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Cool Breeze
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different guest wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:31 pm America is collapsing and now the knives have come out.

Multiculturalism doesn't work. Most of the world is made up of non-white ethno-states, and all of them, except for the Asians, are failed states.

Liberal Jews have been proponents of Multiculturalism for over a hundred years, and now its biting into them. How could Jews not see this coming? Black antisemitism is not new. I remember how strong it was in the early 1980s when I was in school. I also remember how openly racist Jews were towards Arabs. A lot of Jews were also hated black people. The liberal Jew was not the norm by the 1980s. Still, a large segment of the Jews kept pushing open borders and multi-racial insanity. Who dominates the Ivy League? :roll: Whose fault is all of this extreme leftist behavior at Harvard?

I was never the one to bother with endless talking in circles about black, Jewish, liberalism, etc. and avoided the conversation all together. But, i knew it would all come to this one day.

One day is now here.

I can't believe the Jews didn't see this coming. i really can't. What a bunch of dimwits.
You know why they do it, different guest. But chaos and the revolutionary spirit go hand in hand, what paid before (distraction and a blind eye to what they were doing) is now catching up with them. It always does. Those donors didn't care when the campuses were going after white, Christian males, or when they had critical race theory going, for decades. Now they're worried about it? Oh, because they are the ones that it's "hurting". And now they are proving the fact that they are in fact the ones that hold the purse strings and are the cancelers, or the funders of the cancelers.

Groups of people are pyramids, don't forget. Most basic people at the bottom, who may benefit from a group connection, don't mean anything (like harm) but they'll play the role and support the tribe, because it can pay. Don't forget that it's always the big players that control, and it's obvious who those players are.
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Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

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FullMoon wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:39 pm
Cool Breeze wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:05 pm
Guest wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:19 am

Cool Breeze, please re-post your alleged "BS" thoughts in your own thread so that we can all read them, and learn the truth. Thanks.
See, this is what happens when censoring occurs, because people know that likely what is censored is true. It's amazing that on a site like this, with so much information and a desire to analyze reality, it would just turn into another ADL-like shill.
It was sarcasm. You like to play innocent but a Bullshit post removed is helpful for the Forum. The moderators sometimes don't remove enough of the crap. You and BB .
These are actual, informative posts that describe what is going on in America. Why should they be removed? That's what the CIA and FBI did at Twitter, and now you all are more than happy to do the same thing. Telling.

BB has literally aligned himself with the most vile, disgusting, and stupid leftist values, it's amazing that you could even put us in the same paragraph. His Father is who I've always said it was. He believes that these people can make a great kingdom out of this world, it's just those pesky people who actually believe in virtue, principle and God that get in the way. Amazing.
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Cool Breeze wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:12 pm

BB has literally aligned himself with the most vile, disgusting, and stupid leftist values, it's amazing that you could even put us in the same paragraph. His Father is who I've always said it was. He believes that these people can make a great kingdom out of this world, it's just those pesky people who actually believe in virtue, principle and God that get in the way. Amazing.
I used to think people like BB were extreme leftist fringe types; I realized decades ago that these people are common among the left.
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Any predictions for Europe?

Will Ukraine go down in defeat?

Will Russia invade western Europe?
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Guest wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:25 pm
Cool Breeze wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:12 pm

BB has literally aligned himself with the most vile, disgusting, and stupid leftist values, it's amazing that you could even put us in the same paragraph. His Father is who I've always said it was. He believes that these people can make a great kingdom out of this world, it's just those pesky people who actually believe in virtue, principle and God that get in the way. Amazing.
I used to think people like BB were extreme leftist fringe types; I realized decades ago that these people are common among the left.
Common yes. They still think they're common sense but the ground has shifted immeasurably, and now they're advocating lunacy and they don't even know why. It's a tragedy for sure.
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Guest wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:11 pm Any predictions for Europe?

Will Ukraine go down in defeat?

Will Russia invade western Europe?
German Bundeswehr Inspector General warns of potential defensive war against Russia
Asked whether the Bundeswehr would be able to cope with a possible Russian attack on NATO after the war in Ukraine, Breuer replied, "Yes. Period. We have no alternative. We can defend ourselves and we will defend ourselves.

However, he also admitted that the Bundeswehr is currently not well equipped for “national and allied defense” because it has been focused on resolving international crises, adding that there are "structures that make quick and targeted decisions almost impossible.

