I’ve been thinking; there are lots of supposedly weird mysteries regarding aliens, secret technologies and other hush-hush shit that’s been covered up in America over the decades, and it created the impression that the Americans have who-knows-what secret shit they’re not telling anyone about, stuff developed in cooperation with aliens, or remote viewing capabilities using psychics and so on.
Let’s see, the Philadelphia experiment – they supposedly had a ship equipped with some kind of a magnetic device that caused weird phenomena and reportedly teleported from one place to another and so on. It was in 1943. The most likely explanation I found is that there was a shipment of uranium for the Manhattan project and they had to make up a story explaining enhanced security when they were unloading and storing it. By apparently confirming that there was some secret military experiment going on, they explained away everything they wanted to hide, provided an explanation that sounded completely unrealistic and bound to waste a potential adversary’s time, and it also creates a veil of mystery around American scientific and technological capabilities. It’s a triple-win.
The Roswell UFO incident. Supposedly a hush-hush military operation of recovering the fragments of an alien spacecraft, including the actual aliens. Cover story is that it was a meteorological balloon. A more likely explanation is that Roswell is very close to the White Sands missile base and all sorts of nuclear installations, and who knows what kind of an accident they had with nuclear or other secret military hardware that they didn’t want anyone to know about, since it was 1947, at the height of the cold war paranoia when all sorts of weapons were being developed and tested. When journalists started talking about the aliens and a cover-up, this must have been perceived as an excellent thing by the military – any possible inquiry will be redirected into total nonsense, and they can even invent some of it to keep the story going, and, if anything, it will scare the Russians and make them think we’re stronger than we are.
Area 51 in Nevada. Supposedly a place where the military keeps the UFOs and aliens and stuff. Later revealed that it was probably used for testing the U-2 spy plane. Let’s assume it was also used for testing stealth aeroplanes and similar equipment. Let’s make a further jump and assume it was used to test stealth nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and similar stuff that was prohibited by the START treaty and the Russians couldn’t know about it. You first let out rumours that you’re keeping the aliens there. When the Russians ask to inspect it, you tell them that you have stealth aeroplanes and all sorts of spy shit there that you can’t let them inspect, but none of it’s START-related, scout’s honour. If you let the information leak through a double agent or some other source the Russians trust, they will believe it.
Remote viewing. You let everybody know that the CIA is experimenting with remote viewing and parapsychology in order to peek into Soviet secret facilities. You actually do keep a team working on it, in order to make it plausible. In reality, it serves the purpose of protecting a spy you have in the Soviet facility, whose identity would have been compromised if something became public that nobody could possibly know about unless he’s on the inside.
Basically, it’s a double-whammy: you hide what you want to hide by pretending to hide something extraordinarily weird and advanced, and you also create the impression that you have stuff that’s completely “out there”, while your adversaries are “mere humans” with ordinary human technology; and if the entire story is debunked, the real secret is still safe. It’s all guesswork on my part, but it provides a very simple and straightforward explanation for lots of very weird stuff that’s been “leaked” over the decades, but eventually nothing ever came of it. It’s also very much in line with the Americans always creating an impression that there’s more to their technology than there actually is, and there’s much more going on than anyone is allowed to know.
If someone asks how is it possible for a train carrying toxic chemicals (vinyl-chloride monomer among others) to derail in “first-world” America, let me show you a video of train tracks in AFAIK the same area:
This is the actual condition of American infrastructure today, so, when an American self-ironically says they’re having a “first world problem”, I don’t really know what they are talking about.
Yugoslavia was literally the “third world” (meaning the non-aligned countries, the other “two worlds” being NATO and the Warsaw pact) and our infrastructure was orders of magnitude better maintained. This is not even the “third world”, this is a post-apocalyptic wasteland still posing as a country.
I ignored several big events in the world that happened recently, such as the Turkey/Syria earthquake, toxic spills in America that were conspicuously ignored by the main stream media, and more spy balloon hysteria.
That’s not because I think that the earthquake, for instance, was minor; it was not. In fact, it was extremely deadly, and the casualties seem to be 2x to 3x greater than the initial estimates, probably due to poor building practices in the region. However, regardless of the fact that more people died in this earthquake than the Russians lost in the year long Ukraine war, it is not an extinction-level event, or a civilization-ending event. It’s just a very bad natural disaster. We should always be prepared for those, and not pretend we’re somehow untouchable because we “live” on the Internet.
