Narrative Warfare: Cope Du Bagette

The Supreme Dark Lord boosted a book coming soon from a French colonel called The Russian Art of War, which can be found here. One look (and I quote the same passage Vox did) shows so much cope on display.

Throughout the Cold War period, the Soviet Union saw itself as the spearhead of a historical struggle that would lead to a confrontation between the “capitalist” system and “progressive forces.” This perception of a permanent and inescapable war led the Soviets to study war in a quasi-scientific way, and to structure this thinking into an architecture of military thought that has no equal in the Western world.

The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war. It is the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks—the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war. The corollary of this approach is that our frustrations are translated by unscrupulous media into a narrative that feeds hatred and increases our vulnerability. We are thus unable to find rational, effective solutions to the problem.

The way Russians understand conflict is holistic. In other words, they see the processes that develop and lead to the situation at any given moment. This explains why Vladimir Putin’s speeches invariably include a return to history. In the West, we tend to focus on X moment and try to see how it might evolve. We want an immediate response to the situation we see today. The idea that “from the understanding of how the crisis arose comes the way to resolve it” is totally foreign to the West. In September 2023, an English-speaking journalist even pulled out the “duck test” for me: “if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” In other words, all the West needs to assess a situation is an image that fits their prejudices. Reality is much more subtle than the duck model….

The reason the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process; whereas we see it as a series of separate actions. The Russians see events as a film. We see them as photographs. They see the forest, while we focus on the trees. That is why we place the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, or the start of the Palestinian conflict on October 7, 2023. We ignore the contexts that bother us and wage conflicts we do not understand. That is why we lose our wars…

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In Russia, unsurprisingly, the principles of the military art of the Soviet forces inspired those currently in use:

• readiness to carry out assigned missions;
• concentration of efforts on solving a specific mission;
• surprise (unconventionality) of military action vis-à-vis the enemy;
• finality determines a set of tasks and the level of resolution of each one;
• totality of available means determines the way to resolve the mission and achieve the objective (correlation of forces);
• coherence of leadership (unity of command);
• economy of forces, resources, time and space;
• support and restoration of combat capability;
• freedom of maneuver.

It should be noted that these principles apply not only to the implementation of military action as such. They are also applicable as a system of thought to other non-operational activities.

An honest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine would have identified these various principles and drawn useful conclusions for Ukraine. But none of the self-proclaimed experts on TV were intellectually able to do so.

Thus, Westerners are systematically surprised by the Russians in the fields of technology (e.g., hypersonic weapons), doctrine (e.g., operative art) and economics (e.g., resilience to sanctions). In a way, the Russians are taking advantage of our prejudices to exploit the principle of surprise. We can see this in the Ukrainian conflict, where the Western narrative led Ukraine to totally underestimate Russian capabilities, which was a major factor in its defeat. That is why Russia did not really try to counter this narrative and let it play out—the belief that we are superior makes us vulnerable….

I shall now quote The Wombat.

Let me remind you, Anon, of the following:

1. The USSR lost the Cold War.
2. The Tsar lost to the Bolsheviks.
3. In both cases, "The West" knew exactly what to do to beat the Russians, they executed on that plan- and they are doing it again right now. The Russians have learned NOTHING from these events.

If you need to have it explained to you, then I will Explain It Like You're Five.

Ukraine is the Warlock pet. Russia is the NPC target. The West is the Warlock. Send in the pet to get the target's attention, load the target up with Damage Over Time effects, and keep direct actions below the threshold of the target's notice (draw Aggro), and let the DOTs do their work until the target dies.

In geopolitical terms, "DOTs" are financial and cultural subversion campaigns that wreck the target's economy and society. Ukraine is a proxy state put up to the task by Thralls of Empire aligned to Globohomo, and direct action is financing and equipping the proxy state ("pet management" for you MMO veterans) just enough to keep things going but not enough to become a problem after the fact.

It's not like Moscow doesn't notice anthing. The problem is that Russian elite culture is the end result of Russian security culture, which is itself an institutional memory of being subjugated by the Golden Horde.

The problem is that Globohomo's institutional memory extends well before 1991. It remembers how it used Lenin as an agent to knock the Tsar out of the first world war. It remembers how it exploited Gorbachov to win the Cold War. Globohomo knows all of that about Russia elite and security culture. That is what it exploits to beat the Russian state time and again, around which specific circumstances are accounted for to formulate and execute specific plans to get those wins.

