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When Politics Fails

Michael Cessna October 7, 2022 0

 

 

Despite the title, this article is not about politics, per se. Nor is it any kind of product endorsement. This is an advisory, drawn on current events. As well, these are strictly my own opinions, based on my own training and experience, and are not necessarily the position of FreedomistMIA.

I have frequently stated that fifteen or twenty years ago, I would never have imagined that this aspect of CBRN (Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear) would be what I would find myself advising people about. The first three, certainly: chemical spills happen all the time, as do pandemics (COVID is only the latest, and the one that hit me, personally), and as someone who both watched the real Chernobyl on the news when it happened, and received briefings on it later, accidents at nuclear power plants and storage areas are nothing to sneeze at.

But full-scale nuclear war, between Russia and the United States? In the early 21st Century? I’d have told you that Hollywood was no longer accepting derivative scripts like that.

Now, however, that very term is being tossed around blithely by many “leaders” in the world, and very seriously by one in particular. This has generated the usual, shockingly uninformed response from the shrill and the trolls, to scare people for the “lulz.”

So — I am going to talk to you about nuclear war, in order to inform you, rather than scare you.

The picture below is a “before and after” image of the city of Nagasaki, Japan, following it’s destruction by an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. This was the “other” atomic bomb that week. I have been to the memorial site in Hiroshima (familial connection…on the Japanese side); should you, the Reader, ever get to Japan, you need to put it on your must-see list.

Just try to avoid going in the first week of August.

 

Nagasaki, Japan, before and after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945.

This is the image most people have about nuclear war. That it is mostly wrong, is not something the wider news media is going to waste time talking to you about. The general consensus about nuclear war, as presented in such movies as The Day After, On The Beach, and Threads and reinforced by scientists of a certain political persuasion, is that after the bombs drop, those who live through that, will soon join the rest.

The reality is going to be closer to a downmarket, Road Warrior rip-off. No zombies; sorry.

While the notion of being turned into a shadow on a street by a nuclear blast is very real, the simple truth is that you have to be almost directly underneath the blast. For most Americans, that is simply not going to happen. To find out why, take a stroll through the Nuke Map website, and find the closest major city to you. This is one of the most educational sites of its kind on the internet, and a great companion to Alternate Wars’ World War 3 section.

Most people who live near a major urban area don’t actually live “in” said city, but in the surrounding suburbs. For example, I tell people that I live in “Dallas, Texas” – the reality is that I live well outside the city, itself; in fact, I don’t even live in the same county. That is a conscious choice on my part, because – in my heart of hearts – I never trusted the political leadership of the USA to not do something monumentally stupid, so I try to live outside target zones.

Nuclear weapons are expensive and complicated, so anyone deciding to fire one at an enemy long ago realized that they needed to think very carefully about targeting. Targeting enemy commands and military facilities are almost always not the first option, because – under the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) – it was assumed that as soon as you launched your missiles, the other side would launch theirs. As a result, there was no point in targeting empty air bases and missile silo’s. Likewise, targeting command elements (i.e., the President, et al) was not a good idea, because if you succeeded, there was no one left to negotiate with. So, the target planners settled on “economic and communications nodes.”

In short – cities.

If you look at a map of almost any major city, there are almost always a confluence of major highways in or near the city centers, conveniently close to major office towers housing the headquarters of companies that control “war production industries“…meaning, essentially anything that can be useful in warfare…which is virtually everything.

But, what if you don’t live in one of these “target-rich environments“? If you live “out in the ‘burbs,” like me, at most, you will get a certain amount of damage to your home (unless you are staring directly at the blast when it goes off; that will make your life…problematic). If you live in an actual rural area, you might not notice that a nuclear event has happened, until your local emergency services suddenly turn out in force.

For those thinking that the recent “advisory” posters and videos from various governments around the country, warning you to head indoors and wait for instructions in the event of a nuclear attack, means that the government will actually tell you how they are going to save you in the aftermath…they won’t. Those poster’s job is to keep you off the roads, to lessen traffic jams caused by fleeing people.

In short, the government wants you done. Well done, that is.

So…The foregoing naturally begs the question: If you’re outside a target area, a nuclear exchange does happen, and you’re alive afterwards — what do you do?

First, you need to plan ahead. If you think that I mean that you should become a “prepper” – you would be correct. But – should you stay in place, or go somewhere else? You know your area and your neighbors better than I do. If you live in an apartment complex, I strongly recommend that you have a plan to go somewhere else.

I am in a position where I have options in several directions. Again, I did this deliberately. That said, if you think that you are in a good position to stay where you are, that’s what you need to do. Hitting the road after a nuclear attack is, obviously, a pretty dangerous undertaking, no matter how well-prepared you think you are.

In addition to the requisite stocks of food – which is cheap to start, if you start now, by simply buying a few extra cans of beans and vegetables, and bags of beans and rice with every grocery run – you need to think seriously about water. Getting a couple of 55-ish gallon drums, along with several hand-pumped water purifiers for hiking, is a good step.

Next, I have to insert a disclaimer: the following is NOT medical advice. Do NOT “experiment” with the following. Short of a nuclear attack, do NOT take these products without consulting your doctor. Neither myself, nor FreedomistMIA are responsible if you violate this warning.

You have been warned.

The only specifically anti-radiation drug available to the general public in a pre-attack environment is Potassium Iodide. This is used as a protective for the thyroid glads from certain forms of radiation. The link above is to the Mayo Clinic’s advisory page on the drug – read that THOROUGHLY before taking. Potassium Iodide can be bought either as a product called “IOSAT“, which is sold in packets of fourteen 130mg pills. These are perfectly fine to use, but I do not recommend them, because in my opinion they are too expensive, and not as useful as the alternative. The better option are sold as tablets, by the bottle, usually coming as c.140 tablets of 130mg each (the standard dosage for an adult) to each bottle. The reason for this is simple: the IOSAT box is only good for protection after a single detonation — what do you do on Day 12, post-Attack, when their is another explosion? It’s a distinct possibility. Buy the bottle.

As well – calcium supplements. These are the only reasonable measure to counter the effects of Strontium-90 exposure. While there is no cure for Strontium exposure, calcium supplements can help you maintain bone health, since Strontium competes with calcium in the body. Again, talk to your doctor.

Last – multivitamins. Should an attack happen, your stress levels and changes in diet will throw your body out of whack for some time, until you can settle into a new normal. Multivitamins can help regulate the nutrients your body needs in the short term. Again, talk to your doctor.

Next, you need to consider, right now, what your gardening potential is. Start looking up your gardening zone, to see what kinds of food crops you can put in. As well, learn sprouting, because it really will keep you alive. Likewise, check out THIS video, as well.

That last thing we’ll talk about here, is personal defense and protection.

While I am fairly certain that many of those reading this article probably possess firearms of some sort, you need to think carefully about how to organize you personal and family protection strategies. Even if you live in a hyper gun-controlled state, you still have viable firearms options, such as pump shotguns, lever- and bolt-action rifles, and revolvers. Don’t do anything to run afoul of your local governments, but arm yourself, if you haven’t already.

Lastly, don’t neglect first aid. There are several products readily available, at very low cost that will significantly increase your chances of survival. Your options in this regard are vastly better than what was available 20-odd years ago. Also, there are plenty of training videos out there, on YouTube; “Dr. Bones & Nurse Amy” is one of the best.

Finally — I am not writing this to scare you. Even though I do not know you, I want you to live, should a nuclear attack happen…because the chances are very good that you will survive the attack, itself, and likely in relatively good physical condition. I find the idea of a person who survives a nearby nuclear explosion dying because they were not prepared beforehand, out of depression and ennui induced by sources that they should be able to trust, to be offensive in the extreme. You don’t have to know every single thing that I know, but what you need to know is that, if the worst comes, you and your family can survive, if you just exert the effort now.

I hope this helps. Good luck, check your six and keep your powder dry.

 

Biden Fears Nuclear War

Biden Fears Nuclear War

Bill Collier October 7, 2022 0

By Bill Collier- In an AP article, it is noted President Biden is essentially telling his own Party bosses that a. he doesn’t know Putin’s off ramp in Ukraine and b. he fears we are closer to nuclear war than ever, on par with the great nuclear scare of 1962. But why are we who once proudly felt our efforts had led to the end of the Cold War once again considering the possibility of a Soviet Snow?

