Category Archives: Europe

From Putin In Africa, To MIA In East Palestine, To Hell-No Haley And Herstory

Africa, America, Conservatism, Donald Trump, EU, Europe, Foreign Policy, Neoconservatism, Race, Russia, South-Africa

Africa, but not Europe, is demanding freedom to choose its alliances ~ilana

Treason, ongoing betrayal of the worst kind, is an apt metaphor for the relationship between the US government and its people ~ilana

Incongruously, Trump is to blame for reintroducing and normalizing Nikki’s wicked, in-the-bone marrow neoconservatism ~ilana

Putin And Africa: Trust a Brother to have the gumption to tell the sanctimonious Anglo-Ameri-European axis of evil to go … jump in the lake.

‘Uganda will not succumb to pressure from former colonizers in the West to turn against Russia, as longstanding bilateral relations with Moscow are too important,’ the Ugandan foreign minister has said. (Via RT)

The “colonizer” riff aside, Africa’s sentiments pertaining to the current Russia-Ukraine context are wonderfully apt:

America has “Cancelled Countries, and Killed the Ancient, Civilizing Concept Of Neutrality.” Africa, but not Europe, is demanding the freedom to choose its alliances. Bravo.

The Brothers are having none of the war-on-Russia deal.

Good for Jeje Odongo. I had already praised Cyril Ramaphosa for the same reason last year.

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East Palestine, Ohio: Treason, ongoing betrayal of the worst kind, is the apt metaphor for the relationship between the US government and its people. Brazen criminal aliens in their millions are streaming into the country, being resettled and supplied with life’s luxuries. Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, were poisoned due to a chemical spill during a train derailment, rooted in the usual institutional rot this column has been detecting and documenting. Yet these white American residents are not aided and evacuated temporarily, but, rather, abandoned to the toxins

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Have mercy, and go away, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. You are both dumb and dangerous. Incongruously, Trump is to blame for reintroducing and normalizing Nikki’s wicked, in-the-bone marrow neoconservatism during his tenure, having run against it.

READ, “How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism.”

And didn’t warmonger Haley call for the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the state Capitol? Oh, yeah. Will it be full-bore war with Russia under a Haley regime? You bet.

Have we not had our fill of “Lies About Putin (Syria and The Alawite Alliance)” , which Nikki, with Lindsey and his Republican clones, will bang on about and hammer home, given a chance?

Go home, Nikki. The conservative base is hurting.

Get excited! Time for a new generation.

Let’s do this! ? ?? pic.twitter.com/BD5k4WY1CP

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 14, 2023

If she got a chance to bend it—Haley (hell no) would, moreover, certainly yammer in our collective ear about Black History Month, as the pigment burden is commensurate with Herstory.

According to this Afrocentrism, whites must remember that,

“White folks were cave dwellers when blacks were building empires and pyramids; teaching philosophy, astrology and mathematics. ‘Socrates and the Greeks were mere copycats, aping black civilization.”

Or, so claimed Al Sharpton.

And, hey, what’s the big deal about making history palliative rather than factual, if, as my friend Collin Flaherty would have mocked, it makes the black kids less angry?

No thanks, Nikki.

READ: “Faking History To Make The Black Kids Feel Good (Part II*)”

Part I is “Helping The Sharpton and Obama Afrocentrism ‘Fade to Black.’”

* Screen pic Image courtesy Liberty Maniacs

UPDATED (9/26/022): Giorgia Meloni Has A Philosophy Of Liberty; GOP Candidates Have Positions, Talking Points, Bereft of Philosophy

Argument, Europe, Family, Individual Rights, Liberty, Nationalism, Nationhood, Political Philosophy, Republicans

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‘The GOP has to stick to positions, talking points, because the Republicans don’t hold a philosophy, much less one that can support concepts like nationalism, nation-state and national sovereignty’

Unlike most of our GOP candidates, who promote positions, as opposed to a philosophy of liberty (even the very nice ones such as Kari Lake)—Giorgia Meloni, prime minister elect of Italy and leader of Brothers Of Italy, bases her opinions on a systematic philosophy which is central to her core beliefs.

