Tucker Carlson wants to Make the US more like the PRC???

Tucker Carlson dislikes Representative Ilhan Omar. I don't know if Ilhan Omar is her legal name, or is it like the old joke about the 'John Johnson Chinese Laundry'.

Someone saw the sign hanging over the door to the laundry, went in, saw a person of obviously Oriental ethnicity, and asked, 'How did you get the name, 'John Johnson Chinese Laundry?'

The owner said, 'My grandfather was in the queue at Ellis Island. The immigration agent asked the man in front of him, 'What's your name?' and he said, 'John Johnson.' The immigration officer filled out the form, gave it to the man, and said, 'Go ahead.' 

Then my grandfather stepped up to the agent and was asked, 'What's your name?' and he said, 'Mi Tu', and the agent gave him a paper with his American name written down as 'John Johnson.'

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In Arabic cultures, everyone's name is their own name, their father's name, their grandfather's name, and, at some point, their family name which must start with an 'Al'. So Omar is not her family name, it's her father's name. And those calling her 'Omar' are calling her by her father's name, not her own name and not her family name, at least in Arabic.

Of course, the immigration agent might have written on the form: Given name: Ilhan, Family name: Omar

so now, legally, her family name could be Omar, not her actual family name, but like the name given to the apocryphal Chinese laundry owner in the old joke.

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In any case, Carlson notes that most Somalis living in the US live in two cities, one of them Minneapolis (I forget the other), and they mostly speak Somali, live in neighbourhoods that are all (or at least almost all) Somali, and, worst of all from Carlson's perspective, they vote Democrat.

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Carlson wants all of the US to be one, homogeneous culture, an Anglo culture. As he says, he has nothing against Somalis, as long as they stay in Somalia, but if they come to the US, they should speak English, scatter and live in mixed neighbourhoods, accept the Anglo culture, and vote Republican (Tucker doesn't like anyone who votes Democrat).

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The PRC has 56 official ethnic groups. The largest group are the Han, comprising 91.1% of the total PRC population. The 2nd largest group are the Zhuang, with 1.4%. Fifty years ago, there was discrimination in favour of the Han, they got the best jobs, best houses, severe discrimination against the other ethnic groups. But that was 50 years ago. Not clear why, but things changed, lots of things changed.

First, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), two agencies who work with the CIA to bring 'democracy' to undemocratic countries by overthrowing the authoritarian government and replacing it with a good, democratic government that lets US oligarchs steal everything worth stealing, but it's a free democracy, so that's good.

The Uyghurs once occupied a place the Europeans called Turkmenistan, which got divided between the Chinese province of Xinjiang, which means 'New Boundary' in Chinese, and some parts, first of the Russian Empire, and later of the USSR, until the break-up of the USSR when they became independent, impoverished countries, one of which is Kazakhstan. NED and USAID gave Uyghurs in Kazakhstan money and weapons to go into the PRC to destroy PRC government property and kill PRC government officials, so a lot of what the PRC mislabel as 'terrorism,' when it was just doing good by bringing democracy to an evil autarchic state.

But the PRC have lots of intelligence agents and computers, and now they have a list of all who have ever poked their nose into a NED or USAID facilities, and refuse to let them enter the PRC, so the bombings and killings have pretty much stopped.

The Uyghurs had been living in poverty, even by PRC standards, Very poor housing, very poor jobs. The Uyghurs are Muslim, and it was illegal to go to a mosque or to sell any food suitable for Muslims (called halal). The PRC leadership decided that the best way to stop the beneficial efforts of the US was to make every ethnic group equal.

Uyghurs spoke no Chinese, they could not read or write Chinese, they spoke a language written with the Arabic alphabet. So, even if employers wanted to hire them, they could not understand what they were asked to do, nor could the employer understand their questions about what was wanted.

But even when the job was so straightforward that the Uyghurs could be taught, if the job paid well, it was always given to a Han Chinese.

And then all that changed.

All Uyghur children were taught both Uyghur and Chinese. All working age Uyghur were also required to study Chinese, and had to learn to speak Mandarin and read Simplified Chinese (the PRC decided that the standard Chinese characters were too difficult, so they came up with Simplified Chinese, not all that simple, but easier than the older Chinese writing).

And the Uyghur learned, and now they get good jobs and good housing.

Before, a typical Chinese home was one room for what might have been a family with 10 kids. A Han home had no running water, a Uhghur home might not have electricity, and usually had had big holes in the roof, so rain was a big problem.

Today, the Uyghurs have decent, above average jobs and good housing, much larger, than their old homes, no holes, running water and electricity, subsidised heat in winter.

Uyghurs are given jobs picking cotton, a very difficult job to get in China. Most cotton is picked by machine, but there are some very expensive kinds of cotton that must be picked by hand, and this pays very well. Before, such work only went to Han Chinese, but now, most of that work that's in Xinjiang is given to Uyghur people. They also have jobs working on the automatic cotton pickin' machines that pick the vast majority of the cotton.

All the mosques are open, and most of the food in Xinjiang is halal, and for Uyghur who travel outside of Xinjiang, there are lots of halal restaurants where the PRC government checks and makes sure everything is halal.

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Net: Now everyone must speak Mandarin, read and write Simplified Chinese, and the ordinary Chinese (老百姓 lao bai xing), both Han and ethnic minorities,  all live in similar homes.

So one can say that all the minorities in the PRC have been Hanified (foreign barbarians, 洋鬼子 yang gui zi can't tell them apart). 

The ethnic minorities would probably say they can eat what they want, so they don't eat like the Han, they can worship where and how they want, not in the places where the Han worship, so they are not at all like the Han, but it's hard for us foreign barbarians to see the differences.

More Questions about Venezuela????

First I heard that Russia and the PRC have treaties with Venezuela, and that Maduro is largely continuing the policies of Chavez, so most Venezuelans plus Russia and the PRC will all stand with him against the US invading forces, and those US forces will be quickly destroyed. 

Then I heard that Maduro is corrupt, is stealing everything and most of the Venezuelan people are against him, that he has stolen $billions from the PRC and they want rid of him, that he has annoyed Russia and they want rid of him, and if Trump sends those 18,000 US troops into Venezuela, they'll have an easy victory.

Then I heard that many Venezuelans are volunteering for the militia to fight off any invasion.

There are so many contradictions on the various interviews of 'experts' (one-at-a-time interviews) on Venezuela who contradict each other (but they can't defend themselves against another interview of which they are not even aware), that it is very hard, without going to Venezuela and spending a year or two there, for me to have any idea what's really going on.

So I'm waiting for Trump or Rubio to order the all-out attack to see what happens.

One program I watched said that having the US Aircraft Carrier Battle Group off the coast of Venezuela is costing $1 billion a day, but the US$ is the World Key Currency, so the US can just keep printing 1 billion of those dollars every day, and the world have no choice to to accept them all, so not a problem.

Where is Venezuela?

First, I read about Venezuela under Chavez, who somehow got elected in 1998 when the US were not paying attention, then took office in 1999 and nationalised just about everything, and started giving all the money formerly taken by US corporations to the Venezuelan people.

The US would not stand for this, so the US military went into Venezuela in 2022 and arrested Chavez, but the Venezuelan people freed him two days later, and Chavez remained president of Venezuela until his death in 2013.

Then Maduro took over. And that's where the history gets very complicated.

One need not be a US puppet to be corrupt. The puppet governments of US neo-colonies let the US take everything, but the US pay them with money and weapons, so they live very well (and they even get visas so they can visit the US and buy stuff in expensive US shops). But some non-US puppets take all the money formerly going to US oligarchs and keep it all for themselves, so the US and the citizens of their own country join forces to e remove them from power. After which, the ordinary citizens would like a government like the Chavez government, but they get a US neo-colonial government that robs them of just about everything (but since the corrupt government was already robbing them, the ordinary citizens haven't really lost anything).

I have heard that Maduro kept things much like they were under Chavez, but I have also heard that Maduro is corrupt and most Venezuelans are now as impoverished as they would be under a US neo-colonial government, so if the US marches in and arrests Maduro, no one will free him from goal and return him to the presidency, but they will figure they'll be no worse off under the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Corina Machado than under Maduro. I also heard that the PRC have found Maduro corrupt, and that he stole the money they gave him. So, unlike Chavez, Maduro has no support from the Venezuelan people, and also no support from the PRC, so he'll be a very easy target for removal.

I have also heard that Maduro has given the US everything they asked for, that he returned all the Venezuelan oil to the US oil companies that are the rightful owners of all the oil on earth, so why remove him? But I understand that the US are still determined to remove him because he was 'friends with Chavez' and they'd prefer the Nobel Laureate Machado, so just giving back all the oil to American oil companies wasn't enough for Maduro to remain in power.

Net: I thought I had a pretty good idea of what is happening in Venezuela, and what was likely to happen, but now I have absolutely no idea.

Where in the heck is Monroe and his Doctrine????

Starting in 1823, the US tried to claim all the Western Hemisphere as a US neo-colony. Of course, in 1823, the US was too weak to challenge the UK outside the US, and had barely managed to get the UK to stop conscripting US citizens as sailors for the UK fleet in 1814. But, thanks to high tariffs, which the US called 'fair trade' as opposed to letting the UK flood US markets for manufactured products with what the UK called 'free trade', US industry was growing, slowly but steadily. So the US Navy was also growing, and by 1900, was at parity with the UK Navy.

By the 20th century, much of Latin America were US neo-colonies, with the US giving a small group lots of weapons and enough money they were happy to take over the government of their own country and then do whatever the US asked them to do, the most famous of which was providing the US with lots of very, very cheap bananas that were sold as cheap bananas in the US and still made the neo-Imperialist American banana importers rich. If one reads Ayn Rand, she also talks about the US getting lots of Latin American copper very cheaply, at great profit to the American companies that mined the copper, paying the Latin American labourers minimal wages (but decent payments to the citizens of the country who were running the country as a good US neo-colony).

But then came WWI and WWII, after which the European powers were all destroyed and weak, and the US became the Western Hegemon, with only the USSR, the Eastern Hegemon, as a serious military rival.