However, compared to what’s already in the pipeline, it’s merely a distraction. What we have in the pipeline is the collapse of civilization, collapse of the global economy, collapse of industry and agriculture. From my perspective, it already happened, the way someone’s death already happened if he jumped from the 20th floor, regardless of the fact that he’s currently flying and feeling great. The events have been set in motion long ago – I personally started paying attention during the 2008 crisis, when the problems were not only not solved, but in fact magnified by wrapping them up and sending them down the line, because they were deemed too big to be solved. Basically, the foundation of the monetary system is broken, which means that “money” is supported by little more than wishful thinking and hoping that things will somehow work out in the end. Additionally, idiotic covid restrictions broke the inertia of the economy, and caused cascade failures that are still in the pipeline. Sanctions against Russia caused another blow to the industry and agriculture, and here the idiots in power are actually playing with the foundations of the food supply, in such a way that I really have no reasons for optimism. None of this is an accident. It’s a controlled demolition. It’s being done with the purpose of reducing the number of people in the world by at least a half, reducing the environmental impact of the rest by reducing their standard of living to the point of the poor third world countries, and giving the ones in charge of the process absolute power over the lives of the survivors. It’s basically rich idiots’ ego trip. Part of it is known as the WEF, but I’m afraid it’s even wider than that. Those rich bastards are using money to corrupt institutions everywhere by buying journalists, politicians and scientists. This means science is no longer authentic or credible, journalists are no longer authentic and credible, and the politicians don’t work for the people, they work for those rich bastards who are running the show behind the curtain. Paradoxically, one of the major aspects of collapse, that of the monetary system, might in fact erode their main instrument of control, which is why I’m actually hoping for things to break sooner rather than later, because the status quo does not work in our favour. The longer those bastards remain in power, the longer they will be able to implement measures that aim to kill, impoverish and enslave us, and enrich and empower themselves. Also, that’s why I’m urging people to save in gold – because “normal” money is already an instrument of surveillance and control, and will soon become an instrument of killing “misfits” – imagine what happens to you if you don’t take the fifth shot of a questionable vaccine, if you “misgender” some pervert, or in other ways don’t comply unquestionably. They just turn off your CBDC debit account, and you can at that point neither buy nor sell goods and services, and you’re basically dead. Just look what they did to Assange, and know that in a CBDC future, we’re all either Assange, or zombie slaves. Having precious metals is basically the currency of the future “underground”, of an alternative “terrorist” system that will be our only option if we don’t want to be zombie slaves who are routinely culled to reduce CO2 output, when someone is over quota. Fortunately, the people designing this future are idiots who routinely ignore everything they don’t see as important, and “not important” things are the foundations of the entire system from which they derive power, things such as Russian gas, or agriculture and mining, engineering and science. Those are all “social sciences” idiots with vanity degrees, and the world they think they live in is not even remotely similar to the world they actually live in. Even worse, they are all atheists, which means they have no valid moral compass. They invented “human rights” for us to follow like cattle, but that’s not something they see as binding. Anything that was pulled out of thin air like that, can also be changed just like that. Never trust anyone who doesn’t firmly believe that he will be judged by God after death for his actions during this life. Those people are all basically insane and evil. They are not all on the same page – some are handling the economy and trying desperately to kick that can down the next flight of stairs. Some are trying to have a nuclear war with Russia and/or China. Some are trying to save the world by making us all poor and having us eat bugs, like the poor people in Asia. Some are trying to exploit the money printing machine to buy all the real estate and other assets. Some are trying to sabotage agriculture in order to reduce the food supply and have billions die of hunger. Some are trying to sterilize us to reduce population growth. Some are trying to invent artificial plagues that will preferentially cull the elderly and the vulnerable. Some are trying to invent virtual reality that will keep the servile masses occupied while they control the physical world. Some are trying to implement mechanisms of surveillance to make rebellion impossible. Some are trying to control media in order to feed us shit and keep us in the dark, like mushrooms. Half of those plans contradict the other half, because those rich idiots who think themselves geniuses have their pet projects. For instance, having a central bank digital currency and a high-tech surveillance society is contradictory with the plans to have a nuclear war that will degrade the technosphere permanently. Also, destroying the industrial energy base and the financial system is contradictory with the top-heavy centralized management plans. This is not unexpected, because half of those rich people aren’t even talking to the other half; the only thing they agree on is that the rest of us have to be relegated to the position of tightly managed cattle, and the world will just die if not for them.
