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Zerg rush vs. geopolitical judo

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Let’s return to the Ukraine war.

The things are proceeding slowly, but conforming to my predictions; the Russians are slowly grinding down the Ukrainian fortifications in Eastern Ukraine, and apparently they are treating this as part of their military training; they are rotating troops with the apparent goal of providing as much of their military with combat experience, while limiting strain to individual units. The goal of this is to have as much of their military as possible in the state of greatest possible battle readiness in case of a much bigger war.

Also, we need to look at this from a strategic viewpoint. The declared strategic goal of NATO is to weaken and cripple Russia, both economically and militarily. Ukraine is only a weapon, a sacrificial country whose purpose is to die on the sacred altar of harming Russia. From Russian perspective, the strategic goal is to apply geopolitical Judo – don’t directly oppose force with force, use the enemy’s actions against them (and I don’t mean the Ukrainians), trip them out of balance, avoid being caught into something that will prove to be a death spiral as a function of time, always see the big picture and try to get long-term outcomes that are favourable. Seeing Russia as a bear is popular in the west, but it’s very deceptive, because that picture would make sense during the reign of that lumbering drunkard Yeltsin. The Russians are trying to navigate a complicated line between traps and pitfalls, avoiding a nuclear confrontation if at all possible, avoiding huge military losses if at all possible, avoiding situations where their enemies have the upper hand, and keeping their economy in a good condition. Winning the war in Ukraine exists only in the context of those priorities, meaning that they don’t care about finishing it quickly. They want to finish it in a way that will minimize their losses and maximize the difficulties and financial pressures to their enemies; “quickly” doesn’t even enter the equation, because it’s not some super-expensive war across seven oceans and seven mountains; it’s their own back yard, with supply lines so short, it might as well be a standard military exercise. Yes, people die, but the Americans and the British made sure they would die in any case, so it might as well be on Russian terms.

If American type of warfare is a “Zerg rush”, Russian type of warfare is geopolitical science. It’s actually weird how it conforms almost perfectly to a mathematically ideal model of minimal expenditure of resources. If Americans intended to bleed Russia, they achieved the opposite, because the Russians can keep this up indefinitely, while their enemies created a black hole for resources that is sucking in their collective economies.

Inclusivity

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I watched an ad for the Google Pixel 6 phone yesterday:

I initially wanted to see the specs of the phone, but it turns out the ad was very revealing, in a political sense, the way reading the early writings of Marx is revealing – you just see all the robbery, poverty and starvation in the future. In case of this ad, you see the desired future as written by the present-day America: everybody is shallow, stupid, perverted, lame and obsessed with completely irrelevant garbage, and almost nobody is white. Also, everybody is content and smiling, for some reason.

That’s called “inclusivity”, which is another one of the newspeak misnomers; it actually means removing all the successful people from positions of power and calling it “social justice”; if everybody is black and brown, they say, the world will be a paradise.

No, fuckwits, because there already is a “planet” where everybody is black, it’s called Africa and it’s a shithole. The new America and Europe where everybody is black wouldn’t look like a Google ad, it would look like this:

That’s the “dreamworld” where everybody is black, the only thing that’s out of place are the electricity poles, because you won’t get any of that in a black people’s world. That’s white people stuff. Also, the phones, running water, in-door plumbing, radio, TV, Internet, satellite navigation, and so on. You shit in the bush, wash your arse in a creek, and you get parasites. Also, you drink water from that creek in which everybody washes their arse, and into which the elephants shit. Also, it’s ruled by gangs wielding machetes. AK-47s are all fine but they are made by the white people, too, so no ammo for those in Wakanda.

Besides, since when is “inclusive” a good word? How is it a desirable quality? Would you want a sexual partner that is “inclusive”, in a sense that anyone can fuck them? Would you want to send your kids to a school that is “inclusive”, in a sense that anyone can get in? Do you want a job that is “inclusive”, in a sense that anyone can do it? I didn’t fucking think so. Inclusive isn’t good, unless you’re a retard, a whore and a loser. Exclusive is good. Exclusive is a thing to strive for. You want a job that’s so demanding that only a few can do it, and you want to be one of the few. You want a woman who will have only one man, she wants the best and you want to be that best one. You don’t want a car anyone can have, you want a really good, exclusive one. You want to send your kid to a school that has so stringent criteria that only the best can have a hope of passing the qualifying exams.