President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine.

AP News, October 6, 2022

The typical indeptness and “Americans last” attitude among Democrats and their little toady Biden led to this situation. Honestly, under a Republican like Trump, Reagan, or Eisenhower, Russia would have never taken such liberty. Only Democrats and their collaborators, the Bushes, would fumble so.

I still say SLAVA UKRAINI, HEROYIM SLAVA, I root for the Ukrainian PEOPLE, but I am not amused by and will not forget that the Democratic Party’s obsession with interventionism and Russophobia led to this more than anything Ukraine or even Russia did to provoke this tragedy.

On one hand, we cannot bow to nuclear blackmail but on the other hand the Democratic Party’s warmongering ways and ineptitude are the true cause of the crisis we face.

This should never have gotten this far.

It all started with Bush, the collaborator Republican, caving on Putin’s Georgia adventure and, before that, to Clinton’s insistence Ukraine surrender its nuclear arsena for a worthless “guarantee” of its territorial integrity.

But is nuclear war in the offing or is the banging of the war drums essentially the corpostate’s “wag the dog” scenario to bolster Democrats under the banner of Biden as a “war President?” The ground level truth here may be somewhat a wag the dog scenario that has gotten out from the control of its perpetrators. In orchestrating a war, the corpostate establishment meant to bleed Russia but not seriously threaten it, all in the service of the military-industrial complex, global corporate gains, and propping up Biden as a tough guy.

It is almost certainly improbable that Putin would fall for the bait and do something rash, like hit the Ukes with a tactical nuclear weapon. But so was it improbable that Putin, without massive numerical superiority or total control over the air space, would have launched a full-fledged invasion that would basically fail. This doesn’t mean Russia is out as this masisve and tough country has clawed back from defeat under much tougher circumstances.

For instance, the Ukrainians have more than tacitly agreed a rules of engagement (ROE) that says they cannot hit Russia proper despite the fact Russia is free to strike their state in any location. This notion an enemy can cross your border to attack you and annex your country but you must not strike them anywhere except for inside your country is as foolhardy as giving up Ukrainian nuclear weapons was.

But will Putin hit the button and lob a nuke into his enemy’s country?

It is more likely that if the Russians do a nuclear demonstration it will be in as sparsely populated an area as possible, followed by an ultimatum that Davos/DC will either stand up to or bow to. Whatever Kyiv wants to do, the decision will not be theirs in the end.

Full on nuclear war is unlikely and if this scenario plays out it is hard to see what will follow. Even if the Davos Axis (the Powers, state and corporate, under the control of Davos shot-callers) caves and demands Kyiv accept its role as the Czechoslovokia to a modern Munich Accord, they will inflict harsh and unrelenting sanctions on the Russians that will not be worth their phyrric victory.

This is a war on two levels. Locally it is Putin’s armies versus the sovereign people of Ukraine. But the meta reality of this war is that it is between the Davos Axis and Putin’s Russian state, which is the property of the oligarchs. The “national interests” of Western countries, Ukraine, and Russia are irrelevant, even if the Russian cannon fodder and Ukrainian frontline patriots are caught in the middle and forced to die for agendas in Davos/Brussels/DC or Moscow that do not serve them.

If you think the Democrats and their lapdog President have American interests at heart or really care for the Ukrainian people, then you are living in a bubble of fantasy not reflective of reality in the slightest.

It is possible to truly want to support Ukraine. The Davos Axis vis the instruments of American power which they now control may have caused all this. But the people of Ukraine do not deserve to be abandoned and even if the quisling Democrats are routed and American government is returned to the People, we should recognize our moral obligation to the people of Ukraine. One can both have eyes wide open as to the true cause and motive behind this war and yet also wholly support the people of Ukraine who did not choose this war.

So we face the potential of nuclear war, something we old Cold Warriors thought was in our past and something we fought to prevent. We face this because the Democrats did not know how to stand up to Putin while constantly engaging in Russophobia and incendiary rhetoric which drove the Bear into irrational fears until he lashed out. The Davos Axis wanted a quick Russian victory in the East followed by a long protracted guerilla war. The staunch bravery and fighting skill of the Ukrainians prevailed enough that arming them, after years of a military equipment moratorium, became a political necessity.

At each stage Biden resisted the next level, dragging feet on what arms would be sent, each an escalation, and now Ukrainian victories are making Putin panic and reach for the Big Red Button. Even now, Biden openly states he has no idea what Putin’s off-ramp to this war is, beyond going nuclear to level the playing field.

Thus, nuclear war looms ever closer, more than ever, and the Democrats as Davos Axis stooges wring their hands desperately without having any answers.

Big Social’s Marxist Values Get Tested by SCOTUS

Big Social’s Marxist Values Get Tested by SCOTUS

Paul Collier October 5, 2022 0

SOCIAL MEDIA SHOWDOWN WITH SCOTUS OVER SECTION 230 IS FINALLY HERE – SCOTUS has granted a “writ of certiorari” in the Gonzalez v Google case.  The case tests Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.  The constitutional question is if Social Media loses its liability protections when it becomes an editor of content through political censorship.

The showdown has been anticipated, dreaded, and hoped for since at least just after 2016, but even more after 2020, the year of the mass mailer election, the election that never was.

The news comes just after an announcement that Elon Musk appears ready to finalize the Twitter deal after promising to make Twitter more amenable to the American spirit of freedom of speech, which means, essentially, freedom from consequences for more than speech alone.

What happens next at SCOTUS, I would suggest, is more about the reality of power at the highest levels of corporate power in America today than it is about the legal reality of the case to be adjudicated.

This handful of the most powerful families in America has been mostly betting on the China model, hoping to create in America something like China’s version of “capitalism,” one which allowed for the existence of billionaires while eliminating most future competition from impeding on that market power in any way.

For the American billionaire families, they’ve bet, I theorize, that they could create a China model that blended the state and the corporation so that the billionaires in their China could not be disappeared by the party leader.  They only have to look at the fate of Jack Ma and other billionaires in China that were recently purged by Chairman Xi to understand the fire they might be playing with by going down this path.

They’ve utilized the emerging market of China (along with other world emerging markets, but none which come close to China in size and potential) to fund a lot of their China-transformation conditioning back home.

By “China” I mean the China model of Socialism that emerged after the reforms of the 90s starting with Jiang Zemin, who ushered in China’s “glasnost” with a new contrivance called “socialist market economy.”

These former Americans (AINOS, Americans in Name Only) aren’t pro-China, they’re not seeking to become a vassal of the Chinese Empire.  They seek to use China, as China seeks to use them, for their own party’s advantage.

They are ultimately enemies, and both sides know it.  They both have data the other side wants.  They both have markets the other side needs.  They both see humans the same, as non-individuals meant to be fitted into a social oneness these billionaires create for their own self-empowering ends.

I believe the kids are using the phrase “frenemies” to describe what the party of the corporate-American state, the DNC, and the party of Xi, the CCP, have been since their initial entanglement, which may have begun with Nixon, but certainly was well on its way by Bush I.  They’ve made a pact on Survival Island to assure they’re the last two standing, and they can then settle this between themselves at that moment.

Yes, I call this a DNC-CCP frenemy alliance, but I started off with two Republican Presidents being the catalyst of this union.  DNC is a catch-all phrase that represents all the real servants of the DNC, be they “Republicans” (DNC operatives that infiltrate other parties) or so-called Anarcho-Leftists who don’t understand how they’re nothing but brown-shirt pawns of the DNC (who will suffer the same fate of the brown shirts when the DNC no longer needs them).

Something has changed recently that, I believe, has caused some billionaire families that bet the farm on the China model of socialism, the socialist market economy, to question the soundness of that decision for a number of reasons (including Xi’s authoritarian crackdown on inhouse billionaires and his tightening of the access to the glorious Chines market).

The Elon Musk buyout of Twitter (should it be finally finalized, for real this time, no takebacks) is a leading indicator that the coalition of AINOS among the billionaire families is cracking.

