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“Surely at least some of these Stone-Age mariners were driven by a spirit of adventure, a quest for glory perhaps”

Then again, perhaps they were the second son of the area ruler, who had already given the woman he desired to his older brother. Part of the success of British colonialism was that only the oldest son could inherit estates. The younger sons had to go find some kind of job. Frequently the military, the priesthood, an overseas job, or an adventure like exploring.

I was going to guess protected rotting until I read the information given about methods. I guess slow cooking is a step faster than the even slower cooking of the rot process.

“He wasn’t allowed to leave a note for his mother. No phone calls to relatives were permitted.”

Sounds a little like what has happened to some people in our country recently. No notes or calls to spouses or children, or other relatives. Even if you believe all illegals should be ejected no matter if they are here working and paying taxes, it is unAmerican to treat people this way. Snatch them up and ship them out with no legal recourse is not our heritage or our promise. That treatment is plain cruelty for cruelty’s sake, kind of like in Russia.

After reading all the comments, I wonder if those saying that most European pilots already know English, especially if they fly for NATO is accurate. I also wonder how technical and grammatically complex the English used actually is. I know from speaking one Foreign language fairly well that sometimes I have to say something in that language in simpler words because I don’t know a more complex one that will mean the same thing. Perhaps a good linguist needs to go over the information package to see if the general language can be simplified, of course requiring that pilots should have and know a standard translation for technical terms from their native language to English.

Good news that Ukraine once again has strong use of the TUrkish Bayraktar drones. I see it says Turkey is producing only 120 A YEAR. THose must be some BIG drones for so few to be produced. It does look as though Ukraine could be setting the table for a meal on Crimea with the recent attacks on the Kerch Bridge and various Russian air and sea bases in and around Crimea.

I looked at your first link, and found that on June 28th, the figures were the same there, and at the Kyiv Independent. However looking forward the figures did not change the same as adding the new casualty figures for that day, as new information must be coming in each day. Thus unless the Independent corrects it’s figures to read a million something, it will be impossible to go by their figures. Hope the weekday crew catches this systematic error.

I see my Chromebook is still correcting my copy with incorrect words, which I failed to catch with good proofreading. AI not working well. The first line should read “...TYPO math mistake”. I had to correct TYPO again, as it still incorrectly changed typo to TYPE. Last month my Chromebook was asking if I wanted to dictate my comment. I did not, as you can imagine what fun it would have with names like AdmSmith, PIF, FtrPilot, or Blitz128.

I see The Kyiv Independent has still not caught it’s type math mistake. The July 1 figure should be 1,121,230, and the July 2 figure should be 1,022,200 if they correctly correct the mistake by going back to June 29th or 28th to find the last correct million figure. Baybe it’s just the weekend staff.

I see The Kyiv Independent has still not caught it’s type math mistake. The July 1 figure should be 1,121,230, and the July 2 figure should be 1,022,200 if they correctly correct the mistake by going back to June 29th or 28th to find the last correct million figure. Baybe it’s just the weekend staff.

I see the Kyiv Independent is having trouble with its numbers again. The casualty figure of 1,02,010 is a nonexistant number. Going back to the previous day’s figures, the correct number should be 1,020,160. Obviously someone did not have the typist’s 6 today. Is this mistake a sign of the constant stress in Kyiv caused by Putin’s mass bombings recently?

I don’t think the federal government just TOOK land in most cases. Money was paid for the huge areas of the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska. Also for the Gadsden Purchase desired to clean up the border lines in the southwest after the wars with Mexico. Regarding Texas which was originally gained through war with Mexico, I am not sure how title was managed after Texas became a state. Probably an interesting and complex story. Spain had Florida, how did we end up with it? Another history to explore.

Do you know if Poles helped or tried to help the Ukrainians who sere being systematically starved to death? Did their government do anything merciful or helpful during that period of atrocity? I am not saying that failure to act is an excuse for mass murder, but it might be an explanation.

How is it possible that some who believe they know history can forget that a few years before the start of WW2, Russia’s Soviet Union had deliberately starved more than 3,000,000 Ukrainians to death by robbing them of the food they had grown. Given the absolute hatred of Russia by the victims of this atrocity, a tendency to hope an alliance with Germany to fight Soviet Russia might be a useful choice does not surprise me.

Unfortunately, the period of starvation was a horror within which the strongest and most aggressive survived. Thus a Ukranian group with questionable ethics and morality existed and was able to use the Nazi coalition to fight the Russians. I do not know enough of that historical period to understand how Jews became targeted victims. However, currently it is interesting to see the elected leader of Ukraine has Jewish heritage.

Once again in your first comment of the day quoting from a source within Russia, we see the name ALEXANDR DUGIN as a source of society inspiration and plans to aggressively pursue the NOT WAR, called an SVO to complete VICTORY. I suspect fewer than 1% of people in this country have heard of him or have any idea of his grandiose plans for our future and that of most other countries. It is essential for our own success and safety to make everyone we can influence aware of this danger. His plan for Russia to take over Europe to form Eurasia and also control most of the rest of the world was laid out in 1997 in his book The Foundations of Geopolitics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

This book review lays out 21 bullet points describing his entire plan for controlling the world which Putin seems to have swallowed wholesale. Dugin was first described as “Putin’s Brain” in a Foreign Affairs article in 2014 shortly after Putin took over Crimea. Now study the plan laid out below with care:

