amarynth, I also feel that rudeness, it cheapens his contribution to accurate analysis, to my mind. And it saddens me also, we see it everywhere, with quality commentators, China is perhaps their last piece of deeply embedded propaganda, and they’ve simply not been lucky enough to encounter the truth of China yet.

I always think of the PLA of old, with China having broken from imperialist control and fought a revolution, fought the terrible Japanese…and the Long March is something of impossible achievement, it literally sets me in awe when I contemplate the spirit that it took to achieve that – not only to forge through but to encompass Mao’s brilliant strategy in so doing, and to retain throughout all these trials the great civilizational wisdom of the culture – to be guided by it, in fact. And all the other things that China has shown us, in the last hundred years alone, let alone all of history.

I am no scholar of anything but I know grit when I see it, and the PLA had grit back then, and I have no reason whatsoever to think that this has ever gone away. I would not tangle with the PLA – and ironically, the more so because they have not revealed themselves in recent decades. Only a fool would think this means they’ve become less ready to fight for their motherland. Only a fool would go up against that great unknown.

One can say that Russia has had more experience fighting wars, and maybe that’s true in recent years, but China has not had less experience from a fear of fighting, simply that it’s time has not come yet. And it has acted wisely, and prudently. China wins without the struggle ever becoming obvious. Who is the greater soldier?

Personally, I don’t think that experience in fighting wars speaks of clever strategy, I think staying out of them speaks of vastly superior warriorship.

For what it’s worth, I agree with William Schryver here. Helmer has always struck me exactly as he describes. Sometimes Helmer is completely valuable but many times one reads discrepancies in his narratives that simply don’t match reality. In particular, he paints Russian actions and policies as being far more inept, corrupt or otherwise deficient than they can possibly be, given the years of actual results we see from Russia’s actions, by which we can establish our own baselines and measuring sticks. Similarly with his demeaning of Putin and others.

Helmer has a way of stating as categorical fact things that he doesn’t prove or demonstrate, and that again seem unlikely, given the track record of the things he disparages. He’s an odd one, to take with a grain of salt at most times. Schryver, by comparison, resonates with one’s sense of sanity and reason, consistently, time and again. And his facts jibe with one’s own. I know which commentary I take over the other on most any day.

Richard Medhurst was arrested at Heathrow and detained under the Terrorism Act of the UK last Thursday. He’s free on bail, and his video talking about it just appeared:

the press release:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/westgene-to-advance-clinical-trials-following-dual-ind-approvals-for-worlds-first-eb-virus-related-mrna-therapeutic-cancer-vaccine-302217411.html

https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/westgenes-cancer-us-china/

It has been coming ever closer to the time to put the Samson option on the table. I had pushed it away in my own mind but listening to Ray, of course he’s right. Israel, in extremis, will burn the whole world if it can.

If it can. We thought the task of Russia and China was delicate, letting the failing US fall gently to its knees without breaking the world. How much finesse has that task already taken – and so far, so good.

But all that pales in contrast to the task of the Resistance in West Asia. They must actually eliminate the state of Israel, and without triggering the Samson option.

I’m more persuaded than ever that this is why Russia has top-tier EW in Iran now. It is in the interest of the whole world to be mindful of Israel’s madness and its nuclear capability. One can only hope and assume that the Resistance and Russia have that capability very precisely mapped out – and provisioned for.

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Well. So it is time then to mention what no one has wanted to speak of until now – and suddenly everyone is talking about it: Israel’s nuclear insanity and the threat this poses to the entire world.

Just as well to bring this to the table now, no sense in tiptoeing around it. Maybe if we bring it to the surface, we – the world – can add some tiny measure of persuasion against Samson, or at least if only being conscious of that madness and seeing it for what it is.

But the battlefield of course is where it must be ended forever.

Well, that amounts to missiling Tel Aviv. These Zionists really do hate the Jews. I’m beginning to think they hate everyone (including themselves, of course, but this they do not know).

Good interview at Electronic Intifada with Shir Hever, who is the Military Embargo Coordinator for the BDS movement – valuable insights into how Israel society is messed up. As the tech industry fails and sales fall, conscription of the Ultra Orthodox remains an impasse, and morale in the army sucks – a cigarette economy has sprung up, similar to prison, where commanders have to bribe soldiers with cigarettes to get them to perform tasks. Unbelievable, but I have to believe it’s true. Always fascinating to listen to this man:

Nima’s latest interview is with Jeff J. Brown. Excellent roundup of world situations and places: