"Public opinion has a near-zero impact on law-making"

Complete your journey to rejecting democratic illusions with Academic Agent.

Realism here is absolutely essential for us.

https://youtu.be/2gSrYIO_hX8

Important stat from the Babylon Bee.

Fascinating observation.

"Have you noticed that most people when they’re photographed today wish to look as nice as possible, as reflexive as possible, as open-hearted as possible? They’re pleading to be liked."

- Jonathan Bowden

“Putin is a liberal in the old fashioned sense that no longer exists in the West.”

Bold thesis from Paul Craig Roberts.

See what you think of the case he makes. (I think his case against the West is pretty strong at least.)

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/03/paul-craig-roberts/why-the-west-hates-putin/

One of the things about the modern world that never fails to provoke in me the strongest feelings of disgust and shame is modern warfare.

Modern warfare is right up there with grooming children, for me. It is peak dishonour, cruelty, cowardice, and the encapsulation of the inverted world we live in.

Yes, I know in the past that soldiers would sack towns and burn buildings to the ground and murder the inhabitants. But that’s not how battles were fought. Even taking into account sieges, during which civilians could suffer from starvation, old world battles were usually fought on battle fields by warriors, led by commanders who would lead from the front if they were truly heroic generals. Skill, bravery, and intelligence could win the day.

Nowadays, missiles are launched from a safe distance at civilian targets who have no chance. At least in the old world, the invading soldiers had to come to your town in person, find you in person. You could run, hide, or even fight your way to survival. In the modern world, the shells fall randomly and you have no idea if your name is on one.

And after the shelling, perhaps the tanks will roll in to pick off survivors, to demolish the homes that are still standing, along with people inside them. For the majority of “soldiers”, war has been reduced to nothing more than a video game. But the trauma and suffering they inflict, or can have inflicted upon them, is very real.

Even modern “battles” are just shootouts in urban cityscapes, with civilians caught in the crossfire. Modern warfare doesn’t even have the honour to settle the conflict in a field elsewhere, something which still occurred as recently as WWI, which seems to be both the last war of the old age and the first one of the modern age.

This totally unequal scale of force and utterly contemptuous form of warfare is I think one of the main reasons there hasn’t been a meaningful rebellion against the ruling class in spite of all the abuse and insults they hurl at us.

Sporadic reminder that Joe Biden is illegitimate and blatantly cheated in a Presidential election.

Don't you know there's a war on?!

Time and again the (real) right has been crushed by war. We review the last 80 years of this.

With Horus!

In one hour.

https://youtu.be/uZP4391HtxE

I’m not a military historian. Are wars usually won by indulging in absurd fantasies?

MSM are today running with the story that Putin is facing a coup:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/24/putin-at-risk-of-coup-by-russian-spy-chiefs-over-ukraine-invasion-16334255/

Reuters claims that Russia is “switching to more limited objectives.”

Charlemagne fact checks Reuters.

https://charlemagne.substack.com/p/what-is-russia-doing-in-the-ukraine

"It really is time that people began to see ‘People Power’ revolutions for what they are. They are aggressive interventions in sovereign countries by outside forces"

Peter Hitchens on Ukraine in 2014.

Love this: "the stage army of the good".

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2014/04/who-did-what-to-whom-in-kiev-reflections-on-the-elusiveness-of-truth-.html

Joseph of Aramithea & Nicodemus were "foul weather friends" 🙃. When everyone else was excited about Jesus, when Jesus was triumphantly riding into Jerusalem, they were hiding "for fear of the Jews"

When Jesus was killed as a criminal & all hope seemed lost, they stepped forward!

"I'm not someone who has real geopolitical power or influence... [I just] try to maintain a healthy soul."

Endeavour on staying sane during one "crisis" after another.

https://youtu.be/ErIn5y-zU2s

Hunter Biden is tied to Epstein

“Profound gratitude was showered on this valiant assemblage of “adults” for having been “in the room” to stop Trump from doing anything reasonable.”

– Michael Tracey

https://mtracey.substack.com/p/the-adults-in-the-room-are-always

Reading The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander to our children again.

Just can’t recommend these 5 books enough. Steeped in Welsh myth, they are both fun and deep.

The British Triad:

NHS- Body
BBC- Mind
Church of England- Soul