KREMLIN MASSACRING ITS LEADING SUPPORTERS IN DISASTROUS UKRAINE WAR

Ukrainian soldiers taking out the Putinist trash

It looks like one of the main outcomes of the present Russo-Ukrainian War will be the mass culling of Russian nationalists and imperialists. Yes, a few months from now, the only Putinf@gs left alive will be Western shills on the internet.

Unlike the Ukrainians, who mass mobilised their population as soon as their nation was invaded, the Kremlin has been mainly relying on two "special groups" to do most of the hard fighting -- namely, prison convicts offered amnesty for their crimes and Russian "super-patriots," who have been been glugging the Kremlin Kool Aid for the last couple of decades.

Needless to say a lot of these people have now been butchered in the war.

The Kremlin's overreliance on its most active supporters was motivated by the need to avoid a mass call-up, which would have turbocharged opposition to Putin.

As reported by the Institute for the Study of War Twitter account:

Putin likely rejected the Russian military’s advice to order an involuntary reserve call-up because of the unpopularity of the move, the fact that he had not set informational conditions for it, and possibly also because of his growing distrust of the Russian MoD.

Putin decided instead to double down on existing volunteer recruitment efforts already being conducted by ultranationalist groups and ordered the formation of new volunteer formations.

Due to poor results with convict recruits and the uselessness of overseas fighters, Putin has increasingly come to rely on his own base to fight his disastrous war, with the effect that his most loyal supporters, many of whom lack military training and experience, have been effectively slaughtered like pigs in a sausage factory:

The Kremlin likely turned to these existing networks hoping to attract volunteers who ideologically support his war. ISW repeatedly observed and reported on numerous instances of Russian pro-war, nationalist milbloggers promoting recruitment and crowdfunding campaigns. 

These quasi-official ultranationalist groups began to increasingly recruit from the general public, reaching beyond reservists who had completed their mandatory conscript service, veterans, and contract servicemen. 

This also explains why Putin has been tolerating increasing levels of criticism from these ultranationalist hotheads who live in a fantasy World where Russia is "stronk":

ISW also observed that Putin had been increasingly tolerating ultranationalist milbloggers who have become mainstream sources of frontline information since May 2022 despite their harsh criticism of the Russian military command and the progress of the war.

Putin likely valued the milbloggers’ ability to recruit volunteers above maintaining the Russian MoD’s propaganda efforts or saving the reputations of Shoigu, Gerasimov, and other failed military commanders.

The Kremlin, for example, tolerated and continues to tolerate former Russian officer Igor Girkin who directly criticizes Putin and his administration, likely due to Girkin’s connections to DNR and LNR volunteer formations that have generated additional volunteers for the war.

In other words, Putin's war has been a total shamble. Following serious defeats in the Kharkiv area in September, Putin was even forced to backtrack on this policy, increasing mass mobilization efforts regardless. 

Ukraine’s sweeping counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast between September 6 and September 11 likely shocked Putin into realizing that he needed to order an involuntary reserve call-up. [...]

Once the bulk of the 300,000 mobilized reservists had arrived with units in Ukraine Putin began allowing the Russian MoD to reassert its primacy over all Russian forces. 

This situation has led to bitter rivalries between the Russian MoD and the ultranationalist volunteers and Wagner convict battalions:

Putin named Gerasimov overall theater commander on January 11, subordinating Surovikin to him. Russian MoD began actively integrating the 1st and 2nd (DNR and LNR) army corps into the conventional Russian military and is reportedly removing proxy commanders.

The Russian MoD is also attempting to restrict Wagner from receiving state ammunition and stopped Wagner’s prisoner recruitment in favor of its own prisoner recruitment efforts.

In other words, the number of people with a significant reason to bump Putin off has skyrocketed in recent months. Watch this space.

Igor Girkin, sometimes known by his nom “de guerre” Igor Strelkov, now a strident critic of the MSO, seems ever more in a state of despondency, with a uniquely dark view on the future, for Vladimir Putin most of all. pic.twitter.com/yLUG4twkv5

— Yasmina (@yasminalombaert) February 28, 2023

IS THE DISSIDENT RIGHT A BUNCH OF PUTIN STOOGES?

Who becomes a Putin shill and does the Kremlin have a "game plan" on who and how to recruit? Also, is there a retirement scheme or will they just bump you off, like they did to Andrew Anglin? Stephen J James investigates. 

WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: ANDREW ANGLIN

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Who is Anglin working for?

by Colin Liddell

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The chief editor and main writer of the notorious "Nazi troll" site The Daily Stormer. Anglin had a past as an SJW and "race-mixer" before repackaging himself as an uber-Neo-Nazi Jew hater in 2013, when he founded the Total Fascism site, the precursor to The Daily Stormer.

He is one of the most suspicious characters on the internet, and played a key role in normalising Big Tech's deplatforming of people with his international "hate" campaign against British Jewish MP Luciana Berger in 2014. Whatever the true story behind the man, he is clearly not what he presents himself as.

His closest associate Weev (Andrew Auernheimer) is a confirmed Jew, and there are well-founded suspicions that Anglin may well be one himself (and, indeed, he bears a striking resemblance to Jonathan Greenblatt the head of the ADL). If so, this would hardly be unique or even unusual, as many so-called Neo-Nazis have in fact been Jewish.

Known to be very short and with an appearance that reminds some of an albino, he is nevertheless a talented and industrious writer, although it is also possible that he is merely the "branding" for a team of writers. Along with TRS and others in the Alt-Right (Richard Spencer and Greg Johnson), he played a key role in turning the Alt-Right from a potent and polymorphous dissident movement to the Neo-Nazi caricature it has become today.

Following repeated attempts to de-platform The Daily Stormer in 2017, the site moved to a domain name controlled by Russia (DailyStormer.su), where it remained safely for nearly 5 years. This suggests that Anglin is most likely a Russian asset.

Kremlin troll humour.

It is also noticeable that Daily Stormer activity and internet prominence greatly increased in 2014. This was following the Ukrainian revolution, which was a watershed moment for the Kremlin, when Russian-backed Black ops on the internet greatly intensified. Sadly, very few in the Alt-Right realised the danger posed by Anglin and Russia's Nazification of the Alt-Right, although I am glad to say I was one of them, making major attacks on the Stormer, which provoked a major response by Anglin. Part of the reason for the virulence of this was that I called out his apparent "Jewishness" with this meme in 2015:

For the last couple of years his Daily Stormer pieces have featured prominently at the Unz Review, which claims to be a "free speech for dissidents" site, but is obviously a Kremlin shill site. Anglin's chief associate Weev was also widely reported to be based in Kremlin-controlled Transdniestria, a breakaway sliver of Moldavan territory.

In February 2022, the Daily Stormer site was moved to a different domain name (DailyStormer.name) apparently in an attempt to better cloak its connection to Russia. The timing of this suggests that it was coordinated with other measures Russia was taking in the build-up to the attack on Ukraine. Since the invasion began, Anglin has boasted that his strongly pro-Kremlin takes are being recycled in the mainstream media by the likes of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard. 

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THE DEATH OF KOREA

by Froude Society

Everyone is now talking about Korea's super low fertility rate. I can work to explain a lot of it.

First is education. The national obsession with education (as a totem of achievement and dogmatic rubber stamp) is the number one reason for the low birth rate.

Young people delay their lives for years and years in pursuit of white collar employment. This starts in middle school where all the kids must put in all their time and effort to study for bullshit exams, filled with arbitrary questions. This continues, with more intensity, in high school. Little time if any is set aside to dating, personal development, practical skills, or even genuine academic interests. They are just brain dead, in chairs, poop socking multiple choice test practice from 8-19 years old.

All of this is underlined by 700-3000 USD a month of private, after-school education paid out of pocket by parents. As much as Koreans might save on healthcare and transportation, they are falling into massive consumer debt to prop up a viscous non-productive cycle of memorization. The cost of academies (private after school institutes) is mandatory for any potential children. They will lose the rat race if not given the opportunity. Therefore, only the upper middle class, earning in the top standard deviation, can afford this without a monstrous debt burden.

University is viewed as a time to rest after the hardships of high school. Therefore, personal academic interests are generally neglected. The degree is what is supposed to matter, and not what is learned. Professors pass students with low marks as long as they attend class.

Woah, fucked up! https://t.co/OdOlX9xseP

— Colin Liddell (@cbliddell) February 23, 2023

Almost everyone is expected to go to college. The most-needed blue collar jobs or the ones in trades, construction, and industry are ignored by a vast majority of the population. Many of the white collar jobs sought after are gatekept by difficult tertiary, postgraduate exams.,

Young people will stay at their parents home for years, economically unproductive, garnering zero experience, for a chance to have a "comfortable" job. They might have some part-time work but most of that will not be saved or will go to their parents pockets.

