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Julian, it brings me comfort that you, a person of my age group is relevant still today. For me, it is not difficult to feel irrelevant in todays crappy world, even after the experiencing the joyous, bumpy, ballyhooed ride across time in that most marvelous period of our youth.

For those that experienced the ride eyes wide open, how ever could we be irrelevant?

I need to keep telling myself.

Good work brother!

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The Russians did a similar thing in Chechenya in the 1990s. In destroying the jihadis, much of Chechenya and Grozny were smashed. The devastation was terrible and to an outside observer, you would have thought that that level of destruction would have seared hatred for the Russians into the Chechen's very souls. But a strange thing happened. The Russians came back and rebuilt Chechenya and worked with the people and restored the balance of the Russian civilizational state. Russia is not a national state, but multi-ethnic and civilizational and the Chechens were welcomed back to Mother Russia, which they re-embraced wholeheartedly. Chechenya is now one of Russia's most patriotic states and at the forefront of the Ukrainian operation. This project will be repeated in Ukraine.

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So much confusion about the Ukraine and Russia's chances and intentions, even among seemingly trustworthy voices in the alt media, it's difficult to know the truth. I would be happy if Russia won; the hegemon has brought far too much death and destruction, and pain, to the world to allow it to continue to reign. Would that we had taken a different turn after WWII, down the road to building a multi-polar world instead of a unipolar kakistocracy.

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Another great article, thank you!

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Nov 27, 2022·edited Nov 27, 2022

First of all, thank you very much for this contribution. You write in the end...

"Please support the Alternative Media. Moon of Alabama. SouthFront. The Saker. Alex Mercouris. Brain Berletic. Naked Capitalism. Larry Johnson. Media Lens."

Do not forget Scott Ritter, Douglas MacGregor, Alexander Christoforous (the Duran), Gonzalo Lira, Pepe Escobar, Jeffrey Sachs, Maersheimer, Richard Black and other I forget in the moment. Great analysts as well.

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Dear Julian, I appreciate your writing and your analysis. With most of it I agree and especially with your personal remark regarding the irrelevance of the terms „left and right“ out of personal experience.

What I disagree with or what I may find too harsh is your characterization of main part of society as a kind of sheep. Since I‘m an engineer I had to work very often with bell curve analysis and the fact that the bell curve is a part of nature. Since human evolution is driven by nature I naturally started to wonder how the bell curve is embedded in our evolution. In my opinion the bell curve becomes visible in the way society progresses. The 5-10% on the one side of the bell curve represents the elements of society who are seeing the world as is, the challenges which might be ahead, and the positive visionaries. The 5-10% on the other side of the bell curve represent the destructive parts off evolution as a counterpart like Jin and Jang.

The what is the role of the core part? In my mind they represent the core of civilization who carry on no matter what. We as an evolving civilization need a stable, stoic center in order to have stability. Otherwise everything would fly apart! Imagine a civilization without a stable center! It would become fragmented before it even took off.

This is a short version of my reasoning, but I believe the stoic center is as important as the left and right end of the bell curve! How would we define good and bad if we would have the differences right in front of us???

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Thank you for your excellent reporting and overview of this “war” between Russia and NATO.

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clarifying, thank you

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