War of the Great

For those of bent ideology crying wolf genocide! genocide! war crimes! war crimes! – I bring this reminder of how real war is fought:

Green wisely doesn’t let his admiration of Alexander the general get in the way of his judgment of Alexander the man. Even if one gives AtG a pass on death and destruction caused in the normal course of war-making, it’s hard to overlook things like: crucifying 3,000 defeated soldiers; burning down an entire village because he needed timber for a bridge; massacring 7,000 Indian mercenaries and their wives and children after guaranteeing them safe passage; razing the city of Thebes and selling all remaining living citizens into slavery; and more.

[see more here]

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Shame

President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister that nothing of “value” was hit in Iran’s airborne attack Saturday and asserted American forces will not be participating in any offensive against Iran, according to a report.

Well, we knew that Ukrainian scenario is a default, so why am I …not exactly surprised, rather ashamed of this traitor? Shaking in rage.

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Life-Work Balance

Napoleon’s rise through the ranks was therefore by no means unique given the political and military circumstances of the day. Still, his progress was impressive: he had spent five and a half years as a second-lieutenant, a year as a lieutenant, sixteen months as a captain, only three months as a major and no time at all as a colonel. On December 22, 1793, having been on leave for fifty-eight of his ninety-nine months of service – with and without permission – and after spending less than four years on active duty, Napoleon was made, at twenty-four, a general.

Taken from  quotes @ Isegoria

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Supermen

Israeli opera tenor Stanislav Davidov, a reservist serving in GAZA battalion, entertains his fellow soldiers – in field. Hard not to get emotional.

I love you boys, you are all supermen. Return home victorious!

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Контора

Binge-watched French series Bureau.

Just when i wanted to shout Eureka and announce to the world a great if controversial hit, it appears I’m about 5yrs too late. The series is an international cult, with fan clubs and glory to all involved in production.

It must be as funny in a “ridiculous and naive” sense as I see the “Ukrainian”and “Russian” seasons – the Middle Eastern portion is for Israelis, various Arabs, Iranians , &&&. Some details are recognizable and believable, but more often than not – anachronistic, lifestyle and motivational dubious. Portrayal of specific national intelligence agencies are more sets of cliche (the flight crew from Mossad takes the prize!) which has a recognition value, but it’s taken over the whole; nuance is definitely lacking.

Of course, the 5th season played in 2020, and since then some political realities changed drastically, some went obsolete (who would’ve thought in 2015 of the scale of the current Russian-Ukrainian war, or conceived the enormity of October 7 massacres of Israelis). But some things differ very little – regional vector of attitudes and hatreds of Middle East. Universal antisemitism. Plus ça change…

Have you seen it? What do you think?

PS. And then these rare sole voices…

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QotD

There is a certain odor that surrounds this story, can you Smollett?

[commenter on Post’s reporting of allegedly injured paleses by an alleged shooter in Vermont]

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Reminder

Where to donate to help Israel

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To bilinguals among us

Rhymes better, too.

Thank you!

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A fair exchange

From elsewhere:

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Soros’ Kapos

We have seen in Washington DC, New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Copenhagen, and other cities, large unruly crowds, often violent, marching for “Palestine.” If you listen to their slogans, and interviews of organizers and participants, these are not for “Palestine.” No such entity exists and the marchers couldn’t tell you the history or location of the place.

No.

The organizers of these marches don’t care about Palestine, they are for, let me quite blunt, killing Jews, AND destroying the West.

In other words, they are perfectly in line with the objectives of modern-day Islam.

One particular group within these marchers deserves special mention. Yes, I refer to fellow Jews. They utterly revolt me. I don’t know how many Jews have taken part, but judging for example, by the “pro-Palestine” letters coming out of Hollywood and academia signed by prominent Jews, it’s probably not an inconsiderable number, not as many as the “marchers” pretend, but still.

These Jews remind me of the Jewish Kapos who worked with the Nazis in the death camps and the ghettos helping the Nazis liquidate Europe’s Jewish communities. The most prominent of these living Kapos, of course, is George Soros. He and his organizations continue to work with today’s Nazis to eliminate the Jewish state and to promote the destruction of Europe and America, e.g., uncontrolled immigration from the Third World.

They seem to think that the crocodile will never eat them.

They are wrong, as so many earlier Kapos found out. The Muslim crocodile is not easily sated.