Right now the specific circumstances are that Russia's economy is in the shitter and has been for years (but carefully hidden outside of the Moscow-St. Petersberg axis that it uses as Potemkin Villages to sell outsiders on Russia), its elite corruption is out of control (which filters down to the grunts getting what graft they can), its demographics are as bad as China's (i.e. crashing like the Hindenberg), and it is severely security-axious due to losing so much border control post-USSR.

Russia had to invade Ukraine. Russia has to keep Belarus on-side, as well as the 'stans of Central Asia, while inching closer to reestablishing that former border.

Globohomo knows this. Ukraine was a trap.

Globohomo does not care about Ukraine or the Ukrainian nation anymore than it does Russia or the nations within Russia. They are cogs to be used until worn out, then replaced with new cogs.

Globohomo seeks to finish the job it began in 1991, but Putin interrupted when he seized power. Globohomo will succeed because it has already inflicted killing damage to both the State and the nations.

It is not that Globohomo does not know the Russia way of war. It most certainly does, and it is using that knowledge again to beat it a third and final time. Once that is done, the looting will resume and the European Union wing of Globohomo in particular is just chomping at the bit in their eagerness to tear the Russian state apart into a suite of far smaller, weaker, and therefore controllable chunks- with North American support, of course.

41 new states will emerge from #ExRussia and the world 🌎 will be a much better place - and I prepare the strategic plan how to make that happen here in Washington pic.twitter.com/zpJlBvDmdx

— Gunther Fehlinger (@GunterFehlinger) April 25, 2023

This is no longer a question of "If", but "When" and "How". Putin will soon realize that he has to use Russia's nukes to compel an acceptable settlement, and if he finds that Russia's nukes are as badly rotted by corruption as China's are, Russia is fucked.

Right now we're in the tri-state arrangement of 1984. Within a few years, Globohomo will again be the only power- and which point the only threats are internal.

That is dangerous, because Globohomo will also be exhausted and cannot tolerate unrest in the time it needs to rest, recover, and ready itself for the next episode.

That is when Empire falls- and not before. Colonel Bagette is high on copium.

Narrative Warfare: It Started With Statues, It's Current At Statutes, It'll Soon Move To Salvos

This past week Governor Greg Abbott of Texas told the Supreme Court of the United States and the Biden Administration to go pound sand.

Since that statement, other governors have sided with Texas over the Federal Government of the United States.

More signed on since that above image got posted to Twitter.

Governor Abbott would go on to explain the authority for his actions.

Narrative Warfare: The International Court Of Justice Case Is Useless Theater

The LOLSuit To End All LOLSuits

The Republic of South Africa brought a case against the State of Israel to the International Court of Justice over a week and a half ago on charges of committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Yes, a state that is committing genocide against the Boers is bringing a charge of genocide against Israel for doing the same to the Palenstinians.

In addition to being one of the biggest examples of virtue signaling to distract from one's own massive criminality, this is one of the largest pieces of political theater outside of the United States that I have had the distinction to witness via livestreaming.

A Pointless Action

Supporters and boosters of this legal action proclaim this to be a massive win for Civilization because it seeks to impose the Rule of Law upon a state heretofore said, and shown, to be akin to the Three Imperial Powers (and several former Imperial powers) in its disregard for same.

No one has provided a satisfactory answer to this question: "And the Court will enforce against judgement against Israel how?"

Let me reframe this without the polite language: "Who the fuck has a large enough body of trigger-pulling killers to blast their way to Bibi, shove a gun to his face and say 'COMPLY OR DIE!'?"

Of those who, in theory, could do this no one will as they are all allied to Israel. The State of Israel knows this. That is why they don't care about this action, why most of the world does not care about this action, and why this is one of the most pointless displays of political theater in living memory. The outcome is irrelevant as there is no will to enforce any decision against Israel.

Furthermore, the action is further undermined in its legitimacy by the complaining party being guilty of the very thing they claim that Israel is guilty of, opening South Africa to a countersuit on the same charge on behalf of the Boers- and unlike Israel, there is a will and a capacity to punish the South Africa state and establishment severely if found guilty.

And in both cases, the rulings cannot help but to be seen through a partisan lense as all forms of "international law" are nothing more then Globohomo expressions of Imperial power.

This is not only a waste of time and resources, it is an insult to the Boers, Palenstians, and (believe it or not) the Israelis.

You Are Not Helping

Even the most beautiful of Palenstine's advocates--the Syrian Girl, Maram Sulsi--admits that pro-Palenstian activism has proven ineffective.

It's not merely ineffective, it is counter-productive.