Europe fears the United States might withdraw from NATO :D :D :D :lol: :lol: if U.S. Republican politician Donald Trump wins the 2024 U.S. presidential election, media reported on Dec. 9.

Russia will attack NATO countries if it conquers Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Dec. 6. Russia is rebuilding its forces and capabilities and preparing for a potential confrontation with NATO, said Lieutenant General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart, NATO Multinational Corps Commander on Dec. 5.
https://news.yahoo.com/german-bundesweh ... 00781.html
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Guest wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:11 pm Any predictions for Europe?

Will Ukraine go down in defeat?

Will Russia invade western Europe?
START digging trenches, boys!

Putin’s Russia is closing in on a devastating victory. Europe’s foundations are trembling
We need to talk about Ukraine. While the world’s attention has been focused on the war between Israel and Hamas, grim tremors have been shaking that rich, black soil. Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed – or, in Volodymyr Zelensky’s words, “did not achieve the desired results”.

As exhausted Ukrainians fall back from Russia’s ramparts and minefields, the initiative is swinging to the invaders. Russia is advancing through the skeletal remains of what used to be Marinka, a city in Donetsk, perhaps of greater psychological than strategic importance. Missiles are again hitting Kyiv. Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, has taken to the BBC to warn that her country is in “mortal danger”.

Now, it is the Ukrainians’ turn to dig in, to try to hold what they have. As in 1914, a fortified line runs the length of the front, from the Dnieper delta to the Russian border. And, as then, military technology favours the defender, so that tiny gains are bought at terrible cost.

The First World War eventually ended in part because the Allies had greater manpower. Brutally, they were able, especially after America had fully mobilised by the beginning of 1918, to throw more men at the front lines than the Central Powers.

This time, the demographic advantage is with Russia, whose population is three-and-a-quarter times the size of Ukraine’s. Russia has switched a third of its pre-war civilian production to weapons and ammunition, and may now have the edge when it comes to drones – that modern equivalent of the barbed wire and machine guns that gave the defending side such a lethal advantage in the Flanders mud.

The long-term costs to the Russian people of this shift to a wartime economy are dreadful. Vladimir Putin has condemned his long-suffering muzhiks to years of penury and hunger. But, for now, it has done the trick. Russia has made it through to winter without a Ukrainian breakthrough.

We are all prone to hindsight bias, and there will no doubt be articles about how it was always going to be tough to unseat entrenched defenders. But this stalemate was far from predictable when the counteroffensive was launched in June.

I was one of those who expected Ukraine to break through to the Sea of Azov, a move that might well have ended the war. During 2022, Ukraine had demonstrated that Russia could not resupply Crimea across the Kerch Strait. Breaking the land bridge would have left the Russian garrison on the peninsula cut off. Ukraine could have turned off its electricity and food, and a negotiating space would have opened.

Why did I get it wrong? I had been talking not only to Ukrainians, but to British military observers with direct knowledge of the battlefield. They had watched the extraordinary Ukrainian gains in Kharkiv and Kherson in 2022 – gains that had emboldened the West to offer the kinds of matériel that they had previously held back from sending, lest it fall into enemy hands.

Ukraine now had long-range missiles, mine-clearing kit and modern tanks. At the same time, the Prigozhin mutiny had shown how soft Russia was behind the hard shell of its front lines.

But the invaders had learnt from their earlier mistakes. While Ukraine rushed to train its men in how to operate their new weapons last spring, Russia seeded mile after mile of landmines, built fortifications, dug trenches and amassed drones.

Putin needs only to hang on for another 12 months. Even if Donald Trump is not elected – the former president makes no secret of his admiration for the Russian tyrant, once going so far as to declare that he trusted Putin before the US security services – Republican congressmen have turned against the war. Last week, they blocked President Biden’s £88 billion aid package to Ukraine.

Their concern is supposedly financial, but a bigger motive may be their partisan dislike of Biden, the same ignoble impulse that led an earlier generation of Republican congressmen to oppose Harry Truman’s war in Korea. For the MAGA wing, there is also a lingering resentment of the cameo role that Ukraine played in the Trump impeachment drama.

You can’t have missed the spring in Putin’s step. For a long time, he was too scared to stray beyond Russia’s borders. Quite apart from an international arrest warrant, he had a well-founded fear of assassination. His only foreign ventures were to former Soviet states, and two friendly dictatorships: Iran and China.