The workforce participation rate for men in their 20s and 30s is abysmal because of this competition for the few "comfortable" jobs available. Koreans want to open private medical practices or become government bureaucrats. Work for most SMEs is long, difficult and stressful.

Add to this the fact that men are required to engage in 20 months or so of conscription. This puts them behind women in the competition for careers, almost all the most desired jobs are also equally open to women. The draft also shatters any teenage relationships that were formed.

World wide, women tend not to marry men that earn less than them. This is highly likely with men living at their mom's house studying for the bar exam or the accountancy certification. Female tertiary education is the fertility killer but is encouraged without a second thought.

Unless the education system and social expectations around employment are drastically altered the birth rate will remain abysmal. There really isn't much of a political will to do something about the TFR either. In a recent speech about the birthrate, the cuckservative PM used it as an excuse to whine about pinko unions. For most people, it's not a pressing but a private matter as well. The boomers have 20 more years of pensions and the media outrage machine only ever briefly mentions it.

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WHO (DOESN'T) CONTROL YOUR MIND: RESPONDING TO JQ MEMES

Lucien Wolf examines the famous "Who Controls Your Mind" Neo-Nazi meme popularised by Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. While Jews are overrepresented in the US media, the case is greatly overstated. Also, what you see on Disney and MTV does not actually control your mind. If it does, your mind is probably not worth controlling.

BRITAIN'S INCREDIBLY STUPID "MIGRANT" DEAL WITH RWANDA

The devil is in the detail. YouTuber History Debunked looks at the fine print of the UK's deal with Rwanda to take illegal immigrants arriving in the UK. Even if the deal could be enforced against various legal challenges, it would simply involve swapping healthy, border-hopping migrants for crippled and vulnerable ones from Africa, with an enormous cost in healthcare.

WHY IS CHINA SUDDENLY SO KEEN ON SUPPORTING PUTIN?

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In China political legitimacy comes from aligning with the archetype of the devious leader

by Daniel Barge

No matter how clever they are, American leaders earn their political legitimacy by schlubbing it with the proles, i.e. sitting down and having a beer or a burger with Joe the Plumber.

We have just witnessed scenes of this in Ohio, where Donald Trump has been trying to reboot his appeal by visiting a MacDonalds near the scene of a recent rail crash and toxic leak. 

America: the schlub to power

In China, however, things are different: No matter how stupid they are, China's leaders have to sell themselves on their ability to, at least, seem Machiavellian geniuses. 

The foundation document of Chinese power politics is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, which is mainly a manual on using dirty tricks to win power. Every Chinese leader's legitimacy ultimately rests on being seen as the trickiest and most devious bastard in the cunt-house, and right now Xi Jingping is seen as the biggest steaming turd of underhanded chicanery there is. Yes, the guy has an image to worry about!

This same archetype also gave us the fictional character of Fu-Manchu, essentially the original Bond villain, and that is exactly the vibe Xi is going for.

So how does this play into the Ukrainian War and the news that China, after one year of sitting on the side-lines, is about to supply Russia with armaments.

When the war broke out last February, Xi could have done any number of things. The most obvious ones were:

(1) Openly and honestly stand by his ally, Putin, and take on the West side-by-side
(2) Stand back, do nothing, try to keep China out of the mess and protect China's economic interests

But the truth is that he didn't really have any choices like these. In order to be seen as the "Great Leader," Xi had to take the course that would make him seem like one helluva cunning sneaky bastard.

For the first year of the war, he largely followed the Number 2 path, and kept China out of involvement. This was important to do as there were a lot of imponderables and the smart leader should see which way the wind is blowing before moving his chess pieces. But that kind of sit-back-and-wait approach is not going to cut it with the Chinese political class forever. They need their leaders to go "full Fu-Manchu" at some point. Number 2 just looks too safe and cosy, and sends out a signal of political weakness. Of course, Number 1 is no good either. It just looks a bit brash and stupid, and also sends out a signal of political weakness.

Both of these are clear obvious choices, with clear, obvious drawbacks. But if "Sun Tzu culture" teaches anything, it is to avoid doing the obvious. It also teaches that every crisis -- especially someone else's crisis -- is an opportunity not to be missed.

So, based on this appreciation, what is Xi's deep game here?

Obviously, it's one in which China does the "unexpected" and emerges stronger than before.

There are two paths to that. The first and most obvious one is one in which Putin pulls off a win, while the less obvious path is that Putin is defeated and Russia weakened. But there are many shades of possibility within both of these.