So the US made all the NATO nations into neo-colonies. The USSR suggested that Germany be re-unified like Austria, as a neutral, demilitarised nation, but the US said, 'NO! West Germany will be part of NATO, heavily armed to defend against Soviet aggression,' so the USSR made East Germany a member of the Warsaw Pact (formed as a reaction to NATO, but described in my history and geography books as preceding NATO and forcing the US to create NATO to stop the Warsaw Pact from annexing all the rest of Europe plus the UK).

And then the USSR collapsed, and the US became World Hegemon. Most of the Warsaw Pact were absorbed into NATO, including the Baltics, formerly unwilling parts of the USSR, forced into the USSR by Stalin during WWII.

So the US, as World Hegemon, started attacking countries for reasons not altogether clear. The nations attacked did not seem like serious threats to the US. Noriega said he did everything the US told him to do, but the US still invaded Panamá, killed a lot of Panamanians, and sentenced Noriega to Life in Solitary Confinement in the worst cell in the gaol, for reasons no one knows.

Meanwhile, the PRC had a falling out with the USSR. Britain and France had drawn all the International Boundaries in Eurasia and Africa, and the USSR figured the UK/French-drawn boundary between the USSR and the PRC was too far to the north, while the PRC figured the UK/French boundary was too far to the south.

So the PRC ping-pong team, at a tournament in Japan, invited the US team to come to the PRC. The US team asked, were told they could and should go, so they went.

And then Nixon went to the PRC and made a deal with Mao: the US would start moving factories to the PRC where the labour would be much cheaper than in the US, and the PRC would see how much better Capitalism works than Communism.

So now the nominal PRC economy is about half the nominal American economy, but at PPP, the PRC economy is about 25% larger. And the PRC is the world's biggest exporter, exporting about 25% of all the world's exports at PPP (much less in nominal terms), and rising rapidly (from about 0% when the ping-pong team and then Nixon went to the PRC).

So the PRC now exports a lot to Latin America and imports a lot from Latin America. Venezuela is a significant source of PRC energy imports. And the PRC does not want the US to make Venezuela into a US neo-colony under a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has promised to return Venezuela to a pure, unadulterated US neo-colony, with the locals getting paid nothing or next to nothing to do all the work to produce and send cheap oil and minerals (and bananas?) to the US.

And Russia, for reasons probably related to the Cuban Missile Crisis, have also sent lots of weapons to Venezuela.

So what happens now? WWIII anyone???

Are the Times a'Changin'?

 It was in the 11th century that the Normans started using sailing ships.

Before that, ships were galleys, with lots of oarsmen. The ships had sails, but the sails could only be used when the ship was sailing in the same direction that the wind was blowing. With an East wind, the ship could sail West. If the ship wanted to sail west and the wind was not an East wind, they used the oarsmen.

But the Norman ships were full of knights, with all their armour, and their horses, and no room for oarsmen (who have to be fed and given potable water, which takes a lot of space). So, in 1066, the Normans had to wait until they had an East wind and could sail West to England. While they were waiting, the English Army ran out of food, so a lot of the soldiers went back to their farms to tend their crops and livestock and replenish the English munitions. And then the winds shifted, and the Normans sailed across the channel and defeated the English.

Of course, when Richard Coeur de Lion sailed to Palestine to fight the Saracens, he eventually ran out of munitions and tried to sail back, but the winds were unfavourable, and he never made it (except in some Disney movies where he got back just in time to save Robin Hood from the Sheriff of Nottingham).

But then, in the 15th century, the Italians figured out how to make the first sailing ships that could sail into the wind. One cannot sail due East into an East wind, but one can sail northeast by north or southeast by south and tack to make it to one's destination. No need for oarsmen, so lots of room for passengers and cargo.

So Europe managed to conquer just about the entire world and became the richest, most advanced continent (since they managed to destroy the civilisations that had been doing OK before the Europeans arrived with their ships and marines and armies and canons, and generally defeated most of Asia, Africa, the Antipodes, and the Americas).

But then in 1914, a Serb shot an Archduke, and the only thing the Europeans could think of was to have a massive War of Attrition. The US knew England and France, and not much more about Europe, so they loaned Britain and France a lot of money to pursue the war. Britain and France were losing, and the US banks were faced with bankruptcy, so the US declared war on the side of Britain and France, and they managed to win and take every gram of gold from Germany, and also a lot from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

Britain and France didn't really recover from the war, and Russia had become the Soviet Union. Britain and France didn't care much about Russia, but the Soviet Union was terrifying, so they let Germany re-arm to help them stop the USSR. Only, after 5 years, Germany looked too strong, so France and Britain decided to destroy Germany, which had allied with the Soviet Union.

The war pretty much finished off all the European countries, and the US forced them to decolonise, so almost all the world's colonies were gradually freed and some became neo-colonies of their former Imperial powers, while others became neo-colonies of the US.

Only now, a lot of those neo-colonies are revolting against neo-colonialism. And the US intend to put a stop to this: the US intend for the world to remain a bunch of US neo-colonies, only that might be a teeny bit more difficult than it was just a few years ago.

Back to Monroe????

It was US President Monroe who said, in 1823, that the US would control the Western Hemisphere.

Back in 1823, the US were too weak to control the entire Western Hemisphere, but by 1898, the US could and did neo-colonise most of  Latin America.

But things change. Logistics meant the US armed forces had a huge logistical advantage over European armed forces if the US were fighting the Europeans in the Western Hemisphere, an advantage the US used to make most of Latin America into a US neo-colony.

But now, the PRC have the power, but not the interest, to engage in a long war with the US.

The US press say that Xi intends to re-take all of Taiwan before the end of 2027, just about two years away. Not clear what, exactly, Xi actually said or intends, but the Western media want to US to go to war with the PRC, since that will sell lots of newspapers and TV news and get the people who don't trust the mainstream media to pay for podcast news.

The main thing is that the PRC have started buying Venezuelan oil, some of the most sour oil in the world, oil that, before, only the US had the technology to refine, but now the PRC also have the technology to refine, and have built several of the specialised refineries that can refine Venezuelan oil.

So will Xi abide by the requirements of the Monroe doctrine, or will he say the PRC have invested a lot in Venezuelan oil, and intend to have all that they have paid for?

Trump Contradicts Himself. Frequently.

Most US presidents say one thing when they are running, something that they hope will get them elected, no matter how much they hate the idea of America actually doing what they promise the voters, then say something else after the election (let's face it, the US President doesn't do anything, he just gives the orders, like any other CEO, so voters foolishly assume that the US President will give the same orders he promised to give as a candidate, and are then sorely disappointed when he gives the opposite orders).

Trump ran on an America First/Make America Great Again platform, but then he was told, 'You must read the Teleprompter,' and the Teleprompter said, 'I order the US military to go into Syria and transform the evil dictatorship into a Democracy with Freedom and Justice for All.'

So Trump ordered all the US troops out of Syria. Twice.

Then someone had a little chat with Trump, so the third time the Teleprompter said, 'I order US troops into Syria to bring Freedom and Democracy,' Trump said, 'I order US troops into Syria to steal all the oil, so this won't cost US taxpayers 1¢, the US will make a big profit from this.'

So Trump managed to make it through his first term, only to lose his first bid for re-election.

After which, it was President Biden who ordered all US troops out of Afghanistan, an order executed with US Afghan allies clinging to and falling from the US planes leaving Afghanistan that refused to let them board. US troops trying to guard the only airport were killed by a terrorist attack. The withdrawal did not go well, but the Democrat US media all said, 'Biden got the US out of Afghanistan, something every president tried and failed to do for 20 years!' The Republican media all said, 'Biden made a complete mess of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.'

Running for re-election, Trump promised to get the US out of the Ukraine, to stop spending all that money on foreign projects that should instead go to Making America Great Again. After winning, on 19 January 2025, Trump reiterated that the US had to get out of the Ukraine or the cost of the war would destroy the US economy.

But then on 21 January 2025, Trump said the US would make sure that Russia left the Ukraine or the US would destroy Russia.

What happened? Obviously, the men in dark suits, dark glasses, and carrying dark briefcases (and no telling what's in those briefcases) had another little talk with Trump, and explained that abandoning the Ukraine to Russia was not an option, unless Trump wanted to be the next JFK.

For most of my life, US Presidents have been far more consistent that Trump, consistently wrong for the most part, but at least consistent. 

But Trump keeps changing his course 180º on a rather regular basis.

The US: Mostly anti-Colonialist

In 1823, President Monroe said that the Americas, i.e., the Western Hemisphere, was all American, the European Imperialists had better stay out. The US were not very strong in 1823, but they got stronger and stronger. Spain and Portugal lost most of their Latin American colonies as the US provided Latin American countries with money and weapons to end their status as colonies and become US neo-colonies.

The European Imperialists marched into a country, defeated the military, killed off the rulers, and put a European governor or viceroy as resident Head of State, and with the European Imperialist Head of State as the ultimate Head of State. They also put in a government with all the top officials Europeans.

The US gave money and weapons to a small group so they could overthrow the European Imperialists and make one of themselves the Head of State, with members of the group holding all the senior government positions, and the country was, officially, a free, independent nation. But, if the government did not do everything the US wanted, that government would be overthrown and replaced with a government of Citizens of the country who would do what the US wanted. Meaning (mostly) the US got all the bananas for the cost of good pay for the group forming the government and not much for anyone else, so the overwhelming majority of the citizens of the country were very poor, but the small, select group the US put in to run the country,  all Citizens of the country they were running, got paid fairly well. This is neo-colonialism. No American was in the government, no American was named governor or viceroy or got a senior position in the government, the American agent just told them what they had to do if they wanted to remain as rulers of their own country and get paid very well, i.e., whatever the US told them to do.

The US raged against colonialism for 75 years, but then in 1898, someone told the US President McKinley that every Great Country must have colonies, so the US declared War on Spain and took all the Spanish Colonies and made them US Colonies. They killed off all the colonials who resisted colonialism, and killed, by mistake, people who were not even resisting, but at least no one could say the US was still a minor power because they had no colonies.