“In Europe
* should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. The Kaliningrad Oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term “Moscow–Berlin axis”.[9]
* France should be encouraged to form a bloc with Germany, as they both have a “firm anti-Atlanticist tradition”.[9]
* The United Kingdom, merely described as an “extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.”, should be cut off from the European Union.[9]
* Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be “donated to Murmansk Oblast”.[9]
* Estonia should be given to Germany’s sphere of influence.[9]
* Latvia and Lithuania should be given a “special status” in the Eurasian–Russian sphere, although he later writes that they should be integrated into Russia rather than obtaining national independence.[9]
* Georgia should be dismembered. Abkhazia and “United Ossetia” (which includes Georgia’s South Ossetia and the Republic of North Ossetia) will be incorporated into Russia. Georgia’s independent policies are unacceptable.[9]
* Belarus and Moldova are to become part of Russia, not independent.[9]
* Poland should be granted a “special status” in the Eurasian sphere. This may involve splitting Poland between German and Russian spheres of influence.[9]
* Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, “Serbian Bosnia”, and Greece – “Orthodox Christian collectivist East” – will unite with “Moscow the Third Rome” and reject the “rational-individualistic West”.[9]
* Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (comprising the regions of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control.[9]

In the Middle East and Central Asia
* The book stresses the “continental Russian–Islamic alliance” which lies “at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy”. The alliance is based on the “traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization”.
* Iran is a key ally. The book uses the term “Moscow–Tehran axis”.[9]
* Armenia has a special role: It will serve as a “strategic base,” and it is necessary to create “the [subsidiary] axis Moscow-Yerevan-Teheran”. Armenians “are an Aryan people ... [like] the Iranians and the Kurds”.[9]
* Azerbaijan could be “split up” or given to Iran.[9]
Russia needs to create “geopolitical shocks” within Turkey. These can be achieved by employing Kurds, Armenians, and other minorities (such as Greeks) to attack the ruling Turkish regime.[9]
* The book regards the Caucasus as a Russian territory, including “the eastern and northern shores of the Caspian (the territories of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan)” and Central Asia (mentioning Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan).[9]

In East and Southeast Asia
* envisions the fall of China. The People’s Republic of China, which represents an extreme geopolitical danger as an ideological enemy to the independent Russian Federation, “must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled”. Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet–Xinjiang–Inner Mongolia–Manchuria as a security belt.[1] Russia should offer China help “in a southern direction – Indochina (except Vietnam, whose people is already pro-Russia), the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia” as geopolitical compensation.[9]
* Russia should manipulate Japanese politics by offering the Kuril Islands to Japan and provoking anti-Americanism, to “be a friend of Japan”.[9]
* Mongolia should be absorbed into the Eurasian sphere.[9]
The book emphasizes that Russia must spread geopolitical anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat’ will be precisely the U.S.”

In the Americas
In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

* Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]
* The Eurasian Project[clarification needed] could be expanded to Central and South America.[9]”

Reading this megalomaniacs list of takeovers, manipulations, assumptions and rearrangements of current political entities is mind boggling. But it is now impossible to ignore from his own behavior that Putin is fully engaged in moving forward this project. I hope our President knows just how fully Putin intends to destroy Trump’s MAGA aspirations. I urge people here to read this, copy it, and mail it to the White House. Since Putin has made this a required book in all Russian military schools, this should be required reading by our military leaders, and elected national representatives. Contact them express your concern, send this dangerous list of plans. Our own future depends on blocking the Putin/Dugin planned future. If enough people had read Hitler’s opus Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in the 1930s, WW2 might not have happened. Don’t let this plan happen.

It might be useful for some who frequent this Attack on Europe thread to pick one of these bullet points, examine how Russia is already acting in that area and share it here as a comment. I suspect Russian “special services” are already at work in every one of the countries listed above. Putin’s aggression must be STOPPED!

I don’t know if it was ever considered a part of Russian Mir, but on the news just now I saw something about Belarus releasing some political prisoners from jail, some with long sentences canceled. What is up with that?

If you are talking about the graph in 17775, that is for Nominal Wages in Russian Rubles. Since there are no years indicated at the bottom or top, it is a pretty useless graph. If that represents Russian competence for economic education, oh, shxt.

Five hundred killed per day is close to my original estimate of close to 50% killed. Then I saw newer, supposedly official figures from Russia which led to my estimate of closer to 80%+ since the meat wive program was established by their military.

Given the large number of pro Russia/Putin commenters here at FR, it does not seem that the conservative right is the answer to fighting Commie trends in our universities. Cuomo was ultimately dismissed for his behavior toward women, who range from very conservative to very liberal. Also, in the split between hoi polloi and elites, where does the large middle class fall?

I wonder which came first, knotted nets or woven bags and cloth? Also such items made of reeds and pine needles as mats and containers. Surely a lot of soft materials made by women did not survive ss well as stone items like arrows and club heads which were more likely made and used by men.

Since women did more of the gathering while the men were hunting, it is likely they made a significant contribution to the invention of basic gardening/agriculture. This differences in role I believe several things I have noticed in modern male/female behavior and skills.

Women tend to chatter more, likely from millennia of siting and working together in caves while the men were off hunting and keeping quiet to not scare the game.

Men are better at algebra which is abstract as is hunting moving quarry. women may be better at geometry which deals with fixed shapes and comparisons.

Women do better at night work as women always had to wake up several times a night to nurse their infants. In the first months an infant wants to nurse every 3 or 4 hours. Failure to wake quickly and feed the fussing infant can lead to loud crying which would attract dangerous animals, not to mention waking the men and ruining their next day’s hunt.

Have you noticed these tendencies in your relationships?