As for the first path -- one involving a Putin "win" -- it could be claimed that Russia has already lost. Even if it secures a few bits of territory and stops Ukraine immediately joining NATO, the cost will have been too heavy. The Russian army is already a shadow of its former self, the Russian economy too. The goodwill the Russian people had for their leaders has been tapped to breaking point, while international resistance to Russia is now at toxic levels. Any victory that Putin can grind out of this mess would, at best, be the most Pyrrhic of Pyrrhic victories.

Russia losing, however, may be a lot more interesting to "Fu Man Pooh."

Of course, Putin could realise how fruitless and pointless this war has become for Russia and immediately decide to end it. That would be the optimum course for Putin and all the shills who support him: get the fuck out of the Ukraine and patch up some kind of peace or ceasefire.

But that would not necessarily suit Xi.

Russia would still have enough strength to maintain some of its Great Power status, its unity and territorial integrity. But what if Russia kept its disastrous war with the Ukraine (and the West) going for another year or two? 

In that case, the Kremlin would have to hollow out its economy even more, drain its strength, and expend the last remnants of its popular legitimacy among the Russian people. It would probably then reach breaking point.

If it then lost the war, it wouldn't just lose on points and still have strength for future bouts, it would be a knock-out blow that would quite possibly leave it in a geopolitical wheelchair. And who would be there to pick up the pieces? Maybe the West, with a new compliant democratic government in Moscow, or else, with the country falling apart, we might instead see the shadow of Chinese Imperialism lengthening over Siberia, which is where most of the non-human assets of Russia lie anyway.

Viewed in this way, China's decision to finally start supplying a battered and desperate Russia with weapons one year into the war makes perfect Machiavellian sense. This should be a wake-up call for Putin to realise what's really going on.

Connected Reading:
Mongol-Lag and the Anti-Russianness of the Putinist State

IT'S ALL A JOKE

The Dissident Right - a caricature of its critiques

by Ted Sallis

Hard truths.

First, look at the bizarre cast of characters (including me I suppose) in the “Dissident Right.”  Then ask – do you really believe that this “Dissident Right” as it currently exists has the capacity to overthrow the System and install a pro-White regime?  Can it achieve any of its stated goals, even if in part?

I would say – NO. Basically, you just have people with their brands, creating content, providing entertainment to people tricked into believing that by consuming this content, by making blog comments, and by giving donations, that they are “fighting the System” and “saving the White race.”  At least, perhaps the more deluded supporters believe this; others may realize, even if subconsciously, that it is all for show. It’s all a joke.

Now, of all of the people listed at that site, I would like to think of myself, of The Sallis Groupuscule, of being somewhat different. That may be my bias, but I will express that opinion nevertheless. I do not ask you for donations, and I am willing to tell you hard truths, such as this post, even if it is (as the moronic Alt Right would say) “black pilling” and not what you want to hear. I do not care if the content here is “entertaining” and I certainly do not consider it as a “brand.” The content does have an actual intention of being politically relevant, but I have no illusions about its possible impact.

Putting myself aside, and looking instead at Der Movement – that I reject – you really do have to ask yourself: Is Der Movement politically serious or is it merely entertainment to provide a revenue stream for the entertainers? The anti-“movement” watchdog groups are also entertainment and grifting, convincing supporters that by giving money they are “stopping racism.”  And the leadership there must know that Der Movement is a pathetic and harmless joke.  How could they not?

What about Trumpism?  Is opposing Der Movement a way for breathless leftists to impede their Orange Bogeyman?  No, that is delusion as well. While Trump himself may be a fraud, Trumpism is an authentic bottom-up right-wing populist version of mainstream paleoconservatism and civic nationalism.  It is certainly more aggressive than traditional paleoconservatism, but that is a result of it reacting to the extremism of the Left, and the radical agenda of “progressives.”  Trumpism derives from the reaction of the GOP base to decades of betrayal by the Republican Establishment; it is a reaction to neoconservative RINOs and in particular it expresses the rage at the McCain-Graham-Rubio push for “immigration reform” (i.e., amnesty and de facto open borders). Trump tapped into unexploited niche, he mined that rage, and he made explicitly part of the GOP base’s agenda.

Contrary to the delusions of the Far Right and the hysteria of the Left (no need to say “Far left;” Left and Far Left are one and the same these days), Trumpism really has nothing to do with Der Movement, to the Alt Right, to any of it. Even if Taylor, MacDonald, Johnson, Spencer et al. never existed, even if the Alt Right fiasco never occurred, the forces behind Trumpism would have emerged sooner or later. It happened with Trump in 2015-2016, but even sans Trump, the populist volcano would have erupted on the Right.

