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#326 2026-01-31 11:44:50
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Re: Peter Zeihan again: and also other thinkers:
Some interesting information here as well to add to the just prior two posts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu5Pe1vkU1o
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LIVE Davos Breakdown with Presidential Advisor Dr Pippa Malmgren
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Surprisingly good information, I feel.
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#327 2026-02-01 12:38:30
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I don't know how real this is or is not. Somebody thinks it is OK for people like me to see it. It is at least entertaining. It might be that I don't actually know what is real anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ki9ca97cnM
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Silver DESTROYS The Empire: Europe in Panic (ft. Luongo & Holt)
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In this interview we dig into how silver fits into Trump’s bigger geopolitical and monetary game, what it means for the dollar, the City of London, and global power, and why the old financial guard is so scared of this move.
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#328 2026-02-01 12:52:40
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Silver! The price still hasn't caught up to the end of the gold standard. Historical silver:gold price ratios were 10-15, until countries moved off silver and on to gold alone for their currency. Still a ways to go for it to correct back to such ratios, but I expect it will, particularly since it has useful industrial properties.
Use what is abundant and build to last
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#329 2026-02-03 15:42:43
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/CW6yQtaRC8uc/
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So, it is just possible that AI will find a way to roll back my age, and I will become a teen idol with a very long life span. Then I can marry my robot girlfriend who will then divorce me and sue me for gadget support, while cheating on me with a robot hitman who will kill me.
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#330 2026-02-03 16:09:52
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Re: Peter Zeihan again: and also other thinkers:
Void,
So, even the average "modern" robotic woman treats men horribly?
I guess it wouldn't be a "real" female robot without exhibiting real female behavior.
If you find one that doesn't look like a beached whale and isn't more venomous than a cobra, do let us know. I always love reading about unicorns. My brain knows they aren't real, but my heart still loves a good story.
If her robot hitman boyfriend murders you, consider it a reprieve. You could've spent the rest of your life with someone, or "something", which is miserable and ugly to its core.
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#331 2026-02-03 16:14:39
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Correct Sir!
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#332 2026-02-07 12:45:04
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I am not sure how much of this I am in agreement with but it is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk-GQGFMuXQ
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Epstein Files LEAK: Trump Just Toppled The British Govt | Luongo & Krainer
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I am not sure they can do this without the approval of some spooky forces, but it is interesting.
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#333 2026-02-08 13:18:18
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Re: Peter Zeihan again: and also other thinkers:
More of this stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXhi0dOfz6c
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Silver DESTROYED: How London's Elite Engineered The Crash
Rich Does Politics
I am not able to swim in their ocean. I do not know how real it is.
But it is interesting. They link Frances attacks of "X" to very important matters.
It is surprising when Poland and Italy look like American's friends, and the UK and France act like enemies to our interests.
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#334 2026-02-10 10:57:39
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This is pretty big, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFqqlX3kekY
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Meloni Said NO to Brussels! Italy’s Secret Phone Call to Washington Shocks EU.
So, then Poland, ect. also perhaps.
To balance things out after all, I expect.
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#335 2026-02-12 19:31:18
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In case you may think I am biased against Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwVLMZvpVUw
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Peter Zeihan - Russia’s Final Collapse Begins Right Now
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I am not an enemy of Russia, but they have to row their own boat if they can.
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#336 2026-02-14 11:49:46
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I thought this was interesting: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE Quote:
U.S. Navy's Ray Gun Tech Exposes Iran’s Missile Grid — Sensors Flicker Under Fire
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Warfare Hits Economy
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I will not at all try to pretend that I have military competency.
However, I do like what happens when inventions flip-flop advantages.
My impression was that competitors had come close to making Aircraft Carriers obsolete.
And the idea of drones both air and surface water, are relatively cheap and can overwhelm our very expensive rocket type weapons.
But this seems to turn the situation on its head. This then may allow those who have such Laser systems to prohibit unfriendly drones, and yet allow, perhaps drones from the Laser owners side. So, for now if this is all true, then our cost of insertion of power by navy drops very low relative to what was otherwise going to become the case.
Of course then if the other side eventually has the same, this is perhaps neutralized. But the USA has a better economy to afford better toys then most others.
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I think this is very important because I consider that the Middle East is a burned-out civilization and a vampire. It has glowing embers of intelligence still, but mostly power and economics is dominated by Verbal and Violent types. By allowing verbal skills to displace other skills they degrade their capabilities. Fortunately, this makes it harder for them to play vampire and conquest people who are less deteriorated then them.
So, there is hope for the human race after all. We may not be eaten by the vampires of verbal and violent religious power.
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#337 Yesterday 12:33:54
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Is this right??? Well, I admit that looking back in time, it seems as if when push comes to shove, the Europeans and their masters, would rather undercut America than to accept it as more than a servant who shovels poo in their pony barn.