Go read the whole thing @ Diplomad

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QotD

I’m hardly an ‘expert’, but I have set foot, (for varying lengths of time, the longest being 7+ years in Saudi Arabia, in 10 Muslim countries, plus Israel), and many decades ago came to the conclusion that, no matter how ‘normal’ they may outwardly appear, you can never, ever, fully trust an Islamist.

I’m constantly reading accounts of people being attacked/killed by pitbulls or variations thereof and having the owners expressing surprise that such a ‘sweet’ animal would do a thing like that. I always want to scream “But that’s what they ARE and that’s what they DO!”.

Same principle in both instances.

NemoZ

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HitlerJugend is out

I debated with myself for three days before posting.  As someone in the Post comments said, “facial recognition is getting really good” – and they have snapped many pics of me. But it’s a 2-way street – as I managed to take one of them, too.

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Wish them luck

UPDATE: for some reason, the embedded video turned black. Here’s the link to u-tub

Donations to IDF: here

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Timid we are not

Forward, Oct 12

“The Partisan Hymn,” known in Yiddish as “Dos partizaner lid,” expresses the defiant resistance and resilience of the Jewish people. It was composed in 1943 by Hirsh Glik, a young member of the underground resistance movement in Vilna. Glik said he was inspired to write the song upon hearing news of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. According to many accounts, Glik was captured and executed by the Nazis in July 1944.

In the clip, we hear Yonatan singing the first of the four stanzas of the song, translated here below. (You can read the translation of the entire song here.)

Never say that you are walking the final road,
Though leaden skies obscure blue days;
The hour we have been longing for will still come,
Our steps will drum – we are here!

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The whole thing is a quote

Nothing to excerpt.

What is the point of our 80-year-old president inserting himself physically into the Middle East cauldron?

Other than for campaign photos, and cheap praise from New York Times psy-op columnists (“President Biden’s Finest Hour”), it’s a security nightmare and a needless distraction at a critical time for Israel’s president Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Biden has done his best to undermine and deride as a Trumpist since his election last year.

Biden inherited the Abraham Accords and through pettiness and malice unwound all the good that Donald Trump had achieved in terms of Middle East peace while cozying up to Iran, the region’s main sponsor of terrorism.

It’s all very well for the president to express support for Israel now, but he needs to explain what the hell his administration has been doing harboring at least three anti-Israel Hamas sympathizers with security clearances who allegedly have been acting as agents of influence for Iran.

Miranda Devine, NYPost

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So, now I’m waiting

for loud and sincere condemnation by the wide public of hamas’ bombing of their own hospital. And apologies for knee-jerk blaming Israel. Right? Right?

Crickets

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Pontificating Pilates

Right on cue, Appeaser-In-Chief Admin says Israel should not occupy Gaza

And CDC announced a Global Handwashing Day.

Meanwhile :

Entire Planet Will Be Under Our Law, Warns Hamas Commander Mahmoud Al-Zahar.

Mahmoud al-Zahar has called for world domination by his forces, saying that Israel is only the first target.

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To whom it concerns

Addresses to donate:

fidf.org

afmda.org

yatarisrael.org

yadeliezer.org (leads to http://www.bezri.org)

I’ve sent to all four, will follow up again soon. Thank you, friends who shared these addresses with me!

Readers: please leave more charity addresses you personally used and recommend.

PS: Spread the word! Hollywood media mogul, Haim Saban, is matching gifts to FIDF, dollar for dollar, up to $1 million. 100% of contributions are going to IDF soldiers’ emergency needs. Donate here.

PPS

Extended list of places to donate   (via Stas)

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угадайте кто есть кто

у меня в рабочем чате сейчас был разговор, от чего я сижу обалдевшая с одной мыслью: пора валить.
поделилась с сотрудниками практически-местной новостью о тётке устроившей стрельбу в полицейском участке.
новость имеет отношение к работе (specify ballistic level on transaction windows in public-facing offices!)
и получила комменты:
А: а вот если б это был чёрный, ему это так не сошло!
М: согласна с А!
В: согласен с А и М! черный, хиспаник ИЛИ АРАБ был бы тут же застрелен!

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кто виноват?

Let’s see:
1. Left behind $8 Billion in equipment to the Taliban
2. Unfroze $6 Billion in frozen assets to the biggest financier of Hamas (Iran)
3. Turned over $1 Billion in “aid” to the PLA after it was discontinued in the previous administration.

Joe Biden’s Legacy is now official.