So, that’s why I ignored the Turkey/Syria earthquake. People that were impacted by this are fucked, but an earthquake is not something you can do much about, other than building solid structures and being generally prepared. I don’t sweat much over things where I can’t do much to warn, prevent or mitigate effects. I focus on things where I see farther than others, in order to sound warnings.
I was thinking how the Americans don’t seem to understand anyone and have incredibly strange assumptions in communication, and I think I’m starting to understand the “root cause” of their problem.
You see, America is a land of liars; or, more precisely, a land of snake oil salesmen, where everybody is selling something, starting with themselves, and the implicit assumption they have in every interaction is that everybody else is the same. Those snake oil salesmen invented all sorts of theories to be used when marketing your snake oil to people – body language, alpha/beta male divisions, positive thinking, and so on. It all seems to describe some reality, but it works only in America, where everybody is playing the same game of selling snake oil to others, and being wary of others selling snake oil to them. They seem completely oblivious to the fact that others don’t use the same “language” in communication. For instance, they keep wearing some fake smile and being artificially friendly in communication, but that’s because they are taught that such approach is disarming and it improves your chances of selling your snake oil to others. They don’t smile because they like you or because they are happy, they smile because they are taught this approach in some “how to sell whatever stupid bullshit to customers” course. They are also taught to emulate being confident, to stand tall, look you straight in the eyes and never show that they are lying when they are lying, which is always.
It is for this reason that they assume that, when someone like Putin talks, it is safe to ignore everything he’s saying because it must all be false (the way one should ignore everything an American is saying because it’s all lies), and if he appears confident and straightforward, it must be a bluff because that’s how Americans were all taught to lie.
Their problem is that others aren’t playing the same game.
When a normal person is slouched or just has a blank empty look, it doesn’t mean they lack self-confidence, or that they are lying, or aren’t sure of themselves. They just didn’t go through an acting course for liars and poseurs. The actual meaning of the slouched, absent-minded posture might be that an engineer is thinking about a tensor-representation of multiple forces influencing a body orbiting a magnetar, or that one is just mentally tired because he had many things to do today and is just chilling and recharging his energy. You basically can’t conclude anything from an irrelevant thing such as body posture, which is why people outside America hardly ever bother with such bullshit, and instead listen to each other. For instance, if someone tells you to piss off because you’re annoying him, that’s probably exactly what he’s thinking. Also, if he says he likes your attitude and invites you to have a drink with him, the odds are that’s exactly what he’s thinking. It reminds me of one of those jokes about men and women, where a woman says “I have a headache” and it means “I don’t want to fuck you or talk to you because you were polite to the neighbour whose wife was gossiping me behind my back and I’m not going to even tell you what the problem is because if you don’t know why I’m mad, it just means you’re not paying attention to me which means you don’t really care about me so fuck you”. When a man says “I have a headache”, he means “I have a headache”. Well, the Americans think like women. The Russians think like men. When a Russian says “I’m annoyed at you because you are exiting disarmament treaties and amassing weapon systems at our borders; you should stop”, that’s exactly what he means, and the implication is that if you don’t stop, he’ll have to do something about it. When a Russian says “we did something about it, and developed modern weapons, so you better stop fucking with us or else”, this is exactly what he means, and the implication of “else” is that he’s going to use those new weapons to destroy the immediate threat, and then stop to see if you understood the message. The Russians don’t bluff, because they don’t have a national game where bluffing is the main move. They don’t play poker. They play chess. They are also very straightforward people. If they like you, they smile and take you home to cook you dinner, they get drunk with you and tell stupid jokes. If they don’t like you, they tell you to go to hell, and if you don’t, they’ll gladly show you the way.
This misunderstanding of language between people who are all bluff, and people who are all substance, is extremely dangerous, when the Americans don’t listen to the Russians because of their faulty assumptions.
