MIGRANT TENNIS AND THE "DE-BROWNING" OF BRITISH POLITICS

 

Election year sporting sensation: migrant tennis

by Colin Liddell

Things are getting interesting in the UK. Not only is Scotland's First Minister "Humza Useless" about to jump before getting pushed, but the Tories are going to get thumped in local elections on the 2nd of May, followed by a possible move to dump Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister and Tory leader.

With Humza gone don't expect order to return to Scottish politics. As I have long argued, the Scottish devolved government (in fact all the devolved governments) were designed to fail by never having a clear majority party through giving them various forms of proportional representation. This means that Westminster was always designed to have the whip hand. Humza will probably be replaced as SNP leader and First Minister by someone with an Irish name.

Meanwhile a bad defeat for the Tories in the local elections on May 2nd (almost certain) will presumably kick off an attempt to replace Rishi as PM.

If this succeeds on the back of Humza going down, then the upper reaches of British politics may suddenly look a lot less brown. Of course, the Tories might then fluff it all by putting in another brown face (Badenoch or Cleverly) who will face the same "racial glass ceiling" in "connecting" with key Tory demographics. 

Whoever the next Tory leader is, the Tories will continue to push hard on their "Stop the Boats" Rwanda Plan, which they see as the only way, besides tax cuts, to gain a competitive advantage against Labour in the general election, expected sometime around November. 

Any successor to Rishi will be likely to stick with this policy as this is one area where Labour simply can't go, and gestural anti-immigration policies like this are very popular with those most likely to vote Tory, or even Labour. 

Already the Rwanda Plan is having a positive effect, with many illegal immigrants deciding to escape into the Republic of Ireland, a country with its own rich history of sending out its surplus population to more generous lands. 

Ireland's relative lack of a Deep State in evidence

But Ireland, with few Deep State resources to keep a lid on the pressures of "sudden multiculturalism," is struggling badly with the influx, and is demanding Britain take back its "Rwanda dodgers."

Will this lead to a cross-border bout of "unwanted migrant tennis," with possibly France and the rest of the EU also dragged in? It certainly looks like it.

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2012 REDUX: KONY 2024

by Daniel Barge

Nobody really knows why the whole "Kony 2012" thing went madly viral twelve years ago. It was basically just a documentary and fund-raising campaign that aimed to bring down Joseph Kony the sadistic leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Somehow it hit the mark with audiences around the world, spawning a load of conspiracy theories, and then suddenly imploded, with the guy behind it going on a drugs bender. 

Now Joseph Kony is back in the news, and we are being told that he is being hunted by Russian mercenaries, which, kind of, sounds odd.

As reported by top "African news site" Rolling Stone, which I always naively thought was a rock magazine:

"RUSSIAN MERCENARIES ARE chasing one of the world’s most notorious fugitives: the warlord Joseph Kony, who abducted tens of thousands of children from across central Africa, brutalizing and brainwashing them as child soldiers and sex slaves in a decades-long maelstrom of terror.

Multiple sources independently describe to Rolling Stone a bloody near-capture of Kony by Russian mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, in a remote corner of the Central African Republic in early April. A social media post affiliated with Wagner also confirms some aspects of the group’s interest in the warlord.

“This amounts to hot pursuit [in] the African bush,” says a U.S. source familiar with efforts to capture the warlord. “The U.S. military got within 72 hours of Kony. Wagner may be even closer.”

A new subtext of the story is that this somehow "proves" that Russia is displacing the West in Africa:

The operation demonstrates Russia’s ever-expanding reach across Africa, and also illustrates the shortcomings of more than two decades of U.S. military strategy on the continent. Despite spending billions on counterterror operations, training, and infrastructure in Africa since the beginning of the Global War on Terror, extremist violence is at an all-time high, according to researchers at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a U.S.-funded research institute. Even as fatalities from terror attacks have spiked with “a near doubling in deaths since 2021,” a string of coups and civil wars has unraveled Washington’s partnerships and created chaotic power vacuums.

It's old news that the US-backed French soft-colonial "empire" in Africa has hit a sticky patch, but that doesn't mean Russia is taking over.

Without a strong hand on the tiller, African countries are just reverting to their endemic mix of chaos and tyranny. Who knows, it might even be good for them in the long run. Not surprising that there are a few "Soldier of Fortune" types being sucked into this, whichever language they speak.