They would rather scuttle the fleet than allow us to become what we can become, is my sense of a possible truth.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE
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Europe Chooses SUICIDE Over Trump’s Peace (Kokinda & Blaine
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But I will keep looking to see if I am wrong about it.
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#338 Yesterday 14:31:31
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Void: no, that is not right. Trump has said the US will not protect Europe if/when Europe is attacked by Russia. NATO was founded to protect Europe from Russia. Period. That's it's purpose. Yet Trump is not willing to do that. Europe has to protect itself, because Russia intends to go on a rampage across Europe.
Putin will never be satisfied with a portion of Ukraine. He wants to conquer all of Ukraine, wipe out the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian culture. Before the full-scale invasion of February 24, 2022, Russia force-conscripted (force-drafted) all Ukrainian males between age 18-55 who didn't have a Russian passport, and all those that did have a Russian passport but worked in a job the Russians considered not vital infrastructure. Just one one later, they increased the age range to 18-65. Any Ukrainian who refused to obey orders, who refused to fight against the Ukrainian military, were killed on the spot. These men were given at most 2 weeks training, many less than one week. The Ukrainian military were veterans at that point, fighting against Russian since 2014.
If Russia succeeds in conquering Ukraine, they will force-conscript all Ukrainian males age 18-65 who do not work in vital infrastructure, and force them to invade Russia's next target. When they invade Poland first, or the Baltic States (Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia) doesn't matter, because whichever is first, the other is next. All members of the Ukrainian military will refuse to fight for Russia, so they will all be executed. Many Ukrainian men will also refuse to fight for Russia against Ukraine's allies, so they'll be executed too. This will require death camps on the scale of Auschwitz.
Putin has said many times he intends to put the Soviet Union back together. He will invade/annex Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia, Finland, Belarus, Moldova, and a narrow strip of Romania between Moldova and the Carpathian mountains.
Belarus is currently an ally of Russia, but the Belarus citizens really REALLY do NOT want to be part of Russia. If Lukashenko ordered the Belarus military to invade Ukraine, then Belarus citizens would have risen up in civil war, kicked out Lukashenko. He allowed the Russian army to pass through Belarus, but that's all. Several Belarus soldiers defected to Ukraine to fight against Russia, and one entire battalion of Belarus army defected as a unit to Ukraine. Belarus railroad workers sabotaged the rail lines to prevent Russian trains carrying tanks from getting to Ukraine. If Russia tries to annex Belarus, the citizens of Belarus will fight against that with everything they have. Yes, Russia will have to conquer Belarus in war.
Finland and Poland never were part of the Soviet Union, but there were conquered/annexed by Russia under the Tzars. After the Communist revolution in 1917, many east European countries gained their independence. Soviet Russia tried to invade/conquer Poland February 1919 - March 1921. That started while World War 1 was still ongoing. Europe provided aid to Poland. Russia failed to conquer Poland, so gave up and moved their army to Ukraine. Invasion of Ukraine was 1918-1922. Soviet Russia likes to claim that Ukraine joined the Soviet Union voluntarily, but that's a lie. Russia conquered/annexed Ukraine by military force. In 1939, Soviet Russia made a deal with Nazi Germany to invade Poland. Nazis would invade from the west, Russia from the East. They divided the country. Russia took what is now Kaliningrad, and gave parts of Poland to Belarus and Ukraine.
In the winter of 1939/'40, Soviet Russia invaded Finland. They failed. They did annex 9% of the land of Finland, but that's all. When Nazi Germany saw Russia couldn't even defeat Finland on their own, they invaded the Soviet Union. Nazis didn't intend to conquer Russia itself, just east Europe (Poland, Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova). The Soviet Union saw this as betrayal by their ally. That's when they switched sides.
Russia today has no intention of stopping with Europe. They will also annex all of the Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. And central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan.
Putin also wants control over those countries that were not part of the Soviet Union, but were under control of the Soviet Union. Central Europe: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and what will be left of Romania.
East Germany was under Soviet control, and was a member of the Warsaw Pact. Russia wants it back. But Germany is reunited. Taking East Germany required conquering all of Germany. That's a founding member of both the EU and NATO. Once invasion of Western Europe starts, Russia intends to continue all the way to the Straight of Gibraltar.
This means World War III. Yes, Putin wants to start World War III. He believes Russia can win, all he needs to do is break up NATO. Putin believes Russia can defeat all European countries one at a time, just not all at once.
If you think this is a European issue that doesn't affect the US, you're wrong. Russia also wants Alaska back. Once Russia has conquered/annexed all of the above, they will use resources and population of all of that to increase their strength to take on the US. They will invade and annex Alaska. Here's a billboard all over Siberia. It reads (in Russian) "Alaska is Ours".