“Stopping White nationalism” is not going to stop the trajectory the country is on; right-wing populism is a mass White reaction to dispossession and to the grifting dog whistling of the fraudulent Republican Establishment. Der Movement did not create Trumpism, it simply jumped on its bandwagon and rode the crest wave of its early enthusiasm.  But it is easier for the Left to worry and anguish over clownish Nutzis than to admit that America is a broken and divided nation and to admit that their own behavior, the antics of the Loony Left – that group that really has the power in America – is what is responsible for that breakage and division in the first place. Tackling this insoluble problem is too impossible and disheartening, so imaginary problems, easily approached laughable bogeymen, are propped up instead. These are used as the false face of the authentic teeming White discontent that is baked into the current American reality.

The purely negative leftist approach of “stopping White racism” demonstrates the ideological, intellectual, spiritual, and moral bankruptcy of today’s Left.  Their basic strategy is “running out the clock” – doing everything possible to prevent, impede, or at least delay a White resurgence until the point that demographic and cultural changes are permanently irreversible and any White reaction is doomed to fail. This whole “we have nothing to offer but we’ll prevent you from saving yourselves” approach is adding fuel the dumpster fire that is America and the West. So both sides of the equation are sideshows, businesses catering to different sets of customers, while the real march of history occurs elsewhere.

What if Der Movement, or better, some successor to it, was serious?  I’ve outlined many times what such a real movement would do; but to very briefly outline once again:

1. Metapolitical activity – real ideological production and hardcore organization work. Real metapolitics and creation of a genuine revolutionary cadre, especially something like the Legionary Movement. Jim Goad’s Worst Week Yet posts don’t quite cut it as top level metapolitical development. That’s merely non-ideological Howard Stern-like juvenile jackassery, to boost page views and elicit donations.  That is not a serious step forward. Amren’s outrage porn is little different, and the demented gibbering at TOO is merely an embarrassment. Nothing that Der Movement is currently doing cuts it.

Real metapolitics and metapolitical organizing would provide serious ideological and practical leadership for the other two approaches

2. Electoral politics – a deep dive into right-wing politics, candidates whose main mission is to move right-wing populism from implicitly White civic nationalism that tries to appeal to Color (just like the System) to more explicit pro-White politics that puts White interests first.  In the worst outcome, this would be useful for propaganda, organizing, stimulating leftist outrage that would have a positive, salubrious effect on waking up Whites, and providing a distraction to take leftist attention away from the other two approaches. In the best case scenario, electoral victories can stimulate Suvorov’s Law effects, get people into positions in which they can provide protection for the other two approaches, and provide even more propaganda, organizing, and leftist outrage value. I’m no fan of Neil Kumar, but let us give him credit for actually doing something useful.

3. Community building – we need real community building to provide an alternative to the System, combat the System’s social pricing while imposing some of our own, and to create the infrastructures any real movement needs.  Last but not least, it would improve the everyday lives of the people in such communities. We need to do that – not have meetings in which young men get groped by homosexuals.

Do I believe that there is a good chance any of that will occur?  No.  As long as Der Movement occupies the Far Right niche space. like a weed choking off healthy growth (or like a giant turd stopping up the flow of water in a plumbing system), real progress will be impossible.

And anyone telling you that Der Movement is a threat is lying to you. It is not a threat, never was a threat, and will never be a threat.

Viewed as tragicomedy, it might be entertaining though.

From Eginotes blog

A MUSLIM AND A CHRISTIAN WALKED INTO A WOKE SCOTTISH NATIONALIST PARTY...

Richard Lucas of the Scottish Family Party looks at Kate Forbes, a "Christian" candidate hoping to become SNP leader and the new First Minister of Scotland. In particular, Lucas focuses on her contradictory positions on gay marriage, transgenderism, and abortion. 

WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: SVEN LONGSHANKS

Not an actual Viking

by Colin Liddell

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Welsh podcaster, now serving a prison term for "hate speech" in the UK. His real name is James Allchurch, born 1972, based in rural Pembrokeshire.

The name "Sven Longshanks" was cooked up from on a common Viking first name and Edward I's nickname. As Edward I was the Anglo-Norman king who crushed the Welsh, this suggests Allchurch is a bit confused or identifies with the invader of his homeland. He may even be partly English and has some "ethnic animus" against the real Welsh.