Update 1: Bombshell

While “Blinken denies Iran direct involvement in attack on Israel..

Update 2:

By VDH

Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke strategic agendas, we witnessed the following chain of events: 1) the 2021 complete humiliation of the U.S. miliary in Kabul in its greatest defeat in 50 years; 2) followed by Vladimir Putin’s 2022 opportunistic invasion of Ukraine; 3) followed by China’s new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan; 4) followed by Turkey’s new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria; 5) followed by the Hamas/Iranian inspired attack on Israel—6) with more to come unfortunately.[…]

In a sane world, the Biden administration would immediately cancel all talks with Iran, renew sanctions, and stop any cash transferences. (Why were the Obama and Biden administrations so fond of sending so much money to theocratic Iran)? It would stop all aid to the West Bank and Gaza. It would put a travel ban on anyone from Iran or the West Bank and Gaza and pull visas of any currently from Palestine in the U.S. It would immediately ramp up defense spending, especially on missile defense, dismantle the woke commissariat in the Pentagon, and prepare for the unthinkable and existential abroad.

And there is likely zero chance that the handlers of Joe Biden will do any of that.

 

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Вопрос

Израильтянам на месте: куда лучше послать денег? В фонд IDF? в JewishAgencies? или лучше конкретным людям-организациям, чтоб не оседало в бюрократическое сито?

Обнимаю вас всех

 

 

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Мало?

PDA, by BL

Может, для тех, кто привык жонглировать триллионами чужих денег, это кажется копейками супротив мировой революции атомной бонбы. А я не хочу навязанной мне ложной дихотомии.  Предпочитаю чтоб бонбу обезвредили к.-н. другим путём, предпочтительно раз в мильён дешевле.

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Швондер-машина

Jeff Carter:

“The war in Ukraine is like watching two pigs fight in the mud. We can all agree that strongman Vladimir Putin is a dictator and his invasion of Ukraine is simply a brazen attempt to grab more power and money for himself (and his fawning oligarchs). Putin is not a good guy and instead of lifting Russia up destroyed lots of opportunities for it to become a democratic nation. The only reason we care about Russia is it has nukes. If they didn’t have nukes, no one would pay attention to them. At the same time, Ukraine’s government is pretty corrupt too. Strategically, does it make a difference if Ukraine is under Russian control or independent? If I don’t want to send billions and billions of US dollars to Ukraine, am I far right? I don’t think so.

The left consistently moves the goalposts when it comes to defining anything. Far-right isn’t far-right anymore. It might just be the actual place most people would wind up sitting and the left can’t have that because if people advocated for normalcy, they couldn’t foment their real agenda; highly bureaucratic and unDemocratic centralized government control over everything from speech to resources.”

Что-то мне напоминают крики экспатов-украинцев?

Вяземская: …предлагаю вам взять несколько журналов – в пользу детей Германии. По полтиннику штука!
Преображенский: Нет, не возьму.
Вяземская: Но почему вы отказываетесь?
Преображенский: Не хочу.
Вяземская: Вы не сочувствуете детям Германии?
Преображенский: Сочувствую.

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От нашего диванного наблюдателя

Цитата из твитера (кот., как правило, я избегаю, but this is too much fun):

The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

Арбат PoV: Лебединое Озеро

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Фарс

Кровавый – люди умирают взаправду – и всё-таки исторический фарс. Многие отметили к сегодняшнему утру, мне пришли в голову те же события, но не цитата из  Тарле*. По случайности, недавно прочла 17ю книгу из серии о Себастьяне Ст.Сире (When Blood Lies), где фоном -возвращение Наполеона.

Хотя мой обычный пессимизм (или фатализм) говорит мне, что револт кончится ничем, по причине извечной русской некомпетентности**. Но подождём.

*Искомая цитата:

Евгений Тарле с неподражаемой иронией писал: «Правительственная и близкая к правящим сферам парижская пресса от крайней самоуверенности перешла к полному упадку духа и нескрываемому страху. Типичной для её поведения в эти дни была строгая последовательность эпитетов, прилагавшихся к Наполеону по мере его наступательного движения от юга к северу.
Первое известие: „Корсиканское чудовище высадилось в бухте Жуан“.
Второе известие: „Людоед идёт к Грассу“.
Третье известие: „Узурпатор вошёл в Гренобль“.
Четвертое известие: „Бонапарт занял Лион“.
Пятое известие: „Наполеон приближается к Фонтенебло“.
Шестое известие: „Его императорское величество ожидается сегодня в своём верном Париже“.

