecting / waiting for some kind of compromise over occupied Crimea need to read the room.
Enough unforgivable mistakes were made by "allies" 2014-2022 with the Minsk betrayal of Ukraine.
⚡️The Cost of 'Both Sidesing' Blame For Ruschist War Crimes.
"We’re fighting a war though in real time. Lives are at stake - Russian Nazis left untold numbers of animals and humans to die on the side of the Dniepr that they control after they blew the dam.
Russia prevented - using weapons of information and conventional warfare - anyone coming to save those people and animals.
While legacy media prevaricate, people died. If they wanted to Both Sides the issue they might have chosen to “debate” which part of the Russian Nazi power vertical had blown the dam.
Or they could have turned it into an urgent fight to get the Russia-neutered UN and ICRC to save those people and animals lives. Instead they chose to frame the “debate” for a week as a question of blame between Ukraine and Russia..."
⚡️23 Years Ago current “English” cabinet minister Michael Gove Argued "Restart the War in Ireland, or 'Transexuals' Will Get Rights in England."
Now, he argues election won't be won with culture wars.
Translation: if you don't like 'Cultural War' issues - Tory Party is for you. And, all the pro-Cultural Wars government ministers' message: If you love 'Cultural War' issues - Tory Party is for you.
England, Scotland, and Wales being held hostage by a small coterie of English nationalists.
Fact-check: Gove isn't English, yet he veils his immigrant fervour English nationalism in a fake "British" identity. Like all the extremist English nationalists in England's current unelected government, he speaks only from the standpoint of an English nationalist agenda, and ignores Scotland and Wales.
⚡️Crimea Must Be Shown Not To Benefit Ruschist Nazi Criminals.
The ONLY was to punish Putin personally is to confiscate 100% of ALL Russian oligarch assets held outside Ruschia.
Putin is said personallly to own 50% of ALL Ruschist oligarchs' assets.
Deripaska (who funded pro-Russia politics in Ukraine for ten years) said: Everything I own belongs to Russia.
It's not enough to freeze and confiscate ALL Russian state assets as legally defined. All oligarch assets must be considered as beneficially owned by the Ruschist Nazi state. And 50% of those top 110 Ruschist oligarchs' assets owned by the Chief Ruschist Nazi Putin himself.
Ukraine needs to be rebuilt and every single Ukrainian compensated for the amount of emotional and financial stress.
⚡️Does Hate Speech matter?
Since early 2015, as a diplomat, I monitored & reported on Anti-Ukrainian rhetoric inside Ruschist-occupied 🇺🇦. Genocide is ALWAYS preceded by a softening up process. Act of speaking in certain ways IS & NORMALISES de-humanising behaviour.
Nuremburg, Yugoslav & Rwanda tribunals found acts of speaking in certain ways violates the Right to Security, which is PERSECUTION & in itself a Crime Against Humanity. So why is de-rigueur now among some to trumpet extremist interpretations of Free Speech?
Well... Freedom IS complicated. That's why Germany outlaws certain forms of speech, & why the EU's anti-hate speech legislation is tricky to navigate. I invented Positive Trolling® as 1 solution. Another: Threat Free Speech Systems, which I also invented. Freedom Isn't Free.
You've experienced what life in a failed state is like - Scotland subjected to the English governments diktats and anti-academic biases has created this mess.
The English state wants to rid the country of intellectuals, thus its war against academia. Over thirty years it turned world class universities into shells.
Ukraine's ability to withstand a real war while starting cohesive is a lesson the English (who are subjected to a phony Cultural War) might benefit from learning.
⚡️Russian Church Depends on Ukraine.
"Key texts of Russian Orthodox Church were rarely Russian in origin. Russian Church coopted texts of late Byzantine origin, texts produced by Ukrainians and Belorusians, and texts produced by Catholics and Protestants in the West…The Imported Church shows that the key texts of Russian Orthodox Church were rarely Russian in origin.