The number one protector of the DNC narrative, the number destroyer of DNC opposition, is social media.  The big platforms, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Chinese-owned TikTok, have all developed algorithms to censor and ban dissent while elevating pro-party-line agit-prop Molotov-cocktail-throwers (like Vaush).

All the other DNC-favoring institutions, including our own banking system, follow the lead set by social media and market-kill the DNC opposition for good (or so they believed).

They’ve done this non-capitalist, non-free-market action because they had the Section 230 protection which no powers that be were interested in seeing come to the light of day anywhere near SCOTUS.  They also had the mega billions of dollars they were raking in from foreign markets and foreign contracts (including with China).

They could afford to offer an un-American product to an American market because they were no longer dependent on it financially, fellow AINO market conspirators protected them from rival platforms, and they oppose the American republican social contract founded on the principle that every individual is sacred in and of themselves.  That model creates way more competition, and what billionaire families want most, it would seem, is less competition.

Now, some powers that be allowed this issue to get to the Supreme Court.  What’s happening behind closed doors can only be speculated, but the decisions that will be made, I support, will be reflective of the reality of power behind those closed doors.

Maybe, perhaps, some AINOS have lost their nerve and want to walk back from the abyss of trashing America’s sacred individual social contract once and for all.  If so, the court will end the coalition of AINOS’ power to continue to seek to create a product, a DNC acolyte, rather than deliver a product AMERICANS want, a social media experience that allows for a level playing field for all political, religious, philosophical, etc. views, and community governance that reflects American values, not Communist, Marxist, or even Socialist ones.

We are individuals, and even dangerous ideas, even misinformation, must remain free to be expressed if we are to restore and then preserve of our American ideals of the sacredness of the individual in and of themselves.

The 21st Century Belongs to the Free Mind

The 21st Century Belongs to the Free Mind

Paul Collier October 4, 2022 0

KYRGYZSTAN AND TAJIKISTAN CONFLICT REVEAL POWER OF FREEDOM IN WINNING ONLINE PR WARS

Throughout human history, leaders of nations (even leaders that wished to form nations, such as Aelfred the Great of England) have recognized, mostly, two outcomes their social, cultural, and civic institutions must produce; they MUST CREATE a warrior class and an expert class.  The people and their land must have institutions that can create humans that kill well and humans that can create and support the tools these killing humans need to do their jobs.

In addition to these two results of civilization (we’ll call it that from here on out), and almost as equally important, we need the bodies that are needed for wars.  We need the bodies that are needed for the work that supports war-making.

Our civilization has neighbors who have the same thing in mind in the formation of their own civilization.  These civilizations are overwhelmingly led by individuals who treat these civilizations as their personal toolbox to be used to assure they and their future DNA can continue to control the lives of the vast majority of their subjects.

Of course, for the sake of time, I am being a bit simplistic in my language, but the spirit is rightly applied to the reality I am describing, the underlying reliance on the art of killing (and all the institutions needed to produce the highest forms of killing) to assure the continued existence of the civilization you and everyone throughout human history has ever been part of.

Throughout most of human history, the sinew trumped the machine in terms of killing value, but more and more the machine is replacing the sinew, creating new institutional demands to support new types of killing arts emerging from this new shift in the potential for the human to manipulate material for the purpose of bringing death and destruction to others.

This brings us to our story:

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan’s 545-mile-long shared border erupted September 16, leaving more than 100 people dead and over 100,000 people displaced.  A cease-fire was signed September 25, 2022.  There were no real winners, however, Kyrgyzstan won the online PR war thanks to having more freedom of expression than Tajikistan does.

As press freedom goes, Kyrgyzstan ranks rather low, coming in at 72 in world country rankings.  However, their counterpart, Tajikistan, ranks 150th, near the bottom (there are 195 recognized countries in the world).

Relative to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan is a thriving hotbed of free expression producing high-quality content that makes Tajikistan look like a tone-deaf cringe-lord begging the public to listen to their carefully crafted press releases.

The PR war online was decisively won by Kyrgyzstan despite appearing to be the military “loser” in this affair.  It could well be, though, that the Kyrgyzstanis were better at highlighting the damage done to their areas as opposed to the damage they did to the Tajikistani areas.

From hrw.org

Kyrgyz Ministry of Education reports that 26 schools and 30 kindergartens in the Batken region closed as nearly 137,000 people evacuated since the fighting started. Of these, ten schools and seven kindergartens were damaged either by shrapnel or direct attacks. Currently, most schools have resumed full or partial functioning, except the two that were heavily damaged. One of these schools, located in Ak-Sai, was taken over by Tajik-affiliated forces on September 16 and used as a base for two days.

In Tajikistan, at least one school educating 450 children was damaged by fire on September 16. In another school in Khojai A’lo, Tajikistan, a teacher, 51-year-old Bakhrom Khakimov, was reportedly killed while trying to protect his students. The Tajik authorities have confirmed that 200 civilians have been harmed in the hostilities.

Regardless, this conflict results in another cease-fire, with neither side gaining or losing much on the ground.  However, as far as the world is concerned, the Kyrgyzstanis gained tremendous ground, which might lead to more support from the outside world than the Tajikistanis can hope to gain.

Kyrgyzstan is very friendly to crypto as well, making itself somewhat of an emigree target for wanna-be expats in the west looking to go on a new adventure.  No such opportunities lie on the other side of the border.

It should be noted that Kyrgyzstan has been making anti-free-press moves as of late, moves that might be second-guessed after seeing what a free press culture can do in the digital information wars compared to one that lacks it.

There are many factors that go into producing an effective killing and anti-killing strategy, including access to the raw resources needed to make the machines themselves, but none of them, I would support, will be as significant as the freedom of expression factor in the wars of the near future.

If your civilization lacks free expression, then it will soon become threatened by those that do not, unless you are a satellite of a free expression nation willing to shower you with military tools and expertise.

These two nations are in perpetual geopolitical tension due to the non-emergent nature of the border imposed on them by the then-Soviet Union.  The boundaries are not reflected of geopolitical realities in terms of the purely physical as well as ethnic history.  This is a reality that is shared around the world, especially among former Soviet satellites.

For the nations that exist in similar conditions to the ones in this story, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the key lesson to be learned here, one that even the Belarusian President should heed, is that free expression cultivates the institutions needed to produce an effective killing and anti-killing strategy when dealing with threats from competing civilizations outside your borders, ESPECIALLY if you cannot hope for real aid from any of the major powers.

There is a technical parity happening around the world, for a number of reasons, including the proliferation of open-source augmented intelligence programs (AI, but I call it augmented instead of artificial).  This technical parity, in addition to the shrinking nature of warfare (as drones become more and more dominant, as I predict they will), will mean that the advantage in warfare will come in inspiring support and intelligently utilizing killing tools that are mostly comparable to the ones they’ll be facing.

The sinew has given way to the machine, but now the machine is giving way to the mind.  When the mind becomes the number one factor in war, the civilization that impedes dangerous free expression, for hate speech, for misinformation, for blasphemy, for security, etc., is sure to be a past civilization in the course of near time.

As the machine gives way to the mind, even as it is the very facilitator of it, the people who can think in the most dynamic, responsive way, in the most semi-autonomous way, without needing central commands, are the people that will win Empires in the decades, perhaps centuries, to come.

Winning The War To Rebuild Freedom

Winning The War To Rebuild Freedom

Bill Collier October 1, 2022 0

The Answer To the Dangers of Authoritarian Decadence Is To Unilaterally Establish Community With Fellow Freedom Builders

The evils and dangers of authoritarian decadence are on display. Never before in the USA has the danger of freedom being extinquished been graver. For many, the answer seems to be to market freedom to the masses in the hopes of defeating the freedom takers.

For Peers of Upadaria, people who have adopted a unique but Christian spiritual nationhood, and Freedomists who embrace a Pledge of Common Unity, the answer isn’t marketing.

Marketing is meant to pursuade. Upadaria, as a spiritual nation and an international non-territorial Commonwealth, is not something to be marketed. It is more about making a logical case, drawing boundaries, and building community around our shared freedom-building ideas.

