If the government handed you a rifle to resist a foreign army, would you even know how to use it? Do you know how to zero a rifle? Do you know how to clear a jam? Do you understand effective range and different calibers? Could you use the gun effectively without having to think through every step?

See, this is why having a strong gun culture and gun rights matter, because otherwise you’re going think “I played counter-strike dude, I got this.”

https://news.1rj.ru/str/war_noir/7697

I wondered what other news would be slipping through under cover of the Russia/Ukraine conflict

https://news.1rj.ru/str/disclosetv/7101

LOL

https://news.1rj.ru/str/AltSkull48/1616

"If you want to protect yourself, get a double-barrel shotgun. You don't need an AR-15. It's harder to aim, it's harder to use, and in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun." -Joe Biden

Meanwhile in Ukraine:
“look what’s going on here in Obolon. All men here, getting ready. You dont even need documents. Come, come, we’ll meet you”

Imagine an alternative universe where Putin was marching in to liberate Ukraine from an illegitimate Jewish tyranny. Instead, he's going in with the stated goal of "denazifying" Ukraine. 😑

This really is like an international Slavic version of Democrats vs Republicans. One more liberal and Jewish, but had stronger associations with cool paramilitaries like the KKK. The other nominally "conservative" and nationalist-presenting, but invoking the legacy of MLK and declaring Dems are the real racists.

⚔️ This is an interesting take, but one that intuitively makes sense if you understand how wars actually work: it’s more expensive for foreign conventional forces to fight guerrilla/militias forces defending their home turf with just small arms. It seems to me that most of Ukraine’s conventional professional army — especially its heavy equipment like tanks and air defense — have already been mostly wiped out, but the militias are bogging down the Russian army with just small arms and likely infantry-anti-tank weapons, making it more costly for the Russians to continue their invasion if they can’t take Kiev quickly enough.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MilitantWire/124

⚔️ The Ukrainian resistance is outnumbered, outgunned, and totally outmatched by Russia’s conventional war machine: Russia has better military hardware and more of it, that means more/better armored vehicles, tanks, helicopters, air, anti-air, artillery and etc... They have everything better on paper.

BUT if the Ukrainian resistance can just manage to inflict painful casualties on the Russian forces, basically giving Russia what is called a Pyrrhic Victory — a victory so costly it might as well be defeat — it’ll yet again prove that militias formed out of the general population are the most cost effective fighting force — the biggest bang for the buck — especially for national defense.

This whole argument of “redneck militias with rifles can’t fight the military, they have tanks and planes!!!” will yet again be blown out of the fucking water, BTFOed yet again.

"The one advantage the Ukrainians have got is they're fighting for their own country on their soil. Secondly, it appears large numbers of civilians are volunteering to fight alongside the armed forces, and that may make any Russian attacks on urban areas more difficult."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraines-army-no-match-for-russia-in-manpower-weapons-experience-2788234

👆 Don’t misconstrue this, I’m not taking sides. I’m just using the conflict to make a point.

Whether it's the Telegraph reporting Russia's 'mobile crematoria' using pictures of a trash compactor, or the planes shot down using images from a US airshow, or the Guardian reporting explosions at a Ukrainian munitions factory recycling footage reported by the Irish times in 2017, or "Ukraine president fighting on the front lines" using images of his border inspection from 2021, or the poster-woman featured on the front of all British newspapers using images from a 2018 gas explosion (pictured above), or whether it's the constant cycles of a dead journalist 'Bernie Gores' in fake CNN Afghanistan and CNN Ukraine accounts (a YouTuber named Jordie Jordan) or of Sam Hyde — everything is just artificial and recycled and I cannot believe anything I see or read now.

This is exactly the attitude we should have had in 2020 with the bodies falling in the streets of Wuhan.

Why would a capitalist oligarch fund education that will certainly disadvantage students who receive it? Either because he is blindly destructive, or he is blindly idealistic, or he knows that his descendants will be taught at schools (and more likely, by private tutors) that don't use this education style, and his goal is to ensure that as few new people as possible can join that echelon and compete with them. It's really vicious when you think about it. Reptilian.

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/02/25/bill-gates-writes-a-giant-check-to-choke-the-capitalism-and-racism-of-objective-math-n528286

How can we come to the truth about what’s going on in the world if we aren’t exploring ideas and being open-minded to possibilities where there’s evidence and reason to consider them?

If you’re just reflexively dismissing alternative possibilities as “schizo Qanon conspiracy theories” when they have nothing at all to do with Qanon nonsense, it’s a textbook straw man that makes you look like a literal schizo idiot — especially if you already believe in other conspiracy theories, like America, the CIA or Israel being behind Ukraine or anything else. This is why I don’t like the label “conspiracy theory” because conspiracies happen, and the people that accuse others of being “conspiracy theorists” are conspiracy theorists themselves. It’s just a pejorative used by hypocrites.

You have no right to subscribe to any of the anti-Western NazBol conspiracy theories if you simultaneously call other people within our movement “conspiracy theorists” or “qtards” just for exploring ideas that are outside of the NazBol-approved conspiracy theory box. No one owns the truth.

Remember what I was saying about militias vs tanks?

https://news.1rj.ru/str/CIG_telegram/17888

My guess, and this is just a guess, is that the Russian armed forces will win in Ukraine, but it will more or less be a Pyrrhic Victory — kind of like winning a bar fight but still going to the emergency room for multiple surgeries, PTSD and being hospitalized for months despite the victory.

Nah, mate. Everything is just fake and gay at this point. Trying to stay on top of the Russia-Ukraine situation is like trying to grip an eel in water and it's impossible trying to piece any of it together when information and propaganda are inseparable.

More so, as Pox Populi wrote above, people are taking sides based on where they think the Jewish hand lies and then taking the opposite — which is absurd when it is on both sides. We have the Nazbols and tankies simping for Russia on the one side, and on the other a diverse pallette of normies, reactionaries and Azov-fanboys, all with different motives.

I just want to cut through the bullshit and get a grasp on the situation.

I'm going back to reading Nix Jeelvy articles on Counter Currents.