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Trump and Ukraine (summary)

Once again, summarizing my support of Trump:

– Trumps ties to Russia, while troubling were extremely overblown by a media establishment willing to say anything to undermine him. Clinton’s ties (bill’s Moscow Speech, the Uranium deal, etc) seemed comparable to Trumps.

– I suspect the Kremlin expected a Clinton victory and wanted to ally with the opposition to a weakened president Clinton. I think they’ve painted themselves into a corner rhetorically and will have an extremely difficult time countenancing a strength that the Trump administration projects. Russia is weak in peace and weak in war. So they’re always striving for something in between — where they will break the rules and other countries will follow them.

– There are also people in the Trump administration who get Russia. The most insightful, concise, accurate assessment of Russia I’ve heard from DC came from our new Sec Def, General Mattis:

The best non-concise analysis is Heritage Foundation: U.S. Comprehensive Strategy Toward Russia, and (ehem, ehem) these two essays aren’t bad either.

– Has Obama/Clinton helped Ukraine? They’ve been weak and aimless and enabled Russian aggression.

More of my ongoing commentary about Trump and Ukraine: https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=trump+site%3Aromaninukraine.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Joke: Two Hutsuls in the Carpathian mountains

Ukrainian Joke:

Two Hutsul in the Carpathian mountains were approached by a tourist.

Do you speak English?  The tourist asked.

The Hutsuls, shook their heads.

Parlez vous Francais?

They shook their heads.

sprechen ze Deutch?

They shook their heads.

Espaniol?

They shook their heads.

The tourist, dejected, walked away.

“Hey Ivan,” one of the Hutsuls tells the other, “do you think we should maybe learn some foreign languages?”

“What for?” says the other, “you see how many languages that guy spoke, and it didn’t help him.”

Mad Dog Mattis groks Russia!

Perfect!

* Russians see western law-abidingness as an exploitable weakness.

* They function by making threats, and getting others to back down.

* They consider democracy and prosperity on their boarders to be a threat.

* They try to secure themselves by sowing chaos and instability.

* Rampant alcoholism and abortion-as-birthcontrol – they’re already off the demographic cliff. (In sharp constrast to all the “traditionalist brotherhood” propaganda.)

* Most jihadists of any non-Middle East country.

* Real possibility of fracturing. (As was also concluded by Stratfor.)

* They’ve threatened Nuclear War against the US (and Poland and others).

Boys from Banderstadt

Awesome Ukrainian cadence — Boys from Banderstadt

The original song came of Ukraine’s iconic rock band “Brativ Hadiukinyx,” which ofted did satirical rock and roll.

This particular song, which has been re-made into a cadence jokes about how Russia always calls Ukrainians fascist followers of Bandera.

Some of the lyrics herein which are sung very aggressively and menacingly translate as: “We are boys from Baderstadt. We go to church and respect our parents.”

Bragging about #MH17 Mascara

This is the type of thing I’m talking about when I say that Westerners have no idea about the dark depths of Russian nihilism. (Just as Russians have no idea about Western idealism. When encountering Western appeals to any ideal or human decency, the Russian mind assumes westerns are either lying in an attempt to trick them, or hopelessly naive an therefore weak.)

Russians were boasting about getting fancy European cosmetics recovered from the wreckage of MH-17 on which about 300 civilians were killed.

See also, When a mass grave was revealed in Kolpashevo, Siberia in 1979 — A story about Soviet man. A story about Russia: https://globalvoices.org/2015/11/05/russia-the-remarkable-forgotten-story-of-how-a-soviet-town-disposed-of-its-dead/

Backup text:

Sergey-Parkhomenko-Kolpashevo-Story

Poland was banned from 1946 WW2 Victory Parade to appease Stalin

In the 1946 London victory parade that commemorated the victorious allies against Nazi Germany, Polish forces, who were the first and one of the most important allies in the war against Hitler and Germany, were forbidden to participate and the Polish flag was removed because the western allies did not want to annoy Russia and to remind everyone how they betrayed Poland at tne end of WW2 and sold it to Stalin.

In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain.

Yes, Communism is this stupid. See also, “the “ryazan miracle”.

—“In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in history. . . .

This lead to a problem the next year. It was noticed that insect infestation of crop fields had soared. Sparrows ate pests such as locusts, and after the campaign, the locusts lost their major predator. This meant that killing the sparrows was counter-productive. The sparrows, it seemed, didn’t only eat grain seeds. They also ate insects.

Locust populations boomed and they ate everything in their path.”—

http://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/26/1958-mao-zedong-ordered-sparrows-killed-ate-much-grain-caused-one-worst-environmental-disasters-history/