I wouldn’t be surprised if Ripper ad-libbed and got away with it. Kubrick’s career could be divided into two eras — the youthful one grudgingly dominated by actors of tremendous screen presence and mental agility and character, such as Ripper, Kirk Douglass, George C Scott, etc.. then a second one dominated by the layered esoteric tableau requiring erudition to peel and littered with actors of weak character and disposition, ending with the sad Tom Cruise. I suspect the latter phase was driven as much from need to protect himself in saying subliminally the terrible things he felt urged to express, the deeper truths of his fallen society, as well as being a crazed control freak no longer willing to tolerate strong opposing personalities inhibiting the gaze of his purposeful camera lens. So the heroic and strong individuals are seen in his works prior to 1970.

I think, like those MIT boffins emerson alluded to killing themselves or running for the hills in the 1962 Cuban nuclear crisis, Kubrick came to be so fatalistic and hopeless of humanity’s ability to save itself from the brink.. Chekhov’s gun would eventually be used. Because we are simply that dumb. And he transmitted his judgment or rationale in Dr Strangelove: none are fit to the requirements of our time and responsibility! Not the pols, generals, think tankers (John Birch Soc…), and most of all not the scientists that created the infernal gadgets. All small men. It should never have been created. The worldwise Persian civilization knew certain endeavors should not be undertaken. Its makers will be forced to bite the full fruit.

A terrible predicament for Kubrick, no? And he would live on another 25+ years after the ghoulish Dr Strangelove, making ever darker movies, devoid of hope.. the Shakespeare bard of his era, full of cold condemnation, cursing all.

Who’s in charge has been on all our minds and will determine the denouement reaching its current climax. To be a fly on the wall of the Kremlin! That is the $1M Question on which hinges all subsequent calculations. Imagine if it is a non-American supranational entity which cannot be found nor reasoned with and which is determined to suicide the USA and the UK with as much relish as the poor Ukies! Or worse, a malignant airplane from hell on autopilot, aimed at the mountainside, its stewardesses busy hosting and Technicians and engineers busy keeping procedures within parameter and the trajectory straight and true.

I agree it appears headless and on “proper procedural track,” impermissive of change at this late point, but how to effect change? Even threats and functionary decapitations may not work

Uncle Lavrov on his best behavior with the lady FM of El Commandante-Prezidente Traoré 😊😍

Oh boy. Today is the day Russians celebrate as Navy Day, one of their only two traditional allies, alongside Army. Medvedev is in a fine choleric mood, surveying the madness, such as the main financial district of his nation in Moscow being kamikaze-droned by the crazed West, pretending plausible deniability via its equally rabid proxy.

PS — why am I not surprised Ripper was sabotaged by the British Royal Navy?? When did the British elite stop supporting their nazi German proxy? Imagine their cynicism, dastardliness, and bottomless treachery of countenancing the Blitz and other sacrifices of their commoners — all for the larger aim of destroying Russia.

I remember reading long ago of shenanigans between US & UK. Both built up Hitler and the fellas. But the US who did the principle financing aimed them first against the Brits. The Germans, eternally fearful of the quagmire of two-front wars, balked. Rudolph Hess’s mission was in part to try to receive reprieve on the western front.. not that it was needed. The savvier Brits had no intention of seriously fighting and wasting the German potency on non-slavs!

This internal skullduggery angered the tricked Yanks, who sought to simultaneously erase the dying British Empire… but the Brain kept its pitiless eye on the ball, as in the Balkan front with not strengthening the commie partisans too much. So Ripper and other canon-fodder working for Brawn bit the bullet.

I bet he knew the score and who he’d ended up working for! He didn’t need to fake the disillusionment and rage and contempt for his side in Dr Strangelove.

Are there any more criminal amongst global elites than the British?? They even interbred with ashkenazi jewry so that currently they are indistinguishable and one knows not where one begins and the other ends. Hence the forthright and more precise use of “Anglo-Saxon elite” by the Russians as their foremost enemies.

Back to Medvedev. He patiently keeps tapping out the nuclear message. Anybody home??

An excellent recent article by Pepe. How did we miss it? Quite prescient, it mostly anticipated what went down in St. Pete.

He is spot on: “essentially, this is about sovereignty” and the security to safeguard it. All other ambitions remain fruitless without these two prerequisites. Otherwise, one remains a tormented and abused milch cow of Empire, like the Europeans.

One minor quibble — Russia gets a lot in return. Much more than it gives atm. The shared humanity and goodwill of over 1 in 8 humans. Brother civilizations in solidarity against the satanic legion. Birds of a feather flock during migration and existential times. And failure to band with like spirits will result in the adept western lilliputians marshalling them against you — the cruel yet effective “divide & rule.”

There’s also tremendous trade potential once logistics, infrastructure, payments alternatives are in place — replacing much of lost western markets; maybe upping current 3.7% to 15-20% total Russian trade??? Everything’s booming — even their delicious ice cream and future dry milk sales which should replace the French Nestle, lol. And the terrific Russian MIC will be kept humming long after the SMO is done and dusted.

