You’re paying for Ukraine’s reconstruction.

This is getting interesting: the Wagner mercenary group is now at war against the Russian Armed Forces. The Kremlin is treating this as a serious threat that could reach Moscow.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12228381/amp/Wagner-mercenaries-killed-RUSSIAN-missile-strikes.html

“Prigozhin has for months been openly accusing Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia's top general, Valery Gerasimov, of rank incompetence and of denying Wagner ammunition and support.”

I can’t blame Wagner for turning on the incompetent Russian government. Imagine putting your life on the line and fighting for a government that won’t even give you enough ammunition to fight it’s war.

Regardless of what you think of Ukraine, you have to admit that that the leadership of the Russian Armed Forces REALLY screwed up their invasion of Ukraine, and their own incompetence is probably more to blame for the majority of Russian casualties than anything else. We saw this at the beginning of the war when they the Russian army tried to sack Kiev, but it doesn’t appear they’ve been any less incompetent since then, judging by what the Wagner boss (Prigozhin) has been saying about the Russian army and his decision to turn against the Russian military.

Wagner turning against the Russian Armed Forces is a very big deal, because it appears that most of Russia’s big victories in Ukraine were due to the Wagner group rather than the main Russian Army.

“Prigozhin, a one-time Putin ally, in recent months has carried out an increasingly bitter feud with Moscow.
Wagner led Russia's capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut last month, Russia's biggest victory in 10 months, and Prigozhin has used its battlefield success to criticise the leadership of the defense ministry with seeming impunity - until now.”

Without Wagner, the Russian invasion is screwed, but on top of that, now Wagner wants to fight the Russian military and oust Putin.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/hapaperspective/10391

The man leading a group of battle hardened and capable mercenaries, hell bent on eliminating Putin and his entire administration, was once Putin’s chef.

Here’s my next prediction: civil war in Russia.

Looks like Adams has moved to the killing stage. https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1672227473189384192?s=20

Well I guess that explains how he got to be the leader of Wagner. There are no good guys in this war.

Kadyrov’s forces are approaching Rostov. If they start shooting Wagner it will officially be the start of the civil war.

I think a large portion of the Russian population is going to support Wagner’s attempt to oust Putin’s government. Many Russians don’t support the war in Ukraine and don’t like how Putin’s administration has been pushing their entire population into a poorly planned war that has killed many Russians.

That’s reassuring 🤓

It’s hard for me to imagine this “de escalation” agreement will last, because Wagner has already crossed the rubicon. Is the Putin administration going to just allow Wagner to return to Ukraine and keep fighting as if everything is all good now? I’d like to think Prigozhin knows better.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/UBERSOY1/2748

From an interview of George Orwell very near the end of his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIoAX5bI6S0

Diogenese has always been one of my favorite philosophers. He also used to shove that lantern in people’s faces and say to them “Have you seen the light of truth??”

People thought he was crazy but we all know better.

@AltSkull48

While I’m feeling particularly racist and have some time to think about it, has anybody else noticed that the Chinese peasantry often walk directly into you and/or stand right up against you? They’re silent when alone but excruciatingly obnoxious when in groups, every conversation could be mistaken for an argument and they shout at one another while standing right next to you, before shoving and rushing ahead of you the moment the opportunity presents itself.

I’m sure most other people find this toxic and irritating but the Chinaman doesn’t seem to notice or care.
Considering this complete disregard for anybody else around them, their sickening obedience to authority; always stressed, always moving hurriedly, ready to shoulder aside anybody else to get ahead or even just to get by, I find myself wondering: Is this the working class of the future?
Not ethnic Chinamen per se, but a class without basic courtesies, intuition or spacial awareness; a mob of rabble without a soul, perpetually trampling itself deeper into the dirt, stopping only to bow and pay homage to the official suits & uniforms.

The Chinese presence in Australia teaches us this: The current regime’s ideal worker has no dignity and no soul.

☝🏻What Blair says here about the Chinese aligns with my own opinion of them, not just as an ethnic group, but as this archetype of hyper-obedient-bugmen that the establishment-ruling-class want us all to turn into — not just racially, but also spiritually.

This is why I’m generally anti-authoritarian, because I believe that a hyper authoritarian society ends up breeding these spiritual Chinamen as described by Blair.