81 Replies to “When They Show You Who They Are, Believe Them”

    1. Mwaaaahhhahahahaha … ” NATO has never been stronger” … Hahahahahahaha … hahaha

      Well you know what they say: “smell isn’t everything”.

      Oh Allan, you are precious. Don’t ever change.

      1. A few years ago, many were wondering if NATO even had a purpose.

        No one wonders that now. Sweden and Finland will soon join, and many countries are dramatically increasing military budgets. New NATO bases are opening on its eastern frontier. I suspect that the Baltic states are intensely thankfully for being in NATO, as otherwise they would be easy pickings for the Russian bear.

    2. True, if anything it is Ukraine with NATO help that is neutering russia. And that is very bad for Chicoms. Chicoms are getting pretty annoyed with russia. Russia is like that growling mongrel that broke from its chain attacked a neighbor that chicoms did not want to have fight with for now and Chicoms don’t quite know how to bring it back to heel.

      Also they are realizing, that their military which is largely based on russian designs, is much weaker than they thought it was.

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      2. You’re more right than you know here. Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling is very very bad from a (rational) Chinese point of view. If Russia can get its way by threatening or even using nukes even on a very small scale, or even just appears to get a little bit of its way, then it’s on-almost every country and its neighbor will want some nukes. I can’t imagine China wants proliferation in its neighborhood. Even if Xi is too daft to see this, I’m sure people in the PLA and his government will agree.

        1. Actually I am just about as right as I know. The point about nuclear proliferation is valid. To put it in other words: if you get to invade a country, lose a war and then say “f*** you, nukes” then every country will want nukes.

          Also Chicoms have a rather small nuke arsenal. A world where nukes become a norm does not suit them for this reason as well.

    3. God you’re an idiot. The German military is in about as bad a shape as Canada’s with about as much operational equipment and supply reserves. In other words, they wouldn’t be able to stop a Russian mess tin repair platoon drunk on rotgut vodka. And Germany is supposedly da best in da EU. The British military isn’t nearly in as bad a shape, but it’s getting weaker by the day.

      How about you stick to stuff you actually understand and let the grown ups have adult converations?

      1. Germany is probably useless at fighting, but their RingTausch equipment supply program has been commendable and has done a good job of getting arms to Ukraine.

      2. You’re exaggerating.

        In response to Siberian invasion of Ukraine, Germans are building up massively they have increased their military budget above late Cold War levels. Within few years they will pack a lot of punch. You see similar moves in multiple countries in Europe, Poland especially. When it comes to German readiness their peacetime ruddiness is to standards that are ridiculously high. A single burned out light bulb can qualify the tank as not combat ready. if actual combat happened you could expect German army to show up in much higher numbers than their on paper combat readiness.

        There is a massive recycling of old gear through Ukraine. When Pootin invaded he decided that no NATO country that uses russian gear (post communist countries, Greece, Turkey) will get russian spares. All this gear is going to Ukraine and is being replaced by modern better Western gear (Pootin’s 5D chess and all). Yes that process takes time but NATO will rearm much sooner than devastated by war, crippled, incompetent, corrupt, raging, drunk Orgrimmar.

        Same is happening with guided munitions. Anything NATO has that is close to expiry date is sent to Ukraine and stocks replenished with more modern and capable munitions. NASAMS is a perfect example of that, it is an AMRAAM recycling system for all NATO. All those AMRAAMS that after a certain number of hours in the air, can no longer be carried by aircraft and need to be recycled… are being recycled in Ukraine via NASAMS. Meanwhile better replacements are being fielded.

        Then there is Geopolitics, Baltic is NATO waters now.

        So yes the argument that NATO has never been stronger holds water. Especially when NATO strength is viewed in relative terms against the strength of its competitors.

        1. You may not know this, but the Siberians are actually the Ukrainians. The people occupied by and interbred with the Golden Horde. The Tartars, the Cossacks … all of Asiatic heritage. Muscovy was the princedoms of the Varangians and Vikings in the North. The ones that resisted and threw back the Golden Horde, and (finally) liberated them from the Khan. The Zaporizhyan Cossacks have been ungrateful sods ever since.

          1. Ugh, nope. Pretty much the opposite is true. But I am sure that is what they taught you in a russian school.

          2. Poland & Hungary threw back the Mongols. Before that, the Mongols went through Muscovy AND Kyiv / Volyn like a hot knife does through butter.

