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“ President Putin's contention that the Soviet leaders supported the indigenity*** of the other ethnic groups in the USSR. ”

I don’t have any sympathy for the Ukrainians, and do believe the Russians were goaded into this, BUT, the Ukrainians weren’t doing anything to the Russians in Don that the Russians weren’t already doing to the Chechnyans. They deserve each other.

PS: Good evening, Dieter!

“And mentally challenged Joe Biden - according to Steve Sailer - said the quiet part out loud at a now famous press conference: When the time is right, we sure will find means to shut down North-Stream II.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_v2rTMbMM

Also, thanks for the Allman Brothers Blue Sky link. Good stuff!

Thanks! ☮️

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Mr. Hail writes about Putin and German politics:
"The AfD, a soft-ethnonationalist party, by the end of this year could lead one or more state government in Germany, leading, by the end of the 2020s, to potential participation in the national government, which would be a true political revolution."
 
Mr. Hail we've discussed this before and I must say I'm still reluctant. In Sweden it took a generation to turn the system around (one result: the new right wing government is not only fiercely against the no-lockdown Covid-poltiics of their leftist predecessors, but  also of the strong conviction, that  Sweden .h.a.d. to enter NATO, because Russia is now seen as The Prototypical Enemy of the Free West... - in politics you never really get what you'd wish for...).

What in Germany will or will not happen this year depends on so many factors...My guess would be as follows: Strong AfD results in the three eastern state-elections - but no power-shift to the AfD.

The former secret-service chief Hans-Georg Maaßen, a politician of mildestly conservative ideas, might play a role too, if he manages to get his new party Werte-Union (Value**-Union) going, because he'd be willing to build a coalition with the AfD.

So - I'd expect less to happen than you do - but I could be perfectly wrong too.

**value in a moral sense at the first place - but also economic value, because the current government is destroying quite a bit of Germany's economic resources right now.


II The Alarmists ideas about the economic US-attacks
 
The Russian question is best addressed by - Jeffrey Sachs: Germany should follow its own interests with regard to Moscow - not so much the interests of the US.As The Alarmist has pointed out, there is a tendency in the US elites, to stripp Germany of its wealth, not always with very tender means... but sometimes even with quite elaborate  deceptive schemes (like in the financial crisis with the junk bonds they sold in incredible numbers to German regional banks, laughing about them in the minute the Germans had left the buildings... - or the rooms - - - same is true for the crass attacs on Bayer, Volkswagen - and lately BASF via the bombing of North Stream-Gas-pipelines from Russia to Germany - - - and also the once blooming German Nuclear power business.The war-mongering US-Hawks/Neocons said all this for decades - and they found ways to win over the German elites in the Green/ Social Democratic and liberal parties - even in the super-leftist The Left party!! - - - - That was a masterpiece in diplomatic warfare.
Now Donald J.Trump - whom the AfD adores and - the AfD and the soon to be founded Werte-Union: They all oppose this scheme - and this is why they are demonized... Its all very logical - and not very complicated, I guess.Anthony Blinken did even wrote a book about cutting Germany off from the Russian energy-resources. And mentally challenged Joe Biden - according to Steve Sailer - said the quiet part out loud at a now famous press conference: When the time is right, we sure will find means to shut down North-Stream II. 

PS: Greetings, gentlemen,

Always happy to help.

Achmed, I'm sure some of those old links don't work anymore. (mediafire links expire after a month, for example. Also, I noticed that those dual file .jpg/.zip files that I uploaded to imgbb.com stopped working some time ago. I guess imgbb.com started stripping out the non-.jpg info from the files.) (Too bad. I like doing those samizdat style files.)

I do, however, have a local copy of pretty much everything in the book club library. (All the "important stuff" anyway.) If we ever decide to gather up all the links I can "fix" the broken ones.

One thing that has been nice about uploading them to mega.nz (so far) is that all the files are easy to share without having to worry about external links changing or disappearing. Mega.nz is a little slow though. Perhaps there is a better place to host the files.(?) Or perhaps not as mega.nz has worked pretty well.