But, this week, he visited two neutral dictatorships – the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The footage shows beyond doubt that it was the despot in person, not a body double. What gave him confidence to travel to places that have security links with the West? Is it possible that some tentative entente has been reached? Might the Saudis have been asked to sound him out, discretely and deniably, as a possible prelude to peace talks?

If so, we risk a Suez-level disaster for the Western democracies. Any deal that rewards Russian aggression will signal to the rest of the world that Nato, with all its collective wealth and weaponry, could not succeed in the minimal goal of rescuing a country that its two most powerful members, the US and the UK, had undertaken to protect.

The case for intervention in Ukraine is not that it is a liberal democracy. Sure, it is vastly more liberal than Russia, but it falls well short of our standards. Russophile parties have been banned, and there is a worry that the crackdown might extend to pro-Western opposition politicians, too. This week, I was at a meeting of global Centre-Right parties at which Petro Poroshenko, the former president, was meant to speak. At the last minute, he and two of his MPs were banned from leaving Ukraine – and though Poroshenko patriotically declined to make a fuss, it left me wondering, not for the first time, why Zelensky refuses to draw other parties into a wartime coalition.

Then again, Poland was run by an authoritarian government in 1939. That did not alter the fact that it was attacked without provocation after we had guaranteed its independence – just as we guaranteed Ukraine’s independence in 1994 when it surrendered its nuclear arsenal.

While we are not ourselves at war this time, we are so invested in the Ukrainian cause that a Russian victory – and absorbing conquered territory is a Russian victory, present it how you will – would mean a catastrophic loss of prestige for the West and the ideas associated with it: personal freedom, democracy and human rights.

Conflicts will spread as regimes that never cared for liberal values in the first place realise that there is no longer a policeman on the corner. Venezuela’s outrageous claims against Commonwealth Guyana are just the start of this process.

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion... but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence,” wrote Samuel Huntington. “Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

But this is not yet over. Ukraine has driven Russia out of the western Black Sea, which is open again to international shipping. We should be on our guard against the tendency that George Orwell observed during the Second World War, whereby intellectuals over-interpret each new military development – a tendency, he believed, not shared by ordinary people. Just as there was excessive pessimism immediately after Russia invaded, and excessive euphoria when Kherson was retaken, so we should not infer too much from this setback.

It is still possible to imagine a peace deal that does not overtly reward aggression. Perhaps the eastern oblasts could win autonomy under loose Ukrainian suzerainty; perhaps an internationally supervised referendum might be held in a demilitarised Crimea.

But if Russia ends up annexing land by force, it is not just the West that will lose; it is the entire post-1945 international order.

The world is getting colder. The nights are drawing in.
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-russia-clo ... 26959.html
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Guest wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:25 pm
Cool Breeze wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:12 pm

BB has literally aligned himself with the most vile, disgusting, and stupid leftist values, it's amazing that you could even put us in the same paragraph. His Father is who I've always said it was. He believes that these people can make a great kingdom out of this world, it's just those pesky people who actually believe in virtue, principle and God that get in the way. Amazing.
I used to think people like BB were extreme leftist fringe types; I realized decades ago that these people are common among the left.
Just to speak on racism, I am against it. I am not against, muslims, jews, or for that matter blacks, latinos, asians, lesbians or you name it. It is some conservatives that work up a hatred for these various groups generally, forbidding the teaching of their history, violently raiding their gathering places, outlawing their gatherings, etc…

I do oppose the recent policies of Hamas and the current administration of Israel. They are seeking sole control of territory, which is terribly human. They are using violence, oppression and killing against those who are different, which those following Generational Dynamics ought to understand. Understand, yes, but advocate in your own culture? No. In a supposedly friendly allied nation? Still no.

Which brings us to the current controversy on college campuses. Do you fight racism or allow freedom of speech? Do you allow racist free speech? I don’t think there should be a problem with expressing disapproval of Hamas and Israel’s administration’s disregard for civilian life. Still, opposing all Jews and all Muslims rather than Israel’s administration and Hamas is quite different. Hating all members of a group on the basis of the behavior of a few extremists isn't such a great idea.

It is easy to draw a line. It is harder when a sudden conflict makes a line suddenly clear, when it becomes obvious that you drew a line in the wrong place. Yes, the current Gaza conflict is the bigger, but is it essentially different from when a spree killer with an assault rifle invades a minority gathering place? All men are created equal or not. One acts on the instinct to hate, oppress and kill the different or not. One is prejudiced, perhaps in a deadly way, or not.