The goal is not to convince the majority that something is right. We are at a place where we must all be done “negotiating” about fundamental God-given spiritual sovereignty. We cannot negotiate things like the individual’s wyrd, which is a God-ordained scroll of destiny and purpose unique for each person.

Those who will join the cause or become allies will come forth and together will do exploits. Those who oppose will oppose and all that can be done is to leave them to God’s care.

There is a war on freedom caused by a civilization-wide leftward lurch toward authoritarian decadence. It is necessary to resist this, peacefully, and at least to protect the innocent and the righteous as much as possible. But it is also important to realize that authoritarian decadence is an unavoidable consequence of a civilization in spiritual, moral, cultural, and creative decline.

We live in the days of decline. Every major world civilization today is in a similar state of decline. The problem is way beyond America. It is a global problem.

Some believe elections will save us. If only we get the right people in we can defeat the bad guys, or so the logic runs.

In truth, and to be brutally honest, voting will not save us. Winning elections is not the real solution.

Voting is a power we use as best we can to stave off the greatest threat, the Democrats, who, as a Party, are far worse than the Republicans. The Republicans are not “good”, but their flaws are a minor crime compared to the Democrats.

(*Note, our litmus test is whether a politician will vote to ensure some sorts of status and shanding for Upadarians as a spiritual nation more than anything else and for our non-territorial international Commonwealth. This means, only under such circumstances, a Democrat who will vote for our status and standing would be preferable to a Republican who won’t.)

If voting is mostly just a holding action, what is the answer to our quandry?

The creation of community is the answer.

We who call ourselves Upadarians believe that a spiritual form of nationhood is the most viable way to build community. People intentionally adopt something we call “organic cohesiveness” through the agency of shared nationhood. For Freedomists, a Pledge of Common Unity provides a larger and more pluralistic foundation for collaboration and mutual support.

First we begin with spiritual nationhood. This is important because the stakeholders of our international virtual Commonwealth are conformed Peers of our spiritual nation (Electors).

Let’s dig into nationhood, cohesiveness, and that which makes all this organic.

How can a small group of people overcome large-scale problems that the majority do not even acknowledge as problems? The answer is that they need to be able to act in unity and with discipline and purpose. This is cohesiveness.

When a small group of people are extremely cohesive, the larger but less cohesive groups fall before them.

We aren’t interested in anyone falling before us. We are interested in not falling before the “popular” waves of moral barbarism and authoritarianism that the Democratic Party is all about.

The Democrats and their propaganda organs in the press, academia, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, and Hollywierd are totalitarian perverts. We don’t want to be ruled by their anticulture and their authoritarianism.

Republicans are not the noble and good opposite of the Democrats. They may be seen as either feckless opposition to the Democrats, sometimes collaborators, or slow motion corpostate shills. But they are not anything near a threat to us as the Democrats are.

A cohesive core of a minority of people is more than a match to the balkanized majority coalition the Democrats have cobbled together.

Cohesiveness is needed.

But our idea is that it should be oragnic. This means a few things. First, there is the idea it should come from the heart and be natural, not forced. It should have great depth such that any two people who have this organic cohesiveness instantly know they will almost always agree.

They will be able to predict how the other person will act or respond. They will know that honor and honesty are required as a prerequisite for being a Peer of our nation or a Freedomist in our Commonwealth.

This instant agreement is never forced, it flows from having the same core beliefs and values. It happens by making these shared ideals visible and transparent. It happens we agreement on these matters becomes the very qualification for claiming the shared identity.

What we call nationhood in many ways is “community writ large.” It is a shared identity that defines how those who adopt it will behave with one another and with reference to the outside world. It creates predictability and trust which would normally take a long time to build, thus making an effectice cohesive response difficult.

People adopt the Upadarian nationality when they learn the ideals, principles, practices, and goals that define this identity. These things are expressed through the 17 Protocols of Upadaria which guide the way we treat each other and the way we work together. Others, who we call Freedomists, agree to a Pledge of Common Unity by which they become Citizen Freeholders of our international Commonwealth.

(*Note, people who become Peers take a Pledge of Peers and automatically also agree to the Pledge of Common Unity. People who agree to the Pledge of Common Unity are not Upadarians by nationality and may not even be Christians, but they embrace the ideals and principles upon which freedom is built. Thus we have Peers and Freedomists.)

By this means, many small groups in many locations who gather under our banner can work autonomously. Meanwhile, it looks like a mass movement is being centrally organized and activated. In reality, aside from a support structure and a means of protecting the brand and providing standards, no such control exists.

Any larger scale hierarchy is captains of tens, fifties, hundreds, thousands, and etcetera. To pool resources and facilitate communication and cooperation across great distances and among millions of people some hierarchy is needed. Hierarchical structures with a light touch that support autonomous local groups are ideal.

Through the power of organic cohesiveness, even if that hierarchy was destroyed, a whole new organic hierarchy could emerge from any of the smaller pieces. These smaller peices, like groups of a few people even, become a fractal of the whole. They can then grow through cellular division into a new copy of the whole.

Imagine a small town of perhaps 5,000 adults. Imagine only 300 to 500 adults embracing our nationhood or at least virtual citizenship in our international Commonwealth, and building community amongst themselves. This “Microshire Community” or around 2-5 Shireholds would have an outsized INFLUENCE without asserting any control.

(*Note, the wors “Shirehold” combines the words “shire” and “hold”, as in household. It is a modern adaptation of the ancient tribal band or village in which some form of kinship connection is a condition of membership.)

Even when only a few dozen families share this identity as Peers of Upadaria or embrace the status of Freedomists within our Commonwealth, a lot of good can be done.

In that town, the likelihood any elected official would run afoul of these people is slim. If they voted en bloc, as a group, they would be courted, not persecuted. If they also were not interested in much more than basic human rights for all and to be left in peace to serve their God, they are also not any kind of threat.

Spiritual nationhood is the means of building organic cohesiveness within distributed intentional communities. This is the key to our peaceful and spiritual revolution.

While the degree to which Freedomists are cohesive with Upadarians may be lesser, it is substantial and chances are a Freedomist would engage in some other form of shared nationhood with others within the larger international Commonwealth.

This, or something like this by similar groups who love freedom, is the real solution to our problem. Our problem is authoritarian decadence promoted by a globalist corpostate establishment that has lost its very humanity.

We aren’t trying to convince the majority to reject this. We are not trying to win over the corpostaters or their minions. We will vote to hold the line and disrupt the use of political power as a weapon against freedom. At the same time, we will unilaterally build community through the agency of spiritual nationhood which creates organic cohesiveness.

Our goal is to find, inform, gather, and help yo organize Peers of Upadaria and eCitizens of our virtual commonwealth who are not Peers at the local level. By empowering them to autonomously build community together, we win back a tiny portion of the people and land for freedom.

Electors are confirmed Peers who are citizens of our non-territorial international Commonwealth. Freeholders are active eCitizens and confirmed Freedomists of our commonwealth. They are all called “Upos” and we believe they already exist. What lies before us is the task of calling them and serving them so that they can build their own local Upo Communities.

We use a term “Upoverse” to describe a social, economic, civil, and civic environment based on a new civilizational paradigm. By building the Upoverse online and then face-to-face at the local level, we win more people and spaces for freedom.

As others may do the same, albeit in their own ways, new alliances and coalitions emerge. These alliances and coalitions fly the same banner. It is a banner of freedom through virtue, liberty, and independence and adherence to the same set of core ideals.

People who want freedom and who are destined to become Electors or Freeholders within our globally-distributed community already exist. We do not need to convince them. We need to reach them, gather them, and activate them.

Democratic Party Fascist Revolution In America

Democratic Party Fascist Revolution In America

Bill Collier October 1, 2022 0

Democrats = Fascists

Democrats are fascists. But, more than that, they are child abusers. The kids they don’t murder in the womb, they want to forcefully corrupt (groom). They do this to sexually abuse them at the hands of their perverted alt-gendered allies.

Democrats want to seriously harm the ability of anyone who follows the historic Christian faith and orthodoxy to live their own way. This is a Party who want to to deny Christians any right to publicly proclaim their beliefs, values, and convictions.

The excuse/justification is that Democrats say they are preventing hate speech or disinformation. Hate speech and disinformation are the entirety of their Party’s platform!