Happy weekend! ☮️

PS: Good morning, Mr. Smith! Peak Stupidity very much appreciates that list. I can go through the dBase and list out all URL's with the book titles for commenter "Peak Stupidity Book Club". From the first instance of that handle, I would have to look back for comments from you to try to pick out others you have kindly given us.

Then, it'd be easy enough to have a link to a list of all of them, alphabetical or whatever. It takes my getting off my ass, is all.

Again, thanks.

PS
Hoppla Adam - this is like Eat A Peach, a true wonder. Thanks sooo much!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UToUzWgHGyQ

PS: Good evening, everyone!

I've been collecting some books for awhile now and have just recently uploaded them for your reading enjoyment. Many of these were mentioned (mostly by Dieter) in the comments under Mr. Hail's Michelle Wu post. The others were mentioned here sometime in the last month or so. I (may?) have already posted links to some of these. A couple of them are in German, but I'm including them not only for Dieter, but for anyone who would like them.

Anyway... Here we go...
(In no particular order...)

True Grit by Charles Portis (12.3mb .pdf)
http://tinyurl.com/55cbweuh

End Times by Peter Turchin (3.3mb .pdf)
http://tinyurl.com/2xd6sx39

The Coddling of the American Mind (5.4mb .pdf)
by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
http://tinyurl.com/4y924s2d

The Agony Of The American Left (2.7mb .pdf)
by Christopher Lasch
http://tinyurl.com/bdhunvej

The Revolt of the Elites (13.6mb .pdf)
by Christopher Lasch
http://tinyurl.com/2s49rp7v

Achieving Our Country (1.4mb .pdf)
by Richard Rorty
http://tinyurl.com/37dxw4r4

The Turn of the Screw (562kb .pdf)
by Henry James
http://tinyurl.com/44uvbcyh

Sexual Personae (4.8mb .pdf)
by Camille Paglia
http://tinyurl.com/2p97pz7z

Enlightenment Now (13.9mb .pdf)
by Steven Pinker
http://tinyurl.com/mw6s7wft

The Road to Somewhere (14.3mb .pdf)
by David Goodhart
http://tinyurl.com/ycch4j5k

The WEIRDest people in the world (34mb .pdf)
by Joseph Henrich
http://tinyurl.com/4rk7df4r

When McKinsey Comes to Town (6.1mb .pdf)
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
http://tinyurl.com/5n8updpz

The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1 (2.2mb .pdf)
by Jürgen Habermas
http://tinyurl.com/3vukaddt

The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2 (2mb .pdf)
by Jürgen Habermas
http://tinyurl.com/4erp3w9h

A Man in Full (39.9mb .pdf)
by Tom Wolfe
http://tinyurl.com/2b3j9vby

The Culture of Narcissism (9.9mb .pdf)
by Christopher Lasch
http://tinyurl.com/smu794vn

Das Migrationsproblem (2.3mb .pdf)
by Rolf-Peter Sieferle
http://tinyurl.com/3rdxrw9t

Versuche über den Unfrieden (4.9mb .epub)
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
http://tinyurl.com/2zy92bxj

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers 1* (40.6mb .pdf)
by Gilbert Shelton
http://tinyurl.com/2fyxyzdv

Principia Discordia (5mb .pdf)
by Greg Hill
http://tinyurl.com/54z48te6

* There are 14 of these published between 1971 and 1997 plus 2 about Fat Freddy and 7 about The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat. If there is enough interest I can upload more of them.

Happy Saturday! ☮️

PS: "I haven’t watched yet, because I’m on the wrong side of the New Iron Curtain, but did Vlad drop the Russian joke where NATO asks Russia why it keeps moving its country closer to NATO’s bases?"

He didn't, Alarmist, but that's a good one!

PS: "(1.) Russia as Gangster-State. Putin is no figure to admire. He runs a gangster-state, for one thing. This is no kind of system one would like to live in, or to emulate. This is the dilemma that elements of the Western 'Right' are now in. They are maneuvered into defending a system that is profoundly against Western traditions.' + your # (2):

I agree on this, Mr. Hail. I know a lot of people, me, for example, would like for this to be true. Russia's got its only problems, lots of them, explaining why White Americans who are fed up aren't leaving en masse to the place. (I would take Uruguay any day of the week, and I haven't even been there to check it out yet. I really gotta!)