Of course, it’s not that the Americans have patent rights on idiocy; humans in general tend to assume things that are completely unwarranted, and then they get shocked when shit happens; for instance, kids bully the weird kid who just wants to be left alone, and since he doesn’t appear to do anything, they do it more, until he comes to school with a gun and outright murders them. It’s weird that they think that this is for some reason a pathological reaction – it’s not. It’s a perfectly reasonable reaction – someone annoys you, you tell him to stop. He laughs at you and annoys you more. You tell him to stop more forcefully, because he obviously didn’t get it the first time. He laughs at you and continues to annoy you. Then you try to notify authorities, but they wave you off because they don’t give a fuck. You understand that your life is being made miserable by intentional sadistic action by someone who doesn’t respond to your clearly stated wishes, the authorities don’t care, and you see no way you can remove yourself from the situation, so your options are to continue living in hell or to destroy the enemy. So you destroy the enemy, and its a very rational response to the problem, and the fact that people are too stupid to understand that and interpret such reactions as “wrong” and “psychotic” only means that they are the psychotic ones, because they are too fucked up to understand how things work. If you’re a sadist who derives joy from turning someone’s life into hell, and you refuse to stop when told so, that person has every right to kill you. The fact that you assume to be invulnerable and everybody reacts with shock when the obvious thing happens, only means that you are all idiots.
If you fuck with the Russians, they will initially be shocked. Then they will be angry and they will try to explain to you that what you did annoyed them, and that you should stop. If you don’t, they will try to use more direct language because you obviously didn’t understand. If you still continue to annoy them, they will decide that you’re a bad person and they will try to remove themselves from your company and go elsewhere. If you try to prevent this and continue to annoy them and sabotage their interactions with others, they will get really angry and threaten you with violence if you don’t leave them alone. If that doesn’t work, they will kill you.
The American problem is very similar to that of a bully who assumes to be invulnerable and his reaction to “leave me alone” is laughter and escalation of violence, because someone telling you something with words “obviously” means they can’t do anything about it. When they actually do something about it, you react with shock, because you’re all idiots.
The Norwegian intelligence reports that “Russian ships, for the first time in 30 years, go to sea with nuclear weapons”. The report of course talks about the tactical nuclear weapons; it is well known that the strategic nuclear submarines are armed with SLBM strategic nuclear weapons. I could not find whether the yield of the weapons in question, or whether they are installed on torpedoes or cruise missiles, but those are the options. The difference between strategic and tactical nukes is that tactical nukes are what you use against the enemy’s battlefield assets; they are short-range and of limited yield. This is footage of a Soviet test of a low yield nuclear torpedo:
The Americans are apparently going to cross a Russian red line and send depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine, together with their Abrams tanks:
The timeline of that, however, is unclear, and there might not in fact be Ukraine by the time they do. On the other hand, it is not clear to me what the Russians are actually planning to do, as their rhetoric has been increasingly sharp and the additional recruits have not been deployed to the Ukrainian front in ways that would be consistent with the expectation of a large ground assault. In fact, the plan might be to conduct low-level but increased gradual offensive pressure, and have the larger army on standby in case of a larger geopolitical escalation, such as an open war with NATO that could include an offensive directed against Russia and Belarus. Also, a large deployed military is essential in case of a nuclear war, because it would give them a large available first-response force to aid in the rescue efforts; why that would be of the essence can be seen in the aftermath of the large earthquake in Turkey and Syria, because if you don’t have a large force of rescuers, the number of dead increases exponentially, and if you can’t aid the living (and now homeless and starving) they quickly get to be numbered among the dead. If you need to perform massive relocations, evacuations, feed millions of homeless, erect tents and improvised habitation for millions, having a million-strong army that already knows how to do all those things is very useful, and it’s the way to do it without alerting the enemy of your preparations. Also, having a large deployed army in the region bordering your known enemies is what you want to do in case of a possible nuclear war, because if your country is nuked, there is no time to recruit, arm and train men, and your borders can be easily overran by the enemy and your country occupied. Russian recruitment efforts seem to be aimed primarily at covering those precautions, as they don’t seem to be deployed in the war in Ukraine, which the Russian leadership sees as more-less a settled matter; they have the meat grinder set up, the Ukrops and the Western murderers have to travel a long way to reach the front line, they have their supply lines extended far, and the Russians can operate the meat grinder at very low cost to themselves at the moment, with the only annoyances being the vulnerability of the Belgorod area and Donetsk to Ukrop bombardment. They have dead and wounded, true, but the numbers are tolerable so far, and negligible in comparison to what would happen if they tried to take the whole of Ukraine, and have Poland and possibly America intervene. They are also killing the enemies quite effectively, and without having to invest effort in finding them and avoiding civilian casualties in the process. Going deep into Ukraine is guaranteed to change the numbers adversely, and it’s not obvious to me that anything of value could be achieved that way, since their main enemies, the Americans and the British, would remain unharmed, and the stupid neighbouring countries could be more easily manipulated into joining the war effort, thus increasing the intensity of warfare and the number of casualties. The way things are, the main enemies are suffering aggravated economic conditions which guarantee that they can’t do this in the long run; they are also depleting their weapons and ammunition faster than they can replenish them, and if the war itself remains of low intensity, their population will grow bored with it, and rebel against economic hardship without some patriotic defensive motivation that would keep them going. Basically, they will have a war of the kind where there are shortages of food, fuel and electricity, and there is increasingly less money to cover the costs, and there’s very little actual war going on. The entire layout is very favourable to the Russians and I see very little incentive for them to escalate this at great cost to themselves and at great propagandistic benefit to their enemies. However, I might be wrong in this, and I was wrong before when I thought they wouldn’t bother to go into Ukraine as there is nothing to be won there; the country is profoundly corrupt, it would be a money sink for Russia if they wanted to modernize it, and the people there are heavily indoctrinated with pro-Western and anti-Russian illusions which would make that entire quagmire impossible to manage. This assessment has not changed, but the Russians apparently weighed that against the danger of having a NATO dagger growing unchecked into Russia’s southern border with potentially deadly consequences, and decided to neutralize the threat, which for all intents and purposes had been accomplished by April last year, and everything since served the purpose of bleeding NATO and Ukraine further.