Allchurch made his name as a Neo-Nazi, Jew-obsessed podcaster with  his 'Radio Aryan' podcast. Guests and co-hosts included Archeo-Nazi Carolyn Yaeger, Brutus (aka "Subal" fresh out of his Hare Krishna stage), and Alex Davies, one of the founders of National Action, which was later outlawed as a "terrorist group." The show was boosted on the Daily Stormer and by Morgoth. He also frequently interacted with people at the largely gay Neo-Nazi Counter-Currents site.

It was the usual blame-everything-on-the-Jews crap and Whites-as-puny-victims garbage, with plenty of "unfortunate terminology" applied to non-White and immigrant groups. He also advocated for allowing epidemics such as ebola and monkeypox to "cull large swathes of the population."

In 2022 this led to Allchurch going on trial for 15 counts of "hate speech" at Swansea Crown Court.

It would be naïve to see this purely as a "free speech" trial. Allchurch is linked to a whole Neo-Nazi conspiritard nexus that shows signs of having been weaponised against the UK and the wider West by sinister Kremlin actors, see here, here, and here.

Although the trial was only expected to take a couple of weeks, a barristers' strike in the UK led to the end of the trial being delayed by a further 10 months. It is expected to resume in May 2023.

UPDATE: In May 2023 Allchurch was sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment. 

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UKRAINE: WHAT'S IN A NAME?

A rose is a rose, and a frontier is a frontier

by Cornelius Stahlblau

The other day I was shown an ad from Silent Professionals offering 1000-2000 USD per day, plus bonuses, doing security work in the Ukrainian frontier. Duties involved the location and exfiltration of civilians and their families (presumably quite wealthy) from large cities, across the wild countryside. Almost all the tactical intelligence gathering and operative planning was to be done on site by the employee.

The rate is serious money, as most job offers for contractor work in other parts of the world (including quite dangerous places like Liberia or Iraq) pay around 500-750 USD per day. These are Western rates for very specialized work, by the way; Wagner grunts make about 250000 rubles (2000 USD) a month, which is just a little less than what foreign fighters that have joined the Ukrainian regulars earn.

One thing that caught my attention were the stated minimal requirements, which included at least 5+ years of military experience in that part of the world, in combat roles. Candidates lacking this experience would be considered non-competitive and dismissed without receiving an answer. In other words, what the employer is looking for is veterans from the fighting and the secret operations that have been going on in the country since 2014. If one is willing to offer that kind of cash, it must be assumed that the competition is hard, and it probably involves both locals and foreigners.

Ukraine, in a sense, has been turned into a mercenary farm: a giant training facility for war where soldiers of fortune have been honing their skills for almost a decade. It is also a fantastic opportunity for trying new weapons and doctrine, much like Spain in 1936 or Manchuria in 1905. Like an enormous university campus dedicated to the trades of war, the country is a testing ground for the conflicts of the future: drones, TiktTok propaganda, you name it.

With every passing month, Ukraine becomes more the husk of a State, its institutions hollowed out by necessity to support the war effort. It was already quite corrupt and dysfunctional before the invasion, and the degradation in civic virtues that always follows war has been punctuated by several high-profile cases. So far, the deputy head of the presidential administration, four deputy ministers (including the one from Defense), five governors, five regional prosecutors and two heads of government agencies have been ousted. It will be very hard, from the perspective of governance, to manage the massive influx of arms and money, all while other productive sectors of society whither away.

Ukraine’s demographic prospects reflect this grim reality. More than 8 million people, a majority of them women and children, have left the country for more peaceful and less venal lands. According to some polls, they have little intention to go back. The infrastructure that makes the country inhabitable, a primary target for Russian batteries, is gone for many years to come, and the idea of a rebuilt post-war Ukraine is unpromising even assuming Ukraine wins. Biopolitically, the meaning of the war is clear, and it spells swift depopulation, or replacement in the best of cases (by whom, we’ll have to see).

The region is no stranger to this phenomenon. At the time of the greatest expansion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, its Eastern borders stretched well past the Dnieper and beyond Smolensk. Territory was more or less politically controlled by a landed military caste, the szlachta, who relied on the income produced from their estates to sustain their own small armed contingents, used for ceremony and for defense against raiding, especially from Crimean Tatars.

The zenith of this period (or its nadir; it really depends on who you ask) are the Polish-Muscovite Wars of 1605-1612, also called the Dimitriads. In a series of expansionist campaigns, the Polish magnates invaded Moscow in 1610 at the head of their private armies, of which Aleksander Józef Lisowski’s was the most famous. Many of the soldiers who took part in these actions, enthralled by the mercenary way of life, would go on to spend the rest of their existence serving various factions in the Thirty Years War.