Inclusive, that’s where you don’t want to be, if you have any self respect. Aim for the stars, because mountains are not high enough.

The ever tightening grip

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I watched this video last night:

Basically, with Windows 10 it was “recommended” that you turn on the UEFI encryption keys and the “trusted platform” stuff. In Windows 11, it was a precondition for installation. Now they are planning to build something into the CPU itself, so that you can’t run an OS that hasn’t been approved by Microsoft, basically. What the author of the video didn’t say, and what I find glaringly obvious, is that this isn’t about Microsoft, it’s about America. They want to make sure that “their technology” can’t be used by anyone on their sanctioned entity list, because, if you pay attention, you will see that Microsoft, Apple, Google and similar extensions of NSA routinely sanction countries that refuse to bend over to America, by the principle of “if you refuse to be our slaves we’ll take our toys away”. Let’s say that Macs and iPhones outright refuse to work in any truly sovereign country. You take a thumb drive with Linux, install it, set it up and take a slight hit in comfort and productivity because the open source stuff isn’t written by people whose pay check depends on all the details being polished. However, you will still get the job done, and in some aspects the Linux way of doing things is actually better. I was actually quite productive on Linux when I had it on all my personal systems; the only exception is photography, because nothing on Linux is even in the same decade as Lightroom. But would I manage; oh yes. And if Windows/Mac didn’t really exist as an alternative, I would venture a guess that excellent Russian and Chinese commercial software would start appearing for Linux in short order. So, things would not only work, but also improve with time.

However, if the Americans succeed in putting this “trusted platform” shit in the CPU, it means that you won’t be able to run Linux or BSD on any American-designed hardware anywhere in the free world (because that’s what the “sanctioned entities list” really is). It’s not unexpected, and I actually think they are kind of late with this, but if anyone thinks Microsoft could lobby to put this stuff in Intel and AMD CPU designs without not only approval, but direct order from the NSA (and probably other deep-state structures as well), I have real estate on the Moon to sell you.

So, what does this mean in practice? Is it worrisome enough to warrant an immediate transition to non-American-designed computer architecture and non-American OS? Yes, if you’re a sovereign state. For individuals, it’s a more complicated matter. It’s worrisome enough for me to warrant building and maintaining redundant systems I can use in case this becomes a problem.

First world problems

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I’ve been thinking about the phrase in the title recently, and it struck me as a misnomer.

You see, the “1st world problem” phrase was something the Americans used to ironically pull when talking about things such as having to wait in line for a fancy new iPhone or Starbucks not offering their favorite flavor of oversweetened junk anymore, meaning “we are so privileged to live in such a wonderful place, while elsewhere people don’t have food or water or sanitation”.

Enter 2022, and the problems in the West are fuel prices, gas shortages, inflation, expected food and electricity shortages, empty shelves, violent riots and so on.

Excuse me, but those no longer sound like 1st world problems to me. Those sound like the kind of problems I used to have in 1980s socialist Yugoslavia, which was by definition 3rd world (both politically and by industrial development, because it was placed right in between the socialist bloc and the capitalist West by all metrics). In Yugoslavia, the problems were self-inflicted due to a bad political and economic system. In today’s West, it appears to be the same. In both cases, it seems to be caused by ideological rigidity of the ruling uniparty (because all “electable” parties in the West are basically the same flavor of “watermelon” (green on the outside, red on the inside)), opposition of any kind is demonised to the point of total social exclusion, and the economy is controlled by political edicts.

Basically, there is no more 1st world, unless we’re talking about Russia and China. America and Europe are fast approaching Africa in standard of living, which is not unexpected considering how much of Africa they recently imported, and considering how their ideas about economy and politics don’t differ greatly from those prevalent in the banana republics.

It’s nothing, really…

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New York broadcast a PSA with advice in case of a nuclear attack:

But nothing’s going on, there’s no danger, really, move along now people, no conspiracy theories, it’s not like America is in a hot war with Russia, hoping Russia will pretend it’s just yellow rain and not America pissing on them.