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Mick Harper
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But objectively, as they say, Paul Mason is lined up with the Americans. How his former self would have turned in his grave.
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Mick Harper wrote:
But objectively, as they say, Paul Mason is lined up with the Americans. How his former self would have turned in his grave.


Not really, Trotsky was a representative of the losing heroic German faction of Bolshevism, whilst Stalin was a representative of the dominant Anglo Saxon administrative, bureaucratic school. When Stalin won, and turned Russia into a western colony, it was only natural that Leon would then seek to topple the Anglo Saxons at their weakest link, ie: the United States. Mason is trying the same trick, he only appears to be on the side of the International Ruling Class. It's the other lefties that are wrong. He is a hero for our times.
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So objectively I'm a Stalinist. I've often suspected it but it has taken you to finally unmask me. I'm much obliged.
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On Russian TV.

"The geopolitical battle in the 21st century will not be between East and West, will not be between Labour and Capital, but between two civilizations......

Was it:


1. Good and Evil

2. Modern and traditional

3. One built on order, the other chaos

4. Secular and Religious.

5. Self interest and family values

6. Gay and Natural.
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ITV vs BBC?

No get on, order & chaos. That's the one authoritarian regimes normally go for.
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Good try but wrong.

"The geopolitical battle in the 21st century will be between two civilizations - the gay civilization of the West and the natural civilization of Russia"
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Mick Harper
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Authoritarian regimes do have odd sexual attitudes. They are generally quite puritanical but go in for lots of healthy young women doing collective things in skimpy outfits. Plus loads of homo-erotic young males wrestling etc in skimpy outfits.

Though they're not nearly as odd as liberal democracies.
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One would think a plague of locusts would be the very last thing Afghanistan needs right now but reports of the latest infestations had some interesting lessons for the rest of us, brought up on horror stories about these little beasts.

Locusts are endemic in Afghanistan and are dealt with in two ways. The first is by regularly spraying their breeding grounds from the air and it is the lack of this over the last couple of years, when the Taliban has had more important things on their minds, that accounts for the current outbreaks. When they do appear (I'm back with locusts now) Afghani farmers get out their trusty tarpaulins and start driving the hopping grasshoppers towards it. Locusts, it seems, are none too bright and hop straight into it with gay abandon, whereupon they are all poured into deep pits and covered over. Job mostly done.

We must wait and see whether the UN's prediction that a quarter of Afghanistan's wheat crop will be lost this year proves to be correct, though it may be as well to allow enough of Afghanistan's frozen reserves to be passed across so they can buy some aviation kerosene for future years.
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Russia has extended the wheat export agreement with Ukraine for another two months. Agencies

This is a much bigger deal than everyone is giving it credit for. The agreement hugely benefits Ukraine but not Russia. They figured that the west could hardly put sanctions on Russian agricultural exports if the rationale for the exports getting out was to feed the starving billions in the Third World. How wrong they were. So why have they agreed to a continuance? This was the ideal moment to call a halt: NATO sanctions, Ukraine on the cusp of an offensive, world markets back on kilter, even 'Polish and Hungarian farmers up in arms because of cheap Ukrainian grain'.

But they caved. Why? My guess is that it's a fence-mending exercise and with Russia that means only one thing. They're preparing for peace.
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The one that caught my eye was Russia is allowing China the use of Vladivostok as a cross border transit port. In no time at all with China providing most of the goods and the IT block chain technology, this will become .....Chinese.
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I wouldn't bank on it. The (Japanese) Kurile Islands are still Russian and seventy years have passed. Except in the sense we'll all be Chinese soon.
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The 'storming' of the Al-Aqsa mosque yesterday, two cabinet ministers leading the charge, heralds the next stage in Israeli expansionism. Ever since 1948 the sharing of Jerusalem with the Muslim Palestinians has been a thorn in the Israeli side, much as West Berlin was a thorn in the way of Soviet expansionism in eastern Europe. The Russians are twats, the Israelis aren't.

They know they can't eliminate the Palestinians while the Al-Aqsa is 'the third holiest site of Islam' but they also know that these things can be 'managed'. After all, Jerusalem is the most important site for Christians and they haven't had a peep out of them since 1948. Gradually, you'll see, the mosque will be eased out for religious purposes and, now that most Arab states are de facto Israeli allies, this will be achieved with a minimum of Muslim resistance. Even now, only Palestinians actually use it.

Once the process has been completed the Al Aqsa will get the treatment the Turks meted out to St Sophia in Istanbul. The Palestinians will then be 're-settled' from East Jerusalem, preferably without a stopover in the West Bank.
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Ukraine is playing with fire, supporting Russian nationalists, raiding in Russia. True, it's what the Russians did to them to prepare for 2014, but that eventually ended up with Girkin downing flight MH17.

Ukraine can't afford to alienate the west.
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It is not finally established that it is Ukraine. Although we can rule out a Russian false flag exercise (even they're not daft enough for that), it could be semi-autonomous elements operating in the Russian-occupied parts of eastern Ukraine. It could (just about) be malcontent Russians in the Ukraine-occupied areas of Russian-speaking Ukraine. Even, really stretching things, rogue Ukrainian officialdom gone off-piste.

But I agree, probably official Ukrainian dirty-tricks. As you say, it would be a perfectly legitimate ruse-de-guerre but as you also say, a really stupid one. While our insane commentators are going on about "The Russians will now have to redeploy troops needed to confront the coming Ukrainian offensive", you and me understand that it is miles better fighting a hibernating bear than an aroused one.
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In the largest Russian drone attack on Kyiv so far, the Ukrainians shot down fifty-eight out of fifty-nine drones. One person was reported killed. Agencies

This is a significant stage to have reached in the war. It is now clear that, in a reverse of a popular 1930's expression, "a drone will never get through". (Other reports spoke of fifty-two out of fifty-four.) The Russians have reached the nadir of killing one civilian for every fifty drones. That is approaching German V2 ratios of 'cost per casualty inflicted'. Plus, it has to be said, lip-smacking coverage in the western media of the damage caused by the one that did get through. I wish they wouldn't, it's picked up by Russian lip-smacking media.

There can be no doubt then that drone attacks are a purely terror exercise, and not a very good one at that. Putin will be hard-pressed to maintain the argument, "The Ukrainians will run out of anti-drone missiles before we run out of drones," since even he must know the West can out-supply whatever sources of drones he can lay hands on.

The Russian authorities have reached that familiar stage in a failing war, "Something must be seen to be done even though there is nothing to be done."
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