However, any gains in influence made by Russia will be even easier to destabilise from the outside, while the impending defeat of Russia in the Ukraine and economically will ensure that this African adventure by elements of the Wagner group will be short-lived. Chances are Kony, or someone very much like him, will pop up again and again in Africa in the years ahead.

Jason Russell: "White saviour" X "deep state" vibes

But whatever happened to Jason Russell, the oddly Richard Spencer lookalike behind the 2012 viral campaign? You can find out here.

KREMLIN SHILLS IN PLAIN SITE: THE DISSIDENT RIGHT'S BLIND SPOT

A good argument can be made that the Alt-Right and the wider Dissident Right was only ever a Kremlin op to undermine the West. Luckily, a relatively small war in a distant country exposed all this. In its desperation to weaken Western support for unexpectedly tough Ukrainian resistance, the Kremlin burned through most of it disinfo and psy-op assets in the West. The Duran was a perfect case study of this, constantly discrediting itself as it struggled to support fake Kremlin narratives. Stephen J James takes up the story.

WOMAN WEARING HAIRS FROM A HORSE'S ARSE CRITICISES MEGHAN ON "RUSSIAN-FUNDED" TV CHANNEL

A horse has a chilly butt because of this woman (and Putin).

A woman wearing hairs plucked from a horse's arse has criticised Princess Meghan of California on Russian-funded" TV. 

The woman, who pretends to be a "News Presenter" on the loss-making GB News (see its Kremlin-linked funding here), was apparently trying to trigger some passing British gammon with her comments, which focused on an imaginary "jam war" within the British Royal Family. 

The comments were also shared in a short, semi-literate article on GB News's website:

"How can you get something so badly wrong? Meghan Markle and the battle of the jams. Of all the products you could choose to launch, why pick jam? Why indeed. Meghan Markle has launched this as her first offering on her new website American Riviera Orchard, or ARO as I like to call it - another ridiculous offering. Why jam? I hear you cry. Possibly to rival King Charles and his jam... Apparently, the fruit used in her jam is homegrown at her Montecito abode, unlike the King's organic strawberry preserve, which is brought in from elsewhere. Oh, that's great, Meghan. Remind me to purchase a jar of your ever so sweet, sickly product. I hate jam."

It is not yet known how many elderly GB News viewers died after sperging out over this condiment-related story, or why the woman, who is totally bald, needs to wear a horse's fly-whisk on top of her head.

The Duchess of Sussex, the innocent target of Nana Akua's vile plebian abuse

ADVERT FOR TOTAL MARGINALIZATION OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT MESSAGE IN AMERICA UNVEILED IN SANTA BARBARA

An advert to reassure immigration advocates in America that they have nothing to worry about has been unveiled (albeit temporarily) above a bridge in Santa Barbara, California.

The advert, emblazoned on a large cloth banner for passing motorists to briefly glimpse, reassures fans of mass immigration and multiculturalism that the opposing viewpoint (i.e. immigration restriction) will continue to be a deeply marginalised and toxic position, associated with unpopular things like Nazi helmets and Black Suns. This will ensure that no one in their right mind will ever vote for it.

Even better, the ad was put up by a group called "Clockwork Crew" who are about as Aryan as an halal burrito in a burka listening to rap music.

Connected content: 
America is Shit at Racism

TESLA IN THE TOILET: IS IT DUSK FOR MUSK?

Been Shanghaied

by Colin Liddell

What's up with Tesla? Why has its share price been sliding ever downwards? Just last week it shares crashed by another 12.4%. 

The real reason is that its previous highs were all fake.

Sure, Tesla has some good EV innovations, but it was always making something that other auto-makers wouldn't have too much trouble catching up with and overtaking. This was always obvious to anyone who crunched the data, so why the ridiculous overvaluation of Tesla, which, at one point, was worth more than the next 10 automakers?

It seems that the real reason is because the Chinese were helping Tesla reach those heady heights. One way they did this was to cut him a "sweetheart" deal so he could set up and expand his main factory in Shanghai.

Here's the NY Times listing the advantages of the plant initially set up in 2019:

The Shanghai factory has replaced Tesla’s plant in Fremont, Calif., as its largest and most productive, accounting for over half of the company’s global deliveries and the bulk of its profits.

As the plant took shape in just under a year, Mr. Musk worked closely with a city official who is now China’s premier, Li Qiang. Under Mr. Li’s watch, state-run banks offered Tesla low-interest loans, a deal so generous that a senior auto official recalled a minister balking at it.