UPDATE

A commenter at Rantburg:

#27 As the cooler heads say, 48 hour rule, but it sure looks like a whole flock of black swans at the moment.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-24 09:34

UPDATE 6-25, когда никто никуда уже не идёт: **ну?

 Предсказание про Воронеж сбылось – российский вертолёт разбомбил российскую нефтебазу в Воронеже, причём бомбёжка была охуительной в своей тупизне – был разбомблен склад авиационного керосина для таких же летунов как он, а не бензиновые резервуары, которые были нужны Пригожину.

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Об украинских флажках, и не только

[из комментов elsewhere]

***

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Наш пострел

Какие пролазы!

[…]my Ukrainian guests were thrown out on the street with no place to go, my dogs are traumatized, and the custodian [judge] would not let me take my car,” the princess said

The refugee family from Kyiv whom she had welcomed to the palace after the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year has also been forced into temporary quarters, 37 miles south of Rome. Their cramped apartment is only available for another week, “and then the unknown,” said Masha Bratashevska, 40, a stylist from Kyiv.

[…]

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Like

Пост МК. В комментах прискорбное несхождение кораблей.

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War horizons

Read the whole thing, with the thread (now at 475)

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Трансакция

Из Dreamwidth у F-o-F:

B:

Моя концепция – это то, что ребенок, рожденный в Украине, должен знать украинский язык.

S:

А моя концепция – это то, что мой ребенок, рожденный в Украине, ничего вам не должен. Наоборот, это вы ему должны. Это из его налогов вы получили $3.8 миллиарда лендлиза. И этот долг вам прийдется отдавать. Но об этом мы поговорим позже.

R:

Рожденный и живущий в Украине, разумеется, а не ребенок трамписта.

B:

Хрен вам, мы его вам отдаем кровью.

R:

Не обращайте на него внимания, это какой-то залетный жадный американец-провокатор, скорее всего – трампист, который против ленд-лиза, он даже у меня не в друзьях.

Забавные какие рогули: они думают, нам их кровь нужна зачем-то. И мы, типа, будем обкрадывать наших детей и внуков, увеличивать и так неподъёмный гос.долг до бесконечности – чтоб тратить на войну каких-то восточных европейцев между собой. Ага, нашли лохов.

И как им трамп всрався! Забыли, что при нём у них войны не было, респ. администрация русских агрессоров сдерживала,  а обе войны “случились” при дем-правительствах.

Эта коммунальная логика мне напоминает советских инвалидов войны: вопли из очереди за водкой “я за вас кроффффь проливал!”

Коммуняки эти меня уже несколько подз…достали.

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Риторически, в сторону

Скажите, меня одну раздражает вышитый бандеровский трезубец в виде лого на псевдо-милитари свитере Зеленского?

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$100BLN: кто больше?

But Vova won’t give up. In fact, he can’t give up. It’s far better (for him!) that numberless orcs get fed into the meat grinder than for him to admit defeat–and thereby risk getting fed into the meat grinder himself.

Meaning that there is no end in sight. Not just because Putin won’t accept defeat, but because Zelenskyy won’t accept anything but total victory, and indeed Russian failure and Ukrainian success has fed Zelenskyy’s ambitions. As I said probably 9 months ago, the core is empty: there is no mutually acceptable set of terms to end the conflict, even a limited end such as a cease fire or an armistice.

That said, part of the reason that the core is empty is that the US (and Europe) are encouraging Zelenskyy. Or at least, they are afraid to put him in his place, apparently never having learned who pays the piper calls the tune.

I get that giving Putin even the simulacrum of victory presents dangers for the future. But in my mind those are outweighed by the dangers of the present, not least to Ukrainians, but to the world economy, and potentially to the world–for who knows what a desperate Putin will resort to.

Professor is right

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Latest example

Але ж я iх ненавижджу. Стоят друг друга.

Как ещё ванька-лакей у ратомиры не отметился.

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Bravo

“…Sen.Paul’s amendment, but he insisted it be added to the underlying bill.

The change Paul is seeking would create a special inspector general to oversee how the Ukraine military aid is spent.”

I – and 331 mln of others – am the one paying taxes and funding this drunken party.  Show me the bills.

PS

Arbat here speaks for me

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Not just a meme

, apparently

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