In the West, this cause is used to commit bandity on the roads in defiance of the law and blocking transit of uninvolved third parties (as well as emergency reponse vehicles, causing public emergencies) and rioting in city streets across the nation-states of the West. It is also used to justify further migration of hostile alien men of military age, all of them illegal aliens, under dubious claims of asylum.

On the waters, the Houthi rebels in Yemen (prompted by their Iranian patrons) use this cause to conduct piracy on the waters against global shipping without restricion despite claims to the contrary- and damaging not only uninvolved third parties participating directly in global shipping (as crew, as ship owners, as cargo owners, as insurers) as well as everyone else no matter how removed they are because everything is affected by the slightest hiccup in the global economy like this.

Anyone sincere about helping the Palenstinians know that none of this is good optics and thus have already lost the Frame Game necessary to wage Narrative Warfare effectively.

This is not how you make Empire fall.

Gonzolo Lira is Dead

On Friday this past week, Tucker Carlson gave the West the final word about Gonzolo Lira.

Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments. Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture. Several… https://t.co/F0nOG9qGvv

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 12, 2024

Among some of my friends, he was a foolish grifter who had a history of making terrible decisions that blew up in his face. It was this last thing that got him in over his head and resulted in him getting what he deserved.

Among others, he was a man who--when presented with a chance to do good--took it and did the best he could with it. For the wrong reasons? Sure. Done in the most half-assed and bone-headed manner possible? Sure. Easily coopted by others with ill intent of their own? Yeah. But he did do good as well as he could, despite himself, as a lot of what the big picture stuff he said in his videos and livestreams turned out to be correct.

Both of these takes are true.

His wife now a widow and his children by her are now without a father.

There will be plenty of lengthy eulogies and condemnatory rantings to be had about him. You will find neither here. YouTube, Twitter, Rumble, Odysee, Locals, and so many other outlets are full of both; you can search them all until you're satiated or worse.

He was a man. His ambition exceeded his ability time and again over the years, including his ability to assess risk verses reward and desire versus responsibility, and that undid him in the end. Just because he turned out like Fredo doesn't me he was not a man.

Pray for the repose of his soul, and for mercy to be granted to his now-fatherless children.

Narrative Warfare: The Thralls Will Not Even ANYTHING Alone

Let me take a break from the geopolitics for a bit. Friend of the blog Rawle Nyanzi brought this to my attention.

As I’ve stated many times before, the extremists only want you playing reskinned humans. https://t.co/bmPreekMIs

— Rawle Nyanzi (@Parvenu62) January 7, 2024

Let me unpack this for you, if you don't care about hobby games like Dungeons & Dragons.

The Rewriting Of Myth

I said several years ago that one of the tells of a conquered culture is that its mythology gets rewritten.

By now all of you have seen stories like this come across either your social media feeds or more mainstream news media outlets.

In a perfect confluence of Newspeak, fashionable medicalization, and plain old woke büllshit, the permanent removal of the statue of William Penn, on the historical site of William Penn's home, is being called "rehabilitation" by the National Park Service. https://t.co/0yFhPAgaPt

— Nemesis 2023 (@Nemtastic1) January 7, 2024

This is mythology revisionism in action.

This cannot be limited to public artworks, names of institutions, or other things that are considered Serious Adult Stuff.

A conquering religion has to conquer all of the enemy culture's mythology, and that means all of its expressions thereof. In our context, this includes all forms of entertainment or hobby pursuits- and tabletop fantastic adventure games are full of that mythology.

Therefore the conquering culture has to seize control of it and exert what power it can to compel that it conforms to the mythology it seeks to impose upon the conquered.

In colloquial terms, this is a Psychological Operation- a Psyop. Specifically it is a Demoralization and Humiliation Psyop, not only to demonstrate power over the conquered (which they will confess when pressed), but--in playing the long game (on that, see below)--to rewrite mythology and history so that they have always been right and the conquered always wrong.

If that sounds like "We Wuz KANGS!", that's because it is and it works if left unchecked.

There, here and now, young adults that sincerely believe all sorts of revisionist history because that history got rewritten by the conquering party and left unchecked- as Razorfist demonstrated almost a year ago about Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.

And yes, the Tankies gainsaying him validated his claims by doing so. Retards.

While this move by Wizards of the Coast seems minor, consider how soon the changes wrought just a decade ago to various company-owned products are now seen as normal- as "It's always been this way."

