“legal academic”. Sixty thousands years of no such thing. Another thing you can thank the invaders for. I wonder how…
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Could it be the case that any person claiming to be of or from multiple aboriginal tribes is by definition…
This is always crazy: Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman No-one can pronounce them, let alone remember them. ?
Burmese are the only cats, apart from big cats, tigers especially, I like. They like me too.
The shit is hitting the fan from multiple directions.
Farage seems to be focussing on his class buddies, and is dumping on Tommy Robinson.
https://youtu.be/ZJQFIHs4f8U
Top coppers photographed in front of a mosque with known child traffickers?
How far up does this go?
The video by Andre Walker discusses allegations of cover-ups by certain Labour politicians in relation to grooming gangs, which he refers to due to restrictions on using specific terms on YouTube. The main accusation is that these politicians prioritized political interests over addressing serious crimes, including those involving Muslim gangs. Walker names several politicians: 1. **Simon Danczuk** – Former Labour MP for Rochdale, criticized for his behavior but defended by Walker against comparisons with the grooming gang members. 2. **Jim Dobbin** – Former Labour MP for Heywood and Middleton, accused of urging silence on the racial aspects of the crimes to avoid losing votes. 3. **Tony Lloyd** – Former Labour MP and Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner, criticized for deflecting blame onto broader British cultural issues. 4. **Ken Livingstone** – Former Mayor of London, associated with efforts to prevent acknowledgment of the grooming gang problem. 5. **Lee Jasper** – Former adviser to Ken Livingstone, linked to suppressing documentaries on the issue. 6. **Keir Starmer** – Current Leader of the Labour Party and former Director of Public Prosecutions, accused of failing to prosecute related crimes during his tenure. 7. **Sadiq Khan** – Current Mayor of London, criticized for purported inaction and lack of coverage of these issues in London. Walker expresses frustration with the lack of effective action and accountability and criticizes prioritizing electoral strategies over addressing serious crimes. He emphasizes the role of political and cultural sensitivities in discouraging open discussion and action on this issue.
Tell you what.
Right now Mitch Marsh is watching his own Test career nose-diving into the ocean.
Webster’s smacked it with bat, ball and hands in the cordon, and he’s younger than Marsh who is now a distant third in the giant allrounder category behind Webster and Green, who is ratshit with a crook back.
It is inevitable. Sorry Mitch.
Sorry Usman.
Sorry Josh.
Not getting a medal for just behaving and doing the right thing would be a good start.
Or for “participating” in some activity or sporting event.
99% of life is not like that.
Hear, hear!
Are people ‘neurodivergent.’ or is the world simply too crazy?
And he’s hit the winning runs, on debut, for both the Test and the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
Beauuuuu WEBSTAAAAA!
From “The Times.”
The statistics• 91% of 11-year-olds in the UK own a smartphone
• The average teen receives 237 smartphone notifications a day
• The average age for a child in the UK to receive a smartphone is around nine
• 25% of five to seven-year-olds have a smartphone (Ofcom)
• Most platforms have a minimum age of 13, but Ofcom research shows half of children under 13 are on social media
Zippster:
I’ve a feeling this isn’t going to split along traditional ideological lines. Neither side has represented the Great Unwashed and its aspirations for decades. And I don’t think Farage is going to represent them either.
I see the green shoots of another party to represent the Right and the wukkas/unemployed.
?Who will lead it? is the question.
P3do judges and MP’s.
Just watching Sky – interview with a Democratic “strategist”.
Hard to list and categorise the dumb drivel from this guy. Dumbest of all – Kamala to run in 2028!
Keep strategising mate. In a former life this guy was running around the Titanic assuring passengers and crew that the damage was just superficial. I won’t call him the Democratic Black Knight – that would be waycist.
From the Oz.