China also changed ownership rules so that Tesla could set up without a local partner, a first for a foreign auto company in China.

Mr. Musk saves on production and labor costs in Shanghai and cannot easily extricate himself, should he ever want to. Because the billionaire's wealth is tied up in Tesla stock, his personal fortune now hinges on what happens in China.

When Musk bought Twitter less than two months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many were surprised, especially as he was paying well over the odds. But at the time, Musk could obviously afford it. But was this always part of the plan? The macroempirocal metadate suggests so. In the months that followed, Twitter became notorious as a major platform fast-tracking Russian and Chinese propaganda. 

At the time China and Russia were extremely closely aligned. In fact, just days before the invasion, Xi and Putin had declared a "no limits" partnership when Putin visited Beijing.

In addition to the brutal ground game in Ukraine, a big part of the Russian operation was clearly a meme and social media assault on the weakest link in the US, namely low-IQ and emotionally fragile Republican boomers. Having sympathetic control of at least one major social media platform was essential to this. With Musk they clearly got it. Backing Musk by giving him cheap labour in Shanghai seemed well worth it. 

But then the synergy between Moscow, Musk, and the Maoists started to come undone.

Part of the original plan hatched by Xi and Putin was for Russia to have a quick and easy "shock and awe" victory in the Ukraine. This, following on from the slightly messy withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2020, would make the US look weak, and undermine confidence in its security guarantees, hopefully putting Taiwan in a much weaker position. Xi's main goal was to create a situation where the island state would fall into his lap like a ripe apple. However, the war in the Ukraine actually pushed that prospect further away. 

While Russia has been able to grind out some minor advances this year with highly costly "meat wave" attacks and has defied economic sanctions by the "North-Korea-fication" of its collapsing economy, one area where Ukraine has had massive success is in defeating the Russian navy without actually having a navy of its own. In fact, some analysts have suggested that conventional navies are more or less obsolete in the age of sea and air drones. Whatever the truth of this conclusion, it is at least certain that a Chinese landing on Taiwan looks a hell of a lot more risky than it did before the Ukrainian war. Xi, as a election-proof leader, is quite happy to switch back to the long game.

As Xi has given up on Taiwan, so he has beaten a slow and stealthy retreat on his "partnership without limits" with Putin. With Taiwan off the table, the basis of Russo-Chinese synergy has collapsed. This also means that Xi no longer has the same incentives to back the Kremlin's main "covert propaganda tool" in the US, i.e. Elon Musk and his little empire, especially when this is leading to increased trade friction with the West.

Tesla now a bit player

This year expect a "kindler gentler" Xi to emerge, as he especially tries to thaw his damaged relations with the West in Europe. 

Meanwhile, Xi had another reason to give Musk a "sweetheart" deal in Shanghai, namely to jump start China's own EV industry, which is now undercutting Tesla and Musk's empire. That deal was a lot more bittersweet than a mid-wit idiot-savant like Musk realised. It is only a matter of time before Musk will have to dump Twitter to whoever will buy it. In fact, Twitter could very well be the next Truth Social.

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ISRAEL STRIKES BACK AGAINST IRAN: WW3 OR NOTHINGBURGER?

Stephen J James reacts to the latest "exciting" news from the Middle East.

FARAGE SPEARHEADS LATEST "KREMLIN" POLARISATION OP IN BRUSSELS

Apparently just really really shit at choosing conference venues

Right now there is a big brouhaha on the Kremlin-bot-adjacent part of the media (i.e.Twitter and wider social media) about "the delicate flower" of free speech being crushed in Brussels. 

This comes after something called the "National Conservatism Conference" was "shut down" by police on the orders of "The Mayor" of Brussels. The event was to feature speakers including Nigel Farage, Viktor Orban, Suella Braverman and other gammon-rousing figures.

Here is the Brussels Times reporting the facts:

"The mayor has issued a police order that the conference cannot take place on the territory of Saint-Josse. The organisation of the venue owner have officially been informed that the event cannot continue," a spokesperson for the Brussels North police zone told The Brussels Times [...] They are closing down the event "gradually," meaning people are not being ordered to leave but those who exit the building are not allowed back in again [...]

"I have issued an order from the mayor banning the National Conservatism Conference in the interest of public safety," Kir said on social media around noon on Tuesday. "In Etterbeek, Brussels City and Saint-Josse, the far right is not welcome."

There are also unconfirmed reports that Belgian laws against homophobia are being used as a justification for the police action, which, if true, is interesting, as this part of Brussels is heavily Muslim.  