Russian Church coopted texts of late Byzantine origin, texts produced by Ukrainians & Belorusians, & texts produced... in the West."
⚡️Certain kind of nihilistic, uber cynical "humour" deployed by a subset of the English elite. Yes Minister! Private Eye! HIGNFY, which turned far right actors Johnson & Mogg into electable politicians. Brexit resulted. Joke's on English now - Slovenians now as rich as the English.
What's happening in English politics?
A small subset of the ruling party drove the most extreme form of Brexit. It was a means to continue the shrinking of the State way beyond the wildest dreams of Thatcher/Reagan. This coterie supported Truss.
These extreme Brexiteers' agenda is too bonkers for the bond markets which sniffs an ungovernable country.
Meanwhile, other factions within the ruling party also oppose this bonkers agenda...
If a govt can't get its budget through, it MUST resign.
ALL in the party agree on the need to avoid a GE and hope they can find a way - during Brexit constitutional breaches were normalised.
It's very unlikely they'll be able to convince the electorate of the legitimacy of another appointee as PM sans general election.
A point about "mythology around Article 5" of NATO Washington Treaty.
I can't imagine ANY circumstances in which Orban or Erdogan would form part of the consensus vote to trigger Art 5.
It's not automatic, as many imagine.
In the end, it will be up to America, England, Italy, and maybe France to respond, jointly, to further use by Russia of WMD in Ukraine.
They'll respond with overwhelming conventional fire power, perhaps politically supported by most NATO countries.
⚡️Russian Money, Anti-Ukrainian Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists, And Kompromat.
Most of Putin's personal wealth that's estimated north of €100b has found its way to Silicon Valley - its integrated into many of Venture Capital funds that finance, say, the medium I'm writing this text on.
Venture Capitalists who advocate against the post-WWII Rules Based Order (anti-woke, anti-democratic, authoritarian, anti-Ukraine) are compromised.
VC: Okay, Ukraine. I’ve heard Putin’s pitch. I give you 30 seconds. Lemme just say. I was in the room when the Airbnb guys pitched. This guy Putin, he reminds me of them. Pitch, Ukraine.
Ukraine's Pitch: We’ll destroy Ruschist army and expel it from ALL of our land. We don’t care what you think.
VC: Yeah, I don't care what Ukraine thinks. You're only a country. I'm running funds with billions of Russian petrodollars. So I don't care about any of that. These sanctions are killing my clients and my liquidity. If US Treasury introduces secondary sanctions, I'm gonna have to unwind all my funds or risk being sanctioned. Tens of billions of dollars in my funds is beneficially owned personally by Putin. That's why I advocate for Peace. I couldn't care less about genocide in Ukraine.
Quaint, old school Kompromat operation [Honey Trap Type 3.123 (Coke + loan to buy the coke)], with quite a lot of contributory negligence:
"In it, he [who took £100k from a Russian] presented himself as a victim ... his accuser spoke fluent Russian - inflaming his fears of "Russian infiltration"."
Is there nothing the Conservatives can do that would engender the same kind of pressure Gordon Brown faced for the General Election that sent us on this entire spiral towards the nadir?
All these official economic numbers from the Ruschist regime are fake internal numbers. They're the best picture the insiders can conjure of the true situation.
No reason to believe they're more accurate than the numbers we hear Ruschist defence ministry is telling Ruschist public and Putin.
Everyone in the power vertical there, whether in the military or economic spheres, is lying to everyone else.
And although they all know they're lying, no-one actually knows what the truth is. As in the USSR, institutionalised lying works as long as there's real money inside the system.
A perfect opportunity for a wily enemy like Ukraine to play the Ruschists like a violin.
⚡️On Why Authoritarianism Inevitably Leads to Mass Human Sacrifice.
Authoritarians mainstream an ideology of Might Is Reich.
The only measure of value is possession of the object sought - people, land, things, power,...
This sets off a race to the most inhumane.
Authoritarians are like spiders in a box.
We must protect ourselves from authoritarians for their sake, as well as ours.