For a long time, Russia has been attriting the Ukrainians across a long war of attrition front that barely moved. It is still barely moving, but what is happening on that front is rapidly changing. Russia has been pounding the Ukrainians with a lot more shells, rockets, and bombs, than the Ukrainians have been pounding the Russians. And there are more Russians than Ukrainians. So it was inevitable that the Ukrainians would run out of conscripts, before the Russians ran …
Bitcoin/fiat exchange rate
Bitcoin is currently around US$120 000. It very briefly went through that psychological barrier, fell back to US$112 000, and will soon go decisively past US$120 000 Historically, Bitcoin followed a pattern of wild peaks and long depressing falls, but has now decisively broken from that pattern, because everyone wised up. The idiots stopped piling in on the peak, and the wise started buying on the dip. We now have a lot of lettuce hands, people who when they think …
Genocide
For several millenia, there has been a rule in warfare: If you will not make peace, and lose, and still will not make peace, you die. This is genocide, and Israel is right now carrying out genocide in Gaza, and people are getting used to it. Some genocides, for example the attempted genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, which was attempted deniably by Globohomo empire proxies with air and artillery support by white Globohomo troops, and the successful genocide of …
The death of American softpower.
When a phone is held in the normal orientation, upright, the screen is much higher than it is wide. This is because it is designed for the normal use case, where one person is talking to another person over the phone. A person is, roughly, a rectangle higher than he is wide. When, however you watch a movie, the screen is much wider than it is high, and you have put your phone on its side. And this is because, …
The left always projects
They are incapable of putting themselves into their adversary’s shoes, because what their enemy thinks is to them a crime thought. This incapacity to model their adversaries is a huge weakness and huge vulnerability. We can operate outside their ability to see. It is also a massive information leak, because what they say the enemy intends or is trying to do reveals what they intend or are trying to do. This post was triggered by a recent bread tube comment. …
State of the Ukraine war
The current strategy of the war faction of Thermidor is to fight the war to the last Ukrainian in order to attrit Russia. Trump is obviously unhappy with this strategy, but the war faction, Marco Rubio, tell him that Russia is suffering huge enormous stupendous gigantic colossal casualties, so if we keep going just a tiny teensy weeny little little bit longer the Russians will concede better peace terms than they are now offering. On the other hand hand, if …
Trump finally moves to make peace in the Ukraine
The Biden regime promised the Ukraine a lot of weapons. Trump has relaxed secondary sanctions, something from which I have personally benefited, has not authorised any weapons, but did not, at first, cancel Biden authorised supplies. Now, as part of his program of giving warriors a more significant role in the military leadership, has authorised them to hang on to their stuff — that the Biden promises do not empower the imperial war faction, the “democratic” regime change faction, to …
The nature of the left
The Maga right is a big tent that welcomes outsiders. The left vigorously polices purity. The left is forever holiness spiraling to ever greater evil, malice, viciousness, and depravity, and has been doing so since the late eighteenth, early nineteenth, century. What Maga is doing is politics as one would expect politics to function in a democracy or a republic, if democracy or republicanism was actually working as advertised. You try to build a coalition that is big enough to …
All must kiss the ring of Trump, Holy Emperor of the Ocean Lands
For we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately I love Trump being the sovereign, and I loved the Musk being his tech adviser. And I would love Musk being president, and Trump being his speechwriter, political adviser, and press officer. But Trump is president, and if Musk was president he would desperately need such a political adviser. Musk is troubled because the one big beautiful bill will lead to the US becoming bankrupt in a …
The “moderate” right
If we continue to move left at the same rate as we were moving left in 2016-2024, then by 2032 the moderate left position will be that everyone should immediately torture to death everyone insufficiently left, the radical left position will be that everyone should torture to death everyone who is not purely and truly left, and no one is purely and truly left, the moderate right position will be that only the moderate right should be tortured to death …