Quintilian condemns the extreme demonization of Russia that has gripped the west since the War in Ukraine began, seeing it as yet another manifestation of the anti-white agenda. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/the-demonization-of-russia-must-end/

To commemorate H. P. Lovecraft on the 85th anniversary of his death, Mark Gullick discusses the unique qualities of the legendary writer of horror fiction's style that make him worth reading today. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/strange-geometry-h-p-lovecrafts-style/

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Debate: Greg Johnson vs. E. Michael Jones

Debate topic: "Nationalists in the West should support Ukraine against Russia in the current war"

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This is what Eastern Europeans think of Strikerism.

Spencer J. Quinn on John Cleese's recent criticism of the idea of slavery reparations by bringing up the subject of white slavery at a recent comedy festival, with predictable reactions from the woke crowd. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/john-cleese-did-not-expect-the-woke-inquisition/

Strikerism striking out in Eastern Europe, where nationalists do more than LARP.

In Eastern Europe, Nationalists do more than meme. But the memes still check out.

William de Vere highlights a seldom-discussed effect of the ongoing Great Replacement of whites: the enormous cost this has on America's natural environment, given that conservationism is an implicitly white concern. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/the-great-replacement-the-great-outdoors/

Joel Davis of Firstness Journal and Imperium Press was the very special guest on the latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc with host Nick Jeelvy, where they discussed the importance of theory to the dissident political movement, and of course answer YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-425-joel-davis-on-the-writers-bloc/

New writer T. L. Syvret on the need to create a new elite that stands for white interests if the relentless progress of the Great Replacement is ever to be halted. https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/a-response-to-the-great-replacement/

Look at how he breaks into a shit-eating grin.

He doesn’t even take himself seriously. Why should anyone else?

This culture of insincerity is toxic.

​​Thank you Chris Roberts and Gregory Hood for the shoutout on Unz and great reading list of Hood's best CC articles. I agree, Hood's "radical period" is worth reading!

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-jussie-smollett-released-from-jail-pending-appeal-order-20220316-27sodqs4p5cffklcgtltvy5h2i-story.html

Wow, imagine having Afro-Hebrew privilege. You’d might even get away with White Nationalism.

Slandering Azov Battalion always boils down to three points.

1. They are funded/controlled(!) by Jewish billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi

2. They were armed by Israel

3. They serve the jews

1. This is false. There is simply no proof beyond one claim from an Israeli newspaper (Ma'Ariv) which in turn admit it's a rumour. In any case this claim would be *debatable at best* since even if there was proof that Kolomoyskyi funded Azov (which there isn't), Kolomoyskyi did not just put money into National Socialist hands, he blanket-funded dozens of volunteer battalions very early during the first clashes of the conflict in 2014. Azov did not have the reputation on May 5th, 2014 (when it was founded) that it does now. At the time it was just a group of Ukrainian Nationalists centered around Kharkiv FC (A football club) who formed a volunteer battalion. It's possible, though not proven, that while Ihor was handing out millions of dollars to dozens of new volunteer militias, some of that money found its way into Azov hands before they were well known for being National Socialist. That hardly makes Azov a creation of or owned by Kolomoyskyi. On November 12th, 2014, Azov Battalion was incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard after just 6 months as an independent outfit, and since then has been funded by the Ukrainian taxpayer. Finally, Ihor Kolomoyskyi "switched sides" (in quotations because he is a jew in Europe and therefore his only side is whatever is best for jews broadly and himself personally) and in 2019 began supporting Putin and Russia.

2. This claim has several forms, ranging from Azov bought weapons from an Israeli firearms dealer to Azov was armed by Israeli intelligence itself. Whatever form the rumour takes, it is factually incorrect. The root of this myth comes from Israel, specifically a group of Israeli NGO's who claim Azov has been using Israeli-made Tavor rifles.

In 2005 the Small Arms Division of Israeli Military Industries, a state owned weapons manufacturer, was privatized, giving birth to the private company Israeli Weapon Industries, who produced and own the license for the Tavor rifle system. These rifles can only be purchased from IWI. When pictures began to circulate of Azov Battalion allegedly with Israeli-made Tavor rifles, ill-informed leftists and Fascists alike took it as proof that Azov Battalion was being armed by the state of Israel.