PAUL
3 hours ago
Funny you should say that Cathy. My relatives live in sunny, environmentally aware California yet their local city council regulates that everyone has to dry their washing with energy hungry clothes dryers because no one wants the eyesore of other people’s washing drying on lines.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RA8HfSwYt5g?feature=share
When the fledgling US asked the King of Mesopotamia? why his ships were pirating the US merchant fleet…
Watch on…
There has been a lot of cope – as you would expect. Kamala 2028 might dovetail with a narrative that Trump cheated, or Musk did the cheating and now he owns Trump.
there is no actual evidence. Nothing like we saw in 2020 where there is actual footage of boxes of ballots being delivered in dead of night, or pulled out from under tables when Republican observers had left on the assurance that counting was done for the night etc.
The closest they get to ‘evidence’ is the improbability of Trump winning all swing states – but the improbability would surely have been lowered by the fact people in swing states experienced the same cost of living pressures as people in other states.
Besides, the swing states may not have been as ‘swingy’ as the Dims thought since they had likely obscured with their shenanigans a trend toward Trump. The Dims would know how much their victory relied upon cheating, but the man-bun sandal-wearing betas and gauche tattooed and purple-haired feminists would not.
Yep. He’s goneski.
Should be.
But not so sure.
I note that, when facing a series against a potentially career-ending fast bowler in Bumrah, the “Free Gaza” boots stayed in the closet.
Another should be, but not so sure.
My money is on them taking Boland to Sri Lanka and flogging him on dead tracks to create a reason to give Hazlewood another go next Strayan summer.
FMD.
Looking at the weather, sez it’s 37.5 degrees, but feels like 32.8.
How is this possible?
I’m more inclined to say it’s actually 32.
There is a vast bleating contingent who post on X text boxes with different shade backgrounds (they are not memes by any stretch) various paraphrases of the idea that Trump will not be able to be inaugurated because of Section 14 of the constitution.
That is it.
it is rather strange – each person afeared but posting such bolstered by others themselves similarly afeared that there is no hope, have posted it and none of them.
Mutually assured by collective secret uncertainty.
And if Congress does not stop the inauguration it is because they are corrupt. Nothing about there not being a single jurisdiction where Trump or anyone else has been convicted of insurrection: they have made up their mind and it is up to the TLA agencies, Congress, and the universe re-aligning the planets to make it happen.
Very interesting finds here from the mid-late 90s:
and
From the nested comments:
Ah, yeah nah.
Konstas did not demoralise anyone. He made 22 off 17 balls with three boundaries, and was dismissed after a stupid shot that didn’t help anyone except India. He’ll learn, and he’s still the one, but he still needs others around him at this point.
Labbashagnee made 6. Smiff 4.
Webster showed no signs of being intimidated, and took it all the way home with Head. If he had gone early, it was then up to Carey and the bowlers. But he didn’t. He played exactly as a number 6 should have.
No perspective required.
Belated birthday wishes to Cassie.
Webster couldn’t have had a better debut. Australia was lucky.
I don’t get the fawning re Konstas. Tendulkar was scoring centuries at 16/17.
blackball
few interesting results in premiership league, crystal palace and Brentford in particular.
Bounemouth keep on going.
Championship, Sheffield utd and burnley win while Leeds blow a 3:1 lead over hull, with hills 2 goals comming in the final 10 min.
for Leeds fans that’s 2 games in a row that has happened – Farke should go volcanic and Tuesdays training should leave the players leg less.
training
Nearly all these females are brainwashed fruitloops.
Tough to watch.
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Re Birmingham turn off – spaghetti island – is that beautiful Universal tyre factory, with no tool,windows sma,shed and the top layer of brick about to fall down with smoked/ burn marks still standing .
The local told me that’s where the Scottish parliament sits.
Biden gave soros the medal of freedom: soros, a nazi collaborator and hater of the West. No doubt what happened under the gangrenous corpse was due to his brain dead condition and the vile underlings around him manipulating him but I think it was also consistent with what he was when not senile.
Wussia, Wussia Wussia.