The matter of assassinations, and its circumspection, is vital to Africa’s future. So many of its best leaders were offed by vindictive departing colonialists in 1960s.. and constantly since then, to prevent advancement and development by capable folks. Putin mentioned some during Summit:

Russians also reinstated the name of Patrice Lumumba to the eponymous university, to the delight of Africans. Note the name had been changed during the time of the compradore Yeltsin’s time, when the Hegemon worked successfully to sever much of Afro-Russian ties..

Another art by the Soviet Koretsky in 1960s of Patrice Lumumba, killed brutally by the Belgians:

Translation: “Lumumba is shown against the silhouette of the African continent and with the same silhouette in his heart. It is accompanied by the inscription, “He carried Africa in his heart.””

These gestures mean a lot and will cement ties for generations, including honoring young Traoré, bringing the Chef, and religious leaders to emphasize mutual defense of tradition, etc… and Usual Suspects know it, why worked overtime to prevent attendance and to belittle it once it began…

btw, being a river pilot of gunrunners can never be pleasant? Eventually the opposing side starts to react and deliver its blows. You said Ripper in his youth in ww2 was mentally shredded supporting the Balkan partisans across the Adriatic..

Oh I didn’t mean it as accusatory at all! Your comment reminiscing of your first war, the Korean war, helped me connect the dot to ongoing dance with Africa. I think it is not only fortuitous but a conscious decision by Russians to link the two. Why send Shoigu now? They are capable of juggling balls… So cool!

They know both will be all-weather trench-mates given their horrendous history against the West. Both faced the native American treatment and lived to tell the tale.. And both fierce survivors will provide harbor and arms and a warm meal in the challenging years ahead..

Russia is doing due diligence long neglected — arranging its camp and the order of battle.

BtW, the youngest national leader in the world, and recent coup head of Burkina Faso, came to this Afro-Russia Summit — Ibrahim Traoré. Big guy too!

His country is a neighbor and likely supporter of the apparently successful coup in Niger. (their Praetorian Guards took over). This is a big time setback for the West. Niger provides most of France’s uranium….. as important, it is the logistics hub for US shenanigans throughout central Africa, from the southern Atlantic to the Indian Ocean…. This will be like US losing Afganistan for that region… HUGE.

And the young Burkina Fason was strutting the deck in St. Petersburg in his fatigues with Putin AND the Chef (undoubtedly to mock the West thru his mere presence, lol). It’s gonna take a ALOTTA blood to win back the Sahel now, lol. No more pusillanimous compradore regimes which are easy pushovers for the neocolonialists — now they face hard military juntas throughout the region.

How’s all that for a double Dubya one-finger salute to the combined West, with love from Russia?! The public messaging taking place with eyes wide open is so delicious!!

Mr P, Korea and Africa are becoming linked! In both trade and wars to Russia…

it is fascinating when and with whom the Russians chose to connect Africa in the ongoing global joust with the combined West. They are masters of diplomatic protocol… Korea, and at this inflection point of the SMO and just after warning to Poland by both Luka and VVP, and during the Russia-Africa Summit, is deliberate. They sent a military delegation headed by the Defense Minister in military uniform redolent of the USSR and matching the Koreans…

Shoigu was sorely needed at the Africa forum too, since a key pact with Africa is security arrangements, and official ones per the new Concept of the Foreign Policy document of March 31, 2023. Wagner and rogue PMCs are being sidelined, notwithstanding the Chef’s appearance. Yet they sent Shoigu to Korea, indicating its more acute utility and need, with likely intelligence they have of war expansion to Poland…

The remaining task of the Optics-mad: how to seem the Innocent Avenger, also needed to overcome domestic revulsion and war-fatigue of everything Ukie in the West. There’s a ball waiting to drop, a time-tested Pirate tradition of hoisting banners not their own…

Listen to the Judge’s concluding thoughts on how the “empty drum” Biden regime may choose to make its narrative prevail, in spite of the absolute strategic defeat that makes Dien Bien Phu seem a pleasant tea party…

Yes I agree dear emerson. I will do my bit. It is a stupendous summit — promising to undo much of the harm of the 1885 Berlin conference, based on Russian support in security, sovereigntization, informational hygiene, infrastructure & logistics, food & energy security, and not least tech transfers towards those ends. It is mindblowing.

I hope it is becoming clear given all these talents, leadership, power, resources and resilience, why Russio Delenda Est by an absolutely livid and hate filled Hegemon. Remember my “thought experiment” in Lineaments 07?? This is why they go to die on the Steppes of the Ukraine. A desperate bully knows full well who’s got the back of the Rest of Humanity, and that the issue begins and ends with Russia.

I pray peace and end to suffering for your brother🙏🏼🤲🏼

NB. Note most of the ongoing initiatives, memoranda, action plans and mechanisms involve breaking western siege and contrived privation. And all sides know it. This informs the prudent low profile of many Africans who stayed behind and didn’t attend this Summit.

For example, Kenyan president Ruto, amongst global leaders in dedollarization, having recently paid for GCC oil in local currency and leading efforts for pan-African alternative to SWIFT, stayed away. He and many know western viciousness. They have every intention to fight, but husband their limited strength where it counts. If they miss a photo op but the essential work continues day and night by their delegates and technocrats, so be it.