          3. Mongols created it. Muskovy was nothing before Mongols, an unrecorded by history settlement. And for centuries Muscovy remained a Mongol fiefdom. Indeed Muskovy was still paying their dues to Mongols as late end of 15th century! But most importantly Mongol ways remained. Mongol way of doing business. Mongol ways of treating family, neighbors, etc. Mongol absolutism, barbarity and cruelty in relationships between those above and those below at every level. They most famously manifested themselves during the slaughter of Novgorod (the only city on the east that managed to avoid Mongol destruction). And russia with all its revolting barbarity hasn’t changes since.

    4. BRICS is larger by landmass, population and is about to add two more members, one of which has been the cornerstone of the dollar based economy since the 1970s.

    5. Allen S

      “Nato has never been stronger”

      Laffing my (_i_) off
      Deluded much…??
      ….my god , what a TRULY STUPID/ignorant comment.

    6. Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania are not going to add much but bring a lot of risk. I could also include Belgium and Canada there.

      1. Actually they are adding a lot. They are putting Orgrimmar back in its place and they made Baltic a NATO lake and entire Scandinavia a NATO country. And now you can landlock russia from Baltic if they ever started a war.

    7. Too bad our government is too stupid to withdraw from NATO. Continued membership in NATO is in Canada’s interest and hasn’t been since 1992. Why Mulroney’s government didn’t walk away at the same time as they withdrew the CAF from Germany is mind boggling.

      1. “Withdraw Canada from NATO” a dream of every turd worlder disloyal to Western Civilization aka Civilization.

  1. I’m sure the Prime Megalomania Orifice (PMO) still “admires the Chinese dictatorship”.

    Judging by the Emergency Act inquiry, the PMO seems to be an ardent fan of wholly unjustified acts of defenestration.

    Look where the clown car cadre admirer took his lessons… 🙂

    Cheers

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

    1. One plus of a cultural revolution; all the academics get sent out to work in the fields or other forms of hard manual labour.

      And in Canada the gang greens could be put to work shovelling snow, to make it easier for Uber Rickshaw to get around.

      Sarc off … sorta!

  2. The old bait and switch routine…
    You’d be quite astonished on how many companies buy from China and switch out their own products.
    Quality is really good at first…but not so much as you reorder and time switched out parts for inferior quality components.
    I do mean that the duplicates are astonishingly good that makes it difficult to find fakes as it behind plastic and non magnetic in coping coins.

    1. Kenji
      If you were actually smart , you would call it what it is SARS 2 !
      Which they used HCQ as a therapeutic to cure, and that is why they call it covid-19.

      1. SARS 2 is a virus. COVID-19 is collection of symptoms of dis-ease.
        Which is correct to refer to is determined by context.

        The pandemic is of COVID-19, which has been claimed to have begun in a wet market.
        SARS 2 has not been claimed to have begun in a wet market. It has been claimed to have begun in a cave.

        Kenji’s usage is correct.

  3. Easily noticeable is that Xi and his other commie f**ks are all maskless.

    His predecessor’s removal will also include his family and those tied to him.
    Good old Stalinist purge.

  4. Ahh, the good old days. How about the 2 guys at the end of the table. No problems from them seen forthcoming. Nowadays our political betters rely upon social media to unperson their enemies.

  5. Organ donor. Noticed how his pal on the left tried to help him until the man seated next to him gave him a tap as if to say “Dude…let it go”

    1. Ya, equally noticeable was the room full of people who didn’t object in the slightest.

      Kind of like liberals, never go against dear leader.

  6. “NATO uses Ukraine to weaken Russia, while Xi watches Russia weaken NATO. I believe they call that the “catbird seat”.”

    Like Russia when Germany went to war with England and France.

    WWII started to keep Poland from being occupied by a ruthless socialist dictatorship.
    It ended with Poland being occupied by a ruthless socialist dictatorship.

    Who gained the most?

  7. China treats it’s former leader with more dignity while removing him, than America is presently treating it’s former leader while trying to remove him. (From the Twit’ter comments…)

    1. Yes, that is because America for its flaws has these things called ‘laws’ and breaking them as flagrantly as Trump did has consequences.

          1. Sure going after President Trump in a most uncivilized manner, in a Lord of the Flies kind of way.

  8. Let’s face it. Nato is the United States of America. So….

    United States uses Ukraine to weaken Russia … while Xi watches Russia weaken the United States.