Dover, you had to trudge through 27 years of the NYTimes to find an opinion piece that isn’t critical of Wussia? Oh my.,how could you: it’s a flagship MSM publication. I thought I’d never…….
I think it was Roger, who said to you, a few days ago, there was no way for Wussia to be allowed in NATO as it was always meddling in regional affairs of smaller bordering states. Wussia was never going to be a friend – at best neutral status and very closely watched for the obvious reason that it could not be trusted.
Perhaps because of instability created by underhanded Russian meddling in former Soviet republics and former commitern countries, it meant that it was ridiculous to have Russia joining NATO when these smaller states were clamoring to get away from Russian bear hugs.
The one thing you neglected to mention with your link to these silly and simplistic, NY TImes articles is that every single NATO member has veto power. Were US arms manufacturers also strong arming every politician under the NATO umbrella too? LOL. Seriously, you need to revise your X follows as it’s giving you mental indigestion.
Lastly, the American left was very negative towards the arms manufacturers during the 90s so it comes as no surprise the NYTimes would be carrying a critical piece.
Hi ho, Australia Day is coming up, and the usual whingers are crawling out of the woodwork.
One of the local “activists” here claims his people “don’t feel safe on Australia Day.”
Is anyone else as sick of this sh!t as I am?
A question for our farmers…
Out of 100 ” farming is easy” over educated mongs how many would find new and innovative ways to die in this picture alone..
The new Congress should vote on a resolution against these “medalists”.
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Lol, I find a tweet on my timeline today because its being quote tweeted by numerous people that references the work of a well-respected historian, John Gaddis, but no, I was trudging the NYT archive.
Oh my, the Russians must be the only country that meddle in their own region’s affairs. But setting that nonsense aside, if Russia was never going to be a friend then it is good that it finally learned that and it can’t be faulted if it treats the GAE now as a mortal enemy.
Who remembers this? I’m sure many here will.
It’s been such a long time. I am pi55ing myself laughing. Hahaa!
No way would he get away with it today.
Wired world of sports – Billy Birmingham
To be precise, Russia wanted to exclude former Soviet satellite states from NATO membership. That not only contradicted NATO’s constitution (NAT Art 10) acc. to which any European state was free to apply for NATO membership, it indicated that Russia may not have been acting in good faith.
Pool report.
Pro: 1 stunner 3/4 arse with tatts
Against: 3 cottage cheese 9/10 arses with random mottling…
Change who you’re following. Look at what’s happened to you. You’ve gone from Oakeshott to the Hootie tooties. That fishing line you’re cast is now north of the equator and you’ve hooked a blowfish.
Tell me, is Gaddis as well respected as Cooper?
No, of course not, and let me repeat a well used doverism.. I didn’t say that.
The Soviet’s former prisoners were sprinting faster that Usain Bolt to both get away from the Russians and join a collective that would offer protection and follow liberal values. They were not going to vote in favor of Russian accession into NATO. You must be dreaming to think that would’ve happened.
You don’t need to go from friend to mortal enemy. All Russia had to do was produce oil&gas, send hookers over to the middle east and mind its own business.In other words, what it does best. You don’t have to go from foe to bestest pal.
And please, the equivocations don’t really work. If you quote something and don’t offer a contrary opinion or qualification, then it has to be assumed you agree with it.. You therefore also own the opinion.
Ewwww.
Surely not. That would never happen. Wussia and Pukin are the good guys.
But the sheer audacity. The Soviet Union was actually a force for evil since the revolution. It fell over because its economic and social policies were in worse condition than a public toilet in Portland, but according to Dover, we should’ve treated them like the best pals. We should have been doing the sucking up. FMD.
Did the West ever get an apology for the Soviet’s behavior, particularly after all the shenanigans they pulled after WW2? Did Russia ever go through any self reflection for the diseased ideology they set forth both to themselves and the rest of the world. Did they apologize to the West for causing it to spend oodles of money in its defense. No of course not, and now we have this maniac in the Kremlin who wants to reconstitute the old Soviet empire. Yeah, it’s our fault we’re not friends.
