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I'm behind on posting on Aquinas. I'm behind on reading it.

I'm entering the busy season around here and probably can't keep up posting on him in the way I have been.

I'll definitely keep up the study. I want you to as well.

I'll have to post on it in a different format or something.
Me and Karl talk about some damned book.
there are new people here.

Join the chat over at https://t.me/+8FrWENxKojNmMmRh

Also, if you think I’m doing any good, share some of these links, share teh channel, etc. Maybe we can find a few more fellow travelers.
Welcome to the new folks here and in the chat. The chat is where all the edgelord stuff is.

Where’d ya’ll come from?
From Paul Craig Roberts

The News Headlines Tell All
February 24, 2022 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: | Print This Article Print This Article
The News Headlines Tell All

US recognizes it cannot stand up to Russia:

“Latest US Sanctions Not Designed to Cause Any Disruption to Current Flow Of Energy From Russia to The World, White House Claims”

In 90 days Ukraine will not exist:

“Zelensky Declares to Hold General Mobilization in Ukraine Within Next 90 Days”

Moreover, the neo-Nazis will be dead by then and no Ukrainians will mobilize.

The dumbshit Speaker of the House must not have heard Putin’s warning:

US House Speaker Pelosi Says Wants to Provide Ukraine With $600 Million in Lethal Defense Weapons

NATO is unravelling:

NATO members object to cutting Russia from SWIFT system

The dumbshit Europeans are learning what it means to be US puppet states—death, destruction, and financial harm, and UK with its destroyed economy wants to destroy Russia’s:

UK Working With Allies to Disconnect Russia From SWIFT, Will Not Rest Until Russian Economy Is Destroyed –British Foreign Office

Why do the British idiots think they can destroy the Russian economy? The problem the world faces is that the Western governments have zero contact with reality.

Comment: The world has reached the point in its history when the Western part of it has totally failed in its leadership. The United States abandonng all principles of its founding, all allegiance to law, has attempted to impose its will on the world. Russia objects, and so does China.

These are powerful objectors. Russia is the world’s preeminent military power. China is the world’s preeminent economic power. Washington, a rapidly declining power, has made itself an enemy of both. This signifies the total failure of Washington’s foreign power. So many corrupt interests are dependent on Washington’s power, that it is impossible for the United States to adjust itself, peacefully, to the new world order created by Russia.

This puts the life of the entire Western world at risk for no reason except the hubristic claim that the West is exceptional and entileded to hegemomy over the world.

Putin put an end to that hegemony a couple of days ago.
Lookit this retarded boomercon comment on my Julian of Norwich post.


MARTIN MORGAN FEBRUARY 24, 2022 AT 7:59 PM Ukraine never existed. Nope. There just 45 million people hanging around who happen to speak the same language by coincidence. This is no time time for medieval gibberish. You either stand with Putin, or you oppose him and everything he represents.
Ukraine Update #2
February 25, 2022 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: |  Print This Article

Ukraine Update #2
Paul Craig Roberts
The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lie into truth. Once the narrative is established, it is repeated endlessly. I worked hard yesterday to give my readers a true account of the situation. Today I will update the military situation and point out difficulties that the Kremlin might have overlooked.
Using high precision missiles, Russia destroyed Ukraine’s military infrastructure. The strikes were limited to military airfields, air defenses, munition and fuel depots, and military communication centers. There were and are no strikes on civilian populations. The Kremlin’s operation contrasts starkly with Washington/NATO indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Pakistan. Hypocritical Western “leaders” shedding crocodile tears for the few casualties in Ukraine never showed even fake concern for the tens of thousands of civilians they slaughtered in their illegal wars based on lies such as “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.” Western presstitutes such as CNN have tried to create the impression that Russian forces are attacking civilian populations by showing at a distance smoke plumes rising in a city. In reality the smoke is from precision hits on military communication or storage locations. The Russian weapons are extremely precise, so the Russians don’t need to bomb everything in sight, leveling every building in order to achieve military purpose. Russia will get no credit for this humanitarian policy, and might be forced to abandon it, a question I will explore later in this report.
As far as I can tell, the initial Russian strikes prevented any coordinated military action by the Ukrainian armed forces which doesn’t seem to have been very determined. Some Ukrainian soldiers laid down their weapons. Others, according to reports, are helping Russian troops guard the nuclear power plants from CIA sabotage. Many Ukrainian border guards sought refuge in Russia. The Russian troops are doing their best not to kill Ukrainian soldiers.
The neo-Nazi militias with their CIA advisers are a different matter. Both in the territory of the Donbass republics and in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, and, no doubt, in other Ukrainian cities or towns, the neo-Nazis are using civilians as shields by positioning themselves in populated civilian areas. In Kiev, the Nazi militias have set up rocket launchers with which they attack the Russian troops occupying the Kiev airport. Under the existing Russian orders, the Russian soldiers cannot direct fire into the civilian areas in which the remaining resistance has located itself. https://sputniknews.com/20220225/moscow-ukrainian-troops-deploy-mrls-grad-in-kiev-to-provoke-casualties-among-civilians-1093369676.html
https://sputniknews.com/20220225/russian-mod-kiev-uses-same-methods-as-terrorists-uses-civilians-as-human-shields-1093367914.html
Here arises a problem for the Kremlin’s strategy. Russia allowed the nazification of Ukraine to go on for so long that a network is in place for a Washington-supported insurgency. To destroy the Nazi militias could cost, on the one hand, a lot of Russian lives in street by street fighting, and on the other hand many civilian lives in artillery and bombing barrages like the US and Israel use.
I wonder if the Kremlin understands that it is up against psychopaths, not soldiers. The Kremlin needs to bring the situation to a quick end, but the Nazi militias can prolong the conflict as long as the Kremlin is committed to minimizing civilian casualties. Recognizing the difficulty, Putin said the Ukrainian military must not allow their government to use their “children, wives and loved ones as human shields.” He has appealed to the Ukrainian military to “take the power into your own hands.