Clem72
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bah, good riddance. That place stinks anyways.
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bah, good riddance. That place stinks anyways.
Hijinx
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Well: Of course IMO you are right, but is England that far behind? Spain is done also, Italy seems to have gotten the message and is dumping a few, but it has a long way to go. Is there a Domino effect in play here?
France's big problem is coming from North Africans. Not really any surprise there, we have the same problem here with Somali's and the American born African Americans in our city ghetto's. But forget i said that. It's a known fact we cannot speak of.
[UPDATED] Cuban Regime Kills Four in Shootout With Florida Vessel
The Cuban regime may have just sealed its fate.
Cuba's Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that four men on a Florida-registered vessel, possibly a speedboat, were shot and killed by its Border Guard after entering Cuban waters near Santa Clara Province. Six other people aboard the boat were wounded. The regime claims that the people on board the vessel shot at the Border Guards first.
It's not yet clear if the people on board were United States citizens, though many are assuming so since the boat was registered in the U.S.
The Interior Ministry's full statement reads:
Cuba has remained a throbbing migraine for American presidents ever since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959— sixty-seven years ago and counting. Eisenhower broke off diplomatic relations. Kennedy got the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis. Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter each inherited the same bearded problem ninety miles off the Florida coast. Carter invited the disastrous Mariel boatlift, when Castro emptied his jails and mental institutions directly into Miami. Say hello to my little friend.Reagan powerlessly watched Cuba export the Marxist revolution all across Central America. Clinton got the rafters. Obama tried the charm offensive, reopening embassies and loosening travel restrictions, and got nothing in return except a mysterious sonic weapon attack on American diplomats in Havana. Trump 1.0 slammed the door shut again. Biden cautiously cracked it back open.
Through twelve presidencies, two Castros, and now their hand-picked successor Díaz-Canel, the Cuban regime has outlasted every American strategy thrown at it— isolation, invasion, assassination plots, embargo, engagement, and back to embargo again. The island’s communist government has survived longer than its own Soviet Union sponsor, which is like a tapeworm outliving its Siberian Husky host.
What twelve presidents couldn’t accomplish with assassination plots, a botched invasion, a half-century embargo, sonic weapons, and one very awkward Obama handshake, Trump may have cracked in ninety days with an oil embargo and a tariff threat. On January 29th, Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency on Cuba under IEEPA and threatening tariffs on any country that kept shipping oil to Havana. Mexico blinked within forty-eight hours.
The New York Times grudgingly called it America’s first effective blockade of Cuba since the Missile Crisis sixty-four years ago. The communist government that survived the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis, the Soviet collapse, and the Special Period is now inviting Miami capitalists to come home and open up shop. It needed no aircraft carriers, no boots on the ground. No absurd CIA plots involving exploding cigars.
Just an old-fashioned economic squeeze that forced the regime to choose between reform and darkness— and for the first time in sixty-seven years, they chose reform. The Art of the Deal.
President Trump found the pressure spot and pushed on it, hard. It wasn’t luck. Without first creating his tariff dashboard, and without first taking out the Venezuelan president, an oil embargo would have been impossible. Cuba was a careful sequence, a plan, executed in precise order, like a lawyer building a case before a jury.
And yet still, somehow, the media keeps describing Trump as having no plans, as though he’s a geopolitical pinball, randomly pinging between one fortunate opportunity after another.
“I do believe I will be having the honor of taking Cuba,” President Trump said yesterday. “Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it,” he said. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.”
Cuba’s capitulation, coming in the first weeks of the Iran operation, is also not coincidental. The Cuban generals can see what’s happening in Iran. President Trump had already told reporters, “We’re talking to Cuba, but we’re going to do Iran before Cuba.” The Cubans aren’t waiting to find out what that means, which is probably exactly what Trump intended. And now he gets to add a new win to the TAW column, which is currency buying more time for Operation Epic Fury.
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Nut Zeroes: Kiwis Are Up a Creek in 3 Weeks and Nearly No Diesel in the Land Down Under
In New Zealand, fascist former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, besides taking away every last firearm in the country and locking up every living soul as she indulged her dictatorial COVID powers during the pandemic, also set the island on its merry way to net zero and disaster by declaring a 'global climate emergency.'
She's also a member of the Rahm Emanuel 'never let a crisis go to waste' school, because Ardern proceeded to lay waste to New Zealand's fossil fuel industry.
Besides targeting methane emissions from cows and New Zealand's famous sheep, Arden banned oil and gas exploration in 2018. Although she'd been warned that her climate cult fantasies of windmills, hydro, and solar panels might not be ready for prime time, Ardern plowed ahead. The results quickly proved the naysayers correct, as power shortages loomed and the dwindling gas reserves in the fields that were still producing shrank faster than predicted due to additional, unforeseen draws.
And no one liked what it was costing them to go green.
Three weeks. Heading into winter.
Neat, huh?
Could be chilly. And they have no import facility to get that back-up LNG, even if they could get tankers there.
Speaking of that 'buddy' Australia, they're having a time of their own, thanks again to the climate cult lunatics running the country.
Two weeks ago, there were reports of fishermen who'd been told there were abundant supplies of diesel to last them weeks of work, only to find nine days later they'd run dry.
Go Green ...
The Liberal International Order Is A Lie
Critics accuse Donald Trump of destroying a rules-based world order with his no-nonsense approach to those threatening the security of the Western world. There is just one problem: it is a liberal fantasy that never existed.