In the UK the lid is coming right off the extent of the official cover-up of the ‘Asian’ child rape gangs.
In 2020 the official Home Office line was:
Shorter: limited Pakistani involvement, now controlled, but lots of white male and family offending. More resources needed. Move along, please.
This (I think, singular) piece of research was done in 2011/12 by the UK Children’s Commissioner and concluded that it was hard to identify any systematic racial pattern of offending from police records because police forces around the country didn’t keep systematic records of reported offenders’ ethnicity – other than ‘White British males were the only perpetrators identified in all site visits.”
The mainstream media is now calling bullshit on this.
And more surprisingly, directly identifying the Pakistani population throughout the country as the principle offenders on an extraordinary scale.
Even the BBC and Grauniad are doing fairly straight reporting on the issue.
The conservative side of politics, the Conservatives (guilty of neglect and obfuscation in government until late in the piece) and Reform, who have the popular pulse, are on a charge – and the utterly dismal Starmer Government is flapping around like a landed fish.
Labour knows what any systematic review will find, from perverts in the Party, through failed Labour councils (who hold the social services responsibility), to claims of prosecutorial neglect. It is also particularly ill-equipped to deal with the racial tensions and potential violence. A Southport 2.0 strategy – using the guilty-as-charged fuzz and expedited 24/7 courts to crackdown on Facebook anger at the justice system’s systematically pissweak handling of truly horrible crimes – will not play well.
This issue is unlikely to go away, but there are so many moving parts and dreadful bad actors that it’s not at all clear where it will all go.
A shitshow.
I’m trying to be…er, charitable, JC.
😀
If I was Trump I wouldn’t be forgiving and forgetting. Hope Merchan enjoys his IRS colonoscopy.
This isn’t really a serious argument. Article 10 places the emphasis on the agreement of existing members, and the condition that a new entrant must be a European country was made a farce of by Turkish entry and the overture to Georgia.
Moreover, the idea that Russia opposing a military alliance that puts US forces on its borders indicated less than good faith is nonsense. The entire point of putting US military forces, infrastructure, and weapons on Russia’s border is to constrain its actions globally rather than defend the countries on Russia’s near abroad. This was obvious to every geopolitical commentator in the 1980s and 90s, both those for achieving such constraint, and on those that feared the inevitable reaction.
Right to the top.
No direct involvement – heaven forfend! – but the king appears to have been recruited (willingly or unwillingly?) to the task of papering over the unspeakable sins of the UK prog-left establishment, past and present:
Commentary on the king’s speech by Gavin Ashenden, former Anglican bishop and long-standing chaplain to Queen Elizabeth.
here we are with JC’s argumentative deontic mobius strip again
the ever gibbering representation of the gulf between “ought” and “is”
Chuckle.
It certainly was at the time and subsequent history validates the concerns.
For the moment, no.
Academically, yes. He’s one of the top Cold War historians.
They weren’t even members at the time these articles were written. What the hell are you even talking about.
Sure, if you think those sort of humiliating terms are acceptable then don’t be surprised at the reaction.
I didn’t equivocate. I obviously agree with the my quotes above.
I have been to the Middle East. It’s a dump, and I have no idea why people are fighting about it. If that’s your religion, you need to take a cold shower.
People are still listening to this charlatan, who grew rich on this grift. Not that he actually lives up to any of it, of course.
@its_The_Dr
Al Gore, speaking at the World Economic Forum: “[Greenhouse gases are] now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day.”
Some funny looking balding midget left arm wrist spinner playing BBL for Hobart. Waqar. Chris Lynn just holed out to him.
Yesterday, I gave Elsie a couple of strips of Beef and Black Bean sauce. She turned her nose up at it. (Bowl of biscuits is half full)
Tonight, she is howling at my feet that she’s starving, and I gave her another strip of beef.
She attacked it as if it was one of the Jams of Paradise. Demanded more.