However, these are not Israeli-made Tavor rifles, but Ukrainian-made Fort rifles via a IWI manufacture-license purchased in 2008. That's right, in 2008 a Ukrainian government owned weapons manufacturer (RPC Fort) purchased the rights from the private company IWI, who are in the business of making money, to license-manufacture Tavor rifle systems produced locally in Ukraine and renamed the Fort-221, Fort-222, Fort-223, and Fort-224. The license was purchased by RPC Fort in 2008, a full six years before Azov Battalion entered the scene in 2014. Azov Battalion has nothing to do with the fact that in 2008 a Ukrainian government owned weapons manufacturer purchased the rights to license-manufacture the Tavor rifle system.

3. This is more of a fallacy than a specific claim. Zelensky, a jew, is the President of Ukraine. But Azov have been loud critics of the government for years. When the rebellion/invasion happened they defended their country, as Nationalists do, fighting for their people not the government. Furthermore the US government has been funding the Ukrainian military for years now, however in 2018 the Congress of the United States included a provision in their spending bill, which included a military aid package to Ukraine, which specifically banned any resources, training, or funds from being sent to Azov Battalion "based on their demonstrable white supremacist ideology". Furthermore, in October of 2019 Zelensky travelled to the front lines and told Azov Battalion to disarm and leave the front lines. This was done because having an openly Fascist (one day I will explain why I use Fascism as an umbrella term for specific and different forms of Fascism, such as National Socialism) state-sponsored paramilitary on the front lines made Zelensky's regime look bad (to the international liberal world) and slightly reduced the chances of Ukraine joining NATO. The result was Zelensky melting down on video that he was unable to give orders to Azov Battalion. This will be further explained below.

Now that the rumours are cleared up, let's look at the factual reality of Azov. It's a National Socialist paramilitary with their own political wing and youth camp, they help organize the largest National Socialist networking event in the world (Asgardsrei), and they have a militant impact on the National Socialist community in Europe, and the broad culture across the world. This is not "Nazi aesthetics". This is not "larping", these men are literally fighting in a war against the Russian military. This is the most well rounded National Socialist community in the world. They terrorize Ukrainian antifa, such as it exists, shape the next generation of National Socialists with their youth camps, and have a large impact not only on Ukrainian Nationalism, but on the state itself.

You can say you don't agree with Azov's goals of not surrendering to the foreign invasion like a true Nationalist should (This is literally what TRS and some others have been advocating), but you cannot claim any longer that they are jew puppets. Remember, von Papen and the conservative establishment thought they could use Hitler. In the same way, Azov's founding commander Andriy Biletsky has been publicly frank that he knows NATO and the west are using Ukraine/the Ukrainian military, which includes Azov, for their own means which are not in the *long-term* interests of the Ukrainian people. However, the flood of resources from the west (while the US has made it illegal to direct-transfer weapons, resources, and training to Azov, once they are given to the Ukrainian military there is nothing stopping it from going to Azov) gives Azov a great opportunity to grow National Socialism into a formidable force in Ukraine, which can one day perhaps take power in a war-torn and unstable country like Ukraine.

Faced with all this undeniable evidence, Russian/Putin supporters in the west will likely resort to "if they are so based how come they have not assassinated Zelensky/overthrown the government yet?". Read the paragraph above again. Azov knows that if there was a successful National Socialist coup in Ukraine, the billions of military aid from the west would dry up in an instant. In this scenario when the Russian invasion came Ukraine would stand even less of a chance than they would otherwise. Furthermore, there is no certainty an internal coup would be successful at this point. While there is a large amount of National Socialist sympathy across the Ukrainian Armed Forces (recently we saw NATO & a mainstream news outlet whose name I am forgetting tweet then delete 2 different pictures of ordinary soldiers wearing NS patches), the attempted coup might be unsuccessful/spark a civil war. Not all of Ukraine's military and state security services are pro-NS. Fighting a civil war while a powerful neighbour waits to invade or is in the process of invading is not very smart.

Ukraine, like all of Eastern Europe, is in a tough spot vis a vi Russia and NATO. However, realpolitik demands you do whatever you need to, make whatever alliances and deals you must, to deal with the immediate threat. Tomorrow's threat can be dealt with once today's threat has been dealt with. And to Eastern Europeans, even Eastern European nationalists from Finland to Romania (with pro-state Belarussian nationalists being the *one* exception) the greater threat is Russia, the Asiatic empire ran by devout anti-fascists who torture and murder National Socialists in prison, and who would tear down their statues to nationalists who fought with Hitler and German National Socialism, the greatest hope of the White race to date, and replace them with Red Army monuments to the men who raped and murdered their way across their *homeland* in order to crush that great White hope.