The Platform Of Antichrist?

The Democratic Party platform reads as if they were inspired by some weird and hideous understanding of an imagined agenda by the antichrist himself. Instead of using it to show how bad this future time will be, they have taken it on board as their actual dream. It is a dark dream of violence, perversion, death, and misery. It is Satanic.

No Longer Merely Political Opponents

It is inaccurate to define Democrats as mere political opponents. They are far more than mere opponents.

It is accuratea to say this Party’s leaders are no longer merely in opposition to the best ideas and most noble ideals that made this country great. They do not merely oppose the ideas that created an arc of history that bent toward justice and freedom. Theirs is essentially a vanguard front group for globalist quislings!

From Biden on down, these cretins want to harness and abuse all the economic and political power of this country. The goal seems tl be to suicide our sovereignty. We witness and agenda to transform this land into a totalitarian dictatorship worse than anything previous in human history.

Are Republicans Just As Bad?

Often, people who cannot only admit their partisan leftwing devotion to this corruptocrat Party will day “Republicans are just as bad.” It’s the old “both parties as just as bad, choose your poison” cop-out.

To say “Republicans are just as bad” are the words of fools or liars, or of Quisling puppets. The partisans cannot justify the depravity of their Party. The best way to support the war on freedom is to make people at least feel there are no viable alternatives they can turn to.

Republicans haven’t changed their Platform to mimick the ideas of the people of Sodom. Only if that happens can we say they are “just as bad.” No, being less than good doesn’t put you in the same category as the Democrats.

Democrats Are Unprecedented In Their Depravity

Never before in our country’s history since 1861 and then the KKK has any political movement been this bad. It is unprecedented how bad Democrats have become.

To be blunt, Democrats are fascist perverts. Their moral depravity is unprecedented.

We must understand that this is a Party which, if it ever has its way, would plunge this land into a new dark age. Their totalitarianism would cost tens of millions of lives if it ever gets free reign!

Democratic Party bigwigs deserve to be treated as if they were literally members in good standing in that other leftwing fascist party. By this we mean the Nazis. The particular perversions and horrors Democrats embrace differ from the Nazis. But the genocidal hatred for the “other” and a craven lust for total monopoly power are among the top features of their ideology. This is exactly what featured prominently among the leftist Nazis.

The Democratic Revolution Is Purely Vile

From unprecedented immorality, Democrats are moving on to a subversive “revolution” that is purely vile. Using bogeyman fears and utopian promises, these power-made perverts try to conceal their true nature and aims.

Democrats are engaging in an alt-gendered hedonistic anticulture and totalitarian revolution.

Their ideas are against the very existence of America as a Union of free and constitutional Republics.

The policies of this corpostate cabal oppose the spiritual sovereignty and dignity of each and every human being.

Their “revolution” in its true intent opposes any respect for the laws of Creation are the very soul of law and policy.

They want to be “free” from God’s laws. They also don’t want YOU to be free to follow God’s laws. Democratic Party shot-callers don’t want anyone to even have a right to proclaim God’s laws. What we witness is a demand to be free from all criticism and opposition. This is the juvenile plee to be free even from being offended or having their feelings hurt.

This is an agenda meant to tear God down from the Heavens and install themselves as Supreme Leaders for life. Imagine an alt-gendered androgynous person with no connections to anything but the corpostate establishment. This is the new Democratic Party plantation of the Great Reset delusion.

Worse Than Brigands

Today’s Democrats are worse than brigands! What we see are child killers and child abusers on a mass scale. Such ideas are clearly meant to totally atomize each individual in their total identity.

The goals begins with separating people from connections to their ancestors, who are defamed. The next step is turn people against this country, which is smeares relentlessly. Now we see steps which will isolate people from their family which is destroyed through Democratic social policies. Finally, their is a war on marriage. This is accomplished byredefining marriage as a temporary, transactional and mostly hedonistic exchange.

Atomized, drugged, brainwashed, isolated, and non-differentiated, androgynous people pursuing only sexual pleasure make good slaves. You can exploit them, always count on their vote, tax them, and basically treat them like property.

The end of their vile revolution leaves you a mindless, drug-addled slave whose only “freedom” is the full range of ways you can sexually stimulate and satisfy yourself.

Democrats are the bane of this country’s existence, a party of deviants, criminals, bullies, and thugs. They behave as if they no longer have a human soul. Their vile revolution is a war against God, freedom, family, and country!

What is the solution.

The solution is to build community with people who are commited to freedom and whose agenda and values match your own. See here:

Winning The War To Rebuild Freedom

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New Study Reveals Long-Term Consequences of Abortion on Women

New Study Reveals Long-Term Consequences of Abortion on Women

Paul Collier September 30, 2022 0

Support After Abortion released  a study that shows a significant portion of women suffer from the consequences of abortion even decades after they’ve had them.

The study showed ” that 40% of women who experienced medication abortions suffered adverse emotional and psychological effects.”

Perhaps the highlight of the segment was this moment when Patricia Brown spoke about the after effects of her abortion when she was 16-years old.  She came to the support center “decades later.”

When asked if she would have had an abortion if she could do it all over again, she responded “If I’d known there would be an emptiness, ain’t no way I would have,”

The consequences of abortion on the mother, on society as a whole, has hardly been given serious study.  Seeing one study that dared explore the “less obvious” negative side effects of abortion (beyond the obvious negative effect, the murder of an unborn child) is very encouraging.  Seeing that study given voice on a Disney-owned media company indictates, potentially, either a crack in the Empire or a token appeasement to settle down dissent.

Time will tell, yet we celebrate the spreading of the word of the death-creating patterns of abortion that go far beyond the abortion, the woman, the abortionist, and even the father.  These patterns touch the very spirit of our sense of humanity in ways that few have taken to explore in any impartial, phenomenological sense.

The abortionist should fear the consequences of such a study, for the people would learn of the brutal authoritarian death engine of power the habit of abortionist thought creates for the elite few.

From supportafterabortion.com

“We appreciate ABC’s even-handed coverage of Support After Abortion’s mission to help women and men who suffer after abortion,” said Support After Abortion CEO Lisa Rowe, a licensed clinical social worker. “Abortion is often framed as a political issue, which disenfranchises women and men who experience adverse impacts like grief, anger, and shame. ABC’s story was about politics and revenue, but it also showed the human side of suffering after abortion.”

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As Facebook’s Stock Falls What Can It Do To Survive?

As Facebook’s Stock Falls What Can It Do To Survive?

Bill Collier September 30, 2022 0

OPINION by Bill Collier- A recent article on CNBC about Facebook/Meta losing over 2/3rds of its stock value in a year has analysis and investors wondering if the tech giant will even survive. Whereas in 2021 at around this time, Facebook was valued at around a trillion dollars, this year, it is $377 billion in total value.

Not surprisingly for a globalist corpostate press organ, the CNBC article totally misses the elephant in the room, which is that Facebook’s core problems revolve around poor community governance (things like moderation and “fact checking”) and a fundamental misunderstanding of and lack of appreciation for their users, many of whom do not feel they and their creeds are treated fairly.

I like Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, the core business model is for FB to become more of a platform for all than a private community with a more globalist corpostate ideological bent.

Allowing people to connect to family, friends, interests, and causes in a dynamic manner and with civility and common decency that is governed with fairness, common sense, and consistency, without bias or editorial (disguised as “fact checking” bit which is really opinion policing), would work.

This would be a great path forward, as opposed to reacting to activist (usually on the left) “demands” coming from audience groups (young wokatarians) who don’t use the product is, in my estaimation, a massive distraction from the core business. It is costing users, reputation, and now revenue.

Facebook serves an older demographic and, frankly, the older set will remain a core constituency well into the next 30 plus years. Providing other platforms for the younger set would be good, but it would be a mistake to simply roll out another iteration of a more popular platform.

Facebook has long suffered poor governance issues, not least because of the perceived editorializing-as-standards and the clear globalist corpostate bias of its “fact checking”, which creates distrust and which opens the platform up to constant criticism from right and left. All these fires keep distracting key decision-makers whose talents are essentially a wasted resource.

