You haven’t really lost a Venezuelan election before the yanks declare you the winner.

Yup. The western elite is so used to always getting their way and so high on their own propaganda that they have forgotten why and how to do diplomacy. They must seriously think that diplomacy is when the global south surrenders to the west but everyone is wearing a suit and tie as they do so.

If nothing else, a leader who considers himself to be a “deal artist” might at least consider diplomacy before pushing the big war button.

The thing speaking against a forceful Russian response to an American attack is how the war is going. Like all the other Wunderwaffe, ATACMS is not able to conjure away the disparities in manpower and and military industrial capacity. An American missile attack would be a nuisance but it would not fundamentally be able to give the Kiev regime the upper hand, or even “the strongest possible position” for the negotiations more and more people are now accepting will happen at some time on the future.

Russia has found a strategy that works, retaliating in a way that opens up for more direct NATO involvement would jeopardize that without giving Russia much of a material benefit.

The Mileil one could be the poster for a comedy movie

The people of Venezuela are yearning for American military bases and IMF structural adjustment programmes

The exact scope of the American Biden regime’s decision to attack Russia with ATACMS missiles is not known in detail. In an interview with state media DR foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has expressed disappointment in what he believes to be a limited scope of the planned attacks:

If it were true that the U.S. had lifted geographic restrictions, that would be good. But I have a sense that this is relatively limited and likely focused on Kursk. And that’s, of course, better than nothing,

(DR found it fitting to embellish Rasmussen’s statement by inserting a note about “Pentagon” claiming that there are 10,000 democratic Korean troops in the Kursk oblast. I have omitted it from the quote)

Even the Danish regime, who has been among the most bellicose, is now beginning to slowly realise that the west will not be able to impose it’s maximalist demands on Russia. Rasmussen is now talking about how the purpose of the American ATACMS attacks is not to achieve victory but to make sure that Ukraine has the “strongest possible position for when and if the dynamics of this war change.” He goes on to say that “It’s a sober prediction that this could happen sometime in the new year,”

Rasmussen continues:

President Zelensky has also stated that the war will likely shift to a diplomatic phase at some point. And it’s crucial that Ukraine has the strongest possible advantage in that scenario

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One way to make a difference is to lift geographic restrictions (on the use of Western weapons). Unfortunately, I don’t currently see this happening one-to-one. But something is better than nothing,"

However, the Danish regime has yet to move to a more realistic position on the war. Rasmussen is mostly dismissive of German leader Olaf Scholz’ attempts to resume dialogue with Russia by making a phone call to Putin. Rasmussen says:

If the purpose was to persuade Putin to end the war, it clearly didn’t succeed. Because immediately afterward, we saw one of the most massive Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a very long time

This, of course, is a deeply unserious statement that should be seen as a symptom of the butthurt many western maximalists must be experiencing these days.

Despite his bruised ego, Rasmussen is enough of an opportunist to realise that the reality of the war is shifting both on the ground and in the imperial court of Washington where the incoming Trump regime might be less keen to continue the war. He says that European countries needs to understand “what’s what” and says that “We must avoid a situation where we simply have no role to play. If the call aimed to ensure that, I’m more understanding”.

He adds:

There’s nothing from that conversation suggesting President Putin is remotely ready to negotiate."

But have you considered that the economy is doing great and that the people struggling with debt should just pull themselves up by the bootstraps and should be blamed and shamed as individuals until they do so?

Russia is a 1990’s Hollywood action movie villain who is plotting against the heroic western self-insert for no other reason than their love for chaos.

German leader Olaf Scholz made a phone call to Putin on Friday. He’s still nowhere near to abandoning the west’s delusional demands of Russian surrender but at least he’s opening up to the general concept of diplomacy.

This has made Zelensky and all the NATO ghouls very mad. One of these ghouls is noted war criminal Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly the head of NATO, and before that a catastrophic Liberal Party leader of Denmark. Currently he is an asset for American imperialism, providing shady “consultancy” services to some of Washington’s most distasteful puppet regimes and businesses connected to American spy agencies.