While there is still some confusion over just what is going on and the legal details of the case, there are several key facts that are already clear. These suggest that this event is simply an attempt to get "banned" in order to gain publicity and stoke racial animosity and feelings of alienation and victimisation of all sides, aided by online bot armies. In other words, it has all the hallmarks of a typical Kremlin op. 

Let's look at these key facts:

Firstly the organisers of  this supposedly "right-wing," "anti-immigrant" event decided specifically to hold it in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. This is one of 19 municipalities of Brussels, and a rather small one. It has a population of around 23,000. Here it is on a map of central Brussels. 

But why this precise location rather than somewhere else in this city of over a million people? Well, one reason is because two previous venues fell through after anonymous threats, but this makes the choice of the third venue even more astounding. Because Saint-Josse is an overwhelmingly Muslim area, being a high-crime neighbourhood of mainly Turks and Moroccans. In fact the mayor is a Turk, who was kicked out of the Belgian Socialist party for being an Armenian Holocaust denier and for links to the Turkish far-right. 

Just this fact should be enough to tell you that the main purpose of holding the so-called "National Conservatism Conference" here was to provoke some sort of response -- either a riot or a bureaucratic clamp down -- that could then be spun to claim victimisation and play up the racial and cultural divisions in Europe. As for the "anonymous threats" that led to the first two venues citing "security concerns," something as simple as that could easily be arranged by Russia's FSB.

The Mayor was already on the map for being a reactionary authoritarian type who could be counted on to use any powers in his hands to interfere with the conference, creating the perfect conditions for a polarisation shit storm. The last thing the organisers had in mind was to hold an actual conference to discuss serious ways of tackling Europe's demographic crisis.

With the UK holding an election sometime this year, it is vital for Farage to keep pulling stunts like this in order to keep eating into the Tory vote, with the goal of pushing it not just into defeat but into oblivion.

Regardless of what one thinks about the Conservative Party, destroying it is undoubtedly one of the main Kremlin goals in the destabilisation of the UK. This is the agenda that Farage appears to be pursuing here. 

IRAN FORCES ISRAEL TO BLOW $550 MILLION FOR ONE NIGHT OF DEFENCE

In terms of financial costs, Iran was clearly the victor after launching a massive missile strike against Israel the other night.

This is despite the strike causing almost no casualties and minimal damage. The real damage for Israel was the exorbitant cost of its air defence, which has been estimated at 2.1 billion Israeli shekels, or more than $550 million by Yehoshua Kalisky, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, a think tank in Tel Aviv.

The estimate takes into account expenses associated with intercepting half of the Iranian missiles and drones, including the use of the David’s Sling air-defense system, and also takes into account the cost of keeping 100 Israeli warplanes in the air for six hours, including fuel and weapons.

“These are enormous costs,” Kalisky told media, adding that they were comparable to costs in major wars fought by Israel such as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. But he added that the price tag was unlikely to have an immediate or long-term negative impact on Israel's economy. 

By contrast, the cost to Iran of launching a grand total of 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles is not known with any clarity, but is significantly less.

A Shaheed drone of the kind used by Iran in its attack can be produced for around $20,000, which would give a total cost of around $3,700,000 for the 185 drones used the other night. 

Also, Iran has been making a considerable profit by selling thousands of these same Shaheed drones to Russia, as reported by The Warzone website:

"The Iranians initially asked Russia to pay $375,000 per Shahed, but that figure was eventually negotiated down to $193,000 per drone for 6,000 units or $290,000 each for 2,000 drones, the publication reported. The total value of the production contract, including the transfer of technologies, equipment, 6,000 UAVs, and software, was $1.75 billion, according to Militinaryi."

It is also clear that the attack on Israel was not intended to cause significant causalities as Iran is capable of launching a much larger number of missiles to swarm Israel's defences and could also call upon thousands of missiles held by its proxy Hezbollah just over the border in Lebanon if it so chose. The most parsimonious analysis of the attack suggests that it was much more of a "dry run" and a warning to Israel -- as well as a financial punishment for the attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria at the start of the month. 

MAN OF MALTESE BACKGROUND RADICALISED BY FAILURE OF SIEGE IN 1565 BEHIND ATTACK ON BONDI MALL

Islam could have saved this bro

Contrary to the dreams and wishes of many in the Dissident Right, the insane attacker who was shot dead after stabbing people in a shopping mall in Sydney was NOT a Muslim (!!!!), although he COULD have been if the Ottoman army of Suleiman the Magnificent had enjoyed more success during its failed siege of Malta in 1565.