I’ll never figure out cats or women.
Can’t see der Stürmer lasting more than a few days once the new Fatty Trump administration is in place. The latter will simply refuse to tolerate him.
Although if it prevents or delays him being “Ghaddafied”*, I will be most annoyed …
*Thanks, Arks.
John Kerry, then US Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, meets with Iran’s then Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on May 17, 2016 in Vienna, Austria. (Image source: US State Department)
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Without obuma and POS like kerry the iranians would still be rooting goats. The enemy of the West are the left.
Tsk, tsk, don’t you know it’s the little people who need to make sacrifices for climate change and the special people will then sacrifice the little people’s children to Muslim rapists for community cohesion. It works just fine, just ask any Middle Ages liege lord.
Cats, is closure the right word?
These blokes found him after 7 years. The family get to have a burial. You just know they will go to sleep thinking what happend?
No speculation from me. All that matters is they found him.
Great job.
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Dr F earlier on “Something’s Rotten in the State of Rotherham”:-
It has the potential to end in charges called “Perversion of the Course of Justice” where there was Lone Wolf Renegade type behaviour.
However, if it can be shown that more than one person was involved in said shit-show, and acted in concert with others, what we have is charges called “Conspiracy to Pervert of the Course of Justice”.
This is jolly serious stuff.
If the gas gets turned up, wait for Steer Clear Keir to nudge others under a string of buses.
The amount he wasn’t told will be truly astounding … and disappointing.
Media Freaks Out Over Musk’s Muslim Rape Gang Tweets
The first rule of Muslim atrocities in the UK is that you’re not supposed to talk about them. Not long ago the Starmer regime unleashed a ruthless purge against anyone who mentioned that a Muslim terrorist had stabbed a bunch of little girls, declaring that it was a national emergency to shut down any speech on the matter.
There’s a lot of links to sentencing remarks floating around now re these gang rapists. The savagery that gang rapists put those children through is beyond contemplation. How anything less than life without parole was handed down is a disgrace. Muslims need to confront and condemn their coreligionists or ship out.
Poor Liri
https://x.com/bringhomenow/status/1875582107059179627?t=0-0KT05UNRQ7SXB3WyV6DA&s=19
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1875806670426927171?t=M9ta_BB6aKRvJS8_HlG5NQ&s=19
Not at all, in fact, if anything was validated, it was the warnings by Keenan and Gaddis, to name but two.
Zarif is one of the GAE’s best assets. He’s a moderate reformer.
There are some people I really don’t want to socially cohere with. Pakistani rape gangs among them.
Mehdi Hassan is a long time apologist for wape. He thinks the wapes of October 7 were heroic resistance.
Calling Mehdi Hassan a cockroach is a tad unfair to cockroaches
But nobody should be surprised by any of this, love jihad has been happening for centuries, in every land Islam has conquered, just ask the Christians, Jews, Yazidis and Zoroastrians of the Middle East, Caucasus and Balkans, just ask the Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs of the subcontinent.
It’s a well ‘waped’ path. Wape is basic tenant of Islamic jihad. Anyway, Islam’s hideous maniacal prophet had sex with a nine year old (and some accounts suggest she was just six years old). Following the path of Mo the Peterfile is the righteous goal of every Muslim.
“Sacrificed at the altar of political correctness” – Brendan O’Neill on the grooming gang failures
In the video, Brendan O’Neill discusses the repeated failures of authorities to address the grooming gang scandals in the UK, particularly focusing on white working-class girls who were victimized. The issue has resurfaced prominently due to recent political decisions, like Jess Phillips from the Home Office rejecting a call for an inquiry into the Oldham abuse scandal. O’Neill argues that political correctness and a fear of being labeled Islamophobic or harming race relations led to a reluctance to address these crimes transparently. O’Neill touches on how this narrative has evolved over the past decade, citing multiple cases across the UK, and criticizes the institutions—including local councils, police, and sections of the media—for not taking the victims seriously. He attributes part of the negligence to classism and a tendency to disregard the plight of marginalized communities. The video criticizes the notion that the media has ignored the issue—it has been reported, though not always widely—and examines the cultural and institutional cowardice that suppressed a more vigorous response. O’Neill expresses skepticism about the efficacy of inquiries, suggesting that they may be more about damage control than genuine accountability. He emphasizes the need for open discussions about these failures to prevent future occurrences and to ensure the safety and rights of all women, highlighting the importance of overcoming ideological barriers for the sake of societal and legal justice.
