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Stegiel's avatar

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What will 2023 be if worse than 2022? Will there be a military defeat of the West? Will we see the end of WW1 writ large with many nations collapsing into their own footprint? Will world war be the leverage required for global tyranny?

Or otherwise? What if Russia contrary to experts falls first?

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

The Russia war surely is a big distraction for the Northern Hemisphere, from the WWIII that their governments are waging at home against the citizens.

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If Russia falls first then Russia just becomes another US Ukraine.

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Stegiel's avatar

Likely the Europeans are going to go Ukrainian as well. Nation states are going to be carved up into smaller cantons. The giganticism will be transferred to some Globalist super state.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Such a waste.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

"knowing too much needs to be spoken that once said cannot be revoked."

Now is probably the time to clear the air.

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Stegiel's avatar

I speak out and up. Daughter also. The hospital staff understands my concern. Safety first. I am a hazard because I am not a Safe Facility. Now I argue otherwise. Overall risk from being home is less than isolation with strangers 24/7. Both hospital and daughter disagree.

Kaiser admits decision rests with Judith to go home prior to surgery. Judith wants to go home. However given her only child manipulates her constantly I am fairly sure Judith against her instinct will listen. Then the really really big problem arises. The surgeon is not in San Francisco. He is one county South. So by car 30 minutes to 45 minutes. I have no car. Transit by bus or rail is possible. However the skilled nursing facility probably is also in this city -Redwood City. And I do not know how far from bus or train. So here too is no money to take out $20 per day to go to this town and return.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Oh dear, might need the daughter to assist the transit.

Daughter and husband working together, maybe it will resolve like that.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Does your wife want to have this operation.

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Stegiel's avatar

The options are bad. Comparable to a stroke that leaves you unable to have much mobility, unable to see clearly, etc. And tumor growth created pressure on her brain and swelling. This will grow worse. Surgery is the Western Med. Option. Hazards yes. Fewer than letting tumor grow. In a perfect world I would prefer to shrink tumor and probably spend on Medical Chi Gong. I like Chinese medicine. Of course Chinese too in our post modern epoch opt for surgery from time to time. Tough tough tough. My wife knows one woman in her writing group who had a similar situation and had surgery and is recovered.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Weird to know two people with it.

The writing group woman's experience certainly has a big effect on confidence, even if we actually know that no two people are at all the same.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

A couple of thoughts sprang to mind, the first especially in relation to San Fran.

Lots of druggies, accustomed to getting a "fix" via a needle. Not just those living in the streets either.

Metrosexual men who are dominated by fear-mongering women. Women are famous for being nervous Nellie's.

Men feminised and infanticised. Heard that the toy market growth area is to adults.

No strong men, no practical men. Muscular men keeling over, couldn't be relied on even if they woke up. (Do you read Mark Crispin Miller's chronicle.)

No one coming to the rescue, men on their computers, as you say being smart at their jobs and planning holidays.

Doing as told and thinking they are up to date.

Is this why men make good order-following soldiers.

The *leaders* we have are generally sexually compromised. That's a qualification.

I think that there are some good strong men in the countryside.

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Stegiel's avatar

Masculinity murdered itself with industrial warfare and our leaders are followers. This inevitably a consequence of how the worst are selected to make decisions. Freedom does require responsibility.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

What's industrial warfare? Do you mean not swords?

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Stegiel's avatar

Yes you are right. Machines. WW1 pioneered modern industrial war. However there can be seen of course the lineages from Napoleon, to Franco-Prussian War, U.S. Civil War. The carnage of WW1 with poison gas and other new weapons came directly from the industrial base manufacturing mass quantities of everything.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

So you think non industrial warfare kept men being men.

I guess women can do all the warfare stuff now, even pregnant women pilots.

But it seems there's a lot of on the ground hand to hand fighting going on currently in Ukraine.

With UK young men volunteering in response to some urge, when it's not even their war and they are not being mercenaries.

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Stegiel's avatar

There is I believe a considerable difference when machines can kill large numbers of combatants and non combatants from a distance or near to hand. A dehumanization of war arises. Mussolini's son for instance flying overhead bombing and gassing Ethiopians composed a poem about how the bombs reminded him of a rose. Hand to hand warfare at least was combatant oriented. And some virtues arose from it's carnage. By 1918 good bye to all that.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Ah, men in that having humanity sense.

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Adana Bota's avatar

Gogol lamented about not seeing good in goodness. In this farce we are forced to play- the postmodern world- goodness is at best an empty word. Truth, goodness, ethics, morality have lost any meaning, as they are just means used in a perverted propaganda for the fabrication of an illusion: power of money.

A new Russian law enforced recently the recognition of tradition, family, love for the motherland, the fact that citizens have also responsibilities not only rights. An Orthodox priest commented rightfully that the fact a law is necessary to remind people innate values humankind used to conduct their lives for thousands of years- shows the decay of this civilisation.

In my opinion Russia cannot afford to fall. If necessary, they will fight until the end, but it will not be (only) her end.

We should still be hopeful and faithful to ourselves. Nothing happens if it is not God will.

Among the ruins- as Evola would say- we should keep ourselves standing. The future is known only to God.

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Stegiel's avatar

My Polish roots run deep. Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Milosz, readings on Solidarity pro and con...my father's roots.

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Russia also implemented data recognition storage by a company closely connected to the central bank.

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Marta Staszak's avatar

So have Poles, exactly the same. I so like reading you, it stirs something in me!

I mean the saying about fear.

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