One of the standard "Made in Moscow" talking points that circulates in our circles is that Ukraine would be inevitably ruined if it joined the EU and NATO. If you repeat that argument, you are painting yourself into a rhetorical corner.

If you know anything about the Ukrainian nationalist movement—its size, its organization, its seriousness—you must conclude that Ukraine is the LEAST likely country in Europe to be ruined by NATO and the EU and the country MOST likely to push back against the West, which would strengthen the resistance of countries like Poland and Hungary.

Which means that if Ukrainians are doomed to failure, what chance does NJP have in the US? What chance does BAP have to win with baby talk and beefcake pics, if Svoboda and National Corps and Azov are doomed to failure?

If you think Ukrainian nationalists are doomed to fail, then in your heart of hearts, you must think you are doomed to fail as well.

But if you believe our struggle is doomed, what are you in this for?

I also have something to say for those who side with Russia because they oppose NATO. The idea that Russia invading Ukraine will weaken NATO is incorrect and crumbles under the most rudimentary analysis.

There is no outcome from this invasion that will reduce the power of NATO/America in Europe, on the contrary, by the end of this war no matter the outcome Russia will be weaker in comparison to NATO than they were before, and America/NATO will have a stronger presence in Europe than they did before.

NATO has been suffering a legitimacy crises since the collapse of the USSR, however by Russia invading a *non-NATO country*, they have justified the need for NATO in the eyes of millions of Eastern Europeans, and NATO has been invigorated like never before. Already look at some of the news coming out of Europe:

Germany to spend over 100 billion Euros rearming their military.

Poland increasing the size of their military from 110k to 250k, creating a Territorial Defense Force of 50k, and increasing their military budget from 2% of GDP to 3%.

Pro-NATO membership polling in Finland and Sweden at a record high, with the governments of each country talking seriously about it for the first time. Finland in a policy reversal has sent 2'500 assault rifles, 150k rounds of ammunition, 1'500 "one-shot bazookas" (which are most likely M72 LAWs), and 70k MRE's to Ukraine.

dw.com/en/germany-commits-100-billion-to-defense-spending/a-60933724

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-10-26/poland-plans-radical-strengthening-of-its-military

euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/finland-sweden-to-receive-enhanced-access-to-nato-intel-over-ukraine/

reuters.com/world/europe/majority-finns-now-want-join-nato-poll-2022-02-28/

reuters.com/world/europe/finland-sends-weapons-ammunition-ukraine-2022-02-28/

By Russia invading a non-NATO country, NATO has been justified in the eyes of Eastern Europe, and NATO arms dealers are going to make billions off of Germany and Poland ramping up their militaries. Thanks to Putin, America's hold on Europe via NATO is stronger than ever.

If Russia defeats Ukraine, NATO is more justified than ever. And Finland, one of Europe's strongest & most motivated militaries, will be joining NATO.

If you want NATO's power weakened in Europe, THIS is the outcome you should be hoping for:

Ukraine either repelling the Russian invasion or inflicting massive casualties on the Russian military, exposing Russia for not being a military superpower, but simply a country with nuclear weapons like Pakistan. It certainly is not an economic superpower, the GDP of Texas is larger than that of Russia. And the rest of the world has the ability to pool together natural resources and their economies in a way that will hurt them a little, and Russia a lot. Norway, Romania, and Azerbaijan have a lot of natural gas and oil as well, and they are in or near Europe. Onto explaining why Ukraine repelling or inflicting major losses on Russia is the outcome you should hope for if you want America/NATO to lose power in Europe.

Eastern European governments do not *like* the influence America has over them via NATO, but they are 100% willing to pay that price in exchange for security against Russia.

However, if Ukraine, a non-NATO member, can repel Russia or inflict massive casualties, then the need for NATO is brought into question.

If Ukraine can hold back Russia alone, with NATO arms yes, then what might Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria do together if they formed a NATO-type organization?

Poland is a power, not a superpower, not a great power, but a power for sure, and Poland and Czech Republic have large domestic arms industries, and Romania has oil. Intermarium/Visegrad is gaining traction in Eastern Europe every day. Greece and France would also be likely candidates for joining such a European NATO style organization if Eastern Europe broke away from NATO and formed it. From there it might grow to include all of Europe.

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