    I see that happening, despite the claims about Russia or Ukraine.

    Or asked another way … “Do you think the United States is getting stronger as a military power?”.

    Answer: Afghanistan.

      1. Before the liberation* of Ukraine countries could pretend they were friendly with the US. The war has changed that resulting in a realignment of countries between those who support, and those who refuse to support, the US-led embargo. The refuseniks now exceed 50% of the world’s population (Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico etc.). Not a small group. Surely that is a weakening development.

        Before the war* in Ukraine NATO was the top dog of world policing efforts. Since the war you have seen how eager countries are to enter into the conflict directly, including Germany. Not very eager. You also see how limited Europe’s fighting capability is – the Germans might have more tanks in museums than on the battlefield.

        American citizens are weary of war – you could see this in the withdraw from Afghanistan. The Ukraine war forces Americans to think about international conflict and the support (although strong originally) is weakening – not a good sign for the people of Ukraine.

        To many of us, the war in Ukraine is a proxy battle between America and Russia. If Ukraine joins Nato, America will be forced into direct conflict with Russia. America was stronger with the threat of war because it used Russia to threaten other countries. In a real war (likely a nuclear war) between two countries such as US and Russia, America will rapidly lose many of its allies. Nuclear war is a bridge too far for them. This would end with America and Russia as the only participants in a devasting nuclear war – not a strengthening position for America.

        The Ukraine war is being funded by US debt. The upcoming election could see the Republicans winning back the House and Senate. This leaves Biden in a weaker state and will make American foreign policy even more confusing. Do you pay for a war in Ukraine, or do you help the homeless in the US, help people who can’t pay their mortgage, help people pay down student debt etc. The next two years could be a planet-defining moment for humanity.

        In all probability the Americans led the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline to break an economic relationship between Germany and Russia. This may play to the Americans in the short term, but it sends a troubling message to European countries who like to remain independent of US foreign policy. I don’t think the Germans will be fans of the US when winter arrives. A worsening Germany-US relationship weakens the US.

        *I used war and liberation interchangeably because it depends on what side you’re cheering for.

        I could ask “How is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine strengthening the US?” I think that is a tougher question.

        1. So most of what you wrote is wrong or true but you are drawing faulty conclusions. The ‘refuseniks’ you cite are poor. NATO countries may be uninterested in direct conflict, and may have a lot of dysfunction (I’m actually not a huge NATO fan) but that doesn’t matter, they are defeating Russia with their near-expired surplus stocks. It is costing America chump change to basically neutralize an old enemy and frighten another, and the American people love it. The ‘non-interventionists’ are thankfully the tiny minority.

          Oh and the notion that the US bombed NordStream is nuts. Like ‘jet fuel can’t melt steel beams’ level of nuts.

    1. Afghanistan is not the answer, nor is Vietnam or other such naive police actions to promote “democracy. If the US turned homicidal and went full holocaust in any of these actions, it could have “won the war” but at untold moral expense. No, the US was walking on egg shells in these actions and they are no indicator of how they would fare in an all-out war. And they are still the most formidable military power in the world.

    1. The fact that no NATO country has ever been attacked by another country is the victory. This is an extraordinary accomplishment given the history of Europe.

      1. That is because the threat that NATO was formed to defend against went away in 1991. Since then, NATO has either started wars or decided them in favour of their collaborating side. Kosovo is, as an example, very telling. As in it is okay when we do it, but when Russia tries to do the same…

        1. The threat never away. Soviet Union was the old russian empire under new management. It needs to be once and for all natured, dismantled and go back to its nomadic Mongol roots.

          1. As recent events have shown, nuclear weapons notwithstanding, the threat to anyone who isn’t a direct neighbour of the Russian Federation that ‘poked the bear’ became negligible in 1991. And the threat there is not nearly as severe as it was made out to be. And that is why, apart from embassy guards, there is no reason for any soldier, airman, or sailor of the Canadian Armed Forces to be deployed to Europe nor for Canada’s continued membership in NATO.

          2. Not true. In fact anyone not in NATO is threatened by orcs. Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine all suffered because they were not in NATO. Baltics would be curb stomped without NATO.

            Nobody poked any bears. That is a deliberate lie. Orgrimmar does not get to decide the fate of those unfortunate enough t share their border. Orgrimmar needs to be once and for all eliminated. Not gonna be long from now.