The US rapidly decided that it really didn't like Imperialism, and 'freed' the Philippines and Cuba, going back to having them as US neo-colonies, with the governments all native citizens of the Philippines and Cuba (for as long as those governments did whatever the US told them to do).

But then Castro took over Cuba, and got enough support from the USSR that the US did not overthrow the Cuban government, they just embargoed Cuban products. Cuba's economy was mostly selling sugar and cigars, and, since the US was closest, it was easiest to sell just about all the Cuban sugar and cigars to the US. With the US market cut off by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, Cuba had a hard time for a few months, but then the world discovered a cheap source of good sugar and great cigars, and started buying from Cuba until the US put up a blockade (many years later) and pretty much killed the Cuban economy.

(Plus the US uses a US military base in Cuba to imprison all the terror suspects that can't be legally tried in a US mainland court.)

For some reason, the US still has a few colonies, but the grimy details of exactly why they still have colonies when they say they don't want them isn't clear.

In any case, the fierce US antipathy toward Colonialism meant almost all of it ended after WWII, with only a few places still colonies (but lots of places are now neo-colonies, mostly US neo-colonies). 

Finishing off Russia, and then…

The US/UK/EU leadership all know that Russia is not much of a threat. All of the US/UK/EU news media reliably report that the illegal and unprovoked Russian invasion force that attacked the Ukraine has been almost completely destroyed, while (according to the always completely reliable Ukrainian media), only about 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded.

Russian propaganda has AI photos of the Russian returning thousands of Ukrainian dead while the Ukrainians have only returned a few hundred Russian dead, but just because the Ukraine do not bother preserving the bodies of the invaders doesn't mean they weren't killed and the bodies disposed of.

So the US figures that, with all the EU terrified of Russia, and for good reason if you read Mein Kampf about how terrible all the Slavs are, the US can provide the Europeans with the weapons they need to cleanse Europe of all the Slavs who once led the evil Soviet Dictatorship and were a menace to World Peace.

The good Ukrainian Aryans taking over the Ukrainian government and expelling all the Slavs from the government were doing the Right Thing to make the Ukraine a true Democracy, since no nation can be a true Democracy if even one Slav is allowed to be in the government.

After taking over the Ukrainian government (with a lot of help from the US, organised by Victoria Nuland) the Aryans knew they had to start the important project of ethnically cleansing the Ukraine of all Slavs, and, of course, they are very grateful to Presidents Obama and Biden for providing the help they needed to expel all Slavs from the government, and then provided the weapons, training, and intelligence they needed to complete the essential ethnic cleansing that will eventually leave absolutely no evil Slavs in the Ukraine, but only good Aryans and a few Jews. The Ukrainian Aryans can't possibly be considered Nazis, except in Russian propaganda, since they allow Jews, and the definition of a Nazi is someone who dislikes Jews and tried to kill all the Jews. Some people who fought with the Wehrmacht in WWII got standing ovations in Canada since they had killed lots of evil Slavs, but not a single Jew.

International Law say that only the ethnic cleansing of Jews is illegal. Also, the legal definition of genocide is killing all or part of a recognised religious-ethnic group, so killing even one Zionist Jew is genocide under International Law, while the Zionist Jews killing every Arab in West Asia is not genocide but just self-defence.

So the US/UK/EU are hoping that, with more shipments of better NATO weapons, the Ukrainians will easily prevail over the evil Russians, whose worst crime was not just invading the Ukraine, but stealing all the US oil in Russia. 

All that oil belongs to America, and Russia stealing it then selling it is one of the most heinous crimes ever committed. Saddam and Qaddafi were both executed for that exact same heinous crime, and the whole world is hoping Putin will be next, and very soon, and all that oil will be returned to the rightful owners, US oiligarchs.

And when that happens, the world will be very grateful to all those Ukrainian Aryans.

What to do now?????

The Russian military seem to have taken a small additional area of the Ukraine, and are claiming that they can easily take all of the Ukraine, but they are willing to stop with just 5 oblasts, none of which they completely control, all of which have most of their citizens desperate to be rid of the murderous Russian war criminals.

All the US/UK/EU media rely on the Ukraine to report what is really happening in the Ukraine, and they tell us that the Russians have lost millions of their soldiers, sent to die by Putin in his totally unprovoked invasion. The Ukraine tell us that they have only lost about 50,000 soldiers, but the Russians have killed millions of Ukrainians, almost all unarmed civilians the Russians found undefended in villages like Bucha.

The Western media all report that the massacre in Bucha has been irrefutably confirmed to be true, and anyone who says otherwise is just swallowing Russian propaganda: it is proven that Russia murdered all the villagers who were living in Bucha!

The Western media reiterate that Russia thought they could take all of the Ukraine in a few days, not knowing that NATO had supplied the Ukraine with the most advanced (non-nuclear) NATO weapons, while the Russians only had Soviet weapons from WWII and Czarist weapons from WWI that the Russians had patched with parts from washing machines, but those mostly home-appliance-parts weapons systems were no match for the ultra-advanced NATO weapons that had been supplied to the Ukraine and have completely destroyed almost the entire Russian invasion force, but only 'almost', so NATO need to give the Ukraine a lot more money and weapons or there is a chance that Russia could win the war, a chance NATO must not take, since that would be worse than Chamberlain at Munich.

It's a good story, with a happy ending, and it is constantly repeated in all the Western mainstream media, along with the warning that everything else is just Russian Propaganda.

Farming, then and now

In the US about 110 years ago, farmers used oxen and/or horses to pull the plow. They had some tools to help with planting, fertilising, and harvesting. Farms for crops couldn't be very large since there was only so much a farmer could do with a few oxen or horses. Of course, farms for cattle could be huge, since the cattle farmer could manage a lot of cattle and needed lots of grass for those cattle.

In China, only the richest farmers could afford an ox (they used both male and female oxen, used mainly for helping with the farming, pulling the plow or turning the pump that watered the crops). Most Chinese farmers had to do everything manually with primitive tools, so work was backbreaking and production was limited. Farms for livestock were few, most Chinese only got meat for Chinese New Year, if then.

In the US, about 50 years ago, most farmers had tractors to do the plowing and help with planting and fertilising. This meant farms for crops could be larger than with oxen or horses since a tractor could do much more than a team of oxen or horses. Farms for livestock got smaller, since the livestock were mostly fed packaged feed and kept from moving around much so they'd fatten up quicker than walking around looking for grass.

In China, not much had changed.

I saw a video about a modern American farmer, a rather elderly man, who took a book with him and got into his tractor, which had a compartment for a human driver that had A/C for hot weather and a heater for cold weather, and maybe space for a passenger/companion for the driver, but the driver wasn't really needed, the tractor could do everything all by itself, but, having had to drive a tractor for many years, sometimes the old farmer just liked to get in his modern, fully automatic tractor and ride as it did the plowing, planting, fertilising,  harvesting, and just about everything else that needed to be done to raise the crops for which it was designed.

And now the Chinese farmers have similar or even better tractors. The job of the modern farmer is to sit in the control room for the farm and push the appropriate buttons, turn the appropriate knobs, and type the appropriate commands into the computer that is running the farm, and this is true in the US and the PRC.

Both the PRC and India have packed about 1.4 billion people into a tiny area, both countries have only one time zone, so about a quarter the size of the CONUS (well, actually the PRC and Indian time zones are somewhat larger than a US time zone, but still, only one time zone in each country, while Russia have 11 time zones and the United States have a total of 6).

The PRC now have enough money to buy a lot of their food from countries that sell food cheaply, so that includes the US on and off, depending on what obstacles the US government put in that help or hurt the US farmers (who don't have all that many votes, so what they want isn't a top US government priority). The PRC is looking at Brazil, the Antipodes, Africa, just about anywhere they can buy food. Meat is everywhere. I saw a Chinese character that wasn't in my 1990 Oxford Chinese-English Dictionary, the character 串 (chuàn) which now, on a restaurant sign, means kebab, and there are a lot of kebab shops in China now, something that wasn't there in 1990. The character originally meant, 'string together' and someone decided that a kebab means that someone will string together some meat to make the kebab.

The Chinese oxen were tiny, bred to eat as little as possible, so the cows produce barely enough milk for the calves. So, fifty years ago, China had no dairy products. Now, there is milk in the PRC, not a lot of it since older Chinese never had it before, and figure it is mostly for children. Just 50 years ago, most PRC children had barely enough to eat and no dairy, so not much calcium or protein. So one thing I notice is how much taller the younger Chinese adults are than the older Chinese. 

Twenty years ago, pizza had just gotten to China. It was too expensive for most Chinese, but the upper class Chinese wanted to show me their pizza back then.

Now, ordinary Chinese can afford pizza, and like things like durian pizza, which is an acquired taste, and is preferably eaten when one has a bad cold, since durian can have a rather strong 'aroma' (to use the polite term).

Quite the change in farming over the last 50 years in the US and the PRC, but the change is much more noticeable in the PRC. In the US, farmers went from old tractors that the farmer had to drive to modern tractors that drive themselves, while Chinese farmers went from mostly manual farming to tractors as advanced, or even more advanced than those used by modern American farmers.

Is the PRC really the top economy????

If one accepts the PRC official size of the economy, in 元·and converts that to US$, the PRC economy is around $18 trillion, or a little more than about half the size of the US economy.

However, at PPP, the PRC economy is about 30% larger than the US economy.

How can that be when most of those in the PRC are farmers, farming a tiny plot with primitive implements?

Which was certainly true when Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth in the 1920s. When the rains failed, many died of starvation.

In 2001, the PRC still had a lot of farmers. The Chinese governments had always designated most citizens as 'farmers' who were supposed to farm, since the Chinese governments were afraid of famines coming because the PRC didn't have enough farmers working to provide a margin of safety in case of droughts or floods that reduced crop output, but actually, most of the work was done by electric machines that greatly reduced the manpower requirement. I saw many farmers, forced to be farmers by government policies, sitting around playing cards while the machines did most of the work that had once meant all day, every day of backbreaking labour that, in bad years, produced less food than the calories required to produce it. Not any more! By 2001, 90% of farmers had electricity and electric machines to do a lot of the work (I was unable to make it up to places high in the remote mountains where the Chinese government was still unable to provide electricity.)