As reported by the BBC:

A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.

Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing people with a long blade.

Five women and a man died. Several others, including a baby, were injured.

Authorities said the attack was most likely "related to the mental health" of Mr Cauchi.

"Related to the mental health..." is almost definitely code for "incel" btw.

In-depth research by Neokrat (actually a quick internet search) has revealed that "Cauchi" is a surname associated with Maltese people:

Cauchi is a Maltese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Denis Cauchi (born 1965), former Maltese professional footballer

Gaia Cauchi (born 2002), winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013

Gino Cauchi (born 1968), Maltese politician

Joel Cauchi (born 1984), knife killing spree murderer in Australia...

Thanks to the failure of the Ottoman Turks to capture Malta in 1565, Malta was never Islamised like neighbouring Mediterranean regions to the South. Instead it retained a perfunctory form of "soft Catholicism" that turned out to be largely powerless against the modern world. Thus many people of Maltese origin lack the strong moral code of Islam, which, believe it or not, is extremely strict against senseless murders.

Another benefit of Islam, like all "hard trad" religions, is that it offers incels at least a chance of finding a waifu through carefully arranged marriages. We do not yet know if Cauchi was a total incel, but the fact that he engaged in an hysterical stabbing attack that targeted mainly women points firmly in that direction.

Things could have been so different if only Suleiman the Magnificent had chosen a better general back in the 16th century.

"Sorry Aussies, I fucked up"

IRAN CHOOSES THE WEAKEST OPTION TO "HIT" ISRAEL: MASSIVE, INEFFECTUAL DRONE STRIKE

Massive L, it's almost like they're trying to de-escalate

Iran had lots of options to respond to the Israeli attack on its consulate in Syria on April 1st. It could have launched its own attack against an Israeli consulate in a third country, sent in trained assassins to hit key Israeli leaders and personnel, or flooded the oil market and crashed the price of oil to ensure that the pro-Israeli candidate, Donald Trump, loses the US Presidential election in November.

But instead it went for the weakest option - a massive "swarm strike" that allowed Israel and its Western allies to use high-tech air defence systems to shoot down hundreds of drones and missiles, while also opening up Iran for a sharp counter airstrike from Israel. 

Iran reportedly launched a grand total of 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, mainly from sites in Iran, with a few from their proxies in Iraq and Yemen. They could probably have launched more, but in recent months they have shipped a lot of their drones to help out their struggling Russian ally in its war with Ukraine.

So what was the impact of Iran's "grand gesture"? Apparently, a few rocks near an Israeli airbase were disturbed and one person was reported as injured. This was an even weaker response than just getting Syrian Girl to make some mean tweets about Jews.

More tweets from Syrian girl would have been a harder option tbh

The subdued nature of this "attack" may serve to embolden hardliners in the Netanyahu government to strike at the countries surrounding Israel and to push the war in Gaza, regardless of the humanitarian disaster this is creating.

The best hope for Iran going forward is to wait for the inevitable Israeli response and to hopefully "humiliate" Israel by shooting down an Israeli jet or two and capturing a pilot. With the poor state of Iranian air defences that will be a big ask.

GAZA: "WIDESPREAD AND SYSTEMATIC" DISTORTION OF THE NARRATIVE

Al Jazeera's investigative unit has nailed down "widespread and systemic" abuses of the narrative on the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel. Journalist Richard Sanders highlights some of the most blatant and egregious.

STRAPPED FOR CASH, DESPERATE PUTIN RAISES TAXES ON POOR RUSSIANS

Vlad delivering up another shit sandwich for the Russian proles

Crackpot Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has finally turned on the Russian people in a desperate attempt to keep his insane war in the Ukraine going. 

Spilling Russian blood was no biggie for Vlad, but now, with money running out, due to tightening sanctions and Ukrainian hits on Russia's relatively undefended oil refineries, the shortarse leader of the Kremlin has decided to raise taxes on Russia's poor, which is most of the population because even with massive natural resources Russia has always had a shit economy. The average Russian earns about $1000 a month.

Thanks to fat oil revenues in the past, all Russians were paying a relatively low flat rate tax on their generally low earnings, with 13% personal income tax on anyone earning below 5 million rubles (<$50,000) and 15% on those earning above that. Rich oligarchs, however, paid 0% tax, as long as they were on the West's sanctions list.