Etymologically, Ukraine means something like “frontier”. It’s been a land of conflict and disputed ownership for most of its history. Its current circumstances, while heartbreaking, are not exceptional. It’s unlikely it will survive this ordeal in its current form, much less join the EU. Marked for destruction, its destiny is to live up to its name as a borderland.

From The Outpost substack

LONELY FOR LOVE, JASON KESSLER GOES FULL SEX-PAT

Jason "Meatball" Kessler Peru-bound

Spare a thought for the poor, lonely Alt-Righter, like Jason "Meatball" Kessler, 40 years old and still unmarried. Kessler, of course, was the guy behind the "Unite the Right" event in Charlottesville in 2017, but is finding it harder to "unite" in his personal life.

Not only are his life prospects increasingly dim, thanks to deplatforming and demonetization, but women actually think he might run them over in his car, thanks to misleading reports in the mainstream media.

Girls, not every Alt-Righter wants to do this to you

Also, being an Alt-Righter often means that you are inevitably an incel shortarse, have weird DNA, or simply have "masculinity issues."

The research is irrefutable on all these points.

Is it any wonder, then, that the petal-strewn path of romantic love is a relatively unknown avenue to these furtive and elusive creatures?

Indeed, the rocky road of non-love was the very topic of Kessler's latest podcast on Odysee, where he complained that White women were too "ethnomasochistic," "feminist," and greedy for money to associate with a pudgy, pockmarked, penniless loser like himself.

Now it looks like Kessler has found the perfect solution to those lonely nights logging onto Pornhub or delving into anime -- namely, a juicy sex tourist trip to a Third World country, where his small pile of gringo bucks from his donors (or Fed handlers) will go a lot further: 

In a post on Twitter yesterday the "Ron DeSantis of the Alt-Right" told his faithful followers that he was off to Peru for a few days, where he said he would cruise the beaches and hopefully see "some sexy hippies at the hostels."

But it's not just about the money. In poor countries, like Peru, Kessler's appearance will be less of a drawback. Unlike the USA, where feminist-imposed misandry has created unrealistic standards of masculine beauty that turn most males into sexless betas, eking out sad lonely lives of quiet desperation, Peru still values the pudgy meatball physiognomy of an "average man" like Kessler.

If he can't break out of his incel hell there, then he might want to contemplate ending it all -- in which case the Andes may come in handy. 

WHY DOESN'T THIS WORK?

by Duns Scotus

Above is a typical "Dissident Right" meme. The message is clear: The top panel is the "bad thing." The bottom panel is the "good thing." The juxtaposition is supposed to highlight the hollowness of the "globohomo" talking point included in the meme.

But is it working? Does this kind of message make a difference?

Let's take a quick look at the latest fertility figures to find out: 

Well, apparently not. The question thus becomes: "Why not?"

It is clear to anyone that the bottom option is better in many ways and certainly healthier from a civilisational point of view (although it should also be noted that the birth rate in the bottom panel is still only one kid per woman and that the mother shown there hasn't had another kid for at least 5 or 6 years).

But why do people in the modern West keep choosing the top panel at a significant enough rate to drag down our societies and make them dependent on continuous mass immigration from the Third World?

The first point is that the meme is disingenuous and deceitful. It over-simplifies reality by showing an easy choice (doing nothing important on a day-to-day basis) with a difficult choice (finding the right person, getting them to "find" you, and then committing to each other long term).

The choice here is essentially that between whistling a cheery melody and playing a piece of Rachmaninov on the piano. One is clearly more difficult than the other.

But the real problem is deeper. The meme sells the "happy family" idea in the bottom panel on the basis that it makes people happier. HAPPINESS therefore becomes the nexus of decision-making. If it makes you happy, it's good. If it doesn't make you happy, it's bad.

There is an immediate problem here because playing Rachmaninov will involve countless hours of practice and suffering; whistling a tune not so much. Finding the right "life partner" and successfully starting and supporting a family will also involve struggle, hard work, and sacrifice (unless you choose to do it on welfare with someone suitable from that particular demographic).

But there is more. The meme we are discussing here doesn't directly allude to the other unchallenged value at work here, namely FREEDOM, but it hints at it and endorses it.