And those farmers, forced to sit on their farms with not much to do, managed to sneak off and work in towns, in factories and offices and universities. They had to pay a penalty for not being at their farm every day, and they resented that, but their jobs paid enough they could afford the penalty for not being on the farm.

That was 20 years ago. Now those farm have almost no farmers, machines do all the work.

The US regularly reports of the poor Uyghur slaves in Xinjiang who have to pick cotton, just like American slaves before 1865. And here's a photo of one of those poor slaves hard at work:

 

As anyone can see, those slaves have a very hard life picking cotton: "When dem cotton balls get rotten you can't pick very much cotton in dem old, cotton fields back in Xinjiang."

(Actually, the PRC does have some people who pick cotton by hand, it's a very expensive kind of cotton that is not suitable for machine harvesting, and it is not very easy to get one of the very high-paying jobs picking that expensive cotton; I understand that, 30 years ago, all those high-paying cotton-picking jobs went to Han Chinese, the once favoured majority ethnic group before equal rights suddenly made their way into the Chinese government leadership, so now most of those jobs go to the Uyghurs who are the majority of the population of Xinjiang.)

Some farms are full of greenhouses producing strawberries all winter long. Also automated.

And one can see the sad state of how the poor Chinese have to get around:

 

So life is very hard in the PRC, having to go out and look for rickshaws to get around, like the ones provided by that rickshaw outlet in the photo (I believe the owner of that rickshaw factory is German, as is the name, but the rickshaws are produced in the PRC with some of the parts formerly shipped to the PRC from Germany before Germany lost access to cheap energy and had to move most of the German production to other countries).

How to rank economies, Part II

I posted on a chat session that Russia now has the largest economy in Europe at PPP, and the response was that Russia is about the smallest economy in Europe, which it is if one counts the total rubles produced and converts to US$. But, since prices are much lower in Russia than in the EU, the Russian economy is the largest in Europe at PPP.

Likewise, measured in US$, the PRC economy is about half the US economy, but at PPP the PRC economy is about 30% larger than the US economy.

So the US notes that the PRC are desperate for oil and gas.

The US ordered that no one could buy any Iranian oil or gas in 1980, and no one did until 2021. Now the PRC buys just about all the Iranian oil and gas, and most of the Venezuelan oil and gas, plus about half of the Russian oil and gas.

The US figure it will be very easy to put the recent Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in as Jefa de Venezuela, and she has promised that, once she is La Jefa, all the oil in Venezuela will be returned to the rightful owners, the US oiligarchs (in exchange for a very reasonable fee paid directly to La Jefa). The PRC might be able to buy some, but the price will be much higher than they've been paying.

Iran is up for a new war to replace the Ayatollah with a Shah who will guarantee that all Iranian oil belongs to the US and UK. Again, the PRC might be able to buy some, not very much, and at a much higher price.

And the US have asked Japan to help make Taiwan an independent country (and still the legal leaders of the Republic of China, not the PRC).

And since all the US/UK/EU news report that the Ukraine are about to defeat Russia and then NATO will break Russia up into 20 small, demilitarised countries with all resources handed over to US oiligarchs as war reparations (with 1% going to the Ukrainian government), the PRC will have a hard time buying Russian oil and will have to pay an outrageous price for it.

The top US experts all agree that this is a Great Plan and it is proceeding apace, and the US hope for total victory over Russia and the PRC in the very near future.

Of course, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, and the PRC have other plans, but what can they do against the might of the US that so easily defeated Vietnam and Afghanistan (better stick to Grenada, Panamá, Serbia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria).

PPP???

Measuring economies can be very easy, but many figure the easy way is wrong. All countries worth measuring do their best to count all sales and purchases, so they can tax them, So we have the total sales and the total purchases, always a little bit off since the people counting don't manage to count everything correctly, when we know that total purchases have to equal total sales. So we take some number, maybe the average, maybe just sales, maybe just purchases, maybe a weighted average, and we get the total economy in the local currency, and there are official translations from every (significant) currency to every other (significant) currency. So we put the result for every economy in US$ or € or £, (or whatever) and we have a number for every economy worth measuring that allows us to rank all the economies of the world.

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Now consider two mythical islands. Both have crops and livestock, both build houses and boats and go fishing, but the fishing boats can't make it from one island to the4 other. Both use a rare, exotic, rather beautiful shell as currency, but one island has exactly twice as many of those shells as the other island. In New York City, the shells, no matter from which island, are worth $1, but on the island with twice as many shells, homes, boats, pounds of fruit and veggies and meat and fish cost twice as many shells. Both islands produce the exact same amount of everything, but one island has an economy worth twice as many US$ as the other island.

So, since both islands produce the exact same quantity and quality of everything, the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) economies for the two islands are exactly the same, even though the US$ value of one economy is twice as much as the other, because they both produce exactly the same total outputs.

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Of course, in real life, we never have two economies like the two islands, both producing exactly the same quantity and quality of stuff, but one paying twice as much for it. So, in real life, the PPP economy is somewhat subjective, depending on how one counts things. Do any two real islands produce the exact same quantity of food, housing, boats, and fish? Probably not in real life. And are all prices exactly twice as many shells? Again, probably not.

So the final calculation of PPP is not so easy, and is always subject to question.

How much longer does Maduro have?

President Trump has closed Venezuelan air space. The New York Times, a big fan of Trump, says he can't actually do that. All direct flights to Venezuela, like direct flights to Russia, are prohibited, so no planes have been going from the US to Venezuela to suddenly have their flights cancelled.

Small, regional carriers have several hundred flights still scheduled to fly to or from Venezuela in December.

Not clear what Trump will do next.

The Monroe Doctrine says Venezuela, being a part of the Americas, belongs to the US, so Russia and other countries had better stay out (Russia still has diplomatic ties and treaties with Venezuela, as does the country buying all the Venezuelan oil, being the only country, other than the US, with refineries that can process the very sour Venezuelan crude).

So it is looking like whoever is really running the US of A is having Trump threaten military action against Venezuela in order to replace the evil dictator Maduro with the democratic winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Raising such questions as, 'What friends does Maduro have that would have the temerity to violate the Monroe Doctrine???? And what horrible things will the US do to those friends if they dare to help Maduro after the US have decided to get rid of him?'

 

Note (for whatever it's worth): Logistics change. In 1800, the UK had a 2+1 Navy, meaning that, if the nations with the 2nd and 3rd strongest navies allied against the UK, the UK Navy could defeat both of them. But by 1900, the US had a Navy that, while they could not challenge the UK in the Eastern Hemisphere, were more than a match for the UK in the Western Hemisphere, so the UK and US decided the US would dominate the entire Western Hemisphere and the UK would dominate the entire Eastern Hemisphere. WWI and WWII left the UK broke and unable to have a 2+1 Navy, or even a decent medium-size Navy. They could take on the Argentina Navy, with permission from the US, but that was about the limit of the power of what had been a 2+1 Navy. And that logistics that made the US the unquestionable master of the Western Hemisphere might have changed again. I guess we'll see rather soon if Venezuela has any friends that will stick around when the shooting starts inside Venezuela, given that one of those friends desperately need Venezuela oil.

Off to the Races

As a boy, I was taught that humans are divided into 5 races. In alphabetical order, Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow, with Black representing Africa, Brown representing South and West Asia, Red for the Indigenous People of the Americas, White for Europe, and Yellow for East Asia. 

I have spoken to some East Asians, and they consider themselves The Yellow People. Africans consider themselves Black. I'm pretty sure that West Asians and South Asians accept that they are Brown. Europeans consider themselves White. The History Books tell us that the Europeans, having divided the world into White, Black, Brown, and Yellow, wanted a different colour for the Indigenous Americans, and asked one of them who said his tribe considered themselves Red, a view not accepted by most Indigenous Americans, but the colour Red stuck with the Europeans. Calling the Indigenous Americans 'Red' is a big point of contention, while the other four races pretty much accept the colours assigned to them.

But then the German National Socialists said that Europeans are not a single Race that could be called 'White', they are three very distinct races, Aryan, Jewish, and Slav, and many of the Europeans who consider themselves to be Aryans want a Europe that is only Aryan with no Jews and no Slavs.

There is an old story set in WWII (not clear when it really started). A young German SS officer sent to separate the Aryans from the Slavs and Jews in Poland asked, 'How can we tell Aryans from Slavs and Jews? All look the same, and all speak multiple languages.' An older SS officer said, 'Follow me and learn!'

The two SS officers went into a shop, and the older SS officer asked, 'Do you have any left-handed teapots?'

The shopkeeper said, 'There is no such thing as a left-handed teapot.'

The senior SS officer said, 'He is a Slav. Send him to a Concentration Camp and close this shop.' And it was done.

The senior SS officer led them into a second shop and asked, 'Do you have any left-handed teapots?'

The shopkeeper said, 'Dummkopf! You can take any right-handed teapot, turn it one hundred eighty degrees, and it is a left-handed teapot.'

The senior SS officer said, 'He is an Aryan. He gets to keep his shop and also gets the shop of the Slav.'

They went into a third shop, and the senior SS officer asked, 'Do you have any left-handed teapots?'

The shopkeeper whispered, 'Yes, but they are very rare, and I only have one, and it is very expensive, I have to charge you twenty times as much as for a right-handed teapot.'

The senior SS officer said, 'He is obviously a Jew. Send him to the Concentration Camp and give his shop to the Aryan.'

This story has nothing to do with the differences between Aryans, Slavs, and Jews, and everything to do with how the Nazis viewed what they considered to be Aryans, Slavs and Jews.

