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Europe on the Warpath
Ukraine's Nazi brigades are America's creation, but they will be Europe's nightmare.
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Les cavaliers de chevaux morts de l'Apocalypse
Quand votre cheval meurt, descendez !
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Dead Horse Riders of the Apocalypse
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Diplomatie clownesque mondiale

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Parfois, le rire est la seule réponse sensée à ce que nous lisons dans les journaux. Si vous connaissez un peu le monde (comme je l'espère), alors nos pensées sont inévitablement contraintes de suivre deux voies. Première voie : les politiciens et les médias nous mentent pour nous cacher ce qui se passe réellement. Deuxième voie : les politiciens et les médias sont tous des clowns qui jouent leur rôle au grand jour et la raison pour laquelle rien de tout cela n'a de sens est qu'il n'y a pas de sens à trouver - juste des pitreries idiotes.
Je pense que cela résume assez bien ce qui se passe dans l'Occident, mais il y a aussi la Russie et la Chine. Ces deux-là ne font pas les pitres ; ils disent plutôt ce qu'ils vont faire et le font. Ils ne sont ni drôles, ni divertissants, ni faciles à comprendre. En particulier, ils ne se donnent pas la peine de se faire comprendre en anglais. Ils ne pensent pas en anglais et se moquent bien de ce à quoi leur discours ressemble en traduction, qui est souvent une traduction automatique et erronée. Les Chinois parlent en code qu'il est impossible de déchiffrer sans une connaissance approfondie de la langue, de l'histoire et de la culture chinoises. Par conséquent, pour tout ce qui concerne la Chine, je m'en remets aux experts chinois (les experts russes). Les Russes sont beaucoup plus directs (pour moi, parce que j'en suis un), mais apparemment impossibles à expliquer aux Occidentaux en raison de différences de mentalité importantes.
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Clown World Diplomacy

Sometimes laughter is the only sane response to what we read in the news. If you know a thing or two about the world (as I hope you do), then our thoughts are inevitably forced down two paths. Path number one: we are being lied to by the politicians and the media alike to hide from us what is really going on. Path number two: the politicians and the media are both a bunch of clowns acting out their shtik out in the open and the reason none of it makes sense is because there is no sense to make — just some silly clowning around.
This, I feel, pretty well summarizes what's happening in the combined West, but then there is Russia and China. These two don't clown around at all; rather, they say what they are going to do and then they do it. They aren't funny or entertaining or easy to understand. In particular, they don't bother to make themselves easy to understand in English. They don't think in English and they don't much care what they sound like in translation, which is often machine translation and wrong. The Chinese speak in code that's impossible to penetrate without deep knowledge of Chinese language, history and culture. Therefore, on all matters Chinese I defer to China experts (Russian ones). The Russians are far more straightforward (for me, because I happen to be one) but seemingly impossible to explain to Westerners because of significant differences in mentality.
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That witty comparison between a diplomat and a lady may be an old joke but it's new to me and instantly memorable. I'll be sharing that one at every opportunity. 
Diplomacy requires reasonable people to think rationally and yo be honest with each other. It cannot be used effectively in engagements with dishonest, unreasonable people. That's why stable societies need to be employ powerful physical forces such as the police to deal with criminals, especially violent ones. 
Sometimes there IS a military solution. 
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Hello Dmitry, I thought I'd look you up three years after you moved off Patreon. I've missed your pithy and darkly humorous insights.
You mentioned: "Why should the residents of Odessa have their rights of self-determination denied while the residents of Donetsk have been granted theirs? Such arbitrariness would be impossible to justify..."
In the period from 2014 to 2022 we could have asked:
"Why should the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk have their rights of self-determination denied while the residents of Crimea have been granted theirs?" Was such arbitrariness impossible for Russia to justify for 8 years?
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Nathan, discussion is pointless unless the Russian prrspective is properly understood. Russia won, the US lost. Losers don't get to offer unsolicited advice. If that seems harsh, then perhaps you need to have your country invaded.
La paix par l'humiliation
Pendant ce temps, les Russes et les Américains s'efforcent de se réconcilier et de rétablir des relations diplomatiques.
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What should the US do to Zelensky?

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Toss him in the ocean like Osama bin Laden
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Drag his bloody corpse through the streets like Muammar Qaddafy
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Hang him like Saddam Hussein
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Lock him up for life like Manuel Noriega
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Ask Putin to give him a nice place to live like Viktor Yanukovich or Bashar al Assad
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Just let him do his thing like Pol Pot
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Leave him to his own devices. He’s dead already
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Daniehl, dead people don't kill one or two thousand people a day, both soldiers and civilians.
Sorry I made an assumption that he was “being dealt with” after he was captured, in irons and being adjudicated in some fashion. He has to be incarcerated somehow to prevent the inevitable attempts to end his life methinks.
Peace through humiliation
Meanwhile, the Russians and the Americans are working hard to mend fences and to reestablish normal diplomatic relations.
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Ce que les États-Unis doivent aux Ukrainiens

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Lors du putsch ukrainien de 2014, Victoria Nuland a fièrement annoncé que les États-Unis avaient dépensé 5 milliards de dollars pour le système politique ukrainien. Le résultat de cet effort a été un putsch sanglant et une décennie de répression politique, de terrorisme et de guerre. Les États-Unis sont entièrement responsables de ce résultat et doivent indemniser la population ukrainienne (et non le gouvernement ukrainien, puisqu'il s'agit d'une junte illégitime, non élue et répressive) pour ses pertes.
Voici la facture détaillée :
Point 1 : indemnité de décès
L'Ukraine a perdu plus d'un million d'hommes en tant que victimes de guerre. L'indemnité de décès standard dans les forces armées des États-Unis est de 100 000 $, versée aux familles des personnes décédées, quelle que soit la cause du décès. Il n'y a aucune raison pour que les décès ukrainiens causés par la politique américaine soient évalués différemment.
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Rapport sur les progrès de l'opération militaire spéciale
Nous pouvons même imaginer un nouveau Yalta, avec la participation de Poutine, Xi et Trump.
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