Hard for those of us caught in the daily ebb and flow of the war news to keep focussed on the Longue Dureé.
This China Expert 👇🏾 is 100% correct.
Ruschia’s defeat in Ukraine is as inevitable as America and Soviet Union’s defeat in Afghanistan.
I’m not just saying this now. I said it before America even invaded Afghanistan. And I saw the early warning indicators of Ruschia’s defeat in Ukraine in EVERY one of hundreds of meetings I held with elected officials as a diplomat in eastern Ukraine 2015-2022.
Then, on 1 March 2022, looking at the data from Ruschia’s first catastrophic week full-scale invasion, I called this war. Ukraine’s Reverse Napoleon strategy of drawing Ruschists in and teasing them is relentlessly successful.
So let’s, sure, continue to focus on the Short and Medium Dureés. But as this Chinese foreign policy expert expertly sets out, Ruschia will leave 100% of Ukraine.
There is only one guarantee that Ruschia will no longer be subjected to the nightly attacks of 1000s of Ukrainian drones which are coming.
And that is its withdrawal from 100% of Ukraine. That’s the equilibrium.
⚡️Another own goal by Ruschist Disinfolklorists
Ruschist Disinfolklore promotes the troll that ending Ruschia’s genocide in Ukraine is simply TOO expensive.
Ruschia, with a GDP now that is smaller than Chile, projects its petit bourgeois values unto the West - the 53 states that support Ukraine militarily have a collective GDP of $40t+
Now, Hungary and Ruschist U.S. Republicans, having bought this troll, are hoist on their own petard.
Ways shall be found to confiscate Ruschist State assets held in G7 countries to rebuild Ukraine.
I’d like to see the $1t of Ruschist state money held abroad in the hands of Ruschist oligarchs also confiscated.
“G7 officials have intensified talks in recent weeks on spending some of the roughly $300bn in immobilised Russian sovereign assets, a radical step that would open a new chapter in the west’s financial warfare against Moscow.
The push comes as two crucial financial aid packages for Ukraine worth more than $100bn faltered this week, as Republicans in the US Congress and Viktor Orbán of EU member Hungary took a stand against funding Kyiv.
A US official said Washington was engaged in active conversations on the use of Russian sovereign assets and believed there was a short timeline to make a decision.
They suggested it could be discussed at a possible G7 leaders’ meeting to coincide with the second anniversary in February of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine.
EU proposals have so far stopped short of seizing the Russian assets themselves, instead aiming to skim off profits generated for financial institutions such as Euroclear, where €191bn in sovereign assets are held.
But calls for tapping the assets themselves have grown louder as cracks have emerged in the political consensus on additional funding for Ukraine. Aid packages worth $60bn and €50bn in Washington and Brussels, respectively, failed to win approval this week.
Cameron, the UK foreign secretary, has expressed confidence there is “a legal route” to confiscate the assets and has suggested the UK might act with the US if other G7 allies cannot be convinced.
The US paper argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meant the seizure of assets could be “pursued as a lawful countermeasure by those states that have been injured as specially affected by Russia’s violation of the international law”.
“We need to find a way to get cash to Ukraine, in whatever form,” said one EU diplomat involved in the failed summit negotiations this week. “And more and more countries are pointing at the assets and wondering why they are still sitting there.”
G7 members and other specially affected states could seize Russian sovereign assets as a countermeasure to induce Russia to end its aggression,” said a US government discussion paper, seen by the Financial Times, which was circulated in G7 committees.”
Yet again Ruschist Disinfolklore backfires. Penny pinching pro-genocide arguments provoke the unthinkable yet again into the mainstream.
⚡️ We already knew that each Covid infection ages us in a multiplicity of ways. Specifically, the Delta lineage which was replaced by the current Omicron lineage that was discovered in late 2021 has this impact:
Now, we learn that Omicron - by far the most infectious and contagious virus known to science - ages our lung cells.
“Solely omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 influenced the expression of cell cycle genes, highlighted by an increased p21 expression in human primary lung cells and human ex vivo lungs. Additionally, an upregulated senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) was detected. Transcriptomic data indicate an increased gene expression of p16, and p38 in omicron-infected lung cells.”
https://www.aging-us.com/article/205297/text
Some of us raised the alarm about Omicron Within hours of its discovery being publicised.
Now, two years later, Omicron is still ravaging humanity. There are almost no state-sponsored controls on its continued progress through the human population. Each successive infection phase selects out a certain set of humans for death and injury. Those who survive get zapped in the next round. After enough zaps, the virus selects out all sentient beings. That’s how evolution works.
A fairy story has gained credence that sees evolution from the standpoint of humans. This tall tale tells us a virus that selected out all its hosts would never survive. Well, Omicron is still going strong two years on. And Delta now in abeyance no doubt has tricks up its sleeve and will emerge again.
It’s possible that what I call Covid Molecular Politics will emerge to save us.
Covid Molecular Politics understands the politics of how Covid works through our cells.
Just yesterday I read this research which discovered a neat new mechanism through which Covid transmits between our cells:
“…They create a direct pathway for the virus to move from cell to cell, aiding in the spread of the infection.
Fig. N protein (red) hijacks Casein Kinase II to produce branching filopodia protrusions (white) to enable budding of viral particles and infection of nearby cells…”
“One of the key binding protein, is Cdc42, which plays a central role in the formation of filopodia. What is interesting, is that Cdc42 activity is regulated by cholesterol (Chol).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32162745/
So we can use advanced imaging techniques (which are decades away from existing in ordinary hospitals to help us see and visualise the way the virus works at a molecular level inside our cells. When someone coughs near you and says something tripe like “It’s not Covid. It’s just a cold” now you can visualise what is happening inside them a hundred billion times as the virus transmits itself across the universe of your embodiment.
Here a Californian neurosurgeon who has Covid allowed herself to become the subject. You can see here visually how Covid has infected her brain:
“Viral protein (red, viral nucleocapsid) is found mainly inside neurons (blue, neun) in the olfactory cortex. Glial cells such as astrocytes (white, gfap) and microglia (green, iba1( are attacking these infected neurons, trying to slow down the viral spreading across the brain. Although beneficial, this mechanism also generates more neuroinflammatory propagation, with additional collateral damage to the circuits besides the death of infected neurons…”
This is of course quite cool. But it’s also a call to action: wear a FFP3 mask and you’ll not be subjected to the same process.
Then, this knowledge is translated into how we organise ourselves as human beings to stop allowing the virus hosts in which to evolve. An infectious person provides Covid with around 100b opportunities to replicate itself and evolve!
If humans took precautions for two months the virus would die out. Instead by lifting all non-pharmaceutical interventions and endlessly persuading people Covid is a Nothin’ Burger, we’re practising politics as Covid would want us to.
Each of us can do our bit to break the chains of infection we encounter each day.
Pretending we have no power to avoid participating in chains of infection leads to this kind of result:
An FFP3 mask has been shown to be 100% effective in stopping the spread of Covid:
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Nice to hear from you in person! I'm deeply interested and influenced by your work. Cheers me up in this difficult time in our world... You probably know that birth, whirl and vortex are all from Palo/. Sanskrit vrtati turning. Birth becomes something like churned out by the whirl... Kate
I wish you'd offer a subscription discount for multiple subscriptions to your newsletters. I am a paid subscriber to Decoding Trolls and synergies with the others are fruitful, but the price climbs to an unaffordable level. Would you consider this?