Both France and UK have nuclear weapons. If you think they'll lie down and die without defending themselves, you're an idiot. They will use everything they have. Yes, that means nuclear war. They will not attack Russia first, but will use conventional weapons to defend any NATO country. If Russia uses a nuclear weapon, response will either be assassination of Putin, or NATO troops on Russian soil. If Russia uses a nuke on any NATO country, expect massive retaliation by France and UK. If Russia uses a nuke on France or UK, expect France and UK to deploy their entire nuclear arsenal. If either France or UK appear to be defeated by Russia, expect both to release their entire nuclear arsenal.
For Europe, this is it!!! This is what NATO is for. If Trump is going to side with Russia, refuse to defend Europe, then Europe will have to defend themselves. And the best way to prevent World War III is to ensure Russia loses in Ukraine. No compromise, no way for Russia to claim they won. Russia must suffer a humiliating defeat.
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#339 Yesterday 19:16:27
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RobertDyck,
Russia has been fighting in Ukraine for 4 years now. Russia has failed to take half or even a third of Ukraine. Russia's supply of war machines is dwindling by the day.
If Russia wanted to take all those other NATO countries you named, and all those European countries are ready and willing to fight Russia as your commentary seems to suggest, then how would Russia's military achieve anything beyond its own annihilation?
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#340 Yesterday 20:38:19
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kbd512,
Obviously I'm cheering for Ukraine. But realize, contrary to the video Void posted, Europe is not "keeping the war going". The way to end the war is for Russia to gain nothing. If they're allowed to gain any benefit, they'll continue for more. And more, and more. The whole list I posted. Europe is trying to end the war, but doing so means the 1991 borders.
I could post the 1919 borders. The point is the 1991 borders ARE the compromise.
The reason Europe has removed the US from certain NATO commands (not all) is Trump cannot be trusted to defend Europe when Russia attacks.
As for the current war: Russia is losing. Sanctions on Russian oil is hurting their economy. Most recently India seized 3 shadow fleet tankers linked to Iran: Feb 10-16. These tankers have mixed oil from Russia, Venezuela and Iran, sold to India and China. France raided a tanker in the Mediterranean from Russia. The US is seizing tankers from Venezuela. Russia is screwed.
SpaceX established a white-list for terminals, effectively shutting down Russian battlefield coms. And making guidance of Russian Shahed drones more difficult. Ukraine is now on the offensive, taking back 9.5km of territory in Zaporitzhzhia Oblast. A couple days ago a Ukrainian Su-29 attacked a bridge in Kherson Oblast, near Crimea. It had a column 1.4km long of combat vehicles, all destroyed or abandoned. The jet dropped a GPS guided GBU 38 bomb. Followed by several Ukrainian drones.
Russia hoped to gain territory, resources and population. They hoped to use those resources to attack the next country. Then again for the next, etc. They failed. Now Putin feels he can't quit the war without showing some win, some benefit. But he won't win anything. Dictators do not have a retirement plan. Putin is in deep trouble.
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#341 Yesterday 20:44:30
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Pink is Ukraine borders from 1919. Red is 1991.
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#342 Yesterday 22:23:43
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RobertDyck,
The reason Europe has removed the US from certain NATO commands (not all) is Trump cannot be trusted to defend Europe when Russia attacks.
Long after the war started the Germans were still handing over tens of billions of dollars for Russian oil and gas. President Trump asked them to stop doing that during his first term in office, before Russia's war in Ukraine started, which they responded to with a bunch of snide comments. While you're worried about whether or not President Trump can be trusted, I'm only mildly amused by European arrogance, condescension, and backstabbing. American leaders can't afford to have the sort of short-term and selective memory of European leaders. When our supposed allies do more business with their self-described enemies than they do with their most powerful military ally, they're telling us where their loyalties lie. I choose to believe them when they tell us to our faces who they are and what they value, as does President Trump.
The European Union has an economy equivalent in size to America. If they still cannot, collectively, defend themselves from a country with the economy of Italy, after every American President in the 21st century has asked them to spend what they agreed to spend on their own defense, that sounds like a "them" problem. Maybe their leaders only want to pay lip service to the idea. That's no longer acceptable to American leaders. If America leaves NATO, the only remaining question is whether or not Europeans can be trusted to defend Europe when Russia attacks.
I would've thought Europeans would be overjoyed that America is no longer interested in "meddling" in European defense. They can make whatever defense decisions they choose for themselves, as long as they're footing the bill. Europe has 10% of the world's population, 25% of the world's GDP, and represents 60% of global welfare spending. They can still have whatever welfare programs they can afford, after they pay for their defense. European nations had billions of dollars to hand over to Russians who want to kill them and take their land, so they must also have billions of dollars to arm themselves to prevent that from happening.
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