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jrkrideau's avatar

Timothy Snyder is reported to be fleeing the USA and taking refuge at the University of Toronto. Even if it's just U of T, I have to wonder what we did to deserve this. He seems slightly unhinged on the topics of Vladimir Putin and modern Russia.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Snyder reportedly hates Trump as much as he hates Putin. And U of T is offering him good money in America's 51st State.

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Velociraver's avatar

We don't need his ilk poisoning our youth. This gutless coward should stay in his own country and fight for it.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Our ilk are already doing a good job of poisoning the youth.

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Jack Sprat's avatar

My take is simple, Luciferic and State of Nature philosophy run the world. Those that uphold it in the upper echelons look at that philosophy from many perspectives, the worst being full on Satanists with full unmentionable depravity and the least worse being moral relativists with money and power as their god. No matter where on the spectrum of evil these people are Sophistry and/or violence are their tools. They are gifted at weaponizing everything including immutable cosmic truths. Knowingly or unknowingly they are truly Lucifer's spiritual children. The whole philosophy has systemic organizers, some of them hardworking, smart, passionate, committed and sometimes courageous. Putin's value systems and abilities to them is like throwing holy water on a vampire. Rooting this system out is a mighty dirty job but somebody's got to do it or the world won't straighten up and run right. Everybody who wants to can find a role, even if its lighting a truth candle or praying. Lucifer's gotta go (and Zionists, Nazis, Imperialists, Masons, etc. with him).

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Esborogardius Antoniopolus's avatar

Western intellectual elites are usually sons of the divorce. They hate their fathers, either because their boomer fathers are egotistical pieces of shit, or because their mothers are shit and painted their ex-husbands as the devil, or more usually, some combination of both.

Putin represents for them this patriarchal, masculine figure they resent, because they felt abandoned. Not to mention that patriarchalism means rules, duty, things that are completely anathema for those privileged kids from Ivy League schools that are the bulk of the western commentariat.

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strasser's avatar

Dear Mr. Macfarlane, I really appreciate your work and admire your thought provoking analysis'. Thank you very much. That said, I cannot understand how you could have possibly come up with that thumbnail?!? I guess it has something to do with how all three of the depicted are somehow "demonized" in the western world... but foremost it serves the usual "horseshoe-theory", Hannah Arendts intellectual declaration of bankruptcy and the Collective West(tm)s favourite.

First, there is absolutely no path that leads from Hitler to Stalin, in fact they are "das genaue Gegenteil".

Second, are you sure Hitler is still such a demon in the western world? Taking into account, how European politicians talk and especially German ones like Baerbock, Kiesewetter, von der Leyen, Pistorius or Merz and knowing their family history, I am pretty sure that is not the case.

Third, where is the historical logic? Like this, the picture functions rather like clickbailt or like a headline in a yellow press tabloid.

I assume for a northern American this image comes somehow natural and is burned into the collective memory over decades and I donnot blame you for that, but it still is testament to everything that is wrong with western histiography and ideology.

My proposal: Replace Hitler with Tsar Paul I., this widely misunderstood and misrepresented Russian emporer, who was murdered by a cabal of the English Secret Service and Baltic nobleman, because he didn't want to fight Napoleon I. on behalf of the British Empire. Then it would at least make sense historically and on a couple of higher levels as well.

Best regards

Philipp

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

I put up the graphics because they are ridiculous .

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strasser's avatar

The thumbnail is not your own? Ok, I am sorry, where did you get it? I know how and why you used the graphic and surely it is ridiculous, it still serves the narrative that there is somehow a deeper historical and ideological connection between Hitler and Stalin and thus between Fascism and Communism, which is western propaganda and false. One should not strenghten this image, even if meant sarcastically.

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Nick Jolliffe's avatar

Any bookshop is filled with books on Putler written by "academics". Each recites the same litany, sings from the same song sheet. It's an orchestrated attack paid for by whom? Short of a bob or two and it's easy money.

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Cassandra Occupy's avatar

Thank you Julian... I am very curious for your next special article again...

You have greatly succeeded in explaining the roots of our 'genetic' (i call it our 'Nature') feelings, that make us unusable for evil (Unnatural) behaviour and so we need education (brain washing) to make us manageable for the EVIL Monster in its Dungeon in the City of London where the Shadows are and the Lies and Evil Narratives are being brewed and its Tentacles, like the Zionist one and the MIC-one in the US.

Regrettably only those can more or less experience Wordless Reality, who have either re-learned, or never have forgotten to experience that Wordless Reality that we knew as toddlers, now underlying - and mostly hidden by - our 'Adult' Social virtual 'Word'-reality or Narrative Matrix as Caitlin Johnstone calls it...

A tip: Some people can smell 'Evil' when they are close to it. you can recognise it by feelings as: Stench, Reek, Vile Odor, Disgust, Distaste, Nausea or images in your head like Snakes or Spiders.

But as Rumi said: 'Silence is the language of God, All else is poor translation.'

Just saying,

Cassandra

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