People don’t want a “free speech platform” that is “anything goes”, but if the user base is diverse in its religious, political, and philosophical perspectives, tending to favor one part of the user base over others, as it is perceived is the case, will necessarily decrease the engagement and participation of the “offended” group. It doesn’t matter if this is factually true or if it is the intent.

This is a perception at least partially caused by the inconsistent, often illogical, implementation of governance and, frankly, the oddball way “fact checking” is applied which makes the platform both seem biased and illogical.

For instance, to refute the statement “there are only two genders”, Facebook’s “fact checkers” cited the extremely rare case where people are BORN with a mix of gender traits as “proof” there are more than two genders.

The exception does not disprove the rule. but this illogical, upside-down, and absurd, use of an extremely rare exception as “proof” that the claimed rule, “there are only two genders”, is wholly false did nothing good for Facebook’s reputation or bottom line.

This kind of thing, as well as many instances of inconsistent application of standards which are perceived as putting the thumb on the scales against half their user base’s creeds, is anathema to being perceived as an honest broker and neutral arbiter. It is bad governance.

To be clear, while the rank and file bias of most of Facebook’s staff are likely leaning toward corpostate globalism or leftism in general, it may in fact be unfair to say Mark Zuckerberg wants to push a “leftist agenda.”

The fact most moderators and community governance staff may tend toward a bias, and perhaps it shows, is less a reflection of ownership bias and more a function of a poor governance architecture.

Instead of investing in new tech that is not taking hold, the whole metaverse, Faecbook should reexamine its entire governance system and the structure of the platform to provide a safe and friendly environment that is welcoming to all, regardless of creed and etcetera, but that insists users must, foremost, decide the content and entities they wish to be exposed to without being able to demand the platform cancel others who are otherwise well behaved.

Facebook/Meta isn’t focusing on keeping and growing a user base to whom advertisers can pitch themselves and their messages. What is really happening is that Facebook is trying to claim to be such a platform while its governance and “fact checking”, and how it spends its political dollars, all tend to lean in direction that half or more of their user base do not fancy.

Facebook is seen as a booster for the Democrats that tries to also pretend it is a platform for all, even if this may be an unfair characterization. The reputation hit among those on the right cannot be good and is not substantively addressed while kowtowing to the media-induced and leftist-activist supported frenzy of the hour hasn’t earned the support of the Democrats or the coveted younger demographic who, one suspects, Mark Zuckerberg thinks are represented by the very loud but tiny woke minority.

It may be true, though I am not prepared to claim it is true, that most Facebook users represent a more “conservative demographic” than a leftist demographic and that if Mark MUST use ideological sympathy to gain more users who are more engaged he may want to radically change course and lean right.

Is Newer Always Better? The Fetish Harming Western Militaries

Is Newer Always Better? The Fetish Harming Western Militaries

Michael Cessna September 23, 2022 0

 

 

We all like nice things. Especially new, nice things. New things tend to have that “new” smell and/or touch. They “feel” better, and give us all a certain sense of accomplishment – after all, “new” tends to be expensive, in comparison to older things, and “buying new” gives us a feeling of accomplishment, because the new thing is a physical representation of our hard work paying off.

But – is “new” actually “better“?

In the realm of consumer products, the reality of new items hitting the shelves (literally or figuratively) is very much hit or miss. Many times – perhaps even most times – the new stuff offers new features, or is lighter, or does things more efficiently than what it is replacing. Conversely, many times, the new product – while looking very snazzy or streamlined on the outside – is actually flimsy, cheaply made and has a very good chance of failing if you look at it sideways, usually the day after its warranty expires (if it even came with a warranty). This can lead the frustrated consumer to try and return the product for a replacement or a refund (which sometimes, they are actually able to receive), and often going out and buying a similar product from a more reliable and trusted brand.

 

 

But in reality, buying a “new and improved” coffee maker on sale and having it fail on you after three months, while frustrating, really isn’t a monumental problem; annoying, certainly, but no one is dying over it…In the military realm, however, the consequences of untested tools – and worse, untested structural models – can be catastrophically disastrous.

Let’s look at two examples, one a matter of hardware, the other, a matter of organization.

 

Boom Sticks

First, with the rise of the AK-47, militaries around the world began to clamor for a rifle chambered in an “intermediate cartridge“, in short, something more powerful than a pistol-caliber submachine gun, but not as massive as a full-power cartridge. The path to the intermediate cartridge idea is one of those dark secrets of firearms history, that will make for a good, more in depth article down the line, but here, it will be sufficient to outline a brief overview.

Intermediate rounds are, on average, smaller and lighter than their larger cousins, which equals less use of materials (i.e., gunpowder and various metals); while the savings are tiny, per cartridge, when you are producing billions of rounds at a time, those tiny figures become very significant, very quickly. On the side that really matters to a land army – infantry combat – the “field experiment” of the last sixty or so years, initially seemed to validate the idea of the intermediate cartridge: the intermediate class of round seemed to be perfectly effective at its intended role. But looks, as usual, can be deceiving.

 

Comparison of Pistol, Rifle and Intermediate cartridge.
From left:
9 × 19 mm Parabellum (Pistol cartridge)
7.92 × 33 mm Kurz (Intermediate cartridge)
7.92 × 57 mm Mauser (Rifle cartridge)

 

While fine at ranges out to 300 meters or so (the intermediate’s intended range), when ranges moved out past that, the rifles rapidly became very ineffective, more so because – since the “maximum effective range” was accepted worldwide as 300 meters – the militaries of the world saw little reason to train the average recruit to shoot any further than that…and besides, the few times where the ranges opened up, military forces had General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG’s), Heavy Machine Guns (HMG’s), mortars, artillery, sniper rifles and even air support to deal with anything “out there.”

And then…9/11 happened.

The resulting twenty-plus year long series of wars and interventions around the world began to show cracks in the armor of the intermediate cartridge idea. As infantry combat moved out of jungles and cities, and into vast deserts and mountain ranges, combat ranges opened up considerably, well outside the range (pdf link) of intermediate cartridge weapons. And this is where the US military hit a wall.

After going “all in” on the intermediate cartridge during the Vietnam War, the US military was stuck with an entire ensemble of weapons, equipment, training foundations and doctrines that revolved around the intermediate M-16. But now, they were finding themselves being engaged by guerrilla’s firing near century-old rifles, shooting at ranges well beyond 1200 (YouTube link) meters  (pdf link). In those instances, US troops generally only had a few GPMG’s and HMG’s to respond. The US military’s response was to develop a completely new (and, inevitably, very expensive) rifle and light machine gun combination, along with a completely new type of cartridge that is best described as “intermediate plus“, that had longer range and better “hitting power” than the 60+ year old 5.56x45mm rounds.

 

U.S. Soldiers with the firing party with the 69th Infantry Regiment, New York Army National Guard prepare to fire a rifle salute during the Pearl Harbor Day ceremony in New York Dec. 7, 2012. US Army photo.

 

For those who might be scratching their heads and wondering why the US military went this route, congratulations – many other people have been doing the same thing: Why not simply adopt an older cartridge, specifically the 7.62x51mm M80, that was already in the system (such as the M240-series), and any of a number of older-pattern rifles of proven design…after all, new manufacturing techniques and materials would surely make those older designs very competitive, weight-wise, right?

The answer for the US military was, simply put, politics: with a Congress facing a public tired after twenty years of inconclusive war, and massive budgetary issues, there was no way that the military could go to Congress and ask them to fund a step “backwards”. On the other hand, they could ask Congress to fund something “new and improved” – they just had to put the right “bells and whistles” on it…or, to be peckish, a nicer ribbon.

In contrast, stands India: Faced with a rifle that just wasn’t working, no matter what they did, India bit the bullet, admitted defeat, and inked deals to both purchase and manufacture the AK-203 rifle in 7.62x39mm (a total of 670,000 – 70,000 directly from Russia, with the remainder to be manufactured under license) in Uttar Pradesh, while also purchasing slightly modified SIG 716 G2 Patrol rifles in 7.62x51mm.

 

Indian Army soldier armed with a modified AK-type rifle. Indian Ministry of Defence photo.

 

The bog-standard 7.62x51mm M80 cartridge has been standard for most western GPMG’s since at least 1983 – it just works.