The problem, at this point, is that NATO doesn’t seem willing to write off their anti-Russian campaign, and as time goes on and they grow closer to defeat, we are approaching a critical point where both sides will be forced to do something. Russia will come to that point as the Ukrainian military crumbles, and they are forced by the logic of things to move forward. There must be a plan for doing this properly, as it will require additional forces in order to hold larger territory, and also they will feel compelled to rebuild the place like they did in Mariupol. The West, on the other hand, is emboldened by the Russian lack of response to past provocations, and they seem to have concluded that Russia will try to avoid escalation of the war to NATO countries to the point where they can do almost whatever they want, which is of course guaranteed to actually cause a Russian deep military response at NATO. The Americans think of the world in terms of a wolf pack, and they always interpret absence of attack as a sign of weakness and are encouraged by it to escalate, and they always interpret attack as a provocation that must be answered with total destruction of the enemy. The Russians have a completely different approach, which is a really bad match for the American one: they avoid conflict, which is misinterpreted as fear, and encourages further encroachments, and when the Russian military response finally comes, it comes so late in the game that it must be profound. Basically, the American approach is typical for a high-school bully who never had the profoundly educational experience of being left bleeding and half-conscious in a ditch, and the Russian approach is typical for someone who had extreme casualties in the previous conflicts and so tries to avoid this, much past the point where this actually encourages encroachment.
The Russians seem to be hoping to achieve the outcome where they keep the conflict boring and low-level for long enough that the economic tide crushes their enemies. In my opinion, this is not achievable and is in fact very dangerous, because the enemy will in fact have very good first-hand knowledge of the danger, and will react before the danger reaches a critical point. It is very obvious to me that the American plan in fact is to provoke a nuclear war of a kind that will leave them in a position that is relatively better than what they would have if their economy inevitably collapsed, and their geostrategic opponents were unharmed. They did the math and decided that a nuclear war would only kill off the least productive and useful parts of their society, and that they would recover first and resume the position of the world’s only superpower within a timeframe of decades. In my opinion, they miscalculated. It doesn’t take a genius to know that, since they historically always miscalculate, and in this case they have such poor understanding of the situation that miscalculation is absolutely inevitable. We already see the beginnings of this miscalculation with Russia, where they completely misunderstood the economics involved, and managed to produce the exact result they attempted to suppress.
To return to the point at hand, I think the Russians gave the Americans the possibility of winding down the conflict in Ukraine in a “boring” way, which is when the meat grinder runs out of Ukrainians, the Russians slowly walk to the Dniepr river as the new border, the Americans withdraw support from the Nazi regime in Kiev, and there’s some kind if a popular uprising against the Nazis there, and what’s left of Ukraine withdraws from war and licks its wounds in relative silence. Honestly, I don’t see this as a realistic outcome, which means we’ll have several rounds of tit-for-tat, until several tactical nukes go off in deep NATO territory as the last warning, which will shock the Western economy to such a point that it might actually prevent the all-out nuclear war, which is the second-best option, and for this I can actually see some reasonable probability, especially if the nukes really badly hurt the American assets in Europe. This limited nuclear conflict in Europe is the reason why I think it is wise to prepare; the damage from the nukes themselves might be negligible, but the panic and chaos would be devastating.