And no, this is not just WOTC. The former owner, TSR Inc., did this also more than once and now there's a massive population of "veteran players" who can't even play the game as it is because their own misbegotten false knowledge--"It's always been like that"--is at odds with the written word on the pages of the games' manuals.

(N.B.: This is the psychological root of the freakouts made at the #BROSR, the cohort of players who sought out to play the game as-written and see how it actually worked, only to find that the results had nothing to do with the Just So fake lore long promulgated via early revisionism. As the saying goes, "As Above, So Below".)

So this drive to purge a hobby game of any vestige of anything, ANYTHING AT ALL that runs contrary to Globohomo's Narrative is just part of a far larger campaign to ensure that no one hears anything but THE MESSAGE and thus believes anything but THE NARRATIVE.

This is grunt-tier Narrative Warfare. This is why Empire Must Fall. Resist here, or believe tomorrow that Black Is White.

The Hard Times Are Approaching The Front Door

Tomorrow begins 2024.

It has been nearly 80 years since the end of World War 2 and the rise of the present global consensus, what some call The Boomer Truth Regime.

If you recognize that number, then you know where I'm going with this.

Or, if you prefer the meme:

Let me review:

• The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
• Hamas and Israel remains at war, with niggling threats of more fronts opening.
• Venezuela is gearing up to invade Guyana.
• The entire Sahel region of Africa is mired in armed conflicts, coups, and butchery.
• Ethiopia is eyeing an invasion of Eritrea (which will complicate the next item).
• Houthi piracy on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Adan, disrupting global shipping.
• Myanmar is in civil war, and China is looking at intervening.
• Iran is messing with Indian merchant shipping.
• Argentina's new President has a totally-not-at-all-fake-and-gay political opposition rising up and doing near-banditry on the roads.
• Serbia's re-elected President has a totally-not-at-all-fake-and-gay political opposition rising up and doing near-banditry on the roads.
• The Panama Canal is critically low on water, and there's totally-not-at-all-fake-and-gay political opposition rising up and doing banditry on the roads.
• Nacro-trafficking has picked up hard since Biden got into the White House, killing an Ecuadoran poltical candidate and getting involved in the flooding of the United States by hostile foreigners and aliens, a plague that afflicts all of Central America, the Andian region, and Mexico.
• China's elites are mired in a Stalin-style purge cycle, making Winnie The Pooh as paranoid as Little Kim, as its industrial and financial sectors collapse and it makes war noises as a failed distraction and prompting terminal despir to match its demographics.
• Russia's economy is now on a full war footing, which is how it's weathering sanctions at the expense of its future and using its lower classes as expendables to win in Ukraine despite already terminal demographics.
• Globohomo totally not fixing European elections to seize power in resistant states (most recently Poland, who's punchable faggot-in-chief immediately hardlined the poz into the country) and getting surprised when it doesn't work out like it hoped (Wilders in the Netherlands).
• South Africa continues to collapse, and political parties openly call for the genocide of White people (while their fellow travelers elsewhere do so on the sly) and this is now expanding to Asians.
• Deindustrialization and deagriculturalization of the West continues to be pushed for Muh Climate.
• The most pro-Globalization advocates admit that Globalization Is OVER.

The fall of Empire is not the end of Return of the Jedi where everyone has a big party across the galaxy and things magically turn around.

It is a messy process, and it involves a lot of frozen local and regional conflicts thawing out and reigniting into open warfare. We're seeing that now, and it's not going to stop because some cunt in a suit or a robe says so.

It sure as Hell ain't going to stop because some pretty girl on Twitter says so- sorry Miriam.

The Boomer World Order is over. The Muh Human Rights regime is over. History is reasserting itself, and we are reverting to the mean- to the norm. That means a lot of nasty, brutal, and horrific things are making a comeback and no one that could do anything about it will because that is what they want done.

This is a time of score-setting and claim-making. These are the Hard Times that make Strong Men. It is the force that kills frauds and falsehoods across the board--kiss all that Feminism goodbye once the global war goes hot--and unlike past eras there is nowhere left to run. Every region of the world will be involved, neutrality will not exist, your skin will be your uniform, and neither your paperwork nor your bank account will do jack shit for you once it jumps off.

Empire is falling. Now is the time to prepare, to move, and to accept this tragic fact: the world you were raised to thrive in NO LONGER EXISTS!

Alas, War Doesn't Do A Christmas Truce Anymore

It's Christmas Eve today. I have family coming over to celebrate and exchange presents.

Therefore I shall do brief commentaries.