This was a historical feature of Europe that I thought ended in 1945. Silly me. A minority of Ukrainians consider themselves Aryans, and would like to rid the Ukraine of all Slavs. They were told that the US/UK/EU will help them get rid of the Slavs provided that they accept and protect the Jews, and the Ukrainians who consider themselves Aryans agreed.

And here we are.

According to the US/UK/EU mainstream media, the Ukraine are easily defeating the Slavs in Ukraine and the Slavs attacking from the USSR, where 'R' stands for Russian. Victory is now very close, and a great improvement in the Ukraine, and the American resources in Russia that were being stolen by the Russian Slavs will soon be returned to the rightful owners, American oiligarchs.

I Was Just Following Orders???

In Vietnam, on 16 March 1968, a Company of US Army soldiers killed between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children, and elderly men (no one is sure of the exact number) at My Lai.

The US soldiers said they'd been in a fierce fight with the Viet Cong, but in November, 1969, Seymore Hersh wrote that the Company of US soldiers had killed unarmed civilians who were no threat to the soldiers. 

After most accepted the Hersh version as accurate, the US Army declared this a war crime and held a few men responsible. Twenty six were tried, but only Lieutenant Calley was found guilty, sentenced to Life in Prison, held (more or less) under House Arrest for three and a half years, then released after his sentence was commuted.

US soldiers are now taught that they must never obey illegal orders, like the one given to kill those unarmed Vietnamese civilians.

Raising the question: have US servicemen been given illegal orders to kill unarmed fishermen off the coast of Latin America?

Officially, the answer is, 'Not at all. Those are heavily armed drug dealers, carrying cargoes of illegal drugs that kill millions of Americans every year, and they must be stopped. Since we have irrefutable proof that they are heavily armed drug traffickers, orders to kill them are legal orders that must be obeyed!'

Some ask, 'Can we see the proof that they are heavily armed drug traffickers?' Obviously, a ridiculous question, all that information is Classified TS/SCI/NOFORN/BBR, so it can never be revealed to anyone without a TS/SCI/NOFORN/BBR Clearance and a Need to Know. And all those people say they have seen the proof and it is irrefutable, so those orders were absolutely legal and must be obeyed.

Those who have not seen that Classified Proof keep saying those men might have been just fishermen, there is no proof they were armed or carrying illegal drugs, and even if they were armed and carrying illegal drugs, the appropriate action would have been to stop the boats (an armoured military vessel could have approached the boats without risking the lives of the sailors inside the vessel), then, from inside the armoured boat, demanded to see if the men on the boats had any weapons, and, if they had weapons and refused to throw all weapons overboard, then it would have been legal to kill them all, but not to kill them all by bombing or shelling them without any inspection, but that's not how the US military, the most advanced and reliable and law-abiding military the world has ever seen, deals with heavily armed terrorists carrying drugs that kill millions of Americans every year.

And everyone should know that the American military would never tell a lie about having irrefutable proof that all those killed were all heavily armed terrorists carrying tonnes of illegal drugs that kill millions of Americans every year.

More to the point, of course, is that in 1999, Hugo Chávez stole all the American oil in Venezuela and squandered the money on the ordinary Venezuelan people (the US had been paying the government of Venezuela a lot of money to let US oil and banana companies take all the oil and bananas they wanted). Venezuelan oil is very sour, and the only refineries that could process it were in the US, plus one set up by a US firm in Venezuela. Of course, after Chávez stole the oil, the US stopped refining it or maintaining the refinery in Venezuela, which soon stopped working.

In 2002, the US overthrew the illegal Chávez regime for two whole days, until the Venezuelan military freed Chávez and restored him to power until his death in 2013, after which Maduro took over as Dictator of Venezuela and continued to claim that all that American oil belonged to the Venezuelan people.

As it happens, there are now two countries that can process Venezuelan crude, and, for reasons that escape us all, a third country, Russia, say they are allied with Venezuela, so both Russia and the nation that is buying and refining just about all the Venezuelan oil (and paying for it) are in egregious violation of the Monroe Doctrine, and both must be stopped.

The US plan to make the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize the legal Venezuelan Head of State and she got her Peace Prize for saying that every drop of oil in Venezuela belongs to the rightful owners, US oiligarchs.

So all decent people hope she becomes the Venezuelan Head of State ASAP.

Holodomor (or less)

The official Soviet version of the Holodomor is that Stalin put a strict Communist in charge of agriculture, and, while he knew Communism very well, he had no knowledge of agriculture, so Soviet agricultural production fell drastically, and many Soviets starved to death all over the USSR.

The Western Ukrainian version of the Holodomor was that the Russians stole all the Ukrainian food, and millions of Ukrainians starved to death.

Only the Western part of the Russian Empire was lost to Germany in 1917 during WWI, then Germany lost, but Britain, France, and the US all hated the USSR, so Britain and France took the lands lost by Russia during the war, plus lots of German land and a huge chunk of what had been the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and redrew the map of Europe, forming countries with multiple ethnic groups, multiple languages, all weak and divided, easily controlled by France and the UK, and unable to pose any kind of threat to France or the UK.

One old story was:

'I was born in Austria. I went to school in Poland. I got my first job in the Soviet Union. And I retired in the Ukraine.'

'Oh, you must have done a lot of travelling.'

'I never left the village where I was born.'

Of course, there was no Austria before the end of WWI, Austria was formed as a small country after WWI out of a tiny bit of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and he was more likely Hungarian than Austrian, since large parts of Western Ukraine still speak Hungarian and have Hungarian signs and the people wear Hungarian-style clothes.

So the people who most rabidly denounce the Holodomor as something perpetrated on the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine by the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia were in Poland during the Holodomor, but were annexed by Stalin during WWII, when he took back all of West Russia that had been taken in 1917 by Germany, plus bits of what had been the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Germany, and all were part of the USSR until the USSR broke up in 1991.

The final Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukraine was put together by Stalin and Khrushchev, and had large chunks of what had been the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia added to ensure that the final Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine had many different ethnic groups that don't like each other, making it easier to govern.

Now that the USSR is gone, those ethnic groups aren't all that happy together, and some want to be part of Russia, while others would love to help the US break Russia up into 20 small, unarmed countries with all those Russian energy resources returned to the rightful owners, US/UK/EU oiligarchs (but mostly US oiligarchs), for which they have been promised generous payment on the successful completion of this task.

Don't Know Much about History

 On Sunday, the New York Times writer Thomas L. Friedman wrote that Trump is another Chamberlain.

Churchill was a prolific historian, he wrote very well, and made himself the hero of WWI and WWII, and maybe a few more wars I forgot about. Of course, his histories are not altogether accurate.

In 1917, the Czar of the Russian Empire resigned and Russia capitulated to Germany, agreeing that Western Russia would become part of Germany.

With Russia gone, things were looking very bad for the UK and France, but the US banks had figured, from 1914 to 1917, that the UK and France were, by far, the strongest nations on earth and sure to win, so they loaned them a lot of money to use in WWI, and it looked like the banks would have to write off all those loans to the UK and France, making many major US banks insolvent, which was something the US could not allow, so they entered the war against Germany and were enough to let the Allies win WWI, and then in 1919, Germany had to agree to the Treaty of Versailles: they must totally disarm, give up the Russian lands ceded by Russia (but not back to Russia, to the UK and France to do with whatever they wanted), and to hand over every bit of German gold as war reparations, so Germany was very weak and impecunious, and no threat to the UK or France. And the US banks got repaid with a lot of interest.

But in 1933, Germany elected a new Chancellor who said Germany must rearm. Churchill said he thundered against such an atrocity: Churchill wrote that he said that if the UK, with all the resources of the British Empire, had demanded that an unarmed Germany must select a Chancellor who would abide by the Treaty of Versailles, Germany would have had no choice but to agree, and and if anyone had listened, WWII could have been avoided without the loss of a single drop of blood.

Only I checked the morgue, and I couldn't find a single speech by Churchill demanding that Germany pick a Chancellor who would abide by the Treaty of Versailles in 1933.

Everyone was scared to death of the USSR, and wanted a rearmed Germany able to put up a feeble effort against the inevitable Soviet invasion of Western Europe, an effort that would get the UK and France enough time to mobilise and stop the Soviet threat.

Then, in 1938, Chamberlain went to France and asked what they should do about Germany. Hitler had re-armed Germany, and released news reels to be shown during movies showing a Great German military, taking hours to march past the cameras filming for the news reels. France said, 'Wait until 1939 when we have our defensive Maginot Line ready, and then the UK and France will be able to easily defeat the Germans with very limited losses.' So Chamberlain signed a faux peace deal with Germany and promised, 'Peace in Our Time!' Fake, of course, so Germany would not attack before the UK and France were ready. Chamberlain agreed (as did France) that Germany could take back bits of Germany taken away after WWI in 1938.

Churchill wrote, and Friedman agrees, that Germany was still very weak in '38, so victory would have been possible with minimal UK-French losses (or the UK alone could have easily defeated Germany). Patently false, but Friedman calls Trump worse than Chamberlain, Russia have lost millions in the Ukraine and are on the edge of total defeat, after which Russia can be broken up into 20 small, unarmed countries, and all Russian assets can be confiscated as war reparations to American oiligarchs.

But Trump's agreeing to give a Russia, that is now almost totally defeated by the Ukrainians, a Russian victory forced upon the Ukrainians by the US, will mean a much stronger Russia in a year or two, so anyone who wants to visit the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben will have to speak Russian to ask the way.

Regime Change in Iran?

Israel and the US want to overthrow the Ayatollah and return the Shah to power. The US did this in '53 after Mossadegh announced, in '51, that he was nationalising all the oil in Iran. The US made the Shah the supreme ruler of Iran and helped him build a pro-Shah force that would keep him as supreme ruler. But then, in '73, the Shah nationalised the Iranian oil, and the US found an Ayatollah who only wanted to force all Iranian women to wear Islamic dress, and who didn't care about Iranian oil.

The Ayatollah the US helped to replace the Shah had all the Americans in the US Embassy in Iran captured and held hostage until '81 after Reagan was elected to replace Carter. But, while the Ayatollah released the US hostages after Carter was removed from office, the Ayatollah never returned the US oil. That Ayatollah died, but his replacement did not return the American oil to the US.