Liberty to Meloni is not the party’s talking points—positions and political plank—as it is for the GOP—“God, Groceries, Gas,” as one hack summed it up on Hannity. Rather, Meloni holds a philosophy of liberty which she grasps. Thus she quotes GK Chesterton not for the meaty words, but to shore up a philosophy. Coming from her, Chesterton doesn’t ring hollow.

What do I mean? Example: Meloni talks about “the nation state” and a “political sovereignty that belongs to the citizens of that state.”

The GOP confines itself to noodling against open borders, but for legal immigration (they love it) and against illegal immigration. The GOP has to stick to positions, talking points, because the Republicans don’t hold a philosophy, much less one that can support concepts like nationalism, nation-state and national sovereignty.

Meloni knows that individual rights are not deracinated, free-floating entitlements that attach naturally to every person who can then show up on the West’s doorstep demanding these abstracted rights be defended and optimized. No, this position is that of the Republicans and Democrats. Their positions justify open borders to varying degrees and an adventurous foreign policy to varying degrees.

A party that holds positions bereft of philosophy will never restore the nation. Why, the concept of a nation (not nation-state) Republicans reach for only to promote and project Lincoln-like visions of political might and can-do optimism.

On the other hand, Meloni, an Italian nationalist, will want to slow immigration to a halt because she believes that everything that is good in Italy comes from its Italian essence.

Suffice it to say that, in her references, the Italian prime minister elect evinces erudition and knowledge.

Alas, as I’ve been told, Meloni is wishy-washy on the vaccine and I note that she suffer the Ukraine euphoria, although is about Italy First.

https://gettr.com/post/p1s9u5762ab

* Screen capture image via NYT

WATCH: From Iron Lady To Party Girl – Individualism Vs Feminism

Affirmative Action, Britain, English, Europe, Feminism, Intelligence, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Republicans

Lousy Lithuania Blockading Kaliningrad Could Be A Catalyst For World War Three

EU, Europe, Foreign Policy, Russia, The West, War

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Russia will have to intrude into NATO territory to feed its people in Kaliningrad. NATO, doing Uncle Sam’s bidding, could then invoke its Article 5 obligation to, one and all, galvanize against Russia.

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia pursuant to the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, thus effectively starting the First World War.

Americans, aside some asses who may rot in Russian jails as prisoners of war, have not gotten as worked up about Ukraine as the neoconservative, neoliberal and the ConOink laptop bombardiers have wanted them to.

But Lithuania’s partial blockade of Kaliningrad—“a Russian sovereign territory on the Baltic Sea, sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland,” and thus reliant on these EU neighbors, also NATO members, for overland shipping of essential supplies—might just constitute a provocation like the one that ignited WWI.

This is the case because Russia will have to intrude into NATO territory to feed its people in Kaliningrad. NATO members, doing Uncle Sam’s bidding, could then invoke their Article 5 obligation to, one and all, galvanize against Russia.

Via ZeroHedge:

Ahead of the new Lithuanian transit ban taking effect, the state railways service was reportedly awaiting final word from the European Commission on enforcing it:

The cargo unit of Lithuania’s state railways service set out details of the ban in a letter to clients following “clarification” from the European Commission on the mechanism for applying the sanctions.

Previously, Lithuanian Deputy Foreign Minister Mantas Adomenas said the ministry was waiting for “clarification from the European Commission on applying European sanctions to Kaliningrad cargo transit.”

Brussels then ruled that “sanctioned goods and cargo should still be prohibited even if they travel from one part of Russia to another but through EU territory,” according to Rueters/Rferl.

In Moscow’s eyes, this is tantamount to laying economic siege to part of Russia’s sovereign territory and one million of its citizens. When the EU first proposed the blockage of goods as part of the last major sanctions package in early April, Kremlin officials warned of war given Moscow would have to “break the blockade” for the sake if its citizens.

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