Uncle Seymour is evidently misinformed in some respects. As he himself has said, he’s a prisoner of his sources…withal, read in the light of the previously pronounced SMO related Policy> https://archive.ph/yjb6m

Adios, & Best! P

Excerpt>

I was planning to write this week about the expanding war in Ukraine and the danger it poses for the Biden Administration. I had a lot to say. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has resigned, and her last day in office is June 30. Her departure has triggered near panic inside the State Department about the person many there fear will be chosen to replace her: Victoria Nuland. Nuland’s hawkishness on Russia and antipathy for Vladimir Putin fits perfectly with the views of President Biden. Nuland is now the undersecretary for political affairs and has been described as “runni
ng amok,” in the words of a person with direct knowledge of the situation, among the various bureaus of the State Department while Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on the road. If Sherman has a view about her potential successor, and she must, she’s unlikely ever to share it. 
Biden is believed by some in the American intelligence community to be convinced that his re-election prospects depend on a victory, or some kind of satisfactory settlement, in the Ukraine war. Blinken’s rejection of the prospect of a ceasefire in Ukraine, voiced in his June 2 speech in Finland that I wrote about last week, is of a piece with this thinking.
Putin should rightly be condemned for his decisi…”

I read the entirety of the Karaganov. Between the author and an imaginary graduate advisor it would be a wonderful discussion. The article involves a number of tautological errors and, probably, factual errors, and certainly disputable implied and stated assumptions, as well as a logical contradiction or two. Nevertheless, faulty understandings and flawed reason often actually produce correct decisions…his conclusions may be correct, even if he’s wrong. Maybe you don’t agree…but let’s assume I’m correct.

Ok, we must assume then that the article exists and was published as rhetoric…and the purpose?  what does the author want? What does the publisher(s) want? What audience(s)? Why?

Reasonable replies to such questions are not very nice. But it’s close to what seems liable to happen. First God whispers… We’ll find out, I suppose, what happens next.

Best! P

A gentleman barrister in London, whom I keep a weather eye upon, has written >

From Hegemony to Multipolarity: How Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Russia is Creating a Modern Eurasia (Abridged Version)

Brother Makinde sometimes writes things with which I may disagree. But we have agreed on many occasions.

Excerpt> The overarching objective of the “Defense Planning Guidance” for the 1994–99 fiscal years which was published for internal consumption in February 1992 by Wolfowitz and fellow under-secretary Scooter Libby, was that the United States would use the vacuum caused by the breakup of the Soviet Union as an opportunity to prevent the rise of any nation attempting to take up the mantle of a global competitor.3 In seeking to achieve this, it explicitly disavowed being bound by multilateral agreements and envisaged destroying by military action or the application of economic pressure any nation which operated in a way which was inimical to America’s declared political and economic interests.

In this instance it may be that our Brother undervalues the diabolical cadre as a foundational driver…ie his views, though deep, might be deeper yet.

Best! P

So far, they always double. And so far they believe delusionally. And their personal safety is on the table. And they cannot run away. Having summoned Mars, they’re subjects of  Phobos and Deimos. Zugswang. And I see that the Great Intellectual has “decided” to send more DU to 404…which as everyone knows, is seen by Russia as an atomic attack. Hanged for crime looms, why not use everything…. How am I to collect from Stumpy?

Evidently the unwilling fellas surrender’d to R and left the leopard engines idling… pssst, you got a white tshirt buddy?

Best! P

I do take an interest in German area, partly because I have long had the notion that Germany would be the signal pivot in this portion of European History, partly due to memories, partly due to sympathies with the old left, I guess. At one time I had a large extended branch of family there – some were nazis, some were not. They’re all dead now. I get the idea that Die Linke and AfD will mutually subsume. Become as one. The drivers being in the process of becoming “other” the cathode in opposition to the “heated” anode represented by Olaf the Obedient. Alas, AfD/L will be infiltrated and broken by intrigue with all the horrors of gladio, and broken by legalistic magic. Or maybe simply outlawed. Nevertheless, go against custom and more and long established ways, and an “other” pops into existence. Actually it’s a basic in conflict creation – an interest of mine.

In the Industrial Phase (ted kaczynski) everything runs, ultimately, on the chemistry of C and H2. It runs in a cascade. Without the cheap gas and juice Germany is in denouement. Period.

Smoothie’s 2 million so far…. Let’s estimate. Speculate. Ask. How many people live in Germany? Who are they?  How many capable working age educated Germans. How many families? How many Children… There’s a spreadsheet, I bet. The de-industrialization gag follows General Ripper’s principle… two can play at mitosis (pardon the tautological pun). We shall, I expect, see the nazi Germans affiliate appropriately, and the good Germans? Ah! I rather expect the result will be favorable to the good. I note that being forced to take up roots and move is liable to create a slowburn motivation, a persistent social memory drang. Who will be left behind? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

Previously, of course, many German POWs worked in USSR/Russia, as we know. I believe many decided to stay after their release in the 1950’s – but it’s a bit out of my depth. Here’s a bit about the Soviet/German rockets> https://warontherocks.com/2019/10/the-forgotten-rocketeers-german-scientists-in-the-soviet-union-1945-1959/

I like the Soviet Poster! And I cotton to the genre. Although I do recognize, now, some Russian in print, and catch words and get new ones, I can’t read the poster. Alas. But I get the idea. Yewbetcha! And probably not just Germans… 😉

We get to cling to the wreckage. Neh… Anoxia abides. Rode old bike ’round the village, did electrical work, world war continues… Mother told me about how it was. She was right. It’s terrible. It becomes normal, which is itself appalling.

Best! P

China Warship> In my wild days, for a time, I lived aboard a 6 ton steel river-boat, displacement hull with a strong V8, and quite comfy. After some hull modifications she was a formidable and reactive maneuverable craft, and I became fairly adept at motorboat riverain maters. ( it was possible to turn her 180 without losing way, without changing vector, thus backing against prop thrust) And rules of the road…actually went to school and passed the courses and exams. Thus the video of the overtaking maneuver was a great pleasure. I put myself in ship C and ran the maneuver as though I’d had the con. C starboard overtaking N port, N became forced to reduce speed or ram. N chickened out. C did not. Technically, legalistically, C was at fault, iirc the Rules. Noting that the rules are not relevant to the encounter. (and recalling that in wild days I myself have done similar, for similar reasons to richguy boats… a big middle finger…riverainpolitics. And I have heard stories of people brandishing weapons afloat…) Stuff happens. Next time maybe no more Misterniceguy…

Best! Hot day a’comin’ an’ the old feller needs to get busy in the coolness. P

“Morinin’ Friends –

It’s a feature of symposium that new things come “poof!”, they were not, and then they are, so to say. Thus > …honest labour will for sure cure his insanity! The same goes for the entire western power elite... drags up thought about health and work, as in FxD/T work, possibly with axe or shovel.

If The Great Boris had been humbled and made strong by honest labour, would he be Boris? Among the convicts-to-be>  Bringt Arbeit Klarheit im Arbeitslager? Und Scham?

I’d like to have the agenda for Paris triparte meeting 12 June, the little fella and Olaf all round the Pole, so to say. Rubric “Plan R, Final”, no doubt. Anyway, ah got me a bad feelin’ about it.

I liked the bear cartoon. Thanks. Not knowing how to take still frames from old films, I don’t…but if I did…well great stills in a bad film that’s actually good- George Raft badly cast, London deserted, 1952 “I’ll Get You”…

Best! P