Israel tried to get rid of the Ayatollah, but failed, and need US bombers to destroy Israel, but the US do not seem interested.

It is said the Trump agreed to bomb Iran after Israel threatened to use nukes, so the US bombed the nuclear sites in Iran and Trump said all Iranian nuclear facilities were totally destroyed.

Most experts figure the Iranian nuclear facilities are still there in Iran, the Trump strike did limited damage.

Strictly speaking, no one has made a nuke from scratch without 60 tonnes of uranium. It is said that the US helped Israel get 100 tonnes of uranium, more than enough to build 60 to 200 nukes. No one knows for certain how much uranium Israel has, or how many bombs. Probably enough to totally destroy Iran and leave a radioactive waste where Iran used to be.

The US wanted to get back the Iranian oil so they could sell it, but maybe the US would settle for the complete destruction of all Venezuelan and Iranian oil production, and two new pro-American governments who will give the US complete control over Venezuelan and Iranian energy assets.

And maybe that will work and cut the PRC off from most of the oil they require.

Cursing in China: Beautiful Dog!!!

There is a US comic strip called "Mallard Fillmore" (the name of the duck star of the strip, a name derived from the name of the US president Millard Fillmore), which takes a right-wing, pro-Republican view of politics, and gets about 500 comments every day, fighting between Democrat readers who detest the strip and Republican readers who love the strip. The two groups fight every day, and say as much as they can, given the editorial restriction on the language allowed in comments. (All comments must be written, so the shouting matches are just using lots of ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.)

Which brings me to the PRC, where I can't read the comic strips, all of which are in Chinese, nor can I understand the fierce fights that take place on their mobile phones, with the two sides of a debate I cannot understand screaming at each other.

The 'discussions' frequently degenerate into profanity, and one of the worst curses one can level at an opponent is 'Beautiful dog,' in Chinese 美狗。

I have no idea why this is the case, since I don't understand a word of Chinese, but being around Chinese people, I have to listen to the fierce fights over subjects I do not understand.

Overthrowing China

The US have their sights on Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.

Fifty years ago, most Chinese were farmers, much as described in The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. They had a tiny farm, and had to do everything manually: no tractors, no oxen, primitive tools, they worked hard all day, every day during the growing season. They had to plow, plant, fertilise, water, and harvest by hand, and when the weather was bad, they didn't have enough to eat and some of their children starved to death.

Twenty years ago, electric machines did a lot of the work, there wasn't that much work for the farmers, just one going around to check on the machines and report any malfunctions so a replacement machine could be sent out. The farmers spent most of their time playing cards, and a lot left the farm and went to work in a city factory or office or university.

The farmers who left to work in the city had to pay someone to take their place on the farm since their ID card said, 'Farmer', and the shortages and starvation that had been a feature of Chinese life were indelibly written into the minds of the government workers who figured China needed everyone whose labour card said, 'Farmer' to be farming.

Just 20 years ago, most Chinese residential buildings were single story, with small, one room apartments for the ordinary Chinese, called the Lao Bai Xing (老百姓）, 10% of homes were without electricity, just about all without running water. In northern China, winters were cold, and so was the housing. Maybe they scrimped on food to buy a little coal to burn in the middle of their one-room apartment for heat.

Today, all housing in China has electricity and running water and cheap heat in winter: the coal is burned many kilometers from any city, used to heat water that is sent to the city in insulated pipes, and runs radiators, without any coal smoke in town (and filters on the plants that produce the hot water, so no big cloud of black smoke).

But to maintain their new lifestyle, China need energy, oil, gas, and they still use a lot of coal. More than twice as many cars as any other country. So they need lots of oil and gas, and, after the West refused to buy from Russia, Russia started selling a lot of their energy to China.

And China keeps rising and rising, but all this would stop if China could not buy any energy resources.

So Venezuela is first on the list. Under the Monroe Doctrine, everything in North, Central, and South America belongs to the US, so the US has every right to all Venezuelan oil, which China are buying.

The US imposed a Naval Blockade on Iran in 1980, and would not let anyone buy Iranian oil or gas, and made it difficult for anyone to buy anything else from Iran, or sell anything to Iran.

But, while Iran's economy fell by more than half under the US blockade, Iran grew enough food to feed themselves and made basic medicines, so no problem with common ailments (some people with rare diseases died, but not that many since they were rare diseases for which Iran had no treatment because of the blockade).

But then, in 2021, a fleet of oil tankers came to Iran. The US Navy ships blockading Iran saw that the oil tankers were protected by a larger fleet of Naval ships than the US had, so any engagement would just mean all the US ships at the bottom of the Persian Gulf (always the Arabian Gulf on the West Side, and always the Persian Gulf on the East Side of the Gulf), so the US Navy ships withdrew, and the oil tankers bought and filled up with every drop of Iranian oil that Iran had available to sell. And those tankers and Naval ships keep coming and coming to Iran to buy up all the Iranian oil. So a much stronger reaction is needed, and Israel say they will nuke Iran, making all the oil too radioactive to use, so that will cut off the second of the main sources of Chinese energy.

Then, if we can use the Ukraine to destroy Russia, and return all that Russian oil to the rightful US owners, that will greatly reduce China's energy resources, and should cause a collapse of the Chinese economy, and the US will remain the unquestioned Global Hegemon.

Israel got the US into the Iran war by threatening to use nukes, but Iran is still there, and next time, Israel might destroy Iran with nukes, after which Iranian oil will be too radioactive to use, and China will have lost two of their biggest energy suppliers, and should be on the way to total collapse.

Geography????

The Ancient Greeks said Asia AKA the Orient started at the Hellespont. They also said that all of Asia plus all of Africa were much smaller than Europe. This is because they knew a lot of European cities, but only a few African and Asian cities, and extrapolated from this rather limited information (India was small, just Westernmost India, and China did not exist).

Actually, they calculated the size of Africa by noting that, as one goes further south, it gets hotter, so, as one travels south in Africa, it soon becomes too hot for humans to survive, and then too hot for matter to exist, and that is where the Equator is located (they figured the Earth must be a hemisphere). 

Not clear how they knew where Asia ended, but Alexander spread his Ragtime to Persia and then further east to Westernmost India, and then he died, and the Persians and Indians gave up on Greek music. The Greeks knew that people had gone East from Persia where they saw giant anthills, which one can see in places like White Sands National Park in the US, or in the Arabian and Taklamakan deserts. I've seen those anthills, but the ants were all inside when I was there, which is good, since, according to the ancient Greeks, they're the size of dogs and very fierce and attack and kill the humans who disturb them. In any case, the Greeks knew that a very few of those who managed to go to those anthills came back with lots of gold that they somehow managed to get from the anthills without disturbing the ants (but most of those who went into those deserts never came back alive).

Of course, some would say that the travellers were not altogether honest about their travels, which meant bringing Western goods all the way to India, maybe all the way to the Chinese Empire over the old Emperor's Silk Belt and Road Initiative, selling them those Western goods, using the proceeds to buy silk and maybe some tea, selling the silk and tea for gold, and finally coming back to where they started with lots of gold, but I trust those travellers and I've seen those giant anthills, so I figure they somehow managed to evade the ants and got the gold that way.

In  any case, the Ancient Greeks were the World Hegemon a long time ago. More recently, it was the British, who set 0º Longitude at Greenwich, the obvious Centre of the World when Britain was the World Hegemon. The British figured all of Europe was the West, as did the Ancient Greeks, so the Orient AKA Asia started at the Hellespont, and the westernmost bit of Asia was the Near East.

Then the US became World Hegemon, and figured the UK and Europe were Nearest East, West Asia was Middle East, and, when I was a boy, East Asia was called the Orient in the US. As I recall from geography class, India was just India back then (the Brits broke up India before I was born, but we used old textbooks), but now, of course, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh et al. are South Asia.

So names and geography have changed over the years.

Not clear if the US will ever allow another Hegemon to replace them, since they have nukes, and some, maybe a lot of them, figure having no world at all would be much better than having a world with some nation other than the US as World Hegemon.

One thing I heard about was that, around 1937, Germany had videos to be shown during the News Feature that used to be a standard part of watching a movie, videos that appeared to show a huge German military, and the UK and France said it was just a camera trick, the tiny German Army was just marching in circles with the camera only showing the soldiers and tanks and artillery as they marched past and past and past, so it looked like a huge military when it was only a very few men and tanks and artillery pieces, nothing that could challenge the UK and France, or even just the UK or France.

And one thing I've seen on TV was the Chinese military parade on 3 September 2025, which looked like a huge military, but all the Western experts assure me it was just the Chinese marching their tiny military in circles past the camera: the PRC have absolutely nothing that could possibly challenge the US military.

Victory in the Ukraine

All the mainstream media in the US/UK/EU say that Russia are losing badly in the Ukraine.

Of course, all the people who read and watch and gullibly accept Russian propaganda believe that Russia are winning in the Ukraine.

Judge Napolitano has had guests who say Russia are winning, and many guests who say Russia are losing, the Russian military are losing huge numbers of men, all kept Top Secret by the Soviets, of course, and then the Soviets lie that they are winning in the Ukraine, but the Russian economy was destroyed by US/UK/EU sanctions,, The whole Russian economy is based on selling oil to Europe and using the money to buy everything Russia need from Europe, and now that Europe are not buying any Russian oil or selling hamburgers and clothes and shoes and dishwashers and everything else Russians need, Russians have nothing, they are using washing machine parts to run their tanks that have all been destroyed by the advanced NATO weapons given to the Ukraine, even though more than half those weapons were sold by the Ukraine and they pocketed the money, the Ukrainian military are still easily defeating the Russians with the weapons they didn't sell but used to totally destroy the Russian military armed with WWII and Czarist weapons.

Victoria promised that the Ukraine would join NATO and the US would put in anti-missiles that could totally stop any Soviet retaliation for a massive NATO nuclear strike on the USSR or Russia or whatever it is they call themselves these days, so they could choose between surrender or total nuclear destruction with no possibility of a counter-strike, so no reason for NATO not to totally destroy the USSR if they refuse to surrender.

The Ukraine having gleefully welcomed those NATO nukes, the USSR launched a totally unprovoked invasion of the Ukraine. In a few days, they made it to Kyiv, but were then forced back to the Russian border, and the Ukrainian Army have taken a huge chunk of the USSR, the Kursk region, and are easily defeating the Russian military.

The Russian propaganda lie that Russia are winning, that most of the Ukrainian military have been defeated, but that's not what one sees or reads in the US/UK/EU media, which are totally reliable, and have never told a lie.

So we expect Russian surrender very soon, with all Russian natural resources returned to the rightful owners, American oiligarchs. 

What could possibly go wrong?????

Russia and the PRC 'Support' the US/Zionist Plan for Ghaza

Trump's 20 point plan for the Ghaza went to the UN Security Council (UNSC). Most Islamic States sitting as temporary members of the UNSC voted in favour of the US plan, while Russia and the PRC abstained, so the Plan passed as a UN Resolution.

As of now, no one has any idea what this really means. The Islamic States won't do anything to support the plan that they voted for, and presumably won't do anything against it.

The UN-passed Plan has Trump as the Head of the Ghaza commission, a commission which doesn't seem to have any Palestinian members, but it does have Blair of the UK as a senior member.

Trump's 20 point plan says all of Hamas must disarm and surrender to the Zionists. Hamas must show where every last one of their secret tunnels are so all can be totally and irreversibly destroyed.

Not clear where what is now the UN Plan for Ghaza is going.

But I guess we'll find out.

Ghaza

 Ghaza have been a problem since the land was handed over to the Philistines in 2005, and that problem became bigger when Hamas won the election of Palestinian officials in 2007. Israel funded Hamas to weaken the Palestinian authority, but, after Hamas won the 2007 election, Israel said the Palestinian Authority would remain the only legitimate government of the Palestinians (who don't really have any land, since all of Ghaza and the West Bank belong to the Zionists).

For electing Hamas, Israel imposed sanctions on Ghaza, but those sanctions were relatively mild (only a few annual cases of starvation, death by Israeli shelling, and death from lack of medicine).

But then Hamas staged a totally unprovoked attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

Israel have proof that Hamas raped and murdered many women and beheaded many babies. Of course, many question that 'proof' since many of  the Israeli civilians killed on 7 October were killed by weapons not available to Hamas.

I watched two presentations by Max Blumenthal. In the first, he said very few had seen the rape videotapes, and the few allowed to see the tapes had no knowledge of videotapes. Max said he'd watched the tape and all the rapes took place before 2023, and in places such as Kurdistan that were outside of Israel. He gave a presentation a few months later saying so few people claim to have seen the tape that the tape does not exist, since if it did exist, Israel would broadcast it to the entire world.

I wish Mr Blumenthal had a logically consistent reason not to believe that the rapes and murders were real, but he has not presented it yet.

Still, Mr Blumenthal raises serious questions about the veracity of the Israeli version of what happened on 7 October 2023.

In any case, the US are now planning to open a large US military base in Ghaza, and the US will help Israel enforce Trump's 20 point peace plan: totally disarming all of Hamas and dismantling all the Hamas tunnels.

And if this means removing all the Palestinians from Ghaza, one way or another, then the US military will help with this task, and maybe extend to the West Bank.

It's the least the US can do to maintain World Peace by giving Israel everything they want.

Venezuela

 All the world's oil belongs to US oiligarchs. They did the exploration, the drilling, paid a few pennies to the locals who did most of the work, so all the oil is theirs.

Except for Saudi Oil. The Saudi king agreed that all the Saudi oil belonged to the American company Aramco, which was on the US Stock Exchange. Saudi used their Hajj money to buy every share, so all that Saudi oil legally belongs to the Saudis.

But the UK did all the work to find Iranian oil, so it all belongs to a branch of BP, and the US own half that branch, so half of all Iranian oil (less now, of course) belongs to the UK and the rest (much more than half) belongs to the US.

With Venezuela, Iran, and Russia, all those energy resources belong to the US, and the US are moving to return all the Venezuelan oil to the rightful owners, American oiligarchs. In addition, Venezuela is one of the major causes of the US drug crisis, since they send most of the illegal drugs to the US from their long Pacific Ocean coastline, so the US have been bombing lots of small Venezuelan boats filled with narcotics bound for California. The fact that those boats have no access to the fuel they'd have needed is no excuse, the US military were totally justified in bombing them, and the (Classified TS/SCI/NOFORN/BBR) intelligence proves this beyond the shadow of a doubt!

As of now, the US need some Venezuelan crude since it is very sour crude, and there are some critical petroleum products that can only be made from very sour crude. And all that Venezualan oil legally belongs to the US of A, and Trump is a Great President for leading the charge for the US to reclaim that oil and put a Nobel Peace Laureate in as President of Venezuela.

Israel and the US want all that Iranian oil, but Israel is getting impatient and wants to use nukes, which would be more than justified, but maybe not such a good idea since all the Iranian oil would be unmarketable until it is no longer radioactive.

Israel and the US are also talking about nuking the Ghaza, but that would leave the land radioactive and unsuitable for building a lavish and very exclusive resort there.

But I'm sure the US will do the right thing and remove Iran and Russia as threats, and if we have to nuke them and all their oil, the US oil will be worth 10 times as much, so that's probably worth it.

The Leading Neocolonial Power since 1823

The Monroe Doctrine

 In 1823, President Monroe proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine: all of the Americas were for the US. The US was far too weak to keep all the Europeans out, but they did their best. Trump, of course, says the US wants Canada and Greenland to be under US control, and, if the permanent US government let him, the US could probably force Canada and Greenland to become US somethings or other (not clear exactly what Trump has in mind, or if the permanent government will go along, or what).

For 75 years after the Monroe Doctrine, the US strongly condemned colonialism and fought it in the Americas, with some success: Spain and Portugal, who had been given all of the Americas by the Pope,  lost most of their mainland colonies during the 19th century.

European Colonialism

The British and the European Imperialist nations sent their military to destroy the government of a state, then they replaced the government with a government where all senior government officials had to be British- or European-born. The junior government officials who did most of the hard work were often natives of the colony, but their bosses were British- or European-born, and the resident head of state was a British- or European-born governor or viceroy, while the ultimate Head of State was the British or European Head of State.

US Neo-colonialism

The US used (and use) a combination of money and military force to not-quite-as-surreptitiously-as-they-proclaimed, install citizens of their neo-colonies as the government of the state in what is always supposed to be the 'choice' of the citizens of the neo-colony. The government and other leaders of the country were all citizens of the state, but they knew they would remain well-paid leaders only so long as did whatever the US ordered them to do.

This was fairly easy when Monroe proclaimed that the US would end European colonialism in the Americas.

When Spain and Portugal had colonies in the Americas, the senior government officials had trouble sending their wives back to Spain or Portugal, so their children were not European-born, and so could not hold the most senior offices, and strongly resented the fact. The US found it very easy to support revolutions throughout Latin America, providing the American-born pure-European-blood Latin Americans with lots of money and weapons with which they managed to evict Portugal from Brazil and Spain from most of the rest of Latin America, and then those pure-blood-Europeans, who were American born, replaced the Spanish- and Portuguese-born rulers, with a lot of help from the US in the form of money and weapons and maybe US military help.

The US military ensured that the new governments of 'independent' Latin American countries knew that their lofty, well-paid positions depended on keeping the Americans happy, so the US got all the bananas and sugar and other valuable minerals, the indigenous Americans, Africans, and mixed-bloods did all the work of growing the coffee, bananas, and mining the minerals and loading it all on boats to be shipped to the US for almost no pay, so the Americans who owned the banana and sugar and mineral corporations and the leadership of the countries were all happy. 

The pure-European blood who became the neocolonial leaders of the country were very well paid and lived in beautiful villas with lots of cheap servants, while the pureblood indigenous Americans and Africans and mixed-blood citizens were stuck in abject poverty, living in houses they put together from the jungle leaves with no electricity or running water (well, no indoor running water, they had the streams in their country they could use for bathing and drinking water).

After WWII, the two Great Powers were the US and the USSR, and they divided the world, with the USSR neo-colonising the Warsaw Pact and the US neo-colonising the other NATO nations.

But then, in 1949, the PRC threw out the neocolonial powers and became truly independent (and impecunious). The US wanted to return the entire PRC to a neo-colony of the US, but only got Taiwan, and even there, the US had to accept 'strategic ambiguity': the US must say that Taiwan is just another province of the PRC while acting like Taiwan is a US neo-colony, with an ambassador (who cannot use the name ambassador) and an Embassy in D.C. (that must never be called an Embassy).

The USSR tried to help the PRC, but then International boundaries, all drawn by the Europeans, got in the way, with the USSR saying the boundaries were drawn too far north and the PRC saying those boundaries were drawn too far south. So relations between the PRC and the USSR became very strained.

Then the PRC ping-pong team invited the US ping-pong team to the PRC, and from there, the Nixon government agreed to recognise the PRC and started moving American factories from the US, where labour was expensive, to the PRC where labour was almost free (by American standards).

So the US built lots of factories in the PRC and the Americans who built those factories made huge profits. But the PRC saw and learned and started building PRC factories over the next 50 years. The PRC now has the most cars. One sees GM cars and Ford cars built in the PRC, but also BYD cars and other brands with names in Chinese characters, copied from the US/German/French/Japanese/Korean factories.

And the US are desperate to make Russia and the PRC into US neo-colonies, as both obviously should be, but the US have no idea how to do this.

Trump met with Putin, then Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

First, on 19 January 2025, president-elect Trump said the US must get out of the Ukraine or the US economy would be destroyed. On 21 January 2025, President Trump said Russia must get out of the Ukraine or Russia would be destroyed (by the US? Trump didn't say).