Now the poorest Russians will have to pay 15%, while those earning above the 5 million rubles mark will have to cough up 20%. The oligarchs, of course, will continue to pay nothing.

Corporate tax will also soar, from 20% to 25%, meaning that most companies without government contracts to produce crappy, low-tech Russian armaments will probably go bust. Putin's hope is that he can keep this ramshackle economy going long enough to have his arse pulled out of the fire by braindead American voters voting for Donald Trump in the US Presidential elections in November.

The new tax system is expected to be brought in following Putin's swearing in as President in May.

CLOUDS OF DEVASTAING DRONES DESTROYING RUSSIA'S OIL INFRASTRUCTURE

The basis for the survival of a united Russian state after the war, namely its oil infrastructure, is being progressively dismantled by Ukraine's decision to ramp up its drone war. It seems that the Kremlin's far-flung oil infrastructure is embarrassingly easy to attack. YouTuber Joe Bloggs brings the facts.

RUSSIAN BOT NEWS: 50,000 FAKE ACCOUNTS ON GERMAN TWITTER

The key to the kind of 4th Generation warfare that the Russians has been waging against the West since 2014 is to keep things under the radar of the low-information average Western citizen. But with the War in the Ukraine going badly and defeat increasingly staring the Kremlin in the face, the Putin regime is being forced increasingly to show its hand and the dirty tricks it uses to attempt to divide and demoralise the West.

The latest example of this Neo-Soviet skullduggery has been revealed by the German Foreign Office which has pointed to a network of more than 50,000 fake accounts on X, posting as many as 200,000 posts a day seeking to chip away at the natural German resolve to lend assistance to a peaceful neighbour under attack.

As reported by the Financial Times:

"Russian disinformation campaigns to undermine support for Ukraine in Europe have grown significantly in scale, skill and stealth, one of Germany’s most senior diplomats has warned.

'It is absolutely a threat we have to take seriously,' Ralf Beste, head of the department for culture and communication at Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, told the Financial Times. 'Overall, [there] is an increase in sophistication and impact to what we have seen before. There is probably a lot going on we can’t even see. More and more conversations are happening in private . . . channels on Telegram and WhatsApp. It is very difficult to understand what is happening there.'"

But despite the murkiness that the Muscovites are engaged in, the West is increasingly able to expose it:

"Beste’s department has a dedicated cell that leads the German government’s efforts to track and stop Russia’s information operations overseas.

Germany has emerged as one of the Kremlin’s main targets for disinformation over the war in Ukraine. Under the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Berlin has dramatically revised its security and defence policy and become the second-largest donor of military aid to Kyiv after Washington."

The aim of the Neo-Soviet ops is to slowly poison debate with false fears, fake news, and empty hopes:

"Beste said: '[The Russians] are looking for cracks of doubt or feelings of unease and trying to enlarge them.'

His department this year uncovered one of the biggest attempts to manipulate German public opinion yet, on the social media platform X.

A network of more than 50,000 fake accounts posting as many as 200,000 posts a day sought to convince Germans that the government’s help for Ukraine was undermining German prosperity and risking nuclear war.

The network sought to 'launder' such claims by making them look as if they had been published as opinions in reputable news outlets such as Der Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung. But it also simply sought to amplify existing anti-Ukrainian views and make them appear to be more widespread."

As long argued by sites like Neokrat, the Russians have an extensive history  of using lies and deceit to bolster the feeble attempts of their bloated military. This goes all the way back through Soviet times to the Tsarist Empire and its promotion of anti-Semitic garbage like the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." In fact, contemporary Kremlin ops constantly attempts to build on the foundations of those earlier lies. 

COLIN LIDDELL ON THE LUKE FORD SHOW (31st March, 2024)

Colin Liddell joins Luke Ford to talk about a wide range of issues, including vegetarianism, democracy, mass immigration, American isolationism, Japanese remilitarization, Russian subversion, China's Taiwan ambitions, Candace Owens, anti-Semitism, Alt-Right nostalgia, young men seeking "meaning," the collapse of the GOP, the unbelievability of religion, sport, and why some Japanese became anti-vax.

INVERSE NPC OF THE WEEK: WAY OF THE WORLD

YouTuber Wyvern the Terrible (subscribe) comments on the morose masturbation and choreographed black pilling engaged in by so many leading figures in the Dissident Right, and notes that this lines up rather too neatly with the petty geopolitical goals of the Kremlin.