Oh, and any serious investigation into the Rotherham cover-ups would home in on the “community cohesion” angle.
A DPP/OPP/DA can make a judgement call to not prosecute on the basis that he/she does not believe there is a reasonable prospect of securing a guilty verdict.*
However, I cannot find any reference in the Criminal Law Act which allows a DPP to overlay “communidy cohesion” as a factor in deciding whether to prosecute or not. Any reference to that being a key factor in deciding not to prosecute is Perverting the Course of Justice.
Slam dunk.
…
* The judgement call on likelihood of prosecution is something of a figleaf, but not total diplomatic immunity.
Sir Keir could be asked …
“Billy Smith. Charged on the basis of one uncorroborated complaint. Convicted.”
Jimmy Jones. Charged based upon a recovered memory from 25 years ago. Convicted.
Mohammed Paki. 14 complaints lodged which corroborate each other, along with other supporting forensic evidence. Not charged.
Please essplain.”
Astounding propaganda.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/crimeate-change-shock-link-between-rising-temperatures-and-rising-crime-rates/news-story/dc0d219339b5a4bd9ac179440841696a
The rape scandal is a direct result of the denigration of men. Years ago, women were protected by brothers, fathers and friends who would deter predators. Males have been emaciated by beady-eyed shoulder-less betas like Starmer. What a mistake we’ve made.
Umm, there was talk of accession for the former Soviet prison colonies as far back as the ’92 and ’96 elections. The fact that they weren’t even members at the time of these discussions is neither here nor there for that very reason. There was a great deal of debate, both in Europe and the U.S., about the accession of these former victims of Soviet rule. Nice curveball, though.
Here
There were:
Muslims can’t.
What the Pakistanis did was halal.
FMD.
Trans, I think your keyboard been taken over by a rogue random sentence generator, or is this just your way of reminding us that coherence is optional?
@IanCarrollShow
Remember, they still haven’t cracked this kid’s phone.
Yet they are falling over themselves to tell you all about the Vegas cybertruck bomber and giving a random influencer an all access pass to the home of the New Orleans attacker…
Weird…
If there were only talks of ascension they aren’t yet in the NATO club so unable to veto ascension to the Russian Federation under Yeltsin. To remind you of your own word:
They [former East Bloc countries] were not going to vote in favor of Russian accession into NATO.
Wow, I had no idea there was a debate in the 90s. I thought those articles I posted only this morning had no context.
Even a North Korean peasant working in a rice paddy knew by 1997 that those former Soviet prison states were gaining membership to NATO. That was point.
I was referring to the later arrivals.
No one by 1997 didn’t know the first load of politcal prison states weren’t going to be knocked back.
For the second tranche. I believe that was quite a surprise.
I really don’t get where you’re trying to go with this. Russia could not never have been a member of NATO. No one wanted them. It wasn’t so much as a defeat, but a collapse of the sickly empire held together by fear.
It’s like you’re suggesting that if someone has been pointing a gun at you, falls over and ends up shooting himself, they should be friends after that. The fact the Orcs showed absolutely no remorse for what they did indicates that they were never going to be our pals. The idea that you’re floating the bullshit that the West weren’t friendly enough is laughable.Peaceful co-existence was the best anyone could hope for.
Zafiro
January 5, 2025 9:35 pm
Reply to DrBeauGan
Mirriam Webster
“cohere
verb
cohered; cohering
Synonyms of cohere
intransitive verb
1
a: to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass
broadly : stick, adhere
b: to display cohesion of plant parts
2
to hold together as a mass of parts that cohere
3
a: to become united in principles, relationships, or interests
b: to be logically or aesthetically consistent”
A combination space and sword cute owl!
?
That to me is approximating perfection. Keep the cute owls and the reports of tramp-stamp Shazzas at the pool in Geraldton coming though.
Trouble in paradise.
@Telegraph
Russia has rushed its top general to the Kursk region to personally oversee defence against Ukraine’s surprise counteroffensive.
your brilliance JC, eclipses all the stars
and your understanding of “how things really are” is astounding
idiot
Tough deciding between idiot and God Oracle as the sign off, Trans?
how you coping there, spazz-boy?
No one was arguing that the group brought in in 1999 or in 2004 was a surprise.
If no one wanted them why were they accepted along with the other Eastern Bloc countries into the PfP program in ’94? Why could Russia in the 90s not be a prospective member of NATO but the Germans in late 40s could? If the Russians were such a monstrous country that could never join a security alliance with the US why were they part of one during WW2? Oh, because the Germans before and during WW2 were even more monstrous than the Russians. And, yet in the space of four years the US could forgive them and allow them to join NATO in ’49.
Wrong analogy. It’s rather that they both were pointing the gun at each other and that after a number of years a faction within the Soviet Empire decided to put down their gun for whatever range of reasons. As to the idea floated, it was either in the best case, integration of Russia into NATO’s security structure or peaceful coexistence maintained by distance between their respective security spheres which excludes eastward expansion of NATO or westward expansion of Russia’s sphere.
No one said you were. I said the 2004 lot were a bit of a surprise.
It was the top, useless green part of the carrot, meant to help the Russians cope with the reality that they weren’t going to be joining NATO.
A few reasons:
Germany had been utterly defeated in WWII, largely de-Nazified, and Allied troops were still stationed there. The people were remorseful and held elections, choosing anti-Nazi candidates to form the government.
Meanwhile, the Soviets had taken over East Germany and were holding firm, while also eyeing Eastern Europe. By that time, it was clear that the Soviet Union was up to no good.
Non-Friends in need facing a common enemy. Shit happens.
The Soviet Union wasn’t defeated. NATO troops were never stationed in the former Soviet Union. The Soviets essentially collapsed from within due to their numerous contradictions. They never gave up their nuclear arsenal. It’s a completely different situation. The NSGRE (Not So Great Empire) crumbled, and within a year, it was seeking to join NATO—the very bloc it had been threatening since the end of WWII. You’ve got to be kidding. However, the West did offer them the Partnership for Peace Accord.
To understand how a Russia in NATO would have played out, consider the countless times Russia has opposed the US and the West at the UN. Russian accession would have been an absolute disaster. It would be like having a rattle snake in the house pretending it’s a pet.
Yeah, naaa, it’s right.
They never did, because the “guns” you’re referring to are their nuclear weapons, and they’d rather fry in hell before they gave them up.
Which Western country, with a semblance of sanity, would ever accept Russian dominance willingly? Are you tripping right now? Seriously, the only form of Western expansion by Russia would be to take over a Western country by force. Nearly every Western country having a border with them and not a Pukin vassal state hate them, and historically for good reason.
Andrew Bolt has a suggestion in today’s Hun:
Outstanding.
KevinM
January 5, 2025 3:28 am
Believe it or not, it’s all marble.
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By Giovanni Batista Lombard.
Thank you Kevin, now that’s craftsmanship as is the
Cristo Velato (The Veiled Christ) by Giuseppe Sanmartino – breathtaking
https://aleteia.org/2020/06/23/the-veiled-christ-the-miracle-of-transparent-marble
and this video give a detailed look: https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-veiled-christ
Matrix 4/1 @ 6:59
incentives for EV – no FBT for EV and employee shows the private use as a repotable fringe benefit on your payg summary