As for that de-Nazification, perhaps that's a way of linking modern Russia to Soviet Mother Russia of 80 years ago. Fighting the Nazis was their Great Patriotic War with something like 20 million Russians killed, IIRC. Acting like fighting Nazis, in the few places one could claim anything of the sort, is calling up feelings of old Russian patriotism. I think that's what Putin is up to.

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@Hail, Mr. Putin is certainly the saviour of Russia from the Western vultures who have been trying to dismember it and pillage it for decades.

As for being a gangster state, Russia is a piker compared to the gangsters running the “rules-based world order.”

German politics are simply breathtaking, especially considering what the gangsters running the “rules-based world order” have done to it over the years. In recent years you’ve seem the Fed and OCC encourage the acquisition of a US investment bank (the seventh largest at the time) that lost its banking license and was set to fail, only to then see the SEC fine and penalise the German Bank for $ billions, essentially destroying its investment banking ops in the US. Bayer was suckered into buying Monsanto, only to find any goodwill for buying that PoS poisoner of the world evaporated into $billions in fines and penalties, mostly from the US. And VW faced the same sort of looting. Any peeps from German politicos about that and Nordstream?

But hey, at least the German police finally cleared that racist Hitlerian AfD snowman of wrongdoing.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/berlin-police-investigate-possibly

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I haven’t watched yet, because I’m on the wrong side of the New Iron Curtain, but did Vlad drop the Russian joke where NATO asks Russia why it keeps moving its country closer to NATO’s bases?

PS

correction -- "Evan' Gershkovich is "the SON of Soviet-born Jewish exiles who had settled in New Jersey in 1979."

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"Evan Gershkovich"

Why is it that when you hear the name and circumstances of this figure -- who I agree is not a household name -- why is it that one immediately knows the ethnoreligious origin of the person, and what kind of origin and worldview he likely had? At least I feel I do.

Sure enough, we read that 'Evan' Gershkovich is "the of Soviet-born Jewish exiles who had settled in New Jersey in 1979."

PS: Thanks, Dieter. I did mean to add something about the coherency and general speaking ability of Vlad Putin vs. not just the 25th Amendment candidate Biden, but every President since... whom?

Mr. Hail, that was the video I was referring to. (I couldn't find it on youtube at the time, but then, I am bad at that.) Thanks. I will put a link in later on.

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Three final comments: Russia as gangster-state; Putin not a Western Savior; the German reaction to the Tucker-Putin interview and future of German/EU--Russia relations.

(1.) Russia as Gangster-State. Putin is no figure to admire. He runs a gangster-state, for one thing. This is no kind of system one would like to live in, or to emulate. This is the dilemma that elements of the Western 'Right' are now in. They are maneuvered into defending a system that is profoundly against Western traditions.

(2.) Putin not a Western Salvation Figure. There is no definite indication that Putin or his system/regime supports Western White-Europeans in a general sense, in the way some on the Right want to envision. This has been a controversy among beleaguered Western ethnonationalists since sometime about the mid-2000s, so about twenty years. By ca. 2020, a lot more such voices were pro-Putin; but the mutual hostility with the West and his continued lack of saying anything championing of the interests of the White Man in an international sense (as, for example, Viktor Orban of Hungary has done), seem to guarantee that he is no White Savior, never was, and never can be.

(3.) AfD's Hoecke's reaction, and future of German-Russia relations. The Tucker-Putin interview was watched with interest across Europe. Germany is, and remains, the most important player. The AfD, a soft-ethnonationalist, by the end of this year could lead one or more state governments in Germany, leading, by the end of the 2020s, to potential participation in the national government, which would be a true political revolution. At the least, all signs point to their having considerable influence, unless the national government bans the AfD as a party and puts leaders in prison (putting the national government in a dilemma of its own, "acting like Putin"?).