Best guess: the men in dark suits and dark glasses had a little chat with Trump on 20 January, either president-elect Trump or President Trump, and said if he said or did the wrong thing, he'd be the next JFK.

We don't know any details about what Presidents Trump and Putin said to each other, but we do know that President Trump treated 'Snow White' Zelensky and the seven dwarf European leaders like their opinions were irrelevant.

The US are also sending a lot more weapons to the Ukraine and saying they will make Europe pay for all those weapons.

Meanwhile, US/UK/EU newspapers say the Russians are losing badly. The Russian economy, after Europe stopped buying Russian energy and providing Russians with European goodies for their economy, isn't in the top 10, maybe not even the top 50. 

The Western media all say that the war has been going very badly for the Russians. The Ukraine have the most advanced NATO weapons, while Russia are using WWII Soviet weapons that no longer worked, so they've been patched together using parts from Russian washing machines, so not only are the Russian weapons mostly useless, the Russians can't even wash their clothes. The Russian military have lost more than a million killed in action, while the Ukrainian military have lost about 50,000. Of course, the Russians have killed more than a million Ukrainians, but almost all were civilians. The Russians are now close to total defeat after which NATO plan to break Russia up into somewhere between 5 and 20 small, unarmed countries, all required to repay huge war reparations so all Russian energy and uranium and other resources will all go to NATO (mostly US) oiligarchs.

A number of people, all paid by the Russians with worthless rubles, have said the Russians are winning and the Russian economy, at PPP is 4th largest in the world. I checked, and PPP is a problem, other ratings put the Russian economy at PPP at #6. 

I heard someone say that Trump definitely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize after the Chinese and Indians are being forced to make peace by Trump's economic policies. Europe will not buy any Russian energy, but they will buy Indian energy, even if India get most of their energy resources from Russia. The US is trying to impose severe economic penalties on China and India, but penalising China is difficult since China produces things the US desperately needs, so the US have to trade with China on China's terms. India is not as strong economically, but China don't want to be alone fighting the US, so now they're supporting India. Peace between India and China after 75 years of war? Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize!

Some US maps of the war in Ukraine show that Russia was close to Kyiv in the first weeks of the 2022 war, but then were forced further and further back east, and are basically losing.

Actually, in 2014, when NATO and the Ukraine were going to block the Russian Navy from all sea access, Russia took the Crimea and demanded that the Donbas be an autonomous part of the Ukraine. France and Germany gave Russia the Minsk Accords, guaranteeing, they told the Russians, that the Russian language, religion, and ethnic Slavs would be safe in the Donbas, and told everyone else that, while the Russians weren't looking, the Donbas would be an Aryan region with no Russian language or churches or Slavs.

When Russian military reached the Crimea, the Ukrainian military defending Crimea said, 'Welcome, brothers,' and the Russians were made to feel at home (after all, the Crimea had been part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia until 1954, and had not been too happy to be moved to the Soviet Socialist Republic os Ukraine). The the move back to Russia was welcomed by the Crimeans, and there was no fighting.  Of course, most of the officers of the Ukrainian military were Slavs in 2014.

While Russia weren't looking, i.e., from 2014 until 2021, the Ukrainian military got rid of the Slavic officers and replaced them with good Aryan officers. So, when Putin wrote Biden and NATO in 2021 saying that Russia could never allow the Ukraine to join NATO, he got the response that the Ukraine was definitely going to be part of NATO with a large nuclear arsenal and military bases and troops, and Russia had better do whatever NATO told them to do. So Putin ordered a totally unprovoked invasion of the Ukraine that managed to advance until they were near Kyiv, but then the Aryan-led Ukrainian military hit the Russians hard with NATO weapons, and the Russian military withdrew to areas near Russia. The Russian military had another big setback in late summer 2022, and the West wrote off the unprovoked Russian invasion as a complete failure that would soon result in a Russian surrender on NATO terms, a surrender NATO are still expecting will come very soon now, and the US/UK/EU newspapers assure us that Russia were very close to surrendering until Trump allowed Putin to land on US soil, where he should have been arrested as a war criminal, then the US president and the Russian dictator talked for a couple of hours and Trump let the war criminal leave the US, in clear violation of NATO law (just ask any of the top leaders in NATO, other than Trump).

And then he treated Snow White Zelensky and the seven European dwarfs like they didn't really matter, for all of which Trump has been condemned by all the neoliberal and neoconservative leaders in the US/UK/EU governments and media who know that it is essential that Russia be totally destroyed and broken up into a bunch of small, unarmed countries that must do whatever NATO tell them to do.

After all, they all know, and the media they control keep reiterating, that Russia is not the USSR, MI6 and the CIA, probably with help from Mossad have destroyed most if not all of the Russian nuclear arsenal, if it was even still operational, so this war should be quick and clean and leave NATO in total and complete charge of the entire world with no fuss and no muss, After all, in the US/UK/EU history books, the Aryans easily destroyed the Slavs in WWII, and the Slavs have only gotten weaker while the Aryans have gotten much stronger.

Also, we know that the Nazis killed more than six million Jews, which was the worst crime ever committed in the history of the world, while the swastika-waving Aryans in the Ukraine have a Jewish president, so they can't possibly be Nazis. (The Nazis also killed Slavs, but that just proves that there's a little good in the worst of men.)

The US Democrats would love to impeach and convict Trump and get a good president who would lead NATO to totally destroy Russia. The US Democrats don't have the votes now, but they're hoping to get those votes in the 2026 election so they can get rid of Trump in 2027, preferably in January.

For now, Trump will try to do enough of what those who really run the US and whose predecessors got rid of JFK demand, while trying to avoid doing too much of what they really want and starting WWIII.

The Problem of Anti-Semitism

 I was taught in Sunday School that all Jews are deicides, so good Christians must avoid them, but G_d gave them the 'Mark of Cain' so it is prohibited to kill them. 

Hitler wanted to deport all the European Jews to Palestine. As the Rev. Dr. Alexander Keith, a Scots Presbyterian, said in 1843, "Palestine is a land without a people for a people without a land." He has been misquoted as saying "Palestine is a land without any people for a people without any land," but that's wrong. He went to Palestine, saw a mixture of Palestinians and European Christians who went to live in the Holy Land and he figured that all Arabs are nomads, they live in tents, not houses, their camels and goats follow the grass, the Arabs follow the goats and camels, and they can go anywhere outside Palestine while the Jews are all sent to live in Palestine (the Christians living in the Holy Land could stay there, of course, at least the Protestant Christians).

Of course, in 1843 Palestine was still part of Ottoman Syria, so sending British Jews to live there could only be done with Ottoman permission until after WWI, when the Ottomans lost and the Ottoman Empire was mostly divided between the British and the French, with the British getting all of Palestine. The British had several declarations that Palestine would be only for Jews, maybe only for British Jews, but the final Balfour Declaration was that the Jews and Palestinians would share Palestine, forming a British colony with a mixture of colonials who did not get along and could not put up a unified front against British Imperial Rule.

The US had a law restricting Jewish immigration starting in 1921 (they took in a few Nobel Laureates and others with similar accomplishments, but not many), and the British said Palestine was only for British Jews. When Hitler said he wanted to deport all the European Jews to Palestine, the British said that the Royal Navy would prevent any Jews being deported from Europe, especially deported to British Palestine.

People who survived German Concentration Camps in the '30s said they were not death camps, just minimum security prisons. Some have used this to say the Nazi Concentration Camps didn't kill any Jews.

But in 1940, the war meant Germany had a shortage of food and limited the food sent to the concentration camps to feed the Jewish prisoners, so the Jewish prisoners started starving and, as their immune systems weakened, they began to develop contagious diseases and these diseases spread to the Concentration Camp staff and the townspeople. So the Nazis came up with the Final Solution: all the Jews unable to work must be mass executed and the bodies burned to stop the spread of disease. The Germans tried to hide the Holocaust, but they lost the war so the world found out about the Holocaust and the Allies hanged thousands of Germans for war crimes.

The US had concentration camps for Japanese, but the US won the war and the Japanese lost, so the American Concentration Camps were not war crimes. I met a former Japanese prisoner from one of the US Concentration Camps who said that the US only gave the camp enough food to feed the prisoners for three months and said it must last a year, and prisoners must never be allowed out of their cells, but the guards at his camp disobeyed orders, bought farm implements, seeds, and eggs with their own money, and let the prisoners farm the Concentration Camp, and they finished the food provided in three months then lived on what they grew and hatched. But that was just one US Concentration Camps, and I don't know what happened at the others, but even if the US had killed every Japanese prisoner, since the US won the war, that would not have been a war crime.

Ivy League professor Dave Collum says that FDR was responsible for the Holocaust of the Jews, because, if the US had sided with Germany against the Soviet Union, there never would have been a Holocaust. This is very likely to be true: Hitler did not want to kill the Jews, he just wanted them out of Europe, so if the US had allied with Germany, all the Jews who died in the Holocaust might have been saved. Or if the US decided to let Germany kill all the Jews, it would not have been a Holocaust, just a casualty of war.

But the official history of WWII is the pretty much the Holocaust and the US rescue of the Western European Jews, sending those who survived the Holocaust to Palestine. The Soviets mostly get written out of the history, since they didn't really contribute anything: the US single-handedly defeated the Axis, at least in the US history of WWII, which remains the official Western history, even if there might be a few minor discrepancies between the official Western history and what actually happened.

But we did have the Holocaust, Anti-Semitism is now a heinous crime, and it's been defined to include any criticism of Israel.

So anyone in the US/UK/EU who criticises Israel is guilty of a serious crime: Students can be expelled, immigrants with legal visas or even passports can be deported for committing a serious crime, citizens can be arrested and lose their jobs.

So, under the US/UK/EU definition, the Palestinians killed by Israel were trying to complete what Germany started and are guilty of genocide if they killed any Jews or attempted genocide if they didn't, so Israel acted strictly in self-defense. And anyone questioning this obvious fact is guilty of the serious crime of Anti-Semitism and will be severely punished. (And this includes Anti-Semitic Jews in the US/UK/EU who question anything that Israel does.)