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Karnal wrote on Feb 24^th, 2025 at 4:03am:


Please show us a post where I have been supportive of Vlad.    Several other military forums I am on have shown many US veterans, most of them Trump supporters, are angry at his Ukraine policy.  Trump has failed to read the room here. 

Dnarever wrote on Feb 24^th, 2025 at 8:30pm:

How, is the question, shitfer brains, not how not.

Frank wrote on Feb 27^th, 2025 at 9:39pm:

Frank wrote on Feb 27^th, 2025 at 9:39pm:





The reality is Russia should not have invaded, but they did.  Following the invasion, the EU should have stopped buying Russian goods and energy completely, but they didn't, and this continues even today.

In the last three years someone should have made a serious attempt to broker peace, but no-one did.  When China and North Korea joined in allegiance with Russia, the US and EU should have punished with massive sanctions, but they didn't.

But I get it - nuffin' for three years until now when it's all Trump's fault.

Karnal wrote on Feb 28^th, 2025 at 1:14am:

Indeed.

Soooooo..... How would YOU end this war between the two largest and most corrupt European countries that are culturally and historically barely distinguishable?

Include Ukraine in NATO, including its openly proRussian Dombass and Crimea. Sounds as daft as most of your other ideas.

Do you remember all those assurances from early 2022? Putin is isolated!! The world is united against him!! Three years on, he’s so isolated they can barely squeeze all the global leaders onto the stage of the BRICS Russia summit. “The world” is “united” only if you mean America and its NATO vassal states. Everyone else wants no part of this. Putin is such a global pariah that Turkey, which is supposed to be one of those NATO “allies”, has applied for BRICS membership. They’re building the post-dollar world—the post-American world, the post-Western world—before our eyes, and we’re still yakking about sea levels in the Maldives in the twenty-second century and the need to install tampon dispensers in the boys’ bathroom.
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In the past, change was Western: the Habsburgs rose and then fell; Spain was up, and it became the centre of power; it fell, and the English rose; the First World War finished off the monarchies; the British were replaced by the Americans as world leaders; then the Russo-American Cold War was won by the Americans.

But all these developments remained within our Western logic. This is not the case now, however, and this is what we must face up to; because the Western world is not challenged from within the Western world, and so the logic of change has been disrupted. What I am talking about, and what we are facing, is actually a global system change. And this is a process that is coming from Asia. To put it succinctly and primitively, for the next many decades—or perhaps centuries, because the previous world system was in place for five hundred years—the dominant centre of the world will be in Asia…



Half the public, give or take, seems to get that democratic governance in the Western world has degenerated into a racket. Every once in a while, the populist spasms in minor Continental countries erupt at the heart of the West, as they did in 2016 with Brexit and Trump. But both were subverted, very easily, by the Permanent State, at pains to emphasise as always that no serious course correction can be permitted.

Now Trump has a second shot. Can he do what needs to be done? In the time that remains—to him and to our civilisational inheritance?

We changed too much too fast—welfare, immigration, protracted adolescence, the bepenised woman—and, as real change overwhelms us, we will still wonder why everything’s changed. The forces around us are real, and increasingly we are not.

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/politics/how-the-west-was-lost/