Anyway, I am not taking a strong stand for or against the university officials. I am for free speech and against racism both, see it easy to favor one over the other, but would give the big shots a little more time to adjust policies to rapidly changing values. Taking away their profession, their way of life, seems a bit extreme, no matter how arguably great the mistake.
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Bob Butler wrote: Sun Dec 10, 2023 11:53 am
Guest wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:25 pm
Cool Breeze wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:12 pm

BB has literally aligned himself with the most vile, disgusting, and stupid leftist values, it's amazing that you could even put us in the same paragraph. His Father is who I've always said it was. He believes that these people can make a great kingdom out of this world, it's just those pesky people who actually believe in virtue, principle and God that get in the way. Amazing.
I used to think people like BB were extreme leftist fringe types; I realized decades ago that these people are common among the left.
Just to speak on racism, I am against it. I am not against, muslims, jews, or for that matter blacks, latinos, asians, lesbians or you name it. It is some conservatives that work up a hatred for these various groups generally, forbidding the teaching of their history, violently raiding their gathering places, outlawing their gatherings, etc…

I do oppose the recent policies of Hamas and the current administration of Israel. They are seeking sole control of territory, which is terribly human. They are using violence, oppression and killing against those who are different, which those following Generational Dynamics ought to understand. Understand, yes, but advocate in your own culture? No. In a supposedly friendly allied nation? Still no.

Which brings us to the current controversy on college campuses. Do you fight racism or allow freedom of speech? Do you allow racist free speech? I don’t think there should be a problem with expressing disapproval of Hamas and Israel’s administration’s disregard for civilian life. Still, opposing all Jews and all Muslims rather than Israel’s administration and Hamas is quite different. Hating all members of a group on the basis of the behavior of a few extremists isn't such a great idea.

It is easy to draw a line. It is harder when a sudden conflict makes a line suddenly clear, when it becomes obvious that you drew a line in the wrong place. Yes, the current Gaza conflict is the bigger, but is it essentially different from when a spree killer with an assault rifle invades a minority gathering place? All men are created equal or not. One acts on the instinct to hate, oppress and kill the different or not. One is prejudiced, perhaps in a deadly way, or not.

Anyway, I am not taking a strong stand for or against the university officials. I am for free speech and against racism both, see it easy to favor one over the other, but would give the big shots a little more time to adjust policies to rapidly changing values. Taking away their profession, their way of life, seems a bit extreme, no matter how arguably great the mistake.
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I was never the one to bother with endless talking in circles about black, Jewish, liberalism, etc. and avoided the conversation all together. But, i knew it would all come to this one day.

One day is now here.
Ah, yeah. What he said.
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Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

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https://time.com/6342234/philippines-ch ... china-sea/
China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea
China has laid claim to virtually all of the South China Sea, a waterway that carried $3.4 trillion in global trade in 2016.

Wary of inviting criticism and invoking armed conflict, analysts say China resorts to “gray zone” tactics: responses that fall short of what constitutes an armed attack. In 2023, the Philippines had reported China’s use of a bevy of these tactics, from military-grade lasers and water cannons to Chinese ships threatening to hit Philippine boats.

Jay Batongbacal, a maritime security expert based in the Philippines, also tells TIME that in anchoring ships in contested areas, China deprives local communities of their livelihoods through intimidation.

“They are effectively denying other countries like us of our presence in the area that they are imposing themselves on,” Batongbacal says. “They're probably hoping that the Philippines will simply concede these areas to China.”

Asia-Pacific nations have been pushing back against China, particularly the Philippines, which won a 2016 ruling from the Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration when the court dismissed China's claim to much of the South China Sea.

Read More:Why the Philippines May Take China to Court—Again—Over the South China Sea

Under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the Philippines has also resorted to more public criticisms of China’s actions in the disputed waterways. “It also helps in a way to not just deter the Chinese,” Koh says, “but also impose a certain reputational cost on the Chinese.”
https://www.barrons.com/news/philippine ... d-c4dba577

The people in the convoy included fisherfolk, students and youth leaders.

"We joined the (convoy) ... because we need to fight for what is rightfully ours," said Maureen Ignacio, whose family depends on fishing in Bataan province, near Manila."
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