Whether switching to a “new and improved” weapons suite is a good idea for the US military or not, remains to be seen. Hopefully, it will work.

Hopefully. Troops’ lives depend on it.

 

Misusing An Organizational Idea

The current war between Russia and Ukraine brought into focus the Russian idea of the “Battalion Tactical Group” (Russian: Батальонная тактическая группа, batal’onnaya takticheskaya gruppa). The BTG is one of those oddities that is rather hard to define, primarily because it only works in a very narrow area of military operations, that being as a “cadre force.”

On paper, a BTG is a combined arms formation that is technically a “battalion” of mechanized infantry, with a number of smaller specialist units (i.e., engineers, medical, air defense, etc.) being assigned as needed, and kept in a high state of readiness. Conceptually, a BTG is similar to the Western “task force” at various levels…except in artillery, where the BTG – with fewer than 1,000 troops assigned – has more long-range firepower than a US Brigade Combat Team (BCT).

There are, however, problems.

The first, is a lack of infantry support. One of the mistakes many civilians make in studying modern warfare, is the idea that tanks can do everything on their own. They cannot. A tank crew is seriously restricted in seeing what is happening around them, specifically in that they cannot see enemy infantry armed with lightweight anti-tank missiles that are more than capable to turning a tank into burning scrap metal. This is not a feature unique to Russian tanks – it is a feature of all main battle tanks in the world, in general. The only viable solution to this problem, was training specialist infantry to escort and guard the tanks against enemy infantry.

Obviously, this requires a lot of infantry…Yet Russian BTG’s, on average, have about 250 infantry escorting them, somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of what they actually need. Why?

The BTG dates from the end of the Soviet era, when the Soviet Army was refining its plans for invading Western Europe, and were carefully studying how to deal with Western company, battalion and brigade task forces. BTGs were deployed as an experiment in Afghanistan, before the final collapse of the Soviet efforts in that country in 1989, and worked well enough in that level of fighting that they were kept on, until the Soviet Union dissolved. At that point, the rancid Soviet economy that Russia inherited simply could not support the expense of permanently established combat units that required careful tactical training to work effectively. Worse, the necessary reforms to make all of this happen required a long-serving, professional corps of non-commissioned officers (NCO’s, i.e., Corporals and Sergeants), which was something the Soviets had never really tried to build. This, coupled to the political upheavals of the day, and the general Russian attitude towards their military as a barely-necessary evil (unless the enemy is literally inside the gates…and sometimes, not even then) which made an “all-volunteer” force of the likes of the United States or Great Britain an impossibility, made mass formations and a rigid conscription system moot points. While the Russian army retained the idea of brigades and divisions, at their hearts, they were really just a collection of sketchily-trained, down-market BTG’s.

 

A farewell ceremony for the 331st Airborne Regiment of the 98th Airborne Division withdrawn from Chechnya. www.kremlin.ru

 

As a result, while the concept of the BTG was retained after the Soviet Union became Russia again, the training of the troops in those formations was very haphazard. As the Russian economy began to rebound in the late-1990’s, training and readiness began to improve, and combat experience in forming ad hoc BTG’s during the wars in Chechnya showed that the concept was a viable way of fighting minor forces and guerrillas. This culminated in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, where the BTG idea seemed to work very well against the Western-trained Georgian Army (yet another article for the future). All of this led to the 2008 Russian military reform, an all-out attempt to revamp the Russian military establishment into something like a 21st Century force.

When Russia began its “intervention” in Ukraine in 2014, the BTG finally seemed to find its niche. While it had glaring weaknesses against comparable Western formations, Russian BTG’s being sent into eastern Ukraine were able to augment themselves with swarms of thousands of local anti-Kiev insurgents who, while poorly armed and scarcely trained, were able to advise and guide Russian units through local terrain, and were also able to help screen the BTG’s against Ukrainian anti-tank teams, backed up by the more professional Russian infantry and artillery. And, when Russia intervened in Syria in 2015, the Russian commanders on the scene quickly duplicated this model with local Syrian auxiliaries. The concept worked there, as well.

It seemed that Russia had found the perfect balance: BTG’s were simultaneously long-service soldiers, not conscripts, and – not being manpower-intensive – thus would not unduly upset the Russian population when they were sent out. At the same time, they seemed to be able to get the job done, and were very cost-effective in comparison to the older-model, mass formations of past wars.

This led, perhaps inevitably, to “Victory Disease“.

 

“Scene of Gen. Custer’s last stand, looking in the direction of the ford and the Indian village.” Unknown author, ca. 1877. From the US National Archives.

 

Unless carefully controlled, Victory Disease can rapidly infect a population with the idea that their forces are nigh-invincible. If left alone to fester, this breeds an arrogance that the nation can take on any opponent, anywhere, anytime, without too much effort or thought.

Which brings us back to Ukraine, 2022.

Whatever the causes of the current war may be, this is not the article to discuss them. The Russian leadership clearly assumed that their forces would overrun Ukraine with relative ease, and would allow them to accomplish limited objectives that would not be too onerous on the Russian population. While this was mostly true in the southern sectors, it only appeared to be so, initially, in the northern theater. There, the BTG’s showed all of their glaring faults, as stalled convoys strung out along roads (an inevitable consequence in armored warfare – just ask the US Army and Marines about the advance on Baghdad in 2003) were suddenly cut to pieces by Ukrainian infantry and partisans operating behind the Russian advance. Without the mass of infantry that a more conventional organization would have had, the Russians were unable to defend those convoys as US forces had in 2003, as there was no way that the razor-thin film of infantry the Russians had access to could adequately protect the long columns of vehicles packed tightly into ready-made kill-zones. It was never that the Russians were “running out of infantry” – they simply never had the necessary numbers plugged into their organizational combat unit structures. The disastrous results of this oversight have now greatly lengthened the war, and have led – as of late-September, 2022 – to the Russian leadership calling for a “partial” national mobilization.

What impact this may have on the war, remains to be seen.

For the purposes of this article, Russia took a low-impact approach to military organization out of harsh necessity, and allowed it to become a dominant aspect of its military and – dangerously – its political psychology. When it then applied that approach to smaller wars, and saw that it worked, they made the assumption that it would work against larger opponents. With the inevitable failure of the model when it stepped outside its boundaries, Russia is now in the position of being forced to escalate the conflict to avoid defeat.

This is a lesson the United States Marine Corps should pay attention to, because its own reforms look an awful lot like the BTG-model.

 

 

A “Prophetic” Warning Against The Godless Democratic Party

A “Prophetic” Warning Against The Godless Democratic Party

Bill Collier September 22, 2022 0

The following is written from a spiritual, Biblical perspective with an understanding that we wrestle not against flesh and blood and with a heart toward saving people from the “doctrines of devils” which underlay the agenda of today’s Democratic Party and its supporters.

We use this word “prophetic” in the sense it fortells trouble, presents an alternative, and warns of consequences, not because the writer claims to be a prophet of God or anything like that.

DEMOCRATS ARE ENEMIES OF GOD DAMNED TO A DEVIL’S HELL……And yet God loves each and every one and wants to save their souls.

Indeed, it must be remembered that we who may reject the doctrines of devils contained in the Democratic Party platform and their agenda are no better than anyone else without Christ.

Let’s start with the bad part and the rage but balance it with God’s love and mercy.

The anger and rage any decent human being must necessarily feel for the pure evil that is the Democratic Party is eventually the going to lead to the demise of that rebellious entity, although this entire land may suffer because her people align themselves with this wicked Party.

This is a justified feeling. But it must be balanced by love for the very people we may feel angry about.

We can argue that today’s Democrats (the Party’s leaders and financial backers) are the most immoral, barbaric people ever to have lived in this lands since the first humans came here. We may even say their spirits are shriveled, dark, and reprobate and that, in our estimation, they are a hazard to the every survival of this country, worse than ISIS.

(Worse than ISIS because they are quislings against the Founders and America’s true manifest destiny and they are subverting our institutions from within in a nefarious way.)

God says “male and female He created them” and this Party of wonton perverts claim 100 genders, and insist we cater to this alt-gendered demonic garbage on pain of being canceled. To hell with that! Literally.