The man who is, in some ways, the leading figure of Germany's AfD party, Bjoern Hoecke, has praised the Tucker--Putin interview highly. I can add that Hoecke himself is set to go on trial, in April 2024, for alleged expressions of Racism. The AfD has for years now been seen as pro-Russia by its critics, with the party doing relatively little to counter those accusations. They would say, in their defense, they are actually neutral and correcting a serious error whereby Germany has tilted irrationally anti-Russia. In the 2000s and most of the 2010s, Germany had much more of a neutral Russia policy. A previous, Gerhard Schroeder (chancellor, 1998-2005), was himself practically pro-Russia outright, to a degree beyond what the AfD now is.

The German reaction is key, because as Germany goes so probably goes the EU. The big problem, --- again pointing back the finger to the legacy of 1945 -- is that Germany even in the mid-2020s still remains what some call a "semi-sovereign" state, lacking full control of its own foreign policy and of course hosting foreign military forces. The lack of resolution to the Nordstream Bombing, and Germany making no public matter of it, is a pretty-easy example to recognize of this phenomenon.

Mr. Kief, I hope you see this and offer some comments/reaction if you think I am correct or in error on these points.

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-- Putin's Nazi comments and the tragedy of 1940s geopolitics --

A few days ago I wrote several long comments in a long-faded-into-oblivion post here at PS about the origins of "Invade the World, Invite the World" in ideology and practice. I identified the 1940s as the critical decade. The Invade-Invite system was sort-of in place by the 1950s, although it would take a few decades to really "dig in" and become the iron-clad part of U.S. 'Regime' ideology that it it now is. But it just was not at all in the 1930s (even with some things coming over the horizon).

The Russian statement that their foreign policy is based on opposing "Nazis" points to the same direction as much of what I was getting at. (I hope, at some future date, to adapt the comments to an essay to be hosted at HailToYou.wordpress.com; a side-note on which -- as far as I can tell, I now get similar amounts of traffic from 'Yandex' as from 'Google,' despite market-share about 100x as large for Google...)

Putin also identifies Poles as Nazi collaborators; and if he had found reason to talk about them he'd likely say the same or more about Finns, Estonians, Latvians, and a dozen or two other identifiable groups from in and around the Russian world. Something "broke" in the Russian-world system as a result of a series of tragedies and terrible governments in the 1910s to 1940s/50s period. A better-led Tsarist system, if it could have survived, would probably have been a lot better. And I suppose it would have, absent Europe's biggest-ever mistake: going to war for no good reason in 1914.

But the "1945" inflexion point just seems inevitable. Everyone reading this comes after this point, so we are the inheritors of the world left by the men who led to 1945. Our 'Good War' mythology is actually just as saturating of our politics, culture, and psyche as Russia's own version. Theirs looks bizarre to us, only because we are looking at it from afar and now with an anti-Russia lens.

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You may be interested to see this:

"Tucker Carlson: After the Vladimir Putin interview"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLowwK-MBO0

This is 9m30s of Tucker Carlson giving candid reactions to a personal camera-man in his entourage. Part is while at a table still in the Kremlin, part back at his predictably-spacious luxury hotel.

Tucker says he was stunned by the interview and that he thinks it will take him about one year to get a hold of "what he thinks of it." He also attacks the U.S. State Department as full of Jewish ideologues. (Okay, he doesn't use the word 'Jewish').

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A lot of work you put into that one Mod. - impressive.

You wrote:
"With all that talk about the causes of the war by President Putin, I did detect a bit of trolling with his talk about the "Nazification". Yeah, there are Ukrainians that are Nazis of sorts. That is not at all the reason the Russians invaded the place. I think Putin said this in order to trap the NeoCons. They wouldn't like to be thought of as supporting Nazis. Was this a way of shutting them up a bit? I think so."

Let me add that the De-Nazification of - - -the world, kinda is a point that co-constitutes the Russian mentality. Russia as denazifyer has become an important part of the way Russians speak about Russia. I think that this is not right - for many reasons, but that this way to talk about Russia has somehow become natural for Russians.

I'd say that this is - as you point out in your example - indeed a : Misleading Russian habit, that so far no one I know of has looked into. - No book for the PS book club, - unless somebody would know of one. - I have a few in the back of my mind, but I'd have to think that over thoroughly before going on in this direction.