The Special Report
I have just done the first mailing of my Special Report, Part 1.
This first installment entitled The End of History? is fully 4200 words!
And there is Part Two and Part Three to come, hopefully, Part Two by Friday and Part Three by the weekend.
I did a lot of reading for these essays-- I even re-read Max Weber’s book and Spengler—not to mention Emmanuel Todd and, for later parts, Lobaczewski ( Political Ponerology) and Dabrowski (Positive Disintegration) who most people probably don’t know about, and the World Systems Theorists.
Hey! September is back to school. I’m almost 78 — so I need remedial…umm… everything.
Every one of the “Alt” analysts I read had a take on geopolitical trends which was different, but led me to just one conclusion—we’re screwed.
“We” meaning us in the Western World (and Japan) .
From, the 2nd or 3rd Century CE western civilization was doomed, evolving from civilizational failure to failure. “New” does not mean “better.
I hope I am wrong. I fear I am right.
The Special Report should be easy to read. It is, as I have said before, written to be read in chunks—with a lot of graphics, and a bit of humor. Chunks? Maybe slices like Quattro Pizza.
My primary cognitive modes are visual / spatial. And…um…pizza.
I think in pictures – yeah, like a 6 year old. A developmental thing I guess.
When I read, I do not subverbalize the sounds, I construct pictures – so lotsa typos. On the other hand, a lot of writers are dyslexic, as you know ,
Please forgive me for sins —especially my spelling and other weaknesses. I am not juvenile, just neotenous. LOL
Now,, on to Part 2 !.
The SMO
Kursk, as I predicted, is a death trap for the Ukrainians.
More than 10,000 casualties so far – 30 to 40% of their best troops, many drawn from Donetsk, where UAF casualty rates have also soared.
In Kursk, Uki forces are stuck, mostly trying hard to hide in villages around Sudzha . In the rear, they are losing armor, artillery, and missile systems.
An additional problem for the Ukrainians is that the Russians have declared their operations in Kursk and other border areas, illegal “terrorist operations” and therefore Ukrainian military are not protected by the laws of war—which means Ukrainian commanders taken prisoner may be prosecuted as criminals, unprotected by their military status.
In Donetsk, the Russian are no longer advancing by a hundred or so meters at a time, but by kilometers, and the UAF are bleeding casualties as never before.
Russia has also stepped up their targeting of sites with NATO personnel.
The latest was Poltava, where over 200 personnel died – including Swedish trainers. When Pokrovsk, Chas Yar and Ugledar collapse, the NATO designed network of logistical supplies will no longer function.
The war is really over. But the Zelensky regime will try to keep the fighting going—so it can stay in power using martial law as a tool of control.
50% likelihood there will be a coup and Zelensky will either be killed or flee to the West.
By that time, Western Ukraine will be defenceless and the Russians will accept nothing but unconditional surrender, complete disarmament, referenda and trials for war crimes to get rid of Nazis hiding in the walls—all of which a new Western Ukrainian government might support if it comes with….*wait for it… MONEY!
The Russian economy is soaring. Aka : MONEY.
Western Ukraine has huge amounts of debt. Unconditional surrender and a new polity will wipe out all previous financial obligations.
Ukraine has resources. The Russians will invest. It’s win-win.
The West will be powerless. Its military enlistment programs, unlike those in the West, have been —and continue to be— wildly successful —leveraging patriotism and also guarantees for veterans of meritocratic preference in government, industry and social industries.
A strong economy, a strong military, and new alliances in Asia and Global South make Russia a force to be reckoned with, while the West weakens and continues to decline.
The ME.
The Houthis, Hezbollah, and the Axis of Resistance continue hitting Israel hard.
Hezbollah have launched more than 65 rockets towards the Galilee Panhandle, targeting military positions, in the past hour, according to the IOF.Some were intercepted, but most of them had direct hits. (Eva Bartlett. Telegram)
The MSM insist that Iran is afraid of a major regional war. It is not. It is merely waiting for a strategic moment-- after the BRICS summit, further Israeli provocations and atrocities –and gradual depletion of Israeli resources, both military, economic and political.
How a kitten rescued a dog
This kitten made the dog’s life worth living. For the full story read here.
Let us all rescue each other.
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Telling point on Ukraine debt. Ukraine will integrate with Russian federation and avoid debt slavery and recover all the land and industry sold to US & EU corporations/sovereign funds. Bad news for them. Yippee!
Thinking in Pictures...
The "3D sensorimotor space plus feelings Gestalt" definition of (non-verbal / wordless) "reality"...
Is what Wise Men for Ages call: Being Enlightened... (My hypothesis... and yes my last Guru, Jan van Delden, who has Dyslexia, was a difficult child and for a while was a Hooligan (the Hague) until he met Yoga Guru Wolter Keers -Advaita Vedanta-, who showed him the Light, admitted his thinking in pictures and probable Autism).
For Autistics it is even more meaningful, because thinking in words or better: in Word-Concepts is the cause of our failures and causes Sensory overloads on the Neural Network connections (White Matter) between the older part of the Brain (The Limbic System) and the Neocortex, mainly the Frontal Lobe that runs the "Will", Ego, Language, Social Identity (Your curriculum Vitae narratives and all other Narratives, that together constitute the Virtual Social Reality of our society of social mammals).
You think you are that Narrative and that Ego, but you are just "They Eye that sees but cannot see itself". Which means you are NOT your Ego. That is just a Symbol and NOT a reality.
When thinking in pictures, there is NO Person doing that. When in Hyperfocus (or Flow) there is nobody anywhere and everything goes with the flow.
OK.. just saying...
Sander
PS. Thinking in concepts versus thinking in pictures:
->https://www.occupyschagen.nl/Div/Leegte.png