The woman in the top panel of the meme is enmeshed in her dysfunctional life and cooped up in her lonely room, while the couple in the bottom panel are "freely" exploring the wonders of nature. But freedom is all about second-to-second choices, something the unmarried woman in the top panel has in plenty, while the couple in the bottom panel are essentially prisoners of their more structured and responsible lives. Also, most marriages, from what I hear, are rather cantankerous and difficult affairs with many ending in divorce. Freedom they are not.

It should also be added that our consumerist business model unwittingly -- but pervasively and irresistibly -- reinforces  that second-to-second type of "freedom" in pursuit of transient and unearned "happiness," while undermining social systems based on the denial of such freedom. 

From this brief analysis, therefore, it should be clear then why many Dissident Right memes, takes, and arguments essentially go nowhere. It is because they are infected with the values of the very things they are attempting to critique and are therefore riven with contradictions. They are thus only good for signalling minor dissatisfaction with a system they are powerless to change and which they unwittingly endorse.

Here, feel that cheap glow again and reflect on how similar it is to pornography or stormertardery: 

Choice is actually the problem.

TYPICAL ALT-RIGHTER TRAN ARRESTED FOR RECENT SHOOTINGS OF JEWS

Tran: All the hallmarks of the typical Alt-Righter

A man called "Tran" has been arrested for the shooting of two Jews that occurred recently in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico-Robertson.

As reported by local media:

Two federal hate crime charges were filed against the suspect accused of shooting two Jewish men just 24-hours apart as they were leaving their synagogues in Los Angeles' Pico-Robertson neighborhood, authorities announced Friday.

Jaime Tran, of Cathedral City, was charged with committing a hate crime by interference with federally protected activities and use of a firearm in a felony, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday.

Tran, 28, appeared in Los Angeles federal court Friday afternoon and was ordered to remain jailed without bail. Magistrate Judge Margo A. Rocconi scheduled his arraignment for March 9.

FOX 11 has learned that Jaime Tran, the man accused of shooting at two Jewish men leaving a synagogue in LA, was arrested last summer for carrying an loaded gun on the campus of Cal State Long Beach. Tran was out on $30,000 bail at the time of the shooting.

Tran is considered homeless and was a former dental student. He has a long history of threats against his Jewish friends. He was arrested in July for carrying a gun on the campus of Cal State Long Beach and was out on $30,000 bail when he committed the two shootings. 

What has not been emphasised in the reporting so far is the complex psychology that drives people to commit these crimes or that Tran is a typical Alt-Righter whose only motive for his actions was an all-consuming hatred of Jews.

It is not yet known whether Tran is connected to some clearly Alt-Right sourced leaflets that were distributed in the same neighbourhood a few short months ago, but it seems likely:

My neighbors and I woke up to this antisemitic flyer at our homes. This antisemitic banner was on the 405. Antisemitic flyers were left on cars last week at the Grove and in Pico Robertson. The silence of the press and our elected officials and other candidates is deafening. pic.twitter.com/7pEnZVU3GG

— Sam Yebri (@samyebri) October 23, 2022

But it is clear that Tran has the two defining characteristics of a typical Alt-Righter, namely an obsessive hatred of Jews and a sense of "lacking Whiteness."

Nearly every major figure in the Alt-Right in recent years shares these two characteristics, either being what is termed a "self-loathing Jew" (yes, that's actually a scientific term):

Prominent Jewish Alt-Righters who hate themselves 

...married to a Non-White waifu:

Japanese waifu, "Caspian" waifu, Chinese waifu

...0r else being what the Alt-Right refers to as "mystery meat."

This is a derogatory hate term invented by Alt-Righters to pour scorn and derision on people of mixed race, or those with a less Aryan or WASPish background. Ironically many Alt-Righters fit into this category perfectly: 

Feeling "less than White" the Alt-Righter seeks to overcompensate through hate.

The "sub-" or "quasi-White" thinks that simply by hating Jews he can somehow magically become "more White" than he is, not realising that "Whiteness" is just an artificial social construct that embodies America's centuries of racism and inequality.

Tran's attempt to kill Jews should be seen in these terms, as nothing more than a desperate attempt by a non-White man in a society defined by "Whiteness" to finally "become White."

Whether he has succeeded or not will probably depend on which prison gang he joins when he is sentenced for his evil crimes.

Also, according to Professor Jean-Philippe Rushton's r/K race theory, Tran's attack on Jews was completely pointless, as East Asians are actually considered "Whiter" than Europeans who are closely related to Black people. By attacking Jews, Tran was actually making himself less "White":

This may explain why his shooting was actually extremely poor, with both victims surviving.