The Bill of Rights recognizes our inherent rights to free speech and these cretins create monopoly platforms through a bait and switch deception which censor any speech the demonic Party doesn’t like. As for the rights of self-preservation, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion/conscience, the Democrats’ totalitarian Party of perverts and child abusers tramples on them with criminal abandon.

No, we don’t dialog with terrorists, Nazis, Communists, or Democrats. The shot-callers of the Democratic Party are in such wicked company and only a miracle from God will stop their pathetic lifeless souls from burning in hell for eternity, which every one of them richly deserves.

(Before you get all self-righteous, remember WE ALL DESERVE HELL and will get hell without Christ.)

To Democrats, we warn, you disobey and rebel against the living God, you damn yourselves. Your ways are the ways of death, your Party Platform is sin, dipped in misery, and covered in sorrow.

Every Democrat, every person who votes Democrat, is cursed because you align yourself with Satan against the Living God and His chosen People: you will either repent and recant this Party’s ideology or you will lose your eternal soul to a devil’s hell. It is that stark.

The Democratic Party and every single person who supports or votes for them are the Midianites seeking to genocide the People of God and to turn this land into a hellscape of alt-gendered totalitarian misery. You are damned, all of you: you cannot be a Democrat and be a follower of Christ.

That’s the bad part. It’s stark. It’s not nice and, frankly, seems over the top in an era when Democrats are so used to getting a pass and when every institution praises them and extols them as the best people and everyone else as bad. It is a shock for a Democrat to hear that their ideas and ideology are basically just retreads of the doctrines of devils.

They are all the same old lies from Satan, which began in Eden: you will be as little gods knowing right from wrong and in need of no master save yourselves. Of course, Satan knows that when you leave God’s covering and rebel against Him, you become a slave of sin and a minion of hell.

The corrupted press, academia, and entertainment industries all behave as if the Democratic Party platform itself were inviolate Scripture and the Bible was the demonic platform. Democrats have never been truly held to account for their evil ways. The left scream “separation of church and state”, when in truth their state religion is authoritarian decadence and their true aim it to persecute and even murder Christians who refuse to compromise their faith and convictions.

Jesus Christ died for sinners. Democrats are but the latest version of sinfulness and evil on a mass scale without check or balance, and when Jesus was dying on the Cross, His love was reaching to THESE VERY PEOPLE.

THIS IS WHY I will not let the rage that may rise within me when I hear a Democrat once again declaim against God’s law and call them evil cause me to sin or to hate these people. I will not hate evildoers who are only following their flesh and who are basically being misled by demonic and dark forces which they do not even know exist.

God loves Democrats, even though their very Party Platform reflects hatred of God’s laws and denial of His sovereignty over humankind. God’s will is not for us to rise up and start attacking Democrats, even though we are seeing them increasingly attack their political opponents in a blatant abuse of power that is deeply criminal.

We must proclaim the Kingdom, call for repentance, and preach the Gospel in truth, love, and mercy, with grace and with daily discipline. Whatever God may allow us to endure, even unto death, we must not forget He is God and these Democrats, like the Midianites, are utterly doomed unless they turn from their rebellion and receive the truth of Christ’s love and salvation.

Too oftne we, including myself, act on our anger and rage.

It is not bad to be angry that we hear how Democrats want to butcher children who have been groomed at school into believing they can change their sex/gender and experiment with sexual activities outside of the only form of marriage prescribed by God, a man and a woman who partner for life.

The Democrats’ slavish devotion to sexual deviancy and a denial of God’s just and righteous laws for the roles of genders, marriage, and sexual purity can make any decent, moral person angry. This is especially true because we know that if this land promotes such through its laws and abuses children in the process, on top of murdering them in the womb, that God’s wrath is likely to be poured out on this land.

Remember it says that though thousands on either side fall, if we are in the Lord, it will not come close to us our our dwelling. God will not let us suffer in this life unless it benefits us eternally and brings Him Glory.

Today’s Democrats are the modern Midianites, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the way these reprobate fools are vanquished will be exactly as the Midianites were. However, it does mean we should be more like Gideon and his 300 in terms of waiting on God and that, as Christians, we must continue in love toward even these enemies of the Kingdom that some may at least be saved.

Anyone who is a Democrat today is a rebel against God and enemy of the Kingdom: their Party’s platform is an abomination against God’s laws. We have to say that and warn them becuase never in US History have any group of people embraced the kind of utter evil this Party champions with their rainbow fascist savagery.

Even any good we see in this party, the lip service they give toward the poor and disadvantaged is often better than the substance of how Republicans serve such people, is nullified by their wonton rebellion against God’s laws. They desire to codify doctrines of devils into US itself in a Haman-like move to persecute the Elect and that makes every person who votes for them a traitor to the Kingdom if such claim to be Christians.

The choice is not Democrats versus Republicans, the choice is either follow God or vote Democrat, because no follower of Christ can ever associate with a Party that openly defies God’s laws on the most sacred of matters, regardless of how they may at least give lip service to the poor and disadvantaged (which is the only good they do).

Sexual sin, murdering the unborn, and perverting/grooming children and then butchering them are the most vile things any human being can engage in. Yes, we should serve the poor and disadvantaged, we should visit the fatherless and the widows, but if we claim to be just becuase we say we are about helping those in need while committing and/or tolerating those other sin, then nothing we can do will wipe the slate clean: we are evildoers without hope unless we repent and disassociate from all such things and from that wicked Party.

Democrats rightly point out that too many Christians who declaim against their perverted sexual agenda and abuse/murder of children do not care for the poor and disadvantaged and do not truly despise things like racism and misogyny. But they forget that the deepest and most vile sins they extol and the way they lionize the evildoers while defaming the righteous are far worse and damn their souls.

This is not a binary choice in which Democrats represent Satan and Republicans represent Christ. DEMOCRATS DO REPRESENT HELL ITSELF but Republicans do not represent Christ, they just don’t openly and wholeheartedly embrace the alt-gendered child killing, child grooming, doctrines of devils invoked be the Democratic Party.

One could be a Christian and vote Republican or not vote or vote some third party, but to vote for a Party whose very platform defies God’s laws and pursues the canonization of eivl in law is to rebel against God and betray the Kingdom.

The issue is not that Democrats might have a live and let live attitude that says people can decide their own sexuality and who they love: they actually want to legally shun and shame and internally banish anyone who dares say these things are a sin and who wishes to have no part in such things. They want to groom children to embrace these things and they want to punish those who reject such things, even if in rejecting these things we may not demand laws against people having a freewill choice in such matters.

But Christ died for these people. He died that they might live. We can tell them the truth, that they are following doctrines of devils, betraying the Kingdom (if they claim to be Christians), and waging war against God and His Elect. We must, however, also love them and desire their salvation and preach to them that Christ can set them free from the deception and bondage they are embracing in ignorance.

If you are a Democrat and claim to follow Christ, you are in deep and mortal danger. You cannot serve or support any entity whose very platform is a rebellion against God’s laws and which openly supports the persecution of people who choose to follow God’s laws to the exclusion of every other doctrine or ideology not forged within their spiritual crucible.

This doesn’t mean, ipso facto, you should suddenly become a Republican. That is a matter of your own conviction. Republicans aren’t the Elect, they just don’t have a platform that is founded upon open rebellion against God’s laws. (I vote straight Republican becuase I am essentially only trying to limit the power of Democrats, not because I think the Republicans will save us.)

If the Republicans begin to embrace the alt-gendered perverted agenda and baby-killing in their platform, then no sane or decent person will have a political home in this country and if or when that happens we can say without a doubt this land is already under judgement.

Efforts to incorporate the alt-gendered sexual deviancy into the GOP platform are, unfortunately, under way, although it is unlikely to happen this cycle. Still it is a sign of the end times, if not for humanity at least this civilization, that we may within a few more election cycles find that most American citizens support codifying open rebellion against God’s laws into the US criminal code and the persecution of the Righteous who cannot abide or participate in such.

For now, only the Democratic Party, of the two major parties, is openly defiant of God and at war against the Kingdom. For now, we must warn people to turn to Christ and reject/disavow that Party and its doctrines of devils because we love them and want them to have eternal life.

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