In (a statement to state media DR)[https://archive.ph/1uuZo] he says:

It is completely unacceptable if Putin should get anything at all out of his adventure. Because then Xi Jinping (China’s president, red.) will conclude: “If Putin can take the Crimean peninsula then I can take Taiwan”. That is why we must make sure Putin is not successful in Ukraine.

This is what passes for serious statesman-like analysis in the west. Rasmussen did not mention how the American Bush regime’s illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, that Rasmussen himself was an accessory to as Danish PM, has helped create a precedence for unilateral military involvement in other countries.

Rejecting the idea of further diplomacy with Russia, Rasmussen goes on to say:

I think the most important thing we can do to m make peace in Ukraine is to deliver even more weapons to Ukraine and remove all restrictions on the weapons we give.

I am too lazy to look up whether he is in the pocket of the American military industrial complex but I would be more surprised to learn that he’s not than to learn that he is. Anyways these are the kind of madmen they put in charge of western military bureaucracies.

So what options do Russia have to retaliate if the yanks stars shooting missiles into Russia? I doubt that they will move directly to total war with NATO but they will have to do something to make it clear that this decision hurts the west as well.

Would it be feasible for them to shoot sone yank military satellite down? That would achieve striking a blow to the west and striking yank infrastructure related to the attack while simultaneously avoiding to actually strike western soil and killing westerners. In the other hand that could make the yanks begin shooting down Russian satellites and then we are back on the escalation.

Supply side Jesus would love it though

Getting that close while being undetected is an impressive feat but isn’t the 200m error still too much to be practical if you actually want to kill a ship? Even if we assume that 200m is the maximum margin of error, that still leaves a potential area of impact made up of a lot of “not ship” in relation to the amount of ship. Wouldn’t the chance of getting an actual hit be very low?

There has been similar tendencies in Denmark where the regime has made it easier to remove children or forcibly put them up for adoption at birth. I don’t know much about how it works in practice but I would be surprised if non-white families were treated the same as white families.

Meanwhile, despite stories of CPS overreach and all the toughness posturing of the regime, any teacher or childcare worker can tell you stories of children who live in horrible conditions and the authorities being alerted multiple times while doing fuckall for years.

in countries that are already sliding ever-rightward - they’re pouring fuel on the kindling of actual antisemitism. It’s going to end very badly indeed.

Once the illegal Zionist entity collapses () and Jews stop being geopolitically interesting to western imperialism, classic western antisemitism is going to cone out the woodwork once again. Things can get really spicy if large numbers of zionist ex-settlers comes back hone to the west where they will be seen as “foreign migrants”.

US and IZE: Goes without saying

Argentina: Brainworms

Paraguay: Also brainworms?

Micronesia and Nauru: They always vote for the worst yank shit that even limp euro satellite states won’t vote for. What’s in it for them? If it’s just coercion you would expect it to work on more states instead of just these two tiny ones. I hope that they at least get some nice bribes.

Moving unaccompanied children under your care away from a war zone — Genocide. A more clearcut case of war crimes than bombing and starving hundreds of thousands of children to death for explicitly racist reasons.

Abducting children from their parents because you can’t be arsed to meaningfully communicate with them — Protecting the children. Maybe a bureaucratic irregularity at worst but you have to consider that talking to people can be really hard.

When you live in a western Europe, seeing American brainworms develop and run wild is a mixed experience. On one hand you get to laugh at the dumb uncultured yanks (yes, euros feel superior to white burgerlanders, there are no limits on who we can be racist to, we invented racism) but on the other hand you also get anxious knowing that in a few years our own homegrown chuds are going to bang the same drum.

I didn’t know about the UN thing. The only thing I’ve heard has been about right-wing evangelical American immigrants being shocked to find out that hitting children is very illegal in Norway and that authorities take the ban seriously. That is a good thing in my view but I wouldn’t have trouble imagining that such a system would also be capable of abusing its powers for more or less conscious racist reasons.

Americans don’t have healthcare because their masters don’t want them to have it, not because the money is being spent elsewhere.

The US has one of the world’s highest per capita public spendings on healthcare and the highest private. There are more money per capita in the American healthcare system than in any other system in human history. The money is there already. What is lacking is political will to make these money go towards actual healthcare instead of grifts, corruption and rent extraction.