The late 1990s were the high-water mark of liberal globalism. Academics like Francis Fukuyama rambled on about the “end of history.” In the Balkans, multilateral intervention seemingly redefined war as a legalistic humanitarian effort. In the quest for a borderless world, the West opened its doors to cheap Chinese imports.
In 1996, columnist Thomas Friedman reassured his readers that conflict would become a thing of the past in the world of liberal, free-trade globalism: No two countries with McDonald’s fast-food outlets could want to wage war against each other, Friedman opined.
All of this rested on the assumption that human beings are driven by material considerations rather than by ancestral identities, cultural behavioral patterns, or internalized historical grievances. Give people a McDonald’s burger and some cheap gadgets from China, and they’ll conform to whatever globalist norms come with this offer, so the logic went.
After the Soviet Union’s collapse, Bill Clinton and his alcoholic pal Boris Yeltsin tried to force “shock therapy” on Russia. In their view, laissez-faire capitalism could be successfully rolled out overnight in a country still defined by Soviet-era, collectivist ways of thinking. Without a pre-existing culture of entrepreneurship, meritocracy, and respect for property rights, the scheme unsurprisingly ran aground. As mafia-style oligarchs scrambled to loot Russia’s resources, anti-Western backlash grew among ordinary Russians.
Within the Western world itself, liberal globalism’s misunderstanding of human nature led to a toxic experiment with state-enforced multiculturalism. Tried-and-tested policies of assimilating new immigrants were abandoned.
Originally, this wasn’t due to radical “postcolonialist” wokery, but rather because mainstream, predominantly white, 1990s liberals thought that insisting on individual assimilation was obsolete. A shiny, freshly printed passport is all it takes, they reasoned. Then again, they also believed that the whole world had just assimilated into their globalist monoculture.
The liberal-led West became so blind to reality that it could no longer even recognize its enemies. Appeasement became the new policy consensus towards the radical Shia-Islamist regime ruling Iran.
When the first mass protests since the Iranian regime’s founding were violently crushed in 1999, liberal elites shrugged it off entirely, keen not to upset the Ayatollahs. Later, under Obama, Western diplomats treated Iran’s terrorist rulers as just another quarrelsome-but-rational autocracy: They assumed Iran’s ayatollahs could be disciplined with a few financial sanctions or tempted back into compliance with some wads of cash.
If they had been humble enough to read Ayatollah Khomeini’s words for themselves, they would not have made this mistake: “Patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”
When Khomeini attained power in 1979, the prominent European leftist philosopher Michael Foucault called him a “saint.” Devoid of any myth, beauty, or tradition of its own, postmodern globalism leads its spiritually starved adherents to hungrily embrace even its enemies’ most fickle, invented mythologies.
Iranians today don’t call the dictators running their country holy men; they call them ‘Zahhak,’ after the name of a power-obsessed, snake-shouldered tyrant from ancient Iranian mythology. Trump has an even clearer term for Iran’s uranium-obsessed rulers: “lunatics.” Now, Trump is taking decisive action to protect the free world from the nuclear menace these lunatics represent.
Truly irrational, megalomaniac dictators like Khomeini, Hitler, or Stalin are, fortunately, quite rare. Today, the West faces a different structural challenge from more rational authoritarian strongmen such as Putin and Xi Jinping. These rulers have no desire to spark nuclear Armageddon, start World War Three, or burn down their own countries. They are pursuing a far more sophisticated strategy: exploiting the self-destructive hypocrisy inherent in post-Cold War globalism to build up their own regimes and eventually outstrip the West.
In the early 1990s, many Russians, tired of the privations of communism, were briefly well-disposed to the West. But Russia would never become a democracy. Democrat rule has little precedent in Russian history, existing only for a few months in 1917. Nonetheless, many ordinary Russians were ready to give up on Russia’s imperial ambitions in exchange for more prosperity and less isolation.
Despite fierce opposition from a few old Soviet hardliners, Russia mostly ended its occupation of Eastern European, Caucasian, and Central Asian nations, pulling out its forces. Clinton and Yeltsin’s failed globalist ‘shock therapy’ experiment undercut that reconciliation sentiment. That lone, though, wouldn’t have propelled a fundamentally anti-Western, ex-KGB agent like Vladimir Putin to power.
It took a far more emotionally-piercing betrayal to do that: A devastating Islamic insurrection in Chechnya, a north-Caucasus region located inside Russia’s internationally-recognized post-Soviet borders. For centuries, there had been fierce ethno-religious conflict between the Muslim Chechens and their Russian rulers. It culminated when the Soviets, in 1944, “deported” Chechens en masse to the Central Asian steppe, a genocidal crime that killed over one hundred thousand Chechens.
Amidst the economic chaos of the early 1990s, a ragtag coalition of Chechen ultra-nationalists and jihadists seized power in Grozny, Chechnya’s regional capital, to exact barbaric revenge for their ancestors’ historical suffering.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Russians lived in the city of Grozny, alongside their Chechen neighbors. Some survivors recounted,
By the late 1990s, several large-scale slave markets operated in Chechnya, selling captured Russian women and children. To justify it all, the Chechen jihadists introduced an Islamist, Sharia-based legal code, which legitimized execution methods such as stoning.
The West offered Russia little assistance in fighting these terrorists. There was no public outcry, and not even a single virtue-signaling campus occupation. For the liberal establishment, events in Grozny were simply too politically incorrect to talk about. It risked upsetting their multiculturalist fantasies. So, they cloaked themselves in silence and denial.