Comments by "Marc Joly" (@emjizone) on "Jake Broe"
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5:50 I might be wrong, especially because I'm not a US citizen and I see that from afar, but I thing that this even, together with the illegality of activities of D.Trump, is the end of the Republican party in the USA as we knew it since decades.
There is profound crack in it between the republicans who just want to preserve some traditions and beliefs in the USA, who take the institutions as sacret (even if they lack compassion sometimes), and those who simply are opportunist, violent, fascists in reaction to the democrats, who are mainly ruled by populist clowns supported by foreign dictators, and who are ready to destroy the institution in their quest for individual power.
Such divided political structure is doomed to re-invent itself or disappear.
Many mocked J.Biden, but in fact he has stolen from the Republicans the traditional image of the old white-haired wise father that is part of the US mythology. Republicans can't simply fool around with symbols anymore and are forced to discuss morals and have real debates, and doing so they discover they aren't the united political party they pretended to be.
If I'm wrong, please explain to me how and why. And in any case see you in 10 years to check my math.
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I would like to remind all of us that the point of supporting Ukraine is not to stop one Russian military conquest for now, waiting for the next one.
Every day until liberation, there are many people suffering from the military occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces , waiting to be liberated from it.
- People in the occupied territories who are tortured because of their political opinions or origin, who are forced to lie publicly to stay alive or to protect their family.
- People deported from this country to an unknown fate.
- People forced to attack other Ukrainians to death, used as cannon fodder to serve the Kremlin's exclusive interests, not their own.
- Children taken to Russia to be re-educated into Ukrainian-haters and future Ukrainian-killers in the name of Putin.
- People in exile waiting to be free to return home to their families (if they survived) without risking the same or worse.
Even when the front line doesn't move much, a genocide is underway and the clock is ticking.
The Russian people will never truly understand revenge that comes too late. They will only learn from an immediate defeat of their current plans and misdeeds, from a clear and direct re-connection between their suffering and the idea of making other people suffer. What they need is not an education in hatred and fear for retribution. They already know hatred and fear too well. What they need is an education in empathy: your suffering right now is my suffering right now; my suffering right now is also yours.
And since they don't seem to care about their lives at all, the only bad news they consider at the moment, the only thing they consider painful, until they wake up to reality, is territorial loss, and the destruction of the myth of their "divine" invincibility and "wisdom".
Only when this myth is over will we see something like responsibility entering their equations.
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3:03 Actually, since the Ukrainian forces aren't willing to let them regroup to continue the deadly fight somewhere else, the only survival option for them was to surrender.
No, there was no option for mechanized evac for them because their fellow comrades who had vehicles at the rear of the front aren't stupid and guessed that they would be destroyed inside their vehicles by artillery fire if they moved in range. They had seen all the previous moves in this direction end in disaster during the last few days, so they refused the order to go support and rescue the infantry , they refused to join the suicide.
What is horrible for the soldiers who died on this road is that, after being stupidly sent to a suicide mission, they've probably been promised an evac that never came.
Some of them survived, though. And that's good, because now they have a story to tell to the fresh Russian recruits that might help them realize what they signed for, and think twice before accepting more.
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1:08 The order matter.
1. Conquest is what Putin&Co are doing all life long. It already killed many.
2. War is clearly underway, not only in Ukraine, but also among show-offs in Russia running for medals.
3. Famine is still avoided in many cases, but note that many Ukrainians lack food and energy, that prices rise everywhere, and also many Russians still don't have access to gaz in spite of their country producing more than they can sell.
4. Plague is to be feared. You may consider the durable "brainwash" (I prefer "brainclog") of a part of the Russian population as a serious mental illness. If not prevented, the end of Putin's reign might take the form of a new plundering of Russia by all sort opportunists pretending to save the country, similarly to the end of the USSR. In that case, these individuals are the devouring beasts.
@JakeBroe , your "5ft Horseman" is nothing but the 3rd one in disguise. Ask any scientist: you will be told that food crisis, oil crisis, coil crisis, wood crisis, gaz crisis etc. all fall under the same principles. Food is, in fact, fuel for living beings. Another kind of fuel doesn't make another Horseman: it's still the same kind of phenomenon.
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23:41 From what I have learned from the history (France and Spain mainly, but not only), national revolutions come only after centuries of local revolts, often cruelly suppressed. And even after the revolutions, several despotic hijackings, counter-revolutions and various betrayals prolonged the struggle, with bloody civil wars, evolving towards more democracy and more freedom over the centuries, but with horrible temporary reversals along the way. It is extremely difficult to overcome fear, especially when one does not know exactly what the beast to fight is capable of.
The difference, perhaps, today is that nations are no longer so alone against their respective despots, and that history is relatively easy for everyone to access, provided they are interested. - There is a philosopher who explains why the Russians are not really a nation, because they have renounced the political exercise. But they could be. It's something in their national nightmare, not their blood. One has to start somewhere. -
Another difference is that, in the case of France in particular, the anti-monarchical and anti-clerical revolution (which is quite a feat for a country with the king "of divine right") was a shock for all of Europe, which was so Catholic and so attached to its monarchies that they could not understand that madness. The revolution of this country has structurally made it go to war against all the monarchies of the world, in other words almost the whole world. And frankly, I still don't understand how the France survived it.
So, I understand that people are looking for other ways to look for more individual freedom. But for all those who want that, this is no longer a first time or a declaration of war to the whole world. On the contrary! We now know better the risks and we know that a better tomorrow is actually possible. There are proofs of concept and a state of the art of revolutions with their successes and failures, all in open source.
What is not documented is how to adapt this fight to a guy who seems to have nuclear toys at hand, and how to do it in a context of global fossil fuel depletion.
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11:17 How many times this vulnerable island have been invaded or dominated by Russia ? 😂
The romans went there. Their empire did not stay. The Scandinavians went there, too. Their empire did not stay either. They also went on the Dniepr to fund Kiev, but hey… Russia has no sort of existence at this time, yet.
Today, the United Kingdom, unlike Russia, has established a lasting peace with all its neighbors, even with France after 100 years (!) of war, and is part of a very serious defensive organisation with more than six times more citizens than the federation of Russia. It's also a nuclear power, a very capable maritime power and an ally of serious maritime, nuclear powers and aerospace leaders, too. Moreover, attacking the UK is against the diplomatic and economical interest of any ally Russia can have. Even North Korea is trying to gain some respectability on the international scene and would avoid actual military confrontation. Apart from marginal population like the transnistrians, all populations between Russia and the UK would be hostile to further Russian attacks against European nations and would never buy the excuse of a preventive strike. So… well… "vulnerable" ? • • • • • •😂 You wanna try ? Curious of the effects it could have ?
How degenerate does one have to be to need a reality check, unable to guess in advance the consequences for Russia?
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