      1. Oh, so you support those who made the place worse than it was under Qaddafi? It would have been better to have left well enough alone.

        1. No it wouldn’t have and Syria demonstrates that. Libya started reversing and put down its ISIS branch faster and sooner than in Syria. Now there’s a stalemate between two factions which isn’t great but it could be so much worse.

    2. Kosovo, when NATO invaded a country and forced the separation of an ethnically majority “minority” and bombed said country flat, including all civilian infrastructure? That Kosovo? Or when it occupied Iraq – excuse me, I shouldn’t use the past tense – is occupying the Eastern half with all the oil wells?

        1. Iraq was the US with the direct support of three NATO powers. The rest only offered a performative refusal. Had they really been opposed they would have withdrawn from NATO.

          1. False spurious causality. Germans, French, Canadians were opposed to war in Iraq. It does not mean that they should have withdrawn from NATO. One has nothing to do with the other.

            Besides, there was nothing wrong with the Iraq war, it was the nation building that was a hopeless exercise in naïve stupidity.

    3. Idiotic assertion. NATO is not an aggressive organization, and it helps keeping an increasingly large part of Europe from the Siberian disease. That is a monumental achievement. And then as icing on the cake it kicked Serb asses.

  9. “Xi watches Russia weaken NATO”

    Weaken NATO? Rather the opposite. The Ukrainian war has served to remind NATO countries that the world outside of its borders is a hostile place.

  10. I notice that no one in the front row wears a mask and everyone else does.
    This follows an unbroken pattern. Mask wearing is a marker of class, separating ruler from subjects.
    Perhaps next time that you are asked to wear a mask, ask, on what basis do they believe it will help. For someone that actually follows the science, the answer should be instant. For someone who follows scientists instead, they will appeal to authority. Honest brokers will understand the epistemology problem here.

  11. Stalin did this. Everyone handed him Poland, the same country people fought another world war over.

    No one cares about communism. They will die because of it.

  12. “Xi watches Russia weaken NATO”

    No he doesn’t. At worst, the fightback against Russia *reveals* NATO weaknesses. It’s probably the case that Russia’s War on Ukraine has re-invigorated NATO and made Xi’s designs on Taiwan vastly harder to achieve.

  13. per news aggregator azmilitary11
    “All references to Hu Jintao were removed from official Chinese government website Qiushi.”
    https://t.me/azmilitary11/26357

    Another post names other moderates who have been canned along with Hu.

    For those not familiar with telegram, its a social media platform widely used in Russia accessible to Russians with some channels run by the Kremlin, something like the CBC or BBC but with a pro-Russian bias on topics like why convoys loaded with washing machines are leaving Kherson. And there are also stories not covered by western media like convoys of ethnic Russian civilians being shelled.

    P.S. Telegram channels like azmilitary11 can be accessed without the app.

  14. L – Will he, who admires China’s basic dictatorship, do the same thing we just witnessed
    in the video to say: Premier Danielle Smith, if she actually asserts provincial jurisdiction or
    exposes the criminal fraud of the Lockdowns/Vax Mandates or Pierre Polievre, if he dares
    get out of line? Okay, for the timid C.P.C. to get out of line, that’s pretty far fetched.

    Max Bernier, PPC leader was arrested in violation of his Charter Rights. No one in the
    C.P.C. caucus risked the same, in defence of Constitutional Rights.

    So far, only Premier Danielle Smith has replaced their provincial Public Health Officer. The others are still in collusion with Trudeau, still pushing the clot shot. The mRNA injection that hijacks the immune system, programming it to produce a foreign body in massive numbers,
    in every bodily organ. The result massive inflammation and auto-immune related disease
    to plague injected Canadians for one or more generations.

    So far, no provincial government protects it’s physicians/medical researchers Freedom of Speech, to dissent based on medical science and medical ethics. The government
    Lockdown of the hearts and minds of Canadians, continues apace.

    Trudeau’s regime isn’t the only gov’t. in Canada bending the knee to totalitarianism.
    Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Unless constrained by the S.C.C., a small chance,
    how far will Trudeau go? “Just watch me”, Justin Trudeau thinks out loud, in imitation of the War
    Measures Act being invoked in October, 1970.

    the bodies own cells to produce the pathogenic spike protein

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