The Gulf

The US Navy losing the ability to gather support to suppress the Houthis as a unit is a sign of decline, but that doesn't mean that the Houthis are safe from reprising. That's billions--trillions--of Dollars in trade being fucked with. If state actors can't use state militaries to do the job, then state and non-state actors can cut checks to mercenaries to do so instead.

This is, as some say, a reversion to a historical norm. Yes, there are Private Military Companies out there ready, willing, and able to go hard on the Houthis for the right price (and after the check clears).

As it is, national navies are securing only ships owned by its citizens or bearing its flag. That doesn't solve the problem, which is Houthi piracy, and they will take weakness as an invitation for predation in due course.

Meanwhile, Israel is going Base Delta Zero on Gaza and no one that could is doing a damned thing about it. As much as people, some of whom I like and respect, complain about it their words fall on deaf ears not only due to tight Narrative control in the West but also near-daily own-goals by supporters fucking with the daily lives (and money) of uninvolved third parties (i.e. Western nations) in attempts to make them side with Gaza.

Not. Gonna. Happen.

Conducting banditry on the roads and in the streets is guaranteed to get people mad at you; keep at it long enough and they will excuse your summary execution by vigilantes. If these people didn't have State support, that would already be happening just to get back to normal daily life- which is under too much stress as it is in the West.

Ukraine

Zelensky is fucked. Ukraine is fucked. Globohomo does not care because Zelensky and Ukraine have accomplished the task put to it by Globohomo: to tank Russia long enough for the DOTs to tick past the point of no return.

Will Russia win? Yes. Will it be Pyrhhic? You better believe it; the demographics, combined with the economic damage sustained, means that victorious Russia bleeds out by 2040 at the latest. Having stupid people as proxies running their mouths about how Moscow wants to annex more ex-Soviet territory (validating Zeihan's claims) does not help at all.

Taiwan

China is making a lot of noise.

If you know Chinese military theory and history, this should relieve you of any imminent threat. The PLAN still has no capacity to execute an invasion for the PLA, and neither does the PLAF.

Winnie's still in Purge Mode, aiming at the Rocket Force in particular as being disloyal, is fearful of coup attempts since the last one years ago, and has descended into a Little Kim level of paranoia in his routine and dealings. He is more afraid of being couped by those near him than he is of foreign actors at this time, which is a repeat of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.

Oh, and there's another "unspecified" public health crisis on top of a massive economic collapse- and yesterday's notice of goat-fucking the Gaming Sector (i.e. Tencent), which is now the remaining revenue-generator for the State since real estate collapsed and export-oriented business is in the shitter, so Mainlanders across the board are as demoralized as their Western counterparts (and thus as disliking the taste for war).

Guyana

Venezuela has its (totally not fake and gay, really) legal basis to roll the (lack of) tanks across the border, and if Guyana's military weren't an even bigger joke that would be morbidly funny.

But it is, so that's a real threat. We're in Phoney War territory right now as Maduro sees if he can scam his way to a win, but odds are good that he'll have to actually do some war crimes so expect that to kick off before too long.

Brazil is attempting to mediate, which says a lot right there, but Lula isn't a retard and is getting ready for Maduro to do the thing he aims to do. The Caribbean Community, the Andian Community, Mercosur, the Organization of American States, the UN, and a few other useless organizations are watching events. Don't expect anyone that could do anything (the US, France, the Netherlands, the UK- all of whom have interests in or near this conflict zone) until lead flies.

Totally Legit Western Governance

The Trump story (a) only concerns the PRIMARY election for Party Nomination in Colorado, (b) doesn't stop the CO GOP from nominating him anyway by another means, and (c) can't keep him off the GENERAL election ballot if he is nominated. Furthermore, the ruling is stayed (no effect) and would be reversed by the Federal Supreme Court anyway. Calm thy tits.

Ireland's already got people torching would-be invader housing. Good. More of that. Lots more of that. I would not be sad if the 5th columnists got the same treatment.

Rahm Emanueal is the US Ambassador to Japan. His mission, by his own confession, is to spread the poz and turn Japan fake and gay like the West. Pro-poz propaganda did not turn up until he showed up. Kick him out, and kick out EVERYONE that enables this dogshit.

Yes, Auron MacIntyre won his bet against Academic Agent already. The Woke won't be put away; they are the Death Cult, and they are in control of Globohomo now. They are mask-off, drunk on their own power, and see no reason to not keep the petal to the metal. AA's fucking retarded "Realists like Tony Blair will totally reel it in to save the Regime from itself" take is so much weapons-grade copium- and I will not pretend that it isn't.

Diversification

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